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aether User ID: 1412926 United Kingdom 08/30/2011 10:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | An unexpected parallel between modern scientific findings and an age-old teaching may point to the answer. Split-brain research shows that we actually possess two minds : the two hemispheres of the brain house separate mentalities, providing both linear and nonlinear perceptions of the world. In a startlingly similar vein, an ancient belief known as the Binary Soul Doctrine (BSD) holds that two events occur at the time of death: linear and nonlinear experiences of the afterlife. Quoting: bookUsing neuropsychology as a foundation, Peter Novak takes us on a remarkable adventure, showing how the binary soul doctrine reconciles many of humanity’s most divisive spiritual controversies. His new book, The Lost Secret of Death : Our Divided Souls and the Afterlife shows how the BSD reconciles the disparities between views of reincarnation, resurrection, and there being no survival after death, simultaneously building bridges between science and religion and between eastern and western philosophies. Indeed, this ancient teaching offers the key to understanding virtually all present and past belief systems about death and the afterlife, including: * The common foundation of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, Huna, shamanism, and even the pyramid religions of ancient Egypt and MesoAmerica. * The relationship between near-death experiences, after-death communications, memories of past incarnations, reports of angels, ghosts, poltergeists, and other afterlife phenomena. [link to www.grahamhancock.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1526133 United States 08/30/2011 10:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Our Divided Souls and the Afterlife shows how the BSD reconciles the disparities between views of reincarnation, resurrection, and there being no survival after death, simultaneously building bridges between science and religion and between eastern and western philosophies. Quoting: aetherWe can identify this process in the macro. The fall of the Berlin Wall followed by the rise of the World Wide Web. The free exchange of information between the Eastern and Western hemispheres of the globe. There an old Jesuit school nearby that for years trained Jesuit priests. You know what the teach there now? Yoga. ------ |
aether User ID: 1412926 United Kingdom 08/30/2011 10:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It unites rather than divides. It reveals instead of conceals. And it offers freedom in place of repression and deception. Quoting: ArunaLuna why are they afraid of this Anyway I’m almost home so I was walking at this point, I meet eyes with this person and then all of a sudden I get a forward down-rush feeling in my head like when you do a summersault...and I hear/feel the "crunch". I don't know how to explain really what happened...I thought I fell forward and kind of did a kick step to catch myself from falling flat on my face and I'm floating. I have never felt or been able to do that just out of nowhere...like I didn't even try to do it. I realized what happened and look back and I'm standing on the sidewalk just still, with my eyes open and then "me" looked at "me"... Quoting: arunaAs soon as I make eye contact with myself…I get that head rush again like I’m going feet over head and I’m back in my body with my heart beating so fast it was all I could physically hear after the giant crunch of getting back in body. The person on the sidewalk is still walking like nothing happened and I’m just standing there like wtf? two aruna`s or a different message utilizing ancient effect that by tradition is believed to be two aruna`s |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 859320 United States 08/30/2011 11:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We can identify this process in the macro. The fall of the Berlin Wall followed by the rise of the World Wide Web. The free exchange of information between the Eastern and Western hemispheres of the globe. Quoting: BOWMAN There an old Jesuit school nearby that for years trained Jesuit priests. You know what the teach there now? Yoga. ------ This morning the dream I had right before I woke up was Reagans voice and his "Mr. Gorbechev TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!!" phrase. You know the kind of dream that replays in your mind as you get ready for the day. Like why the fuck would I dream that kind of dream. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1485863 United States 08/30/2011 12:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We can identify this process in the macro. The fall of the Berlin Wall followed by the rise of the World Wide Web. The free exchange of information between the Eastern and Western hemispheres of the globe. Quoting: BOWMAN There an old Jesuit school nearby that for years trained Jesuit priests. You know what the teach there now? Yoga. ------ This morning the dream I had right before I woke up was Reagans voice and his "Mr. Gorbechev TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!!" phrase. You know the kind of dream that replays in your mind as you get ready for the day. Like why the fuck would I dream that kind of dream. It was a Sabbath event because it happened at the turn of the 7th day of the Planetary cycle. So we have another 7th day coming up. Maybe it's a calling to prepare for the tearing down of that 'inner' wall? That's pretty cool. At least your dream makes sense in that way. I don't usually remember much of mine but last night I was viewing a stone age version of Facebook, carved in stone. My friends profile had the number 203 on it. ------ |
