Universal Shifts of Consciousness

Here are important thoughts about Victimhood-Syndrom from "Handbook for the New Paradigm" by George Green, part 2, Introduction :

"Нolographic Intention of the information...  However, the overall impact has been gratifying and effective. There are indeed lights of understanding beginning to be discernable on many parts of the Planet... Therefore an opening (a Portal) will be created that will allow for movement toward the goal of a New Paradigm and it will begin to manifest. When the time is ripe for greater expansion of the concept of a new experience for Humankind, the information leading to the next step will be ready for distribution. Once the transition is made away from Victim Consciousness toward the acknowledgement of personal power through alignment with the originating Expansive Flow of Creative Energies, the thirst for greater understanding will be aroused. The misunderstanding of looking outward for answers is deeply ingrained and will require de-programming and education of how to apply this concept to daily living in order to allow it to become a new foundation for manifested reality... Much of the valuable information disseminated through other receivers has become an addiction for fanaticizing with little or no application in practical living experience. The focus has been toward survival of the physical body so that the same ideals and life style could be maintained until individuals could ascend (arise out of) rather than transcend (go beyond)... They are focused on individual escape from the morass of a destructive situation. In other words, there must be participation in a solution rather than using the information to abandon the ship... Much material has been disseminated indicating that rescue and reform will be provided by extraterrestrial beings and all humanity has to do is to meditate and wait around for magical processes to change everything for them. It would be wise not to count on it. There is a saying. "God helps those that help themselves." That is a truth to put in a dozen places to remind you to let go of the "I am a Victim that needs to be rescued" consciousness. You will be helped but Victims will not be rescued. Victim Consciousness vibrates below the necessary levels to enter Levels of Consciousness... Giving up victim consciousness is a personal decision. It is not an easy process. If you rescue, you become a victim of the rescued. Sympathizing with those who are locked into victim consciousness supports their victimhood and ties you to them. Discernment allows you to recognize the situation and at that point you must acknowledge that this is a situation that is of their own creation through their belief that others control their choices. This does not mean that you must ignore their plight, but does determine that you cannot do for them what they are unwilling to do for themselves. There is not a rule of thumb for how to give wise assistance to them. Their plight is a result of the personal decisions they have made and the attitudes that have influenced those decisions. Remember, they are human beings becoming or not, by their own choice... The critical point for the next step in the transcendence process follows the acceptance of the personal ability to move through victim consciousness by accepting responsibility for using the Universal Laws to take charge of their manifested experience... In truth most will find that abundance is measured by the inner feelings of self-approval and confidence that precludes the necessity of impressive material demonstrations for ego aggrandizement. What you do with regard to self and others is more important than what you have. When this is accomplished all that is necessary is attracted without effort, for each is then encompassed within the expansive Flow of Creation... To become (a Graduate) is the Goal of all. How this is to be accomplished is uniquely experienced through Freewill choice. Help is available. The asking must be for help not rescue or to piggyback on someone else’s accomplishment. Each must know theirs is a unique experience not to be compared to others. Each incarnation is for their own particular soul purpose to be created through their choices and decisions... It is our goal to trigger the Awareness of this connection in every human possible (connection to your Higher Self, who spends so much Energy to manifest your presence here so you can play this Game! LM) through direct connection or through changes in the Mass Conscious Awareness on a Planetary Level, using what you refer to as the 100th monkey theory. First and foremost is transcendence of the Victim Consciousness into Personal Responsibility. This process will require that individuals Separate Themselves from those refusing to change their perceptions and to Align Themselves with others who are willing to make this change. When lives begin to change as a result of accepting and using Personal Responsibility through the application of the Universal Laws, those previously unwilling to change will again choose to follow suit or not... In the asking for help the opportunities that genuinely "feel" right will present themselves. Incorrect choices will be difficult and bring little satisfaction...  Asking for discernment brings knowingness and other opportunities to pursue... At the base of the rescue stories lies the Victim Consciousness..."

Everything and Everyone is Color and Sound Waveforms!


No Pain - No Gain

Running in Indonesia!

Hello to Everyone from the Portal!

There are many reasons for the Revolt in Egypt, but the most important and the most hidden one is to create a Bigger Portal for the entering of Negative races esp. for the Draconians! To create a Bigger Portal you need prolonged human emotions and plenty of it! That's why 18 days (which is 3-6-9 energy) for the whole event was chosen at the end of 30 years of ruling of the same person (another Draconian?) and in the country, which was famous for their ancient Reptilian civilizations on Earth!
Lots of Negative races want to get with us to the 5th Level of Consciousness, because their Empire has been crumbling: the physical bodies of their Planets are imploding into Nebulas and the physical bodies of their Suns are turning into Supernovas!
The physical body of Betelgeuse (their second biggest Sun) is just about to implode! But the Souls of these Planets and Suns move into non- physical 4th Level of Consciousness to mix with others: nothing is wasted or dying! The populations of these ruined Planets has been  seeking other places to move to according to the Beings' vibration! Some Beings in Reptilian/Sirian and in other Negatives races have reached higher vibration by mixing with Positive races in places like Earth and they have a good chance to reach the required Frequency! There is nothing bad about it from the point of view of our Universe and you need to start thinking the way our Unverse is thinking: put yourself in the place of the Universe sometimes and you will understand things differently! This process is working in both directions! For years the Negative races have been entering Earth in huge groups through the Portals, created by them to stay here on Earth and mix with the locals! And the same has been happening with us (behind our back): many of us have these negative personalities, because our Higher Selves made sure that at least one (or more) of our personalities would enter Draconian, Reptilian, Sirian, Grey etc. bodies to live in it and to experience what it's like to be one of them! This way your, more Balanced, Energy has been changing their societies into more Balanced ones and this is what our Universe wants: more Organized, Balanced Energy! And the life in a Reptilian/Sirian/Grey body is not a picnic: at the beginning it will drive you crazy, because pure Negative energy is so foreign for us! And the same happens to them: they are going crazy when they are trying to mix with us, with our Positive energy!
To speed up the process of mixing these opposite energies together for more Balance, the movie "Avatar" was made! And there are millions of real-life Avatars in Australia and South-East Asia alone, not to mention in the whole World! I am not surprised that one of the main characters was played by an Australian and
I am not surprised that this movie is so popular though it doesn't portray the full reality!
At least one of my personalities is a Reptilian, the same is happening to our son Robert and I managed to take picture of that foreign personality! For many years George and I have been collecting experiences of what it's like to live with a Negatively charged Being, which nearly drove us insane! But if you win that battle of adjusting to the Negative Energy, you would have a 360 degrees vision, you will have more Balance inside yourself, you will be closer to becoming an Androgynous! To achieve other things will be nothing for you and the most precious ability you will gain is the ability to Love and Understand the needs of our Universe! This is what Robert Monroe called  Human+, it is when you are combining your own knowledge, experiences and emotions with the knowledge and experience of Draconians or other Negative races and that's TOUGH! I can give you a good example: take for instance the actor Charlie Sheen. He is bored to death when he is sober and I don't blame him, because I felt like that for many years (but I doubt that drugs or alcohol will help me or any member of my family)! Charlie Sheen is in that stage of melding with Negative races and he uses drugs and alcohol to help him, and, of course, sometimes you're becoming wild!
So what! Everybody sometimes becomes wild: what do you expect?! And the same drugs and alcohol helps many people to get through that ordeal of  melding! Don't be afraid of Draconians/Reptilians, try to put yourself into their position (I am talking about ordinary Reptilians and not about their Queen) and with invisible help from your Higher Self you will achieve the Top! Good Luck in your Endeavour!

You grow new personalities during your life here like branches on a tree and you can do it with one Earth life only! I am a good example of that: I had only one life on Earth and I've grown more than 300 Personalities (Alters), but not without Pain! But at the end of the day you will collect all your personalities in one big bunch and join it with the highest and the most precious part of you, the one you were born with: your Original Soul! And when it's done you merge with your Higher Self on the lowest, 5th level of Consciousness (there are groups of your Higher Self on every higher level like 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th levels of Consciousness), but that's another story!
There are already millions of Human+ on this Earth and there will be more! The same applies to the Suns and Planets: they need to become Sun+ and Planet+  too! Our Earth and our Sun have already achieved it and are called Earth+ and Sun+ . They have both Energies: Positive and Negative, but there are still billions of Suns and Planets in our Universe, which have not reached that! They are still either 100% positive or 100% negative ones and that wouldn't do! That is not the desire of our Great Being, our Universe! They either need to blend with the opposite Energy or they are Goner from our Universe! And that is the real meaning of Human +, a cross (plus +): to merge 2 opposite Energies, to cross them! But don't mix it with the religious cross, which has one part longer, than the other one! No part in that sign (cross or plus +) should be longer: that would cause Dis-balance! Religious cross has the meaning to subjugate, to dominate others by Negative Energy, not to be equal with each other!
As you know, we live in Multiverse. It means many, many Universes, and each one is alive Great Being! That means that we live among Great Beings and help them when they need it! Eventually, all our Higher Selves would have to combine their Forces for the most important Event in December 2013: the Moment of Completion of the Transition of our Universe to the Higher, Non-Physical Level and that is the Violet, 5th Level of Consciousness!!!
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Aussie mates reach the South Pole

Saturday, December 31, 2011  http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2011/12/31/Aussie_mates_reach_the_South_Pole_702397.html

