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Interdimensional Intersections

The most pervasive notion in human history and prehistory (namely, the existence of some sort of spiritual dimension) was simply pronounced, with the thundering authority of science, put with a zeal that was inversely proportional to its believability, to be a massive collective hallucination.  -- Ken Wilber, Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy (p. 55). Shambhala Publications. Kindle Edition.

This swirling landscape of stars is known as the North America nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this new infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

 

I spent some time after my last post reading Rupert Sheldrake's Science Set Free. This book helped me sort out my thoughts about the mechanistic worldviews that still permeate science and medicine. That reading moved me to a deeper exploration of Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology, and Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Christopher Cowan. And this past week, I immersed myself in the Subtle Activism Summit, a teleconference element of the Shift Network's Summer of Peace Program for 2015. This is the ground from which I launch this final post on plate tectonics, Earth changes, and the connections I've experienced with interdimensional partners for the spiritual evolution of Earth.

I've been interested in science since childhood. Looking back, I see more clearly how the mechanistic model of science became a foundation for making meaning of my life experiences. Nothing has challenged those assumptions more than the eight manifestations -- perceived through physical senses -- of what I understand to have been interdimensional spacecraft.

As I experienced other forms of contact with subtle energy fields such as hieronics, I discovered how these physical sightings served my ongoing development. Sometimes I had no way to make sense of some experience, and had to just stay with the wondering. I encountered strong taboos within science and society against discussing or exploring "the existence of some sort of spiritual dimension" (as Wilber puts it in the quote at the top of this post). Whatever the resistance, the difficulty, the uncertainty, the memory and impact of those sightings kept me in the hunt for the truth about them.

I was fortunate to have connections with colleagues and even family members who experienced subtle energy fields and actively explored their spiritual dimensions of life. Still, many of us at times felt isolated, alone with our discoveries, in the larger community of Earth life.

Image of Mars from Viking Orbiter, June 8, 1998 (NASA/JPL/USGS)

Not so much any more. It's fairly easy to find scientists now who can push the boundaries of their disciplines because they have a more holistic, integral vision. The Subtle Activism Summit this week, with one day focused on the science of unseen energy fields, drew thousands of participants from around the world. Clearly, the taboos still exist, but now we have a growing, virtually-connected global community of citizens and scientists who reject mechanistic science, and its claim that our experiences of a spiritual dimension represent a "massive collective hallucination".

In the process of writing this series of posts, I sensed that a review of my experiences around Earth changes and interdimensional space connections was necessary because opportunities for deeper exploration and service were coming soon.

A couple of posts this summer at Motah Chronicles seemed to resonate with this idea: New Matrix of Cooperation, and Link with Monitoring Spacecraft. In those posts, the blog’s author describes experiences that point toward possibilities for an acceleration or expansion of co-creative connection, cooperation, coordination with interdimensional partners such as our space brothers and sisters.

I also see recent developments in the emerging field of subtle activism as synchronous. Subtle activism involves spiritual or consciousness-based practices intended for collective transformation. Not only was there a teleconference last week that brought together some of the leading scientists, authors and teachers in this field, but the first textbook, Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation by David Nicol, was released by SUNY Press.

As I listened in to the conference (and now that I’m reading this book) I can’t help but see the connections to the work I describe in my series of posts, and to understand it, in a larger sense, as evidence of a giant step forward for collective transformation.

Loops of highly charged particles burst from an active region on the Sun’s surface in this image, taken on December 4, 2006. Among the first images taken by STEREO’s SECCHI/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, the image shows the Sun’s roiling surface and atmosphere at temperatures around one million Kelvin (1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit). The ultraviolet light in this range is not typically visible to the human eye, so it is represented here in blue. NASA image courtesy of NASA’s STEREO mission.

 

As I conclude this series, I'm inspired to share whatever develops from here on another blog, Interdimensional Intersections. Originally I called that blog 206-Million Years on Earth, and focused on the spiritual evolution of man on Earth and in this solar system. If you already subscribe to it, the URL will remain the same. If you are on Facebook, you can check out my Interdimensional Intersections page. I'll be sharing what I sense is coming into or going out of view in The Great Nest of Being there as well.

Some of my favorite links, resources on all of this:

Motah Chronicles: Motah (pronounced distinctly Mo-tah) is an interdimensional code name for a segment of the solar system government’s information sources. This blog chronicles the spiritual diary, channelings and commentary of Phillel, Coexecutive Director of Mark-Age.

