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By Tom Jones, Resident Astronaut
 The president released his FY 2011 budget Monday, and his policy for NASA’s human spaceflight program sets the nation on a course to second-class status in space. Instead of setting our national sights on the moon, nearby asteroids, or more distant destinations, President Obama is declaring that human spaceflight is unimportant to U.S. national interests.He’s not saying so directly. But his budget actions speak loudly. He has cancelled NASA’s next-generation Constellation Program, including the Orion spacecraft and both rockets planned to return American explorers to deep space, to the moon and beyond.
A little history: under three different administrations, NASA has lost more than 25 percent of its buying power in the past 20 years. Despite those cuts, the agency managed to operate the shuttle and build the International Space Station (ISS). But it lacked a long-term goal in space, and that lack of direction and failure to replace the vulnerable shuttle led in part to the Columbia accident in 2003 that killed seven of my colleagues.
Now, seven years later, the president’s budget shows that he and NASA have already forgotten the lessons of Columbia. Without a goal worthy of the serious risks of human spaceflight, we will be putting our astronauts in danger to do nothing more than crew a research outpost. Even though I helped build it, the space station is not an ultimate destination. The ISS is a stepping stone to more ambitious exploration.
It is true that President Obama inherited a Constellation Program (a return to the moon and deep space) that the Bush administration underfunded by more than 35 percent since its inception in 2004. Because of that lack of support, today Constellation is badly behind schedule. Those delays also raised costs for the development of the Ares I booster. Yet NASA flew a successful early version of Ares I last October. While not a long-term successor to the shuttle, restored funding could have put this rocket in service to the ISS by 2015, and restored our own access to space.
The new budget, announced Monday, seems merely an attempt to disguise the demise of U.S. leadership in space. The president does away with Constellation, its Orion spacecraft, and its Ares I and Ares V boosters. The abrupt cancellation means the U.S. no longer wishes to send its explorers to the frontiers of knowledge and spacefaring skill. We are deliberately choosing to have no better space capability than do Russia, China, or India.
During the height of the shuttle program in the 1990s, we launched six or seven shuttles and about 40 astronauts per year into orbit for science and defense purposes. Starting next year, and for the foreseeable future, just four Americans will make it into space annually—as passengers on foreign rockets. Is this a bold new course for the nation?
After the shuttle orbiters retire late this year, American astronauts will rent seats on Russian rockets headed to the ISS. We won’t field an alternative spacecraft for five years or more. The president will instead farm out the nation’s access to low Earth orbit to commercial firms. None of the rockets NASA has contracted to deliver cargo to the ISS has flown, and betting our nation’s sole access to space on industry’s ability to replicate fifty years of NASA experience on the fly is unwise. NASA should fly a new crewed spacecraft as quickly as possible, then move to commercial firms once they have a proven record of reliable cargo services.
While NASA hopes its commercial effort will produce a ship that can service the ISS, the end of Constellation defers indefinitely the building of a heavy-lift rocket. Without such a Saturn V-class launcher, Americans will never get out of low Earth orbit (where we have been marooned for nearly 40 years). Instead, the Ares V heavy-lifter has been replaced with “research and development” on building such a vehicle, someday. With no ability to launch humans past the ISS, we will watch, helpless to follow, as China pursues its determination to be the next nation to send its explorers into deep space.
The president’s rejection of a clear goal to send humans into deep space by a certain date eliminates a future in space for the brightest of our young scientists and engineers. The space talent pool began emptying Monday, as promising innovators turn to careers in other industries. What student would pursue a career in space science or astronautics with the knowledge that the country deems leadership in space unimportant?
The president appointed his Augustine Committee last May to review the nation’s human spaceflight plans. Of their options, he accepted the move to put our human access to space on a commercial footing, with great uncertainty as to safety, schedule and cost. The nation has no backup plan if this effort fails.
But the president rejected the most important of the Augustine observations, that a great nation must fund an exploration program worthy of its vision. In fact, the committee recommended an extra $3 billion per year to renew NASA’s human exploration efforts. The president’s team instead chose to add only a billion dollars annually, missing a chance to remedy past underfunding and to take the U.S. forward in space. Although $787 billion was “available” last year for stimulus spending, finding $3 billion this year to stimulate our high-tech economy and talent pool proved impossible.
By proposing a budget for NASA that barely exceeds inflation, and failing to renew a commitment to send the U.S. beyond low Earth orbit, the administration is turning away from the dominance in space technology America has enjoyed since Apollo. This nation once put its confident footprints on the moon. Following the president’s misguided course, we will trudge in retreat from the frontiers and promise of space.
Tom Jones is a scientist, speaker, author and four-time NASA shuttle astronaut. His latest book is Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System (with Ellen Stofan).
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard, is photographed from the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit in July 1969. Photograph: NASA/REUTERS
The announcement of an end to immediate ambitions for an American to again reach the moon, on the seventh anniversary of the Columbia space shuttle disaster, sets the stage for a furious battle in Congress over US manned space exploration.
Politicians from Florida, Texas and Alabama, three states that have lost thousands of jobs in the space industry from this year’s planned retirement of the ageing shuttle fleet, promised a fight to keep the moon programme, Constellation, alive.
“They are replacing lost shuttle jobs too slowly, risking US leadership in space to China and Russia, and relying too heavily on unproven companies,” said Bill Nelson, a Democratic Senator for Florida and former astronaut who flew one mission in 1986.
Michael Griffin, who resigned as Nasa chief when Obama took office, branded the plan “disastrous”, likening it to Richard Nixon’s cancellation of the Apollo programme in the 1970s. “It means that essentially the US has decided that they’re not going to be a significant player in human space flight for the foreseeable future,” he told The Washington Post.
Nasa has already spent more than $9bn on Constellation, including testing the Ares I rocket that was to have replaced the shuttle as transport from Earth to the international space station and beyond. The programme was “based largely on existing technologies, over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation”, according to Obama’s budget report.
