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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As Japan’s Mediums Die, Ancient Tradition Fades
My brother alerted me to this story from The New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/world/asia/21japan.html?_r=1&emc=eta1] that to my mind shows the continuing impact of Western ways upon the rest of the world — not always to the non-Western world’s advantage. The old tradition seems pretty much gone, in Japan. Is that a bad thing? Good thing? Somewhat both? Neither? Your call. But one thing I know: We can and often do contact those on the other side. Some do it easier than others do, but if anyone at all can do it, then clearly it is a human ability.
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“It is in the very dogma and authority that you distrust …”
Once you get the knack of talking to the other side, any little journal entry may turn out to become an entry into a new dimension. Sometimes you get knocked for a loop.
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Why “The Sphere and the Hologram”?
Enigmatic title, right? Here’s a quote from the guys upstairs, trying to give us analogies so that we could get a sense of the nature of physical reality.
“The only things that come to mind now that are going to help are the sphere and the hologram, those two concepts. If you see yourselves as holographically part of the entirety of the universe, this doesn’t mean that you’re a tiny part of something huge, it means you’re an integral part of the whole thing, and size is not relevant. It’s just really not relevant. And the sphere again, is only used as an analogy of completion, of totality. It doesn’t mean that reality is literally a sphere.”
— from session 18, January 11, 2002