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With the Iowa caucus still too close to call at 11:43 pm on February 1, I decided to run this post on socialism. As of this time, Hillary Clinton has given her victory speech but not a single network has called her the projected winner. Bernie Sanders, wisely, hasn’t spoken yet. This race is so close that even if he comes in a close second, he has basically won because no one expected outlier Sanders to take on the Clinton machine. Google Bernie’s fundraising just for the onth of January – no corporate sponsors. These donations are all from people like us, 3 bucks here, 50 bucks there. So here’ s the post:

Recently on Facebook, I saw a comment from a young man about socialism. He was responding to a woman’s remark that she liked what Bernie Sanders had to say. I rarely comment on stuff like this on Facebook or anywhere else, but his remarks reflected a common ignorance about what socialism is – and isn’t.

I understand the need to believe in free stuff. However, let’s just take a look at a few current socialist countries who are failing all around the world. Venezuela, Greece, the UK is not doing so well, Switzerland Sweden, it goes on and on and on. At some point in time, socialism fails, because you run out of other people’s money.

Or this, from the same guy:

By the way, we have free education now through high school. Look at Americas outcomes. We fail compared to the rest of the world. Free stuff is not appreciated. You relish what you work for. Socialism makes you work for nothing. That’s why in the end, it’s a failed prospect.

And this:

No one can argue that the top 1% have all the wealth or not. They do. But they would have it anyway. The smartest people always do the best. Trying to equate the finances across various levels of intellectual ability is sheer stupidity. Let the people who can prosper prosper and let the rest of us do the best we can. You can’t make everyone equal. It just can’t work that way.

I think the big problem in America is we can’t appreciate what true poverty is. If any American went to a country where real poverty was on display they would come back and worship the ground we live on. Instead, we have a bunch of whiners, lazy people, and beggars, who think everything should come to them for free. Because “they are so deserving” by virtue of being born in this country. It’s all a bunch of BS. You earn your way in the world. That’s the only way that makes sense. Getting things for free only breeds mediocrity.

He’s missing the point. Socialism isn’t about “free stuff.” It’s about a more equitable system, where corporations and the super wealthy pay their fair share. In a country as rich as the U.S. why should CEOs pay fewer taxes than their secretaries? Why do we have socialism for corporations and the super rich through tax loopholes? When did socialism become a dirty word?

Here are some facts. The top 10 most socialist countries in the world are:

China

Denmark

Finland

Netherlands

Canada

Sweden

Norway

Ireland

New Zealand

Belgium

Let’s take a closer look at some of these countries. From Peer Forum:

“Despite popular myths, there is very little connection between economic performance and welfare expenditure. Many of the countries on this list are proof of that, such as Denmark and Finland. Even though both countries are more socialistic than America, the workforce remains stronger.”

China: The government manages and controls the economy. It is becoming more of a hybrid economy, however, in that it is gearing more toward capitalism. As of 2012, about 95 percent of their population of nearly a billion and a half people have health insurance.

Denmark: It has the highest taxes in the world – about 70 percent. Health care is free to all citizens – nearly 6 million people. Equality is valued. Small businesses thrive.

Finland: It has one of the world’s best education systems,- no tuition, free meals to students. The literacy rate in the country is 100 percent and the country has one of the highest standards of living in the world. Finland has one of the highest standards of living in the world. Like Denmark and other European countries, equality is considered one of the most important values in society.

Canada: Like the Netherlands, Canada also has mostly a free market economy, but has a very extensive welfare system that includes free health and medical care. Canada is ranked as one of the best top five countries to live in by the United Nations and the Human Development Index (HDI) rankings.

The UK: Health care is universal and there are other pension and retirement benefits.Interestingly, it appears that as result of the financial meltdown of 2007-2008, welfare benefits were dispensed to the banks in the UK, not to the people, similar to what happened in the U.S.

