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Humans Work / Play / Think /
Predict Better As A Group
more sooperpositive news..
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Dicaprio
Keen To Show In Biopic What “Guru”
Leary
Meant To Him
more sooperpositive news...
p.10
Marrying
Green Politics With
Social
Justice
it could be in the can for
Labour!
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The
Trauma
Of The
Great
Mother -
Do these simple things each day &
know you’re contributing to a world of greater good
more sooperpositive news..
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Can This Box In A Dusty Library See Into the
Future
?
Well, though at first glance it’s an unremarkable piece of equipment, a
metal box containing a microchip no more complex than those in a standard
pocket calculator, it has quite
extraordinary powers - according to a
growing band of top scientists.
For it is, these
scientists
claim, the Eye of a machine that
can peer into the future and predict major world events.
Apparently it sensed the 9/11 attacks
4 hours before they happened.
(claims which were swiftly dumped on by
sceptics in the fevered mood of conspiracy theories of the
time).
But last December, it also appeared to
forewarn of the Asian Tsunami just
before the deep sea earthquake that precipitated the epic
tragedy. Now, even the doubters are
acknowledging that here is a small box with
apparently inexplicable
powers.
'It's Earth-shattering stuff,' says Dr
Roger Nelson, emeritus researcher at
Princeton
University in the United States, who is
heading the research project behind the 'black box' phenomenon.
'We're very early on in the process of
trying to figure out what's going on here. At the moment we're
stabbing in the dark.' Dr Nelson's
investigations, called the Global
Consciousness Project, were originally
hosted by Princeton
University and are centred on one of the
most extraordinary experiments of all time. Its aim?
To detect whether all of humanity
shares a single subconscious mind we can all tap into without
realising.
And machines like the Edinburgh black box have thrown up a tantalising
possibility: that scientists may have unwittingly discovered
a way of predicting the
future. Although many would consider
the project's aims to be little more than fools' gold, it has still
attracted a roster of 75 respected
scientists from
41 different
nations. Researchers from
Princeton -
where Einstein
spent much of his career - work alongside scientists from universities in
Britain, the
Netherlands,
Switzerland and
Germany.
The project is also the most rigorous and longest-running investigation
ever into the potential powers of the paranormal.
'Very often paranormal phenomena
evaporate if you study them for long enough,'
says physicist Dick Bierman of the
University of
Amsterdam.
'But this is not happening with the
Global Consciousness Project. The effect is real. The only
dispute is about what it means.'
>> i can vouch for this. when i
was studying psychology at Glasgow University in the first half of the
‘60s, it was a subject of jokes among all the staff.
Intrigued by such things as
telepathy,
telekinesis - the supposed psychic power to
move objects without the use of physical force - and
extrasensory
perception, he was determined to study the
phenomena using the most up-to-date
technology available.
One of these new technologies was a humble-looking black box known as a
Random Event Generator
(REG). This used computer technology
to generate two numbers - a one and a zero - in a
totally random
sequence, rather like an electronic
coin-flipper.
The pattern of ones and noughts -
'heads' and
'tails' as it
were - could then be printed out as a graph. The laws of chance
dictate that the generators should churn out equal numbers of ones and
zeros - which would be represented by a nearly flat line on the
graph. Any deviation from this equal number shows up as a gently
rising curve.
During the late 1970s, Prof Jahn decided to investigate whether the power
of human thought alone could interfere in some way with the machine's
usual readings. He hauled strangers off the street and asked them
to concentrate their minds on his number generator. In effect, he
was asking them to try to make it flip more heads than tails.
It was a preposterous idea at the
time. The results, however, were
stunning and have never been satisfactorily explained.
Entirely ordinary people, again and again, proved that their
minds could influence the
machine and produce significant fluctuations
on the graph, 'forcing
it' to produce unequal numbers of
'heads' or 'tails'. According to all of the known laws of science,
this should not have happened
- but it
did. And it kept on happening.
Dr Nelson, also working at Princeton
University, then extended Prof Jahn's work
by taking random number machines to group
meditations, which were very popular in
America at the time. Again, the results were eye-popping. The
groups were collectively able to cause
dramatic
shifts in the patterns of numbers.
From then on, Dr Nelson was hooked.
Using the internet, he connected up 40
random event generators from all over the
world to his laboratory computer in Princeton. These ran
constantly, day in day out, generating millions of different pieces of
data. Most of the time, the resulting graph on his computer looked
more or less like a flat line.
