Jigsaw Falling Into Place

This is only my 100th post since i started this weblog in 2007. That's an average of 20 posts a year, or less than two post a month. Either i don't have much to say or i am not very good at putting thoughts into words.

I had pondered long on what to write for this particular post. Finally, it hits me. Why not write about the situation that humanity is facing today. Yes, that will be a good topic to write about.

So, here goes:

(1) Intelligence: (a) the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : reason; also : the skilled use of reason; (b) : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests)

(2) Conscience: the sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good

(3) Wisdom: (a) characterized by wisdom : marked by deep understanding, keen discernment, and a capacity for sound judgment; (b) exercising or showing sound judgment.

Wisdom is intelligence informed by conscience.

There are only two types of people in this world, namely:

(1) People with a conscience.

(2) People without a conscience.

Only the first type of people could gain wisdom, if they worked at it.

The second type of people do not and will not have any wisdom. Now, if only more people will see humanity in this way.

No, we can't choose which type we are while we are already born into this world. Either a person has it or they don't.

The first group- people with conscience- do not follow anyone. They follow only their conscience.

But there's another social phenomena that the second type of people, those with power, creates. Followers of their psychopathic traits and personality. Authoritarian Followers may have a conscience but they need to find it in themselves. And no other person can help them on this.

Albert Einstein once said, "a foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth." No where is this statement more true today when society has been enmeshed in a big matrix of lies that surrounds us everywhere..

We elect the worst among ourselves because we want to deny the painful truth, we like to not get involve or god forbids be accountable for our actions, we love the comfort that life seems to provide in our insulated existence.

And who is to blame for this? Yes, the person who stares at me every time i looked into the mirror.

In short, we don't much like responsibility and so in our collective irresponsibility the world has become as it is today.

Electing someone else to solve my problems is only an excuse to avoid solving them myself. It is just an excuse to avoid facing myself. If every one can acknowledge the truth of this, then perhaps the world will become a better place to lived in.

But there is a problem. The world has become as it is today because we do not understand this truth. The time is getting late to change this. Maybe it is even too late to change anything now.

Perhaps we are born into a certain age to learn certain lessons.

Perhaps we are born into this age to learn about baser pleasures, greed, and the accompanying pain that must come from them.

A buddhist teaching i used to follow mentioned this is the age of the "Latter Day of the Law". Reading Silber's account of man's inhumanity to another human is heart-rending, to say the least.

To know that these cruelties do happened and they happened in other parts of the world does not me feel better that it doesn't happen here. The totality of this human tragedy could never be grasped by you and me who are not suffering the pain of this existence.

It could have easily happen here but for some twist of fate. It is just that this country does not have the kind of resources that is coveted by the aggressors. Or it is easily a little luck that played a role in where i am born.

Yes, for those of us who are not part of the elite, just ordinary, decent people, we have to live our lives in an almost constant state of desperation.

What we called 'good times' is when we are not trampled underfoot by the boot of injustice, war and poverty in our little corner of the world. Other people's suffering are not a concern of you and me. They are just having a bad day perhaps.

We have lost our respect for the natural law of the universe and instead follow man-made laws that are not only unjust but barbaric.

Truth is going to catch up with us sooner than we think. But have we prepare ourselves for it? More importantly, have we prepare our next generation for it?

i am no wise man. But how could anyone be in a world that has gone mad and not question this madness?

The day will never come when we ask ourselves "why the fuck are we even here today?"

So be it.

With Me You Will Stay

You come from far away
With pictures in your eyes
Of coffeeshops and morning streets
In the blue and silent sunrise
But night is the cathedral
Where we recognized the sign
We strangers know each other now
As part of the whole design

A Revisionist View of History

There is no change for the better until people can see what is wrong with the world. Until people can see that this is not "normal". As long as they think this is how things should be, they will remain. Things are as it is now because we let them be for the longest time. And they will remain, and be repeated in cycles, as time washes away the fickle memories of the ignorant and apathetic.

The World As I See It

One of his most beloved essay. A simple, elegantly written piece on the value of being human.

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people - first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving..."

