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Mar 1, 2018

SciXFriday: Faster than the speed of light, AI and the Solid State Entity

“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” - Eliezer Yudkowsky, 28 Best Quotes about Artificial Intelligence, Forbes

Oddsnends - 
  • Creating AI with common sense? That project is underway. Seattle Times
  • Meet the new Robot for the International Space Station, a free-flying robot named CIMON. Futurism
  • Game Changer? Turns out there might be Water on the Moon. Read the fine print. Futurism
  • Did John Lilly get a warning from the future regarding AI capabilities beyond our comprehension? About the Solid State Entity: Sean Kerrigan. Video presentation based upon Sean Kerrigan's article is here. Of special interest, Lilly's projection of what the future might be with the Solid State Entity.
  • Belief in UFOs gaining acceptance. Futurism
  • The truth is closer than we think. UFOs, Tom Delonge and To the Stars, The Fader
  • Spooky. Personal encounters with haunted stuff? A Museum is catering to the curious, allowing quality time with haunted items. Mysterious Universe and photos Hinkley Times
  • Barbra Streisand reported to have two clones of a favorite pet. Variety
  • Fast food. This Sea lion knew where to go for a snack. UPI

Faster than the speed of light travel, an astronaut achieves a first. Multiple award winner, including  Best Sci-Fi Film, Roswell 2017. This film deserves sequels ...


FTL from Artifex Studios on Vimeo.
Written and Directed by Adam Stern
Main Site

Schedule - Wendy's Coffeehouse (I'll add the links to these soon -- )

3/2 - Victoria Price - (daughter of Vincent) on the road now promoting her book. The Way of Being Lost. Coming to KC May 4th.

3/11 - Orville and Cheryl Murphy - Board Camp Crystal Mine's Unexplained Tours are up and running. What is going on there? Great question. This is a fantastic paranormal phenomenon. Dig for Crystals too.

3/18 - Robert Kopecky - He's back. Again. How to get to Heaven without Really Dying. Good at practicing for the big event. Robert has had 3 NDEs.

Stay Curious.

Feb 12, 2018

Love and Saucers romances the unconventional in this ET Documentary by Filmmaker Brad Abrahams

“In the end, the abduction phenomenon seems to me to be a part of the shift in consciousness that is collapsing duality and enabling us to see that we are connected beyond the Earth at a cosmic level.” - John Mack, Source

Oddsnends
  • UFO seen in the background of that Tesla space pic: Daily Mail
  • Live forever as a robot? Check out mind clone prototype, Bina-48. Meet the Human attached to the project. In the Summer of 2014, the real Bina Rothblatt, who contributed her personal information (along with several other people), visited and talked to Bina-48 for the first time at the Terasem Movement Foundation in Vermont. This video documents their conversation.
  • Novelty - Vampires and Unicorns floor board game. Witness Kickstarter Success.
  • Cryptozoologist - Loren Coleman featured in a new Brad Abrahams film. More Crypto news? Try this site.
  • Thunderbird/Big Bird sighting trend? Recent reports include Missouri, North Carolina and Alaska. Check these sites for info and background. Skeptical Inquirer - CSI, Ghost Hunting Theories, Phantoms and Monsters
  • Animals CAN count: New York Times. Perspective and details might be expanded in that current story but this counting story is not new. Animals have much to teach us. Counting is part of that. BBC Future (2012) 

Experiencer David Huggins pulls no punches when relating the reality he lives or in painting the images caught in his memory. Love and Saucers details David's extraordinary revelations about the various Aliens he has encountered and their (continued) presence in his life...from childhood.
  • Two Surveys on UFO Believers:
    1 -
    20th Century Fox Home Entertainment commissioned the survey as part of their promotional campaign for the blu-ray release of the movie Phoenix Forgotten. Of more than 1700 Americans surveyed, nearly half believe in UFOs. 20 percent believe Alien Abduction: Huff Post
    2 - Market-research company, YouGov found Germans are most likely to believe, at 56 percent, followed by Americans and British, at 54 and 52 percent: Newsweek
David has no doubt his experiences are real. The trauma associated with keeping the story to himself and having no way to integrate or make sense of it dissolved when the Aliens suggested he paint what he remembered. That artwork is a very important part of his coming to terms with the enigma.

Rotten Tomatoes audience scores are positive. The paintings tell the tale.


Watch the film on YouTube

Filmmaker Brad Abrahams says he was intrigued when he heard an interview about David and tracked him down in hopes he could follow up. David had no objections. More importantly, the ETs didn't have a problem with the story being told.

