I find that at times in your life that God is trying to tell you something that a theme comes up over and over in many different areas of your life. These things just eat away at you leaving you in a place that the only way you can appear is if your are rolled up in the fetal position, because it is pervasive and intrusive at all sides.
It's science. What is science? What is scientific? How do we allow things to enter the mainframe of the scientific landscape when science is ignored.
The whole problem came about as a result of a lawsuit out of Italy. In the lawsuit, a man claimed that his company required him to be on the phone a lot. Way more than you, me and our families combined. He sued the cell phone company for a product that caused him to get brain cancer.
He won.http://news.yahoo.com/italy-court-ruling-links-mobile-phone-tumor-151756598.html
With science, you have to deal with facts. The fact here is that there's something that we don't know about cell phones. Specifically, how dangerous they are and why.
So do the research. That's what I did. I looked and compared the cell phone to the human brain (hello tumor!). It turns out there's a direct correlation to brainwaves and the radio waves emitted by cell phones!
This is bad that on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is a teddy bear and 10 is holding a gun to your head, this is really close to a 10.
But the problem doesn't end there, you start looking at what's being put into the water supply and how the body reacts depending on the chemical.
Take this for example. Fluoride may make teeth whiter, but it also causes more cavities. Chlorine turns animal fats into a gel like substance in the blood stream and causes arthrosclerosis.
Now maybe I am getting the information wrong and that really isn't what happens, but we have these huge problems with health and obesity in america where less than 100 years ago the exact opposite problem was the norm.
So we get bombarded by people who think they have the solution and they have part of it, but not all of it. My wife was reading a "wellness" book and it had recipes for healthy vegetarian options in the back. Yes, they were vegetarian, but they were replacement recipes for meat oriented dishes. Here's the problem with any kind of substitute: chemical manipulation. We have a small idea what happens when you add a small seemingly innocuous chemical to something. It's like MSG. The stuff is supposed to make things taste better, and maybe it does. The problem with MSG is that most people can't process the stuff internally. It's a substance that takes meat that's rotten and makes it palatable. That was the original intent.
Now would you eat rotten meat without MSG? What is the benefit?
Before you run away from that, did you know that all meats (excluding fish) have to be aged (slightly rotten)? Most meats you get in the grocery are "wet" aged. You can't eat meat straight off the cow's hind end, you would literally spit it out because of how disgusting it tastes. Occasionally you will see "dry" aged meat, and that's a specialty technique usually reserved for restaurants.
I might be getting off track, but when we talk about meat substitutes, we are either talking about beans with some kind of starch binder or tofu.
Starch and all carbohydrates are basically what the body uses as fuel storage to do what it needs to do every day. When you overload on those things, you tend to put on fat. Alternatively, failure to use the body in an active manner will do the same.
Tofu falls into a category of food I call, "we don't know why we eat that". Soybeans are the main culprit here, but things like high fructose corn syrup and canola oil are in the same boat. Do your research and prepare to throw out 90% of the food in your house.
Soybeans is not a new item, because it's been a staple of chinese and japanese food products for many years. Except, the chinese know something about soy we tend to ignore. It's that soy is not good for the body unless it is fermented first. Unfermented soy actually can cause the thyroid to not function correctly. Why do we know this? In the 1920's or around that time, we didn't have soy in the public diet. We also had to irradiate over active thyroids, because they were too active. Now, we have the opposite in underactive thyroids.
The pattern of the modern day food affecting the health of America has even prompted food diets like the
paleo diet. A diet suggesting a return to a less processed form of food consumption.
This is at the heart of what science is. We have to take theories, test them and objectively tell whether the result is good or bad.
We don't do that anymore, however.
This is much more prevalent in the Paranormal/Ghost Hunting field. It's rampant and shameless as to the pervasiveness of a field that should be ever so skeptical about allowing new devices to permeate into the field.
The most pervasive of which is the cell phone.
The aspects of the cell phone fall into 3 categories:
Photography,
Videography and
ITC (instrumental trans-communication)
When it comes to photography, the cell phone uses technology that allows for a tiny little camera to be placed into the device. This means that the quality is lower and the possibility for error is increased. When it comes to scientific data gathering, the highest quality instrument should be the one used. Tiny cameras aren't exactly quality.
Which brings us to videography. Cell phones aren't able to be mounted on tripods, not without setting up some kind of bracket. Cell phones don't record in night vision either. Why we are allowing people to produce some kind of "blair witch project" style video should be decried as unacceptable. But people are doing it. They're posting the videos online in order to prop themselves up in their tremendous scientific finds.
But it's kind of like seeing a picture with orbs and saying, "you know what, most orbs are dust". So why should you look at a shaky camera video?
