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‘Shrooms Prove Previous Lives

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Japanese Space Cannon for 2014






Jaxa said:





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Digital Mind Mapping- with a Real Human Brain





Prof. Katrin Amunts at Dusseldorf’s Heinrich Heine University said:




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The Weight of the Soul


Most people will know of the experiments conducted by  Dr. Duncan McDougall in the early 1900s which led to the theory that the human body weighed 21 grams less at the moment of death.  McDougall weighed six patients, while they were in the process of dying from tuberculosis. When death was imminent, the entire bed of the patient was quickly placed on a highly sensitive industrial sized scale. In each case a small weight loss- about 21 grams- was recorded.  A paper summarising his findings appeared in the journal American Medicine in 1907.  He did the same experiment with dogs (which were easier to procure for his experiments than humans) and said that there was no weight loss at the point of the canines’ demise. This appeared to confirm the popular theory that, unlike humans, animals had no souls to fly heavenward at death.

The Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, who lived in the sixth century BC, thought that the soul was composed of an unusually fine or rare kind of matter, such as air or fire. However it is not known whether he conducted any experiments.

More recently, in 1988, East German researchers carried out experiments on 200 terminally ill patients. In each case the weight loss was exactly the same – 1/3,000th of an ounce or 0.01 gram.  Considerably less than 21 grams.

No further valid experimentation and measurement has been undertaken in the last three decades, and while the minute weight loss has not been scientifically explained, various theories have been assembled to explain the change in weight from life to death.   Some try to say that the margin for error in the calculations was larger than stated and therefore the results are questionable, while others have used the experiments to argue in support of  the theory that  “dark matter” being part of the make up of all living humans.

Whether it’s 21 grams, or 0.01 gram, the jury is still out on what it all means.


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Are you Lucky? Professor Richard Wiseman the Leading Authority On Luck


If you’re into hard analysis of the edge of sciences such as noetics,  the paranormal and such-like, then you should have heard of professor Richard Wiseman. Born in 1966 he is the Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in England. Interestingly, before he became an author and  leading light on such subjects as the nature of luck, he was a magician!

He is probably best known for his decade-long study into luck.  In his study he found that 12 percent of people in the general population identify themselves as lucky, 9 percent as unlucky and most people consider themselves neither lucky nor unlucky. In his epic study he chose equal numbers of  lucky and unlucky subjects.

In an early experiment, he had everyone enter the National UK Lottery. The “lucky” people did no better in the lottery than the “unlucky” people. However he found that the people who considered themselves lucky often had a more positive outlook on life and therefore interpreted events in a more upbeat way, then those who considered themselves unlucky. For example, a lucky person whose plane developed engine trouble and who made a successful but bumpy landing at an unscheduled airport would say that they were lucky to have escaped with their life. The person who considered themselves unlucky would say that they were unlucky to have been on a plane that got diverted to a different airport, causing delay and inconvenience.

In one experiment, the doctor asked his subjects to count the number of photographs in a newspaper. Unlucky people averaged about two minutes to finish the task, lucky people just a few seconds. How come? Well on the second page of the paper was a message, in letters two-inches high, which said “Stop counting — there are 43 photographs in this newspaper.” Lucky people usually noticed it. Unlucky people tended to miss it, as well as second message halfway through the paper: “Stop counting, tell the experimenter you have seen this and win £250.”   Wiseman speculated that this was because unlucky people tended to be more tense and less likely to notice the unexpected. Those that considered themselves lucky came across as more relaxed and able to see what is there, rather than what they are looking for.

This ability to recognize and capitalize on chance opportunities is important if you are going to make the best out of what life throws at you. So is creating the opportunities for luck to occur. The study indicated that this was something  that lucky people seemed to do without even thinking. Lucky people more often than not wanted to break from routine and have variety in their lives. These new or random experiences introduced new opportunities that, in turn, lucky people recognized and acted upon.  And the more opportunities a person encounters, the more likely it is that one or more of these opportunities would turn out to be surprisingly good.