They've reached the South Pole, now Australian adventurers James Castrission and Justin Jones are in a hurry to catch the last flight out of the continent ahead of winter storms. But first they have to ski 1100 kilometres back to the coast.
The duo, who set out to be the first to trek to the South Pole and back again unsupported, planted an Australian flag at the bottom of the world about 7am (AEST) on Saturday. The achievement came 61 days after pulling 160 kilograms of gear through 1150km of 'incredible white expanses' and 'blizzard after blizzard,' Castrission told AAP via a satellite phone on Saturday morning. The blizzards meant they reached the halfway mark of their journey some ten days later than anticipated, resulting in a rationing of food supplies and just 28 days to ski another 1100 kilometres back to the coast.
If they don't make it in time, they'll miss the last flight of the season out of the icy continent. 'We'll have to average close to a marathon a day just to get back,' Castrission said. 'It's a real race against the clock. We don't know if we are going to make it, but we are going to give it everything we've got.' Both men beefed up by about 20 kilograms each in preparation for the gruelling trip, and were eating the calorie equivalent of 15 beef burgers a day until a delay in reaching the South Pole forced them to ration their food supplies. 'We're down to half rations so it's really going to be quite a difficult journey to get back,' Castrission said. He estimated the pair had lost 15kg each since setting out on the expedition, and their clothes had consequently become loose. Jones, 28, was constantly complaining of hunger, and wouldn't stop talking about the decent steak and beer he intended tucking into when he got home, to replace the energy replacement powder and nuts the men were surviving on in the meantime. He had also endured considerable pain from several toes that had become infected.
In 2008, Castrission and Jones, who have been best mates since attending Sydney's Knox Grammar, made history by becoming the first people to kayak from Australia to New Zealand.
Castrission may have been pining for warmer conditions when he said the Antarctic expedition had made the Tasman trip seem like 'a family holiday' in comparison. 'This place has really ripped us apart,' he said. 'It really has been the hardest we've ever had to push ourselves.' Soaking up the sun on a beach back home was often on his mind, and he couldn't wait to see his fiance, dietitian Mia Ballenden, whom he plans to marry on a beach in Thailand in early 2012.
But there were unexpected rewards associated with being at the bottom of the world. The duo, who set out to be the first to trek to the South Pole and back again unsupported, planted an Australian flag at the bottom of the world about 7am today.

On Saturday morning the sky was blue and there was 'a beautiful circular rainbow' that went 'all the way around the sun,' Castrission said. ...It appear there was a Double Sun, he added. 'We're low on food, we're low on fuel, our bodies are definitely hurting,' he said. 'But there isn't anywhere in the world I'd prefer to be right now. We're stoked."

James Castrission and Justin Jones

'Crossing the Ditch': Excerpt from the 'Crossing the Ditch' Documentary
http://www.crossingtheditch.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=15&Itemid=3

Австралийка выжила после падения с 111-метровой высоты

http://earth-chronicles.ru/news/2012-01-10
Инцидент произошел 31 декабря минувшего года в Замбии, но о нем стало известно только теперь. Эрин Лэнгворти решила совершить прыжок с водопада Виктория, все бы ничего, вот только в самый ответственный момент трос тарзанки порвался. 22-летнюю туристку понесло вниз по течению, ей удалось под водой освободить ноги, добраться до берега и уже там дожидаться помощи. Она сама до сих пор не верит, что ей удалось выжить, ведь река Замбези, по которой ее несло, полна порогов, кроме того, в ней обитают крокодилы. Австралийка отделалась испугом, порезами и легкими ушибами. Она называет свое спасение чудом.

Daredevil

Rafa Ortiz, a Human+ plunged into a Waterfall in Mexico!

    

Thursday, December 30, 2010
http://twinkledreams-home.blogspot.com/2010/12/daredevil.html

The moment a kayaker plunged down a 128-foot waterfall and emerged with just a scratch
This is the jaw-dropping moment a lone kayaker decided to really take the plunge plummeting down a 128-foot waterfall. The waterfall is called Big Banana due to the numerous banana plantations in the region.
Kayak legend Rafa Ortiz was caught on camera tackling the enormous Big Banana Falls, in Mexico, by extreme sports photographer Lucas Gilman.
Lucas and Rafa trekked through five miles of steaming jungle and dangerous drug growing cartels to reach the breath-taking falls with Rafa's only intention being to jump off them. Rafa Ortiz is the first known kayaker to drop the 128.6-foot tall Big Banana Waterfall on the Rio Alseseca in Veracruz, Mexico. Beside the swirling whirlpool at the bottom of the falls Lucas had the job of capturing the moment Rafa made his dizzying descent.
In just seconds Rafa's tiny kayak can be seen bursting out through the water before the heart-stopping dive to the water. Miraculously he got through the whole stunt with just a scratch, for which he needed three stitches, and a black eye. Photographer Lucas, from Colorado, Denver, has followed extreme sports all over the world, but he said this was one of the most challenging shoots ever.
Using two cameras, one horizontal and one vertical, he had just one chance to capture the perfect shot.
He said: 'It was not like I could say to Rafa, 'do you mind climbing up 128 foot again and doing that again'.
'It's not just a question of that, it's also obviously extremely dangerous, if he comes down any other way than the right way the chances are he will be seriously injured or even be killed.
'I just seconds to get the right shot and luckily I got it.'
Lucas was photographing Rafa, who is a Red Bull freestyle kayaker and one of only four people in the world to tackle a plus 100-foot waterfall, as part of an expedition to one of the remotest regions of Mexico.
He said: 'It took us five days to get to the falls and the jungle wasn't the only thing we had to worry about, the area is heavily used by drug dealers to grow marajuana.
'I have been all over the world following extreme sports from India to Africa and Australia, and I'm always planning my next adventure.'
Lucas captured the amazing action on his camera, a Nikon D3S.  Gilman took this photo showing a dozen frames of Rush Sturges' sgoing down the Runs 90+ foot tall Lower Tomata Falls ns in Veracruz, Mexico - and losing his paddle part way down.  Lucas Gilman has also photographed other extreme kayakers, like Pat Keller dropping Upper Lewis falls in Washington State, left, and Evan Garcia drops the 101-foot tall Metlako in Oregon.

Humans+ are sleeping high above next to the rocky wall

Snowboarding in the Sun, Australia 2010!

Snowboarding in the Sun, Australia!

Snowboarding in the Sun, Australia!

Skying in the Sun, Australia!

Skying in the Sun, Australia!

Human-Wingwalker!



Human+ in Costa Rica!

Human Power!

 

Robert Monroe wrote a few pages about the meaning of Pain, about his own experiences with Pain and here are a few pages about it from "Far Journeys", Chapter 9, Rainbow route, p. 109-112:

"CLICK!

Now I remember! I was very young, playing out in front of the house before a thunderstorm . . . the lightning hit a power pole near the
street, not me, my father told me . . . the concussion or something stunned me . . . and he carried me up to the front porch. I was all right
in a few minutes . . . but the rest of it, I had forgotten completely, even now I just remember the knowing, not the details . . .

(A glimpse of who you are before you undertake the human experience. How it took place is not important Such momentary recall occurs frequently during the physical process but is obscured and discarded amid the more immediate consistent impact of physical information input. Yet the event is retained, below the surface of consciousness, and therefore affects your subsequent action. It is significant that thenceforth you did not fear lightning and thunder, as you call it, but found pleasure in such manifestation. This is one effect of such pre-human recall brought near your physical conscious level. Another, more cogent, was the subtle alteration in your physical life process that led you unknowingly to your present state.)

I hope that doesn't mean that everyone has to get almost struck by lightning to begin to wake up. It wouldn't be a very popular method . . .

(Most such events are so gentle as to remain unnoticed. Yet they are there if recall is necessary. We have another episode for you, if you desire it.)
How could I forget these things! . . . Yes, yes.
(Here is another area of your perception that is a part of the emergence you have long forgotten. It is completely your own. We do no more than assist you in your recall.)

CLICK!

