The Post-2012 Post

INTRODUCING THE NEW POST-2012 POST

Well, the fateful date of December 21, 2012 has now come and gone.............. and we are still here.......... isn't that a relief! 

But it is a mixed blessing. 

On the one hand we have not been subjected to a whole panoply of predicted disasters, from pole reversals to supervolcanoes.  However, on the other hand we didn't ascend to a higher level of consciousness, witness the start of a new Golden Age, experience the return of our benevolent space brothers, gain admittance to the Galactic Federation, or achieve global peace and prosperity.

In short, nothing much out of the ordinary, either good or bad,  appeared to happen, which is what Baba, the Korean Zen Master, predicted when I met with him at his temple in 2008.

To those of us who were active around the issues of Y2K it is deja vu all over again. Luckily, for me at least, this time around I didn't buy into the doom-and-gloom scenario and I didn't go overboard on disaster prep.

There are those sources that are saying that some changes did occur on December 21.  They contend that certain subtle energies from outer space impacted the earth and that in the future we will look back on this period as a turning point but there is no way of judging the validity of such sentiments so I will just take a wait-and-see attitude on that.

All of this business of the Mayan prophecy is now behind us but what I am left with is an unabated interest in the various related topics that are mentioned in the masthead above......... such things as remote viewing, First Contact, altered states, and after life communications. 

These are definitely subjects that I would like to address in the future, but for the time being I need to take a break.

Therefore, I am going to put the blog on hiatus, turn my attention to a number of long-neglected projects, and return to the blog............ now newly renamed The Post-2012 Post........ at some later date.

In closing, I would just like to say, aren't we lucky that......   

       THE BARTENDER WAS RIGHT!

 

COSMIC VOYAGE -- PART THREE

In this final post on Cosmic Voyage by Courtney Brown I want to briefly explore some miscellaneous points that I found of interest.

For the most part Remote Viewing (RV) is a passive activity.  The RVer merely goes to a target and reports back what they "see."  However, in some cases they actually interact with entities that they may encounter during the session.  This was the case in a number of Brown's sessions.  For example, in a session focused on the Galactic Federation he reported,

O.K. There are beings in here, lots of them....I get the clear sense that this is some type of council....They do not seem to be aware that I am watching.  They seem to be concerned with matters of state or governance....Uh-oh.  Looks like I was wrong about them not knowing I am here.  I am being given a welcome.

And during another session,

There really are beings here.  These are not human beings....I am being given a welcome.  These beings know that I am here.  They are looking right at me.  I am getting very nervous about this. 

2012: SCIENCE OR SUPERSTITION -- PART ONE

It is fairly common to see a video based on a book, far less common to see a book based on a video -- but that is the case here.  Evidently the producer of a video, by the same name, having thoroughly researched the 2012 phenomenon in preparing for the film, felt "...there was no single book that even attempted" to cover the broad range of topics involved so he went out and got a writer, Alexandra Bruce, to do the job.  Hence the subtitle: The Definitive Guide to the Doomsday Phenomenon.

It certainly is "definitive" in a sense, but its breadth is accomplished at the expense of its depth.  Geoff Stray's Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Awakening? also does a great job of covering the waterfront, and in more depth.  So you might think of the current book as "Stray lite."  However, that may be just the ticket if you would like a quick, easy and comprehensive read on the topic.  But lest I give the wrong impression, I must hasten to add that the book is very well done, thoroughly researched and intelligently written.

DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE -- PART FOUR

In the previous post we heard what a number of subjects had to say regarding their encounters with other "beings."  It's pretty far out stuff and if you feel most comfortable chalking it up to delusion, hallucination, dreaming, confabulation, mass hysteria or whatever -- please be my guest.

However, I have been immersed in this type of material for 20 years now and cannot so easily dismiss it.  That is in part because strikingly similar and internally consistent reports have appeared with great regularity in the alien abduction literature for quite a while.

DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE -- PART THREE

  We now enter what Strassman refers to as the "invisible" realm or "unexpected territory," some aspects of which left him "confused and concerned....baffled and nonplussed by the sheer volume and bizarre nature of [the] reports."

While he would dearly love to have written them off as dreams or hallucinations he was eventually convinced that they in fact represented "freestanding, independent levels of existence."

And his subjects would probably agree because they would preface their reports with statements such as, "This was not a dream," or "I couldn't have made it up if I wanted to." Others said things like, "...it was a total surprise!....All I could do was observe it;" or "This is real...It's totally unexpected, quite constant and objective....It's an independent constant reality."

DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE -- PART TWO

As noted in the previous post, the book is first and foremost an account of a research project, hence it is of necessity heavy on the minutiae of research protocols.  While these are of undoubted interest to other researchers, the average reader could care less, so I will just jump into some of the juicier findings.

 Strassman describes these under three overarching rubrics: personal, transpersonal, and invisible.

DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE -- PART ONE

Before launching into a review of DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman, M.D., I would like to remind the reader of DMT's possible connection with Mayan 2012. That can probably best be summed up with a quote by Geoffrey Stray lifted from an earlier post vis-a-vis earth changes in 2012:

Could it be that our entry into the magnetized plasma band will cause Earth weather changes and a geomagnetic reversal, which will trigger the pineal gland into DMT and pinoline production, leading to Kundalini and out-of-body experiences and increasing incidents of telepathy, while we develop our ability to see beyond the veil into the invisible landscape?

