Good-bye Farmers & Meat! Hello steak brewed from a test-tube! What?
Recently while being in a group, a link got passed on that literally made me take a double-take. As if our farmers didn’t have it bad before, now they are facing their own extinction. Not to mention live-stock altogether. I suppose there will be no more use for them, not unless you would like a pet cow or chicken.
It seems that Science is about to take us on a whole new level—no joke. In an article called : Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives we see exactly how.
I quote:
In-Vitro Meat — aka tank steak, sci fi sausage, petri pork, beaker bacon, Frankenburger, vat-grown veal, laboratory lamb, synthetic shmeat, trans-ham, factory filet, test tube tuna, cultured chicken, or any other moniker that can seduce the shopper’s stomach — will appear in 3-10 years as a cheaper, healthier, "greener" protein that’s easily manufactured in a metropolis. Its entree will be enormous; not just food-huge like curry rippling through London in the 1970′s or colonized tomatoes teaming up with pasta in early 1800′s Italy. No. Bigger. In-Vitro Meat will be socially transformative, like automobiles, cinema, vaccines.
3-10 years folks—that’s not that long away. Can Farmers find another use for their land in that short of a time? Can they have all of their equipment paid off, find something else to grow, get a degree in what-the-hell-ever by then? What does Willie Nelson and Farm-aid think about this?
It may sound funny but I assure you it’s no laughing matter.
I quote:
1. Bye-Bye Ranches.
When In-Vitro Meat (IVM) is cheaper than meat-on-the-hoof-or-claw, no one will buy the undercut opponent. Slow-grown red meat & poultry will vanish from the marketplace, similar to whale oil’s flame out when kerosene outshone it in the 1870′s. Predictors believe that IVM will sell for half the cost of its murdered rivals.
I can’t imagine anything grown in a ‘tube’ as being ‘nutritious’ and ‘fresh’. But tons of people are pushing for this. They could care less about the Farmer, about people who eat meat, and whatever small business gets crushed by this. In fact, the article alone makes sure to throw in a few hysteria’s itself:
Quoting again:
Special Note: IVM sales will be aided by continued outbreaks of filthy over-crowded farm animal diseases like swine flu, Mad Cow, avian flu, tuberculosis, brucellosis, and other animal-to-human plagues. Public hysteria will demand pre-emptive annihilation of the enormous herds and flocks where deadly pathogens form, after safe IVM protein is available.
My own special note: I don’t know of one overcrowded filthy farm that mistreats or has spread diseases in my area. If people want to stop this sort of thing, then start supporting local farmers. Visit their spread and see how their beefs roam, are well fed, and how none of their animals are treated horribly. To find local farmers in your area– Local farmers, Produce, & more
That will also help the environment to by the way and it is better to eat from a farmer then buy the junk in stores that have been pumped up with hormones and whatever other yucky stuff.
back to the article–
The article states all the grand outcomes—healthier planet, healthier humans, real estate rising. Maybe all that is true BUT I can’t help but wonder, how do we know? I mean, how many times has a product been tossed out there claiming it is safe for consuming and then a few years later, suddenly people are dying from it?
Well one thing is for certain, we will soon find out because sure enough, its coming.
What do you think?
Shadow People, Shadow Beings, Shadow Spiders & Other Worlds Part 3
Part 3:
A little bit more on Hypnagogia –I wanted to comment on some of the information out there.
In the period of waking up or falling asleep sufferers of hypnogogia feel awake in the mind but paralyzed in the body.
The above statement is not completely true. Not all people experience paralysis. For those who do, they do not experience it all the time and some people only experience it in the beginning, if at all. Let me also point out that if you are going to research this, it is spelt Hypnagogia not hypnogogia. Hypnogogia is a common misspelling of the word.
That’s all I am going to say about Hypnagogia for now. We will go back into it later on once I weed out the info concerning it.
