Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

November 3, 1933: John Barry was born in York. He composed the scores for 11 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, and arranged and performed the iconic “James Bond Theme” for the first film in the series, Dr No. Also, was uncredited conductor in the interesting romantic time travel film, Somewhere in Time (1980).




November 3, 1948: Lulu (Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie), was born in Lennoxtown, Scotland. She rose to fame with her UK hit, Shout. She had a US #1 hit with To Sir With Love, was joint winner of 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, and sang the Bond theme, The Man With The Golden Gun.

Lulu - The Man With The Golden Gun (Top Of The Pops, 1975)




November 3, 1954: Happy Birthday Godzilla, a weapon of science, a great battle of wonder and terror! GOJIRA aka GODZILLA was released in Japan. All hail the king.




November 3, 1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson soundly defeated the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater, in the US Presidential Election. During the election campaign, Goldwater was depicted by the Democrats as a right-wing fanatic. Goldwater's campaign slogan was "In Your Heart You Know He's Right" which prompted this witty badge response. LBJ was a wild cowboy nutcase. In 1993, Goldwater campaigned to prevent people who were homosexual from being expelled from the military.




November 3, 1995: Dateline NBC broadcast the segment "Forbidden City," containing the very first video footage from INSIDE the Greenbrier Bunker.

For me, however, there is never a November 3 (what a date this continues to be!) that goes by that I do not think about another “Greek Island,” especially on this 25th Anniversary of its national exposure on NBC-TV’s “Dateline” documentary hosted by Stone Phillips.

This “Greek Island” was never intended to be a warm and welcoming place. In fact, it was nowhere near Greece, nor was it even an island, at all. But it was all too terrifyingly real!

The “Greek Island” indelibly imprinted into my November memory was the code name of a top-secret Cold War (Circa1960-1990’s) facility that lay underneath The Greenbrier, the legendary, five-star, historic resort in the hills of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

That secrecy effectively ended in May 1992 when the Washington Post Magazine published a cover story “The Last Resort,” that initially exposed it. But “the bunker’s reality” wasn’t made official until November 3, 1995 when NBC-TV’s “Dateline” program, hosted by Stone Phillips and produced by Chris Scholl, revealed it in a 20-minute featured segment.

Remembering ‘Project Greek Island’

November 3, 1998: Mind Over Matter is Patented, US5830064A granted for "Apparatus and method for distinguishing events which collectively exceed chance expectations and thereby controlling an output."


Patently Absurd

Mindsong was a spin-off from Princeton University's Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program. PEAR was established at Princeton University in 1979 by Robert G. Jahn, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice. Since that time, an interdisciplinary staff of engineers, physicists, psychologists, and humanists had been conducting a comprehensive agenda of experiments and developing complementary theoretical models to enable better understanding of the role of consciousness in the establishment of physical reality.

One of the people involved in that line of work was Dean Radin.
Supernormal by Dean Radin, Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences



Real Magic - Dean Radin: "Not magic like a Hogwarts letter arriving in the mail, or the feigned magic of Houdini, but real magic: A genuine but hidden power that resides within each individual. A power tied to our consciousness. A power that makes phenomena like telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis not only possible, but inevitable." Check out his website super-woo science library, hundreds of papers.

More spiritual pharma...

The BIAL Foundation was created in 1994 by the BIAL pharmaceutical company and the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities with a mission to foster scientific study of the human being from both physical and spiritual perspectives. Focus area is Parkinson’s disease and Epilepsy, Psychophysiology and Parapsychology. In the USA they are BIAL Biotech. The Foundation Board includes Julia Mossbridge & Dean Radin of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).

The BIAL Foundation database...for those interested in analyzing progress in the areas preferentially funded by the Foundation allowing the online search of scientific production in the areas of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology.

A recent paper by Dean Radin:

Quantum aspects of the brain-mind relationship: A hypothesis with supporting evidence

Abstract

If all aspects of the mind-brain relationship were adequately explained by classical physics, then there would be no need to propose alternatives. But faced with possibly unresolvable puzzles like qualia and free will, other approaches are required. In alignment with a suggestion by Heisenberg in 1958, we propose a model whereby the world consists of two elements: Ontologically real Possibles that do not obey Aristotle's law of the excluded middle, and ontologically real Actuals that do. Based on this view, which bears resemblance to von Neumann's 1955 proposal (von Neumann, 1955), and more recently by Stapp and others (Stapp, 2007; Rosenblum and Kuttner, 2006), measurement that is registered by an observer's mind converts Possibles into Actuals. This quantum-oriented approach raises the intriguing prospect that some aspects of mind may be quantum, and that mind may play an active role in the physical world. A body of empirical evidence supports these possibilities, strengthening our proposal that the mind-brain relationship may be partially quantum.

Snippet from his lengthy Bio:

Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic espionage for the US government (now commonly known by one of the program's many codewords: Star Gate).
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a degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude and with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), a masters in electrical engineering focusing on cybernetics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and then a PhD in psychology, also from UIUC. For my dissertation I developed and tested what was probably the first computer-based, artificial-intelligence-enhanced, touch-typing training system (in 1979).
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As of November 2021, I've participated in some 42 TV and film documentaries, and I've been a consultant for a number of feature films with psi-oriented themes.

Marina Abramović's (yes, that witch) brother Velimir Abramović is a Serbian publicist, university professor and obsessive researcher of the character and work of Tesla. In 2001, he founded the private philosophy school Institute of Time Science (Akademia NOIA) in Barajevo. What is interesting about NOIA is that they concern themselves with the study of "Noosphere".

The noösphere is a philosophical concept developed and popularized by the Russian-Ukrainian Soviet biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky, and the French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, back in the 1920s.

One of the original aspects of the noösphere concept deals with evolution by a constant vital force which animates life and fundamentally connects mind and body, an idea opposing the mind-body dualism of French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician René Descartes.

The Institute of Noetic Sciences funds the Global Consciousness Project at Princeton.



Lucid Dreaming Screening, Consent, and Study Questionnaire


Fluoridation back in the news...




Prouder, Stronger, Better, it’s morning in America...



No idea who is going to win this years American (s)election season, but there are already reports of election shenanigans.


You can tell which Deep State faction a politician is a part of based on thumb positioning: do you have a membership at the Bohemian Club, or are you a part of the NGO-Industrial Complex?




November Landscape

The lawns, the light, the shrouded trees are grey,
The lake in trance repeats the moveless day;
Yet, like a royal ghostly barge, moves on
In proud insulted thought, a single swan.

Frances Darwin Cornford