One of my girlfriends went as The Log Lady at a very strange Halloween party in ‘90 and I went as Bob.

I never understood why everyone thinks that Twin Peaks or the X-Files were so eeire. More precisely, why wouldn’t the convergence of UFO, paranormal and cryptozoological activity happen in the same place especially in areas of low population density. If there are other non-human intelligent beings occupying or visiting the planet, they would probably wish to avoid what is arguably the most dangerous creatures on the planet, humans. I think that those of us who are interested in the parapolitical/paranormal subjects need a paradigm shift in the way that these subjects are approached. The approaches that we’ve used so far have only created even bigger questions like what is the true nature of reality rather than actually providing a plausible explanation. I look forward to Anomaly Magazine’s growth.

One of my brushes with the rich and famous I had occurred in the California Central Valley around or right after Twin Peaks was cancelled, when I saw the guy who discovered Laura Palmer’s body “wrapped in plastic”…I forget the character’s name now, but he was the same guy who starred in Eraserhead…I saw him in a Stop And Go getting himself a couple of hot dogs, and he seemed like sort of a lost soul to me…not long afterwards, I heard his wife got strung out on drugs and committed suicide, and he didn’t make it much longer than that…

Just thought I’d share a bit of holiday cheer!

I merely put up links. Nick gave you a full-fledged plug. Forgive me!

I’ve known Miles for about 15 years. He’s stuck with the subject and continues to be a force to be reckoned with on the paranormal front, as well as providing valuable info at elfis.net, anomaly TV, and now the magazine.

Howdy Adam! Yes, the Log Lady is one strange character amongst a townfull.

“Stay tuned”!

SMiles

Yes you raise a very interesting point about objects and consciousness - how humans, if we store up energy, can then charge objects with consciousness and also read consciousness of objects — telemetry I think it’s called.

Qigong master Chunyi Lin does this what water — over the phone. He’s had great success in healing cancer by having people drink water over an extended time after he charges it up over the phone. http://springforestqigong.com

Anyway in the past three days I’ve sped read about 3 dozen books.

In the book “Parrot’s Lament” a conversation with biology professor Donald Griffin is mentioned that’s fascinating. Griffin discovered echolocation in bats and went on to study animal consciousness. Griffin notes that in a bee experiment the bees actually rejected information that pollen could be located in the middle of a lake. Griffin goes on to state he believes that invertebrates do have real consciousness — the awareness to make judgments, possibly even moral judgments.

While this info is not new (see Jacque Cauvin’s amazing book on the subject, or Lyall Watson, etc.) it is definitely rejected by mainstream science. Donald Griffin is a very well-established mainstream scientist.

I think it was a book on human evolution that noted that Jane Goodall believes when primates experience an emotion they HAVE to vocalize it.

Meanwhile a neuroscience book I read states that while destruction of Wernicke’s Area — or Broca’s area — the left cerebral cortex near the rear center — does destroy almost all language abilities –

EXCEPT FOR COMMUNICATION ABOUT THE MIDDLE AND LOWER BODY (not including feet).

So this, as per Dr. Daniel Levition’s new book “This is Your Brain on Music” — demonstrates the close relation between music as a language of emotion and body movement and early tool use.

So this is strong evidence that gestures, tool use and language did coevolved — as I’ve maintained — the left-brain, right-hand dominance that was then transferred to the “symbolic revolution” of Freemasonry in 10,000 BCE — the abstract “containment” of infinity through rectilinear geometry.

Oh yeah — and then there was another example of the Bantu matrilineal shaman cults in Africa. A recent memoir by a Brit whose dad “went Native” in Kenya gave further details about hyaena shape-shifting and special communication with snakes, etc. I had read of other examples in West Africa — the standard training just like Taoist Yoga and in traditional Brazilian training –is for the males to live isolated in a sacred grove for 3 months straight — so that the “foundation is laid” - as Taoist Yoga states — the 3rd eye is permanently opened with direct resonance of pure female formless awareness.

Finally Wittgeinstein, like Gregory Bateson, focused on what he called “language-games” — the logical paradoxes found in giving orders, jokes and almost all types of communication.

Wittgeinsten notes that these language-games are not just so complicated as to undermine math-based logic but also that they reveal the hardest thing for humans to accept:

THE GROUNDLESSNESS OF OUR BEING.

Log Lady: “My log saw something last night.”

Cooper: “What did it see?”

Log Lady: “Why don’t you ask it.”