Psychomantium Mirrors - Past, Present, Future?

Meager1 said:
Networking was pretty much out of the question, since it is not easy to find others who are interested, or who are knowledgeable, or sincere, yet cautious enough to work with in this area.

Hmmm, that's odd. It seems no matter where I go, I practically trip over good Teachers. American Indians (North, Central and South) Santerians, Strega, Sami, Sufi, etc. ...and of course my own Scandinavian pre-christian cultural practitioners. Now that I'm writing them down, I notice that most of the traditions begin with a "S". How strange. ;)

Anyway, one thing Adepts from different cultures all seem to have in common is that they're not going to try to teach someone anything if that person already thinks they know everything. Perhaps I tend to get along with Teachers from other cultures because the only thing I'm absolutely positive of is that I'm not absolutely positive about anything? :P

Maybe the fact that you're so certain you know what you're doing, it just doesn't leave any room for a others who might know more than you do? It doesn't sound to me like you want a "Network" as much as you want believers/students?
 
Thanks Laura for sharing this video. It reminded me of the Russian no-nonsense scientific approach into the psi phenomena as is described in the book "Psychic discoveries behind the iron curtain" by Ostrander.

It appeared as though the experiments had positive lasting effects on the subjects involved, such as heightened intuition.
 
Guardian asked:

Guardian said:
OK, so then how are you certain that "These rocks are not a communication device, you can not contact the "spirits" through them?"

Crystals have been used by humans in communication devices since the advent of the radio ...if not sooner. If we can use rocks to communicate half way around the planet, how do we know what beings far advanced of us can do with rocks?

Meager1, you replied:

Meager1 said:
Rocks cover the entire planet, their literally everywhere, and I have never had one of them attempt to "communicate" with me, they are inanimate objects, just rocks.

I have never heard a whistle, a hum, a throat clearing or a hey you. Nothing.

Do you see the disconnect between the line of force of Guardian's question and your answer? Guardian asked if you were certain that 'these rocks are not a communication device'. But you replied that one of them had never tried to communicate with you. If they are communication devices, they would not communicate with you, just as a radio would not communicate with its user. It is possible that there are entities that know how to use the stones as communication devices, as humans use radios as communication devices, and these entities are what you are being warned about.

It is a common human weakness - Laura has written about this, and it has been discussed on the forum many times - that people are easily seduced by any non-corporeal entity that sends a message of 'love and light', indeed the simple fact of an entity's non-corporeality is enough to send some folks into raptures. But when receiving such communications, how on earth does one know that the entities have the person's best interests at heart? Especially since all you have are words or images to go on?

Meager1, I would recommend that you read The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts, by Joe Fisher, to get a good idea of the awful price a person can pay when they are seduced by this type of phenomena. Not to mention that being a part of this network gives you a certain responsibility to act in a responsible manner, especially where investigations into such potentially dangerous subjects are concerned. And to carry on such investigations, alone, and seemingly ignoring the excellent advice you have been given by forum members, is extremely foolish, in my opinion.
 
Graalsword said:
Also the possibility that this was part of an ancient technology, the legends about metallic cauldrons, and so on.

That's a very interesting thought, Graalsword, considering that the shape of Nostradamus' egg-shaped mirror device is very similar to that of a cauldron.
 
Guardian said:
Laura said:
"Getting reliable information" is, of course, the first order of business. So, the research must begin!!!

If I recall correctly, some Swedes built an EM mirror, and when they wiggled it real fast, it created protons out of "nothing" ..or so they think?

Would research like that relate?

I think it could be related. In my understanding this (Casimir effect) has to happen in a vacuum - which may complicate things ;)

Here's that study:

_http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7373/full/nature10561.html

Observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit

One of the most surprising predictions of modern quantum theory is that the vacuum of space is not empty. In fact, quantum theory predicts that it teems with virtual particles flitting in and out of existence. Although initially a curiosity, it was quickly realized that these vacuum fluctuations had measurable consequences...

From early on, it was discussed whether it might be possible to more directly observe the virtual particles that compose the quantum vacuum. Forty years ago, it was suggested3 that a mirror undergoing relativistic motion could convert virtual photons into directly observable real photons. The phenomenon, later termed the dynamical Casimir effect has not been demonstrated previously. Here we observe the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit consisting of a coplanar transmission line with a tunable electrical length. The rate of change of the electrical length can be made very fast (a substantial fraction of the speed of light) by modulating the inductance of a superconducting quantum interference device at high frequencies (>10 gigahertz). In addition to observing the creation of real photons, we detect two-mode squeezing in the emitted radiation, which is a signature of the quantum character of the generation process.

