The Galaxy Primes -1- Intelligence

SPOILER ALERT! The items discussed here are familiar books that are being re-read for travel. As such, no effort is made to shield the reader from the results of plot development.

• This book was published by Ace books in 1965. The author, Edward E. Smith, had already written similar books with the Lensman series and Skylark In Space series.
• The book deals with people who can Gunther, which wraps up telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, and other skills in a package named for a physicist who worked out procedures for measuring and controlling these skills. The hero, Clelander Garlock, and heroine, Beverly Bellamy, had more brain cells and skills for this than anyone else in the Solar System, and, it turns out, in our Galaxy. Certainly, more than for fat, lecherous Alonzo Farber, chairman of Solar System Enterprises, for whom Garlock works. They use it to send their star ship Pleiades anywhere with an equivalent Gunther field value. At first they quarrel rancorously, and it goes to random places in galaxies so far from ours that ours may not be found. They find planet with blue four-armed telepathic guardians called Arpalones, like white blood cells, and human inhabitants guarded by them who are inter-fertile with the hero and heroine, who are anxious to mate but with lessor skills. This temptation is avoided, but repeated 43 times as they go from galaxy to galaxy, not knowing where they are, but finding the same guardian structure with no explanation.
• There are also invading animals, with their space ships, which attack people, or which turn whole land masses into glop. They fight along side the guardians, but fail to save one planet which is being glopped. Lola, a lessor operator, drives the ship herself to another planet in the same galaxy which starting to be 'glopped' and so which has a hope of being rescued, and they discover that Garlock and Bellamy have independently conditioned parts of the star ship drive mentally to not go if the other wants to go anywhere. Since only Lola wanted to travel, the two conditionings are satisfied, and she can direct their travel, but only within the present galaxy. When Garlock and Bellamy work together, they can go to other galaxies, and back home to Tellus.
• Garlock says "Remember what I said about this drive not being conditioned to anything? I was wrong. Belle and I have conditioned it, but badly. We've been fighting so much that something in that mess down there has been conditioned to her, something else to me. My part will play along with anyone except Belle; hers with anybody except me. Anti-conditioning, you might call it. Anyway, they lay back their ears and balk." (Page 107) This idea of mental blocking parallels what Henry Gross and his daughter found.
• They find that each solar system in our galaxy has only a single young pair of humans who are more powerful than others, also none a strong as them. All pairs are building their space ships, but none has gotten as far. At the end of the book, Garlock tells Bellamy that the whole set of galaxies is like a single super animal, and galaxies are its cells. Our galaxy is its ovaries, and the space ships are like sperm cells or hormones making a change. Bellamy realizes, "If this is true that our vaunted mentality is only that of one blood cell compared to that of a whole brain ... and that intelligence is banked, level upon level . . . well it's simply mind wrecking." (page 188) He holds her as she probes in a new way, and finds intelligence all the way down, and all the way up. "I couldn't understand any of them, of course, but I looked each one squarely in the eye." (page 189) This parallels the plant intelligence found in "The Secret Life of Plants" by Peter Bird, and with what some mystics like Gurdjeif have found.

Dowsing for Everyone 2 - Finding people, moral weight

SPOILER ALERT! The items discussed here are familiar books that are being re-read for travel. As such, no effort is made to shield the reader from the results of plot development.

• The book is by Harvy Howells and was published by the Stephen Greene Press of Brattleboro, Vermont in 1979, with ISBN 0-8289-0341-7 and BF1628.H68.
• This posting deals with dowsing for missing persons, and a sense of morality that emerges.
• The following is quoted from pages 66 and 67.
• Like many other practitioners, [Bob] Ater doesn't confine his map dowsing to the search for water. To illustrate this, here is an excerpt from an account of a seminar he conducted in September, 1977 as reported in the American Dowser.
• "Bob told of hearing a radio report that two undergraduates were lost in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He had no familiarity with the topography, and the radio had announced only the hikers' point of entry into the Presidential Range. With the aid of a gas station map and a pencil, he traced the route of the young men to the site where they were stranded. This information he phoned to the ranger station atop Mt. Washington. The hikers were found where he'd pinpointed them and confirmed that they had followed the course or 'channel' picked out by his pencil. [Note here, the need was present.]
• "Another time he dowsed the map of a fifty-acre island off Westport, Maine. He confessed that he was a little vague in this hunt. 'All I was looking for was something valuable.' He received a string reaction and, when following up on location, found he'd discovered Indian graves. [The grave is sensed by the rod as 'important' and Indian graves are very important to Indians.]
• "Dowsing for traces of Vikings at the mouth of the Kennebec River, he disinterred bird bones picked clean. That suggested cooking. More dowsing unearthed the charcoal used to roast the game. [No mention of Importance was made here. Carbon dating would have been necessary to determine when the bones were laid down. Only dowsing could connect them to Vikings.]
• " 'Did you ever trace Patty Hearst?' came a question from the floor.
• "Yes, he had, first calling the FBI to see if they'd be interested. The agent he reached was sympathetic, had an open mind. [He found her] But when he called the FBI again, the openminded agent had been transferred; his replacement let Bob know the Bureau didn't need any help from the likes of him. [Later, he saw his drawings matched what the papers printed.]
• " 'How about Jimmy Hoffa?' [This is what prompted me to write this blog.]
• "Ater's smile disappeared, and the lights seemed to dim. He became distressed, angry, almost incoherent, and his emotional disturbance sprayed out to the audience as he castigated the evil that led to and spread from Hoffa's disappearance. Bob could find him or his body, could trace him, but he wanted no part of such people, dead or alive. An uncomfortable feeling permeated the [Masonic] Temple as those in the audience looked at one another. [The negative weight is oppressive and spreads to all who are present. Only an Innocent could perform such a dowsing safely.]
• A handsome woman up front brought relief. 'How about healing, Mr. Ater? I hear you can do that.'
• " 'Oh, yes.' The infectious grin flashed back on, and the lights appeared to brighten." [Light and normalcy were restored.]
• I have personally twice had warnings not to continue with an activity, and they were not accompanied by such a feeling of badness. Or, I might be oblivious to such feelings.

