News Briefs 23-11-2011
Posted by Rick MG at 14:12, 23 Nov 2011I'm late and it's now Thursday, but somewhere in the world it's still Wednesday.
- Brilliant read: entoptic imagery & altered states of consciousness.
- Explore Utah petroglyphs with Graham Hancock.
- Study suggests a fetus can sense its mother's psychological state.
- Research shows synaesthesia has evolutionary benefits.
- A small boy's vivid memories may be evidence of reincarnation.
- Travelers tales of magical displays in medieval India.
- Botanists discover a remarkable orchid that flowers only at night.
- Swedes create light from absolute nothingness.
- Their inspiration may be saunas and flying saucer hotels.
- Texas witness observed triangle UFO while watching 'military chase'.
- Wow. The view from Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes.
- Astronomers describe a black hole, without the USS Palomino.
- Search for alien life is too focused on Earth-like planets.
- Could the faerie of folklore really exist?
- An antlered Atlantean: "And hast thou slain the Peryton?"
- Archaeologists uncover Pictish seat of power in Scottish village.
- Shot by an arrow, Oetzi the Iceman also smashed an eye in fall.
- Prehistoric cave lion bones reveal big cat's diet.
Muchas gracias Red Pill Junkie.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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23 November 2011
16 weeks 3 days
I wasn't going to comment, but the Hancock video intrigued me, until he categorically denied the possibility that any of the petroglyphs could have been calendric in origin, claiming instead that the ancients were skilled in transdimensional travel.
Then I read the entropic article, and was pleased to discover a perfectly logical explanation for the universality in theme of petroglyphs.
Great news today, thanks for it!
2 May 2004
8 hours 49 min
Thanks MintyGiant!
Have you read David Lewis-Williams's Mind in the Cave. After reading it, I'm not convinced by the calendrical explanation for some rock art. Lewis-Williams is a materialist by the way, he's never taken psychedelics, and he doesn't believe what shamans see when they enter altered states of consciousness is real. I think you'll like it more than Graham Hancock's Supernatural.
Personally, I think what Graham proposes about interdimensional beings and accessing other levels of reality is possible, but I can't say for sure. I guess 'seeing is believing' really holds true in this situation!
Another thing about entoptic imagery -- its not just represented in rock art, but identical patterns are found in clothing & textiles, facial/body paint, and more. It hasn't gone out of fashion either, indigenous cultures worldwide continue to use today the exact same entoptic imagery they've used for thousands of years, the same imagery their ancestors painted on rocks, and they gain that entoptic imagery from shamanic visions. It all adds up.
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