The Heavy Stuff

Hello, thanks for visiting The Heavy Stuff (THS) today. If you are a regular, I had to go to this new format-theme  to be able to maintain a sidebar on my posts that are by individual pages - most likely the manner that you arrived (via a link) today (meaning a link ending with a post number). That said, I like this look - new understated theme for `heavy’ ideas.

Ok, today’s post is literally to look - briefly - at my personal bookshelf - the books - so to say - that made my mind the way it is ( and that you read on THS). The reviews below are ones that I wrote years ago for my squidoo site - I’ve copy and pasted them here for you to get my sense of how `heavy’ these books are. And yes, they are in the order of the heaviest first .

Number One
The systematic analysis of the philosophy of Being - the book which `lays out’ what existentialism IS. Includes such amazing chapter titles as Being-In-Itself; The Ontological Proof, and The Origin of Nothingness. This is the book for you if you want to have even the smallest grasp on `Temporality’ or `Transcendence’. The paperback version is over 800 pages — get ready for the read of a lifetime. Heavy rating of 10+.

Number Two
Quite simply the BIBLE of phenomenology and consciousness thought. If you think you have thought about the `issues’ of mind and matter — think again — unless you have read this very very rare book. Husserl thought out the ideas of Phenomenology in the late 1800’s and to this very day you can find people meeting in groups to discuss these mammoth ideas. Personally, my FAVORITE `heavy’ book of alltime. Heavy Rating 10+

Number Three
Is this the heaviest book written in the last 50 years? I’d say it could be. What else could possibly be heavier than being the first person to actually `figure out’ all the most perplexing astronomy data — and then to — `explain it’ to the rest of the scientists in the world. Yes, this is the man who figured out the `problem’ with the BIG BANG — and thought of the solution. The solution was INFLATION. Those amazing moments next to creation that included the notion that `space’ can expand `quicker’ than the speed of light. Indeed, if Guth is right (and one experiment after another has confirmed inflation) the universe we live in is huge in a manner that you have probably never even considered. For example, you may know that the `edge’ of our VISIBLE universe is about 13.7 billion years away — however, BEYOND that `visible edge’ lies OUR SAME UNIVERSE — we simply can’t see it (and never will) — but it is there with stars and worlds just like `here’ in our visible portion. But, get this, that `unseen portion’ of our universe is TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS times the size of our `visible’ portion. Yes, you need this book — how can you say NO to the heaviest book of the 1900’s? Heavy Rating 10+.

Number Four
In the 1970’s a student at UCLA wrote of his meetings with an Indian medicine man and sorcerer. These meetings involved gaining the actual understanding of the sorcerer’s worldview. This worldview supposedly led Castaneda into a `separate reality’ on occasion. These separate realities of the sorcerer included everyday phenomena and entities which lived in the special reality. Other special realities included controlled lucid dreaming - often described by researchers as a different mind state. This is NOT a book you want to say that you’ve NEVER read - a must read selection. Heavy Rating 10+ (I’ve read at least 7-8 Carlos Books BTW - this was the best.)

Number Five
Like the ideas of Husserl, the ideas of Ouspensky and Gurdjeff also have people STILL TO THIS DAY forming groups to discuss how heavy the thoughts are. Indeed, they are heavy; some would say that this is the BEST consciousness book ever written — the most intense examination of `mind’ ever undertaken. If the book was to be `summed up’ in one sentence it would be `THE ONLY THING IS TO AWAKE’. Heavy Rating 10. (Like Castaneda, I’ve read several of Ouspensky’s books too.)

Number Six
Another very rare book — you’d NEVER run across this out of print in the store so here is your chance. If you have ever wondered about the many various `types of time’ — this is your book. Most interesting are the chapters devoted to the very idea of FREEWILL and DETERMINISM and their relation to time and dimensional time. Can any time be real that isn’t here now? This is the book if you want the speculative answers. Heavy Rating - 10.

Number Seven
Here’s my bow to religion on earth for humans — and, indeed, it’s very heavy. It seems non-attachment is a universal theme in a lot of esoteric thought — you won’t find a better writer on the subject than the late Alan Watts. This is Zen Buddhism at it’s very best. If you lean to the spirtitual side this might be for you. Heavy Rating - 10. (One of several Watts books I’ve devoured.)

Number Eight
Many folks feel that `Bucky’ Buckminster Fuller was the greatest thinker of the 1900’s. If you have never seen his world map without distortion - you haven’t seen the world in true proportion. Bucky was such a great thinker that a type of CARBON is named after him — is there a greater honor than that. You must be familiar with this book and some of his greatest ideas. Heavy Rating - 10.

Number Nine
A recent book which explores some `oddities’ in Utah in the mid 1990’s. Huge oddities. Of every type. That suggest that the multi-verse may be an answer for the unexplainable anomalies. Co-written by a TV reporter still active in Las Vegas, this is a well documented book. Very enjoyable and a fairly quick read for `heavy ideas’. Heavy Rating - 9+

Number Ten
This is a must book if you think you want to work on your own `consciousness’. Ouspensky’s Guru and the last of the wandering esoteric Masters. Great story. Heavy Rating - 9+ (Yes, this isn’t the only Gurdjieff book I’ve read.)

Number Eleven
Physics taken to the new limits of the 2000’s — this version saying that `time itself’ does not exist. This version says that only `space’ exists. And, that `that’ space — is `chosen’ via a method that compares one moment to another by selecting the `next space’ that is the `most similar’ with the least intrinsic difference from the previous `space’. Wonderfully heavy book by a renegade Physics writer. Heavy Rating - 10

Number Twelve
Further discussions of this `Hyperspace’ which seems to allow for every moment of time to be extended in a way. The way for space to be moved thru without time constraints. The actual answer to many anomalies perhaps. Hyperspace. You need to read more. Heavy Rating - 9+

Lastly, if you desire - you can see the last 7 of my heavy bookshelf at the two links below - and those too are with description.

http://www.squidoo.com/theheavystuff#module4356476

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Hello, and welcome to The Heavy Stuff  (THS) - thanks for being inquisitive. Yes, as you can see from the title of this post - THS is about 100 esoteric posts old and just over 3 years on the calendar. And, as you may well know, THS has grown into a huge catalog of ideas that stretch from Time Travel to Doppelgangers to UFO’s to Consciousness Issues to Phenomenology and even more.

And, according to the stats of my host 1 and 1 - THS grew to 259,930 unique visitors in 2009, up from 195,854 in 08 and 72,223 in 07 (and 388 in 06) - and to over 419,000 page views in 09. Thanks so much for your reading support of esoteric ideas. Please continue to tell your friends that you have found a new blog with a whole lot of cool ideas to explore.

