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Tsar Wars: Agents of ISIS, Book 1
on Jan. 21, 2011
I found this an enjoyable and quick read - it's very lighthearted and fun, considering the proportion of the time that the characters are in fear for their lives. I'll definitely look out for others in the series.
on June 04, 2011
First, a warning: this is not a book for the faint of heart. It starts with rape that's described bluntly, though not graphically, and follows through the consequences in Claire's life. I don't even know how to categorise this book; it's like nothing else I've ever read. It has a classic "chick lit" romance premise (one girl, two boys, a difficulty in choosing) but has nothing else in common with that genre. This may be the darkest book I've ever read, yet there's not a single scene that feels like it's been added gratuitously for 'shock' value. It feels sort of like a thriller - but although there is a dead body in suspicious circumstances, the suspense really comes from somewhere else. Whatever anyone else may do to Claire, it's arguable that what she does to herself is the most terrifying. In a way, it's a story of mental illness, though never quite named as such. What I can say is that I read this in two sittings, staying up well after midnight because I couldn't put it down. The whole thing was just thoroughly compelling. The writing flows smoothly, in gripping present-tense narrative, and the story progresses quickly. It's not a "light" read, though - I stormed through it quickly, but it continues to challenge me after I've put the book down.
Glass House
on Sep. 09, 2011
With a setting split between a US courtroom battle and a South African diamond mine, as this book starts out it isn't quite clear how the disparate storylines will come together. A lot of characters are introduced at almost dizzying speed, while conversely there are several passages simply laying out facts, whether about the diamond industry or the legal process. This is an odd combination, but somehow it just works, balancing out as a quick read with a very detailed setting. One minor niggle is that the chapter headings read like the kind of notes an author might make to describe the contents to himself; as such, there were spoilers there that I would have preferred not to read. I tried to skip over them towards the end, but that's tricky to accomplish! However it didn't stop me from enjoying the book, and I definitely want to see more from this author.
Omicron (An Aristotle Project Thriller)
on Oct. 02, 2011
This was an enjoyable thriller, whose action criscrossed the globe from its first pages. Reinken's style is very distinctive, including detailed descriptions of locations and more-or-less-relevant facts, along with a fast-changing cast of characters, many of whom are introduced only to be brutally disposed of or - in a manner common enough in real life, but which I've seldom seen in fiction - just in time to play a major role changing the course of the drama. Throughout this, a small number of more central characters pick their way. In 'Omicron' the eponymous character is a sleeper agent, suddenly (and reluctantly) activated to step in when many of his colleagues are compromised and killed.
The Makers of Light: Book Two of The Masters That Be
on Dec. 27, 2011
This is the second book in the "Masters That Be" series, and an excellent continuation. Like many fantasy series, this is more like reading sections of one long book than individual novels. Compared to the first book, this volume has slightly less focus on Linden and Rianor, and more on Dominick and Merley, but in terms of ideas there is a continued examination of science and religion, control and independence. And there's plenty going on, of course, which makes it a very quick and fun read.
The Seekers of Fire: Book One of The Masters That Be
on Dec. 27, 2011
The Seekers of Fire is exactly my kind of novel: a tale of Science and Magic (capitalized throughout the book), religion and politics, which is nevertheless focused on the personal stories of a few characters. Linden and Rianor are trying to study the Science of Magic - a worthy lifetime's ambition, in a world where magic really works, so it's not surprising there are several more books planned. The world feels well-developed and, since the author has a scientific background, I don't doubt that there's a set of logical rules just waiting to be discovered. Meanwhile, the nation's rulers try forcefully to quash any subversive thoughts. I've already downloaded the second in the series and can't wait to see where the story goes next.
on Dec. 30, 2011
This is a sweet fantasy novel with a pleasing mix of fantasy and adventure. For the most part, the book follows two characters: a young and anxious jeweller, Llandry, and a cynical High Summoner, Eva. When Llandry finds an unusual new gem - and Eva buys a piece of the resulting jewellery - they are both sucked into the mystery of where the stone has come from and why someone is prepared to kill for it. I love a good mystery, and I love a well-developed fantasy setting, and this book has both in spades. Definitely one of my favourite books of the year.
The Weavers of Paths: Book Three of The Masters That Be
on Jan. 20, 2012
This is the third in the Masters That Be series, so it's hard to know what to say without spoiling the earlier books. It wouldn't make sense if you started reading in the middle of the series - these books really don't stand alone - so it's probably enough to say that if you enjoyed the earlier books, this one continues in a similar vein. We are gradually given insights into the motivations of more characters, and people are starting to come together in unexpected ways. I can't wait for the next in the series.
on Feb. 06, 2012
This is the second novel in the Draykon series, and continues shortly after the previous book left off. I love the unique set-up of the Draykon worlds, and the plot keeps me turning page after page, but probably my favourite thing about these books is the cast of believable, determined, flawed-yet-lovable characters. In Lokant we meet a number of intriguing new characters, and there are further adventures for old favourites. If you loved Draykon (book 1) half as much as I did, I think you'll find this a worthy successor.
