Hammy, re: "And this is why we love satire... Well, evidently Zagnut DiD survive that, and probably sold a few more bars as a result (you know, I even bought one 20 years after the movie just because of that scene) I guess, because it is a low seller, morbid minds such as mine could only increase thier sales..."

IMO, Zagnut bars are kept on the market for the same reason a lot of commercially unsuccessfully movies are kept in circulation -- they have a small "cult following" that will buy them even if they have to order them over the Internet. However, if they're put in vending machines, they sit there till they go stale -- exacerbating the confection's already bad reputation. I've actually eaten Zagnuts a few time when they were available and the very similar Reeses candies weren't, and when they're fresh, they're really not that bad. But they're not good enough to remember unless I'm reminded of 'em, either....

Muu, #45, re: "Speaking of ET.. i keep seeing commercials for a new movie for kids/family called Alien in the Attic..... um... its effing ET 2009. How the hell do they get away with this crap? kids find alien, family doesnt know right away, alien is ugly cute and befriends the littlest precocious kid..... what a rip off.

Well, here's a trailer for it, and I can't tell if it's a serious movie or a spoof, but it's probably funny to watch either way:

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Hammy, re: "Oh that's gotta be a spoof of every sci fi movie from the 80's 90's combined.... you know, at some point spoofing gets old too."

Yeah, that was my initial reaction too, but when I watched the trailer again scenes like the one of an alien popping up out of a toilet and shaking the water off its head the way swimmers do when getting out of the water gave me nagging feeling that maybe they producers were just ripping off stuff from other movies, and the satire was unintentional, like a lot puns and oxymorons are....

Magiceight, re: "Anyway, my first reaction to backing off of "god" reminds me of years ago backing away from 'death' by refusing to submit to the cant that one may not even consider physical immortality. so, if you have'nt done so already will you folk run your decoder rings over:"

According to the WiH channelings, the concept of "immortality" is just an unreachable, archetypal limit like "truth", "goodness" or "wisdom", and what is traditionally called the "soul", "spirit", or "astral body" is just another physical body, except that it's made out of "astral" matter instead of "ordinary" matter. The soul can reincarnate in body after body, and some people call this process "a form of physical immortality", but if it is, then isn't the process of having children that carry one your genome in slightly modified form ALSO a form of physical immortality?

In reality, when most of people talk about "immortality" on either the physical or spritual level, they are really referring to "invulnerablility" "or "immutability", which is not a very desirable goal even if it could be achieved, because would render the person unable to adapt to a changing environment. And "survival of consciousness" after death is also a moot point. My present physical brain contains a lot of past-life memories, both conscious and subconscious, that were transferred into it from my soul during the incarnation process. And memories of my present life-experiences are constantly being transferred into my soul, where they will be accessible when I pass over to the between-lives state. Does this mean my "consciousness" now is the same as the ones I had in my previous incarnations, or as the ones I've had in the astral state between lives? What my Spirit Guides have actually told me is that the "I" or "Ego" we call "consciousness" is an EFFECT of the mental processes we call "thinking" and "feeling", and that the CAUSE is this complex, non-linear, holistic process itself. So WiH says that consciousness itself is an illusion and that what we call the "mind" is just the software that's running in our "biocomputer".

I read the letter exchange with Philip Gardiner and discussed it briefly with my Guides, and they gave invisible shrugs and said, "All occultists discuss these subjects and have been doing so throughout history, and most the time, they are asking one another the wrong questions, so they are NEVER going to get any right answers. First of all, the impression that "kundalini" experiences involve direct perception of the "raising of psychic energy" is an illusion. All that is being perceived is SENSATION produced by energies that flow through the physical nervous system in ways that stimulate the nerve cells. Measurement with modern neurological equipment show that the AMOUNT of energy flowing through each individual channel within the brain and the rest of the nervous system remains more or less constant. All that changes is the number of such channels that are in use, where they lead, and what kind of information is being communicated. When people feel they are "raising energy to do psychic workings", all they are really doing is perceiving the flow of energy along channels that aren't always open -- those that lead into areas that are called "the subconscious". In other words, when we practice telepathy, channeling, remote viewing, etc., we are really just running mental programs similar to those we use in talking, walking, etc. When I wrote WiH over twenty years ago, I didn't have the background knowledge I've gained since then through reading about these modern neurological experiments, so the passages I just wrote are clearer than comparable passages in the book, and I hope you will find them easier to understand....

