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SciXFriday - No questioning the future, the present is another matter

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Cue Sound: Mr. Sandman “People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity." 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.' If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen. 'They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionall...

Beyond belief; UFOs, Yogis and Miracles

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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention." - Ernest Hemingway Oddsnends -  Lots of head scratching. FOIA scores UFO gold nugget. Anomalist credits Billy Cox/ De Void on flagging a report by The War Zone in November 2017 (audio links deactivated) on a curious Oregon/California UFO . The War Zone has now updated that report with info obtained through the Freedom of Information Act to map the various craft sightings and chart the vicinity based upon the reports, then included corresponding audio. Fascinating. There are four videos. Description is on the second video. Audio at 7:13: "white airplane", then a "white speck, no identification on it". Listening reveals the entire encounter and the continuing attempts to identify what it is they are seeing. Fascinating play-by-play. UFO/Unexplained . What do 15 Musician...

Modern Mystic Paddy Fievet, Meditation, Floating and Altered Minds

“The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue.” - Carlos Castaneda, The Wheel of Time : The Shamans of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life Death and the Universe Oddsnends -  Chocolate will soon be extinct ? False says Snopes . ( Sigh of relief .) Far-UVC light shows promise in protecting against the Flu: Newsroom . Details: Nature Romeo the Frog has a dating profile. It says he's a simple guy who likes "binge-watching the water around me." People . Scientists are packing for an excursion to track down a mate in hopes of saving his species. Romeo is the last one of his kind. Good Luck! Dogs can smell when you are leaving. Rover Rapid Evolution of AI is such that the long-term potential of this tech is obsolete the ...