So what is on the agenda for today? Let’s go back to the Shadow People.
To refresh your memory:
Shadow people (also known as shadow men, shadow folk, or shadow beings) are supernatural shadow-like creatures of both modern folklore and traditional native American beliefs. According to folklore, they appear as dark forms in the peripheries of people’s vision and disintegrate, or move between walls, when noticed.[1][2]—Wikipedia
Possible explanations for Shadow People :
*Other World—dimension: Some people theorize that these beings come from another level of existence, other world or another dimension. Some believe that this dimension sometimes overlaps with ours, letting us catch a glimpse of them.
*Watchers: Some believe that these beings are what they call, “Watchers’. Now theories vary here and you will find people who actually relate them to the Watchers of the Fallen Angels. Some relate them to the Watchers of the biblical sense which did not fail God, or they have a whole other legend following. I think its important that people wash the ‘evil’ sense away from these theories though. As long as we fear it, hyping ourselves up, we will never discover the truth. Personally, I believe this is your own back yard. Nothing can hurt you unless you let it. Until we figure out what these beings are, its best we keep the fear at bay. This way we can come to some conclusion and investigate.
*Evil: With the above being said, I have to mention that one of the most common beliefs out there is that these beings are Evil, a devil or demons and some people go as far as to say , it is Lucifer himself. I can’t agree with that, sorry. I do not want to judge other people on their experiences but once people get passed the fear, there are too many positive and interesting testaments out there concerning this phenomena. I doubt that if it were Evil, that would be so. Fear kills us from discovering the truth…from fear comes ignorance and from ignorance, blindness…period.
*Ghosts or Spirits: It is one of the most common theories out there hovering right next to the Evil, demon one. People seem to believe that the Shadow spirit or being is just another type of Ghosts or Spirits. I think it is too simple of an answer BUT, if that’s all they have, then I respect that. Like us, they are just trying to figure this whole thing out right? And it is way better than the Evil thing.
*Astral projectors: Some people seem to think that these beings are someone astral projecting either from another dimension or from our own. Like people, they can be good or bad.
*Karma: Someone said that people begin to experience these beings once they start clearing out Karma. That’s all they said but later, I found many others who felt the same thing. Now even though this is at the bottom of the list for reasons, I thought it worth mentioning because it is a spreading reason.
*Succubus or Incubi: This is also at the bottom of the list and also fits under the whole Evil/Fear explanation. Apparently these people are having sex in their dreams and it is leaving them absolutely exhausted or drained.
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I think that is enough reasons. So lets focus on the lore surrounding them and or the Shadow of a person rather. That might help.
Egyptians called the shadow khaibut. The Egyptians believed that the khaibut was one of seven souls that each person had. The Roman word for shadow was umbra, also meaning ‘the shade’ or the ghost of an individual who went to a place called the Land of Shades. The land of Shades was believed to be underground or part of an Underworld and after the person died, their shadow went there. In Greece, people were known to dedicate their shadows or give them over to a God such as Zeus. This was considered to be a marvelous sacrifice but at the same time or later on, fearsome. For instance, it was believed that if a person went to the temple or sanctuary of Zeus Lycaeus, they would lose their shadows. For those who do not know, Lycaeus was believed to be the origin of Werewolves and from this particular story, maybe some of the lore concerning werewolves became born. In medieval times, werewolves and vampires were a phenomena that said that anyone cursed this way, lacked a shadow or reflection. They lacked soul.
Also in the medieval times, cornering a witch and proving her to be one, the shadow played a big part. If someone sold their soul to the devil then they had no shadow—hence shadow being linked with the soul again. In Europe, people believed that the shadow beings desired blood and without it, couldn’t be reborn. Superstitions and fear spread like the black plague concerning a person’s shadow. People refused to let their shadows fall on graves, a rumbling river or near a cliff.
