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In reply to the discussion: Context and the Assange case. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)This is probably old hat to you, AikidoSoul...
Dr. Jacques Vallee says we may live in an "Associative Universe," one in which our minds act as a rudder, guiding us toward destinations we have pre-considered. An astronomer and computer scientist by training, he was among the first to apply computers to analyzing the UFO phenomenon when an assistant to the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Project BLUEBOOK fame and "swamp gas" notoriety.
Vallee describes the "Associative Universe" in detail in "Messengers of Deception," a study of UFO cults and people who manipulate followers and what it means to the greater society as a whole. He had been studying a contactee group called, iirc, "The Order of Melchizedek" for several months. On an unrelated matter, Vallee flew to L.A. for a conference and hopped aboard a cab. When he finally got to his room, he looked at his receipt for the cab ride and it was signed, iirc, John Melchizedek. Vallee looked in the phone book and he was the only Melchizedek in town.
The coincidence made him think that, perhaps the universe is organized along the lines of a series of information events. Time and space, rather than acting as a phonograph needle laid down at the beginning of track one and coursing through to the end of the side, may be a series of seemingly unconnected experiences woven together by our consciousness. Thus, our awareness serves to pick up the needle and put it down at different places on the album. A similar situation may exist in data storage systems, where key words help retrieve information faster than having to go through an entire pile of data to find the needle in the infohaystack. For us, our minds act as a sort of rudder, guiding us more often to the visualized destination.
http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/UFO-info-age.html
This is an amazing universe. Perhaps important thoughts are like the clouds moving across the clear blue sky of the Universal Mind. So, please keep thinking about where it is we need to go. The world may move in that direction. Whenever possible, it really does make sense to visualize peace, justice, understanding and love. It could hasten the day when this becomes the kind of universe good people deserve.
PS: Here's an OP that may shed some light on what we need to do in the meantime:
Wall Street DESTROYED the Newspaper Unions and We ALL Suffer for It
You probably haven't read it, but you and your friend at the Herald certainly know what it's about.
PPS: When I was a cub reporter on the night cops beat, Edna Buchanan was my role model.