I refer to that strange place where woo-woo (Wu) events of my otherwise Complete Reality School of Life meet on the mat of High Strangeness, now and then as – and this is not to offend Aikidoists, Judo experts, or the memory of Bruce Lee from I saw him during Chinatown days in Seattle – the WuJo. Fine days, those. Art Louie’s and the old school hadn’t yet been replaced by Tai Tung and subsequent eateries and the place still had that bit of Asia that occupied the mind’s eye somewhere between being Shanghaied, as water the case on the pre-fire days in turn of the century Seattle, and the mystery of why it was up what seemed like 200-steps to the largest of the tong’s (family association) meeting halls south of Jackson Street. Ah, such times. The smell and the eye candy which ran from everything fresh and Asian to the hookers who plied their trade between 6th and 7th Avenues. Quite the colorful place.
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The modern WuJo is the technical antithesis of such times. Semi-isolated, and whatever comes along invades the pastoral solemnity of the place arrives by either FedEx, UPS, any of five satellite dishes, or one of the over-sized internet connections or the multiple phone lines..
Still, every so often, the mysteries and mysterious show up unannounced and the latest pair of event worth reporting was that my 28-year old daughter Allison, who called a couple of days back to report on a personal experience with high strangeness.
“Dad, the weirdest thing happened: I was laying in bed and out of the corner of my eye I saw this shadowy figure and it was like it was looking at me. But the strange part is that it was kinda there and not there – and then after a few minutes it disappeared. Not only that, but a little while later, I awoke and I couldn’t move. It was like something was sitting on my chest and holding me down. What the hell was going on?”
“Oh, that’s just an encounter with the shadow people,” I explained in as soothing a voice as I could muster. “No big deal. They seem to be attracted to people in period of emotional stress and they may has a taste, if you will, for people’s fears.”
“This isn’t just some bull sh*t you’re making up, is it?”
“Hell no…. Go wiki Shadow People – you’ve got your ‘puter on, right?”
“yeah….OK….hold on….slow connection here…. Oh my God! That’s what I saw! The one on the right, the hooded one. How do you know about Shadow people? Tell me what you know…”
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What followed was a long conversation about how the universal subconscious works, dimension boundaries, how half asleep people do state-changes, how things like Shadow People may be incompletely materialized whatevers from the Universe next door, and a discussion about how in the Hugh Everett’s Many World’s Interpretation of physics, there’s no end of the possibilities. I mean, has it occurred to you yet that the reason UFO’s showed up in 1948 – 90 miles from where the first atomic bomb went off, that in an inter-dimensional sense we’ve become in the multiverse what would be the equivalent of very bad neighbors banging on the walls? No telling what the hell a nuclear explosion does to the reality next door to this one…”
She seemed satisfied and that was it for her encounter with high strangeness, although she’s now reading the subject in depth, since her older sister Denise (31) who is in nursing school has been having such encounters with oddities from somewhere else since she was about seven years old.
Honestly, since Allison asked Denise about her experiences, I’ve been wondering it the Wu-Wu would spill over into Denise’s world, just both live just outside the walls of the WuJo.
I didn’t have long to wait. In fact, only until 3:02 this morning when the phone rang. It was Denise.
“Hey dad? The weirdest thing just happened, right? It’s 1 o’clock in the morning and I’m sitting at my desk studying and my egg timer in the kitchen started ringing. I haven’t used it for a long time…and it just started ringing and ringing and ringing… I’m like freaked out.”
“You know what time of the morning it is?”
“Yeah, a couple of minutes after 1 o-clock, why?”
“You know I got no sleep last night because I was up all night last night on a radio show?”
“Yeah dad, but I’m freaked. There was no reason for the time to ring. It just rang and rang – longer that even when I use it. What do you think it was?”
I then launched into one of my best extemporaneous lines of BS I’ve ever done at 3 AM from a deep sleep. Explained how with the recent hot weather in Seattle, no doubt what had happened was that the timer’s spring, due to the heating and contraction in the kitchen, or the stop that ends the bell-ringing, had broken or changed somehow, no doubt due to the day cooling from a high in the 90′s to a low in the 60′s. Or, something in the egg timer had rusted and chosen that moment to fail.
About 15-minutes later, she was calmed down and going back to her studying.
What I didn’t tell her, and may (or may not) mention (she doesn’t read my site) is that paranormal/extraordinary energies tend to run in families. My own personal strangeness has something to do with time/space – a couple of seeing things remotely around when they happened while in I was asleep a few hundred miles from the site of a emotional events (a police arrest in one case and an emergency appendectomy in the other) impacting one of the kids; experienced by me in an almost shamanistic dream state. Turns out my son has had a couple of similar ‘seeing’ events. And his sisters? Well, shadow people and a ringing timer.
My best guess, halfway into the first cup of mental accelerant, is that while Denise hasn’t been seeing ‘others’ for a while, that part of her subconscious was tickled or poked when Allison asked her about aliens and shadow people she’s been encountering since age seven, and that pushed Denis back in touch with that part of her inner self that she had been consciously ignoring. I expect that thanks to her current preoccupation with reductionist/single-verse living, this somehow reminded here of that connection she’d had to ‘them’ in the past, so they decided to ‘give her a ring’.
