The future is bright, the future is technology

Looking at the date of my last update I was surprised to find how time has flown by, unfortunately as I don’t travel at the speed of light time will not slow down and I am forced to up date when I get some time to myself. So what’s going on in my world! Well the overnights at Bodmin Jail are going well despite the cold, it was -6 in the basement last Friday. The clients are loving it, normally we are not so busy in February but this month has set a record for the highest number of clients on the overnights in my past five years of hosting, by the end of the month we would have hosted 96 people in the jail. Since the closing of my business I have been searching for a new project, don’t get me wrong I love what I do and would not change it for the world but it was while working the other night, I got to thinking we have been working 5 years at the jail and during that time we have witnessed many paranormal happenings but what we don’t have is hard evidence to back up what we teach. I know I know that's what most paranormal groups are about, and we have always been different in that we teach at bodmin. I am not coming away from my core beliefs or even the way I work but what I intend to do is develop equipment that will record and sense the environment of Bodmin Jail while the jail is empty and uncontaminated by human beings.

What should my device look like?

Brian the Brain (to large and tacky)

TWIKI (to annoying)

ORAC (getting closer)

The equipment I am working on will sense and data log humidity/temp emf/seismic activity as well as record sound and have 360 night vision, there will also be the facility to live stream to the internet. I intend to develop this in house at Bodmin Jail and if successful can release it for paranormal general hire with an operator in the future.

(PRSG) Paranormal Remote Sensing Group



The working title for this new venture will be (PRSG) Paranormal Remote Sensing Group and I will be forming my small team very soon, I intend for the group to be a mix of sensitives as well as technical investigators, the purpose is to advance the understanding of my work and back up that information with hard data. Interesting times are ahead.

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.

Who am I

Time to philosophise, during my quiet low moments a while back a “friend” said not to worry its only from the bottom that you can see your way out!! wise words when you are not at the bottom and can't see any future, but it got me thinking. I work slightly different from the norm, I had this idea that from the bottom there is always a different route that is not well considered in the normal reality of daily life, the route from the bottom? through and out the other side of course! Think of a black hole, a black hole draws in matter and compresses it into its component elements due to gravitational force, now hypothetically these atomised elements travel through the black hole to, well the other side. But what is the other side. Metaphysics talks of there being multiple universes and time lines and that we as human beings are living just in one dimension, our own little universe if you like.

Now before you think I have completely lost the plot let me tell you of a little event in my life. On Sunday 3^rd of September 2006 I started a diploma course in Psychic Development my first attunement was at the megalithic site of Stonehenge, during this attunement we did an exercise called Stargate, this connected us with the energy of the site and did what it said on the label, it connected us with the Stargate energy, now I can guarantee that this was not guided visualization or hypnosis. The result of this exercise was a life changing moment, I found myself floating in an ocean of stars gazing down on a binary star, this was Sirius and I was told “you are home!!”

from this moment my life has changed in many ways, when I look around I see a different world from most. The world and everything in our existence are particles of energy all resonating at different frequency, look around you at your homes, cars and even people, everything is just energy. I have decided that 2012 is going to be a good year, there is much I want to explore, am I just a carbon-based biped life form in charge of my own destiny, or an avatar guided from some unseen spirit, time will tell.

Saxon v Celts

Well I am back from my trip over the border and into the world, Essex is my place of birth and it was nice to return home and catch up with long lost friends and family. While there I spent time alone wandering around the hamlet of my childhood, the thing that caught me was the intensity of memories and sadly the changes that have taken place during my 11 years in Cornwall, I guess I am homesick. I came to Cornwall back then to study my family history as it would appear that the earliest record of my family name originated in Illogan back in the 1500's while I was studying I fell into a job driving articulated trucks for the then English China Clay at Par Docks, from this developed my interest in the Paranormal and my current work at Bodmin Jail. It sounds an easy existence but Cornwall is harsh, forget the chocolate box image of the county, in the past 3 years I can count on one hand the days of warm sunlight and all the images that go with it.