Healing Haven Under Hilarion: Blog of Robert H. Knapp, MD, Coexecutive Director of Mark-Age and Director of Healing Haven, which researches, teaches and demonstrates the best of all tested and proven methods, orthodox and unorthodox, for healing mind, body and soul.

Institute of Noetic Sciences: Founded in 1973 by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, IONS™ conducts, sponsors, and collaborates on leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness, exploring phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional scientific models while maintaining a commitment to scientific rigor.

Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and Volunteer Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University. You can read excerpts of his books at his website.

Global Coherence Initiative: The Global Coherence Initiative is an international effort that seeks to help activate the heart of humanity and promote peace, harmony and a shift in global consciousness. GCI conducts groundbreaking research on the interconnection between humanity and Earth’s magnetic fields and energetic systems.

Dr. Ervin Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory. His work in recent years has centered on the formulation and development of the “Akasha Paradigm,” the new conception of cosmos, life and consciousness emerging at the forefront of the contemporary sciences.

David Spangler/Lorian Association: The Lorian Association works to empower an exploration of new Gaian-centered models of relationship that can lead to wholeness through an incarnated spirituality.  Their vision is to advance the experience of the Sacred in the world and in ourselves.

David Nicol/Gaiafield: The Gaiafield Project develops “subtle activism” practices, theories, and programs and works with like-minded groups to co-create local, national, and global networks of subtle activists to support a shift to a planetary culture of peace.

Some thoughts on plate tectonics, hieronics and the evolution of science on Earth

[This is the sixth post in a series on plate tectonics and an interdimensional Earth change network. See previous posts in the series: Close Encounters; The Holler's Seismic Neighborhood; My Seismic Awakening to Plate Tectonics; Connecting the Interdimensional Dots; Growing into an Earth Change Network]

In this post, I want to talk about my explorations of both plate tectonics and hieronics in relation to the nature of science as a field, and how a scientific idea comes to be accepted or rejected.

As I mentioned in a previous post, my inspiration to learn more about plate tectonics came at a time when the theory of continental drift was still new and earth sciences were in a state of -- according to geophysicist Allan Cox -- "intellectual ferment”. For geologists, accepting the idea of continental drift had required a major deconstruction of older ideas about the Earth and subsequent reconstruction of earth science.

A few years ago I happened upon the work of Naomi Oreskes, a science historian who wrote The Rejection of Continental Drift. Her ideas have been especially helpful as I explore the well-anchored science of plate tectonics, and the emerging science of hieronics.

Historian of science and science studies scholar Naomi Oreskes, during a presentation at the 2008 History of Science Society meeting [Photo credit: Ragesoss]

In her book, Oreskes traces the evolution of the theory of continental drift, its acceptance by some scientists -- especially in Europe -- and its initial vigorous dismissal by a large number of American scientists:

The thesis of this book is that American earth scientists rejected the theory of continental drift not because there was no evidence to support it (there was ample), nor because the scientists who supported it were cranks (they were not), but because the theory, as widely interpreted, violated deeply held methodological beliefs and valued forms of scientific practice.

Her conclusion, says Oreskes, is that "science is not about belief; it is about how belief gets formulated":

At any given moment, only a finite set of knowledge satisfies the reigning criteria for the formulation of scientific belief, and only this knowledge is eligible as truth. But the discriminating criteria are historically contingent; over time and across communities, they shift, they evolve, they are overthrown, they transmute. The changing criteria for the formulation of belief provide the pathways through which cultural context delimits the boundaries of scientific knowledge.

I like Oreskes’ thoughts here because they resonate with my personal process of discovery with both plate tectonics and hieronics. I’ll share more about this in my final post for this series.

In closing this post, I’d like to share some videos, one that illustrate the current thinking about plate tectonics, and talks by Naomi Oreskes and Rupert Sheldrake that bring up interesting questions about scientific beliefs and how they get formulated.

