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DOLPHINS: SUPER-BEINGS WITH FINS

DOLPHINS HAVE MORE SENSORY PERCEPTION, STRENGTH AND MOBILITY THAN HUMANS

Human beings consider themselves to be the “superior” species.  However, compared to the physical bodies of Dolphins, human bodies and abilities are very fragile and limited! Dolphins do not have the limitations of spending most of their time working, paying taxes, cleaning houses, clothing, shopping, building shelters, supplying heat / air conditioning, etc., and a multitude of social limitations that burden and restrict human behavior and freedom.  In short, Dolphins are relatively FREE to play, eat, have sex and travel.

And, they certainly seem to be MUCH more happy than humans.  And, they do not murder each other and destroy their environment!  (This fact alone automatically makes them FAR more intelligent than humans!)

Since the days of Aristotle, dolphins have impressed humans with their incredible swimming speeds and aquatic acrobatics. There are at least 32 known species of dolphins, many of which remain largely unstudied.

In addition to the limited sensory abilities of human bodies (sight, hearing, smell/taste, tactile, speech) Dolphins also perceive sonar, radar, the electromagnetic field of Earth, and the magnetic fields of life organism.  The also possess the abilities to communicate sonically with a very sophisticated vocabulary of sounds, including ultra-sonic.  Moreover, Dolphins tremendously strong bodies and physical skills and abilities far beyond humans, i.e. swimming, leaping, holding their breath under water (they are air-breathing mammals, after all), acrobatic balancing abilities, and coordination of athletic feats with other Dolphins which are not trained, but intuitive.  The Dall’s porpoise, weighing 480 pounds or less, is one of the smaller dolphins, but his burst swimming speeds have been reported to be as fast as 34.5 miles per hour!  (by contrast the fastest human foot speed on record is 44.7 km/h (12.4m/s, 27.78 mph), but for only 100 meters!  Remember also that water density is about 1000 times more than air.

DOLPHINS ARE SELF-AWARE

“Research suggests that bottlenose dolphins are self-aware, a trait which is considered to be a sign of highly-developed, abstract thinking. One such indicator is that they have been shown to be able to recognise themselves in a mirror, a behaviour that until recently has only been recorded in humans and great apes. Interestingly, unlike most animals, they are also interested in television. Whereas chimps only learned to respond appropriately to television after a long period of training, dolphins respond appropriately to the images from the first time they were exposed.

Dolphins frequently play with things they find in their environment and have been even been seen to use them as tools. In Australia, bottlenose dolphins take marine sponges that they break off the seafloor and wear them over their closed rostrum as protection while they probe into the seabed for fish. There is evidence to suggest that they pass this skill on from one individual to another.

Dolphins do not only respond to the basic needs of their lives; they are extremely playful, for example, producing underwater bubble rings, which they can do in either the horizontal or vertical plane. They mainly do this by either swimming repeatedly in a circle and then injecting air into the helical vortex currents formed or by rapid exhalation of a burst of air into the water and allowing it to rise to the surface in a ring. They frequently then spend time examining their creation both visually and with sonar.

In one experiment, two dolphins were rewarded whenever they came up with a new behaviour, for example a physical action that they would not normally perform such as a kind of tail slap on the surface. It took them a while to work out what was required of them before they realised, but then they started to offer all kinds of novel behaviours, to the point where the trial was stopped because their behaviours became too complex to make further positive reinforcement meaningful. When the experiment was repeated with humans, it took the volunteers roughly the same length amount of time to grasp what they were being asked to do, although they did not then continue on to create the range of behaviours the dolphins did.

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Another example of interesting behaviour suggesting intelligence concerns a dolphin named Kelly at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi. The dolphins there are trained to collect any rubbish that inadvertently falls into their pens and then give it to a trainer the next time they see one. They are then rewarded with a fish. Kelly worked out that the size of the piece of rubbish does not affect the reward. So instead of handing over a piece of litter immediately, she stores it under a rock in the tank and tears it into small pieces and hands them back one at a time. This strategy suggests that Kelly has a sense of future and is prepared to delay gratification. She has also in a way turned the tables — she has effectively trained the humans to do what she wants.

