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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 26, 2018

Intuitive Stream Drawing with Elaine Clayton, and an Ozark Mountain Conference reminder


Whatever we’re dealing with is terribly, terribly complex. - John Alexander - Interviewed on Skeptico, Reality Denied


OddsnEnds - 
  • Reported in the Moscow Times, Russian Police called to investigate Poltergeist. - Mysterious Universe
  • Also noted in that piece, Snopes busts the 'haunted' Ireland school hijinks.
  • No date yet for the reboot of "In Search Of"... Ten episodes slated for History. Variety
  • Seduction by Smartphone derailed when color scheme goes gray. Treehugger
  • Need extra help disengaging? Digital Detox. Link
  • Next step an exercise in frugality from 2017 (still fresh) 4 things. Treehugger
  • 10 tips on frugality (fresher) 2017 Moneywise
  • A Lost, Rescued, Happy, Booted, Sad, Reclaimed, Happy Cat story. The Dodo
  • Back to UFOs - World's 8 best places to look for them. (Honestly, they will find you if you are really serious about making a connection. Seriously, serious.)  Forbes
Challenging the linear mindset - The late Dolores Cannon - a classic session from the archives on her work. Life after death.



The Ozark Mountain Conference is coming up. The 31st Annual Ozark Mountain UFO Conference is at The Inn Of The Ozarks In Eureka Springs, Arkansas April 13-15, 2018.

Artist, author, illustrator, former teacher, Reiki Master and intuitive reader. I liked her book the minute it opened to page 105, a UFOMaking Marks

You don't have to be an artist to connect with Elaine Clayton's work. The beauty of this process is that it marries the abstract to link insight and image.

Elaine uses her original method of stream drawing to help clients discover their own inner knowing and then to encourage each to explore his or her own creative, intuitive vibe using the process.

I love her work. This is the first time I have seen anything like it and it validated my passion for what I have always called doodles. I use them to explore, to express, to play and escape. Doodles help me focus and at the same time relax. I consider them as art, but they are not art by anyone else's definition. As such, they have remained a covert pleasure.

So, here is a process that celebrates lines, squiggles, circles, dots, quirky and sometimes meandering designs. Maybe I am not alone.

Wendy's Stream Drawing Sample, 2/24
Try your own stream drawing with 8x10 scrap paper or something like that. Relax, loosen up.

Don't worry about making it look like anything specific. Pick an emotion, a memory or a wish. Put the pencil, crayon, writing utensil to the paper and flow....

Check in with Elaine for inspiration. What is Stream Drawing?

That's my demo. She interprets or comments only if invited. I invited. And she explained more about how she uses the technique and how to read the image or interpret what might be suggested in the design.

Fascinating and an excellent tool for accessing awareness into the inner narrative and core issues and how that might  (to the artist - not the interpreter) be observable when delivered within the energy flow of the lines/designs in a creative work!

She suggests using the non-dominant hand. I think I goofed on that. I can't remember. Basically, the goal is to just draw and see what happens. Every time I look at the image, I notice something different. That's why I like it. But that's what I was so unsure about. My doodles don't have a specific form. They are me playing in non-form. The message is between the lines.  

Elaine's method of stream drawing as a divination tool is inspired and impressive. She shares several examples in the book. Making Marks provides an excellent starting point for anyone who is curious and would like to enhance their own intuitive abilities through creative play that is the process of stream drawing. Thank you, Elaine!

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While we're talking intuitive art, something more to explore, the American Visionary Art Museum, the official national museum for self-taught and intuitive artistry. From the opening page:

"Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born." - Albert Einstein

Welcome All Ye Passionately Curious!

In complement to AVAM’s latest mega-exhibition, The Great Mystery Show, this year’s Logan Visionary Conference explores celestial mysteries, "Two Views of Heaven: Spiritual/Theological and Astrophysical/Scientific." - March 11, 2018

Speakers listed include Author, journalist, filmmaker, Alex Chionetti. Noted expert on Ufology as well the Marian Apparition phenomena. Chionetti was one of the main researchers and developers "Ancient Aliens" TV series. Link to a former presentation, The Explorer's Club

Preview Artwork in the Great Mystery Show exhibition running through September 2018. Ingo Swann's work is featured.

Thank you for listening!
Stay Curious. 

Feb 24, 2018

X3: The Shape of Water, The Space Between Us ... and Synchronicity

“Life is a field of cosmic consciousness, expressing itself in a million ways in space-time through quantum entanglement” ― Amit Ray, Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life


I posted in December (fantastic short film) about the striking similarity between The Space Between Us and the Guillermo del Toro film, The Shape of Water. Apparently, others noticed too. Some cried foul. Follow-up and update from IndieWire says, no foul.

After connecting to discuss the matter the result is that each project is unique and the timelines indicate there is no conflict. The Netherlands Film Academy has released a statement saying that the two films “have their own very different identities” and “are not in any conceivable way interlinked or related.” - Main site - The Space Between Us

And it is a gorgeous film - worth reposting the Link



NEW
Plot twist.

As reported by The Guardian, there is now a lawsuit by a third party. Also reported in Variety, this suit suggests the movie resembles the play, Let Me Hear You Whisper, by Paul Zindel.

On YouTube (might be a copyright issue), featured in *4 segments. Movie Link: IMDB
Or read the play. *Or Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4, if available.

Similar message, different presentation. Lawsuit TBD.

Check the Good Reads Reviews

Drama aside. Apparently, the three peat message from the Universe, cropping up from three unique sources at this time, represents a theme coming to the surface for conscious awareness and acknowledgement.

When ETs, Trans-Dimensionals and Undetermined Others monitor Humans to sleuth the character of our species our treatment of animals and other (fellow) beings deemed inferior has room for improvement. The upside is that we too are evolving. Wildcard challenge: The unseen influence we have yet to factor into the equation.

Looks can be deceiving. Nefarious vs. Complicated. Consciousness connects and those who are receptive (ethical and not), sometimes tap into the same chord, revealing in subsequent manifestation the underlying quantum disposition in the results.

Extraordinary Human beings, one and all - who, by design, know more than we can think but what we do with that knowing can sometimes devolve to a soap opera on the manifest plane. Fabulously curious.

The Shape of Water is resonating with audiences. Nominated for 13 Academy Awards. LATimes