Ideas, Insights,& Intuitions

I was watching the History Channel tonight. They started out talking about 2012, the Mayan calendar, and the Hopi Indian prophecy that the end of the 4th World was coming with storms, earthquakes, and *gasp!* global warming, and then there would be the beginning of the 5th World. The program mentioned the Sibyl (or Sybil), Oracle of Cumae, and the Priestess at Delphi, who may have hallucinated because of the ethylene gas rising through cracks in the cave floors where they went into their trances.
Also mentioned was Merlin (Welsh Myrrden) of legendary King Arthur’s time, and the Revelation of St. John in The Bible, the I Ching, and some others that I have forgotten. Funny thing is, the History Channel seems to have taken their material straight off a blog called “2012 Predictions.” http://2012-predictions-review.blogspot.com/2008/01/filled-with-breath-of-apollo.html
Where it starts to get creepy is when they say the Hopi prophesy mentions the world being covered by a spider web in the 20th and 21st century. It is easy to relate this to the Internet–the World Wide Web. Further creepiness comes from something called the Web Bot, originally created as an investment tool, with robotic agents called “spiders” crawling over all the sites on the Web and collecting data on what is being reported, talked about, written about, and what is selling. After this, they moved from marketing and economic trends to predicting natural disasters, and then they wanted to see if they could use the Web Bot as a predictive tool by gaining access to the “collective consciousness of the world!”
Does anyone see how DANGEROUS a thing like the Web Bot can be? Not only can those running it plug into the collective UNconscious of the entire human population–at least those who interact with the Internet–but they can MANIPULATE it. They could make people believe what they want them to believe by loading (as in loaded dice) the Internet with bogus or slanted news, opinions, rants, popularity polls, allegations, and outright lies containing keywords easily found by the major search engines (and listed first on the page).
The worst thing about this is that much of what is already being said on the Web is not necessarily TRUE or ACCURATE, or COMPLETE, but only what people think, believe, feel, fear, admire, or resent. This is how the power structure already works, and how the minds of easily-led adults–AND ESPECIALLY OF CHILDREN–can be turned in whatever direction the manipulators want them to go, and mostly by scaring them. (Although, the media and the public school system is already doing a pretty good job of that!)
Are you ready to have your chip implanted?

Or can you get off the train when you think you’re being railroaded?

Even if you don’t watch “Britain’s Got Talent” on TV, if you’ve had a news channel on in the past week, you have heard of the newest singing talent phenomenon, Susan Boyle, and have seen at least a portion of her YouTube video from her Week 1 performance. If it didn’t bring tears of joy overflowing from your heart, then you have no heart, friend!
She seems to have appeared out of nowhere, but according to some accounts, she is well-known for singing in church and on Karaoke circuits in her native Scotland. She has had her own Channel on YouTube.com since 2007, created and maintained by her nephew, since she has said she does not have a computer–although it’s possible that she has one now! Wherever she gets access to the Internet, she does make occasional replies to the thousands of comments posted on pages showing videos about her.
A 47-year-old woman living in Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland, Susan is said to have taken care of her widowed “mum” until her death 2 years ago. But now, with her appearance on BGT, she will certainly get a recording contract, and we will be hearing much more from her. Good for her! She deserves it!
She has also pumped new life into the song, “I Dreamed a Dream”, written in 1980 by Claude-Michel Schönberg, with lyrics by Alain Boubil, Jean-Marc Natel, and Herbert Kretzmer. Still protected by International copyright, the purchased downloads of digital sheet music from online giant, Musicnotes.com, has surpassed downloads of “The Climb” from the recent Hannah Montana movie.
I must admit that when a friend asked me to help him find the lyrics and a soundtrack with which he could sing the song, I was swept up, myself. I had not seen the performance on TV, and had fallen asleep waiting for news video of it to come up on the news channel I was watching. But it didn’t take long to find it on http://www.youtube.com/SusanBoyle.

Recent interview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqZmcg0xEUU.

After listening to the song in every online version I could find, and copying the lyrics, I realized that “I Dreamed a Dream” is too complex to learn properly–and remember it–by that method. So I sprang for $4.95USD at www.musicnotes.com and printed out 6 pages of sheet music.
I can’t sing like Susan Boyle. But in the privacy of my home, I can dream a dream, and feel the joy of singing a beautiful song.
Go get ‘em, Susan Boyle! I’m in your corner!