It is probable that dolphin intelligence would have developed somewhat differently to humans. Humans tend to manipulate their environment in order to meet their needs, and based on the simple fact that they have hands, can change things and are able to create complex aids to communication, ranging from the simple written word to the sophisticated electronics. Without the ability or need to manipulate their environment, dolphins must focus their considerable intelligence on other concerns that are relevant to their lives, and may well have specific developed talents presently beyond our understanding.”

THE NECESSITY OF BEING FREE

‘They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom.’ It’s the memorable quote from the 1995 film Braveheart, and it will stand the test of time. To humans, freedom is the ultimate right, and we’ll fight for it to our deaths.

Suffering under confinement is shared by whales and dolphins, too. Unlike many animals that live longer in captivity than in the wild, in the case of these marine mammals it’s the other way round. Life expectancy is considerably shorter across the species, while infant mortality is higher. Male orcas, for example, live an average 30 years in the wild, while females average 46 years, with some living to 80 or 90. However, in a recent analysis of orcas born in captivity or captured from the wild, their average survival rate is estimated at only 8.5 years.

Whales and dolphins are wide-ranging, with large extended families and often huge social groups, in which individuals are dependent upon each other. Remove them from both these aspects of their lives, and the claustrophobic effects upon them can become catastrophic. Depression, physical illness and aberrant behaviour have all been documented. It is therefore unsurprising that, from time to time, human trainers are hurt or even killed by captive individuals, such as orcas, that have become unnaturally aggressive from being held in stressful artificial environments. In addition, those taken into captivity from the wild are not the only ones that suffer. The groups that are left behind may depend upon them for many social reasons, and vital bonds necessary for orca survival can be broken as key members are taken from family groups.

People who enjoy swimming with dolphins, or dolphin-assisted therapy, often say that the dolphins themselves seem so happy. Sadly, but understandably, they are misunderstanding the situation. The apparent smile on the faces of dolphins is actually just a physicality, not an emotive response. It remains there as part of dolphin anatomy, no matter how sad, upset or ill they may be. ”  http://us.whales.org/whales-and-dolphins/brain-power

DOLPHIN NEWS and VIDEOS:  http://www.crystalinks.com/dolphinnews.html

Dolphins are attracted to magnets   PhysOrg – September 29, 2014

Dolphins are indeed sensitive to magnetic stimuli, as they behave differently when swimming near magnetized objects. Magnetoreception implies the ability to perceive a magnetic field. It is supposed to play an important role in how some land and aquatic species orientate and navigate themselves. Some observations of the migration routes of free-ranging cetaceans, such as whales, dolphins and porpoises, and their stranding sites suggested that they may also be sensitive to geomagnetic fields.

Checking the Claim: A Device That Translates Dolphin Sounds Into English   Smithsonian – April 13, 2014

Researchers used new technology to interpret a dolphin noise they say translates loosely to “seaweed”.

Brazil dolphin is first new river species since 1918   BBC – January 22, 2014

Scientists in Brazil have discovered the first new river dolphin species since the end of World War One. Named after the Araguaia river where it was found, the species is only the fifth known of its kind in the world. Researchers say it separated from other South American river species more than two million years ago. There are believed to be about 1,000 of the creatures living in the Araguaia river basin. River dolphins are among the world’s rarest creatures.

Scientists gain new insights into dolphin’s evolutionary history and conversation   PhysOrg – October 29, 2013Researchers found there were many factors related with the aquatic adaptations of cetaceans, such as positively selected genes (PSGs), and some functional changes. One of the noticeable findings is that PSGs in the baiji lineage were also involved in DNA repair and response to DNA damage stimulus, which have not been reported in previous studies of mammals or dolphin. Nicknamed “Goddess of the Yangtze”, the baiji was regarded as the goddess of protection by local fishermen and boatmen in China. Unfortunately, this species has suffered huge losses in recent decades largely due to the extreme pressures brought by human’s activities. The baiji has become one of the most famous species in aquatic conservation. There have been many great efforts made to conserve the baiji, but most of them failed.

