2.7.08

What Is It About Medical Records?

On June 18, Esmin Green, 49, was involuntarily admitted to the psychiatric emergency department of Kings County Hospital Center on June 18 for what the hospital describes as "agitation and psychosis."

Upon her admission, Green waited nearly 24 hours for treatment, said the New York Civil Liberties Union, which on Tuesday released surveillance camera video of the incident.

The surveillance camera video shows the woman rolling off a waiting room chair, landing face-down on the floor and convulsing. Her collapse came at 5:32 a.m. June 19, the NYCLU said, and she stopped moving at 6:07 a.m. During that time, the organization said, workers at the hospital ignored her.

At 6:35 a.m., the tape shows a hospital employee approaching and nudging Green with her foot, the group said. Help was summoned three minutes later. Watch the surveillance video »
In addition, the organization said, hospital staff falsified Green's records to cover up the time she had lain there without assistance. This unfortunate victim is not the first to suffer tampering with their medical records, a clear point is made of this practice in Maxie Time.

"Contrary to what was recorded from four different angles by the hospital's video cameras, the patient's medical records say that at 6 a.m., she got up and went to the bathroom, and at 6:20 a.m. she was 'sitting quietly in waiting room' -- more than 10 minutes since she last moved and 48 minutes after she fell to the floor."

Major Astronomical Events around June 19, 2008


June 17 5 UT Antares occultation in Polynesia, S S. America
June 20 Pluto at opposition
June 20 13 UT Jupiter 2 degrees N of Moon


Article Excerpt from CNN.com updated 11:08 a.m. EDT, Wed July 2, 2008

10.6.08

The One About The Fig And The Date

The early Muslim community while protecting itself from hostile 'enemies' (not Jews or Christians, but for the most part idol worshippers who resented them cutting into their business trade by doing away with idol worship) would often find themselves enjoying the spoils of war. While the spoils were gathered to and meted out by the Prophet, he (PBUH) rarely ever kept even enough to feed his own household and he would not ask for charity from others when his supplies ran low, but that didn't keep the needy from going to him to ask.

So sometimes charity was a simple smile, a kind word, or what amounted to dispensing or swapping local fruits.

Having given you the set up, here is the one about the Fig and the Date:

Mohammed (PBUH): Who gives a Fig? Who needs a Date?

See, it's only funny in English.

22.2.08

Table and Tablet, Fields and Grains, Atoms and Records and the Niggling Question of the Zero Point Field

A friend of mine was excited to share Lynne McTaggart’s book with me yesterday, The Field, The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, and since I started reading it I found it an absolutely provocative page-turner. In closing the chapter titled Resonating with the Field, McTaggart writes;


‘If living things boil down to charged particles interacting with a field and sending out and receiving quantum information, where did we end and the rest of the world begin? Where was consciousness—encased inside our bodies or out there in The Field? Indeed, there was no more ‘out there’ if we and the rest of the world were so intrinsically interconnected.

The implications of this were too huge to ignore. The idea of a system of exchanged and patterned energy and its memory and recall in the Zero Point Field hinted at all manner of possibility for human beings and their relationship to their world. Modern physicists had set mankind back for many decades. In ignoring the effect of the Zero Point Field, they’d eliminated the possibility of interconnectedness and obscured a scientific explanation for many kinds of miracles.’ (like why F=ma)…’ What they’d being doing, in renormalizing (emphasis mine) their equations, was a little like subtracting out God.’