Wendy's Coffeehouse Interview 2/11/18 - Filmmaker Brad Abrahams, Director of Love and Saucers.

An Alien experiencer documentary unlike any you might have seen, David says the ETs showed him a room full of children and when he asked who the father was the ET pointed to him. Visuals add tremendous depth to this story.

From the Artblog Interview with David. "Sitting in David’s studio surrounded by his paintings creates a feeling of being watched; this both excited and unnerved me. David begins to tell me about the cast of characters that populate his paintings and often visit him from another world or another dimension - he doesn’t know for sure."

Read Author Farah Yurdozu's book about David: Love In An Alien Purgatory. Reader Reviews are available on Amazon. Most are quite positive. Curious sells this story. A recent post on Vice

Belief is not required. This is simply a matter of following the ever expanding trail. For those of us who are tracking this topic, the numbers are compounding. More and more contact/alien encounter stories are coming to light.

Other experiencers have shared their stories. One that also included physical evidence was also investigated by John Mack. Peter Kouory's accounted is important due to the surprising DNA evidence revealed in a hair sample. Source: Australian Researcher Bill Chalker.

Referred to in my interview with Brad - Tony Topping mentions the cobalt blue eyes in his ET encounter.

Note on Brad Abrahams: Documentary to watch for: On the Back of the Tiger. Powerful. Transformative Science.

Thank you for listening and sharing!
Stay Curious.

Jan 21, 2018

Terry McKenzie - Living with Weston Ghosts, haunted happily everafter... Super and natural

It began when as a young parish priest I tried to assuage my curiosity about ghosts, and in no time at all found myself enjoying the company of these people from the world of yesteryear. I even found myself acting as counselor/social worker to many of them. I just can't understand anyone being afraid of ghosts. - Holy Ghostbuster: A Parson's Encounters with the Paranormal, Reverend Joe Aelwyn Roberts

OddsnEnds - 
  • This Fan-made Harry Potter film brings new life to the Tom Riddle backstory, adding extra characters and fleshing out a few plot elements. Nixed and then, after a chat with the execs, approved. Voldemort deserves an afterlife renew... Thumbs up review: Yahoo. 
  • The Last Great Daredevil aka Mad Mike Hughes plans to launch his homemade rocket on February 3. Details and launch coverage. Hoping that name isn't a self-fulfilling title. 
  • Holy Ghostbuster, yes, the same one quoted above, passed away. Mysterious Universe - Thanks to Paul Seaburn
  • Woman marries Ghost of a pirate. Daily Mail. She says he looks like Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean. DailyEdge  Note: Is the 'marriage' legal? Snopes says, No. Given the fact the groom is deceased one might assume 'legit' was not a concerning factor for the 'married' couple in this case.  
  • Ghost Blog - Father's legacy? A Gift of Prophecy 
  • True love. Cat owner misses cues to hunt. Cat shifts gears to vegan offerings. The Dodo 

Moving into a new home... Mom is all atwitter. Gram? Kinda preoccupied. Alfie, along with his pet goldfish: Sara, must investigate the empty rooms alone... cue spooky music ... the rooms might not be empty.



Follow GhostBoy website. Developers would like to turn this into a series.
Keep up with the progress on Facebook

Wendy's Coffeehouse Interview with (1/28/18) Terry McKenzie. Living with Ghosts.

It started when he and his wife won the opportunity to restore a historic home in Weston, Missouri.  Bid and renovation plans had to meet requirements and be approved. Even the backstory on how theirs won is curious.

Because of the unique history behind the house (descendants of Daniel Boone), that story was newsworthy. Lawrence Journal World

Considering a similar project? Six owners share their story. CBS News  None mention Ghosts.

Restoration plans for the 1850's home were set and work was underway when the other shoe/s dropped. A tornado (or a really big wind) blew the roof off the house. Footsteps were heard in rooms where no one had entered. Ghosts were eventually seen, heard and photographed. Maybe not in that order.

One photograph - and I really should get a copy of this from Terry - is spectacular. Taken in an empty bedroom, the camera catches images in the mirror. Clearly featured in the reflected image, a couple.  Dressed in period clothes, the man and woman resemble former residents. Authentic and priceless.

Turns out the ghosts were pretty active, especially after lively gatherings and at night. Funny thing that. The owners didn't believe in ghosts. They showed up anyway. Terry has a few words to say about this, what it was like to discover ghosts are real.

This home will be on the Weston 2018 Christmas Homes Tour.


Thank you for listening and thank you for sharing!

Jan 19, 2018

SciXFriday - Liquid Perks, Cooking with Vincent, timely encounters, pictures and dreams

"A man who limits his interests limits his life."- Vincent Price.