Dolphins have ‘longest social memory’ among non-humans   BBC – August 7, 2013

Forget about elephants – scientists say that dolphins have the longest memories yet found in a non-human species. Researchers in the US say that even after 20 years of separation, dolphins could recall the whistles of former companions. The authors believe that these long-term memories are a product of the complex social connections that dolphins have evolved. In the study, the scientists used information on the relationships between 56 captive bottlenose dolphins that have been moved for breeding purposes between six different zoos and aquariums in the US and Bermuda. The records, dating back decades, showed which of the dolphins had been housed together.

  Diver who saved dolphin: ‘He swam right up to me’   NBC – January 24, 2013

When a dolphin needed help off the coast of Hawaii, he was determined to let a scuba instructor know. Keller Laros was leading a group of divers on a tour of the waters off of Kona, Hawaii, on Jan. 11. He often goes on his dives with professional underwater videographers and this night was no exception. But as Laros, his camerawoman and the rest of the group began their dive, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. “All of a sudden I heard a loud squeak, and I turned around, and the dolphin was literally three feet behind me,” Laros said. “He swam right up to me.”

  Dolphin Caught in Fishing Line Approaches Divers for Help   Yahoo – January 23, 2013

Dolphins are known for being highly intelligent mammals. So intelligent, in fact, that they can communicate with humans even when they have not been trained to do so. That’s what happened to a group of divers on an observation trip off the coast of Hawaii, known as the Big Island.

Dolphins at Sea Greet Each Other   Discovery – February 29, 2012

When groups of dolphins meet up in the open sea they thoughtfully introduce themselves. Bottlenose dolphins swap signature whistles with each other when they meet in the open sea, a new study reports, suggesting that these marine mammals engage in something akin to a human conversation. Earlier research found that signature whistles are unique for each dolphin, with the marine mammals essentially naming themselves and communicating other basic information.

Dolphin whistles are unfit for porpoise   PhysOrg – February 29, 2012

Bottlenose dolphins have whistles which they use to exclusively greet other members of their species, marine biologists in Scotland reported. Using hydrophones, the researchers made recordings of dolphins swimming in St. Andrews Bay, off the northeastern coast of Scotland, in the summers of 2003 and 2004. When groups of dolphins met up, they swapped whistles that outwardly sounded the same.

  How Far Will Dolphins Go to Relate to Humans?   New York Times – September 20, 2011

In a remote patch of turquoise sea, Denise L. Herzing splashes into the water with a pod of 15 Atlantic spotted dolphins. For the next 45 minutes, she engages the curious creatures in a game of keep-away, using a piece of Sargassum seaweed like a dog’s chew toy. Based in Jupiter, Fla., she has tracked three generations of dolphins in this area. She knows every animal by name, along with individual personalities and life histories. She has captured much of their lives on video, which she is using to build a growing database.

New Dolphin Species Discovered in Big City Harbor   National Geographic – September 16, 2011

Identified by DNA tests, the new mammals were right under researchers’ noses. An entirely new species of dolphin has been discovered in Australia, and not in some isolated lagoon but in the shadows of skyscrapers, scientists say. One of only three new dolphin species found since the 1800s, the Burrunan dolphin – naed after an Aboriginal phrase that means “large sea fish of the porpoise kind” – is known from only two populations so far, both in the state of Victoria. About a hundred Burrunan dolphins have been found in Port Phillip Bay near Melbourne, Australia’s second most populous city. Another 50 are known to frequent the saltwater coastal lakes of the Gippsland region, a couple hundred miles or so away.

Scientists find out that dolphins ‘talk’ like humans   MSNBC – September 7, 2011

Dolphins do not whistle, but instead “talk” to each other using a process very similar to the way that humans communicate, according to a new study. While many dolphin calls sound like whistles, the study found the sounds are produced by tissue vibrations analogous to the operation of vocal folds by humans and many other land-based animals.