. . . I want to hear the music . . . I want to hear the special music. . . I know how to make the Victrola play the music because I learned
how, I learned how just from watching, and then she watched me show her how I could play it, then she said I could play it but I had to be real careful so I don't break the records . . . so I'm not being bad if I play it . . . I pull the chair over close to the Victrola so I can stand on it and put the record in the top . . . I have to lift up the heavy lid, but I do it . . .I turn the shiny crank in the side, more and more until it won't crank any more, but I don't crank it after that because it might break the spring. . . then I open the front doors of the Victrola, and there is my special music record on the first shelf just where I left it . . . pull the record out and be real careful to don't break it, and put it up on top. Then I climb up on the chair. I pull the paper cover off the record and put the record on the wheel . . . then I put the shiny fat arm part with the sharp needle in it down real careful on the edge of the black record . . . now everything is ready . . . I move the little shiny finger and the wheel with the black record on it starts moving, and I hurry down off the chair to where the music is . . . the music starts coming out of the Victrola and I feel real quiet, so I close my eyes . . . it is blank for a long time as I listen to the music, but then I feel a surge way down at the bottom of me, and it feels like tingling when my foot goes to sleep, but it doesn't hurt, it feels good, and with it I hear raining, just like rain on the roof, but it comes and goes. . . and the music gets so soft I can't hear it anymore . . . then it's
quiet and I can't hear or feel anything . . . there it is again, coming up from the bottom of me more, the tingle and the rain surge, and it feels
better than anything I ever felt . . . and I wait for it to happen again . . . here it comes again, stronger and bigger, and it feels so good it starts
to hurt, but I don't mind the hurt because it feels so good . . . then it fades away again . . . I know it's coming back, and it does . . . much,
much stronger and bigger, up through me, the best and happiest feeling I could ever have, so happy I want to cry, and the hurt is so strong it's cutting me right up the middle in two pieces . . . then it goes back again, down out the bottom of me, and I know that there is nothing,
nothing nicer I will ever feel than what just was, no hurt could hurt more than what I just felt . . . and I feel it rising again and I don't think I
could stand it if it was any stronger, but there it is getting bigger and stronger, the good, good, good tingle and the rain roar and the hurt so
hard, coming right up to my head, terrible, terrible sharp hurt . . . this is so good and so hurting there can't ever be anything that feels so good and hurts so much, never never . . . then it starts to go away and I know that I will always remember this bright, bright good and the big, big hurt and nothing will ever be as good or hurt so much . . . but there it comes again, no, no! . . . I can't stand it again, I can't, I can't! The good makes me cry, it's so good, and the hurt makes me cry, it hurts so much, it can't be more than the one before, it was the biggest there is, it can't be any bigger, the good and the hurt . . . but it is, and I scream with joy and pain and I know this is the greatest of all there is, the exquisite joy, beauty, that transcends any thought or consciousness . . . that the pain is merely the anguish of physical structure attempting to contain energy beyond the ability to do so, that one day I will experience it again without the pain because I will understand better, one day it will take place, the great glory of . . . I feel hands picking me up and I am crying a little, not too much, and I open my eyes and raise my head. The music in the Victrola has stopped and she, my mother, is looking at me and saying something . . .

CLICK!

. . . Yes, yes, I remember what a great privilege I felt it was to have been given permission to play the Victrola, and I proudly never broke a
single record . . . symphonies, operas my mother liked, plus some saxophone jazz records the college student who roomed upstairs gave me, which I played when no one was listening but me . . . and I remember the same sequence when going under anesthesia before surgery, the identical pattern . . .

(The acceptance of pain as a condition of joy is the symbol of conflict within physical life existence. The pattern of the present is not consistent with the promise of the future as you perceive it within time-space illusion. A conflict of realities, from your aspect.)

I remember so well ... if that is the joy, I will take the pain again, if I can stand it ...

(It is not necessary. Your present consciousness now has a beginning point of reference. It is possible for you to perceive the destination of the rays of pure energy you have called loosh/love as it penetrates into your Earth space in several segments of what you call time. We will assist you in your placement within the event. The delineation, the decision to distinguish must be yours solely. Are you ready to do this?)

I don't know positively what I will be looking for, but I will never forget again. If that is what I seek, I will find it."


Here is an extract from Monroe's "Ultimate Journey" p. 173-174:

"...My friend, we have so much of this bonding built up to take us to infinity and through it. We take it with us as we go. It is the major energy base for our intellect. What you now perceive as love clarifies, not stultifies (to cause to appear ridiculous). It incorporates both pain and pleasure; it is the union of opposites to create a whole.
And you found plenty of love this lifetime, once you dispensed with your illusions.
There must be a tremendous amount of experience stored here, in you . . . in us. How many lifetimes are there?
A thousand perhaps, or more. We stopped counting long ago. Every possible situation is here, every emotion. There is nothing you can encounter in an Earth life that isn't stored here . . . in fifty different ways..."

Pain has an abstract nature: you can feel it, but you can't see it. In his September 2009 talk at the conference Alex Collier was talking about the holographic more balanced Cosciousness Structure we need to create to counteract negative Holographic Consciousness Structure (the full content of this talk will be on  My Thoughts and Thoughts of other Writers  link). One of the women in the audience said, that we, humans, have been already creating such a more balanced Holographic Human Consciousness Structure, which includes our Knowledge and our Experiences. I would like to add that this Structure also includes our Emotions and our Pain and it doesn't matter if one had more pain and the other one had less of it (how much pain is decided by an individual Higher Self). All pain/emotions/knowledge/experiences go into one bowl into one Holographic Structure of our New planet Earth!
We all are against any kind of pain and that doesn't need an explanation of why. But inspite of our wishes, we still go through a lot of pain and with time become wiser because of the pain we've experienced. Looks like pain makes us wiser. It also looks like our Total Self doesn't share our desire to avoid pain at all costs if we still exposed to pain of all kind physical and non-physical. Negative emotions seems to add to physical pain. I, personally, went through a lot of pian in my life and it's still not over!
Robert Monroe wrote also about the Pain he had to endure to get higher and higher in vibration, to get to see the Emitter of the Rays of the Highest level, (M)Field, which are spreading life in the Universe, to experience and describe things, which only rare people could see and describe. I, personally, don't have these kind of experiences or if I do, the memory of them is very well buried in my subconscious mind.
There are some relevant thoughts on the subject of Pain from the book by Bayard Stockton "Catapult: The Biography of Robert A.Monroe", p.161-162:
" Nancy (R.Monroe's wife) frowns, "When he's sick (Bob), he's a roaring bear. I do what I have to, then get out of his way. But really, he's mad at himself for being ill to the point of being in bed."
Monroe has had four major surgeries since he and Nancy met and married. In 1970, with a week intervening, he had two endartarectomies at Baylor University in Texas. In April, 1981 he underwent a bypass operation of the sub-clavian artery. Nancy itemizes: "Those two carotid artery operations at Baylor were very painful. He swears he won't have another arteriogram." In March, 1982 he was notified of an aortic aneurism and again underwent agonizing surgery, which "ripped me open from stem to stern."
Nancy continues, "In his last two surgeries, he came to, on the opening table, and if you don't think that gave the anaesthesiologist a shock! He throws off drugs (medications). His local traffic body can't handle his local traffic drugs."   
Someone asked him why he didn't go OOB (out-of-body) during surgery. Bob answered, "If I did, I'd never come back to this cauldron of fire."
In 1982 siege "was the hardest operation, believe me. What kept me going was the knowledge that this was part of the experience. That awareness was the only thing that held me through the exquisite pain (intense)."
It is a remarkably philosophical, calm statement covering a truly traumatic passage.
"That kind of pain only programs you for the same kind of pressure you feel in other realities. There are other kinds of things you feel at a different level, which prepare you, so you can handle situations as a non-human does."
Bob Monroe's heart misses a beat at times.
"When the skip-beat first started, it caused me some concern. I'd sit there and wait: I could feel my blood pressure and circulation going down. I'd say to myself, 'When is it going to beat again?'
Now Bob pushes his physical self into a jump-start: "I say, 'Go!', and it goes. If it's going to start up again, it will."...I prefer to call the Total Self."
Rolling Thunder has some experience of pain, too. "These things are the price we have to pay, sometimes. Nothing comes free. It's my choice, and sometimes I have to pay heavy...I'm also interested in how to handle these things...Every case of sickness and pain has its reason. And it's always a price that's being paid, either for something past or for something future. But that doesn't mean we're not supposed to do something about sickness and pain. The important thing is to know how these things work. Modern doctors-most of them- don't seem to understand that. A medicine's man (and woman, LM) job is to ook into these things. We know that everything is the result of something and the cause of something else...Sometimes a certain sickness or pain is meant to be because it's the best possible price for something; you make that to go away and the price becomes greater. The person himself may not know it, but his spirit knows it...Physical troubles have all kinds of reasons...but they all start on the spiritual level..."
Monroe's comment  is complementary: "You maybe subjected to an experience which seems to be destructive or injurous, but, in fact, is constructive and beneficial, because of what you learn from it. It can be a physical or a mental trial."
I also posted a few extracts from Bob's books about experience of Pain and Pleasure on the link devoted to R.Monroe on this website or in his videos on Youtube or you can find this kind of info in his books yourself. Here is one of them from Robert Monroe's "Far Journeys", p.111-112:
"(The acceptance of pain as a condition of joy is the symbol of conflict within physical life existence. The pattern of the present is not consistent with the promise of the future as you perceive it within time-space illusion. A conflict of realities, from your aspect.)
I remember so well ... if that is the joy, I will take the pain again, if I can stand it ...
(It is not necessary. Your present consciousness now has a beginning point of reference. It is possible for you to perceive the destination of the rays of pure energy you have called loosh/love as it penetrates into your earth space in several segments of what you call time. We will assist you in your placement within the event. The delineation, the decision to distinguish must be yours solely. Are you ready to do this?)
I don't know positively what I will be looking for, but I will never forget again. If that is what I seek, I will find it."
Now I would like you to read some thoughts about this painful subject from the books of Dolores Cannon. "Convoluted Universe", book 2, p.256:
"R (Robert-the client)... This is learning process. For the human body to change, one needs to understand that the elements, which humanity chose, were not through learning through love, but learning through angst (anxiety, fear) and energy.
And angst and energy create a disposal of unwanted energy, which creates, in the end, pain. So pain is the point of learning. Pain is the point of evolvement and stretching to the point of understanding. So therefore, pain is the point of learning..."
I guess we can only understand that, when we become just observers of our lives without physical bodies. Here is an extract explaining the role of the creative energy called "emotion" in this Planetary Game from R.Monroe's "Far Journeys", p.202-203:

". . . it's the wildest bunch of games inside of games. . . With, uh, rules on top of rules that get so mixed up you don't have
any percept at all of which game you’re playing. Then they get so busy playing so many games they forget it is a game, the whole thing. Even why they’re playing it and how they got in it to start...
Where's the fun! Why play a game if you don't have fun playing it! All those humans in there, I didn’t get a percept of just one having fun.
Bill: They do part of the time, and some but not many most of the time, and very few all of the time, but they're hard to find. Your broad percept missed these fine edges.
BB : There's one other thing...This other part that messes up the M Band so badly . . . the scratchy stuff. RAM (Robert A. Monroe) called it emotion. I don't have the least percept of that. He puts it I have to be human.
Bill: Emotion is the points, the score...Emotion is what makes the game seem so wild, but it is the game, the one game in which all other games are played. The others feed score to the big game in the form of emotional energy. The big game is to control and develop this emotional energy to its most effective condition, which is vaguely set by us humans as love, until we graduate. The more we score, the more fun it becomes. Most of us here—where you are now—we spend our energy going in to help other humans, however and wherever we can, to improve their score—and so have more fun."

