I saw them cross the twilight of an age, The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn, The great creators with wide brows of calm, The massive barrier-breakers of the world
07/10/2020
05/10/2020
Scientists dazed and confused by extraordinary amount of gold in the universe
They say if you spread out all the gold ever mined from the Earth in all of history, it would only cover a football field 18 inches deep.
Now when you wrap you mind around that image, it doesn’t seem like very much, especially when you digest the fact that the solar system is literally brimming with gold but scientists can’t quite figure out where all this hard-to-make metal is being created.
The yellow-hued precious element is thought to have been first deposited here on our planet by storms of interstellar dust and asteroids billions of years ago. The majority of this gold has been discovered deep in Earth's crust, and it's the earliest-recorded metal ever mined and used by humans, dating back to its use in ancient Egyptian jewelry circa the year 3,000 B.C.
Although relatively scarce and difficult to unearth here on our Big Blue Marble, gold is apparently abundant in the general universe. The intense alchemy required to make the lustrous element, with its unique recipe of 79 protons and 118 neutrons binding together in a violent act of nuclear fusion to form a single atomic nucleus, makes its widespread occurrence a puzzling affair.
Those rare actions of cosmic transformation can't account for the proliferation of gold on Earth and out in heavens. But the question of exactly where does the valuable metal originate is something that has researchers scratching their collective heads. Even a new paper published Sept. 15 in The Astrophysical Journal, which includes the common hypothesis that it comes from collisions between neutron stars, can't support the facts of gold's major presence.
Besides epic star crashes and magneto-rotational supernovas severe enough to tear a star inside out, evidence of another golden source remains an enigma.
Now when you wrap you mind around that image, it doesn’t seem like very much, especially when you digest the fact that the solar system is literally brimming with gold but scientists can’t quite figure out where all this hard-to-make metal is being created.
Those rare actions of cosmic transformation can't account for the proliferation of gold on Earth and out in heavens. But the question of exactly where does the valuable metal originate is something that has researchers scratching their collective heads. Even a new paper published Sept. 15 in The Astrophysical Journal, which includes the common hypothesis that it comes from collisions between neutron stars, can't support the facts of gold's major presence.
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25/09/2020
04/09/2020
Reports of positive encounters with autonomous entities after taking DMT suggest drug may have therapeutic potential
A new study analyzed over 2,500 reported encounters with autonomous entities after taking “breakthrough” doses of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT). The findings were published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
DMT is a Schedule 1 psychedelic drug known to produce lucidity, hallucinations, time distortions, and spiritual experiences.
“Among the most vivid, intriguing, memorable, and sometimes disconcerting experiences that people report after taking a high dose of inhaled or intravenous DMT are those of encountering seemingly autonomous entities or beings,” study authors Alan K. Davis and his team say. These reports range from encounters with God to contact with alien species.
Davis and his colleagues conducted a study to uncover common aspects of these reports and to better understand how these experiences come to be interpreted as encounters with self-governing entities.
Researchers surveyed 2,561 adults who reported having previously encountered an autonomous entity after inhaling a very strong dose of DMT. No subjects had been previously diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. The subjects were an average of 31 years old and 77% were male. Questionnaires asked participants for a brief written account of their most memorable encounter with an entity and then asked them a series of questions addressing details of the experience and their interpretation of the event.
Researchers coded the responses via content analysis to come up with recurrent themes.
The analysis revealed that subjects assigned various labels to the entity. As the authors describe, “The most commonly endorsed were “being,” (60%) “guide,” (43%) “spirit,” (39%) “alien,” (39%), or “helper” (34%).” Most subjects reported having experienced positive emotions during the experience, such as joy (65%), trust (63%), love (59%), and kindness (56%). Other common feelings were surprise (61%), friendship (48%), and fear (41%), while less common feelings were sadness (13%), distrust (10%), and anger (3%).
The vast majority of participants reported positive changes following the encounter, including improvements in well-being and life satisfaction (89%), attitudes about life (88%), life’s purpose (82%), and social relationships (70%).
Furthermore, the experiences appeared to have had a profound influence on respondents, extending beyond the initial encounter. A total of 72% felt that the entity continued to exist beyond their meeting and 80% reported that the encounter had changed their “fundamental conception of reality”. Only 9% believed that the entity existed entirely within themselves, while 96% upheld the belief that the entity was “conscious” and “intelligent” and 54% believed that it had “agency in the world.”
Most (69%) respondents reported that a “message, task, mission, purpose or insight” was communicated to them through the experience. As the authors reason, the numerous reports of psychological insights may suggest the therapeutic potential of DMT. “Given that some of these reports involved positively valenced messages or insights about love and safety/reassurance, it is also plausible that these experiences affected the ratings of enduring positive effects of the DMT experience (e.g. desirable changes in mood, behavior, attitudes, and beliefs),” the authors say.
