Cloud seeding gone awry in Australia?

The story of the weird foam washing up on a beach in Australia hit the news a month or so ago. Links to the story here and one with a slideshow here.

Now the stories quote experts as saying that this is a natural phenomenon where the sea was turned into a giant espresso machine and frothed the ocean like this. To me it seems more likely that this was the result of cloud seeding gone awry. Take another look at the foamy waves and then compare it with the effect of the cloud seeding chemicals in this video. (Go to 17:20 – 17:30 to view the relevant section)

I think this explanation is a possibility particularly given the extreme drought conditions that have prevailed over Australia for the last year or so.

My mind at work . .. I told you this would be scary!

A Robert Anton Wilson Bibliography

Courtesy of a kind user at Tribe.net:

The Mass Psychology of Fascism, by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Machine Art, by Ezra Pound
Selected Prose, by Ezra Pound
Harlot's Ghost, by Norman Mailer
Go Down, Moses, by William Faukner
The Alpabet vs the Goddess, by Leonard Shlain
The Open Society and its Enemies [2 volumes], by Karl Popper
Confucius:The Great Digest, The Unwobbling Pivot, The Analects trans. by Ezra Pound
The Anti-Christ, by Friedrich Nietzche
Chaos and Cyberculture, by Timothy Leary, Ph.D.
Critical Path, by R Buckminster Fuller
Instead of a Book, by Benjamin Tucker
Digital McLuhan, by Paul Levinson
Saharasia, by James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Science and Sanity, by Alfred Korzybski
Progress and Poverty, by Henry George
The Natural Economic Order, by Silvio Gesell

Note: probably the most influential on his thought was Science and Sanity.

Awakening and Observing

Even if we briefly manage to awaken, our automatic habits and associations will put us back to sleep quickly. In order to be able to awaken for longer periods of time we need to understand how this happens for us. For this we need to observe ourselves. But what to observe and how?

Gurdjieff proposed a system of observation based upon easily defined functions of our organism. He defined thesefunctions, which he called "centers", as follows:
- instinctive: all of the physical functions of our organism thatare involuntary such as heartbeat, breathing, etc
- moving: physical functions that require voluntary effort, prettyself explanatory
- sexual: also pretty self explanatory
- emotional: positive or negative emotions
- intellectual: our thoughts
- higher emotional: visions, powerful dreams, etc.
- higher intellectual: symbols

The higher emotional and intellectual centers are generally not available for observation. In the practice of Gurdjieff's teachings (commonly called the "4th way" or simply "the Work") you first awaken (called self-remembering)and then you observe. Initially the observation consists of labelling the functions as they are observed. This should be transitioned into identifying them by "taste" as soon as possible.The ultimate goal is to be able to see all of your functions at onces o that you can see your own habitual postures which include not only the body but also the thoughts and emotions. Self observation allows us to see ourselves and to identify the obstacles to awakening.

The Oracle(s) comes out of the closet!

There was some discussion on this board recently about the Sufimaster oracle. It seems that the person behind the "Oracle" websites has come out officially: http://www.garychicoine.com/ I have personally found his websites interesting, and in the case of "Take note of Something Different" to be helpful in awakening. I happened to read something about him here: http://www.anthonyblake.co.uk/Meetings.html

To quote from the site above:

"If there is a villain in my story, it is certainly Chicoine. Like any cult leader, he manipulated people and got them to part withtheir cash and hand over control over their sex organs. He ended up a deranged megalomaniac at odds with his children (and some of his wives) and now lives in Sweden with a small group of adherents,regarding himself as above the mechanical masses of humanity. But he is essential to the story. One thing he brought home to me was that spirituality is not identical with morality; but also that individuals who search after greater meaning are especially vulnerable to abuse because they feel themselves to be `unworthy'. `Seekers' are greatly at risk. They look towards unseen worlds without having the confidence of gaining access to them, so that they come to look towards personalities who claim such access to guide them and interpret reality for them. This is of course exactly the same structure which is found in religions, the only difference being one of scale. All the remarkable men I have met who are truly remarkable embody a willingness to speak `on the level' with others and not as authorities."

This is part of a longer account of their relationship but reflects the summation of his judgement.

Caveat Emptor