And more about the Game and its Rules from the same source, p.139:

"Do you know what they're going through over there (on Earth)?
(Well, I . . .)
Untold suffering. Millions upon millions of them, lying and deceiving one another, violating every known law, including the ones they thought up themselves, illusion upon illusion, digging deeper and deeper patterns . . . It's horrible..."

p.7- 8 from "Between Death and Life" by Dolores Cannon:

D for Dolores; S for the name of the client.
D: But you said you have to come back sometime (to have another life on Earth, LM). How do you know that?
S: I was weak. I should have been able to tolerate the pain. I must learn to better withstand it. I could have stayed if I hadn't been so weak. I'm glad I can't remember the pain. I know I need to go back and I must become complete, whole (and with enough experiences as the gifts, LM). Pain is one thing I must overcome. I must overcome all the pains of the world.   
D: But experiencing pain is very human and it's always difficult to do when you are in the body. From the side you are on now (the spirit side of 4th D), it's easier to look at it in a different way. Do you think that's a lesson you want to learn?
S: I will, yes. It takes me awhile sometimes, but I can do anything. I think I should have been stronger. I would have done better, but I think I had a lot of fear from the ilness I had when I was a child. I was afraid that it would be as bad. And...I gave up.
Pain...when you deal with the higher conscious level of your mind and remove yourself to the pure light and a pure thought, the pain ceases to be. Pain is only a lesson. When we learn about pain on the human level, we get frantic and show outward concern for just the moment. By removing ourselves and concentrating and reaching deep and having patience, we can rise above it.
D: Does pain have a purpose? S: Pain is a teaching tool. Sometimes it is used to humble certain people. Sometimes a haughty spirit can be brought down and taught to be more gracious through suffering. It may teach them that they must eventually learn to rise above the pain, and then they can deal with it. Sometimes just understanding pain and why we have it, lessens the pain. D: But like you said, people become frantic and they think they can't handle it.
S: They become too self-centered. They need to rise above their own interests and what they are feeling at the moment to a more spiritual level and then they can deal with it. Now, some people, they bring the pain on because it's a shelter. They may have the pain as an excuse or as an "out", and that's the purpose. It varies with an individual. What is Pain? It cannot touch you if you don't let it. If you admit that you will hurt, you are giving power to pain. Do not give it power. It's unnecessary to feel it. It's all connected to man. Reach into your spirit, your higher mind (higher self), it has no hold on you.
D: People can separate themselves from pain?
S: Of course, if they want to. They don't always want to (most of them don't know how and don't know that it's possible, LM). They want the sympathy and self-punishment and all sorts of things...They must find a way for themselves because they wouldn't believe it if you told them there was an easier way. They have to figure it out on their own. That part of the lessons that get you there."
p.13
"...the separation of the body and soul (at death) during this time of pain.
D: But the actual death itself, the leaving of the body, is that painful?
S: No. The transition is one of the ease rather than of duress. Pain comes from the body. The spirit feels no pain except remorse. that is really the only pain that a spitit can feel. A feeling that they could have done something ... more. This is painful. But physical pain no longer has meaning because that was left with the body.
D: Is it possible to leave the body before actual death occurs and let the body suffer the pain?
S: Yes. The person has that choice, whether or not they want to stay there and go through it or they want to leave and just watch. That is an option that is open to everyone..."

Here is a tremendous information about the meaning and handling Pain, given to us by such a talanted writer Carlos Castaneda from one of his books "The Fire From Within", p.20-30, the chapter is called "Petty Tyrants" (2nd part). You might recognize your own situation at home or at work or elsewhere!

