Gregory Ness's Blog, page 5
April 11, 2015
Musk: "Energy is the biggest problem."
http://uk.businessinsider.com/elon-mu...
"From a terrestrial standpoint, the biggest problem we need to solve on Earth this century is sustainable production and consumption of energy," Musk said during the show. "This really is quite a serious problem. People really should take this quite seriously."
"From a terrestrial standpoint, the biggest problem we need to solve on Earth this century is sustainable production and consumption of energy," Musk said during the show. "This really is quite a serious problem. People really should take this quite seriously."
Putting the Universe in Perspective
http://news.yahoo.com/cat-mantra-astr...
Just a sample:
"But letting go of human perspective doesn't stop there. Not only does the universe leave the human sense of scale and time woefully in the dust, but people's literal senses — what they can see, hear, smell and touch — are also an incomplete picture of what is happening. Take sight: Human eyes are sensitive to only a tiny range of light energies. All around you, information about an invisible world is pouring into your eyes, but nothing in your retina reacts with it; no signal neurons are fired to send information to your brain that something is right in front of you."
Just a sample:
"But letting go of human perspective doesn't stop there. Not only does the universe leave the human sense of scale and time woefully in the dust, but people's literal senses — what they can see, hear, smell and touch — are also an incomplete picture of what is happening. Take sight: Human eyes are sensitive to only a tiny range of light energies. All around you, information about an invisible world is pouring into your eyes, but nothing in your retina reacts with it; no signal neurons are fired to send information to your brain that something is right in front of you."
April 3, 2015
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A special thank you to all of you who offered your input to The Sword of Agrippa: Antioch! The book was posted to Kindle in late November and promotions kick off on April 17.
Feel free to download or invite a friend to download a free copy April 17-19!
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A special thank you to all of you who offered your input to The Sword of Agrippa: Antioch! The book was posted to Kindle in late November and promotions kick off on April 17.
Feel free to download or invite a friend to download a free copy April 17-19!
Thanks!
http://www.amazon.com/Sword-Agrippa-A...
More on Ancient Egypt and Ayahuasca
http://corespirit.co.uk/spirit/the-eg...
"The civilization of Egypt as we know spans back thousands of years to the days when the last great glaciers in the world were melting (10,000 BC). This information, as many of you may know, has been systematically removed and ignored from nearly every history book written in modern times. The Egyptians were an incredibly aware and spiritual society, which had deeply entrenched beliefs about reality as we perceive it as well as the realities that most of us are not aware of."
"The civilization of Egypt as we know spans back thousands of years to the days when the last great glaciers in the world were melting (10,000 BC). This information, as many of you may know, has been systematically removed and ignored from nearly every history book written in modern times. The Egyptians were an incredibly aware and spiritual society, which had deeply entrenched beliefs about reality as we perceive it as well as the realities that most of us are not aware of."
March 29, 2015
A Very Relevant Article
http://bigthink.com/praxis/youre-more...
Quoting the article: “The trouble with the world,” Bertrand Russell quipped, “is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” If a large body of research by Cornell psychologist David Dunning is to be trusted, Russell wasn’t even half right. The stupid may indeed harbor wildly overblown assumptions about their capacities, but the same is true of people on the other end of the intelligence spectrum. In fact, the more education people have, the more ignorant they may be. Ignoring our ignorance and assuming we know much more than we actually do seems to be a universal human tendency.
Quoting the article: “The trouble with the world,” Bertrand Russell quipped, “is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” If a large body of research by Cornell psychologist David Dunning is to be trusted, Russell wasn’t even half right. The stupid may indeed harbor wildly overblown assumptions about their capacities, but the same is true of people on the other end of the intelligence spectrum. In fact, the more education people have, the more ignorant they may be. Ignoring our ignorance and assuming we know much more than we actually do seems to be a universal human tendency.
March 28, 2015
March 26, 2015
March 21, 2015
Stay Tuned!
I am eagerly awaiting an upcoming biography on Marcus Agrippa. See blog by Lindsay Powell: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
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March 15, 2015
Pineal Gand: Portal of Higher Dimansions
http://in5d.com/pineal-gland-portal-o...
"Even though this gland is hidden deep inside the brain and is only the size of a pea, it has been an almost fanatical obsession of masters, mystery schools and religions throughout the ages. Rene Descartes, the famous philosopher dedicated much of his life to studying the pineal gland, stating it is the “principal seat of the soul”. He believed it is the connection between the physical body and the mind/soul. We also see it playing prominent in the writings of Pythagoras, Plato, and Iamblichus, as well as in Egyptian, Tibetan and Roman Catholic Church. It is even mentioned by the Founding Fathers of the USA.
One of the central figures in Egyptian mystery school myths is the Eye of Horus. Many feel the eye of Horus is really the third eye, or the pineal gland. There does seem to be a lot of similarities, at least from an anatomical point of view."
"Even though this gland is hidden deep inside the brain and is only the size of a pea, it has been an almost fanatical obsession of masters, mystery schools and religions throughout the ages. Rene Descartes, the famous philosopher dedicated much of his life to studying the pineal gland, stating it is the “principal seat of the soul”. He believed it is the connection between the physical body and the mind/soul. We also see it playing prominent in the writings of Pythagoras, Plato, and Iamblichus, as well as in Egyptian, Tibetan and Roman Catholic Church. It is even mentioned by the Founding Fathers of the USA.