Oddsnends -

Stuck in replay. ... life in re-view. "Picture Wheel" takes that image and runs with it ...



Director: David O'Donnell
Binge friendly. Subscribe to DUST on YouTube

Diversion: Men in Black, a few stories: Buzzfeed. Nick Redfern has more: Video.

-- My MIB encounter was in a dream. Nighttime. Me, standing out in the middle of a field watching a group of male friends a short distance away. I looked at the stars. A black car drove up through the field. Three men stepped out and walked up to me, all three wearing the classic black suit. Don't remember much about their faces and the conversation may have been telepathic. It seemed serious. I was told I needed to start doing what I agreed to do when I came here and somehow I knew exactly what they meant. Life changes ensued in short order. True story. - wendy

Out of Body experiences? How to have them and what to expect. Goodreads. My guest, Bob Peterson's book is available on line and his blog is a great resource for anyone interested in learning, improving or simply exploring the activity.

Interview 1/21/18. More of Bob's books are featured on Amazon. Catch the show at 8pm central on Wendy's Coffeehouse, KCMO Talk Radio or in the archives.


Thank you for listening and for stopping by! 

Dec 11, 2017

Cheryl Costa Interview, UFO sightings Desk Reference: a whole lotta stats suggest we have ET visitors?

"Well if 70 percent or 218.69 million Americans think the government is not being forthcoming and transparent about this UFO business, isn't it time to present some data?"  - Cheryl Costa - reporter for the Syracuse New Times, co-author with Linda Miller Costa, of the new UFO Sightings Desk Reference 2001-2015.


Interview with Cheryl on Wendy's Coffeehouse. Good news for those who are curious about local details in the USA, the City Directory is in the works. A possible TV deal is also being discussed. No details on that yet.

Some of the links related to this show are highlighted in a previous post: Link. Refresher here on the Pigeon studies and their aptitude for abstract: University of Iowa



OddsnEnds
  • Can't miss this UFO. Fascinating lights. Reported in Missouri by a hunter. MUFON case number 88249 - UFO Sightings Hotspot
  • Creating a future for humans in space: ASU Interplanetary Initiative
  • UFOs not the source of Saturday night sights. Explanation: Military: CBS
  • That time Steven Spielberg offered to help the United Nations search for UFOs: HuffPo
  • Seeing Ghosts, transition to the afterlife: Washington Post   Study: ELDVs 2014
    Regarding Visions of light and energy surges: Study
The Curse of the Man who sees UFOs: Motherboard/Vice. He started seeing them when he was 8 years old. Here's the trailer. Christo Roppolo has been documenting his experiences on video.



"Until the last breath of my life I will be making sure that people know this is no bullshit," Roppolo said. "From the bottom of my heart: it's all real." - Rent or buy the film on YouTube.

Back to the UFO Sightings Desk Reference, USA 2001-2015. No stories, just charts, graphs and stats. One stat Cheryl and her partner worked out: Only 1 in 42 people reports a sighting.

Couple of notes from the current book:
1. Observers who report UFOs can be flagged in a search by two activities. They smoke and/or they have dogs.
2. Leisure time and temperate weather play a part in the sightings.

Cheryl was a kid when she saw her first UFO. 1965, late August, just before school started. The family, loaded in the car, returning home, still out in the country when they saw a curious object hovering in the sky. It stayed for some 20 minutes or so, silver and round and definitely unexplained.

Having multiple people see the UFO gave it credence. She and her mom talked about it and even though Cheryl says she didn't go full throttle UFO researcher mode at that time, her curiosity was piqued. A second sighting kept the interest alive but it was the downtime in an apartment stocked full of UFO reading material that sealed the deal. Researcher mode fully engaged.


Accolades from readers and other researchers are a testament to the credibility of the work presented in the book, the New York Times had a great piece on Cheryl and Linda.

A plug for Stanton Friedman. Cheryl says his stuff inspired her to dig deeper into the UFO phenom. Why is he so fascinating? Explore - http://www.stantonfriedman.com/

On a related note and geared toward those who are interested in the experiencer research, I've interviewed Kathleen Marden (Niece of Betty and Barney Hill) a couple of times. Most recently with 
Denise Stoner about their book on Alien Abductions: Conscious Living with Wendy Garrett on Empower Radio, The Alien Abduction Files Kindle Edition

County sightings are available for Jackson County, MO and Johnson County, KS. Cheryl notes those and leaves us with a tease... She says "something interesting coming up in the New York Times in the next couple of months." And certainly, we will reconnect. The curious is out there and it's also very much alive and kickin' right here in the heartland.