“The truth is that we were not on a path to get back to the moon’s surface,” said Charles Bolden, the new Nasa administrator.
“There will be challenges as a result of cancelling Constellation, [but] the funding for Nasa is increasing, so we expect to support as many if not more jobs.” The budget gives Nasa $19bn for 2011, and $100bn over the next five years; the proposal also extends the international space station until 2020.
Source: The Guardian
By Bob Crippen
On July 20, people around the world celebrated an American triumph. The 40th anniversary of
the Apollo 11 moon landing recalls a period of curiosity, ingenuity and perseverance that
captured the world’s imagination. I was in Houston interviewing with NASA for a spot in the
astronaut corps in 1969 when Neil Armstrong took his first step on the lunar surface. It was
phenomenal to observe it up close, but the moment was bittersweet. Even as we did something
that had never been done before, we knew we wouldn’t be doing it much longer. The program
was winding down because of budget constraints.
The Apollo 11 anniversary this year and the scheduled end of the Shuttle program next year
evoke many of the same conflicting emotions we felt behind the scenes in 1969. A smart, young
workforce had fueled the race to the moon. When Apollo missions ended in 1972, so too did
thousands of jobs. Our brightest and most committed were unemployed.
Due to budget constraints and shifts in approach, the current plan calls for a several years-long
gap between the end of the Shuttle program and the first flight of the Constellation program,
NASA’s new initiative to return to the moon and beyond. That devastating gap could mean
another “brain drain” as talented, skilled contractors and NASA employees are forced to take
their institutional knowledge elsewhere.
Once people leave, you can’t just call them up years later and say, “We’re going to fly again,
and we hope you’ve waited around for years to come back and share your talents.” We found
ourselves in this situation when we started the Shuttle program – forced to train a new
workforce with no prior experience. As one of the few people in the world who has piloted a
never-before-flown spacecraft, I’m here to tell you – you want experienced engineers and
technicians on your team.
While preparing for the first Shuttle mission at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the 1970s, I
also witnessed firsthand the economic devastation of the aerospace industry downturn. The
Space Coast, Houston and other cities that thrived on aerospace were hit hard. Once again, we
face the prospect of thousands of layoffs, and the residual economic blow to aerospace
communities around the country is grim, especially coupled with the current national climate.
Delaying key decisions about the future of the program will magnify the job losses.
The Obama administration recently announced a comprehensive review of the existing Shuttleto-
Constellation plan by an independent panel, with a report due by August. The review
provides an opportunity to consider adjustments that could prevent the loss of talented
personnel while heading off devastating economic effects. Also, the administration’s selection
of Charles Bolden for NASA Administrator is a very positive move.
NASA and industry leaders have been working hard to keep top talent, ensuring the current
design of the Constellation program takes advantage of those already working on Shuttle. The
leadership is limited, however, by budgetary and policy guidelines.
President Obama has recognized the importance of the United States’ position as a leader in
space exploration. In a recent speech at the National Academy of Sciences, he marked the
Apollo 11 anniversary with a reminder that “the enormous investment of that era – in science
and technology, in education and research funding – produced a great outpouring of curiosity
and creativity, the benefits of which have been incalculable.”
Critics may question the benefits of a strong space program, but America’s space industry is a
critical component of both our economy and our legacy of exploration. Wernher von Braun, who
developed the Saturn V rocket that propelled Apollo to the moon and is widely considered the
greatest rocket scientist in history, was quick to answer the critics of his day with the facts:
“The NASA budget is not being spent on the moon,” he said. “It is being spent right here on
Earth. It provides new jobs, new products, new processes, new companies and whole new
industries.”
The same holds true today. Adequate support of the Constellation program from the country
and Washington is imperative to minimize the gap, retain expertise and instill enthusiasm for
science and technology in a new generation.
During the Nixon administration, the gap between the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs was
devastating to the aerospace industry. The six-year gap cost America more than 400,000 jobs.
Today, we face a similar once-in-a-generation decision. Based on the long-term view of
President Obama’s support for America’s space exploration program, my guess is he won’t
make the same mistakes. Instead, my fervent hope is that he will not only minimize the gap, but
he will also build on JFK’s vision and return America to its greatness as a truly spacefaring
nation.
Bob Crippen is a former astronaut who served as pilot of the first space shuttle mission (STS-1);
commander of three other space shuttle missions (STS-7, STS-41C, STS-41G); former director
of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; and former president of Thiokol Propulsion. He is a
current member of the Coalition for Space Exploration Board of Advisors.
Source: Coalition for Space Exploration
Update: Politicians Fight to Keep America’s Moon Mission Alive
Revealing the plans behind The Mystery Revealed.
by Author X
 When billionaire Elliot Burbank hires PSICORP to find his missing son, they assemble the finest psychic remote viewing unit since the cold war. Able to penetrate the deepest secrets of the universe using only their minds, the Omega Team soon find themselves in a race to save the child from the clutches of his abductors. But in this race there is only one way to win. The team must solve one of the most elusive enigmas of our century.
So goes the jacket blurb on the newest addition to the Remote Viewing family, a publication released by the Lifequest Publishing Group for PSI TECH by the name of Circles: The Mystery Revealed. One could certainly insert a Monty Python-esque tidbit here about the name. “Circles? What secrets do circles have? Do they go around in a lopsided fashion? Is it going to elope with a triangle? Tell me now, what sinister plans could this deviant polygon have to unleash upon the world?”
As the cover image suggests, the “circles” aspect actually has little to do with shapes and more to do with the unusual markings that have come to be known as cereal glyphs: more succinctly, crop circles. Of course, even there the mystery lies rather flaccidly, unless one takes upon the myriad stories of energy ley-lines and other cosmic artifacts able to be sensed by a handful of self-proclaimed ’sensitives’ who know more about these things than any of us care to know. The key questions to be answered are not what the circles are, but rather who makes them and more menacingly, why these acts of terrestrial graffiti continue to appear around the world. The answer to that, obviously, lays inside the book itself, wrapped around a delightful story of the circumstances and the remote viewers who are called upon to solve this mystery. But more about that later.
