Intuition Through Time: What Does the Seer See?

Data contributed by 74 unselected volunteers in two experiments showed that: (a) pupillary dilation and spontaneous blinking were found to increase more before emotional versus calm photos (combined P = .00009), (b) horizontal eye movements indicated a brain hemisphere asymmetry before viewing photos, appropriate to both the emotionality (P = .05) and the valence of the future images (P = .01), (c) participants selected for independently obtaining significant differential effects in pupillary dilation showed positive correlations between their eye movements before versus during exposure to randomly selected photos (P = .002), and (d) a possible “transtemporal interference” effect was observed when the probability of observing future images was varied (P = .05 [two-tailed]). Gender splits on these tests showed that overall females tended to perform better than males.

Conclusions

These studies, which replicate conceptual similar experiments, suggest that sometimes seers do see the future. This implies that developing comprehensive models of anticipatory behavior, from understanding the nature of intuition to the placebo effect, may require consideration of transtemporal and teleological factors.

via Intuition Through Time: What Does the Seer See?.

UFOs seen during atomic tests

Robert Hastings has an interview with Walter C. Levine, who was at the Nevada Test Site for the “Teapot” series of atomic tests:

… I had a total of 1250 hours of observation time in that little shack during the Teapot tests.

Now, almost all of the lights that I saw looked like round objects. But I think some of them looked square. They weren’t that close. You couldn’t see any kind of craft, just bright flying objects. Some were red; others were—I couldn’t really tell—white or yellow. Some had [smaller] lights on them, for example, red and white or red and orange. But they would be moving straight ahead and then violently move to one side or the other. They would make 90-degree turns! You know, immediately change direction and then accelerate and shoot out of sight, just like that! Very, very fast. They were definitely not stars. They mainly moved from south to north. I’m positive about that. The tests were at Yucca Flat, uh, 30 miles or so northwest of the base. They were doing tower bursts and airdrops from B-36s.

I asked Levine if any of the UFOs had hovered. He replied, “No, I don’t remember that.” I asked him to estimate the approximate number of times he saw the objects. “I couldn’t give you the [exact] count but, believe me, there were numerous occasions. We didn’t see them every night, obviously, but I would guess it was dozens of times. But, during the entire time I was at Indian Springs, from September of 1954 to February of ’57, I only saw these things after the Teapot tests. …

read the rest here:  THE UFO CHRONICLES: UFO News and Reports From Around The World.

Police launch ‘Flying Saucer’ CCTV camera

Police used a remote-controlled “flying saucer” to monitor the BNP’s Red, White and Blue festival in Codnor, Derbyshire, where anti-fascist protesters have assembled.

Similar to a mini-helicopter, the device has four pairs of carbon-fibre rotor blades which support a camera. An operator on the ground controls the vehicle’s flight using a hand-held control panel with two joysticks.

The drone – which is based on military Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology – feeds live images back to a screen on the control unit, enabling the “pilot” to operate the machine even when it is out of his or her sight.

Merseyside Police was the first force to use the drones, launching them during a number of crackdowns on gun and gang crime, as well as against anti-social behaviour. The aerial cameras have also previously been deployed to deter crime at pop festivals. Yesterday was the first time it was used at a demonstration.

Their capacity to provide extra video evidence could prove useful to police forces which face allegations about their public order tactics, and about differing versions of major events such as London’s G20 protests in April.

A Derbyshire Police spokeswoman said: “A pilotless drone plane will be used to record evidence at the Red, White and Blue festival.

“The drone, fitted with CCTV cameras, will be used by a trained operator from the manufacturing company. It will record any incidents of disorder for evidence-gathering purposes. The drone is similar to a small, model aircraft.”

The drone is about three feet in diameter and can be configured to gather still images, video, thermal images and night-vision pictures. Unlike full-scale police helicopters it is virtually inaudible. …

via Police launch ‘Flying Saucer’ CCTV camera – Telegraph.

Cool, but can it taze people, bro?

