Parallel Paths...

[Scots_Nomad]

Hi Susan,

I don’t know if your query was specifically meant for me (I started this thread and made the last post) or to the forum in general, but if you are asking for my thoughts:

I assume you have read from the start of this thread. In the very early days, in the weeks that led up to ‘first contact’, all sorts of weird stuff was happening with my electronic equipment – emails, PC, mobile phone, text messages. At one very key part of the process toward first contact, basically at a point when I first felt a little scared of what was going on around me (reaching the point when I realised just how capable ‘this thing’ was and what it could therefore do to me if it felt like it) rather than just being curious and intrigued as I had started out, I suddenly felt very vulnerable in my own house. I decided that I would just drop everything, call a taxi and head into my local bar in town to be among some friendly faces. I picked up my mobile to call a taxi and at that very point I received a text message. It said ‘Don’t panic! Platinum is on its way. Why not stay home, relax and watch a movie tonight?’. I had no idea who the text had come from, it had just popped up when I picked up my mobile. I tried to get a reply number from the text details but no details whatsoever came up. I then tried to get the text message back from my inbox but there was no record of it at all.

I guess if I was still scared I could have looked on the suggestion that I stay home and watch a movie as some kind of trap – keeping me home like a sitting duck rather than seeking my safety in numbers but actually I felt very reassured. It seemed that maybe ‘this thing’ wasn’t out to get me after all. (The platinum bit was actually relevant to something else but too long a story to go into just now)

I got loads of other similar strange happenings with my electronic devices. Although it is in quite a different context, your posting brought this particular episode back to mind (I’ve just copied and pasted this extract from part of a much larger story):

A couple of days after our ‘Abraham’ chat I was sitting on my sofa overlooking the swimming-pool one morning when my landline telephone rang in my house. The only people who ever called on my landline were my family or friends back in the UK, but because of the time difference I knew that they would never call me in the morning unless something was seriously wrong, so when the phone rang that morning my first thought was “Who the hell is that?” – I may even have said it out load, I’m not sure. As I stood up from the sofa I heard a ‘beep’ from the mobile phone in my trouser pocket, and fearing that I may have accidentally pushed the ‘dial’ button, thereby making a call to whoever I had last called, I took my mobile phone out of my pocket to check. When I looked at my phone I noticed that it was actually showing my ‘Contacts’ list, and the name that was highlighted was ‘Emma’ – Emma is an airline stewardess from Kuala Lumpur who I had known for more than ten years. As Emma had never actually called my at home in Saigon it seemed extremely unlikely to me that ‘Emma’ was actually an answer to my earlier question ‘Who the hell is that?’, however the coincidence that it could actually be an answer to that question made me think that this may be my friends up to their tricks, so I decided I would take a chance and say ‘Hi Emma!’ as soon as I picked up the phone, knowing that if it turned out to be anyone else I could just say I was expecting a call from. I walked indoors, picked up the phone and said ‘Hi Emma, how are you?’ – An extremely surprised female voice replied “How the hell did you know it was me? I was just about to yell ‘SURPRISE!’ then see if you could guess who it was!”. I told her I would explain how I knew some other time….

With regard to the specific comment: " sweetie, love will come your way only when you surrender yourself to fun and frolic." , Well my friends never actually called me ‘Sweetie’ (unless maybe when they were being a bit sarcastic – which wasn’t uncommon!) but the rest of the message does sound pretty much like something they would say. Like myself, they were all in favour of fun and frolics, and if it actually led to true love then so much the better, but if you are asking me (or anyone) to confirm it as an instruction/suggestion for you to get back with your ex, that’s something only you – and then him – can decide upon.

Don’t know if that helps, but hope it was a little interesting at least.

Cheers,

[susanmtns]

Hi, Scott

I wasn't asking about a response to the fellow who was in my life last Spring. I just thought the large red heart and Amora the love psychic note was really strange. I was curious what others thoughts?

