Spiritualism
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seemed reasonable, although there are several others which have taken what seem
like multiple tracks to get to (roughly) the same place. Essential Knowledge
for
The PLUTO IN SCORPIO GENERATION
born from 83-95
Written by Robert Hitt
4/19/2011
George is a fellow web site writer and an extremely good man.. his web site is chock full of interesting thoughts.. observations and George is very much a man to look up to as he is WALKING THE WALK HE TALKS.
The http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm daily updates he posts are one of my daily don't miss reads every day
A cut from today's update is maybe of interest to my readers.
Tuesday at the WuJo
Coping: With Getting Ready to Die & EVP's
A grim topic to ponder early in the day? Yeah, I suppose so, and probably better timed would be after a crappy day at work, but my eldest daughter is heavy into study of Electronic Voice Phenomena - EVP's - and has asked me to help her design a 'better way' to hear EVP's.
Not that I really expect to be able to design a box of electronic (whatever) in order to enable communication with the "other side" but when a child asks a parent to help out on a personal quest / project it seems like the thing to do, so I've sketched out a research path to see what's out there.
The first thing that struck me
is I need to get a lot more current in my "What happens after death?"
studies. The write-up on Handbook
to the Afterlife
One approach, for example, is
the "hard science" route and a book like The
Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death
I think I mentioned that back
in my news-chasing days, I'd interviewed Dr. Raymond Moody in 1976, or so, when
he came out with the first edition of Life
After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon--Survival of Bodily Death
I'd heard a few rumbles on the police & fire beat as a reporter. Nothing firm, mind you, just some rumbles around the alarm office from early paramedics in Seattle (which pioneered heart attack response with the (then new) Medic One program) that a few people who were coming back after dying briefly from massive heart attacks, were reporting similar experiences on the 'other side' of death.
Of course, right about here, a serious researcher has to pause and ask "Is the experience on the 'other side' real, or is it a culturally culturally-nominalized experience induced by the brain's last-gasp efforts to save itself by producing larger than normal amounts of a chemical called DMT? This naturally occurring chemical has been studied a lot and a good starting point to understand it is DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences. Already got that book in our library.
This first fork-in-the-road is one I've come to in past researches...so I'd read most of the survey work up to here. Still, some updating would be in order.
Starting with "Handbook to the Afterlife" I figured would be a good survey since it seems (if I got the write-ups properly digested) like it should give a decent summary of the various sources of information about the Hereafter. Those being the emergency room 'floating' experiences where people come back able to recall numbers of top of ER cabinets that they would not otherwise have been able to see (beyond Moody), then the anecdotal reports, maybe some of the cultural-anthro stuff, and then digesting the religious tradition hand-me-downs.
This last is a particularly interesting area, since whatever is after life in the here and now seems to have been a favorite place for the "PowersThatBe" to erect toll booths to fund their various here/now operations. Buying a Stairway to what? Fortunately, dying is still actually free so we don't have to worry about handing over 10-percent of life savings to do it. No admission price and no taxes...can't be that bad a place, unless it's uncomfortably warm and smells of sulfur, of course, lol.
Once I get done with that book,
I figure I'd move on to find out what can be had about the physics of the
Hereafter. The lead brain for this part of the adventure will be Dean
Radin's book The
Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena
To read up on some of the
claims being made about the specific of Electronic Voice Phenomena, I'll then
wolf down Electronic
Voices: Contact with Another Dimension?
My notion? Well, since you asked...the thing that seems to stick in my mind in all this is that a lot of current reports of EVP's seem to be dependant on use of either digital recorders or cassette/reel-to-reel tape recorders.
The only reason I'm even thinking about this stuff is that the EVP processes used have something in common: A sample rate.
You see, in the case of the portable digital recorders, they are using various sample rates in the22 to 44 KHz and up range. In our semi-serious home studio, 96 KHz is the norm. Still, all sampling rate.
But here's the common element with digital recorders: I know from being a broadcast engineer that tape recorders have a high frequency tape bias applied. And what do you suppose the frequency range is? The Ampex tand was 100 KHz but you can find various gear using from 30 KHz on up.
No, this is not a short-term problem. There's a good month (or two) of spare time (what???) reading. But is there an existence one octave higher in vibration? Sure seems there may be. One question is whether discarnate people go there, and if a phone could be installed to talk to 'em.
Once I've consumed all the
books, then making improvements on EVP technology ought to resolve into a simple
task since I'm schooled on TRIZ - which I know - you know - is the Russian
'science of invention'. And if you're an engineer and have read at least 40
Principles: TRIZ Keys to Technical Innovation (Triztools, V. 1)
As for dying? No, I don't expect to be going any time soon, at least not before 2013 now, it turns out, but more on that next month. Main thing is, there is a whole body of work being done around dying and getting dead. Any study of the subject done ahead of when it's actually needed seems like a decent side benefit to helping my daughter sort out whether EVP's are real (she thinks they are, but I'm a show-me kinda guy) and, if real, are there engineering-optimized methods to access what's over there - or should I say who is over there?
Who knows - might even chat up the group of late economists, who even though we assume they'd be too busy arguing about what's ahead, still might slip us a good stock tip, now and then. If - that is - we can get the phone working.
RH.
