The weekend arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn sent shockwaves through the financial world and upended French presidential politics, but it also quickly gave rise to theories about whether the International Monetary Fund chief had been set up by rivals.
Prior to his imprisonment at Riker’s Island on charges of attempted rape, the globetrotting Strauss-Kahn wielded considerable power. As head of the monetary fund — which provides emergency loans to countries in severe distress and monitors global financial stability — Strauss-Kahn was a frequent guest of lawmakers and leaders of the banking industry.
And as a prominent member of France’s Socialist party, he was widely considered to be one of the strongest potential challengers next year to President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The financial titan — who carries a reputation for womanizing — became an immediate talking point: For some, the story represented a sad fall from grace; others spoke of humiliation for France; but, for another group, it smacked of a set-up.
‘Yes, I love women…so what?’
In a strange twist, Strauss-Kahn himself lit the fuse for theorists and supporters just two weeks ago. During an interview with French newspaper Liberation, the IMF chief predicted that his enemies could use his proclivity for promiscuity against him if he chose to run for president of France.
Story: IMF chief under suicide watch at NYC jail
When asked what challenges he faced in a possible bid, Strauss-Kahn replied, “The money, women and my Jewishness.”
“Yes, I love women … so what? […] For years we talk about giant pictures of orgies,” he told Liberation. “But I’ve never seen anything out … Let show them!”
The IMF chief went on to admit that he could see himself being set up because of his affinity for women. According to a translation done by British newspaper The Guardian, Strauss-Kahn goes on to admit that he could see himself becoming the victim of a honey trap: “a woman raped in a car park and who’s been promised 500,000 or a million euros to invent such a story… .”
‘It is totally hallucinatory’
Strauss-Kahn’s supporters took to his defense almost immediately after his arrest.
“I am convinced it is an international conspiracy,” Michelle Sabban, senior councilor for the greater Paris region, told The Telegraph.
“It’s the IMF they wanted to decapitate,” she said. “It’s not like him. Everyone knows that his weakness is seduction, women. That’s how they got him.”
Video: IMF chief spends night in tough N.Y. jail (on this page)
In France, defenders of Strauss-Kahn, a former finance minister who had topped the polls as a possible candidate in presidential elections next year, said they suspected he was the victim of a smear campaign.
“He is a brave man on whom a contemptuous fate has been inflicted,” former Socialist culture minister Jack Lang told Europe 1 radio, complaining of a “lynching.”
“It is not unthinkable that certain judicial officials, the prosecutor in particular or the judge, is driven by a desire to take down a Frenchman, a Frenchman who is moreover well known.”
Strauss-Kahn and his supporters aren’t the only ones who think he could have been set up for a fall. According to The Telegraph, some of Strauss-Kahn’s rivals even found the news tough to believe.
“It is totally hallucinatory. If it is true, this would be a historic moment, but in the negative sense, for French political life,” said Dominique Paille, a political rival to Strauss-Kahn on the center right, television, according to The Telegraph. “I hope that everyone respects the presumption of innocence. I cannot manage to believe this affair.”
According to The Telegraph, Henri de Raincourt, minister for overseas co-operation in President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government refused to rule out the notion of a trap during a broadcast interview.
Story: Essay: When powerful men cross the line
“I refuse to have a personal opinion and say, ‘Yes it was a trap,’ or ‘No, it wasn’t a trap.’ I don’t know,” he said.
Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn claim the IMF chief was at lunch with his daughter when the assault is said to have occurred, and that he is not guilty.
But according to the Associated Press , Assistant District Attorney John “Ardie” McConnell said the victim “provided a very powerful and detailed account of the violent sexual assault,” and added that forensic evidence may support her telling of the encounter.
Previous affair
An employee who had a brief affair with Strauss-Kahn said she warned the organization about his behavior toward women in a letter sent three years ago.
The person who confirmed the existence of the letter is close to the former International Monetary Fund employee, Hungarian-born economist Piroska Nagy. The person declined to be identified, citing the sensitivity of the matter.
Nagy, who had worked at the IMF for decades, left the organization after the affair with Strauss-Kahn in 2008. An IMF-funded investigation into the affair cleared Strauss-Kahn of wrongdoing but criticized his judgment. The affair was back in the news after the 62-year-old Frenchman’s incarceration on sex crimes charges in New York.
Nagy now works with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London.
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The Intel Hub
December 20, 2011
According to reports from the Daily Kos and Russia Today, a company specializing in night raid equipment was awarded a 23 million dollar contract from the Department of Defense and subsequently went on to lobby for the NDAA which has given the government the power to indefinitely detain American citizens.
Surefire LLC openly lobbed for the House version of the NDAA, a bill many have claimed has effectively ended the Bill of Rights, months after receiving the 23 million dollar contact from the DOD.
Why would this company be receiving a contract which could outfit at least 30,000 troops with new and updated night raid equipment when the U.S. is supposedly pulling troops out of Iraq and, to a smaller extent, Afghanistan?
Why has this same company gone on to lobby for a bill that has turned the United States into a war zone?
From the Daily Kos:
So what does Surefire make? In a word, night-raid equipment, with a fresh new $23 million contract from the DoD even as we saw troops pulling out of Iraq and they are about to pull out of Afghanistan.
The product catalog main categories read things like “weapon lights, helmet lights, sound suppressors, high capacity magazines.” The equipment is relatively cheap, not big ticket items in Defense Department terms. That means this is a big contract. A $23 million contract would buy enough of these things to outfit maybe 50,000 soldiers.
If we are pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan, what is all this stuff for? Night-raid gear? These are basically made to blind people as they awake from you busting down their door, not for open combat.
In a night firefight you don’t want any lights near you whatsoever. That gives the other guy an easy target.
Does it seem likely that the night raid gear that will be provided to the DOD under the 23 million dollar contract will be used outside the United States when the company who won the contract is lobbying for a bill that lets the military operate against American citizens inside the country?
As we have reported in the past, the plans for martial law in America have long been drawn up and the idea that either our own military, foreign military’s or a combination of both will be used against the American people has steadily gained ground as millions of people around the world have become aware of these dastardly plans.
Every week it seems more and more information is released that further proves these plans are real and already capable of becoming fully operational with 72 hours.
Whether it be Ron Paul warning about the NDAA and martial law or United Nations troops carrying out martial law drills within the US, the fact remains that the possibility of a martial law scenario in this country remains very real.
Still not convinced?
In 2008 the Pentagon openly announced their plans for a 20,000 strong military force(this is the number they admit, the actual number is sure to be much higher) set to operate within the United States. This internal force was also called for in a Rand Corporation document titled, “A Stability Police Force for the United States”
The Pentagon has an openly promoted a program(1033) that has given away close to $500 million in leftover military equipment to law enforcement in the fiscal year of 2011.
A recent document from former Halliburton subsidiary KBR outlined their need for subcontractors to be ready to provide various functions needed to establish FEMA camps in America within 72 hour notice.
Multiple cities have seen the military take part in various police work including in Florida City which had the Air Force set up a crime prevention hotline and take part in arrests at a local convenience store.
The Pentagon and Military have been actively war gaming for what they see as a looming large scale economic collapse that will lead to civil unrest.
Early this year FEMA requested information on their ability to acquire 140 million packets of food, blankets, and underwater body bags.
The examples above are no more than a small chunk of the ridiculous amount of evidence that has been released which proves that factions within our government are planning for a confrontation with the American people themselves.
Rather than live in fear, American citizens should consider preparing themselves for whatever lies ahead in the very near future.
This would include purchasing some type of storeable food,(There are many great companies that provide high quality preparedness products including Prepared.pro and Ready Made Resources) having evacuation plans ready, speaking to your friends and family about this very real possibility, and remembering that living in fear is what these tyrants WANT.
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The U.S. government is on record questioning President Obama’s citizenship status as early as when he was 5 years old, stating it lacked documentation to determine his citizenship, WND has learned.
The citizenship inquiry dated back to 1966, when Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was attempting to secure a waiver so her second husband, Indonesian citizen Lolo Soetoro, could return to the country after his visa had expired.
Dunham separated from her first husband, Barack Obama Sr., in 1963 when the future president was 2 years old. Dunham and Obama Sr. are reported to have divorced in 1964.
In 1965 in Hawaii, Dunham married Soetoro, an Indonesian, and moved to Indonesia in October 1967.
Soetoro had been studying at the University of Hawaii as part of a State Department-initiated student exchange program.
Soetoro’s student visa had been sponsored by the University of Hawaii’s Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between East and West. The program enforced strict visa limitations, requiring foreign students to return to their home countries after two years.
 Young Barack Obama with his mother |
According to U.S. immigration files obtained and reviewed by WND, Soetoro was approved for a 21-month study grant beginning Sept. 1, 1962, at the East-West Center.
A memorandum from the center dated July 7, 1965, relates how Soetoro had his Class J visa briefly extended after he married Dunham due to a claimed illness on the part of Dunham. His visa had been set to expire June 15, 1964.
“He gave his wife’s illness as the reason for his visa extension request,” stated the center’s memo.
The memo said Soetoro claimed Dunham had been “suffering from a stomach ailment which may, according to her physician, require surgery.”
“When I pressed Mr. Soetoro for more information regarding the name of the physician, etc., he claimed that he could not remember exactly,” continued the memo, signed by Robert Wooster of the University of Hawaii’s exchange program.
Further notes from the exchange program that year related how Soetoro worked at the time for Hawaii-Pacific Engineers Surveyors.
An additional memorandum, from July 13, 1965, advised that Soetoro no longer was associated with the East-West Center, and that the University of Hawaii exchange program could not further help him renew his U.S. visa.
Soetoro had turned to the center to make a special exception in his case and to hold his return travel for another year, or until June 22, 1966.
“I gather that he intends to make every attempt to remain indefinitely with or without East-West Center approval although his manner throughout our interview was polite and cordial,” stated a memo from the center.
The memo, from Robert Zumwinkle, executive director of the East-West Center’s Institute for Student Interchange, relates how the program received a special cable from the Indonesian government that Soetoro, a civilian employee of the Indonesian army, must “immediately terminate his studies and return to Djakarta, Indonesia.”
 Lolo Soetoro and Stanley Ann Dunham (Image from University of Hawaii |
Soetoro apparently was expected to devote four years of service to the Indonesian government in return for its subsidizing geography studies at the country’s Gadjah Mada University, as well as for his participation in the student exchange program.
The memo made clear the East-West Center would not help Soetoro extend his U.S. visa.
It complained Soetoro did not comply with its previous instructions to return to Indonesia at the end of his studies.