First, a brief summary of current thinking about plate tectonics:

 

In the next video, Naomi Oreskes presents some important ideas about the nature of scientific knowledge, how false theories can make true predictions, the problem of auxiliary hypotheses that may be based on false assumptions, and consensus as authority in science:

 

And finally, here's The Science Delusion, the banned TED Talk presented by Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, who writes in Science Set Free (originally published in the UK as The Science Delusion) that dogmatic ideology, fear-based conformity and institutional inertia are inhibiting scientific creativity. (Kindle edition, p.4)

 

Response to Sheldrake's ideas have parallels to what early continental drift theorists encountered. For me, what Sheldrake addresses in the video and in Science Set Free lends greater insight into the evolution of scientific theories of continental drift and plate tectonics. His work also informs my exploration of hieronics and suggests, I think, some of the changes that would have to happen for it to become integrated into the whole of science on Earth as plate tectonics has.

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Here's a link to an article on other-world plate tectonics. I should have another installment up on my own tectonic journey in the next day or two. (By the way, I'm finding The Daily Galaxy, another typepad blog, to be a great source for space science news.)

The discovery of plate tectonics on Europa indicates the first sign of this type of surface-shifting geological activity on a world other than Earth. Researchers have clear visual evidence of Europa’s icy crust expanding. However, they could not find areas where the old crust was destroyed to make room for the new. While examining Europa images taken by NASA’s Galileo orbiter in the early 2000s, planetary geologists Simon Kattenhorn, of the University of Idaho and Louise Prockter, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory discovered some unusual geological boundaries.

via www.dailygalaxy.com

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My seismic awakening to plate tectonics

Connecting the interdimensional dots

I recorded my first dreams about contacts with interdimensional spacecraft in 1973. In them I was usually just observing craft flying around. Later dreams included experiences of sound or of being lifted up by some kind of energy from the spacecraft. Finally, I began to have contacts with crew members while in the dream state.

Of course I also kept my eyes on the skies hoping to catch sight of these craft when I was awake. During a meditation in July of 1974, I had my first clairvoyant experience of one – a cigar-shaped, yellow and green craft with round windows along the side, hovering 50 to 100 feet above the valley in which I lived. As soon as what I saw registered consciously, I could no longer hold the image and it faded from physical sight. About a year later, I had my first physical sighting of what I believed to be interdimensional craft. [See the report I filed on this sighting at the NUFORC website.]

As I wrote in a previous post, I recently went through my journals to pull these experiences together so that I could write about them. I discovered that on September 12, 1976, just 13 days prior to my “plate tectonics” dream, I dreamed that I was being wired for connection with space beings and their craft. I understood the purpose to be for information exchange -- including a record of my experience during the contact -- when I made connections with them.

Once the wiring was complete, a technician ran a check to test the connections. In the dream state, I had mixed feelings about participating in this experiment. The energy being exchanged felt very powerful, so much so that I was a little afraid that I could be hurt by it. I was also uncomfortable being controlled by the device during the connection test. On the other hand, it seemed like a very exciting project to be part of.

Reflecting on the dream later I was able to correlate the experience with information I trusted from Mark-Age and their publication, Visitors from Other Planets (1974). I was left with a positive feeling of this dream experience as a whole.

 

In September 1977, the Carpenters released their version of Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft. [See the original version of Calling Occupants by Klaatu here; it was released in August 1976, just a month or so before I was "wired" for contact!] I loved that song. For me it spoke to the desires for further contacts with space brothers and sisters that had evolved through ongoing dreams, meditations and sightings. Still, for quite some time I considered this to be an interest that equalled but not necessarily intersected with my growing passion for earth science. The review of my journals reminded me that the dots were significantly connected in the fall of 1977.

During a meditation one evening, I felt a contact with spacecraft. In my inner vision, I saw myself in a room full of what looked like scientific equipment. A crewman showed me a monitoring device, kind of like a translucent version of a glass-bottomed boat's observation port, focused on Earth. I got the impression that his assignment related to seismic activity on Earth and working with those events to minimize impacts as much as possible.  He indicated that it was difficult to know what effects an earthquake might have because Earth is a dynamic, interactive system.

I should note that what I was receiving involved both mental impressions (i.e. senses of what he was communicating) as well as visual representations. The words I used to describe it in my journal were my own words, which I tried to match as closely as possible to impressions I was receiving. At the time I was also aware that I was downloading much information from this space scientist that I could not consciously track or understand.

Many years later I came across a book, Theoretical Global Seismology, by F.A. Dahlen and Jeroen Tromp. I got goose-bumps when I read the first sentence in Chapter One: “After every major earthquake, the Earth rings like a large bell for several days.”

