Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee for president. As a Mormon, Romney may become the first non-Christian president of the United States. With president Obama we had our first African American president, something unimaginable a couple of decades ago. It is something to be proud of! American society is evolving.
Now we have the possibility of our first Mormon president. This is a very good thing: a stride forward for religious freedom. Mormons are nice people, and even if I don’t share their beliefs, I respect their beliefs and wish them well. A Mormon president would free American politics from the control of the Christian right. If Mitt Romney is elected president that will mean the evangelical Christian right’s political power has been tamed. The evangelical lion will lose its roar.
Mormons have some crazy beliefs, but which religion doesn’t? One religion is no wackier then any other. The story of Joseph Smith and the beginning of Mormonism are filled with supernatural/paranormal events. The origin of the Book of Mormon began with the plates of Nephi, a manuscript engraved with Egyptian characters on plates of gold written by the angel Moroni.
This story reminds me of Enochian, the language of angels channeled by John Dee and Edward Kelley in the 16th-century. Did Joseph Smith encounter the same entities that gave John Dee his “Language of Angels”? Did Joseph Smith channel Enochian spirits? Was Smith a spiritual medium? Is Mormonism essentially Enochian angel magic?
I can understand why Christians may have issues with Mormonism. But maybe Moses was a shaman, a spiritual medium/channeler as well. Moses communicated with a divine spirit, as did Joseph Smith. Who is to judge any of this? That is why we have freedom of religion.
For those of us who embrace freedom of religion, having a Mormon president would be wonderful. Mormons are a tiny minority, and thus can’t impose their beliefs on the wider society even if they wanted. Evangelical Christians are a majority, and they work very hard to legislate their beliefs into law. I prefer religion to be politically neutral. A Mormon president would help accomplish that.
January 21 UPDATE: Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina Republican primary. Outside of politics, what is the religious significance of this? An adulterer who converted to Catholicism won over a Mormon. Not so long ago Catholics were considered to be outside of Christianity. In the 1960s President John F. Kennedy was elected the first Catholic president. That was considered a significant issue back then. Nowadays it seems that such a controversy was so…damn ass backwards. Christian Republicans can now nominate America’s first Mormon presidential nominee. Will they do it?
Below is a video by occultist Lon Milo duQuette concerning Enochian Angel magic:
Above is a UFO video taken in Japan. It looks like perhaps a balloon is slowly falling. Yet it descends in a strange undulating serpentine manner. Instead of a UFO, could this be a video of a Chinese/Japanese dragon? In folklore the Chinese dragon flew thru the skies and was considered to rule over the weather. Perhaps unexplained lights in the sky are not extraterrestrial craft, but dragons! Watching this video, imagine it as a celestial Japanese dragon. I can understand why people living hundreds of years ago may have believed that strange lights in the sky were indeed dragons.
As for real life dragons, they once filled the earth as flying dinosaurs. Some believe these flying monsters still existed until just recently and were responsible for the American Indian legend concerning thunderbirds. Chinese dragons, thunderbird or UFOs, people saw strange flying shapes in the sky. How we interpret flying anomalies depends on the current culture.
Indonesia had a 7.3 earthquake this past January 10, 2012 (18:37 UTC)
There was a full moon which peaked January 9, 2012 (07:31 UTC).
When the earthquake struck the moon was still 97% full waxing gibbous.
In 2004, six years and one month ago, the same area was hit by the giant Indian Ocean super earthquake. It was a megathrust, over magnitude 9 (the third largest ever recorded). It created a tsunami which killed 230,000 people, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history.
That earthquake occurred December 26 2004, (00:59 UTC).
On December 26, 2004 (15:06 UTC) the moon was also full.
Only coincidence? Here is a news story about storms triggering earthquakes:
“The water’s enormous weight causes the Indian plate to bend slightly under the pressure. That, in turn, causes the edge of the plate to move slightly. “Imagine having a big book and bending it in the middle,” Ader said. “The pages want to slide against each other at the edges.”