Soetoro departed the U.S. for Indonesia on June 20, 1966. Once back in his home country, Soetoro attempted to secure a waiver from the U.S. immigration authorities for his immediate return to Hawaii, according to immigration files reviewed by WND.
Dunham and Soetoro both filed petitions with U.S. Immigration in hopes of persuading the American government to grant a waiver allowing Soetoro to return.
The petitions claimed Dunham would suffer undue “psychological hardship” because of Soetoro’s departure.
Some petitions referenced hardship that may be suffered by Obama, then aged 5.
In a Nov. 22, 1966, interview with Robert Schultz, immigrant inspector in Honolulu, Dunham talked about financial hardships for her son.
“I buy personal things for my 5-year-old boy. I also pay $50.00 a month for a babysitter from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m,” she wrote, referring to Obama.
That petition was denied, with immigration authorities determining that according to remarks from her own interview, Dunham made enough money to support both herself and her son.
A document to the Assistant Region Commission Travel Control in Honolulu from December 1966 specifically stated, “It was also determined that the applicant’s spouse is now employed and can adequately maintain both herself and her 5-year-old child by a former marriage.”
Facing repeated denials, Dunham decided she would apply for a visa to Indonesia to live with Soetoro.
‘Nothing on file’ to document Obama’s citizenship
Before that, immigration authorities exchanged queries about Obama, with one noting questions about Obama’s citizenship.
One critical exchange is dated August 21, 1967, from Sam Benson, an officer at the Southwest Immigration and Naturalization Service office in San Pedro, Calif.
Benson’s query stated, “There is nothing in the file to document the status of the spouse’s son. Please inquire into his citizenship and residence status and determine whether or not he is the applicant’s child within the meaning of Section 101(b)(1)(B) of the Act, who may suffer exceptional hardship within the meaning of Section 212(a).”
The reference is to the Immigration and Naturalization Act, which defined a “child” as an unmarried person under 21 years of age who, among other qualifiers, could be a “stepchild,” whether or not born out of wedlock, provided the child had not reached the “age of eighteen years at the time the marriage creating the status of stepchild occurred.”
A response to Benson’s inquiry came from one “W.L. Mix” of the central immigration office, who determined Obama was a U.S. citizen.
Mix replied: “Pursuant to inquiry from central office regarding the status of the applicants’ spouse’s child by a former marriage.”
“The person in question is a United States citizen by virtue of his birth in Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961. He is living with the applicants’ spouse in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is considered the applicant’s step-child, within the meaning of Sec. 101(b)(1)(B), of the act, by virtue of the marriage of the applicant to the child’s mother on March 5, 1965.”
The files do not state how the office determined Obama was born in Honolulu.
With research by Brenda J. Elliott
By Sharon Churcher and Polly Dunbar
Last updated at 12:53 AM on 6th March 2011
As a New Yorker from humble beginnings, Jeffrey Epstein played on his blue-collar credentials and enormous wealth to extend tentacles of influence throughout America’s liberal political elite.
During the outcry over the Epstein case, it emerged that another man with a notorious appetite for young women, Bill Clinton, travelled with Epstein to a number of destinations, including three times on the billionaire’s private aircraft.
On one occasion, Epstein flew the former President, Hollywood actor and staunch Democrat Kevin Spacey and another actor friend of Mr Clinton’s, Chris Tucker, to Africa, to ‘discuss AIDS policy’.
Claims: Virginia Roberts says she twice met ex-president Bill Clinton, pictured last month, but was never ‘lent out’
Epstein, who has donated more than £75,000 over the years to candidates from the Democratic Party, also flew with Mr Clinton in November 2003 to destinations including Russia, Oslo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing.
Yet Virginia Roberts stresses that she was never ‘lent out’ to Mr Clinton.
On one occasion, she adds, Epstein did invite two young brunettes to a dinner which he gave on his Caribbean island for Mr Clinton shortly after he left office. But, as far as she knows, the ex-President did not take the bait.
‘I’d have been about 17 at the time,’ she says. ‘I flew to the Caribbean with Jeffrey and then Ghislaine Maxwell went to pick up Bill in a huge black helicopter that Jeffrey had bought her.
‘She’d always wanted to fly and Jeffrey paid for her to take lessons, and I remember she was very excited because she got her licence around the first year we met.
‘I used to get frightened flying with her but Bill had the Secret Service with him and I remember him talking about what a good job she did.
‘I only ever met Bill twice but Jeffrey had told me that they were good friends.
‘I asked, “How come?” and he laughed and said, “He owes me some favours.” Maybe he was just joking but it constantly surprised me that people with as much to lose as Bill and [Prince] Andrew weren’t more careful.
‘Bill must have known about Jeffrey’s girls. There were three desks in the living area of the villa on the island.
Speaking out: Virginia, now aged 26, in her new home in Australia‘They were covered with pictures of Jeffrey shaking hands with famous people and photos of naked girls, including one of me that Jeffrey had at all his houses, lying in a hammock.
‘We all dined together that night. Jeffrey was at the head of the table. Bill was at his left. I sat across from him. Emmy Tayler, Ghislaine’s blonde British assistant, sat at my right.
‘Ghislaine was at Bill’s left and at the left of Ghislaine there were two olive-skinned brunettes who’d flown in with us from New York.
‘I’d never met them before. I’d say they were no older than 17, very innocent-looking.
‘They weren’t there for me. They weren’t there for Jeffrey or Ghislaine because I was there to have sex with Jeffrey on the trip.
‘Maybe Jeffrey thought they would entertain Bill, but I saw no evidence that he was interested in them. He and Jeffrey and Ghislaine seemed to have a very good relationship. Bill was very funny.
‘He made me laugh a few times. And he and Jeffrey and Ghislaine told blokey jokes and the brunettes listened politely and giggled.
‘After dinner I gave Jeffrey an erotic massage. I don’t remember seeing Bill again on the trip but I assume Ghislaine flew him back.’
According to prison records, when Epstein was serving his jail term, his visitors included a long-time – and highly controversial – Clinton acquaintance, Arnold Prosperi.
‘In the final hours of the Clinton presidency, in January 2001, Prosperi was facing three years in prison after being convicted of tax fraud. Mr Clinton commuted his sentence to house arrest.
‘Clinton, Prosperi and Epstein make an odd threesome on the face of it,’ says a law enforcement source.
‘Was Prosperi visiting Epstein as some kind of intermediary for Bill?
‘Maybe Bill wanted to know if Epstein knew anything that could embarrass him. Or did Bill commute Prosperi’s sentence as some kind of favour
for Epstein?’
Virginia disclosed that Mr Clinton’s vice-president Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, were also guests of Epstein on his island.
Guests: Virginia says she also met former Vice President Al Gore, pictured right with Mr ClintonLast summer, the Gores abruptly announced that they were ending their supposedly fairytale marriage and, just weeks later, it emerged that Mr Gore – the famously sanctimonious global-warming disciple – had been accused of trying to force sex on a woman with whom he had booked a therapeutic massage at an Oregon hotel.
‘I had no clue that anything was up,’ Virginia says. ‘The Gores seemed like a beautiful couple when I met them. All I knew was that Mr Gore was a friend of Jeffrey’s and Ghislaine’s. Jeffrey didn’t ask me to give him a massage.
‘There might have been a couple of other girls there on that trip but I could never have imagined this guy would do anything wrong. I was planning to vote for him when I turned 18. I thought he was awesome.’
Virginia said that yet another American liberal icon, President Obama’s Middle East peace envoy Senator George Mitchell, frequently visited Epstein’s New York residence.
Mr Mitchell, aged 77 – who previously led America’s Northern Ireland peace initiative – ‘was very close to Jeffrey,’ Virginia recalled. ‘He is very clean-cut. You wouldn’t think of him being part of Jeffrey’s crew.’
Scandal: U.S. authorities want to interview Jeffrey Epstein (left) and may wish to quiz his friend, Prince Andrew
Epstein’s contacts book contains a work and a home telephone number for the senator.
Another acquaintance was Israel defence secretary Ehud Barak, whose spokesman told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Mr Barak did attend several small functions in Mr Epstein’s home in New York that were usually attended by leading businessman, university presidents, Nobel Prize Laureates and prominent public figures.’
Epstein’s many Hollywood pals include Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.
‘Jeffrey once had me give Matt a foot massage when he was flying on the jet with us,’ Virginia says.
‘He laughed and did drawings of Bart and Homer for my little brother and my dad.
‘I also met Naomi Campbell at a birthday party of hers on a yacht in the South of France. She is a friend of Ghislaine’s but she was a real bitch to me.
‘She was very fake. She turned away from me when we were introduced by Ghislaine and Jeffrey.
‘Donald Trump was also a good friend of Jeffrey’s. He didn’t partake in sex with any of us but he flirted with me. He’d laugh and tell Jeffrey, “You’ve got the life.’’ ’
Palm Beach Police say Epstein seemed utterly unfazed by the allegations against him when they began their long and detailed investigation.
‘Jeffrey’s crew: Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell, right, pictured with President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, frequently visited Epstein¿s New York residence, Virginia also claimsBut he also took his defence very seriously indeed. Epstein engaged his friend, the Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz – whose celebrity clients have included Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Claus von Bulow and O.J. Simpson – to run his legal defence.
He also employed a firm of private investigators to investigate the backgrounds of the girls.
Detectives painstakingly built a case which they believed showed that Epstein systematically paid teenage girls to recruit other teenage girls to his sex ring.
However, as the investigation continued, they found that Epstein’s team had already spoken to key witnesses, suggesting that the financier would reward those who helped him.
In addition, Epstein’s defence team agreed to the unusual move of suggesting that the alleged victims sue Epstein in the civil courts. The result was a plea bargain in which Epstein admitted a single charge of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution – a deal which infuriated many police officers who worked on the case.
More than 20 of Epstein’s girls are said to have sued him for damages. At least 17 have settled out of court.
Mr Clinton, Mr Gore and Mr Mitchell were all contacted about their friendship with Epstein but declined to comment.
Have you herd about the Sheeple Quiz? Although most NaturalNews readers will easily beat it, it’s a fun quiz to find out how smart (or gullible) your friends really are. So let ‘em take the Sheeple Quiz! And then you’ll know whether they’re independent thinkers or just zombie-minded sheeple like the rest of the flock.
Here’s the quiz. Choose “A” or “B” as the answer for each question, then check your score below.
#1) The purpose of the mainstream media is to:
A) Keep you informed.
B) Feed you misinformation while keeping you distracted from the real issues our world is facing.
#2) Social Security is:
A) A financial safety net that makes sure people have a retirement income.
B) A government-run Ponzi scheme that requires more and more people to keep paying in just to stay afloat and will ultimately collapse into total bankruptcy.