That mirrors can be used to measure vacuum fluctuations was first predicted by Casimir6 in 1948. Casimir predicted that two mirrors, that is, perfectly conducting metal plates, held parallel to each other in vacuum will experience an attractive force. Essentially, the mirrors reduce the density of electromagnetic modes between them.

[...] If we consider the real experiment of moving a physical mirror near the speed of light, we quickly see that it is not feasible. This fact has led to a number of alternative proposals, for instance using surface acoustic waves, nanomechanical resonators, or modulation of the electrical properties of a cavity.

And looking up the Casimir effect, here's from wikipedia:

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
Casimir effect
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Casimir forces on parallel plates

In quantum field theory, the Casimir effect and the Casimir–Polder force are physical forces arising from a quantized field. The typical example is of two uncharged metallic plates in a vacuum, like capacitors placed a few micrometers apart, without any external electromagnetic field. In a classical description, the lack of an external field also means that there is no field between the plates, and no force would be measured between them.[1] When this field is instead studied using quantum electrodynamics, it is seen that the plates do affect the virtual photons which constitute the field, and generate a net force[2]—either an attraction or a repulsion depending on the specific arrangement of the two plates. Although the Casimir effect can be expressed in terms of virtual particles interacting with the objects, it is best described and more easily calculated in terms of the zero-point energy of a quantized field in the intervening space between the objects. This force has been measured, and is a striking example of an effect purely due to second quantization.

Dutch physicists Hendrik B. G. Casimir and Dirk Polder proposed the existence of the force and formulated an experiment (the "Casimir experiment") to detect it in 1948 while participating in research at Philips Research Labs. The classic form of the experiment, described above, successfully demonstrated the force to within 15% of the value predicted by the theory.[6] Because the strength of the force falls off rapidly with distance, it is only measurable when the distance between the objects is extremely small. On a submicron scale, this force becomes so strong that it becomes the dominant force between uncharged conductors. In fact, at separations of 10 nm—about 100 times the typical size of an atom—the Casimir effect produces the equivalent of 1 atmosphere of pressure (101.325 kPa), the precise value depending on surface geometry and other factors.[7] In modern theoretical physics, the Casimir effect plays an important role in the chiral bag model of the nucleon; and in applied physics, it is significant in some aspects of emerging microtechnologies and nanotechnologies.[8]

[...]However, in the 2000s a number of authors developed and demonstrated a variety of numerical techniques, in many cases adapted from classical computational electromagnetics, that are capable of accurately calculating Casimir forces for arbitrary geometries and materials, from simple finite-size effects of finite plates to more complicated phenomena arising for patterned surfaces or objects of various shapes.[15]

That footnote [15] points to a study/review called The casimir effect in microstructured geometries. Now, I'm not sure how much this Casimir effect relates to this, but in that article there were some interesting remarks.

From: _http://seas.harvard.edu/capasso/publications/Rodriguez_NP_5_211_2011.pdf
In 1948, Hendrik Casimir predicted that a generalized version of van der Waals forces would arise between two metal plates due to quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. These forces become significant in micromechanical systems at submicrometre scales, such as in the adhesion between movable parts. The Casimir force, through a close connection to classical photonics, can depend strongly on the shapes and compositions of the objects, stimulating a decades-long search for geometries in which the force behaves very differently from the monotonic attractive force first predicted by Casimir. Recent theoretical and experimental developments have led to a new understanding of the force in complex microstructured geometries, including through recent theoretical predictions of Casimir repulsion between vacuum-separated metals, the stable suspension of objects and unusual non-additive and temperature effects, as well as experimental observations of repulsion in fluids, non-additive forces in nanotrench surfaces and the influence of new material choices.

[...]This combined experimental and theoretical progress has allowed researchers to design geometries and materials that exhibit force phenomena significantly different from the well-known attraction between parallel plates. Such advances may lead to new regimes of operation for micromechanical devices, and may also provide new ways to combat unwanted interactions such as ‘stiction’ between moving parts. In this Review, we summarize the basic physics of Casimir and van der Waals interac- tions, discuss recent experimental systems, outline theoretical progress and consider some of the latest predictions of this unusual force phenomena.