So you don’t need to have the luck of the Irish, a four-leaf clover, a lucky horseshoe, or some gypsy heather. What you need is a dose of inquisitiveness,  inventiveness, the willing to experiment, and to make sure you don’t get stuck in a groove. Good luck with your endeavours!

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What is reality? “The Brain in a Vat” Hypothesis


The Brain in a Vat hypothesis is one of the better known “thought experiments” where someone (usually a philosopher, scientist or student of noetics) thinks up a situation, experiment or hypothesis, to illustrate a conundrum, moral dilemma or illustrate a theory. It is said that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was based on a thought he had when he was 16 years old. He wondered that if he shone a beam of light into space, and then was able to fly and catch up with that beam and look sidewards at it, travelling at the same speed, what would he see? Would the light appear stationary?

With more than a nod to some Gothic horror story, the “brain in a vat” imagines that a demented scientist has successfully removed a human brain from its body. The brain is then placed in a vat of nourishing liquid that keeps it functioning and to all intents and purposes “alive”. Out spaced-out scientist then attached electrodes to key areas of the brain, and connects these to a sophisticated computer that generates images, sensations and emotions taken from the real world. The brain then receives these electrical impulses which simulate in every detail everyday experiences. In other words the brain receives all the information it would receive through sight, smell, touch etc as if it was back in its a body. The question is, would the brain be able to know that what it was experiencing was not reality, but a simulation? Would that simulation be, in effect reality?

At its heart, the exercise asks you to question the nature of experience, and to consider what it really means to be human. Do you need a body to be human? Even the famous philosopher Descartes questioned whether he could ever truly prove that all his sensations were really his own, and not just an illusion caused by as he put it an “evil daemon.” Descartes concluded “cogito ergo sum” (“I think therefore I am”).  However, the brain in the vat thinks, and therefore exists.

Now you know where the idea for the film The Matrix originated!

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Presentiment. Did you see it Coming?


Here is a scenario. You are at work on your official break. You have been told that you shouldn’t use your Office PC to access social media- you should go to the library to do that. You just want to check Facebook quickly and can’t be bothered top leave your desk. While you’re looking at your new messages, you get an uncomfortable feeling. You shut down the screen- just before your manager comes into the room. Phew! But how did you know she was on her way?  A similar feeling can occur when you sense that someone is staring at you. You can’t see them, but something makes you turn round and clock them. What was that?

It’s called presentiment- it’ s not like Nostrodamus’ predictions, or crystal ball scrying. It’s more short-focused than that. Analysis was undertaken last year at Northwestern University, Illinois, in the United States. Julia Mossbridge a neuroscientist at NW University is the lead author of the review of data from 26 mainstream psychological studies and experiments dating back as far as 1978.


The test subject volunteers in the studies exhibited significant changes in heart and brain waves as well as electrical measurements in their skin up to 10 seconds prior to experiencing randomly chosen stimuli. These were not just anticipating the random arrival at the boss at your work station, but a disturbing or arousing photo. It seems that many of the subjects somehow anticipated they were about to see something that would provoke a strong response such as fear, embarrassment or desire.

Ms Mossbridge said that researchers are not sure whether people are really seeing into the future or just reacting to their bodies somehow pre-anticipating something a few seconds before it occurs. Whatever the explanation, it’s an interesting step towards accepting that there is something akin to a sixth sense.


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Have “His Dark Materials” been found?


The search for what is now known as dark matter may have been going on for centuries. Early philisophers and alchemists quested for the thing that was present in everything. They cosnidered that if it could be discovered it could be manipulated to make base metals into gold, and even provide an elixir for immortality. The quest may be over- physicists may have finally found hard evidence for the existence of dark matter.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston will make an announcement in the next few weeks to co-incide with the publication of a report- if the final tests and analysis of data holds up.

Dark matter is thought to be the invisible bonding agent which makes up the bulk of the universe’s mass.  Its existence was first theorised pre-World War 2, to explain the way that galaxies expand and move in clusters.

