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SciXFriday, 2017 Solar Eclipse countdown, misc. and mayhem

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"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Interesting Links -  The Solar Eclipse Stamp . Limited Edition .The stamp reveals the Moon when you touch it. FYI - the moon also brightens when the stamp sheet is next to a sunny window. Solar Eclipse Stamps 2017 This is the first stamp to use thermochromic ink. Totally cool. Newsweek Ever heard of a Total Eclipse Chaser? Meet one who has seen 10. Adventure Meet another. In the name of Science, this Eclipse Chaser has seen 14. Missed 5. Quartz Crop Circle news. Are these orb images real?  Express   Perennial conspiracy mayhem = Planet X imminent (Sept 2017) collision with Earth. AOL Official NASA on Planet X, Niburu, etc.: "There is no factual basis for these claims." = Hoax Common link for this trio? Human - Alien - Octopus. Answer: Consciousness. Quartz Think there's no magic in the world? Think again. My guest this week is St...

20 years in the making - Talking to Nightlights II

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“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 Blink off. I am working on a new book to update my paranormal adventure with the Energy and my interactive nightlights. In revisiting the beginning and taking into account advice I was given for 'Talking to Nightlights', I want to incorporate the suggestions in the new work, suggestions that were too late in coming for the first book but appreciated none the less. I tucked them away for a later day. And that later day is now. My challenge? Omit some of the personal process in my new creation, tidy up the writing and make it a bit leaner. After twenty years of living the story, I now have a better understanding of what I can omit. In those early days it was all so novel, beyond defining and that made it v...

8/6/17 High Strangeness with Jon Kelly, plus Misc. Links: Spooky, UFO, Telepathic Dogs

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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." - George Carlin    Links and Misc.  -  Category 1: Spooky light summertime reading. Good all year round.  Seanan McGuire - “The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." - Discount Armageddon   Esoterx - Bump in the night resource for Monsters, real and unreal. Kick off with Railroad Poltergeists . Start HERE . Need another? General Barter and the Ghost Who Dressed for Dinner. Now serving. Light Reading - Online Mag for the College of Psychic Studies Category 2: Stuff How a Soviet Circus Clown Tried to Prove (Proved) Dogs can be Psychic . Atlas Obscura Secret Chamber in the Great Pyramid? Answer forthcoming. DailyMail US Postal Service has a first. The Solar Eclipse Stamp contains thermochromic ink. When touched, the heat from your finger will reveal the Moon. Ramping up the excitement for...