KNOWLEDGE

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PROF ISAAC GALISTEIN

I worry about knowledge today – mainly because much of it isn’t
knowledge at all. Rather, we have become information junkies,
erroneously thinking that holding such information is knowledge. Yet
true knowledge is what you do with the information. Knowledge is the
outcome of thought. Knowledge is taking this information and
producing awareness and wisdom. Knowledge, today, is simply
data-processing, as if we’ve become an appendage of the computer
rather than the other way round. The machines seem to be winning.

Eye On the World
Essays on everything from science to
religion, politics to crime

WORLD NEWS: A busy time for
world leaders. UN meet and then G20.
Dictats fly – Iran, you naughty country; bankers,
we’ve some hard words for you (he,he, titter the bankers).
Rumours of Obama snubbing UK. But, hey, he eventually cuddled my
own idiot Prime Minister. Yes, folks, Soap Operas are alive and well.

HEALTH NEWS: A researcher has suggested the high rate of
Dementia in the UK could be because of the Second
World War. In effect, stress in youth can
trigger the reaction in later life. An
interesting idea – and one
that further research
should be carried
out on.

FUTURE ZONE

What’s ahead … and Beyond!!!

Poetry Train
Heads or Tails – ReadWritePoem
Three Word Wednesday

PHOTO PROOF

I await the photo of absolute proof,
A subject that always remains aloof,
Image of the future of all,
By going right back to that energy ball,
Before it became all that is,
Brought to life by nuclear fizz …
Oh, what knowledge it would invoke,
Was it God or a cosmic joke?

MELT DOWN TIME

Sci Fi: They knew the time tunnel had reached melt down when the
periods began to merge. Was that a real Viking up on stage doing
hard rock? Was that a real pole dancer pinching Caesar from
Cleopatra? And when the Soap writer became Elizabethan, they
knew they’d never look upon Shakespeare in the same way again.

FUTURE ME?

Finding hope, so hard to do,
Things change, I must imbue,
A better course than my image so bland,
We’re building a future – but hell or grand?
I see my reflection before my eyes,
It’s so very easy to criticize,
Is it future me, no better than the past,
Or the me that’s gone, angst amassed?

AMBITION
(Updated 30 Sep 09)

I look to the future, what do I see?
So easily it could be ugly;
Ambitious species we certainly are,
Through arts and tech we could go far,
Conquering the Cosmos for one and all,
Incredible ideas continually enthrall,
And propel us onwards all the time,
But if we’re not together, it’s not worth a dime

© Anthony North, September 2009

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SAD BOOKS

Booking Through Thursday & more prompts below
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GURU TONY

What’s the saddest book I’ve read recently? Well, it won’t be a
personal disclosure book. I don’t read them. You see, very few people
go through life unscathed, and when so many write about the bad
things, we can all relate. The result is a victim culture, and this is
socially unhealthy for us all. No, the saddest book I’ve read recently
would undoubtedly be any one of the general world histories I have.
They are full of good intentioned ideas being turned into disastrous
movements. Rather like those disclosure books.

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religion, politics to crime

BRIT NEWS: So the rumours and
leaks gather pace. Massive hikes in taxes
and up to 30% cut in services. A national postal
strike looms with many others brewing. Are we about
to face another Winter of Discontent? Meanwhile, industry
mouthpiece the CBI say we’ll return to growth by end of year. So
it’ll all be over by Christmas. I remember that was said in 1914.

SOCIAL NEWS: A psychologist has blamed lack of parental
authority for the growing spoilt generation of today’s
youth. I agree – to a point. But alongside this
must come State intrusion into family life,
leaving young parents confused as to
just what there role is. Families
seem to be stuck in a
vicious circle here.

THE CRIME POST

It would be criminal not to read it

One Single Impression
Sunday Scribblings – 3 Word Thursday
Friday Flash 55

FLASH 55 – THE FILMING

Fiction: He was in search of the perfect scene. The camera was
soon set up and rolling. The story progressed quickly, and as the
denouement approached he put his hands to her throat and
strangled her. Later, watching the film, he was dissatisfied –
again. The bodies were mounting up as he went talent
scouting once more.