2012 AND ECOSHAMANISM

Beyond 2012: A Shaman's Call to Personal Change and the Transformation of Global Consciousness focuses more on the transformation and less on the 2012.  James Endredy is apparently a leader in the field of ecoshamanism -- a field about which I know very little, so you may have to take my comments with a grain of salt.

Endredy opens his consideration of 2012 with a brief overview of various prophecies, followed by the obligatory description of all the usual suspects:  volcanic and supervolcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, a pole shift, asteroid collisions and a smorgasbord of possible man made disasters.

THE MONROE INSTITUTE'S GATEWAY VOYAGE PROGRAM

I first heard about Robert Monroe from the ubiquitous Bill Harman during one of his visits with me and my family, circa 1967, in the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C.  It was the day after Bill met with Monroe for the first time, a bit further south in a far more rural part of the state. 

I don't recall the exact details of our conversation that day but I distinctly remember that Bill had come away from his meeting with a very positive impression of both Monroe and his work.

So in 1971 when Monroe published his first book, Journeys Out of the Body, recounting his extraordinary experiences, I rushed to buy it.  I was not disappointed, and over the years I just as avidly read his subsequent works (Far Journeys and Ultimate Journey).  Therefore, I was intrigued to see that Courtney Brown cited his experience at The Monroe Institute (TMI) as one of the key elements in his preparation to become a Remote Viewer.  (As you may recall, I covered Brown's work on remote viewing 2012 in an earlier post.)

 

MY FORAYS INTO REMOTE VIEWING

 Remote Viewing (RV) is a highly structured and "scientific" approach to obtaining information through non-ordinary channels.  A number of books have been written on its history at the Stanford Research Institute  and in the military, and a variety of different private programs have sprung up to train people in its application.  I am not going to try to recap all of this readily available information here because my interest is primarily in seeing what light RV might shed on 2012.

But in this first post I just want to recount my own initial forays into the field.  I must hasten to add that I have never received any formal training and what I refer to as my "forays" were just poorly controlled public demonstrations.  Nevertheless, I think you might find my experiences rather intriguing ..........I know I certainly did!

My first exposure was during a presentation by Simeon Hein and Ron Russell at the 14th Annual International UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada in 2005.  They began by describing  their approach to RV, which they termed Resonant Viewing, and then provided us with some general guidance (e.g., how to capture basic impressions, sensory perceptions and dimensional information) after being exposed to an undisclosed "target."

Near the conclusion of the talk they treated the audience to an experiential demonstration using a fairly standard procedure.  They held up a plain sealed manila envelope containing a picture, the "target."  Neither of the presenters knew just which picture was in that particular envelope and it wasn't opened until after the audience had had an opportunity to jot down their reactions.

Here is my response to the first envelope (but don't bother to spend much time on it):

The target turned out to be a picture of a Japanese mountain climber outside a tent on the slope of a snow covered mountain.

Drats!  A very clear miss.

Here is my response to the second envelope (also not worth your effort to decipher):

 

The target was a Central American temple structure.  Another miss; I clearly wasn't faring too well at this point.

Here is my response to the third envelope:

In case you can't decipher my scrawl it says "very heavy, solid, squat, pillbox, bunker, wet, slimy, clammy, salty, old, sits heavy on ground, hills/cliff," and is accompanied by two sketches. 

After Simeon called time for the end of the session (but before he opened the envelope) I jotted down the phrase: "immovable object -- natural or man made?"

And the target was...............drum roll please: 

 

BEYOND 2012 by GEOFF STRAY -- PART THREE

This is the third and final post devoted to my review of Geoff Stray's Beyond 2012 -- Catastrophe or Awakening?

Throughout human history shamans, native healers and others have used naturally occurring mind-altering substances to enter non-ordinary states, possibly giving rise, in some cases, to the many indigenous predictions concerning 2012.  It should probably, therefore, comes as no surprise that current day "psychonauts" have had similar experiences.  Most notably among these is the McKenna brothers.

While smoking pure DMT (N-N-dimethyltryptamine) Terence McKenna reportedly encountered "extradimensional life-forms" who told him that the "laws of physics will be transformed around 2012."  Another user has reported that while taking "magic mushrooms" he "received a date, like a programmed ending point, or beginning...2012.  This is the moment where time and therefore also space will fall apart, and we will remain with only our spirit (energy)."

BEYOND 2012 by GEOFF STRAY -- PART TWO

 

This is the second post devoted to my review of Geoff Stray's Beyond 2012 -- Catastrophe or Awakening?  In the previous post I covered a number of topics in which I have varying degrees of interest.  However, in this post I get to delve into areas which are near and dear to my heart....one of which is remote viewing.

 Remote viewing, or RV, is defined as, "...the ability to gather information about a distant or unseen target...." using something other than our usual senses.  It can be thought of as a type of psychic ability but one employed under very strict, "scientific" conditions.  My own experiences with RV have been totally mind boggling and I will describe them at some later point, but right now let's just look at the 2012 aspect according to Stray.

THE MYSTERY OF 2012 -- GEOFF STRAY

As promised, this entire post will be devoted to Geoff Stray's chapter because it is so chock-full of good stuff.  He opens with a brief introduction to the work of Terence and Dennis McKenna, their experiences with ayahuasca (a very powerful entheogen), and their novelty wave theory that "demonstrates the acceleration of change in the universe toward a point...when time will end" -- which they placed at November 17, 2012.