In the News: Dung Beetles Navigate Via the Milky Way, First Known in Animal Kingdom

Posted by Christine Dell'Amore of National Geographic News in Weird & Wild on January 24, 2013

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Talk about star power—a new study shows that dung beetles navigate via the Milky Way, the first known species to do so in the animal kingdom.

The tiny insects can orient themselves to the bright stripe of light generated by our galaxy, and move in a line relative to it, according to recent experiments in South Africa.

“This is a complicated navigational feat—it’s quite impressive for an animal that size,” said study co-author Eric Warrant, a biologist at the University of Lund in Sweden.

A dung beetle rolling its ball in South Africa. Photograph courtesy Eric Warrant.

Moving in a straight line is crucial to dung beetles, which live in a rough-and-tumble world where competition for excrement is fierce. (Play “Dung Beetle Derby” on the National Geographic Kids website.)

Once the beetles sniff out a steaming pile, males painstakingly craft the dung into balls and roll them as far away from the chaotic mound as possible, often toting a female that they have also picked up. The pair bury the dung, which later becomes food for their babies.

But it’s not always that easy. Lurking about the dung pile are lots of dung beetles just waiting to snatch a freshly made ball. (Related: “Dung Beetles’ Favorite Poop Revealed.”)

That’s why ball-bearing beetles have to make a fast beeline away from the pile.

“If they roll back into the dung pile, it’s curtains,” Warrant said. If thieves near the pile steal their ball, the beetle has to start all over again, which is a big investment of energy.

Seeing Stars 

Scientists already knew that dung beetles can move in straight lines away from dung piles by detecting a symmetrical pattern of polarized light that appears around the sun. We can’t see this pattern, but insects can thanks to special photoreceptors in their eyes.

The Milky Way glimmers over Indonesia. Photograph by Justin Ng, Your Shot.

But less well-known was how beetles use visual cues at night, such as the moon and its much weaker polarized light pattern. So Warrant and colleagues went to a game farm in South Africa to observe the nocturnal African dung beetle Scarabaeus satyrus. (Read another Weird & Wild post on why dung beetles dance.)

Attracting the beetles proved straightforward: The scientists collected buckets of dung, put them out, and waited for the beetles to fly in.

But their initial observations were puzzling. S. satyrus could still roll a ball in a straight line even on moonless nights, “which caused us a great deal of grief—we didn’t know how to explain this at all,” Warrant said.

Then, “it occurred to us that maybe they were using the stars—and it turned out they were.”

Dapper Beetles

To test the star theory, the team set up a small, enclosed table on the game reserve, placed beetles in them, and observed how the insects reacted to different sky conditions. The team confirmed that even on clear, moonless nights, the beetles could still navigate their balls in a straight line.

To show that the beetles were focusing on the Milky Way, the team moved the table into theJohannesburg Planetarium, and found that the beetles could orient equally well under a full starlit sky as when only the Milky Way was present. (See Milky Way pictures.)

Lastly, to confirm the Milky Way results, the team put little cardboard hats on the study beetles’ heads, blocking their view of the sky. Those beetles just rolled around and around aimlessly, according to the study, published recently in the journal Current Biology.

The scientists put hats on the dung beetles to block their ability to see stars. This beetle, which is wearing a clear hat, acted as a control in one experiment. Photograph courtesy Eric Warrant.

Dung beetle researcher Sean D. Whipple, of the Entomology Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said by email that the “awesome results …. provide strong evidence for orientation by starlight in dung beetles.”

He added that this discovery reveals another potential negative impact of light pollution, a global phenomenon that blocks out stars.

“If artificial light—from cities, houses, roadways, etc.—drowns out the visibility of the night sky, it could have the potential to impact effective orientation and navigation of dung beetles in the same way as an overcast sky,” Whipple said.

Keep On Rollin’

Study co-author Warrant added that other dung beetles likely navigate via the Milky Way, although the galaxy is most prominent in the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere.

What’s more, it’s “probably a widespread skill that insects have—migrating moths might also be able to do it.”

As for the beetles themselves, they were “very easy to work with,” he added.

“You can do anything you want to them, and they just keep on rolling.”

Source: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/24/dung-beetles-navigate-via-the-milky-way-an-animal-kingdom-first/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20130125ngnw-beetle&utm_campaign=Content

The Moon - God of Reflection

Reflection is the key word here. Because as I flipped around YouTube I was curious to know what Bashar (Darryl Anka; search this blog to learn more about who Bashar is) had to say about the moon. What is most interesting about his explanation is that it goes in line with exactly what the ancients in the esoteric mystery schools believed or, to better word it, knew and were aware of. 

