December 2007


The surface of the Earth is made of giant tectonic plates that move. As some plates move farther apart, sea floor spreading is observed. At mid-ocean ridges, magma rises from the Earth and solidifies to fill the gap. The Earth’s magnetic field leaves it’s imprint on this material and allows us to examine the direction and magnitude of the magnetic field in the past. Every few hundred thousand years the field changes directions (a compass will point to the South pole instead of the North pole).

Since the 19th century the magnitude of the Earth’s magnetic field has weakened by about 10%. Here is some basic information from NASA on Earth’s Inconstant Magnetic Field. Much research is going on to attempt to understand the Origin of the Earth’s Magnetic Field.

I think the questions on everybody’s mind is what is going to happen in the future and how will it affect us? Some very doomsday scenarios are predicted. I don’t think the end of the world or end of humanity is likely but this is another phenomenon to which we should pay attention.

I think I will start a new tradition. On some of my posts, I will propose interesting questions but will not provide the answers. I may give some links to places to start research or propose possible solutions, but I will the legwork and the pondering to the reader. Here is my first homework question for you, dear reader.

Why did the Babylonians use base-60 math?

This question may not appeal to all readers since it is somewhat technical and esoteric. But I think the actual answer, if known, would be quite fascinating.

First, let me say, that today we use base-10 math. Base-10 math makes sense to use because we have 10 fingers. Our math is base-10 because we count to 9 before we add a second digit for 10. Computers use base-2 math. Only 0 or 1 (OFF or ON).

Here is an overview of Babylonian Math. Here is some information and ideas about Babylonian Numerals.

I am not a mathematician but I don’t see Babylonian numerals as strictly base-60. I see them as as a combination base-10 and base-6.

What would cause a civilization to count based on the number 6?

We are all familar with some so called sacred or spirtual sites on the Earth (the great pyramdis at Giza, Stonehenge, Machu Picchu) but there are many more. Many sites have fallen out of use or are only know to people who live near-by.

An interesting idea that I will put out and leave for the reader to investigate on his or her own, is whether or not more phenomenon (bigfoot sightings, crop circles, UFOs, etc.) is observed near sacred sites that can be attributed to chance. One possible route to use on this investigation is to look into phenomenon near to your home. This makes it easier to find the less well known spiritual places.

This website has a list of bigfoot sightings from 1818 to 1980 in the United States and Canada. I have a hunch that bigfoot is from another dimension. They arrive through a dimensional portal and are only partial here. When the portal closes, they are sucked back into their own dimension. That is why they can swim and leave footprints but are not normally affected by bullets. I am intrigued by the number of sightings near Mt. Hood and The Dalles in Oregon during the period of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Both were spiritual sites for native American Indians and there are still fascinating spiritual things can still be found there today.

Something to keep an eye on from the NASA Cassini website in March 2007.

Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
March 27, 2007
(Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission.

NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact that it has appeared in Cassini images indicates that it is a long-lived feature. A second hexagon, significantly darker than the brighter historical feature, is also visible in the Cassini pictures. The spacecraft’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer is the first instrument to capture the entire hexagon feature in one image.

“This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides,” said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. “We’ve never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn’s thick atmosphere where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate is perhaps the last place you’d expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is.”

The hexagon is similar to Earth’s polar vortex, which has winds blowing in a circular pattern around the polar region. On Saturn, the vortex has a hexagonal rather than circular shape. The hexagon is nearly 25,000 kilometers (15,000 miles) across. Nearly four Earths could fit inside it.

The new images taken in thermal-infrared light show the hexagon extends much deeper down into the atmosphere than previously expected, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) below the cloud tops. A system of clouds lies within the hexagon. The clouds appear to be whipping around the hexagon like cars on a racetrack.

“It’s amazing to see such striking differences on opposite ends of Saturn’s poles,” said Bob Brown, team leader of the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, University of Arizona, Tucson. “At the south pole we have what appears to be a hurricane with a giant eye, and at the north pole of Saturn we have this geometric feature, which is completely different.”

The Saturn north pole hexagon has not been visible to Cassini’s visual cameras, because it’s winter in that area, so the hexagon is under the cover of the long polar night, which lasts about 15 years. The infrared mapping spectrometer can image Saturn in both daytime and nighttime conditions and see deep inside. It imaged the feature with thermal wavelengths near 5 microns (seven times the wavelength visible to the human eye) during a 12-day period beginning on Oct. 30, 2006. As winter wanes over the next two years, the feature may become visible to the visual cameras.