#3) The fluoride dripped into municipal water supplies is:
A) A naturally-occurring mineral.
B) An industrial chemical waste byproduct.
#4) When you donate money to find the cure for cancer, that money goes:
A) To fund research programs that assess actual cancer cures for the purpose of freely sharing them with the public.
B) To fund mammogram campaigns that actually irradiate women’s breasts, causing the very cancers that earn huge profits for the cancer treatment industry.
#5) The national debt is:
A) Under control and will be paid off in a few years.
B) Out of control and will spiral into a runaway debt collapse.
#6) GMOs will:
A) Feed the world and prevent starvation.
B) Threaten the future of life on our planet through genetic contamination and widespread crop failures.
#7) The FDA protects:
A) The people from dangerous medicines.
B) The financial interests of the drug companies.
#8) The EPA’s real agenda is to:
A) Protect the environment.
B) Protect the financial interests of the chemical companies whose toxic products destroy the environment.
#9) The Federal Reserve functions to:
A) Stabilize the economy and keep America strong.
B) Loot the economy and control America’s economy for the interests of the few.
#10) The purpose of TSA checkpoints at airports is to:
A) Keep air passengers safe and secure.
B) Indoctrinate Americans into surrendering to police state invasions of their privacy.
#11) The practical function of the U.S. Supreme Court is to:
A) Protect the constitutional rights of the citizens.
B) Legitimize federal tyranny over the People by ignoring the Constitution and its Bill of Rights.
#12) Vaccines are based on:
A) Gold standard science that conclusively proves their safety and effectiveness.
B) Quackery and fraud combined with a persistent medical mythology that utterly lacks a factual basis.
#13) Herbs and superfoods:
A) Are medically useless and cannot treat, prevent or cure any disease.
B) Contain powerful plant-based medicines that can help reverse and prevent disease.
#14) In Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq, America:
A) Led a humanitarian effort to save innocent people from tyranny.
B) Waged an illegal imperialist war to occupy foreign nations and control their oil.
#15) The U.S. Bill of Rights
A) Grants you rights and freedoms.
B) Merely acknowledges the rights and freedoms you already possess.
To score your Sheeple Quiz, simply count the number of times you answered “A” to the questions above.
If you answered “A” 10 times or more…
You are a total news-watching, gullible fairytale swallowing Sheeple! Be sure to keep taking those medications and watching more network news. Don’t bother thinking for yourself because you seem to be incapable of accomplishing that.
If you answered “A” fewer than 10 times…
You are sadly Sheeple-minded but there is hope for your rescue. Learn more about the world around you and train yourself to think critically so you can depart from the herd mentality.
If you answered “A” fewer than 5 times…
You are an unusually intelligent free-minded thinker who questions the world around you and doesn’t buy into the usual propaganda. You still got suckered on a few items, so there’s more yet to learn. But you’re on the right track!
If you answered “A” exactly zero times…
You are the complete opposite of a Sheeple. You’re independent minded, well informed and probably a regular reader of NaturalNews.com. Stay on track and question events in the world around you. Eat more superfoods to maintain your healthy immune system and cognitive function. Avoid the toxic chemicals in foods, medicines and lawn care products. Keep reading the alternative press and voice your intelligent views to others willing to listen. (But don’t waste your time on those who aren’t.)
Thank you for taking the Sheeple quiz here on NaturalNews.
Illinois Gun
Infowars.com
May 19, 2011
With the recent Indiana Supreme court ruling giving police unfettered access to people’s homes, Newton county Sheriff Donald Hartman Sr. believes the ruling makes house to house searches possible.
In one reported interview regarding the Barnes vs. State of Indiana case, Sheriff Hartman showed such an indifference toward the rights of the people that he was asked three times to explain his views. The sheriff made it clear that he would use random house to house searches if he believed it was necessary.
The opinions of Newton county Sheriff Hartman has created a movement to remove him from office.
The facts and procedural history of the Barnes vs. State of Indiana began on November 18, 2007 in Vanderburgh County. The incident involved a married couple arguing, no attacks of violence were committed by either party, but officers on the scene escalated events when they forced their way into the couple’s apartment.
In writing for the court, Justice David Steven said that if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner can not do anything to block the officer’s entry.
This 3-2 decision by the Indiana Supreme Court has in affect overridden the 4th amendment to the US Constitution which says;
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized- [4th Amendment to the US Constitution]
A legal precedent has now been set for Indiana residents; people have NO reasonable expectation to be secure in their persons, house, papers and effects.
Justice David Steven was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court in October of 2010; he is a colonel in the United States Army Reserve and a former Chief Defense Counsel for Guantanamo captives.
Governor Mitch Daniels who is seen as a potential savior for the Republican presidential ticket in 2012 selected David Steven for the Indiana Supreme Court.
On April 19, 1775 after years of illegal searches and seizures the American colonists resisted their government.
The colonists believed they had the protection of the Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights, but the policing actions of the British Crown ignored those rights.
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Today people are grabbed and groped at airports and police routinely choke and taser people into submission. With the recent decisions by the Indiana and U.S. Supreme Courts the 4th amendment a mans home is NO longer his Castle.
Links of interest…
http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions…
http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_David_(Judge)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/…
http://www.infowars.com/indiana-sheriff-house-to-house-random-searches-now-possible/
Mike Adams
NaturalNews
November 17, 2011
The concentration of elite legislative power in America is well under way today as the new “supercommittee” is working on an end-run around Congress to put together a “secret farm bill” that would prop up failed agricultural policies with yet more billions in taxpayer dollars.
The “supercommittee” is the newly-formed (and utterly illegal) committee of 12 members of Congress who engineer new debt-related legislation that’s only allowed an up or down vote by the full Congress. This bypasses the traditional debate process by elected representatives, effectively concentrating the power to shape laws in the hands of a mere dozen members of Congress. The very structure is elitist from the start, and it directly contradicts the United States Constitution.
Because the committee concentrates yet more power in the hands of the few, it is being heavily lobbied by various groups and industries that want more government handouts. The farming industry, of course, is lined up at the trough of government slop just like everyone else, and this secret farm bill could cost taxpayers billions of dollars in government subsidies that are tied to commodities prices (which are extremely volatile and could unexpectedly rise).
Bypassing representatives to concentrate power with the elite
What this latest move demonstrates is that the supercommittee will now be used as a way to bypass the rest of Congress with yet more bloated government spending legislation that puts America further into a debt hole that increasingly appears to be headed toward total financial collapse.
That this is all being done without open debate in Congress, and without any public scrutiny of the actions of the 535 members of Congress is yet another disturbing sign that the very fabric of power in America is being deliberately destroyed and re-concentrated into the hands of the few — the “global elite” who now consider themselves kings who rule over the slave masses.
Read more at TheHill.com:
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/1…
America needs hemp farming, not more bailouts for growing low-value crops
Of course, the ultimate farm bill for America would be the legalization of industrial hemp farming — a move that would unleash a whole new era of agricultural abundance across the nation.
Presently, the USA imports thousands of tons of hemp products each year from Canada, China and other countries. These products include hemp seeds, hemp fibers, hemp clothing and hemp oils. Why on earth is it illegal for U.S. farmers to grow these products when we import them from Canada anyway?
If anybody in Washington could pull their head out of the clouds, they would legalize hemp farming for American farmers. So instead of farmers earning pennies a bushel for growing corn or soybeans, they could earn dollars a bushel for growing hemp. This would put hundreds of millions of dollars back into the economy and create new jobs in farming, agriculture and hemp products. Legalizing hemp farming is the ultimate “jobs bill.”
Better yet, hemp grows without pesticides and requires little to no chemical fertilizers, either. It’s environmentally friendly, it makes money for farmers, and the demand for hemp products is absolutely huge.
The U.S. Constitution is written on hemp. Sails and ropes from the ships that brought America’s original explorers were made out of hemp, and the earliest renditions of the U.S. flag itself were also made out of hemp. Ever wonder why? Because hemp lasts! It’s more rugged than cotton and far easier to grow and harvest.
So why isn’t hemp legal in America? And why is the supercommittee in Congress secretly scheming behind closed doors to spend even more taxpayer money propping up a failed agricultural subsidy system that traps farmers in financial slavery while denying them the freedom to grow a crop that’s just begging to be met with additional supply?
The answer is simple: Because the U.S. government doesn’t want Americans to have economic freedom! And the DEA, in particular, doesn’t want to give up its tyrannical power over everything related to marijuana.
Yet another reason to rise up against tyranny and government oppression
If the People of America are to have any hope of restoring their freedom to farm, freedom to garden, and freedom to consume plant-based medicine, they are going to have to take those freedoms back (with protests and Free Speech, not with violence) and remind the government that it has no right to tell the People what they can or cannot grow on their own land, with their own hard work.
Heck, the U.S. military is in Afghanistan right now helping the locals grow heroin crops! This is on the record. It was openly reported on Fox News by Geraldo Rivera. Watch the video report here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b3pB6M7s
So why is the U.S. government guardian opium farms in Afghanistan while criminalizing industrial hemp farming in America?
Because Washington is insane, of course. Agricultural policies are set not to help the American farmer, but to centralize power in Washington and either criminalize or financially enslave as many American citizens as possible. It’s all about stripping power away from the People and delivering it to the hands of the few.
Once again, the only man who takes a consistent stand against all this insanity is Rep. Ron Paul. If you support the legalization of hemp farming, the legalization of food freedom and the ending of the ludicrous “war on drugs” and all the millions of innocent people rotting in our prisons today for merely growing and selling a medicinal plant, then your only logical candidate is Ron Paul.
http://www.infowars.com/illegal-supercommittee-pushes-secret-farm-bill-that-will-cost-billions/
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
December 7, 2011
In the video below, we get a better idea of what the GOP front-runner thinks of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
During a question and answer session at a C-Span “Book Revue” in Huntington, New York, Gingrich said he would allow the FBI to violate the Fourth Amendment and permit it to aggressively trash the civil liberties of Americans the government designates as terrorists.
He does not bother to mention the fact the FBI now manufactures its own self-serving terrorism cases by using a legion of informers who prey on the mentally deranged and socially maladjusted. Virtually all of the high-profile domestic terror plots of the last decade were set-up by the FBI. Newt would give the agency a blank check to produce even more frame-ups.
During his answer to a question about terrorism, Gingrich also said the government should occasionally allow a terror attack in order to remind the American people there is still a war on terror and officially designated terrorists.
In addition to advocating constitutional relativism, Gingrich recently stated that he does not consider the practice of waterboarding to be torture. During the Fox News GOP “debate” in South Carolina on November 29, Gingrich said torture is acceptable so long as it is performed at the direction of the president and not done “capriciously.”