Life has been hard here, I came up with a saying last year, in Essex we lived in Cornwall we survive!! now before the nationalists say “well that’s because you are just one more emmit” I will retort that my ancestors were Cornish and indeed one was married to Richard Trevithick the Cornish God of Steam, and my two daughters are Cornish, I love this place and have devoted 11 years of my life here, but I am what I am an Anglo Saxon from Essex and therefore have ambition and a drive to make a better life for myself and my family, there is a world out there beyond the tamar bridge and that life is better paid with more prospects for development.  My business in the spiritual capital of Cornwall Tintagel is no more, and is now sadly reduced to just an exercise in legal and damage control, I started the exciting prospect of running a proper business full of enthusiasm and drive, but it became obvious that unless you are local and know the right people in this part of the world it makes little difference how good you are at something you will never get to the point of becoming financially secure, when so called Reiki Masters can charge anything from £40 to £400!! pound per hour up country for a single healing session, and even when I reduced my fee to £10 for an hour I was still confronted by apathy and a sucking of breath and cries of “how much” it became obvious things have to change. So ladies and gentleman as we survived being destroyed as a human race this Christmas its time to look to that future.

I will be expanding my field of business interests beyond the border of Cornwall and even across into France/Brittany during 2012, I have to think of the future of my family, and rise above the general malaise that seems to inhabit the circles I work in. Some people will drift away that we have known during our time here and its to be expected, friendship is a transient thing at best, I don’t outwardly seek publicity for the things I do I tend to let my actions speak for me, so I forsee a time when people that have called me friend for some time in this part of the world wont even remember me or what I did in the future.

Despite the rather dull and self wallowing aspect of what I have just written, I am actuality looking forward to 2012 and the future, perhaps the Myan's were not talking about the termination of the human race after all but perhaps just a termination of old ways of life and a fresh start, anyhow bless you all and I will see you all in 2012.



In the words of Peter Gabriel and Salisbury Plain

To keepin' silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went from day to day
Tho' my life was in a rut
"Till I thought of what I'd say
Which connection I should cut
I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" he said "Grab your things
I've come to take you home."

When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me
Today I don't need a replacement
I'll tell them what the
smile on my face meant
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" I said "You can keep my things,
they've come to take me home."


This and that

It was my intention to update this blog on a daily basis but I now realise that due to work, life and the internet connection that will have to be cut back to a few times a week. But never mind I will still be here. During my exile to the home while I do battle with the rear breaking system on the Alfa Romeo, I have had plenty of time to indulge my hobbies. But as my job is also my hobby there is always a crossover at some point. So I found myself thinking like this, what if I combined one of my old radio control cars with a video cam, that way I could theoretically send it into dark out of the way places where the human body cant reach, and get a different perspective of locations that may have been buried since about 1779! This is very much along the lines of BOB the hover cam that I was working on so I could get a look in the cells of the Navel Prison at Bodmin, Bob is currently grounded at the practice in Tintagel until I can source a new battery but I am sure he will be back. So on to this latest project, I have a Tyco Twister, its 13 inches long and 7 inches high so a nice workable platform for a project. I have removed the top panel to reduce the hight, the good or interesting thing about this vehicle is its method of locomotion, it uses Archimedes Screws to travel on, this gives it very good traction. I am in the process of fitting a head unit combining the camera and lighting system, also because I have loads of bits lying around I am going to fit this head on a swivel platform attached to a servo to give pan & tilt to the camera.

I am back to work tonight as I have a private booking at the Jail to watch over until 4am, it should be an interesting night as I have not worked with this company before, so it will be interesting to see how they operate. Tomorrow is the last commercial night of the year at Bodmin, its been an interesting year and seems to have gone very quickly. I will do a round up after I recover on Sunday, and give you some of the highlights and some of the very quirky sayings that I have been told to me over the year. Last friday Paul from the group took this interesting photograph on level 2 at the Jail,

Enjoy