Prometheus Rising exercise and discussion group, Week 48

By Eric Wagner
Special guest blogger 

I had forgotten the vicissitudes of getting magazines by snail mail. The cover of the new issue of The National Review arrives with nothing inside.  Either intentionally or accidentally most of the magazine did not arrive in my mailbox. Oh well. I must admit it pleased me to have such an easy excuse not to read the new issue. The Skeptical Inquirer still hasn’t arrived. I suspect it will take me at least a year to finish these four exercises. 

I enjoyed reading Fate magazine. I read a nice article on pets on the Titanic, and it pleased me that one author still believes in the Priory of Sion. I wonder what Bob Wilson would have made of the debunking of that conspiracy. 

About fifteen years ago doing the exercises in this chapter I bought a copy of Scientific American. It had an article on how researchers had burn victims play a skiing video game, and playing the game lessened the patients perceived pain as they vividly imagined the intense cold of the world of the game. This pleased me because some of my fellow teachers at the time perceived videos as worthless. 

I have had a number of discussions with intelligent Muslims recently. I forwarded Bob Wilson’s interview with David Bohm to some Muslim friends, and they really liked it. This year I heard more references to Ramadan than ever before. Even Weight Watchers had an article on how to follow the WW plan during Ramadan this year. I don’t remember Weight Watchers ever mentioning Ramadan before (and I first joined Weight Watchers back in 1978). 

I have little desire to “find a victim and explain the universe to him or her, until they are able to escape you” at this time. I may not repeat this exercise this time around. 

Prometheus Rising, The Starseed Signals

 

I have finally completed the first exercise. When I went out on my morning walk Saturday, I discovered that an old quarter is embedded in the concrete in a sidewalk right in front of my porch. (It's pictured above.) Not what I was expecting -- when I followed the instructions and tried to picture a quarter in my head, I visualized a loose coin -- but I'll take it.

There's a large amount of clutter already on this page, and if I simply put up links for the new Prometheus Rising discussion and exercise group on the right side, there would wind up being a long list of links. So I am putting all of the links on a separate page; just click the link on the top right of this page. 

I also finally remembered to put up a link under "Official News" to the Hilaritas Press announcement for The Starseed Signals. 

I've been doing a post a day for several years now, and while obviously the quality of the posts vary, I've covered a lot of subjects and published in a lot of material, from other folks as well as myself. So I'm pretty confident that any fan of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea will have quite a bit to read. Intensive blogging will continue, including more coverage of Starseed Signals, but I probably need to pay more attention to organizing the site so people can find what they are interested in.