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Dec 4, 2017

Jean Walker: Family Secrets, a lifetime of paranormal encounters, including alien abduction

“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body
had a spiritual aspect. He knew that “spirit,” however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experiences - which, though he might suppress them, he couldn’t altogether erase from memory.” - Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening, Author reading his work: Sol Luckman on YouTube


Wendy's Coffeehouse Interview with Missouri native Jean Walker - Family Secrets


OddsnEnds -
  • Cat and Mouse - we are and/or we are not (US Military) tracking UFOs. Depends on when you ask and who is doing the replying. Newsweek has this interesting article detailing a change on the website documents, scrubbing the reference to UFO. That story and more in a Newsweek special edition exploring: Life Beyond Earth 
  • Explore archives of the unexplained and curious. John Greenewald, creator of The Black Vault, has compiled nearly 2 million pages and more than 1.4 million declassified government documents on the site.
  • Example of the content includes - Mystery lights and a UFO sighting. Photo from 1997, appx. TBV
  • Botnik, the content creator bot, is writing stories and entering contests. Vice
  • Follow Botnik on Twitter
  • Photo of the week keeper - Side by side smiles. Little girl and a lovely candid photobomber.  

In this video, Jean Walker shares her story. She worked with her brother to recover some of the childhood memories.



Jean's stories cover a wide variety of encounters. Her grandmother was incredibly psychic and that relationship offered a positive PSI influence. Jean remembers being followed by an alien and afraid of him. She said he was small in stature, wore a silver suit and hid out in a pond. She also talks about seeing fairies, a Bigfoot sighting and more. A MUFON investigator, she is currently tracking several interesting cases.

We are planning to talk again in January and include investigator Margie Kay to follow up on the cases and other experiences the two have had together while researching or attending other events. Missouri MUFON

Jean Walker's book is available on Amazon
Connect: Jean's Website

Here's a link for my interview with Marcia Schafer. She also remembers contact from early childhood: Wendy's Coffeehouse: How Extraterrestrial reality is shaping our future
 
As promised, links for some of the books I noted prior to our interview. Just the usual homework I work with.

Richard Bach has a new book out. (He suggests waiting for version two.) He says it took him several decades to realize he had a Guardian Angel. Life with my Guardian Angel: Richard Bach

A new find, the best I have seen incorporating dowsing techniques and spirit work. Spirit Rescue - A Dowser's Ghostly Encounters, Tick Gaudreau

Classics - Far Journeys - Robert Monroe
Journey of Souls - Michael Newton
Alien, ETThe PK Man - Ted Owens. When I interviewed author Jeffrey Mishlove (Wendy's Coffeehouse) about his experience with Ted, we didn't mention the students Ted worked with. However, there is a comment in the book from a former student who ceased contact with Ted and the inference is telling. He notes a pattern of deaths associated with Ted: Andy Eastman
Here's another account from someone who connected with Ted is posted on WilliamJames.com
Ted claims he had assistance from ET sources. Space Intelligences. His first book provided instructions on how to contact Space Intelligences. How to Contact The Space People

Ingo Swann addresses the ET aspect in his book, Penetration


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Nov 22, 2017

Midweek Hi-lites: Spooky, AI, Offbeat, Eclectic and Entertaining, etc...

“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.” - Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II

OddsnEnds --
  • Interstellar Tourist- Named Oumuamua. CNN
  • About that youth gene found in members of the Amish community? New Atlas
  • Frightening wake up call. From the Future Of Life Institute. PSA warning against weaponizing AI. From those who can see the writing on the wall while there is still enough time to apply the white-out. CNET
  • Another potential misuse, already a trend, baiting social media users. Gizmodo
  • Designing and creating safer AI. Please. Stuart Russell. TED
  • Thanksgiving twist. A taste of Native American fare. (Sample items prepared at a fundraiser look fantastic.) Lakota Chef Sean Sherman, aka: The Sioux Chef, offers a recipe that includes Juniper Berries. Mother Jones
  • Spies in the foliage. Plants as spies. Really. Gizmodo
  • Dogs learn while they sleep. Reuters  And we do too.
  • Ghost Dog Wedding Planner - the Movie! Slate
  • Overnight at a haunted house. 4 to choose from. Real Simple
  • Busy year for the Loch Ness monsterNessie sighting number 9 logged by an American watching the live web cam. Daily Mail. Try your luck. Here. Says the underwater cam will be online soon. 
Sci-Fi elements. Marching Band steals the show with Guardians of the Galaxy... Thanks Gizmodo!



