Opening 2007

The Creation Museum, in St. Petersburg, Ky.!

If it’s in a museum, it must be true.–R. Legault

What is so different about this museum, you ask. Here is the answer, straight from the FAQ page:

Almost all natural-history museums proclaim an evolutionary, humanistic worldview. For example, they will typically place dinosaurs on an evolutionary timeline millions of years before man. AiG’s museum will proclaim the authority and accuracy of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and will show that there is a Creator, and that this Creator is Jesus Christ (Colossians 1:15-20), who is our Savior.

For a “walk-through” click here.

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So, What Are You Doing After You Die?

Death has come to my attention lately. My son, who is four, asked me what will happen after I die. My response, as we hurried across a busy intersection (trying not to die) was: “I will lie down and not get up, and you will have to go live with your dad.”

Which is all my son needs to know right now. But then I thought about it: What if, after you die, what happens to you depends on what you believe: If you believe you deserve Heaven, there you go; Hell, and you are on your way. I think when I was a young teen I read a science fiction short story like that once. But what if you believe in something else? Heaven/Hell may not apply. For instance, I know a few neo-Hellenics, and they will pass through the River of Lethe, forget their whole lives, and then live in sorrow in a grimly half-lit Underworld.

I like the afterlife of the Ancient Egyptians a little better. If you believe in the Egyptian gods, then you better make sure your two halves (spiritual and physical) meet and then you can become a force that wanders the earth, not unlike the latest version of the movie,”The Mummy.” It makes me think of zombies. I suppose I could terrorize the people who gave me grief (I’ll have to make a list before I’m entombed) and stop cars from hitting all the people who were good to me (another, much shorter list).

Speaking of Zombies, if you believe in voodoo, you can eventually join cosmic forces, but first you have to trust your relatives to protect your gravesite for a week (so no one can make you into a zombie) and then to remember to “raise” you in ceremony a year later, after which you become a minor divinity they pray to (you do their bidding) and then, 16 cycles later, you get a break.

Something else that takes a long time, but more restful: Islam. I am sure by now you’ve heard about the 72 virgins (and what are us girls supposed to do after we die?) but did you know that’s not supposed to happen until after Judgment day? There are Muslims who have been waiting in their graves hundreds of years already!

Something more immediate: I have always liked the idea of reincarnation. More Hindu than Buddhist (Buddhists suggest reincarnation, but Buddha himself did not believe in idle speculation on the afterlife. Besides, Buddhists don’t believe we have souls that stay the same.) Hinduism is closely related to the caste system.If you do lots of good, release your desires, you’ll be born into a better caste next time around. What better way to keep your servants on their best behavior.

Jesus and his Heaven are looking better and better.

If you can do without Jesus, a Hopi belief, shared by many other Native American groups, was a sort of happy hunting ground: we just go back “where we came from.” Somewhere at the beginning of time, where all is still wonderful: convenient two-way rivers, and a whole lot of buffalo.
I was raised more Protestant than anything else, more from my parents’ unconscious value system than any formal teaching. My son will get that from me. But maybe I can learn more about the Hopi, and tell my son when we die we go back where we came from–two way rivers and buffalo sound fine to me.

For a complete list and explanation of afterlives, visit http://www.near-death.com/religion.html

Saddam’s Ghost Haunts Baghdad

From the India Daily: In a most bizarre stories ever heard, some people in Baghdad are claiming that they are seeing Saddam’s ghost in Baghdad public areas. Sources say, this may be a plot by the Baathists to keep Saddam ‘alive’ among the Sunni communities. Some claim he is seen in restaurants, markets and so on. It is possible many Saddam look-alikes are now more prominent and people are mistaking these look-alikes as possible Saddam. It is also possible that Saddam was such a threat that people just cannot believe he is dead and not coming back. None of these possible ghost sightings are confirmed by any reliable sources or Iraqi authorities. Saddam Hussein was buried before dawn on Sunday in his native village of Awja, near Tikrit in northern Iraq, the head of his tribe and a family source said. Ali al-Nida, head of the Albu Nasir tribe, told Reuters the burial in a family plot took place in the early morning, less than 24 hours after the former president was hanged for crimes against humanity. He gave no further details. A source close to Saddam’s family confirmed his remains were interred at Awja, where his sons Uday and Qusay, killed by US troops in 2003, also lie in a family plot. The family had said he might be buried in the western city of Ramadi.Arab television stations broadcast new video images of Saddam’s hanging, apparently shot on a low-quality camera by guards or other officials at the execution, taken from a different angle from footage shown on Iraqi state television.