In biblical times, curses were spoken on a person’s shadow. For example in Numbers 14:9 –“Their shadow is departed from them.” Saying something like that meant undeniable doom and was the lowest of low. I gather that in today’s times, it would be worse than throwing shoes.
Now kicking aside the superstitious fear concerning the shadow, according to Pagans and those before them, in ancient times…a person who did not have a shadow was NOT a demon, a vampire, a werewolf or someone who had given their soul over to any devil. They were believed to have went into some sort of eternal bliss.
Plutarch said, “At the end of the world, the blessed ones would be happy forever. In a state neither needing food nor casting a shadow.”
So if we take into consideration what the Ancients believed concerning ‘Shadows, Shadow sightings and people’, is it safe to say that the Shadow experience you have had, is indeed a spirit or ghost or someone who has passed on to the other side? Maybe, but then again I have to personally wonder…why are so many sightings the same? Why is the image that we see of the Shadow person always a common one? Is it that all dead people wear hats, or cloaks or are seen staring at the floor? Why are the shadows able to take full form or any form—animal, creature, man, while other dead people can only become orbs or when they take actual form, look like an actual person?
Where are the Shadow women? Not one person I have interviewed, have I heard or read any reports concerning a Shadow person looking like a woman. I have read and heard of small shadow figures being no bigger than a child but people do not connect them with actual children. it is only the size that they are compared to verses the others who can be up to seven feet or more in height. No women…unless you listen to the incredible but draining stories of sex that some seem to link with the succubus and incubus theories. With respect, those aren’t enough to me. There aren’t enough of them being told on or off the internet. So there doesn’t seem to be any pattern there for me except maybe someone is having some awesome dreams and the rest of us should be simply jealous lol.
If the Shadow beings are ‘Watchers’ then does this make them some sort of guardian? And why do some attack or is it like Carry said, it was her own fear doing this to her. If they are Watchers, then what are they watching? Surely they know more than we do. Is there a reason some see them and others do not? The ones who see them, do they have a link or connection to these beings while others may have a connection to some other paranormal type thing? I know it has nothing to do with open mindedness. I have interviewed to many people that had no knowledge and or belief in them. It just started to happen and that’s when they started looking for answers. Some incidents start happening when people are children while others happened as adults.
I think we will need to look more into the Underworld or Land of Shades, which again means there will be more parts to this subject. We also have to look into the lore of the Spider and try to help people figure out what that is that they are seeing. Like the shadow people, there are very few stories out there but even less concerning the spiders. The only answers that these people are finding is that either they are crazy, dreaming or it is being confused with some spiritual symbolism or dream analysis. These people like my friend Carry know that this is not a dream. So pretty soon we will explore that one and I am sure we will touch base with some of our previous subjects as well.
Shadow People, Shadow Spiders, Shadow Beings & Other Worlds Part 1
Shadow People, Shadow Spiders, Shadow Beings & Other Worlds Part 2
Shadow People, Shadow Beings, Shadow Spiders & Other Worlds Part 3
Shadow People, Shadow Spiders, Shadow Beings & Other Worlds Part 4
Resources:
http://www.sleepdex.org/hypnogogia.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Person
The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths & Secrets by Barbara G. Walkers
Shadow People, Shadow Spiders, Shadow Beings & Other Worlds Part 1
Part 1
(After beginning this article, I realized it is to broad of a topic to limit to one page. So there will be many parts in order to bring you all the information that I can find. If you have had an experience you wish to share with me, theories or concerns, feel free to contact me through my web site where you can reach me directly through my page there CONTACT ME . If you would like your story to be included in one of the articles, I will do so as well as keep your name private in order to protect your identity.)
This is one of the greatest phenomena’s concerning our Paranormal perplexities. If you Google Shadow People or Beings you will find endless stories written from a personal perspective, some information highly doused with theory (since that’s all we have) and a flustered guild of those who are at their wits end.