COLOUR CRIME

Seeing red – violent crime,
Life to him ain’t worth a dime;
Seeing blue – vice is the thing,
Sex, debauchery, in a ring;
Seeing yellow – cowardly thief,
Show contempt; he’s way beneath;
Seeing black – cell door slammed,
Where they belong, we demand

RELUCTANT GROOM

Fiction: She was mariturient; he not so much. There were, of course,
reasons. He had tried to obstrigillate his fate, but once her father had
found out about the depth of their relationship he knew refusal would
result in an ossifragant outcome. So he married her. But he could not
help worrying about his other wife.

obstrigillate – oppose or resist
ossifragant – bone-breaking
mariturient – eager to marry

CHEESE
(Updated 25 Sep 09)

What a cheek, you’re a thief,
It’s no good smiling, showing your teeth,
You’re a disgrace to what you are,
Behave like this, you won’t go far,
Now listen, I’m a mouse, if you please,
You’re a cat, you eat me, not the cheese

© Anthony North, September 2009

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JUSTICE

ABC Wednesday & more prompts below
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POLLY TICKS

We’re beginning to lose touch about what Justice really means. I
say this because victims are becoming central to the outcome of
trials. Now, don’t get me wrong – I can feel for the victims.

But a trial isn’t victim
v accused.

It is STATE v accused. This is important. It keeps proceedings
formal and unemotional. Victim-centred trials do the opposite, and
by bringing out emotion, verdicts can so easily be swayed. The end
result is bad justice. I blame the rise of individuality over community
for this. We’ve begun to think it is the ‘person’ who deserves justice,
and not the good of all through community.

Paranormal Flash

Okay, as promised, my Paranormal Flash is now
complete. Click the link at top of post to access.
As well as a general narrative on the subject, I
also link to dozens of previous essays so you
can go deeper into the mysteries that seem to
baffle us.

Eye On the World
Essays on everything from science to
religion, politics to crime

MEDIA NEWS: Creation, a new
British film about Charles Darwin, has
failed to find a distributor in the US, according
to its producers. Bought in nearly every other country,
religious sensibilities seem to be behind the failure. Where is the
line between freedom of speech and faith, I wonder?

BRIT NEWS: A survey by The Guardian shows that top company
executive’s pay has risen 10% in the last year. It’s good
to see that their standards have not gone down
because of a mere thing like a Recession.
Sometimes I think Earth is really
two planets – ‘cos they’re
not living on mine.

RATTLER’S TALE

A Voyage of the Imagination

Carry On Tuesday
Heads or Tails – ReadWritePoem
Three Word Wednesday

THE BOOK

The greatest invention there’s ever been,
Wherever you go books are seen;
Whenever things change you can be sure,
It was fuelled by a book – nothing so pure;
Whenever you want to escape the world,
Pick up a book, let stories unfurl;
And whenever you want to express your thought,
Write a book and hope it’s bought

THE INSIDER

Fiction: I thought of those words by Albert Camus: ‘Don’t walk behind
me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just
walk beside me and be my friend.’ I often thought I walked alone.
Here was I, experiencing life, but outside. The existential nightmare
was my reality. Alone – absurd. Life was a surreal dance around my
body, but never touching – or so I thought. I had choices, you see;
and those choices were mine and mine alone. My friend – my only
friend – tried to make those choices come right for me. My aspirations
seemed to work through him. But I thought wrong – that surreal
dance did touch me. It touched me always, out of the blue, catching
me unawares – until I realized the choices of others were valid to my
life. So now I’m neither lion nor mouse, neither leading nor led, and
my friend – my inner being – walks beside me. I now know I am me
because of them. How can I be absurd?