(It is worthy of mention that McTaggart draws a similitude here between God and the Zero Point Field)
It would seem Lynne McTaggert, my friend, and I are on the same page when it comes to thinking normal overrated. This information jibes readily with the topics on apageinthelife and why the Maxie Time protagonist may not be so crazy after all. The not yet widely accepted effects of the Zero Point Field make the border between the physical and the metaphysical turn fuzzy. In a database records of data, comprised of fields, are stored in tables. In computer applications records are written to disk for permanent storage. In physics, the Zero Point Field serves as a permanent residence (database) for all the information of the world, continually encoded with every atom (minute measure of information or data) of the Universe—every sight, sound, and smell (McTaggert, The Field). And what have all the Great Books been telling us about this careful record keeping?
With the relationship between tables, records and fields in mind let's first look at the word table in these tomes.
Sometimes it appears as it is meant to be, simply table; often times it is disguised as: tablet, tablets, charitable, suitable, equitable, accountable, acceptable, inevitable, tractable, or table with the secondary meaning ‘repast.’ Jesus said he spoke to us in parables because in those days fields of grains, or seeds were more accessible to the listeners than say fields of atoms, or zero point fields; and to record something meant any method of recording including numbering, inscribing, books and even memorization. For the deligent student the picture should come into sharp focus.
With the cautionary caveat from Matthew; 18:18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (This of course not only applies to physical actions but intentions as well).
Tables are mentioned in several instances in both the Old and New Testament and the Quran, and I would be remiss not to remind the reader the topic under discussion has nothing to do with furniture.
The Old Testament (The New International Version) Genesis 43:33 The men had been seated before him in the order of their ages, from the firstborn to the youngest; and they looked at each other in astonishment.

43:34 When portions were served to them from Joseph's table, Benjamin's portion was five times as much as anyone else's. So they feasted and drank freely with him. (I doubt that these men were 'astonished' over a portion of 'food' from Joseph’s 'table').

Exodus 24:12 The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commands I have written for their instruction." The Table

25: 23 Make a table of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high. 25:24 Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.
25:25 Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
25:26 Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are.
25:27 The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table.
25:28 Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them.
25:29 And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.
25:30 Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before Me at all times.(On a superficial level this reads like a lesson from woodshop class, but God doesn't need to eat in order to thrive, so with all this instruction for making and setting up a tablescape one can’t help but seek a deeper meaning).
26: 34 Put the atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.
26:35 Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lamp stand opposite it on the south side. (The 'table' here is obscured from the other side by a curtain, and in counterpoint to the table a light source is placed).
31:18 When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
40:22 Moses placed the table in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain . Hebrews A Visible Parable
9:1 That first plan contained directions for worship, and a specially designed place of worship.
9:2 A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lamp stand, the table, and the consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. 9:3 Then a curtain was stretched, and behind it a smaller, inside tent set up. This was called "the Holy of Holies."
9:4 In it were placed the gold incense altar and the gold-covered ark of the covenant containing the gold urn of manna, Aaron's rod that budded, the covenant tablets, and the angel-wing-shadowed mercy seat. 9:5 But we don't have time to comment on these now. (This Parable is meant to be obvious to the reader, so no one took the time to explain it, perhaps thinking future generations would be brighter than their forebears, and no further explanation was necessary). The New Testament
1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons.
Matthew 13:31 He presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; (Here the word 'seed' would be analogous to 'atom', and the 'field' could be the actual field being planted or The Field that exists outside our conscious realm of perception, constantly recording everything).
Luke 17:6 And the Lord said, "If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and be planted in the sea'; and it would obey you. (This is open to interpretation but in one way importunes that a common mustard seed is more aware than most of us). Quran