Now, with that all aside - let me first say - what you are probably saying - “this guy thinks he has ORIGINAL ideas? Give me a break.” — Ok, there, I said it. Now, let me try to fill a list up with just that, and, you be the judge. (I’m aware of Lennon or McCartney saying something to the effect that no ideas are original but just selected from what is available.)

Original Ideas

One of my more recent `original’ ideas was to blog about `Billion Year Old Entities’ — something that Greg Bishop at UFO Mystic said he had NEVER heard another speculate about before. I blogged about the possibility of such entities due to being tired of reading folks on various websites or forums make statements like `those aliens might be a hundred or a thousand years ahead of us’. Rarely do those folks even talk about beings being a million years more advanced. And that is what triggered my mind into thoughts about what BILLION year old entities might be like - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=118.

Another blog post that I’ve never read anywhere else is `IF The Government Discovered and Proved `Life After Death’ - would it be `disclosed’ to the public. (Well, have you ever read this elsewhere?) In this post I talk and speculate the reasons why such infomation - even if proved - might be withheld. http://theheavystuff.com/?p=104

Perhaps a little less original - but original in the sense of being talked about in ONE post - was my article titled `Aliens/Entities Objectified - Are There Four Types? - where I expanded the whole subject of entities to include what I see as ONLY four types - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=100.

Next - You know when something REALLY special happens - something rare that STICKS out and is instantly known and famous - like the Hudson River Jet Landing? — As far as I know - I was the only person to blog - How Could Hudson River Plane Crash Elation Not Have Been Picked Up By Even One Psychic? —– WELL? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=101

And, as far as I know and have EVER read - am I the only one to blog - Can The Collective Dead Of Humanity - Evolve? — And, this is NOT a small idea - it has lots of ramifications. A great read. http://theheavystuff.com/?p=91

And, how about a `collective dream appearing in space’ — like when I blogged Could An Oct.14th Alien Craft Display Be A Collective Lucid Dream Apprearing In Space? — anyone else? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=71

Or, have you EVER read anyone else blogging about Husserl? As in The Transformation of Ideas Through Temporal Characters - WELL? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=74

Or, have you EVER read someone imply that Might Alien Disclosure Mean Virtually Nothing? - HUH? Ever? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=68

And, who can you point out that has presented this idea? Have Chem-trails Stopped Global Warming? — I make a real good case for this - has anyone else? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=63

And, here is an idea I’ve covered more than once Could `camera’s’ Be Capturing - or Actualizing - a Virtual Reality? - is anyone else? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=60

Here’s another original idea I covered and should be a new lexicon - Does High Strangeness Overlap Strange Highness? - Get your Strange Highness in one place - right here - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=49

Or, have you ever read, anywhere, of someone suggesting Could the Human Population Level `Trip’ Cosmic Consciousness?- literally suggesting that a QUANTITATIVE answer may be behind an increase in consciousness - if it is occuring or to occur? Didn’t think so. http://theheavystuff.com/?p=47

Or, have you read someone that suggests that Doppelgangers are an escape from death itself? Anywhere? Pilot Doppelgangers - Escaping Death - (Doppelgangers are a favorite THS topic.) http://theheavystuff.com/?p=46

You also rarely read about anyone except Nick Redfern talking about Tulpas - but - even Nick doesn’t go this far - does he? Are Tulpas Everything Esoteric- Find out more about the Tulpa concept here - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=44

But, perhaps the one I am most proud of - my idea that the light seen at death is actually the SUN and an OBE/NDE - find that original stuff elsewhere? Going to the Light at Death - Part 3 - NOPE? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=36

Now, here is an idea I blogged about in 2007 and is NOW becoming more mainstream - Could Orbs be Dead Humans? - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=31

OR, have you ever - anywhere - heard or read someone talking or blogging about The Missing Space of Missing Time Incidents - Nope, only on THS do you find this kind of esoterica - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=25 (my first post that had over 1,000 hits in a day — 4,700 or so is the current most).

And, I’ll let you find out why these titles seem unique - The Six Horizons of Perception http://theheavystuff.com/?p=20 OR Did Houdini Escape Death? - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=18.

Now, hopefully, my mind is not played out - indeed I have 3 posts in reserve just waiting to explode including “Anomalous Realities - The Cosmic Crack” “The Possible Phenomenology Of Fortean Events And Anomalous Realities” and `Local AND Real - or - Realism OR Locality’? I hope you stick around until those become THS later in 2010 too.

I welcome your comments. OH, and PLEASE - go to my front page - unless you do - you don’t even register in my stats. And, on my front page you can see my last 15 posts on THS and the great blogroll for you to check out. Thanks again.

Hello, and welcome to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - thanks for having an interest in such an esoteric subject or for having an inquisitive mind out of the ordinary to most. I invite you to explore THS later after this article to read more esoteric posts you are sure to enjoy.

As you can see from today’s title - the subject is Doppelgangers - with a dictionary definition of: 1) a ghostly counterpart of a living person 2)a-double - 2)b - alter ego 2)c - a person with the same name as another. The definition is a good start, but, unfortunately, all definitions are not found in the dictionary - and - terms take on new meanings as `examples’ of doppelgangers - and what they might be - increases. You will find out what I mean by that in a moment.

Now, my life, perhaps like some of you out there - has had definition number 1 seemingly happen to them in some manner. Frankly, without too much of a deep mind review - I can think of two instances in my life of a variation on definition number 1.

I guess the purest form would have been a time when I walked into a place of business that I rented a business post office box. The folks in the shop were used to seeing me as I came in nearly daily and chatted while picking up my mail and making copies and using mailing services. And, one day I came in and the lady at the counter, who I knew well, looked at me astonished - almost a ghostly white in color (and I am not exaggerating) and said that a man `who looked exactly like me and who came in and left without a word’ (which she knew would be very odd) - had JUST been in the store a minute or two before myself’. I assured her it wasn’t me as I could tell she was a little shaken, but, it was a little unnerving.

It makes me wonder if somehow I had indeed projected an aspect of my space `ahead’ of me in a sense. That said, it doesn’t really fit definition number 1 because the `doppelganger’ didn’t have a ghostly form - it was a seemingly `living’ person. And, that said, this is the ONE AREA that we will find the definition of doppelganger is NOT complete. I will explain more shortly.

But, first, another time I had a seemingly personal `doppelganger’ event - that many many folks have  had - is when a complete stranger walks up to you (this has happened once to me) and tells you that they had to come up to you because you look so so much like Mr. Whoever. Indeed, one time while having a meal with my wife a woman walked up and said that and told me the name of her (I believe) dentist or foot doctor `who looked exactly like me’. Indeed, she was going to say hi until she realized she was wrong.

