I swear - researching these posts is so much fun! I've come across some
interesting things out there!
For example, let's take a look at my last homework assignment,
The Men Who Stare at Goats. It's a book, movie and TV series about the US military and psychic security measures, all based on an actual program at
Fort Bragg, NC. (I knew there were some different people around here.) The spoof on the New Age
black op began with a "story about a story of a hoax which is actually a story." Area 51 anyone?
Of course, I'll take any excuse to watch
George Clooney... even if he is masquerading as part of a
Jedi psychic security team who likes spoon bending parties.
The Psyops Unit uses the principle of
psychokinesis, or mental manipulation, to harness the power of the universe. Each person has a biospherical magnetic field (Are they talking about an aura?) which allows a Jedi to use "The Force" for
remote viewing (sometimes of the
Loch Ness monster). Invisibility is possible at the highest level (Clooney "eventually settled on finding a way of not being seen").
Some Jedi even practice phasing - turning physical matter to energy (for walking through stuff). In the middle east, they call phasing
Tay Al-Ardh or Keramat. Spiritual people like
Rumi are credited with the ability. Sounds like good djinn material to me!
The
Evil Eye is supposedly a form of psychokinesis too. (I think Barney torture is more sinister.) All of it ties back to the
Third Eye and the chakras of
Kundalini.
Think I'm making all this up? Watch this courtesy of the Science Channel:
NB. From now on, links back to my earlier posts will be
bolditalic to differentiate between wikipedia, etc.
And thanks again to Tracy Marchini for letting me guest post on her site yesterday. Check it out, if you missed it. She's great and she's agreed to post a Q&A here sometime soon, once I get the Qs in a row!
Thanks to Leigh over at
That's Write for the
Yo Gabba Gabba Award - which she created for bloggers who write
Strangely Irresistible posts.
And thanks to Mara Nash over at
Mara Writes for the
One Lovely Blog award too!
I'll be passing these on this weekend...since I need a post on Sunday because it will be October and that means
NaBloWriMo!
