Yes, Pauline is correct that the ancient Egyptians had their kings undergo a ritual in which they underwent a mock internment in a casket and a ritual which seems designed to both induce a near death experience and a near death state!

That’s the problem with this whole “crazy nonsense” and “crackpot science” labeling. The above facts about the Egyptian rituals for their new kings sound like crazy nonsense yet in fact the above is true. Reasonable people can differ on the meaning of the ritual, but most Egyptologists agree the forementioned ritual was part of becoming a pharoah in ancient Egypt.

I think we have to be very clear about what is a “scientific fact”, what is a “reasonable inference from the known facts”, and what is “crazy nonsense!” I am not opposed to “crazy nonsense”, and as any thoughtful person who knows the history of ideas, yesterdays “crazy nonsense” is today’s scientific fact.

This sorting of ideas becomes more difficult when the “crazy nonsense” comes from thoughtful intelligent scientists. For example, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Jonas Salk, several years before he died, with science writer Paul Perry, for one of my books. Jonas Salk, of course, saved millions of lives with the polio vaccine. You can imagine my astonishment as Dr. Salk casually informed Mr. Perry and myself that aliens transmitted the secrets to the Salk vaccine to him in his sleep!

The book Pauline is referring to is by Vanessa Anseloni Ph.D.. In it she states that children who are currently being diagnosed as hyperactive and being treated with Amphetamines by the dump truck load are actually “Indigo” children. These are advanced souls from a planet in the constellation Auriga who were holding back the planets progress, so they dumped them all on us.
So, oddly enough, Dr. Ansloni is apparently stating that hyperactive children are misunderstood advanced souls, but they are seriously flawed and needed remedial work with us.

I am reading the book for two reasons.

1) I am hearing a lot about these Indigo children in the office and want to be able to discuss the concept with my patients, and

2) Dr. Anseloni is both a personal friend of mine and a brilliant neuroscientist. She did all the cutting edge research on howw the brain cells of the infant at about age one suffer a massive die off, with subsequent significant reorganization of brain structure, a concept totally unknown before her work. This is now an accepted scientific fact.

This issue of brilliant people stating stuff that is basically unprovable and “crazy nonsense” is extremely important because we are at the edge of the new paradigm. We need all the brilliant scientists thinking about these issues.

I frankly don’t have a problem with Dr. Anseloni’s opinions that the Earth is populated with unseen spirits and reincarnated entitites from other planets. I DO have a problem with mainstream scientists who make discoveries such as the recent finding that the Earth is surrounded by a halo of “Dark Matter”, and refuse to then entertain any sort of crazy nonsense about what that may mean!

Think about it! Scientific American, the home of scientific fundamentalism, who refused to run ads for Terrance Witt’s book on Null Physics, published an article stating that the Earth is surrounded and intermingled with something called “Dark Matter”. It is “dark” because we can’t see it, yet it is made of the same stuff as this reality, and is just as real as this reality!

And apparently the Universe is mostly this Dark Matter! Maybe Dr. Anseloni’s Indigo children’s souls are part of this Dark Matter or Dark Energy. In fact, as we get new scientific understandings, I feel strongly we can upgrade the whole Indigo children thing from “crazy nonsense” to “ridiculous speculation”.

Well, as I already wrote to Michael Shermer, these skeptics and critics and scientific fundamentalists have got to start addressing the real issues of the new paradigm.

I like you Michael Shermer, but come on, taking on con artists who sell telephones to talk to the Dead, or debating Depok Chopra about an afterlife, those are pretty easy targets and issues.

I say we are in the middle of a paradigm shift as significant as the one that occured with the invention of the printing press, or the development of language. Let’s throw everything into the pot. Why be afraid to think about these issues! If they are really “crazy nonsense” then that will be pretty obvious pretty soon. But what if aliens did tell Jonas Salk the secret to the polio vaccine. Even if aliens didn’t tell him that, aren’t you glad he still listened to the “crazy voices”? The 40,000 people who died of polio in the early 1900s wish someone had listened to those crazy voices before they got polio!

We must take the attitide of Professor Kukele, the inventor of the benzene ring and the father of modern chemistry. He had a dream that led him to the discovery of the circular nature of the benzene ring, the heart of modern chemistry.

Yet in his address to his fellow scientists, he said “Gentlemen, dream, dream, and dare to dream! And then take your dreams to the laboratory!”
(Well that’s not an exact quote and he said it in German)

And then take your dreams to the laboratory! That is the heart of the issue. Brain storm, open the doors of science to every sort of crazy idea, and then let them survive the rigors of the scientific progress.

But one final note! For all of you who send me your “crazy ideas”, and I definately enjoy reading them, I will have to say that the ones with crayoned notations in the margins, or excessive capitalization, or ones that explain the concept, and then have lengthy texts explaining the explaining, well frankly I put all of those in the “demented ravings” catorgy in the circular file.

Yet as I do it, I reflect, maybe I just threw away the next vaccine.

Hey, I’ve got it. All you aliens sending us messages that are so important, would you do us a favor and send them to people who have good handwriting, are computer literate, and are not actually crazy!