Dolphin Studies Could Reveal Secrets of Extraterrestrial Intelligence   Live Science – September 6, 2011

How do we define intelligence? SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, clearly equates intelligence with technology (or, more precisely, the building of radio or laser beacons). Some, such as the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, suggested that intelligence wasn’t just the acquisition of technology, but the ability to develop and improve it, integrating it into our society. By that definition, a dolphin, lacking limbs to create and manipulate complex tools, cannot possibly be described as intelligent. It’s easy to see why such definitions prove popular; we are clearly the smartest creatures on the planet, and the only species with technology. It may be human hubris, or some kind of anthropocentric bias that we find difficult to escape from, but our adherence to this definition narrows the phase space in which we’re willing to search for intelligent life.

Dolphin hunts with electric sense   BBC – July 27, 2011

A South American dolphin is the first “true mammal” to sense prey by their electric fields, scientists suggest. The researchers first showed that structures on the animal’s head were probably sensory organs, then found it could detect electric fields in water.

Dolphins’ ‘Sixth Sense’ Helps Them Feel Electric Fields   Live Science – July 27, 2011

The common Guiana dolphin has just divulged its sixth sense: the ability to sense electric fields. It is the first placental mammal known to pull off this trick, new research finds. The dolphin, which bears live young like other placental mammals, most likely uses its sixth sense to find prey in the murky coastal waters it inhabits.

Miraculous! Dolphin Healing Powers May Help Humans   Live Science – July 21, 2011

You have an animal that has evolved in the ocean without hands or legs, which swims faster than we can, has intelligence that perhaps equals our social and emotional complexity, and its healing is almost alien compared to what we are capable of. Several remarkable abilities work together for the seemingly miraculous healing in dolphins. First, even with a large gaping wound in their side, dolphins don’t bleed to death.

Successful mothers get help from their friends: Dolphin study   PhysOrg – November 2, 2010

Female dolphins who have help from their female friends are far more successful as mothers than those without such help, according to a landmark new study.

‘Balloon head’ dolphin discovered   BBC – November 2, 2010

A new type of dolphin with a short, spoon-shaped nose and high, bulbous forehead has been identified from a fossil found in the North Sea. The Platalearostrum hoekmani was named after Albert Hoekman, the Dutch fisherman who in 2008 trawled up a bone from the creature’s skull.

   Why Do Dolphins Rub Flippers? National Geographic – November 10, 2008

Researchers have filmed dophins’ behaviors, which include flipper rubbing, to better understand the behaviors’ meanings.

Dolphin With Four Fins May Prove Terrestrial Origins   National Geographic – November 6, 2006

Japanese fishers have found an unusual bottlenose dolphin with an extra set of fins that could be an evolutionary throwback to the time when the marine mammals’ ancient ancestors walked on land.

Dolphins Name Themselves With Whistles, Study Says National Geographic – May 8, 2006

Dolphins give themselves “names” – distinctive whistles that they use to identify each other, new research shows. Scientists say it’s the first time wild animals have been shown to call out their own names.

Newborn dolphins go a month without sleep   New Scientist – June 29, 2005

Newborn dolphins and killer whales do not sleep for a whole month after birth, new research has revealed, and neither do their mothers, who stay awake to keep a close eye on their offspring. The feat of wakefulness is remarkable given that rats die if forcibly denied sleep. And in humans, as any new parent will tell you, sleep deprivation is an exquisite form of torture.

PURE POWER

(image by David Dees)

“The Party (The Bank) seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.  We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing.We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture.
The object of power is power.”

~ George Orwell, 1984 ~

WHY FRIDAY THE 13TH IS “UNLUCKY” FOR US

One theory, about the origin of the “superstition” that Friday The Thirteenth is the “unluckiest day” recently offered up as historical fact in the novel The Da Vinci Code, holds that the stigma came about because of a single historical event that happened nearly 700 years ago. That event was the decimation of the Knights Templar, the legendary order of “warrior monks” formed during the Christian Crusades to combat Islam. Renowned as a fighting force for 200 years, by the 1300s the order had grown so pervasive and powerful it was perceived as a political threat by kings and popes alike and brought down by a church-state conspiracy, as recounted by Katharine Kurtz in Tales of the Knights Templar.

