A number of comments have arrived (some ticking, others not) since I posted my “WuJo” note recently. To refresh (or introduce the concept if the coffee hadn’t kicked in that day) the WuJo is what I call the intersection between the world of WuWu (woo-woo/New Ageists) and the Complete Reality DoJo where, as Donovan might have put it, ‘facts, figures, and logic‘ may be encountered.
So let’s go through some of it, shall we?
“First off, thanks for such a great site. Urban Survival, Boing Boing, Drudge & a big ass cup o’ coffee are pretty much how my daily routine begins, so cheers. The fact that my employer doesn’t block any of your sites is also quite nice. *grin*
Couldn’t help but notice in your “Coping: Trouble at the WuJo” column this morning how similar your description of the ever increasing intensity of upcoming emotional releases are to a theory I’ve read about called Timewave Zero.
As a rickety time scholar something tells me you’ve probably heard of Terrence McKenna’s work and Novelty Theory. While I’m more inclined to put my money on you & the Time Monks over McKenna’s DMT induced “insights”, I have to admit that it does have some interesting points…and the way it syncs up with what you talked about this morning was eerily similar.
I would love to hear your ideas on this, so if you ever have a spare non-Outlook scheduled moment (yeah, right), please let me know.”
I hold time wave zero/novelty theory in pretty high regard although my reasoning might stand with a bit of detail. The main feature of TWZ is that it matches up with cycle theory so neatly. In other words, McKenna’s ‘novelty’ and readily acceptable [academically blessed] economic cycle work is all cut from the same cloth.
What amazes me is that with rare genius (McKenna, Kondratieff, and even my Consigliore who has read dozens of books on cycles – many quite obscure and spendy – some cycle books going for $500+ a copy) I am just floored that cycle study hasn’t gotten its ‘due’ ever since Christianity come West and started replacing things like the Pagan mid-winter festival with Christmas and so forth. Not that’s it’s bad…but it seems to represent how cycle theory got ‘dissed” and jumbled up.
Pagan/Druid types – just to go a bit deeper – used to have a mid-winter festival which came around the winter solstice (Alban Arthan) before calendars were so formalized. When Christianity came along and wanted to ‘do away with’ the mid-winter observation of death/rebirth/ancestral honoring, and from which point, the ‘life’ of spring would be coming soon, Christian dogma was tweaked to focus on the ‘birth’ aspect and the historical date of Jesus’ birth was moved from spring – which early data supports - back to a more ‘convenient’ time which happened to be around the Druidic winter solstice celebration.
Fine lessons in marketing here, but most people won’t sit back and appreciate it because they’ll be wrapped up in the ‘owning’ of a religion and will find it tough to toss ideas abou8t without getting emotionally involved; that’s always the measure to me of how ‘smart’ someone is: Can they test-fit all the different puzzle-pieces of Life together without getting all worked up over ownership of one piece that was passed on to them by a family? Hard to do, but if you’re going to figure out even bit of life, got to move puzzle pieces about….like geologists slide continental masses around to see how they might have once fit.
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Much the same can be said of Samhane (samhuinn) – a harvest/thanks festival to Druids, which was morphed into “All Hallow’s Eve’ – Halloween, and of course the Druidic rites of spring (Alban Eilir (light of the earth since the sun was making a comeback from it’s short winter appearances) was timed out with Easter and the ‘He is Risen fit neatly at the archetype level with the sun rising earlier and so it went.
All of which is to say that there are cycles all over the place in life; the holidays with celebrate, the tides, the celestial movements including this really long one that passes in 2012, and so forth. To hold in economics that non-numeric cycles can’t be nested in this way and that is to hold to a flat-lander’s view of the world.
People who don’t subscribe to a much larger sense of cycles have either never gone boating on salt water, never spent enough time outside to notice seasons, and may not have noticed that the outside temperature rises and falls with the season in most places non-tropical.
Am I getting around to endorsing time wave zero? Sort of. Can’t say it’s perfect (but what is?) but what I can say is that when you have a large body of cycles covering topics like crops, tides, and even Mars making a record close approach to the earth next month, then yep, to go looking for correlations between measurable cycles and secular events doesn’t seem to be a waste of time. And then, if you can build an algorithm that can demonstrably come close – and maybe look at the Noosphere project at Princeton as a possible ‘how all cycles and moving along’ kind of tool, that might just yield additional insights into how the massively entangled world we living in operates.
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Next email on topic?
“I started my day with Urban Survival as I do every day. For the first time (after reading “Trouble at the WuJo” – G), I thought to myself, “I need to start smoking pot.” Heh, heh. Seriously, the “Trouble in the WuJo,” piece would be great accompanied with some really good reefer – I think.
