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February 8, 2017
NON POLITICAL POST
EGYPTIAN ELECTRIC LIGHTS MYSTERY REVEALED
Ancient Technology discovery reveals link between the Dendera Light and the Electric Universe (EU). Two researchers working on the lost technology of Ancient Egypt have rediscovered the secret of the Dendera Light (aka. The Snake Tube). Working on the assumption that the images on the temple walls reveal Ancient Technology, the researchers discovered that the snake tube images at the Dendera Temple are actually stable low density plasma focus devices – where the lotus flower is the plasma focus, the body of the snake is the ‘sausage’ or ‘birkland current’, the neck of the snake is the ‘Z’ pinch, and the head of the snake is the ‘plasmoid’.
Here is a photo from the Facebook page of William Sosa, discoverer of how the “Dendera LightS” of Egypt really worked, and PROOF that the Egyptian used electricity!
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006585736657&fref=ts
“Entering Dendera Hathor Temple for the first time (circa 1997). That is me in the blue shirt and tan shorts, holding my hat against the wind and chatting with our tour leader, Barbara Marciniak (carrying a black bag), while my roommate Tim Smith (in the foreground) looks on.
I remember our tour guide, Terri Weiss (Power Places Tours), coming up to me about the time this photo was taken to tell me, ‘Bill, we only have about 45 minutes in the temple before we have to leave for Abydos. The group is going to the roof first, for a 20 minute group meditation and spin, and then be taken on a quick tour of the temple. You don’t need to do that. You need to find the crypt immediately, before the entire group converges on it. It is very cramped in there and I am getting a strong hit that you need some time in there to be alone. Go now…”
I did not need much encouragement mind you. I went racing straight toward the south end of the temple, but I could not find the crypt. I found an Egyptian guide inside, but his English was poor and he did not understand me at first. So I took my notepad from my backpack and drew a quick snake tube drawing to show him. He looked at me and got a big smile on his face as he pointed towards a low/narrow passageway in the floor (this was before the entrance to the crypt would be completely dug out, where you had to crawl on your belly in the dirt to get in). I did not miss a beat. I pushed my claustrophobia aside, threw my backpack and hat in ahead of me and dove in head first…
It was wonderful. I had 20 minutes in the crypt, just me and the guide. I was in heaven…
I quickly snapped a bunch of pictures and just stared at the images on the walls in awe. I could hardly breathe I was so excited… Little did I know on that day, that in 15 years I would actually discover how the Snake Tubes worked… (or that I would spend 3 whole days exploring Dendera during a future trip in 2012 – just 2 weeks after that discovery)
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http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=14651
Originally posted 2015-03-10 23:25:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
February 7, 2017
OMG! PLANT BEASTS!
Wildly bizarre half-plant/half-animal creature – with a lovely name “Eastern Emerald Elysia”
This beautiful leaf-shaped sea slug Elysia chlorotica lives in shallow pools along Atlantic coast of North America, eats algae with gusto – one meal is enough for its lifetime! – and by using photosynthesis like any other plant, shatters the most basic definition between the “animal” and “plant” kingdoms.
(images credit: PNAS, via, Nicholas E. Curtis and Ray Martinez, via)
It may not be “easy being green”, but for this slug it turned out to be highly efficient!
This is the ONLY natural example of genes shared between the living kingdoms of “plants” and “animals”
Shaped like a leaf? Check. Totally colored green? Check, although the young slugs are still colored brown until they eat their first “green” meal… but right after that, they’re ready to make pigment chlorophyll a all by themselves for the rest of their lives!
One thing about Elysia chlorotica, “a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant” (via)… They don’t just use chloroplasts from the algae they eat – this phenomenon, though rare, is known as kleptoplasty. What’s more, they seem to have the particular genes that make them able to keep processing these chloroplasts in a consistent and sustainable way:
(images credit: Patrick Krug Cataloging Diversity in the Sacoglossa LifeDesk)
What sort of surprises can be found in a humble shallow pool? Turns out, quite an awful lot! Elysia chlorotica likes to inhabit “salt marshes, tidal marshes, pools and shallow creeks, at depths of 0 m to 0.5 m”. All this should serve as a good encouragement to look closer into swamps and marshes (provided they are not haunted by any mad scientist apparitions, or the feral Hounds of the Baskervilles). There is positively astonishing microscopic biodiversity to be discovered all around your feet!”