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One of the odd possibilities of our approach to 2012, the evolving second depression, and the increasing frequency & magnitude of events is that our collective consciousness will be thrashed about and it’s possible – just possible – mind you, that barriers between dimensions and state of being will become less clearly defined than classical physics would like.
Just as we’re starting to catch up with the evolving Russian and Chinese thinking on zero-point energy, we may very well discover that not only can energy be sucked out of other dimensions, but that aspects of people can travel there are well. At the wildest extensions, one can almost envision (hold on, this is an odd concept here) being able to tap into the energy different between a heaven and hell.
While that might do wonders for the power bill, there is always the risk of unintended consequences associated with such adventures. One remembers that Europeans killed millions of First People in the new-found (by them, from their limited perspective, right?) Americas and has to ask a very intelligent question about tapping into inter-dimensional power sources.
Could we in advertently create new ‘leaks’ around such things as the Philadelphia Experiment, the Montauk Project, and more recently the rush of junior experimenters (including me) who are trying this and that to attempt to tap into zero-point energy for what seem like reasonable motives?
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A decent mental construct for what may be going on now would be any of the post World War II submarine movies. “Run Silent, Run Deep” might be a good starter film. Or, perhaps something like “The Enemy Below” will give you the sense of it.
What you’ll be watching for in any of the submarine flicks, is the part where a pipe bursts and water starts to leak in. A little water – any graduate of BESS at New London knows this – is usually addressable by routing to back-up systems. But, if the flow gets beyond a certain point, where pumps can’t keep up with water intrusion into a sub, there’s only one outcome: The sub goes down, often with disastrous outcomes that in the history books may be found under headings like “K-219 and Augusta” or the loss of the “Scorpion” in 1968.
Failures of submarines don’t happen just while submerged, either, as the Cavalla/Thresher story reveals. The batteries may simply become so depleted that restarting the power plant – in Thresher’s case a reactor – are not possible without outside assistance. The Thresher was later lost to become the first US nuclear sub loss.
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When the kids call in their various encounters with ‘strange’ I find myself wondering “Is there any connection between what the kids are experiencing and all the zero-point work? Wonder what will happen in October of this year when the Large Hadron Collider is supposed to go live again?
Maybe its from talking to so many docs lately about novel/swine flu, but when new magnetics may have the potential to do things like seriously warp space/time, I wonder if we shouldn’t be stepping back a bit to wonder in advance “Is this was good next door dimensional neighbors would do?”
I must be the only nutjob out there who’s measured the distance from Roswell to Alamogordo, or looked at crop circles while asking “Is this an eviction notice from some next door dimension?
Seems like if we are serious about meeting ‘other’ life forms, we ought to set up some very strong magnetic beacon in a truce zone and run if for a few years to at least put a ‘homing beacon’ with some digital encoding to it that would ask “Knock, knock…anyone there?” before we do further nuking and warping.
Just a thought, of course, but instead of SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence), maybe we ought to ponder SEDI – a search for extra dimensional intelligence.
Might be incredibly productive, since we all go ‘extra-dimensional’ after x number of years anyway….
Lost In Space
Still haven’t had time to collate all my ‘broken machinery’ reports from the past week, but if in the past two weeks or so, you’ve had a run-in with easily broken machinery, send in your report – will get it compiled by Tomorrow or Saturday. But here’s one of interest just as a sample..
“Your machinery problems are no doubt related to the Eclipse…which effects as I understand it, starts a day or two before the event, carries threw the event, and penetrates a few days afterwards. This is surface level stuff…long term effects causes events months or even years afterwards.
Mysterious stuff, but for myself, never start a new project during a new moon, eclipse, no matter what kind. This project thinking is my personal ‘don’t step on a live wire.’
All the welds I made yesterday, hardly any of them held and had to be reground and rewelded, two or three times. But the Sun (fire) is impeded…so somewhat expected. But like everyone else, I hope to skate under the wire. Learning is still slow at 65.
The moon is weirder than I would have thought…in my wife’s telescope, when finally zeroed in on the curvature of the moon’s suffice, I saw literally hundreds of tall skinny spires that all ended in a mushroom type caps. In all my internet searches I have never run across those type of pictures.
Maybe the aliens just decided to put up their antennas just as I was looking…and they immediately disappeared afterwards. Nothing would surprise me at this late date.”
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Calm Before the (Cytokine) Storm
This week’s Peoplenomics report is a little outside of our usual economics perspective but worth sharing since I’ve been doing a lot of personal research this past week into the upcoming expected outbreak of virulent novel/swine flu in the USA this fall and winter. Because it’s expected to result in a fair number of fatalities, and since I need all the readers I can get, I’ve put together a reasonably comprehensive look at what to expect and some personal courses of action when (more than if) swine flu comes to your neighborhood. This is not medical advice – for that, see your health care professional (or local shaman). This is a survey of what’s out there to be learned and some thoughts on how it may be individually applied. My market outlook as usual accompanies in this week’s Chart Pack.
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