Water . . . Water . . . Part One: Hot and Salty

Mar 17, 2010

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Most of us know very little about water. It comes in two types, salt and fresh. It has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom and is written H2O. In the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake, you can float. A random collection of facts—like knowing a dozen Latin tags—is usual, even for many in science or medicine. For most Americans, access to water is a given. Like the right to vote, it seems a birthright. And when you turn on a tap, do you ask whether you can drink the water that comes out? Probably not.
I want to suggest you consider expanding your world view. And that you follow the rapidly evolving water story, because whether you do so or not, water is about to change your life and will profoundly affect the lives of your children and grandchildren in ways both great and small. Water matters to our lives at every level, from the personal to the geopolitical. Its role in global warming, as well as its atomic structure and how it interacts with consciousness, all matter. Water has always driven destiny and is driving ours now. This is my first column on water. There will be others. I believe water will be a far bigger factor in our future than petroleum.

Publication History: Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing January 2007 (Vol. 3, Issue 1, Pages 11-12)

By the Numbers

Mar 16, 2010

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He was a small black boy. About nine years of age. I was the same age give or take a year, and we had both been brought to the train station. I can no longer remember where, but somewhere in the Deep South. It could have been Florida, or maybe Georgia. Nor do I know, if I ever knew, what part of the year it was, although it was very hot, and the caged metal fans that stood sweeping the room moved air so hot it hurt to have it blow on my skin. I was with the black woman who took care of me, a doctor’s son. Her name is lost to me now, and no one living can tell it to me. He was with his grandmother. I watched him walk across the tiles of the station as I sat in one of the worn wooden pews that lined the vaulted waiting room.
There were two drinking fountains jutting from the wall. One sign read “Whites Only.” I was a compulsive reader of signs, proud of my ability to do so. Like many signs, though, I am not sure I understood what it meant.

Publication History: Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
November 2007 (Vol. 3, Issue 6, Pages 558-560)

The Beingness Doctrine

Mar 16, 2010

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Naomi Klein has written a book, Shock Doctrine, whose premise is that a formal strategy for forcing social change began evolving on the right as long ago as the 1950s, based on an extremist view of conservative free market capitalism.

As Eric Klinenberg wrote in his Book Forum review, “Why do so many nations have economic policies more laissezfaire and social programs less generous than their citizens prefer? Naomi Klein argues that the answer lies in a simple two-step strategy, honed over three decades by an international cabal of freemarket fundamentalists: First, exploit crises—whether due to economics, politics, or natural disasters—to advance an agenda that would never survive the democratic process during ordinary times. Next, create a ‘corporatocracy,’ in which multinationals and political leaders align to promote their interests at the public’s expense.”1

In her extraordinarily well-documented work, Naomi Klein describes how the tactics of this strategy have now reached a level of sophistication such that in settings as disparate as Iraq and Katrina, it has forced change that would otherwise have been unacceptable through normal democratic processes. A change wrought under the guise of responding to some kind of social catastrophe, whether natural, like a hurricane, or man-made such as the early policies under Paul Bremmer in the first days of the occupation of Iraq. Klein points out that often this occurs with disastrous consequences, as anyone familiar with Katrina’s aftermath, or today’s headline on Iraq can see. If you have not read this book, I urge you to do so. It will give you a perspective through which much that seems chaotic and disconnected will be revealed as not only connected, but deliberate. The book is so disturbing that it forced me to consider if an alternative life-affirming strategy existed that had proven it could work. A kind of counter–Shock Doctrine.

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
January 2008 (Vol. 4, Issue 1, Pages 15-17)

With the Tongues of Men and Angels: A Study of Channeling

Mar 15, 2010

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With the Tongues of Men and Angels: A Study of Channeling. Arthur Hastings. (Holt, Rinehart and Winston: San Francisco, London, Montreal, et al, 1991) 227 pp. Illustrations and photographs. References. Index. Appendix.

By Stephan A. Schwartz

Sometimes it is important to go back and re-examine a book that has been overlooked. This is a review of such a book: With the Tongues of Men and Angeles. Arthur Hastings, its author, sets himself two tasks, and does very well at answering them: What is the nature of channeling? What is the significance of channeling for us? These are questions worth attention, not least because the phenomena of channeling has been around for thousands of years, and defies all attempts to explain it away. It is so compelling that even the exposure of occasional frauds has not slowed the public?s interest. Perhaps this is because, as Hastings states, fully 15 per cent of the population — in the U.S. today that would be approximately 41 million people — report hearing voices and receiving guidance. I don?t know where Hastings got that astounding — at least to me — figure, but it conjures an arresting reality.

Hastings approaches his subject with an open mind — a surprisingly rare attitude, as anyone who takes the trouble to look at the literature of channeling quickly discovers. Whether it is called channeling, mediumship, automatic writing, guidance, prophecy, or anyone of several other names, as a rule it excites more passion than insight. Hastings also writes with a light touch which, for anyone doing research in this area, will be much appreciated. With the notable exception of Jon Klimo?s recent and excellent Channeling[i], much of the modern literature on this subject is famously insubstantial, and the more serious studies, dating mostly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is so turgid and self-important, whether espousing or denigrating the subject, that reading it becomes an act of penance.

Miracles of Mind: Exploring Non-Local Consciousness and Spiritual Healing

Mar 15, 2010

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Miracles of Mind: Exploring Non-Local Consciousness and Spiritual Healing by Russell Targ and Jane Katra, Ph.D. Foreword by Larry Dossey, M.D. 325 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Bibliographical references and index. (New World Library: New York, 1998). ISBN: 1-57731-070-5. $24.95 hardcover.