[...]Hendrik Casimir based his prediction on a simplified model involving two parallel perfectly conducting plates separated by a vacuum. Although the Casimir force arises from electromagnetic fluctuations, real photons are not involved. Quantum mechanically, these fluctuations can be described in terms of virtual photons of energy equal to the zero-point energies of the electromagnetic modes of the system. By considering the contribution of the elec- tromagnetic field modes to the zero-point energy (U) of the parallel plate configuration, Casimir predicted an attractive force between the plates.

[...]Following Casimir’s calculation, Lifshitz, Dzyaloshinskĭı and Pitaveskĭı considered the more general case of realistic dielectric plates by exploiting the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, which relates the dissipative properties of the plates (that is, the optical absorp- tion resulting from the many microscopic dipoles in the plates) and the resulting electromagnetic fluctuations at equilibrium. For realistic metallic plates separated by d, the force again scales as d–4 for large d. At small d, the force scales as d–3 (this is the quasi-static limit, where the coefficient is known as the Hamaker constant4), with a complicated intermediate d-dependence that is determined by the frequency-dependent permittivity (ε) of the materials. Here, ‘small’ and ‘large’ d are relative to a characteristic wavelength λ0, which for metals is the plasma wavelength and is typically in the ultraviolet range (a few hundred nanometres). The geometry of the system can be used to greatly modify wave propa- gation beyond the simple planar regime, but a broad-bandwidth scattering calculation is required to capture the complete physics of such interactions.

Although a complete description of the Casimir interaction between macroscopic bodies is beyond the level of this Review, it is instructive to consider the interaction energy between a single particle with polarizability α and a macroscopic body.

[...]The key fact is that computing Casimir interactions reduces to solving classical scattering problems, and this fact carries over to more general problems involving interac- tions between macroscopic bodies — such bodies consist of many such dipoles, and correspondingly one must solve many scattering problems for many current sources or incident waves.

I may be completely off track here, but this reminds me of how UFO:s are often discs/plates=two concave mirrors, and also the things John Keel wrote about UFO:s changing their frequency.

Some more:
Because the Casimir force depends on the optical properties ε of the materials — in particular ε at imaginary frequencies — an accurate knowledge of Im(ε) is necessary over a wide spectral range. Even though these data are available for metals such as gold, they do not correspond to any single gold film but rather have been assembled from different authors who have per- formed measurements on different samples using different depo- sition processes to cover a large frequency range.

[...]Only a few artificial non-planar geometries admit semi-analytical solutions, such as the hollow perfect-metal spherical shell, or the ‘Casimir piston’, which consists of two perfect-metal blocks sliding between perfect-metal walls. Self-energies were computed semi-analytically for the perfect-metal box6 and sphere configurations and seemed to predict a repulsive (expansion-inducing) self-force, but these predictions turned out to be problematic: the repulsion disappears if the object is cut in half or is cutoff-dependent, or if the box expansion is replaced by the rigid ‘piston’ motion of one wall.

[...]Over the past ten years, a number of techniques have been demonstrated that can accurately predict Casimir interactions for arbitrary geometries and materials, limited only by the available computational power. These techniques began with pioneering results for corrugated surfaces and cylinder–plate geometries, and have recently led to solutions for a plethora of complex three-dimensional structures.

[...]
Recent theoretical predictions

Although Casimir calculations tend to be more computationally intensive than classical photonics simulations owing to the large number of classical scattering problems that must be solved to compute a single force, recent work has demonstrated that a wide variety of highly non-planar geometries can be modelled exactly, starting from early solutions for corrugated plate, cylinder–plate, eccentric cylinders, sphere–plate and sphere–sphere geometries, extending to piston-like suspended-waveguide geometries, corrugated dielectrics, and even cones and fluid- suspended objects, with realistic permeable materials. The goal of much of this recent theoretical work has been to identify new geometries in which Casimir interactions behave in ways that differ qualitatively from the 1948 monotonic power-law attraction between parallel plates and that differ substantially from the PFA picture of pairwise surface–surface attractions. A small sampling of recent work that exploits the generality of these new numerical developments, including non-additive or unusual Casimir phenomena, is shown in Fig. 3. By breaking translation symmetry with corrugated surfaces, one can induce lateral forces. For two waveguides sandwiched between parallel plates or suspended above a single plate, there is a non-additive effect in which the presence of the plate(s) non-monotonically alters the attraction between the waveguides as a function of plate–waveguide separation.

