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

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8/20/17, Orbducted in the French Quarter: Alta and Chad Dillard meet the Twilight Zone

And there it was... or was it? 

“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Odd n ends -
  • UK UFO Investigator Philip Mantle (Novel/Once Upon a Missing Time) shares his favorite unsolved cases, also said to be giving his last public appearance. DailyMail
  • Keeping watch on Earth: NASA live feed. Also on Ustream
  • Solar Eclipse maps with humor bookmarked from twitter: "Can someone make a map where I can Drink a Beer, See Sasquatch, and get abducted by a UFO during the Eclipse?" And here they are: CNET
  • How GREAT it was. Here are the Solar Eclipse 2017 epics (epic pics) that show - lots of people - had a wonderful time Sun/Moon Gazing. Cheers to Hiawatha, KS for making this totality line-up! BBC
  • Recycle those glasses for viewers of the next Solar Eclipse in South America and Asia. Astronomers without Borders plans to distribute the glasses to schools. Info
  • Update! Just found out - 8/22/17 - she survived.
    • Our injured Dove is recovering! We picked her up from the street after seeing her dodging traffic and struggling to stay in the median last Tuesday night. I tried at first to set her in the yard but she refused to leave my hand. And, in closer examination, her injuries were more severe and needed medical attention. 
      Kept her warm and calm until we were able to deliver her the next morning.
       
    • Broken wing.
      Broken wing. Mourning Dove 8/16/17
      Delivered to Operation Wildlife (KS)
      Recovering. 8/22/17 Success!


      Quick shout out to Operation Wildlife, Linwood Kansas - upcoming fundraiser event is posted on their site.

      Caregiver who gave me the good news said they have 20 some doves now and provide services for some 4 thousand animals per year.

      Thank you!

The GREAT Solar Eclipse of 2017
...with ET ambiance. (Andy's pic)



Rescued a relative after car breakdown the night before the eclipse, so we had a later start than planned. Managed to find a spot with great cloud cover. It had looked partly cloudy until 15 minutes prior to the Eclipse.

Andy snapped what he could prior to the big moment. Then, at the very second of totality. [...Dense cloud block...]
*Buckets of rain and flooding followed later in the afternoon and again in the evening.

Hold on. Can you see the alien face in this one?
Just above the right center.
So - we were exactly where we needed to be.
That made it all worthwhile. ;)  


Now playing, the newest Wendy's Coffeehouse Podcast/KCMO Talk Radio - Orbducted in the French Quarter: Alta and Chad Dillard

In the beginning, fresh from the encounter with an unexplained and deeply disturbing disruption of the 'known', Alta and Chad Dillard say they simply chose not to talk about it.

Eventually, the cat was out of the bag and they documented their experience in a book. They set a timeline loaded with numerous fantastic encounters in a book, in an effort to put context to content and maybe, just maybe, make sense of the whole thing.

I recognize the pattern. When something happens that blows your definition of reality completely out of the frame, it shatters the known and opens the floodgate on "what if?".

Sharing that upgraded view when the upset is still new and questions about everything are still bombarding your daily existence is not a priority. However, when the atoms settle and the expanded awareness morphs out of discombobulating into fascinating, sharing becomes easier.

Orbducted on Etsy
Given my own experiences and those I have shared with my husband Andy (some events too fantastic to relate in explicit detail because the words don't exist), I believe we can best learn through sharing the information, suspending judgment and exploring the interconnected dots.

Reality is full of parts we have yet to identify and most likely that includes those beyond our ability to notice. 

Orbducted in the French Quarter by Alta and Chad Dillard offers a variety of perplexing parts.

Interconnected? Yet to be determined as the story is ongoing.

As stated in the description of the book, "From aliens to ghosts, to a shape shifter, from meeting people who have been seen, and some unseen, this is a story for the open minded. In 1995 Chad & Alta experienced their first UFO, a massive sight in Hammond, Louisiana."  

Doors to the unknown are cast open wide. With this type of encounter/engagement/experience, our standard method of determining substantiating proof is often impossible due to the lack of adequate quantification tools, replicability and/or corroborating witnesses. However, those who have experienced similar events - recognize the hallmarks in the details.

When it comes to PSI, experience trumps knowing. Believe it and not. These experiences require a willingness to explore and embrace the unknown long enough to gain the familiarity needed to map it.

In our interview Chad talks about being shown a very unusual scene by ETs. He thought it seemed important and wondered about the purpose in showing him. He was told he would know in time. Apparently, the time has yet to arrive.  

Answers are unavailable until we truly understand the totality of the environment we are playing in and have some way of recognizing the various unseen elements contributing to the encounter. Evolution in progress. It's all relative. Dive in and know more.

Alta and Chad on Facebook: Orbducted 

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Stay Curious! 

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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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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SciXFriday, 2017 Solar Eclipse countdown, misc. and mayhem

"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 Stanley Krippner. We're going to talk a bit about Native American Medicine Man Rolling Thunder. He did things Western minds have no explanation for. Article published in 1981 Mother Earth News

Dust is a fantastic Sci-Fi short film created by Ember Lab. Enter a world; believable, captivating and quite dangerous. Will you see it coming?

Dust from Ember Lab on Vimeo.


Wendy's Coffeehouse Schedule -

8/13 - Stanley Krippner Ph.D. - The Shamanic Powers of Rolling Thunder

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 - (Real name) was a teenager when something/someone told him he would die at age 33. NDE and an 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


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