In the U.S., the richest one percent hold about 38 percent of all privately held wealth. The bottom ninety percent the bottom hold seventy-three of all debt. According to the New York Times, the “richest 1 percent in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent”. This disparity is the one that Bernie Sanders, the only “socialist” in Congress, intends to change is he’s elected president.

In late July 2015, Bernie Sanders spoke in Madison, Wisconsin to a crowd of ten thousand about this inequality. So did filmmaker Michael Moore, who said 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined. According to Politifact, which fact checks these statements, it’s true. As of 2010, the net worth of the Forbes 400 — $1.37 trillion — exceeded that of the poorest 60 percent of U.S. households.

“As of 2010, the net worth of the Forbes 400 — $1.37 trillion — exceeded that of the poorest 60 percent of U.S. households.” And that was five years ago. The disparity has only grown greater.

Capitalism isn’t a bad system – until it collapses into unbridled greed.

Facebook dude: In a country as large and abundant as the U.S., why should any child go hungry? Why should any college student graduate with a debt so huge it will take decades to repay? Why should anyone be homeless? If we took all the money we have spent on wars just in the last fifteen years, it would pay for universal health care and all the rest of it.

We talked about seven ‘secrets’ of synchronicity in our first book on the subject.

Robert Moss, in The Three Only Things, meanwhile, came up with nine categories for coincidence:

• There are things that like to happen together (clusters, seriality).
• Thoughts are actions and produce effects.
• Coincidence multiples when we are in motion (physical or metaphorical travel).
• Life rhymes (like clusters that involve similar words or names)
• The world is a forest of symbols.
• Every setback offers an opportunity.
• To find our way we may need to get lost.
• Look for the hidden hand.
• The passions of the soul work magic (similar to engaging the divine).

One of these categories, the hidden hand, particularly caught our attention. It sounded like another secret of synchronicity.  Moss is referring to the nature of coincidences, how they seem to be orchestrated by a hidden order. “…events that manifest at discrete points in space and time…are the result of a single movement on another plane. Coincidences are homing beacons. They are secret handshakes from the universe.”

That’s a bit mysterious sounding, but we love the idea of synchronicity as a secret handshake from the universe!

This story illustrates, I think, the interconnection we often experience even with people we ‘know’ but never meet.

We started this blog nearly seven years ago – in February 2009. Over the course of these years, we have come to know some wonderfully enlightened human beings whom we’ve never met in person. Renee Prince was one of these individuals.

I first connected with her when I found her blog in 2009, I think it was, where she described her experiences working with dolphins at one at one of the big theme parks. She had a Master’s degree in experimental psychology and her dream was to work with dolphins in intraspecies communication. She became so disenchanted with the quality of their lives that she switched careers and became a set designer for movies. One of her greatest animal experiences and friendships was with a hawk she called Tennerin,

Renee was a Scorpio, the most mysterious and psychic sign in the zodiac, and her abilities shone when it came to animals – especially the animals she loved most, like dolphins and that hawk, Tennerin.  She wrote movingly of her relationships with these animals and shared some of the synchronicities she experienced concerning them.

We exchanged emails periodically. Renee felt things profoundly, at every level of her being, and when Tennerin failed to appear one spring, she was anxious and worried that something had happened to him. She also expressed her frustration about her private life – that although she loved working on movies, the hours were long and the conditions were often brutal. Her stepfather developed Alzheimer’s, her mother’s health was failing. She had written a book about her dolphin experiences and I referred her to my agent and later on, to another agent I knew personally. Nothing happened with the book, another frustration.