Petty Tyrants

"The Spaniards were the petty tyrants who tested the seers' skills to the limit; after dealing with the conquerors, the seers were capable of facing anything. They were the lucky ones. At that time there were petty tyrants everywhere.
"After all those marvelous years of abundance things changed a great deal. Petty tyrants never again had that scope; it was only during those times that their authority was unlimited. The perfect ingredient for the making of a superb seer is a petty tyrant with unlimited prerogatives.
"In our times, unfortunately, seers have to go to extremes to find a worthy one. Most of the time they have to be satisfied with very small fry."
"Did you find a petty tyrant yourself, don Juan?"
"I was lucky. A king-size one found me. At the time, though, I felt like you; I couldn't consider myself fortunate."
Don Juan said that his ordeal began a few weeks before he met his benefactor. He was barely twenty years old at the time. He had gotten a job at a sugar mill working as a laborer. He had always been very strong, so it was easy for him to get jobs that required muscle. One day when he was moving some heavy sacks of sugar a woman came by. She was very well dressed and seemed to be a woman of means. She was perhaps in her fifties, don Juan said, and very domineering. She looked at don Juan and then spoke to the foreman and left. Don Juan was then approached by the foreman, who told him that for a fee he would recommend him for a job in the boss's house. Don Juan told the man that he had no money. The foreman smiled and said not to worry because he would have plenty on payday. He patted don Juan's back and assured him it was a great honor to work for the boss.
Don Juan said that being a lowly ignorant Indian living hand-to-mouth, not only did he believe every word, he thought a good fairy had touched him. He promised to pay the foreman anything he wished. The foreman named a large sum, which had to be paid in installments.
Immediately thereafter the foreman himself took don Juan to the house, which was quite a distance from the town, and left him there with another foreman, a huge, somber, ugly man who asked a lot of questions. He wanted to know about don Juan's family. Don Juan answered that he didn't have any. The man was so pleased that he even smiled through his rotten teeth.
He promised don Juan that they would pay him plenty, and that he would even be in a position to save money, because he didn't have to spend any, for he was going to live and eat in the house.
The way the man laughed was terrifying. Don Juan knew that he had to escape immediately. He ran for the gate, but the man cut in front of him with a revolver in his hand. He cocked it and rammed it into don Juan's stomach. "You're here to work yourself to the bone," he said. "And don't you forget it." He shoved don Juan around with a billy club. Then he took him to the side of the house and, after observing that he worked his men every day from sunrise to sunset without a break, he put don Juan to work digging out two enormous tree stumps. He also told don Juan that if he ever tried to escape or went to the authorities he would shoot him dead-and that if don Juan should ever get away, he would swear in court that don Juan had tried to murder the boss. "You'll work here until you die," he said. "Another Indian will get your job then, just as you're taking a dead Indian's place."
Don Juan said that the house looked like a fortress, with armed men with machetes everywhere. So he got busy working and tried not to think about his predicament. At the end of the day, the man came back and kicked him all the way to the kitchen, because he did not like the defiant look in don Juan's eyes. He threatened to cut the tendons of don Juan's arms if he didn't obey him. In the kitchen an old woman brought food, but don Juan was so upset and afraid that he couldn't eat. The old woman advised him to eat as much as he could. He had to be strong, she said, because his work would never end. She warned him that the man who had held his job had died just a day earlier. He was too weak to work and had fallen from a second-story window. Don Juan said that he worked at the boss's place for three weeks and that the man bullied him every moment of every day. He made him work under the most dangerous conditions, doing the heaviest work imaginable, under the constant threat of his knife, gun, or billy club. He sent him daily to the stables to clean the stalls while the nervous stallions were in them. At the beginning of every day don Juan thought it would be his last one on earth. And surviving meant only that he had to go through the same hell again the next day. What precipitated the end was don Juan's request to have some time off. The pretext was that he needed to go to town to pay the foreman of the sugar mill the money that he owed him. The other foreman retorted that don Juan could not stop working, not even for a minute, because he was in debt up to his ears just for the privilege of working there. Don Juan knew that he was done for. He understood the man's maneuvers. Both he and the other foreman were in cahoots to get lowly Indians from the mill, work them to death, and divide their salaries. That realization angered him so intensely that he ran through the kitchen screaming and got inside the main house. The foreman and the other workers were caught totally by surprise. He ran out the front door and almost got away, but the foreman caught up with him on the road and shot him in the chest. He left him for dead. Don Juan said that it was not his destiny to die; his benefactor found him there and tended him until he got well
"When I told my benefactor the whole story," don Juan said, "he could hardly contain his excitement. That foreman is really a prize, ' my benefactor said. 'He is too good to be wasted. Someday you must go back to that house. '
"He raved about my luck in finding a one-in-a-million petty tyrant with almost unlimited power. I thought the old man was nuts. It was years before I fully understood what he was talking about."
"That is one of the most horrible stories I have ever heard," I said. "Did you really go back to that house?"
"I certainly did, three years later. My benefactor was right. A petty tyrant like that one was one in a million and couldn't be wasted."
"How did you manage to go back?"
"My benefactor developed a strategy using the four attributes of warriorship: control, discipline, forbearance, and timing."
Don Juan said that his benefactor, in explaining to him what he had to do to profit from facing that ogre of a man, also told him what the new seers considered to be the four steps on the path of knowledge. The first step is the decision to become apprentices. After the apprentices change their views about themselves and the world they take the second step and become warriors, which is to say, beings capable of the utmost discipline and control over themselves. The third step, after acquiring forbearance and timing, is to become men of knowledge. When men of knowledge learn to see they have taken the fourth step and have become seers.
His benefactor stressed the fact that don Juan had been on the path of knowledge long enough to have acquired a minimum of the first two attributes: control and discipline. Don Juan emphasized that both of these attributes refer to an inner state. A warrior is self-oriented, not in a selfish way, but in the sense of a total and continuous examination of the self. "At that time, I was barred from the other two attributes," don Juan went on. "Forbearance and timing are not quite an inner state. They are in the domain of the man of knowledge. My benefactor showed them to me through his strategy."
"Does this mean that you couldn't have faced the petty tyrant by yourself?" I asked.
"I'm sure that I could have done it myself, although I have always doubted that I would have carried it off with flair and joyfulness. My benefactor was simply enjoying the encounter by directing it. The idea of using a petty tyrant is not only for perfecting the warrior's spirit, but also for enjoyment and happiness."
"How could anyone enjoy the monster you described?"
"He was nothing in comparison to the real monsters that the new seers faced during the Conquest.
(Looks like those monsters were Reptillian Shapeshifters, who only looked human, LM).
By all indications those seers enjoyed themselves blue dealing with them. They proved that even the worst tyrants can bring delight, provided, of course, that one is a warrior."
Don Juan explained that the mistake average men make in confronting petty tyrants is not to have a strategy to fall back on; the fatal flaw is that average men take themselves too seriously; their actions and feelings, as well as those of the petty tyrants, are all - important. Warriors, on the other hand, not only have a well-thought-out strategy, but are free from self-importance. What restrains their self-importance is that they have understood that reality is an interpretation we make. That knowledge was the definitive advantage that the new seers had over the simple-minded Spaniards.
He said that he became convinced he could defeat the foreman using only the single realization that petty tyrants take themselves with deadly seriousness while warriors do not. Following his benefactor's strategic plan, therefore, don Juan got a job in the same sugar mill as before. Nobody remembered that he had worked there in the past; peons came to that sugar mill and left it without leaving a trace. His benefactor's strategy specified that don Juan had to be solicitous of whoever came to look for another victim. As it happened, the same woman came and spotted him, as she had done years ago. This time he was physically even stronger than before. The same routine took place. The strategy, however, called for refusing payment to the foreman from the outset. The man had never been turned down and was taken aback. He threatened to fire don Juan from the job. Don Juan threatened him back, saying that he would go directly to the lady's house and see her. Don Juan knew that the woman, who was the wife of the owner of the mill, did not know what the two foremen were up to. He told the foreman that he knew where she lived, because he had worked in the surrounding fields cutting sugar cane. The man began to haggle, and don Juan demanded money from him before he would accept going to the lady's house. The foreman gave in and handed him a few bills. Don Juan was perfectly aware that the foreman's acquiescence was just a ruse to get him to go to the house.
"He himself once again took me to the house," don Juan said. "It was an old hacienda owned by the people of the sugar mill, rich men, who either knew what was going on and didn't care, or were too indifferent even to notice.
"As soon as we got there, I ran into the house to look for the lady. I found her and dropped to my knees and kissed her hand to thank her. The two foremen were livid. "The foreman at the house followed the same pattern as before. But I had the proper equipment to deal with him; I had control, discipline, forbearance, and timing. It turned out as my benefactor had planned it. My control made me fulfill the man's most asinine 9stupid) demands. What usually exhausts us in a situation like that is the wear and tear on our self-importance. Any man who has an iota of pride is ripped apart by being made to feel worthless.
"I gladly did everything he asked of me. I was joyful and strong. And I didn't give a fig about my pride or my fear. I was there as an impeccable warrior. To tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control."
Don Juan explained that his benefactor's strategy required that instead of feeling sorry for himself as he had done before, he immediately went to work mapping the man's strong points, his weaknesses, his quirks of behavior.
He found that the foreman's strongest points were his violent nature and his daring. He had shot don Juan in broad daylight and in sight of scores of onlookers. His great weakness was that he liked his job and did not want to endanger it. Under no circumstances could he attempt to kill don Juan inside the compound in the daytime. His other weakness was that he was a family man. He had a wife and children who lived in a shack near the house.
"To gather all this information while they are beating you up is called discipline," don Juan said. "The man was a regular fiend. He had no saving grace. According to the new seers, a perfect petty tyrant has no redeeming (to free someone) feature."
Don Juan said that the other two attributes of warriorship, forbearance and timing, which he did not yet have, had been automatically included in his benefactor's strategy. Forbearance is to wait patiently - no rush, no anxiety - a simple, joyful holding back of what is due.
"I groveled (was humiliated) daily," don Juan continued, "sometimes crying under the man's whip. And yet I was happy. My benefactor's strategy was what made me go from day to day without hating the man's guts. I was a warrior. I knew that I was waiting and I knew what I was waiting for. Right there is the great joy of warriorship."
He added that his benefactor's strategy called for a systematic harassment of the man by taking cover with a higher order, just as the seers of the new cycle had done during the Conquest by shielding themselves with the Catholic church. A lowly priest was sometimes more powerful than a nobleman.
Don Juan's shield was the lady who got him the job. He kneeled in front of her and called her a saint every time he saw her. He begged her to give him the medallion of her patron saint so he could pray to him for her health and well - being.
"She gave me one," don Juan went on, "and that rattled the foreman to pieces. And when I got the servants to pray at night he nearly had a heart attack. I think he decided then to kill me. He couldn't afford to let me go on.
"As a countermeasure I organized a rosary among all the servants of the house. The lady thought I had the makings of a most pious (religious) man.
"I didn't sleep soundly after that, nor did I sleep in my bed. I climbed to the roof every night. From there I saw the man twice looking for me in the middle of the night with murder in his eyes.
"Daily he shoved me into the stallions' stalls hoping that I would be crushed to death, but I had a plank of heavy boards that I braced against one of the corners and protected myself behind it. The man never knew because he was nauseated by the horses-another of his weaknesses, the deadliest of all, as things turned out."
Don Juan said that timing is the quality that governs the release of all that is held back. Control, discipline, and forbearance are like a dam behind which everything is pooled. Timing is the gate in the dam.
The man knew only violence, with which he terrorized. If his violence was neutralized he was rendered nearly helpless. Don Juan knew that the man would not dare to kill him in view of the house, so one day, in the presence of the other workers but in sight of his lady as well, don Juan insulted the man. He called him a coward, who was mortally afraid of the boss's wife.
His benefactor's strategy had called for being on the alert for a moment like that and using it to turn the tables on the petty tyrant. Unexpected things always happen that way. The lowest of the slaves suddenly makes fun of the tyrant, aunts him, makes him feel ridiculous in front of significant witnesses, and then rushes away without giving the tyrant time to retaliate.
"A moment later, the man went crazy with rage, but I was already solicitously kneeling in front of the lady," he continued.
Don Juan said that when the lady went inside the house, the man and his friends called him to the back, allegedly to do some work. The man was very pale, white with anger. From the sound of his voice don Juan knew what the man was really planning to do. Don Juan pretended to acquiesce, but instead of heading for the back, he ran for the stables. He trusted that the horses would make such a racket the owners would come out to see what was wrong. He knew that the man would not dare shoot him. That would have been too noisy and the man's fear of endangering his job was too overpowering. Don Juan also knew that the man would not go where the horses were - that is, unless he had been pushed beyond his endurance.
"I jumped inside the stall of the wildest stallion," don Juan said, "and the petty tyrant, blinded by rage, took out his knife and jumped in after me. I went instantly behind my planks. The horse kicked him once and it was all over.
"I had spent six months in that house and in that period of time I had exercised the four attributes of warriorship. Thanks to them, I had succeeded. Not once had I felt sorry for myself or wept in impotence.
I had been joyful and serene. My control and discipline were as keen as they'd ever been, and I had had a firsthand view of what forbearance and timing did for impeccable warriors. And I had not once wished the man to die.
"My benefactor explained something very interesting. Forbearance means holding back with the spirit something that the warrior knows is rightfully due. It doesn't mean that a warrior goes around plotting to do anybody mischief, or planning to settle past scores. Forbearance is something independent. As long as the warrior has control, discipline, and timing, forbearance assures giving whatever is due to whoever deserves it."
"Do petty tyrants sometimes win, and destroy the warrior facing them?" I asked.
"Of course. There was a time when warriors died like flies at the beginning of the Conquest. Their ranks were decimated. The petty tyrants could put anyone to death, simply acting on a whim. Under that kind of pressure seers reached sublime (majestic) states."
Don Juan said that that was the time when the surviving seers had to exert themselves to the limit to find new ways.
"The new seers used petty tyrants," don Juan said, staring at me fixedly, "not only to get rid of their self-importance, but to accomplish the very sophisticated maneuver of moving themselves out of this world. You'll understand that maneuver as we keep on discussing the mastery of awareness."
I explained to don Juan that what I had wanted to know was whether, in the present, in our times, the petty tyrants he had called small fry could ever defeat a warrior.
"All the time," he replied. "The consequences aren't as dire as those in the remote past. Today it goes without saying that warriors always have a chance to recuperate or to retrieve and come back later. But there is another side to this problem. To be defeated by a small-fry petty tyrant is not deadly, but devastating. The degree of mortality, in a figurative sense, is almost as high. By that I mean that warriors who succumb to a small-fry petty tyrant are obliterated by their own sense of failure and unworthiness. That spells high mortality to me."
"How do you measure defeat?"
"Anyone who joins the petty tyrant is defeated. To act in anger, without control and discipline, to have no forbearance, is to be defeated."
"What happens after warriors are defeated?"
"They either regroup themselves or they abandon the quest for knowledge and join the ranks of the petty tyrants for life."