RICHES

The day I made a million, wow!!
Poverty? Ha! Taken a bow;
Great big house and chauffeur driven car,
Holidays to lands afar,
Gourmet meals – never mind the harm,
Beautiful lady on my arm,
Nothing more I need to seek …
Oh well … maybe next week

VELOCIRAPTOR
(Updated 23 Sep 09)

No time to languish, velocity high,
Is that prey ahead of me, I spy?
I may be little but I rule this place,
Got to keep going or I’m eclipsed in the race …
Survival of the fittest is how it is,
Got to keep going, know our biz,
Extinction won’t ever stop this buzz,
‘Cos if you read it again, you’ll find it’s us

© Anthony North, September 2009

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MORE CHANGES

Friday Flash 55 and 3 Word Wednesday
More prompts below

BLOGGER BARD

I knew it would happen – it always does. In the last couple of days
I’ve got so much into my Paranormal Flash series that I’ve finished it.
Representing the latest statement of where I’m at in my research, I
read it and thought: here comes another book.

And that’s what I have
to do right now.

I’m devoting a lot more time to further research, in-depth writing and
chasing publishers. That means I’m going to have to cut some of the
time I spend blogging. Don’t panic! I’m not going anywhere. I’ll still be
visiting all my friends and doing most of the prompts, but I’ll be
cutting back on essays and current affairs, and, from next week
doing just two bumper posts on Monday and Thursday. I could never
stop blogging, and this should leave me the time I want for my new
project. As for Paranormal Flash, I’m going to give it a page of its
own, complete with links to deeper essays on each aspect of the
narrative. I hope to complete this, and link to it in my posts, from
next week also. I repeat, I’m not giving up blogging – no way! I could
never do that. Hope to see you Monday.

Eye On the World
The ‘Y’ Files

FAITH NEWS: More evidence
that we’re hard-wired to believe in
God. Researchers from Bristol University
say it offers a better chance of survival through
making us work in groups. I’ve often said prevalent non-
belief in a society can fragment that society, so this makes total
sense to me.

BRIT NEWS: A survey of teachers shows they’d rather teach
‘universal brotherhood’ than patriotism. There’s a new
age adage that to love others you must love
yourself. I think it works with a nation. If
you don’t find meaning in what you
are, you become nothing and
eventually treat all with
disdain. Those
teachers are
wrong.

READ WITH MUMMY

The Magazine Post with a gentle hint of horror

One Single Impression
Sunday Scribblings – 3 Word Thursday

THE FOG

It descends, restricting view,
Swirling outside and inside you,
People disjointed, partially there,
Shocks come so easily – beware!
How do you grasp reality from this putrid mess?
Start with your failings – admit it! Confess;
When the fog descends confusion reigns,
Your mind so easily wrapped in chains

WHO AM I?
(Quilly’s word meanings below)

Fiction: The nature spirit was acting destructively. There was no
quibbleism – he literally beat the bush to pulp. Why? Well, people had
ignored him too long and he was attention seeking – overflowing with
an obrumpent personality. Indeed, they couldn’t even get his name
right. Over the eons they had referred to him as a god, a demon, a
fairy, a vampire, a werewolf, ghost, discarnate entity and now they’d
even given him bug eyes and called him an alien! Such temeration!!
And he was not having it!!! It was as if HE didn’t know who he was
any more. And are they afraid of him nowadays? No. But as he
continued beating the bush, swirling around the air, deforesting the
forests and generally having a climactic time, he knew they’d soon
need him once more. THEN he’d teach them for ignoring his ways.

quibbleism – beating around the bush
obrumpent – breaking
temeration – temerity

FLASH 55 – POISON

Fiction: He was convinced his wife was
poisoning him. She didn’t even seem to
hide the fact. Why, he didn’t know. Maybe
an affair. But he decided not to eat at
home. Rather, he frequented the café up
the road. In the kitchen, chef prepared his
special meals. He was better at it than
his lover.

