Friday, 12. January 2007
S P I R I C O M - Communication With The Dead

For people researching EVP they will quite often find references to the Spiricom research performed by The Metascience Foundation under the direction of Dr. George W. Meek and Bill O'Neil, who recorded real-time communications with Dr George J Mueller who had died six years before the device, called Spiricom, was invented..

Here is a complete online version of George W. Meek's original report about his Spiricom device:
Spiricom – An Electromagnetic-
Etheric Systems Approach to Communications with other Levels of Human Consciousness.

Next you will find a two hour recording of George Meek explaining the Spiricom research as well as the presentation of the significant contacts made through Spiricom. This includes the many contacts made with Dr George J Mueller who was credited with helping in the research by lending his expertise from the other side. Direct links to the streaming audio (MP3):
Spiricom - part 01
Spiricom - part 02

For a short audio extract (and transcript of what is being said) please see here.

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Bill O'Neil and the Spiricom device

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The worlds of spirit, according to George Meek


See also The research of George W. Meek.

Really fascinating stuff, isn't it? Genuine or hoax? Impressive or otherwise?

Oh! And don't miss to explore the World ITC - Instrumental Transcommunication. The use of TVs, radios, telephones, computers, and other technical equipment to get information from the other side.
Category: Ghosts & Spirits | Incarnation & Death | Para & PSI |




A New Comet: McNaught

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If you watch the morning or evening sky these days and have a clear view of the horizon, you will be able to spot a bright object with a prominent tail. That object is comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught). It was discovered on August 7th, 2006 by the hugely successful comet discoverer Rob McNaught.

Comet McNaught is being called the brightest comet in 30 years. It is temporarily visible in the Northern Hemisphere at both sunset and dawn, depending on conditions.

View a beautiful and large photo gallery from Spaceweather and read more about it on Space.com:
New Comet is Brightest in 30 Years


UPDATE 14.01.07:

Amazing Comet Visible in Broad Daylight by Space.com. Check the galleries!
Comet McNaught is now the brightest comet in 40 years, according to the International Comet Quarterly at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

UPDATE 19.01.07:

Comet McNaught timelapse over Charleston: Comet McNaught descends to the horizon in the evening sky over Charleston at sunset on Wednesday.

Category: Astrology & Astronomy |




Wednesday, 10. January 2007
CAFÉ CODY: Online Chill Radio Station

CAFÉ CODY is a vast panorama of Chillout, designed with sensuous retro and futuristic sounds providing a rich listening experience mixed and evolved for you from the Balearic Island Mallorca, Spain.

It is about you and your evolving place in the world.

It’s about your growing feelings moving you beyond the ordinary and mundane into your expanded richness and sensuality. It’s about a place for you to abide and flow.

Awaken your world with CAFÉ CODY and spread the word, broadcasting from the Mediterranean beauty of Deia de Mallorca, Spain.

Choose your player and enjoy the cool chill out stuff!

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Category: Music & Voices |


Sadhus, Holy Men of India

The Indian concept of holiness is quite different from that in the West. It is not necessarily (though often) associated with the "good." In fact, some all-India saints, such as Ramakrishna or Chaitanya, would be considered lunatics in the West. There is a long tradition of 'divine madness' in Hinduism.

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Sunmarpan Das

To Hindus, spiritual enlightenment has always represented the highest goal in life, the one thing that gives it meaning and purpose. Moreover, enlightenment is a state of being that is in principle attainable by everybody.
The average individual, however, would need many incarnations to become enlightened, to see God, to become one with the Absolute, to merge one's mind with Cosmic Consciousness -- in short, to become holy.


But since time immemorial shortcuts have been available for people wanting to become enlightened in this life rather than the next.
Those who follow the fast track, mostly men, are the sadhus, the 'holy men' of India.

For thousands of years they have been around. Once they must have been more numerous, but even today there are still four to five million sadhus, constituting about half a percent of the total population.

Organised in various sects, they passed on the wisdom of old, the method of yoga, that is 'yoking' soul and Soul together.

Usually they live by themselves, on the fringes of society, and spend their days in devotion to their chosen deity.

Some perform magical rituals to make contact with the gods, others practise intense forms of yoga and meditation to increase their spiritual powers and acquire mystical knowledge.

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Standing the world on its head, this baba practices
yoga everyday, concluding his panch-agni tapasya.
This posture is emblematic for the life of a sadhu, for
by 'reversing all values', by acting contrary to human nature, they intend to speed up enlightenment.
This baba also wears a rope arbandh.


Certainly, not all sadhus are enlightened. But believers regard them all as holy anyway, if only because of their radical commitment. And successful sadhus are even worshipped as 'gods on earth'.