Compare what Jonathan Black writes with Bashar's explanation in the video below:

"The god of reflection was the god of the great reflector in the sky -- the moon. In all ancient cultures the moon regulated not only fertility [for i.e. 'menstruation' is etymologically related to 'moon'] but thought.

In fact the initiate priests believed that, in order to create the conditions in which human thought would be possible, the cosmos had had to arrange itself in a particular way. In order for human reflection to be possible, the sun and the moon had had to arrange themselves in the sky so that the moon reflected the light of the sun down to earth." 

- The Secret History of the World, p.96

Bashar - Engine of Ascension - Why our Moon was towed into orbit. PART 2

December 21st, 2012

This is a good documentary that correctly explains what had happened on December 21st, 2012 and what is to come. The Mayans never said it was the end of the world. We are shifting in consciousness from the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius. The sun is now moving in the constellation of Aquarius. There are some groups that have pushed for a negative agenda (such as the end of the world, destruction, and so on) but the opposite is true and you will understand why. Enjoy.

2012 Crossing Over: A New Beginning OFFICIAL FILM [Brave Archer Films]

Heaven in Thought

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

- Richard Feynman

Scientists Are Ignorant 

And the beginning of the Truth starts here ....

"Words, original thoughts, pertain to science. And today's science seems to be the go-to man for all the answers. But science is limited in those answers that it can present. Science deals with physical facts. And as we know -- well I hope you know -- that the world is based on spiritual realities. And those physical facts will always be subservient to the spiritual realities. So science is really limited in the sense that it's not the leader. It's the follower. And when we put science in that perspective then we might hope to garner that truth in which it can hope to reveal."

Ancient Knowledge Pt. 5 - Energy, Coral Castle, Tablet of Shamash, Saturn, Magnetism & Mythology 

Heaven in Thought

"Physical reality is happening in your consciousness. But really if you want to look at it, it's really just like a reflection in a mirror. There's really nothing out there, it's all here. But when you look in a glass mirror you think, "Oh something is over there." Well not really. All the light is going to the mirror and it's actually bouncing back to you and that's why you can see your reflection. Not because you are actually over there, it's just that it's a reflection. So if we understand physical reality as a reflection then we'll understand that the only way to allow a change to occur in the reflection is to change ourselves. Because if you see your reflection in a mirror frowning, you don't reach out to the mirror and try to change the expression on the face of the reflection, that makes no sense. The only way to get the reflection to change is by you changing your expression first. Then the reflection has no choice but to change. But you have to understand that that's what physical reality is."

- Darryl Anka, October 2nd, 2012 

The Fibonacci Sequence, the Sacred Spiral in Our Lives

Very simply, the Fibonacci Sequence is a basic sequence found in nature. Among these are plants, the human body, seashells, galaxies, planets, and even in DNA. The sequence is a series of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers beginning with 0 and 1, as follows:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, .... and so on.

Then from this is a ratio from each successive numbers in the series which quickly converges to approximate 1.618. This ratio is known as Pi / Divine Proportion / Golden Ratio. For example:

3 divided by 2 is 1.5..., 5 divided by 3 is 1.666..., 5 divided by 8 is 1.60...,  until the 40th number in the series which completes the Pi in its accurate 15 decimals places from there on: 1.618033988749895

Through mathematical equations that can be applied to both the Fibonacci Sequence and Pi, this leads us to a Fibonacci spiral or a perfect Pi spiral, known as the Golden Spiral (there is a difference between the two because of the approximation early in Fibonacci series leading to Pi).

Fibonacci spiral:

Golden spiral:

The Spiral Path in Our Lives

This knowledge is needed to technically understand expansion and transformation of the Ego (please refer to The Real Definition of Ego). We each are Pi. There is an invisible spiral path that we each travel on in order to attain a spiritual awakening, or higher states of consciousness/awareness. My spiral path is different from yours. You need different experiences than mine. That is why we must not imitate people. If we want to experience truth and are seeking it, we will travel up this path. At first you won't see the path and you will be confused as to where to start but in later stages you will begin to metaphorically understand and then feel and see the path, you will understand that there is a course you are taking that nature is leading you on, that you don't know where it is going but something is definitely happening. This path becomes very tangible as you go along. You will see and experience the amazing synchronicities that will appear in your life. This is the path.