HANKY

I’m a hanky; I’m feeling sad,
Too many tissues can be bad,
To a throw away society we drift a lot,
Is it funny? It snot!
Don’t be thick – think of my woes,
Don’t reject me ‘cos I get up your nose

HUNGRY
(Updated 18 Sep)

Hungry for people all the time,
Chop them up, make them slime,
Crawling in an insipid pit,
Watching, always – scored a hit,
Doesn’t matter whether man or dame,
It can get you – fame

© Anthony North, September 2009

INSPIRATION

ABC Wednesday & more prompts below
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GURU TONY

Inspiration creates change, but how does it work? There’s an amazing
psychology at work in those who create something inspired. Often,
through adversity, illness or alienation, they feel frustrated. This
causes them to descend into their inner mind. And it is here that
inspiration births.

But what process is at work
in the inner mind?

We observe the world – often without realizing it – and our view of
it can form unconsciously. When we consciously seek this inner
knowledge to create something new, we actually connect with the
observed frustrations of our wider society. Hence, inspiration is a
two-way affair, our society being fundamental to the personal
process of creativity. However, from this point onwards, inspiration
becomes personal, with the inspired person’s frustrations the primary
factor. This creates novelty, and his success in inspiring others
thrusts society onwards. But coloured by his own feelings, the way
it is expressed is usually extreme. This guarantees frustration will
continue to rise in society, guaranteeing that other inspired people
will go through the process. Inspiration through frustration seems to
be the engine of social change. But not all inspired people gain
acceptance from their society. I guess the difference between a
genius or a crank is the degree of social acceptance they gain. At
least, that’s how I see it.

Eye On the World
The ‘Y’ Files

GREEN NEWS: UK may have to
cut emissions by 90% by 2050 to make
way for aviation growth. Bio-fuels for cars and
planes seem top of the agenda. Excuse me, if that is
successful, where are we going to grow our food? We should
be investing massively in a new generation of greener aircraft, not
messing around with their fuel supply.

BRIT NEWS: Last week Gordon Brown apologised to Alan Turing, the
brilliant codebreaker and AI whizz who killed himself in the early
50s having been ordered to be chemically castrated after
convinction for a homosexual act. It is right that we
speak about this deplorable wrong, but it was
not Brown’s govt who did it, so why is HE
apologising? Does such sentiment
belittle the tragedy?

GREEN SCENE

Save the Planet – or you’ll be sorry!!

Carry On Tuesday
Heads or Tails – ReadWritePoem

THE WAY

We’re told be green, this is the way,
Save the planet without delay;
Yes, this must be done – no doubt!
But we’re not the only sinners about;
Something else is going on,
Which seems to me a bit of a con,
Surely Big Biz should be doing the most,
But they’re very quiet, while we all roast

THE HOT WAR

Fiction: The letter sat before him. He wished he’d left it unopened –
guessed what it would contain. And next to it, the executive order
he’d so recently signed. He was a captain of industry – a CEO who
had risen high, and that flair for getting things done had been
inherited by his daughter. There’d been opposition to the plant in the
jungle – it would damage the local environment; add to climate
change; it was carcinogenic. He sneered at the latest report, propped
against a coffee mug on his desk. Why couldn’t people understand
that advancement has collateral damage?!! His daughter had been
there, gotten involved – in the protests (damn her!) – she got things
done, see. Became a … He read the letter again, written quickly –
painfully – from her death bed. Then he filed it away – with the order
to send the unit in.

MODERN LIVING

Sleep all day, conform to none,
Extend scofflaw, remedy gone,
She’s too hip, the multitude shout,
Life’s not worth pittance if limelight’s out,
Just a husk lost in clover,
A sugar plum fairy, confection all over

© Anthony North, September 2009

INFO-BOOKS

Booking Through Thursday
More prompts below

PROF ISAAC GALISTEIN

In trying to decide which is the most informative book I’ve read
recently I’ve drawn a complete blank. The reality is I delve into many
informative books every day. My bookshelves are brimming with
encyclopedias – not only two full sets, but encyclopedias on so many
different subjects. I guess I’m an information junkie.

