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| The Giant Awakens, a cumulonimbus cloud formation over the Sandias, Albuquerque, NM - filtered cellphone photo - 2025, DS. |
- Regardless of how destructive the giant is described in this excerpt of text (found here), the Sleeping Giants were primarily the good guys in Native American tales. In a similar Ute tale the Giant saves the People from an ogre and, in his honor his body is surrounded by rattlesnakes which are there to protect his remains... in case he returns.
Meanwhile, Hobbomock is in reality the steward of Nature's entities - be they plants or animals - and it's only when the People disrespect his kingdom will he become a menacing figure.
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| The Giant Awakens - detail |
It's monsoon season in New Mexico. It rains at least twice a day... and this is good for several reasons. One reason is that, between sudden downpours, the sky transforms into something spectacular.
This post features one cloud formation that was so bizarre, my cellphone could not capture it. Whatever I witnessed that Sunday evening hardly resembled what my device recorded. What I saw was a gigantic, ark-like cloud (visually) butting up against a nearby tree. The camera, however, saw the sequence of images found below the jump (with their time & date stamps).
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| The Growing Resistance... (detail) - ceramic - 2025, BG Dodson. |
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| Cosmic Web |
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"Dark matter, which makes up about 85% of all matter in the Universe, plays a crucial role in shaping cosmic structures. Under gravity’s influence, it forms a vast, intricate web of filaments. At the intersections of these filaments, the brightest galaxies take shape. This cosmic web serves as the backbone of the Universe, guiding the flow of gas that fuels star formation in galaxies." |
| Credit: Florian Sterl, Sterltech Optics. |
"A tesseract (a four-dimensional cube) and the "shadow" it casts on a plane—the quasicrystal discovered by Shechtman. According to Prof. Bartal, "The fact that a quasicrystal is a 'shadow' of a periodic crystal in a higher dimension is not new in itself. What we discovered is that the projection includes not only the structure but also topologically properties such as vortices."
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Scientists Uncover Colossal Underground Water Reservoir, Surpassing All Earth’s Oceans Combined
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Images Show Entire "Universe" of Circular Structure That Can Only Be Seen as Radio Signals
"It's comprised of radio sources so faint they have never been seen before."
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List of top 10 eVTOL companies in 2025
"eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing)"
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| Helicoid with two handles: Image credit Ulrich Pinkall. |
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| A curious doodle - ballpoint pen on notebook paper - by an unidentified artist. (Click to enlarge.) |
"Automatic drawing... was developed by the surrealists, as a means of expressing the subconscious. In automatic drawing, the hand is allowed to move "randomly" across the paper. In applying chance and accident to mark-making, drawing is to a large extent freed of rational control. Hence the drawing produced may be attributed in part to the subconscious and may reveal something of the psyche, which would otherwise be repressed. Examples of automatic drawing were produced by mediums and practitioners of the psychic arts. It was thought by some Spiritualists to be a spirit control that was producing the drawing while physically taking control of the medium's body."
"The rest of Austin Osman Spare’s life was spent in abject poverty, collecting cats that he usually spent his money feeding instead of himself, and drawing portraits of South Londoners in pubs for beer money. It was during this time that he would develop his deeply personal and unique system of magick, revolving around the use of “sigils” to unlock the buried abilitiçes of the unconscious mind, and communion with otherworldly forces through the trance medium of painting itself. Spare also claimed to regularly seek to shock his unconscious mind into trances of occult power by engaging in sex with exceedingly ugly or aged women (possibly another Spare exaggeration).
"A symbol is in a certain mystical sense identical with that which it symbolizes. A true symbol should be a perfect vehicle for the sum total of energy which goes to inform it; it is thus equal to that which it symbolizes because its energy becomes infinite when belief in it is vital. Belief, to be effective, must be vital, dynamic; it must work subconsciously even to the extent of its denial in consciousness. When it is vitalized by being sunk into subliminal depths it bypasses the ego, is suppressed by the censor and thereby forgotten; hence desire is aroused and this exhausts the conscious content of belief. Absentmindedness then becomes the means of its apotheosis."
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Physicists Harness 13,000 Entangled Spins To Unlock the Power of the “Dark State”
"Quantum dots just became serious contenders for quantum networks. By stabilizing nuclear spins into a robust quantum register, researchers have cleared a major hurdle toward scalable quantum communication and computing."
- Via SciTechDaily.com.
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| Digital image, 2006, DS. |
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| The moon in a phi-shell. G - DS - 22024. |
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| Screenshot of the Reference page from a recent academic research paper (see below). |
"In a new paper that's bound to raise eyebrows in the scientific community, a team of researchers from Harvard and Montana Technological University speculates that sightings of "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" (UAP) — bureaucracy-speak for UFOs, basically — "may reflect activities of intelligent beings concealed in stealth here on Earth (e.g., underground), and/or its near environs (e.g., the Moon), and/or even 'walking among us' (e.g., passing as humans)."
Yes, that's a direct quote from the paper. Needless to say, the researchers admit, this idea of hidden "cryptoterrestrials" is a highly exotic hypothesis that's "likely to be regarded skeptically by most scientists." Nonetheless, they argue, the theory "deserves genuine consideration in a spirit of epistemic humility and openness."
- Via the June 11, 2024 Futurism news article: Harvard Scientists Say There May Be an Unknown, Technologically Advanced Civilization Hiding on Earth.
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Much of it will seem familiar, but the bones of Mac's 2011 "thought experiment" are now seen in the light of recent developments in the field of UAPs. Note: although referred to as "bureaucracy-speak," - and although I've said it before - we know UAP from another beautiful mind: Bruce Duensing.
BTW, Nick Redfern is listed in the references, too.
In other news, I recently read 3 Big Think articles which might interest readers of this blog. Via the first article, What was it like when Venus and Mars both died?, we have the following:What goes around, comes around.
Also see: Even the smartest AI likely won’t be “alive.” Here’s why.; and Does science fiction shape the future?
