Treat yourself to a book for the new year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
From the book:
In the December 6, 2010 issue of the Cornell Chronicle, the university’s news publication, the headline screamed: Study showing that humans have some psychic powers caps Daryl Bem’s career. That article begins with:
“‘It took eight years and nine experiments with more than 1,000 participants, but the results offer evidence that humans have some ability to anticipate the future. Of the various forms of ESP or psi, as we call it, precognition has always most intrigued me because it’s the most magical,” attested Daryl Bem, professor of psychology emeritus.
His study was published in 2011, in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Bem’s experiment was fairly simple. As he reported in “Feeling the Future,” an article published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, he conducted nine experiments that involved 1,000 Cornell students who viewed erotic photos and found statistically significant results confirming that many people can glimpse the future.
One of his experiments, for instance, provided students with a computer monitor showing a pair of curtains that were side by side. The participants were instructed to choose the curtain that hid an erotic photo. The idea was that such stimuli usually produces certain human responses and the question was whether the response could be obtained before the stimulus occurred. Essentially, the students were asked to “feel” the future – the curtain hiding a photo of explicit sexual activity.
The results? Across 100 sessions, participants correctly identified the future position of the erotic pictures 53.1 percent of the time, better than the 50 percent hit rate expected by chance. The results, of course, were attacked by skeptics who pointed out that experiments conducted in a lab setting tend to get positive results that are difficult to replicate.
In fact, in 2013, the skeptical group CSICOP celebrated the alleged lack of replication. In response, Dean Radin, author and researcher at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, pointed out that more than 80 replications of the Bem effect show a “highly significant overall effect.” Radin also noted that the CSICOP article was a “…fine example of how that org is more about propaganda than science.” A year later, The Daily Grail listed eight successful replications.
There will always be skeptics. That’s fine. What isn’t fine is when scientists whose research challenges existing paradigms are trashed just because their investigations and theories don’t conform to mainstream science.
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Happy Holidays!
Our tree is tilting because our cats have been jumping at the decorations and knocking them down!
Revisit Trish and Rob’s October 2022 conversation with…
Candice M. Sanderson lives in Naples, Florida. Her life changed in a ten-minute period in August 2013 when she began to receive information from messengers from other-worldly sources. When her training as a psychologist failed to explain these events, she reluctantly followed the breadcrumbs down a path which resulted in extraordinary adventures into the unknown.
Candice first appeared with us on The Mystical Underground in 2020 when we talked about her first book “The Reluctant Messenger,” and we talked to her in February about “The Reluctant Messenger Returns,” which chronicles her expedition across a vast expanse of universal consciousness that led to new truths about life that she thought she had known so well. Her new series, “From the Reluctant Messenger,” highlights some of her more memorable explorations into other-dimensional spaces. The most recent one, called “Close Encounters,” takes a new, unexpected turn for Candice. Links to her YouTube channels and other social media platforms can be found on her website.
www.CandiceSanderson.com
Nearly every afternoon afternoon recently when I glance at the time on my computer, it’s 1:37. Love the numbers.
In 7 Secrets of Synchronicity, we mentioned number 137. A little background.
A prime number can be divided only by 1 and by itself. Or, put another way, a prime number is a positive integer that can’t equal the product of two smaller numbers. That makes 137 a prime number and a particularly baffling one. In Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung, Arthur I. Miller refers to this number as the “DNA of light.”The number is also associated with the Kabbalah. Miller explains that in ancient Hebrew, numbers were written with letters and each letter had a number associated with it. “Adepts of the philosophical system known as the Gematria add the numbers in Hebrew words and thus find hidden meanings in them,” Miller wrote.
In Hebrew, the word Kabbalah has four letters that add up to 137. Not surprisingly, physicists began referring to 137 as a mystical number. Wolfgang Pauli, a Nobel laureate and one of the early supporters of Jung’s theories about synchronicity, wrestled with the implications of 137 for most of his life. When he was admitted to the hospital at age 58 and learned he would be in room 137, he supposedly said, “I will never get out of here.” He was right. He died shortly afterward.
