They’re watching…or are they?

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Trish and Rob

After our first night in our ‘urban chic’ studio apartment in downtown Toronto, we were ready for a leisurely breakfast. Trish had gone over her notes about Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli effect at least a hundred times it seemed and she was ready for the interview.

The actual topic was an unusual story of a human rights lawyer named Cheryl Welch, who is convinced that the U.S. government is not only spying on her, but has targeted her in a wide-ranging mind control experiment. Trish was to provide one of several alternate explanations.

So as we left the room for breakfast on the interview day, I found a newspaper hanging on our door. It was the weekend issue the National Post, which appears to be a cross between the New York Post with its huge front page headlines and the dour, conservative perspective of the Wall Street Journal.

What caught my attention, of course, was the top-half of the front page, pictured above. Those scowling eyes and the headline: They’re Watching  – What does the government already know about you?

I showed it to Trish and said: “Mind control?” It seemed that the newspaper had pre-empted Weird or What? with their own story of supposed government intrusion.

Such experiments definitely took place in the 1950s and ’60s in an experiment called MK-ULTRA, a code name for  illegal and covert experiments run by the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence. Targets were subjected unknowingly to hallucinogenic drugs and a variety of mind control techniques including  hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture.

In the mid-1980s, I was approached by a medical doctor who said he had a patient who believed the government was beaming microwaves and other energy fields at her. It was affecting her health and mental stability, he said. I was working as a journalist and something I’d written prompted him to contact me.

When I met the woman, she lived in a spotless, but impersonal environment, a condo in South Florida high above the Atlantic. She said she could hear voices seemingly broadcast from her teeth. Interestingly, Cheryl Welch mentions the same phenomenon happening to her. I eventually wrote an article about the woman’s experience. It was a peculiar piece because I introduced the woman to a former police officer who had left law enforcement to become a psychic working as a consultant with police departments. He felt the woman was telling the truth, as she perceived it, but he was unable to pick up any energy fields or the source of such fields. So, as with many such cases, this one was difficult to verify.

So are these covert experiments still taking place and is Cheryl a target? William Shatner’s Weird or What? set out to find out and included three alternate explanations. The Pauli effect was one and we were contacted to explain it. Trish initially wanted me to be the interviewee since I’d done a couple of TV shows related the Bermuda Triangle. But it was her turn and she grudgingly agreed to sit before the camera.

Cheryl Welch believes that the government is not only affecting her, but others around her. If she goes outside in a crowd, she says people will shout obscenities and spit at her. Supposedly, these people are either plants or innocent bystanders temporarily subjected to the same mental manipulations.

As an alternative explanation, Trish proposed that Cheryl might have some telekinetic abilities,  similar to the Pauli effect, which would explain some of the strange things happening around her. She also suggested that Cheryl might be experiencing ‘like attracts like’ or the law of attraction. In other words, she is so convinced that she is a victim of mind control that she attracts related experiences.

Oddly enough, it’s a case where the psychic explanation just might be more reasonable than the one based on cause and effect, ie. government mind control.

I briefly wondered if the newspaper on our hotel door could have been created for us and planted by a government agent as a means of intimidating us before the interview on the related subject. That would fit with Cheryl’s scenario.

In our experience, stuff like that is more likely to emerge from the underlying world that exists outside of cause and effect, space and linear time, the realm to which synchronicity serves as a doorway–the unconscious or the collective unconscious.

Certainly, government agents do silly wasteful things, but that newspaper was not one of them. We saw other copies of that newspaper around, including one on the airplane during the return flight.  For us, it was a case of synchronicity, one of many that we experienced in Toronto.

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137, Pauli, and Toronto

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Trish and Rob

Over the weekend, we went to Toronto to be interviewed for William Shatner’s show,   Weird or What?  We were supposed to talk about Wolfgang Pauli, the theoretical physicist who won a Nobel in 1945  for his exclusion principle and also collaborated with Carl Jung on synchronicity. Specifically, we were there to talk about the Pauli effect –  i.e., the spontaneous breakdown of laboratory equipment in his presence. And this seemingly psychokinetic effect was to be presented as a possible theory for what’s happening to a woman who believes she’s the victim of government mind control.

Pauli was also known for his connection with the number 137,  one of the unsolved mysteries of modern physics, the value of the fine structure constant , the DNA of light, as author Arthur I Miller put it in his book, Deciphering the Cosmic Number: the Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung. 137 is a prime number – a number that can be divided by 1 and by itself. Or, put another way, a prime number is a positive integer that cannot equal the product of two smaller integers.