If there’s something I don’t
know I want to know it.

And I have to say, a good reference library often remains a better
source of information than the internet. I’ve often wondered if my
thirst for information is an obsession. I suppose it is – maybe even a
way in which to grasp self-esteem. Though I counter this by pointing
out it is not a simple data-processing mentality. I collect information
in order to try to think things out – come up with ideas. But if this
mentality is an obsession, we’ve got to remember that most advances
come through this process. I guess that means the world is crazy.

Eye On the World
The ‘Y’ Files

GREEN NEWS: Scientists warn
that climate change may affect the
geology of the Earth, with melting ice and
increased rainfall causing earthquakes, eruptions,
erosion and tsunamis. I’m not quite sure it will be as bad
as that – we must always beware of doom mongers – but these
ideas must not be simply shelved, as I’m sure many would like.

BRIT NEWS: As positive signs of recovery begin to emerge, Labour
and the Tories square up for the battle of the spending
cuts. This is going to dominate politics for years -
which should make us think. Once recovery
comes, folks, it’s payback time! And
it isn’t going to be rosy.

FUTURE ZONE

What’s ahead … and Beyond!!!

One Single Impression
Sunday Scribblings – 3 Word Thursday

THIRST

Quench your thirst, it’s there for all,
Energy, power, let it enthrall,
Drive us on to conquer the world,
Oil and gas, let technology unfurl;
Never mind when it is gone,
We then begin the nuclear ones,
And when we advance we’ll capture a star,
Suck out its heat – we’ll go far

PLANET SIMPLE
(Quilly’s word meanings below)

Sci Fi: They were ready to panask, and cookie had prepared the
creature, ready to put it on the spit. They’d been on the planet for
nearly a month now and reached the phase where they were to try
living on what was available – after all, if it was to be colonized, this
is how it would be. Of course, it took some getting used to. There
was ice even in the heat of summer – not water-based, I must add –
and they had to be careful of stiricide. The one disappointment was
the lack of sentient life – after all, initial surveys from space had been
hopeful, with signs of construction, but it was obvious they’d have to
be ruricolous. It had been argued that maybe the primary species was
so advanced that mere humans would not understand their degree of
sentience. And as the creature was speared by the spit, it could only
agree.

ponask – cook game on a spit
stiricide – falling of icicles from a roof
ruricolous – living in the country

TATTOO

Tribal frenzy, know friend and kin,
Etch identity under the skin,
Time goes forward, sail the seas,
Pirates bring artwork, for many to please,
Sometimes stating the worst in cost,
Numbers, gas chambers, Holocaust,
Identity then forged through fashion and fad,
Artworked people feel so glad,
Finally the aliens come our way,
See tattooed tech planet – stay away

© Anthony North, September 2009

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PARANORMAL FLASH – SIX

Friday Flash 55 and 3 Word Wednesday
Have you had a go?

PARANORMAL FLASH

Six – FutureNow

So far in this study certain factors are arising. First of all, culture
seems to play an important part in what is paranormal. Second, far
more information enters the mind than we consciously realize. And
finally, the ‘tags’ we use for a particular phenomenon hide the fact
that there could be ‘mechanisms’ that can answer many phenomena.

Could these elements provide
an answer for premonition?

We can ‘see’ the future in many ways. Typical is the precognitive
dream, where a person dreams of a coming major disaster. However,
looking at the literature of such abilities, they usually arise when
there are fears in society of a particular kind of disaster. Hence,
culture predisposes the dreamer to dream such things. We can
combine this with chance. On any night in the UK, for instance,
there will be well over a quarter million nightmares. Combine this fact
with cultural disposition and it is statistically inevitable that some
people will have nightmares that can be accurately compared to a
disaster that occurs a few days later.

Other premonitions are
more personal.