At dawn on Friday, 13 October 1307 King Philip IV ordered de Molay and scores of other French Templars to be simultaneously arrested. The arrest warrant started with the phrase : “Dieu n’est pas content, nous avons des ennemis de la foi dans le Royaume” [“God is not pleased. We have enemies of the faith in the kingdom“]. Claims were made that during Templar admissions ceremonies, recruits were forced to spit on the cross, deny Christ, and engage in indecent kissing; brethren were also accused of worshiping idols, and the order was said to have encouraged homosexual practices. The Templars were charged with numerous other offences, financial corruption and fraud, and secrecy. Many of the accused confessed to these charges under torture, and these confessions, even though obtained under duress, caused a scandal in Paris. The prisoners were coerced to confess that they had spat on the Cross : “Moi Raymond de La Fère, 21 ans, reconnais que (J’ai) craché trois fois sur la Croix, mais de bouche et pas de coeur” (free translation : “I, Raymond de La Fère, 21 years old, admit that I have spat three times on the Cross, but only from my mouth and not from my heart”). The Templars were accused of idolatry and were suspected of worshipping either a figure known as Baphomet or a mummified severed head they recovered, amongst other artifacts, at their original headquarters on the Temple Mount that many scholars theorize might have been that of John the Baptist, among other things.

Relenting to Phillip’s demands, Pope Clement then issued the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae on 22 November 1307, which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. Pope Clement called for papal hearings to determine the Templars’ guilt or innocence, and once freed of the Inquisitors’ torture, many Templars recanted their confessions. Some had sufficient legal experience to defend themselves in the trials, but in 1310, having appointed the archbishop of Sens, Philippe de Marigny, to lead the investigation, Philip blocked this attempt, using the previously forced confessions to have dozens of Templars burned at the stake in Paris.

With Philip threatening military action unless the pope complied with his wishes, Pope Clement finally agreed to disband the Order, citing the public scandal that had been generated by the confessions. At the Council of Vienne in 1312, he issued a series of papal bulls, including Vox in excelso, which officially dissolved the Order, and Ad providam, which turned over most Templar assets to the Hospitallers.”  — (Wikipedia)

According to the book Alien Interview:

“A majority of the Templars fled to Switzerland where they established an international banking system (Footnote) which secretly controls the economy of Earth.”

“The Templars fled to Switzerland where they established an international banking system…”  

“Banking in Switzerland is characterized by stability, privacy and protection of clients’ assets and information. The country’s tradition of bank secrecy, which dates to the Middle Ages.  According to the CIA World Factbook, Switzerland is “a major international financial centre vulnerable to the layering and integration stages of money laundering; despite significant legislation and reporting requirements, secrecy rules persist and nonresidents are permitted to conduct business through offshore entities and various intermediaries…” — Reference: Wikipedia.org

This is VERY UNLUCKY for all the citizens of Earth!

TOMBSTONE

BEWARE OF STUPIDITY

“Stupidity cannot be cured.

Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death.

There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Ignorance is curable. Stupid is forever.”

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

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)

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE:

http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=14651

“…THEY’VE BUILT THEIR OWN PRISON…”

MY DINNER WITH ANDRE is a 1981 film starring Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, written by Gregory and Shawn, and directed by Louis Malle, depicting a conversation between Gregory and Shawn (not necessarily playing themselves) in a chic restaurant in New York City. Based mostly on conversation, the film’s dialogue covers such things as experimental theatre, the nature of theatre, and the nature of life, contrasting Shawn’s modest, down-to-earth humanism with Gregory’s extravagant spiritual experiences.

TEXT ANNOTATIONS FROM THE SEGMENT OF THE FILM ABOVE:

“I mean, things don’t affect people the way they used to.



I mean, it may very well be that 1 0 years from now…



people will pay $1 0,000 in cash to be castrated…



just in order to be affected by something.



Well, why-why do you think that is? I mean, why is that?



I mean, is it just because people are lazy today, or they’re bored?



I mean, are we just like bored, spoiled children…



who’ve just been lying in the bathtub all day…



just playing with their plastic duck…



and now they’re just thinking, ”Well, what can I do?”



Okay. Yes. We’re bored.



We’re all bored now.



But has it every occurred to you, Wally, that the process…



that creates this boredom that we see in the world now…



may very well be a self-perpetuating, unconscious form of brainwashing…



created by a world totalitarian government based on money…



and that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks…



and it’s not just a question of individual survival, Wally…



but that somebody who’s bored is asleep…



and somebody who’s asleep will not say no?