We discover those who are fearful, those who are merely curious, those who are fascinated and those who simply want answers. What we discover may not be scientifically proven but something tells me that this is merely a minor set back. This mystery does have the scientific community interested as well as those who investigate and study the Paranormal.
So what are Shadow People, Spiders and Beings?
We all know what spirits or ghosts are so I suppose we can place them in that category except, there is no proof that these beings are dead, repetitive echoes, a haunting or formless. They appear void at times if not strangely solid. One of the most common sightings has been the figure of a man or someone in a cloak. Sometimes they are seen wearing a hat or hooded sweat shirt. Whatever they are wearing, they lack color. As if you are staring into an actual person who is nothing more than solid smoke or even slightly transparent at times. The strange thing is, you can catch outlines concerning their face or clothes. It’s hard to think that anything which appears to be solid or merely bleak can have any sort of outline about it. But people have reported that at times they can make out their features clearly as well as the smaller details of their clothes. Some reports claim they have glowing eyes, mostly red. Some reports claim that they act unaware of them, as if passing from one room to the next while others claim these beings have had their attention directly on them. Many reports claim that the energy or feeling in the room changed to something fearsome. Other reports claim that the person witnessing this act was attacked or paralyzed.
Now before we fix our minds on a notion of fear—let’s reserve that until later because I have some theories of my own.
When do these sightings happen?
I call it the Twilight but a more technical word is Hypnagogia. Basically, it is known as a sleep paralysis which has the attention of many doctors and scientists who are studying it. The easiest way to describe it is, you go to bed, close your eyes, go to sleep. Only you do not go to sleep nor are you fully awake. You are stuck somewhere in between the state of sleep and the state of being awake. Now do not confuse this with sleep walking. That is NOT what it is. People who experience this are completely aware of everything that is going on around them. They can sit up in bed, walk through their house, pet a dog or see their wife or husband sleeping beside them. They can talk and interact even though their minds are not fully awake. So what is so different during this time that they seem to think they are partly asleep? Good question.
Even though they can interact with their normal environments, not everything is the same. It is as though they are lingering between two worlds. Their subconscious mind is in equal balance with their conscious mind. Meaning, they are open to whatever may come, eyes open beyond the veil but their conscious minds do not have the draw backs to jerk them out of it or to prevent them from seeing, experiencing and interacting with whatever may be. This is when people experience the Shadow Beings, Spiders or other types of Other Worldly phenomena. It is NOT the only time, but this is a common one as well as a wide spreading one.
Now it should be known that Science and Doctors have their own explanations of this but NOTHING is for certain simply because they are pretty much clueless as to what Hypnagogia is and what these people are really discovering during this phase. The experts are blaming it on sleeping positions, among other things, saying that if someone sleeps on their back and so on that this is what causes it.
Now it should be noted that I did say above that this phenomena is becoming widely spread. That doesn’t mean that it did not exist before. I think because of the internet and the loss of fear in speaking about these things has made it possible for others to realize that they are not alone. It should also be mentioned that Shadow beings have been reported since Ancient times but we will get more into that later.
A direct quote from Wikipedia concerning Hypnagogia:
Early references to hypnagogia are to be found in the writings of Aristotle, Iamblichus, Cardano, Simon Forman and Swedenborg.[11] Romanticism brought a renewed interest in the subjective experience of the edges of sleep.[12] In more recent centuries, many authors have referred to the state; Edgar Allan Poe, for example, wrote of the ‘fancies’ he experienced “only when I am on the brink of sleep, with the consciousness that I am so.