While dark matter seems plausible on paper, it hasn’t yet been possible to directly observe dark matter or know of what it’s made. However a machine called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer may well pull the covers away and expose dark matter. These experiments, combined with information coming out from the Large Hadron Collider collisions mean that we are close to achieving a new understanding of why what we see is really so small a slice of what there really is out there in the cosmos.

That’s big stuff, although personally, I’d still like to change up some of my cheap Indian brass plates to gold….

As for where the expression “His Dark Materials” comes from- it’s from the infamous poem Paradise Losy by John Milton:

Into this wilde Abyss,
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
But all these in their pregnant causes mixt
Confus’dly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless th’ Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds,
Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and look’d a while,
Pondering his Voyage; for no narrow frith
He had to cross.

Very apt, I think!


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Make with the Magic Memory Mushrooms Man!


Anyone of a certain age will remember there was always some long-haired unhealthy looking guy at the party doling out various varieties of “magic mushrooms” as a change from the bitter weed or booze.  Certain species of mushrooms were supposed to unlock repressed of forgotten memories, especially from childhood. A lot sager than LSD and a lot cheaper than hypno-therapy.  But did these Magic memory Mushrooms actually work?

One of the problems is that unless you have access top a means to confirm your recovered memory, it may be a false one. So in order to be sure it is a valid, corroborated memory you’ll need a person,  a record, a photo or a video to check.

Unless you have a retentive memory, memories are weak and fickle things, and can be re-shaped subconsciously after the event by subsequent events, emotions or people’s testimonies given as fact. Add to the fact that the mushrooms, while unlocking your memories, may be tainting them with their active chemicals and you have a problem.

The first thing to say is that experimenting with mushrooms is really a no-no. Some varieties can only be identified with the aid of a microscope, and some deadly shrooms are very similar in look to edible and/or magic mushrooms.

.Psilocybe mushrooms are the type that can cause hallucinations, or give you the belief that you have uncovered a childhood memory because they contain the psychotropic tryptamines psilocybin and psilocin. 

Unlike manufactured psychotropic drugs such as LSD, magic mushrooms have a long history dating back thousands of years as part of religious or spiritual ceremonies.  But the bottom line is that in experiements in the 1970s and 80s, in test conditions, controlled amounts of magic mushrooms failed to produce memories that could be corroborated. Some were blatantly wrong, like someone who believed they had a kid brother who disappeared at age 6 months, proved to be false, and some who fell into the alien abduction camp.

Recent UK study has revealed  that 12 – 15% of people aged 16 or over have tried magic mushrooms.  Mostly rural rather than inner-city. I guess they just don’t travel well.

Oh well, back to the edible and non-hallucigonec varieties- they keep your memories locked away and uncorrupted, and also tase better!

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Mind over Matter: More Power to your Elbow!


“It’s just a question of mind over matter!” How many times have we heard that expression when we are being exhorted to put aside practical and physical obstacles and use the power of positive thought to achieve our aims? A woman called Jan in the United States is astonishing doctors with just such a skill.  And, yes she does have a significant physical problem to overcome with her mind.  A few years ago Jan lost the use of her limbs due to a degenerative disease that affected her spinal cord and caused her to be paralysed from the neck down.

Dpctors at the University of Pittsburgh created a robotic arm for Jan, which she can now operate by using her thoughts- directions given to the arm from her brain. In addition to the robotic arm itself, a computer program was developed that translates natural brain activity to move real limbs, into ones that control the robot arm. It is very sophisticated- instead of Jan having to think “Move an inch to the left and close fingers” she merely has to think “pick up the ball on the table”.

Andrew Schwartz, the Professor or neurobiology at Pittsburgh University said:

“We were blown away by how fast she was able to acquire her skill, that was completely unexpected. At the end of a good day, when she was making these beautiful movements, she was ecstatic.”


To make the connection between mind; Jan’s brain, and matter; the robotic arm, doctors performed a four-hour operation to implant two tiny grids of electrodes, measuring 4mm on each side, into Jan’s brain. The electrodes were pushed just under the surface of the brain, close to the neurons in the motor cortex that control hand and arm movement. Following this, the surgeons then replaced the part of the skull they had removed to expose and access the brain. Wires from the electrodes ran to connectors on the patient’s head. These were then connected to the computer system and tothe  robotic arm. Doctors then had to record Jan’s brain activity for arm movements. This entailed getting her to watch the robotic arm and imagine her own arm was moving in that way. These thoughts were then recorded by the computer as individual neuron activity from her brain.