In regard to the aforementioned quote on loving and learning, a few links to surf:
- Loving = Everybody gets a Kitten. Jeremy Messersmith
- John Dixon's Near Death Experience YouTube


Wendy's Coffeehouse
11/26 - Dr. Scott Kolbaba, Physicians' Untold Stories: Miraculous experiences doctors are hesitant to share with their patients, or ANYONE!
12/3 - Jean Walker, Family Secrets, Mike Clelland's post


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Oct 28, 2017

Kathleen Jones Odom - Don't annoy Sasquatch by calling them 'Bigfoot'

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.” - Terence McKenna, True Hallucinations Film on YouTube 

Wendy's Coffeehouse Interview with Kathleen Jones Odom, Sasquatch Speaks

OddsnEnds - 
  • Curiouser and curiouser. Visitor from another Solar System?  CNN
  • Uri Geller + CIA + JFK. Will more be revealed? Daily Mail Uri's comments on Facebook. 
  • AI removes tedious from the equation. "The system developed code words to make communication more efficient and researchers took it offline when they realized it was no longer using English." Digital Journal 
  • Stranger Things 2 binge watching in progress - What's up? Eleven. EW 
  • Frustrated Sasquatch researcher trying to prove the existence of the beings is going to court in Canada and has 'asked the court to require a government biologist to accompany him into “known sasquatch habitat” for three months to further prove his claims.' Vancouver Sun 
  • Recent Sightings (Sasquatch) in northern California are now viral. "What are the odds of three people, three different families, who don’t know each other, within a radius of 2 to 3 miles, come and tell me what they witness, and it matches up," Gonzalez said. FoxNews 
  • 50 years after the Patterson-Gimlin film captured an image of 'Bigfoot', the footage has not been debunked. Forbes
  • ET, Sasquatch, Fairies, Little People - Terence McKenna's UFO sighting and more with brother Dennis - video - and excerpt from The Experiment at La Chorrera. Reality Sandwich
  • Mini detour - another retrospective includes a few Terrence. AlterNet.
    Terence refers to George Adamski's UFO. Adamski Foundation
And one more - a UFO sighting by Guillermo del Toro. Daily Grail Note: Many who have seen 'Bigfoot' have also noted an ET or UFO presence.

Against a beautiful wilderness setting this extraordinary perspective of Bigfoot/Sasquatch is an attempt to change the monster/beast/creature narrative. Letters from the Big Man.

Vimeo preview. Link.

Synchronicity this week, more Sasquatch/Bigfoot headlines splashing into the mainstream newsfeeds than at any time in the past year. The podcast loaded early (happy accident). Enjoy!

My interview with Kathleen was scheduled months ago and I had already spoken with her for Conscious Living. A previous post highlighted the independent film Letters from the Big Man and that's actually how I got the referral to Kathleen, through Christopher Munch.

Letters from the Big Man, Christopher Munch, writer/director of the highly acclaimed film, had this to say about Kathleen and her spirit work with the Sasquatch: "I greatly admire the degree to which she is able to shut off ‘Kathleen’ and become an extremely pure channel for the collective voice of Sasquatch, or any individual Sasquatch with whom she opens a connection by way of heartful purpose, desire, and intent."

Reviews for the film: The New Yorker, Richard Brody, Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert  


Messages from Sasquatch: "We will keep your people grounded while they reach for expansion." We are inside of you, not outside, as your people have felt for so long."


Kathleen and Christopher collaborate on the Webcast, Speaking of Sasquatch. Episode 8 about a woman who has connected and communicated with Sasquatch since childhood. She refers to hearing tones that signaled contact. 

Sasquatch and Us/YouTube. Several perspectives on our relationship with Sasquatch.

Extra stuff - I mentioned several items from the Dana Foundation. (Ex: Men and Women feel pain differently.) They're a top resource for Brain Science. And you can follow the Blog

Kathleen's Bio. She doesn't have a website. Best way to reach her is email: SasquatchSpeaks@gmail.com

*Also in the podcast archives, Psychic Sasquatch, the interview with Kewaunee and Kelly Lapseritis. The Sasquatch Message for Humanity

Thank you for listening and sharing!  

Oct 20, 2017

SciXFriday - Season's Ghosts ... and a Dragon ...

“Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.”
  - Joan Lowery Nixon, The Haunting



OddsnEnds and Spooky bits -
Flagged by Digg - A  Haunted house that wasn't... and the Dragon that was. Ventana -
From the Interns at Disney.
  More please!