The number became so puzzling to physicists that the famed Richard Feynman, who won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, said that physicists should put a sign in their offices to remind themselves of how much they don’t know. The sign would be simple: 137.

This number confounded Pauli for much of his adult life. When at the age of 58, he entered the hospital for routine surgery and discovered he would be in room 137, he reportedly told a friend: “I won’t get out of here alive.” And he didn’t. He died before he could be released.

Now here’s the synchro. We were picked up at the airport on Friday evening  by a service Shatner’s production company provided. The car was spacious, comfortable, and gave us a chance to sit back and take in the city as the driver made his way through Friday rush hour traffic. At one point, the line of cars came to a complete standstill and  I glanced up from whatever I was doing and couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

There, on my right, was a building with prominent white numbers on the front: 137, Pauli’s number. And we were here to talk about Pauli.

I quickly nudged Rob and we both laughed.  Then I noticed that the building was a gym – Good Life Fitness – which struck me as strangely ironic. 137 had proven to be Pauli’s death number, but we were here to talk about one facet of his life.

Something similar and more dramatic happened to physicist F. David Peat when he was invited to speak at the 50th anniversary of the opening of Jung’s institute in Zurich.  But in both instances the message was the same: we, like Peat, were to talk about Pauli when the number appeared.

The synchro, though, continued. On Sunday, we had some time before we were to be picked up at our hotel, so we walked around downtown and found ourselves on Yonge Street, where the gym was located. I wanted to get a picture of the 137, so we walked until we found it and I took the photo at the top of the post. We continued our walk and after a few blocks one of us mentioned Pauli again. At that moment, we both noticed a prominent sign across the street: WE’VE MOVED to 137 YONGE. It was apparently the former site of the gym.

When we  returned to the hotel, we sat in the lobby and I started emailing the photos on my Blackberry to myself so I could  download them to my computer.  I emailed the 137 picture to a couple of friends whom I knew would enjoy it and as I checked my iPad to make sure the photos were going through, I suddenly noticed that the 137 photo had been emailed at 1:37. I snapped this photo of my iPad:

Pauli greeted us hello as we entered the city and waved good-bye as we were waiting to leave.

 

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Synchronicity on film

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Trish and Rob

Well worth the eight and a half minutes. Enjoy!

 

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The Mayan Calendar

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Trish and Rob

Thanks to Adele for sending us this cartoon.

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Face in the Clouds

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Trish and Rob

 

We first saw this story on Brizdaz’s blog, Just Watching the Wheels Go Round.  It’s one of those anomalous synchronicities that suggests spirit communication. Adele enhanced the lighting with Photoshop, which really shows the image much more clearly!

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On January 9, at precisely the time that Gerry Wells, 62, was flying from Brisbane to Sydney, Australia, this photo of an unusual cloud formation was taken by Russell Eldridge, the former editor of Northern Star, an Australian newspaper. Eldridge sent it to the newspaper and they were impressed enough to publish it.

On January 24, the day after Gerry returned from his two weeks in Sydney, where he visited family and friends, he died suddenly of a heart attack. A friend saw the photo in the newspaper and was struck by the eerie similarity between the cloud formation and Gerry’s face. He sent the photo to Gerry’s son, Dean, who emailed it to family members.

Gerry’s sister, Marion Dawson, says that when she saw it, she got goosebumps. “It’s so like my brother, and was taken just at the time when he was making what turned out to be his last journey to visit the people he loved in Sydney. It brought tears to our eyes.”

At Gerry’s funeral, the family handed out leaflets with the photo on it. “Thinking of all the people he went to spend time with in Sydney, it was like he was going to say good-bye to them all,” Marion says.

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In Synchronicity and the Other Side, there’s a chapter called Objects of Interests, where we talk about how spirits use objects in various ways to communicate with us. From mirrors to feathers, books to televisions and radios, movies, lights, and food, virtually any object in the physical world – even clouds! – can be used by a spirit to communicate with us.

 

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The 3 Jacquelines

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Trish and Rob

Adele Aldridge, who has one of the best I Ching sites, sent us this interesting cluster synchro involving a name – Jacqueline. In 7 Secrets, we have a chapter on cluster synchros – they’re  always fascinating, though their message isn’t necessarily obvious.