The Rostikov Legacy
on March 24, 2012
Konrad Savast is a man with a very peculiar mission: when someone is murdered, his job is to kill the killer. But first he has to figure out who's resposible, meaning this story is at its heart a murder mystery, albeit set in a fantasy world. The fantasy elements mesh perfectly with the mystery plot: Konrad has two spirit serpents who accompany and assist him, and his work is all at the behest of the Malykt, a cold power who has bound Konrad in his service. I really liked the interactions between Konrad and his only friend, Irinanda (who doesn't know about his secret identity, and also has secrets and powers of her own). This is the first in the Malykant series, so I'm looking forwards to seeing how future books will develop this relationship. The bad guys were a bit less believable, but such a short format doesn't leave much space for developing all the minor characters, and this didn't really detract from my enjoyment.
The Guardian's Deceit (A Vector Smith Thriller)
on March 30, 2012
I've really enjoyed Patrick Reinken's previous work, so I started reading The Guardian's Deceit with high expectations, and I wasn't disappointed. From the very first chapter, and the way that he reacts to finding three people shot dead in the side room of his local church, it's clear that Vector is no ordinary maths teacher. In fact, he was sent to Long Prairie by the Secret Service, specifically to guard the young woman who has just been abducted. He heads back to Washington DC to report, but when his superiors try to take him off the case, Vector's sense of duty kicks in and he isn't willing to be so easily dismissed. The resulting tale follows Vector across the country as he hunts for Jessica and the men behind her disappearance. Meanwhile, we also see glimpses of a war halfway around the world and events unfolding in the White House, and as the plot progresses everything starts to come together. This is a fairly long book, but it keeps up a breakneck pace and I didn't want to put it down. An enjoyable read, and I hope there will be more Vector Smith novels to come.
Voodoo Love Song
on April 30, 2012
Voodoo Love Song starts out as a fun, lighthearted almost-romance between Paul and Huey (not her real name), with hints of mysterious goings-on in the background. By the end, it's an action-packed and suspenseful thriller. This is a very quick read but it's tremendous fun with colourful characters, a lush Caribbean setting, and just a hint of voodoo magic. Just the sort of thing to read on the plane to your own tropical island (although I read it on a rainy evening in England, which also works).
on April 30, 2012
This is the final book of the Draykon trilogy - if you haven't read the earlier books, start with Draykon, which is a fantastic and sweet fantasy adventure. If you loved the first two Draykon books as much as I did, I think you'll find this a perfect ending, which neatly wraps up various plot lines and mysteries from the first two books. It made me laugh, and it made me cry, and I didn't want to put it down until I finished. A perfect end to the trilogy - though I still hope there will be more from these characters in other stories.
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So I'm gonna start a run of Black 2 soon, and I've been brainstorming for ideas for an in-game team. So far, I've came up with:
- Snivy is my favorite Gen. 5 starter, so I feel like I have to choose him. Also, none of the other grass types in the game interest me too much.
Riolu/Lucario or Magnemite/Magneton/Magnezone
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Do Humans Have the Ability to Sense the Future? This Survey of Experiments So Far Says....Yes!Posted by Greg at 13:58, 14 Apr 2014
Can we sense the future before it happens? That question was at the heart of a set of nine experiments that sparked widespread controversy and debate when Professor Daryl Bem published his results in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2011. The reason: Bem's results were positive, suggesting that we can in some way do the seemingly impossible, and somehow 'know' (precognition) or 'feel' (presentiment) things before they even occur. The controversy grew even further, however, with widespread coverage in science media outlets of attempted replications from others that failed to find the same astonishing results. A number of scientists and 'skeptics' poured scorn on Bem's experiments, and prominent skeptic James Randi was even moved to award his infamous 'Pigasus Award' to Bem "for his shoddy research that has been discredited on many accounts by prominent critics".
In a previous post I pointed out that this focus on replications with negative results had glossed over the fact that there had also been a number of positive replications, suggesting that there might just be something to Bem's original results. And now, a meta-analysis of 90 experiments which replicated Bem's research, performed in 33 different laboratories (in 14 different countries and involving 12,406 participants), has offered significant support for the theory that humans can indeed sense the future:
The primary question addressed by the meta-analysis is whether the database provides overall evidence for the anomalous anticipation of random future events... the answer is yes: The overall effect size (Hedges' g) is 0.09, combined z = 6.33, p = 1.2 × 10-10. The Bayesian BF value is 1.2 × 109, greatly exceeding the criterion value of 100 that is considered to constitute "decisive evidence" for the experimental hypothesis.
A subsidiary question is whether independent investigators can successfully replicate Bem's (2011) original experiments...the answer is again yes: When Bem's experiments are excluded, the effect size for the replications is 0.07, combined z = 4.25, p = 1.1 × 10-5, and the BF value is 757, which again greatly exceeds the criterion value of 100 for "decisive evidence."
The meta-analysis paper, co-authored by Daryl Bem, Patrizio E. Tressoldi, Thomas Rabeyron and Michael Duggan, began with a search for all potential replications of Bem's method between the year 2000 and September of 2013. The experiments were then categorized according to the type of effect tested for, the number of participants involved, the statistical techniques needed to measure the effect, whether the study was published through peer-review, and the type of replication (exact, modified, or independently-designed). They found that 51 of the 90 experiments (56.6%) had been published in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings.
But could the positive results have been an outcome of the 'file drawer effect', where mostly positive results were published but negative replications were not - put in the file drawer, so to speak, due to no interesting findings? The authors of the paper did the math, and found that the number of 'missing' experiments needed to reduce the overall effect size to a trivial value was (conservatively) 520. This seems unlikely.