Maybe it has to do with the ghost hunting shows. I know it cost a little bit more money to put a camera on a shock proof rig, but when evidence is more often captured by tripod mounted DVR cameras, maybe we should take note. If the camera's moving, we can't tell if it's evidence or not, nor should we.
Finally it gets down to ITC. I know there's a lot of people that use it and I am pretty sure that NONE of them know how the thing works to do what it is doing.
There's the ghost meters. A cell phone version of the ovilus device, which is supposed to turn environmental readings into words that translate into the actual words being said by a spirit. Not many people know what combination of settings will respond into words. If they did, they would be able to record those settings separately and come up with the same or similar conclusion. How do spirits know exactly what word will be presented by the device? How come this doesn't work with people in general? How do we know it's not?
There are other applications coming out for phones that claim to perform ITC functions. In order to allow any kind of device or application to be allowed into the scientific field, it needs to have a scientific paper that explains how, why, and the results of the experimental testing.
And what about that radiation deal with the Italian lawsuit? Is nobody taking this into account? Have you put your cell phone next to your EMF meter? KII? (I use the KII Mel meter, because the response time of the KII may show a fluctuation of energy and is an indicator of a burst of energy. If anything it's an alert light to be aware of the environment.)
When it comes to ITC in general, all devices that claim some sort of ITC will have the same problem. That is: Where are the scientific papers that explains why it works? I will tell you where it is: NOWHERE. Nobody's done the scientific research explaining why it works.
The spirit box is a perfect example of ITC which isn't scientifically explained. The idea is that it is a radio that sweeps quickly through stations trying to pick up a signal and play that back as audio.
Why does it work? OR is it working? Maybe it's just picking up random radio stations? The "shack hack" version of this is tremendously bad at the radio stations because it is just all over the place.
The explanations are then imposed on the device. "They are attaching to the white noise." "They interact with the amplifier." "They bypass the antenna."
Perhaps the obvious questions are just not being asked. Which explanation is correct and why all of the different components to the radio in order to get these "spirit voices"?
I don't want to be the skeptic here, but that's what I turn into when it comes to these things. In the comic Hellblazer 19, John Constantine explained it perfectly when he said "I'm an occultist--I like to know what's going on behind the scenes."
When it comes to the paranormal field, in some way we all need to be the occultists. If we are not then we're just adventure seekers looking for the next thing since the bungee jump. We need to look at the world as a whole and understand why things work the way they do, and not because someone says that "it just is."
I feel that's the point that I need to come out from my fetal position and carry my constant banner of virtue and integrity when I say "DEMAND BETTER".
I not only demand that out of the people in the spotlight, but the people that aren't in it as well. We shouldn't accept mediocrity or lack of scientific analysis for the sake of the paranormal.
And for everyone's sake, release your scientific papers!!! Provide the scientific evidence that says the theory behind the device, what evidence you show that it does what you say it does, and allow other people the chance to peer review and replicate your findings!
That is, unless you're spineless cowards who don't know what you're doing and just trying to scam people. If I have to be the thorn in the side of these people, then that's going to have to happen. I just don't see any other way to put science into the field of the paranormal at this point, if we place science aside while allowing these things to enter the field.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Monday, November 12, 2012
Invitation vs Invocation
There are two ways of initiating a communication with spirits. While they spell just slightly different, they are the difference between the paranormal being safe and the paranormal being dangerous.
Invitation is the open and outright statement to open connection between you and a spirit. While this sounds simple and unassuming, the invitation is the open door that causes possession.
For that reason it is important to use invocation. An invocation is a statement that the a previous agreement is in effect and you are requesting that the agreement is honored.
So how do you work that into a paranormal investigation?
The main problem is in determining right and authority. In any property investigation, the rights upon the land are determined by the land owners. However, if you are on public property these rights are no longer in place. For that reason you would be only able to acquire a invocation to speak with spirit from private property.
Now in cases of occult activity, the permissions no longer apply to the current land owners. This is because the entity was more often than not placed into the location and the invocation abilities are specific.
Never ask for an invitation or invocation for spirits to speak on a public property. To do so is asking for problems, unless you're there with an exorcist, then ask that person, they probably know better than most.
How do you establish an invocation agreement? It has to be done by an "approval to communicate to the spirits at the location by the property owners". This could be a verbal communication, but it is also possible that it could just as easily be done through an approval form.
Now by doing this, the approval does not come from the spirits themselves. It's so important, because the spirit will have no right to you in the possibility of possession or influence.
In Malachi Martin's book about demonology "Hostage to the Devil", he talks about 'Perfect Possession'. In those cases, possession is ALWAYS a result of inviting the malevolent spirit.