A typical case will be of someone dreaming of an explosion and, in a
half-awake state, taking action to remove themselves and family from
the scene. Moments later, the building blows up following a gas leak.
To answer this and similar cases perhaps we need to look at the wider
information we unconsciously receive about our environment. So
unconsciously the mind registers gas. A dream image surfaces into the
mind, makes the person restless, and just conscious enough to act
upon the information. Of course, these ideas do not cover all of
premonition – we will return to the subject later – but it begins to
suggest that what we class as a premonition is nothing more than
unconscious analysis of the present.

Other Posts

WORLD NEWS: Afghan strategy is
coming in for much criticism, in the UK as
well as the rest of the world. It all comes down
to what we’re really there for. If we’re there to keep
the terrorist camps shut, it’s a sensible goal. If we’re there
to build a democratic state, we’re interferring too much and it’s
destined to fail.

BRIT NEWS: The BBC’s decision to have the British National Party
leader on Question Time is forcing Labour to rethink their
policy of not debating with the extreme right wing.
For once the BBC have done something right.
Labour’s feeling of superiority in thinking
their ideas cannot be challenged is
not as vile as the BNP, but not
far behind.

STRATEGIC SUCCESS

Fiction: It was mayhem. The noise erupted all around me, flashes
lighting up the dark. At first disorientated, I acclimatized myself –
moved forward towards the target. I passed bodies moving from one
surreal pose to another as they writhed. I wondered how long they
could last. The target was surrounded by various obstacles. Using all
the tactics available, I negotiated through them, leaving many
defeated men in my wake. And finally I was there. At first I just
stared, weighing up the best moves and then I went into action. The
target was easier to disarm than I first thought. And within minutes
we left the club. Went to her flat – to engage.

FLASH 55 – GOING HOME

Fiction: He walked down his street – passed
the houses. Thoughts invaded his mind; of his
friends – his neighbours. He looked at their
houses. Remembered how it had been. Affair
in that one. The next? Divorce. The one after
that? Murder. He approached his own house.
Opened the gate. Walked up the path. Paused.
Thought. Walked away.

© Anthony North, September 2009

HYPOCRISY

ABC Wednesday & more prompts below
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BLOGGER BARD

I used to think that one of the greatest wrongs was to be a hypocrite.
In most cases I still think this is true, but experience has taught me
that life is so varied that sometimes hypocrisy is inevitable. For
instance, I believe it is wrong to kill, but I would hope that if no
alternative existed, I would do so to protect a loved one.

As a teenager I rebelled
quite a lot.

I now realize this is essential – it is part of growing your own
character for adulthood. But as a parent I do all in my power to stop
rebellion. Parents do. Yet on one level this is hypocrisy, but it is the
way it should be. Hence, it is impossible to not be a hypocrite at
times. So how do we deal with it being wrong, but also, at times,
right? I suppose we should realize that life must always be a balance,
and balance is best achieved through moderation in all things. In this
way, the hypocrite in us all is reduced.

Eye On the World
The ‘Y’ Files

CRIME NEWS: Official figures
show British police detected just
47% of reported violent crimes in the
year to March 2009, leaving half a million
unsolved. Add the vast majority of crimes that
go unreported and this is a deplorable outcome. They
need to look at themselves and realise their organisation is
too big and they’ve become divorced from society. Modern policing
is becoming part of the problem.

GREEN NEWS: The 10:10 Campaign is gathering steam in the UK,
asking people to sign up to 10% cuts in carbon emissions by
2010. Of course, it will fail. True green will not come until
a new breed of entrepreneur pairs with a new breed of
engineer to begin new smaller firms to produce the
new green tech that Big Biz and Govt won’t
touch. Big is bad. Think small.