Al-Ma'idah (The Table)
5:112 Behold! the disciples, said: "O Jesus the son of Mary! can thy Lord send down to us a table from heaven?"
Said Jesus: "Fear Allah, if ye have faith." إِذْ قَالَ الْحَوَارِيُّونَ يَا عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ هَلْ يَسْتَطِيعُ رَبُّكَ أَن يُنَزِّلَ عَلَيْنَا مَآئِدَةً مِّنَ السَّمَاء قَالَ اتَّقُواْ اللّهَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ <5:113 br="br"> They said: "We only wish to partake thereof and satisfy our hearts, and to know that thou hast indeed told us the truth; and that we ourselves may be witnesses to the miracle." – قَالُواْ نُرِيدُ أَن نَّأْكُلَ مِنْهَا وَتَطْمَئِنَّ قُلُوبُنَا وَنَعْلَمَ أَن قَدْ صَدَقْتَنَا وَنَكُونَ عَلَيْهَا مِنَ الشَّاهِدِينَ 5:114
Said Jesus the son of Mary: "O Allah our Lord! Send us from heaven a table from heaven, that there may be for us - for the first and the last of us - a celebration and a sign from thee; and provide for our sustenance, for thou art the best Sustainer.” قَالَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّنَا أَنزِلْ عَلَيْنَا مَآئِدَةً مِّنَ السَّمَاء تَكُونُ لَنَا عِيداً لِّأَوَّلِنَا وَآخِرِنَا وَآيَةً مِّنكَ وَارْزُقْنَا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الرَّازِقِينَ (I somehow sincerely doubt the disciples were asking for a dinner from heaven that would serve as a sign for the first and last of us.
The table the disciples requested also prompted Jesus to castigate them for their lack of faith so the question remains: What exactly did Jesus call for when he asked God for a 'table from heaven'?).

Al-An'am (The Cattle)
6:59 For with Him are the keys to the things that are beyond the reach of a created being's perception: none knows them but He. And He knows all that is on land and in the sea; and not a leaf falls but He knows it; and neither is there a grain in the earth's deep darkness, nor anything: living or dead, but is recorded in a clear decree (open record). وَعِندَهُ مَفَاتِحُ الْغَيْبِ لاَ يَعْلَمُهَا إِلاَّ هُوَ وَيَعْلَمُ مَا فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ وَمَا تَسْقُطُ مِن وَرَقَةٍ إِلاَّ يَعْلَمُهَا وَلاَ حَبَّةٍ فِي ظُلُمَاتِ الأَرْضِ وَلاَ رَطْبٍ وَلاَ يَابِسٍ إِلاَّ فِي كِتَابٍ مُّبِينٍ

Yunus (Jonah)

10:21 And whenever We let people taste grace after hardship has visited them-lo! they forthwith turn to devising against Our messages. Say: "God is swifter in His subtle plan!" Behold, Our messengers are recording all that you may devise! وَإِذَا أَذَقْنَا النَّاسَ رَحْمَةً مِّن بَعْدِ ضَرَّاء مَسَّتْهُمْ إِذَا لَهُم مَّكْرٌ فِي آيَاتِنَا قُلِ اللّهُ أَسْرَعُ مَكْرًا إِنَّ رُسُلَنَا يَكْتُبُونَ مَا تَمْكُرُونَ
10:61 AND IN whatever condition thou may find yourself, and whatever discourse of this you may be reciting, and whatever work you may do --We are your witness when you enter upon it: for, not even an atom's weight on earth or in heaven escapes your Sustainer's knowledge; and neither is there anything smaller than that, or larger, but is recorded in a clear decree (open record).
وَمَا تَكُونُ فِي شَأْنٍ وَمَا تَتْلُو مِنْهُ مِن قُرْآنٍ وَلاَ تَعْمَلُونَ مِنْ عَمَلٍ إِلاَّ كُنَّا عَلَيْكُمْ شُهُودًا إِذْ تُفِيضُونَ فِيهِ وَمَا يَعْزُبُ عَن رَّبِّكَ مِن مِّثْقَالِ ذَرَّةٍ فِي الأَرْضِ وَلاَ فِي السَّمَاء وَلاَ أَصْغَرَ مِن ذَلِكَ وَلا أَكْبَرَ إِلاَّ فِي كِتَابٍ مُّبِينٍ

