Via Hávamál
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Sorcerers’ passport
A “sorcerers’ passport,” offering safe passage to vodou initiates, obtained by Albert Métraux during his anthropological field work in Haiti in the 1940s. Kate Ramsey notes that the Haitian secret societies that issue these passports are linked to vodou and still form an active alternative (“nighttime”) system for delivering law and justice to their adherents.
Read more: The Trial That Gave Vodou A Bad Name
17 december 2013
Native dignity
PRIMARY ARTIST: S.T. Gill (1818–1880)
TITLE: Native dignity.
DATE MADE: 1866
TECHNIQUE: lithograph, printed in black ink, from one stone
Via: CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN ART
11 december 2013
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05 december 2013
Boltzmann brain
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Boltzmann proposed that we and our observed low-entropy world are a random fluctuation in a higher-entropy universe. Even in a near-equilibrium state, there will be stochastic fluctuations in the level of entropy. The most common fluctuations will be relatively small, resulting in only small amounts of organization, while larger fluctuations and their resulting greater levels of organization will be comparatively more rare. Large fluctuations would be almost inconceivably rare, but are made possible by the enormous size of the universe and by the idea that if we are the results of a fluctuation, there is a "selection bias": we observe this very unlikely universe because the unlikely conditions are necessary for us to be here, an expression of the anthropic principle.
The Boltzmann brain paradox is that any observers (self-aware brains with memories like we have, which includes our brains) are therefore far more likely to be Boltzmann brains than evolved brains, thereby at the same time also refuting the selection-bias argument. If our current level of organization, having many self-aware entities, is a result of a random fluctuation, it is much less likely than a level of organization which only creates stand-alone self-aware entities. For every universe with the level of organization we see, there should be an enormous number of lone Boltzmann brains floating around in unorganized environments. In an infinite universe, the number of self-aware brains that spontaneously randomly form out of the chaos, complete with false memories of a life like ours, should vastly outnumber the real brains evolved from an inconceivably rare local fluctuation the size of the observable universe.
The usual counter-argument is that natural selection is capable of generating outcomes which are a priori extremely improbable (as demonstrated by the weasel program). The level of organization in ourselves, and in the biosphere around us, was not generated by a single random fluctuation, but by a process of evolution by natural selection acting across billions of years. This evolutionary process does not violate the second law of thermodynamics, since the biosphere is not a thermodynamically closed system (it receives energy from the Sun and loses energy to space).
(Bron: Wikipedia)
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The Klaus Schreiber Method
The Klaus Schreiber Method
One of the most important and interesting techniques for making Video ITC recordings was pioneered by Klaus Schreiber in the 1980s. Schreiber's method involves recording from a video camera that is pointed at a TV or video monitor which itself displays the output from the video camera. This sets up a feedback loop between the camera and TV which, when the camera is correctly adjusted for zoom and focus, results in strange visual displays.
The effect generally sought is one where swirling clouds appear. Best results are obtained when the camera is focussed just beyond the TV screen (i.e., the image is slightly out of focus). Somewhat different results are obtained depending on the distance between the camera and the screen (which may be from a few inches to a few feet).
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Fred L. Aeilts - Scientology Service Completions
Fred L. Aeilts in Scientology's Published Service Completion Lists
The following 13 individual completions for Fred L. Aeilts appear in official Scientology publications:
| Fred Aeilts | MINISTERS COURSE | Gateway 159 | 1981-02-01 |
| Fred Aeilts | METHOD 1 CO-AUDIT COURSE | Gateway 160 | 1981-03-01 |
| Fred Aeilts | METHOD 1 WORD CLEARING | Gateway 160 | 1981-03-01 |
| Fred Aeilts | EXPANDED ARC STRAIGHTWIRE | Gateway 180 | 1982-11-01 |
| Fred Aeilts | EXPANDED GRADE 0 | Gateway 184 | 1983-03-01 |
| Fred Aeilts | TRAINING COMPLETIONS - GRADUATES [no specific service names given] | Gateway 185 | 1983-04-01 |
| Fred Aeilts | E-METER DRILLS COURSE | Auditor 209 | 1987-01-01 |
| Fred Aeilts | CLASS VI AUDITOR | Auditor 221 | 1988-10-01 |
| Fred Aeilts | SAINT HILL SPECIAL BRIEFING COURSE GRADUATES | Auditor 221 | 1988-10-01 |
| Fred Aeilts | NED INTERNSHIP | Auditor 226 | 1989-07-01 |
| Fred Aeilts | LEVEL F | Auditor 228 | 1989-10-01 |
| Fred Aeilts | CCRD | Auditor 234 | 1990-04-01 |
| Fred Aeilts | SCIENTOLOGY ETHICS SPECIALIST COURSE | Auditor 307 | 2003-04-01 |
Note: The dates listed above are the approximate publication dates of the magazines, which may be weeks or months later than the actual date the service was completed.
Fred L. Aeilts in Scientology's Publications
The following 2 mentions of Fred L. Aeilts appear in official Scientology publications:
| Fred L. Aeilts | Honor Roll of the IAS | Impact 102 | 2002-12-01 |
| Fred L. Aeilts | Honor Roll | Impact 114 | 2006-09-01 |
Note: The dates listed above are the approximate publication dates of the magazines, which may be weeks or months later than the actual date the service was completed.
Via: The Truth About Scientology
Zie ook: The Physics of Ghost Orbs, F. Lee Aeilts