But then on September 6,
1997, something quite extraordinary
happened: the graph shot upwards, recording a sudden and massive shift in
the number sequence as his machines around the world started reporting
huge deviations from the norm. The day was of historic importance
for another reason. It was the day when an estimated
one billion
people around the world watched the funeral
of Diana, Princess of
Wales at
Westminster Abbey. Dr Nelson was convinced that the two events must
be related in some way.
Could he have detected a totally new phenomenon? Could
the concentrated emotional outpouring
of millions of people
be able to influence the output of his
REGs. If
so, how? Dr Nelson was at a loss to explain it.
So, in 1998, he gathered together scientists from all over the world to
analyse his findings. They, too, were stumped and resolved to
extend and deepen the work of Prof Jahn and Dr Nelson.
The Global Consciousness
Project was born.
And the results have been startling and inexplicable in equal
measure. For during the course of the experiment, the
Eggs have
'sensed'
a whole series of major world events as they were happening, from the
Nato bombing of Yugoslavia to the Kursk submarine tragedy to America's
hung election of 2000. The
Eggs also
regularly detect huge global
celebrations, such as
New Year's Eve.
But the project threw up its greatest enigma
on September 11, 2001.
As the world stood still and watched the
horror of the terrorist attacks unfold across New York, something strange
was happening to the Eggs.
Not only had they registered the attacks as they actually happened, but
the characteristic shift in the pattern of numbers had begun 4 hours
before the two planes even hit the Twin Towers.
They had, it appeared, detected that an event of historic importance was
about to take place before the terrorists had even boarded their fateful
flights. The implications, not least for the West's security
services that constantly monitor electronic
'chatter', are
clearly enormous. 'I knew then that
we had a great deal of work ahead of
us,' says Dr Nelson. What could be
happening? Was it a freak occurrence, perhaps? Apparently
not. For in the closing weeks of December last year, the
machines went wild once more.
24 hours later, an earthquake deep beneath the Indian Ocean triggered the
tsunami which
devastated South-East Asia, and claimed the lives of an estimated quarter
of a million people. So could the
Global Consciousness
Project really be forecasting the
future? Cynics will quite rightly point out that there is always
some global event that could be used to 'explain' the times when
the Egg machines behaved erratically. After all, our world is full
of wars, disasters and terrorist outrages, as well as the occasional
global celebration. Are the scientists simply trying too hard to
detect patterns in their raw data?
The team behind the project insist not. They claim that by
using rigorous scientific techniques and powerful mathematics it is
possible to exclude any such random connections.
'We're perfectly willing to discover that
we've made mistakes,' says Dr
Nelson. 'But we haven't been able
to find any, and neither has anyone else. Our data shows clearly
that the chances of getting these results by fluke are
one million to one
against. That's hugely
significant.'
The Possibility Of Foreseeing The Future
>> viz “future memories” in
megatripolis@forever!
'There's plenty of evidence that time may
run backwards,' says Prof Bierman at the
University of Amsterdam. 'And if
it's possible for it to happen in physics, then it can happen in our
minds, too.' In other words, Prof
Bierman believes we are all capable of looking into the future, if only
we could tap into the hidden power of our minds. And there’s a
tantalising body of evidence to support this theory.
Dr John Hartwell, working at the University
of Utrecht in the Netherlands, was the first
to uncover evidence that people could sense
the future. In the mid-1970s he hooked
people up to hospital scanning machines to study their brainwave
patterns. He began by showing them a sequence of provocative
cartoon drawings. When the pictures were shown, the machines
registered the subject's brainwaves as they reacted strongly to the
images before them. This was to be expected.
Far less easy to explain was the fact that, in many cases, these dramatic
patterns began to register a few
seconds before each of the pictures was even
flashed up. It was as though Dr Hartwell's case studies were
somehow seeing into the future, and detecting when the next shocking
image would be shown next. It
was extraordinary - and seemingly inexplicable.
But it was to be another 15 years before
anyone else took Dr Hartwell's work further. Then researcher Dean
Radin connected people up to a machine that measured their skin's
resistance to electricity. This is known to fluctuate in tandem
with our moods - indeed, it's this principle that underlies many
lie detectors.
