Living Your
Dreams, in a Manner of Speaking
by Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York
Times
WTHE kiss you share with the exquisite
stranger is electric, deep and seemingly endless — that is until you
open an eye and see drool on your pillow.
If only you could have slept long enough to consummate the
seduction. Then again, you had no idea you were dreaming. Besides,
you cannot control the nightly ride on the wings of your
subconscious. Or can you?
Maybe, if you learn to practice “lucid dreaming,” a state in which a
sleeping person becomes aware he or she is dreaming and may even be
able to direct the action. Those who regularly experience the
phenomenon say that like the physics-defying characters in “The
Matrix,” they are able to generate or manipulate the fantastical
events that unfold. They can fly without wings, play instruments
they never learned, go bowling with T. S. Eliot — and, yes, indulge
sexual fantasies.
It is likely some people have always had such dreams, said Jayne
Gackenbach, a professor of psychology at Grant MacEwan College in
Edmonton, Alberta, who conducts research into lucid dreaming. But
the esoteric practice, which has been acknowledged in the West since
at least 1867, seems on the verge of becoming much better known...
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Prayer to End
Climate Change
ABC News
CReligious leaders from all over
the world met at the mouth of a melting glacier in Greenland
today to say a silent prayer for the planet, appealing to
mankind to address the impact that humanity is having on life on
Earth.
A group of nearly 200 scientists, theologians and government
officials sailed into the ice fields of the Illulissat Icefjord,
the largest glacier in Greenland that is bearing the brunt of
global warming.
Watch a video of Bill Blakemore's tour of the ice wonders of
Greenland
here.
The pope delivered a message via video from the Vatican while
religious leaders of Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths prayed
silently...
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Engage the
Antimatter Drive
by Ben Crystall, New Scientist
Engage the antimatter driveGLIESE
581c has got to be the ultimate tourist destination. Discovered
in April this year, it is the first rocky planet beyond our
solar system with anything like a pleasant climate. How
mind-blowing would it be just to stroll along its beaches -
surely it must have beaches - or watch the planet's red-dwarf
sun setting in a scarlet blaze over the alien landscape.
There's just one little problem to consider before you rush to
book your ticket. Gliese 581c is 20 light years away - over a
million times the distance from Earth to the sun. The journey
there would make NASA's best efforts to explore our own solar
system seem like a trip to the shops, and to get there in a
human lifetime a craft would need to travel awfully fast. Even
at half the speed of light you'd spend the best part of 50 years
cooped up in a smelly space capsule. So what are the options?
There is no question that conventional chemical rockets aren't
up to the task. The fastest interstellar craft to date, Voyager
1, is now heading out of the solar system at about 17 kilometres
per second. At this rate it would take 350,000 years before
what's left of your bones reaches Gliese 581c. Making maximum
use of gravitational fields to accelerate your starship before
it leaves the solar system - swinging close by the sun, say, so
its intense gravity acts like a slingshot - isn't likely to make
a significant difference. Nuclear-powered rockets that harness
the heat from fission reactions to create an exhaust of
high-velocity particles would cut nine-tenths off the journey
time, but tickets for the 30,000-year trip are unlikely to find
many takers...
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'Super-scope' to
See Hidden Texts
by Liz Seward. BBC News
The hidden content in ancient
works could be illuminated by a light source 10 billion times
brighter than the Sun.
The technique employs Britain's new facility, the Diamond
synchrotron, and could be used on works such as the Dead Sea
Scrolls or musical scores by Bach.
Intense light beams will enable scientists to uncover the text
in scrolls and books without having to open - and potentially
damage - them.
The research was presented at the British Association science
festival.
Iron gall ink, which is made from oak apples, has been in use
from the 12th Century, but causes parchment to deteriorate
rendering precious documents unreadable...
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The Majestic Hall
of Mirrors
Secrets of U.S. flying
saucer recoveries revealed?
by Nigel Watson, OhmyNews International
It is now hard to believe that it
is 20 years since the Majestic 12 or MJ-12 documents were
released to the public by William Moore in the United States,
and Timothy Good in the United Kingdom.
For the first time these documents seemed to officially confirm
that the U.S. government did recover a crashed saucer at Roswell
in the summer of 1947 and that the Majestic 12 committee was
formed by President Harry Truman on Sept 24, 1947, to
investigate the implications of this incident. Since then more
MJ-12 documents have surfaced that indicate the United States
has secretly worked with aliens and utilized their technology.
Through the stories of whistleblowers, and the recovered
memories of abductees, it seems that our planet has attracted
all manner of aliens. They range from humanoids, the notorious
grays, to "reptoids" and praying mantis creatures. In secret
underground bases they keep vats of human body parts to produce
medication for their genetically deficient bodies.
They have mutilated cattle and abducted thousands of people
against their will. Some are peace loving, others are war-like
and bloodthirsty. Some are solid, physically real beings with
"nuts and bolts" craft; others are ghostly entities that skip
into and out of our physical universe. World governments, and
especially the U.S. government, have worked hard at keeping this
all secret through the use of debunking, disinformation and
ridicule...
Brown, 58, serves as the link between the donors and the rest of
the world, meeting periodically with them in locations she won't
reveal. She sees herself as the Promise's spokeswoman, traveling
anywhere from Miami to Arkansas to talk to economic development
groups and the many cities and states eager to emulate the
program...
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