tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post5020712062939729629..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Time for a Million Man March on WashingtonDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54049831443510350832010-02-04T23:33:09.814-05:002010-02-04T23:33:09.814-05:00When a British ad man sleeps:
http://sleeptalkin...When a British ad man sleeps: <br /><br />http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53316168803618826632010-02-04T23:30:43.168-05:002010-02-04T23:30:43.168-05:00Endless Love<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3b4lKhvaeU" rel="nofollow">Endless Love</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49374169768635982972010-02-04T22:57:17.726-05:002010-02-04T22:57:17.726-05:00By the time I get done, Allen is going to owe me b...By the time I get done, Allen is going to owe me big time. He'll have to read Black Elk Speaks, which will be my demand.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85634373476446795172010-02-04T22:53:35.025-05:002010-02-04T22:53:35.025-05:00Bob's goin' to bed, till tomorrow. I got t...Bob's goin' to bed, till tomorrow. I got things to dream about.<br />xxxxxx<br /><br />From this perspective, it is easy to understand why so many interpret this kind of experience a “a conversation with God”” or simply “being with God” and, in a sense, they are right. If one can accept the idea of a higher self, it is not difficult to assume that that self—as well as the individual himself—is actually an aspect of God, or the Creator, or any such ter<br /><br />m with which one feels comfortable. Sine most people are used to thinking dualistically of God as somehow “up there” while they remained “down here”, they can be expected to interpret their experience with their higher self as a direct encounter with God. The idea of “God” is, after all, more familiar to most people than is the notion of a higher self.<br /><br />This is perhaps not the appropriate context to get deeply into this issue, but readers familiar with various spiritual traditions will know that the point of many spiritual disciplines, such as meditation and prayer, is precisely to cultivate an awareness of one's higher self in order to align one's personality with it. It is believed that in this way one can live more fully in accordance with the total being of which one's personality is but an expression.....<br /><br />There is one further feature of the core experience that we must consider in connection with the higher-self interpretation I have advanced: the decisional crisis. If the higher self does indeed have total<br />knowledge of the individual personality, both past and future, that knowledge must include the “programmed” time of death for the personality. Thus, when an individual is told that he is being “sent back” or the “his time has not yet come”, this presumably reflects the “life program” of that person's life. The “spirits” who sometimes give these injunctions also seem to have access to this information. It will be recalled, however, that the majority of individuals who report that a decision was made about their fate feel that <i>they</i> made it themselves—that they were given a <i>choice</i>. In such cases, we must either assume that the “life program” of an individual is modifiable after all—at least in certain states of consciousness—or that the higher self knows all along what choice the individual will himself make. At this level, we can only speculate whether the sense of choice individuals feel they have is real or illusory. For my part I would like to believe it is real, but it is difficult to see how we could ever know this.<br />xxxx<br />tomorrow: interacting thought structures in the other world, or, you hang out with those you like...bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37042405481061374812010-02-04T21:09:23.710-05:002010-02-04T21:09:23.710-05:00How About I...<a href="http://www.sharenator.com/How_About_I/37093.html" rel="nofollow">How About I...</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15273121923515013232010-02-04T20:42:02.075-05:002010-02-04T20:42:02.075-05:00Bob's been reading, eh?Bob's been reading, eh?MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60781336467131452462010-02-04T19:29:26.587-05:002010-02-04T19:29:26.587-05:00Haunting memories of Black Saturday often rush bac...<i>Haunting memories of Black Saturday often rush back to Jason Lynn, sometimes triggered by the sound of wind in the trees, or the smell of dust in the air.<br /><br />...<br /><br />One year on, Mr Lynn says things are slowly changing. He and his wife and children - who amazingly made it out alive when they fled the fire - are living back on their property.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Jacob Hickey, the director of Inside the Firestorm, interviewed eight families who survived Black Saturday.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/04/2810461.htm" rel="nofollow">1 Year On</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42130971836238766162010-02-04T19:11:50.580-05:002010-02-04T19:11:50.580-05:00In my own opinion, the idea of an astral reality—o...In my own opinion, the idea of an astral reality—or call it whatever else you will—to which we may become sensitive at t he point of death is not an outlandish notion, even if it can never be established scientifically. In any event, my own provisional conclusion is that one interpretation of the light phenomenon reported by our respondents is that it represents a glimpse of this astral reality.<br /><br />I said before that, in my judgment, the perception of the brilliant golden light actually represents two separate but related phenomena. If “astral light”--as a range of frequencies to which we are sensitive in a fourth dimension, or holographic reality—is one aspect of the light effect, we still need to know what the other is.<br /><br />And at this point, we must enter boldly, if with considerable trepidation, into the heart of the interpretative mystery of near-death and other experiences. What we will find there, however, will not so much resolve the mystery as it will enlarge our sense of it.<br /><br />Moody spoke of a “being of light”, and though none of our respondents used this phrase some seemed<br />to be aware of a “presence” (or “voice”) in association with the light. Often, but not always, this presence is identified with God. However this may be, I want to consider what the light rerpresents when it is conjoined with the sense of a presence or with an unrecognized voice.<br /><br />Here we must, I think, make a speculative leap. I submit that his presence/voice is actually—oneself!