In other words, according to Newt, the president is above the law and should be able to violate the Constitution at his discretion.
Gingrich is the perfect war on terror – and subsequently a war on the Constitution – candidate. It is amazing he is actually the GOP front-runner when he should be working at a neocon foundation think-tank cranking out white papers frothing over largely imaginary terrorists. In the video, he basically admits this – there are no jihadist terrorists operating in the United States and that is why we have not been attacked since September 11, 2011.
http://www.infowars.com/gingrich-advocates-trashing-fourth-amendment-and-bill-of-rights/
Five people locked down, 20 danced on the governor’s table, 70 people occupied the office, business as usual was disrupted!
Note from the filmmaker: “Please pass this along to your friends, groups you work with, and listserves you’re a part of. Let’s build the movement and help put some money in the legal fund for people who put their bodies and freedom on the line!”
Lucid Dreaming is the ability to become aware while you’re dreaming… to consciously “wake up” inside the dream world and control your dreams.
Most people don’t even remember their regular dreams. These dreams alone are rich inner worlds that tell us much about the subconscious mind.
And lucid dreams go one giant leap further – to a fantasy realm where everything you see, feel, taste, hear and smell can be as authentic as your waking reality.
With conscious control, you can then explore your private dreamscape as if it were a virtual reality world. Sounds cool? You have no idea!
Music: Lucid by Casale (MP3 Download)
Lucidity is brought about by having self-awareness in the dream world. These aren’t normal dreams – they’re high definition, 360-degree awareness.
Profoundly, there are no physical laws in the dream world. Anything you can conceive of comes true. You can control your dreams (if you choose) and warp The Matrix like Neo, fly over cities Superman style, travel through time, have sex with anyone, fight like a ninja, re-live childhood memories, and way more.
In fact, the possibilities of lucid dreaming are limitless.
And you can do it all with intense physical sensation and emotional awareness. A lucid dream is not merely a fantasy playground; it’s a chance to interact with your own subconscious mind via dream characters and gain psychological insights.
The Benefits of Lucid DreamingOnce you know how to become lucid in dreams, you will discover a strange new world – an entire universe, no less – of which you are fully aware and can manipulate with the power of thought. The most obvious benefit of lucid dreams is you can fulfil your every desire in total realism. But that’s not all. You can also rehearse real life events (such as a first date) and re-live memories from the past (such as your favorite vacation). Perhaps most intriguing of all is the ability to communicate with your subconscious mind. In normal dreams, the environment, characters, themes, symbols and plot are all driven by your subconscious mind, which communicates through experiential memory and conceptual form. Now, for the first time in your life, lucid dreaming allows you to consciously ask any question of your dream (your subconscious or inner self) and receive an independent response that may surprise you. When lucid dreaming, you can ask your dream questions like:
The answers will be provided by another you… a deeper you… your subconscious dreaming self! The answer may be spoken directly by a dream character, written in the sky, or shown to you in conceptual form, allowing for live dream interpretation. Yep, lucid dreaming is a strange new world… come on in :) |
In 1975, lucid dreaming was scientifically proven in the laboratory for the first time ever. The British parapsychologist Keith Hearne recorded a set of pre-determined eye movements from his volunteer, Alan Worsley, who was in a lucid dream. This proved that Worsley was conscious while dreaming.
However, their groundbreaking research slipped under the radar of mainstream science journals and it was Stephen LaBerge at Stanford University who became famous for first publishing this experiment in 1983.
Like Hearne, LaBerge also chose lucid dreaming as the subject for his doctorate thesis and created new methods that beginners could use to become lucid on a regular basis. Today, LaBerge is a leading lucid dream researcher, running intensive workshops and dream experiments out of The Lucidity Institute.
More recently, in 2009, a study by the Neurological Laboratory in Frankfurt showed people with significantly increased brain activity while lucid dreaming. An EEG machine recorded highly active frequencies up to the 40 Hz (or Gamma) range in lucid dreamers. This is far more active than the normal dream state (Theta: 4-8 Hz) and even waking (Beta: 12-38 Hz).
The German researchers also saw heightened activity in the frontal and frontolateral areas of the brain which are the seat of linguistic thought as well as other higher mental functions associated with self-awareness. Science fully accepts that lucid dreaming is a real state of being – and may offer considerable insights into the nature of human consciousness itself.
Did You Know?Congenitally blind people (blind since birth) show little or no Rapid Eye Movement (REM) while they dream – because their “dream eyes” are not LOOKING at anything. Instead, they have intense dreams featuring their heightened perception of sounds, smells and touch. |
The lucid dream researcher, Stephen LaBerge, says: “Everyone has, in theory, the capacity to learn to dream lucidly, because everyone dreams every night.”
As a lucid dreamer, I know there is nothing special about my brain that allows me to control my dreams. It’s simply a matter of mental training – entering the mindset required to realize when you’re dreaming (rather than sleep through it).
However, just like playing chess or learning the piano, your skills will improve over time. That’s not to say you can’t have a lucid dream tonight – but you will need to develop your ability to go lucid at will and control your dreams naturally.
To give you a taste of the training involved, here are three basic methods you’ll need to increase your self-awareness and dream recall…
Step 1. Remember Your DreamsGood dream recall is essential for increasing your awareness in dreams. Keep a dream journal (written or voice recorder) and remember at least one dream every morning. Write, draw, or talk about it in as much detail as you can remember, and solidify the memory of the dream before you get out of bed. For more info on dream journaling, see How to Remember Your Dreams. |
Step 2. Reality ChecksA reality check increases your level of self-awareness while awake. It eventually filters through to the dream world by force of habit and triggers lucid dreaming. To do a reality check now, take two fingers from your right hand, and try to push them through your left palm. At the same time, ask yourself “Am I dreaming right now?” Perform this action a dozen times throughout your waking day. You’ll soon perform the same action in your dream on auto-pilot. When that happens, you’ll recognize that you are in a dream world, your consciousness will kick in, and your senses will come alive! See my Top 10 Reality Checks. |
Step 3. MeditationDream research is uncovering the extraordinary link between meditation and lucid dreaming. The more you meditate by day – and night – the easier it will be for you to start experiencing conscious dreams. Simple as that. Here’s a quick session you can do as you fall asleep tonight. Lay on your back and allow every muscle to melt into the bed. Relax deeply until you’re too tired to move. To help you focus, count backwards in your mind: “100. I’m dreaming. 99. I’m dreaming. 98. I’m dreaming…” and so on. Otherwise, just quiet your mind and observe your self-awareness. Imagine your body is totally invisible and light. Quite often, this will lead you directly into the dreamstate. Your goal is to remain conscious while your body falls asleep and your mind starts dreaming! This is not always easy, so check out my Wake Induced Lucid Dreams tutorial. |
If you’ve just now discovered the concept of conscious dream control, you’ll probably have a lot of questions – or misconceptions. So here is a taster of my full Lucid Dreaming FAQ to get you on your feet.
What is lucid dreaming?
How do I know when I’m lucid?
How can I stay lucid for longer?
How can I change the scenery?
How can I have flying dreams?
Are lucid dreams tiring?
Can I get stuck in a lucid dream?
Can I talk to my subconscious in a lucid dream?
A lucid dream is when you consciously wake up inside a dream. The word lucid means clear so it literally translates as clear dreaming. It is a result of heightened consciousness in the dream state, initiated by the realization that you are dreaming.
Most people will have one or two conscious dreams in their lifetime by accident. But with practice, you can learn how to have lucid dreams regularly and act out your greatest fantasies and use it for personal development. While some children can program their dreams naturally, for adults it requires practice of lucid dreaming techniques and a dedication to the concept of waking up in your dreams.
The reason so many people are drawn to lucidity is because it sets them free and allows them to do impossible things in the dream world. Once you learn to induce conscious dreams, you can control your actions, manipulate the scenery, and drive the plot as you see fit. This enables you to explore the depths of the oceans or the edge of the universe. You can travel forward in time, fly to the moon, or run like a cheetah. There are no limits in the world of lucid dreaming.
In Dream Initiated Lucid Dreams, the moment you become lucid is the moment you suddenly realize you are dreaming.
In the movies, fictional characters often realize they’re dreaming and make funny comments about it but otherwise allow the dream to continue of it’s own accord and nothing changes.
In real life, the effect is quite different. Saying (and knowing) “This is a dream!” results in a rush of clarity of thought. Your surroundings will zoom into focus and become much more vivid. You will have far greater awareness of your body and it is more like a waking experience, seeing the dream through your own eyes and having the opportunity to move freely at will.
Lucid dreaming involves your conscious brain. So it will look and feel a lot like waking life, where the conscious brain is in charge. The more experience you gain of conscious dreaming, the better you will become at observing and controlling your dream awareness. You can focus on distant landscapes, feel the texture of the grass underfoot, and taste any food you can imagine.
However, the features of conscious dreams can spontaneously change just like a normal dream. For instance, you may manifest a group of bear cubs which later change into a pile of boxes. Of course, you can easily call the bear cubs back again. But don’t be surprised if you notice these subtle changes which seem beyond your control. This is the subconscious mind showing its influence in what is, after all, a subconsciously generated landscape. Just remember to reassert your conscious will every now and then by reminding yourself “I’m dreaming – and none of this is real.”
If your lucid dream is coming to an end, you will notice your senses fading away – starting with vision and finishing with touch. It can happen within seconds so you need to act fast or you’ll wake up. Alternatively, you may just lose your clarity of thought and slip back into a regular dream state which is blurry and guides itself.
I recommend you increase your awareness with these Tips for Prolonging Lucid Dreams the moment you recognize that you’re dreaming. Often, beginners find their lucid dreams last only a few seconds before they get too excited and accidentally wake themselves up. With these techniques you can prolong your conscious dreams for up to an hour.
My favorite way to enhance my lucidity and ground myself into the dream is to rub my hands together, which stimulates the conscious brain and distracts me from thinking about my physical body lying in bed. I also say out loud “I’m dreaming. I’m lucid.”
Making the dream scene morph in front of your eyes can sometimes difficult – mainly because you simply don’t expect it to happen. This is typical of the results beginners complain about because they lack the anticipated dream control.
If you’re having problems with dream control (and I should stress that not everyone does have such issues) the best way to change things is to work WITH your subconscious dream logic. For instance, to change the scenery:
As you can see, there are many creative solutions to issues of dream control. The most important thing to remember is that your conscious expectation plays a major role. If you question your own ability to manifest new scenes, then your abilities will falter. But if you remain confident and learn from your experiences, you’ll soon find that absolutely anything is possible inside a lucid dream.
