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Re: CFP: Star Trek Beyond the U.S. Frontier (12/15/03; collection)
PK Dick's VALIS Tech Gnosis in Russia Today
CFP for SLS Paris: Islam & the West: Science, Art, Technology
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:08:55 -0800
From: Jack Sarfatti
Subject: Re: CFP: Star Trek Beyond the U.S. Frontier (12/15/03;
collection)
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Note for the record a very short version of my Austin SLS talk
is actually in Paramount Pictures
"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" DVD
"Special Collector's Edition" Disk 2 in the feature
"Time Travel: The Art of the Possible."
An expanded version of my SLS talk is at
http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
Related links are:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=0000AB94-4016-
1FBE-801683414B7F0000&pageNumber=5&catID=4
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0004A1CD-BAEA-1D52-
90FB809EC5880000&pageNumber=2&catID=4
On Thursday, November 27, 2003, at 12:13 AM, Carol Wald wrote:
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>> From: djoymib@unimelb.edu.au
>> Date: November 13, 2003 4:05:25 PM PST
>> To: CFP@english.upenn.edu
>> Subject: CFP: Star Trek Beyond the U.S. Frontier (12/15/03;
>> collection)
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>> Call for Papers: Star Trek: Beyond the U.S. Frontier: International
>> Visions of an American Cultural Icon
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>> Apologies for cross-postings
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Note for the record a very short version of my Austin SLS talk
is actually in Paramount Pictures
"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" DVD
"Special Collector's Edition" Disk 2 in the feature
"Time Travel: The Art of the Possible."
An expanded version of my SLS talk is at
http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
Related links are:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=0000AB94-4016-1FBE-801683414B7F0000&pageNumber=5&catID=4
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0004A1CD-BAEA-1D52-90FB809EC5880000&pageNumber=2&catID=4
On Thursday, November 27, 2003, at 12:13 AM, Carol Wald wrote:
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 13:58:01 -0800
From: Jack Sarfatti
Subject: PK Dick's VALIS Tech Gnosis in Russia Today
Thanks Constantin who is writing from Saint Petersburg, Russia.
I have done some minor editing of the original for English readers.
re: http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/01/31/42821_.html
http://www.techgnosis.com
http://www.csicop.org/si/
On Thursday, November 27, 2003, at 12:53 PM, Constantin Ivanenko wrote:
> METAPHYSICS OF WMD MYTH
>
>
> It was correctly noted by Dr Sarfatti & other researchers that various
> "modern myths", - such as UFO myth, myth about Antarctic Reich, myths
> about the Philadelphia Expeiment, Nautilus Experiment, Montauk Project
> etc, - are very useful as protective & nutrient sociopsychic
> niches/wombs, sheltering vulnerable, at first stages, unorthodox minds
> of original thinkers from a hostile environment. (Here the word "myth"
> is understood in positive sense indicated by C. Jung - who wrote that
> "myth is a chosen instrument of a poet, a prophet & The Leader".
> Negative connotations are attached there by hired guardians of Old
> Paradigm taboos, hindering explorations of New Frontiers of knowledge;
> - representing a kind of "collective Guardian of The Threshold", which
> must be overcome in process of the Initiation Test. These taboos are
> often compared in Russia to red flags used (besides their uses by
> Communist regime) during the wolves' hunt - here is famous a song by
> V. Vysotsky, where it's said that only those with high potential of
> Life Power could overcome evil hypnosis of red flags, compelling timid
> ones to make wrong choices leading to death.)
>
> As soon as positive sociopsychic role of "custom-made myths" was
> recognized, there had naturally arisen a problem of development of
> optimal technology of their compilation: something like creation of
> "formalized mythological language" (similar to FORTRAN, ALGOL & other
> programming languages) which allow to make the process of compilation
> of complex programs of social behaviour fast & precise enough; - so it
> will be possible to adjust timely (or, better, with anticipation) to
> fast changing requiremnts of time.
>
> One of most useful in this respect turned out to be "WMD paradigm"; -
> including not only such its more or less "conventional" branches as
> atomic, biological & chemical scares, used mostly by "conventional"
> politicians as instruments for manipulation of mass opinion - but also
> much more interesting psychotrnic, torsionic, vacuum energy & other
> Leading Edge varieties, employed now mostly by partisans of New
> Paradigm, motivated by purposes of expansion of frontiers of human
> knowledge.