[Scots_Nomad]

Hi Susan,

A big heart is actually a sign that my friends still use to communicate with me even to this day, however it's meaning is not 'fixed' as my friend's communication language is not 'linear' - the same sign can mean different things at different times, and that meaning can also be modified and/or amplified depending on various other factors - probably the most significant interpretation would depend on what was specifically on my mind just before I saw it (i.e. it was brought to my attention). If I had just asked a question, either to my friends or even just thinking to myself I would take the sign as a reply, or if I had been thinking about doing something nice or kind for someone I would take it as my friends sort of saying 'that's a lovely thought'. In addition to what I was thinking about, other things that can effect the meaning I take from the sign include: What colour it is, what size it is, what it is made from, how many of them are there or how many have I seen in quick succession, what is next to it, whether that thing is above, below or beside it, etc etc etc. In other words it is not like reading their communications and more like interpretting them. I can do it with signs meant for me but I don't think I could 'translate' for others - mainly because the key fact about what it means depends upon EXACTLY what was on your mind immediately before you saw it.

Any help?

Cheers

[susanmtns]

Scott ~

I needed to hear to have fun and frolic and basically... lighten up.

Facebook has this site, btw. lol

Not sure about the heart, though. The entire experience has reframed my thinking, however. That, and having a UFO encounter this summer. What a roll I am on. What an honor!

Where are you in the world...now?

[Scots_Nomad]

[quote="susanmtns"]Scott ~

I needed to hear to have fun and frolic and basically... lighten up.

Facebook has this site, btw. lol

Not sure about the heart, though. The entire experience has reframed my thinking, however. That, and having a UFO encounter this summer. What a roll I am on. What an honor!

Where are you in the world...now?[/quote]

Yeah, have fun and frolic is sound advice no matter where it comes from

What was that you were saying about Facebook? This CP site is on Facebook?

I'm in Scotland just now but missing Vietnam a lot. You could say I'm homesick - I'm home and I'm sick of it!

I'm John by the way, the Scots bit is a reference to my Scots roots

[susanmtns]

I've been to Scotland - one of my favorite countries. I had a friend who lived in Inverness actually.

I am in the U.S.A. living in the Great Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina.

There are several CP sites on Facebook.

[Scots_Nomad]

Hi again, it’s been a long time since I posted anything on here but I’ve just been hearing on the news that scientists are completely baffled by the fact that the CERN particle accelerator seems to have detected particles that travel faster than the speed of light – something that has long being accepted in scientific circles as being impossible, and which if true would call into question basically EVERYTHING (to them).

In one of my very early posts I included a copy of an email I had sent to none other than Steven Hawking back in 2005 to explain to him how ‘information’ (or anything for that matter) can escape from a black hole – something which he had previously stated was impossible. In that post I also pointed out that scientists at St Andrew’s University had not only shown that it was indeed possible for ‘stuff’ to escape from black holes, but they had also confirmed that the mechanism by which this could happen was exactly as I had described to Steven Hawking some 5 years earlier.

I guess it was understandable that Steven Hawking (or indeed anyone else for that matter) wouldn’t pay much attention to what I had to say on such matters back in 2005 and even now, despite having some kind of track record for explaining the scientifically unexplainable, I guess those currently baffled scientists wont pay much attention to what I have to say about the most recent observations at CERN, but I can give a logical explanation of how it is possible that these particles APPEAR to travel faster than the speed of light as this was yet another subject my friends discussed with me way back during our very early conversations back in 2004. Maybe someday scientists may realise that I do actually know what I am talking about…or more to the point they will realise that my friends know what they are talking about!

I am not holding my breath for that to happen any time soon, but in the meantime I attach an edited down extract from the draft of my first book which I wrote (and posted online) back in 2005 which recounts the part of our conversations where we discussed the true speed of light. (I am afraid the extract is a bit long and I may have to spread this over two posts)

This conversation started when I had made some reference to John Cleese and was then just about to explain to my friends who John Cleese was, only for them to interrupt me by confirming that they already knew who John Cleese is…