Learning how to fly in lucid dreams is something we all want to master first.
However, it’s not like you’ve had any practice in real life, so the concept can be a little difficult on the lucid dreaming mind. While some people take to the sky like Superman, others can get stuck in power lines, bump into buildings, or waver as if there is wobbly dream gravity acting against them (which of course there isn’t!)
Think of the movie The Matrix, when Morpheus asks Neo how he beat him in a virtual reality fight. Was it because he was stronger, faster, or fitter in this simulated world? No! It was because he truly believed he was better. It’s the same concept in dreams.
Take a look at this article on How to Have Lucid Flying Dreams, which explains the rules of flying dreams and offers a three-step flight training program to work with.
The short answer for 99% of people is no.
You dream for around 100 minutes every night, broken down into multiple different dreams occurring in different stages of sleep. The average proficient lucid dreamer can expect to do it maybe 2-4 times a week, with each session lasting 10-40 minutes. Most people don’t miss that sleep – even if it were deemed to be worthless (which it isn’t). Indeed, lucid dreaming can often leave you on a natural high for the rest of the day, which gives you more mental and physical energy.
For a very small fraction of people, lucid dreaming occurs every night. They can feel engulfed by their conscious dreams and unable to sleep deeply and properly the whole night. This can leave them feeling sleep deprived and is a very real sleep disorder once it begins to impact on their normal daily life. That’s not to say lucid dreaming is a sleep disorder – but anything in excess can have profound effects on the mind and body. People who complain of this condition have usually been lucid dreaming their whole lives and should seek expert advice.
If you are imagining getting stuck in a lucid dream that way a child gets stuck in a painting in a horror movie, then no, that’s science fiction! Often it’s the opposite problem: people find it difficult to stay in their dream, and just about all mine end before I’m done with them.
Waking yourself up while lucid dreaming is quite easy and something many lucid dreamers develop early on to stop nightmares. Simply open and shut your dream eyes in quick succession (which triggers your real eyes to open) and shout out to yourself “Wake up!”
Some people report being stuck in lucid nightmares or false awakenings against their will but in my experience this is no worse than being in a regular nightmare or dream. Eventually you either wake up naturally or you have the consciousness required to think “Hang on… this is a dream. I don’t have to do this!”
While lucid dreaming, we have easy access to our subconscious mind. It is right there, setting up the imagery and guiding the plot. So once you become lucid, you can personify your subconscious by talking to a dream figure and seeking all the information you like from your subconscious inner self. This is a whole other application for lucid dreaming and I highly recommend looking into it. Start with the article 10 Things to Ask Your Lucid Self inspired by the lucid dream author, Robert Waggoner.
If you found this FAQ helpful, visit the full Lucid Dreaming FAQ.
The wavelike motion of energetic particles through photosynthetic systems enables plants to efficiently capture the sun’s energy
GREEN COMPUTING: Photosynthetic plants appear to employ quantum computing to efficiently capture the energy of the sun. Image: © ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/KAMNEED
Plants soak up some of the 1017 joules of solar energy that bathe Earth each second, harvesting as much as 95 percent of it from the light they absorb. The transformation of sunlight into carbohydrates takes place in one million billionths of a second, preventing much of that energy from dissipating as heat. But exactly how plants manage this nearly instantaneous trick has remained elusive. Now biophysicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that plants use the basic principle of quantum computing—the exploration of a multiplicity of different answers at the same time—to achieve near-perfect efficiency.
Biophysicist Gregory Engel and his colleagues cooled a green sulfur bacterium—Chlorobium tepidum, one of the oldest photosynthesizers on the planet—to 77 kelvins [–321 degrees Fahrenheit] and then pulsed it with extremely short bursts of laser light. By manipulating these pulses, the researchers could track the flow of energy through the bacterium’s photosynthetic system. “We always thought of it as hopping through the system, the same way that you or I might run through a maze of bushes,” Engel explains. “But, instead of coming to an intersection and going left or right, it can actually go in both directions at once and explore many different paths most efficiently.”
In other words, plants are employing the basic principles of quantum mechanics to transfer energy from chromophore (photosynthetic molecule) to chromophore until it reaches the so-called reaction center where photosynthesis, as it is classically defined, takes place. The particles of energy are behaving like waves. “We see very strong evidence for a wavelike motion of energy through these photosynthetic complexes,” Engel says. The results appear in the current issue of Nature.
Employing this process allows the near-perfect efficiency of plants in harvesting energy from sunlight and is likely to be used by all of them, Engel says. It might also be copied usefully by researchers attempting to create artificial photosynthesis, such as that in photovoltaic cells for generating electricity. “This can be a much more efficient energy transfer than a classical hopping one,” Engel says. “Exactly how to implement that is a very difficult question.”
It also remains unclear exactly how a plant’s structure permits this quantum effect to take place. “[The protein structure] of the plant has to be tuned to allow transfer among chromophores but not to allow transfers into [heat],” Engel says. “How that tuning works and how it is controlled, we don’t know.” Inside every spring leaf is a system capable of performing a speedy and efficient quantum computation, and therein lies the key to much of the energy on Earth.
If you go into that white light, another experience wiped out…
It’s one of life’s biggest questions: What happens when you die?
An increasing number of near death experiences, or NDEs, are being reported thanks to advances in medical science and increased resuscitations of the dead.
And several survivors have come forward to share their glimpses of what they believe is a realm beyond this life.
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Life-changing: Houston therapist Mary Jo Rapini is among the group interviewed for ABC News programme Beyond Belief: Near Death Experiences
White light: Many NDE survivors report seeing tunnels of white and coloured lights as the float out of their bodiesHouston therapist Mary Jo Rapini is among the group interviewed for ABC News programme Beyond Belief: Near Death Experiences, which follows several survivors who were clinically pronounced dead or were near dead when their encounters occurred.
Ms Rapini, who says she heard God tell her to go back after she suffered a brain aneurysm in 2003, remembers being engulfed in a pinkish glow, which prompted her to write Is God Pink? Dying to Heal.
‘All of a sudden it just came over me and I was in it. I was in that light, and I came to this beautiful area.
‘It’s not human so it’s difficult to express it humanly but the room was beautiful,’ she said.
Ms Rapini rejects scientific reasoning as an explanation for her NDE.
Message to share: Reverend Don Piper of Pasadena, California believes he was sent back to spread the message that ‘heaven is a real place’
Horrific: Mr Piper said he was dead for 90 minutes after a car he was in was crushed by an 18-wheeler in a head-on crash in 1989 (pictured here)‘I had such a sense of knowingness there everything made sense… Unlike a dream that was never clear, this was so clear,’ she continued. ‘Scientists who say it’s a dream, or – I beg to differ. It’s not that.’
But her story is not uncommon.
News anchor Bob Woodruff recalls a similar experience that occurred after he was severely injured in Iraq in 2006. After his vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, Mr Woodruff remembers seeing his body floating below and seeing a bright white light during the minute he was unconscious.
Reverend Don Piper, of Pasadena, California, was travelling in a car when it was crushed by an 18-wheeler in a head-on crash in 1989. Paramedics declared him dead.
He was without a pulse, he says, for 90 minutes before he came back to life after a passer-by began to pray and sing hymns over his body.
Out-of-body experience: News anchor Bob Woodruff recalls floating above himself after losing consciousness after he was severely injured in Iraq in 2006‘(The) steering wheel impaled me in the chest and then the car’s roof collapsed on my head so there’s just no way you could survive this accident,’ he said.
But the experience he had before rejoining the living he says could not be explained as anything other than life after death.
He says he remembers music that was ‘beyond spectacular’ and aromas he’d never smelled before. His grandfather was there to greet him alongside several others who had died before him.
They all stood in front of a magnificent gate, with lights that were ‘pulsating with life,’ he said.
Not alone: Jane Seymour famously described her near-death experience in 2005, after an allergic reaction caused her to go into anaphylactic shockMr Piper, who endured dozens of surgeries to fix his bones, had to learn to walk again. He wrote about the trauma in New York Times best-seller 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life.
‘You know, if I was having a dream about it, this wouldn’t be in it,’ he said. ‘Some of these people who met me at the gates, I haven’t thought of in decades.’
Near death experiences (NDEs) are defined as as feelings that sometimes occur when a person is nearly dead or has been clinically declared dead.
Many survivors report out-of-body experiences, seeing flashes of light, having awareness of being dead and meeting deceased relatives, and describe an overall feeling of calmness and lack of pain.
Scientists offer different theories as to why they occur, the most popular being the ‘dying brain hypothesis’ – the idea that when the brain is under stress, it releases a flood of neuro-chemicals that create flashes of light, peace and calm.
In April 2010, researchers in Slovenia reported cardiac arrest patients who had NDEs also had much higher carbon dioxide levels than those patients who did not.
Another study conducted in 2009 by University of Kentucky researchers credited their occurrence with ‘blurring of sleeping and waking states.’
But often, survivors say their experiences cannot be explained by scientific logic.
He believes he was sent back to spread the message that ‘heaven is a real place’.
That was also the case with twelve-year-old Colton Burpo, the Nebraska boy whose near-death experience at age four is recounted in the current best-seller Heaven Is for Real; gunshot victim Erin Smith of Montgomery also talks about her experience at age 17.
Jane Seymour famously described her near-death experience during an interview with Larry King in 2005.
An allergic reaction caused Seymour to go into anaphylactic shock. Ms Seymour said she saw light and believes ‘there is some spiritual entity that’s greater than us,’ although she said she does not follow a specific religion.
Perhaps surprisingly, NDEs have a relatively frequent rate of occurrence – in one study reported by the Huffington Post, one in ten cardiac arrest survivors reported having them. Medical advances have led to an increased number of resuscitations, scientists say, contributing to a rise over recent years.
But debate continues over whether NDEs are spiritual or scientific in nature.
While many say their journeys through dark tunnels, flashes of light, awareness of being dead and meetings with deceased relatives cannot be explained by science, many researchers credit simple biological responses for the bizarre experiences.
The most common explanation is the ‘dying brain hypothesis,’ the idea that when the brain is under stress, it releases a flood of neuro-chemicals that create flashes of light, peace and calm.
In April 2010, researchers in Slovenia reported cardiac arrest patients who had NDEs also had much higher carbon dioxide levels than those patients who did not.
Another study conducted in 2009 by University of Kentucky researchers credited their occurrence with ‘blurring of sleeping and waking states.’
Still, very little is known about the mysterious phenomenon.
Dr Sam Parnia, an expert on consciousness and death, launched the world’s largest study on near death experiences in 2008 by deciding to interview nearly 1,000 survivors of cardiac arrest.
