Large stones, and stones in formations have been venerated for thousands of years. I posted an article here 7/21/2006 entitled Mysteries in Stone, ignored or unsolved. You may like to check that one too.

Computers are now being used to sort out the significance of the patterns in ancient stone monuments, and because of this we are now achieving new insights into the ways in which Man used to be in touch with his universe. It seems likely that in Man's early days, great single, and isolated stones were worshipped as gods.

The following was sent to a friend of mine by a Jesuit. Obviously therefore, to me it is suspect from the start. I investigated, and the actual dates of birth I added to the original at the bottom. Every part of this conclusion is false. It’s the sort of thing that clever right wingers will feed ignorant left wingers to be able to discredit them and destroy their credibility. Standard Jesuit practice when dealing with other religions, here applied to politics. The Jesuit exceptions encounter problems in the Society, just as doctors straying from the party line have problems with the AMA.

My two postings about Creating Your Own Reality (11/29/2006 and 11/30/2006) produced an interesting crop of comments and stories. Requests were received for other well-documented instances of things that don't figure large in the standard, dreary histories. I guess I just got caught up in the Christmas series and forgot about it. My last little trifle about Roswell must have triggered the memory.

As people who are diligent about connecting dots of what occurs between worlds it behoves us to note the skill of those who do it in the mundane world in order to convey an idea that is the exact contrary of what the facts would seem to convey.

It is easy to lie by telling only the truth, if you cherry pick the truth, or even add an extra truth that is not expected. For instance, if I was talking to you about someone you knew but not well and said, "Oh yes, I know John, in fact I met him yesterday at 3:00 in the afternoon and he was sober."

The great psychiatrist Carl Jung once had a dream in which he found himself behind a meditating yogi, in a temple. On walking to the front of the yogi he discovered that it was himself.

In his dream he knew, at that moment, that when the yogi's meditation was over, he, Carl Jung, would die as a human.

It is a very ancient Hindu concept that we and the universe are fragments of a dream, or a meditation of God.

The metaphysical folks are always very good at connecting astrological phenomena with what is happening, or has happened in the world. Their analyses of after the fact stuff are often remarkable, as hind sight is 20/20 and makes all things clear. It’s much easier to look at something after it has happened, and then cherry pick the astrological evidence to show that it was foretold in the stars. Politicians are as expert as astrologers at doing that, and with much more deadly results.

Research is continuous on the effects of minerals found in the earth on the body and psyche. I often used to encounter New Agers who were so happy that they were disconnecting from the evil mundane universe and that they were living in a gentle high where nothing really seemed to matter. They were always chagrined when as an Elder being approached for comment or advice I suggested that they take a zinc supplement. Their symptoms were not those of a spiritual high, but of a zinc deficiency.