Jerry W. Decker ( (no email) ) Fri, 10 Dec 1999 18:47:09 -0600
Hi Theo et al!
About the most unusual thing I'd ever seen about Edison was the claim that he was working on a method of communicating with the 'dead' with some weird circuit going around.
That is correct about Blavatsky referring to getting some of her information from the 'astral' and more precisely the 'Akashic plane' as well as from her 'guides'...but that hardly counts as time travel, whether mentally or physically.
I can see why it is useful to sensationalize somewhat when trying to draw in buyers, for a book, a conference or whatever, however, the idea of a METHOD or MACHINE that even allowed viewing through time is quite sensational enough for me..<g>...and I'd like to know what was the principle of the device, if there was such a thing.
Even with the museum/archive/research center I am wanting to put together, I thought it would be cool add a bit'o'sensationalism by growing some giant animals, perhaps a giant 3 foot chicken and advertise it like a 'Gator Farm' in Florida..one of those, 'Come see the 3 legged Calf', 'Come see the two headed snake'...but it IS TEXAS, so 'Come see the Texas-sized GIANT CHICKENS' ...<g>..sensational, yes and hard to fake if they are live and running around...but I certainly wouldn't try to pet one of those suckers...the point of course is to draw in people to the museum and gift shop..
The idea of a time viewer I suspect has often been covered in sci-fi literature though I can't think of any offhand. This alt science stuff is oh-so-much-more interesting and possibly achievable.
It's kind of like channeling...I never had much faith in it. A lot of deluded people or outright scamsters seem to be involved, at least the ones I've met...but its hard to deny the very few who describe a device or technical premise which is later built and works!! Like Cayces two appliances and Cooke's Inert gas tubes.
So IF someone could even VIEW through time, it would be a lot more interesting and useful to visit Keely, Tesla, Sweet, Perrigo, Moray or a hundred other researchers and WATCH them to learn their secrets, write that down or dictate it for later transcription and build it hoping it would work.
With a couple of REPLICATED devices under their belts which were at the very least similar in operation to the claims of the inventors, it would be much more credible.
I remember something a few years back with I think it was Jeane Dixon claiming a guy was a 'walkin' after he suddenly became a prolific inventor with all kinds of amazing new devices based on unusual principles.
Always meant to hunt down the guys name and check up on what those patents were just to see if any of it was truly novel or introduced new concepts....not to try to backup her claims but hopefully to learn something new that could be shared as usual.
Something along these lines which might be useful is the work of Gustave LeBon who found that some metals could be sensitized to pick up all kinds of frequencies, even lead as a receptor. One of the popular sci-fi topics is that light propagates through space so if you went fast enough and far enough out you could intercept light from earth from anytime in the past. I always had a serious problem with that idea because the light would spread apart due to the inverse square law so you image would become ever more splayed and weaker.
There is also the story of the 'slow glass' where light was slowed down inside glass and re-emitted up to 100 years later, viewing yes, but not quite the same.
There are even UFO contactee reports where it was claimed they could go back and forth in time and had showed portions of history to their earth contact...hhmmm....with the comment that our history is quite different from our records.
It would be interesting to see the parting of the Red Sea, the burning bush and other miracles....wonder if this viewer was multimedia, with audio and video??
Could the images and possibly sounds be videotaped so they could be shared with others? Talk about an interesting channel..REAL HISTORY based on an advanced new temporal viewing technology.....
I can't believe this Monk who claimed to have developed the chrono-viewer would waste his time at a Greek play as his proof of having travelled...geez....he must not have been a Jesuit..<g>...they would have gone for the science aspects of it, unfortunately, they would probably then have locked away any discoveries in the vaults of the Vatican..
Maybe someone will spring for the book and extract the technical description to post...<g>...
Theo Paijmans wrote: > > Hi Jerry and all, > > You are right of course. While it is a common known fact that > Blavatsky, Steiner, Scott-Elliot and god knows who from the > theosophical and anthroposophical quarters> claimed to have > travelled astrally (and thus composed or concocted, what one > likes, a history of mankind, the world, Atlantis, Lemuria and > whatnot) to distant era's, it is quite something else to interpret > this as time travel. > > As for Edison; a wrote in my book on Keely that he was a > theosophist, but other than that I do not think that he was > involved in a secret project of building time machines for > Blavatsky (hey! What a great idea for a book, hehehe!). As for > Keely; this beats me too.... > > Best, > > Theo Paijmans