Via Dark Roasted Blend
Originally posted 2012-04-26 09:35:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
February 6, 2017
Photo Manipulation Throughout History: A Timeline | Ethics in Photo Editing
The history of doctoring photographs dates back to the 1860s, only a few decades after Niepce created the first photograph in 1814, photographs were already being manipulated. The nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and the Southern politician John Calhoun’s body.
Source: Photo Manipulation Throughout History: A Timeline | Ethics in Photo Editing
Originally posted 2016-04-17 23:48:38. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
February 5, 2017
February 4, 2017
FEEL LOVE
All Sentient Beings Feel Love
Originally posted 2013-11-12 21:29:46. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
February 2, 2017
IMAGINE BEING A GOD…
Literature, art, dance music and other aesthetic forms of communication, are created solely and only about the life and death of a human being: an immortal spiritual being inhabiting a body made of fragile flesh.
On Earth, the interest of spiritual beings is directed by artists toward bodies, bodies, bodies. Bodies are born, endure a brief lifetime of pain, false ambition, despair and quiet desperation. Humans gasp in short bursts of physical sensation. They walk to the store, plodding step by tedious step. They do not cross half a planet in the instant of a thought! Such Divine Flight and Freedom is the privilege of a god! Yet, All Sentient Spiritual Beings are Immortal.
What is a god? An Immortal Spiritual Being. This is not a notion of ‘THE GOD’, Creator of All Things in The Physical Universe. No. This is simply the reality that each one of us, as individual Immortal Souls, have infinite potential to cause and create and control our Own Personal Universe!
History has clearly demonstrated that anyone can Be Who They Decide To Be. Realization of any Dream is as simple as being, doing and having who and what one decides To Be.
What prevents Immortal Spiritual Beings who animate and inhabit physical bodies from realizing the essential Freedom and Ability of an invisible, powerful, all-knowing, divinity; a “no-thing” of unlimited age, creative potential and god-like ability to Be divine?
Priests who insist that only they can communicate with “god”, and, the “god” is out there somewhere. And, foremost, writers who create the illusion that the ONLY GAME that can be played by any being, anywhere and anytime, are the games of The Body. They use the most powerful tool of all: aesthetics! Beautiful words, masterful pictures, magical sounds and symmetrical physical forms entice and entrap you. The most precious, most desirable quality for a Spiritual Being is that Quality in the physical universe that is most similar to themselves: Aesthetics! Indeed, only a Spiritual Being can create beauty! The source and essence of art and beauty IS that “no-thing” we call the Spirit.
How often have you read a book and seen a film that is dedicated to the life, loves, games, activities, dreams and aspirations of a disembodied Spiritual Being? Ever? Can you think of any?
Only YOU can create beauty. Only YOU can create your personal universe. Only YOU, as the god-like, immortal spiritual being that you are, can animate, inhabit, create and transcend the physical forms of flesh. This ability begins with imagination…the Decision to BE!
You are NOT a tiny physical body, trapped on a distant planet, impotent, frail and pathetic dust. You ARE the Eternal Potential Power of Creation! A god. Creator and Destroyer of Universes!
However, you have been sold out. Sold into Eternal Slavery by every artist with pen and brush who used Aesthetics to tell you that you have NO IDENTITY unless you inhabit a body. You and I should regard such treasonous fellow beings as Enemies of Our Immortal Selves! They destroy your Personal Divinity with lies carried through art. You must HAVE a Body. Only the Body can have an identity. Only the body can live, love, play, create and feel sensation. These are lies. In Truth, only an Immortal Spiritual Being can cause or create anything at all…including bodies, planets, stars, universes and beauty.