If a typhoon or monsoon can trigger an earthquake I would suggest so could the ocean’s tides. The vast oceans put much more stress on the earth’s crust then any storm. And what influences the tides? The moon. Does the moon trigger earthquakes?
Watching the full moon these past cloudless nights I was struck by how bright and beautiful…and potentially dangerous the moon is.
This blog post is outside my normal topic niche. Instead I’m offering a public service to my comrades who reside the sorry state of Illinois; perhaps the worst managed state in the United States. Our governor Pat Quinn is clearly the worst governor in the United States. Our neighboring state of Wisconsin is trying to recall governor Scott Walker. I’d trade Mr. Walker for Mr. Quinn in a heartbeat.
Pat Quinn approved doubling the Illinois Tollway fees during the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression. Everybody I know who drives the Illinois Tollway is looking for a way to avoid the Tollway. I’ve noticed half the cars are gone from the tollway. People are rapidly finding other avenues. The nice thing about a toll way tax hike is it’s voluntary. We can avoid it. Let’s do it!
Here is a great way to avoid the Illinois Tollway fee increase:
2. Click “Get Directions” and put in your start and end addresses.
3. Here is the trick to saving HUNDREDS of dollars in unnecessary tollway fees: Click “ Show Options” under final destination but above the “Get Directions” button.
4. Then click the “Avoid Tolls” with your directions. Suddenly you’ll get a map that shows an alterative route that avoids the tollways.
If you have a GPS, it should have something similar, an option to “avoid tollways”. Let us all make a resolution to avoid using the Illinois tollways if at all possible. I will be doing that starting Monday. Screw the Illinois Tollway!
The Internet is filled with ghosts. There are graveyards on the Internet not unlike what we have in physical life: abandoned blogs, discontinued websites, dead links. Mostly these sites are abandoned out of disinterest. However, sometimes the individual has died. What happens to a blog after the blogger dies? A paid hosting service will deactivate an account when payment eventually ceases. What about free services? There the voices of the dead may linger a very long time. Some blogging services may deactivate an account after a period of no activity. Other blogs may last as long as the blogging service exists. If family members don’t know the password, they may be unable to update it and let people know. A ghost blog may linger frozen in time as a testament to an individual’s life. Could it last for centuries?
Even ghosts eventually fade away. How long will any blogging service remain in the blogging business? Sometimes a major Internet presence completely abandons their product. This happened when Yahoo dropped Geocities. Geocities was once one of the major sites in the world. Who could imagine a decade afterward Yahoo would choose to shut it down? Every thought, emotion or idea expressed on Geocities vanished overnight. Like life, information is not immortal.
Could this happen to Facebook one day? Will Facebook cease to exist after singularity eventually arrives? Singularity represents the moment when true artificial intelligence becomes reality. I doubt Facebook will be any different then Geocities when the latest technology renders it obsolete. Except with Facebook, this would be far more serious. Geocities was an ant compared to Facebook. Yet, tomorrow’s artificial intelligence will render both Google and Facebook irrelevant. Hopefully human history, as expressed on the Internet, will have their “ghost” saved on a server somewhere.
An emerging Internet ghost is Yahoo’s Groups. What, you may ask, exactly is a Yahoo Group? Never heard of it? I doubt many people have. Yahoo Groups is an Internet-Ghost-In-Process…abandoned and forlorn, not unlike a desolate, unkempt cemetery. It is filled with dead Groups.
I was once active in Yahoo Groups back in my ghost hunting days. Until Yahoo ruined Groups trying to make it profitable with annoying adds that truly disrupted the experience. So I left participating in their Groups. My own contributions are now phantoms. However, I’m still a member of a few Groups including this one:
This was once a happening Chicago based ghost-hunting Group and it still has activity going on. Most Yahoo Groups are barely alive, but a few still breath against the odds. I suspect Yahoo will get rid of Groups one day, and it will join the realm of the Internet dead.
