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The Eidolonica Papers Issue 05
The Eidolonica Papers!
Compiled, Edited and Sometimes Written by Greg Webster - Issue 5 Volume 1
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Ok, as promised, I'm going to jump into this issue with a request
for some feedback from you. In the past couple months I've been playing
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Ok, folks, the choice is up to you...just reply to this issue with
your choice. In the event of a tie, I choose, and in the event that no
one chooses, I choose again and curse you all. :)
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The Eidolonica Papers homepage is nearly fully operational!
While it looks passably ok, I'm having a couple bug problems. I can't
seem to get the counter to work properly (though I think I know what the
problem is now), and the forms apparently don't work properly with some
browsers. The forms DO work with text-only browsers, such as Lynx, but
I've had a report of them being screwed when used via netscape.
If anyone out there has some knowledge in this area, I would appreciate
if they would take a quick look at the homepage and see what the problem
is. This has been my first real attempt at HTML, and I'm still learning.
Many thanks for your help.
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So, again into the quest for a little bit of knowledge about our
strange world...this month (after having a somewhat successful request
for submissions), I'm publishing two articles by our readership before I
delve into my own past and the bit of strangeness I have encountered.
The subject of The Eidolonica Papers this month is:
Mental powers: telekinesis, pyrokinesis, clairvoyance,
clairaudience, precognition, and various other ways our
minds can affect our world.
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This issue dedicated to the souls of Dunblane, the children whose lives
were cut short. May their future journeys be joyous ones.
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And now to jump right into the issue with
one of the most prolific of our submissors,
Mr. Burns. This is an excellent article, not
about any specific event in our subject
really, but more as an explanation of the
subject itself. If you've had a problem
grasping the subject in the past month since
I delivered it to you, perhaps this will help.
Every time Greg Webster tells us the theme of the next
issue of EIDOLONICA PAPERS I think, "Hey, I've been there. I
can write that. No problem." Then I sit down to write
(which is no small task for me, I'm still very kinetic, even
at forty two). Then it starts, the feeling that I have
something to say and no clue as to how to start. I guess its
the aroma of scientific fact coming from this zine. I often
write about most of these subject areas, but in fiction and
fantasy. Here, I feel compelled to speak only the truth.
I've had many experiences in these areas, but they are
personal and I do not want to force I concepts on others
because I do to want others to force their concepts on me.
Take anything I write with a grain of salt and remember, we
are all at some point on the learning curve.
My friend drops into a chair and says, "They have found
that there is nothing psychic to dreaming. It's just the
brain stem keeping the brain active while you sleep. There is
no purpose to it."
Scientific research is and must always be the tool of
the left hemisphere of the brain. Its great for
understanding the rules of the Newtonian Universe, in all of
its deterministic glory. The scientific method is great for
figuring out the wave lengths of 'red' and the proper scale
for measuring absolute zero. Its unsurpassed at telling you
how things work.
The Scientific method fails, however, to define chaotic
systems and this bothers those folks who are dependent on
only one type of thinking, those who don't like right
hemispheric thinking. Science fails to tell you why the
color red excites humans. It can't tell you how cold it
feels between the stars. It can not describe the qualitative
nature of human existence, nor should it.
Face it, there is no limit to the people who want to
tell you that science and technology are the only answers to
all of life's questions. They are almost as annoying as the
people who say we have no need for science and such. Both
groups should grow up a little. The highest life is one that
seeks balance and truth in all things. Where Reason doesn't
apply, then we must rely on Rhyme.
You are the owner of a human mind, and a human fuselage.
Your mind is a ghost inside a sealed box. If we open the box
the ghost is not there. If we re-seal the box the ghost
returns. You want to read something mystical? Read some of
the work that's going on in quantum physics. Modern medicine
has discovered that humans can not be treated as though they
are just organic machines. There is considerable evidence
that healthy states of mind will manifest in healthy physical
states. I am not saying we should throw modern drugs and
procedures out, returning to the Dark Ages. I am saying
apply science to scientific questions and spiritual
understanding to mental questions. I do not find the two
mutually exclusive, the Universe is big enough to contain
both. If you require that things be only one way or the
other, then ask yourself why you wish to impose your
prejudices upon the Universe, instead of opening yourself to
a accurate understanding of it.