The lotus flower contains the Fibonacci sequence/Spiral. It is an important symbol in Buddhism. We can be the lotus flower.

Below is a video that will describe and show visuals of the Fibonacci Sequence, Phi, and spirals. The intention of showing this video is to focus on the math and nature. It is not intended to have you distracted by the conspiracy argument being discussed in the video. When you focus on the conspiracy side of the argument you will miss the entire point of the Fibonacci sequence information! Take what you need for personal growth and don't get distracted by a flipside that has nothing to do with the actual practice. Watch between 12:00 - 20:55.

Ancient Knowledge Pt. 2 Fibonacci Sequence, Golden Ratio, Phi in Nature, DNA, Fingerprint of God

An example of the Fibonacci Sequence in music: Tool's Lateralus

In the News: The Largest Simulation of the Universe Ever Created

Inside The Largest Simulation Of The Universe Ever Created

A giant supercomputer is making massively detailed models of the cosmos.

By Clay DillowPosted 11.08.2012 at 9:02 am

Simulating Matter Distribution Across The Cosmos Joe Insley and the HACC team, Argonne National Laboratory.

Imagine being asked to solve a complex algebra problem that is roughly 95 percent variables and only five percent known values. This is a rough analogy perhaps, but it paints a fairly accurate picture of the task faced by modern cosmologists. The prevailing line of thinking says that the universe is mostly composed of dark matter and dark energy, two mysterious entities that have never been directly observed or measured even though the cosmological math insist that they are real. We can see their perceived effects, but we can’t see them directly--and thus we can’t seen the real structure of our own universe.

And so we make models. Sometime next month, the world’s third-fastest supercomputer --known as Mira--will complete tests of its new upgraded software and begin running the largest cosmological simulations ever performed at Argonne National Laboratory. These simulations are massive, taking in huge amounts of data from the latest generation of high-fidelity sky surveys and crunching it into models of the universe that are larger, higher-resolution, and more statistically accurate than any that have come before. When it’s done, scientists should have some amazing high-quality visualizations of the so-called “cosmic web” that connects the universe as we understand it. And they’ll have the best statistical models of the cosmos that cosmologists have ever seen.

THAT’S COOL, BUT WHY DO WE EVEN NEED TO DO THIS?

Mostly, we do this so we can turn the latest batch of sky survey data into something meaningful. Scientists hope these models will answer some pressing questions about dark matter, dark energy, and the overall structure of the cosmos. Particularly vexing are questions about dark energy, which is purportedly driving the accelerating expansion of the universe and--actually, that’s pretty much all we know about it.

“‘Dark energy’ is just a technical shorthand for saying ‘we have no idea what’s going on.’”“Dark energy is confusing because the universe isn’t just expanding--we knew that already--but that expansion is also accelerating, which is very unexpected,” says Salman Habib, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory and the principal investigator for the Multi-Petaflop Sky Simulation at Argonne. “The cause of this acceleration is what people call ‘dark energy,’ but that’s just a technical shorthand for saying ‘we have no idea what’s going on.’”

These simulations are aimed at shedding some light on this expansion happening all around us. But just as importantly, they are aimed at defining just exactly what is not going on. There are a lot of theories about dark energy; it could be a new kind of field in the universe that we’ve yet to discover, or a characteristic of gravity at large scales that we don’t yet understand. It could be some twist on general relativity that we haven’t thought of. The latest crop of high resolution sky survey data should allow the Argonne team to model very subtle effects of dark energy on the cosmos, thus allowing for a deeper understanding of the nature of dark energy itself. That in turn should help cosmologists rule out possible explanations--or even entire classes of explanations--as they try to zero in on a more perfect theory for how the universe works.

BUT THE UNIVERSE IS INFINITE. HOW CAN YOU SIMULATE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE?

We don’t, because we can’t. We can’t really define the limits of the universe for these purposes, and computer models by their nature need a set of constraints. But we can simulate larger and larger chunks of the cosmos thanks to regular leaps in computing power and ever-better sky surveys, and from these increasingly larger and higher-resolution simulations we can extrapolate things about the larger universe. That’s important.

Simulations like the ones being run on Mira have been run before, says Katrin Heitmann, another Argonne National Lab researcher and Habib’s co-investigator on the Mira simulation project, “but we are now getting into a regime where we have to be more and more precise.” The next generation of data coming back from the most sophisticated sky survey instruments astronomers have ever created--like the Dark Energy Camera, for instance, which achieved first light just last month--will contain more data (reflecting billions of observed galaxies) and fewer inherent statistical errors. So while previous simulations like the beautifully articulated Millennium Simulation Project have yielded excellent visualizations and models of the distribution of matter across the cosmos, these new and better data sets require a new and better computing architecture to deal with them.