While the progress made has been truly amazing, Jan’s progressed has slowed recently. That is because  scar tissue that forms around the tips of the electrodes has reduced the quality of the brain signals to the computer and thus to the robotic arm. It is hoped that using much thinner electrodes will solve this problem. Once that has been achieved the next step will be to build senses into the robotic arm’s fingers, so as to transmit feelings of objects grasped back to the brain, such as heat, cold, and the nature of a surface touched- smooth, rough, whatever.  Beyond that it is hoped that a wireless system can be developed so that there doesn’t have to be a physical connection between patient, computer and arm.

More power to Jan’s elbow, arm, hand and fingers. Mind over matter indeed!

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Twins’ Telepathic Link


I had a boss at work who had a twin brother. He told me a tale that during the period of the late nineteen forties,  when people had to do National Service, his brother joined the Royal Air Force.  On a particular day when my boss was at work, and his twin brother overseas, he was at a meeting when he suddenly got a very strong feeling pf panic and dizziness.  He was helped from the meeting, and was gripped by a real panic that his brother had died.  He said that after contacting the RAF base in Egypt, he was told that his brother hadn’t returned after a reconnaisance mission.  However ashortly afterwards, his brother had managed to signal the base that he had crach-landed due to engine failure, but was ok.
He was alter picked up and returned to normal duties.  My boss and his brother got together at Christmas and compared notes on the incident nad my boss’ panic attack. Both occurred at exactly the same time, a few minutes after 10am, and the feelings of dizziness weer due to the fact that the plane was in a tail spin. My boss cannot explain why this occurred and doesn’t believe in ESP or the power of the mind, but was absolutely certain that he had an emotional/noetic link with his brother, that activated in such an abnormal situation.
There are many other examples given by twins. A common one is that twins share the same or very similar dream- and sometimes even communicate with each other within the dream and carry on the conversation the next morning after they have awoken!
There have been a lot of studies done on twins to try to show that there is a mental telepathic  link between them.  Yet in scientific clinical “laboratory” environments, the link cannot be replicated to any great degree. The link seems to be strongest of all between identical (monozygotic) twins, but even there you will be hard pressed to find uncontroverible scientific proof.  Yet if you ask twins, they will almost always have one or more stories to illustrate their shared telepathic link. What is telepathy? It’s the linking of ideas, thoughts, pictures, conversations, emotions and signals without using sight, sound, smell, taste or touch. It is an extra sensory perception. It seems that the power that twins have cannot be controlled or ordered. It occurs as and when, usually triggered by events that have cause emotional trauma in one of them.

Research and tests involving twins seems to have tailed off in recent years, perhaps because of the disappointment in getting results in test conditions. But this phenomenon happens and happenes quite regularly, and with almost all twins. I hope that more sophisticated equipment can be developed that will be able to reveal and isolate what the ESP link is. That may then uncover a first step towards all of us beginning on a path towards telepathic communication. Now there’s a thought to be shared!

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Food Fast, not Fast Food is the Key to Living Longer.

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Michael Mosley may seem like most of us: Hewants to live longer, stay younger and lose weight in the bargain. And probably like most of us, he wants to make as few changes to his life as possible along the way. Gain without pain?  In a fascinating video on YouTube, Mosley talks about his re-discovery of the powerful new science behind the ancient idea of fasting. The video shows him testing out a theory that you can fast, and yet still enjoy food, on himself.