He repeated Dr Hartwell's
'image
response' experiments while measuring
skin resistance. Again, people began reacting a few seconds before
they were shown the provocative pictures. This was clearly
impossible, or so he thought, so he kept on repeating the
experiments. And he kept
getting the same results.
'I didn't believe it
either,' says Prof Bierman.
'So I repeated the experiment myself and
got the same results. I was shocked. After this I started to
think more deeply about the nature of time.'
To make matters even more intriguing,
Prof Bierman says that other mainstream labs have now produced similar
results but are yet to go public.
'They don't want to be ridiculed so they
won't release their findings,' he
says. 'So I'm trying to persuade
all of them to release their results at the same time. That would at
least spread the ridicule a little more
thinly!' If Prof Bierman is right,
though, then the experiments are no laughing matter.
They might help provide a solid scientific grounding for such strange
phenomena as 'deja vu',
intuition and a host of other curiosities
that we have all experienced from time to time.
They may also open up a far more interesting possibility - that one day
we might be able to enhance psychic powers using machines that can
'tune
in' to our subconscious mind, machines
like the little black box in Edinburgh. Just as we have built
mechanical engines to replace muscle power, could we one day build a
device to enhance and interpret our hidden psychic abilities?
Dr Nelson is optimistic - but not for the short
term. 'Put it this way - we haven't
yet got a machine we could sell to the CIA. We may be able to
predict a major world event is going to happen, but we won't know exactly
what will happen or where.'
But for Dr Nelson, talk of such psychic
machines - with the potential to detect global catastrophes or terrorist
outrages - is of far less importance than the implications of his work
in terms of the human race.
For what his experiments appear to
demonstrate is that, while we may all operate as individuals, we
also appear to share something far, far greater -
a global
consciousness. Some might call it
the mind of God.
>> i’ve been calling it GroupMind
since early rave days. it can happen locally, in bed with someone,
in a lounge, in a club, or on a planetary scale.
'Society drives us to separate
ourselves from each other, to be individualistic
monsters,' he says.
”But that's not right, and we may
be connected together far more intimately than we realise.'
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
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[Daily Telegraph Dec. 13,
2006]
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mechanical devices which increase sexualarousal, particularly in women.
Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz380SL." Lynn
Lavner.
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"Women say they feel
more comfortable undressing in front of men than in front of
otherwomen. They say women are too judgmental, where, of course,
men arejust grateful." Robert De Niro
and, staying on the good news
front.... [by which i mean
science catching up (slowly) on what our pronoid hearts suspected all
along :]
Humans Work / Play / Think / Predict
Better As A Group
business columnist for The New Yorker. [Little,
Brown, £16.99]
So? Well, then he realised that the average of those 800
judgements had come within one pound of the actuality!
“Under the right circumstances,
groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the
smartest individuals within them” argues
Surowiecki.
Groups have been employed to find lost submarines, correct the betting
spread on sporting events, even predict the president of the US.
But
groupmind
has, of course, been given a very bad press since society was taken over
by the warlords (say 4000 years ago?). We only tend to hear it
exists in terms of lynch mobs, riots, financial panics and, at
very best, fashion styles.
“Experts
”, you see, the smartest individuals employed by the ruling elites
(unless they drop out) are continuously pushed on us. Consultants
demand £200 a second while execs rake in obscene salaries to rescue
sinking giants. Surowieicki even says:
“To accept that the masses might know
something would mean radically altering how our society
operates”. Well, precisely. Did
anyone ever imagine it could happen any other way?
The US, for example, blundered into the
Bay of
Pigs invasion in 1961 because the
decision-making group all shared similar assumptions and lacked
diversity. Bush’s war seems even more myopic and
centralised.
The studio audience on Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire guessed the right answers
90% of the time while chosen advisers only managed 65%.
What’s happening is the human race (and possibly all creation) is moving
towards a
groupmind
method of administering (or playing with) itself. The only real
argument, imho, is whether we’re talking 50 years or 5,000. But you
already know this in your bones - even if your emotionally traumatised
intellect fights it off. Look forward expectantly, as you reach for
another xmas pie, to increasing amounts of such breakthroughs to reassure
you through this new year:)
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After examining pristine particles of a comet brought back by the
Stardust
, scientists reported Thursday that they may contain
“material shot from the heart of
the solar system during its tumultuous birth.”
UP! "Women might
be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole
relationship." Sharon Stone.