Review by Stephan A. Schwartz
Research Associate Cognitive Sciences Laboratory

“This book is about connecting to the universe and to each other through the use of our psychic abilities.” Russell Targ and Jane Katra conveniently tell us in the first sentence of their first book together exactly what they intend.

All of Targ’s books have been collaborations but, with this one, he seems to have found a truly congenial co-author. Although he is well-known in parapsychological circles, Dr. Katra may not be. She describes herself in her jacket bio as holding “a doctorate in public health education and has been a spiritual healer for more than 20 years. She has taught nutrition and health classes at the University of Oregon, and Therapeutic Touch at Lane Community College.”

They lay the groundwork for their presentation by spending the first half of the book presenting a good overview of the entire remote sensing field and its history, including references to the obscure Upton Sinclair work, described in Mental Radio. Principally, though, the focus is on the government sponsored studies at the SRI parapsychology lab, conducted when Targ was a part of that team, and private work he has conducted subsequently.

The Rise of the Sensoid

Mar 15, 2010

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By the 19th Century, there were hundreds of papers in the country, but until the Civil War, there was no such thing as a press corps. The coverage of the 18th and early 19th Centuries was almost entirely lacking in the kind of multi-sourced interpretive writing which defines modern media. Reporters, known then as correspondents, were eponymously named because their copy was either a reprint of a government release, the publication of a statute, or something like a letter to a friend. Editors made sure the copy of their often ill-educated amanuenses was formed into passable English while, as publishers, they sold the ads announcing ship arrivals, and cows for sale, that made up much of their paper’s news.

The Civil War changed all that. In the confusion of the war only rarely did one single informant know the full story of what was occurring, and this forced both the “correspondents” and their editors, for the first time, to work as teams to piece together a “story.” That, combined with technical advances in printing presses and the advent of commercial telegraphy, created the first national press corps.

The Path of Sound: A Visit to the Monroe Institute

Mar 15, 2010

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If I’m lucky, sometime in the next four days I’ll have an out-of-body experience. It will happen as part of a training program called Gateway Voyage at the Monroe Institute outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. The trip there takes me into the deep green foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and, as the country road unwinds in front of me, images of Institute Founder Bob Monroe, who died in 1995, flood my mind. I have not been back here in 23 years.

Although he owned a thriving cable broadcasting business, and had worked in Manhattan for decades, Bob had a country haircut and looked like a rural judge. Cranky yet avuncular, he was an unusual mix of tolerance and toughness; suspenders and belt worn together marked him as a man who wanted to know for sure. When I first met him in 1970, he was in late middle age, had long been successful in both the radio and television business, and was an avid pilot. But none of that mattered much to him anymore because, of something that happened one morning in 1956. As he explained it: “I was lying in bed thinking what a nice day Saturday was going to be.

Publication History: Intuition Magazine, October 1998, Issue 24, pp. 30-35 and 53-58

The Last Lynching

Mar 15, 2010

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To the modern eye a trip down State Route 24 west of Highway 19 headed for the Cedar Keys is just a glimpse into a charming earlier Florida. Something like Key West, when Hemingway was writing there. But that stretch of rural highway is also a trip into America’s heart of darkness; a study in the light and shadows of our history. It is
an important trip to take.

The Cedar Keys are a complex of more than 100 closely spaced low lying small islands with irregular outlines, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle thrown down by a child. They are surrounded by the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and covered with pine, cypress, cabbage palms, palmetto, swamp grasses, and wild flowers. In the brackish channels along the road and around the islands grows a rich crop of water hyacinth. The air is filled with birds, great and small.

The largest island is Way Key — about 640 acres, one square mile. – the only Cedar Key with a permanent settlement on which, confusingly, the town of Cedar Key is located.

The Emerging White Minority

Mar 15, 2010

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America, founded by whites on a white vision, is in the process of becoming numerically a non-white country. Even a massive, and unlikely, increase in the birth rate of whites would only slow the historic inevitability of this change. It is as pervasive and impactful as the religious conversion of a nation. Our cultural point of view is shifting and from that will flow a myriad of changes, great and small. It is an irony of cosmic nicety that this transformation is coincident with the beginning not only of a century, but a new millennium. California, unsurprisingly, leads the way, going majority non-white in the year 2000. Texas should make the changeover about 2025. America, in its entirety, will be majority non-white by 2040.

To avoid terrible hurt and suffering on all sides, we must confront the challenge of the emerging white minority now; social movements measure in generations, as astronomers measure in light-years. What happens will depend, of course, on all the races but, since whites control the power structure today, the choices they make in the transition period will carry a special weight, and they will live or die, suffer or prosper for decades based on the decisions of the next few years.

Publication History: Venture Inward. Vol. 8. No. 4. P. 6. July/August 1992

The Elevator Ride

Mar 15, 2010

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I had just come to Washington, D.C. in the early 1960s fresh from school, and was temporarily working for a law firm while I waited for another job to come open. My work was not demanding, doing research for the lawyers, filing documents at agencies, but the law firm was a force in the city, and the job gave me my first entrée into the nation’s power structure. Every day I went to work and saw evidence that who you knew, and the kind of access you had, gave you influence over events. It seemed like an important lesson at the time, but it was not the only lesson I learned in the nine months I worked there.

There was a bank of four elevators in our building. They still had operators, then, and on every elevator ride to and from my office at the firm, I had a one in four chance of getting Rosa’s car. She was a small Puerto Rican woman, middle aged and no more than five feet tall, who favored red, and had very little English. Over the nine months I worked there, the luck of the draw often found me standing next to her as she sat on her stool, just inside of the sliding bronze doors, and chauffeured Washington’s elite up and down. The thing you noticed about her was her smile, and she was not selfish with it.

Publication history: New Age Journal Nov/Dec 1997

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