For years now, PSI TECH has been eager and excited to release tales of Remote Viewing projects and the associated mysteries therein to the mass populace, in a form easier to swallow than the usual glib reply one may find in the chat room, such as “Why don’t you just TRV it?” Of course, not many will be willing to perform the requisite mental gymnastics required to accomplish said Remote Viewing session, an endeavor akin to assembling a 1,000 piece puzzle set for the sheer entertainment aspect of it (and my apologies to those who actually do assemble crossword puzzles for entertainment on a nightly basis — I will hope for your cable television to be turned back on soon). For the more HBO-oriented crowd, something more simple than undertaking the full-on course was required.
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Enter the Omega Series, a serial-style collection of novels set in the modern day, but with a twist. Although the usual daily events go on, such as wars, famine, kidnappings, political intrigue, and even the brewing at Starbucks, the world portrayed in the Omega Series contains a small difference. In the world of the Omega Series, there exists a secret base, home and operations center for the world’s most elite psychic spies. Deep in the jungle, under its glass-lined ceilings, sculpted rock walls and lush botanical expanses (which contain a few mysteries of their own, from what I understand), the center known as Eden hums away as the world’s central hub for serious psychic spying. You might call Eden and its residents the A-Team of the intel world. Fortunately for us, this psychic A-Team doesn’t wear fancy gold jewelery or need to spend inordinate amounts of time constructing battle vehicles from backyard scrap; they have everything they need right there in their heads. As regular readers of The Matrix will no doubt be aware, this refers to the skill of Technical Remote Viewing.
The first book in the series, as noted earlier, is Circles. As with all books in the series, the story revolves around a central core of information gleaned from actual Technical Remote Viewing sessions performed by PSI TECH and its viewers. Like a tootsie-pop, this chewy, caramel-like core is covered in a sweet but somewhat more challenging fictional aspect, most of which revolves around the Eden center, its resident administrators, and the five Remote Viewers who do the actual ‘enigma penetration’. This daring crew is brought to us courtesy of the writing talents of Kimberly Snow (yes, the same one that writes articles for The Matrix newsletter).
Like many good authors before her, Snow cut her literary teeth on poetry (some of it detailed in the independently published Fire and Mirth), capturing the fine details in small cutaways of ordinary, everyday life. This attention to detail comes through with great effect in her portrayal of the Eden team. In many ways, the social dynamics amongst the team, and their own personal reasons for both learning Remote Viewing and choosing to abandon their old lives to a degree to join up with the Eden program, are far more interesting and overshadow the data itself in some instances. But this is not a bad thing at all. In fact, I could compare the dynamics and their completeness to a level usually seen in a good Stephen King mystery/horror novel. Like King, Snow enjoys getting inside the character’s heads, not just dictating to us what they are doing but what on Earth makes them do so. In many instances this is a fantastic addition, as most would agree running off to a secluded island in the Pacific to hang around scribbling odd shapes on paper isn’t quite up to par with normal weekend hobbies. I was never left wanting to know what was going on, why it was going on, or faced with terminal boredom during slower moments of the story.
As with many first installments of good series, a large part of the book is spent identifying and introducing us to the characters that propel the story forwards. Head of the Eden project, the dynamic duo of Jane and Daniel Byron call upon the resources of three live-in associates. Shawna, a high-spirited, bubbly blonde (but with brown hair), manages the plants, animals, files, and acts as general gopher, providing a much-needed exuberance around the life-and-death projects carried out on the premises. Jeff Kilmer is a driven, though somewhat aggressive groundskeeper, the kind of anchorman you want to make sure everything gets done. Elric, the resident technophile, maintains and runs everything electric, and his dark personality provides an interesting black comedy aspect to many parts of the project. Gene, the gatekeeper, ensures security with a sidearm and his ever-present collection of ID badges. This crew supports the Remote Viewing wunderkind who fly in and out of the project while performing their feats of mental gymnastics.
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The foremost of these teams is known simply as Omega. The Omega team is comprised of five individuals, taken from all over the world. Each of them has their own reasons for coming to Eden, and all of them have their own skeletons in their closet, as well as their own hopes and wishes for their lives as well as others’. Jorge Jones, an eccentric gambler, attempts to live large the easy way, and finds out the hard way that doing so usually comes at a great cost. Rodrigo Mondego, a young professor in particle physics, brings a withdrawn and shy side of the team, intrinsically capable of fantastic things but often without the personal knowledge of how to accomplish them. Joe Keats, a retired beat cop who has seen more heinousness in his day than his psyche wishes to admit, attempts to save the world one missing persons case at a time. Melanie Tipton is the straight-up country girl with attitude. An accomplished veterinarian, she can do anything she sets her mind to, except confront the ghosts of her lost child. Aiden Shepherd is a dynamic bad boy archaeologist, for whom rules are merely things in the way of uncovering secret historical digs discovered with TRV data. These five individuals make up the Omega Team, some of them reluctantly, some of them eagerly. Propelling this lot of characters forward to a confrontation with things larger than themselves is the larger-than-life billionaire Elliot Burbank. Burbank is a man who is used to buying everything. That is, until all the money in the world is useless as investigator after investigator comes up empty in the search for his abducted son. And so we dive straight into the world of Remote Viewing.