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Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013.
Originally posted 2013-03-09 22:31:44. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
February 1, 2017
ILLUSIONS OF SENTIENCE
In the philosophy of consciousness, “sentience” can refer to the ability of any entity to have subjective perceptual experiences. This is distinct from other aspects of the mind and consciousness, such as creativity, intelligence, sapience, self-awareness, and intentionality (the ability to have thoughts that mean something or are “about” something). Sentience is a minimalistic way of defining “consciousness“, which is otherwise commonly used to collectively describe sentience plus other characteristics of the mind.
Eastern religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism recognize non-humans as sentient beings.According to Buddhism, sentient beings made of pure consciousness are possible. In Buddhism, the concept is related to the Bodhisattva, an enlightened being devoted to the liberation of others. The first vow of a Bodhisattva states: “Sentient beings are numberless; I vow to free them.” Sentience in Buddhism is the state of having senses (sat + ta in Pali, or sat + tva in Sanskrit). In Buddhism, the senses are six in number, the sixth being the subjective experience of the mind. Thus, an animal qualifies as a sentient being.
In Buddhism the skandhas (or aggregates in English) are the five functions or aspects that constitute the human being. The Buddha teaches that nothing among them is really “I” or “mine”. Suffering arises when one identifies with or clings to an aggregate. Suffering is extinguished by relinquishing attachments to aggregates.
The five skandhas:
“form” or “matter” external and internal matter. Externally, is the physical world. Internally, this includes the material body and the physical sense organs.
“sensation” or “feeling”, sensing an objectas either pleasant or unpleasant or neutral.
“perception” , “conception”, “apperception”, “cognition”, or “discrimination”, registers whether an object is recognized or not (for instance, the sound of a bell or the shape of a tree).
“mental formations” , “impulses”, “volition”, or “compositional factors”, all types of mental habits, thoughts, ideas, opinions, prejudices, compulsions, and decisions triggered by an object.
“consciousness” or “discernment”
The Buddhist literature describes the aggregates as arising in a linear or progressive fashion, from form to feeling, to perception, to mental formations to consciousness. In the early texts, the scheme of the five aggregates is not meant to be an exhaustive classification of the human being. Rather it describes various aspects of the way an individual manifests.
Understanding suffering: the five aggregates are the “ultimate referent” in the Buddha’s elaboration on suffering in his First Noble Truth: “Since all four truths revolve around suffering, understanding the aggregates is essential for understanding the Four Noble Truths as a whole.”
Clinging causes future suffering: the five aggregates are the substrata for clinging and thus “contribute to the causal origination of future suffering”.
Release from samsara: clinging to the five aggregates must be removed in order to achieve release from samsara, literally meaning “continuous flow”, is the repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth (reincarnation)
— I HAVE EXCERPTED THE TEXT ABOVE FROM VARIOUS ARTICLES AND LINKS FOUND IN WIKIPEDIA.ORG (LRS)
Originally posted 2012-08-13 21:41:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
January 31, 2017
THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS
I recently re-read my favorite science fiction books, discovering that, like most prophetic literature, they must be studied carefully and repeatedly to perceive many subtle layers of understanding and insight embodied in the text of six books. In my opinion, the most revolutionary, groundbreaking and classic series of science fiction books ever published is The Lensman series. This series was written by Edward Elmer “Doc” Smith, PhD. All of the books in this profoundly important series are available in from Amazon.com (HERE) and the audiobook versions from Audible.com (HERE). If you are a fan of science fiction, high technology, or of spiritual phenomenon, these books are mandatory reference material.
Edward Elmer Smith Ph.D. (also E. E. Smith, E. E. “Doc” Smith, Doc Smith, “Skylark” Smith, or—to his family—Ted) (May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and early science fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera.