What to make of the Mayan calendar and the 2012 prophesies? I suspect 2012 has been misinterpreted for the sake of spectacle. I take genuine prophecy very seriously. The question concerning 2012 and the Mayan calendar: is it actual prophecy or just speculation? I place my bet the 2012 doomsday is speculation. We’ll know soon enough one way or another. I wouldn’t discount a metaphysical event happening around 12/12/12, but it won’t be the end of the world.
Some prophecies are the real thing. Precognition is rare but it does happen, if uncontrollable and spontaneous. There are exceptional prophets, such as Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce. They predicted events accurate decades and centuries ahead of their time. That is an accomplishment.
Every New Year I attempt to predict the future. And I nearly always miss the mark. The point is to show how difficult it is to predict anything, even just a year ahead. Which is what makes instances of genuine precognition so impressive. People who scoff at true precognition should try it for their self. It is not easy to fake it.
At the beginning of 2011 I made a few sensible predictions. I predicted Iran would be attacked militarily to stop its nuclear program. There was plenty of espionage, sabotage and saber rattling in 2011, but no military action. I laid an egg.
I predicted the DOW stock market index would reach 13,500-14,000. Nope. The stock market had tremendous volatility in 2011 but the Dow Jones Average ended 2011 at 12,217, about 5% above where it started the year. I laid another egg.
I recommended silver at the start of 2011. Silver began 2011 at around $30 an ounce and ended the year at $27.86 an ounce. It ended 2011 below where it started. I can make an omelet with all these eggs!
However, folly will not stop me from continuing this experiment! Therefore I shall make more predictions for 2012.
1. POLITICS
I predict President Obama will be reelected. This will be the first election in American history where only a non-Christian can be elected president…a Mormon versus a Muslim. That was a joke. Actually half a joke. A Mormon will never be elected president.
2. ECONOMICS
How will the stock market end in 2012? I like to be optimistic. I predict the DOW reaches 13,759. Will the Euro survive? YES! Human beings cannot tolerate a downward spiral forever. There are dead cat bounces during any death spiral. Better days are ahead…temporarily. We’ll have our chance at a dead cat bounce before complete oblivion.
3. CLIMATE CHANGE
A natural disaster will plunge a part of the world into instability. This will be the beginning of climate change’s impact on the humanity. We can expect the beginning of global drought and famine. The recent drought in Texas was just the tip of climate change’s spear.
4. FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The Arab Spring will be replaced by Islamic theocracies. The Arab dictators will be replaced with Mullahs and Caliphs. An example is the new approach to tourism in Egypt. The newly elected Islamist lawmakers want to ban alcohol and have beaches segregated by gender. No bikinis! 3/4s of Egypt’s tourists are Europeans. If religiously minded leaders are willing to sacrifice profits for dogma, the Middle East is on its way to a modern dark age.
At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve revelers will make a great deal of noise with various noisemakers. There are paper party horns, cranks, rattles, maracas, poppers, kazoos, et cetera. It only seems like exuberance. Yet there is folklore behind all this noise.
Supposedly loud noise scares away evil. If evil spirits are about they will flee! At the stroke of midnight, the witching hour, the spirit world is (supposedly) closest to the material world. And on New Year’s Eve the separation is even thinner then ever. Hence, the use of loud chaotic sound to send the spirit world running.
The use of firecrackers on the Chinese New Year is for the same purpose. The belief that noise repels spirits is so widespread there may be some truth to it. But why? How could a loud noise possibly scare a spirit? It seems nonsensical.
A possible answer could be vibration. Here we get into some esoteric speculation. There is the concept of higher and lower vibrational beings. It is assumed the spirit realms have different vibrational frequencies. A spirit with a more refined vibration is able to enter these higher vibrational realms. The lower spirits cannot, they are stuck with their own low vibrations.
However, according to this theory, these lower vibrational beings can attempt to manifest some semblance of physical presence in our material world. But being entitles of vibration, any physical manifestation would be vulnerable to…vibration. And what is sound but vibration? The disruptive vibrations caused by loud noise supposedly cancel out their own vibration and sends them packing. It all sounds like nonsense. Yet the idea of loud sounds chasing away bad spirits is nearly universal with most cultures. Christian church bells are said to repel evil, as does Chinese fireworks.