Who is the proper judge of the limitations of your mind?
Perhaps you hold a talent, or aspect, for telekinesis,
precognition, or any of the others (by the way, don't get too
hung up in the names, we're trying to name the unnameable).
To develop your talents, you must first explore your
potential with and open mind. Insisting that you have no
such aspects, will cause them to deteriorate. Richard Bach
will be one of the first to tell you that if you argue that
you have limitations, sure enough, you'll get them. Approach
the Universe with an open hand.
If you happen to discover a talent enshrouded in your
mind, it will not violate any of the laws of science as we
KNOW them (I use the word 'know' here advisedly). If there
is a contradiction, then perhaps we are not seeing the whole
picture, as has often been the case in the past. For
instance, if something is moved via telekinesis, energy will
be expended and the total mass will be retained. This is why
I think we tend to see more of the information talents, like
empathy, telepathy and clairaudience. They would not require
enormous energy expenditures. Most likely we will discover
that many talents involve influencing chaos systems, like the
turbulence of a candle flame, or the way smoke curls into the
rafters.
Developing the potential of your human mind will make
sense. Avoid the nonsense mongers and all situations where
money or personal manipulation/domination games are involved.
I've seen it destroy promising situations. Your development
is very personal and it affects you intimately. Do not
endanger your health, either physical or mental. Do not
throw your money away on icons and rituals. This is not the
path.
I guess I'm saying, there is a lot of wonder in this
old Universe, and you are a part of it all. These are trying
times. Do not squander your invaluable existence reaching
for sickness and fear, when there is so much amazement in
this ever expanding Universe. Frank Zappa said "Change is
not only inevitable, its necessary." Be an agent of that
change. We all chose the kind of hero we want and the hero
want to be. Pick well, the future of the entire species
depends on you and the choices you are making.
Sorry to evangelize, I just get real excited about this
kind of thing.
Pax in centuro vicesimi primi
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I found this next bit extremely enjoyable
to read. As a child I loved ghost stories,
even if they did leave me with many sleep-
less nights and a fear of the dark for a
few years in my childhood. This article
reads a lot like those stories, it has the
perfect attention-grabbing elements and
smooth style of those stories. But this
appears to be a true tale.
There was a second tale included here,
which I found quite interesting, about
a man who could forecast the weather
very accurately. Unfortunately, I try
very hard to have some names or other
background to the stories before I pub-
lish them because of my need for these
to be seen as real events, and this
articles, while believable, did not have
these elements.
From: tdavis@LEIF.UCS.MUN.CA
Credit me as "Adam Bragg, from Newfoundland, Canada", my email address is
"Tdavis@leif.ucs.mun.ca". If you require any further info on me or the
stories, please don't hesitate to ask.
When my great-grandfather was alive, there was a man who belonged to the
local Orange Lodge that my great-grandfather went to who had what can only
be called a telekinetic ability.
This man was about ten years older than my great-grandfather, who
himself died in his nineties in the early 1960's. He lived all his life in
an area of South River called Salmon Cove, in Newfoundland, Canada.
He was capable of moving objects like a spoon or a salt shaker across a
table. He would just look at the salt shaker & it would slide along the
table until it was within his _physical_ reach, at which point he would
then pick it up & use it.
The unusual part of this story isn't that he could do such things, there
are countless stories of this type from around the world. What makes this
story different is that it was taken for granted. To others who knew him,
it wasn't a supernatural ability, it was just something unique that he
could do. No one treated him any differently than if it was no more than
the ability to juggle or if he were double-jointed.