Believers only have to 'behold' a sadhu -- as a kind of living idol -- to receive a spark of his spiritual energy. They give donations to the sadhus -- regarded as offerings to the gods -- and get their blessing in return. Thus, since time immemorial, has Indian society been organised to support the holy men, for they are not supposed to work.

But in India too, the times they are a'changing.

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An integral part of the exercise is the ritual offering of foodstuffs to the smouldering heaps of cowdung, the holy fire, under the acompaniment of muttering mantras.
In this ascetic ritual the sadhu symbolically sacrifices himself to the fire, he has become the offering.
Having made offerings to his fires, the baba blows the shankh, or conch-shell, to invoke the deity.


It is the musical instrument with which Vishnu produces the primordial sound of Creation, and it is only used by Vaishnavas. This concludes the preliminary rituals, and now the Baba can sit in meditation.

A ‘standing’ Baba, who is called khareshwari, has taken the vow not to sit or lie down for twelve years. He may rest one leg by hanging it in the sling under his swing. It is a painful austerity: the swollen legs and feet tend to develop persistent ulcers.

Khareshwaris may walk about, but usually just hang in their swing in their corner -- and stand.

Some, at a mela for instance, may turn this austerity into quite a performance. The lay pilgrims are always much awed by khareshwaris and consequently very generous with their donations, in money or in kind.

A tree is the traditional place for the austerity of standing, not only because the swing can be attached to one of the branches, but also because of the baba’s identification with a tree, for it is also termed vrik-asana (or vrikshasana), meaning ‘tree-posture’.

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Bajrang Das, a 'standing' baba


And indeed, the khareshwari starts resembling a tree, his swollen feet look like roots, with a firm grip on the ground.

The austerity of ‘standing’ is performed by Ramanandis, Nagas, Naths and Udasin.

Sadhus, Holy Men of India by Dolf Hartsuiker.

Author of the book Sadhus: India's Mystic Holy Men
Category: Ethno & Shamanism | Monks & Ascets |


Tuesday, 09. January 2007
Healthy Lifestyle

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In The Kitchen - Make the most of your pantry! Learn what to keep and what to throw out as well as food safety and healthy cooking tips.

Recipes - These healthful and delicious recipes will show you that good food can be good for you and easy to prepare, too.

Supplements and Herbs - Vitamin, supplement and herb formulas are developed for maximum effectiveness, use only the highest-quality ingredients, and are based on years of research. Learn more here.

Gardening - "Gardening just makes me happy," says Dr. Weil, who can often be found working amongst the vegetables and flowers of his organic garden.

Healthy Home, Personal Care, Exercise and Fitness, Spirit and Inspiration, Pets and Pet Care, and much more for your health ... by Andrew Weil, M.D..

No matter what your age, Dr. Weil on Healthy Aging is your online guide to lifelong well-being. As a member of the site, you’ll have access to tools and information to help you develop and apply lifestyle practices essential for optimal health. Articles, recipes, advice, tools, support and more are presented weekly, to help you maximize your physical and spiritual health and well-being.
Category: Body & Health | Herbs & Kitchen |


Five Steps to Intuitive Healing

As a psychiatrist I see many people with everything material they can ever want, and still they feel lost. What's missing is a palpable connection with their intuitive voice, one that will always guide them in a heartfelt direction. I believe that without this connection, it's impossible to lead a truly passionate life, based on instinct and authentic inner knowledge ... Intuition is our birthright, available to everyone. To access it, I've developed five steps that can be applied to any issue you'll ever confront from healing your body, to riding a roller-coaster of emotions to sexual awakening. I live by these five steps; they continue to sustain me. I suggest you give them a try. My hope is that they will bring you the joy and clarity you've been searching for.

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Five Steps to Intuitive Healing by Judith Orloff MD.
Check also the other articles.
Category: Body & Health |


Monday, 08. January 2007
Angelium

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I don't know much about the artist, except his name is Inoue Naoki and he makes portrait photographs with wings like a fairy by CG. Enjoy his beautiful Angelium.
Category: Angels & Heaven | Art & Visions |


News & Stories

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Scientist: NASA found life on Mars -- and killed it by CNN.
Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have found alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist is theorizing. ... The paper was released Sunday. Based on a more expansive view of where life can take root, the paper's findings may prompt NASA to look for a different type of Martian life when its next spacecraft to visit Mars is launched later this year, one of the space agency's top scientists said.

Ghosts: The 'Stone Tape' Theory by Para Science.
For many years paranormal investigators have spoken about the 'Stone tape' theory as a possible explanation for certain classes of ghostly activity.

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The hypothesis being that rather like a TV programme can be recorded onto iron particles coated onto a plastic tape, then events can be recorded into the very fabric of buildings or indeed the surrounding Earth. The events can be played back at a later time thus causing the viewer to interpret the playback as a ghost.