Some readers would consider me and this website a Petty Tyrant for them and maybe they need one!

Rob Harrison's photos of Earth and Sun

The Earth from above - on an amazing home-made camera - VIDEO
(Grassroots People, LM)

Rob Harrison's photo of Earth and The Pink Beam coming from the Sun, 35km from Earth. Can you see the same Pink tail, which is superimposed onto the Fast White Stream of Balance, coming from 11th Density through our Sun to us? In the upper centre there is a semi-transparent holographic planet. Could it be the New Earth, the Holographic structure of it? I see it on many pictures. Now I am sure that the Holographic Pink colored Beam (tail) is a fake to be superimposed and used to cover up the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy of 11th Density to cover the movement of it to the Sun (or to the Ball of Advanced Human Thoughts) and from the Sun (or the Ball) into the Earth!  The aim of these phony pentagons is to also cover the Pulsating Fast Movement of this Balanced Energy from 11th Density into the Earth, which fasten the vibration of the Earth and everyone on it! The most important is not the wide Pink strip on the picture, but the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy underneath, which I've personally seen a few times !!!

Rob Harrison's photo of Earth and Sun 35km from Earth. In the upper centre there is a semi-transparent holographic planet. Could it be the New Earth, the Holographic structure of it? I see it on many pictures.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/The-earth-from-above-.6179775.jp

Who needs a Space Shuttle? Amazing pictures of Earth captured by one man, a balloon and his compact camera
MOST amateur photographers content themselves with pictures of local wildlife or their families – but some amazing pictures of the Earth had experts from Nasa scratching their heads. They were taken by an amateur using the most basic of equipment – a standard camera and some duct tape.

Robert Harrison, 38, used his ingenuity and a collection of cheap parts costing just £500 to take the spectacular shots using a Canon camera which he launched to 35km – more than 20 miles – above the planet's surface on a weather balloon. The astounding views can usually only be seen from a rocket or a weather balloon because no aircraft can fly to that height. The 38-year-old IT director has launched 12 high altitude balloons since taking up his hobby in October 2008 – and before that he says he had never even picked up so much as a soldering iron. It all started when Mr Harrison, of Highburton, Huddersfield, tried to take aerial photos of his house using a remote control helicopter, which turned out to be a non-starter. But he refused to give up and researched on the internet the idea of using a meteorological balloon like the ones used by weather centres. he found reports of a Canadian man who had been taking high altitude pictures using weather balloons. He launched his first, named Icarus I, in October 2008 and it was an amazing success, taking such stunning shots of more than 1,000 miles of the Earth's surface that the American space agency Nasa got in touch.
"Nasa had heard what was happening and wanted to know how I'd done it so cheaply," he said. "People think this is something that costs millions but it doesn't. You just need a bit of technical know-how. I know nothing about electronics and what I do know, I learned from the internet. My family and friends thought I was a bit mad a first but they were suitably impressed with the results.  "The pictures speak for themselves, they put everything into perspective.''
His wife Helen, a 45-year-old web consultant, thought he had lost touch with reality when he told her of his intentions, but their children Faye, nine, Charlie, six, and Jack, two, have backed him from the start. To control the path taken by the balloon he used a standard GPS tracking device, similar to an average in-car satnav and linked it to a radio transmitter, which allowed him to monitor the balloon's height to within 10 metres and made it easy to find once returned to earth.
He linked his standard digital camera to computer software on the ground and wrapped both the camera and the GPS device in loft insulation from a local DIY store. The entire contraption weighs just 1kg (2.2lb). The heat produced from these devices, together with the insulation, which costs just £3 a sheet, helps keep it functioning. The balloon rises through the atmosphere and the higher it goes the more the air pressure decreases, causing the balloon to expand, until it parachutes back down to earth. Mr Harrison is one of just 40 people in the world and four in the UK using such equipment for fun, has spent £4,000 in total on sending his low-tech balloons into space. Luckily he has got each one back although sometimes he has to travel up to 50 miles to retrieve his equipment and he can only send it off when weather conditions are ideal. "We got satisfactory results with the first launch but it nearly landed in the sea, which would have been game over. We were sat in a local pub at the time and I was gobsmacked when I got the images."
He is now designing his third module, Icarus III, which has a rotating lens camera and a rear fixed-lens camera, together with pressure, temperature and humidity sensors
The unearthly beauty of this image taken high above the planet would make Nasa proud. But it didn't need millions of pounds of technology to capture. Just a little British ingenuity that saw a standard digital camera taped to a helium balloon and floated into the sky.
Ingenious: Robert Harrison with his creation, a camera enclosed in a polystyrene box. He used GPS tracking technology similar to an in-car sat-nav to follow its progress - and an attached radio transmitter to find it when it parachutes back to earth. The photos taken by his device were so spectacular that Nasa has been in touch to see how he achieved it.
Mr Harrison's budget of £500 might also offer inspiration to the new UK Space Agency, which launches on April 1. Based in Swindon, with only one astronaut and a budget one 50th the size of Nasa's, it will be looking for cut-price ways to reach for the sky. Mr Harrison first got the idea to explore space after a failed attempt to take aerial pictures of his house using a remote control helicopter.  After investigating high-altitude weather balloons on the internet, he launched his first mini spacecraft, named Icarus I, in October 2008.  It took dramatic shots that spanned 1,000 miles of the Earth's surface, showing the curvature-of the earth. He has since sent a dozen capsules into space.
'My family and friends thought I was a bit mad at first but they were suitably impressed with the results,' said the married father of three from Highburton, West Yorkshire. 'The pictures speak for themselves.
Before launch, the camera is attached to a tiny computer programmed to trigger a photo every five minutes.
It is wrapped in loft insulation bought from a DIY store then placed in a polystyrene box.
When the balloon reaches the 22-mile-high mark it pops because the air pressure is too weak to keep the helium inside. As the box falls a mini-parachute automatically opens. Mr Harrison has recovered it from up to 50 miles away.
Space enthusiast Robert Harrison managed to send his home-made contraption 22 miles - or 116,160 feet - above the earth's surface from his back garden. 

Brit Conquers Space - With Helium Balloon



In the upper left corner there is a semi-transparent holographic planet. Could it be the New Earth,
the Holographic structure of it? I see it on many pictures.

A space enthusiast has taken spectacular images of the Earth's surface from space - using a standard digital camera taped to a helium balloon.
Robert Harrison has been able to send his £500 device 22 miles above the earth's surface - a height that can only be reached by a rocket or weather balloon.
Over the last two years, the IT director from Highburton in West Yorkshire has launched 12 high-altitude balloons with a simple Canon camera attached.
Mr Harrison stumbled on the idea when he tried to take aerial photographs of his house using a remote control helicopter.
When his experiment failed, he started to look into high-altitude weather balloons on the internet, launching his first device - Icarus I - in 2008
He programmed the camera, using free software downloaded from the internet, to take eight photos and a video every five minutes before switching into standby mode.
Mr Harrison, 38, uses GPS tracking technology to monitor the camera as it automatically parachutes back to earth after reaching the 22-mile high mark.
The pictures are so impressive that Nasa has reportedly been in touch, telling the father-of-three it would have spent millions to get the same results.
"A guy phoned up who worked for Nasa who was interested in how we took the pictures," Mr Harrison told The Times newspaper.
"He wanted to know how the hell we did it. He thought we used a rocket. They said it would have cost them millions of dollars."
Stratospheric: Robert Harrison captured images of the Earth like this one using a Canon Sure Shot camera fixed in a polystyrene box and attached to a helium balloon.

Space photos taken on cheap camera

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Technology/2010/03/26/Space_photos_taken_on_cheap_camera_444329.html

A man from Yorkshire in the UK has taken amazing pictures from above the earth, using a camera bought for GBP 50 ($A81) on eBay.
Using low cost materials, Robert Harrison has captured images that have even caught the attention of NASA.
'They saw the pictures on the internet,' Mr Harrison said.
'It wasn't really so much phoning on behalf of NASA, just that they had some interest in 'How did you take these pictures?'. Sort of, 'If we had to take these pictures it would cost lots of money.'
'I think once they understood how we'd done it, it's not technically space.
'Space starts 100 kilometres above the Earth's surface but 35 kilometres is a good start.'
His initial experiment used a point and shoot camera encased in loft insulation and strapped to a simple balloon.
Mr Harrison is now getting more high tech with hobby, using high altitude balloons and GPS tracking devices
Friday, March 26, 2010 » 06:37am

   
As you can see on this picture the phony frame with white rays of different (slower and lower) frequency is superimposed on the Sun and it shows on Robert's arm

   

   
Robert Harrison's weather balloon from England

 



  

   

 

  

  

 

Just Make a Leap (Russia). Russians are jumping from one multistoried building to another one.