In late August 2014, I got an alarming email from her. She had discovered that she had a mass in her left lung:

Hi Trish,

The Pet scan showed an 8 centimeter mass in my left lung. They biopsy it tomorrow. Everything I’ve read today on what this means is not good. Not good. I’m beginning to wonder if anything I’ve ever done is going be finished and out there. I was born on 4:42 am in Pasadena, California.(I had asked for her birth data so I could look at her natal chart) I won’t hear the results until sometime next week. I honestly don’t know how I can get through this. Or if I’ll get through this. I need to turn down a TV pilot tomorrow—there goes my income for I don’t know how long—I have to have it removed at the very least and then…???  Without union work I will soon lose my coverage. I can’t even pet my parrot because my fear will translate to her and even with the Ativan they gave me today, I am drowning in near panic.

In September, I received another email from her. She said she had mesothelioma, and was waiting on the results of a CT scan that would tell her if the cancer had metastasized. Her agent had called to let her know her book proposal was being submitted to new editors and she seemed more hopeful.

If the cancer hasn’t metastasized, then I face an operation to cut it out of me and then do chemo to make sure it’s all out. The thoracic surgeon here in Salem has already said it’s too big for him but now the oncologist is referring me to a specialist surgeon in Portland. However, I am writing my affirmations every day and feeling Tennerin as he comes sweeping into my lung and shrinking the thing.

Renee, by her own admission,  had a deeply held belief that she wasn’t good enough, that she couldn’t ever complete something she had started. I  really didn’t understood her belief because, to me,it looked as if she had lived according to her own code. But she felt like this belief had contributed to her health challenge.

My least email from Renee was in April 2015. She was in an airport in San Jose – but I don’t know if that was San Jose, California or Costa Rica or some other San Jose. She was in a holding period, waiting for her insurance company to stop denying her coverage to get two spots of cancer “frozen to death by needle, like my doctor does for all his patients that have survived years past the six months to twenty-two month survival time. I am a great believer (I hope) in the individuality of my own recovery and of not relying on estimates and what has gone before. In choosing the doctor that I did, I think I made the first great decision away from that depressing survival range. Also, every other doctor would have taken the lung out and expected no more than that average survival time range.”

In the email she described her chemo treatment, how awful it was, and how, ultimately, it didn’t work. And then this:

I don’t believe I did anything “wrong” to get this cancer. What happened is that my mother married an alcoholic child-molesting psychopath who was a plasterer and he stored joint compound that contained asbestos and contaminated the entire family. Only 15% of people exposed to asbestos get it, probably because of a gene combination related to—get this—getting certain batches of the polio vaccine which contained simian virus 40, a leftover contaminant from working with monkeys to manufacture it.

If I planned this in some other portion of my existence then what a fucking asshole I was, to cut short my life, which is only now beginning to finally blossom. Thanks, in part, to getting mesothelioma. So maybe I planned to get it, then to get cured. But if I die before I get the things done that I need to do—that I believe I was sent here to do, I’m coming up to the afterlife with a raging anger that they had better watch out for. They don’t want me up there with this kind of seething resentment. They do not.

This evening I was writing up one of Renee’s stories and realized I hadn’t heard from her in months. I Googled her and found this, her obituary.

Renee died at the end of June 2015.

My hope is that she is flying through the skies with Tennerin and diving into the depths with dolphins, and brainstorming with John Lily about intraspecies communication. My hope is that she has found in death what eluded her in life. Peace, my friend. You lived and died according to your own code, and that is a huge triumph. Thank you for sharing the most sacred parts of your life with us and expanding our knowledge and driving home the point that we are all in this together.

Back in the summer of 2009, Rob went trail biking – the kind of biking where you slam over obstacles like fallen trees. It had rained that day, which broke the stifling Florida heat and usually meant the trail was well packed. I reminded him to take his cell phone since we’d had some car issues, but he couldn’t find it.

Around 8 PM, I heard the front door open, shut, which was odd. He usually came in through the garage. I went out into the living room and he was sprawled on the couch, eyes squeezed shut. “I think I sprained my ankle,” he said, and lifted his injured foot onto the edge of the coffee table.

I took one look at his foot and knew this wasn’t a sprain. A bone on the outside of his foot was about the size of an apricot. “Uh, I think this is a fracture or a break. I’ll get some ice.”