Great Beginning!
Disney Animation
YouTube Disney

Wendy's Coffeehouse Interview - 10/22/17

Beyond the Bermuda Triangle "I didn’t believe in time travel or teleportation until it happened to me. I’m Bruce Gernon, and I flew through the heart of the Bermuda Triangle before I’d even heard the term."

- Experiences with Electronic Fog, Time Warps and more.  Bruce Gernon is my guest, Sunday - 10/22/17 - 8pm central time. New Page Books Blog - Bruce's story. Co-Author Rob MacGregor

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Aug 25, 2017

SciXFriday, AI and the Odds n Ends that make life Interesting

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts, The quote appeared in a 1919 book titled “A Shadow Passes” that contained a collection of vignettes depicting scenes in nature. Quote Investigator

A few short newsy bits ...
Directed by British filmmaker Magali Barbé, the self-funded sci-fi flick makes you think you are watching a commercial and then... Lost in technology? Strange Beasts will make you wonder.


Strange Beasts
from Magali Barbé on Vimeo.

According to the filmmaker, "I just wanted to make a hoax video in a first place: I thought: “Ey, let’s make a fake commercial, about a pretend VR or AR game, and just post it online, and drive people crazy because the game will look so cool...” - Home Page: Maglibarbe

On the flip side - and darker in every aspect. This Sci-Fi Short (Augmented) directed by Ross Peacock. Produced by Ben Mortimer of Black Arrow Pictures explores AI with a dollop of Philip K. Dick. Hints as to why Elon Musk calls AI the, "biggest risk we face as a civilization" - Entrepreneur, and keeps sounding the alarm to hit the 'hold' button on unilateral integration of AI platforms before the situation becomes impossible to reverse. 

Coming up on Wendy's Coffeehouse -

8/27 - Rey Hernandez - Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters/FREE at Experiencer.Org. UFO Contactee studies ongoing. Results suggest the phenom is happening on multiple levels of awareness. Consciousness Studies 
9/3 - Dr. Richard House - Voice told him when he was a teenager, he would die at age 33. Subsequent NDE life reorientation induced a profound mystical awakening, Between Now and When
9/10 - Annie Kagan - The Afterlife of Billy Fingers, life after death revelations from a brother who checks back in. Book Promo on YouTube

Join me for the live show or catch the podcast download 24/7
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Aug 18, 2017

SciXFriday - Eclipsed and Cropped ... humor sneaks into the (quantum) field


"I worry once you've tried to change the world, you find it's easier to change your mind." - Jane Wagner, Fun with Jane: Book, Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe, LilyTomlin's Blog


Odd and ends of interest -- 
  • Ticking down .. Solar Eclipse fever. It's all about the timing. Wired .. When Exactly? Wolfram 
  • Cruise Marketing Brilliant!: Bonnie Tyler will be singing at the aha moment. Time 
  • PS: PLEASE. Wear the glasses. CNN 
  • Eclipse 'Debbie Downer', the what could possibly go wrong angle. Throughout history there have been more than a few phobias and bad omens attached to eclipses. USAToday 
  • In some Native American Traditions - viewing was discouraged. DailyMail Feature 2012 
  • You decide. UFO flying in front of the Capitol Building in Washington? UFOSightingsHotspot 
  • Monkey Biz - servers are the main attraction at a Japanese Bar - UPI

Weekender Chillaxn' - 90's Sci-Fi movies - 20 count - includes Galaxy Quest -- or critic's suggested list of 50 (long weekend) -- cnet

SciFi short film: Cropped. Bunch of circle chasers stuck in a field. Meltdown ensues ..



Director: Chris Thomas on Vimeo
and Main site: check out the features, including Being Human

Wendy's Coffeehouse Schedule - 

8/20 - Chad and Alta Dillard - Orbducted in the French Quarter. Paranormal, UFO, Unexplained - 'High Strangeness' overload. Mike Clelland has a related post on his blog: Hidden Experience. Audio Interview Podcast Episode 25/The Confessionals. Facebook Link. Book available in Etsy

8/27 - Rey Hernandez - Video Interview. Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters/FREE at Experiencer.Org. UFO Contactee studies ongoing. Rey posted several video sessions with Experiencer, Alberto  Results suggest the phenom is happening on multiple levels of awareness. Consciousness Studies

9/3 - Dr. Richard House - NDE, (Real name) was a teenager when something/someone told him he would die at age 33. And die, he did. Extraordinary, mystical journey: Between Now and When

9/10 - Annie Kagan - The Afterlife of Billy Fingers, life after death revelations from a brother who reports back in on his experience in the afterlife. Book Promo on YouTube