Ghosts, Hauntings, Water and a Possible Scientific Explanation

As we have already noted, if the infrastructure of our civilization were to be destroyed, then if a person a hundred years later tried to explain the theory of radio and television, people would find it impossible to comprehend. It would sound like magic.

Where does the power to work a pendulum come from? Lethbridge thought that it might be something invisible and intangible, a part of us, which knows far more than we do. Is it mind or soul? Some sort of electromagnetic or psyche field? Something linked to a higher dimension? He agonized over this and admitted he wasn’t wise enough to come to any definite conclusion, apart from the thought that ancient man knew far more about it than we do today. 

Although, Lethbridge did a huge amount of experimental work in the field of dowsing, and his results deserve  attention  from any serious student of the deeper realities of our world, what we are interested in here is his work in another, though related, direction. 

In 1957, Lethbridge left Cambridge in disgust at the narrow-minded attitudes of the scholars there. He moved into Hole House, an old Tudor mansion on the south coast of Devon. Next door to him lived a little old white-haired lady who assured Lethbridge that she could put spells on people who annoyed her and that she was able to travel out of her body at night and wander around the district. She explained that if she wanted to discourage unwanted visitors, she had only to visualize a five-pointed star in the path of the individual and they would stay away. Lethbridge, of course, was skeptical. 

But, being an experimenter, Lethbridge was trying the visualization one evening while lying in bed. That night, his wife awakened with the  feeling that somebody else was in the room. She could see a faint glow of light  at the foot of the bed, which slowly faded. The next day the old lady came to see them and told them that she had come to “visit” them the previous night and had found the bed surrounded by triangles of fire. 

Leaving aside whether or not we can prove this story to be anything more than a subjective experience,  there are two important points we would like to make. The first one is that somehow, this practice of “visualizing pentagrams” seems to have a causal relationship to the appearance of the old woman in Lethbridge’s bedroom. It was almost as though the practice “attracted” the visitor, possibly even inspiring the wish or  compulsion to visit. The second is that the visualized pentagrams appeared as triangles of fire. Theories of how hyperdimensional objects might appear in fourth dimensional space-time, or how four dimensional objects might appear in three dimensional space time, in mathematical terms, lends a modicum of credibility to this story. If the old woman had seen fiery pentagrams, we would not  take such notice of  the  event. That a pentagon in our world might appear as a triangle in another realm suggests something very mysterious here. I am also intrigued by the possible relationship to the differences of these hyper-dimensional solids and the difference between the perspectives of the “triangle people” and the “circle people”. This is also a very important point related to the dangers of visualizing geometric shapes when we  consider the susequent events that Lethbridge recounted.  

Several years later, the old lady told Lethbridge that she was going to put a spell on the cattle of a farmer with whom she was quarreling. At this point, Lethbridge took her seriously and warned  her about the dangers of practicing magic. She ignored him, and one day not long after declaring her intentions, she was found dead in her bed under mysterious circumstances. As it happened, the cattle of two other nearby  farmers did get hoof and mouth disease, but the cattle of the farmer with whom the old lady was quarreling were unaffected. Lethbridge was convinced that the “spell” had rebounded on the old lady in some way. But, it was this event that led to an important insight for us here, which is why we have recounted the story. 

Sometime after the old woman’s death, Lethbridge was passing her cottage and suddenly experienced a “nasty  feeling”, a “suffocating sense of depression”. His curiosity aroused, Lethbridge walked around the cottage and  discovered a most interesting  thing: he could step into and out of  the “depression” just as if it were some kind of invisibly defined “locus”. 

This reminded Lethbridge of a similar experience he had had when walking with his mother as a teenager. It was in the Great Wood near Wokingham, on a nice morning, when suddenly the two of them experienced a “horrible feeling of gloom and depression, which crept upon us like a blanket of fog over the surface of the sea”. They left in a hurry and only later discovered that the corpse of a suicide had been discovered lying just a few yards from where they had been standing. 

Some years later, Lethbridge and his wife went to the seashore to collect seaweed for their garden. As he walked on the beach, he again experienced the sense of depression, gloom and fear descending on him. Resisting this influence, Lethbridge and his wife began to fill their sacks with seaweed. After a very short period  of this activity, Lethbridge’s wife, Mina, came running up to him demanding that they leave saying, “I can’t stand  this place a minute longer. There’s something frightful here”. 