<br />It is not merely a projection of one's personality, however, but one's <i>total self</i>, or what in some traditions is called the <i>higher self</i>. In this view, the individual personality functions in a seemingly autonomous way, as though it were a separate entity. In fact, however, it is invisibly tied to the larger self structure of which it is a part. An analogy would be that the individual personality is like a child who, when grown up, completely forgets his mother and then fails to recognize her when they later meet.<br /><br />What has this to do with the light? The answer is – or so I would say – that his higher self is so awesome, so overwhelming, so loving, and unconditionally accepting (like an all-forgiving mother) and so <i>foreign</i> to one's individualized consciousness that one perceives it as <i>separate</i> from oneself, as unmistakably <i>other</i>. It manifests itself as a brilliant golden light, but it is actually oneself, in a higher form, that one is seeing. It is as though the individual, being throughly identified with his own limited personality, asks: “What is that beautiful light over there?” never conceiving for a moment that anything so magnificent could possible be himself in his complete—and, we need to add here, divine—manifestation. The golden light is actually a reflection of one's own inherent divine nature and symbolizes the higher self. The light one sees, then, is one's own.<br /><br />The higher self furthermore has total knowledge of the individual personality, both past and future. That is why, when it is experienced as a voice, it seems to be an “all-knowing” one (to use the phrase of one respondent). That is why it can initiate a life review and, in addition, provide a preview of an individual's life events. At this level, information is stored holographically and is experienced holographically—simultaneously or nearly so. In fact, the life review is a holographic phenomenon par excellence; I have even heard a couple of individuals, who knew about holograms, characterize their life reviews in this way. In Pribram's words, in holographic consciousness, “everything is happening all at once, synchronously.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28841730303490086152010-02-04T19:10:23.339-05:002010-02-04T19:10:23.339-05:00Another argument in support of a psychological int...Another argument in support of a psychological interpretation of the tunnel phenomenon is based on occasional reports on can find in the literature where people claim to be aware of “others” in the tunnel. To illustrate this, let me simply relate an anecdote recently told me by Raymond Moody. After one of Moody's talks, a woman approached him in order to recount he own near-death experience. Part of it involved her moving through the tunnel towad the brilliant golden light. What was unusual in her case, however, is that as she was moving through the tunnel, she saw a friend of hers coming back! As they drew nearer, somehow the friend conveyed the thought to her that he had “sent back”. Later according to what Moody was told, it developed that her friend had actually suffered a cardicac arrest at the approximate time of the woman's own experience. At this writing, Moody is attempting to verify the details of this case and to find out whether the friend himself had any awareness of the woman informant in the tunnel. In any event, if authenticated, t his is certainly a provocative and, to my knowledge, unique case.<br /><br />Finally, the tunnel effect is not restricted by an means to near-death circumstances. This phenonenon has been reported in out-of-body episodes not associated with death, where a transition in consciousness was subjectively taking place. Such occurrences are again consistent with a psychological interpretation of the kind that I am advancing and also reinforce the point made earlier that aspects of the core experience may occur whenever consciousness can be detached from the body.<br /><br />The next phenomenon that manifests itself is, of course, the brilliant golden light, which is sometimes seen at the end of the tunnel and at other times appears independent of a tunnel experience. Sometimes, As we have noted, people report that it envelopes them rather than being seen as though at a distance.<br /><br />What is this light? In my own view, it represents two distinct, but related, phenomena.<br /><br />One interpretation is that it represents the “light” associated with the state of consciousness one enters after death. At this level of consciousness—where we are no longer constrained by the sensory systems of the physical body—we are presumably sensitive to a higher range of frequencies, which appear to us as light of extraordinary brilliance and unearthly beauty. In many traditions, this is spoken of as the light of the “astral” world or plane, and it is said that, for most people,this is the realm to which one “goes” after death. Of course, there is no way of providing acceptable scientific evidence for such statements, but it is perhaps at least noteworthy that virtually every description that purports to convey<br />a sense of “the next world” depicts “a world of light”. This is true not only for ancient esoteric traditions, but is also found in the accounts of accomplished individual mystics, both historical and contemporary. Not only that, but the extensive popular literature on “life after death” is replete with descriptions from a great diversity of sources which accord with this conception of an astral realm. None of this material, however voluminous, would be evidential in the courts of science, but it still seems reasonable to ask” Could they all be in error?bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76320721512451530192010-02-04T18:18:07.644-05:002010-02-04T18:18:07.644-05:00ah, it's a winter wonderland! Too bad I'l...ah, it's a winter wonderland! Too bad I'll miss it as I wing off early tomorrow to the land Deuce used to sell.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45017619500653864622010-02-04T18:14:42.755-05:002010-02-04T18:14:42.755-05:00It's suppose to start tomorrow around five and...It's suppose to start tomorrow around five and continue into Saturday evening. <br /><br />Two nights snowed in = Crazy Mel and lots of margaritas.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43145887398437345882010-02-04T18:10:31.656-05:002010-02-04T18:10:31.656-05:00Whit, if I can get summer like weather by the end ...Whit, if I can get summer like weather by the end of the month, I will put that on and lead them myself. We're getting hammered this weekend and poor South Jersey and the shore points are really getting hit this winter.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6925600090136419822010-02-04T17:55:20.816-05:002010-02-04T17:55:20.816-05:00MeLoDy is right. That is certainly what you want l...MeLoDy is right. That is certainly what you want leading a parade of construction workers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73320300945900227342010-02-04T17:20:12.248-05:002010-02-04T17:20:12.248-05:00Is the glass half full, or empty, doug?