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What “Guru”
Leary
Meant To Him
Now he wants to show the world how special
Leary, who
officiated the marriage of the actor's father and stepmother 12 years
ago, was in a new movie. He tells
GQ
magazine, "He was a genius. He
was like a prophet. Everyone would go up on the hill to be with
Timothy. You'd get your sacred couple of hours and hang out with
him and talk about the
future.
He was really into what the
future would
bring and felt intrinsically a part of the
future, even in
his later days, when he knew he was passing. He looked at death
like he was passing into a different dimension, not that he was
dying. It was pretty fascinating to see a man in his last days like
that."
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/dicaprio%20keen%20to%20show%20what%20guru%20leary%20meant%20to%20him%20in%20biopic_1015473
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"My mother never saw
the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." Jack
Nicholson.
Technologies collectively known as
concentrating
photovoltaics
are starting to enjoy their day in the sun, thanks to advances in solar
cells, which absorb light and convert it into electricity, and the
mirror- or lens-based concentrator systems that focus light on
them. The technology could soon make solar power as cheap as
electricity from
the grid.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=6078&m=5435
UP! "There's
very little advice in men's magazines because men think: 'I know what I'm
doing. Just show me somebody naked!" Jerry
Seinfeld.
PRAM
(Phase-Change
Random Access Memory),
Printed Solar
Panels,
Body Area
Network,
VoN
(Video on the
Net),
Data
Cloud.
[Popular Mechanics January 2007]
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With
Social
Justice
David Cameron has done well by
stealing green iconography to repaint the image of his party. His
Vote
Blue
, Go
Green
message and fuzzy oak tree do have
green roots in conservative tradition - their green-welly rural
heritage. He challenges Labour to introduce tough annual targets
for CO2 emissions, pledging to cut some taxes and
increase green
tax.
The Lib Dems, with a far stronger, well-worked-out regime, also offer
green energy
taxes as the answer.
Both parties now look greener than Labour -
but
Labour may be about to trounce them both.
Labour have led the way in
pushing the EU to toughen its carbon-trading regime and engaged with
India and China on new technologies, yes, but attracting attention for
what matters can be hard: this week Douglas Alexander made a
resoundingly important environmental announcement on
re-regulating buses -
but it
went hardly reported.
>> one reason am bringing this
thinking to
UP!
readers is because the time might be coming to start paying attention to
the national political game again. perhaps politics is cleaning
itself up and radical new concepts are breaking through.
Buses, used in 2 out of 3
public-transport journeys, never interest well-paid newsrooms that don't
use them; they prefer endless stories on the £5 charge on air
tickets. It is 20 years since Margaret Thatcher disastrously
deregulated buses. Now Alexander is
giving
councils the power to control them
again. It should end the
bus wars on popular routes and bus deserts on other routes. There
will be a virtuous trade-off: councils can apply for cash for new buses
from the transport department, but only if they bring in road
pricing. This should start
a great environmental
push to get people out of cars
and on to new and better buses.
So here a major
left-right divide may open up
if Tory councils refuse to trade buses for congestion charging, while
Labour and Lib Dem councils seize the day, exposing the thin reality of
Cameron's green claims.
But so far Labour is losing the green battle. Blair and Brown have
failed to make this their number-one hot-button domestic political issue,
still haunted by fuel-protester phobia, uncertain how to get a political
grip.
The younger generation of New Labour - Miliband and Alexander
- are leading the way.
Last night, in a remarkably radical speech to the Fabians,
David Miliband showed how to capture the
green flag for Labour. He
planted a
red/green
standard that the
blue/green
Tories can never match.
>> yankees read
red for
blue. everywhere
on the planet red
is for left/socialist/liberal and
blue is for right wing
conservative. i smell a scam that your country switches
them.
Here at last was the environment turned into
progressive politics, no longer outside the political
bloodstream but at the heart of the
matter. Here is clear green water between left and
right, as Miliband brings progressive ideology into the argument.
He makes it as clear as day why the
Conservatives could never cope with global warming, but Labour
can. He lays out the intellectual framework for Labour's
capture of green politics, with the practical policies to prove
it.
A reversal of climate change needs strong action by the state at home and
abroad, especially in the EU; Tory shrink-the-state Euroscepticism can't
do that. It needs an admission that the damaged environment is
a market failure;
the Tories can't admit that.