Now, once again, this doesn’t meet the definitions above - but - is the thing that most folks think or as a doppelganger experience. Indeed, when one is told the literal name of the person who looks exactly like oneself - it also is a little unnerving. That said, I should have looked up this guy and gotten a picture with him. Obviously, it is not unusual for folks to look like one another - just google `separated at birth’. And, most of us have been told we look like such and such person or celebrity. I guess this is indeed dictionary definition 2 - a double - except that our phenomenology based `reality’ will stretch that even more as you will read.

But, obviously, we are still a long way from the dictionary definition or the more esoteric side of the definition. Don’t worry - the woo woo factor is just around the corner.

So, lets finally get to the REAL definition number 1 - ghostly counterparts to living persons.

Now, perhaps unbelievably, my wife has proof in old family writings passed down to her now - from the 1800’s originally (it’s kind of a family diary started in the 1800’s and continuing from one person to another into the early 1900’s) that talked about her relatives doing EXACTLY that - exactly doppelganger definition 1. As, one of her relatives, on the voyage to America via boat - died - and around those same days of death on the ship (I have no confirmation if it was concurrent or not) - his doppelganger was seen in his hometown village in Europe.——- This, while in my own extended family - is not a single account — this is the number one definition for a reason - `ghostly’ doppelgangers, living in the flesh, have been seen in a bi-location space event - both as `ghosts’ and other times flesh and blood - as `the real double’.

Indeed, for the definition of doppelganger to actually be full and correct - it would say a doppelganger could be — a `living in the flesh double’ of a DEAD person.

Now, these `double’ `projections’ at death or near death also have their own nuances to flush out esoterically - as - some examples of `after death doppelgangers’ push the envelope about as far as any esoteric idea available to contemplate. Such as doppelgangers that seem to be filling out `intentions’ from the `other side’ with `real flesh doubles’.

Let me explain and perhaps turn you onto a great example if you are not aware (however, my regulars have read this before). I have posted before of one of the best known MODERN ERA cases of this `real flesh’ doppelganger event(s) happening - that of the Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 of which a book and even a made for TV movie occurred. (If you hit the doppelganger tag at the bottom of this post you will find all my doppelganger posts but this is the one about the Eastern Flight 401 pilot doppelgangers  http://theheavystuff.com/?p=17   `titled - Going To The Light - Part 2′).

And once, a story about pilot and adventurer Steve Fossett surfaced that he had made a similar `in the flesh appearance’ to his wife http://theheavystuff.com/?p=46. The thing that `separates’ the `immigrant’ doppelganger events - and the pilot doppelganger events - is that the pilot events didn’t happen very close to the time of death but a significant time afterwards. Indeed, up to years, and even at impossible locations - such as on a flying jet at 35,000 feet.

Indeed, this `years after’ - months after - doppelgangers - brings to mind the one `days after’ possible doppelganger event that seemingly has changed history and certainly changed some peoples lives - such as - the reported `appearance’ of the in flesh Jesus - 3 days after his death.

However, even Jesus’s `in the flesh’ counterpart - was not a permanent feature of our common space reality and eventually vanished. Just as the pilot doppelgangers have been reported to - just as the immigrant doppelgangers did also during Bi-Location (in the case of time of death doppelgangers we may be talking of Simultaneous Bi-Location - one of the heaviest ideas in all esoterica).

Finally, to wrap up today’s post on doppelgangers - it is important to re-state that the Eastern 401 pilots and one would speculate Jesus - reappeared seemingly `upon their own intentions’ with an in the flesh `double’ - after death. The immigrant doppelgangers may have been more `projections of space’ (at death) oriented than - the `intentional’ spaces well after `death’.

BTW, I’ve written a `companion’ post to this right here - http://barfstew.blogspot.com/2010/01/doppelgangers-elvis-and-jesus-sightings.html. Check it out. Also, check out my new THE HEAVY STUFF food apron on this page on the sidebar on the front page.

Thanks for reading today - If you are interested in this Concept of Doppelgangers - here’s a fiction book covering the theme - The Walls of the Universe – Or, go to my front page and find the doppelganger tag for more too. www.theheavystuff.com — I have a cool sidebar too. I also do something like this daily on Squidoo.com where I am known as the anomalyman www.squidoo.com/anomalyman
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Hello, and welcome back to The Heavy Stuff - the one blog that is willing to take `positions’ about events that occur within the High Strangeness - that is also `part’ of reality. And, as you can see by the title of today’s post `Why A Tenuous Reality Permits ParaNormal And Fortean Events’ - I will be pushing those outer extremities of my thoughts to cover such an ambitious description today. 

But, as a returning reader of The Heavy Stuff - you know that thought excursions around here are not new - such as my  post asking if Gnomes have a sustainable population. (Using that post to challenge Bigfoot believers into considering a different `take’ on Bigfoot - one of a temporal being - tied into our phenomenology for a segment of spaces.)

In fact, part of this thought excursion today is because of another bloggers efforts to figure out the high strangeness surrounding the Bigfoot issue. In his blog he found out, thru his readership, of many reports of Bigfoots AND Ufo’s occurring virtually simultaneously  - and even a few times had the Bigfoot `inside’ the ufo/craft.

And, because of the sheer number of reports like these - he was beginning to question the `real location-ness’ of all anomalous entities/creatures - even going so far as to surmise ALL of the Bigfoots and UFO’s - lack a reality within our common consensus. (I might be able to think that all Bigfoots are temporary - but - to me UFO’s - crafts - have at least a portion of them being within our common consensus of real object perceptions - IMO.)

But, back to this posts theme.

Indeed, first, I’d really like to `look’ at the word `tenuous’ as it is a seldom used word in today’s society - yet - nearly perfectly describes the `real’ reality we see and experience. You will also find during this post that in a sense, my Phenomenology, the one I will discuss, is similar to the thoughts of Julian Barbour - in that - I describe everything as a space - (even what some would call `a time’ - such as now).

Why is tenuous the perfect description - you say?

First, let us begin with a dictionary meaning for tenuous:

1. not dense 2. not thick 3. having little substance or strength 4. SHAKY (reasons)(on grounds that were)

To me, the above words describe the `space’ of the reality I see`now’ - `instantaneously’ - `as it passes’ - the unchangeable once counted reality of `not-able-to-not-be’ (Phillips Phenomenology) - the real reality that must pass, must run-off. The one that according to Julian Barbour is the `best matching, with the least intrinsic difference’ compared to the previous now instant.  THAT reality is NOT dense, NOT thick, has LITTLE SUBSTANCE, - based on a momentary belief in what this moment brought — the definition of Tenuous.

A reality that is NORMALLY (as opposed to paraNormally) composed of `things’ or `objects’ (or `spaces’ literally) that are `around me’ and `within my vision’. My pen, the computer. Objects whose `light and location’ I see as `almost simulantaneous’  — almost immediately AFTER their NOW occurs. (And it is this `flow time/space’ from their `now-space’  - to our `recieving of their now’ - that actualizes their Not-able-to-be - Space into the unchangable Not-Able-To-Not-Be ———- shared, space of real reality that we all agree upon exists `in front of us’ as it runs off).

