Hey, Tony, thanks for stopping by. If you make granite spheres that weigh between 25 and 50 pounds we might be able to do some business. I'm putting off that gravestone another year or two, though.

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Hi, Alice!

I'd guess it would cost a fortune, Chen wrote that he found his in a market somewhere in China, so it was almost certainly specially built for this sort of training. Almost no one is doing this sort of practice now so there is nearly zero market for it and custom ordering something like this would just be incredibly expensive.

The practical alternative is stone or cement. Cement would be very abrasive, but stone might be all right. I'll have to check with a grave monument maker sometime to see if the price is within reason. Stone spheres are used as decorations on tombs sometimes and the marble or granite is very polished.

The big one on the pedestal, that's something way beyond the reach of mortal humans now. Must have cost a fortune to cast and finish that one even back in the old days.

That is an intriguing video and I like this idea. I'd like to try it when I can know I'll have two days to crash afterward. Maybe when I get home? : )

I wonder how hard it would be to obtain such a sphere as he had there. Are there any pieces of equipment that would yield a giant ball bearing once they were past their useful date? Or could you ask one to be made and not have it cost a fortune?

Hi, Michael,

Just wrote this comment and now I see a related story at Spiraling UFO Over Australia Was Likely Falcon 9 Rocket. So I'm updating this comment, the story appears to have died because it was officially adequately explained. From my time as a journalist I understand that there are all sorts of reasons stories die, usually means people in charge think there's not enough public interest to sell ads. Other times it looks more suspicious, like stories were intentionally killed for security reasons. I've always thought it unfortunate that journalists are so willing to accept anything "official" and don't automatically keep poking. Since the launch came an hour earlier on the other side of the planet there wasn't any intentional flyover of populated areas and it wasn't a local test. We've not heard about such things before, but first there was the Norway spiral, then (again according to a news report) a short time later a similar failed missile spiral over some remote part of Russia, and now this one in Australia. It does make a person wonder what's really going on, but to a missile technician it may not seem at all unusual. Coincidence, maybe, but we might also be testing anti-missile systems. Only a few days before the Australian spiral a faked story about a spiral sighted over Canada surfaced but it seemed to be photo-shopped material. I do wonder about the timing. Maybe we're just launching so many missiles now that this sort of thing will become a common event.

I'm not sure if you are aware of this or not but we had a spiral event in Australia on the 5th of June this year 2010. It was seen by thousands of witnesses all up and down the east coast between four states. It was reported heavily throughout the media for one day then the story vanished. The explanation given was that it was a rocket launched from cape-canavrail but the timing of this rocket's launch does not match the sitings. The Spiral was identical to the one over Norway but moved, unlike the Norway spiral. If you type in "spiral over Australia 5 June 2010" into youtube you will see lots of different footage. This comes just 6 months after the Norway spiral. If you learn anything new about this please get in touch. I believe there is something more to this that we are not being told. Kind regards, Michael.

Yeah its a pretty spooky app, It called me by my first name a few minutes ago and I am trying to make some logic of it...

That's one of the things I don't remember, CG, I sort of came into full consciousness in the middle of this one and have a vague sense that I was some sort of whirlwind or vortex myself, but can't be sure. I'm not aware of any particular bird associated with the heyoka, it's a path about storms and lightning, though the spirits behind that are sometimes described as having wings. And there's the story of the thunder egg, too, it's just that these are descriptions phrased in terms that were familiar to the old shamans who tried to explain and describe what they saw. What they saw were not eggs or birds, that was just the closest thing to common ground they had for talking about them. If you're talking to something in deep space that looks like a thundercloud of glowing light, or a dark vortex with wing-like streamers rotating around it, or a translucent sphere crackling with bolts of electricity, and all you've got are birds and weather as common ground with people who haven't seen these things, you talk about thunder eggs and storm clouds. I'd guess they are actually none of the above, my terms may not be any closer to right than the old ones were.

Fascinating account, Jimmy! My first guess, however, would've been that you would go downward, since the tornado was dropping from the clouds, so the vortex would carry you that direction, too. By the way, you neglected to mention what form you assumed in your shapeshifting. One surmises that it was a bird of some kind. Do you have a special bird-spirit associated with your particular heyoka path?

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I don't pay much attention to news, period, so what I hear him say are the snippets the media picks out and certainly not the entire speech. My reaction is more pertinent to the media impression than to Tiger. He may actually have a more benevolent understanding of what happened than it seems he does.