Physicist F. David Peat had his own experience with 137 when he visited the Jung Institute in Bollingen, Switzerland. In an email to us some years ago, he explained he was invited to give a lecture to celebrate the institute’s fiftieth year. Upon arrival at the hotel next to the institute, he was given a key and told his room was on the second floor of the annex. He walked down to the lake first to “get something of the spirit of Jung.” But after half an hour, nothing happened, so Peat decided to return to the hotel. “I took the elevator to the second floor, removed the key from my pocket and it was 137! I realized I was there to talk about Pauli, not Jung.”
So on the afternoons when I see 1:37 on my computer, it delights me. The DNA of light. Does it get any better than that? I finished a ghostwriting project that I thoroughly enjoyed working on, I’m nearly ready for Christmas, and now when I hear news about trump, I remind myself that light always is more powerful than darkness.
This is the kind of BS that flourished during the McCarthy era, which ran from around 1949-1954. It was named after Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin. During his decade in the senate between 1947-1957, he and his staff became notorious for making outlandish accusations that, though initially directed to government employees, would later include Americans from all walks of life.
It started with McCarthy’s list of 205 individuals -“Communist sympathizers” who had infiltrated the State Department, Hollywood, the arts. Among them were Charlie Chaplin, conductor Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story), Orson Welles (Citizen Kane), actress & singer Lena Horne, & American folk singer Burl Ives.
Also among McCarthy’s targets were writers Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man and other crime detective novels – and Lillian Hellman, screenwriter & playwright known for her success on Broadway & for her decades-long relationship with Hammett. She was blacklisted after appearing before The House Commmittee of -Un-American activities.
The equivalent of McCarthy’s “red scare” could very well be trump’s “deep state,” given some of those he has nominated for his cabinet. From The Guardian: “Patel promised last year on Steve Bannon’s show to go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media … who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections.”
Kash Patel, whom Trump nominated to become the director of the FBI, published a “deep state” enemies list in his book, Government Gangsters, which can be compared to McCarthy’s list of 205 . “We’re going to come after you … Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out. But yeah, we’re putting you all on notice.”
Then you have Pam Bondi, trump’s pick for attorney general, saying on Fox News last year that when Trump wins “you know what’s going to happen: the Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones. The investigators will be investigated. Because the deep state … they were hiding in the shadows.But now, they have a spotlight on them, and they can all be investigated, and the House needs to be cleaned out. Because now we know who most of them are; there’s a record of it, and we can clean house next turn. And that’s what has to happen.”
Trump, meanwhile, on a Meet the Press interview, said he will most likely pardon the J6 rioters and that the J6 committee members should be jailed. Then, in a early morning rant on his truth social, trump said that Cheney could be in “a lot of trouble.” He wants the FBI to investigate her.
And the house agrees.
Before the election, I posted something on Instagram about Kamala and my hope that she would win. A man who had been on our podcast – a talented photographer – said that he was shocked that I, of all people, didn’t recognize the evil of the democrats. I replied that I was shocked that he didn’t recognize the evil of trump.
So this is what we’ve come to. Before trump even is inaugurated, we’re headed toward another McCarthy era. But the next four years will be far worse than the McCarthy era.
We recently met our daughter Megan, in St, Pete, on Florida’s west coast.Rob & I – and Nigel, too! – got an Airbnb in Gulfport.
I haven’t been in that area for years and had never been in Gulfport. It’s a vibrant place, with outdoor restaurants that are really dog friendly. Nigel loved The Gulfport Brewery, dogs everywhere, live music, a Florida keys vibe.
But the high point was the Dali museum. This place is one mind-blowing area after another, detailing Dali’s fascinating life and incredible art. We spent 30 minutes in an immersion Dali experience of his life, art, like a documentary shown in 3-D on the walls, the ceiling.
The melting clock Dali create is re-crated in other versions and is sold in the gift shop on tee-shirts, coffee mugs, and actual wall clocks.
But the best part of this trip was spending time with Megan and Sam, her friend from Washington state!
Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with…
Dr. Alex Ling was born in Vorst, Germany, and he followed his family’s tradition of becoming a general practitioner. However, he became disillusioned by the pharmaceutical-dominated healthcare system and chose to pursue a holistic approach to health, emphasizing lifestyle and diet through self-awareness and spiritual practices.
He is also a successful sculptor, a researcher in megalithic sites, and the founder of the healing natural water company Aquan. He also leads adventure travel groups to sacred sites. He lives in Cornwall, England, with his partner, Vivienne.
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