Happy New Year everyone! Blow that horn, shake that rattle and make extra noise this year. Chase away any bad vibes!
At a holiday party I heard a strange story. During conversations I asked for unusual experiences. A friend’s mother related this uncanny story. She is now in her 60s, and this event happened long ago when she was between 4-5 years old. She said she could remember this event as if it happened yesterday, even though she was very young. The event was so vivid it was burned in her memory. She said she didn’t care if anyone believed her or not; she was quite animated describing it.
She recounted the story, how as a young girl, she walked into her 3-year-old younger brother’s bedroom. Her brother was asleep in bed. Yet at the same time her brother stood next to his bed. A double of her sleeping brother was standing by the bed while he slept!
Her toddler brother’s doppelganger turned to look at her. Even as a small child she was taken aback. Her brother’s doppelganger began to slowly walk towards her. He did not make a sound, just walked up to her as a child his age would. He stood right in front of her, facing her. The total experience lasted for over a minute, and then he vanished.
She cried out for her mother,”Mom mom!” Mother arrived and checked her brother. He was fine, just sleeping. Nothing was amiss; everything was ok.
To this day she clearly remembers this event where most events from that age are often forgotten. I wondered…what was that all about? Assuming she saw the event exactly as described, I could only describe what she saw as a doppelganger. There are legends of doubles and fetches that were often considered bad omens, harbingers of doom. Are they only folklore?
The doppelganger phenomena are truly rare and bizarre. How to explain it?
CRISIS APPARITION?
The sighting of the duplicate of an individual involved in a deadly situation is called a crisis apparition. This is one of the most common of paranormal events. It appears the spirit of someone in a near-death situation may visit us. Confusing the crisis apparition with the doppelganger may have given the doppelganger its bad reputation. However, this young child was merely sleeping. He was not in a crisis.
BILOCATION?
Mystics, saints and holy men and women were reported to be able to appear at two locations at one time. This is called bilocation. However, this child was a toddler, not a mystic.
TULPA?
Perhaps what she had seen was a tulpa? A tulpa is believed to be a thoughtform made visible. However, according to Buddhism the tulpa required great mystical abilities to manifest them. The tulpa/thoughform is an act of conscious creation. It seemed unlikely a toddler could manifest a tulpa, even by accident. Has anyone seen an experienced practitioner create any tulpas recently?
AN ENTITY?
Abduction by fairies
There is another unsettling possibility. In folklore there were many stories of children being abducted by fairies, to be replaced with changelings. These legends seem to be an explanation why some children die mysteriously. Was it a demonic entity? This phenomenon exists today as alien abductions. There are ideas around that some children are “star children” who are the result of alien experimentation. Did she stumble on an attempted “alien abduction”? Was this small child being visited by an entity that took the brother’s shape when confronted by his sister?
If it was an unknown or alien entity, what was it doing in the toddler’s bedroom? What was its purpose? Children are said to be more sensitive to the otherworldly then adults. The sister may have perceived what is normally invisible to adults. Perhaps she accidentally interfered with its goals.
If something like this happened 60 years ago, it could happen today to anyone, anywhere. Folklore is filled with methods to protect us against “entities”. Maybe they had good reasons for it.
Letters have long held esoteric significance. This is especially true for the Hebrew alphabet. It also applies to the runes. In Norse mythology Odin gave the wisdom of the runes as a gift to mankind. What about our modern English alphabet? Could there be similar hidden esoteric meaning in the everyday alphabet we all use today?
Let us consider the first letter in the alphabet, the letter “A”. The earliest version of “A” was also the first letter of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, but their A lay sideways. The ancient Greeks turned the “A” upright as it still appears today. The current version of A is not a recent invention, but is thousands of years old.