>
> The "Psychotronic WMD paradigm" got (some degree of) social importance
> during Cold War; - when dedicated (and precisely coordinated with the
> help of the international Masonic network) efforts of its Soviet &
> Western proponents resulted in the diverting of some (regrettably, too
> small) part of military expenses (which otherwise would have been used
> for the ecologically hazardous production of senseless military junk -
> such as dozens of thouands of obsolete tanks, rotting nuclear
> submarines & an amount of nuclear charges sufficient to incinerate our
> entire planet dozens of times) to the supremely important task of the
> development of new scientific methodology & technology, which might
> prove critically important in the near future for survival of
> Humankind, faced with the unprecedented challenges of the Cosmic
> Trigger's Destiny Matrix reloaded .
>
> The development of "psychotronic paradigm" was stimulated by several
> sources of social energy (each of which had its own "characteristic
> waveband", so it's possible to speak about the "Psychotronic Rainbow
> Coalition"): firstly, it was being realized more and more acutely, the
> need for as flexible and surgically precise as possible instrument of
> "political feedback" whose use wouldn't entail general chaos &
> self-destruction, as in the case of nuclear weapons. (Allegedly
> President Johnson said after murder of President Kennedy: "We know
> that the Soviets had done this, but we cannot drop on them atom bomb
> in return"; no doubt, such feelings had been shared at some occasions
> (eg, after "inductive linkage": see in Glossary to "The Keys of Enoch"
> processing of Gorbachev's brain in Dec '84 in London also by some
> members of Soviet/Russian power elite.)
>
> Secondly, development of a "super high-tech weapon", which could be
> controlled only by top scientific experts (unlike obsolete, from this
> viewpoint, nuclear - and bacteriological - weapons, which could be now
> fabricated by undergraduate students who got access to necessary
> hardware), was regarded as the main instrument for the establishment
> of Scientists' Power; - whose partisans are numerous enough both in
> Russia (where they are inspired by ideas of Tsiolkovsky & Acad
> Sakharov) & in the West (where one of numerous inspirations were ideas
> of Russia-born Ayn Rand who had a major influence on the University of
> Chicago Leo Straussian "Ravelstein" (Saul Bellow) neoconservatives who
> now, under Paul Wolfowitz, for better or for worse, now run The
> Pentagon and have dominated American Foreign Policy with the
> "pre-emptive doctrine" since 911.
>
> More interestinggy, the need for a surgically precise individually
> targetable controlled action at a distance "absolute weapon" with
> "post-quantum signal nonlocality or directed thought teleportation
> into a brain, against which there cannot exist any defence (except
> such as could be granted from "supernatural" extrapolitical sources -
> something like mentioned by the Christ Weapon of Doomsday, which could
> take away one labourer in the field, sparing his nearby comrade), was
> rationalized as a pressing need for efficient Global Biofeedback from
> Noospheric Brain/Mind of Gaia to Her gravely ill (mainly - as claim
> eco-alarmists - because of ecologically criminal activities of our
> "mass consumer civilization") biosphere; - with whose help the planet
> might start so long needed "autogenic self-healing of human cancer".
> (Of course, the most relevant, from the viewpoint of self-appointed
> Saviours of Earth, feature of such weapon is that it will allow those
> who possess the alleged exotic "ET technology" (e.g. Colonel Phillip
> J. Corso's "The Day After Roswell" and Picknett & Prince's "The Star
> Gate Conspiracy")) to separate the Friends of Earth (as they regard
> themselves) - which would be spared by a "precision Apocalypse Now" -
> from Enemies of Earth (or perhaps enemies of Defenders of Earth), who
> would be utterly destroyed -- or so the Utopians fantasize.)
>
> And, last but not least, the designing of such global-scale
> superweapons might be regarded by some Leading Edgers, - both in the
> West & East, - simply as "interesting physics" (cf. what E. Fermi said
> about creation of atom bomb).
e.g. http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/
book_id/1319/Our%20Final%20Ho.htm
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/our_final_hour_book_review.html
>
> There may be found some indications (or at last as such indications
> could be interpreted some events of ambiguous character) that towards
> such goal were directed, with surprising coordination, efforts of
> Leading Edge researchers of both East & West even during Cold War,
> when they were separated by seemingly impenetrable Iron Curtain. (This
> calls to mind a well-known experiment with thermites - which had built
> precsely converging tunnels even when they were separated by an iron
> sheet, impenetrable even to EM radiations, not to say about chemical
> influences. This phenomenon can be explained on basis of "animal
> telepathy" caused by morphic resonance/non-local communication between
> kindred patterns of DNA.)