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I know 3 people with the name of Jacqueline who are connected in my life now in some way. They do not know each other.

Jacqueline #1 is my sister and lives in Manhattan.

Jacqueline #2 is my friend for 35 years and lives in San Francisco.

Jacqueline #3 is a neighbor/friend/acquaintance.

I haven’t seen any of these Jacqueline’s in times ranging from 4 months to 15 years.

Jacqueline #3 called me this afternoon and asked me if I would come over and have a drink. I haven’t heard from her in months. She just came back from the funeral of her brother and then a week with her daughter and now home and wanted company. This kind of request has never happened with her before. So I walked over and had some wine and a long talk as we always do when we meet, which is to bemoan the fact that we have to live in New Jersey and how we miss California.

I stayed about an hour. After I sat down at my computer to check my email, two messages came in simultaneously at 5:56 p.m.  One message was from Jacqueline # 1 from Manhattan, my sister.

And message # 2 arrived at the exact moment of message #1 from Jacqueline # 2, my friend in San Francisco.

It was not only surprising to hear from all 3 Jacqueline’s on the same day within minutes of each other but the two Jacqueline’s on the different coasts hitting here at the simultaneous moment was something I have never seen before – same name or not.

What do you make of this?

All I can think of is that it is full moon in Leo today conjunct my Sun.

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Since Adele sent us this synchro about the 3 Jacquies, two more have surfaced. So now she has a cluster of FIVE Jacquies.

Anyone have any ideas what this cluster might mean? And what’s with that time? 5:56=7. We need Math to figure out the numbers!

 

 

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Peanuts

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Trish and Rob

 

Twelve years ago today, Charles Schulz, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts, died at the age of 77, from colon cancer. This may seem like a strange post for Valentine’s Day, but there’re a couple of synchros here that are heart felt.

Schulz drew Peanuts for nearly half a century. That’s a very long time to spend with characters you created, to be involved with their lives, their issues, their relationships. The comic strip was read by 355 million people worldwide, reached readers in 75 countries, in 2,600 newspapers, and 21 languages.  The strip, merchandise, and product endorsements brought in $1.1  billion a year. Schulz is said to have earned between $30 million and $40 million a year, doing what he loved. In nearly 50 years, Schultz drew ore than 18,250 comic strips.

“That’s longer than any epic poem,  any Tolstoy novel, any Wagner opera,” said Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University.  Just hours before the last Sunday episode in the saga of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, and Linus ran in the Sunday papers, Schultz passed away.

His wife, Jeannie, said, “He had done everything he wanted.”

Lynn Johnston, a friend of Schuz’s and the creator of a strip called For Better or Worse, told the AP: “It’s amazing that he dies just before his last strip is published…It was as if he’d written it that way.”

While Schulz was in the hospital, Johnston recalled a remark he had made:  You control all these characters and the lives they live. You decide when they get up in the morning, when they’re going to fight with their friends, when they’re going to lose the game. Isn’t it amazing how you have no control over your real life? But, as Johnston said, ”I think, in a way, he did.”

When I was a kid growing up in Venezuela, I remember that every Sunday morning, my dad would turn first to the comic section in the American newspaper, The Daily Journal, or to the Venezuelan paper, and read Peanuts. He would chuckle or laugh out loud and one Sunday I finally asked what the deal was with this comic strip. He thought a moment, then said: “These characters, in any language, are us, we humans.”

Peanuts became a part of our collective consciousness. His creation wasn’t just confined to the comic section of newspapers. There were books, TV specials, commercials, a rock song, a concerto at Carnegie Hall, his work was even shown at the Louvre. The novelist Umberto Eco wrote the introduction to the first Peanuts book translated into Italian.  According to the NY Times, Eco referred to the book as ‘poesie interrompue, or interrupted poetry, “and, using Freud, Beckett, Adler and Thomas Mann to back him up, said, ‘These children affect us because in a certain sense they are monsters; they are the monstrous infantile reductions of all the neuroses of a modern citizen of the industrial civilization.’”

I don’t agree with the monstrous part. But one thing is for sure: Schultz followed his passions, he did what he loved.  As the Times article put it, “Snoopy could always be counted on to nap, fantasize and wonder when his next meal would arrive. Charlie Brown, the round-headed blockhead (named after one of Mr. Schulz’s childhood friends, not after the cartoonist himself), could always be counted on to persevere despite constant failure. He once held onto the string of a kite that was stuck in a tree for eight days running, until the rain made him stop. At the time it was the longest run of immobility for any cartoon character. His first home run came after nearly 43 years of strike outs, on March 30, 1993.”