Oddly enough, since I’ve begun to wake up to life’s bigger pictured, odd things are happening. Time sometimes seems very fast, other times it seems horribly slow mo. At many times, it feels like I’m in some sort of play and the set doesn’t interest me at all, so I have to force myself to do the mundane stuff of the world, like laundry, dishes or eating. Sometimes I am so anxious that my whole body feels like one tense blob of tight tissue. Other times, I feel so peaceful and above everything that I wish I could bottle the feeling and sell it as a new wonder drug.
I can’t talk about it with the Mister, because he gets a bit cranky and I either upset my family or they decide that perhaps I’m drinking or in need of professional help, so I mostly keep these things to myself and try to keep functioning as expected. The Internet provides me with a community of tin foil hat society members so I don’t feel so all alone, which makes me think of some Bob Dylan lyrics.
But there’s the rub. One of the reasons that the PowersThatBe need to (at some point) censor/restrict access to the Internet (or at least tone down the free exchange of ideas) is that it facilitates asking questions about those who would pretend to ‘lead’ us.
Why, just think what would happen if cattle could stop in mid-stampede and ask “Are we all going to Abilene, oh what, here?” That would immediately become a problem for the cowboys who are doing the ‘herding’ – like the present group of PTB that are herding us all about for monetary gain. Freedom’s a good thing an all, provided it doesn’t challenge the ruling paradigm. If it does that, then it’s time to make ‘freedom illegal’ which is why anyone who can think for themselves is either already, or about to, find themselves labeled or treated like terrorists.
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“I just want to advise you on being careful about “gluing” magnets to your head. I remember reading an article, years ago, in which a guy glued a magnet to a helmet where the magnet was over his forehead (third eye). Well, this guy wore this helmet for an hour everyday for a week or two. Well, he stopped wearing his “helmet-with-magnet” when he was transported to an open field where two people were by a tree and turned around and looked at him. Well, it turns out that he recognized this area as the area where he lives; however, the scene was pictured many years in the past before anything was built on the land….
I also remember reading an account of a retired electrical engineer whom decided to make his own garage-sized Philadelphia-experiment. He used an old bicycle to mount his electrical gear to it along with an on/off safety switch. He would then sit on the seat and turn the power on. Yep, he would shift into a different dimension in just moments after turning on the power, and then he would quickly turn the power off. Well, he had a neighbor or friend whom wanted to try out his time-machine too. The retired engineer emphatically instructed the neighbor to hit the “off” switch quickly after he started to see “things.” Well, this friend gets on the bicycle and hits the on-switch. In a moment or two he starts looking wide-eyed all over the place but doesn’t turn off the power to the apparatus. In another moment he becomes invisible, and a moment later he reappears on the bicycle seat totally insane. This friend never recovered from the experience.
All of this got me to thinking of reading “Timelines” by Michael Crichton…. I’ve been told that this book explains time travel very well. It’s the closest I want to get to dimensional shifts:)
Critchton’s book is OK – movie was fair, too. The supercomputers and quantum foam part blurred a bit for me – may have to reread it one of these days.
But, in the meantime, please have your friend box up that bicyle-like contraption and send it along. I’ll gladly pay the freight. Be sure and include the off switch though. I’m adventurous, but not completely stupid.
Time for one more follow-up? Sure, week’s almost over…here’s one from a PhD down under…
“Good afternoon from icy cold Australia!
After reading your post about living in the Wu-Jo the other day, I decided to offer some feedback. It may well be that some of your readers are experiencing the same things that I am and it will be interesting to see if you receive commentary that supports that.
I keep seeing fleeting images of blobs of colour — sometimes in specific shapes like rectangles or circles — and the colours look like they are wildly vibrating or pulsing just before they blink out. I have had an eye exam this year when I got new glasses — so no, there is nothing wrong with my eyes. Then second and third areas of interest are the overlays of things that look like scenes in some other place — and occasionally a bit of a person (never a whole body shape) walks through the room and then rapidly vanishes. Two nights ago I touched the electronic control of the flat panel wall heater and it morphed into something that looked like a control console in an airplane cockpit. I tipped sideways and grabbed the wall quickly because the whole room was swimming around.
I think the bleed-through of dimensions is advancing now in a BIG way and although I’m the one that gets the really big hit, my husband is somehow either sensing it through me or getting his own version of it. And we are both having ‘issues’ with electronic devices. My husband keeps seizing up things that he touches — like his brand new iPod or the brand new digital television recorder. I end up having to reset them and get them back on track. He’s ‘buzzing’ so hard that I actually got hives (that’s how my body reacts to extremes of hot, cold, or energy disturbances) when I touched him in my sleep the other night because it felt like I’d put my finger into a light socket and gotten a mild shock. I had to get out of bed at 3:30 in the morning and stay up working on the computer in the living room until he woke up at 7 AM and I could go BACK to bed for a few more hours of sleep.