My Prophecy Comes to Pass, Sort Of

In early January 2004, a bunch of us at happy hour were discussing the usual crap like rock & roll, pop culture, current events. We talked about the upcoming Superbowl half-time show, which we all dissed as being retarded and Nuremberg Rally-like. I said at the time, “I predict that within a couple of years Britney Spears will perform topless at half-time.” Well, not a couple of years but a mere coupla weeks later it wasn’t Ms. Spears but Janet Jackson who let it all loose at the Superbowl spectacle. This past weekend, Britney finally got her turn to let it all loose in public, and in a big way. It wasn’t a big event like the Superbowl, but there it was nonetheless, Britney getting out of a car baring her uncovered private region (aka “snatch”) for all the world to see. (Talk about your media distractions–see previous post).

The Elemental of 171 West Buchanan Street

It’s been hard for the landlord to keep tenants at 171. Sure, the building was drafty, and in the worst condition of any building on the street. But the neighbors said that tenants just didn’t stay on my side of the building for more than a few months, and those who had were unsavory. Other than a tenant who had stayed for 12 years–until he passed away last October–I spent most of the time completely alone in the two-family house that was subdivided into four apartments.

In the evenings, I often felt that someone was watching me. With that feeling, I would look out the windows at my backyard. But soon that stopped. Because I “saw” something, more in my mind’s eye than anything, but unlike many visions, turning my mind from it would not make it go away. It had an old man’s head and body, white and crinkly, with an exceptionally long nose and face, no hair on the top of his head, and long white hair in the back. He would traipse about, back and forth on white, goat-like legs in my backyard, at an inhuman speed, almost like a speeded up film.

After a moment of “watching” this, he would turn his attention toward me, and it felt like his face, crinkly, white, with cancerous-looking growths all over it, was inches from mine, and his eyes, which I could now see, were milky-white of a blind man and peering into my soul.

I tacked a picture of the Eye of Horus to my back door, and purified my home and my yard with salt. I avoided looking out the back windows at night, but I knew those were only temporary fixes. Before I moved out, I did “see” him again. And I was glad to be gone.

Good Question

The other night on Art Bell’s Coast To Coast AM radio program, some guy called in and posed the question, “Why do ghosts wear clothes?” I’m stumped, except maybe to say that people who “see” ghosts aren’t seeing anything at all and are projecting our customs and morals on something they think they see. Anybody else have a theory?

Upcoming Cosmic Event Oct. 17

Brothers and Sisters The Shift is here

Pt. 1

Click here for Arcturian Alignment 1

http://www.youtube.com/v/FSUgW9AJ5Jg

Pt. 2

Click here for Arcturian Alignment 2

http://www.youtube.com/v/XczlrQJrX6s

Pt. 3

Click here for Arcturian Alignment 3

http://www.youtube.com/v/ASTvbhtrDIA

Pt. 4

Click here for Arcturian Alignment 4

http://www.youtube.com/v/GfEfv_3o7NA

Original post in Text

A cosmic trigger event is occurring on the 17th of October 2006.

This is the beginning, one of many trigger events to come between now and 2013. An ultraviolet (UV) pulse beam radiating from higher dimensions in universe-2 will cross paths with the Earth on this day. Earth will remain approximately within this UV beam for 17 hours of your time.

This beam resonates with the heart chakra, it is radiant flourescent in nature, blue/magenta in colour. Although it resonates in this frequency band, it is above the colour frequency spectrum of your universe-1 which you, Earth articulate in. However due to the nature of your soul and soul groups operating from Universe-2 frequency bands it will have an effect.

The effect is every thought and emotion will be amplified intensely one million-fold. Yes, we will repeat, all will be amplified one millions time and more.

Every thought, every emotion, every intent, every will, no matter if it is good, bad, ill, positive, negative, will be amplified one million times in strength.

What does this mean ?

Since all matter manifest is due to your thoughts, i.e. what you focus on, this beam will accelerate these thoughts and solidify them at an accelerated rate making them manifest a million times faster than they normally would.

For those that do not comprehend. Your thoughts, what you focus on create your reality. This UV beam thus can be a dangerous tool. For if you are focused on thoughts which are negative to your liking they will manifest into your reality almost instantly. Then again this UV beam can be a gift if you choose it to be.

Mission-1017 requires approximately one million people to focus on positive, benign, good willed thoughts for themselves and the Earth and Humanity on this day. Your thoughts can be of any nature of your choosing, but remember whatever you focus on will be made manifest in a relatively faster than anticipated time frame. To some the occurrences may almost be bordering on the miracle.