If there is a failing with the book, it could only be that it is done too well as a dramatized account. In some respects the reader is left with the definite feeling that the Eden project and her crew are simply too good a thing to exist in this world. Yet in others, the interplay of politics and the everyday shortcomings of humanity captured within demonstrate a certain realistic downer that keeps the book from being able to be enjoyed on a simple, pure fantasy level. None of this really intrudes on the purpose of the story. If anything, it created an entirely different experience that I was not anticipating: an enjoyable adventure on its own merit. While the mystery and Remote Viewing data is indeed “revealed” as promised, it is done so in the manner of a good play. We see a little bit of what is behind the great curtain on the stage, but only enough to keep us wanting to go from one scene to the next. By the end of the book, there are more questions than answers, but none of those questions stem from the original topic of the book. We definitely know what created the circles, and a little bit about why. Some of us probably already have a pretty good guess about what form the answer to the who part will take, but I doubt that anyone has yet uncovered the why part that is touched on in this book. Could it have been more explicit in that detail? Most likely. This is not a CIA after-action report. Those of you looking for a cut-and-dry debriefing session will not find it here.
For the introductory cover price of $5.95 (ebook) or $9.95 (paperbook), this is definitely not a bad thing. Let there be no confusion about it: this is a serious, bona-fide novel, despite its initial form as a downloadable PDF document. This is a much better deal than I’ve gotten on many of the real-deal books of the dead-tree variety hanging out on the aisle displays at Borders, and the story itself is just as entertaining if not more so. The next novel promises to be even more of a character-driven powerhouse, expertly interweaving more of this grand story of the creators of crop circles and their plans for humanity, with the page count to prove it. Author Snow informs me that the next installment of the series will be darker, more dramatic, and continue to open up the grand back-story just touched upon in this first part of the series.
For whatever reasons, be it the subject matter, the team dynamics, perhaps just the Wizard-of-Oz-like magicality of the setting, Circles just clicks. It’s an entertaining romp through the world of what-if, mixed in with just enough truth and mystery to make the entire concoction intellectually stimulating as well. I would encourage anyone who is interested in Remote Viewing to take a look at what is possible with a little desire, a little luck, and a lot of TRVing. There are four other books in this series, links are available below.
Click on the following links to read more:
Circles: The Mystery Revealed
Greys: Countdown to Contact
Firefly: Betrayal in Eden
Discontinuity: On the Brink of Destruction
Starman: Consciousness Unlocked
Test Your Psychic Abilities
PSI TECH’s Quickstart system allows beginners to test themselves against a series of 4 remote viewing targets, following a set structure via guidance from an online instructor. |
 ow everyone who is curious about remote viewing will be able to try it online, in the privacy of their own homes, without having to make a commitment to a complete training program. Using a proven structure, the new Quickstart Online System is a web based remote viewing testing program that will guide a beginner through a series of five basic remote viewing targets. No previous experience or training is required.
How Quickstart Works
We developed Remote Viewing Quickstart Online* to allow those who are interested in remote viewing training to have a taste of what it is like, prior to investing in an in depth training course. The program is designed to take a person who has no previous exposure to remote viewing, and show him or her how to describe and sketch a provided blind target, using a modified form of Technical Remote Viewing. This structure, based on techniques used by PSI TECH and the U.S. military’s remote viewing training program, is designed to facilitate a beginner’s ability to establish and maintain site contact and retrieve accurate raw data.
An online monitor will guide you through each of your sessions, essentially holding your hand, explaining each stage of the process, so that you do not have to pause to think or guess what to do next. Every participant will be taught how to describe each target’s sensory and dimensional data and produce a kinesthetic sketch of the target. Following each monitored session, you will be provided with the target feedback so you can compare the actual target to your work.
The program has simple and easy to follow instructions. There are no lectures or theory involved and no required video to purchase – just a specific structure that you will be required to follow, explained to you in detail, in an on screen video, by your instructor. Quickstart is completed entirely via the internet, with options for several connection speeds. Originally priced at $39.95, this program is now available to you free of charge.
Learning Technical Remote Viewing allows one to access levels of human potential never before imagined. After you complete the targets and realize that you have the innate ability to accurately access information anywhere in time and space, using only mind, your life will be changed forever. For those who want to further their training and realize the full potential of this technology, we offer a curriculum of complete Technical Remote Viewing training programs at our Remote Viewing Solutions section. PSI TECH is dedicated to supporting your journey and helping you master the most important skill ever developed by man.
Quickstart requirements
To participate, you will need the latest versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox with the Macromedia Flash plug-in, a stack of clean white paper and a rollerball style black ink pen.
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A PSI TECH Investigates Technical Remote Viewing Special Report 
 or thousands of years, man has sought the answer to the ultimate question: what happens when we die? Some religious texts describe an afterlife that is a reward for only those who are pure in heart and repentant for their sins. Some describe reincarnation and past lives; a process of continual rebirth on Earth for the purpose of learning new lessons. And there are those who believe that upon the moment of death, everything simply fades to black – our memories and consciousness cease to exist. This is the ultimate human enigma.
For the first time, a tool has been able to penetrate the unseen events which take place at the cessation of life in human beings. Using Technical Remote Viewing, a PSI TECH special operations team targeted the death event specifically to determine what happens after a person dies. The results were reassuring to some, and astonishing to others.
About Technical Remote Viewing
Technical Remote Viewing is a highly structured and standardized technique that allows one to consistently obtain accurate information, on demand, using a rigorously applied set of protocols. It is a trained ability to acquire accurate direct knowledge of things and events – targets – distant in time or space, while conscious awareness remains totally “blind” to details about the target itself. It is a data collection skill. Like any other skill, practice is required to become proficient. The TRV techniques result in an accurate transfer of information from the viewer’s unconscious mind into conscious awareness, before the aware, creative, and analytical part of the mind has time to distort, contaminate, or otherwise interfere with the data flow. The target information is then converted into words or sketches, using only a pen and plain white paper. During this process, the viewer becomes linked directly to the collective unconscious – also referred to as the Matrix. The process works whether the target is in the next room or on the other side of the world. This information can exist anywhere in time or at any point in the Universe, as mind exists outside of time and space.