Another possible criticism addressed by the authors is the effect size. While the meta-analysis offered highly significant results, statistically, the actual 'precognitive' effect was very small. But, the authors note, "even very small effects can have both theoretical importance and practical utility":
One frequently cited example is the medical study that sought to determine whether a daily dose of aspirin can prevent heart attacks. The study was discontinued after six years because it was already clear that the aspirin treatment was effective (p < .00001), and it was considered unethical to keep the control group on placebo medication. Even though the study was considered a major medical breakthrough, the size of the aspirin effect is actually quite small (d ≈.07), about one third the size of the presentiment experiments and Bem's (2011) original experiments and about one half the size of the exact replications in our database.
Skeptics also often raise the lack of an explanatory theory as a problem when it comes to psi results. The authors of the meta-analysis argue, however, "that this is still not a legitimate rationale for rejecting all proffered evidence a priori. Historically, the discovery and scientific exploration of most phenomena have preceded explanatory theories, often by decades or even centuries (e.g., the analgesic effect of aspirin; the antidepressant effect of electroconvulsive therapy; and Maxwell's field equations of electricity and magnetism, which were formulated centuries after the phenomena were first explored)".
The meta-analysis also revealed possible refinements for future testing. 'Fast-thinking experiments', where the speed of the test reduced conscious cognition, produced more positive results than 'slow-thinking experiments': "every fast-thinking protocol individually achieved a statistically significant effect, with an overall effect size of 0.11 and a combined z greater than 7 sigma. In contrast, the slow-thinking experiments achieved an overall effect size of only 0.03, failing even to achieve a conventional level of statistical significance (p = .20)". According to the authors, "fast-thinking protocols are more likely to produce evidence for psi because they prevent conscious cognitive strategies from interfering with the automatic, unconscious, and implicit nature of psi functioning".
Another discovery (which might well dominate some news reports on this paper) was that the experiments which tested for precognitive detection of erotic stimuli achieved "a larger effect size (0.14), a larger combined z (4.22), and a more statistically significant result (p = 1.2 × 10-5) than any other protocol". The experiments were also the most reliable in producing substantial effect sizes, with 10 of the 11 achieving effect sizes between 0.12 and 0.52 (perhaps notably, the one replication failure in the erotic stimuli group was a study which used a set of erotic photographs "that were much less sexually explicit than those used by Bem and other investigators").
This latest meta-analysis adds to previous data collections which suggest that precognition/presentiment is a natural (if very weak) human ability. Just last month I reported on a meta-analysis of results from seven independent laboratories testing physiological responses to stimuli, that concluded the human body "can apparently detect randomly delivered stimuli occurring 1-10 seconds in the future". And a 1989 meta-analysis of all forced-choice precognition experiments appearing in English-language journals between 1935 and 1977 - 309 experiments conducted by 62 different investigators involving more than 50,000 participants - also found a small but highly significant hit rate (p = 1.1 × 10-9). Both of those meta-analyses also reported that the file-drawer effect was an unlikely explanation, given the number of experiments that would be needed to overturn the positive result.
Other scientists - and skeptics - will no doubt have their say on this paper in due course, which will hopefully bring some clarification to the validity and overall importance of this meta-analysis. From the data presented in it though, it appears that the debate over human precognition and presentiment is a long way from settled. If only we could look into the future to see how this all plays out...
Until then, follow us on Facebook and/or Twitter to keep up with the latest news from the fringes of science and history.
Paper: Feeling the Future: A Meta-Analysis of 90 Experiments on the Anomalous Anticipation of Random Future Events
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Waking Up to the Devil in Your RoomPosted by Greg at 11:41, 24 Mar 2014
During the summer of 2012, film-maker Carla MacKinnon would frequently wake to find herself unable to move, deeply afraid and convinced there was someone or something in the room with her. On occasions she would see or hear people around her bed, and one night even woke up to find a giant spider hovering over her.
MacKinnon was suffering from 'sleep paralysis', a term used to describe the experience of waking to find your body paralysed, a crushing pressure on your chest, a feeling of fear or dread, and sometimes also hallucinations (both auditory and visual) of people or even monstrous creatures beside, or on, your bed. It crops up in the history and folklore of many cultures - the modern word 'nightmare' actually has its origins in this experience, with the Old English 'mære' denoting "an evil spirit or goblin in Germanic folklore which rides on people's chests while they sleep".
Inspired by her experience, MacKinnon created Devil in the Room - an "experimental docu-horror" film supported by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award and made as part of an MA in Animation at Royal College of Art:
For more on the folkloric aspects of sleep paralysis, take a look at David J. Hufford's seminal book The Terror That Comes in the Night, and for online information (including a list of resources) check out The Sleep Paralysis Project, which MacKinnon's film is a part of.
For a survey of the experience in lecture format, see also Professor Chris French's presentation "Something Wicked This Way Comes: Causes and Interpretations of Sleep Paralysis":
Do you, or have you, suffered from sleep paralysis? Rodney Ascher, director of the cult documentary Room 237 (about perceived meanings in Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining), is currently making a film about the phenomenon and is looking to talk to people about it:
I've been obsessed with it ever since it used to happen with me (in my case, I saw sort of a living, 3D shadow looming over in me in judgement)... The film is going to be largely built on interviews with people who've had vivid, first-person experiences with it (and have given some serious thought to what's really happening to them) - if anyone wants to share their stories, the easiest way is to contact us via the film's Facebook page.