So I got a bucket of ice, then headed to the internet to look for information on the bones in the feet. I figured the bone that was fractured or broken was the cuboid, on the forefoot, as it’s called. I wondered if there was a synchronicity connected to any of this.

Later on, I stacked up a bunch of books we’d been using as references and put them on Rob’s desk. A few minutes later, he called out: “You aren’t going to believe this. You know those books you just put on my desk? I picked up Jung’s autobiography, turned to chapter 10, and here’s how it starts: ‘In the beginning of 1944, I broke my foot…’”

Skip ahead seven years. On January 7, 2016, my friend Millie Gemondo and I traded readings, as we frequently do. The exchange really isn’t fair because I simply read the tarot cards and Millie is a psychic who has made a number of correct predictions for us over the year. During the exchange, Millie told me to warn Rob to be careful when he went biking. She saw him falling off the bike and said it could be serious. I remembered the broken foot from 2009, so I passed on her message to Rob.

“A synchro,” he said, and reminded me that six years ago, he had a vivid dream that on January 7 (no year given in the dream), he would fall from his mountain bike and die. A few days after that dream, he’d related it to a friend with intuitive abilities who told him he wouldn’t die, but would be paralyzed, and for him that would be like death.

Needless to say, Rob avoids mountain biking every January 7, even though it’s prime riding time in South Florida. He has continued that tradition ever since he had the dream. Several times, he has remembered his dream date with death at the last hour. His regular riding partner, worried that the dream might have been about him, now also avoids riding on January 7.

That story might sound silly to a non-believer, but why challenge such a dream? Instead, Rob acted on it. As he puts it, “I honor that day for life rather than death.”

This is how precognition works in its purest form, I think. A possible future is glimpsed and we can take action to change it.

Is there any question that this young woman won the audition or whatever this was?

Here’s a short excerpt from our upcoming book (Jan. ’17) Sensing the Future.
We include considerably more on Nostradamus, but this is an interesting and humorous tale.

One of the world’s most famous seers, Nostradamus was born Micel de Nostredame on December 14, 1503. His life story, as well as his prophecies, have been passed down over the centuries, and numerous books have been written about him. He was born into a prosperous family in St. Rémy, Provence in southern France, where his father was a notary. The family was originally Jewish, but converted to Catholicism to avoid persecution that was rampant in Europe in the 15^th and 16^th centuries. The French king Louis XII had ordered all Jews to be baptized or face dreadful consequences.

His ancestors were merchants and doctors, and a similar future awaited him. He excelled in his studies and after he received his doctorate at the Montpellier University, he changed his name to the Latin version, Nostradamus.  However, an incident from his youth foretold of the real direction Nostradamus’ life would take.

While attending a Catholic school in Avignon, he made his first prediction. Having seen two young pigs at the barnyard, a black and a white one, he said the white pig would be killed by a wolf, and the black one served for dinner. After the rector found out about the prediction, he ordered to have the black pig slaughtered and buried, and to serve the white pig for dinner immediately. The cook rushed to fulfill the order, but was told at the barnyard that the white pig had been snatched by a wolf that had entered the barn through the roof, and only the black pig was left. Unsure of what to do, the cook served the black pig for dinner.

While we were in Orlando recently, our daughter decided to put her GoPro to good use. She put the camera’s harness on her dog, Nika, then attached the GoPro to the harness. For five or ten minutes, Nika and Noah ran around the yard playing like they usually do. Noah outweighs Nika by more than sixty pounds and invariably takes her down. She then leaps up, boxing at him, and they tear around the yard some more. While they were doing this, we were watching it on Megan’s phone and cracking up.

Curious about the range of the wireless signal, Rob went inside the house with Nika following him, and Megan and I watched her journey outside, on her phone. Then a cool thing happened. As Nika trotted back through the kitchen, she paused in the doorway, peering out into the yard, and one of us yelled, “Squirrel!”

