October 11, 2005

• Explaining the Inexplicable
  (formerly broken link is now fixed)
  Some of yesterday’s comments expressed bafflement or confusion about
  11:11.  I share some of that confusion, but much less of it than I
  experienced just a short time ago.  I have been learning rapidly
  in recent days, finding connections between things I once thought to be
  separate ideas, separating truth from delusion, and acquiring new words
  in which to communicate.  Unfortunately, most of those words don’t
  mean much to most people, or they have different meanings to different
  people and so are only useful for communicating with those whose
  lexicon is similar to mine.

  This morning, I decided to try and expand on what I’ve already
  written.  For help, I googled “11:11″ without any other modifying
  terms.  It returned 35.5 million results.  In just the first
  page of
  them, meaning those that were most frequently accessed, most were links
  to sites related to CSICOP or other such “skeptical”
  organizations and individuals.  Adding “-csicop” to the search
  terms
  eliminated almost five million of the results.  Taking Solara out
  of the mix (“-solara”) didn’t significantly change the number of
  results, which surprised me.

  Putting “csicop” back in (the Committee for Scientific Investigation of
  Claims for the Paranormal [or something like that] the Astounding
  Candy’s, I mean, Amazing Randi’s group) and eliminating only Solara, again returned “about 30,700,000 results,” same as with Solara and without Kandi,
  er, Randy.  From this, I suppose it is safe to infer that
  virtually every site (at least when rounding off to hundreds of
  thousands) that mentions Solara also mentions hoaxbuster Randi. 
  That comes as no great surprise to me, now that I think about it.

  The most problematic aspect of a web search for a number string is that
  the results returned include things like bus schedules, Biblical
  chapter-and-verse, and dates.  By adding minus terms to eliminate
  extraneous results one-by-one up to Google’s 32-term limit, I got the
  number of results down to below seven million.  (That search is here)<<<That link should work now. 
  I had hoped to come up with a search that would “explain” 11:11 to the
  uninitiated curious without a lot of extraneous “noise”, but that
  effort didn’t succeed.  This, too, upon reflection, makes
  sense.  Reality itself cannot be explained by any one person
  without a lot of idiosyncratic BS and extraneous noise creeping
  in. 

  The search did bring to my attention some websites I hadn’t known
  about.  However, every site I found that related specifically to
  the “11:11 phenomena” basically approached it from something close to Solara’s
  “Starborne memory” angle, from George Barnard’s “Urantian Midwayer
  channeling” angle, or from the Amazing Randi’s debunking
  viewpoint.  My Spirit Guides have steered me into the “channeling”
  model of reality.  They say, in contradistinction to what Solara
  claims, that just because this information is revealed to us within our
  minds and not through our physical senses, it does not mean that it all
  originates within our own memories.  They are eager enough to
  communicate with us that they are willing to overlook our
  misunderstandings regarding their nature and origins.

  Although Solara does have a loyal following that appears to be larger
  than George’s, it is nowhere near as large as Randi’s following. 
  These numbers make a great deal of sense to me.  The vocabulary of
  the Urantia Book is only available to those who have read the book, and
  it is a big, thick book containing a lot of new words that occur
  nowhere else in English literature.  Thus, Solara’s message is
  more accessible
  to those who
  are receptive to such messages, and she makes it attractive with
  colorful decorations and strokes to her followers egos.  In our
  culture, however, those
  who believe in mainstream religions and those who believe in the dogmas
  of Science are likely to reject both Solara and the Urantia Book.

  Solara lives in a non-ordinary reality.  It took me several hours
  reading time on the websites by and about her to grasp what she is
  saying and to sort the gems of Cosmic wisdom in her dogmas from the
  colorful window-dressing and her money-making activities.  I had a
  lot of help from my Spirit Guides in that effort (Thanks, Guys!) 
  I realized that my earlier judgements about Solara’s work stemmed from
  the baby-with-the-bathwater syndrome.  I was so repelled by what I
  saw as silly and unnecessary ritual and ceremony, spurious
  “explanations”, and blatantly venal profiteering, that I was blinded to
  the gems of wisdom.  I’m glad to say that I’m transcending that
  bullshit. (Thanks, again, Guys.)

  The Guys tell me that rituals are unimportant to them and to the entire
  Celestial Hierarchy, but are mostly harmless for those who feel
  comfortable performing them.  I get a clear impression from Spirit
  that the human tendency to ritualize various practices is viewed from
  on high as part of the same continuum of human behavior as
  obsessive-compulsive disorder.  The entire continuum, they say,
  involves a mixture of Love and Fear, an effort to control reality and
  to impose a local and personal level of order on the spontaneous
  universe.  They would prefer that we simply observe and become one
  with the natural Divine order, but they don’t condemn us for our human
  shortcomings.  Regarding profiteering, they consider it a
  regrettable indicator of human fearful selfishness.  They point
  out, however, that it in no way negates the actual value of a certain
  teaching if the teacher chooses to put a high price on
  it.  Price and value are totally independent of each other. 

  These “high hookups” that I have been calling “my Guys” are referred to
  by others as angels, midway creatures, Celestials, faeries, entities,
  ghosts, shamanic power animals, Space Brothers, and a host of other
  names.  Solara doesn’t acknowledge their existence, and says that
  she doesn’t “channel” the revelations on which she bases her business,
  but “remembers” them.  Some people, programmed with fear-born
  superstitions, also call the “sources” demons, devils, etc.  The
  channeled materials and Solara’s “remembered” information agree in
  several important ways.   They emphasize love and oneness,
  and they say that the “11:11″ phenomena are a call, a signal, a
  “prompt” to get the attention of  certain humans, to bring us
  together for the benefit of the planet, and by extension, of the
  Universe.  If you don’t see elevens everywhere, no problem. 
  If you do, welcome to the Work.

  The Guys themselves recommend that when in doubt we look within and listen to the “truth bells”
  for that ring of truth (as opposed to relying on the logical
  correspondence to a pre-existing conceptual framework).  No
  learning can occur for one who believes he knows it all already. 
  To transcend ignorance and misinformation, one must be willing to
  abandon preconceptions.  Only the empty cup is capable of being
  filled.

  P.S.

  Yesterday, I started out to write about this and about exopolitics,
  remote viewing and some other stuff.  A phone call yesterday
  distracted me before I got where I was headed with that blog. 
  Today, I had so much more to say about 11:11 that again I never got
  into that other stuff.  Maybe I’ll get to it later, or maybe you
  could google for that info yourself or surf away on the links I left
  yesterday.  Just remember, much of reality is incredible but true,
  while even more of it is totally believable bullshit.  Choose a
  reality where you feel at home.
  

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