9/17 - Maureen St. Germain - Waking up in 5D

Optioning this last note: "The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool." - Jane Wagner

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Aug 13, 2017

8/13/17 - Stanley Krippner on Rolling Thunder and Odd News Highlights

"Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.” - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart


News, odd and otherwise interesting:
  • Turning a page. Discovery of 4 new planets demonstrates Science is making progress in the ability to detect Earth like planets. "Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz: We are now finally crossing a threshold where, through very sophisticated modeling of large combined data sets from multiple independent observers, we can disentangle the noise due to stellar surface activity from the very tiny signals generated by the gravitational tugs from Earth-sized orbiting planets. EarthSky.org
  • Might help us meet Stephen Hawking's warning to get our planet relocation division up and running ASAP. Vox
  • Save ourselves from AI? Elon Musk: "If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be." 8/11/17. His suggestion is to install a neural interface with your digital self: AOL Turns out that project is already underway: Smithsonian
  • Missouri man who survived a hair-raising accident has no doubt he was saved by an Angel. He says the photo of the v-shaped object in the sky indicates the presence of his Angel. AOL
  • South Carolina Emergency Management Division issued a Lizard Men alert. RawStory
  • Wandering Shaman mistaken for Bigfoot/Sasquatch in North Carolina. Or not. The group who reported the sighting say the Shaman looked nothing like what they saw. FYI the Shaman is worth seeing. BBC
  • Reporter Aimee Levitt in the ChicagoReader, notes the "Record number of flying humanoid sightings over Chicago this year.":  "...based on the reports coming in from Chicago, Lon Strickler (Phantoms and Monsters) thinks that there have been three separate humanoids flying around." Aimee also reported on the Giant Fireball sighting of February 2017

While we're focusing on the sky, with the Perseids and the Solar Eclipse, a reminder our dark skies are being eclipsed. Filmmakers Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan created SKYGLOW to showcase the impact of light pollution and highlight the environmental effect. This video introduces the Skyglow project. Completed and ready for sale earlier this year: Feb. 2017. Link for the resulting film and book is on the home page link.


  SKYGLOW from Sunchaser Pictures on Vimeo.

Follow Gavin Heffernan on Twitter.
Website: SkyGlowProject  The completed film documents the ever encroaching blitz of illumination replacing our dark skies. Informative, illuminating, frustrating and breathtaking.


We really are Stardust: "During a supernova, when a massive star explodes at the end of its life, the resulting high energy environment enables the creation of some of the heaviest elements including iron and nickel. The explosion also disperses the different elements across the universe, scattering the stardust which now makes up planets including Earth." Physics.Org

Wendy's Coffeehouse Podcast for 8/13 interview Stanley Krippner Ph.D on The Shamanic Powers of Rolling Thunder 

Rattlesnake Medicine showed up for this one Stanley Krippner on Rolling Thunder - we also checked in with Verna Kowertz on how Weston Missouri is preparing for the Solar Eclipse. St. Joe is expecting 800, 000 visitors. Fox4KC. Massive crowd. And Weston? Let's just say everything that can be booked in advance has been booked.

[I posted the Shamanic experience I had with the Rattlesnake (and Rolling Thunder) earlier in the day and how it relates to this interview on another blog: Link

Here's a bit of background on Rattlesnake and Rolling Thunder from one of Stanley Krippner's books, written with Rolling Thunder's grandson, Sidian Morning Star Jones: The Voice of Rolling Thunder. Link
The link I was prompted to find and referred to during the show is from the Billy Jack Site

*Diving Deeper into Shamanic healing and Snake Medicine. Reality Sandwich
*Rolling Thunder: A Personal Exploration Into the Secret Healing Powers of An American Indian Medicine Man, Doug Boyd. Bookiverse
*Stanley Krippner Ph.D continues to teach classes on shamanism and dreaming and has written numerous books. I one for this show: Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence 
 
“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
- Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard  


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Aug 1, 2017

Congrats! Location, location, location: Kansas City, You are in the path of totality!

