David Icke Needs Your Help

Yes he does! Just wandering the web for weirdness I thought I'd go to the horse's mouth, where I find to my horror...

UPDATED MAY 2007

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This is real serious and David's work is in imminent danger of ceasing without your help. Donate system now working.

What next? Is he in danger of going the same was as wossisname - Mr Veritarse? Oh deary me.

By the way... that link should work, and when you have read or heard what Mr Icke has to say I am sure you will agree that he does indeed need all the help he can get.

[Obviously this is not a great writing day... I have a problem with the word 'chimneys' at the moment - call it a touch of the flue if you will...]

Triple Ball Lightning

Immortality beckons!

Actually, I just thought it was worth putting onto the memorious internet the phenomenon I witnessed many, many years ago... thereby ensuring that if anyone really digs for ball lightning eye-witness reports it might prove useful for its oddity value.

It was a summer's day in the south of France, in or around Juans-les-Pins near Antibes on a family holiday when I was 8-10 years old; I recollect my brother being with me, and since he is 3 years younger than I am, I couldn't imagine having taken a 4 year old with me, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't 11. To be explicit the year must have been around 1969-71. [Juan-les-Pins looks rather more developed according to Google Earth than I remember it, but this memory is now at least 36 years old, so no surprise perhaps!]

Anyway, there was a thunderstorm and suddenly out of the base of the cloud in front of us three equally spaced dots of light appeared and proceeded to travel in a straight, silent line towards the ground where they disappeared equally silently. Which is not to say they were absolutely silent because it was hard to tell how far away they were, and of course the rain itself was making some noise.

To see one ball of lightning is a once-in-a-lifetime event - to see three at once was (in mature retrospect) absolutely stunning; (my maternal grandmother said she had seen ball lightning - and she also said she saw "The Great Comet" "of 1908" - having specifically said she didn't remember Halley's Comet in 1910; I wonder if she saw Comet Morehouse, which had unusual tail structure - see also here.)

I have always wondered about their spacing and trajectory, particularly whether they were following the Earth's magnetic field; I (hazily) recollect the angle to the ground as being about 60 degrees but have never bothered to check the dip in the south of France. Nothing more to say really except that that they appeared as small dots (though not quite pinpoints of light) and not balls - I guess they were too far away.

Pity I didn't have a camera with me, but I would probably have missed the moment - they didn't take more than a second or so to travel from cloudbase () to ground.

The only specific conclusion I can draw from this is that the theory that says ball lightning results from a normal lightning strike on highly silicaceous soil is at best incomplete.

Alas I have never seen a UFO - let alone been abducted (though my plans are ready); I suspect Einstein, Newton and Pythagoras were right (in this respective ways) and that the Moon is not made of green cheese (for proof see Google Moon and zoom in to the max); and I know thanks to "Edmund" (?) that certain mental defence techniques are effective against most types of Alien mind-control (Greys, Nords, and, er, the other one) "but of course, not Reptilians" (How could I have been such a fool as to think I could go mano-a-mano with a Reptilian!)...

So I trust this report will be found credible

How to Prove You Were Abducted

Simple - as long as the aliens don't just mess with you in orbit, i.e. they take you to their home-world to chew the fat with Elvis or something - just get some observing time on their sensors and note the coordinates of the first Gamma Ray Burst in the opposite direction to Earth. Then, when you get home, give the coordinates to the guys with the big eyes on the sky and when something in a galaxy Far Far Away goes "poof!", Bob's your parental male sibling.

On a more practical note, coming back with a proof of the Riemann Conjecture would be more helpful, and bringing a tissue sample from Elvis would even guarantee you the front page of the National Enquirer (in addition to Time, The Times, etc. etc.)

I know, I know... you've got the coordinates you just don't know how to transform them... doesn't anybody plan for their abduction?

The Dogon of Mali, Sirius and Stuff

Here is a Dogon joke:

Q: How many people are there in a Dogon family?
A: Five - two parents, two children and a French anthropologist.

Anthropologists just love the Dogon - and why not, they are a fascinating people - Mali is on my list of Must-See places as soon as IT is finished and I reap the reward of some hard earned globe-trotting (No, you may not go first Dean - I mentioned Namibia once and the next thing I know he's swooping over the desert at head height in a light aircraft!).

Anyway, the Wikipedia article is rather long on the whole "Sirius Mystery" angle: how come the Dogon know so much about Sirius - and even the existence of Sirius B which you need a pretty large telescope to see, etc. etc. eh?

Unfortunately, no one is without a reasonable argument: they learned all about Sirius from aliens (who, after all, should be expected to know) or they learned about it from missionaries - the god-bothering brigade of olden days, being gentlemanly in their pursuits, being rather keen on the whole astronomy thing don't you know?

However, I digress... but before returning to the topic, where did I hear that the Dogon also talk of Sirius C - whose existence wasn't detected until a very few years ago? Hmmm? Are missionaries now providing real-time hookups to Hubble as they go? [Found it: le Renard Pâle, p475... "The star emme ya” emme ya tolo is more voluminous than po tolo and four times lighter. It also orbits around Sirius...]

Anyway, what the Wikipedia article doesn't mention are some other, y'know, like "wow!" things the Dogon believe in... if you put the right spin on them.

This came home to me as I was reading Essai sur las Cosmogonie des Dogon a book by a French anthropologist (see?) called Eric Geurrier, which also references the seminal work mentioned above, "Le Renard Pâle" by Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, 1965 (guess their nationality and occupation!).

According to this, the Dogon speak of le "monde d’étoiles en spirale" - the spiral word of stars - which sounds remarkably like a galaxy to me... furthermore, they don't just speak of Le Monde, they speak of Les Mondes, a veritable plethora of galaxies.

But, they are not merely masters of the macrocosm, they are pretty good on the microcosm too... this is the (heavily edited and badly translated by me) story of creation:

In the beginning, before all things, was the god Amma, who rested on nothing. The rolled-up ("en boule") egg of Amma was closed [in upon itself], but divided into four pieces called “clavicles”

The four clavicles are equally prefigurations of the four elements the “four things” water, air, earth and fire; similarly the bisections which separated them, marked the four collateral directions the “four angles”, which is to say, space

But Amma was not very pleased with the result, so he started again...

‘Oeuf D’Amma” Second Genesis (again my translation from the French)

He opened his eyes. This act caused the emergence of the yala from the spiral which, turning in the egg prefigured - in the interior of the egg - the future expansion of the universe.

Thus Amma had pierced the envelope of his breast, and his “eye”, appearing as if from a hole, had become a light, which lit up the universe and revealed the existence of all things in creation.

The universe in the breast of Amma was timeless and without extent, space and time merged by mutual agreement.

When I read this, I was astonished to find myself contemplating the very creation of space and time, their intrinsic inter-connectedness, the Big Bang, etc. etc. described in mythic terms by the Dogon. [If only I could track down the article I read once in which somebody brilliantly re-wrote modern particle physics as a piece of wizardry on a par with Lord of The Rings]

But, enough about Sirius already- lets big-up the Dogon for their whole intuitive appreciation of Special Relativity, General Relativity, cosmology, the Big Bang, etc. etc. and come to think of it, the whole en-boule thing which is really about Grand Unification of the four forces, possibly even, via the "chevron dance", anticipating String Theory.

Can I make this an urban myth? Nope - that's up to you!

PS French anthropology is great! You should read "The Raw and the Cooked" (Le Cru et le Cuit) by Levi Strauss - he has a wonderful transformational theory that can explain everything.