Whatever I had downloaded from the space scientist in 1977 seemed to have seismic resonance with these Earth scientists and their work in 1998.

The interdimensional dots became more like a bridge for me by December of 1977. On December 3^rd I had a powerful vision in which new levels of partnership with nature forces came into focus. I was shown (symbolically) how I could work with Earth changes by serving as a conduit for transfer [later given to me as “translation”] of higher frequency energy into the planet’s geologic infrastructure.

In my next post, I’ll talk about the evolution of my experience in this process.

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My seismic awakening to plate tectonics

[See my first post in this series: The holler’s seismic neighborhood]

On September 25, 1976, I dreamed that I was working with other people to help move large sections of the Earth’s crust and to reduce large pieces of rock at plate boundaries into smaller pieces to facilitate a less violent shifting of the plates. The emotional texture of the experience was calm and matter of fact. Even though there was some sense of urgency or need to get this done, no one acted as if it was dangerous or unusual to be where we were, doing what we were doing. When I woke up, the phrase “plate tectonics” was on my mind and kept repeating with enough frequency and intensity that I was compelled to do some further research.

At the time, all I had was an old geology textbook and a newer earth sciences encyclopedia (this happened long before I had a computer or Internet access!) from which I copied some of the entry on Plate Tectonics into my dream journal for future reference: -- A branch of earth science dealing with the formation, destruction and motion of segmental sections of earth’s crust called ‘plates’. This includes aspects of seismic activity and mountain building.

The layer of the Earth we live on is broken into a dozen or so rigid slabs (called tectonic plates by geologists) that are moving relative to one another. [Image and caption credit: USGS]

Plate tectonics as a discipline was pretty much being born in the mid-sixties. By 1976 when I had the dream, much more was known but it was still a relatively new idea. Not long after the dream, I came across a textbook, Plate Tectonics and Geomagnetic Reversals, by Alan Cox published just three years earlier. Cox (1973) writes in the Introduction that “The earth sciences are currently in an intellectual ferment as a result of recent advances in the study of magnetic reversals, sea-floor spreading, and plate tectonics.” (p.2)

He notes that in the century following the work of Charles Darwin, the earth sciences were characterized by specialization and divergence in which paleontologists, seismologists, geomagnetists, geologists and marine geophysicists got better at what they were doing but had less and less to say to one another. (p.2)

This trend was reversed, says Cox, when a series of articles written between 1962 and 1968 brought many of these main “threads of geologic research” together to “form the fabric of plate tectonics.” It would have been during this period of consilience that I first heard brief mention of the emerging science of plate tectonics as a freshman in geology 101 at Ohio State. I can still remember absorbing some excitement about it from the professor. With the dream, the interest that had apparently smoldered more than ten years found some air and again caught fire.

One of my research sources before I had a computer was the USGS office at the Denver Federal Center. There I explored photos from historical earthquake data, such as this one of Quake Lake: The Madison Canyon landslide near Yellowstone Park. This landslide occurred after the Hebgen lake earthquake (Richter Scale Magnitude = 7.5) in Montana, in 1959. The earthquake caused a great slide of rock, soil, and trees to fall from the steep south wall of the Madison River Canyon. Twenty-eight people camping in the area were killed as they were overtaken by this 21 million cubic meter mass. The landslide formed a barrier that completely blocked the gorge and the flow of the Madison River, and created a lake. [Photo and caption: USGS]

For about a year my research into plate tectonics and seismic phenomena stayed within the boundaries of earth science. In the fall of 1977, however, I had an experience in meditation that helped me connect the dots between the physical and spiritual dimensions of my fascination with our shifting Earth.

In my next post, I’ll share this experience and another dream that happened two weeks before my seismic re-awakening to plate tectonics -- a dream that foretold the connection to cooperative and coordinated ventures with spiritual space forces.

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The holler's seismic neighborhood

I have an idea to write something about my interest in earth changes (generally) and earthquakes (specifically), and how that all came about. I started to do this at the end of January this year when some USGS seismologists published their study in Science on continued earthquake activity in the New Madrid Seismic Zone.

Once I got going on this project, it became clear that I was trying to cram too much into the first post, so, to start off, I'll just do more of an introduction, and share some of the recent USGS info. The New Madrid fault is part of the holler's seismic neighborhood, as I see it -- it's the closest, largest, most active and historically significant one as far as I know.