Bluebabe, #56, re: "Spiritrebel this is strange because I have always said people should not be alone when they die and whilst I have not worked in a hospice i have been around plenty of people when they go, also I have always had this practice of trying to search for them afterwards and the sign from spirit or whoever always showed me them in gold light indicating they were okay. i tend to do as much work for them just after they have gone as when they are still alive. I have been seen and spoken to at several funerals despite not attending so with what you are saying here it appears we have had a natural inborn intelligence for these things without understanding it physically at the time."

Well, this subject is discussed in several different places in WiH, and experiences such as you describe have been the norm in every human society throughout history for people who gain even momentary access to their past-life memories or psychic powers. This is why so many people "see" the spirits of the departed or channel messages from them, and why there's an almost universal custom that "people should not be alone when they die". The theory of Secular Spiritualism states that the survival of the soul after the death of the physical body and its ability to communicate psychically with the embodied are FACTS OF NATURE, just like the evaporation of water and the fall of rain. So even if "Society's Commonly Accepted Myths" deny the afterlife or cloak it in religious trappings like a remote "Heaven" or "Hell" where communication with the living is impossible, many people are still able to perceive "what is really going on here"...

re: "also i have read the tibetan book of the dead albeit several years ago now and and some practices resonated with as despite not being a follower of anything as such as at least they appear to have a more thoughtful hands on approach regards death rather than sitting back and waiting for someone else to save them. also this is strange seeing this post today as I just posted in the other section regards a guy who talks about the gold light as apposed to the white. I completley forgot that when I am shown people being okay they are surrounded by gold, i never questioned this until now, maybe there is a story there somewhere."

According to my Spirit Guides, the color-coding of visual images of spirits that people receive through channeling or remote viewing are "all in the mind's eye" and vary a great deal from person to person. For example, I see "good" and "healthy" spirits as having a light blue aura around them, but it's just something that appears briefly when I query them. When I query other spirits, I don't "see" anything at all. And my color perception in psychic experiences is the same as it is in my dreams -- I usually dream in vivid colors that change constantly and often "don't make sense" in earthly terms. So for me, color is not a very important factor when it comes to communicating with spirits. Even the light blue aura thing is actually a redundancy, because I also get an emotional feeling that "this spirit is OK" that's much stronger than the slight visual impression. And when I encounter spirits that are hostile or in need of help, I also get the appropriate FEELINGS, so I don't need visual color input at all...

Hammy, #58, re: " am working very hard on pasting all my mediocrity together in a final effort to create actual art... the only way to TRULY bring people around you at time of death is through art or a legacy of some great kind... i have none of that..... you can have a room full of farewellers or not... but do they REALLY know you? Who will be there when I slip away? " It might be a roadside paramedic, my daughter, my wife, a doctor and a nurse.... but do any of them REALLY know me? to know me is to see me off I say"


According to my Guides, success at any kind of mundane earthly activity isn't of much use in the process of adjusting to life in the disembodied state. And as you say, no one knows who will be there when you slip away. For example, if I had passed over during my last NDE in 1993, the only people around would have been #1 on your list -- roadside paramedics. What WiH recommends is that everyone with a grasp of "spiritual reality" try to establish an on-going relationship with Guides in the "Free Spirit" category during this lifetime. The best way to do this is to become a practicing psychic yourself -- and it really isn't that difficult to get to the point where you have your own Guides. I'm sure all the regulars here have 'em, for example. The next safest way to pass over is in a scenario like those described in the "Tibetan Book of the Dead", meaning in the company of people who have such Guides themselves. However, the Christians recomend a form of this that puts the departing soul in maximum danger -- being seen out by clergy or family who expect them to go "into the arms of God". Which is the same as my futurist friend has called, "putting a sprig of parsley behind your ears and leaping onto the Theocrats' plate".