Really? I mean, who couldn’t love these characters?

So it’s strangely fitting that Charles Schulz passed away on Valentine’s Day. The day before he died, he said, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy . . . how can I ever forget them?

If that isn’t love, what is?

 

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Birth Control and the Catholic Church

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Trish and Rob

 

According to a site on Catholic doctrine, “In 1968, Poe Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae Vita (Latin, Human Life, which reemphasized the Church’s constant teaching that it is always intrinsically wrong to use contraception to prevent new human beings from coming into existence.  This includes sterilization, condoms and other barrier methods, spermicides, coitus interruptus (withdrawal method), the Pill, and all other such methods.”

Think about that for a moment.  Instead of 7 billion people on a planet that can barely sustain its population, we might have 30 billion people. Or 40 billion. Or more.

This issue has been in the news recently in the U.S. because Obama mandated that all health insurers must offer birth control.   House Speaker John Boehner (Republican) called it “an unambiguous attack on religious freedom.”  Catholic bishops warned Obama that he would lose the Catholic vote over this. Yet, 98% of women in the U.S. use birth control at some point in their lives and apparently the majority of Catholic women want their health insurers to cover birth control.

Few things push my buttons more quickly than watching a bunch of male politicians pontificating about and mandating what women should do with their bodies. Excuse me, you boys aren’t the ones who get pregnant, carry a baby to term for nine months, go through labor and delivery. Birth control is a choice and a matter of public health.

I remember when the morning after pill was approved by the FDA for use in the U.S. The hysteria and drum beating from the right wing was shocking. It’s murder, they screamed. Murder? Really? The morning after pill is on a par with killing another human being? Yet, this same faction doesn’t hesitate to send young men off to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, then cut veteran’s aid when these same men come home shattered in mind, body, and spirit. They don’t hesitate to cut aid to needy families with young children, to cut the social safety net programs like Medicaid – health care for the poor-  and Medicare and Social Security – health care and pensions for the elderly.

As Rob once said, “For a Republican, you’re important only until you’re born. After that, you’re on your own.”

According to the site on Catholic doctrine, “Contraception is wrong because it’s a deliberate violation of the design God built into the human race, often referred to as “natural law.” The natural law purpose of sex is procreation.”

I read politics and finances in that declaration. The Catholic church knows that more children among Catholics means more children who will be raised Catholic and donate to the coffers.  How rich is the Vatican? I couldn’t find any definitive answer. It depends on how you Google your question and whether you hit a Catholic site or some other site. We can safely say they are worth zillions – and in the U.S., no church pays taxes. Nice deal, if you can get away with it.

So, please, John Boehner,  Mitch McConnell, and all you other Republican men, just shut up. Enough already. Regardless of your mandates, women will always find a way to make their own choices. We’ve been doing it for millennia and we’ll continue to do so when you boys are in your graves.

 

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Alcatraz and J.J. Abrahms

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Trish and Rob

Megan standing in front of one of the Alcatraz cells

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When we were moving our daughter to Orlando, we stopped briefly for a car shuffle. Rob ended up in a car with the two dogs and most of Megan’s stuff, and I ended up driving Megan’s car while she went through a movie magazine, reading excerpts about the new TV shows this season. The two she mentioned that hit my buttons were Touch, which we wrote about, and Alcatraz. We saw the first two episodes of Alcatraz tonight.

I’ m a sucker for these kinds of shows. Give me a riddle, an essential mystery and sympathetic characters and the promise of illumination at the end, and I’ll follow you anywhere. J.J. Abrams, who brought us Lost and Alcatraz, is my  pied piper.

Lost affected me the same way that X-Files did. The terrific stories aside, I felt that I was being prepared for a collective experience, for something big. That’s how I felt when we watched these episodes of Alcatraz.

We visited the rock some years ago, walked through those old cell blocks,  strolled past the barracks where employees and their families were housed. Children were raised on this rock. Books have been written about these kids, their families, the guards, the inmates, the warden. There’s a collective consciousness in this place that you can feel. It seeps into you when you walk around, move through those cell blocks, and try to imagine the lives of the men who lived there.