If you've ever read up on demons and exorcism, then you would have to notice that in every exorcism case that it comes down to a revoke or rebuke of the spirit within the body. Revocation works best when you didn't do an invitation to begin with.
It's just something to think about.
Invitation is the open and outright statement to open connection between you and a spirit. While this sounds simple and unassuming, the invitation is the open door that causes possession.
For that reason it is important to use invocation. An invocation is a statement that the a previous agreement is in effect and you are requesting that the agreement is honored.
So how do you work that into a paranormal investigation?
The main problem is in determining right and authority. In any property investigation, the rights upon the land are determined by the land owners. However, if you are on public property these rights are no longer in place. For that reason you would be only able to acquire a invocation to speak with spirit from private property.
Now in cases of occult activity, the permissions no longer apply to the current land owners. This is because the entity was more often than not placed into the location and the invocation abilities are specific.
Never ask for an invitation or invocation for spirits to speak on a public property. To do so is asking for problems, unless you're there with an exorcist, then ask that person, they probably know better than most.
How do you establish an invocation agreement? It has to be done by an "approval to communicate to the spirits at the location by the property owners". This could be a verbal communication, but it is also possible that it could just as easily be done through an approval form.
Now by doing this, the approval does not come from the spirits themselves. It's so important, because the spirit will have no right to you in the possibility of possession or influence.
In Malachi Martin's book about demonology "Hostage to the Devil", he talks about 'Perfect Possession'. In those cases, possession is ALWAYS a result of inviting the malevolent spirit.
If you've ever read up on demons and exorcism, then you would have to notice that in every exorcism case that it comes down to a revoke or rebuke of the spirit within the body. Revocation works best when you didn't do an invitation to begin with.
It's just something to think about.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Perspective consciousness and the programmed.
I am reading a book where it talks about programming and brainwashing and it was talking about how everyone has been programmed. I thought that was a rather odd statement, but when it went on to detail what the programming is, it became rather clear about how we're all programmed to think in a certain way.
The way we are programmed is to be focused on our own person. We focus on our safety, our sports teams, our lifestyle, our religion and even our families and friends among many other things.
Now there's nothing really wrong with that, but the problem is that if that's our only focus, we're really not seeing the global problems that trickle down to our lives. In order to see these things, you have to move from the self to a greater existence. In other words, your thinking must go from "I" to "we", from "we" to "us" and from "us" to "all".
We are kept in those lower perspectives, pulling from "us" until it's just "I". That thinking is everywhere and is all over your tv, but if you're not looking for that, you'll never see it.
Now the quantum world has this concept that was previously talked about here, called quantum entanglement. Or as Einstein put it: spooky action at a distance. This little concept is the nuclear bomb of perception shifts. Knowing the results of quantum entanglement shows that there's no such thing as the self, as all things are mysteriously and miraculously interconnected. (See the movie "I Am" as quantum entanglement is explained perfectly)
The post about the double slit experiment also comes into play, because it talks about passive observation versus active observation. In the programming, individuals are in a passive state. Shifting from the programming requires a movement from passive to the active state in order to identify the programming.
Active state observation is another name for critical analysis. This is one of those aspects that the education system fails to work on. A fully functional student with critical analysis is one that provides ideas and logical arguments that help better explain why one thing is true while another is false.
It can't be said that things happening all around the world don't factor into our existence. It's known the entanglement exists, so those entanglements will affect everyone whether things are good OR bad. Individuals who are programmed would not see these attachments, and as a result be unable to be affected by the seemingly unrelated events. However the truth is that the individuals are affected and as a result are numbed to their effects by the programming.
Break the programming, look at the world as just one thing, then think of the solar system as one, think of the galaxy as one, and then see the universe as one... and then keep going. Seriously, keep going!
Religions have been teaching us to look at each other as part of the entanglement, but the institution of religion has built in a program that takes you away from the connections. This is an argument for another day, but look at your own faith through the critical eyes of analysis to see that the universal message is there, but it's appealing to a self-focused existence. You can't connect to your source (whatever you want to call it, most call it God) through your self. You must view the entire existence as if you were the source.
I am not asking you to become source, I am only asking you join with the source. See everything from the perspective of source.
Source might not be the best word here, but there's not one word that is going to explain it quite right.
The way we are programmed is to be focused on our own person. We focus on our safety, our sports teams, our lifestyle, our religion and even our families and friends among many other things.
Now there's nothing really wrong with that, but the problem is that if that's our only focus, we're really not seeing the global problems that trickle down to our lives. In order to see these things, you have to move from the self to a greater existence. In other words, your thinking must go from "I" to "we", from "we" to "us" and from "us" to "all".