(via Mind Hacks and Boing Boing)
Scientists Study Woman Who Can Have Out-of-Body Experiences On DemandPosted by Greg at 10:36, 10 Mar 2014
Plenty of attention being given to a new study with a subject who can apparently have out-of-body experiences (OBEs) on demand:
After a class on out-of-body experiences, a psychology graduate student at the University of Ottawa came forward to researchers to say that she could have these voluntarily, usually before sleep. "She appeared surprised that not everyone could experience this," wrote the scientists in a study describing the case, published in February in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
...The 24-year-old "continued to perform this experience as she grew up assuming, as mentioned, that 'everyone could do it.'" This is how she described her out-of-body experiences: "She was able to see herself rotating in the air above her body, lying flat, and rolling along with the horizontal plane. She reported sometimes watching herself move from above but remained aware of her unmoving "real" body. The participant reported no particular emotions linked to the experience."
An unusual find, wrote the scientists, University of Ottawa researchers Andra M. Smith and Claude Messier - this is the first person to be studied able to have this type of experience on demand, and without any brain abnormalities. Instead of an "out-of-body" experience, however, the researchers termed it a "extra-corporeal experience" (ECE), in part because it lacks the strong emotions that often go hand-in-hand (such as shock & awe, for example).
To better understand what was going on, the researchers conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of her brain. They found that it surprisingly involved a "strong deactivation of the visual cortex." Instead, the experience "activated the left side of several areas associated with kinesthetic imagery," such as mental representations of bodily movement.
I'd love to see researchers employing subjects such as this young woman in tests of so-called 'veridical OBEs' - out-of-body experiences in which the OBEr reports accurate details of their surroundings (see for example number one on this list). There have been a number of NDE reports that have included an OBE component during which the 'dead' person 'saw' accurate details that they should not have been able to - such as the one reported by pioneering heart surgeon Dr. Lloyd Rudy. So many in fact that a project has been initiated in which hidden 'targets' have been placed in cardiac rooms in hospitals to see if NDErs can 'see' them - the 'AWARE' study.
Using a conscious, healthy OBEr would have advantages over the AWARE study, not least that the OBE could be produced, on-demand, in a controlled environment (see my book Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife, paperback version here, for discussion of the difficulties involved in the AWARE study). On demand OBEs in a controlled environment - with a healthy person - would also allow for the placing of a more noticeable target (or alternately a number of targets).
On the downside, some might say that an OBE in a healthy person might not be the same thing as an OBE that occurs as the body shuts down, so any negative results would instantly be dismissed (perhaps fairly). But if a positive result was obtained - that is, if a target was identified by the OBEr, as apparently occurred in the 1968 test of 'Miss Z' by Professor Charles Tart - the ramifications for our understanding of human consciousness would be paradigm-shattering.
Link: The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body
Redefining 'Bird Brain' - Crow Shows Amazing Intelligence in Solving a Complex PuzzlePosted by Greg at 10:46, 10 Feb 2014
Multi-step puzzles can be difficult for humans, but what if I told you there was a bird that could solve them on its own?
In this BBC special, Dr. Alex Taylor has set up an eight-step puzzle to try and stump one of the smartest crows he's seen in captivity. They describe the puzzle as "one of the most complex tests of the animal mind ever."...
...This bird, dubbed "007" for its crafty mind, flies into the caged puzzle and spends only seconds analyzing the puzzle before getting down to business. Despite the puzzle's difficulty, the bird only seems to be stumped momentarily. At the end of the puzzle is a food reward, but how he gets there is what will really blow your mind.
Man Can Listen to Four Symphonies in his Head - Simultaneously!Posted by Greg at 04:11, 28 Jan 2014
Bob Milne is one of the best ragtime piano players in the world, but his talents go further than that - right into the land of amazing. Bob's brain works a little differently to the rest of us, as he can compartmentalise various functions, which allows him to play complex piano pieces while carrying on a conversation. But when Penn State neuroscientist Kerstin Betterman decided to investigate Bob's incredible ability, she discovered something even more amazing: he can 'play back' four different symphonies at the same time in his head, and what's more, he says he 'sees' these symphonies being played in his head in three dimensions, and can fly around within this audio-visual space and listen to the music change from different perspectives. Here's an NPR Radiolab feature on Bob Milne and Kerstin Betterman from a couple of years ago that tells the story:
Sometimes you really do wonder what sort of latent abilities we all hold that we might one day all be able to harness.
(h/t @thecoverlap)
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How to Turn your iPhone into a Global Consciousness SensorPosted by red pill junkie at 22:41, 21 Jan 2014
In the past, we've explored the potential applications the ubiquity of modern smartphone technology could have in improving our understanding of human consciousness --See 'An App to Remember your Dreams'-- and we regularly link to updates with the famous Global Consciousness Project, which relies on random number generators (RNGs) to gauge whether significant social events could have any detectable impact in what they call 'the unified field of consciousness', a.k.a. the Noosphere.
The GCP currently operates with about 70 of such generators, distributed all around the world. But what if we could increase that number ten-fold, a thousand-fold, or even a million-fold?