All humans have the innate potential to receive detailed information on a target, using only their minds. But throughout history, only a small number of exceptional natural psychics developed their ability to a point of repeatability and consistency. It was not until the late twentieth century when the U.S. intelligence community poured millions of research dollars into the area of psychic functioning that a true breakthrough was realized. In an effort to use psychics for intelligence gathering purposes, the Defense Intelligence Agency contracted Stanford Research Institute to develop a reliable technique that could be used to collect accurate information on distant targets. The outcome of this research was a set of protocols and a training program that allowed virtually anyone to be trained to perceive psychically derived information, while surpassing the accuracy of the best known natural psychics. For the first time, a remote viewer could learn how to consistently separate imagination from true target data and remain locked on to the target signal.
Remote Viewing as an Applied Military Intelligence Tool
The refinement and development of the process did not end in the laboratory. In the Defense Intelligence Agency’s unit, these remote viewing procedures were tested against top secret and distant targets often involving life or death situations – a motivating factor which simply does not exist in the laboratory research environment. The work these viewers produced had to be accurate and they used it to save lives, find hostages and solve complex problems involving the security of the United States. This resulted in improvements in the techniques and training regimen and brought great strides in perfecting the accuracy of the skill. It was now a highly accurate military intelligence collection and problem solving tool, applied by highly disciplined military intelligence officers. One of the training officers of the remote viewing unit formed a private corporation, in 1989, and the former presiding General of INSCOM (Intelligence Security Command) sat on the board of directors, to help usher this technology out of the confines of secrecy and into the private sector. That company is PSI TECH.
In this PSI TECH Investigates special report, thanks to this powerful mind technology, we reveal the mystery of life after death. Now offered absolutely free with enhanced for broadband higher resolution viewing options.
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  hat do you see in your mind when you hear the word winner? An Olympic athlete crossing the finish line and winning a Gold Medal? How about a successful executive sitting behind a huge mahogany desk? Or maybe a famous person being surrounded by fans? You may have thought of one of these images, or have totally different images of your own. But I’ll bet there’s one image you didn’t think of. The image of YOU!
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- Overcome shyness
- Start conversations in group situations
- Give interviews without any signs of nervousness
- Command an audience with a dynamic presentation
- Gain confidence and charisma others will feel the moment you enter a room
So get ready to unleash the “winner” in you. Because once you discover the true power of your own self-expression, you life will be transformed–forever!
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  m sure that you’ve heard the idea that our thoughts somehow shape the reality that we experience; that negative thoughts influence the world around us and bring about negative circumstances, while positive thoughts somehow bring about positive circumstances. An entire industry of motivational speakers has been organized around this premise. And most all of us have been exposed to the tenants of positive thinking.
But if it works so well, then why isn’t everyone who attends these seminars and reads these books rich and successful? And most of all, why aren’t they happy? If all we need to do is just think positive thoughts, we should be able to create a positive world almost overnight, shouldn’t we? What’s wrong with this picture?
The Happiness Misconception
 What most people fail to understand is that happiness is not something that happens to you. It’s something that you cultivate. That you determine and control. If you’re waiting for happiness to happen to you, than you’re going to have a long wait. Instead, leap frog to it right NOW. How do you do that?
Well, I’ve spent the last twenty years finding out. And what I’ve discovered is a philosophy that I’ll share with you in Mind Power Secrets, a deceptively simple philosophy that all winners use to attract wealth and prosperity into their lives. I’ll introduce you to a set of tools and programs that I think will not only be a tremendous benefit to you, but will literally allow you to become your potential and derive the maximum pleasure out of life.
Follow this program, and one year from now I guarantee you’ll be totally amazed at the transformation and the positive direction that your life takes. You, too, will learn to attract wealth and prosperity into your life. To bring forth loving and positive relationships. The tools in this program will allow you to shine and glow and achieve in every area.
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A handbook for healthy living and creating positive attitudes
  ou know what I find amazing? That people are willing to go to war, and even give up their lives for a cause, but they can’t give up the causes of their suffering. Why is that? Why do we hold on to beliefs that don’t serve us? Our habit patterns are so hard to break. And even when we try, obstacles seem to appear; our desires and our attachments push us to keep repeating the same destructive patterns over and over again. Why? Why do we follow the same negative course, rarely finding happiness or satisfaction in the pleasures all around us?
Here’s why: because we haven’t learned how to truly enjoy one single moment. We haven’t learned how to live in the present. We spend most of the time worrying about the future, or dwelling on the past, and so our experiences are never totally fulfilled. Our time is spent between work and pleasure, and we work, it seems, for pleasure: preparing and planning for weekends and vacations and various entertainments to escape into. I’m not saying that’s wrong. I’m just asking the question, “Do we find real pleasure in the constant pursuit of entertainment? Or are we missing something? Something deeper and more sustaining?”
The Secret is Within Your Grasp
Imagine for moment living the perfect life every single day from now on. No stress. No fear. No anger. No matter what circumstances you encounter. Imagine experiencing the magic of being alive – and living a life filled with joy and possibilities. What would that be like?
It’s said that 99% of the world is asleep, and the 1% that is awake is in a constant state of amazement–living fully, really experiencing all that life has to offer by being fully conscious, awake and alive, aware of the magnificent dance of life all around them. They know what it’s like to live the perfect life. They know the secret. And now you can too. It’s not out of your grasp. The Secret to Living the Perfect Life contains a powerful philosophy. A simple but profound truth that once internalized will allow you to transform the way that you think about your experience in the world.
The core element of living a perfect life is to experience being alive, and the five principles introduced in this book will awaken in you the potential that you were born to fulfill. These principles, used by the greatest masters and wisest men in history, are simple to understand. By incorporating these core principles into your life, you will learn to live consciously, in the present, and discover how to transform fear and anxiety into power. You will learn what it means when the world’s greatest athletes use the term “being in the zone”, and like the Zen masters, you will discover how to surrender to your own inner power. You will learn to uncover the underlying principle or activity that gives meaning to your life-and follow your passion to find untold bliss. You will discover the secret of “right thinking”, the secret used by the most successful people in the world.