News from the Chicago UFO:
O'Hare Sighting Turns Up Curiosity by The National Ledger.
Was there really a UFO at O'Hare in Chicago? In a word - yes. No matter how one slices and dices the information coming out of the Windy city's major airport, there was an object that a dozen or so witnesses saw and it has yet to be identified. Unless of course you actually believe it was the weather. That's the description from the FAA.
I think it is quite clear that these folks saw something.

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Easter Island looks to the future by USA Today. With some Pics.
Yet Rapa Nui ranks on many a traveler's places-to-see-before-you-die list. The compelling draw, of course, is the stone giants. There are 887 of these monolithic statues, some of which stand with their backs to the sea, hollow eyes locked on the barren, windswept terrain as if guarding vanished villages. Forty restored figures have been erected at 11 sites. Others lie in ruin, apparent victims of rage meted out long ago by warring factions.


'Evil Eye' and witchcraft: Simple glances that kill by The Standart.
Bernard Wesonga, a college lecturer in Nairobi, often heard of incidents of witchcraft in his childhood but did not believe in them.

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That was before he fell sick. "Although have I never seen a witch or a wizard, I used to be a sickling and no one seemed to know what brought about the illnesses," he says. "Relatives and neighbours said I had been bewitched. They insisted that I be taken to a witchdoctor for some ritual cleansing, otherwise I would die," he says.


What is Tarot? by The Conservative Voice.
Tarot (also known as Tarock, Tarokk, Taroky, Taroc, Tarok, Tarocchi and similar names) is a family of trick taking card games played with an enlarged deck of 78 cards which include an extra court card for each of the four regular suits, a permanent trump suit of 21 cards, and a kind of "wild card" called "the Fool" or "Excuse." Although seen primarily by many as a means of fortune telling or divination, the Tarot deck was created in northern Italy during the 15th century for playing card games.

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Category: News & Stories |


Sunday, 07. January 2007
Atlantis in the Andes

From Of Like Mind Productions and Producer/Director Lisa Hutchison, "Atlantis in the Andes" is based on the ground breaking work of satellite photo analyst and Plato expert Jim Allen and his two books on the topic: "Atlantis: The Andes Solution" and "Along the Atlantis Trail".

He has used modern technology and his understanding of ancient measurement systems to locate and area of the world that he believes matches Plato's physical descriptions of Atlantis. In a nutshell, he places the capitol of the empire in Bolivia - and he believes that the entire continent of South America is, in fact, Atlantis. He does have an interesting theory - and he has found some remarkable evidence to strengthen his claim.

Allen's contentions are supported by the latest scientific data from a host of the world's top archeologists, geologists and other scientist's, authors and investigative journalists including:

Multi- talented journalist, author and video producer, Doug Kenyon. Mr Kenyon is the editor and publisher of Atlantis Rising magazine; Lake Titicaca expert - Archeologist, Mark Aldenderfer; Emmy winning documentarian and author John Anthony West; Classics Professor, Kathryn A. Morgan; Archaeoastronomist and Chaos Specialist George Erickson; author Michael Cremo; Skeptic Michael Shermer; and many more.

All this in "Atlantis in The Andes" (2001) - Runtime 46 minutes.



See also Jim Allan's Article Searching the Andes for Atlantis. (pdf)
And Jim Allen's website.
Category: Movies & TV | Myths & Sagas | New Legends & Claims |


Saturday, 06. January 2007
Bodhi Zendo

Bodhi Zendo is a Zen training center in South India’s Perumal Hills, which also serves as the center for Bodhi Sangha, an international community of followers of Zen-Master P. AMA Samy.

Bodhi Zendo is open to all who practice Zen, or who wish to experience it. You can spend some days or weeks in silence and meditation, and experiencing the brotherhood of the Sangha. At Bodhi Zendo visitors will find a beautiful Zen garden with wonderful panoramic views of the surrounding mountains and valleys. There is also a considerable library, with literature on Zen, Buddhism, Christianity, Philosophy other religions and other subjects.

You can get an impression on the house and everyday life in Bodhi Zendo in this documentary: "Explaining a dream within a dream. Bodhi Zendo, Zen center in India". A film from Helga Brown, Hamburg, Germany 2006.

Runtime 45 minutes.



'Zen' can mean many things: Zen Buddhism, Zen meditation, Zen method, Zen philosophy or Zen approach to life, Zen experience or -realization, Zen enlightenment or - awakening and so on. However Zen meditation and realization are different from Zen Buddhism. Zen Buddhism characterizes a religious group; Zen meditation is independent from any specific religion.