The results are expected to be released next year.
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There is a connection between NDEs, quantum physics, and the holographic universe theory that is not easily explained away. Near death experiencers routinely describe their experiences in terms that can only be called “holographic” saying things like ” I literally felt like I was everywhere at the same time”, or “I felt an overwhelming feeling of oneness and connectedness,”, or “time and space didn’t seem to exist”, or “I could see 360 degrees around me at the same time”, or “I had to simply think of a time or place and I was there experiencing it.” The Life Review is a holographic experience par excellence. During the review people see their whole lives flash before their eyes in 3-D, feeling the emotions and hearing the thoughts of the people they were interacting with – so much so that they felt like they were the other person. Other interesting statements are things like “the building itself seemed to be made out of knowledge” and “there were more colors than normal.
– Art Riechert, Murfreesboro, TN USA, 05/8/2011 19:01
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/archive10/naryanan.krishnan.html
For years, debate has raged about the validity of IQ tests. Critics claim that these tests are subject to all sorts of biases, but research shows that IQ results are good predictors of several aspects of life, including educational achievement, success in the workplace, and even longevity. These correlations suggest that IQ tests are measuring some important quality, but it may not be restricted to intelligence. A new study in PNAS suggests that motivation is very important in IQ scores, and may actually be the driving factor in some of these associations.
IQ tests are purported to maximize the subjects’ motivation via the sequence of the questions and how the test is administered, but this probably doesn’t mean much in real life. First, the researchers conducted a meta-analysis of previous studies to determine how important incentives were to IQ test results. The studies all compared subjects’ IQ test results under two conditions: with and without material incentives for performance.
Not surprisingly, material incentives did increase self-reported motivation, by an average of 0.64 standard deviations. Interestingly, the higher the subject’s baseline IQ was, the less an incentive increased performance. When incentives are small or absent, people with higher IQs perform closer to their maximum potential than those with lower IQs do.
In the second part of the study, the researchers studied a group of 251 boys in Pittsburgh who averaged just over 12 years of age. The boys were videotaped as they took a type of IQ test (called the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children). A 15-minute section of each subject’s tape was coded by blind observers who judged their motivational level based on behaviors such as refusing to answer questions, quickly answering “I don’t know,” and asking when the test would be over.
The study then followed these boys for more than ten years, taking note of their achievements and major life events. Their IQ scores predicted many life outcomes, such as school performance, years of schooling, and employment history. However, once their motivation was taken into account, the amount of variance in explained by IQ scores went way down for some of these outcomes. But motivation was a much better predictor of some outcomes than others: it was highly associated with non-academic achievement (more motivated boys spent less time in jail and had better employment histories), while IQ scores were more associated with academic achievement.
Motivation may play a larger role in test results than previously thought. It seems that motivation is associated with some life events and achievement that were previously linked only to IQ scores. While this study has some limitations—such as homogeneity in the subjects’ ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds—it is another nail in the coffin for the predictive power of traditional IQ tests.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/want-to-increase-your-iq-get-motivated.ars
By Chris Lee | Published 7 months ago
Tracking photons through the classic double-slit experiment
This week, an exciting new experiment has been published in Science. Funnily enough, it repeats an experiment that is over 200 years old, and I am not certain that it teaches us anything new about the world. But it puts the weirdness of quantum mechanics on display for all to see. And it allows me to get sidetracked by history and generally ignore the work in question except in passing.
A bit of history
In 1803, Thomas Young published a paper on an experiment that has not just become famous, but is, in fact, the workhorse paper of quantum mechanics. In his experiment, light was passed through two closely spaced and narrow slits. Some distance after the slits, the light hit a screen so that the resulting intensity pattern could be observed.
Instead of two fuzzy stripes, a banded pattern was observed, one that could only be explained by assuming that light had a wave nature. With light assumed to be a wave, the waves’ amplitudes could sum to provide dark bands and light bands. This publication was the final salvo in the battle between physicists who believed that light was a particle and physicists who believed that light was a wave. Shortly after the publication of Young’s paper, the “wave physicists” accepted the surrender of the “particle physicists” at a secret ceremony at Cambridge, where the losing side handed over their tables of integrals and agreed never to use calculus again.
And there the story might have ended. In fact, for many such stories in physics, it does end there. But in 1924, a young physicist called de Broglie published the results of his work on the emerging theory of quantum mechanics. In his work, he posited that all particles had a wave-like nature—and, conversely, every wave has some particle-like properties. This was a revelation, and what better way to test it than with versions of Young’s double slit experiment?
Since then, physicists have used double-slit-style experiments to observe the wave-like properties of electrons, neutrons, whole atoms, and entire conglomerates of atoms in the form of Bose Einstein condensates. Clearly, matter has both particle-like and wave-like properties. De Broglie did not celebrate—instead he gave up on quantum mechanics as we know it today in disgust. Why?
The main reason boils down to this: the interference pattern can be built up from photons that are sent through the slits one at a time. They have no chance of interfering with each other, so the only way for the pattern to build up is for each photon to interfere with itself. And the only way for that to occur is if the photon somehow passes through both slits at the same time.
Once you add in a few other considerations, like when and how an experimenter chooses to make a measurement, you are left with an unsettling degree of non-locality and a sort of spooky instantaneous propagation of the wavefunction. It was enough to make a small group of physicists turn in their slide-rules and resign themselves to watching from the sidelines.
Back to the present experiment
The current experiment can be described as a physicist hearing that the photon went through both slits, agreeing, but then saying, “No, seriously, which slit did the photon go through?” Yes, there remains a visceral and fundamental discomfort with the realities of quantum mechanics. Nevertheless, this discomfort has led to a very clever experiment that comes as close as is possible to answering this question.
Any experiment that tells you with certainty which slit the photon passed through will not allow an interference pattern to build up. Even if the experiment doesn’t absorb the photon, it modifies its properties enough that it cannot interfere with itself; because we know that it went through just one of the slits, it shouldn’t interfere with itself. But what if we made a probabilistic measurement? One that just said something along the lines of “this photon went through the left slit with 75 percent probability.”
To do this, the researchers constructed a double slit experiment, but instead of placing a screen after it, they placed a crystal that has a different refractive index depending on how the light is polarized. Depending on the angle with which the photon passes through the crystal, its polarization gets a small rotation. After that, an optical element tries to set the polarization to a particular state, and, depending on where the photon originated from, will fail to a greater or lesser extent. Following that, the photon is deflected at some angle that depends on its polarization, allowing a simultaneous measurement of part of the photon’s momentum and where it hits on a screen (which is governed by the interference pattern).
Because all of these measurements are probabilistic, you never know which photon came from where, but over time you can build statistics that tell you where photons are most likely to be found. If you do this repeatedly, with the second half of the detection apparatus moved closer to and further away from the slits, you can build up photon trajectories.
It’s important to realize that these are not the trajectories of individual photons—instead they are more like probability clouds that tell you where photons are most likely to be found. And what do you know? Half the photons appear to have gone through one slit and half go through the other.
But, in fact, this is a lie. That photon still has to have gone through both slits. It is important to realize that a measurement has to produce a result. It is always going to find that the photon is somewhere, and that tells us very little about where it came from or where it is going to.
With that knowledge, it is hard to say what this experiment tells us that we didn’t know before. The only difference is that now we have both data and theory saying the same thing, which is important. But, there was so much data from so many different experiments that would have had to have been wrong for this experiment to turn up any other result that it is hard to be surprised.
That said, this demonstrates another aspect of control. These weak measurements only give partial information and are limited to statistical inferences. But they also result in measurements that cannot otherwise be made, making them an important new tool in the development of quantum apparatus.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/06/an-experiment-that-just-keeps-on-giving.ars
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Move over, Montauk Monster. Step aside, Nessie. There’s a new sea creature in town–maybe. Footage of a 20- to 30-foot long creature caught on tape by fishermen suggest we have an Alaska bonafide marine-creature mystery.
The black and white footage from 2009 is by no means definitive. It is taken on a rainy day with a shaky camera, which make it all the more confounding. But you can check out the testimony of people who say they witnessed the creature’s appearance in the video above.
The Alaska-dwelling creature has been labeled a “Cadborosaurus willsi,” which means “reptile” or “lizard” from Cadboro Bay, British Columbia, where it was originally spotted centuries ago. Called “Caddy” for short, it has a “long neck, a horse-like head, large eyes, and back bumps that stick out of the water,” according to a report on MSNBC.
Though the tape captures the most recent sighting, tales of beholding the creature in the North Pacific have circulated for 200 years. In 1937, scientists thought they might have uncovered physical evidence when what was thought to be a sea serpent was found inside the stomach of a whale. Still, the creature is classified as part of Cryptozoology, i.e., a creature not formally recognized by the scientific community.
One true believer today is Andy Hillstrand, a veteran of the reality-TV show “Deadliest Catch,” who tracks the creature in his new show, “Hillstranded.” The seaman reports that he saw “a big, long white thing moving in the water. We chased it for about 20 minutes. Spray came out of its head. It was definitely not a shark…I’ve never seen anything like it before.”
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/loch-ness-monster-alasaka-204906638.html
A mind reading machine has edged closer to reality after scientists found a way of converting thoughts into words.
Researchers were able to render brain signals into speech for the first time, relying on sensors attached to the brain surface.
The breakthrough, which is up to 90 percent accurate, will be a boon for paralysed patients who cannot speak and could help read anyone’s thoughts ultimately, reports the Telegraph.
“We were beside ourselves with excitement when it started working,” said Prof Bradley Greger, bioengineer at the Utah University who led the project. “It was just one of the moments when everything came together.
“We have been able to decode spoken words using only signals from the brain with a device that has promise for long-term use in paralysed patients who cannot speak. I would call it brain reading and we hope that in two or three years it will be available for use for paralysed patients.”
The breakthrough came when the team attached two button-sized grids of 16 tiny electrodes to an epileptic’s brain’s speech centres, says the journal of Neural Engineering.
The patient had part of his skull removed for another operation to treat his condition.
Using electrodes, the scientists recorded brain signals in a computer as the patient repeatedly read each of 10 words that might be useful to a paralysed person: yes, no, hot, cold, hungry, thirsty, hello, goodbye, more and less.
Then they got him to repeat the words to the computer and it was able to match the brain signals for each word 76 percent to 90 percent of the time.
The computer picked up the patient’s brain waves as he talked and did not use any voice recognition software.
Because just thinking a word is enough to produce the same brain signals, Prof. Greger and his team believe that soon they will be able to have translation device and voice box that repeats the word you are thinking.