We are kept in those lower perspectives, pulling from "us" until it's just "I". That thinking is everywhere and is all over your tv, but if you're not looking for that, you'll never see it.
Now the quantum world has this concept that was previously talked about here, called quantum entanglement. Or as Einstein put it: spooky action at a distance. This little concept is the nuclear bomb of perception shifts. Knowing the results of quantum entanglement shows that there's no such thing as the self, as all things are mysteriously and miraculously interconnected. (See the movie "I Am" as quantum entanglement is explained perfectly)
The post about the double slit experiment also comes into play, because it talks about passive observation versus active observation. In the programming, individuals are in a passive state. Shifting from the programming requires a movement from passive to the active state in order to identify the programming.
Active state observation is another name for critical analysis. This is one of those aspects that the education system fails to work on. A fully functional student with critical analysis is one that provides ideas and logical arguments that help better explain why one thing is true while another is false.
It can't be said that things happening all around the world don't factor into our existence. It's known the entanglement exists, so those entanglements will affect everyone whether things are good OR bad. Individuals who are programmed would not see these attachments, and as a result be unable to be affected by the seemingly unrelated events. However the truth is that the individuals are affected and as a result are numbed to their effects by the programming.
Break the programming, look at the world as just one thing, then think of the solar system as one, think of the galaxy as one, and then see the universe as one... and then keep going. Seriously, keep going!
Religions have been teaching us to look at each other as part of the entanglement, but the institution of religion has built in a program that takes you away from the connections. This is an argument for another day, but look at your own faith through the critical eyes of analysis to see that the universal message is there, but it's appealing to a self-focused existence. You can't connect to your source (whatever you want to call it, most call it God) through your self. You must view the entire existence as if you were the source.
I am not asking you to become source, I am only asking you join with the source. See everything from the perspective of source.
Source might not be the best word here, but there's not one word that is going to explain it quite right.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Do ghosts hang out at cemeteries or not?
Depends on who you ask.
One claim is that ghosts in cemeteries are not possible because nobody has actually died at a cemetery or lived at a cemetery. Valid point.
The other claim is that the spirit is attracted to its respective physical body. This is of course, valid as well.
So when one cemetery like Bachelor's Grove in Midlothian IL is labeled the most haunted cemetery, is it because of the connection the spirit has to the physical?
Or how can you explain it away after saying ghosts don't hang out at cemeteries?
Truth is you can't, or at least you shouldn't. Unless you've been there and can prove scientifically without any question, you can't prove either statement to be true. Or alternatively, you'll find that in a double blind case study that both conclusions are true.
This is a rather convoluted dichotomy when it comes to paranormal investigation. It really depends on which argument you're taking. Skeptic's aren't likely to prove ghosts exist while at the same time, ghost hunters aren't willing to stop and say ghosts don't exist.
The real problem with it all, is that ghosts and cemeteries are an impossible paradox of belief and science that neither comes to a definitive conclusion. In theory all locations are haunted by spirits and ghosts really don't exist.
The way to look at this, which is what I am doing with my team, is to treat it as a simple harmless fun outing. We go to a cemetery, we check it out. We try out our little gadgety things and see if anything happens.
Did we find anything? Doesn't matter!
Did we have fun? Ah, now we're getting somewhere!
Did we make any friends? I would like to hope so! This is what I think the main reason why anyone should ghost hunt a cemetery should be about.
These are public locations. We treat them with respect and they become a fabulous place to visit and hey, maybe there is a spirit there. A spirit of joy and friendship!
disclaimer: My group (zero point quantum paranormal) does not charge anyone for going to any of our outings. If we do have a charge it is that those items will be stated clearly as a part of signing up (and is usually someone else that is actually getting paid). Besides, who charges for going to a free public place anyway?
One claim is that ghosts in cemeteries are not possible because nobody has actually died at a cemetery or lived at a cemetery. Valid point.
The other claim is that the spirit is attracted to its respective physical body. This is of course, valid as well.
So when one cemetery like Bachelor's Grove in Midlothian IL is labeled the most haunted cemetery, is it because of the connection the spirit has to the physical?
Or how can you explain it away after saying ghosts don't hang out at cemeteries?
Truth is you can't, or at least you shouldn't. Unless you've been there and can prove scientifically without any question, you can't prove either statement to be true. Or alternatively, you'll find that in a double blind case study that both conclusions are true.
This is a rather convoluted dichotomy when it comes to paranormal investigation. It really depends on which argument you're taking. Skeptic's aren't likely to prove ghosts exist while at the same time, ghost hunters aren't willing to stop and say ghosts don't exist.
The real problem with it all, is that ghosts and cemeteries are an impossible paradox of belief and science that neither comes to a definitive conclusion. In theory all locations are haunted by spirits and ghosts really don't exist.