aether User ID: 1412926 United Kingdom 08/31/2011 09:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | so what are we seeing sometimes artifacts that replicate what can happen within our electric universe maybe artifacts that replicate what can happen within our electric universe Quoting: aetherthat makes me laugh because on other topics that is perfect sense and as everything scales (holographic effect) it really makes me laugh this day i love it Thread: SOLAR WATCH * Huge X8.2 Flare Sept. 10, 2017! (Updated Daily) (Page 252) |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 859320 United States 08/31/2011 11:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The saturn connection...the water above the heavens thing. I'll have to dig for that post later...and come back to it. This process is called differentiation. This happens with all materials of mixed weight, during motion the heavy material sinks while the light material rises." As Masau'u spoke the Land around him shook and rumbled and steaming, hissing geysers erupted, gushing their scalding contents into the air and creating clouds of dense steam. He continued unperturbed "You have all noticed how the weather has become unpredictable and many of you have come to me to ask me why this is so. Some of you have suggested that your Mother Earth is sick. The weather has become unpredictable in much the same way as the temperature of a pregnant woman in her last stages of birthing is unpredictable, your Mother Earth is pregnant and soon she will give birth." The tenants were mystified, pregnant? How the Earth Mother be pregnant?" To what could She give birth? It was inconceivable! The dissenters started arguing fiercely that this was not a logical explanation for all the weather changes and for what they thought of as disasters. Once more Masau'u put one finger to his lips and they fell silent. He continued "We call our Mother Earth by many names, and for the purposes of this explanation I am going to call Her Huru'ng Wuuti (Hard Substances Woman) because her body contains a great deal of hard and heavy material, especially iron. As I showed you with this bucket of mixed materials, so it is with the body of Huru'ng Wuuti. We are not at all aware of the movement of Huru'ng Wuuti, so it seems to us that she is stationary, but she is always on the move. She rotates like a spinning top about her axis, and she flies in her orbit around the Sun. All this movement causes heavy material in the body of Huru'ng Wuuti to move downwards and to gather in her womb where it forms a heavy metal egg. Unbeknown to you Huru'ng Wuuti has been hatching her egg and it has been developing within her womb. The changes in the weather are changes in her temperature, and the increase in earthquakes and volcanoes around the world are the result of her labour contractions as she draws ever closer to the hour of her delivery. Huru'ng Wuuti is in the final stages of her delivery, soon her Divine Infant will emerge. The emergence of her infant heralds the arrival of Great Purification, and it is for this reason that the Great Purification is called "Nohu Na'uyi'yta" "The Secret Of The Mystery Egg". Thread: Hopi Wisdom, Mother Earth is Giving Birth -- The Great Purification ALSO Rex's holomorphic thread had something about it (find it later)... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 859320 United States 08/31/2011 12:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to en.wikipedia.org] he will answer only to someone who is capable of capturing him. From this feature of Proteus comes the adjective protean, with the general meaning of "versatile", "mutable", "capable of assuming many forms". "Protean" has positive connotations of flexibility, versatility and adaptability. Shapeshifting [link to en.wikipedia.org] Pattern recognition algorithms generally aim to provide a reasonable answer for all possible inputs and to do "fuzzy" matching of inputs. [link to www.blavatsky.net] The first revelation of the Supreme Cause in its triple manifestation of spirit, force and matter; the divine correlation, at its starting-point of evolution, allegorized as the marriage of fire and water, products of electrifying spirit, union of the male active principle with the female passive element, which becomes the parent of their tellurian child, cosmic matter, the prima materia, whose spirit is ether, the ASTRAL LIGHT! |