I do think he's missed the point in those important ways, the whole karmic idea is that there are consequences for actions and it really appears that he didn't take that part seriously. Some of the old masters taught moral behavior as the best approach, and some didn't. The morality isn't the point, but it's the least troublesome road to what is important. Some thought the best way to learn the advantages of moral behavior was to be immoral for awhile. Kind of a brutal way to learn things, and that's what he's experiencing now.

I do not appreciate the media's slant, which appears to be that Tiger went awry because he took up some crazy cultish weird religion called Buddhism, and now that he's given that up he'll be all right. If that's a misunderstanding it's a misunderstanding that most people will think is true.

Never discuss religion in public. Old Buddhist tenet. I possibly will now learn the consequences of that.

I usually actively ignore celebrity gossip, but this time I happened to hear a snippet on the news regarding this. What I came away with, what I thought he said/meant was that he "slipped" in his spiritual life as a part of all of this, which led to or added to his eventual downfall.

I don't like his using Buddhism as an excuse or explanation for what happened. People who aren't Christian endure enough issues (usually from Chrstians, well-meaning and otherwise) without having to go through the whole sad attempt (via media) of people trying to understand the beliefs and practices...suffer the requisite interview with Thurman, the judgment and damnation.

My biggest objection to it all is that he raised the subject. Now I feel like I have to bury my head a bit further to escape all of the "understanding" to come.

Bohzo to you as well. Yes, there's a lot in Indian history that involves this and I suppose I'd rate the individual accounts of shamans like Wallace Black Elk, who was visited by a flying saucer with a crew of small grey people after one of his three day vision quests, as the most valid. Native American experience tends to be direct experience, people meeting these other beings as independent participants in contact, as opposed to the usual approach of either being paralyzed or running away screaming.

It was pretty scary at first, but vision quest is what got me into that conscious contact and conscious practice, not just in remote viewing but in other things as well. You get used to it all after awhile.

Thanks for reading.

bohzo (hello)

Remote viewing is a very old thing, I have met such people, the ones that I have met have been Shamins but was told that anyone can learn.

I was afraid to learn because I was afraid of the teacher.

UFO's are written about even with Native Americans.

Megwitch (Thank You) for sharing!

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Thanks for the clarification, Matthew, I'll edit what I said to direct people to your comment. I wouldn't personally object to even subliminal prompts so long as I knew their intention and agreed with it. Thanks for reading!

Jimmy

Jimmy,

This is a very nice explanation of Hemi-Sync and I can back you up by personally vouching for its powerful effects. I don't think your mention of subliminal prompts is accurate though. I'm a certified Monroe Institute outreach facilitator and from everything we learned in our training, no subliminal messaging or prompts of any kind are used with Hemi-Sync. There are plenty of audible prompts to be sure, but no subliminal messages, which is one way that Hemi-Sync distinguishes itself from other systems. But people shouldn't take my word for it. If they want to know more they can visit http://www.monroeinstitute.org or http://www.hemi-sync.com.

Please keep up the great posts! I really enjoy reading them.

Matthew

Hi, CG,

I was tinkering with the forum software that comes with this site, and I think it will work well enough so here's a link:

http://jamestwohats.com/And_Then/index.php

Sent you an email about it from my website email, don't know if you got it or not.

Jimmy

Jimmy, I've just been browsing through your site again. It works so much faster than UM, I think we ought to continue our conversation here, if you can find a place for it. If not, that's fine. I'll probably keep logging in at UM, even though the new layout is absurdly slow compared to the old one. Some "upgrade"!

By the way, I'm still fascinated with your account of the "goat-footed" being you encountered. I think it's one of the most compelling things you've posted at UM, and it's stuck in my mind. You must have been surprised when Eight Bits posted those photos of the Gundestrup cauldron and the Mohenjodaro seals with the seated "horned" figures!

Your identification of that strange being you saw with the ancient wilderness gods Kernunnos and Pan strikes me as natural and plausible. And your observation that, even though those mythic divinities may have had their origin in actual dealings with such beings, "worship takes us down the wrong path" is instructive. I've nothing against the sacred, in principle, but worship, in my opinion, is mostly based on fear, which priests have have used for centuries to bolster their own authority.

Anyway, just thought I'd drop you a message here instead of on that thread at UM that we hijacked.

--CG (Wes)