Based on the new images and more information on the depth of the feature, scientists think it is not linked to Saturn’s radio emissions or to auroral activity, as once contemplated, even though Saturn’s northern aurora lies nearly overhead.

The hexagon appears to have remained fixed with Saturn’s rotation rate and axis since first glimpsed by Voyager 26 years ago. The actual rotation rate of Saturn is still uncertain.

“Once we understand its dynamical nature, this long-lived, deep-seated polar hexagon may give us a clue to the true rotation rate of the deep atmosphere and perhaps the interior,” added Baines.

The hexagon images and movie, including the north polar auroras are available at: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu .

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona.

Contacts:
Carolina Martinez/Jane Platt 818-354-9382/818-354-0880
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

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And from EJP, “Just a heads up to yo all. I strongly suggest keeping an eye on this.   Enough said.  And yes it is important. “

Here is a series of 3 photos of my daughter and I from yesterday.  We are getting ready to take a walk.  The series of 3 photos were taken about 20 seconds apart.  After the second photo, my wife noticed the orbs on the camera, and took a third photo to see if they would show up again.

Picture 1.

 

Picture 2.

 

Picture 3.

Here is an email from my friend about the sequence of photos:

When I look at those pictures, I feel your heart chakra energy in my chest center quite strongly in the second picture but very little to no at all in the first and third pictures.  I think that it was what you were broadcasting that opened the door for those orbs.  Nice job!  (Maybe something to experiment with sometime…)

I was only smiling in the second photo.  Like my friend said, I believe my smile led to changes in the state of my consciousness that caused me to broadcast love from my heart chakra.

If you plan on trying this at home, be sure to use the flash on your camera.

See the orb zone website for more iformation.  While most orbs are dust and pollen, I don’t believe that ALL orbs are caused by dust in the “orb zone” of the 35 mm or digital camera.  The time stamps on Photos 1, 2 and 3 are 4:26:52 PM, 4:27:02 PM and 4:27:23 PM respectively, taken from my digital cameras time stamp.  It is possible that dust would not be in the zone, then 10 seconds later be present, and finally gone in the next 21 seconds.

I do believe that orbs are sometimes present when spiritual people are around.  The stronger the energy and the more the person is projecting that energy, the more likely the orbs.  My wife has around 200 images from here week at the Mt. Hood cabin.  Eric Pepin was present for parts of two days and the only photos with orbs are the photos taken when Eric was present.

Here is a closeup of the orbs in picture 2 from above, cropped but un-edited:

Close up of orbs in Picture 2

Close-up

A final fascinating thing that seems to hold true in all of the pictures I have with orbs is that there is almost always two distinct sizes.  A larger size that would be approximately the same size as a grapefruit and a smaller size about the size of a tangerine.  There doesn’t seem to be sizes in between, larger, or smaller.  Another argument against the dust theory.

Oct 10, 2008.  My eyes closed with orbs

Oct 10, 2008. My eyes closed with orbs

Philip Pullman wrote a trilogy of books collectively called “His Dark Materials” that includes the individual books “The Golden Compass”, “The Subtle Knife” and “The Amber Spyglass”. A new motion picture is about to be released based on the first novel starring Nicole Kidman. This movie has started a large controversy. The author has been described as one of England’s most outspoken atheists. Christian groups in the United States have called the film anti-religious propaganda for children and are are calling for a boycott. Loyal fans of the series of books are annoyed because references to God and the Church have been removed from the movie to make is financially viable in the United States.

Here is an excerpt from page 23 of “The Golden Compass”

As I understand it, the Holy Church teaches that are two worlds: the world of everything we can see and hear and touch, and another world, the spiritual world of heaven and hell. Barnard and Stokes were two—how shall I put it—renegade theologians who postulated the existence of numerous other worlds like this one, neither heaven nor hell, but material and sinful. There are there, close by, but invisible and unreachable. The Holy Church naturally disapproved of this abominable heresy, and Barnard and Stokes were silenced.

This view of the universe presented by Philip Pullman is much, much closer to the real truth that the view presented by Church scholars and theologians. I expect this film to reach a wide audience and have a roll in evolving the consciousness of the planet in a more positive direction—away from dogma and towards finding and understanding the truth.