The place closed in 1963 – the last of the inmates supposedly transferred to other prisons. But were they transferred anywhere? Here are the episodes so far, available on hulu.com

Even thought it’s never mentioned during the first two episodes, this series is about time travel – specifically where nearly 300 inmates and employees went when the place closed in 1963.   And, even more to the point, why are these disappeared returning now? Why have none of them aged? Where have they been all this time?

Echoes of these questions could be seen in the TV show, 4400.

But the bottom line in all these shows is that although speculation is rampant, the bottom line is that we just don’t know. We don’t yet know the extent to which time travel is possible; we don’t yet know for sure who or what is visiting our universe, meddling in human affairs. Even though we hear the voice of synchronicity, we really don’t yet know  what role it actually plays in our lives.On one level we know we are interconnected, that the degrees that separate one human from another are probably fewer than the six percent. We have theories hopes, our personal certainties and worldviews about how stuff works. But like the characters on Alcatraz,  we’re groping in the dark, digging into the mystery.

PS. Now we’ve seen a couple of more episodes. This series may get old quickly. Each episode is about one of these criminals returning. You sense the larger picture, but no one really talks about time travel or how it might be possible. No one talks about who or what may be behind this. It feeds like a gimmick, not an intricate part of the plot.

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Weird or What?

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Trish and Rob

Today, Rob and I took a break and went biking with the two dogs out at the Grassy Waters Wilderness Preserve, the place where he had a lost dog synchro. I hadn’t been there before and was eager to see it.

My first impression was that the preserve is truly old Florida, the way the state looked before everything was developed and paved over. The paths were shaded by palmetto trees, scrubby pines, and the odd cypress trees whose roots protrude everywhere, little knobs of wood that stick up out of the ground, like dislocated elbows or  knees.

Rob’s bike navigated the damp and sometimes muddy path much better than my bike – which is intended for solid ground, smooth sidewalks. At one point, he and the dogs were well ahead of me and I was coming around a sharp, wet corner and slammed down the tail end of what I think was a snake.  It whipped away from me, and I was so freaked out I didn’t stop to go back for a look. I shouted, “Hey, I think I just ran over a snake, Rob!”

“It’s not a snake,” he called back.  “It’s a palm frond.”

No way, I thought. Palm fronds don’t slither and whip from side to side as they move. Just in case I was right, that I had actually run over a snake, I held an image of it in my mind and apologized. I’m no fans of snakes, but the idea of injuring or killing one is abhorrent. I recalled how years ago when Megan was small and we were living in another house, I walked out into the living room one morning and found what I thought was coral snake, coiled in the middle of the floor, with one of the cats dancing around it. I scooped up the cat and shut her in one of the bedrooms, then ran back into the living room, shouting for Rob to come take a look.

There’s an old saying about how to tell a coral snake from its non-venemous doppelganger: Red to yellow, kill a fellow; red to black, venom lack. The snake in the living room was red to black. Using a broom, Rob got it into a paper bag and released it outside. Not long after this incident,  we got a contract for a writing project. So my thought about this snake was that good news of some sort was on the way.

Considering how wild this preserve is, with vast stretches of open wetlands that we crossed on wooden boardwalks, like the one in the photo above, followed by dense foliage and trees, I had expected to see gators, wading birds, deer, hawks. But the only other wildlife we saw was a squirrel, which the dogs spotted first. In retrospect, the absence of other wildlife seemed as significant as the snake.

So when we got home, I started Googling snakes as totem animals. The snake symbolizes fertility, rebirth, transformation, healing.  Traditionally, the squirrel gathers up the food it needs to survive winter, so the esoteric meaning is about preparation, ridding yourself of what you no longer need – physical stuff, but also negative beliefs.  In South Florida, winter consists of a few weeks now and then between November and February and this year, we’ve had maybe two days of temps in the forties. So I decided that the squirrels out in the preserve may have a different esoteric meaning altogether.

About an hour after we got home, we got an email from a woman who works for William Shatner’s show, Weird or What?  We had been corresponding with her since late January, when she sent us an intriguing email: Could we give her a number where she could call us so we could talk about the Pauli effect?

So we’re going to be flying to Toronto for an interview on Weird or What? and will have a chance to talk about Pauli – and synchronicity. There’s a certain irony about the name of the show. For years, Rob and I felt like the weirdos in the universe because of our beliefs. Perhaps the trickster is at work here?

Here’s a segment from Weird or What with Whitley Strieber.

 

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