One of the central figures in Egyptian mystery school myths is the Eye of Horus. Many feel the eye of Horus is really the third eye, or the pineal gland. There does seem to be a lot of similarities, at least from an anatomical point of view."
March 8, 2015
Top 100 Amazon Reviewer on Antioch
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1U9VE7R...
Thanks Grady!
Author Gregory Lloyd, with a BA from Reed College, an MA from the University of Texas and studies in Arabic while working n Silicon Valley, has had one of the more rich journeys of experiences of any writer. He spent his early childhood living near Kaptai, Bangladesh, when it was East Pakistan. `Our neighbors were the Chakma hill people, most of whom lived without electricity and plumbing. My sense of "jungle reality" was then skewed by the US suburbs when our family returned to the States. My parents were adventurous travelers. Before I was six years old I had been around the world several times, including many remote locations off the beaten path for mainstream tourists. Growing up nomadic, spanning cultures, also gave me a unique perspective on technology, science and even history. In college I learned that different people could read the same book and come away with very different interpretations of what an author intended to say or what really happened. I soon realized that my own certainty became an obstacle to my growth. With the SWORD OF AGRIPPA I set out to push the boundaries of time and space beyond our senses, into an incomprehensible and wonderful universe of energy. I am suggesting that the vast and varied (and yet undiscovered) energies of the universe may be more important than matter when it comes to scientific innovation and spirituality. That shared realization could then set the stage for improved collaboration between science and religion. Perhaps they need each other more than the "experts" realize.'
Gregory's debut novel, a tale that mingles science fiction with Ancient Rome and Egypt, is a story about strange entanglements between science, mysticism, even future and past. `Perhaps it is our focus on matter which divides us, while energy unites us. Perhaps dark energy is the most common and significant force in the universe, despite our inability to measure it? Could it be a force for life, that permeates every micron across space and time that manifests itself in ways which we cannot yet recognize?
With this knowledge it would be possible that we as readers are entering into a onfusing tome, wondering wherther such far flung ideas a novel can make. But simply open the book and read the first lines and discover that Gregory writes extraordinarily well - and that gift allows him to lift off into a journey we have never considered. Science , mysticism and the war on innovation are offset with exceptional human elements of love and greed and grief and confusion. As one synopsis states, `College student Roy Swenson, brokenhearted after the death of his sweetheart in a car accident, plunges into his studies and becomes a scientist working on energy sensors. By the year 2020, Roy longs to strike out against the dystopian "bulletproof-vested interests dominated by science and religion" that want to kill free thought and "bold experimentation." Armed with Sanskrit chants and exercises that increase his intuitive awareness, Roy teams up with former Silicon Valley wonder boy Steve Randall to explore whether pineal tissue can be used to see dark energy and/or God.'
Prepare for a surreal adventure written with great skill - so much so that we fall into this line of thinking effortlessly. Grady Harp, March 15
Thanks Grady!
Author Gregory Lloyd, with a BA from Reed College, an MA from the University of Texas and studies in Arabic while working n Silicon Valley, has had one of the more rich journeys of experiences of any writer. He spent his early childhood living near Kaptai, Bangladesh, when it was East Pakistan. `Our neighbors were the Chakma hill people, most of whom lived without electricity and plumbing. My sense of "jungle reality" was then skewed by the US suburbs when our family returned to the States. My parents were adventurous travelers. Before I was six years old I had been around the world several times, including many remote locations off the beaten path for mainstream tourists. Growing up nomadic, spanning cultures, also gave me a unique perspective on technology, science and even history. In college I learned that different people could read the same book and come away with very different interpretations of what an author intended to say or what really happened. I soon realized that my own certainty became an obstacle to my growth. With the SWORD OF AGRIPPA I set out to push the boundaries of time and space beyond our senses, into an incomprehensible and wonderful universe of energy. I am suggesting that the vast and varied (and yet undiscovered) energies of the universe may be more important than matter when it comes to scientific innovation and spirituality. That shared realization could then set the stage for improved collaboration between science and religion. Perhaps they need each other more than the "experts" realize.'
Gregory's debut novel, a tale that mingles science fiction with Ancient Rome and Egypt, is a story about strange entanglements between science, mysticism, even future and past. `Perhaps it is our focus on matter which divides us, while energy unites us. Perhaps dark energy is the most common and significant force in the universe, despite our inability to measure it? Could it be a force for life, that permeates every micron across space and time that manifests itself in ways which we cannot yet recognize?
With this knowledge it would be possible that we as readers are entering into a onfusing tome, wondering wherther such far flung ideas a novel can make. But simply open the book and read the first lines and discover that Gregory writes extraordinarily well - and that gift allows him to lift off into a journey we have never considered. Science , mysticism and the war on innovation are offset with exceptional human elements of love and greed and grief and confusion. As one synopsis states, `College student Roy Swenson, brokenhearted after the death of his sweetheart in a car accident, plunges into his studies and becomes a scientist working on energy sensors. By the year 2020, Roy longs to strike out against the dystopian "bulletproof-vested interests dominated by science and religion" that want to kill free thought and "bold experimentation." Armed with Sanskrit chants and exercises that increase his intuitive awareness, Roy teams up with former Silicon Valley wonder boy Steve Randall to explore whether pineal tissue can be used to see dark energy and/or God.'
Prepare for a surreal adventure written with great skill - so much so that we fall into this line of thinking effortlessly. Grady Harp, March 15