 

Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill April 2009 (England)

 

  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o

Human+ in Canada!

We also have a sense of beauty and appreciation. For those, who has this sense it is a must to see Japanese Unicycle Dancing on Youtube, if you never saw it before:

Japanese Unicycle Dancing on Youtube

 

http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/424038.aspx

noolmusic.com/utube_live/unicycle_dancing.php
www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/424038.aspx
noolmusic.com/stupid_videos/unicycle_dance.php
www.youtube.com

Russia, Ice Swimming in different cities, Jan, 2010

   

Schools on 4th Density

This info is from Michael Talbot's "The Holographic Universe", p.273-274:

"For instance, both Moody and Ring have reported cases in which NDEers said that the buildings of higher learning they visited were not just devoted to knowledge, but were literally built out of knowledge. This curious choice of words suggests that perhaps visits to these edifices are actually encounters with something so beyond human conception—perhaps a dynamic living cloud of pure knowledge, or what information becomes, as Pert puts it, after it has been transformed into another realm—that translating it into a hologram of a building or library is the only way the human mind can process it. The same is true of the beings one encounters in the subtler dimensions. We can never know from their appearance alone what they really are. For example, George Russell, a well-known turn-of-the century Irish seer and an extraordinarily talented OBEer, encountered many "beings of light" during what he called his journeys into the "inner world. " When asked once during an interview to describe what these beings looked like he stated: "The first of these I saw I remember very clearly, and the manner of its appearance: there was at first a dazzle of light, and then I saw that this came from the heart of a tall figure with a body apparently shaped out of half-transparent or opalescent air, and throughout the body ran a radiant, electrical fire, to which the heart seemed the centre. Around the head of this being and through its waving luminous hair, which was blown all about the body like living strands of gold, there appeared flaming wing-like auras. From the being itself light seemed to stream outwards in every direction; and the effect left on me after the vision was one of extraordinary lightness, joyousness, or ecstasy. Intriguingly, I have met several other individuals, usually people with more than normal psychic ability, who have also had these dreams (one, a talented Texas clairvoyant named Jim Gordon, was so baffled by the experience that he often asked his nonplussed mother why he had to go to school twice, once during the day with all the other children, and once at night while he slept). It is relevant to mention here that Monroe and numerous other OBE researchers believe that flying dreams are actually just poorly remembered OBEs, making me wonder if perhaps some of us, at least, are visiting these incorporeal schools even while we are alive. If anyone reading this book has also had such experiences, I would be very interested in hearing about them."Throughout my high-school and college years I had vivid and frequent dreams that I was attending classes on spiritual subjects at a strangely beautiful university in some sublime and otherworldly place. These were not anxiety dreams about going to school, but incredibly pleasant flying dreams in which I floated weightlessly to lectures on the human energy field and reincarnation. During these dreams I sometimes encountered people I had known in this life but who had died, and even people who identified themselves as souls about to be reborn.
274
On the other hand, Monroe asserts that once he has been in the presence of one of these nonphysical entities for a while, it discards its appearance and he perceives nothing, although he continues to sense "the radiation that is the entity."

Firewalking is a Handy Skill these days!

   

Firewalking is a Handy Skill these days!

   

Firewalking is a Handy Skill these days!

   

Woman conquers 14 tallest peaks

Granny cracks marathon record
 


63 years old woman, grandmother running a marathon, England, 2010

Active Denial System ('Heatwave')

'HEATWAVE' or ADS?

      

        

Modern Australian, Russian, English, American Soldiers

From reading about  microwave" Active Denial System " ( ADS) is not difficult to make a connection to forests/city fires in modern/ancient times and all kinds of fires at all wars and at the time of "Peace", since Atlantis. This technology has been also used from the underground and from planes/drones a lot. Fires are engulfing the whole world.
More than 400 "bush" fires were reported by the weather people in Siberia and Far East last April alone ( with + 27C), which is hard to reach without the use of ADS in cold places like Siberia in spring.
Australia is famous for "bush fires/heat waves" and "flooding/strong winds" and that's about all natural/technology made disasters you'll find in  Australia.
It seems like a favorite destination of you know who, especially Pine Gap. And now is the same in Florida, China, California, Greece. Almost every "natural disaster" is accompanied by "fire", sometimes " bush" fires in  the snow.
Human spontaneous combustion could happen when a person is sitting in a chair and leave nothing else burned except the living body. What do you think is used?
Microwave ovens have been used for years to cook the insides of a chicken faster than a conventional oven. Active Denial System tends  to  be  used more in  summer (no surprise), which is what Southern Hemishpere experiencing now. Maybe "Global warming" is an excuse for ADS (microwave) attacks?
When I lived in Victoria, I personally found that  the best way to get through ADS attacks ("heat wave") is to wrap a wet cotton sheet around the body inc. head or to wear wet clothes even in bed/couch overnight (preferably no telephone/
computer/tv use at the time of the attack). I used icy water from the fridge for the sheets/clothes and showers and survived at +45C for a couple of weeks without airconditioner. Here are some extracts from websites on Mind blasting Active Denial System:
"... Often " Active  Denial  System" is used on large masses of people (whole cities or Targeted Persons )...driving  millions  people crazy";
"the  imbalance  occurs, a  fundamental change in a person's psyche, he loses self-control and becomes easily led.. either  from Earth or from a command centre lost in space .
"What it does: " ...It produces enourmous pain by allegedly boiling the  molecules of water in the human skin  from  sudden heating of the skin without damaging the skin itself. "A shortage of  breath and  panic could occur!"
About ADS: "...directed-energy weapon ...directs ,or pulses ...at frequency of 95 GHz" .
Today on 6th of February 2009 the temperature is from +40C to +48C in most of Australia.

http:// www.specialsol.com/electr5.GIF

This is an extract from an article on Internet about recent Victorian bushfires:

Bushfire victims had no hope - inquiry

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2009/04/21/Bushfire_victims_had_no_hope_-_inquiry_324050.html
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 » 07:51am
"The fires struck with unimaginable 'atomic force', burning at about 100,000 kilowatts per metre on a day that smashed fire index records, Monday's hearing was told. More than 2,000 homes were lost and 173 people killed in Australia's worst peacetime disaster..."

The Toughest Race Around

Spanish woman climbs Annapurna

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/04/18/Spanish_woman_climbs_Annapurna_452400.html

Spanish climber Edurne Pasaban has scaled one of the deadliest Himalayan peaks, Annapurna, leaving her with just one more mountain to climb to become the first woman to scale the world's 14 highest peaks. Pasaban, 36, reached the top of the 8,091-metre mountain along with several other Spanish climbers at around 2pm (1900 AEST) on Saturday, a spokesman for her team told AFP. She now has just the 8,027-metre Shisha Pangma to scale in her bid to be the first female to reach the summit of every mountain over 8,000 metres. But her chief rival, South Korea's Oh Eun-Sun, is also on the slopes of Annapurna, which would be her 14th and last summit. Annapurna is particularly dangerous because it is both technically difficult and avalanche-prone, and it has a much higher death rate than Everest, the world's highest peak. Pasaban had been defeated by Annapurna once before, in 2007 when she and her team turned back about 1,000 metres from the summit in bad weather. She will travel to Tibet to attempt to scale Shisha Pangma 'over the coming days', her spokesman said.
A third contender, Austria's Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, is to begin her ascent of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, next week.
But she would still have to climb K2, the world's second highest peak situated on the Pakistan-China border and regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of the 14 'eight-thousanders', in order to claim the record. Italy's Reinhold Messner became the first man to climb all 14 summits in 1986. The 14 mountains are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges in Asia.
Sunday, April 18, 2010 » 09:06am

Man soars above Italian Alps

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/World/2010/04/01/Man_soars_above_Italian_Alps_446650.html

A British daredevil who broke his back in a base jumping accident a year ago has made a spectacular comeback.
After surviving the horrific crash, James Boole has soared above the Italian Alps wearing nothing but a flying suit.
But last year in Russia, James' parachute failed to open properly and he fell 1,828 metres at 161kmh.
Landing in powdery snow saved his life - but he broke his back, cracked a rib, bruised a lung and chipped his teeth.
He had to wear a body brace for three months as part of his recovery.
You would have thought the ordeal had put him off base jumping - but the 32-year-old seems to relish the adventure.
'We fly for about a mile across the ground, opening our parachutes at around 500 to 600ft (152 to 182 metres) and landing in a grass landing area near the main road,' he said.
'The speeds that we do are about 161 kilometres an hour horizontally and about 64 kilometres an hour vertically.'
In his first jump since the accident his family were understandably a little unsure about him descending from the the top of the 1,219m Monte Trento peak in Alto Adige, Italy.
This time, he cheered when the parachute opened successfully and he landed safely - much to the relief of his friends and family waiting on the ground.
Thursday, April 01, 2010 » 10:06am

First Arctic balloon crossing made



1st Arctic Baloon explorer

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/04/11/First_Arctic_balloon_crossing_made_449938.html

A French explorer's team says he has made the first Arctic crossing by balloon, landing in the tundra of eastern Siberia five days after taking off in Norway.
Jean-Louis Etienne traveled 3,130km in his special balloon, sailing over the Arctic Circle.
The 63-year-old radioed his team after landing on Saturday, expressing relief 'because there were difficult moments and I was starting to lose sleep'. The landing had been set for Alaska, but Etienne had to change course after a snowstorm on Wednesday near the North Pole hindered the recharging of batteries via solar panels.
Etienne measured the atmosphere for C02 during his trip and did other tests.
In 1986, the explorer became the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
Sunday, April 11, 2010 » 08:35am

Friends matter more than finances (Australia)

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/02/08/Friends_matter_more_than_finances_426118.html

"Quality relationships are more important to Australians than financial security, health and fitness, or career success, a survey has found..."
Monday, February 08, 2010 » 03:28am

Rower Quincey close to New Zealand

Australian Shaun Quincey was rowing from Australia to Tasmania !