Simply put;  no now has duration - it, the now,  is always `on’ to/as the `next now’ - that is provided to our senses via light waves bouncing off the objects around us - literally reflecting their now `into’ a common now - with NO duration - that we sense as simultaneously instantaneously vanishing.

We have no ability to act on the now as it passes other than to project our own now (and our now’s actions and intentions) into the same not-able-to-not-be tenuous quasi-reality - built on the expired nows of spaces that are not us.

However, as you know,  our NORMAL reality - seems anything but tenuous - it SEEMS solid and permanent. But, also, as you know, science KNOWS differently (objects are not solids - and the spaces between atoms of the space that IS US vastly exceeds the tiny kernels of matter that we are ultimately composed of) - and - if you have ever had a ParaNormal event happen to you - you KNOW differently too - that the solidness and the permanence of the reality one calls real - may be less than reliable or solid.

Are you still with me? Hopefully, I’ll try to explain all of this more. But, back to the word tenuous and it’s comparison to the reality actualization moment we view constantly and instantaneously. 

Our viewed NOW is `not dense’ `not thick’ `has little substance or strength’ and is seemingly based on `reasons-built (especially, evidently, in the case of the paraNormal) on shaky ground’.

Obviously, I am not the first to suggest that a `reality moment’ can be built on `belief’ or `reasons’. Even, areality, that moment to moment, is so stable - as to not bring into question its very flimsiness.

But, on rare occasions - that thin, not dense, shaky reality, grounded on shaky reasons - momentarily - `breaks down’ and `allows’ the vision OR experiencing of something that is ALSO real - ALSO part of the momentary reality we can `see’ and experience as real.

Call it a special consensus reality that ties back to `what is special’ about human consciousness - that being - it’s able-to-not-be(ness).

Human consciousness is not tied with the the body-space’s need to be Not-Able-To-Be - it is a `free and separate’ space (that is, again, able to not be, it’s own space). Yes, human consciousness has its own space too that is `present’ as part of our reality mix. Now, 99.999..% of the time, the able-to-not-be `space’, is attending to the body’s Not-able-to-be space.

 But, then enters, as Carlos Casteneda would say - `a cubic centimeter of chance’ - and our tenuous reality shows its diversity.

Often, it seems, that the NON-Normal reality is literally `triggered’ by a set of intentionality’s by humans and their consciousness. So, the `Ghosthunter’ `finds’ evidence of `ghosts’ when the tenuous consensus of normal everyday intentionality’s is replaced by a set of intentionality’s by the human that beckon the `unknown spaces’ present in ALL reality (normally below the `seeing’ or evidence perception threshold).

In the same manner - Bigfoot expeditions - may trigger `the space’ that represents `Bigfoot’s’ - then obtaining objective evidence of howls or even thermal images or EVEN real hair from the temporary creature/entity.

When all this happens, these `spaces’ then become `real spaces’ within the context of the `observers’ of the non-consensus reality space- ie:the bigfoot — that IS INDEED `THERE’ (right then - temporarily).  The tenuousness of our reality we can observe being `pliable’ - and tenuous - even for OUR very space (our body).

And, while Ghosts and Bigfoots may represent part of this tenuousness - to me - there are even more impressive examples of the tenuousness of reality and the seldom mentioned  `restriction’ of the `non-consensus’ reality to only the observers at that moment.

So, you ask, what could be more impressive than evidence of a `temporal entitiy’ than a specific ghost or mythological creature such as the Bigfoot?

Doppelgangers for one.

Now, normally, doppelganger means `ghostly counterpart to a living person’ — these would include the oft mentioned doppelgangers of the immigrants of the 1600’s and 1700’s - where it was often told that a person who was immigrating to America on a ship and who died in the voyage on the ship - would have their `doppelganger’ be seen in the old European village they had left to make their voyage. Great spine-tingle stuff.

However, the epitome of doppelgangers would be the pilots of Eastern Flight 401 of which I’ve blogged about before. Those dead `ghostly’ images of living persons — actually materialized `in the flesh’ - way beyond a `ghostly’ impression. Not only that - they stayed viable for minutes at a time on occasion.  Much like a `real bigfoot’. (It is important to note that when `doubt’ was cast towards the pilot doppelgangers they `vanished instantaneously’ — or - when the doppelgangers `own actions - intentionality’s’ ended.)

The OTHER `tenuousness’ of reality - to me - is even more interesting as it is the `replacement’ of `our common consensus reality’ for `another consensus reality’ – and an example of this was the Mutual Hypnosis (done by Charles Tart in the 1960’s) realities `shared’ by those participants.

Those realities were completely functional and allowed movement and exploration by the participants in a reality they `both saw’ and experienced. (This is also reminiscent of Carlos Castaneda learning to `see’ Don Juan’s `separate reality’.)  Indeed, these OTHER REALS — accessible alone or even with others - point to the obvious `tenuousness’ of the real we all experience. An idea that has some disturbing features and leads to speculation that reality is simply a simulation or even a software simulation.

That said, they all involve one common characteristic WITHIN our fuller common consensus reality that we normally call Real. And that is Singular Human Observers (the space of such). Indeed, the REALITY of our space - includes these other non-ordinary descriptions - it’s just that `normally’ our conscious space isn’t looking for or expecting the miraculous - but, at other times it, our conscious space,  is - and guess what - our tenuous reality - full of intentionality’s and expectations as to what the next moment will bring - becomes super focused on a narrower `now’ than normally.

Eventually, with the human intentionality’s, this `willingness’, the narrowness, can produce an anomalous event. Indeed, it’s my theory that those in the paraNormal news who seem to be able to `call orbs’ or even `call ufos’ — are simply participating in this tenuous `now’ phenomenology structure.

I talk more about this `now’ phenomenology structure in my blog http://whatisnotabletonotbeis.blogspot.com- but - as simple as possible - my Phillips Phenomenology is about `different kinds of spaces’ — these Bigfoots, these Ghosts, the Doppelgangers - within this phenomenology are `Able-To-Not-Be’ spaces —-; normally, not able to express or actualize in our common consensus reality.

These `special spaces’ DIFFER from me and you in that OUR space is `Not-Able-To-Be’ spaces. Not-Able-To-Be spaces being the normal reality and observers.

But, even LIVE Not-Able-To-Be spaces - like you and I - can `switch’ our consensus to the `able-to-not-be’ - at least our observing intentionality’s can. This could be similar to a prayer, meditation, or simple focus of attention. And, when that happens:

Our tenuous reality permits the spaces of ParaNormal and Fortean Events - to be seen within our Phenomenology.