[...]However, it is still possible to change the sign of the force merely by changing the geometry; repulsion was recently demonstrated between a needle- like metallic particle and a metal plate with a hole. Repulsion can also arise in circumstances involving interleaved objects because of the trivial competition between pairwise attractive interactions (lateral forces) between surfaces. In addition to forces, quantum fluctuations can also induce torques on objects that are free to rotate. This possibility was first studied theoretically in geometries consisting of planar objects with anisotropic materials102–104, and recently in more complicated geometries involving corrugated metallic surfaces, dilute rectangular objects suspended above plates, and eccentric metallic waveguides. [somehow this got me thinking of Leedskalnin]

Controlling film thickness.

One of the simplest ways of tailoring the Casimir force is to use films of varying thickness. At submicrometre distances, the Casimir force depends on the reflectivity of the interacting surfaces for wavelengths in the ultraviolet to the far-infrared. The attraction between transparent materials is expected to be smaller than that between highly reflective mirrors because of the lower effective confinement of electromagnetic modes inside the optical cavity (as is the case for ITO compared with gold). A thin metallic film can be transparent to electromagnetic waves that would otherwise be reflected by the bulk metal, particularly when the film thickness is much smaller than the material skin depth. Consequently, the Casimir force on a metallic film is significantly reduced when its thickness is smaller than the skin depth of the bulk metal at ultraviolet to infrared wavelengths. For most common metals, this condition is reached when the layer thickness is around 10 nm.

Demonstrating the skin-depth effect requires the thickness and surface roughness of the film to be carefully controlled. The experiment described in ref. 8 involved coating a sphere with a 9.23-nm-thick film of palladium. The sphere was imaged with an optical profiler to determine its roughness. After Casimir force measurements between the sphere and a metal-coated flat surface had been made, the sphere was removed from the experimental apparatus, coated with an additional 200 nm of palladium and analysed with the optical profiler. Repeated measurements showed that the Casimir force was larger with the thicker palladium film, by an amount that was in good agreement with the Lifshitz theory.

[...]Two plates made from the same material will always attract, regardless of the choice of intermediate material (typically a fluid or vacuum). However, the force between slabs of different materials (here labelled ‘1’ and ‘2’) can become repulsive by suitable choice of the intermediate liquid (labelled ‘3’). [...]In a recent experiment, the long-range repulsive Casimir force between a gold-coated sphere and a silica plate immersed in bro- mobenzene was measured. The silica plate was then replaced by a thick gold film, and the measurements were repeated35. The results show (Fig. 5a) that the force is attractive for a gold film but repulsive for a silica plate, which is in agreement with theoretical predictions.

[...]Repulsive Casimir forces could also be of significant technological interest, such as for the development of ultrasensitive force and torque sensors that levitate objects above surfaces without disturbing electric or magnetic interactions and with virtually no static friction to rotation or translation.

Concluding remarks

Many interesting theoretical and experimental avenues remain to be pursued in this fascinating field. For instance, many of the recent theoretical predictions of unusual Casimir physics outlined above, including non-monotonic force dependencies, repulsive forces, large temperature effects, fluid suspensions and orientation transitions arising from fluid dispersion or geometry, have yet to be observed experimentally. There are interesting theoretical predictions concerning anisotropic crystals that are awaiting experimental verification, such as the orientation-dependent Casimir force arising from highly anisotropic crystals and the quantum electro-dynamical torque between birefringent materials. An important question is whether the Casimir force can undergo a significant change near a suitable phase transition. Interesting candidates for this effect are materials undergoing a metal–insulator transition, as these experience large variations in the plasma frequency.

Finally, a couple of interesting lines from the wikipedia article:

Exotic matter with negative energy density may be required to stabilize a wormhole. Morris, Thorne and Yurtsever pointed out that the quantum mechanics of the Casimir effect can be used to produce a locally mass-negative region of space-time, and suggested that negative effect could be used to stabilize a wormhole to allow faster than light travel.

A similar analysis can be used to explain Hawking radiation that causes the slow "evaporation" of black holes (although this is generally visualised as the escape of one particle from a virtual particle-antiparticle pair, the other particle having been captured by the black hole).