Check out his video here: Fasting can be Fun

And while we are on the subject of science helping us live longer, it’s worth just stopping to think what effect innovation medicine, technology and science has had on our longevity over the history of Homo Sapien. During the last few thousand years, we have tripled the number of years we can expect to live. Despite the Bible saying that the average life of a man before he met his maker was “three score years and ten”, very few people lived to 70 in ancient times, and across the globe, it was considered an achievement to pass 30 years of age.  Scientists say that there is no reason why, with all the galloping medical advances we are making at the moment, we cannot triple again the average number of years we can expect to live. And then triple it again. Already, scientists say that the first person to live to be 150 years old is already alive today. And  twenty years time after someone has reached 150,  someone will have been born who will live to be an extremely ripe old age of 1000!

These are the predictions of a leading scientist,Dr Aubrey De Grey. He is the biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of a foundation dedicated to longevity research. He claims that within his own lifetime doctors will have all the tools they need to ‘cure’ ageing,  banishing all diseases, and extending life indefinitely.

Dr De Grey said: ‘I’d say we have a 50/50 chance of bringing ageing under what I’d call a decisive level of medical control within the next 25 years or so. ‘And what I mean by decisive is the same sort of medical control that we have over most infectious diseases today.’

The British scientist sees ageing as merely the life-long accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage throughout the body. He considers this is repairable:


An average of three months is being added to life expectancy every year at the moment and experts estimate there could be a million centenarians across the world by 2030. Up until now, the world’s longest-living person on record lived to 122 and in Japan alone there were more than 44,000 people over 100 years old in 2010.

But will we be all washed out mumbling drooling zombies in wheelchairs as we reach and pass 150? No. The expert  says ‘This is absolutely not a matter of keeping people alive in a bad state of health. This is about preventing people from getting sick as a result of old age.

Dr De Grey is working with colleagues in the U.S. to identify enzymes in other species that can break down the garbage and clean out the cells – and the aim then is to devise genetic therapies to give this capability to humans.  We wish him well!

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Noetic Science Experiments

The Web Bot Project

Sounds like straight out of the Lost Symbol. The Collective Counscious measured by searches and crawles.


Some of its predictions:

  • September 11 attacks – In June 2001 Web Bot predicted that a catastrophic event would occur within the next 60–90 days.
  • American Airlines Flight 587
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
  • Northeast Blackout of 2003
  • 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
  • Hurricane Katrina and its devastation
  • Dick Cheney hunting incident

Future Predictions:

Major catastrophe in 2012 – The Web Bot has gained most of its notoriety for contributing to the 2012 phenomenon by predicting that a cataclysm will devastate the planet in the year 2012, possibly a reversing of Earth’s magnetic poles or a small series of nuclear attacks leading up to a major attack on this day. The prediction does not necessarily call for a complete end of the world.

The Web Bot Project

The Million Dollar Experiment


The Million Dollar Experiment is open for everyone to join.(At the moment they don’t seem to accept any new participants)

The New Wealth Experience

The New Wealth Experience is an international virtual conference the month of October 2009 featuring the world top thought leaders.  Their purpose is to awaken millions to connect with the direction of a higher purpose and conscious creation. Check out the Global Kindness Project .

The Intention Experiment

The Intention Experiment is a series of scientifically controlled, web-based experiments testing the power of intention to change the physical world.Thousands of volunteers from 30 countries around the world have participated in Intention Experiments thus far.

The Harvard Prayer Experiment

The study: With support from the Templeton Foundation, cardiologist Herbert Benson and his colleagues randomly assigned 1802 cardiac bypass patients to one of three conditions:

those told they may or may not be prayed for (and who weren’t)
those told they would be prayed for (and who were)
Templeton Foundation synopsis:

“The Largest Study of Third-Party Remote Intercessory Prayer Suggests Prayer Not Effective in Reducing Complications Following Heart Surgery”

Why prayer experiments of that scale do not work:


Take part in The Global Consciousness Project

Are we all connected on a quantum level? Test the theory yourself using the instructions by Song Chengxiang!

The Secret behind The Secret

Take part in the Affirmation Experiment

The Unified Field Theory and The Philadelphia Experiment

Dating back to the early years of WW2, the US Government is alleged to have experimented with Einsteins Unified Field Theory.

Check out what Michio Kaku has to say about invisibility! Not very far from what we learned about the Unified Field Theory!

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