The way to look at this, which is what I am doing with my team, is to treat it as a simple harmless fun outing. We go to a cemetery, we check it out. We try out our little gadgety things and see if anything happens.
Did we find anything? Doesn't matter!
Did we have fun? Ah, now we're getting somewhere!
Did we make any friends? I would like to hope so! This is what I think the main reason why anyone should ghost hunt a cemetery should be about.
These are public locations. We treat them with respect and they become a fabulous place to visit and hey, maybe there is a spirit there. A spirit of joy and friendship!
disclaimer: My group (zero point quantum paranormal) does not charge anyone for going to any of our outings. If we do have a charge it is that those items will be stated clearly as a part of signing up (and is usually someone else that is actually getting paid). Besides, who charges for going to a free public place anyway?
So I created a paranormal group part 2.
Intent is the name of the game. What you intend to have happen is something that's set in motion.
With intent, I set upon achieving one simple little goal that should be a part of every single organization in existence.
That one goal is to make sure people are happy.
Happy's a pretty big goal. I think if you give people happiness that it in turn makes you happy just from their happiness.
I've been reading "The Children of The Law of One" by John Peniel. If you've ever studied Edgar Cayce's readings, you've probably heard about this guy.
Anyway, I am getting to the part where it talks about intent and happiness and achieving enlightenment.
The statement says basically that once you've achieved enlightenment you pretty much spend the rest of the time helping others to achieve it.
Now I KNOW I am not fully enlightened. I have frustration that meets me in some form every day. Whether it is my work, or the fact that I sense spirits who can't properly communicate me, I am frustrated.
At times I feel like Prometheus trying to steal fire from Zeus. I want to know what the little secret is, and then turn it around and give it to others.
This is not all that far from one's whose enlightened, but in some regard I would have to be happy about it all.
Sometimes I would say that I am not happy. It's not an "incredible hulk" kind of unhappy, just a "bridge is out" kind of state of upset.
I mean, what are you going to do with things out of your control? You going to let those things eat at you, or will you discard them like a facial tissue which you've blown your nose?
The intent I am trying to show here is that I set up an approach for people to work together in a rather unique system. I believe that this is completely achievable once people understand and join the system.
Maybe in some regard, I set it up, so it wasn't hinged on the fact that I started it. I've never been good at getting groups together. I tried many times to start a band out of high school and college and it just never quite worked out. So the important part to me, was just to make it possible. For the first month, I didn't even care if people even looked at the webpage or not. The vanity of the thing would make me unhappy.
We can accomplish happiness by getting rid of things that make us anything but happy or by addressing the issues that cause us to not feel happiness.
That is pretty much the only thing I have to say as a part of this entry, because to me, it literally is the most important thing.
Are you happy?
With intent, I set upon achieving one simple little goal that should be a part of every single organization in existence.
That one goal is to make sure people are happy.
Happy's a pretty big goal. I think if you give people happiness that it in turn makes you happy just from their happiness.
I've been reading "The Children of The Law of One" by John Peniel. If you've ever studied Edgar Cayce's readings, you've probably heard about this guy.
Anyway, I am getting to the part where it talks about intent and happiness and achieving enlightenment.
The statement says basically that once you've achieved enlightenment you pretty much spend the rest of the time helping others to achieve it.
Now I KNOW I am not fully enlightened. I have frustration that meets me in some form every day. Whether it is my work, or the fact that I sense spirits who can't properly communicate me, I am frustrated.
At times I feel like Prometheus trying to steal fire from Zeus. I want to know what the little secret is, and then turn it around and give it to others.
This is not all that far from one's whose enlightened, but in some regard I would have to be happy about it all.
Sometimes I would say that I am not happy. It's not an "incredible hulk" kind of unhappy, just a "bridge is out" kind of state of upset.
I mean, what are you going to do with things out of your control? You going to let those things eat at you, or will you discard them like a facial tissue which you've blown your nose?
The intent I am trying to show here is that I set up an approach for people to work together in a rather unique system. I believe that this is completely achievable once people understand and join the system.
Maybe in some regard, I set it up, so it wasn't hinged on the fact that I started it. I've never been good at getting groups together. I tried many times to start a band out of high school and college and it just never quite worked out. So the important part to me, was just to make it possible. For the first month, I didn't even care if people even looked at the webpage or not. The vanity of the thing would make me unhappy.
We can accomplish happiness by getting rid of things that make us anything but happy or by addressing the issues that cause us to not feel happiness.
That is pretty much the only thing I have to say as a part of this entry, because to me, it literally is the most important thing.
Are you happy?
Monday, May 21, 2012
So I created a paranormal group
I remember it quite clearly. I had basically walked away from a paranormal group. The demands and pressures on my time made it difficult for me to do what was asked in the time I was asked to do it in.