The dynamical Casimir effect is the production of particles and energy from an accelerated boundary, often referred to as a moving mirror or motion-induced radiation.
Constructed within the framework of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, the dynamical Casimir effect has been used to better understand acceleration radiation; i.e. the Unruh effect.

Moving mirrors create entropy, particles, energy and gravitational-like effects. In analogy to the event horizon of a black hole, an accelerated mirror amplifies quantum field vacuum fluctuations.

An experimental verification of the dynamical Casimir effect was first achieved in May 2011 at Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden [26][27] [see the article in the beginning of this post]

There are few instances wherein the Casimir effect can give rise to repulsive forces between uncharged objects. In a seminal paper, Evgeny Lifshitz showed (theoretically) that in certain circumstances (most commonly involving liquids), repulsive forces can arise.[28] This has sparked interest in applications of the Casimir effect toward the development of levitating devices. An experimental demonstration of the Casimir-based repulsion predicted by Lifshitz was recently carried out by Munday et al.[29] Other scientists have also suggested the use of gain media to achieve a similar levitation effect,[30] though this is controversial because these materials seem to violate fundamental causality constraints and the requirement of thermodynamic equilibrium.
 
Mac said:
I watched video this morning. Indeed, interesting.

As others have reported, I became very sleepy as it progressed, nearly nodding off towards the end. This may have been from eye strain trying to keep up with the subtitles which seemed to flash by very rapidly at least to me.

In our living room is a large oval mirror on the west wall that is slightly convex. It may be just coincidence, but there have been some strange happenings in that room it the past few years. The TV comes on by itself, usually in the middle of the night. Could be a defective switch, I suppose. My easy chair is in this room, and I enjoy napping in it during the day. At night, however, I am very uneasy when I try to sleep in my chair. I feel a strong, mostly malevolent, presence very close by. I hadn't related all this to the convex mirror before reading this thread, but now I don't know. :huh:

It (the presence) could be due to the mirror, or it could be that the malevolent presence is already there for other reasons and the mirror only enhances your perception of it or its manifestation. It could also be that I'm completely wrong and it is nothing of what I said.
 
A more readable version of the successful study in Sweden, this is a Google translation:

_http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=http://www.forskning.se/pressmeddelanden/pressmeddelanden/chalmersforskareskaparljusurvakuum.5.794d6c4e1339fee7cc58000470.html
Chalmers Researchers create light from the vacuum
2011-11-17
Press Release
Chalmers University of Technology

Researchers at Chalmers have succeeded in creating light out of the vacuum, a milestone in quantum mechanics that physicists have been waiting for over 40 years. The findings are published in the journal Nature. In an innovative experiment, the researchers captured some of the photons that constantly appear and disappear in a vacuum.

The experiment is based on one of the strangest, yet one of the major principles of quantum mechanics: the vacuum is really not thin air. In fact, a vacuum full of different particles that constantly hovers between being and not to be. They arise, exist for a brief moment and then disappears again. Because their existence is so fleeting they usually are called virtual particles.

Chalmers researcher Christopher Wilson and his collaborators have managed to get photons to leave their virtual state and become real photons, ie, measurable light. In 1970, physicist Moore predicted that this should be done on the virtual photons will bounce off a mirror that is moving at a speed that is almost as high as the speed of light. This phenomenon - known as the dynamical Casimir effect - now for the first time observed, in an ingenious experiment that Chalmers researchers have done.

- Because you can not get a mirror to move fast enough so we have developed another method to achieve the same effect, says Per Delsing, a professor of experimental physics at Chalmers. Instead of varying the physical distance to a mirror, we have varied the electrical distance to an electrical short circuit that acts as a mirror for microwaves. "Mirror" is a quantum electronic component called Squid (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device), which is extremely sensitive to magnetic fields. By changing the direction of the magnetic field billions of times per second, the researchers had to "mirror" to vibrate at a rate of up to 25 percent of the speed of light.

- The result was that photons occurred in pairs in the vacuum, which we could measure in the form of microwave radiation, said Per Delsing. We also found that the radiation had exactly the qualities that quantum theory says that it will be when photons arise in this way. It happens in the experiment is to "mirror" transfers part of its kinetic energy to virtual photons, causing them to materialize. According to quantum mechanics, there is as I said a number of different types of virtual particles in vacuum. The reason it is just photons that pop up in the experiment is that they have no mass, says Göran Johansson, associate professor of theoretical physics at Chalmers.