Simply taxing energy is wickedly regressive,
harming the less well off without
changing the habits of the rich; the Tories and the Lib Dems
both choose energy taxation, despite its social
injustice. People will never vote to live in yurts in the woods,
but they will vote for restraint and the most realistic chance of
clean growth. International carbon trading is the only hope,
harnessing the power of markets to find clean technology.
But Miliband's progressive radicalism comes in his plan for
personal carbon allowances.
Here is where social justice meets green politics for the
first time. Give every
citizen the same quota of energy and let them buy and sell it on the open
market.
The half of the population who don't fly will make money from selling
their quota to the half who do. Drive a gas-guzzler and you will
have to buy a quota from the third of the population with no access to a
car. Who could complain about such
transparent fairness?
Nor is it difficult to do: swiping a quota card to pay gas and
electricity bills or buying petrol is a simpler transaction than a
hypermarket’s complex information on their loyalty card. In
wartime, ration books were produced quickly for all, covering almost
everything bought and sold, involving every little corner shop.
(Could paper ration books be easier than trying to computerise it
all?)
Why is this a quintessentially Labour policy that the Tories would never
copy? Because it in effect
redistributes money from the rich to the poor, from the frequent flyers
to never-flyers, with a parallel currency.
There are high hopes that this could be in the manifesto for the next
election, ready to begin soon after.
Is it politically
saleable? It would begin at a moderate level. The
current price of carbon for an average person's consumption is only £100
- not much incentive. But the price will have risen by then and the
quota would be tightened each year to hit Miliband's 30% carbon cut by
2020. The tighter the quota, the
more marketable
become the new clean technologies.
I suspect it will be hugely
popular, a national game engaging even teenagers in
quota-conservation
wheezes. It tickles
parts of the psyche that like to trade and bargain. Wear vests and
save heating to sell some quota? But when to sell? Will the
price rise or fall at the end of the year as everyone sells their
excess? Will it rise in the summer as people buy quota for flying,
or in the winter when it's cold? Imagine how keenly fluctuations in
carbon-quota price will be followed as people decide when to buy or
sell.
Here's the big question: what does Gordon Brown think? He met
Miliband this week and the word is that he greeted
the concept warmly. There are good reasons why Brown
has been reluctant until now to "prove" his credentials by
making gestures with green taxes on petrol, when they only hit poorer
drivers without a strong effect on petrol use.
But Miliband's plan is the blend of fairness
and
environmentalism
that Labour needs.
polly.toynbee@guardian.co.uk
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The Earth has always endured the pollution, turmoil, & hatred that mankind creates upon her surface & has survived. But recent events have compounded the difficulties that She faces from mankind. She has had to endure the unleashing of a terrible power that men initially harnessed to destroy each other - atomic & nuclear forces that have literally rocked the nature of this planet on her axis.
This set in motion chain reactions that we cannot even begin to imagine. Mother Earth had assumed She would never have to endure such attack again because mankind would have learned. But now the Koreans have triggered a shock wave that’s spread across 2/3's of her body, like a huge bruise across the energetic tissue of her surface. Reprisals will occur, for nobody can send out anger or destruction and not expect a response... UNLESS - mankind acts swiftly and sends out a pulse of love, light, & healing.
Mankind must extend its collective arms around the Mother & embrace Her with their love to reassure Her that this is not an act of war but rather an act of foolishness by a dictator who is showing arrogance & madness. Mankind must give the Earth what it most desires at this moment .... Love, Reassurance & Peace.
How To Send Thoughts Of Harmony Into The Atmosphere To Stave Off Potentially Very Dangerous Times
Mankind all too readily forgets the great power they have in their thoughts & in their will to marshal change in their reality if they so choose.
Two daily 5 minute gestures would have great power to help at this moment:
For the Earth:
During the day, whenever you find yourself outside & close to the ground, or close to trees, bushes or plants, place your hands on the ground near the roots & impart the thought “Mother we love you”. It only takes a moment for your thought to pass through your hands & through the roots, trunk or grass & down into the soil to the heart of the Mother.
Imagine 1,000….. 10,000….. 100,000 whispering voices falling like leaves down into the darkness of the soil to where the Mother rests. Whose heart would not be warmed by such simple earnest thoughts?
Simple acts bring healing. Let then these simple acts be abundant.
