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Technology to Telepathy

Time Warp a pretty cool show with guys who blow things up and show it back in slow motion, their photography equipment captures high speed events so you can see what’s happening and analyse it. They went a step farther to see the invisible with a Schlieren camera that captures light distorted by air, so you can see shock waves, heat rising, and a whole bunch of disturbances in the air from things like speeding bullets. They shot at a bouquet of balloons and you could see the impact of shot gun pellets striking balloons but better yet the reverberation of the energy passing through the balloons before they were hit. It showed airwaves breaking due to bullets traveling through the air. They had to do more shooting so set up a line of 10 pop cans to see the impact of a bullet, you get the picture. To see some bits and learn more about Schlieren photography visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSFwH0BVd3Q

This got me thinking about communication. From storytelling and tablets, to telephone and snail-mail, to email, voice mail, text messages and twittering…it’s changed so what’s next? Well, Bill (Gates) has predicted that we will have microchips in our heads, no more cell phones, blackberries, but all the information will be stored in a microchip in our brains. Okay if that’s a little removed, how about our intuition and connecting through telepathy?

It seems that we’re moving back. Moving ourselves from that scientific, proven, can see it happening, to the transcendental realm that we knew was there and started with but had to have hard facts to prove. Now because of science and technology we’re starting to prove, something.

Heard of the water crystal guy? Masaru Emoto is a creative and visionary Japanese researcher whose work shows how water structure reflects our consciousness. He freezes water and photographs the crystals from different parts of the world, different types of water, the same water with different words written on the bottles and shows the reaction of the water, to some extent showing that intention has impact. Ya I had to look at some of the crystals and really think about this one too.

With books like “A New Earth” and people like the Dalai Lama drawing crowds to enlightenment where’s our next step as a society? Déjà vu, the coincidence of thinking about someone and then they call you or vise versa, a dream, random thought, all those nudges may just be our own microchips, the one we’re born with, sending a signal that is linked with more than randomness.

If we step back and look at our communication patterns over the years, we’re possibly a little more sophisticated because we have a deeper understanding and some ‘proof’ of why and how things are connected. Maybe we've just come full circle.

The emergence of this spiral force in the larger context of communication and connection is intriguing. A friend of mine is in India and she’s stayed in an Ashram, visited the most sacred of places, and taken horrendous train rides (40 degrees, jam packed, filthy conditions, 28 hours with chickens, goats, people staring…).

As I stood outside one day we connected. Was she meditating with the monks? Or possibly paying homage to the golden (or not so golden) throne on the train, that I don’t know, but I do know the intention of connection was there. I didn’t need a microchip to tell me that.