- Therefore, relatively little energy to excite them out of their virtual state. In principle, one could create other particles from the vacuum - such as electrons or protons - but it would require much more energy. The photons that occur in pairs in the experiment is interesting for the researchers to examine more closely. Maybe they could be of use in the research quantum information, where among other things trying to develop quantum computers. But the experiment's main value is that it increases our understanding of basic physical concepts, such as vacuum fluctuations - that is, the virtual particles constantly appear and disappear in the vacuum. It is believed that vacuum fluctuations are related to the so-called dark energy that drives the accelerating expansion of the universe. The discovery of this acceleration was rewarded this year with the Nobel Prize in Physics [Ref 1].


Read the Nature article, "Observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit," [Ref 2]
(The article is published online at 18 November 16)
Read more about the research in Nature News [Ref 3]

Caption: The Chalmers researchers' experiments bounces virtual photons on a "mirror" that vibrates at a rate that is almost as high as the speed of light. The round mirror in the picture is a symbol, and it is the quantum electronic component (called Squid) that acts as a mirror. It allows the emergence of real photons (pairs) in vacuum.
Illustration: Philip Krantz, Chalmers
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the concave mirrors issue had me thinking about reverberation boxes for sound.

when pointing a speaker into a box or concave surface, the sound bounces around inside and exists amplified.

it occurred to me that light might be doing the same thing within the surface. bouncing around inside and creating a ''gain'' effect as it were..

so concave surfaces might amplify light signals as well as sound or act as collectors or probably both.
 
Its almost as if our consciousness is some sort of radio transmitter/receiver and these mirrors somehow act as amplifiers. That seems well and good but without any knowledge of what we're really doing it becomes kinda dangerous. I mean, I'm assuming everyone's read this thread: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,24584.0.html - which details what happens when you play with fire and get burned.

Probably a good area to ask the Cs...

I also find it interesting that mirrors have these special properties, given that one of the major ways we learn and network is through giving each other 'mirrors'.
 
personally, if anyone came to me saying that they were going to try communicating in this way i would voice a clear warning and advise them to steer away from this idea.
there are just too many unknown variables and too many agendas out there.

experimenting with this ''just for fun'' or as a result of ego-hooks could end up being tantamount to putting on a blindfold an jumping off of a cliff.

fwiw
 
Graalsword said:
Mac said:
I watched video this morning. Indeed, interesting.


It (the presence) could be due to the mirror, or it could be that the malevolent presence is already there for other reasons and the mirror only enhances your perception of it or its manifestation. It could also be that I'm completely wrong and it is nothing of what I said.

Yes, Graalsword, I wouldn't have associated the mirror and the strange happenings in the living room without this thread. I'm a little spooked about this now remembering a truly frightening image I saw in a mirror decades ago. But I am working to keep my imagination under control.

When I was a kid there were many ghostly manifestations in the house we lived in. I became so uneasy I slept with the light on in my room. One day, alone in the house, I felt a presence, a hot, tingly sensation, the hairs stood up on the back of my neck. Having had enough I said aloud "I don't know who you are or what you want, but I am tired of this. I want you to leave me alone." I was not bothered again, though others in the house continued to have such experiences. An exorcism, of sorts I guess.

Puck said:
I also find it interesting that mirrors have these special properties, given that one of the major ways we learn and network is through giving each other 'mirrors'.

Thanks, Puck: I thought of this as well. The mirrors that we receive on this forum help to amplify what is going on within ourselves so that we can become conscious of it and can work to resolve it. Perhaps the mirrors get and give here are "convex" in that they concentrate energy, "light", upon what we are unable to see on our own.

The posts on this thread are intriguing, for sure. Particles in a vacuum that blink in and out of existence. Empty space that isn't empty but contains possibilities. Wow. The Universe is, indeed, alive. And we 3rd density residents see so little of it.

I look forward to hearing about any experiments that the Chateau researchers do in this.

Mac
 
Mac said:
Graalsword said:
Mac said:
I watched video this morning. Indeed, interesting.


It (the presence) could be due to the mirror, or it could be that the malevolent presence is already there for other reasons and the mirror only enhances your perception of it or its manifestation. It could also be that I'm completely wrong and it is nothing of what I said.