Al-Isra (The Journey by Night)
17:13 And every human being's time (destiny) have We tied (fastened or hastened) to his neck; and on the Day of Resurrection We shall bring forth for him a record (book) which he will find wide open (published);
وَكُلَّ إِنسَانٍ أَلْزَمْنَاهُ طَآئِرَهُ فِي عُنُقِهِ وَنُخْرِجُ لَهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ كِتَابًا يَلْقَاهُ مَنشُورًا 17:14 [and will be told:]
"Read your record (book) Sufficient is your own self today to hold you accountable!" (
اقْرَأْ كَتَابَكَ كَفَى بِنَفْسِكَ الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكَ حَسِيبًا (17:14
Al-Kahf (The Cave)
18:49 And the record will be laid open; and you will see the guilty filled with dread at what [they see] therein; and they will exclaim: "Oh, woe unto us! What a record is this! It leaves out nothing, be it small or great, but takes everything into account!"
For they will find all that they ever wrought facing them, and your Sustainer does not wrong anyone.
وَوُضِعَ الْكِتَابُ فَتَرَى الْمُجْرِمِينَ مُشْفِقِينَ مِمَّا فِيهِ وَيَقُولُونَ يَا وَيْلَتَنَا مَالِ هَذَا الْكِتَابِ لَا يُغَادِرُ صَغِيرَةً وَلَا كَبِيرَةً إِلَّا أَحْصَاهَا وَوَجَدُوا مَا عَمِلُوا حَاضِرًا وَلَا يَظْلِمُ رَبُّكَ أَحَدًا
Al-Hajj (The Pilgrimage)
22:70 Are you aware that God knows all that is in heaven and earth? All this is in a record: verily, all this is easy for God. أَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ مَا فِي السَّمَاء وَالْأَرْضِ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ فِي كِتَابٍ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ
Al-Mu'minun (The Believers)
23:62 And We do not burden any soul beyond its scope: and with Us is a record that speaks the truth; and none shall be wronged. وَلَا نُكَلِّفُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا وَلَدَيْنَا كِتَابٌ يَنطِقُ بِالْحَقِّ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ
An-Naml (The Ants, or the Naml Tribe)
27:75 And there is nothing hidden in the heaven or the earth but it is in a clear record (open book).
وَمَا مِنْ غَائِبَةٍ فِي السَّمَاء وَالْأَرْضِ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ مُّبِينٍ Ya-Siin يس
36:12 Verily We give life to the dead, and We record what they send ahead and the traces they leave behind, and everything do We take account of in a clear record.
إِنَّا نَحْنُ نُحْيِي الْمَوْتَى وَنَكْتُبُ مَا قَدَّمُوا وَآثَارَهُمْ وَكُلَّ شَيْءٍ أحْصَيْنَاهُ فِي إِمَامٍ مُبِينٍ Az-Zumar (The Groups) 39:35
And to this end, God will efface from their record the worst that they ever did, and give them their reward in accordance with the best that they were doing.
لِيُكَفِّرَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ أَسْوَأَ الَّذِي عَمِلُوا وَيَجْزِيَهُمْ أَجْرَهُم بِأَحْسَنِ الَّذِي كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
Az-Zukhruf (The Gold Adornments)
43:80 Or do they, perchance, think that We do not hear their hidden thoughts and their secret confabulations? Indeed We do, and Our messengers are with them, recording.
أَمْ يَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّا لَا نَسْمَعُ سِرَّهُمْ وَنَجْوَاهُم بَلَى وَرُسُلُنَا لَدَيْهِمْ يَكْتُبُونَ