US probe captures Saturn equinox

Raw images of the moment Saturn reached its equinox have been beamed to Earth by the US Cassini spacecraft.

Scientists are studying the unprocessed pictures to uncover new discoveries in the gas giant’s ring system.

Equinox is the moment when the Sun crosses a planet’s equator, making day and night the same length.

During this time, the Sun’s angle over Saturn is lowered, showing new objects and irregular structures as shadows on the otherwise flat plane of the rings.

Saturn’s orbit is so vast that Equinox happens only once every 15 Earth years.

At the moment of equinox, the rings turn edge-on to the Sun and reflect almost no sunlight.

This is the first equinox since 1994 and the first time there has been an observer, in the shape of the joint US and European spacecraft, Cassini.

In an email, Dr Carolyn Porco, leader of Cassini’s imaging team, said the long-awaited images did not disappoint: “Even a cursory examination of them reveals strange new phenomena we hadn’t fully anticipated.

“Over the next week or two, the [Cassini] imaging team will be poring over these precious gems to see what other surprises await us, and, as usual, we will announce what we have found as soon as we can.”

Cassini was launched in October 1997 from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It arrived at Saturn in July 2004 to embark on a four-year mission of exploration around the planet and its moons.

The spacecraft is still operating well and has been re-programmed to carry out new tasks. Its current mission is to answer some of the questions raised by its earlier observations.

via BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | US probe captures Saturn equinox.

Neurotransmitter detected in comet.

Scientists have identified one of the fundamental chemical buildings blocks of life in a comet for the first time, the US space agency (Nasa) reports.

Glycine is an amino acid found in proteins, the sophisticated molecules that organisms use to build and maintain their systems.

It was detected in the material ejected from Comet Wild-2 in 2004 and grabbed by Nasa’s Stardust probe.

The idea that life was “seeded” on the early Earth by comets is a popular one.

Many scientists hold to the theory that billions of years ago, a bombardment by these mountainous balls of ice and rock brought important chemical precursors for life to our planet.

Somehow evolution was kick-started from this primordial “soup”, they believe.

“The discovery of glycine in a comet supports the idea that the fundamental building blocks of life are prevalent in space, and strengthens the argument that life in the Universe may be common rather than rare,” commented Dr Carl Pilcher, who leads Nasa’s Astrobiology Institute.

Glycine has been detected in meteorites before and there are also observations in interstellar gas clouds claimed for telescopes, but the Stardust find is described as a first in cometary material.

The Nasa spacecraft flew past the 5km-wide icy Comet 81P/Wild-2 in January 2004.

The probe swept up particles fizzing off the object’s surface as it passed some 240km (149 miles) from the comet’s core, or nucleus. These tiny grains, just a few thousandths or a millimetre in size, were then returned to Earth in 2006 in a sealed capsule.

Distributed among the world’s leading astro-labs, the specimens have since been giving researchers a remarkable insight into the conditions that must have existed in the earliest phases of the Solar System when planets and comets were forming.

Nasa said in a statement that it took sometime for the investigating team, led by Dr Jamie Elsila, to convince itself that the glycine signature found in Stardust’s sample bay was genuine and not just Earthly contamination.

via BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | ‘Life chemical’ detected in comet.

Few people know this: “Glycine is an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, especially in the spinal cord, brainstem, and retina.” – wiki .  A neurotransmitter was detected in a comet. Truth is stranger than fiction.

DMT molecule causes visions of spirits, elves and aliens

LA Esoteric History ExaminerPeter De Conceicao

…. DMT is short for dimethyltryptamine. It occurs naturally in mammalian brains, albeit in extremely small amounts. It is a psychotropic drug. It can be extracted and refined from certain plants, such as mimosa hostilis. DMT is also a Schedule 1 drug in the United States. This means, very simply, that ingesting this innocuous-sounding substance lands you in very hot water with your local drug and law enforcement authorities.

