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Media Watch for June 2008 (Issue 79)
The Next Step: Gwen Randall-Young author of Growing into Soul: The Next Step in Human Evolution writes, “What we see using our ordinary perception is a small fraction of what is actually there. The same may be true of our perception of reality. Perhaps one day the technology will exist that allows us to perceive all the other levels. I believe the technology already exists; we just do not know how to use it. That technology is our own consciousness. It is possible to expand our consciousness beyond three-dimensional reality.
“I also believe that the souls of the departed are very much with us. They are with us in the same way as when they were alive, but separated from us geographically. The veil is very thin and very close to us. We can access the other side, but only in those moments when we let go of our own hold on the ‘here and now.’ We could even go so far as to say there is no separation, no ‘other side,’ except that which is created by our own limited consciousness”. From: Common Ground, “Life after Life,” by Gwen Randall-Young http://commonground.ca Dead Son Asks for Justice: A book released late last year titled, A Soul on Trial: A Marine Corps Mystery at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, is the story of Marine lieutenant James N. Sutton who died in 1907 on the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis. The lieutenant had been beaten and shot in the head; however a Navy inquiry ruled Sutton’s death a suicide. He was buried at Arlington Cemetery but because he was considered a suicide he received no service, no salute or priest’s blessing at the funeral. Sutton’s mother began receiving visions of her son who denied the Navy’s verdict and asked her to clear his name. The book covers the Mother’s two year quest for justice along with the press coverage and national notoriety of the case. It also includes information on the widespread interest in the paranormal at that time. See: http://books.google.com Survival Hypothesis: Issue No 17 of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) magazine, Shift, focused on the topic “Death: Window To the Infinite.” Editor-in-Chief, Matthew Gilbert wrote, “…studying the evidence (for survival of consciousness) has become as rigorous and sophisticated as the scientific model will allow, making the ‘survival hypothesis’ difficult to ignore. And yet so much effort is still spent trying to disprove what often meets basic standards of credible research methodology that one has to wonder if the motivation is not scientific rigor but ideological terror.”
Debunking NDE Explanations: One explanation offered to explain Near-Death
Experiences (NDE) is that medications given to dying persons cause the experience. However comparative studies show that patients who receive medications report fewer NDEs than do those who receive no medication. Another explanation for the NDE is hypoxia, which is decreased oxygen or anoxia, which is a complete lack of oxygen before death. However anoxia and hypoxia produce frightening hallucinations and lead to agitation quite unlike the peaceful near-death experience. In addition studies of persons near death have shown that those who have NDEs do not have lower oxygen levels than those who do not have them. From: Shift No 17, “The Mystical Impact of Near-Death Experiences,” by Bruce Greyson
The International Association for Near-Death Studies was founded in 1982 at the University of Connecticut. It is a nonprofit group that supports research and education about near-death experiences. The organization is open to people who have had near-death experiences or those who want to learn about them. It has 984 registered members with nearly fifty-five chapters throughout the world, including forty-five in the United States. For more information, go to www.iands.org . Back From the Dead: In the surgical procedure called hypothermic arrest, the patient on the operating table physiologically is dead during surgery. Pam Reynolds had the procedure to remove a large brain aneurysm and she remembered many of the details. In January, her story was told in the “Back From the Dead” installment of The National Geographic Channel six-part series called Accidental Survivor. In hypothermic arrest, the patient is put into a coma to cut the brain’s use of oxygen. Blood is circulated through a bypass pump and the heart is stopped. The blood is then chilled and pumped back into the body to refrigerate the brain far below room temperature.
After the surgery Reynolds described the drill used on her skull in great detail. She remembered some of the conversations taking place in the operating room and knew that her heart had to be stimulated twice to restart. Her physician Dr. Green states that she should not have known these things, “She was physiologically dead. No brain wave activity, no heartbeat, nothing. No blood inside her body of any consequence. She was dead.” From: Post-Crescent, “Local neurosurgeon shares a story of unimaginable survival on National Geographic show,” by Cheryl Sherry, 22 January 2008. Declassified Remote Viewing and 9/11 Information: Gary Bekkum of Starstream Research has spent a lot of time shifting through declassified documents relating to the U.S. Intelligence program. Gary has found information from the CIA Star Gate remote viewer program in which the remote viewers were tasked to warn of a major terrorist incident in New York City. At the time the once secret sessions were recorded, the implicit target was assumed to be the Liberty Celebration; however, after reading this it seems that this particular remote viewer may have seen the incidents of 9/11. From Source #21, June 23, 1986, “Newspaper headlines have something to do with a collapse of a building—a lot of people hurt or injured. I also sense a feeling of panic, people scrambling and perhaps something to do with an aircraft. In summary, standing on top of a building, which is crowded inside with people, tourists, there is a perception of a large object falling—heading toward the building. It is traveling at a great velocity and is very dense. There is a high-pitched whining sound from the object. I sense the object may cause structural damage as it crashes through the building. All of this takes place sometime in the future” From: Spooks vs. Psychics: Who Predicted 9/11 Better?, b y Sharon Weinberger, August 22, 2007, Wired.Com http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/08/spooks-vs-psych.htmlPetition to Pardon Helen Duncan: A group has submitted a petition to the Scottish Parliament calling for Helen Duncan, the last woman to be convicted under the Witchcraft Act, to be pardoned. Mrs. Duncan spent nine months in prison after being found guilty in a trail in 1944. She was not convicted for being a witch, but instead was jailed for pretending to use witchcraft. The crime of being a witch was abolished by the 1735 Witchcraft Act. A petition to the Westminster Government last year failed to secure a pardon for Mrs. Duncan. From: BBC news UK, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7268111.stm
Two Ton Nutcracker: Japanese crows have learned to drop nuts at traffic intersections. They simply wait for a car to run over the nut and crack it for them. Some reports have these smart guys actually waiting for a red light to pick out the meat from the cracked shell. http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/brain/index.html
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