Yes, Graalsword, I wouldn't have associated the mirror and the strange happenings in the living room without this thread. I'm a little spooked about this now remembering a truly frightening image I saw in a mirror decades ago. But I am working to keep my imagination under control.

When I was a kid there were many ghostly manifestations in the house we lived in. I became so uneasy I slept with the light on in my room. One day, alone in the house, I felt a presence, a hot, tingly sensation, the hairs stood up on the back of my neck. Having had enough I said aloud "I don't know who you are or what you want, but I am tired of this. I want you to leave me alone." I was not bothered again, though others in the house continued to have such experiences. An exorcism, of sorts I guess.

Puck said:
I also find it interesting that mirrors have these special properties, given that one of the major ways we learn and network is through giving each other 'mirrors'.

Thanks, Puck: I thought of this as well. The mirrors that we receive on this forum help to amplify what is going on within ourselves so that we can become conscious of it and can work to resolve it. Perhaps the mirrors get and give here are "convex" in that they concentrate energy, "light", upon what we are unable to see on our own.

The posts on this thread are intriguing, for sure. Particles in a vacuum that blink in and out of existence. Empty space that isn't empty but contains possibilities. Wow. The Universe is, indeed, alive. And we 3rd density residents see so little of it.

I look forward to hearing about any experiments that the Chateau researchers do in this.

Mac

Hi Mac,

The following excerpt is from the C's session of August 20, 2011:

[...]

Q: (L) Is there a ghost in our bedroom?

A: Yes.

Q: [Laughter] (L) What kind of a ghost?

A: Priest

Q: (L) And why does he hang around there?

A: More like an imprint that gets activated for "reruns" when the energies are right.

Q: (L) Is that what my dream was about last night? I was dreaming about the reality that happened to this priest? That his home was taken away brick by brick, all the furniture was removed, and he was left with nowhere to go?

A: Yes

Q: (Ark) Is it this ghost that is causing sleeping problems and other problems?

A: Yes

Q: (L) So how do we get rid of the ghost?

A: Change the energy.

Q: (L) How do you change the energy?

A: Move the dressing table.

Q: [Laughter] (L) Why?!

A: Mirror faces window.

Q: (Bubbles) So when the mirror faces the window, that does what?

A: Bounces waves of light energy.

Q: (Bubbles) So if we wanted to have a haunted house, we'd just need to have a bunch of mirrors in facing the windows. (L) Not that simple! So these problems started after I moved the furniture around, didn't they? (Ark) It's possible. (L) After I put the dressing table where I put it. (Ark) What about the gravitational anomaly?

A: Imagination!

Q: (Ark) Because the bed feels like it’s at an angle and it isn’t. We measured. (L) I don't think they're saying that we imagined it. I think they're saying that our imagination creates it because the awareness of the energy.

A: Yes

[...]

I just felt reminded of this by your description above, and thought it might be a possible explanation?
 
I would say that one of the first things that needs to be researched before anyone dives into the deep end of the pool is the human brain/mind. To that end, I've posted some excerpts from an excellent book "Strangers to Ourselves" here: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,26247.0.html

Another excellent thread is this one: "Buffers, Programs and the Predator's Mind" http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,6419.0.html

In a sense, they are both about the same thing, but explained from different perspectives and in different terminology.
 
I was wondering whether the following excerpt of a session could be relevant here (bold, mine):

A: The Ark of the Covenant is not what you think it is.

Q: You guys said that it was a power cell. I don't have

some sort of romantic idea of it. I can accept that. But

there are all these stories about it and a lot of people

have mythologized it. What do you mean by saying such a

thing. What is the Ark?

A: See Oak Island.

Q: It seems that the Templars were in charge of building

the Cathedral at Chartres, and there is a tableaux on one of

the porches of Melchizedek and the Queen of Sheba.

Equidistant between them is the Ark of the Covenant in a

cart. Melchizedek is holding a cup that is supposed to

be the Holy Grail. Inside this cup is a cylindrical object

of stone. What is this?

A: Greater sight.

Q: What?! (A) Is it a symbol or a device?

A: Why cannot it be both?

Q: (A) It can be both, but is it both?

A: Yes.

Q: (A) So, it is a device for greater sight like a crystal

ball, yes?

A: Only when utilized exactly precisely.

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