Thanks for reading this thought exercise.

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Exactly a year ago today I completed the first `Fortean List’; a listing which included tags such as Phantom Clowns, Buddha Boy, Hairy Frog, Strange Holes and Mystery Wind. So, what does this years listing hold?

Find out right now - in reverse order of weirdness - The Heavy Stuff presents a dozen or so of the best Fortean Tinged Links Of 2009.

12th - Blue Spirals Of 2009 (and before) — I can hardly rule out the strangeness in the media (this link suggests that a World Teacher is at hand) that was generated by the Blue Spiral event one day before President Obama was in Norway for the Peace Prize. Then, the same event a day later in Russia. http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/3155846/NZ-sightings-of-spiral-UFO/ and http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/12/another-russian-rocket-spiral-lights-up-the-sky/. But, did the same event happen 20 years earlier too? http://forgetomori.com/2009/ufos/the-norway-spiral/ As you also may know - a Pyramid was also seen in the Russian skies to add to the December madness.

11th - Image Of Jesus On Truck Window - http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/11/04/20091104jesus-image-CR.html Hey, sure looks like Jesus to me. Guy isn’t even religious.

10th - Strangely Colored Animals — Like this one of a kind beautiful White Alligator http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4639072/White-alligator-is-one-of-rarest-in-world.html or perhaps an incredible Pink Dolphin is more to your taste http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4927224/Pink-dolphin-appears-in-US-lake.html – nice short read on both links.

9th - Monk Leaves His Mark Of Prayer - http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/monk_leaves_his_mark/ A must see picture of the wood flooring beneath the exact place where a 70 year old monk has been praying for 20 years. Unforgettable picture.

8th - Giant Stingray Photo - Everyone likes animals larger than humans - I just didn’t know that Stingrays got to this hugeness http://forgetomori.com/2009/criptozoology/giant-stingray/

7th - Islamic Stigmata - Just a few months ago an Islamic child began having religious sayings appear on its body. Wow. Great picture. http://monkeywah.typepad.com/paranormalia/2009/10/islamic-stigmata.html

6th - The DNA Mystery: Scientists Stumped By “Telepathic” Abilities - http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/the-dna-mystery-scientists-baffled-by-telepathic-abilities.html Impossible events, like these by DNA, are the very basis of Fortean events.

5th. (In a Forteanlike manner - my font color has changed.) Pig Born With The Face Of A Monkey - http://www.thelondonpaper.com/thelondonpaper/weird/odd-news/pig-born-with-the-face-of-a-monkey Pretty self-explanatory title - amazing picture however.

4th - Is This The Arizona Thunderbird Civil War Picture? — One of the biggest Fortean stories of 2008 was the LACK of this picture — is this it? http://www.burlingtonnews.net/thunderbird.html

3rd - Can cancer cures come from healing hands?- Ok, (I’ve done nothing to change the font color) so, you take three sets of mice and inject some with cancer. You then recruit volunteers who are going to project positive vibes to the mice with cancer. What happens then? You MUST read this to believe it. http://go.squidoo.com/?id=1120X507259&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-27763-Skepticism-Examiner~y2009m10d28-Can-cancer-cures-come-from-healing-hands

2nd - Dog Falls Out Of The Sky In Davenport Iowa - http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_ba848c4a-e867-11de-89a7-001cc4c002e0.html Sometimes knowing no preview is better.

1st - `Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings’ — http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/fmrisalmon/ Ok, so, lets say you put a DEAD salmon onto an MRI machine, and then ask some volunteers to think about different pictures —– what IF this was the result ——- “‘A dead salmon perceiving humans can tell their emotional state.’” It’s a Fortean World indeed.

Here’s the link to last years post of the top Fortean events - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=96

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Hello, welcome back to what is now the second annual listing of The Top 10 Anomalous, Dubious, Hoax, Events and Links of 2009 - a year end tradition started here at The Heavy Stuff  (THS) last December (You can find a link to last years list at the bottom of this post.). And, this year, like last, we have a bevy of links that appeared on the internet that qualified as anomalous in many areas of ParaNormality - but - mixed in - of course, - we had the tricksters, hoaxers, and just plain unquantifiable information - which we have to include in this day and age of CGI videos and more. Indeed, the coverage by the MSM of the hoaxes is becoming part of the total Fortean story. Such is the state of the anomalous internet world of 2009.

And, with that, THS presents 2009’s Best Hoaxes, Anomalous Events And Dubious Links Listing: (In Reverse Order)

#10 - The Mind Reading Machine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwda7YWK0WQ On June 28th, the CBS newsshow 60 minutes aired this piece that proved that a machine can read specific thoughts in someones mind. Be ready to be blown away. Only 6,000 or so have seen this video.

#9 - What is using Bio-Sonar in Lake Champlain? http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/champ-sonar/ Now, here is a real mystery - not only that - the person that discovered this is no slouch; and is a real scientist who has discovered previous animals using sonar too. Great read.

#8 - WebBot prediction for November 27th Obama Alien Disclosure On TV and more. http://ufodisclosurecountdownclock.blogspot.com/2009/11/web-predicts-obama-alien-disclosure-on.html Perhaps the prediction that will put the Exopolitics movement on hold until next years National Press Club meeting. This link also includes links to the WebBot prediction about Andrew Basiago becoming planetary famous soon due to his discovery of life on Mars (If you follow the link you can find out what human life on Mars is like too.).

#7 - A 747 Jetliner UFO Hovers 100 Feet In The Alabama Skies - http://www.ufocasebook.com/2009/huntsville010909.html – Oh yeah. One of the strangest sightings of the year on Jan. 9th in Huntsville Alabama - great read - with super strange picture too.

#6 - OVER The Top UFO Video’s - As you know, for several years now, each year brings a few UFO videos that just seem too good to believe - but who knows - so, in that regard and with those word of caution - here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vUQIynCNYU&feature=related Texas - supposedly in 2008: http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2009/05/videos-ufos-captured-over-lahore.html Pakistan, April 27th, 2009:

#5 - Encounter With A Black-Eyed Child - http://from-the-shadows.blogspot.com/2009/04/encounter-with-black-eyed-child.html In the last few years more and more first person accounts of Black-Eyed `humans’ have emerged - here’s an account that will leave your skin crawling.

#4 Beast Of Gum Hill Bigfoot Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeL9c3HoWXU Filmed April 5th, 2009 in USA. One of the better ones as far as I’m concerned of this temporal entity. Here also is another Bigfoot video that emerged in 2009 - supposedly found in an attic type story and supposedly shot in the 1970’s - still, it’s worth a click http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/bf-pa77/

#3 - Champ Lake Creature Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT49LQMxthg - One of the very best, clear, surface, videos of something anomalous I’ve seen in quite awhile.