By the accounts of people who have ingested DMT, the experience begins with the visual appearance of geometric shapes of increasingly complexity. This is then followed by the gradual imposition of a subjective perceptual reality populated by entities of either animal and/or non-human form, and interestingly, of creatures which resemble contemporary descriptions of aliens. There are also encounters with human spirits who may or may not be relatives. The preceding is a grossly simplified encapsulation of the sensory experience and it should be noted that the duration and appearance of these entities varies from individual to individual.

Now, these perceptual experiences may or may not sound like the psychotropic adventurer’s cup of tea which is how ayahuasca’s consumed but there’s a caveat to this ticket-to-fairyland beverage; the taste of ayahuasca is indescribably vile, and the Indians also refer to ayahuasca as la purga, the purge because the consumer will inevitably vomit, or have extremely loose bowels. …

- via Examiner.com

Poison your brain and you can get some interesting effects. The fact that DMT is naturally occurring does not make it safe in the amounts people take to have this trip. Even drinking too much water can kill you, for example.

Is DMT Dangerous?

… Strangely, even though DMT is one of the most intense psychedelics in existence physically it is one of the safest. Because the human body and mind already contain DMT in trace amounts the brain knows exactly how to utilize and metabolize this entheogen and it leaves the system in a matter of minutes. In fact one could say that since DMT is endogenous to the human nervous system it is the safest psychedelic known, far safer physically than even common alcohol and cigarettes.Mentally DMT is extremely intense, one of the few dangers that one may encounter is that a person may not be prepared for the intensity of such experience and may have trouble integrating it. It would help a psychonaut immensely if he is well schooled in esoteric and psychedelic states of mind before embarking on any hyper dimensional DMT voyages. Set and Setting also play a big part in facilitating the most positive, insightful and enjoyable experience possible.

Abuse of this drug could also explain some alien abduction experiences. Someone slipped some purified DMT would be in a really messed up state.  It is good to know about this because if you ever see aliens, you might reasonably consider if someone has secretly drugged you.

Are they real or hallucinations?

Experiencers feel that the drug merely removes a barrier, that they are experiencing actual beings who are here all the time. This does not make it true, of course, but it would be hard for me to explain a character in my dream that had a consistent “realness”. I know my dream characters tend to shift features and even morph in to other characters in short order.

… Almost all DMT psychonauts who have broken through to the other side feel that what they had encountered was not just mere ‘hallucinations’ , ‘hypnogogia’ or even material from the subconscious mind.

Some of the most common ideas of what might be occurring are expounded below from an excerpt of Psychedelic Monographs and Essays:

“Although the amazing geometrical hallucinations experienced under the influence of DMT are sufficient in themselves to command attention among students of psychedelics, the really interesting part of the experience is the apparent contact with alien beings. … Subjects report experiences of contact with communicating beings whose independent existence at the time seems self-evident.

These experiences are not described as dream-like. If the entities have an existence independent of the DMT-influenced subject, then a realm of existence has been discovered which is quite other than the consensus reality which most of us assume is the only real world.

- via DMTnexus

From wikipedia:

DMT occurs as the primary active alkaloid in several plants including Mimosa hostilis, Diplopterys cabrerana, and Psychotria viridis. …

DMT is generally not active orally unless it is combined with an monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) such as a reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A (RIMA), e.g., harmaline. Without a MAOI, the body quickly metabolizes orally administered DMT, and it therefore has no hallucinogenic effect unless the dose exceeds monoamine oxidase’s metabolic capacity (very rare). …

DMT is classified in the United States as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. In December 2004, the Supreme Court lifted a stay thereby allowing the Brazil-based União do Vegetal (UDV) church to use a decoction containing DMT in their Christmas services that year. This decoction is a “tea” made from boiled leaves and vines, known as hoasca within the UDV, and ayahuasca in different cultures. In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, the Supreme Court heard arguments on November 1, 2005 and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U.S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

UFO files released August 2009 at The National Archives (UK)

Villages to empty after bomb find

More than 1,000 people living in two villages in North Yorkshire have left their homes to allow a World War II bomb to be detonated.