"The hair on the back of your neck is going to stand up, and you are going to feel different things as the eclipse reaches totality. It's been described as peaceful, spiritual, exhilarating, shocking." - Brian Carlstrom, deputy associate director of the National Park Service Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate. Source: CNN

"This will be like Woodstock 200 times over." - Alex Young, solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Source: CNN

Best Page for Solar Eclipse 2017 General Details and Viewing Party Footnotes: NASA


Links Related and Misc. -
 
August 21, 2017, Solar Eclipse. Missouri has it for this one. Kansas City details

  • Weston, Missouri  Verna with Main Street Galleria  says they're serving breakfast on Eclipse Day. (Preview interview Aug 20. Wendy's Coffeehouse) Also adding Moonlight Mimosas,
    Moon pies and Eclipse survival kits.
  • Solar Eclipse viewing in KC area: Kansas City Star
  • This site has the exact time and length of view. Example:
    Weston, Missouri:
    Congratulations, you are in the path of totality!
    Before -- Practicing with lens 8/1/17
    Image Credit: 1/AS
    Partial phase begins on Monday August 21
    at 11:40:37 AM (Central Daylight Time)
    Total phase begins at 1:06:50 PM
    and will last for 2 minutes, 6.2 seconds.
  • KC Total Eclipse Party: Facebook:
    "Everyone at the City Market will be in the path
    of totality to witness the sky show. (20.5 seconds)
    Eclipse begins just after 11:30 a.m.
    Total eclipse at 1:08 p.m.

    Kansas City saw a total solar eclipse in 1806. The next opportunity will be 2205."
  • Heads up: "In St. Joseph, Mo., hotel rooms, RV sites, tent campsites and Airbnbs have been booked for months." Yeah, it's kind of a big deal here.

    Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article161748053.html#storylink=cpy
  • Not in or near Missouri? More options: CNN 
  • Just a Turtle who knows how to
    enjoy the Sun.
    Image Credit: 2/AS
  • Time is short getting prime viewing sites: USA Today
  • Best option without worrying about travel or clouds in the forecast: Slooh
  • Look up. Perfect day for the Arrival.
    (Not holding breath but curiously hopeful.)
    Astronauts: encounters with Aliens. Raw Story
  • Is this a portal? Ancient Origins
  • Board Camp Crystal Mine, home of the levitating rocks (blogged in an earlier post) is open for Unexplained Tours.
    Sign up here.
  • Spooky Synchronicity? Maybe not. Suggest a telepathic afterlife check-in from Mom - who no doubt lives on in Google Street View. AOL Twilight Zone reality check.
  • Are TVs the newest dinosaur? USA Today 
  • Respect. One determined Woodpecker: Facebook

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Jun 23, 2017

SciXFriday: PSI, Winning, Revolutionary Physics and Magical Wishing - Take2

"I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic." -  Harry Houdini


Absolutely No thing here is what it seems. All is designed as a tease to seed growth. Evolve.

Notes - odds, ends and otherwise -  
  • Timing and Mystery - Scene of the accident, play of light explained. Mysterious Universe
  • Play of light at an accident scene that remains a Mystery. HuffPost
  • "Best day ever -- I did it!" - Lottery winner says a Psychic told her she would win. UPI 
  • Jupiter - as a work of art in real time, a planet covered in swirls. Yahoo 
  • Mystery, Miracles, Fatima and the Pope Yahoo 
  • 911 got the call when this determined brownie fan showed up. "She's a little old lady, screaming that a bear got on the back porch and is slamming on her glass door.".. CBSNews 
  • Viral frenzy when the listing on Zillow said: ["Don't bother asking" about the occupant living upstairs.] Twitter fun. Fact checkers sleuthed the back story. House listing was pulled but this news report shows a sign in the yard. WISTV
  • Time out for Brilliant: Roger Penrose - “We need a major revolution in our understanding of the physical world in order to accommodate consciousness.” Nautilus
  • 100 Best Sci Fi Movies of ALL Time. Slide show. Popular Mechanics
Not a Sci-Fi - just a nice warm fuzzy for the weekend ...



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Wendy's Coffeehouse Archive Interviews -
Atherton Drenth - Clairvoyant and Medical Intuitive
Michael Grosso - The Man Who Could Fly
Lance Mungia - Psychic Spies in the CIA - Documentary: Third Eye Spies
Blynne Olivieri - Ingo Swann Collection, Ingram Library UWG
Carl Greer - Shamanism. How he and his wife Pat used crystals to help heal her Cancer. John DeSouza - Two childhood ET/Alien encounters and One standout case in his X-files: the Atlanta Olympic Park Bombing and extraordinary PSI. Refresh on that story, The GuardianGary Wimmer - Pedestrian slammed by a car. NDE. Walked away with nothing more than a scratch. And a completely different understanding of reality.


The Energy - Talking to Nightlights
We are never alone.
Absolutely No thing here is what it seems.
All is designed as a tease to seed growth.
Evolve.

Outgrow your knowns.
Upend your answers.

Consciousness thrives in the question.
Eternal.


Curiosity everlasting.


Ascend. 


  *Re-post from 5/12/17

 Wendy's Coffeehouse Archives. Thank you for listening and sharing!