We can build architectures to deal with these new data sets thanks largely to Moore’s Law. Every three years or so, supercomputing on the whole experiences a roughly ten-fold increase in computing power. That enables supercomputing centers like Argonne to construct machines (or upgrade old ones) that can far outperform what was at the very vanguard of the field just a year or two ago. The 10-petaflop (that’s ten quadrillion calculations per second) Mira system is one such example of this, and it’s Mira that will enable Argonne to run the biggest dark matter simulations ever performed.

WHAT WILL THESE SIMULATIONS LOOK LIKE?

Visually, they’ll look like this:

This visualization comes from some preliminary tests of the new computing architecture, known as HACC (for Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code--more on this later). And what you are looking at is essentially a 3-D block of the universe and the way matter is distributed throughout it, according to the data gleaned from various sky survey sources.

“What you’re looking at is the cosmic web,” Habib says. “You can see clearly these big voids and these filaments and these clumps. What you’re actually seeing is the matter density. The blobby parts are where the density is highest, and that’s where the galaxies are.” You can’t actually see the galaxies here--this is a representation rather than a true optical model. In the smallest clumps there may be no galaxies at all. In the medium-sized clumps, there could be one or more. The largest clumps represent galaxy clusters where thousands of galaxies might reside.

Simulating Matter Distribution Across The Cosmos (Zoomed):  Salman Habib

This is a still frame of the cosmos as we currently see it, but the simulations slated for Mira will build something more like a movie of the universe going back billions of years when the universe was much denser--like a million times denser--than it is now. Astronomers can then watch this movie in extremely high detail to see how the universe developed over time, and thus observe the roles dark matter and especially dark energy had in forming our current universe. And, because it is a computer model, they can then play about with the parameters of this virtual universe to test their theories. Hopefully Mira will prove that some theories still stand up. At the very least, it should prove some theories unlikely.

SO IF EACH SIM IS BIGGER AND BETTER THAN THE LAST ONE, WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THIS ONE?

For one, its unprecedented resolution and detail, which we’ve described at length above. But where the future of supercomputer modeling is concerned, the HACC architecture is extremely important as well. HACC was developed from scratch for this project, and it is optimized for Mira. But it was designed so it can be optimized for other supercomputers--and other supercomputer applications--as well, a rarity for a this kind of software.

Why? Every supercomputer is designed a bit differently, and each has its own quirks and idiosyncrasies. Unlike programs written for desktop computers, for instance, software written for supercomputers is generally written for the specific machine it will be used on. It won’t work optimally (or at all) if shifted to a different machine. So each time supercomputers leap forward a generation, an ongoing research project has to write new software for a new machine. “During a decade of code development you may have three different computing architectures come and go,” Habib says. “So that’s the magic of HACC.”

HACC isn’t so much magic as smart design. Its modular construction means part of the underlying software works the same on all machines, so it’s far easier to port it from one machine (or generation of machine) to another. The other piece is a pluggable software module that can be optimized for each particular machine. This drastically reduces the amount of time researchers have to spend waiting on new code development before pushing their research forward. And when a new computer comes online, like Oak Ridge National Labs’ brand-new 20-petaflop Titan, it’s relatively simple for researchers to quickly apply jumps in computing power to their research.

Its customizable, optimizable nature also means HACC can be applied to many research projects rather than just the one for which it was originally designed. And it’s creators want HACC to be hacked. “We’re a small team, so we can’t really exploit all the scientific capabilities of this code ourselves, nor do we necessarily want to,” Habib says of HACC, adding “it’s a kind of code that other teams need to write, not just for cosmology but for other applications.” Habib, Heitmann, and their colleagues see HACC as a community resource--not only in the sense that they plan to share their cosmology results freely with the scientific community, but also in the sense that the software itself can potentially be altered and adapted to any number of modeling applications in other fields.

SO WILL THESE SIMULATIONS SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF THE DARK UNIVERSE?