The 500lb (227kg) device was found in a field near Ebberston on Sunday by enthusiasts who are excavating a plane which crashed in the area in the 1940s.

Ebberston and nearby Allerston have been evacuated for the bomb to be made safe in a controlled blast.

Police said the primary objective was to ensure the safety of villagers.

Controlled explosion

An RAF team will be responsible for carrying out the controlled explosion at 1500 BST, police said.

Resident Ivan Ash: ‘Nobody bothered to have a look inside and think, “I wonder if there’s a bomb in there”‘

A 300m cordon placed around the field where the bomb was found was extended to more than a kilometre ahead of the detonation.

The nearby A170 will also be closed for a short period.

Leaflets about the evacuation were delivered to Ebberston and Allerston residents on Monday night and buses were put on to take people to the village hall at Snainton, which is about two miles away.

via BBC NEWS | UK | England | North Yorkshire | Villages to empty after bomb find.

Good cover story. They probably found a demon hole with reptilian alien dragon beasts in it and they are planning to seal it up with explosives. Safety of the villagers, indeed.

Junk-call hoax litters town of Huntly

Dozens of Huntly households have been duped by a hoax flier promoting an inorganic rubbish collection in the town, leaving some of its streets covered in junk.Yesterday the corner of Rayner Rd and Croft Tce, in Huntly East, looked like Steptoe’s yard with broken TVs, a clothesline, a rusted wheelbarrow, carpet offcuts, clapped-out car seats, wooden doors, a vacuum cleaner and even a dog-eared scuba diving manual piled up on the grass verge. And the Croft Tce kerbside littered with a disused toilet, broken microwave, and toy slide was spouting more rubbish than a parliamentary backbencher.

Problem is, Waikato District Council does its annual inorganic rubbish collection in November, and has no intention of removing this load of old rubbish.Residents were prompted to create this magnificent display of kerbside junk by a “Midwinter Inorganic Rubbish Collection” flier fraudulently using Waikato District Council’s colour logo and signed by a non-existent CH Burrows which was distributed to letterboxes in parts of Huntly over the weekend.The council is urging Huntly residents to disregard the false flier and remove their rubbish from the kerbside as soon as possible, while it attempts to find out who was behind the flier.”

We are running a mid-winter inorganic rubbish collection covering the whole of the Huntly area,” the forged flier said, advising that rubbish could be placed on the kerbside from Saturday, August 15, with the collection starting on August 25.” A good chance to clean up around the house,” the flier enthused. “All inorganic forms of rubbish will be collected, old fridges, stoves, car parts, corrugated iron, timber, carpet etc.”Council chief executive Gavin Ion was concerned that residents had been misled, but said his staff would not be removing the junk.

- via Stuff.nz

Tiny Fijian island bans pants on Sundays

Men living on a tiny Fijian island have been ordered to wear a skirt instead of trousers on Sundays to avoid offending God.

The Methodist Church on Bua island has ruled that men must wear the traditional island sarong, called a sulu, on Sundays to learn to respect the significance of the holy day.

Families cannot travel on any motorised transport or do any form of work, including hanging out clothes to dry, until they get the message, Galoa Village headman Josefa Baleinasiga has told the Fiji Times newspaper.

“The ban is meant to bring good luck to the island as we respect the day of the Lord,” he said.

“You can see that often misfortune befalls us because we don’t respect His commandments that there be no work performed on Sunday except worship.”

He said that since the ruling was made, clothes lines on the island had become full on Saturdays and people had stopped travelling offshore in boats fixed with outboards.

“But we make exceptions during emergencies for the sick so it’s not a ban that hasn’t been well thought out,” Mr Baleinasiga told the newspaper.

But it hasn’t been a hit with everyone.

A villager who wished not to be named said the ban was “too restrictive”.

“We can’t understand how wearing a sulu vakataga on Sunday will help us forge closer relations with the divine,” he said. …

via Tiny Fijian island bans pants on Sundays – news – world – LIVENEWS.com.au.

Does Josefa happen to own a local sarong shop?