See, I keep meeting these people – I mean, uh,just a few days ago…



I met this man whom I greatly admire.



He’s a Swedish physicist. Gustav Bjornstrand.



And he told me that he no longer watches television…



he doesn’t read newspapers, and he doesn’t read magazines.



He’s completely cut them out of his life…



because he really does feel that we’re living in some kind of Orwellian nightmare now…



and that everything that you hear now contributes to turning you into a robot.



And when I was at Findhorn, I met this extraordinary English tree expert…



who had devoted his life to saving trees.



Just got back from Washington, lobbying to save the redwoods.



He’s 84 years old, and he always travels with a backpack…



’cause he never knows where he’s gonna be tomorrow.



And when I met him at Findhorn, he said to me, ”Where are you from?”



I said, ”New York.” He said, ”Ah, New York. Yes, that’s a very interesting place.



Do you know a lot of New Yorkers who keep talking about the fact that they want to leave, but never do?”



And I said, ”Oh, yes.” And he said, ”Why do you think they don’t leave?”



I gave him different banal theories. He said, ”Oh, I don’t think it’s that way at all.”



He said, ”I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp…



”where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves…



”and the inmates are the guards, and they have this pride in this thing they’ve built.



”They’ve built their own prison.



”And so they exist in a state of schizophrenia…



”where they are both guards and prisoners.



”And as a result, they no longer have – having been lobotomized -



”the capacity to leave the prison they’ve made…



or to even see it as a prison.”



And then he went into his pocket, and he took out a seed for a tree…



and he said, ”This is a pine tree.”



He put it in my hand and he said, ”Escape before it’s too late.”



See, actually, for two or three years now…



Chiquita and I have had this very unpleasant feeling that we really should get out.



We really feel like Jews in Germany in the late ’30s.



Get out of here.



Of course, the problem is where to go.



‘Cause it seems quite obvious that the whole world is going in the same direction.



See, I think it’s quite possible that the 1 960s…



represented the last burst of the human being before he was extinguished…



and that this is the beginning of the rest of the future, now…



and that from now on there’ll simply be all these robots walking around…



feeling nothing, thinking nothing.



And there’ll be nobody left almost to remind them…



that there once was a species called a human being…



with feelings and thoughts…



and that history and memory are right now being erased…



and soon nobody will really remember…



that life existed on the planet.



Now, of course, Bjornstrand feels that there’s really almost no hope…



and that we’re probably going back to a very savage…



lawless, terrifying period.



Findhorn people see it a little differently.



They’re feeling that there’ll be these pockets of light…



springing up in different parts of the world…



and that these will be, in a way, invisible planets on this planet…



and that as we, or the world, grow colder…



we can take invisible space journeys to these different planets…



refuel for what it is we need to do on the planet itself…



and come back.



And it’s their feeling that there have to be centers now…



where people can come and reconstruct a new future for the world.



And when I was talking to, uh, Gustav Bjornstrand…



he was saying that actually these centers are growing up everywhere now…



and that what they’re trying to do, which is what Findhorn was trying to do…



and, in a way, what I was trying to do -



I mean, these things can’t be given names…



but in a way, these are all attempts at creating a new kind of school…



or a new kind of monastery.



And Bjornstrand talks about the concept of”reserves” -



islands of safety where history can be remembered…



and the human being can continue to function…



in order to maintain the species through a dark age.



In other words, we’re talking about an underground…



which did exist in a different way during the Dark Ages…



among the mystical orders of the church.



And the purpose of this underground…



is to find out how to preserve the light, life, the culture…



how to keep things living.



You see, I keep thinking that what we need…



is a new language -



a language of the heart…



a language, as in the Polish forest, where language wasn’t needed.



Some kind of language between people that is a new kind of poetry…



that’s the poetry of the dancing bee that tells us where the honey is.



And I think that in order to create that language…



you’re going to have to learn how you can go through a looking glass…



into another kind of perception…



where you have that sense of being united to all things…



and suddenly you understand everything.”