Later that evening, while Megan and Rob were trying to figure out the right music for this video, I was sitting outside with the dogs and suddenly thought, Born to be Wild. I ran inside and blurted the title. Megan and Rob looked up, surprised. “That’s exactly what I just said to dad!”

So, there’s a bit of a synchro here, after all!

Grove Park Inn, Asheville, NC

From November 21-22, my daughter and I attended a two-day Abraham-Hicks conference in Asheville, North Carolina. It’s something we’ve wanted to do for a long time and this year, it was held at the Grove Park Inn rather than the Biltmore because it has a much larger conference room.

Megan and I got there early – but not early enough. Our seats the first day were to the left of the stage, where Esther Hicks does her thing and various participants occupy the “hot seat” and converse one-on-one with the group of souls that calls themselves Abraham.

This was the third conference I’ve attended with Megan, but the only time the conference has spanned two days. It made a difference. More on that in a moment. When Megan and I were seated, I was curious about how many people had attended. So I counted the number of rows in our section, the number of seats in each row, and then counted the sections. I estimated that nearly a thousand people had attended. I heard later it was a lower number, in the 400s, but I have my doubts.

At any rate, the workshop began with Esther talking briefly to the group, then asking the audience what they wanted to discuss, that nothing was off limits. Hands shot up throughout the conference room. Many of the people selected for the hot seat are repeats, which comes out in their discourse with Abraham. One of my favorites was an enthusiastic young man ho is the pitching coordinator for the Houston Astros baseball team. His job is to select the best pitchers for his team and his passion for what he does was certainly conveyed. He was concerned about how he could make the best selections.

Abraham’s advice was interesting. He shouldn’t read the applicant resumes, just glance at their names. And at night, as he was falling asleep, he should request a dream in which the best applicants are revealed to him. This young man had a great sense of humor and engaged with Abraham/Esther in a way that left the crowd in stitches. He was so upbeat and positive that I could feel myself being swept up in his joy.

All of the conversations that workshop participants bring to the hot seat are invariably personal. One man who looked sort of goofy in his torn jeans and wool hat sat down in the hot seat and said something to the effect of, “Okay, I’m a writer and I’m worried that what I’ve written is going to be criticized and ripped apart by critics even though I know it’s a fabulous novel.”

“That’s not a good belief,” Abraham noted, and asked what the book was called.

It was entitled, Being a Bisexual Christian in a Bipolar World. He laughed and the crowd burst into explosive laughter. Yeah, okay. Esther rolled her eyes and replied, “You’re right. They’re going to nail you up.”

Abraham gave him some solid advice about writing and he left the stage a happy camper.

There are many similarities between the Abraham-Hicks material and the Seth material, more than 20 books channeled by author and mystic Jane Roberts. But both tenets are founded on the notion that we create our own realities through our beliefs, emotions, thoughts, that our worlds are created from the inside out.

The difference is that the Abraham material is focused on how to and that Seth provided the philosophical foundation for this belief system. Abraham’s venue is about finding a way to feel good about whatever you’re doing. It’s about appreciation for everything that works in your life and turning your thoughts toward the positive rather than the negative. As Seth said, You get what you concentrate on…there is no other main rule. And that’s pretty much what Abraham says, too.

It sounds simplistic, and yet, if I hadn’t discovered the Seth material in 1973, I might still be teaching Spanish to hormonal seventh graders. I might have 40 manuscripts stacked on my closet floor that had never seen publication. In 1984, the year I sold my first novel, I decided it would be great to travel to Elmira, New York, where Jane and her husband Rob lived, and attend one of her ESP classes. Then I opened up Fate magazine one day and discovered she had died. I immediately regretted not having taken the initiative to have gone to Elmira earlier. So when Megan discovered the Abraham-Hicks material and I read the books, I decided I wouldn’t make the same mistake and would attend at least one of the workshops.

