What a Strange & Magickal World we inhabit

The other day at MPH Bookstore I came upon Strange Phenomena that led to a search for more info about Joey Nuzum, seen levitating in a photo. Along the way I found news about what certified clinical hypnotherapist Donna Higbee called Human Spontaneous Involuntary Invisibiliy.

Here's a longish essay she wrote after researching the subject.

Apparently the ability - if you can call it that - is attainable by men and wome through certain "spiritual" practices. And she suggests that scientists may have an explanation with their theory of "a cloud of free electrons".

My first encounter with this curiosity goes back to 2003 when I sat right at the back of a Catholic church on a Friday afternoon. A scheduled service was going on at the time when a woman parishioner sitting on the first pew suddenly winked out of existence and back again in about five seconds! She did not bend down nor move away from her seat; and when she disappeared I could see the back of the book rack normally found right in front.

Saying that I was not feverish, inebriated nor on medication, I mentioned this to a few friends who politely listened but who made no comments I could remember.

Writing this reminds me of an engineer friend who once locked a monocular - you might consider it a small telescope - in a glass case together with other optical instruments. One day the monocular disappeared, and only he had the key to the case. My friend was obviously quite perplexed since he had not used the tool, and presumably no one else saw it as well.

Six months later, the missing item turned up where he had left it, as if it had always been there all the while. 

I also recall a woman friend of mine who reported that her companion - another woman - seemed to vanish in front of her eyes: both were at a meditation session at the time.

For what it's worth, here is a crop of a photo I snapped of myself with my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH20 digital camera. I posted it on local blog PhotoMalaysia.com, hoping to find answers to what may be a hardware bug. (You are required to register and log-in if you want to see the pic I attached)

As I remarked in that post, you're welcome to contact me if you want to examine the original SD memory card and camera.

Is it not a Strange & Magickal World we inhabit?

PS: Read my cat story that turned up unexpectedly a few weeks after that vanishing in the church hall

http://interiorly.blogspot.com/2011/04/mind-games-week-1-influencing-reptile_29.html

BrainEV's demo MP3

28 May I downloaded BrainEV's demo MP3 that Daily Guru first told me about. But I did not care to try it out immediately as I knew more or less what to expect: a transformation of thought patterns that I'd first encountered with binaural beats back in the 80s in KL. (And which development I'd been actively seeking with such exercises as journal writing with my left hand)

I've been using the demo on a casual basis without any change in mood or outlook that I could discern, until sometime last week when I had a colored dream. While it wasn't the first time that I'd dreamt in color, this occasion seemed a little more coherent and detailed. More to the point, I could recall it: I was in what seemed to be Yap's house at an evening gathering with people I knew from my past. While there was no clear story line, we were dressed in costumes that looked as if they came from the European Renaissance.

This afternoon I recalled an uncolored dream that appeared to be the beginning of a TV episode that had to do with an attack on armed fortifications. There was a voice over describing the motivation for the action, which faded when I awoke.

Just as I did so, a few bars of a slow melody floated into my thoughts that later developed into alternating strands of fast and slow bars; with the fast bars consisting of different melodies. It seemed to be European in character and may be a dance form I could have picked up somewhere yonks.

Now this reminds me of how Schubert described the way musical ideas came to him. He went to a quiet place and "remembered a melody he had never heard before."

Three hours later I can still hear the music running my brain.

This afternoon's episode was not unexpected as I'd intuited "memorable new developments" in the morning. And meeting Lawrence's son having a cigarette break outside Kao Lee restaurant and subsequent invitation to rare dim sum breakfast with his father seemed to start the day on a memorable note.

Hmm... I wonder what will turn up if I should use the BrainEV as regularly as the site instructions suggest, once in the morning and once before going to bed. And if I should start learning Mandarin.

"Do stay with us," as the FM radio compere might say?

The original link via Daily Guru http://www.gobrainev.com/
If you decide to try their sampler, you may get email from the related http://www.brainsalon.com/
(The same guy appears in a video overlay)

The first 'scenting' in months

The afternoon of Tuesday 12 July saw me at x2net cybercafe (where I'm writing this) after a long absence.

About halfway through there came a faint but clear whiff of scent from my left, and there wasn't anyone along that row of seats. And definitely not from any woman whom you might expect to touch herself up, as it were, since x2n is invariably haunted by macho male gamers practically all the time,

This time I was unable to put a name to it though I fancy it might have had a note of Oil of Wintergreen.

This is the first encounter in months since that wave of 'scentings' around end of 2010 and I wonder if this had anything to do with my last Sacred Heart Prayer a couple of weeks ago.