The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is aleph. The first line of the bible begins in Genesis with, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” In the Bible’s last book, the Book of Revelation, God literally speaks, “I am the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last”. The Greek alphabet begins with alpha and ends with omega. In John 1:1 the bible said: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Words and letters seem to contain mystical, even divine significance. Words are symbols of thought turned into information, and then this information can transform matter. Writing can convey subtle and complex ideas, emotions, and concepts. It is the source of art and science. Language and writing are literality immaterial thought manifest into physical reality. It is an act of creation, from spirit into matter.
I suggest the letter “A” may represent God, but with an Egyptian influence. Ancient Greece and Egypt coexisted together. Could the letter “A” been partially inspired by the pyramids of Egypt? We can only speculate.
However, the uppercase letter “A” does look like a pyramid. And the lowercase “a” could represent the Eye of Horus, the famous Egyptian symbol. “a” looks like the circle of the eye with the eyebrow above.
If we place the lowercase “a” inside the top half of the uppercase “A”, suddenly we have a symbol that is recognizable today: the All-Seeing Eye of God, the Eye of Providence. Did the letter “A” influence the design of the Great Seal of the United States? This symbol appears on the back of the American dollar bill.
The reverse of the Great Seal portrays an incomplete pyramid symbolizing a nation yet to be completed. The Eye of Providence above suggests divine providence is guiding its completion. The symbolism is quite Masonic. The letter A suggests beginnings, as in the beginning of a new nation. And the Eye of Horus watches over us!
As a service to the esoteric community I offer the Occult View’s official and definitive Paranormal Reality Scale. It has a margin of error of +/-2%.
On a scale of 100% to 0%, how real is any particular paranormal phenomena? I offer this scale: The Near-Death-Experience is rated at 100%, UFOs are at 50% and Bigfoot is 1%. We can fit everything else in-between.
At 100% we have the Near-Death Experience. These experiences are a fact. If the NDE is genuinely paranormal or just a trick of the mind remains undecided. Decades ago the NDE was not even recognized. Today it is the topic of serious scientific inquiry. The NDE is 100% real but its true nature remains a mystery.
At 50% we have the flip of a coin. UFOs are iffy. There is compelling evidence of their existence, but nothing is conclusive. Today with digital manipulation, we can’t trust any image or video. Our only evidence are the accounts of people who have seen them, and those may be mistaken. Yet all it takes is for one incident to be true. Is everyone mistaken?
At 1% we have Bigfoot. We have the dubious Patterson Bigfoot film, some foot castings and not much else. What are the odds a hominid could survive in North America undetected? I say 1%.
Then we have the 0% category. This is a fun category. Anything is possible! But nothing is real. I include Santa Claus, Noah’s Ark, the flat earth and hollow earth theories, faked moon landings, Planet Nibiru, 2012 and so on.
In between I put Psi at 75%. I feel the research done by parapsychology has essentially proven Psi exists (telepathy, precognition). It is a subtle effect but quite real. However, it has yet to be recognized by mainstream science. I feel its day will come. It is on its way moving up to the 100% category.
At 25% I place ghosts. In my opinion ghost are as real as the NDE; they may be part of it. But any evidence for ghosts is weak. There are some pictures, some electronic voice phenomenon, but nothing close to being definitive. On the other hand, stories of ghosts are as old as humanity. There are countless anecdotal accounts, and these cannot be just dismissed. I feel ghosts are real, but try catching a ghost. Proof is elusive.
The Internet is filled with ghosts. There are graveyards on the Internet not unlike what we have in physical life: abandoned blogs, discontinued websites, dead links. Mostly these sites are abandoned out of disinterest. However, sometimes the individual has died. What happens to a blog after the blogger dies? A paid hosting service will deactivate an account when payment eventually ceases. What about free services? There the voices of the dead may linger a very long time. Some blogging services may deactivate an account after a period of no activity. Other blogs may last as long as the blogging service exists. If family members don’t know the password, they may be unable to update it and let people know. A ghost blog may linger frozen in time as a testament to an individual’s life. Could it last for centuries?
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