The Abraham message, like that of Seth, is powerful and positive. I’ve read a lot of channeled books over the years and many of them – most of them – are trite and silly. But neither Abraham nor Seth fall in that category. This point was driven home during the Sunday workshop, when a young man in the row in front of us was selected for the hot seat.

I had noticed this man that morning when Megan and I sat in our great seats in the middle of the room, seats she’d chosen because she’d arrived well before I had. He looked…well, kind of lost, his dark eyes haunted. I pegged his age at about thirty. When he went up to the hot seat, the first thing he said was, “I can’t sleep. I talked to you about this the last time I was here. My problem hadn’t gotten any better. It’s gotten worse.”

It turned out this man lived on “an island” with his parents and absolutely hated his life there. Every tine Abraham said something positive about his life, he countered with something negative. The island didn‘t have the shoes he needed with the proper width, the island didn’t have this or that. He told his parents he had a job interview in Asheville so they would pay for his ticket. He admitted that he was suicidal.

Abraham spent 25 minutes with his guy, talking him through why he felt as he did and how he could change what he felt. But this young man was so resistant, so entrenched in his negativity, that Megan and I could feel the collective energy in the room bottoming out. Finally, Abraham ushered him off the stage and even then, the man hung around, trying to talk privately to Esther.

Abraham/Esther apparently sensed the collective depression of energy in the room and when hands shot up, she chose the pitching coordinator again. Twice in one workshop. The crowd applauded. We understood he was the right person for the hot seat after this depressing foray into the island dude’s problems. The pitching guy asked, “So how can I find my soul mate?”

Abraham: “You can have both professional and personal happiness. You don’t have to deny yourself one to have the other.”

Pitching dude: Wow, this is so cool. Can I just hang out here in the hot seat for awhile?

This got a good laugh from the crowd and Abraham, rolling Esther’s eyes, said, “Yeah, sure.”

And then Abraham wound up the conference and the pitching dude jut sat there grinning, happy, pleased.

Lunch was served both days after the conference and we met some interesting people. It’s weird and refreshing to be sitting in a huge eating area and overhear people talking about law of attraction and Seth and creating your own reality. This is NOT normal lunch conversation in my world.

I came away from this conference with some of my beliefs utterly intact and other beliefs in flux. Why, for instance, do some of us choose catastrophic illnesses or abject poverty as our baseline contrast? Why do some of us choose unhappiness over happiness? We humans are complex beings connected at some fundamental level so that what affects me affects you and so on through the more than 7 billion souls on the planet.

I don’t know if Esther Hicks is fully in trance the entire duration of the workshop. But does it really matter? She’s channeling something, translating something from a nonphysical realm that is important, significant in how we live our lives. And when Megan and I left the conference, we were feeling very good about where we are in our lives and how we live our lives and perhaps that’s the real takeaway.

Abraham-Hicks has knowledge and insights that are helpful in our navigation of life. But the skeptic in me, the left-brain Gemini, is always humming along in the background, murmuring, Show me. Prove it to me. Maybe it’s not about showing or proving so much as it is about trusting the process.

We come into physical life because this is where we can grow and evolve. And whatever helps in this process is valuable. So I say try an Abraham-Hicks conference, see how it fits you, how you feel. Some of my friends are turned off by it and find the workshops bizarre. Others are uplifted.

Precognitive experiences can be startling and dramatic, particularly when they’re about a tragic event. Other times they are more of a nudge from the unconscious mind rather than a full-blown scene from a disaster movie. But precognition invariably begs the question: is the future set in stone like yesterday’s headlines?

If you dream that a large-scale disaster is imminent—the crash of a jetliner, for instance—chances are you’re not going to be able to do anything about it. Even if you know the airline, the flight number and the time of the event, it’s unlikely that the airline will ground a plane on the basis of your dream. However, if you’ve got a ticket for that flight, you can change flights or cancel your plans. In other words, you may not be able to prevent a future disaster, but you can alter your involvement in it.