Look: I’ve spent the better part of the last 20 years working out the details of this idea for my own life. I know it works. By following this simple program, you can begin to wake up from your current slumber and join the ranks of those happy individuals who relish every moment of life. I invite you to begin an internal adventure into your own potential–a self discovery of what you can do right now to start living a perfect life.
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An Introduction To Mind Tek’s Brainwave Entrainment and Advanced Meditation Training Technologies
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 ow can simply listening to an audio CD program positively change your life? Although the successful use of these advanced audio programs is easy and effortless for the user, the technology behind the soundtracks is not so simple. It took many years of development, hard work, and testing to design the most effective neuro-entrainment audio matrix ever created. The development of these programs lead Mind Tek’s founder to form the most successful self improvement company in the world. (Click here to read the results of the scientific study.)
In this introduction, you will find out how the Brain Supercharger technology was developed, how it works, how thousands of people have used it to improve their lives, boost productivity, reduce stress and increase overall enjoyment of life, and how you too can benefit.
Biofeedback researchers have found that people who enter the “Theta State” expand their states of consciousness, acquire superreceptivity to new information, and demonstrate a greater ability to “rescript’ material on a subconscious level. Even more astonishing are the findings of a study on a group of chronic alcoholics at a University in Colorado. After 13 weeks, the group that learned to generate Theta and Alpha brainwaves, showed a far greater recovery rate, and a complete transformation of personality. There is a remarkable body of evidence to support the claim that teaching people to enter into altered states on a regular basis can dramatically improve their mental functioning, emotional stability, and heighten intuition and perceptual ability.
One of the goals of researchers at Mind Tek Research was to find a specific (non drug) process that could drive the brain into an optimal state of expanded awareness. It had to be inexpensive, easy to use, and accessible to anyone. The discovery was to have a profound impact on the lives of thousands. The discovery was:
Certain sounds using the right frequency combinations and harmonic effects could alter consciousness and drive the brain into an altered state similar to that achieved by experienced meditators.
The idea that sound could shift mood and stimulate psychological and physiological responses in the brain was not a new idea. In fact, it was an old one. Ancient cultures with their shamanic rituals up through the modern masters of music have used sound to heal, affect mood, and induce trance states. Why are certain music and sound patterns so powerful in affecting mood and altering brain chemistry? Mind Tek’s goal was to take this idea as far as possible. To develop a specific technology that could stimulate optimal states at the push of a button, accelerate the process of personal transformation, and allow a listener to experience transcendental states without any prior practice. The culmination of their research was the Brain Supercharger technology. (Click here to read a study on this amazing technology.) To learn more about available products which incorporate this technology, allowing you to boost performance, lower stress levels, and achieve deep meditation, visit the Products Page.
What You Hear And Don’t Hear When Using Your Mind Tek Program
The neuro-entrainment matrix is composed of tones in a subsonic frequency range (just beneath the threshold of human hearing.) These tones coax your brainwaves slowly from a beta consciousness down into the theta range. You may hear a faint, very low humming sound in the background of your CDs. This is the subsonic neuro-entrainment matrix.
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A “double blind” experiment was conducted on the BRAIN SUPERCHARGER soundtracks. The primary purpose of the study was to see what effects, if any, this technology has on the mental functioning of a listener. The results were published in a report issued by PSI Metrics. The conclusion? The findings as reported by the study’s author were as follows; “To begin with, it appears that the BRAIN SUPERCHARGER “works.” That is, it does what its name implies it does. Daily usage seems to have a profound effect on the mental functioning of its listener, increasing his or her…INTELLIGENCE, EMOTIONAL STABILITY, and ALERTNESS.
Conversely, a comparable group of people, exposed for the same period of time to a PLACEBO tape—identical in every respect except that it lacked the SUPERCHARGER technology—showed essentially no changes at |
all. These psychological gains from the SUPERCHARGER, in turn, translate into higher morale, deeper insight, more intellectual adaptability, increased judgment, greater creativity, a broader occupational outlook, and a generally more relaxed view of life—as indicated by an actuarial profile analysis of the data. …These findings strongly suggest that the SUPERCHARGER technology does what it claims to do: that is, it provides the human brain with a psycho-physical “workout,” as it were, that improves its mental functioning. In conclusion, the BRAIN SUPERCHARGER appears to alter the personality of its users in essentially positive and life-enhancing ways.” (Quoted from a report issued on the Brain Supercharger study, by Dr. Lawerence Cory, PhD. A reprint of this report along with further analysis can be found in the appendix of Super Brain Power: 28 Minutes to a Supercharged Brain.)
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What Happens To You In The Theta State
As your Mind Tek soundtrack mentally relaxes you into a theta consciousness, your body physically relaxes too. Your heart rate slows and respiration becomes regular and relaxed. Your muscles relax and your arms and legs become limp. Your attention becomes focused inward while outside distractions seem to melt away.
Here are some comments from different people of what the theta experience felt like to them:
“An incredible floating sensation.”
“I feel like I can just let things happen and everything will work out for me.”
“I feel an increase in energy, and a release in tension.”
“It’s not the same kind of relaxation like lying down and taking a nap. Instead it’s a special kind of relaxation. I feel more aware, and it gives me a great feeling of power and concentration.”
“I feel as though I’d left my body.”
In addition to unfolding a powerful relaxation state, it is believed by some psychologists and neurologists that the brain uses the theta state for psychological and physiological programming. By entraining the brain to stay in this altered state on a daily basis for minimum of 30 minutes, you are opening the door to your unlimited self. Listening to these special CDs on a regular basis is more than just a pleasant experience. The positive change it produces can affect every area of your life.