When the he was on his deathbed, he called in his nephew (he had no
children) to "give him the Gift". When the nephew came out, he was as
white as a sheet. People asked him if the Gift had been passed on and his
reply was that he didn't want any part of it, claiming that it was the
"Work of the Devil" & that he'd never do it.
Of course, after that, many people thought that what had really happened
was that when the old man told him how to do it and the nephew tried to use
the Gift, nothing happened. So, he concocted the "Devil's Curse" excuse to
explain his lack of telekinetic ability. The nephew didn't ever confirm
this explanation.
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And now my own offering.
Telekinesis
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I guess these strange sorts of things follow patterns and families. I
remember all the old movies where the gypsy fortune-teller explained how
she was given the 'gift' from her mother, or grandmother, or a strange
maiden aunt, and maybe my family is a little (very little) like that.
My mother has been into the strangest things since before I was born.
She was a member of a seance group for quite a while before me, and has
at various times done spirit writing (not sure I believe in that), and
exhibited signs of telekinesis. The telekinesis I have no proof of, and
my memories of childhood may be wrong or fading badly, so I can only
tell of what I remember.
I was about 10 I suppose, when my mother first told me about how bored
she was lying in bed waiting for my father to come home (he was a long
distance trucker at that time, and was away for quite long periods), and
how she spent the time laying there with her bedroom door opened looking
down the hallway and turning the dimmer switch for the hallway light up
and down with her concentration.
Of course, being a young male, I was thinking, "Yeah whatever, Mom.",
but a while later, I was laying in bed thinking and unable to get to
sleep when the light in the hallway started going up and down. My door
was open, and I could easily see the light shift quite a bit.
Now, I don't know whether I'm somehow having my memories change to fit
the events, but I seem to remember that part clearly at least.
And me
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I suppose I was about 16 when I got ahold of this plastic toy gun and
hung it from my ceiling. I was in pretty constant emotional turmoil at
that point in my life, my parents had split up a couple years before,
and my mother and my sister and I were living in a house with my
mother's boyfriend Bruce. I couldn't (and still can't) stand him. He
is emotional and verbally abusive to the extreme, and many times I had
to protect my sister from his tirades...in the times I was at home, and
not kicked out by him. Researchers say that emotional intense periods
occasionally bring out episodes of psychic abilities, poltergeist
activity is almost always linked with a child with emotional problems.
Anyway, I had hung this gun from my ceiling above my bed, and since I
was now getting to the point where I was very interested in such things
(and since you are reading this, you know I still am), I decided I would
attempt to control the twisting movements of the toy gun.
I spent probably an hour a day before falling asleep trying to control
it's movements, for about a month. Then, one day I realized that I was
able to control it's full range of movement, stopping, starting, turning
either way, etc. It was still very slow moving, but I did seem to have
some control.
I showed my sister this, which of course led her to tell my mother, and
me getting in trouble. My mother told me not to do it, and not only
that, not to tell or show my sister, because she might have nightmares.
Lovely family I have got.
I kept at it for a bit, but it kind of lost it's charm. I took down the
gun, and didn't bother with anything else.
Since then, I've very occasionally tried the same thing for short
periods, but I have had no real success. I don't have the concentration
I had then.
Now, I'm sure I experienced the latter event pretty well exactly as I've
written here, but I can't say the same for the earlier occurrence with my
mother. In either case, I can't see how it matters much. Except that
because of those events, I can say I am writing this ezine. It's a love
of the strange bred into me by genetics, and experience.
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Next month's topic:
Religious experiences: Speaking in tongues, guardian angels, voices
from God (or any other Deity), etc.
Now, I don't have much in the way of experience in this, but I will
provide some research on the topic to fill my place in the issue, plus
perhaps my feelings on faith.
A reminder, The Eidolonica Papers is made up mostly of your
contributions. Without writings submitted by our readership, T.E.P.
falls apart, so please...if you have any experiences you would like to
relate, send them in. I will help, if requested, on format and writing,
to your satisfaction.
Many thanks, see you next month.
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