#2 - The Animals Of Mars - http://ufomedia.blogspot.com/2009/06/animals-of-mars.html You think I’m kidding don’t you? Well, take a look at these pictures - supposedly undoctored from NASA and from the surface of Mars  - and tell me what you think these are?

#1 Story Of The Year - ORBS

The change in how ParaNormalists viewed Orbs over the past decade has been evolving - no longer are they dust specks caught on camera or filmed on video. NO, in 2009 - Orbs have become a very hot commodity and are seemingly taking over some of the most interesting things happening in th paraNormal field. Examples of this include the UFO Orbs in the sky - which are again being `called’ (like last year) by certain individuals - such as can be seen in this link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpPYymvNTfA and then here - same guy, different Orb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE-G7QtKgpU. But, calling Orbs in the sky is just one part of the evolving story about Orbs - for example - this year - more and more spirit Orbs are being seen with Entities INSIDE of them - here’s two links - http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-new-orb-face-emerges-updated.html - http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2009/07/face-in-orb-biological-entity.html - and, while these two remind you that it might be humans existing within these Orbs - this link, a series of 5 picture links you must see all of - might suggest that `Aliens’ may be riding in these Orbs - in what may be the Link Of The Year - http://supernaturalparanormal.com/abstraction-in-ufology/.

This is the link to last years Top 10 http://theheavystuff.com/?p=94

THS looks forward to your comments - thanks for your support in 2009 - please bookmark THS and send this link to a friend and visit our sidebar and great blogroll. Thanks for reading.

Oh, nearly all these links and many more that just missed the cut - can be found in my Link archive at www.squidoo.com/anomalymanarchive.

You can also find the link to EVERY post made on this site with a short explanation here - http://www.squidoo.com/theheavystuff#module2462278

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Hello, welcome to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - Happy Thanksgiving weekend 2009. As you may know if you are a regular reader of THS - I like anagrams. Specifically, I’ve already done anagrams for 2008, 2009 & 2012 - so, with the calendar in the downhill slide to the new decade - it was time to  look at our upcoming years anagram to see if any truths can be gleamed from the assortment of letters representing the year and clock.

If, for some reason you are not familiar with anagrams - this is the site I used - http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html - (it’s always fun to do your name and such) - and on their hall of fame page they have anagrams such as Schoolmaster = The classroom; Listen = Silent; Dormitory = Dirty Room & Clint Eastwood = Old West Action - along with a hundred others.

But, back to the task at hand - it was the proper time of the year to `look ahead’ - so, I entered all three wordings for 2010 that might be used by the public as we entered the new decade (the title of this post); which could be important as new decades are often seen and positioned by the MSM as `new times’. We will also most likely see a rash of `best of the first 10 years of 2000′ types of shows in the upcoming month or so.

Now, perhaps, it’s best to attempt to identify the `truths’ the `year anagram’ has yielded in the past with some accuracy; and, so far - the area of Politics/Policies - seems to have been the easiest to find popping out of the many `correct’ anagrams that can be found.

For example - in 2008 `Two Thousand Eight’ - the real `prediction’ was made from `Statehood With Gun’ that the Supreme Court was about to decide on the Washington D.C. gun law - a law that allowed `the state of D.C.’ to deny gun possession rights to common citizens. The decision, as you know, was that citizens do have the right to possess firearms - assuring, for a moment - statehood with gun.

And, for 2009 `Two Thousand Nine’ - the anagram predicted `Union Towns Death’ — which I guessed could be the decimation of Detroit - the town ultimately identified with Unions - the ultimate Union Town. Indeed - this `prediction’/truth - seems even more accurate than the previous year. In fact, it was the accuracy of the two political type predictions that made me look up 2012 for such stuff a few months ago - with results that could be construed as worrisome and possibly involving someone named `Newt’ - who I’ve assumed would be Newt Gingrich. I will have links to the all these anagrams at the end of the post.

Now, of course, the anagrams have had misses to say the least and a ton of `predictions’ that border on stupid to ludacris that also remained unfilled by reality. And, so, with that as a backdrop and qualifier - onward with 2010’s anagram.

2010

`Two Thousand Ten, Twenty Ten, Twenty Hundred Ten’

First, be aware that all of the anagrams come from the re-arranged letters of `Two Thousand Ten’ unless noted otherwise. Lets being with the light and frivolous. Such as anagrams `Tooth Tune Wands’ and `Hot Nut Toe Wands’ — coupled with `Not Wheat Donuts’ and `Hate Donut Towns’ and finishing with `Hound Town Taste’. Light and frivolous enough for you? (That said, one has to wonder if the idea of `Toe Wands’ can’t be made into a product and marketed in some manner.)

However, other anagrams aren’t so light and fluffy - and some - with some imagination thrown in - can be made into a possible strange story perhaps. For example, the anagrams seems to point to TWO `hosts’ that may become important in some manner.

Well, there are all kinds of `hosts’, of course; but, a few political ones have stood out lately. Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck come to my mind first - but - others, such as a possible Sarah Palin talk show, like Mike Huckabees show, might also fit the `host’ and `politics’ combinations.

Ok, here are some of those convoluted ideas brought forth by the anagram for 2010:

`Host Now Attuned’ —-`Hot New Standout’—— `Attuned Host Won’     —- Could this be Lou Dobbs entering politics and winning somewhere? Could it also be that the political Dobbs would seize on some issues that he says are `Unstated, Now Hot’ — like the birth certificate issue or illegal immigration which only lack a spokesperson to fuel a fire? (Could this be Jesse Ventura’s new upcoming show?)

`Taunted Host Won’ - Is this also Dobbs who was taunted to leave CNN? Or, could it be a true statement about Huckabee or Palin’s past? OR, could it turn sinister with something like `Taunted Now Shot’?

And, like in 2008, and 2012’s anagram - is someone named Newt - once again involved? And, could his/THE issue in 2010 be HANDOUTS? If not, what are these anagrams doing here - such as - `Handouts Went To’ — obviously, this could refer to the bailout programs for the banks or the secret moves the Federal Reserve seemed to do during the crisis. Indeed, this anagram is almost CERTAIN to happen and therefore may have more credence than others. `Handouts Went To’ — hmm.

But, the tie to handouts is far from over for the anagram truths - such as - `Handouts To Newt’  — indeed, some may identify Newt with this issue if he positions it as knowing `When To Standout’ of the political crowd. Or, instead could his focus on Handouts mean `He Won’t Standout’.

Indeed, could all this focus on what is the TRUTH of the `handouts’ get very contentious - even being accused of being the trendy thing to say because of the deficit? Could someone indeed come after Newt’s contentions if he positions the handouts as his issue?