As you use this program on a regular basis, you should notice less overall stress in your daily life. The anxiety quelling properties of regular meditation is well documented, and these soundtracks, if used on a regular basis, will help you perform at optimal levels in every area of your life. After only a few months of use you should discover subtle yet profound shifts in your life. Besides reducing stress which dramatically improves health, many users report a heightened awareness and a greater perception of events. You become more “centered” and feel a greater sense of “aliveness” and “focus” as you engage in your daily activities. This shift is subtle but powerful. And the transformational effects you’ll experience over the months to years to come are forever.
Direct Access To Your Unconscious
The reason why the Brain Supercharger technology is so effective in changing personal behavior and modifying self-image is that the affirmations (positive experiences) are directed toward the unconscious, while you are in a state of peak receptivity for psychological programming.
The conscious mind will reject any statements which are in conflict with what it knows to be true, but the unconscious doesn’t know the difference between a truth and a lie. Unlike your conscious mind, the unconscious can be tricked into believing a new reality.
The most important fact you need to know about your unconscious is this:
The unconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between real and imagined experiences!
Most self-improvement techniques are designed to work only with the conscious mind. You listen to motivational speakers who get you pumped up for a day or two. Or you read self-improvement books that contain great principles and ideas only to forget them a few weeks later. Perhaps you repeat positive affirmations on a conscious level, and instead of a quick fix, you just feel silly! The problem isn’t that these things can’t work. It’s just that they require an immense amount of effort and repetition to penetrate the conscious mind and rescript years of negative programming that already exists in your unconscious. The problem with all these methods is they don’t directly address the true source of your behaviors. So when you tell your conscious mind, “I am wealthy,” or “I am thin,” it knows you are lying.
One woman I know, who was trying to lose weight with conscious affirmations said, “I have affirmed that I am this until I am worn out. I knew that when I was telling myself those statements that it was obviously not true.” Her statements were rejected by the conscious mind and the very opposite of what she outwardly affirmed was manifest. She actually gained weight! The unconscious mind will take your fears and limiting beliefs and, in its own way, bring about the obstacles, delays, and limitations into your life to fit your internal image of reality. That’s why if your outer reality isn’t working, you need to work on your inner reality. Your outer world is or becomes a reflection of your inner world. It’s just that simple.
What’s required then is a technology that can bypass the conscious mind and address the unconscious directly. In effect, opening a window into your inner mind so you can implant positive programming. Through repetition and real life experiences that begin to mirror this new internal reality, it becomes self-reinforcing and self-perpetuating. Once locked in, your mindscript is modified permanently. The unconscious then acts in accordance with its new programming and brings about changes in your everyday experiences to match this new reality.
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In new book, he says that near-death accounts transcend cultures and ages
By Michael Inbar
TODAYshow.com contributor
updated 9:47 a.m. CT, Wed., Jan. 20, 2010
The near-death experience story is so common that it has become a bit of a cliché: A medical patient, hanging in a murky limbo between life and death, is drawn through a tunnel of bright light, meets their maker, and is told they must return to the land of living.
But that scenario played out letter-perfectly for Mary Jo Rapini. And her story is getting firm backing by a doctor who has studied some 1,300 near-death experiences. Medical doctor Jeffrey Long chronicles Rapini’s story, along with his own research, in a new book: “Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.”
In the book, Long contends his study shows that accounts of near-death experiences play out remarkably similarly among the people who have had them, crossing age and cultural boundaries to such a degree that they can’t be chalked up simply to everyone having seen the same Hollywood movie.
Through a tunnel
Appearing with Dr. Long on TODAY Wednesday, Rapini related her near-death experience to Meredith Vieira. A clinical psychologist, Rapini had long worked with terminal cancer patients, and when they told her of their near-death experiences, she would often chalk their stories up as a reaction to their pain medication.
But in April 2003, she faced her own mortality. Rapini told Vieira she suffered an aneurysm while working out a gym and was rushed to the hospital. She was in an intensive care unit for three days when she took a turn for the worse.
“All of a sudden [doctors] were rushing around me and inserting things into me, and they called my husband,” she told Vieira.
“I looked up and I saw this light; it wasn’t a normal light, it was different. It was luminescent. And it grew. I kept looking at it like, ‘What is that?’ Then it grew large and I went into it.
“I went into this tunnel, and I came into this room that was just beautiful. God held me, he called me by name, and he told me, ‘Mary Jo, you can’t stay.’ And I wanted to stay. I protested. I said, ‘I can’t stay? Why not?’ And I started talking about all the reasons; I was a good wife, I was a good mother, I did 24-hour care with cancer patients.
“And he said, ‘Let me ask you one thing — have you ever loved another the way you’ve been loved here?’ And I said, ‘No, it’s impossible. I’m a human.’ And then he just held me and said, ‘You can do better.’ ”
While Rapini’s account may seem far-fetched to naysayers, Long says her recollections mirror nearly all stories of near-death experiences. When Vieira asked Long whether Rapini might be prone to cultural conditioning — surely she heard similar stories before — he said her story is untouched by preconceived notions.
Crossing cultures and ages
“I think if near-death experiences were culturally determined, then people that had never heard of near-death experiences would have a different experience,” Long argued. “But we’re not finding that. Whether you know or don’t know about near-death experiences at the time it happens, it has no effect on whether the experience happens or not, or what the content is.”
In his book, Long details nine lines of evidence that he says send a “consistent message of an afterlife.” Among them are crystal-clear recollections, heightened senses, reunions with deceased family members and long-lasting effects after the person is brought back to life.
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In his book “Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences,” Dr. Jeffrey Long reports on some 1,300 near-death accounts.
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Long noted that he was especially fascinated that very small children who have near-death experiences almost always recount the same stories as adults, even if the concept of death isn’t fully formed in their minds.