For World Leaders:
Light a candle in the morning or evening, and as you gaze at the flame, let your thoughts reach out to the world around you. As you breathe, draw power from the light that burns at the very centre of your heart, the light from your Soul, your Divine, Higher Consciousness. Then, as you speak, let your words be filled with light that enables them to float out into the ethers, carried by the wings of your intent to those who need to hear them.
Speak simple, soft words -Peace, Harmony, Love, Gentleness, Co-operation, Joy, Unity - words that will encourage the hardened minds & hearts of those who wield physical power to ease their struggle; to let go of the tight rein of their egos, to become aware of the balance of power they play with; to step back & take the hands extended by those other nations that are as frightened as they are, so they can form a unification strong enough to prevent things occurring through the force of its joint pressure, rather than via the power that it wields.
Do these simple things each day & know you are contributing to a greater world of good.
UP! "The problem is God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time." Robin Williams
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-fisk081206.htm
The Roman Empire is falling. That, in a phrase, is what the Baker report says. The legions cannot impose their rule on Mesopotamia.
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121806J.shtml
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To Be Beneficial
Raves first became popular in the mid 80’s, and reached their peak in the 90’s. MDMA brings about intense feelings of euphoria and energy that allows partiers to dance for several hours and share in an experience with others around them.
Most studies condemning the drug are considered controversial. Sometimes they are found to be false, as in the case reported by Rick Weiss of the Washington Post. In 2003, scientists from the John Hopkins University retracted their research, which supposedly showed that MDMA caused irreversible brain damage after just one night of use. Their reasoning behind the retraction was that the drug used had not been MDMA at all!
The FDA gave the go ahead for research to be done in 2004. Studies have since shown that the drug helps to alleviate the anxiety that cancer patients suffer through in their last days. The lessening of anxiety makes it easier for patients to deal with their pain, and the euphoric effects that make MDMA such a popular recreational drug also ease depression. MDMA is proving to be helpful for sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder, because it allows the patients to open up to their therapists and make them feel more comfortable in dealing with their disorder.
http://www.bloggernews.net/1787
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Are You Hungry For Subversion ? REVIEW
Rare and brave is a person who has the insight to explain the inexplicable and to demystify the mystical, both of which together constitute the psychedelic universe. As we discover time and time again, words are perhaps the least adequate of available tools to explain those intangible, ineffable experiences. While not expressly aiming to achieve such lofty ambitions, Thomas B. Roberts nonetheless skilfully casts a rich and textured light on the subject in his new release, Psychedelic Horizons.
FULL REVIEW:
http://www.undergrowth.org/psychedelic_horizons_review
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Long Goodbye = Long Hello FEEDBACK
Thank you for broadening my perspective and reminding me that hope is not necessarily foolish.
Harry the Dead Poet, New Zealand.
>> as i hope this issue has demonstrated it’s not really a question of ‘hope’ :) and it certainly wouldn’t be foolish if it was cos the facts are emerging more and more clearly now always struggling towards the future and against the back-pull of History. be careful which way you’re looking!
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Polonium FEEDBACK
For years we've been told by the governments of America, Britain, and the other NATO countries that have used depleted uranium weapons in massive quantities in Iraq and Serbia that the radioactive dust which these weapons spread over entire landscapes is safe.
When these weapons strike their target their depleted uranium tips are blown into tiny fragments dust particles that cover the area. The Government has repeatedly claimed that the alpha radiation given off by this dust is no danger to the local populations of the Balkans and Iraq where plenty of these weapons have been fired.
The radioactive dust is only toxic we are told if it is taken into the body... we are not told what happens to people who eat vegetables that may have been growing anywhere the wind scattered the depleted uranium dust, nor to children who may get the dust on their fingers and then put the fingers in their mouths.
It's a little odd then that Polonium has now become such a dangerous toxic poison while the radioactive dust from depleted uranium weapons has not. Perhaps ex-KGB agents with links to some very dodgy characters are more susceptible to alpha radiation then an Iraqi child?
I'm also sure that it's no more than a convenient coincidence that the medical records of the Iraqi civilians who fell victim to this dust after the first Gulf War were amongst the first to be destroyed in the looting that followed our victory in 2003.
Worried? Next time you travel by plane you might give a passing thought to the depleted uranium that used to be used as trim weights in many civilian aircraft - a 747 could contain between a tonne to a tonne and a half stowed in the hold.
Jon Evans - uranian.willy@virgin.net
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