So you see it is not new by any means, only our awareness of it since we still seem to be in the Dark Ages concerning anything other than what is socially accepted. Being taught not to believe in such things or that it is against some sort of religion has really blind sided us I think. Let it be also known that during Hypnagogia or what I call ‘Twilight’, Shadow people or beings are not the only thing experienced. Many people claim that they have got up from their beds, walked out the door to new or past worlds. Some have experienced or revisited past lives or countries. One woman I read about, reported standing by her bedroom window, waving to people who were passing by outside her home. They stood there waving at her while she waved back at them. At some point she woke up, finding herself standing there waving only the people she remembered in every detail were no longer present. Other people report having long conversations with deceased relatives who are possibly standing by their bed or sitting in the same room with them. Some people claim that they are visited by those who are not dead. They have absolutely no idea what they are, but they do know death did not bring them to their bedrooms.
Now even though Twilight is not the only time this happens, this is one of the biggest reports of the Shadow Beings that people claim to experience. Possibly because our minds are so open and we can see beyond the Veil—my theory.
Some people say that they are attacked. That this black mass or presence paralyzes them so that they can not move or even scream. Others claim that they are not attacked but wake up finding these beings standing over them, simply watching which may be how they came to be called, ‘The Watchers’. One woman I know claims to have woken up, been fully awake while a young man in a hooded sweat shirt swept through her room and went out the window. Now she did not think that he jumped but simply leaped through his doorway, to where ever he came from. This woman has had this happen quite a few times, same boy, same details only she was not experiencing Twilight during any of those times. In fact, she told me she had never experienced Twilight.
So you see Twilight is not the only time you can experience this. Many reports say that they were standing in their kitchen (or somewhere), felt the energy or feeling of the room change, caught something in the corner of their eye, turned around quickly and the Shadow Being was standing there, watching them.
Shadow Spiders
People claim to be sleeping or rather Twilight, watching these HUGE spiders of abnormal size crawl around their beds, glide down over their heads from webs and so on. At times they see smaller ones but it is usually the bigger ones that cause them the greatest shock and fright. It is usually scary enough to snap them out of the Twilight completely, where the spiders are then gone. There hasn’t been to many people offering them any enlightenment concerning this. In fact, I was shocked that on these forums that I researched, to find that quite a few people who rattled away concerning their belief in the Shadow People in other threads, literally make fun of the people who were seeking answers concerning the spiders. Unfortunately I can not give anyone any hard crusted evidence here but I can explain a situation shared with me by a life long friend who has experienced the spiders for years as well as the Twilight. In the end, draw your own conclusions.
My friend who I will call Carry has experienced Twilight, Shadow beings and the Spiders for years. It started off with the Shadow Beings and for the past three years or so, spiders. In fact her experiences are so interesting, I thought I would save it for the part 2 of this article. That’s not to torment you…simply to give her some due since to me, she has come a long way concerning this phenomena. Now with that being said, I am also unsure of how many parts there will be concerning this article. There is a lot of information, even some concerning other Dimensions, to cover and since it seems so scattered and scarce, I thought it would be nice to put it all in one place. We still have to deal with people’s fears of being attacked, of the unknown and of the Twilight itself. Or the uncomfortable horrors of being watched and so on. I think though in closing the first article up, I will focus on Carry being the center of Part two because honestly, I think her experiences will shed light and possibly another view point concerning all of this. She has known the fear, the uncomfortable situations and has moved passed that to discover something quite different. So, until then…
Shadow People, Shadow Spiders, Shadow Beings & Other Worlds Part 1
Shadow People, Shadow Spiders, Shadow Beings & Other Worlds Part 2
Shadow People, Shadow Beings, Shadow Spiders & Other Worlds Part 3
Shadow People, Shadow Spiders, Shadow Beings & Other Worlds Part 4
Science supporting Psychic Gifts
The world is waking up and everyday there is an article to prove it. Time Magazine posted an article concerning Science and the Psychic Phenomena. Its a very interesting read. What i liked most was that the person they are interviewing says:
You write that it’s likely everybody possesses psychic abilities, but some people are simply more successful at it? Why is that?
Genetics are likely behind it. One of the things we know is that it runs in families. If you talk to psychics, they’ll tell you there’s a family history of it. Though we haven’t found it, there’s likely a gene for it.