We’re both feeling all wobbly and weird and the gelatinous time thingies is something we are really wading through. Either times seems to escalate like our finger is on the DVD-player fast forward button, or it is gooey and thick and s-l-o-w. Then there are the leaps where we think we are doing something and all of a sudden you wonder how you ended up in a completely different space doing a completely different something else.
There seems to be loose in the world right now a curious – almost contagious case of consciousness rising. Yesterday, I remember watching a bit of YouTube video which Elaine was watching about a chiropractor of some dozen years, or so, of practice who found one day that all of a sudden, when he was actually touching people they would feel him touching them. He went on doing some work with them and turns out that there were people having oddities like spontaneous healings take place.
But the weird part (*least for me) was that he related that as this started happening to him, there were lots of mysterious/unexplainable changes in how electronics operated around him. Not only that, but when he did ‘work’ on patients, they would go home and sudden they would start having electronics do this and that in strange ways.
Guy’s name is Dr. Eric Pearl and he gets into some of what may be going on in this video here on YouTube. That wasn’t the video Elaine was watching but you can get the drift of it.
Suppose for a moment that there really is a new consciousness arising and what if – in flu-like ways – it is becoming ‘contagious’ as Dr. Pearl’s work seems to imply? And suppose – and this is way out there – that the only way to ‘bottle the genie back up would be to administer enough ‘impurities’ into people that you could bring their personal vibration levels down. How would you do that?
If you come up with “Why, invent a new kind of disease and then mandate injections in the form of flu shots!” you get a gold star for the day. The timing of this all is almost – surreal – to borrow a term from the time monks.
Weird Story Time:
Want a a strange personal story? Back in about 1975 which I was news director of a radio station in Seattle, and the station had just moved its facilities to across the street from the Pike Place Market, I had a curious fellow show up at the radio station for an interview.
The news department back then had a weekend public affairs program called “Introspect” that was an hour-long series of interviews covering all kinds of topics in the general area of public affairs. So this large Greyhound bus rig shows up and out steps this fellow of undetermined age and we have a fine interview about the lack of ‘brotherhood” and “unity” in the world and what needs to be done about it.
After the interview, this fellow says “Let’s go for a walk…” Strange I thought, but “OK…”
We proceed to wander along the Seattle waterfront and along the way he says “This is very important and you need to remember this…” Whereupon he gives me this thing he called the ‘light chant’. Turns out you can find it on the net, too:
Round me seal your tube of light
From Ascended Master flame
Called forth now in God’s own name.
Let it keep my temple free From all discord sent to me.
I AM calling forth violet fire
To blaze and transmute all desire,
Keeping on in Freedom’s name
Till I AM one with the violet flame.
‘Yeah…ok…strange” I remember thinking…but within just a couple of weeks a strange thing started to happen. When I would drive down the street at night, street lights would go off when I approached them.
I haven’t noticed it for a while, though – some number of years, in fact. But haven’t recalled the chant till just this morning – sparked by the cantankerous electronics contagion reports. Now, well, may have to look into that just a bit more one of these days. Don’t expect anything, though, since I now live 14 miles from the nearest street light in a town.
Well Grounded Reader
I have been following closely the verbiage used in ALTA 1309 with regards to the following: “As a temporal marker for the next set of emerging manifestations within the [global coastal phenomena], the [vessel grounding] is indicated to be very high in its[visibility]. Further the data sets indicate that the [grounding] will be a problem for the [mission/activity] involved, which is indicated to be [forced ahead] in spite of [dangers], and [difficulties]. The data shows that there will be a [wash/overlay] of [obstructions/obstacles] around the [boat/vessel grounding].
I have been tracking recent NASA activity, and propose this hypothesis: Could it be that the “grounding” that is a problem for the “mission / activity” is related to the space shuttle mission nearly setting a record for the number of delayed launches? Further, could the mission forced ahead in spite of “dangers” and “difficulties” be that the launch went ahead even though there were threats of more bad weather on the horizon? Finally, could the “wash / overlay” of “obstructions / obstacles” be the pieces of foam insulation that came off of an external fuel tank and struck the shuttle two to three times during liftoff?
These are just my observations, but kind of interesting nonetheless. I have included a link to the story. Let me know what you think.
Shuttle’s on its way now, but yeah – lots of people have been wondering the same thing.
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