Another of my favorite writers is the iconic science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein. He and Doc Smith were good friends. (Heinlein dedicated his 1958 novel Methuselah’s Children “To Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.”. Heinlein reported that E. E. Smith perhaps took his “unrealistic” heroes from life, citing as an example the extreme competence of the hero of Spacehounds of IPC. He reported that E. E. Smith was a large, blond, athletic, very intelligent, very gallant man, married to a remarkably beautiful, intelligent red-haired woman named MacDougal (thus perhaps the prototypes of ‘Kimball Kinnison’ and ‘Clarissa MacDougal’). In Heinlein’s essay, he reports that he began to suspect Smith might be a sort of “superman” when he asked Smith for help in purchasing a car. Smith tested the car by driving it on a back road at illegally high speeds with their heads pressed tightly against the roof columns to listen for chassis squeaks by bone conduction—a process apparently improvised on the spot.
In his non-series novels written after his professional retirement, Galaxy Primes, Subspace Explorers, and Subspace Encounter, E. E. Smith explores themes of telepathy and other mental abilities collectively called “psionics”, and of the conflict between libertarian and socialistic/communistic influences in the colonization of other planets.
Although the language, slang and cultural references are antiquated, I must continually remind myself that these books were written primarily during the 1930s! Long before atomic bombs became a reality, Doc Smith describes atomic and electronic weapons in detail. His technical conceptions and detailed descriptions of engines and spacecraft capable of interstellar, intergalactic, and hyper-spacial have no equal.
Doc Smith (an doughnut and cake mix engineer by trade in “real” life) conjures a fictionalized history of the human race (civilization) engendered and nurtured by a race of super-beings of infinite, incorporeal origins. The nemesis of Civilization are the equally intelligent and capable race of Edorians. A convergence of two galaxies co-mingled these antagonists onto an evolutionary battleground — perpetual warfare lasting billions of years. The parallels and contrasting behavior characteristics of the “good guys” vs “bad guys” reveal the essence of who we are, and could become on this planet.
George Lukas, creator of the Star Wars films relates in his autobiography that his films were inspired by the Lensman books. However, even these unprecedented films reveal only a dim shadow cast by the brilliant light of science fiction literature created by Doc Smith. The characters, conflicts, technology he describes are so hauntingly “real” that one wonders whether Doc Smith wrote his stories as fantasies, or from his own “memory” as in infinitely ancient spiritual being, drawing from his the primordial past of “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…“!
Originally, the Lensman Series was published in pulp fiction magazines. The complete series in sequence and their original publication dates are:
Triplanetary (1948. Originally published in four parts, January–April 1934, in Amazing Stories )
First Lensman (1950, Fantasy Press)
Galactic Patrol (1950. Originally published in six parts, September 1937 – February 1938, in Astounding Stories )
Gray Lensman (1951. Originally published in four parts, October 1939 – January 1940, Astounding Stories )
Second Stage Lensmen (1953. Originally published in four parts, November 1941 – February 1942, Astounding Stories )
Children of the Lens (1954. Originally published in four parts, November 1947 – February 1948, Astounding Stories )
And, a sequel, The Vortex Blaster (1960. Published with the title Masters of the Vortex in 1968)
Originally, the series consisted of the final four novels published between 1937 and 1948. Smith rewrote his 1934 story Triplanetary, originally published in Amazing Stories, to fit in with the Lensman series. First Lensman was written in 1950 to act as a link between Triplanetary and Galactic Patrol and finally, in the years up to 1954, Smith revised the rest of the series to remove inconsistencies between the original Lensman chronology and Triplanetary.
Smith’s novels are generally considered to be the classic space operas, and he is sometimes called the “first nova” of twentieth century science fiction. Smith expressed a preference for inventing fictional technologies that were not strictly impossible (so far as the science of the day was aware) but highly unlikely: “the more highly improbable a concept is—short of being contrary to mathematics whose fundamental operations involve no neglect of infinitesimals—the better I like it” was his phrase.
For more detailed information about The Lensman Series and other books by EE Smith, and about this truly amazing man, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Smith
Originally posted 2015-04-01 20:47:57. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