Besides, the brains of paralysed people are just as healthy and produce the same signals as those in physically-fit people – it is just they are blocked by injury from reaching the muscle.
Researchers said the method needs improvement, but could lead in a few years to clinical trials on paralysed people who cannot speak due to so-called “locked-in” syndrome.
“This is proof of concept,” Prof. Greger said adding: “We’ve proven these signals can tell you what the person is saying well above chance.”
Let’s try Dr. Leary‘s perspective on these mysteries.
To understand neurological space, Dr. Leary assumes that the nervous system consists of eight potential circuits, or “gears,” or mini-brains. Four of these brains are in the usually active left lobe and are concerned with our terrestrial survival; four are extraterrestrial, reside in the “silent” or inactive right lobe, and are for use in our future evolution. This explains why the right lobe is usually inactive at this stage of our development, and why it becomes active when the person ingests psychedelics.
We will explain each of the eight “brains” briefly.
This invertebrate brain was the first to evolve (2 to 3 billion years ago) and is the first activated when a human infant is born. It programs perception onto an either-or grid divided into nurturing-helpful Things (which it approaches) and noxious-dangerous Things (which it flees, or attacks). The imprinting of this circuit sets up the basic attitude of trust or suspicion which will ever after trigger approach or avoidance.
This second, more advanced bio-computer formed when vertebrates appeared and began to compete for territory (perhaps 500,000,000 B.C.). In the individual, this bigger tunnel-reality is activated when the DNA master-tape triggers the metamorphosis from crawling to walking. As every parent knows, the toddler is no longer a passive (bio-survival) infant but a mammalian politician, full of physical (and psychic) territorial demands, quick to meddle in family business and decision-making. Again the first imprint on this circuit remains constant for life (unless brainwashed) and identifies the stimuli which will automatically trigger dominant, aggressive behavior or submissive, cooperative behavior. When we say that a person is behaving emotionally, egotistically or ‘like a two-year-old,’ we mean that s/he is blindly following one of the tunnel-realities imprinted on this circuit.
This third brain was formed when hominid types began to differentiate from other primate stock (circa 4-5 million B.C.) and is activated for the linear left-lobe functions of the brain, determines our normal modes of artifact-manufacture and conceptual thought, i.e., third circuit ‘mind.’
It is no accident, then, that our logic (and our computer-design) follows either-or, binary structure of these circuits. Nor is it an accident that our geometry, until the last century, has been Euclidean. Euclid’s geometry, Aristotle’s logic and Newton’s physics are meta-programs synthesizing and generalizing first brain forward-back, second brain up-down and third brain right-left programs.
The fourth brain, dealing with the transmission of tribal or ethnic culture across generations, introduces the fourth dimension, time.
Since each of these tunnel-realities consists of biochemical imprints or matrices in the nervous system, each of them is specifically triggered by neuro-transmitters and other drugs.
| NOTICE how drugs that stimulate the first four circuits, which are already activated, tend to be dangerously addictive, roughly ordered ascending from the first circuit. -deoxy |
To activate the first braintake an opiate. Mother Opium and Sister Morphine bring you down to cellular intelligence, bio-survival passivity, the floating consciousness of the newborn. (This is why Freudians identify opiate addiction with the desire to return to infancy.)To activate the second tunnel-reality, take an abundant quantity of alcohol. Vertebrate territorial patterns and mammalian emotional politics immediately appear when the booze flows, as Thomas Nashe intuitively realized when he characterized the various alcohol states by animal labels: “ass drunk,” “goat drunk,” “swine drunk,” “bear drunk,” etc.
To activate the third circuit, try coffee or tea, a high-protein diet, speed or cocaine.
The specific neurotransmitter for circuit four has not been synthesized yet, but it is generated by the glands after pubescence and flows volcanically through the bloodstreams of adolescents.
NONE OF THESE TERRESTRIAL DRUGS CHANGE BASIC BIOCHEMICAL IMPRINTS. The behaviors which they trigger are those which were wired into the nervous system during the first stages of imprint vulnerability. The circuit II drunk exhibits the emotional games or cons learned from parents in infancy. The circuit III “mind” never gets beyond the permutations and combinations of those tunnel-realities originally imprinted, or abstractions associated with the imprints through later conditioning. And so forth.
But all this Pavlovian-Skinnerian robotism changes drastically and dramatically when we turn to the right lobe, the future circuits and extraterrestrial chemicals.
The four evolving future ‘brains’ are:
When this fifth “body-brain” is activated, flat Euclidean figure-ground configurations explode multi-dimensionally. Gestalts shift, in McLuhan‘s terms, from linear VISUAL SPACE to all-encompassing SENSORY SPACE.A hedonic turn-on occurs, a rapturous amusement, a detachment from the previously compulsive mechanism of the first four circuits. I turned this circuit on with pot and Tantra.
This fifth brain began to appear about 4,000 years ago in the first leisure-class civilizations and has been increasing statistically in recent centuries (even before the Drug Revolution), a fact demonstrated by the hedonic art of India, China, Rome and other affluent societies. More recently, Ornstein and his school have demonstrated with electroencephalograms that this circuit represents the first jump from the linear left lobe of the brain to the analogical right lobe.
The opening and imprinting of this circuit has been the preoccupation of “technicians of the occult”—Tantric shamans and hatha yogis. While the fifth tunnel-reality can be achieved by sensory deprivation, social isolation, physiological stress or severe shock (ceremonial terror tactics, as practiced by such rascal-gurus as Don Juan Matus or Aleister Crowley), it has traditionally been reserved to the educated aristocracy of leisure societies who have solved the four terrestrial survival problems.
About 20,000 years ago, the specific fifth brain neurotransmitter was discovered by shamans in the Caspian Sea area of Asia and quickly spread to other wizards throughout Eurasia and Africa. It is, of course, cannabis. Weed. Mother Mary Jane.
It is no accident that the pot-head generally refers to his neural state as “high” or “spaced-out.” The transcendence of gravitational, digital, linear, either-or, Aristotelian, Newtonian, Euclidean, planetary orientations (circuits I-IV) is, in evolutionary perspective, part of our neurological preparation for the inevitable migration off our home planet, now beginning. This is why so many pot-heads are STAR TREK freaks and science fiction adepts. (Berkeley, California, certainly the Cannabis Capital of the U.S., has a Federation Trading Post on Telegraph Avenue, where the well-heeled can easily spend $500 or more in a single day, buying STAR TREK novels, magazines, newsletters, bumper stickers, photographs, posters, tapes, etc., including even complete blueprints for the starship ENTERPRISE.)
The extraterrestrial meaning of being “high” is confirmed by astronauts themselves; 85% of those who have entered the free-fall zero gravity describe “mystic experiences” or rapture states typical of the neurosomatic circuit. “No photo can show how beautiful Earth looked,” raves Captain Ed Mitchell, describing his Illumination in free-fall. He sounds like any successful yogi or pot-head. No camera can show this experience because it is inside the nervous system.
FREE-FALL, AT THE PROPER EVOLUTIONARY TIME, TRIGGERS THE NEUROSOMATIC MUTATION, Leary believes. Previously this mutation has been achieved “artificially” by yogic or shamanic training or by the fifth circuit stimulant, cannabis. Surfing, skiing, skin-diving and the new sexual culture (sensuous massage, vibrators, imported Tantric arts, etc.) have evolved at the same time as part of the hedonic conquest of gravity. The Turn-On state is always described as “floating,” or, in the Zen metaphor, “one foot above the ground.”
The sixth brain consists of the nervous system becoming aware of itself apart from imprinted gravitational reality-maps (circuits I-IV) and even apart from body-rapture (circuit V). Count Korzybski, the semanticist, called this state “consciousness of abstracting.” Dr. John Lilly calls it “metaprogramming,” i.e., awareness of programming one’s programming. This Einsteinian, relativistic contelligence (consciousness-intelligence) recognizes, for instance, that the Euclidean, Newtonian and Aristotelian reality-maps are just three among billions of possible programs or models for experience. I turned this circuit on with Peyote, LSD and Crowley’s “magick” metaprograms.
This level of brain-functioning seems to have been reported first around 500 B.C. among various “occult” groups connected by the Silk Route (Rome-North India). It is so far beyond the terrestrial tunnel-realities that those who have achieved it can barely communicate about it to ordinary humanity (circuits I-IV) and can hardly be understood even by fifth circuit Rapture Engineers.
The characteristics of the neuroelectric circuit are high velocity, multiple choice, relativity, and the fission-fusion of all perceptions into parallel science-fiction universes of alternate possibilities.
The mammalian politics which monitor power struggles among terrestrial humanity are here transcended, i.e., seen as static, artificial, an elaborate charade. One is neither coercively manipulated into another’s territorial reality nor forced to struggle against it with reciprocal emotional game-playing (the usual soap-opera dramatics). One simply elects, consciously, whether or not to share the other’s reality-model.
Tactics for opening and imprinting the sixth circuit are described and rarely experienced in advanced rajah yoga, and in the hermetic (coded) manuals of the medieval-Renaissance alchemists and Illuminati.
No specific sixth circuit chemical is yet available, but strong psychedelics like mescaline (from my 1962-63 “sacred cactus,” peyotl) and psilocybin (from the Mexican “magic mushroom,” teonactl) open the nervous system to a mixed-media series of circuit V and circuit VI channels. This is appropriately called “tripping,” as distinguished from straight-forward fifth circuit “turning on” or “getting high.”
The suppression of scientific research in this area has had the unfortunate result of turning the outlaw drug culture back toward fifth circuit hedonics and pre-scientific tunnel-realities (the occult revival, solipsism, Pop Orientalism). Without scientific discipline and methodology, few can successfully decode the often-frightening (but philosophically crucial) sixth circuit metaprogramming signals. Such scientists as do continue to study this subject dare not publish their results (which are illegal) and record ever-wider tunnel-realities only in private conversations—like the scholars of the Inquisitorial era. (Voltaire announced the Age of Reason two centuries too soon. We are still in the Dark Ages.) Most underground alchemists have given up on such challenging and risky self-work and restrict their trips to fifth circuit erotic tunnels.
The evolutionary function of the sixth circuit is to enable us to communicate at Einsteinian relativities and neuro-electric accelerations, not using third circuit laryngeal-manual symbols but directly via feedback, telepathy and computer link-up. Neuro-electric signals will increasingly replace “speech” (hominid grunts) after space migration.
When humans have climbed out of the atmosphere-gravity well of planetary life, accelerated sixth circuit contelligence will make possible high-energy communication with “Higher Intelligences,” i.e., ourselves-in-the-future and other post-terrestrial races.