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/National/2010/03/14/Rower_Quincey_close_to_New_Zealand_439761.html

Rower Shaun Quincey is nearing the end of his epic 2200km journey across the Tasman.
Quincey was only 30km from New Zealand's 90 Mile Beach at 7am (0500 AEDT) on Sunday morning, and ground crews were heading up to the northern end of the beach where he's expected to land.
Quincey, who set off from NSW on January 20 in his 7.3-metre boat Tasman Trespasser, has rolled at least twice, broken two oars and come close to running out of fresh water.
Ground crew members say there's concern about how difficult it may be for Quincey to navigate the breakers and safely land his boat on the sand, and there's a chance he may swim ashore.
Quincey, 25, would be the second person to row the Tasman solo - following in the footsteps of his father, Colin, who rowed across in 63 days in 1977.
Sunday, March 14, 2010 » 08:23am

 

16 years old Australian girl, Jessica Watson's yacht

Jessica Watson's Arrival to Sydney, Australia. She completed a lonely voyage around the World (and maybe to one of Parallel Earths)

Richard Branson, a maker of private rockets for private Space Travel

Skydive from the edge of space



Felix Baumgartner, a balloon jumper

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/01/23/Skydive_from_the_edge_of_space_420383.html

Felix Baumgartner has jumped off landmarks, fallen across the English Channel, and is now ready to go where man has truly never gone before.
Baumgartner says he'll launch himself out of a hot air balloon from 36 kilometres up in the air, four times the height of Mount Everest.
He will be jumping from the very edge of space. On the way down he is hopes to break the speed of sound.
Baumgartner will face temperatures of -100 degrees.
Saturday, January 23, 2010 » 09:11am

Swiss man is parashuting from great heights

Weightlifter has surprise birth in gym

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2009/12/16/Weightlifter_has_surprise_birth_in_gym_406738.html

A Chilean Olympic weightlifter unexpectedly gave birth to a baby boy while she was training in a Brazilian gym, reports said.
Elizabeth Poblete, 22, did not know she was pregnant, and called for a doctor when she felt unwell a week ago while hoisting weights in the gym in Sao Paulo, where she lives, the news website Globo.com reported on Tuesday.
She then gave premature birth to the baby, who was doing well and whom she named Eric Jose after she got over her shock. Both mother and son were taken to hospital.
The head weight trainer in the gym, Horacio Reis, said: 'It was a surprise for me. A week ago I acted as a judge in a competition in Chile and this girl was competing. All went well and she won the competition.
'I could see she was a big girl, round and strong. That's all I noticed.'
Doctors calculated Poblete must have been six months pregnant. The training and diet observed by female weightlifters can cause irregular menstruation.
Poblete competed for her country in the Beijing Olympics last year. She had been seeking to beef up her body to move from the 75-kilo category to 85 kilos over the past few months.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 » 05:10am

The Toughest Race Around

New Breed of Humans

Karim Diab, Russian guy with Syrian roots, has spent 1 hour in ice cold water in Moscow getting himself into the Guinness Records book.
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1936

 

  

 

2009  Mass 'Christening' in Icy Water

Mass acclimatisation of Russian people to prepare them for Global Cooling, masked as icy water 'Christening'. Some Russian and not Russian people have been swimming in icy water for years and religion has nothing to do with that.
I wrote about my personal experience of swimming in winter lake of Moscow in 1987  in  My Story  link on this website and here are some videos on Youtube, done this year. News in Russian on Youtube:

http://news.mail.ru/society/2308317/     Icy water swimming in Cheboksari, Russia
http://newstube.ru/#/video/69C5AC6E-F3F7-4127-A32B-DD692F648F89/        winter swimming
http://life.ru/video/8543  
19 January, 2009 - icy water 'christening' in Moscow (B праздник 'Крещения' воду в проруби в Бездонном озере в Серебряном Бору)
http://life.ru/video/8543  Mass 'christening' in icy water in one of Moscow lakes, 2009
                                    

  

Ice-swimming in Finland                                       Ice-swimming in Moscow

Northern Europe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_swimming
In Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania and Latvia the ice swimming tradition has been connected with the sauna tradition. Unlike dousing, it is not seen as an ascetic or religious ritual, but a way to cool off rapidly after staying in a sauna and as a stress relief.
Ice swimming on its own is especially popular in Finland. There is an Avantouinti Society (avantouinti is Finnish for ice-swimming), and swimming holes are also maintained by other groups such as the Finnish skiing association. The Finnish Sauna Society maintains an avanto hole for sauna goers.
There are lots of places where you can swim without sauna in Finland during winter. Helsinki has several places for avantouinti, with dressing-rooms and sometimes with saunas. Tampere area has a number of ice swimming and winter sauna locations.

Russia

There are strong traditions for ice swimming and dousing with cold water in Russia. They are done for health benefits, for sports. Such club members are called "walruses" (моржи) instead of "polar bears".

North America

The members of Canadian and American "polar bear clubs" go outdoor bathing or swimming in the middle of winter. In some areas it is unusual or ceremonial enough to attract press coverage. "Polar Plunges" or "Polar Bear Plunges" are conducted as fund-raisers for charity, notably the Special Olympics. Cosmo Kramer briefly joins a New York polar bears club.
The oldest ice swimming club in the United States is the L Street Brownies of South Boston, Massachusetts, who hold their annual polar plunge on New Year's Day.

China

In Harbin, northern China, many ice swim in the Songhua River. It has grown in popularity since late 1940 as a winter ritual and now as an estimated 200,000 registered swimmers. The river hole is estimated to be 25m by 10m.

 

Ice-swimming is getting more and more popular in USA, Canada and Europe, here are some videos on Youtube:

Icehole swimming in Ruissalo, Turku, Finland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kdh4ncyYnY&feature=related
Lagoon Polar Bear Club 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql77SVwfSzw&feature=related
New Year 2009 - Chico, CA Polar Bear Swim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUMMJq1py2g&feature=related
Chico Polar Bear 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MWnGWGNUwk&feature=related
Chico Polar Bear Swim 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFrFahSBp8I&NR=1
Polar Bear Swim 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g35cgT7uGs&feature=related
Russians ice-swimmers amaze public
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA8yERzQubQ&feature=related
Крещение без морозов
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrWgmUvENCw&feature=related
Ice Swimming with real ICE -14 Oulu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJXA5y_OUQ0&feature=related
polar dippin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jir0A3Ek0R4&NR=1
Swimming To An Iceberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiFBslVqIro&NR=1
Polar Bear Plunge 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5NgXCyPmPk&NR=1
Polar Plunge '07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNDlleBe9R0&feature=related
Okoboji Winter Games 07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAduz9u9Hho&feature=related
Окунись в прорубь!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qufa0Y_qCqM&feature=related
Plaża zimą
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdWpSYaBPSA&feature=related
morsy zlot Mielno2004 i 2005
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A82Ce1i1XxY&feature=related
Morsy z Bisztynka w dniu 30 grudnia 2007 roku.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASSIrTZ5XYk&feature=related
Morsy z Bisztynka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH-1Nm1ilTI&feature=related
Morsy z Bisztynka w dniu 30.12.2007 roku. Wersja z dźwiękiem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fATOx2gkbg&feature=related
Morsy z Bisztynka w sezonie 2005/2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3zMem27Rec&NR=1
Sylwester 2007/2008 w zimnej wodzie w Bisztynku (część I)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Ep7SC90fI&NR=1
morsy plywanie pod lodem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEPTu_hI9Qg&feature=related
Morsowisko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kb-YMpj9dQ&feature=related
Ice water dipping!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVK50vIoRI&feature=related
Winter Swimming in Russia, Moscow, Strogino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V13ARK9g578

Maintaining the hole in the ice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_swimming
One way that the hole is maintained in the frozen sea is with a pump that forces the water to circulate under the hole preventing ice from forming. Small ice-holes can also be kept open by keeping a lid over the hole to prevent ice forming. Most swimming places also use a specific heated "carpet" going from the locker rooms to the ice-hole, both to make walking to the hole more pleasant and for safety as otherwise the water dripping from returning swimmers would freeze and create a dangerously slippery surface to walk on.

56-year-old Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first time in almost a month. Reaching a beach in Trinidad, she became the first woman on record to swim across the Atlantic Ocean --a dream she'd had since the early 1960s, when a stormy trans-Atlantic flight got her thinking she could don a life vest and swim the rest of the way if needed. The 56-year-old left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa's western coast on Jan. 12, battling waves of up to 30 feet (9 meters) and strong winds. She had originally planned to swim the Bahamas, but inclement weather forced her to veer 1,000 miles (1,610 kms) off course to Trinidad.

   
 

Acclimatization to ice-swimming of Russian women and their babies

Robert Monroe' Thoughts about Future Humans

Firewalking is a Handy Skill these days!