In a discussion about the phenomenon with Mina’s brother the following day, the brother mentioned that he had  experienced something very similar in a field near Avebury, in Wiltshire. When he said the word “field”, it clicked  in Lethbridge’s mind and he remembered that field telephones often short circuit in warm, muggy weather. “What was the weather like?”, he asked. 

“Warm and damp”, replied the brother. 

Right there, the idea began to shape itself in Lethbridge’s mind. Water. On the day he had been in the Great Wood, it had been warm and damp. When they had been at the beach gathering seaweed, it had likewise been  warm and damp. Experiment was obviously in order! 

The next weekend, Lethbridge and his wife again visited the bay. Again, as they stepped onto the beach, the same bank of depression and gloom enveloped them. Mina led him to the spot where she had experienced such  an overwhelming sensation that she had insisted on leaving the place. At that spot, the sensation was so powerful that they actually felt dizzy. Lethbridge described it as being similar to having a high fever and full of drugs. As it happened, on either side of this spot were two streams of water. 

Mina went off  to the cliff to look at the scenery and suddenly walked into the “depression” again. She actually had the sensation that something or someone was urging her to jump off the cliff! When she had brought it to the attention of Lethbridge, he agreed that this spot was as “sinister” as the spot on the beach between the streams. 

As it turned out, nine years later, a man did commit suicide from that exact spot. Lethbridge wondered if there was some sort of “timeless” sensation that had been “imprinted” on the area via some sort of “recording” principle. It seemed that, whether from the past or the future, feelings of despair were somehow recorded on the surroundings, in the very atmosphere, it seemed. The only question was, how? Lethbridge believed that the key was water. 

A hint of what may be happening here is provided by the work of Y. Rocard of the Sorbonne, who had discovered that underground water produces changes in the earth’s magnetic field, and this was proposed as the solution as to why dowsing works. The water does this because it has a field of its own which interacts with the earth’s  field. And most significantly to us here is that magnetic fields are the means by which sound is recorded on tape covered with iron oxide. This suggested to Lethbridge that the magnetic field produced by running water could  record strong emotions that, as Lethbridge also noted, produce electrical activity in the human physiology. Such fields could be “played back” continuously, and amplified in damp and muggy weather. 

This would explain why these “areas of depression” seem to form invisible walls. If you bring a magnet closer and closer to an iron object, you notice that at a certain point, the object is “seized” by the magnet as it enters the force field. 

Lethbridge’s experiments took a new turn at  this point, and led to evidence that many things that are perceived as “hauntings” or “ghosts” are really just “recordings”. At some point he thought about the fact that ghosts are often reported to reappear on certain “anniversaries” which suggests that there are other cyclical currents that turn such recordings on or off or simply amplify them. 

To answer the question that is growing in the reader’s mind, yes, it seems that some hauntings are the result of happy emotions, and strong happiness can also be recorded in the same way. It also seems that the type of material substance that the human “field” interacts with has an important role. For example, in the1840s, a certain Bishop Polk told a Joseph Rhodes Buchanan that he could detect brass in the dark. He said that when he touched it, a distinctly unpleasant taste was produced in his mouth. Buchanan tested him and discovered that it was true, even if  the metal was carefully and thickly wrapped in paper. Buchanan experimented with his students and found that some of them had a similar ability. In fact, it seemed that there were quite a number of substances that could be detected  this way, and the only explanation that seemed reasonable was that the nerves of the human being produce some sort of  field - he called it the nerve aura - which interacts with a similar field” of the object. Buchanan and others called the ability to “read” these fields “psychometry”, and it is popularly practiced today. What many people do not realize is that the principle of psychometry, that many take for granted - they can “feel the  vibrations” - led Tom Lethbridge to some startling revelations. 