And, if so, could `Trendy Newt Hunted’ `End Newt, Deny Truth’ and `Hunt Try Ended Newt’ — have anything to do with 2010? (These 3 are all variations of Twenty Hundred Ten - anagram.) Or, even more worrisome for Newt `Shot And Newt Out’ or `Daunt Newt - Shoot’.

Hmm.

And, finally, the anagram brings us some that are wide open for interpretation and bring words and phrases that almost any picture can be painted upon; such as —

`Two Then Astound’ - `Death Unto Towns’ & `Notate Shutdown’ and finally `Own Death To Stun’.

It could be an interesting year.

Here’s the links to the other anagram posts: 2008 - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=39 2009 - http://www.squidoo.com/anomalies#module18229202 and 2012 http://theheavystuff.com/?p=120.

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One of the purposes of my posts on The Heavy Stuff (THS) is to provoke thought and critical thinking on any number of `issues’ of esoterica. And, in that regard, today’s post beckons the examination of the ludicrous - to be applied to what others would say is an `explanation’ of a  viable sustainable `Bigfoot’ population out there `in the American Woodland’.

Yes, I know I’m already making enemies with a certain segment of my regular `heavy stuff’ readership by being a curmudgeon by doubting `first person’ accounts by `credible’ folks of all persuasions. BUT, I’m not doubting those accounts for one second - let me explain. You see, I think `Bigfoots’ in nearly all or perhaps all situations - are `temporary entities’.

To me, one must favor the overwhelming evidence that not one creature has ever been found dead or brought fourth alive - EVER. Nor have any `artifacts’ of this creature. Not even scat. Not in the last 10 years, not in the last 50 years, not in the last 500 years - not EVER. Never ever.

It’s something that those who have seen the creatures with their own two eyes will have to live with - despite what is becoming `countless’ expeditions into the remote woods of America with high tech equipment for `proof’. It’s becoming to the modern person not `into’ the Bigfoot scene  - even the modern open minded person - `silly’ - and little more than occasional entertainment - watching a repeat -  on the History Channel on a lazy Sunday afternoon. (Even if Bigfoot enthusiasts think progress is right around the corner - which sounds a lot like those wishing for UFO disclosure.)

And, part of the reason the majority of serious thinking folks feel that way, is because they would want answers to serious questions — how can there be a sustainable population?  — being one of the first. And, other questions like I’ve raised above about a lack of a body, scat or artifacts. An entire supposedly intelligent entity most similar to man - without a culture? An intruding creature that NEVER ventures into an area with trigger happy men? Who never makes a mistake crossing a highway? A creature with dozens and dozens of descriptions and variations based on first hand descriptions?

Which brings us back to Gnomes. Yes, Gnomes.

Here is just one of several videos and pictures that have emerged in recent years http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/weird/article1817406.ece

there has also been this well written recent article outlining a Gnome history http://www.theparanomalist.com/the-latest/gnome-sightings/.

Hmm; two phenomena’s - both occurring over centuries and both seemingly able to `appear temporarily’ and in the real. However, one phenomena - Bigfoot - a more `modern phenomena’ in relation to common consensus compared to Gnomes - has believers who feel compelled to `try to explain it scientifically’ - by talking of `sustainable populations’ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=sustainable+population+of+bigfoot&btnG=Google+Search and here’s almost 3,000 such references. Most of these references think that 1,000’s and perhaps as many as 10,000 Bigfoots roam the American woods.

It makes The Heavy Stuff wonder - just what would be a sustainable Gnome population be in the woods/worlds `hidden area’? Do they have migration movements too as suggestion by the Bigfoot believers?

Do they ever lose their hats?

OR, would the concept of temporal characters - a phenomenology idea of Edmund Husserl and my Phillips Phenomenology - be a more likely explanation for what is being observed in reality? A temporal character able to `exist’ until it’s intentionality’s expire or the beliefs in them. Something within the NOW memory and experiences of a space (human) as opposed to a being within the outside reality.

This quasi real - temporal character - `able to not be’ - space — even could leave `objective’ evidence - regardless if it does or does not have a permanent `space’ in our reality - as it IS a temporary real.  If you dig deep enough into this website you will find that I believe there are four types of entities - Gnomes and Bigfoots - are just one of them.

Thanks for reading today. Please go to my front page www.theheavystuff.com as that is the only way you register on my statistics page - while there, look around - I have a great sidebar, blogroll, and you can see the topics of the last 15 posts. I’d love to have your comments too on today’s posting.

Hello, and welcome to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - thanks for visiting today. As you can see by the title of this post, the anagram for 2009 - specifically for the words `two-thousand-nine’ - was something that I covered around the beginning of the year and something that I had blogged about for 2008’s anagram too. And, today I ran with the anagram for 2012 to see what truths might be available thru this esoteric method.

But, first, I went to my article on Squidoo concerning the anagram for 2009 http://www.squidoo.com/anomalies#module18229202 to see how this years truths were shaping up. And, frankly, it’s a little unnerving — even if my initial `reads’ of the tealeaves was less than 100% on. For example, `Union Towns Death’ I interpreted pretty well in predicting the death of Detroit’s UNION of car workers companies. It was the number one prediction for politics and mirrored 2008’s political anagram choice true also (read the link for more).

Next anagram for 2009 was `Shun Antidote Now’ — and while I wondered if it meant to NOT do the stimulus plan; could it really be related to the H1N1 `flu’ antidote? What if something is found to be `wrong’ with it?

Even this - from my same write-up seems to fit (copy and pasted) ““NON-WHITE AD NOT US” - Makes me wonder if the continued pluralization of America might make the original majority feel like this This kind of fits with the upsurge of the sentiment that follows Glen Beck perhaps?

But, perhaps - no - indeed the most spooky one was when I did ONE anagram for the words `twenty hundred nine’ and came up with “Heed Turd Newt Ninny” — And, let me explain why it is spooky - because it links to the anagram for 2012 - yes, 2012.

But, immediately before that - `Heed Turd Newt Ninny’ — to me - can only refer to Newt Gingrich. The anagram is kind of a beckoning to listen `heed’ to something no one wants to hear. Democrats think of Gingrich as a `turd’ most likely and one of the few republicans with a real chance to intellectually engage President Obama. Indeed, Democrats probably think of Newt as a `ninny’ — pecking at the establishment from his pseudo academic platform. But, remember, anagrams tell the truth potentially - and it’s a good idea to `heed’ their advice.

Indeed, one of the worlds MOST worrisome things is the exploding of an EMP device high in the atmosphere that would literally cripple the worlds infrastructure for years and send mankind into a mini stone-age. Indeed, the collapse of the electrical grid would probably lead to chaos and situations that only a ninny-turd would remind us about. Which is EXACTLY what Newt Gingrich has been warning us of.