Al-Jathiya (The Kneeling)
45:29 This, Our record speaks of you in all truth: for, verily, We have caused to be recorded all that you ever did!”
هَذَا كِتَابُنَا يَنطِقُ عَلَيْكُم بِالْحَقِّ إِنَّا كُنَّا نَسْتَنسِخُ مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
Qaf 50:4
Well do We know how the earth consumes their bodies, for with Us is a record unfailing (secure).
قَدْ عَلِمْنَا مَا تَنقُصُ الْأَرْضُ مِنْهُمْ وَعِندَنَا كِتَابٌ حَفِيظٌ
Al-Qamar (The Moon)
54:53 and everything, small or great, is recorded.
وَكُلُّ صَغِيرٍ وَكَبِيرٍ مُسْتَطَرٌ
Al-Mutaffifin (Those Who Deal in Fraud)
83:7 NAY, VERILY, the record of the wicked is indeed inescapable!
كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الفُجَّارِ لَفِي سِجِّينٍ 83:8
And what could make you conceive what is inescapable?
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ
83:9 A record inscribed (enumerated)!
كِتَابٌ مَّرْقُومٌ 83:18
NAY, VERILY - the record of the truly virtuous is most lofty!
كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْأَبْرَارِ لَفِي عِلِّيِّينَ 83:19
And what could make you conceive what is most lofty?
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ 83:20
A record inscribed (enumerated),
كِتَابٌ مَّرْقُومٌ Az-Zalzalah (The Earthquake)
99:7 And so, whosoever shall have done an atom's weight of good, shall see it;

فَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ 99:8
and, whosoever shall have done an atom's weight of evil, shall see it.
وَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ

14.2.08

Baked State Allergy

I want to give a shout out to my secret admirer who seems to think I can bake. I am reminded daily that my family can barely tolerate my cooking so I couldn’t possibly do THAT to them. And if you find that you have drifted into the realm of communicating your personal thoughts to soul-less electronic equipment, let me welcome you to the club. Why bother typing in Google when you can just as easily leave your comments on this blog for all to see? You may find others of a like mind—you may make some friends.


Perhaps I misunderstood your comment and you were searching for a new recipe, ‘Baked California,’—mine calls for Cats and Branes. But on the surface it would seem that you still think there is anything left to gain or lose, deny or prove. Let me give you the news from the birds’ eyes’ views. (Rhyming scheme is a nod to one of my favorite people, Muhammed Ali).

Ya-Sin


36:29 It was only one cry (shout, blast) sent against them and they became extinct.

إِن كَانَتْ إِلاَّ صَيْحَةً وَاحِدَةً فَإِذَا هُمْ خَامِدُونَ

A careful reading of Maxie Time might disclose the dates and times. And I know there are those who may feel they are the only witness to a crime, and when they try to come forward they suffer a dire injustice. The following is meant to serve as a reminder that there is a Final Justice--nobody can get away with anything because ultimately there is the One True Witness--the One outside observer (for more on this check out Schroedinger’s Cat).

Al-Ma'arig (The Ways of Ascent)

70:41 We replace them by (others) better than them. And We are not to be outrun.

عَلَى أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ

Al-Insan (The Human)

76:28 We created them, and strengthened their frame. And when We will, We supplant them (swap them out; alter them; transform them).

نَحْنُ خَلَقْنَاهُمْ وَشَدَدْنَا أَسْرَهُمْ وَإِذَا شِئْنَا بَدَّلْنَا أَمْثَالَهُمْ تَبْدِيلًا

And don’t think this is a new-fangled approach to doing business. You should know as surely as life in the room mimics life in the womb, this has been going on since Time itself was created (you need only half a 'brane' for this).

Az-Zumar (The Groups)

39:6 He created you from one being, then from that (being) He made its mate… He created you in the wombs of your mothers; creation after creation; in a threefold (profound) darkness (obscurity, anonymity). Such is Allah, your Lord. He holds the Sovereignty. There is no God save Him. How then have you lost sight of the truth?

خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَأَنزَلَ لَكُم مِّنْ الْأَنْعَامِ ثَمَانِيَةَ أَزْوَاجٍ يَخْلُقُكُمْ فِي بُطُونِ أُمَّهَاتِكُمْ خَلْقًا مِن بَعْدِ خَلْقٍ فِي ظُلُمَاتٍ ثَلَاثٍ ذَلِكُمُ اللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ لَهُ الْمُلْكُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ فَأَنَّى تُصْرَفُونَ



6.12.07

The Matter of A MultiVerse

GloBall Literature Review

A recent CNN article related that even monkeys perform better on memory tests than humans. For readers that benefit from this Blog, Phunny Physics and Mystical Math are now joined by GloBall Literature Reveiw. I would like to share a joke and we all know a joke is only funny when it’s shared.