As noted, Tom Lethbridge had concluded after a lot of experiments that a dowsing pendulum could somehow respond to different substances, and that lengthening or shortening the string was like tuning the pendulum to a particular wavelength. Lethbridge spent days testing all kinds of different substances. He discovered that the wavelength for silver is the same as lead: 22 inches. Truffles and beech wood both respond at 17 inches. This meant that there must be something further about such “paired” items to distinguish them. After some testing, Lethbridge discovered that it was not just the length of the string, but the number and direction of revolutions. For lead, the pendulum would gyrate 16 times and for silver it would gyrate 22 times. It was beginning to look like nature had a truly marvelous and foolproof code for identifying anything. It is also beginning to appear to us that the ancients knew this and that they may have attempted to transmit this knowledge to us via myth and legend and the “Green Language”. (That magical mumbo jumbo might not be the solution to the mysteries is also becoming more and more apparent, but, let us continue into even more remarkable speculations of Tom Lethbridge.) 

Through a variety of experiments, Lethbridge established the “frequency” for both death and violent anger: 40 inches. This also proved to be the frequency for cold and black. Indeed, colors have frequency. Grey is 22 inches— - not a surprise since it is the color of both lead and silver. Yellow is 29 and green is 30. 

After months of experiments, Lethbridge had constructed his table of frequencies, and he had discovered that 40 inches was some kind of limit. Every single substance that he tested fell between zero and 40 inches. It was at this point that he discovered something curious: Sulphur reacts to a 7 inch pendulum; if he extended the pendulum to 47 inches, it would still react to sulphur, but not directly over it. It would only react a little to one side. He then discovered that this was true of everything else he tried beyond the number 40 —  it would react, but only to one side. He noticed another odd thing: beyond 40 inches, there was no rate for the concept of time. The pendulum simply would not respond. Lethbridge realized that he was measuring a different dimension. However, when he lengthened the pendulum to 80 inches, there was a response to the idea of  time. Lethbridge pondered this and finally theorized that in the realm beyond 40, the pendulum is in time itself, and that is why there is no reaction to the idea. But, beyond that, there are other “realms” where the idea of time exists in another world “beyond death”. 

Lethbridge discovered that if he lengthened the string again beyond 80  inches, he got the same result, as if there were still another dimension. Lethbridge realized that he had discovered worlds in other dimensions, outside the limits of space and time, and theorized that we cannot see it because our physical bodies are limited detectors. 

Tom Lethbridge continued with his experiments and determined that the world of the “next” level beyond our own is one in which the energy vibrations are four times as fast as those of our world. The effect of encountering this reality is like a fast train passing a slow one. Even though they are both moving forward, the slow train seems to be moving backward. This hyperdimensional world is all around us, yet we are unable to see it because it is beyond the range of our senses. All the objects of our world are very likely just our limited perceptions of what is happening in this total reality.  

His experiments with megaliths indicated that they were placed to mark places where the earth forces were most powerful, and to harness energy in some way now forgotten.

Unfortunately, Lethbridge died of a heart attack before he could complete his researches. 

At this point we would like to note that Tom Lethbridge was not a spiritualist. He believed that magic, spiritualism, occultism and other forms of mumbo jumbo are merely crude attempts to understand the vast realm of hidden energies in which we live. We would like to add that expositions along the lines of most esoterica generally serve only to obscure, not to reveal; to disinform, rather than to produce real knowledge. Tom Lethbridge used logic and experiment and observation to come to the conclusion that there are other realms of reality beyond our world and that there are forms of energy that we do not even begin to understand.

Excerpt from 'Stone Technology And T.C.Lethbridge' chapter of 'The Secret History of the World'.

Making Numbers Sound Important and Grand

"We also have a way to vastly increase US household income - the feds have only to spend more money! Just add zeros. How about that? The poor family has not a dime more in real, spendable income…but we’ve managed - by clever use of mathematics and economics - to double its income. But that illustrates the nature of modern economics. It is all numbers…and none of them mean anything. And none means less than the zero.

A Journey of Discovery

Ah, the end of the year 2012 is fast coming upon us.

What will happen to all of us? Is the world coming to an end? 

Read the full article for some answers to what is really happening. It may not be what you would like to happen or what you would think will happen. But we are not here to engage in wishful thinking, are we? Truth is what we are really after.