YOUR BEAUTY

“SOME DAY YOU MAY BE AS OLD AS I AM.  PLEASE TAKE MY ADVICE, AND DON’T WASTE YOUR SHORT LIFE.  INVEST YOUR YOUTHFUL VITALITY IN YOUR ART. SHARE THE BEST OF YOUR SPIRIT WITH THE WORLD. YOUR BODY WILL DIE, BUT YOU CANNOT DIE. SO, DON’T WORRY ABOUT PETTY THINGS LIKE BODIES, MONEY AND POSSESSIONS. THEY PASS WITH THE BODY AND ARE MEANINGLESS. DON’T WORRY WHAT ANYONE THINKS OF YOU. DON’T SEEK APPROVAL, EXCEPT FROM YOURSELF.

YOUR ART AND IDEAS ARE SIGNS OF YOUR SPIRIT.

YOUR BEAUTY ENDURES FOREVER, AS DO YOU.”

– Lawrence R. Spencer. 2012

DEMOCRACY RE-DEFINED

FASCISM: noun: a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)

OLIGARCHY: noun: a political system governed by a few people

COSMIC CLOCK

“Time is a subject that is far from absolute. The measurement of time is the activity of monitoring the movement of matter or energy particles through space. In order to establish the passage of time, one must establish an agreed-upon reference point for beginning the period of time to be measured. Then, the increments of measurement must be uniformly consistent throughout the period of time being quantified. This set of qualifying factors, however, applies only to the Physical Universe.

Does time (as the Munchkins would say) morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably and reliably actually, really exist?

Imagine that you are completely isolated, unable to observe any physical motion whatsoever–no sun, moon and stars, night or day. If you were isolated from your own body such that you could not detect any breathing rhythm or heartbeat or cellular motion of any kind to use as a reference point, would time exist?

People who have been locked in solitary confinement, whether in a prison or in an isolation chamber, have experienced the phenomenon of “no time”.

Since many people seem to have an innate, built-in time sense, or a “biological clock”, there may be a subjective awareness of time. But, even so, time is determined by measuring some motion in the physical universe. 

How can the dates of something for which you have no starting point be measured? How can the age of our planet, our galaxy, or the entire physical universe be determined? How can the age of something which does not exist in the physical universe, such as a spirit, be calculated?

Logically, an arbitrary unit of measurement must be chosen. Then a particle or object which can move through space must exist. This particle would have to travel at a uniformly predictable rate of speed. The unit of measurement would depend on the magnitude or size of the motion of the particle relative to a fixed point in space, or a fixed point of view.

Here is a simple example: let’s imagine a theoretical COSMIC TIME CLOCK in which ONE SECOND equals ONE EARTH YEAR.

If you counted the ticks of the second hand of this cosmic clock in “normal” time increments of 24 hour days, every day, how long would it take you to measure the recent history of planet Earth?

2 years and 22 days ago would equal the end of the Dinosaur Age (75 million BC)

1 hour, 14 minutes,6 seconds ago equals 2,450 BC– Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu

53 minutes, 36 seconds ago equals 1220 BC–Moses’ Exodus from Egypt

42 minutes 39 seconds ago equals 563 BC–Buddha is born

33 minutes 16 seconds ago equals “year zero” the calendar in use throughout most of the world, sponsored by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582

8 minutes 24 seconds ago equals 1492 AD, Columbus “discovers” America

3 minutes 40 seconds ago equals 1776 AD, the United States of America is founded

One human average lifetime (70 years) equals 1 minute, 10 seconds on the Cosmic Time Clock.

Time is a relative measurement of the motion of particles in the Physical Universe. The order of magnitude of the unit of measurement may vary according to the point of view of the observer.

To venture a guess as to the age of the physical universe, based on a supposed decay of matter is another example of “scientific theory” based on assumption and personal viewpoint.

According to some authorities, mainly from the non-physical sciences, such as philosophy, there is reason to believe that the physical universe may have existed for many trillions of years or perhaps for a nearly infinite period of time. However, since time is a relative factor, it’s importance as a tool for evaluating other information is also relative.”

— Excerpt from THE OZ FACTORS, by Lawrence R. Spencer