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News Briefs 31-01-2008

Likely my last Thursday news update for a while, with Red Pill Junkie coming on board to help out here at TDG. Make him welcome!

Thanks Rick.

Quote of the Day:

The fact that the Earth bends time has to be taken into account, otherwise our sat-navs would drift by 11km per day.

Dr Brian Cox

Editor
  1. *Gulp!*
    Yes, it’s true. Greg has been kind enough to offer me to be part of the TDG team since he’s been pretty busy lately (something to do with improving his game for an upcoming Wii tournament, apparently).

    At first I admit the proposition intimidated me (would I be up to the challenge?), but after thinking it for a couple of months I have come to realize that TDG has become very important to me; checking the daily news links and exchanging in great debates with the rest of the Grailers is extremely satisfying and fulfilling, and so if there’s anything I can do to help this website in any small way I can, then it will be an honor.

    And if you guys have any recommendations or advise (besides not sucking which I already know, although I don’t make any promises) I will be more than happy to read them and take them into consideration.

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

        1. Cox Quote
          Did I recognise the Cox quote from his recent Horizon documentary? I loved it when the satnav got him lost whilst approaching the satnav control centre.
          Makes me as worried as hell, though, that we’re all becoming too reliant on the US military.

          A brilliant idea crawls out of the corpses of a hundred failures

          Anthony North

        2. Welcome aboard!
          Welcome aboard, RPJ! Being a Grail news editor is kind of like being a pirate, pillaging and looting the internet for news. Except we don’t bury it under an X, and we’re forever on the lookout for Skeptic Privateers looking to hang us by the neck and send us to Davey Jones’s Locker. Set your prow to the east and chase the morning. 😉

    1. thanks guys
      Thank you for all your nice comments down there. I’ll do my best 🙂

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

    2. You will do just fine!
      It is not an easy job, and it takes a lot of commitment – and a thick skin certainly helps at times!

      Thank you for taking up the challenge, much appreciated.

      Regards

      Nostra

  2. Electrical stimulation of areas of the brain
    Michael Prescott:
    “The article goes on to say that by inhibiting activity in one part of the brain, “balance” can be restored. But do we know for sure that balance has anything to do with it?”

    “An alternative explanation is that the brain is a filter that blocks out much of consciousness (which originates outside the brain)”

    Aha! But maybe not blocking as such, perhaps hijacking or taking over might be more appropriate.

    “consider that humanity was largely static, in terms of material progress, for most of prehistory. Something like 100,000 years may have elapsed while people made little apparent effort to improve their technology. Could it be that they saw no reason to do so, because they were focused on nonmaterial things?”

    Aha! They say that when the first infusion within an animal body happened, what we called the Adamic race, the original Atlanteans, their psychism was working a lot at the astral level, where they spent a lot of time to perfect the astral body. The Indo-European epoch led instead to the perfecting of the intellect.

    The first case was subtler and kept a conscious link with the invisible, until the animality made consciousness to go deeper and deeper into matter, cutting off consciousness of the link to the multidimensional reality of the ‘incarnated’.

    “Maybe that’s where the story of the Garden of Eden (and other tales of paradise lost) came from – a dim recollection of a time when God spoke to us directly, and we didn’t feel impelled to sweat and strive and make life an ordeal.”

    Maybe not God though.

    Quite an astute character that Michael, I say.

    1. Returning to the source . . .
      [quote=Richard]Michael Prescott:
      “An alternative explanation is that the brain is a filter that blocks out much of consciousness (which originates outside the brain)”

      Aha! But maybe not blocking as such, perhaps hijacking or taking over might be more appropriate.

      “consider that humanity was largely static, in terms of material progress, for most of prehistory. Something like 100,000 years may have elapsed while people made little apparent effort to improve their technology. Could it be that they saw no reason to do so, because they were focused on nonmaterial things?”

      Aha! They say that when the first infusion within an animal body happened, what we called the Adamic race, the original Atlanteans, their psychism was working a lot at the astral level, where they spent a lot of time to perfect the astral body. The Indo-European epoch led instead to the perfecting of the intellect.

      The first case was subtler and kept a conscious link with the invisible, until the animality made consciousness to go deeper and deeper into matter, cutting off consciousness of the link to the multidimensional reality of the ‘incarnated’.[/quote]

      I recall a quote from Peter Kingsley pointing out that Parmenides returned from the underworld with the gift of logic from the gods, but there was a warning label attached: Use this, but don’t be fooled by it. And like impatient children, we tore off the label and got busy.

      I mentioned in Prescott’s comment thread yesterday that the connection is still there, still within us, but most of us aren’t aware of it any longer.

      Direct awareness of other realms still exists today in shamanic cultures, and held on in the West for longer than most of us are aware. Evans-Wentz’s 1911 publication of ‘The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries’ (full text available at http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm) is a remarkable anthropological exploration of the subject matter conducted at the cusp of the inevitable domination of the era of material ‘reason’. Evan-Wentz’s work was based on his doctoral thesis; he was urged to explore the topic by W.B. Yeats, before it was completely relegated to the realm of ridicule. He spent several years on the project and concluded that there was more to the Fairy Faith than simple superstition.

      Try mentioning that to your neighbor or co-worker today and see what sort of response you get.

      I’m probably preaching to the choir with this. It has occurred to me though, that what is needed today more than ever is for more people to become consistently aware of and act from the essence at our core, just as the ancients did. We all have this ability, though few understand their own psychological functioning well enough to recognize it.

      There’s no reason that we can’t have the full use of our intellect coupled with our innate wisdom. In my mind, the future of humanity depends upon our ability to do so.

      Congrats to RPJ for the new gig, and good luck!

      1. connection
        Yes, the connection is still there otherwise we would not think. But it has become a one-sided connection, totally subjective as it became paired to the ‘I’ rather than the ‘You’.

        But as much as what happened had been planned, so was necessary, as much the principle will not be to go back to those roots such as those that existed at the onset of the human infusion on this planet.

        Man must return with something more.

        And yes, he will have to use his intellect but an intellect cleansed from all impulsions, whether they be from the soul or from the material envelope. Otherwise, he won’t wake up to his reality but will only mystify his connection, as it was back then.

        His intellect must be free from all influences if he must wake up to his original identity as well as his augmented multidimentionality.

        Coming down here allowed more energy architectures to be created. We talk about the astral body, the lower mental architecture or intellect, the memory of the soul in its conenction with cellular consciousness, and so on. These were not before what we could call the spirit or the original energy started its movement downwards so to speak, with the consequence being the disconnection of the receptor, which in turn forced the creation and development of the intellect within the receptor.

        Indeed, the connection exists. But going back to what we one were should not be an option. Otherwise, all this would have been a total waste of energy.

  3. Welcome, Red!
    I look forward immensely to your first news post. You are an astute and intelligent person with a wide-ranging interest – should be a good read.

    Best wishes, you’ll manage just fine. Kathrinn.

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