“…

"Yes (we know who he is). We see all of your TV and all of your movies. We have seen everything he has ever done, and we are all big fans of his"
"How many of you are there?"
"Lots!"
"OK, I guess you don't want to tell me that then."
"We do want you to know, but you won't understand if we just tell you, so 'lots' is as good a way to put it as any"
"So how many of you are there, there now?" (I could hear other voices in the background - it actually sounded like the audience in a theatre, and I felt like I was in a spotlight on the stage)
"We all are"
"All of you?"
"This is big news on our world. You are world famous here!"
"F**kin' typical! Everyone gets their fifteen minutes of fame, and I get mine on the wrong world!"
"Is it the wrong world?"
"Actually, I suppose not. I have spent the last month trying to think how to write this book without getting famous coz I don’t need that hassle, so I guess if I have to be world famous then its best that it happens on another world"
"So, in that month of thinking, did you think of a way to do it?"
"No. Not really. I though of somehow posting it anonymously on the web and then doing other stuff with my life, but I guessed someone would find me or put two and two together eventually"
"So you know you are going to be famous then?"
"I wouldn't say that"
"Wouldn't you?"
"Maybe I haven't given up thinking of ways to avoid it yet."

(The conversation waffled on a bit more but then I decided to challenge them on their claim that they had seen ‘all’ of our television broadcasts….)

"Wait a minute, there are hundreds of countries here sending out thousands of TV signals in hundreds of languages every second of every day. How can you possibly see all of them?"
"We told you. There are lots of us!"
"OK, I guess if there are enough of you, you could watch everything, but that wouldn't really mean anything unless you had some way of indexing 'Everything'. Who remembers who remembers what, if you understand what I mean?"
"We understand what you mean"
"So who remembers?"
"We all do!"
"But doesn't that mean that you all remember everything?"

(Big round of applause!)

"That's what we have been trying to tell you!"
"F**k! I am back where I started again!"
"And anyway, even if we missed some programs - which we don't - we could always catch them later if we had to"
"Wow! Are you telling me that you can travel faster than the speed light?"
"No, no, no, no. Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light!"
"So how can you catch a TV signal if you 'miss' it first time?"
"How do you think we could do it?"
“I don't have a clue. What you say seems to be a contradiction according to what I understand"
"OK, we will give you a clue. You are not the only one who knows a short cut"

(the short cut bit was a reference to an earlier bit of the conversation)

"You know a short cut? Is it something to do with bending light? I suppose if light bends around something and you can go in a straight line then that would be a short cut"

(Round of applause - 'close but no banana' style)

"Do you know what the speed of light is?"
"Not exactly, but it is roughly 186,000 miles a second, or something like that"
"You think that that is the speed of light? Noooooooo. Light travels much faster than that?"
"Much faster, or do you mean my figure is not exact enough?"
"We mean 'Much faster'"
"How can that be?"
"Can't you work it out?"
"What me? Now? You are telling me that the best physicists in human history are all wrong about the speed of light, and you expect me to work out how right here and now, when you have already blown my mind so much that I don't know if my arse is screwed or bored?
"Can ye?"
"Of course I can't!"
"We think you can!"
"Well I guess that proves you wrong about knowing everything then, coz I don't have a clue"
"Don't you?"
"No, I don't think so. I mean 'No!' I don't have a clue on even where to start thinking"
"Do you know how they measure the speed of light?"
"I assume they have some more scientific ways of doing it now, but I remember hearing or reading that the first time that it was actually measured it was done using some high intensity beam and a load of mirrors. Maybe it was even sunlight that they used, but I know they used a series of huge mirrors set miles apart and angled so that the light reflected between them so as to maximise the distance the light actually traveled before it ended up back where it started - that way the person who started the timing would know when to stop it."
"Where were the mirrors?"
"They would have to have a clear line of sight between them. Were they placed on certain mountain tops, where they had survey reference marks?"
"Where else could they have done it?"
"Out in the desert, on salt flats maybe"
"Do you think they would have gotten accurate results measuring that way?"
"Apparently they were surprisingly accurate. I know that the speed of light has been measured by more scientific means since then, but the results of the original measurement was roughly correct"
"What were they trying to measure?"
"Eh?"
"What were they measuring?"
"Duh! The speed of light!"
"Do you think that is what they were measuring?"

(Pause for thought)

"Wait a minute. Are you talking about the difference between velocity and speed?"

(Big round of applause)

"Do you think that could explain it?"