THE CRIME POST

It would be criminal not to read it

Carry On Tuesday
Heads or Tails – ReadWritePoem

FATAL DECISION

He wasn’t bad, just confused,
A young life so often abused,
Turned to crime, inevitable, deemed,
It certainly fuelled his self esteem,
Career grew from theft to killing,
On wanted lists he got top billing,
Cornered, he couldn’t get out through stealth,
So he took the decision – shot himself

SHOULDN’T SAY

Fiction: ‘Don’t speak, words will only steal the moment.’ I should
have heeded those words. After all, I’m a fanatic where security is
concerned. I told him so in the bar. He was an amiable chap – got
me speaking on the subject of identity fraud – and surely there was
nothing wrong with telling him. It wasn’t as if I gave away any
secrets. I’d never do that. It was as I returned home that my wife
pointed out how remiss I’d been, forgetting my account details and
phoning her. Yes, I should have kept my mouth shut. The fiend had
stolen my voice.

THOUGHTS ON ME

Unconscious mind like branching tree,
Sun illuminating, enlightens me;
Conscious mind, bricked in thought,
Jailed and limited, amounts to nought;
Let memories stream up without duress,
Of courtship, of my kids, of great success;
But what of thoughts of failures, of pain?
Without their lessons, we live in vain

© Anthony North, September 2009

THE BIBLE

Booking Through Thursday
More prompts below

PROF ISAAC GALISTEIN

In deciding the biggest book I’ve read recently, I’d have to say The
Bible – both in size and popularity. Of course, I’ve been reading the
Bible for decades, and still often pick it up. Now, I’m not a practicing
Christian and I don’t have ‘faith’.

So why would I want to
read the Bible?

One reason is it seems to offer a system contrary to modern living.
This alone is enough to argue it SHOULD be read, ‘cos modern living
clearly holds problems that could be answered by contrary systems.
But in addition to this, I’m amazed by the ‘truth’ of the Bible. Now,
I’m not using truth in a literal sense, but the more I read, the more it
relates to human actions and ideosyncracies. And one final reason
concerns the mysteries of the Bible. Without faith I cannot accept
miracles, etc, as literal. But as a theorist of the unexplained, I’m well
aware that ideas can be put forward to validate what is there
written. Infact, I’ve never known a more complete book for
stimulating thought.

Eye On the World
The ‘Y’ Files

BRIT NEWS: Police are spending
thousands on consultants to teach
policemen how to Tweet. But why? So
they can keep an eye on demonstrators. This
is a disgrace on two counts – it isn’t rocket science
to learn; and when did ‘demonstrator’ automatically equate
with ‘criminal’?

HEALTH NEWS: Scientists claim genetic links to manic depression.
I’ve never been convinced that such illnesses are ‘nature’ as
opposed to ‘nurture’. I’m convinced there’s a third factor
– ‘culture’. Could a growing illness in a species be
‘copied’ in the genes as it is replicated among
a population? If so, behaviour eventually
becomes illness.

READ WITH MUMMY

The Magazine Post with a gentle hint of horror

One Single Impression
Sunday Scribblings – 3 Word Thursday

MIDNIGHT ROMANCE

Midnight tryst, secret bliss,
Lips meet, longed for kiss,
Taking us to another world,
Passions raised, in love with my girl;
So short these snatched delights,
In the shadows, dead of night;
To love …
Oh, if only I could have saved …
Her spirit dissolves – returns to grave

THE LOOP
(Quilly’s words meanings below)

Sci Fi: If we remember the pain can we avoid it? I ask because I’m
stuck in a time loop. I never realized at first – well, I say ‘first’, but
for all I know I could have been here for eternity. I passed the
oporopolist and old soldier with phalerae and thought nothing of it,
but when a glimpse of recognition came I wondered just what was
going on. Had I seen them before? And from the sadness on their
faces I thought I must have. Looking down and seeing my stibogram
only added to my feeling. After all, how could I leave footprints before
I’d walked there? The familiarity with the old soldier and fruit seller
increased the more I passed; and that’s when I began to notice my
future footprints were becoming more laboured, as if there was
something to dread ahead of me. And soon, of course, I began to
remember the pain I was about to suffer. But can I break a time loop?
I think I can. I don’t think I’ll be passing by here many more times
before I shoot myself dead.