>
> In the case of the human "builders of Global Temple of Psychotronis"
> necessary communications (above purely animal/DNA level, which has
> too-small carrying capacity) were sustained with the help of specially
> designed "parascientific myths"; - combining, in accordance with
> age-hallowed recipes, 50% of hard information and 50% of creative
> imagination. (In case of metaphysically inclined "high-brow gheads"
> these last 50 % were filled by such elitist kind of creative
> imagination as esoteric teachings of Ageless Wisdom - very
> conveniently externalized during last century and half in writings of
> H. Blavatsky, Roerichs, A. Bailey & other world-renowned spiritual
> teachers; for people with lesser intellectual ambitions there sufficed
> good (or not so good) SciFi.)
>
> Thus "metaphysically disguised" data (with attached to them
> thought-forms or haunting memes) could penetrate - more or less easily
> - even across The Iron Curtain; - stimulating (and, what is most
> important, coordinating) creative competition between both hemispheres
> of temporarily separated Global Brain. (Here it must be noted that
> transference of "100 % pure" information - which was effectuated via
> intelligence/espionage channels - had inhibited rather than stimulated
> creative activity. As a spectacular example here may be regarded such
> classical case as collapse of Soviet computer industry & science after
> "successful" stealing by KGB spies of technical information about IBM
> mainframe series. It's supposed that such "stealing" had been - as in
> case of Soviet nuclear espionage in '40s - secretly organized by US
> intelligence elite: this idea was implicit in popular sentence of an
> eminent computer scientist D. Knuth: "Stealing by Soviets of IBM
> materials was the biggest Trojan Horse (if, of course, not to take
> into consideration "UFOlogical Trojan Horse", mentioned by Ph. Corso:
> C. I.) in history". Similarly, "permitted stealing" by the Chinese of
> Soviet psychotronic technologies might have similar effect on Chinese
> psychotronics; - if, of course, this endowed with high vital power
> wise ancient nation wouldn't be able to digest this information
> without causing "stomach problems".)
>
> According to the modern synergetic paradigm, a precisely calculated
> mixture of order & chaos is necessary for the maintenance of survival
> abilities of any natural systems (there can be taken as examples
> dynasties of Ancient Egypt, - between each of which existed a brief
> reign of "creative chaos", allowing us to ease sociopsychic tensions,
> - and composite materials comprising hard fibers & soft plastic
> fillings-up).
> Similarly, a vital scientific paradigm, - in order to be able to grow
> and progress, - must necessarily include such mutually complementary
> components as "hard science" and "soft parascience"; - where the role
> of the "hard science skeleton" is to guarantee stability, - and the
> role of parascience is to provide room for further growth (whose
> direction cannot be predicted on basis of rigid constructions of
> established science: here can be drawn parallel with Early Warning
> radar systems, unable to discriminate between real and camouflage
> warheads, but timely attracting attention to the fact of missile
> attack, - which will be dealt with by more specialized narrow beam
> radars). There can be drawn some analogy with the dual electromagnetic
> nature of Light:the universal symbol of Life - and/or "Wave/particle
> duality"; - where the "elusive soft" wave mode is responsible for such
> important property as instant non-local communication, conceptually
> impossible for separated from the rest of Universe limited "hard"
> particles. (Here it can be also noted that contact with "lunatic
> minds" had proved very useful for such world-renowned scientists as S.
> Freud & C. Jung; - which could draw on its basis their profound
> theories. S. Freud said that disease gives a unique opportunity to
> observe well-protected otherwise inner mechanisms of Mind. The same
> can be said also about workings of Collective Mind of scientific
> community: it was analysis of critical periods of scientific evolution
> - when proponents of entrenched but devoid of vitality Old &
> vulnerable but promisig New paradigms had called their opponents
> various bad names - which helped Th. Kuhn to formulate his theory of
> scientific revolutions/paradigm shifts.)
>
> The "WMD myth", - reinforced by tremendous power of paradigmal
> suggestion, - might become a real "non-lethal political weapon" of
> great efficiency, capable to exert real influence on geopolitical
> situation. (In experiments of Prof. Tutlygin, performed in Moscow in
> '30s, - and performed at the same time experiments of Dr. Vassiliev in
> Leningrad, - it was demonstrated that paradigmal attitude can
> function as a real "morphogenetic device", capable to form actual
> patterns of mental fields. Thus, in experiments of Prof. Turlygin, -
> who believed in electromagnetic character of psi-influences, -
> direction of these inflences' action conformed to laws of propagation
> of EM waves; - whereas in experiments of Dr. Vassiliev who didn't
> share this opinion psi-influences weren't bound by such laws.