Plain and simple, I couldn't cut it with the team. And I am still fine with that.
However, I got into the paranormal because of questions. Questions that nagged and pulled at the chords that hang all around me in this life, making it look like some kind of puppet show that I was just merely a wooden character placed within. These questions are not to be taken lightly, and by all that is in me, they must be answered!
So a couple weeks later had passed and I was in the final stages of what I really wanted to do with life. Should I answer those questions and move forward or do an about face and try to go to stuff that I used to do, but didn't do anymore.
There's a reason why I am not doing what I used to do. Things change, seasons change, I change. This is the nature of the world. If I have learned anything is that I must always continue to move forward.
And with that in mind, I started laying the groundwork for "my" paranormal group.
Let me just say that my idea of a group is that it's a bunch of people working together. This was my biggest problem with joining any other group, because there was always someone designated as a leader, president, founder or whatever. The whole idea of which reminds me of a corporate existence that soured my work existence for the better part of a decade. The last thing I would ever want is to have a group where there was a leader who you just shouldn't cross just out of respect. You wear big enough shoes, you're invariably going to step on toes, whether you want to or not.
So I scrapped the whole idea of that. No leaders.
Next was the issue of how to pass information to and from the team. Who would be handling the money and how would the issues of money be handled. This was the biggest problem. Life I have found is not without its sense of synchronistic sense of harmony. I found that my skills as a programmer in a small company situation means that I do a whole bunch of pieces of project management from day to day. I turned the whole concept into the idea of what makes the team work with an internal computer based system. In turn I did one thing that I am pretty sure most teams are not doing.
I got rid of requirements. I do require that members support themselves and each other, but there's one driving factor that I went with. Complete transparency at ALL levels.
Then I knew that since I left a team that there would be questions. I knew that I couldn't be taking shortcuts at every stage of the process, but some of the process was laborious for little reason. For this reason I have taken the processing as a group member and literally placed it in the member's hands. The handbook is a thorough study of what one would need to get started on an investigation. I know for some groups out there that this is crazy talk, but I find that one's ability to investigate has more to do with experience than anything else.
So I got rid of the whole teaching/training scenario. It's placed in the member's hands. How fast you learn the material, determines how soon you become a full fledged team member. You could literally be an investigator in weeks not months.
Finally came the issue of evidence. In my latter days with the previous group, I found myself in greater and greater doubt about the significance or importance of the material we were getting. Countless hours were spent working on audio to try to make it sound clearer or determine what it was that was being said. To me the processing of all of it, screamed insanity. It took weeks for me to get through a night of audio, not because it was difficult, but because it just never really sounded that clear to me.
So I got rid of it. Either there's something there or there isn't. If something's in question, then we make a note and then as a group take a look at it. As investigators who aren't getting paid for the work, spending unnecessary time on something is nothing short of just plain wasting time.
To follow this up, I then had a unique idea. In that idea was itself a aspect of uniqueness. That idea was to be as unique as possible. Let's not try to hunt ghosts. Let's try to prove ghosts using as many means as possible. That means getting lots and lots of different approaches and actually getting to what ghost hunters did in the 70's and earlier: just plain old research. Let's build a scenario, create theories and then test them!
So instead of being a ghost hunter, I got rid of that idea. Let's learn how to be ghost detectors!
Finally armed with the concepts I needed, I then need a name to pull the whole thing together. Something that spoke to the nature of existence, the unexplainable aspect of the paranormal and wrap it up in a nice bow. That concept came as a result of watching movies like "what the bleep...", "thrive" and "I am". The ideas of the law of attraction, the observations of an observer affecting reality and the entanglement of the aspects of us that we can't even begin to understand.
The words were easy: Zero Point Quantum Paranormal.
Plain and simple, I couldn't cut it with the team. And I am still fine with that.
However, I got into the paranormal because of questions. Questions that nagged and pulled at the chords that hang all around me in this life, making it look like some kind of puppet show that I was just merely a wooden character placed within. These questions are not to be taken lightly, and by all that is in me, they must be answered!
So a couple weeks later had passed and I was in the final stages of what I really wanted to do with life. Should I answer those questions and move forward or do an about face and try to go to stuff that I used to do, but didn't do anymore.
There's a reason why I am not doing what I used to do. Things change, seasons change, I change. This is the nature of the world. If I have learned anything is that I must always continue to move forward.
And with that in mind, I started laying the groundwork for "my" paranormal group.