Wall Stre...Is the glass half full, or empty, doug?<br /><br /><i>Wall Street Journal - <br /><br />For the first time, government programs next year will account for more than half of all US health-care spending, federal actuaries predict, as the weak economy sends more people into Medicaid and slows growth of private insurance. </i>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36076377965168776062010-02-04T16:30:20.759-05:002010-02-04T16:30:20.759-05:00Tends to tick the wife off, among other unpleasant...Tends to tick the wife off, among other unpleasantries.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54500877094619023542010-02-04T16:29:11.267-05:002010-02-04T16:29:11.267-05:00By the way, I noticed Obumble actually said someth...By the way, I noticed Obumble actually said something that made some sense, rcently.<br /><br />One shouldn't take the money to Las Vegas and squander it.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80961086365926649992010-02-04T16:23:12.487-05:002010-02-04T16:23:12.487-05:00According to Izak Bentov, another prominent hologr...According to Izak Bentov, another prominent holographic theorist and consciousness researcher, the tunnel effect:<br /><br /><i>Is a psychological phnomenon whereby consciousness experiences “motion” from one “level” to the other. It is the process of adjustment of the consciousness from one plane of reality to another. It is usually felt as movement. This is so for people....for whom this is new. For people who are used to going into the astral or higher levels, this tunnel phenomenon does not happen anymore.</i><br /><br />Thus what Bentov appears to be saying is that the tunnel or darkness is an intermediate or transitional zone occurring between levels of consciousness. It is as though one's awareness is “shifting gears” from ordinary waking consciousness to a direct perception of the frequency domain. The gap in time while this shift is being effected is experienced as movement through (a dark) space. What is actually “moving”, however, is awareness itself—or mind without a body—and what it is moving “through” is the gateway to holographic, of four-dimensional, consciousness. This is why Bentov can imply that when this shift becomes habitual it occurs instantaneously. Tunnel effects, then, are merely the mind's experience of transitions through states of consciousness.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35113892955956614792010-02-04T16:20:57.603-05:002010-02-04T16:20:57.603-05:00Allen, I've read three books by Weiss. While t...Allen, I've read three books by Weiss. While they were a little different from what I expected, anyone not moved by those narratives must necessarily have a heart of stone and the soul of an iceberg. Wanting to make some comments about the subject, I begin here--(this will dribble in over a few days, kinda busy)--<br /><br />from Life at Death by Kenneth Ring<br /><br /><br />To make the connection between near-death experiences and the holographic theory, we must emphasize the properties of what Pribram calls the <i>frequency domain</i>--the primary reality composed of frequencies only. Of this realm Pribram said:<br /><br /><i>The frequency domain deals with density of occurrences only; time and space are collapsed. Ordinary boundaries of space and time such as locations of any sort, disappear...in a sense, everything is happening at once, synchronously. But one can read out what is happening into a variety of co-ordinates of which space and time are the most helpful in bring us into the ordinary human consciousness.</i><br /><br />From this statement it is only a short step to the implications of direct relevance to us. Pribram, who, from his own statements, appears not to have had any mystical experiences himself, nevertheless has observed:<br /><br /><i>As a way of looking at consciousness, holographic theory is much closer to mystical and Eastern philosophy. It will take a while for people to become comfortable with an order of reality other than the world of appearances. But it seems to me that some of the mystical experiences people have described for millenia begin to make some scientific sense. <b>They bespeak the possibility of tapping into that order of reality – (the holographic reality) – that is behind the world of appearances</b>...Spiritual insights fit the descriptions of this domain. They're made perfectly plausible by the invention of the hologram.</i><br /><br />….By now, the direction I am taking here will be evident, but let me spell it out directly. I assume that t he core experience is a type of mystical experience that ushers one into the holographic domain. In this state of consciousness, there is a new order of reality that one becomes sensitive to—a frequency domain—as time and space lose their conventional meaning. The act of dying, then, involves a gradual shift of consciousness from the ordinary world of appearances to a holographic reality of pure frequencies. In this new reality, however, consciousness still functions holographically (without a brain, I assume) to interpret these frequencies in object. Indeed, as Pribram himself has argued—and he is not alone in this—the universe itself seems to be organized holographically.