Now, here’s the sick, and amazing anagram link to all of this for the words `two-thousand-twelve’.  It appears from the set of words I’m about to share with you that Newt and Volt and Vow have a place within the truths of the words that make up 2012. 2012 - the year of the predicted end of mankind or our way of life. 2012 - now backed by anagram truth.

Here we go: Using ONLY the anagram for 2012 (two thousand twelve):

Let’s say we begin 2012 with terrorists saying concerning EMP’s  - “WE VOW LOATHED STUNT” - which `triggers’ Newt’s entry into the race for President - “NEWT VAULTED TO SHOW”.  Newt decides to run on an `adult’ platform seeing an advantage to not be a favorite of youth using a slogan such as - “NEWT, WHO ADULTS VOTE” (FOR) - or - showing ads with a husband and wife talking very seriously about the direction of the country and with an ad showing Newt’s face the slogan is - “WHEN TWO ADULTS VOTE”. — Then, in a heated, disputed election campaign — on the eve of the vote the comes the newspaper headline - “WOW, HALTED VOTE STUN”(S). Then, suddenly the election is in turmoil - leadership is disputed - and lo and behold - the terrorist sees the EMP opportunity - to perhaps fulfill the Newt prediction - and as Americans and the world begin a new era the last headlines of any paper read “WE TEND VOLT WASHOUT’. And, the world began a new political era without electric power.

But, two final anagrams suggest that the reality of 2012 may not be set after all - perhaps the story is this - “HALED NEWT TOUTS VOW’ - with Newt raising the ire of terrorists by saying he is coming to get them. Likewise the terrorists gather to fight back until the unexpected happens and Newt struggles in the nomination process and the winner is Palin instead — with the world breathing a sigh of relief as - “NEWT HALTED, VOWS OUT’.

Heed your anagram.

Other anagrams here http://wordsmith.org/anagram/ — love to hear your comments.

Hello, welcome to The Heavy Stuff; my blog in which I take on some of the `heaviest’ ideas. And, as you can see from the title of today’s posting - the ideas of Carlos Castaneda will be my focus. But, before that - a little background about my `influences’ from Castaneda.

I first became aware of Carlos Castaneda, the writer, - when I encountered Joseph Chilton Pearce’s book `The Crack In The Cosmic Egg’ in late 1973 - a book which focused on the `miracles’ of Don Juan (the Mexican Man of Knowledge in his books - an Indian Sorcerer) and the miracles of Jesus (it also focused on hot coal walking miracles).

Now, Pearce’s book happened to be the first HEAVY book (incredible ideas) that I had ever encountered. I felt that way because it literally tried to `explain the reality we see’ - in a new way to me. It felt as if my mind was suddenly stimulated in a non-ordinary way; which was part of the appeal he described about the ideas of Carlos Castaneda. So, of course, I got and read and read over - Carlos Castaneda’s first book.

Eventually, I read nearly all of his books over the next several decades; most of his early ones within days of release. I had multiple friends in the 1970’s with which we would share our Castaneda ideas together. I even had an anomalous event with one of those folks that was seemingly directly related to the Castaneda ideas

Now, before you think I was or am an outright cheerleader for Carlos Castaneda - let me say that in 1976 I got the Richard De Mille book (and still have it) called `Castaneda’s Journey’ `the power and the allegory’. And, I largely accepted De Mille’s research into the `realness’ of the esoteric Yaqui Indian Knowledge that Carlos supposedly encountered. Indeed, to me, it seemed that perhaps all but the first Castaneda book (at that time in 1976) was fiction. And, perhaps, even the first book.

So, with that in mind - let it be said that this post is NOT going to be about the incredible non-ordinary worlds that Carlos goes on to describe in book after book - for decades. And, if you want to read more about Castaneda as an overview, use this link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda. However, this link, at no point talks about - what is to me - my favorite REAL Castaneda `idea’.

And, that `idea’ was/is `controlled lucid dreaming’ — something that I was able to experience using the very method described in the early Castaneda books. Basically, the initial step of that `method’ involved boosting one’s awareness in the dream INTO the lucid state (where you know you are dreaming while in the dream) thru `looking for your hands’.

More specifically, in his book `The Second Ring Of Power’ on page 269 of the hardback edition is this:

“…He only gave me pointers. Finding my hands in my dreams was the first pointer; then the exercise of paying attention was elongated to finding objects, looking for specific features, such as buildings, streets, and so on. From there the jump was to `dreaming’ about specific places at specific times of the day. The final stage was drawing the `attention of the nagual’ to focus on the total self“

Now, Carlos goes onward - but - that is not the purpose of the post - what is the purpose is to bring you notes from my `notebook’ at the time - literally a diary of some of the non-ordinary that Carlos’s words seemed to have inspired. And, in that regard - let me bring you verbatim - some of those experiences.

Jan. 30th, 1975 - “1st success in partial setting up of dreaming. I tried to go to Euclid (ohio) on a sidewalk next to my fathers firestation and my old (high) school. My very next dream - I was in Euclid and became conscious of my dream when I realized IN THE DREAM, that I was very close - a few hundred yards - to my place of the set-up event.”

March 5th - “Yesterday I experienced a multitude of intellectual rushes for about 30 minutes and it was the strongest sustained yet. However, today, I accomplished my finest philosophical experience yet. After reading The 4th Way philosophy (by Ouspensky) for the second time - I shut off my inner dialouge virtually at will for about 1-15 minutes, when after long consideration I realized that `to think - you must listen’ to your thoughts. I have achived the ability not to listen and to hold thereby the thinking to a minumum. But, here, is what I did. I laid down and tried to hold this (special) consciousness as I went to sleep and (to) find my hands. After a vivid and nearly lucid dream of being on high rocks and working in the dream to the edge of the rocks - about 50 feet up - I woke up. Remembered my goal - fell back asleep and the dream continued from the same point. I then, without any difficulty, brought my left hand into view, looked at it, and then my right hand into view. I sustained the sight of them for a few seconds, my right hand went back to a rock and the dream ended. I HAVE DONE IT. This also was a dream in the late morning and in my dream I felt it was the early day. The hands “looked real” enough that I thought “If I bit them they would hurt” They were unlike any ordinary object I’d ever seen in common consensus though.

Now, I believe that I have about 8 other `controlled lucid dreams’ in my notebook that I may share with my readers at some point; nearly all of them involving using Castaneda’s `hand method’ into controlled lucid dreaming.

Nowadays, you can buy tapes that seem to induce `lucid dreams’ - where you know you are dreaming in the dream. And, again, nowadays, some even encourage you to use that as a starting point to control your dream destiny and even your real destiny. Ideas that Carlos Castaneda brought forth in the 1970’s - ideas that do link to some non-ordinary reality state. And, one I’ve experienced.

Are you experienced?

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