"To the moon, Alice! To the moon!"
--Jackie Gleason in The Honeymooners
Photo by jespahjoy at flickr.com

I don't mean to be dramatic about this, even though that is a beautiful picture of the moon. No, the third time travel experiment did not take me there and in fact nothing much happened at all. That's not too disappointing, considering that Patricia Ress reports only a ten percent success rate and I'm new at the procedure. I set up for this last night, the same way I've been setting up for it (hoping I have the controls properly set and testing with a magnet to make sure the HDR is on). And nothing happened. That got me thinking about moon phases, because one of the first things I learned when I started taking weird things seriously is that they do happen more often at certain phases of the lunar cycle. There are actually little windows of opportunity I can mark on the calendar, and the new moon is the smallest window in the cycle. My two successes were within that window. Last night was not. I did get a brief glimpse of something, a place which looked overgrown and in ruins and reminded me a bit of what I've seen in pictures of Chernobyl, this from the point of view of someone moving down that abandoned street. That only lasted a few seconds and wasn't such a big deal.

I learned only recently, while doing some research online for my posts here and for my experimental procedures, that Gibbs says his portals open on the morning of the full moon. I didn't know that he worked in phase with that cycle also, but it makes good sense to me even though I don't understand why it happens that way. I theorize that energies do exist which are unknown to science and undetectable to modern instruments, but affect our lives anyway. One of them is apparently tied to the lunar cycle in some way, though that doesn't prove the moon is the source. Working against the cycle is like swimming upstream. Working with the cycle is like swimming downstream. That's pretty much what I know about the mysterious energy cycle in practical terms, although I do many things that I believe affect what happens to me while in that energy stream. I'm hoping the HDR proves to be a useful tool.

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