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Being smart, dumb, rich, or poor has fuck all to do with this type of delusional nonsense.

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... How Far Should We Go in 'Restoring' Ancient Monuments?

Boing Boing shared The Daily Grail's article, with a few photo(graph)s, showing "Visions of the Past - How Far Should We Go in 'Restoring' Ancient Monuments?"

It's not a hoax -- it's an actual study being performed at 25 hospitals. No results yet; this article quotes September or October of this year for the release of preliminary results.

The lead for this is Sam Parnia, a critical care physician who just happens to be into this kind of near-death stuff.

I have heard more, but it would take a while to sort them out from th more general cases where no claim is made to knowledge that the patient wasn't expected to have.

Keep in mind, I am making NO CLAIM WHATSOEVER as to the cause or nature of the cause for this. I am not even claiming that the accounts or the perceptions of the people giving the accounts are accurate.

There's no medical reason, but how about a scientific one? You could avoid spontaneous human combustion.

http://www.dailygrail.com/features/the-myth-of-james-randis-million-dollar-challenge

Like you, I can give many examples where experimental results were accepted as plausible and studied despite the absence of a proposed mechanism or model. It is nevertheless still a significant obstacle to overcome in many areas of study most relevant to the phenomena I mentioned (precognition, telepathy). If that hasn't been your experience in your area, that means that I didn't provide enough context for my statement. If your reflex is to regard things outside of your immediate experience as 'errors', then I think I'm wasting my time trying to talk to you.

The overwhelming majority of scientists in fields that I have first had experience with (electromagnetics, medicine), must convincingly argue for the existence of promising practical applications, and usually commercial applications, in order to get funding. Often their arguments are substantially bogus, and take advantage of the naivety of government program managers, but they still have to successfully make the arguments. I've written and won many grants - I know how the system works. That there are some physicists and others working in other areas who don't have this challenge doesn't make it a straw man for the rest of us. And the fields I mentioned are among those most relevant to most claims of paranormal phenomena.

I have objectively demonstrable precognitive and telepathic experiences that don't by any stretch of the imagination have explanations using known scientific laws. But there's no way I could pass Randi's challenge, its not even close. And I along the avenues that are open to me, there is no plausible way to obtain funding, or to obtain the cooperation of researchers who are in a position to get funding, mostly for the reasons I've mentioned.

If your supposition, based on the very limited information that I've provided, is that I'm lying or deluded, then that further illustrates my point.

In the past year I've read enough new discoveries to suspect that a major paradigm shift about human history is building. How those big rocks got moved around is one of the more important pieces in the puzzle.

Dibbuk Box (2010)

Ha, you're kidding me, a film based on an ebay auction?

I wondered whether 'smithycode' might be a Vigenere keyword, though it doesn't seem to be the case. Seems there is good reason to consider this, as the judge mentioned he used codes found in both books which were in the case. Vigenere cipher was an important part of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", one of the books in the court case. The other, Brown's obscure novel, used a number of codes including the Atbash and other simple substitutions.There's a few random thoughts here: Smithy Code. No solution though. :/

check out www.dailygrail.com... they always have the drop on this stuff I find :)

Egad, this woman does like this book. No fewer than 13 reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (repeated here and here), 14?.

My first thought was the Denise M. Clark was a shill, but if she is, she's incompetant. By using the same name over and over, it becomes easy to track her down. My next thought was that she was a UFO nut trying to spread the word. Possible, but she has reviewed many other books.

My new theory is that she's desperately trying for fame through the unlikely technique of publishing reviews on as many sites as possible. (Check out her web page, "The on-line home of author/reviewer Denise M. Clark". Either that, or she's a space alien here to prepare us for use as slaves and food for her hideous grey masters. If it's the former, she's wasting our time. If it's the latter, I suppose that would could as news for nerds.

The Daily Grail has a funny Egypt story today.

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