I thought for a minute...

"No! That would work the other way. The velocity is the 'displacement' over time, and the speed is the 'distance' over time. If they used the mirrors to reflect the light back to where it started then it would have a velocity of zero, but the speed of light would still be the figure that they measured"
"Would it?"
"Ok, let me think about this...Maybe I do have a clue where you are going with this, cos I was thinking of something along the same lines when I was out here messing around at the swimming pool"
"F**king around? Is that what you call what you were doing here yesterday?"
"Aw shit! You weren't watching then too were you?"
"Yes!"
"Aw shit! That’s embarrassing! I was dancing around here like a f**king idiot!"
"We thought you were quite good"
"F**k you! You're taking the piss now!"
"So what were you actually doing?"
"I was just feeling good, watering the garden and refilling the swimming pool"
"Did the swimming pool need refilled?"
"Not really, but the weather was lovely, I was in a good mood coz I knew I had written enough for now so I could go back to see my brother and my family in Glasgow, the music was good, and I got engrossed watching the patterns the light was making when it reflected off the spray from the hose"
"And what were you thinking about?"
"It's just when I was watching the ripples of the water on the surface of the pool I thought of another way of trying to explain to people how I seem to think differently from everyone else"
"And what were you thinking in particular?"
"I wasn't thinking of anything in particular - it was just one of a million thoughts that crossed my mind when I was f**king around in the garden."
"What was?"
"I was getting to that, but I am still not sure whether it has anything to do with the speed of light - maybe I will make a complete arse of myself if I even say it, so before I do, can you tell me one thing?"
"What's that?"
"Is light three-dimensional?"

(Big, big round of applause)

"Why do you ask that?"
"Well, when I was watching the ripples on the surface of the pool I realised that most people would think that that is all there was - a few waves on the surface of the water, but I was picturing it as two hemispheres of ripples. One growing in the water and another one in the air"
"Which hemisphere is more important?"
"How can one be any more important than the other - neither can exist on its own"
"Which came first?"
"How can one come before the other if one cannot exist until the other exists. That is the sort of bull shit that was going through my head"
"Do you think it is bull shit?"
"At the time it was just something passing through my head, but if I extend that sort of thinking to what you say about the speed of light then I think I can maybe understand how you can know a short cut"
"And how would that be?"
"Well, most people would visualise a light bean as a two dimensional sine wave sort of thing"
"Why would they think that?"
"Because that is how we are taught to visualise them at school, using oscilloscopes"
"So what do you think?"
"I can't imagine how anything could be two dimensional. Everything must have a depth of some kind, so maybe the image that we are seeing on the screen is really just a cross section through a three dimensional wave"
"So what would the wave look like?"
"It would look something like a slinky. Maybe it would be a slinky that gets wider at one end. Maybe a laser is like a slinky."
"And would that explain everything?"
"I don't know if it would explain anything, but it’s the best guess I got"
"So, if we told you that you were right, what would that change?"
"It would change the speed of light. Or actually it wouldn’t change the speed of light but it would change what we think the speed of light is! We have just been measuring the straight line distance that light travels, which would actually only be the velocity of light, but if the light was spiraling at the same time its actual speed could be much higher! Light could be going much faster than 186,000 miles per second along a spiral but you could take a short cut by traveling at that speed along the centre-line!"

(Big round of applause)