No. Or at least the possibility is very, very remote. But it will influence some existing theories, send others to the discard heap, and otherwise focus the current line of thinking and future lines of questioning into these mysterious forces. And in the offing, these simulations will help researchers continue to refine the tools they use to leverage the ongoing explosion in supercomputing power into meaningful scientific gains. If Mira solves the mystery of dark energy in the coming months, we’ll be surprised. We’ll be equally surprised if it doesn’t push the field of theoretical cosmology noticeably forward. And if HACC doesn’t help accelerate the pace of supercomputer science at large, we’d be equally stunned.

Correction: An earlier version of this story inaccurately stated that Salman Habib and Katrin Heitmann are researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. They are currently employed by Argonne National Laboratory. The story has ben amended to reflect this.

Source: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-11/video-largest-most-hi-res-cosmological-simulations-known-universe?cmpid=tw

Heaven in Thought

"The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and the intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world ... Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than the intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work. 

Western rational though is not an innate human characteristic, it is learned and it is the great achievement of Western civilization. In the village of India, they never learned it. They learn something else, which is in some ways just as valuable but in others ways is not. That's the power of intuition and experiential wisdom." 

- Steve Jobs 

 Read about the intellect, termed on this blog as the Ego/Ego Mind/Physical Mind/Mind here is a strong suggestion: One School of Thought: Ego Job & Responsibilities. Search this blog to learn more about the Ego. Search this blog to learn how to meditate in order to strengthen your intuition. 

Heaven in Thought

"You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating." 

- Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird: Some Instruction on Writing and Life

Read about the rational mind, termed on this blog as the Ego/Ego Mind/Physical Mind/Mind here is a strong suggestion: One School of Thought: Ego Job & Responsibilities. Search this blog to learn more about the Ego.

Heaven in Thought

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." 

 - Albert Einstein 

Read about the rational mind, termed on this blog as the Ego/Ego Mind/Physical Mind/Mind here is a strong suggestion: One School of Thought: Ego Job & Responsibilities. Search this blog to learn more about the Ego.

Heaven in Thought

"Meditate profoundly, that the secret of things unseen may be revealed unto you, that you may inhale the sweetness of a spiritual and imperishable fragrance, and that you may acknowledge the truth ..."

- Baha'u'llah, Kitab-i-Iqan, p.8

Heaven in Thought

"For the roads to God [or Source / All That Is /etc.] are as many as human beings [said our teacher]."

- Irina Tweedie, Sufi spiritual teacher

Heaven in Thought

"The elephant of the mind wandering wildly

Is to be securely bound with the rope of mindfulness

To the pillar of an object of meditation,

Gradually to be tamed with the hook of wisdom."

- Indian scholar-yogi Bhavaviveka

Related Link: Are You Really in Control of Your Own Mind? 

Heaven in Music

Tool's Lateralus. 

Tool - Lateralus (Highest Quality HD)

The Fibonacci sequence in Tool's Lateralus:

The Fibonacci in Lateralus

Heaven in Thought

"There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be." 

- Douglas Adams

Related link: What Reality Looks Like

What Reality Looks Like

This wonderful video is a visual 'walk-through' from Earth to the outer edges of the universe in light time.This is the reality. Perhaps from this perspective can we begin to see the immense fascination of what exactly we are. Perhaps from this perspective can we remedy our unhealthy minds -- the ego (Because of our ignorance the human mind or ego's job and responsibilities wrongly inflates, creating illusions). Perhaps from this perspective can we be humbled by our own ignorant egos that deceive us into thinking that we know how to live and what life is all about. Being humbled  by our own ignorant egos into respecting what we are and respecting others, respecting things, respecting the power of life. Being humbled into beginning to understand what is real and what are illusions in our very reality. Ask yourself: If you were suddenly taken out into deep space, what would you be without your possessions and familial relations and societal standing? The ignorant ego crumbles and disintegrates. We must consistently practice this reality to evolve us as humans, to crush our false egos so that we may understand how to really live. And from there will be the beginning of the real and incontrovertible journey in reaching our highest potential of what we actually are. 

"There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be." 

- Douglas Adams

Search this blog to learn more and be aware of your own Ego.

Universe: Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos

Heaven in Thought

"To tell a child to believe in God is nonsense, utter nonsense -- not that God does not exist, but because the child has not yet felt the thirst, the desire, the longing. He is not yet ready to go in search of the truth, the ultimate truth of life. He is not yet mature enough to inquire into the reality of God ... 

Now the longing will never arise, because before the question has taken possession of his soul, the answer has already been supplied. Before he was hungry, the food has been forced into his being. Now, without hunger, this forced food cannot be digested." 

