Vistas of Infinity

 

This book deals with the reality of our life after death, not spirit communication, but actual visits with all sensory perception in tact using Out-of-Body travel. Jurgen Ziewe has spent over forty years refining his Obe skills via a lifelong practice of deep meditation. The author projects his consciousness into parallel dimensions and non-physical reality systems whilst retaining full waking awareness throughout. He probes into the infinite vistas of human consciousness and brings back detailed accounts of his journeys and observations. The reports gathered followed a strict research protocol, where the author interviewed dead people and visited the higher dimensional realities, from the darkest places to the most illuminated regions of cosmic consciousness and realms which are traditionally referred to as 'Heaven'. These are lively, first-hand accounts providing a narrative which is destined to revolutionize old concepts and perspectives.


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Large Hadron Collider ‘Could Be About To Find A Parallel Universe’

 

It’s now firing at even higher energy

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Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

The Large Hadron Collider is now firing at its highest-ever energy level - and scientists hope we could find a parallel universe.

It won’t be a parallel universe as seen in science fiction - but it could give our understanding of physics is about to take a very big jolt indeed.

One of the many mind-scrambling ideas on the table is that the Big Bang never happened, and the universe has always existed.

Scarily, scientists are combing through results from June in the hope of finding evidence of mini black holes produced inside the collider.

‘Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects (breadth and length) can exist in a third dimension (height), parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions’ Cern employee Mir Faizal from the University of Waterloo said.

‘We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.’

‘Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised.

‘This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science. This is not what we mean by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions.’

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Dreams About Flying: Dream Meanings Explained

 

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Posted: 07/13/2011 2:09 pm EDT Updated: 09/12/2011 5:12 am EDT

                                                      

Dreams about flying are a very common theme at bedtime. If you or a loved one have been covering this ground at night, you may have questions about what it all might mean. As part of a Huffington Post series on dreams and their meanings, we spoke to Jeffrey Sumber, a psychotherapist and author in Chicago, to get expert advice about the meanings of your or your loved one’s flying dreams. Note: While dream analysis is highly subjective, this post might provide some insight into why this dream occurred or is recurring.
What do dreams about flying mean?
"A lot depends on the nature of the dream and the relationship we have to flying," explains Sumber. Often times, though, flying represents a sense of freedom. Sumber explains that flying dreams serve as a sort of escape from the pressures of the real world (which is represented by the ground).
What can I learn about myself from dreaming about this subject?
"Usually, they occur when we are dealing with issues of freedom, momentum or a lack thereof," says Sumber. "These dreams can be purely informational in the sense that they highlight an experience we are having, but have not yet been conscious of." They may also provide "actual tips on how to remedy a situation."
Are there any tricks to avoiding or inducing dreams about this subject?
Flying can be a liberating experience, so wanting to induce a flying dream is understandable. Think about flying before you fall asleep for a greater chance of inducing the dream.
Beyond analysis, what cultural symbolism can be found in dreams about this subject?
In almost every culture, flying dreams represent freedom or a release from daily pressures.
Who tends to have dreams about this subject most frequently?
According to Sumber, dreams about flying are extremely common. However, they are more common in adult males than other segments of the population.
Why are men more likely to dream about flying than women?
"Often times, men in today's world negotiate issues regarding freedom," explains Sumber. "There is great pressure to perform at work, at home, in the bedroom, financially, athletically, socially, and more and more, emotionally. Thus, it has become fairly common for many males to confront their feelings about this pressure as well as their relationship to the underlying desire to be free, by working it out in flying dreams."

Jeffrey Sumber earned master's degrees in theological studies from the Harvard Divinity School and in transpersonal psychology from Southwestern College. He has also taken specialized courses in dream interpretation at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. In addition to teaching psychology at National-Louis University in Chicago, he has served as a licensed clinical counselor for more than 10 years.

Description Logics

 

A greater understanding in past, and present research into the nature of description could prove valuable in the development of Multi-Dimensional Science. Hence, the inclusion of the following article, and links

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 The description logic workshops are the main international event of the description logic research community. They take place annually and aim at being an informal get-together that allows researchers to discuss the current developments in the area. The workshops explicitly welcome submissions from researchers that are new to the area and provide quality feedback via peer-reviewing while at the same time being of an "inclusive" nature with a very high acceptance rate. There are only informal (electronic) proceedings and "publication" at the workshop is not supposed to preclude publication at conferences.

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GENERAL RESOURCES

• The next workshop will be
  
  
  
  

  The 2016 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2016) in Cape Town, South Africa.

• Past Workshops and Proceedings

• The Steering Committee for the workshop series

• The Description Logics Mailing List for announcements and general discussions regarding description logic

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SPECIFIC RESOURCES

• The 2nd edition of the Description Logic Handbook has appeared in 2007.