Starting with this USGS isoseismal map, I added the approximate location of the holler in relation to the epicenter and intensity zones.

When I moved to Tennessee in the fall of 2000, I took the most direct route between Grants, New Mexico to Knoxville along Interstate 40, which of course took me through the heart of the New Madrid Seismic Zone. I already knew much of the history of the 1811-1812 earthquakes, but mind-boggled as I was by details and logistics of the move itself, I hadn't really thought much about it. Checking maps often along the route, however, I couldn't help but notice references to natural features associated with the New Madrid quakes as I crossed into Tennessee -- like Reelfoot Lake, for example.

The USGS has a portal page for all kinds of scientific and historical data on the New Madrid earthquakes. I found the old photos and eyewitness accounts especially interesting.

Frog Pond Holler has more local seismic connections as well. The landforms of the Elk Valley area of Campbell County owe their appearance to movements along fractures in the Earth's crust long ago. The holler is in the same block, so to speak, as "the high-angle Terry Creek fault, which strikes N. 40^o W. from the junction of the Pine Mountain and Jacksboro fault zones."¹

Base map and caption source for this slide: USGS Professional Paper 572, p. 2 (1968)

My interest in earthquakes took a quantum leap following a dream I had in 1976. My proximity to the New Madrid Seismic Zone and the geologic history of the place on Earth that I call home has kept that interest very much alive.

In my next post, I'll share the dream and the experiences that began to unfold after that.

¹ Geology and Coal Resources of the Elk Valley Area, USGS Professional Paper 572, p.1

 

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Disappearing North American Moose Worry Experts -- Earthweek

Bye-Bye Bullwinkle?

A bull moose in Superior National Forest, Minnesota, USA [Photo credit: USDA Forest Service, EPA]

I found a troubling story at Earthweek yesterday about the declining moose population in several regions of North America:

One of Minnesota’s two distinct populations of the lumbering animals has dropped from about 4,000 to 100 since the 1990s.

The other population is down to fewer than 3,000 from 8,000 over the same period.

Wildlife experts say manmade climate change appears to be behind most of the declines.

Read the whole story at www.earthweek.com

The first moose I ever saw up close was in Ashley National Forest in the early seventies. Bill and I were camped there for a rafting trip on the Green River below the Flaming Gorge dam and a visit to some of Bill's old haunts around Manila, Utah.

Bill was off getting more gear out of the car, and I had just started cooking supper when I heard something -- a pretty large something, by the sound of it -- just beyond the edge of our campsite, maybe 20 feet away. When I looked up, all I could see was a long, dark brown back. It kind of looked like a horse until it raised its head. Then I recognized it as a moose. It was one of those good news-bad news moments: I was ecstatic to see a moose, but a little concerned about being that close.

In 1978, a few moose were transplanted on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park, just across the mountains from where Bill and I lived. I didn't live there long enough to see them migrate over to the east side, but my brother Bob has posted several photos of them in that same yard lately. According to a story in May in the Denver Post, that small group has now multiplied and migrated to other parts of Colorado. It's another moose population that is doing well, at the moment, rather than declining.

Moose are such awesome animals. Wise up, man of Earth, before we trash one more acre, one more stream, one more species.

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One of my Facebook friends shared this amazing article today. If the excerpt interests you, you can read the full (but long) version at the COSMOS Magazine link below:

The Higgs boson as simulated by one of the detectors at CERN

“Everything you’ve been told about physics is wrong.”

From his opening remarks to his punchline, Caltech cosmologist Sean Carroll knows how to grab an audience’s attention. And when Carroll talks physics, people listen. The “wrong” that Carroll is referring to is the widely held view that the world is made up of particles. Not so, he says. At the heart of it all, everything is fields – electric, magnetic and beyond. Even the celebrated hunt for the Higgs particle, which imparts mass to all the other particles in our universe, is actually a quest to nail down the Higgs field.

Over the past century and a half, field theory has come to dominate our understanding of the universe, from the cosmic to the subatomic. General relativity is a field theory that describes how gravity choreographs the elegant motions of galaxies, stars, planets and moons, while at the other end of the scale quantum field theory describes the chaos of the subatomic world. As physicists now see it, our universe is nothing less, and nothing more, than a collection of fields invisibly filling space with their powerful, generative effects.

via www.cosmosmagazine.com

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