- Book of Wisdom by Osho

Related post: Children, God, and the Mind 

Heaven in Thought

"We are what we think.

All that we are arises with our thoughts.

With our thoughts we make the world." 

- Dhammapada (The sayings of the Buddha)

Learn T'ai Chi for Free

Despite what it looks like to the ignorant eye, T'ai Chi takes massive amounts of concentrated focus. It clears the mind. Learn from Master Champion David-Dorian Ross, "Known as the ultimate workout in China, T'ai Chi is a more physically charged form of energy practice that resembles martial arts in slow motion and will give you the benefits of weight training, aerobics or sports conditioning while exercising your mental-spiritual strength at the same time. You'll see more balance in the way you move, think and feel every day." 

T'ai Chi Beginning Practice (part 1)

Click here for related posts: The Five Tibetan Rites; Free Power Yoga

Documentary: Ancient Knowledge

Thanks to Max for suggesting this. Pay particular attention to the golf ball metaphor and tie it in with the popular assertion that we only use 10% of our brains, because in actuality it has to do with awakening our consciousness, allowing us to understand what we are, remembering all of our past lives and so on. Click on related links below from previous blog posts which explains in details certain subjects discussed in the documentary. To put it in an awesome nutshell .....

Ancient Knowledge Pt. 1 Sacred Geometry, Cymatics, Illusion of Reality (Rare Footage)

Related Posts: Explaining the Vibrational Frequencies of Thoughts and Emotions; Higgs Boson; Law of Cause & Effect; Quantum Physics is Suggesting that We Create Circumstances; Om Mantra; We Are All Connected; Emotion 'Technology' to Cure Illnesses

Heaven in Music

Disturbed's Prayer.

Disturbed - Prayer

Documentary: Tuning In

Tuning In is a comparative documentary about the most important and influential spirit channelers/multidimensional beings channelers in the USA.  It is "the result of 10 years of inquiry into the phenomenon of spirit channeling by filmmaker David Thomas". These channelers are: Lee Carroll - Kryon, John Cali - Chief Joseph, Shawn Randall - Torah, Darryl Anka - Bashar, Geoffrey Hoppe - Tobias, and Wendy Kennedy - Pleiadian Collective. I have already discussed one of the channelers, Darryl Anka (who channels 'Bashar'), in several of my posts, you can click below the video for all related links including the introduction, which is very important to see if you really want to understand Tuning In. What is most interesting about this documentary is that it exposes the similarities of the messages being channeled. The only difference is that each channeler explains things in their own individual way and they also apply different names to certain phenomena. The following video is part 1 of 9 parts. You can easily locate parts 2 - 9 in the suggested videos on the side bar. Enjoy.

For another comparison source, this is a great website: http://iasos.com/metaphys/

Tuning In Part 1

  Click here for related posts: Introduction to Bashar; Planet Earth Becoming Type I Civilization; Follow Your Excitement; The Holotope; Earth Vibrates at C#

Heaven in Thought

"In this world

Hate never dispelled hate.

Only love dispels hate.

This is the law, 

Ancient and inexhaustible."

- Dhammapada (The sayings of the Buddha)

Heaven in Thought

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen W. Hawking

Related post: Plato: Allegory of the Cave

Achieving Perfect Health

An interesting multidimensional being called Bashar is channeled via Darryl Anka, an American (part Lebanese) living in Los Angeles. This is not exactly what you might have pictured, people on street rampage, screaming and yelling "the aliens have landed!"  ... No. Far from that. In fact there have been quite a large number of listeners from all walks of life. What is most intriguing is that a wealth of information on a wide range of topics  are being made available and even more intriguing is that their advice actually work! Bashar gives lectures and takes live questions from audiences attending. And by the way, the questions can be ANYTHING from where the pyramids came from to how to win the lottery to who your guardian angels are and so on. Every single question thrown is responded with quick and sophisticated answers. If this doesn't blow your mind, then nothing will.  Their civilization, in the star cluster called Pleiades, is 3,000 years ahead of ours. You can view the star cluster at night with your naked eye. If you would like to learn more, here is the introduction to Bashar in one of my earliest posts: Introduction to Bashar


Bashar is not the only group of beings outreaching to us. There are others too. Read more here: Planet Earth Becoming Type I Civilization

Here Bashar explains how to achieve perfect health.

Bashar - Achieving Perfect Health

Click here for related posts: Earth Vibrates at C#; Follow Your Excitement; The Holotope

Heaven in Thought

"The belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man." - Thomas Paine