In 1950, Life Magazine featured a story about a church fire in Beatrice, Nebaska that proved to be a stunning example of unconscious precognition and extraordinary synchronicity. A church choir was due to practice at 7:20 PM on March 1. There were fifteen people in the choir and all of them, for perfectly legitimate reasons, were late for practice.

The minister and his family were late because they were doing the laundry, another person had car trouble, someone else was finishing homework. Due to a flaw in the church’s heating system, the church exploded at 7:25 PM. The odds of all 15 choir members missing the opening of practice were later calculated at one in a million.

Unconscious precognitions could also have played a role in why so many passengers cancelled or didn’t show for flights that crashed into the World Trade Center. According to American Airlines records, one hundred and sixty-four reservations were made for flight 11 departing from Boston on September 11, 2001. Sixty-five people canceled their reservations prior to departure, and an additional seventeen were no shows. Similarly, one hundred and sixteen reservations were made on flight 77 that left from Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C. that same day. Fifty-four people cancelled their reservations, and three more were no shows.

Some people who worked at the World Trade Center were delayed and late for work, others decided to stay home. Tardiness and absenteeism in the WTC probably weren’t anything unusual, but some people actively sensed the dangers on that day.

A notable example is the case of a Wall Street executive who twice sensed danger at the World Trade Center. One morning in 1993, Barrett Naylor stepped off a train in New York’s Grand Central Station, and had a strong feeling that he should turn around and go home. He listened to his inner voice and avoided the bombing of the WTC. Naylor experienced a similar premonition eight years later. On Sept. 11, 2001, his inner voice again urged him to go home, and he did. Naylor says he regrets not sharing that message with others because it might have saved lives.

Such incidents, when a precognition of disaster was consciously avoided, show that individuals can alter their futures. But if the future is open-ended, what are we actually seeing/feeling when we experience precognition? When you have a reading with a psychic and predictions are made about future events, what is the psychic actually seeing? A probability or a done deal?

Michael Talbot, in his classic book The Holographic Universe, has one of the best answers to this thorny question. In private correspondence with physicist David Bohm, the famous theoretical physicist, the two men discussed Bohm’s most controversial theory. Beneath the stuff of our daily lives, said Bohm, there’s an implicate order that unifies and connects everything. It’s a kind of primal soup out of which everything unfolds, even space and time.

“When people dream of accidents correctly and do not take the plane or ship, it is not the actual future that they were seeing. It was merely something in the present which is implicate and moving toward making that future. In fact, the future they saw differed from the actual future because they altered it. Therefore I think it’s more plausible to say, if these phenomena exist, there’s an anticipation of the future in the implicate order in the present.”

I updated my phone for Christmas – to an iPhone 6s. The deal was too good to pass up. I got a $150 rebate on my iPhone5 and for $36 a month – no interest – the phone is mine. I can pay it off within 6 months without a penalty. It has 64 gigs of memory – instead of the 16 gigs that my iPhone5s had. The screen is large enough so that I can now see a full astrology chart on the screen without having to enlarge it. I don’t have to delete photos and apps to free up space. One of the apps that came with the operating system is called NEWS. It enables you to tailor news to your interests from many different sources.

So I was delighted when a story came up from the Daily Mail  about NASA’s code name for UFOs – a different kind of SANTA CLAUS! This story comes from a former employee at NASA who claims the agency has known for decades about UFOs and tried to hide what they know from the public. And that they have threatened employees with their pensions/retirement benefits if they ever go public with what they know

None of this is surprising; conspiracies continually swirl about what the government knows/doesn’t know about UFOs. But I am nonetheless intrigued by these periodic leaks and always wonder what is genuine and what is disinformation.

I poked around on You Tube until I found a video of the ex-employee talking about it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z82XdTaYqFI