“My research involved experiences of young children age 5 and under, and I found the content of their near-death experiences is absolutely identical to older children and adults,” he told Vieira. “It suggests that whether you know about near-death experiences, what your cultural upbringing is, what your awareness of death is, it doesn’t seem to have any effect on the content of the near-death experience.”
Long, a radiation oncologist, said that writing his book has actually made him a better doctor, as well as a believer in the afterlife.
“[It] profoundly changed me as a physician,” he said. “I could fight cancer more courageously. I found patients who died, it wasn’t the end. It made me more compassionate and more confident.”
Source: MSNBC.com
Related: Remote Viewing the Afterlife: What Happens When We Die? – FREE Video Report
 A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect
Credit & Copyright: Umar Mohideen (U. California at Riverside)
Explanation: This tiny ball provides evidence that the universe will expand forever. Measuring slightly over one tenth of a millimeter, the ball moves toward a smooth plate in response to energy fluctuations in the vacuum of empty space. The attraction is known as the Casimir Effect, named for its discoverer, who, 50 years ago, was trying to understand why fluids like mayonnaise move so slowly. Today, evidence is accumulating that most of the energy density in the universe is in an unknown form dubbed dark energy. The form and genesis of dark energy is almost completely unknown, but postulated as related to vacuum fluctuations similar to the Casimir Effect but generated somehow by space itself. This vast and mysterious dark energy appears to gravitationally repel all matter and hence will likely cause the universe to expand forever. Understanding vacuum fluctuations is on the forefront of research not only to better understand our universe but also for stopping micro-mechanical machine parts from sticking together.
Source: NASA
December 24, 2009
The core is too deep for scientists to directly detect its magnetic field. But researchers can infer the field’s movements by tracking how Earth’s magnetic field has been changing at the surface and in space.
Now, newly analyzed data suggest that there’s a region of rapidly changing magnetism on the core’s surface, possibly being created by a mysterious “plume” of magnetism arising from deeper in the core.
And it’s this region that could be pulling the magnetic pole away from its long-time location in northern Canada, said Arnaud Chulliat, a geophysicist at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France.
Finding North
Magnetic north, which is the place where compass needles actually point, is near but not exactly in the same place as the geographic North Pole. Right now, magnetic north is close to Canada’s Ellesmere Island.
Navigators have used magnetic north for centuries to orient themselves when they’re far from recognizable landmarks.
Although global positioning systems have largely replaced such traditional techniques, many people still find compasses useful for getting around underwater and underground where GPS satellites can’t communicate.
The magnetic north pole had moved little from the time scientists first located it in 1831. Then in 1904, the pole began shifting northeastward at a steady pace of about 9 miles (15 kilometers) a year.
In 1989 it sped up again, and in 2007 scientists confirmed that the pole is now galloping toward Siberia at 34 to 37 miles (55 to 60 kilometers) a year.
A rapidly shifting magnetic pole means that magnetic-field maps need to be updated more often to allow compass users to make the crucial adjustment from magnetic north to true North.
Wandering Pole
Geologists think Earth has a magnetic field because the core is made up of a solid iron center surrounded by rapidly spinning liquid rock. This creates a “dynamo” that drives our magnetic field.
(Get more facts about Earth’s insides.)
Scientists had long suspected that, since the molten core is constantly moving, changes in its magnetism might be affecting the surface location of magnetic north.
Although the new research seems to back up this idea, Chulliat is not ready to say whether magnetic north will eventually cross into Russia.
“It’s too difficult to forecast,” Chulliat said.
Also, nobody knows when another change in the core might pop up elsewhere, sending magnetic north wandering in a new direction.
Chulliat presented his work this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
Source: National Geographic
The mysterious chancel ceiling at St. John’s Anglican Church in Lunenburg, N.S., was reconstructed in 2004 after a fire three years earlier. While locals now know what the star pattern represents, they don’t know who originally designed it, or how. (CBC)
Parishioners at one of Canada’s oldest Anglican churches will be puzzled by an enduring enigma when they gaze heavenward this Christmas.
The chancel ceiling at St. John’s Anglican Church in Lunenburg, N.S., has a special pattern of gilded stars on it, and while locals now know what it represents, they have yet to find out who originally designed it, or how.
The conundrum emerged after the church, built in 1754, burned on Halloween night in 2001 as a result of arson. The parish sought to reconstruct the building’s interior as closely as possible, and it brought in parishioner Margaret Coolen in 2004 to re-create the ceiling over the altar.
A fire ravaged St. John’s Anglican Church in 2001. (CBC) |
But the church didn’t have a complete set of photographs of the original star pattern, so Coolen, hoping the pattern reflected the actual alignment of heavenly bodies in the night sky, sought the help of astronomer David Turner of Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.
That’s when the first mystery emerged.
Turner recognized the constellation Perseus in the photos of the eastern part of the chancel ceiling. But Perseus, seen from Lunenburg, always lies in the northern part of the sky and never due east.
“We looked at them and didn’t recognize any of the star groups,” Coolen explained of the constellations’ positions. “It looked like they might just simply be put up at random, but it didn’t seem like someone would go to that trouble to put just random stars on the ceiling.”
Coolen suggested that Turner instead look at the stars’ alignment around 2,000 years ago — on Christmas Eve in the year of Jesus’ birth.
Then, using software that plots the positions of heavenly bodies throughout history, Turner had a revelation: The chancel ceiling’s pattern indeed reflected quite closely how the night sky would have looked from Lunenburg all those years past, when constellations appeared in somewhat different locations than today.
“I set the scene for sunset, and bingo! I found myself looking at Perseus in the eastern sky,” he said.
But while the finding has excited parishioners at St. John’s Anglican, who now know that they are gazing up at the heavens as they would have appeared on the eve of their Saviour’s birth, it has also perplexed them.
The ornamentation they once merely called “Mariner’s Sky” holds a stellar motif of immense astronomical significance. But who could possibly have calculated the astral positions, and how, remains a mystery.
Source: CBC
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