"So how much faster would the speed of light actually be?"
"F**k knows! You expect me to work that out now?"
"Can you work it out roughly?"
"How could I?"
"That is a good way to look at it. How could you?"
"Well. I suppose what people are actually measuring is the velocity of light in a straight line, but in reality the light is circling around a central axis. That means that people are only measuring the lateral movement of the light rather than the full 'circumference of the light-wave'"
"So how many times faster would the speed of light be compared to the velocity?"
"It would be roughly Pi times their measured results. They are measuring the diameter of the wave rather than its circumference which would be pi times the diameter"
"So what else would it change?"
"F**k knows! Maybe it will change everything or maybe it is just theoretical stuff that won't really change much. I really don't know enough about the theory to guess what the implications could be"
"What do you know that would change?"
"Nothing! I can't think of anything real that relies on the speed of light?"
"Don't you?"
"Wait a minute. Let me think about this... if E=mc2 and c is the constant which is the speed of light, then c2 is going to increase by roughly pi squared"
"And what is pi squared?"
"Roughly ten, for easy counting"
"So what difference would that make?"
"Well, if E is right, and c squared is ten times more than everyone thinks, then m must only be about a tenth of the figures they are assuming!!!!!!"
"And what does that mean?"
"Well, that seems to mean that they are all wasting their time looking for the 90% 'dark matter' that they can't find! F**king hell! They have spent all that time, effort and energy looking for something that isn't! Nae wonder they canny find it!"
"So what do you think about that then?"
"What do I think about that???? 'Where's my f**king Nobel Prize'? That's what I think about that!"
"You can see that this is Nobel Prize winning stuff?"
"If what you are saying is right, then I guess it is?"
"Did we say it or did you say it?"
"Who cares? I just wonder what my mum is gonna think of having a Nobel Prize winner in the family!!!....!”

…”

Well if you went to the bother of reading all the way through that I hope you got the gist of what I/we were saying. To compare a light wave to a slinky is very much a simplification of how I now understand it, but it is a good way to highlight the difference between the velocity of light and the speed of light. The velocity of light (which is actually what we have been measuring up to this point) is calculated from the straight line distance from A to B, whereas the speed of light is calculated from the total distance traveled to get from A to B. You can stretch a slinky further, making it appear to be longer but the actual length of coiled metal in it hasn’t changed at all, and by that same analogy, the particles detected at CERN may appear to have traveled further than light could have traveled in the same amount of time but the fact is that ‘the slinky’ has just been stretched further – the actual distance traveled remains the same!

I know that this post is very different from the vast majority of other posts in this forum. Many people seem to believe that it is necessary much choose between science/logic OR faith/religion however to me there is no conflict as all that is required is a better understanding of both sides of that ‘equation/inequation’. To many scientific thinkers the holy grail is the much sought after Unification Theory which could unite Relativity with Quantum Theory however to me there is an Ultimate Unification Theory which not only unifies Einstein with Schrodinger but also unifies Christianity to Islam to Judaism to Hinduism to Spiritism and Spiritualism and all the rest and ties them all up together into one single, logical, consistent explanation of ‘Everything’ - I know that many people will consider this a complete impossibility, but remember that up until last week it was supposed to be impossible for anything to travel faster than 186.000 miles per second! To me this is no pipedream, in fact to me this isn’t even mere ‘theory’ as I had explained to me by my friends back in 2004 and as far as I am concerned it is nothing more and nothing less than Pure and Perfect logic.

[Scots_Nomad]

I haven’t posted here for quite a while but I have been busy. I finally got around to writing about my experiences from the very start in the form of a continuous story and getting it published on Amazon/Kindle.

The story (so far) has been published as a series of books entitled ‘Rapt In An Enigma’ – The first three parts (‘Malevolent Midnight’, ‘The Unwinding Road’ and ‘Beyond the Fourth Wall’) are short stories, 50-120 pages long, with part four (‘Manifest Destiny’) a full length book.

As I mentioned in previous postings I am keen for as many people as possible to read my story and for that reason I have made parts one and two of the story available free to download for 24 hours on Saturday 25th August and intend to do similar in future with the other volumes in the series (although Amazon do have minimum pricing rules and a strict limit to the number of days during which books can be offered free).

Although the books are formatted for Kindle they can be downloaded and read on any computer or smart phone so if you have found my previous postings on this site interesting and would like to read more about them please take advantage of this offer while it lasts by searching for ‘Rapt In An Enigma’ within Amazon’s books section and invite any friends who may also be interested to do the same.

I trust you will find them interesting, entertaining and possibly even mind-blowing in places.

[Scots_Nomad]

Further to my previous post on 24th August, if any of you did take advantage of the offer to download the first two books in my 'Rapt In An Enigma' series for free you may be interested to know that this weekend I am making the third and fourth volumes in the series ('Beyond The Fourth Wall' and 'Manifest Destiny') free to download this weekend - 8th and 9th Septenber.