<br /><br />Access to this holographic reality becomes experientially available when one's consciousness is freed from its dependence on the physical body. So long as one remains tied to the body and to its sensory modalities, holographic reality at best can only be an intellectual construct. When one comes close to death, one experiences it directly. That is why core experiencers (and mystics generally) speak about their visions with such certitude and conviction, while those who haven't experiences this realm for themselves are left being sceptical or even indifferent.<br /><br />….Now, we must return to the specific phenomena of the core experience mentioned at the outset of this section. Let us begin with the sense of moving through a dark tunnel or dark void.<br /><br />http://www.allposters.com/-sp/The-Ascent-into-the-Empyrean-or-Highest-Heaven-Posters_i1591420_.htm<br /><br />There are of course many possible interpretations of this effect. They range from assumptions that it reflects decreased blood flow or impaired respiration to speculations that tunnel “perceptions” actually represent the flow of the “vital force” through the connecting cord. Between these purely physiological and unverifiable esoteric interpretations, however, is a psychological one that has recently been suggested to me. <br />Since it tends to square with my states of consciousness interpretation, I will offer it here.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-61932746062894287922010-02-04T14:13:54.976-05:002010-02-04T14:13:54.976-05:00I'm still getting over my last bout of anti-in...I'm still getting over my last bout of anti-incumbency, which was a doozy. Often out of step, I am.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4462187087937989072010-02-04T14:04:56.891-05:002010-02-04T14:04:56.891-05:00Speaking of anti-incumbent sentiment, my mother po...Speaking of anti-incumbent sentiment, my mother pointed out that the (vomitous) Murtha - bringing home the bacon in some fashion or other, one Congressional district over, since 1916 - may have to defend his seat.<br /><br />What IS the world coming to?trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78173880464466475672010-02-04T13:49:12.982-05:002010-02-04T13:49:12.982-05:00Chevrolet Sales UP 207%
in China.<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iscmO8x3nqiM7NRUOI1E5MgAobKg" rel="nofollow">Chevrolet Sales UP 207%</a><br /><br />in China.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64711458785879101662010-02-04T12:07:16.922-05:002010-02-04T12:07:16.922-05:00The talking heads on CNBC don't know what hit ...The talking heads on CNBC don't know what hit them. They're in a dither. They really believed that nonsense about a "V-Shaped" Recovery. <br /><br />Looks like Europe is the next to fall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6335010074735945982010-02-04T12:03:15.563-05:002010-02-04T12:03:15.563-05:00BTW, WE payed that money in. That's Our Money...BTW, <b>WE</b> payed that money in. That's <b>Our</b> Money. <br /><br />We loaned it to the Government for a ridiculously low interest rate by way of "special" notes. About 2%.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41007916115772131172010-02-04T12:00:35.047-05:002010-02-04T12:00:35.047-05:00Uh, no Deuce. The "Federal Gummint" Owe...Uh, no Deuce. The "Federal Gummint" <b>Owes</b> Soc Sec. about <b>$5 Trillion Dollars.</b> The Soc Sec. Administration has The Notes to prove it. <br /><br />All the Government has to do is make good on its Notes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63866285294820377022010-02-04T11:58:01.682-05:002010-02-04T11:58:01.682-05:00It looks like the switch grass/corn cob ethanol pl...It looks like the switch grass/corn cob ethanol plants would bring fuel in for about $2.25/gal wholesale if they were up and running, "right now." <br /><br />This is a bit higher than the "rack price" of gasoline, today; but, probably lower than the rack price will be next year.<br /><br />The template for the future, I believe is that Univ. Tn/Dupont, Danisco project over at Vonore, Tn. Their Demonstration Plant is up, and running, and the farmers are starting to plant more switchgrass.<br /><br />The thing is, this project required some gov. help in loan guarantees, etc. to encourage the farmers to "take a chance." It is a project that I believe can be replicated a couple of times in virtually every county in the U.S.<br /><br />Exxon is Not a fan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com