As we ease steadily into 2012, like many others I’ve kept my eyes open for new opportunities in terms of investments and emerging technology. No doubt, within the next ten years the kinds of emergent technologies that will become available (and thus become marketable) could far exceed anything most of us can predict right now.
The key word here, of course, is most of us. I make this assertion based on the fact that I keep seeing the following website linked to Matt Drudge’s site, and this morning I finally took a moment to check it out. it’s called “Intrade.” In addition to securing an investment market around emergent technology (among other things), I think there’s also tremendous potential here for learning a bit about the process of prediction in general, and perhaps even humankind’s eventual attainment of function psychic abilities aided by new technology.
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I’ve recently become fascinated with, of all things, the potential importance that may lay hidden within the the things we consider to be mundane. Yes, I’ve begun to feel that there are, in fact, some very unique associations that might be made between who we are on the deepest levels of human understanding, and things like the way we interact daily with others, the movies and television shows that interest us, the clothes we wear, the bars and restaurants we go to, books and magazines we read… you get the picture.
But there are other ways that seemingly menial things might influence us, even creating the potential for strange phenomenon to occur. Everything we encounter in our daily lives, right down to the food we eat and the furniture in our homes, could play a vital role in the nature of the supernatural experience.
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If we could narrow our sights in such a way that we could view single atoms, the tiny little particles that comprise all matter and make up our universal abode, we would come very quickly to the startling realization that we’re all ghosts, in a sense. What we take to be tangible things, in reality, are mostly empty space between the tiny protons and electrons comprising the minutiae of our world. Even those tiny particles are themselves just energetic forms, vibrating at varying degrees of human detectability. All things we know of and interact with are comprised solely of energy, and are far less tangible than we realize.
Putting things in perspective, imagine if we took the tiny bundle of protons and neutrons that shape the nucleus of any single atom, and enlarged them until they were the size of a golf ball. The orbit of the electrons swirling around the atom’s exterior would circle our humble little golf ball in an area as large as the planet Earth at very least. Indeed, there’s a good bit of emptiness that exists between the nucleus and those electrons firing about out there, and thus it becomes easy to understand how stray neutrinos can be hurtling through space at any time, passing through the gaps between the very stuff that makes up our brains and bodies. We can see easily how electromagnetic fields can permeate thick walls of buildings and infrastructure, and why only certain metals of extraordinary molecular density can shield us from harmful energetic radiation of the variety that transforms men into monsters in the comics and pulp novels of yesteryear.
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The body of work that comprises modern psychology is almost synonymous with names such as Freud, Pavlov, Skinner, and a number of other pioneering individuals. But perhaps there is none so revered–and also as curious in his many interests–as Carl Jung.
It’s no secret the Psychologist Carl Jung spent his lifetime fascinated with various aspects of occult spirituality. These interests in the unusual aspects of existence manifested in a number of ways for Jung, especially early in life. For instance, Jung came to believe at an early age that his soul was divided into his natural youthful persona of the present, paired with an “authoritative and influential man from the past,” namely what could be likened to the spirit of an eighteenth century man. There is also the very curious “ritual” Jung created as a boy, in which he carved a small figure out of wood and, placing it in a box he hid in the attic of his home, would write notes on tiny slips of paper in a “secret language” of his own creation; later, Jung would recognize this sort of activity as being similar to totem worship by primitive cultures around the world, and thus inspired his later innovations with his theories of psychological archetypes.
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