I noticed that a number of people read this thread after the free offer period on the first two books in the series ('Malevolent Midnight' and 'The Unwinding Road') was finished so in case you are interested I am also making those two books available to download free this weekend however due to the strict limit on the number of days that Amazon allows me to offer the books for free I can only make those two books available for one further day at this time and that will be tomorrow 8Th Septenber.

You can find these offers by searching for either the series title ('Rapt In An Enigma') or the individual book titles.

I really am keen for as many people as possible to read about my experiences so if you know of anyone else who may be interested in downloading the books please let them know about this offer (And if you do enjoy reading the books it would be good if you could take some time to click the 'like' button on the Amazon site

Thanks

Oh, and if you do have any queries or questions or comments you'd like to make about the contents of any of the books please feel free to ask them here either by posting a reply or by private message.

[irides]

John, I read your post about downloading free versions of your books from Amazon. Because I saw it in time to get all 4 books, it seemed like the thing to do…..I’ve now read them all. It’s truly an amazing story, but I have to say, a little hard to accept. However- twice there were unusual synchronies that occurred as I was reading. One, was that my husband and I were talking about the number pi (there’s a reasonable explanation) and then that same night it was discussed in your book. Then there was the evening I read the part where you had to fill your aquarium. Just that day I had done that very same thing to our aquarium- for the same reason- when the water level drops too low it makes a horrible noise. You can’t ignore it. What made it really unusual is that we’ve had aquariums for over 20 years, and that was the first time I’ve ever done it myself. My husband always does it. By the way, I really liked that part in your book. The description of the stream of water and the rainbows was beautiful (I didn’t fill ours that way- I used a bucket and had to make a lot of trips!).

I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt… so now I’m waiting for your next book. I would pay for it.

Best wishes
irides

[Scots_Nomad]

[quote="irides"]John, I read your post about downloading free versions of your books from Amazon. Because I saw it in time to get all 4 books, it seemed like the thing to do…..I’ve now read them all. It’s truly an amazing story, but I have to say, a little hard to accept. However- twice there were unusual synchronies that occurred as I was reading. One, was that my husband and I were talking about the number pi (there’s a reasonable explanation) and then that same night it was discussed in your book. Then there was the evening I read the part where you had to fill your aquarium. Just that day I had done that very same thing to our aquarium- for the same reason- when the water level drops too low it makes a horrible noise. You can’t ignore it. What made it really unusual is that we’ve had aquariums for over 20 years, and that was the first time I’ve ever done it myself. My husband always does it. By the way, I really liked that part in your book. The description of the stream of water and the rainbows was beautiful (I didn’t fill ours that way- I used a bucket and had to make a lot of trips!).

I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt… so now I’m waiting for your next book. I would pay for it.

Best wishes
irides[/quote]

Hi Irides,

I don't blame anyone for finding my story 'a little hard to accept' - I don't doubt that I would have felt the same way a few years ago, but I hope you enjoyed the read anyway Nice of you to say you would buy my next book - actually I already have the next book in the series already completed and ready to publish but to be perfectly honest with you I am kind of holding back on it for now because it's got some pretty controversial stuff in it that is likely to either get me sued or shot! Can't really say too much more about it for now but I do discuss high level corruption and 'name names' about 100+ million dollar bribes that I know were paid to a representative of a foreign government by British companies to secure billion dollar engineering project. In my book I name the individual and the companies involved as well as give dates and details of how the payments can be traced but reight now I feel a bit too exposed to publish such stuff.

Anyway the reason I was replying to your post (other than to say thanks for taking the time to share your experiences while reading my book) was to say that you are not the first person to comment on such coincidences/synchronisities. In fact in recent weeks I have actually been discussing my story on a message board on a paranormal website and at least two people have commented that similar things had happened to them while reading my books (It may be more than two but I definately remember two). Anyway, thought I would copy and paste an extract from my reply to one of those people:

[i]'...Actually quite a few friends have mentioned to me that ‘weird things’ seem to happen when they are reading either emails or books (previous drafts I mean – none of my mates have read the books I recently released on Amazon yet). One mate had a problem getting the Word file with my draft book to open at times (although it had opened fine both before and after) but when he left it and tried later it would open and he would find he was reading a bit particularly relevant to what he was doing or where he was at that very minute.