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aether User ID: 1412926 United Kingdom 09/02/2011 01:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thread: GOD DID NOT CREATE EVERYTHING, HE SOLD HIS SOUL TO THE UNIVERSE!!!!! Quoting: ArunaLuna You've probably already seen it... it is a mixture, the story utlizes the ancient memory of saturn (father/kronos) who`s wife (venus) went mad and attacked him forcing their son (mars) to enter the battle and resolve it (war) thus the whole family left to far places and the memory (gnostic/zorostrian) that the good god (saturn/kronos) exists but is usurped by the deceiver god , our present sun , never accepted by many to this day because the departure of kronos resulted in the loss of our golden age life style which our present god denies our experiencing by deception in all these memories it is the womens fault Last Edited by aether on 09/02/2011 01:31 PM |
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aether User ID: 1412926 United Kingdom 09/02/2011 02:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It unites rather than divides. It reveals instead of conceals. And it offers freedom in place of repression and deception. Quoting: ArunaLuna why are they afraid of this Anyway I’m almost home so I was walking at this point, I meet eyes with this person and then all of a sudden I get a forward down-rush feeling in my head like when you do a summersault...and I hear/feel the "crunch". I don't know how to explain really what happened...I thought I fell forward and kind of did a kick step to catch myself from falling flat on my face and I'm floating. I have never felt or been able to do that just out of nowhere...like I didn't even try to do it. I realized what happened and look back and I'm standing on the sidewalk just still, with my eyes open and then "me" looked at "me"... Quoting: arunaAs soon as I make eye contact with myself…I get that head rush again like I’m going feet over head and I’m back in my body with my heart beating so fast it was all I could physically hear after the giant crunch of getting back in body. The person on the sidewalk is still walking like nothing happened and I’m just standing there like wtf? two aruna`s or a different message utilizing ancient effect that by tradition is believed to be two aruna`s now putting our best geek hat on this is science today: Hypothesising that the constant speed of light was a function of the electron, lead me to Quoting: scienceuncover a relationship between electrons, quantum particles and alpha. Disallowing all possibility of action at a distance, results inevitably, in the concept of a universal quantum field. By further exploring equivalencies with , I have discovered a remarkable sequence of equational relationships, that together with the quantum field, reveal the interaction with and between, electromagnetism and quantum gravity. Such a claim would otherwise be outrageous, save for the proof that, , the fine structure constant, is the quantum field density. This logical and elegant mathematical proof is simultaneous with the demonstration of the balance of charge and gravity at the subatomic level, and, the solution of the Newtonian gravitational constant, G0. In the process, we are provided with the explanations for Planck’s constant, the constant speed and physical nature of light, the physical nature of electricity and magnetism, inertia, the mechanism of the strong nuclear force and the origin of Coulomb’s constant, ke With alpha solved, no argument remains. There can be no denial, the quantum field is real, and Alpha, the Fine Structure Constant, is the quantum field density. The effect of the quantum field on massive bodies, we call gravity. Quantums emitted from electrons, we call charge, and this gives rise to electricity and magnetism. Quantums emitted from electrons en masse, we call photons. The balance of forces between gravity and charge, forms and maintains atoms. This is the true nature of the universe. Quoting: science[link to gsjournal.net] which solves where you went our non material dimension that it`self contains non material dimensions Quantum field theory originated in the 1920s from the problem of creating a quantum mechanical theory of the electromagnetic field. Quoting: historyas it has always existed it`s effect(s) in our past would have been experienced and attributed to ................ Last Edited by aether on 09/02/2011 02:51 PM |
Mnemosyne Lethe User ID: 1492096 United States 09/03/2011 11:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "...polarity therapy seek to balance and restore the natural flow of energy which, it is claimed,[who?] flows from the universe and into the body through the chakras.” [link to en.wikipedia.org] I just looked it up from a chemical perspective. I was looking up info on methane hydrates yesterday. Maybe this is a concept which seems to unify the lines of both consciousness and the material realm. From a chemistry perspective which I have no clue what this means: [link to en.wikipedia.org] The term derives from the Ancient Greek words, meta, meaning beyond or after, and noia, meaning perception or understanding or mind. |