Enter the Collective Consciousness App:
If you like the idea of exploiting consumerist snobbishness in favor of noetic research, then be sure to support the app's Indiegogo campaign.
[H/T Who Forted? & @anomalistnews]
Is Precognition Real? Positive Replications of Daryl Bem's Controversial FindingsPosted by Greg at 23:14, 15 Jan 2014
I've previously mentioned the odd way in which most of the science press has covered the controversial 'feeling the future' experiments by Daryl Bem of Cornell University - in that a number of news stories have since been posted pointing out the failed replications of Bem's experiment, but very little has been said about positive replications. So, in the interests of balancing things up, here's a list of the positive replications courtesy of Daily Grail reader John Flynne:
There are, in fact - and this seems not to be widely known - quite a few positive replications of Bem's research. I was hoping you could bring these replications to light, so that public audiences interested in this matter will get all the facts regarding the issue of replicating Bem (2011), and recognize the bias in the view propagated by many pseudoskeptical journalists. If this information was more widely available, the "climate" surrounding the Bem controversy would, perhaps, be a bit different.
Here is a list of several positive Bem replications - these are not all extant conceptually similar "implicit precognition" experiments (which Dean Radin says are under meta-analytic review, presently), but only those studies that specifically replicate the experimental paradigms in Bem (2011):
- Batthyany, A. (2010). Retrocausal Habituation and Induction of Boredom: A Successful Replication of Bem (2010; Studies 5 and 7). Social Science Research Network, Working Paper Series. (Link)
- Franklin, M. S., & Schooler, J. W. (2011). Using retrocausal practice effects to predict online roulette spins. A talk presented at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Washington D.C., U.S.A., October, 2011. (Link)
- Franklin, M. S., & Schooler, J. W. (2011). Using retrocausal practice effects to predict random binary events in an applied setting. A talk presented at Towards a Science of Consciousness, Stockholm, Sweden, May, 2011. {more recently: Franklin, M., and Schooler, J. (2012). Using retrocausal practice effects to predict random binary events in an applied setting. Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson X}.
- Tressoldi, P. E., Masserdotti, F., & Marana C. (2012). Feeling the future: an exact replication of the Retroactive Facilitation of Recall II and Retroactive Priming experiments with Italian participants, Universita di Padova, Italy
- Subbotsky, E. (2012). Sensing the future: The Non-standard observer effect on an ESP task. Lancaster University, UK
- Bijl, A. & Bierman, D. (2013). Retroactive training of rational v.s. intuitive thinkers. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association. (Link)
- Parker, A., & Sjödén, B. (2010). Do some of us habituate to future emotional events? Journal of Parapsychology, 74, 99–115. (Link)
- Savva, L., Child, R. & Smith, M. D. (2004). The Precognitive Habituation Effect: An Adaptation Using Spider Stimuli. The Parapsychological Association Convention 2004, pp. 223 – 229. (Link)
{Regarding Savva (2004): In 2003, Bem presented preliminary data for this paradigm that would later be subsumed in his now infamously controversial 2011 publication, under "Experiment 5". The latter citation above by Savva et al. was a replication of this.}
There are several important findings in some these studies (besides the fact that they are positive). Franklin and Schooler (especially the latter) are two distinguished, mainstream scientists; in their research, they demonstrate an ability to utilize the precognitive habituation effect in "real world" events. Subbotsky found evidence of a psi-mediated experimenter effect. In Parker (2010), only participants who showed a standard habituation effect showed psi-mediated precognitive habituation. The correlation between the two was highly significant.
Thanks John!
Update: Andreas Muller has sent in links to abstracts and summaries for some of the papers, which I've added above. Thanks Andreas.
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Evolver Learning Lab: 'Discovering Your Psychic Potential'Posted by Greg at 02:59, 12 Jan 2014
We talk about psi research a lot here on TDG, but how many of us proactively work on trying to bring this mysterious/controversial 'latent ability' to the fore in our own lives? If you're interested in doing so, Evolver Learning Labs have a course starting this week that is sure to be fascinating: "Everybody's Psychic: Discovering Your Psychic Potential and What To Do with It". Hosted by one of our own admins, David Metcalfe, along with Craig Weiler, the course is made up of 5 weekly sessions featuring some of the world's leading experts on a number of psi-related topics.
Despite what debunkers would have you believe, many respected scholars, scientists and researchers feel that we've moved beyond proving that psi exists. Now it's time to start thinking about how to integrate psychic functioning into our daily lives. Are you ready to learn to live with psi?
In this unique course, you will reach a deeper understanding of your own psychic potential, discover what makes the psychic experience distinct, and benefit from the experiences of researchers and high functioning psychics who have paved the way for a new paradigm in consciousness.
Craig Weiler, of the Weiler Psi Blog, and David Metcalfe, Reality Sandwich contributing editor and "Psi in the News" columnist, have gathered together some of the leading thinkers in the field of of Parapsychology and Anomalistic Science to help you understand, integrate and learn to use the most recent research in this new frontier of psi. They include:
- James Carpenter, president of the Parapsychological Association and author of the groundbreaking theory of psi, First Sight.