In fact Zen is the religion of non-religion, yet in its light religions can truly be themselves. Zen, in terms of practice and realization is apart from any philosophy, ideology or any "- ism" (Monism, pantheism, nihilism, secularism, humanism etc.). It transcends both, negation and affirmation. It finds and fulfills any reality in its suchness and singleness. It is the death of the "Old person" and the birth of the "New person", the new sky and the new earth. However, Zen is more practice and action (Jap. gyo, Sanscr. sadhana) than theory. It is the exercise of life together with the Master, the Sangha and daily living. It is the practice with body, mind and spirit that becomes realized within the space between oneself and the others - the action of the universe.

More at the Bodhi Zendo Website. (English Version)

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Unter Zen kann man vieles verstehen: Buddhismus, Meditationsmethode, Philosophie oder einen besonderen Zugang zum Leben, Erfahrung oder Erleuchtung. Zen-Meditation und Verwirklichung sollten jedoch vom Zen-Buddhismus unterschieden werden. Zen-Buddhismus bezeichnet eine religiöse Gruppe, Zen-Meditation ist dagegen unabhängig von einer bestimmten Religion.

Tatsächlich ist Zen die Religion der Nicht-Religion. In seinem Licht können Religionen wahrhaftig sie selbst sein. Zen als Praxis und Verwirklichung überschreitet jede Philosophie, Ideologie, jeden -ismus. Zen ist weniger eine Theorie als vielmehr ein Praktizieren und Handeln (jap. gyo, sanskr. sadhana): mit dem Meister oder der Meisterin, mit der Sangha und im täglichen Leben.

Mehr auf der Bodhi Zendo Webseite. (Deutsche Version)
Category: Buildings & Places | Meditation & Mind | Movies & TV | People & Organisations |


Friday, 05. January 2007
The Open Door

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~~~ Find Your Inspiration ~~~
Category: Poetry & Inspirations |


News & Stories

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The Mystery of Ever-Burning Lamps by American Chronicle.
Imagine that you find a small burning lamp hidden deep in an ancient vault. This mysterious lamp, which is in perfect preservation, has burned continuously without fuel for the last 2,000 years. What would you think of your remarkable discovery? Most likely you would wonder whether the precious lamp that you are holding in your hands is a magical object, a work of God, or perhaps some evil powers.

Untangling the Mystery of the Inca by Wired.

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Yet, if centuries of scholarship are to be believed, the Inca, whose rule began 2,000 years after Homer, never figured out how to write. It's an enigma known as the Inca paradox, and for nearly 500 years it has stood as one of the great historical puzzles of the Americas. But now a Harvard anthropologist named Gary Urton may be close to untangling the mystery.


2007: How to Thrive This Year by Ohmy News.
Wondering how to survive this year? Worried about what's in store for you in 2007? Then this article is especially for you. Because you shouldn't be thinking of simply dealing with the issues and challenges of 2007, or merely surviving them, you should be finding ways to thrive, to flourish in all the opportunities this year will throw at you.

UFO in the Clouds by MSNBC.
More than 3,000 reports of unidentified flying objects were sent to the National UFO Reporting Center over the past year - but not one has generated as much buzz as November's sighting at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Was it a metallic-looking, saucer-shaped object rising through the clouds, or nothing more than a meteorological oddity? It's hard to figure out whether the truth is really out there, but one thing is for sure: Clouds can do some positively alien-looking things.

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Celebrity CEO Horoscopes by Forbes.
Want to know what 2007 holds for billionaires like Google CEO Eric Schmidt and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg? You could ask a stock picker or a political pundit. Or you could look to the stars. That's why we've chosen 10 of our favorite celebrity business moguls from the Forbes list of The World's Billionaires and asked a professional astrologer to give us the lowdown.


UFO Cult Predicts End of the World in July 2007 by ClickPress.
The Church of the SubGenius has announced that the end of the world will take place on Thursday, July 5, 2007. In preparation for the fulfillment of this doomsday prophecy, the Church is requesting that all of its members participate in a festival with rock concerts and blasphemous rituals taking place in upstate New York, during the final weekend before the arrival of the apocalypse.
What?

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Category: News & Stories |


Thursday, 04. January 2007
NASA UFO Hacker Video Interview

Watch the 16 minute interview with Gary McKinnon, the man who hacked NASA government computer networks searching to search for UFO evidence. What he has to say is chilling.

Category: Ufo's & Aliens |


Test your knowledge of UFO lore

How familiar are you with history of alien sightings?

Unidentified flying objects may seem like a high-tech phenomenon, but such sightings have caused controversy for millennia. This quiz touches on some of the high points of UFO history.

Gauge your UFO IQ: Test your knowledge of UFO lore

Great!

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Category: Ufo's & Aliens |


BibleMap

BibleMap combines every location in the Bible with Google Maps. Just click a place in the Bible text.

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The motivation for developing the site was simple. Create a free Bible atlas which harnesses Google maps. We hope this site will be a blessing to you and possibly help make the living book of the Bible more alive in your life.

BibleMap

Category: Buildings & Places | Lifestyle & Trend |


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