Mnemosyne Lethe User ID: 1492096 United States 09/03/2011 11:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was looking at the methane hydrate issue based upon a quote above: The first revelation of the Supreme Cause in its triple manifestation of spirit, force and matter; the divine correlation, at its starting-point of evolution, allegorized as the marriage of fire and water, products of electrifying spirit, union.... After skimming that link I thought it was fire-ice instead of fire and water. Burning ice would have been much more fascinating to the people’s that saw that for the first time. Also NASA has been toying around with it: Intercalated Na-rich montmorillonite methane hydrate was synthesized for the first time.... The limitation in the stability of smectite methane hydrate intercalate at low temperatures suggests that, if present in large quantities, it may release at decreasing temperatures sufficient methane to ameliorate a planetary cooling event. i am sure their interest is because the melting of permafrost is releasing high amounts of methane and instability of methane hydrates pockets beneath the ocean floors that is currently underway. Submarine landslides would produce methane as the hydrates are released and rise toward the warmer waters. The term derives from the Ancient Greek words, meta, meaning beyond or after, and noia, meaning perception or understanding or mind. |
Mnemosyne Lethe User ID: 1492096 United States 09/03/2011 12:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh why I brought up the methane hydrates. As I mentioned before when watching the under cams in the gulf I said we have released the primal chaos. We released the primal soup. Last Edited by Metanoia on 09/03/2011 12:22 PM The term derives from the Ancient Greek words, meta, meaning beyond or after, and noia, meaning perception or understanding or mind. |
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Mnemosyne Lethe User ID: 1492096 United States 09/03/2011 12:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh why I brought up the methane hydrates. As I mentioned before when watching the under cams in the gulf I said we have released the primal chaos. We released the primal soup. Quoting: Mnemosyne Lethe I agree, we released the remnants of the Ancients. Something keeps coming up about releasing this potent and most abundant fossilized energy along with the releasing abundant seeds of life of fossilized dna. The fluff or ribbon we are entering into in space seems to also be a conveyor belt and of course we know of the belt in the ocean affected by methane release. In unison in petri dish swirl concept perhaps this “polarity shift” takes place. (Perhaps this is why people keep picking it up as a literal “pole shift”.) From that thought this keeps coming to mind: The concept was first laid out in The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, in the words "That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above, corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracles of the One Thing”. Edit to add from that wiki link: It begins as God, by an act of will, creates the primary matter that is to constitute the cosmos. From primary matter God separates the elements: Fire, Air, Water and Earth. Then God ordered the elements into the seven heavens (often seen as the spheres of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun and the Moon) to travel in circles and govern destiny. [link to en.wikipedia.org] Last Edited by Metanoia on 09/03/2011 12:59 PM The term derives from the Ancient Greek words, meta, meaning beyond or after, and noia, meaning perception or understanding or mind. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1383816 United States 09/03/2011 07:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh why I brought up the methane hydrates. As I mentioned before when watching the under cams in the gulf I said we have released the primal chaos. We released the primal soup. Quoting: Mnemosyne Lethe I agree, we released the remnants of the Ancients. Did you guys see that video on hollow earth? Thread: Filmed Hollow Earth Entrance from MIR Space Station |
Mnemosyne Lethe User ID: 1492096 United States 09/03/2011 10:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh why I brought up the methane hydrates. As I mentioned before when watching the underwater cams in the gulf I said we have released the primal chaos. We released the primal soup. Quoting: Mnemosyne Lethe I agree, we released the remnants of the Ancients. Did you guys see that video on hollow earth? Thread: Filmed Hollow Earth Entrance from MIR Space Station Well if it is possible the only thing I can think of is buoyancy and we know methane can change the buoyancy of the ocean. So if the methane hydrates are burning into the core helping to provide atmosphere for hollow earth then perhaps that is providing the buoyancy to hold the crust in place. Not my department so I am probably talking out of my butt on that one. Last Edited by Metanoia on 09/03/2011 10:57 PM The term derives from the Ancient Greek words, meta, meaning beyond or after, and noia, meaning perception or understanding or mind. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 859320 United States 09/07/2011 12:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The BIRD (lightning bird) Thread: The sun is giving birth to a new planet? (Page 2) Anyone believing this is kinda stupid. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 359945Actually, REALLY [deleted] STUPID. Do you know ANYTHING about how planets are formed? I'll give you a hint: they aren't 'birthed' by suns You don't know that. Exactly. From a different perception - a "bird's eye view," if you will - I believe such a birth is either happening or has happened. It's as of yet a pale blue world, and as best as I can tell it is either: 1) A planet in vitro, henceforth it's exterior appearing to be covered in water; this not unlike amniotic fluid (at least as we know it), 2) Or, having been just birthed it is in an incubation type of period with its son as the heat source. It is indeed very close to its sun, 3) And if it's not in vitro, then it's a plasma-state water world. A planet where the air breathed is water in a different form/state beyond gaseous, liquid, or solid. Even the buildings on it are made from something just alike sandstone. It has never yet been inhabited and is in pristine condition. And no, I don't think the pale blue color denotes gender. Just to clarify why I'm claiming the above: I came to understand this through one soul journey wherein myself and some others were on the planet for a very brief period of time, to observe or witness it, and through one meditation wherein my awareness was transported via something like a wormhole, and I viewed the planet through a border realm portal opening. Both of these experiences happened the beginning of this year within two weeks of each other. I realize the above sounds off the wall and some will think me a loon rather than a mystic, but I'll go ahead and post this (despite the possible coming negative comments) for those who are able to think outside a the box of conformity. Interesting. I would like to hear more. Okay, but anything I have to add won't be explicitly because I came to understand it during either one of the experiences. Actually, and today much to my chagrin, I have to add that my calling it a "plasma-state water world" is not something I explicitly understood during the experiences, rather it's a notion I gathered a few months after the fact of the two experiences. It's conjecture on my part based on something I read here on GLP in this thread wherein there was an article about scientists finding a new phase/state of water in space-- Thread: Weird Water in Space is Electrically Charged --And poster Xenus had commented, "It's called the state of plasma and is commonly known as the 4th state of matter." I was already excited that I had actually found some kind of information (the article) that had anything to do with kind of backing up what I garnered during the experiences, and I then connected the two as complimentary factors. And taking into consideration that mystic types of experiences are only objective within the realm of subjectivity that are psi phenomenon, my calling it a plasma-state water world was more subjectively assumptive than it was objectively experienced. To call it such very well could be a misnomer, an inappropriate designation on my part. On the other hand, it could also be ground in truth, to one extent or the other. I do my best to be extremely conscientious about what I share about mystic experiences, and to not be assumptive. Although one's awareness can be unleashed and freed to roam beyond a 3D state of knowings to observe the ins and outs of greater/larger processes, as you might imagine it can be frustratingly difficult to explain those processes beyond the scope of our/my limited 3D knowledge base and language, and even extent of experience. I definitely want to clear that up before any further discussion might ensue. I want to make it clear that I did not garner any kind of explicit information that this water world I was observing was a 4D ascended planet Earth during either of the experiences...could it be? Yes, it could, but it could also be a planet created within another realm of experiential density, as well. What I did explicitly understand is that the observed planet is an emergent expression of a water world altogether different in form, and even consciousness, from our 3D water world planet, that it was a newly "birthed" planet, and that it had never been inhabited and was in pristine condition. With all that cleared up anything you or others might like to discuss is welcomed by myself. Even given the large scope of what I observed - the observations themselves more than intimating a probable outcome - I think that what I've shared bears so little in the form of information concerning the many possibilities of explanation regarding the probability. We're all of us, the layperson to the scientist, sooo going by the seat of our pants while trying to understand what's these days happening to our world and world of people. I may, so to speak, have a firmer grasp on my belt loops for being able to have mystic-types of experiences, but I certainly am not a figurehead speaker for the absolute nature of universal processes. Perhaps discussion will spark a further unleashing of awareness within myself or another, and further information or understanding will be accessed. If so, I think it would be wonder-full. The saturn connection...the water above the heavens thing. Quoting: ArunaLuna I'll have to dig for that post later...and come back to it. This process is called differentiation. This happens with all materials of mixed weight, during motion the heavy material sinks while the light material rises." As Masau'u spoke the Land around him shook and rumbled and steaming, hissing geysers erupted, gushing their scalding contents into the air and creating clouds of dense steam. He continued unperturbed "You have all noticed how the weather has become unpredictable and many of