Clearly, the media has had people so enrapt of typical media ‘fodder’ faire (oh, yeah, I wanna know more about Paris and Brittany, and the ‘Great Satan’ overseas) that they don’t know what’s been in the Books for centuries, (doesn’t anybody read any more?)

The concept of the multiverse is spoken of in no uncertain terms and never more clearly than the following passage:

Quran

Talaaq (Divorce)

65:12 God who created seven (multiple) heavens and the like from the Earth, His Decree flows from on High through all of them (no exact match for the Ar. word
(َ يَتَنَزَّلُ but perhaps, propagates/permeates throughout His domains), so that you come to know that God has Power over Everything and that God can Encompass Everything within His Knowledge

اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ وَمِنَ الْأَرْضِ مِثْلَهُنَّ يَتَنَزَّلُ الْأَمْرُ بَيْنَهُنَّ لِتَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَحَاطَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عِلْمًا


And the ability to traverse these has been rendered in such ridiculous, depressing and far-fetched translations as to make even me, someone with ‘mon key brains’, wax philosophical. (The following interpretations are based on close literal translations (as close as you can get with Google language tools and working with an elliptical language such as Arabic)


Ra'd (Thunder)

13:41 Or don’t they see how we come to (visit) the Earth, reducing it from its edges (shortening, bridging its edges), and God governs and there is no postponing His accounting (decree) and He is swift at calculating (being accounted to)

يرواانا ناتي الارض ننقصها من اطرافها والله يحكم لامعقب لحكمه وهو سريع الحساب

Anbiya (The Prophets)

21:44 But we allowed these groups and their parents/forefathers so their age was lengthened--do they not see how we come to (visit) the Earth, reducing it from its edges (shortening, bridging its edges)? Are they the Conquerors/Victors?

بل متعنا هؤلاء واباءهم حتى طال عليهم العمر افلا يرون انا ناتي الارض ننقصها من اطرافها افهم الغالبون


If you would like to read more about the body of literature on the concept of ‘Tay-Al-Ard’, or the ‘folding of the earth’, here is a good place to start.

On a personal note, I think this would be a good place to remind our children that there is more to them and their lives than what they can buy, wear, drive or consume--and just what it means to be a human.

16.11.07

Blue Ball Orange Ball

I searched my correspondence file and found this from Alan Bennett (http://www.solargeometry.com/). I think the blue ball at the gas station has generated enough excitement that this information seems timely.

I copied this so as not to have to rewrite it.

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I am writing from Port Aransas, Texas. PA is at the mouth of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel and the Gulf Intracoastal waterway. These days I am the concessions manager on a 70 ft. catamaran fishing boat. We take tourists fishing to 40 plus miles offshore.

Since you asked, I will tell you about what I now call " Orange Ball Day ".

On or about November 20, 1975, I was captain on an 80 ft. crew boat, " The Wilderness ", working out of Port O'Connor, Texas. About 10:30 PM we were returning from a run out to Mallard 33, a shallowwater jack up rig about 3 miles offshore and 20 miles on the Galveston side of the Matagorda Ship Channel, the entry point from the Gulf into Port O'Connor.

It had been an uneventful trip with minimal winds and seas. We were gliding along at 22 knots and I was simply watching to make sure we weren't going to collide with anything.

My engineer was asleep in a cot behind the helm and my deckhand asleep in his cot below in the galley.