Still, the researchers caution that their findings may underestimate the harmful effects of DMT, since people with negative experiences with the drug may have been less likely to participate in the survey.
The study, “Survey of entity encounter experiences occasioned by inhaled N,N-dimethyltryptamine: Phenomenology, interpretation, and enduring effects”, was authored by Alan K. Davis, John M. Clifton, Eric G. Weaver, Ethan S. Hurwitz, Matthew W. Johnson, and Roland R. Griffiths.
DMT is a Schedule 1 psychedelic drug known to produce lucidity, hallucinations, time distortions, and spiritual experiences.
“Among the most vivid, intriguing, memorable, and sometimes disconcerting experiences that people report after taking a high dose of inhaled or intravenous DMT are those of encountering seemingly autonomous entities or beings,” study authors Alan K. Davis and his team say. These reports range from encounters with God to contact with alien species.
Davis and his colleagues conducted a study to uncover common aspects of these reports and to better understand how these experiences come to be interpreted as encounters with self-governing entities.
Researchers surveyed 2,561 adults who reported having previously encountered an autonomous entity after inhaling a very strong dose of DMT. No subjects had been previously diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. The subjects were an average of 31 years old and 77% were male. Questionnaires asked participants for a brief written account of their most memorable encounter with an entity and then asked them a series of questions addressing details of the experience and their interpretation of the event.
Researchers coded the responses via content analysis to come up with recurrent themes.
The analysis revealed that subjects assigned various labels to the entity. As the authors describe, “The most commonly endorsed were “being,” (60%) “guide,” (43%) “spirit,” (39%) “alien,” (39%), or “helper” (34%).” Most subjects reported having experienced positive emotions during the experience, such as joy (65%), trust (63%), love (59%), and kindness (56%). Other common feelings were surprise (61%), friendship (48%), and fear (41%), while less common feelings were sadness (13%), distrust (10%), and anger (3%).
The vast majority of participants reported positive changes following the encounter, including improvements in well-being and life satisfaction (89%), attitudes about life (88%), life’s purpose (82%), and social relationships (70%).
Furthermore, the experiences appeared to have had a profound influence on respondents, extending beyond the initial encounter. A total of 72% felt that the entity continued to exist beyond their meeting and 80% reported that the encounter had changed their “fundamental conception of reality”. Only 9% believed that the entity existed entirely within themselves, while 96% upheld the belief that the entity was “conscious” and “intelligent” and 54% believed that it had “agency in the world.”
Most (69%) respondents reported that a “message, task, mission, purpose or insight” was communicated to them through the experience. As the authors reason, the numerous reports of psychological insights may suggest the therapeutic potential of DMT. “Given that some of these reports involved positively valenced messages or insights about love and safety/reassurance, it is also plausible that these experiences affected the ratings of enduring positive effects of the DMT experience (e.g. desirable changes in mood, behavior, attitudes, and beliefs),” the authors say.
Still, the researchers caution that their findings may underestimate the harmful effects of DMT, since people with negative experiences with the drug may have been less likely to participate in the survey.
The study, “Survey of entity encounter experiences occasioned by inhaled N,N-dimethyltryptamine: Phenomenology, interpretation, and enduring effects”, was authored by Alan K. Davis, John M. Clifton, Eric G. Weaver, Ethan S. Hurwitz, Matthew W. Johnson, and Roland R. Griffiths.
23/08/2020
Honestly, it has been hard, extremely difficult at times, to function and operate in society, with other people, with the systems and institutions that are in place and with the mindset and beliefs of 'other' people.
This conscious witness is calm, responds appropriately, no emotional reaction, understands the support, both eyes open to see the beauty in the breakdown.
Just a facade of light
Are you serious? Are you jealous of these couples that pretentiously flaunt their surfacy love affairs? This multi-copied soul level is not even average, they come a dime a dozen these guys. This is the clone wars on display. Don't even bother with this mediocre circus of boringness. You are destined for something that runs so deep it doesn't even register with this folk; they can't even fathom your greatness, so shallow as they are, in their thousands scrambling for scraps of attention from you. In their dreams they hope to replicate, they long to get just a glimpse at your level of consciousness and integrity. Leave it alone for this is nothing to be concerned about, just a facade of light.
A clearly defined meaning for our existence
It might not be so much that we are 'in love' with 'someone' that is rewarding for us. It could be the experience of knowing that we are able to love at all, to know once more that we have that ability, whether there is a clearly defined recipient for that love or not. In the conscious experience of loving lies our humanity and a clearly defined meaning for our existence.
20/08/2020
15/08/2020
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