> Similarly, efficiency of psi-weapons may depend on the degree of
> belief in their efficiency: cf. "shamanic curses", deadly for
> aboriginal people but harmless for educated white travellers (which,
> however, succumb to other kinds of potentially deadly superstitions -
> full liberation from which is possible only for a living saint). R.
> Assagioli uses in similar context such illustration: imagine a ray of
> sunlight which had almost instantly overcame tremendous distance from
> Sun to Earth - but can be easily stopped by a simple piece of paper.
See Fred Alan Wolf's books on this topic.
>
> Thus the control over the paradigm may be regarded as one of most
> important tasks of totalitarian governments: from the Church
> inquisition to the Communist orthodoxy. No wonder that professional
> debunkers of parapsychology, UFOlogy, etc. had always been in Soviet
> times staff members (or trusted agents) of NKVD/KGB. If now, during
> current brief spell of (very relative but nevertheless real) democracy
> in Russia, free thinkers will manage to overcome "psi-dampeniong
> effect" of professional "extinguishers of Spiritual Light" (which may
> be possible, if they will use techniques of collective
> Internet-synchronized editation, allowing precisely synchronized minds
> of a small number of psi-activists to achieve laser concentration,
> overcoming influences of vast but diffused mental fields of Old
> Paradigmers) , then there might be realized idea of "psychotronic
> feedback"; - this psychosocial variant of "reverse DNA transcription",
> allowing to effectuate democratic control of the ruling elite (which,
> as in case of biological reverse transcription, will allow to make
> more purposeful - and thus more quick & less painful - the process of
> social evolution).
>
> Use of "virtual psychotronic weapons", - supported by suggestive power
> of the scientific paradigm (as in Brian Green's "Elegant Universe" on
> NOVA) - will allow to realize ideas of Roerichs about non-violent
> social changes; - effectuated without necessity of recourse to
> physical violence & destruction, using the power of controlled mass
> suggestion.
>
> The key role in process of transformation of the "orthodox/mainstram"
> scientific paradigm may belong to cosmology; - which is situated at
> the border between/intersection of "hard science" & esotericism (as
> used there as its main instrument "gedanken experiments" with such
> unwieldy objects as stars, galaxies & entire alternative universes
> cannot be easily fitted into framework of standard lab experiments,
> forming the basis of the justification of conventional science's
> discoveries). It may be interesting to note, that a new cosmological
> paradigm, - which may (or will, if enough sociopolitical will would be
> present) change global politics of tomorrow, - is formed through
> "telepathic consensus" in process of functioning of such "Internet Age
> invisible colleges"/"scientific endorphins'-producing glands of Global
> Brain" as "open email conferences" (such, eg, as that organized
> through efforts of Dr Sarfatti); - regular participation in which does
> increase one's psi-abilities (cf. "Enhance our ESP online" by Sh.
> Barrera in FATE/May '96). As follows from experimental data of Prof.
> Gariaev, exchange via Internet of strongly entangled with created by
> professional scientific thinking clearly defined thought-forms verbal
> texts is facilitating psi-communication in no lesser dergree than
> exchanging by "morphogenetic signatures" of DNA (J. Benveniste-style).
>
> Constantin I. Ivanenko, Ph. D., Metaphysics writing from Russia Today.
>
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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:23:30 -0500
From: Jim Swan
Subject: CFP for SLS Paris: Islam & the West: Science, Art, Technology
CFP: Early Modern Islam and the West: Science, Art, Technology
SLS Paris 2004 (Society for Literature and Science). June 23-26, at
the Cit=E9 Universitaire.
Session(s) on the encounter (conflict, exchange, resistance,
appropriation) between medieval and early modern European/Christian
culture and the culture of Islam. Mathematics and technology,
painting and architecture, ornamental design, astronomy, cosmology,
epistemology.
Two-page abstract by January 15. Jim Swan, English Department, 306
Clemens Hall, SUNY/Buffalo. Buffalo, NY 14260. Email attachments are
welcome: jswan@buffalo.edu.
Additional enquiries about SLS Paris or proposals for papers on any
other topic should be addressed directly to slsparis04@aol.com
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