you have come to me to ask me why this is so. Some of you have suggested that your Mother Earth is sick. The weather has become unpredictable in much the same way as the temperature of a pregnant woman in her last stages of birthing is unpredictable, your Mother Earth is pregnant and soon she will give birth." The tenants were mystified, pregnant? How the Earth Mother be pregnant?" To what could She give birth? It was inconceivable! The dissenters started arguing fiercely that this was not a logical explanation for all the weather changes and for what they thought of as disasters. Once more Masau'u put one finger to his lips and they fell silent. He continued "We call our Mother Earth by many names, and for the purposes of this explanation I am going to call Her Huru'ng Wuuti (Hard Substances Woman) because her body contains a great deal of hard and heavy material, especially iron. As I showed you with this bucket of mixed materials, so it is with the body of Huru'ng Wuuti. We are not at all aware of the movement of Huru'ng Wuuti, so it seems to us that she is stationary, but she is always on the move. She rotates like a spinning top about her axis, and she flies in her orbit around the Sun. All this movement causes heavy material in the body of Huru'ng Wuuti to move downwards and to gather in her womb where it forms a heavy metal egg. Unbeknown to you Huru'ng Wuuti has been hatching her egg and it has been developing within her womb. The changes in the weather are changes in her temperature, and the increase in earthquakes and volcanoes around the world are the result of her labour contractions as she draws ever closer to the hour of her delivery. Huru'ng Wuuti is in the final stages of her delivery, soon her Divine Infant will emerge. The emergence of her infant heralds the arrival of Great Purification, and it is for this reason that the Great Purification is called "Nohu Na'uyi'yta" "The Secret Of The Mystery Egg". Thread: Hopi Wisdom, Mother Earth is Giving Birth -- The Great Purification ALSO Rex's holomorphic thread had something about it (find it later)... Thread: ***Are we just now starting to remember? Dr Velikovsky and Cultural Amnesia*** (Page 7) The Eggs of the Thunderbird Quoting: aether 1182730 Dec 03, 2010 That lightning can leave lasting impressions in the landscape is well known. Fulgurites – also familiar as ‘petrified lightning’ – are amorphous, sometimes tubular structures formed when quartz sand is fused under the influence of a lightning strike. Can atmospheric plasma produce similar transformations on the surface of other material than sand? An affirmative answer is suggested by recent experiments conducted by the American plasma physicist, C. J. Ransom, and the Australian physicist, Wallace Thornhill. The pair discovered that spherules are often created when an electrical discharge is unleashed upon materials as diverse as a piece of iron oxide, carbonates, manganese dioxide, aluminium, magnesium silicate, rutile, perlite, diatomaceous earth, and hematite. Although these experiments have only scratched the surface of a phenomenon almost entirely new to science, patterns are already beginning to emerge that link the intensity and duration of the discharge, coupled with the chemical composition of the affected metal or mineral, to specific qualities of the spherules that are formed – their quantity, size and distribution, their relationship to craters, whether they are hollow, and so on. For example, it appears that hematite impacted by an electric discharge tends to produce hollow spherules with relatively thick walls. While the potential impact of these findings on geology may be considerable, the fledgling sub-discipline of geomythology is likely to reap benefits, too. A large set of superstitions and mythical traditions worldwide are concerned with ‘eggs’ and ‘boulders’ deposited on occasion of lightning flashes or other luminous transient events in the atmosphere. Such traditions typically do not belong to the framework of creation mythology, but exist in isolation as a type of ‘proto-scientific’ folklore. The following Korean legend allegedly describes events taking place during the first century BCE: 'Suddenly there was a lightning-flash, and an auspicious rainbow stretched down from heaven and touched the earth in the south by the well called Najŏng in the direction of Mt. Yang, where a white horse was seen kneeling and bowing to something. … the white horse neighed loudly and flew up to heaven on the rising veil of the rainbow, leaving behind a large red egg (some say a blue egg) lying on a giant rock near the well'. Another tale from the Korean peninsula relays how 'a purple ribbon with six round eggs came down from heaven' in the region of Gimhae, northwest of Busan, in the year 42 CE: 'Lo! The heavens opened and a purple rope descended to the earth, with a golden bowl wrapped in a red cloth tied to the end of it. When the cloth was removed the bowl was found to contain six golden eggs, round like the sun. The people worshipped the eggs …' Or again: 'Spirits descended to place eggs in the mountains, hiding themselves in the mist. In the darkness a voice was heard but noone was to be seen. The gathering crowd responded to the voice with dance and song. After seven days the wind blew hard and the clouds