- Julie Beischel, PhD. Co-Founder and Director of Research at the Windbridge Institute, whose work investigates the therapeutic value of mediumship and the mysteries of discarnate communication
- Dan Booth Cohen and Emily Volden, pioneers of Systemic Constellations, a new form of therapy that assumes that consciousness is nonlocal
- Chris Carter, author of the authoritative book, "Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics"
- William Bengston, author of Energy Cure, his memoir of researching hands-on healing in a rigorous, scientific environment
Through in-depth discussions of the latest findings, we'll clear up the misunderstandings that have arisen due to the skeptical sub-culture's tenacious efforts to defend an outdated understanding of science. In this course, you will discover what contemporary research has to say about the physiology, psychology and social importance of psi experiences and how that applies directly to you and your daily life!
You'll gain a better understanding of your own psychic potential by discovering exciting new theories on how psi really works.
You will be part of the discussion, able to ask your questions on camera, just like a Skype call. If you happen to miss a live session, you can view a video recording at any time. These sessions will be filled with provocative information, clear instruction, and practical advice from teachers who are among the world's leading experts in their respective fields.
Learn about:
- Working therapeutic programs that utilize psychic intuition and theories of non-local consciousness
- Fascinating experiments in non-invasive healing techniques
- War stories from the battle to keep research on psi objective to foster scientific progress
- Insights into the characteristics of high functioning psychics
- Research that explores the reality and social function of mediumship.
The course starts in a few days, so head on over to the Evolver site and sign up for the course - should be a real treat.
An App to Remember Your DreamsPosted by Rick MG at 11:24, 01 Nov 2013
Way back in September, Greg posted news of a Kickstarter for SHADOW, a dream recording app & online community. The app's creator, Hunter Lee Soik, assembled an impressive team of dream experts to help shape SHADOW -- Kelly Bulkeley, Deirdre Barrett, Scott Sparrow, and the oneiroboss Ryan Hurd himself, to name a few. I'd planned to interview Hunter recently, but a near-miss with a car saw my phone get run over. Then my mac decided to go to the great apple tree in the sky. Thankfully, Hunter was unfazed by this conspiratorial Pauli Effect and kindly took time from his extremely busy schedule to answer a few questions via email (one for each hour of sleep you should all be getting).
As I type this, there are only forty
winks hours to go until the Kickstarter ends. The pledge goal has been reached (which is fantastic news for the SHADOW team, congratulations!), and this is your last chance to snag some terrific swag and gain early access to SHADOW before it's officially released next year. In the meantime, give your spinning top a whirl and enjoy the interview.
RMG: In a nutshell, what is SHADOW and how did it come about?
HLS: SHADOW is a mobile alarm clock that helps users remember and record their dreams in a global dream database. The idea came about when I finally started dreaming again after a dozen years of hard work and little sleep. I wanted to remember what I was experiencing in my sleeping life, but I couldn't find an app that melded a social dream journal with the kind of sophisticated design aesthetic I was looking for. So I learned as much as I could about sleep and dreams, approached some dream researchers with the idea, and SHADOW was born.
RMG: How does the app actually work?
HLS: You set the alarm like any other alarm clock, but when it wakes you up it uses a series of escalating sounds that helps preserve your dreams. Traditional alarm clocks destroy dreams by transitioning you out of sleep too quickly. Once you're awake, SHADOW prompts you to record your dreams via voice or text (you can speak directly into the app or type what you remember). Then, with your permission, we pull


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I can ditto that, life is unfair and I can't begin to tell you how this horrible disease had robbed us of the most amazing person that had ever lived on this earth, and that's my husband Jerry, who was taken away from me at the age of 49 from CC. I don't wanna be negative but just have an open mind and try to think about the good things in life, like the precious days you spend with your mom and still enjoying those days and some more days to come...I have you in my prayers...
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Dear Hopeful...
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Re: dear everyone (3 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Hello Carolyn,
I know how you feel and I can relate to every word coming from you that you wish you could have done more, I too wish I could have. My husband just passed away last July, 2011 and I am still in shock and can't believe that he's gone. I am in total denial and always feel that life is not fair, but again I have to move on because of the two beautiful girls he left me which always reminds me of him everytime I see their faces and hear their voices. We have to find a cure for CC, as to when, I don't know...I feel helpless and I don't know who to blame...I miss him so terribly that it hurts. I miss his unconditional love, his touch, his company...it is not fair, not fair at all!
3 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:26:56
Re: Random excruciating pain...anyone else experience? (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Katie, Gavin is right, please just ask for the best pain meds you can give your mom.
4 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:08:32
Re: not sure effects of chemo are worth it. (7 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I understand your frustrations and the pain you feel looking at your husband everyday and wondering what happened to that once very energetic and healthy person turned into a helpless no appetite and losing weight guy. My husband "is" exactly like that (I still can't afford to describe him in past tense), and it breaks my heart so I know how you feel. He was diagnosed of the same intrahepatic cc w/ mets last March 18th, 2011 and he was taken away from me last July 8th and I am still mad and I can't tell you how I feel about chemo at that stage. I do discouraged it so very much because of what my hubby have to endure when they put him on cis/gems and clinical trial pill; and of course after biliary ducts stents and all those nasty stuff they recommend like biopsies that I think just worsen their situation. Please understand the quality of his life is what you need to focus now not the quantity...he will be better off with pain meds and this is just my experience and my own opinion. I hope you can find comfort that you are not alone and we've been on that road before...be strong and spend more time precious time with him and give him your utmost love...I'm including you in my prayers.... Connie who lost my beloved Jerry from CC...