Let me just say that my idea of a group is that it's a bunch of people working together. This was my biggest problem with joining any other group, because there was always someone designated as a leader, president, founder or whatever. The whole idea of which reminds me of a corporate existence that soured my work existence for the better part of a decade. The last thing I would ever want is to have a group where there was a leader who you just shouldn't cross just out of respect. You wear big enough shoes, you're invariably going to step on toes, whether you want to or not.
So I scrapped the whole idea of that. No leaders.
Next was the issue of how to pass information to and from the team. Who would be handling the money and how would the issues of money be handled. This was the biggest problem. Life I have found is not without its sense of synchronistic sense of harmony. I found that my skills as a programmer in a small company situation means that I do a whole bunch of pieces of project management from day to day. I turned the whole concept into the idea of what makes the team work with an internal computer based system. In turn I did one thing that I am pretty sure most teams are not doing.
I got rid of requirements. I do require that members support themselves and each other, but there's one driving factor that I went with. Complete transparency at ALL levels.
Then I knew that since I left a team that there would be questions. I knew that I couldn't be taking shortcuts at every stage of the process, but some of the process was laborious for little reason. For this reason I have taken the processing as a group member and literally placed it in the member's hands. The handbook is a thorough study of what one would need to get started on an investigation. I know for some groups out there that this is crazy talk, but I find that one's ability to investigate has more to do with experience than anything else.
So I got rid of the whole teaching/training scenario. It's placed in the member's hands. How fast you learn the material, determines how soon you become a full fledged team member. You could literally be an investigator in weeks not months.
Finally came the issue of evidence. In my latter days with the previous group, I found myself in greater and greater doubt about the significance or importance of the material we were getting. Countless hours were spent working on audio to try to make it sound clearer or determine what it was that was being said. To me the processing of all of it, screamed insanity. It took weeks for me to get through a night of audio, not because it was difficult, but because it just never really sounded that clear to me.
So I got rid of it. Either there's something there or there isn't. If something's in question, then we make a note and then as a group take a look at it. As investigators who aren't getting paid for the work, spending unnecessary time on something is nothing short of just plain wasting time.
To follow this up, I then had a unique idea. In that idea was itself a aspect of uniqueness. That idea was to be as unique as possible. Let's not try to hunt ghosts. Let's try to prove ghosts using as many means as possible. That means getting lots and lots of different approaches and actually getting to what ghost hunters did in the 70's and earlier: just plain old research. Let's build a scenario, create theories and then test them!
So instead of being a ghost hunter, I got rid of that idea. Let's learn how to be ghost detectors!
Finally armed with the concepts I needed, I then need a name to pull the whole thing together. Something that spoke to the nature of existence, the unexplainable aspect of the paranormal and wrap it up in a nice bow. That concept came as a result of watching movies like "what the bleep...", "thrive" and "I am". The ideas of the law of attraction, the observations of an observer affecting reality and the entanglement of the aspects of us that we can't even begin to understand.
The words were easy: Zero Point Quantum Paranormal.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Something wrong about the double slit experiment.
I was doing some research into the quantum zero point for personal reasons.
I found a little correlation to the favorite talk of Star Trek fans, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The principle states that it's impossible to know the position or momentum of a particle within an atom. As soon as you know one aspect, the other aspect changes.
One of they ways they were able to do it was to fire photons into an atom. Any time they found a photon reflecting, it showed the location of a particle, but it had since moved. Part of the movement is because the particle is in motion, but also because the particle has been influenced by the photon.
So the issue doubled back to the classic double slit experiment, where in firing one proton at a time through a double slit that the observation causes the photon to act like a particle rather than a wave.
Yeah! They're using photons! So how are they measuring the photon? I am not exactly clear on this. At times they were using bucky balls, which are DNA sized. Supposedly it was done while using a microscope, but still how are they seeing it? What are they doing? How are they sure it's done correctly?
The problem with the conclusion of the double slit experiment is that the simple act of observation is (or isn't) what's creating the outcome.
I am going to disagree with that conclusion. The reason why I am disagreeing with the conclusion is because it makes the assumption that passive observation is sufficient. My argument is that it's not correct.
Instead, it is active observation that would influence the outcome. It's the act of firing the photon to find the particle of an atom that can affect the particle, where it is, and where it is going. In more a more philosophic approach to the concept, it is as if the belief is God isn't what defines faith, instead it's the actions of prayer and worship that make faith.
I realize that's a bastardization of who God is and whether or not God exists, but I hope it could explain that the active influences upon a system are what effects the system.
By placing some activity into a system, you change the conditions of that system. It doesn't require a lot of activity, but activity is warranted to change a system.
We live in the energetic system. It is our energy that influences the system around us. It is totally up to us whether we influence that system.
I found a little correlation to the favorite talk of Star Trek fans, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The principle states that it's impossible to know the position or momentum of a particle within an atom. As soon as you know one aspect, the other aspect changes.
