Once more unto the breach, once more!

So the 2012 season is fast approaching this weekend, and the Jail is ready for the normal heady mix of Paranormal, cold and 7am breakfasts, there will be the normal mixture of humour “the force is strong with this one” screams, and "double entendres" “I must warn you I am a bit of a screamer” I would not change things for the world.

Nice to see you again, ready for some long nights??



There are people out there who will be no doubt unhappy that I will still be at the Jail for at least this year, going by the requests to the Jails email system asking to take over the events, but hay ho you may get lucky next year, please keep sending in those requests and CV's its always nice to know the competition.



January has been a mix of rain and frustration due to Paranormal group no shows and general apathy, the result being that there will be no Paranormal group bookings in future unless backed up by a non returnable deposit. When I am told by a Paranormal group that they want two dates in January and then once booked in vanish off the radar its time for a change to the system. I don’t want to go down that route but I have wasted too much time sitting at the jail waiting for groups to show up over the last month.

Don't loose your head, it will all be ok in the end



It has not stopped raining for the past two days and nights down here in the tropical south wast, add to this the cold temperatures and well its miserable, to counter this I have found what I believe is the ultimate in Paranormal Night clothing and as I don’t really care I will probably wear this until I see the sun again. The information comes from their website but I want one.

When the going gets rough, the tough zip up the Burton Men's One-Piece Snow Suit. With serious waterproofing, fully taped seams, and a comfortable relaxed Burton team fit, this one size totally seals out the winter. oh yes yes yes! In three different colour ways (one for each kind of monkey found in Vermont's Green Mountains) not a problem in Bodmin! but a striped monkey in Vermont?, the One-Piece improves mobility with a stretch Lycra waist zone, articulated knees and sleeves, and a full time Contour hood.



• Stretch Lycra waist zones for mobility
• Lifetime Warranty
• Full-time Contour Hood is designed to move with you so you don't get blind sided when you're twisting through the trees ?
• Hidden pass pocket stashes your pass for safety
• Articulated sleeves and knees for awesome mobility
• Micro fleece hand pockets
• Pass pocket
• Hood Cinch
• Adjustable cuffs

Bottom Line: It's not a boy, it's not a girl, it's a one-piece. oh yes

To boldly go

When I was a boy growing up in ESSEX I suffered badly with Asthma when I was young , this meant that I spent a lot of time at home watching television. I loved watching science fiction and also science fact, I remember programs like The Time Tunnel, Logan's Run, Lost in Space, UFO, Captain Scarlett, Thunderbirds, Dr Who, Space 1999 and various others. In the science fact department there was Cosmos with Carl Sagan, a very young Patrick Moore and the Sky at Night, The Open University Lectures on BBC2 and of course up until 1972 the Apollo Moon Landings.

So where am I going with this blog? Well I guess I am saying I received a different kind of education during my early years one filled with endless possibilities for the science as predicted in the programs like Tomorrows World in the 70's, flying cars, anti gravity, time travel, living on the moon! All seemed possible in the good old 70's but sadly it was not to be.

Apollo went nowhere after 1972, “As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. God bless the crew of Apollo 17” this whole experience of early life left me with obviously a different outlook on life and the world, take for example me idea of a hero.

I am full of admiration for Neil Armstrong who may have been the first man to walk on the Moon, but Buzz Aldrin was the first man to urinate there. While millions watched on live television, Buzz relieved himself in a tube fitted inside his space suit while standing on the LM Lander.



My next hero was Alan Carter from Space 1999 (Nick Tate), Carter was the chef Eagle Transporter pilot, he died more times than I can remember but always came back due to temporal space vortex's or clever script writing, but he always saved the day bringing the Eagle in on a wing and a prayer and saving moonbase Alpha one more time, in a cheerful Australian kind of way, nothing phased him, be it alien monsters to the Moon being blown out of Earth Orbit!! “Eagle 1, Alan can you read me, can you make it?” “main motors gone, losing oxygen but yea I can make it commander”

 

How did this outlook imprint on my life? Well some of you will know that I host the Paranormal nights at Bodmin Jail, I mix Mediumship with Metaphysics from a perspective of Energy Therapy being an Energy Therapist (Reiki Master/Teacher). What you may not know is that I am also a member of The Planetary Society, and have my name listed on a microchip on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter currently in orbit around the moon, LRO will spend at least a year in a low polar orbit approximately 31 miles above the lunar surface, while its seven instruments find safe landing sites, locate potential resources and gather crucial data on the lunar environment that will help astronauts prepare for long-duration lunar expeditions.

Engineers are shown here with the microchip encased in a radiation hardened container and attached to the back of the propulsion module access panel.

LRO

I also devote computer time to the SETI project by decoding the signals from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico as part of an ongoing program in there search for radio signals from distant star systems, so far Kepler 22b could be promising as scientists are calling it the Earth’s twin.

Arecibo, Puerto Rico

My name and this time a message is also on board a test spacecraft IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) constructed by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)

IKAROS

 IKAROS was successfully launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on May 21st 2011 at 06:58:22, where is it now? well, on December 8th 2011, IKAROS flew by Venus. The distance at closest point to Venus was about 80000km. The monitor cameras took this picture of Venus over the membrane of the solar sail.



My message was: My hopes and dreams for all mankind travel with this craft.

Hello can you hear me!

Well 2012 is here and what looked to be a slow start full of misdirection and dissolving friendships, but now it seems to be developing into something promising. A colleague I met a few years back has contacted me and is keen to try out some new equipment using me as the test subject. “It's time to advance science through reckless experimentation!” for some time now I have been considering how we communicate with the other side, forget the TV come and get me type of mediumship, or the let me read your palm dear! I am talking about real scientifically proven connection with the other side, can there ever be such a thing as scientifically proven mediumship? Sadly from what I see and hear during my work this won't happen for some time, not until science religion and mysticism can all work together. Also there are other considerations, if a device could be developed that could connect this side with the other side what questions could be asked and is mankind ready for that kind of reality, and if it was hypothetically possible would it be suppressed!! time will tell.

Let's end with a timeless classic

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.
Isaac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest, chickens in motion tend to cross roads.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends on your frame of reference.
Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.
Wolfgang Pauli: There already was a chicken on this side of the road.