• A navigator for the complexity of description logics by Evgeny Zolin.

• The TONES ontology repository at the University of Manchester.

• A list of description logic reasoners maintained by Uli Sattler

• The (historic) Description-Logic Knowledge Representation System Specification (KRSS)

• The Description Logic Logo.

Description

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The development of  descriptive powers is vitally important in the evolution of Multi-Dimensional Science.

 

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For other uses, see Description (disambiguation).

For the Hasidic musician, see DeScribe.

Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. Each of the rhetorical modes is present in a variety of forms and each has its own purpose and conventions. The act of description may be related to that of definition. Description is also the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story.^{[citation needed]} Definition: The pattern of development that presents a word picture of a thing, a person, a situation, or a series of events.

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• 1 Description as a fiction-writing mode
• 2 Purple prose
• 3 Philosophy
• 4 Physics
• 5 See also
• 6 Notes
• 7 References
• 8 External links

Description as a fiction-writing mode[edit]

Fiction is a form of narrative, one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse. Fiction-writing also has modes for fiction-writing: action, exposition, description, dialogue, summary, and transition (Morrell 2006, p. 127). Author Peter Selgin refers to methods, including action, dialogue, thoughts, summary, scene, and description (Selgin 2007, p. 38). Currently, there is no consensus within the writing community regarding the number and composition of fiction-writing modes and their uses.
Description is the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story. Together with dialogue, narration, exposition, and summarization, description is one of the most widely recognized of the fiction-writing modes. As stated in Writing from A to Z, edited by Kirk Polking, description is more than the amassing of details; it is bringing something to life by carefully choosing and arranging words and phrases to produce the desired effect (Polking 1990, p. 106). The most appropriate and effective techniques for presenting description are a matter of ongoing discussion among writers and writing coaches.

Purple prose[edit]

In literary criticism, purple prose is a passage or sometimes an entire literary work, written in prose so overly extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw attention to itself. Purple prose is sensuously evocative beyond the requirements of its context. It also refers to writing that employs certain rhetorical effects such as exaggerated sentiment or pathos in an attempt to manipulate a reader's response.^{[citation needed]}

Philosophy[edit]

In philosophy, the nature of description has been an important question since Bertrand Russell's classical texts (cf. Ludlow, 2007).^[1]

Physics[edit]

The word deon is often used interchangeably with the word theory.^{[citation needed]}

See also[edit]

• Anthropomorphism
• Cliché
• Diction
• Grammatical modifier
• Grammatical voice
• Metaphors
• Narrative mode
• Nouns
• Objectification
• Personification
• Referential density
• Relevance
• Rhetorical devices
• Simile
• Verisimilitude
• Word choice

Notes[edit]

1. Jump up ^ Ludlow, Peter (2007). "Descriptions". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 

References[edit]

• Rozakis, Laurie (2003). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grammar and Style, 2nd Edition. Alpha. ISBN 978-1-59257-115-4
• Marshall, Evan (1998). The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing. Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books. pp. 143–165. ISBN 1-58297-062-9. 
• Morrell, Jessica Page (2006). Between the Lines: Master the Subtle Elements of Fiction Writing. Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-58297-393-7. 
• Polking, Kirk (1990). Writing A to Z. Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books. ISBN 0-89879-435-8. 
• Selgin, Peter (2007). By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for fiction writers. Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-58297-491-0. 

External links[edit]

• The dictionary definition of description at Wiktionary

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Mental Imagery Journal

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The JOURNAL OF MENTAL IMAGERY (JMI) has served as the major forum for original and creative thought on mental imagery since it was established in 1977. This ground-breaking journal, dedicated solely to the study of mental imagery, offers timely peer-reviewed articles, theme issues, and open peer commentary. Committed to scholarship, dialogue, and debate on mental imagery, the JMI has received critical acclaim around the world from researchers, theoreticians, clinicians, and educators. A vital and invaluable resource for individuals and libraries interested in research, theory, and applications in this rapidly growing field.

Visual Mental Imagery Training

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Previously: Generalizing From One Example

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There was a debate, in the late 1800s, about whether "imagination" was simply a turn of phrase or a real phenomenon. That is, can people actually create images in their minds which they see vividly, or do they simply say "I saw it in my mind" as a metaphor for considering what it looked like?

Upon hearing this, my response was "How the stars was this actually a real debate? Of course we have mental imagery. Anyone who doesn't think we have mental imagery is either such a fanatical Behaviorist that she doubts the evidence of her own senses, or simply insane." Unfortunately, the professor was able to parade a long list of famous people who denied mental imagery, including some leading scientists of the era. And this was all before Behaviorism even existed.