On another occasion I was telling one friend about a bit of the story involving Alicia Keys while we chatted on MSN and she said ‘Wow! As soon as you mentioned the name Alicia Keys she came on the TV here singing a song I really love!’. The next day when I talked to my friend again she said ‘Ever since you mentioned Alicia Keys last night she seems to be following me around wherever I go. She keeps cropping up on TV, when I turned on the radio it was playing her song and when I went shopping today the first two shops I went into were playing her music and it was all stuff from the Diary Of Alicia Keys album (which was about 7 years old by that time but which had only recently came out at the time my story happened)’. My friend then told me that after hearing it so much she had decided she wanted to buy the Alicia keys album for her iPod but when she went to the Apple Store to buy it that very album came up on her screen straight away (without her selecting it!) and then proceeded to upload to her iPod without her even having to pay for it!

That also reminds me of the time my mate Richard (who I had planned to open the bar with) came over to my house in Vietnam and explained that because he and his GF were going to have a baby he was thinking of going back into the construction industry to have a bit more financial security. He hadn’t started looking for any work yet but at one point he said he fancied trying to get a place on a project in Australia (a place we had visited a couple of months earlier for a mutual friend’s funeral). In the middle of that conversation his hand phone rang and I went off to make us coffee or something so he could chat but when I got back he said ‘You’ll never believe this! That was Stefan from Siemens on the phone asking me if I would be interested in going to work on a new project they just got in Melbourne!’ ...'[/i]

Anyway, I'll leave it at that for now but if you have any further comments or queries about anything you read in my books please feel free to ask.

[johan9]

[irides]

John, do you still speak to your friends? Do they have any opinion about the US presidential election?

Best wishes.
irides

[Scots_Nomad]

[quote="irides"]John, do you still speak to your friends? Do they have any opinion about the US presidential election?

Best wishes.
irides[/quote]

Hi irides,

I don't speak to them in the same way we used to. Right since the very first days of our chats they spent a lot of time teaching me other ways we could communicate as it was always their intention to wean me away from depending on them for advice or guidance in order that I could get back to having some kind of 'normal life' again. Maybe that will sound strange but I could see right from the start thet I could very easily come to depend on them always being there and always telling me what I should do and I really couldn't see much point in me being here if that was all I was going to be doing. I am sure I expleined that a lot better and in a lot more detail in some of the earlier posts I made on this site - probably on this thread but I couldn't be completely sure of that. I do still ask them 'yes or no' questions from time to time but only for what I think are important or significant decisions I have to make but other than that I just go about my life, using intuition where necessary and feel confident that if I make a really dumb decision they will find a way of saying "Are you really sure you wanna do that?'

I haven't asked them anything about the US elections but I have no doubt that they have very strong opinions about it (as do I personally). Actaully I doubt that they would even give me an answer if I were to ask them who they would vote for because they don't like me wasting theor time with silly questions and they would know that I would already know who their vote would go to.

As I just mentioned I do have fairly strong political opinions myself hoiwever I have even stronger opinions about democracy and therefore, although there is so much that I find objectionable in what passes as 'democracy' in the US just now where obscene amounts of money are spent on negative advertisements, misinformation and the spreading of downright lies via TV and other media, I will keep my political opinions (and those of my friends) to myself. It would however be nice to live in a world where most people were able to look through all the hype and BS and make up their own minds for themselves.

[johan9]

im catching up on your words so far

i got near the last post page one..when i could clearly see
why so much sounds so familiour

http://public.worldfreemansociety.org/index.php/forum/198-sprituality-expanded-awareness/109860-the-three-levels-of-freeman-wry#111038

its only quoting you at this stage.and so much i would enjoy to highlight
but will just begin lightly..[after i read the second page..funny just now wrote some thoughts in the heading

as i wrote lie attracting like..
just as like attracts like..so many interesting thoughts
but i feel the clue re publishing it all..lies in sorting them into 6 arms
with a center core index..not a codex..anyhow more reading to get on with