I believe that. I am not one of these people who believe its a him or her and certainly not HIM kind of deal.
To read more on this article and it is a VERY good article, click:
The Science Behind Psychic Phenomena
By M.J. Stephey
Another quote and teaser for the article is:
In her new book The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena, former Harvard professor Diane Hennacy combines philosophy, physics, and empirical data to examine supernatural traits like telepathy (the ability to access someone else’s consciousness), psychokinesis (the ability to use one’s consciousness to affect external objects), clairvoyance (the ability to broaden one’s consciousness to remote time and space) and precognition (the ability to see into the future). She spoke to TIME about Abraham Lincoln’s eerie dreams, Einstein’s theories of time-travel and the idea that anybody can be a psychic.
Enjoy!
Giant simulation could help solve “dark matter” mystery
Yep more stuff on Dark Matter—I can’t get enough.
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A giant computer simulation could help bring a successful end to the search for a mysterious substance which makes up most of the Universe, according to new research.
Astronomers believe the enigmatic “dark matter” accounts for 85 per cent of the material in the universe. But the stuff has remained invisible, its makeup unknown, since scientists inferred its existence from its gravitational effects more than 75 years ago.
Now a team of scientists has used a massive computer simulation showing the evolution of a galaxy like the Milky Way to “see” high-energy radiation released by dark matter.
They say their findings, published in the research journal Nature Nov. 6, could help NASA’s Fermi Telescope in its search for the dark matter and open a new chapter in our understanding of the universe.
“The search for dark matter has dominated cosmology for many decades. It may soon come to an end,” said cosmologist Carlos Frenk of Durham University, U.K., a member of the research team, which also involves scientists from Germany, The Netherlands and the United States.
The group, known as the Virgo Consortium, studied dark matter halos, blob-like structures that surround galaxies and contain a trillion times the mass of the Sun.
The team’s simulations, called The Aquarius Project, showed how the galaxy’s halo would have been expected to grow through a series of violent collisions and mergers between much smaller clumps of dark matter earlier in cosmic history.
The group found that gamma-rays, a form of energetic radiation, produced when particles collide in areas of high dark matter concentration should be most detectable near the Sun in the general direction of the galaxy’s centre. They suggest the Fermi Telescope should search in this part of the galaxy where they predict gamma-rays from dark matter should glow in “a smoothly varying and characteristic pattern.”
If Fermi does detect the predicted emission from the Milky Way’s smooth inner halo, the Virgo team believes it might be able to see otherwise invisible clumps of dark matter lying very close to the Sun.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/081119_darkmatter.htm
The above link is responsible for this article.
Signs of dark matter found?
Telltale signs may have turned up of a mysterious substance that pervades the universe but has never been seen, astronomers say.
The “dark matter” is believed to make up five-sixths of the physical material in the universe, but has revealed no sign of its existence other than through its gravitational pull. For decades, physicists have tried to figure out just what the stuff is.
Some theories hold that signature signs of dark matter could be detected when particles of the stuff meet and annihilate each other. These events would result in emissions of electrically charged particles.
Such a sign of dark matter annihilation may have been detected high above the skies of Antarctica, according to an international research team. The group reports the findings in the Nov. 20 issue of the research journal Nature.
The investigators recorded what they said was an unexpectedly high amount of the charged particles, called electrons, at energies consistent with theoretical predictions about the dark matter.
The specific dark matter “annihilation signature” is consistent with the idea that dark matter consists of components called Kaluza-Klein particles, according to the research group. These particles emerge from theories of the universe involving extra dimensions beyond those which we can normally detect—theories that in turn have been invoked to show that the various forces of nature could possess an underlying unity.
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I find this sort of thing very interesting. So much in fact, I use the term Dark Matter in my book Bound By Blood : The Awakening. Dark matter in general just fascinates me to no end. Anything concerning space, the universe, etc rocks my world.
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