5 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:41:45
Re: Stage IV CC diagnosed March 18th (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Lainy, thanks for a very comforting poem...I still remember how a pretty lady you are and how you cried about Teddy and now I can relate to it, I cried about Jerry because I lost my bestfriend, my love and my life. Jerry had influenced a lot of people that on his funeral everyone who loved and knew him showed up and paid their last respect and I can literally see big men crying out loud to have lost a very dear friend, co-worker and an amazing, incredible man...I miss him every second of my life...And Pam thanks as well..
6 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:27:59
Re: Stage IV CC diagnosed March 18th (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
My beloved Jerry died bravely last July 8th, 2011 fighting this horrible disease. He's only 49 and I discouraged chemo on any stage 4 CC, it's useless, it's horrible and painful and I'm not even sure if the doctors have a thorough knowledge of this disease, they seem to have made my husband a guinea pig for a month...I can't believe how mad I am at the medical side of CC, I am sorry to be very ill-mannered about all these but I wish I could turn back the hands of time and said no to chemo and have my one and only Jerry died naturally of the pain this disease had caused all our family esp. my kids. -Jerry was diagnosed March 18th and died July 8th; the love of my life was taken away from me because of this evil cancer, so I pray someday they can find a cure, a real cure, to help save people like Jerry who is I know the most precious and the greatest creature God has ever made.
7 Sat, 14 May 2011 18:35:23
Re: Hello All :) (11 replies, posted in Introductions!)
Hello Aimee, my husband also has stage 4 CC and being seen and treated here at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. We're just in awe and amazed of the professionalism and thorough care that my husband is getting from the Mayo Clinic. You seem to be in good care. He is currently on gemzar and cisplatin chemo doses and also he's on clinical trial which is taken orally 3 times a week. If you have any questions or concern, please don't hesitate to ask because we've been thru a lot before we seek treatment in AZ.
You have to be strong for your 2 beautiful kids and I am including you in my prayers. Connie
8 Fri, 13 May 2011 23:35:50
Re: Internal drainage options. (3 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Dear Tori,
My husband has stage 4 CC and just last 2wks ago have 2 stents placed to open up his bile duct to help drain bile from his liver to his small intestines and he never have fever at all, as a matter of fact it help rid of his jaundice. You need to let your doctor know about the fever it sounds like an infection of some sort. I hope this helps. Goodluck and take care....
9 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:33:35
Re: Dad's Stage IV CC confirmed yesterday (6 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Hi Linda, sorry to start chatting with you under this circumstance but my husband is in stage 4 CC too and his has spread on his liver and stomach but we are fighting this and hope to start his treatment next week. I do also have the bracelets and wearing it everyday till we defeat this. How old is your dad? Where are you?
I will include you in our prayers and stay strong and positive; it's the attitude that makes a big difference. It seems like everyone at this discussion board are very friendly and supportive; we're so lucky to have this website. Pls. do update us soon. God bless.
10 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:17:55
Re: Stage IV CC diagnosed March 18th (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Thanks Nancy...we will defeat this disease somehow, we need to start now. I will definitely post our experiences once we get to that treatment stage. Your comments are greatly appreciated and I'm so sorry about your loss. Connie
Connie - All the things you are feeling right now are very normal under the circumstances. Please come by often for support and answers to questions. We are a great website for venting and screaming, when necessary! All our thoughts are with you and your husband.....Nancy
11 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:14:26
Re: Stage IV CC diagnosed March 18th (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Hi Marion, we are going to MUSC Hollings Cancer Center tomorrow for that 2nd opinion and we should start weighing all our options once we get to see the Oncologist. We have very good support from my husband's work and also a very strong family support as well...lots of love and prayers. We have 4 kids, 2 college graduates, a 19yr old and a 16yr old in hs.
Thx for taking your time to comfort us. --- I'm wearing the cc bracelet that I ordered from the foundation and giving it to all my friends and family to start supporting the foundation for more research and cure for cc just as much as we support the Breast cancer cause.
'Will keep everyone posted and Peony thanks for your concern and I'll keep your husband in my prayers as well...keep me posted with regards to his treatment. Good luck and God bless!
12 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:30:09
Re: Stage IV CC diagnosed March 18th (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Hello Marion...we are in Charleston, SC. The doctor said the tumor is inoperable, no liver resection was mentioned and his cancer spread to his stomach and parts of the lymph nodes and yes radiotherapy has been ruled out, he only mention chemo as the only treatment; that's why we are working on getting a second opinion to make sure we have all our t's crossed and i's dotted. Thanks for your concern and i'll be glad to update everyone after his first treatment or while he's on treatment so we can gather more info regarding this horrible disease.
I'll be glad to talk to anybody re:CC since I am still in a state of shock and disbelief. My husband is a good man and can't even hurt a fly and I love him so very much that it's tearing me apart just to think about CC in his body.
13 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:38:46
Re: Stage IV CC diagnosed March 18th (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Thanks to both your insight, my husband wish to talk to another doctor and I think we're still in the ballpark of darn if you do or darn if you don't...he was scared of chemo at first, but due to his age (49 yrs old) we are definitely fighting this. I will update you guys as soon as he starts treatment. Please help pray for us because I do believe in prayers...