One of they ways they were able to do it was to fire photons into an atom. Any time they found a photon reflecting, it showed the location of a particle, but it had since moved. Part of the movement is because the particle is in motion, but also because the particle has been influenced by the photon.
So the issue doubled back to the classic double slit experiment, where in firing one proton at a time through a double slit that the observation causes the photon to act like a particle rather than a wave.
Yeah! They're using photons! So how are they measuring the photon? I am not exactly clear on this. At times they were using bucky balls, which are DNA sized. Supposedly it was done while using a microscope, but still how are they seeing it? What are they doing? How are they sure it's done correctly?
The problem with the conclusion of the double slit experiment is that the simple act of observation is (or isn't) what's creating the outcome.
I am going to disagree with that conclusion. The reason why I am disagreeing with the conclusion is because it makes the assumption that passive observation is sufficient. My argument is that it's not correct.
Instead, it is active observation that would influence the outcome. It's the act of firing the photon to find the particle of an atom that can affect the particle, where it is, and where it is going. In more a more philosophic approach to the concept, it is as if the belief is God isn't what defines faith, instead it's the actions of prayer and worship that make faith.
I realize that's a bastardization of who God is and whether or not God exists, but I hope it could explain that the active influences upon a system are what effects the system.
By placing some activity into a system, you change the conditions of that system. It doesn't require a lot of activity, but activity is warranted to change a system.
We live in the energetic system. It is our energy that influences the system around us. It is totally up to us whether we influence that system.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
I solemnly swear I am up to something.
A couple of weeks ago, I departed ways with the paranormal group I was associated with. It was something that was a long time coming (I can trace it all the way back in July or maybe earlier, as that is when it all started to go wrong).
I don't care to talk about it, because it would cause the conversation to fall into that one thing I really hate: politics. Usually someone maintains they are right while everything else is wrong. God forbid someone disagrees.
It's an exercise on letting go and moving on. So I have. It's also a lesson about being a radiant soul.
...And that is the most important part of it.
In the past couple of weeks, I wouldn't say I've been busy, but I have been deep in thought. Thinking about my motivations and interests and what worked in regards to what I did with the paranormal team and what didn't.
I kept a mental list of it all and weighed it against one simple little question: Am I happy?
It's a totally valid question. I think most people forget to ask themselves that, let alone ask others.
In my little crusade within myself, the problem with unhappiness ends up with finding one's self wrapped and mired in controlling what is truly not to be constrained. I am totally guilty of doing that myself. The feeling of obligation and indebtedness gets in the way of feeling free of these constrains that bind us and buries us well into the ground.
If our souls are to become radiant they must do so in our own way. You can't follow someone's guidance on it, it must be found through exploration and discovery. The best you can do is be a mentor. Be the reliable resource that's always there when it is needed. But when the resource isn't needed, all a mentor needs to do is watch. Watch and take joy in the progress that you'll witness. Learn the lesson of the grass. Doesn't really take much for it to grow, but it does require a little intervention here and there to keep it from getting out of control.
If anything, that's vaguely what I am up to. I'm not saying anything more. There is just so much for me to discover and explore on my own as it is.
And please try to be happy today. That's all I ask.
I don't care to talk about it, because it would cause the conversation to fall into that one thing I really hate: politics. Usually someone maintains they are right while everything else is wrong. God forbid someone disagrees.
It's an exercise on letting go and moving on. So I have. It's also a lesson about being a radiant soul.
...And that is the most important part of it.
In the past couple of weeks, I wouldn't say I've been busy, but I have been deep in thought. Thinking about my motivations and interests and what worked in regards to what I did with the paranormal team and what didn't.
I kept a mental list of it all and weighed it against one simple little question: Am I happy?
It's a totally valid question. I think most people forget to ask themselves that, let alone ask others.
In my little crusade within myself, the problem with unhappiness ends up with finding one's self wrapped and mired in controlling what is truly not to be constrained. I am totally guilty of doing that myself. The feeling of obligation and indebtedness gets in the way of feeling free of these constrains that bind us and buries us well into the ground.
If our souls are to become radiant they must do so in our own way. You can't follow someone's guidance on it, it must be found through exploration and discovery. The best you can do is be a mentor. Be the reliable resource that's always there when it is needed. But when the resource isn't needed, all a mentor needs to do is watch. Watch and take joy in the progress that you'll witness. Learn the lesson of the grass. Doesn't really take much for it to grow, but it does require a little intervention here and there to keep it from getting out of control.
If anything, that's vaguely what I am up to. I'm not saying anything more. There is just so much for me to discover and explore on my own as it is.
And please try to be happy today. That's all I ask.
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