Back in 2002, Hampton Roads published Robert Clarke’s first book, The Four Gold Keys, featuring a foreword by writer Colin Wilson, through whom Robert and I had become acquainted. Hampton Roads subsequently published Robert’s second book, and Hologram Books is going to publish his subsequent works in the coming year. The Four Gold Keys being now out of print, and the copyright reverted to Robert (therefore, now, his estate) I am able to reprint Colin’s opinion of the importance of Robert’s work.
Robert’s Warning Dream
I have been going through emails to and from my friend Robert Clarke, who moved over to the other side early Thursday morning English time — late Wednesday in America — and came across this that he sent me just slightly more than one year ago. What he (and his dream) says isn’t fashionable. Don’t we know it! But it’s true, which is more important. Most of the people who are looking for the causes of our present disintegration are looking in the wrong places, perhaps because they cannot bring themselves to reconsider opinions that brought them to the ground that they thought was firm beneath their feet.
Bill’s Right Brain
What happens when a social-activist lawyer — a good guy by all accounts — suddenly has his “scientific” assumptions trumped by reality? This story is from the Sacramento News & Review, published on August 20, 2009. To see the original, which includes a few photos I did not include here, click http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1127157
Bill’s right brain
By Nancy Brands Ward
Surgery for a brain tumor gave this left-brained Sacramento attorney a stunning glimpse of right-brain possibilities. Now he’s a changed man.
Two dreams
I believe in dreams. They have meaning, even though we can’t always figure out just what the meaning is. I think these two recent dreams may be of significance to more people than only myself. The first I call Waters, Rising.
Rethinking homeopathy
This article from New Scientist (found via Schwartzreport) ends with this statement: “If the results turn out to be real, she says, the implications are profound: we may have to rewrite physics and chemistry.” To which I add: It’s about time!
Hemingway’s reaction
Speaking to “dead” people involves a lot of guesswork even after the fact. This morning I went fishing to see what Papa Hemingway thought about a book, and — more to the point, for me — how certain aspects of communication between this side and the other side work. Or, sometimes, don’t work.
The placebo effect and the nature of healing
This article, from Wired magazine, came to me via the Schwartzreport. Editor Stephan Schwartz rightly says:
Think about what this report is saying. The meaning beneath. It is saying that our consciousness has the power to affect the functioning of our physical organism down to cellular level. Additionally, the data shows we know which component of our organism to affect, even though we know nothing consciously of that organ, its location, or its function. Ask someone where their pancreas is and what it does. Yet in any placebo/medication double blind drug study better than a third will routinely produce the effect sought by the medication being tested. Previous studies have shown that across the board placebo will result in about 35 per cent of the people who are getting the sugar pill treatment doing as well or better than those receiving the actual medication.
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