The debate was resolved by Francis Galton, a fascinating man who among other achievements invented eugenics, the "wisdom of crowds", and standard deviation. Galton gave people some very detailed surveys, and found that some people did have mental imagery and others didn't. The ones who did had simply assumed everyone did, and the ones who didn't had simply assumed everyone didn't, to the point of coming up with absurd justifications for why they were lying or misunderstanding the question. There was a wide spectrum of imaging ability, from about five percent of people with perfect eidetic imagery to three percent of people completely unable to form mental images.

Summary: I do not have visual mental imagery. I want it. How do I get it? What exercises, if any, will help?

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In further detail... Here's Francis Galton's Statistics of Mental Imagery paper. I'm not quite at the 3% level of completely unable to form mental images, but I'm close. In particular there are three times I have vivid, sharp mental imagery, and the existence of such times tells me I have the brain hardware to visualize. It's enough to let me know that I want it all the time. Unfortunately I don't know how to get it. And searching online has proven difficult and frustrating... for example this article is first of all about a different meaning of "visualize", it's talking about some kind of self-help motivational thingy, and second of all it starts by saying "How to Visualize: I want you to relax and close your eyes. Picture a hot, sunny day at the beach."
Full Stop. Halt, Catch Fire and Burn.
That's already too far. For those of us who don't visualize, practice definitely does not consist of pulling up mental images, playing with them in new ways, and expanding our imagination. I'm very good at imagination in some ways, but I lack that first ability to pull up a mental image. That's what I want to learn how to have!

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Here is a description of what I can do, what I have tried, what I have learned, etc.
I see vivid visual mental imagery in 3 situations:

1. While dreaming. My recollection of dreams has that I see fairly vivid, sharp, whole-scene imagery.
2. Just before sleep. When I am in a certain almost-sleeping state, I can tell my mind to picture something - like an apple, or a horse - and I will often be able to see that thing vividly, briefly, and then it morphs into a scene. A beach with an ocean, or a pleasant clearing in a forest. If I try to alter the scene, like putting a beach towel and umbrella on the beach, the scene changes and morphs in some way but seemingly without regard to the changes I requested. Maybe my POV starts moving forward down a newly created path in the forest, for example.
3. During meditation. Sometimes I feel like I'm in exactly the same mental state during meditation as I am just before sleep, except without the tiredness. The imagery has the same characteristics in both situations.

I have tried 3 classes of practice:

1. Staying in visualization situations. When I find myself in the just before sleep or meditation state, I stay there for a while and play with imagery. This is fun but I have seen no increase in control over what I visualize and no increase in the range of states in which I can visualize.
2. Explicit imagery practice. I have found or drawn simple shapes, like a square or a ball, then stared at the shape, closed my eyes, seen the shape for as long as it stayed visualizable, opened my eyes to refresh, repeat. This straight up hasn't worked at all. I don't visualize it, only have the afterimage, and need to refresh within about a second.
3. Object drawing. I have had 3D constructions of blocks and tried drawing them from different angles on paper. This is an exercise I did while growing up during summers. Unfortunately there was no actual imagery or mental rotation involved, I just logic'd out where lines must surely go and drew like that.

Here is what my mental imagery looks like, per Francis Galton's questions.

1. Picturing breakfast. The image is extraordinarily dim, extraordinarily ill-defined (at most an edge or two changing the black-purple-brown background static texture), and not at all natural colors.
2. Vividness of Mental Imagery scale. This is a sequence of 100 descriptions of imagery, organized approximately in order from most vivid to least vivid. Of the given responses I identify most strongly with 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, and 99.

Here are my results on Marks' Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire: 4s on everything except 5s on 4, 6, 9, 11, 14. Results suspect since I had exactly one 5 on every section. Marks suspects, unofficially, that those without visual mental imagery may actually have it but be unable to consciously notice/report that they have it.

I read through the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on Mental Imagery, following links to places or ideas that looked promising. I have many forms of mental imagery: good aural, very good verbal, very good analytic, good motor, poor yet extant haptic. But not visual.

Eric Schwitzgebel questions our introspection about mental imagery in general based on the lack of correlation between scores on Marks' VVIQ and subjects' ability to perform certain tasks that "psychologists have often supposed to require visual imagery". Such tasks include mental rotation and visual memory, both of which I can perform easily. I find it blindingly obvious that actual visual mental imagery is not required for these tasks. Here is my own introspection about mental imagery: what I call Imagination is sufficient for all the tasks that supposedly require visual imagery.

Does anyone know of (tested?) exercises for developing visual mental imagery from scratch?

Does anyone know that developing visual mental imagery from scratch is likely impossible?

 

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