All we ask is positive thoughts of love, prosperity, healing, wealth, kindness, gratitude be focused on.

This UV beam comes into full affect for 17 hrs on the 17th of October 2006. No matter what time zone you are in the hours are approximately 10:17 am on the 17th of October to 1:17 am on the 18th October. The peak time will be 17:10 (5:10 pm) on the 17th October. You do not need to be in a meditative state through out this time, though would be beneficial. The main key time no matter what time zone you are in will be the peak time of 17:10 (5:10 pm).

Perhaps at this time if you can find a peaceful spot or location to focus. The optimum is out in the vicinity of grounded nature, likened to that of a large tree or next to the ocean waves. Focus on whatever it is you desire. What is required for the benefit of all Earth and Humanity is positive thoughts of loving nature.

We call this UV beam trigger event, .. gateway. Please forward this message to as many people as you know who will use this cosmic trigger event to focus positive, good willed thoughts. We require approximately 1-million people across globe to actively participate in this event. Please use whatever communication mediums you have at your disposal. Reach out to as many people as possible. We require 1-million plus people at the least to trigger a shift for humanity from separation and fragmentation to one of unification and oneness. This is your opportunity to take back what is rightfully yours i.e. Peace and Prosperity for all Earth and Mankind.

This is a gift, a life line from your universe so to speak, an answer to your prayers. What you do with it and whether or not you choose to participate is your choice.

This was originally posted 23rd-M’s myspace friend, White Arcanum:

Top 10 Reasons Not to Go for a Psychic Reading

3. If you hear good news to come, you’ll relax, knowing that the good thing will happen. If you relax, then you won’t be able to spot the opportunity of that good thing when it comes, so it will never happen (Rest of reasons are here)

Deja Connu

I must have been 11 or 12 years old, the first time I went to a Pembroke Arts Festival. It’s held in August, and I still remember how the sun coming through the musty yellow tents tinged the art work. In the photography section, I saw an 8×10 photo of the shadow of some stairs making an interesting pattern on a building. A voice in my head said, “You are going to meet that photographer.” I told my voice no way, it was out of its mind–I was only a kid, and that was done by an adult and I wouldn’t know him. The Pembroke Arts Fest features artists from the whole area, not just the town.

About three years later, I developed a crush on a kid in my study hall. He was a junior. We had a competition of who could make the best brownies–which we would eat, hushed in the blue cafeteria-cum-study hall. He invited me over, and I eventually went naked in the woods behind his house to get small branch of an apple tree to make into a magic wand. When we came back in, he showed me his portfolio, including the photograph of staircase’s shadow, which I had seen earlier.

The next time that same voice came into my head was when I turned 19. I had just bought a comic book from a friend who owned a struggling comic shop. I couldn’t leave without buying anything. So, I just grabbed a Fantastic Four Annual, and went to the park to read it. The last story, I believe was about Super Skrull, and  on the last panel was a bunch of kids holding Super Skrull figures.
It was very postmodern. And the voice once again said I was going to meet the person who wrote that story. I said Nah. I had planned to give up my whole comics thing and start a radio show for my college.

But then a month later, my best friend badgered me into going to Marvel with him for an internship. I figured, what the heck. I’ll just go in and see what kind of fun I could have in the interview. I ended up working there for 2 1/2 years, and the writer of that Super Skrull story, Len, became the love of my young life. Even though we were only together for a couple of years, I carried a torch for him for another 10 years.

Len, an internet and zine aficionado of the early ’90’s, walked in the door carrying the mail. The gang of us moochers, (roommate, roomie’s gf, and me) were lounging around, drinking and watching bad sf on the big tv. We looked up as Len proudly did show and tell with a zine on newsprint with some kind of black fetus art on the cover: “See this zine? This is not about UFo’s–this is about who believe in UFo’s! Hah hah!” and he retired to his room to enjoy.

Fourteen years later, I met the love of my adult life through an ad I placed online. We were in his bedroom, and he showed me a zine he had edited (and to a large degree written) in the early ’90’s. The cover of it showed a large black fetus. He said, “This is not only about UFo’s–this is about people who believe in UFo’s!”

And I said, “I’ve seen this magazine before…”

Does this happen to other people? What do these wrinkles in the fabric of my life mean? Where do these voices in my head–which I also seldom believe–come from?

Hearing Voices?

“If you hear voices HVN can help we are committed to helping people who hear voices. Our reputation is growing as the limitations of a solely medical approach to voices become better known. Psychiatry refers to hearing voices as ‘auditory hallucinations’ but our research shows that there are many explanations for hearing voices. Many people begin to hear voices as a result of extreme stress or trauma.”