Dowsing for Everyone 2

SPOILER ALERT! The items discussed here are familiar booksthat are being re-read for travel. As such, no effort is made to shield the reader from the results of plot development.

• The book is by Harvy Howells and was published by the Stephen Greene Press of Brattleboro, Vermont in 1979, with ISBN 0-8289-0341-7 and BF1628.H68.


• This book was described earlier on December 31 with a focus on water dowsing. It is further described here with a focus on Lei Lines, Auras, and finding people.


• Finding People: This is a quote from Page 66.


• "Like many other practitioners, [Bob] Atar doesn't confine his map dowsing to the search for water. To illustrate this, here is an exerpt from an account of a seminar he conducted in September 1977 as reported in the American Dowser.


• "Bob told of hearing a radio report that two undergraduates were lost in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He had no familiarity with the topography, and the radio had announced only the hikers' point of entry into the Presidential Range. With the aid of a gas station map and a pencil, he traced the route of the young men to the site where they were stranded. This information he phoned to the ranger station atop Mt. Washington. The hikers were found where he'd pinpointed them and confirmed that they had followed the course or 'channel' picked out by his pencil.


• "Another time he dowsed the map of a fifty-acre island off Westport, Maine. He confessed that he was a little vague in this hunt. 'All I was looking for was something valuable.' He received a strong reaction and, when following up on location, found he'd discovered Indian graves.


• "Dowsing for traces of the Vikings at the mouth of the Kennebec River, he disinterred bird bones picked clean. That suggested cooking. More dowsing unearthed the charcoal used to roast the game.


• " 'Did you ever trace Patty Hearst?' came a question from the floor.


• "Yes, he had, first calling the FBI to see if they'd be interested. The agent he reached was sympathetic, had an open mind. Ater found where Patty was, the building she was in, its relation to other buildings. He mapped this all out, completely with nearby roads and railroads. But when he called the FBI again, the openminded agent had been transferred; his replacement let Bob know the Bureau didn't need any help from the likes of him. Ater laughed when he retailed this and said that when the papers printed pictures of Patty's hideout and its surroundings, the drawings he'd made matched the actual in detail.


• " 'How about Jimmy Hoffa?'


• "Ater's smile disappeared, and the lights seemed to dim. He became distressed, angry, almost incoherent, and his emotional disturbance sprayed out to the audience as he castigated the evil that led to and spread from Hoffa's disappearance. Bob could find him or his body, could trace him, but he wanted no part of such people, dead or alive. An uncomfortable feeling permeated the [Masonic] Temple as those in the audience looked at one another.


• "A handsome woman up front brought relief. 'How about healing, Mr. Ater? I hear you can do that.'


• " 'Oh, yes.' The infectious grin flashed back on, and the lights appeared to brighten."

Henry Gross and his Dowsing Rod 1

SPOILER ALERT.

All entries speak to travel in the world of the book, and there is no attempt to shield the reader from the results of plot development.

• The book was written by Kenneth Roberts and was published in 1951 at Country Life Press of Garden City, N.Y.
• The book shows a growth of understanding the scope of dowsing over a four year period. Henry Gross discovers that he can ask the rod questions and get information as to depth of vein, number of veins from a head of water, and flow in gallons per minute. The questions are asked through a value which is 'at least' by implication and answered as 'yes' or 'no'. So, the questions have to be in a series form.
• Henry and his daughter discovered that either one of them could block the dowsing rod responses to questions of the other. This explains why dowsers often perform poorly in the presence of skeptics.
• Most of the book is concerned with the attempt to get fresh water in Bermuda, which is thwarted by local laws, bad drilling, and fundamental disbelief that overcomes people so that they stop cooperating. It was very depressing.
• Henry further discovered that if his rod touches a substance, then it dowses for that substance until he washes it with water. When touching cheap blended whiskey, it worked over any cheap blended whiskey, but not over rye, bourbon, or scotch. It was enough to touch the unopened bottle. This is similar to the allergy tests I once took, where I was allergic to a substance as represented in a sealed bottle, or even written on a piece of paper.