I happened to look to my starboard. Already there right out my starboard window was a dimly glowing orange sphere about fifteen times the diameter of the full moon. It pulsated in brightening and dimming in an irregular pulsation. Its appearance was as though you had reached into a barbeque pit at night with a pair of tongs and brought out a briquet and watched the color changes that occured as the air blew over it. And it was cruising alongside of us at our speed.

I can assure you I had never in my life seen anything like that. I decided that the way to make sure I was not hallucinating was to wake my engineer, so I turned around and reached over and shook him: " Hey, Moose... look at this!! "

As soon as he opened his eyes he was looking at it... and he came flying up out of a dead sleep and stood there looking at it, and I had my answer... it was really out there.

Both of us remained silent for the next few minutes. It was me who spoke first, even as we both continued to watch this sphere. " I'm going to throw my light on it and see what happens".

I set the Azimuth on the my spotlight and swung it around sideways so that when I turned the spot on it would illuminate the sphere. My intent was to flip the light on-off-on-off a few times
as if to say " We see you. Now what? "

I flipped on the switch...the spotlight ray went right to the sphere and it simultaneuously, and instantaneously, vanished right before our eyes. This is something maybe 100 feet across.

I grabbed the throttles and stopped the boat dead in the water. We both went outside and scanned the night sky but the object was gone and it did not return. ( Visually, at least ).

Not caring to bore you with further details, I will point out that mathematics and geometry started issuing from my brain a few days later. I took the view then as I do now that this encounter had something to do with that, so I began a long process of trial and error which resulted in the things you have seen on this site.

I invite you, xxxxx, to take your time and review the elucidations planet by planet. I now know they were considered enlightenment itself in several cultures. I personally especially like the
drawing " Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Tai Chi and the Decimal System. " The positions along the NS axis representing the Sun, Mercury, Venus and the Earth are faithfully to correct scale and the distances between each pair are different along that line.

Sun-Mercury distance= 1.0000000000
Mercury-Venus distance= .866025404
Venus-Earth distance=.7172803076

But look what happens when you swing them with a compass to the circumference of a circle with a radius of (orbital distance Venus) to the .75 power. They form seven of the decimal divisions of that circle, taking up equal divisions along the circumference.

If this Earth follows a cosmic star law (and it does) and if it is infinite in number because of this (and it is) then you and I have been here forever and will be, forever. And this is enlightenment.

Thank you again. I look forward to hearing from you again.


My best to you,
Alan Bennett
a 65 year old sailor at Port Aransas, Texas

13.11.07

Heaven and High Dimension

Here I have been discussing life after death in laymen’s terms and anecdotal first-hand experience. Imagine my surprise to hear this chat taking place, however reluctantly, in our pantheons of science and technology. I am speaking about non other than renowned physicist and modern thinker Lisa Randall, currently at Harvard University.

While Randall was recently given the honor of making Time Magazines 100 Most Influential people for her work regarding the evidence of a ‘high dimension’ (May 14, 2007), her answer to the ‘big question’ is “You know, all the work I've done makes me think the existence of God less likely," she says. "I want solutions and God just seems like such a cop-out." (Tuesday June 21, 2005The Guardian)

Having never met Randall, I can’t help but like her, even if she’s not from Brooklyn. So, I’d like to say ‘higher dimension’ is nothing more than what us laics have learned to call ‘heaven’ and as for that ‘G-d’ issue, it is best to remind our friends that when things are done right, it appears as if you have done nothing at all. I hope G forgives me for giving up his? modus operandi.

Regarding Randall’s views on multiple dimensions, in the same article in The Guardian ‘Randall is happy to take a pop at string theorists who talk of 10 or 11 dimensions when "nobody really knows how string theory actually works", and she has no time for ideas that incorporate small dimensions. "Who cares about a dimension that is too small to be relevant to anything?"‘ Here is my answer to her question, “We non-entities that travel through it.” And in my answer many will see the difference between a scientist and an engineer.

If you are reading this Lisa, I have to finish by saying I have nothing but the greatest deal of respect for you.