Oporopolist – fruit seller
Stibogram – record of footprint
Phalerae – medallions

PSYKEY

Desolation!!! Just can’t see;
Problem – what IS the key?
Got to search, have to find,
Open the latch to inner mind,
Living nightmare, horrfic bane,
Weighed down by Marley’s chains;
Got to exorcise the fey,
Let the ghosties float away

© Anthony North, September 2009

PARANORMAL FLASH – FIVE

Friday Flash 55 and Three Word Wednesday
Have you had a go?

PARANORMAL FLASH

Five – Discarnate, or What?

When a mind intrusion occurs, such as a reincarnated person or
contact with the dead by a medium, we can rationally say it does
not involve existing dead entities. But to do so, we must try to
understand where the invasions come from. Two factors are vital.
Why does the entity appear so real? Where does the sometimes
accurate information come from?

Brain physiology can offer an
answer to the first.

In the split-brain concept we know that the two cerebral hemispheres
of the brain can have opposing function. The left brain tends to be
the rationalist, whilst the right brain is the fantasist, adding emotion,
artistry, etc. We live in the left brain most of the time, but it has
been argued that the right brain can often intrude. When it does, it
can appear like a discarnate voice or entity. To the creative type,
this is the muse – the centre of inspiration. To others, immersed in a
different type of culture, it could well be seen as the voice of the
dead. But what about the information an entity can convey?

We live in a world of information
without realizing it.

Indeed, we only ‘remember’ information upon which we focus our
attention. Yet, the rest of this information does not disappear.
Rather, it seems it goes straight into the unconscious. In a
phenomenon know as Cryptomnesia this information can rise into
consciousness. And it can be quite startling. Cases of reincarnation
have been traced to novels, films or articles, sometimes with errors
intact. In one case a Swedish girl remembered a Medieval song in
Old English from a book she simply flicked through in a library. When
regressed hypnotically to remember a past life, the song attached
to the life, colouring a fantasized entity with fact. And cryptomnesia
can go on to answer so much more …

Other Posts

MEDIA NEWS: Murdoch Jr has
given a speech in the UK slanging
the BBC as state sponsored journalism
which is impeding media. I’d like to agree with
him but I can’t. When ‘free’ media is controlled globally
by a handful of Big Biz propagandists with a united agenda, I’d
rather keep an outlet with a different agenda to keep the balance.

TV WATCH: I watched the new ITV adaptation of Wuthering
Heights at the weekend. The greatest love story ever,
Peter Bowker’s adaptation was first class. Cathy
and Heathcliff were played to perfection by
Charlotte Riley and Tom Hardy, and Sarah
Lancashire was excellent as Nelly Dean.
So often TV adaptations fail to grab
me, but I thoroughly enjoyed this.

THE LUSTER

The Luster is a predatory sort,
Sexual threats he turns into sport,
Always recounting his latest conquest,
Problem is, people glare and detest;
His salacious ways make them baulk,
Meaning, of course, he’s usually all talk

FLASH 55 – THE INFORMANT

Fiction: Don’t call me an informer. I don’t like it. It’s not fair. We have
to speak out, and there’s nothing negative about it. He did it. He did!
I was there. I saw it all. AND I suffered. I really did. Yes I DO know
the code. We don’t tell. But he did it … Mom!!!

THE THREAT

Don’t we just love a treat,
Things that lustre, or to drink or eat;
Problem is they are usually bad,
To resistance we glare; be so sad,
So we indulge, never mind the regret,
Forgetting an ‘h’ in treat is threat

THE GLARE

Oh, what a lovely glare,
I stand silently – but what of despair?
At first it never seemed a threat,
Beautiful lustre – yet …
Now for relief I can but hope,
In the mirror I glare – see sunburn; a dope

© Anthony North, September 2009