cleared, and from the blue heavens six round eggs descended at the end of a purple string'. Illyeon, the 13th-century chronicler of these beliefs, dismissively judged that 'these stories are too fantastic to believe, although they have traditionally been accepted by the populace as facts'. Nevertheless, the operation of some genuine natural event is suggested by cross-cultural parallels. A legend from the Balkar people of the northern Caucasus testifies to the formation of a crater around a sky-fallen rock: 'The primordial blacksmith Debet saw "an enormous star with a tail flying in the middle of the sky, and it was brightly lighting up the whole world"'. On approaching the place where it had landed, he saw: 'a huge hole, and in the middle of it was a large dark blue stone, which had split in two'. The possibility that this concerned a meteorite fall rather than the forging of a spherule does not apply to striking parallels furnished by the Zulu, of South Africa, who conceived of lightning as the hen Inyoni Yezulu, or else as a bird called Impundulu or Intakezulu. One informant, Umpengula Mbanda, dwelled on the physical traces this creature leaves behind: '… for where the lightning strikes the ground, the doctors say there is something resembling the shank of an assagai, which remains in the earth, and this thing is called a thunderbolt; they dig till they find it, and use it as a heavenmedicine; and so they say that the courage which they possess of contending with the heaven is that thunderbolt, which is found where the lightning has struck'. As in the Korean account, the treasure is only discerned once a 'fog' has cleared: 'But as regards that bird, there are many who have seen it with their eyes. And especially doctors, and those persons who have seen it when it thunders and the lightning strikes the ground; the bird remains where the ground was struck. If there is any one near that place, he sees it in the fog on the ground, and goes and kills it. … he sees that it is quite peculiar, for its feathers glisten. A man may think that it is red; again he sees that it is not so, it is green. But if he looks earnestly he may say, "No, it is something between the two colours, as I am looking at it”'. Another Zulu report draws attention to the grooves cut into the surface when the lightning bird 'comes down to earth to lay its eggs': 'When coming to lay its eggs, it sweeps down over the earth, and in order to stop its speed it digs up a furrow in the earth. Where the furrow ends, there its eggs will be found'. A disturbance of the ground is also implied by the claim that 'the Lightning-bird buries itself in the ground where it strikes'. Similar beliefs occur elsewhere. Salish people, from the Pacific northwest coast of North America, would explain 'the large black stones found in the country' as the arrows of the Thunderbird, 'a small, red-plumaged creature which shoots arrows from his wing as from a bow, the rebound of the wing making the thunder, while the twinkling of his eyes is the lightning …' Some of the Sioux, Dakota, 'imagined that the large boulders on the northern prairies were the spent ballistics of the Water Monsters, hurled up at the Thunder Birds who struck back with lightning'. Whereas the geomythologist, Adrienne Mayor, adduces kangi tame or 'bolts of lightning which have turned into black stones shaped like spear points', and explains these as pointed belemnites, such fossils are hardly large enough to qualify as 'large boulders', a closer study of the Sioux tradition is desirable. Be that as it may, it is tempting to relate such anecdotal reports of hollow ‘eggs’ and massive rocks discovered in the wake of lightning to the spherules recently generated by plasma under laboratory conditions. The comparison does leave a number of loose ends, however. For example, the material cited from Korea and the Caucasus invariably adds that some heroic or royal ancestor hatched from the preternatural eggs – respectively Park Hyeokgeose, Kim Suro and the other kings of Gaya, and the Nart hero Yoruzmek. As the study of these spherules is itself still in its infancy, however, it would be premature to dismiss the analogy with such accounts on this ground. Perhaps a lightning strike potent enough to generate a spherule on the ground would create a local magnetic field sparking hallucinations in the minds of sensitive observers – the discovery of diminutive beings inside the shells would then shade into similar aspects in the phenomenology of ball lightning and UFO lore. Another factor to consider is that spheres of plasma, known as ‘plasmoids’, may also form along the z-pinch, or the path of discharge, itself, well above the actual surface material. Like spherules created on the ground, such plasmoids can also be identified in the traditional lore of different cultures – abundantly so – but they may need to be formally distinguished from the spherules produced in Ransom’s and Thornhill’s laboratories. Ample fertile ground for exploration, but before such highly conjectural ideas should be addressed, scientists need to be on the ball insofar as the basic physics of plasma-generated spherules are concerned. This leaves the ball in the court of the geophysicists. [link to www.thunderbolts.info] |
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