It is charmingly simple and obvious, once we realize that the spaced-out neural experiences really are extraterrestrial, that getting high and spacing out are accurate metaphors. Circuit V neurosomatic rapture is preparation for the next step in our evolution, migration off the planet. Circuit VI is preparation for the step after that, interspecies communication with advanced entities possessing electronic (post-verbal) tunnel-realities.
Circuit VI is the “universal translator” often imagined by science-fiction writers, already built into our brains by the DNA tape. Just as the circuits of the future butterfly are already built into the caterpillar.
The seventh brain kicks into action when the nervous system begins to receive signals from WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL NEURON, from the DNA-RNA dialogue. The first to achieve this mutation spoke of “memories of past lives,” “reincarnation,” “immortality,” etc. That these adepts were recording something real is indicated by the fact that many of them (especially Hindu and Sufis) gave marvelously accurately poetic vistas of evolution 1,000 or 2,000 years before Darwin, and foresaw Superhumanity before Nietzsche.
The “akashic records” of Theosophy, the “collective unconscious” of Jung, the “phylogenetic unconscious” of Grof and Ring, are three modern metaphors for this circuit. The visions of past and future evolution described by those who have had “out-of-body” experiences during close-to-death episodes also describes the trans-time circuit VII tunnel-reality.
Specific exercises to trigger circuit VII are not to be found in yogic teaching; it usually happens, if at all, after several years of the kind of advanced rajah yoga that develops circuit VI facility.
The specific circuit VII neurotransmitter is, of course LSD. (Peyote and psilocybin produce some circuit VII experiences also.)
Circuit VII is best considered, in terms of 1977 science, as the genetic archives, activated by anti-histone proteins. The DNA memory coiling back to the dawn of life. A sense of the inevitability of immortality and interspecies symbiosis comes to all circuit VII mutants; we now see that this, also, is an evolutionary forecast, since WE STAND RIGHT NOW ON THE DOOR-STEP OF EXTENDED LONGEVITY LEADING TO IMMORTALITY.
The exact role of the right-lobe circuits and the reason for their activation in the 1960s cultural revolution now becomes clear. As sociologist F.M. Esfandiary writes in UPWINGERS, “Today when we speak of immortality and of going to another world we no longer mean these in a theological or metaphysical sense. People are now traveling to other worlds. People are now striving for immortality. Transcendence is no longer a metaphysical concept. It has become reality.”
The evolutionary function of the seventh circuit and its evolutionary, aeon-spanning tunnel-reality is to prepare us for conscious immortality and interspecies symbiosis.
Hold on to your hats and breathe deeply—this is the farthest-out that human intelligence has yet ventured.
Consciousness probably precedes the biological unit or DNA tape-loop. “Out-of-body experiences,” “astral projection,” contact with alien (extraterrestrial?) “entities” or with a galactic Overmind, etc., such as I’ve experienced, have all been reported for thousands of years, not merely by the ignorant, the superstitious, the gullible, but often by the finest minds among us (Socrates, Giordano Bruno, Edison, Buckminster Fuller, etc.). Such experiences are reported daily to parapsychologists and have been experienced by such scientists as Dr. John Lilly and Carlos Castaneda. Dr. Kenneth Ring has attributed these phenomena to what he calls, very appropriately, “the extraterrestrial unconscious.”
Dr. Leary suggests that circuit VIII is literally neuro-atomic—infra, supra and meta-physiological—a quantum model of consciousness and/or a conscious model of quantum mechanics by the turned-on physicists discussed previously (Prof. John Archibald Wheeler, Saul-Paul Sirag, Dr. Fritjof Capra, Dr. Jack Sarfatti, etc.) indicates strongly that the “atomic consciousness” first suggested by Leary in “The Seven Tongues of God” (1962) is the explanatory link which will unite parapsychology and paraphysics into the first scientific empirical experimental theology in history.
When the nervous system is turned on to this quantum-level circuit, space-time is obliterated. Einstein’s speed-of-light barrier is transcended; in Dr. Sarfatti’s metaphor, we escape “electromagnetic chauvinism.” The contelligence within the quantum projection booth IS the entire cosmic “brain,” just as the micro-miniaturized DNA helix IS the local brain guiding planetary evolution. As Lao-tse said from his own Circuit VIII perspective, “The greatest is within the smallest.”
Circuit VIII is triggered by Ketamine, a neuro-chemical researched by Dr. John Lilly, which is also (according to a wide-spread but unconfirmed rumor) given to astronauts to prepare them for space. High doses of LSD also produce some circuit VIII quantum awareness.
This neuro-atomic contelligence is four mutations beyond terrestrial domesticity. (The current ideological struggle is between circuit IV tribal moralists-or-collectivists and circuit V hedonic individualists.) When our need for higher intelligence, richer involvement in the cosmic script, further transcendence, will no longer be satisfied by physical bodies, not even by immortal bodies hopping across space-time at Warp 9, circuit VIII will open a further frontier. New universes and realities. “Beyond theology: the science and art of Godmanship,” as Alan Watts once wrote.
It is therefore possible that the mysterious “entities” (angels and extraterrestrials) monotonously reported by circuit VIII visionaries are members or races already evolved to this level. But it is also possible, as Leary and Sarfatti more recently suggest, that They are ourselves-in-the-future.
The left-lobe terrestrial circuits contain the learned lessons of our evolutionary past (and present). The right-lobe extraterrestrial circuits are the evolutionary script for out future.
Thus far, there have been two alternative explanations of why the Drug Revolution happened. The first is presented in a sophisticated way by anthropologist Weston LaBarre, and in an ignorant, moralistic way by most anti-drug propaganda in the schools and mass media. This explanation says, in essence, that millions have turned away from the legal DOWN drugs to illegal HIGH drugs because we are living in troubled times and many are seeking escape into fantasy.
This theory, at its best, only partially explains the ugliest and most publicized aspect of the revolution—the reckless drug abuse characteristic of the immature. It says nothing about the millions of respectable doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc., who have turned away from second circuit intoxication with booze to fifth circuit rapture with weed.
Nor does it account at all for the thoughtful, philosophical sixth circuit investigations of persons of high intelligence and deep sensibility, such as Aldous Huxley, Dr. Stanley Grof, Masters-Houston, Alan W. Watts, Carlos Castaneda, Dr. John Lilly and thousands of scientific and lay researchers on consciousness.
A more plausible theory, devised by psychiatrist Norman Zinberg out of the work of Marshall McLuhan, holds that modern electronic media have so shifted the nervous system’s parameters that young people no longer enjoy “linear” drugs like alcohol and find meaning only in “non-linear” weed and psychedelics.
This is certainly part of the truth, but it is too narrow and overstresses TV and computers without sufficiently stressing the general technological picture—the ongoing Science-Fiction Revolution of which the most significant aspects are Space Migration, Increased Intelligence and Life Extension, which Leary has condensed into his SMI²LE formula.
Space Migration plus Increased Intelligence plus Life Extension means expansion of humanity into all space-time. SM + I² + LE = infinity.
Without totally endorsing Charles Fort’s technological mysticism (“It steam-engines when it comes steam-engine time”), it is obvious that the DNA metaprogram for planetary evolution is far wiser than any of our individual nervous systems—which are, in a sense, giant robots or sensors for DNA. Early science-fiction of brilliant writers like Stapledon, Clarke, Heinlein; Kubrick’s 2001—all were increasingly clear DNA signals transmitted through the intuitive right lobe of sensitive artists, preparing us for the extraterrestrial mutation.
It is scarcely coincidental that mainstream “literary” intellectuals—the heir of the Platonic-aristocratic tradition that a gentleman never uses his hands, monkeys with tools or learns a manual craft—despise both science-fiction and the dope culture. Nor is it coincidental that the WHOLE EARTH CATALOGS – created by Stewart Brand, a graduate of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters—are the New Testament of the rural drop-out culture, each issue bulging with tons of eco-technological information about all the manual, dextrous, gadgety know-how that Plato and his heirs consider fit only for slaves. Not surprisingly, Brand’s latest publication, CO-EVOLUTION QUATERLY, has been devoted to publicizing Prof. Gerard O’Neill’s space-habitat, L5.
Nor is it an accident that dopers seem to prefer science-fiction to any other reading, even including the extraterrestrial-flavored Hindu scriptures and occult-shamanic circuit VI-VIII trip-poets like Crowley and Hesse.
The circuit VI drugs may have contributed much to the metaprogramming consciousness that has led to sudden awareness of “male chauvinism” (women’s liberationists), “species chauvinism” (ecology, Lilly’s dolphin studies), “type-G star chauvinism” (Carl Sagan), even “oxygen chauvinism” (the CETI conference), etc. The imprinted tunnel-realities which identify one as “white-male-American-earthian” etc. or “black-female-Cuban” etc. are no longer big enough to enclose our exploding contelligence.
As TIME magazine said on November 26, 1973, “Within ten years, according to pharmacologists, they will have perfected pills and cranial electrodes of providing life-long bliss for everyone on Earth.” The 1960s hysteria about weed and acid was just the overture to this fifth circuit break-through. Nathan S. Kline, M.D., predicts real aphrodisiacs, drugs to speed up learning, drugs to foster or terminate any behavior. … Those who were jailed or beaten by cops in the 1960s were forerunners of the Revolution of Inner Technology.
STAR TREK is a better guide to the emerging reality than anything in the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS. The life-support and defense-system engineer, Scotty (circuit I), the emotional-sentimental Dr. McCoy (circuit II), the logical science officer Mr. Spock (circuit III) and the alternately paternalistic and romantic Captain Kirk (circuit IV) are perpetually voyaging through our future neurological history and encountering circuit V, VI, VII, and VIII intelligences, however crudely presented.
In short, the various levels of consciousness and circuits we have been discussing, and illustrating, are all biochemical imprints in the evolution of the nervous system. Each imprint creates a bigger tunnel-reality. In the Sufi metaphor, the donkey on the which we ride becomes a different donkey after each imprint. The metaprogrammer continually learns more and is increasingly able to be aware of itself operating. We are thus evolving to intelligence-studying-intelligence (the nervous system studying the nervous system) and are more and more capable of accelerating our own evolution.
Leary now symbolizes intelligence-studying-intelligence by the mark, I². On the lower levels, you see with one “I”, so to speak. On the higher levels, you see with many “I”s, and space-time shifts from three Euclidean dimensions to non-Euclidean multi-dimensionality.
By Robert Anton Wilson
The Eightfold Model of Human Consciousness
Many folks have a misconception about the anatomical-third-eye of Man…It is not the Pineal gland alone but consists of the pituitary, pineal and optic-thalamus gland…read ” God-Man, Word Made Flesh” for moor insight into your Brain and its functions
