Mysterious Universe

Re. Yonaguni near Okinawa bay, it’s not that there has to be a deliberate conspiracy to keep the populace from learning the (possible) truth about this site. It’s merely the effect of the Paradigm we were discussing about in Minneapolis.

Academics are individuals who have climbed to their positions because, just like politicians, they have learned the ropes and the ‘rules of the game.’ They know what’s allowed and what’s a big no no, and they have been conditioned to auto-regulate themselves, and to react with incredible antagonism when something potentially groundbreaking surfaces.

That’s why there’s such strong reaction to the possibility that prior to the ‘classical’ dawn of civilization as taught by our text books –Mesopotamia, Indus valley, Egypt, etc– there could have been a global and highly advanced culture, who suffered a great catastrophe by the end of the last Ice Age.

And, BTW, in some of my private conversations with the amazing Dr. Ward, I did bring up the subject of Yonaguni. His opinion? That it wasn’t a ‘city’ or a ‘temple’.

His opinion was that it was a quarry

Fantastic episode as usual guys. It was not only great to hear about your experiences from the Paradigm Symposium, but it was incredibly great to hear about Elliot’s experience at The Origins of Consciousness tour.

I just finallllly got plus+!!! All I had to do was find myself a girlfriend with a credit card to do so haha – I’m super excited to hear what I’ve been missing. I’m quite poor, and I barely ever pay for anything, but supporting you guys after MU has entertained me for years (since well before MU went away for a year or more back in the day, back when it was just Ben) is a cause I’m more than down with. Sorry I couldn’t do so sooner. Now, if only I can figure out how to make itunes recognize my plus+ member-ness, and automatically give me my extended podcasts…

Sure, but there are often times when the probability of sensing that a close relative has suffered a fatal accident, or that a friend you haven’t spoken with in years has suddenly befriended you on Facebook the moment you thought of him, are so high that they put the notion of ‘confirmation bias’ to the test.

Nobody here is saying we have an absolute certainty. Only that we’re open to the possibility.

Catching up on old episodes that are in my feed so this comment is a bit late. About melatonin. I’ve been an insomniac for roughly 20 years, since I was in my mid teens. My insomnia seems to cycle and is worse at some times than others. During what I consider to be my good times I sleep for around 6 hours a night; when things are bad I sleep as little as 20 or 30 minutes before waking. At the very worst I can spend two or three days sleeping no more than an hour a day.

For years I was diagnosed with idiopathic insomnia, which Aaron should know means that they have no idea – but on my last visit to the sleep clinic, about 18 months ago, it was confirmed that I suffer from the alpha EEG anomaly. It is a condition where my brain does not shut down during sleep, does not stop its normal daytime activity, and instead of alpha brainwaves stopping during sleep, my brain emits random bursts of alpha brainwaves (awake brainwaves) while I am asleep. These awake brainwaves wake me up and prevent me from sleeping for any length of time.

They also cause a lot of very vivid and very real-feeling dreams. Because the brain is never really asleep, and to the person who has this condition – like me – it is like being awake, these dreams feel very real.

Anyway, I said I would talk about melatonin and I will. I bought and have used melatonin for maybe 6 years now. It is the only thing I have taken, and I got it from ebay before it was made prescription only in the UK; It is the only remedy I have found, including prescription medication, that has had a reliable effect. But I wanted to say, because it seemed that you expected an immediate result, that it took at least two weeks before I found that my sleep pattern started to become regular.

If you doubt the effectiveness, my gp now prescribes me melatonin instead of zopiclone.