I'm very upset, lonely, confused and desperate....Connie
14 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:46:38
Topic: Stage IV CC diagnosed March 18th (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
My husband was supposed to be treated on March 31 but we delayed chemo treatment due to our decision to get a second opinion and he will be scheduled to see another Oncologist on April 6th. Would that make a difference if his treatment is delayed for another week or so? Any valuable information please...
15 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:55:23
Re: New and Stage 4 CC - surgery discovered rampant spread - help? (13 replies, posted in Introductions!)
How's Herb doing? It's been one year and 2 months after he's been diagnosed, so he's beating the odds, what an inspiring ordeal. How did he brave that chemo side effects and other unfriendly stuff that goes with it?
We are in Calgary as well. Herb was told in Feb of 2010 that he should go home and "get his affairs in order". That was by a surgeon who was unable to operate due to the extensive spread of CC. Herb has Stage 4 Klatskins carcinoma with spread throughout the liver, gallbladder and spots in his lung. Thanks to a wonderful oncologist (who told us "there is probably no cure but with Chemo and other measures (ie bile duct drain - etc) we should be able to buy you some valuable, quality time". Herb has 2 external drains (one in the bile duct and 1 in the gallbladder and also a stent. He has been through 1 round (8 x 3wk round of Gemcitibine and Cysplatin - 2wks of chemo - one off). Although Herb has way less energy, has lost weight and is now on Fentanyl patches for pain (which keep pain well controlled but not "dopey", he is, as he says "Doing great". His last few scans have shown no progression of the disease, which to us is great news. No-one can tell you how long you have and if they do ...Don't trust them" Our family has adopted the attitude - Herb is not dying of cancer...he is living with cancer and we are all enjoying every moment. We no longer worry about "how much time is left", instead we realize how blessed we are to have been given the opportunity to "Live like we are dying" all together. If you ever feel the need to talk to someone ...feel free to e-mail.
16 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:48:18
Re: New and Stage 4 CC - surgery discovered rampant spread - help? (13 replies, posted in Introductions!)
Hi Miles, my husband was diagnosed with stage 4 CC and start chemo by the 2nd week of April. If there's still a chemo treatment for stage 4, I believe thru the grace of Lord we can defeat this. I'm religious and I believe in prayers, please keep the faith and never lose hope. I'll include you in my prayers and so as other CC patients. Take care and God bless.
17 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:47:56
Re: My dad newly diagnosed questioning treatment choices (15 replies, posted in Good News / What's Working)
My husband was diagnosed with CC last March 18th and he's supposed to start chemo on March 31 but we canceled since we're seeing another doctor for a second opinion. Are we doing the right thing? Would delaying his chemo for a week make a big difference?


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One of the most popular American authors during the decades after the Civil War, John Burroughs enchanted readers for nearly sixty years with his books about living close to nature. First published in 1886, Signs and Seasons reveals why Burroughs is considered one of the first great nature writers. His trademark style, full of local color, has been enjoyed by everyone from schoolchildren to presidents. Written in a period that witnessed the rapid growth of cities and industry, Signs and Seasons reminds Americans about the virtues of a simple lifestyle and the spiritual value of nature, lessons as relevant in the twenty-first century as they were in Burroughs' time.
John Burroughs (18371921) was born near Roxbury in New York's Catskill Mountains. His first volume of nature essays, Wake-Robin, appeared in 1871, and he went on to write more than two dozen other books, most of them at his farm on the Hudson River. Signs and Seasons was the first book that Burroughs published after quitting his bank examiner's job of the previous thirteen years to devote himself full-time to farming and writing. Almost age fifty at the time of the book's publication, he was now truly practicing what he preached. The son and grandson of farmers, Burroughs had always managed to raise a few vegetables or livestock wherever he lived, even while working in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War years. On Capitol Hill, he and his wife Ursula had owned a house with enough land for chickens and a large garden plot. Burroughs in those years also spent off-hours with his friend Walt Whitman sitting on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, watching the family cow grazing with other cattle that roamed the still rough-hewn city. In 1873, Burroughs purchased a small farm in the Hudson Valley about fifty miles from his birthplace. There he built the house that he called Riverby and later, the famous rustic retreat named Slabsides, where he did his writing. In 1897 Burroughs was appointed as the first vice president of the New York State Audubon Society, and in 1898 he was elected as one of the original members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He became a national celebrity after 1900 and counted Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison among his friends. His writings influenced the rise of the conservation movement, bird-watching as a hobby, and nature appreciation in general.
It is hard to say whether a midlife crisis or the Zeitgeist led Burroughs to quit his regular job for farming, but he was living out the fantasy of an increasing number of late-nineteenth-century Americans, who yearned to get back to nature and who formed a ready audience for his books. With their focus on both the natural and rural environments of New York State, Burroughs' works fell into the popular nature-essay genre, but also shared qualities with local-color literature. Local colorists like Sarah Orne Jewett, although primarily fiction writers, described rural community life in intimate detail and expressed dismay over the impact of the cities. They along with Burroughs were part of a wider cultural front that included the so-called country-life movement, which peaked after the turn of the century with the election of the outdoorsy Theodore Roosevelt as president. This movement was a reaction to the explosive urbanization and industrialization that were seemingly taking America away from its roots as a rural, agrarian republic. Young people were abandoning small towns and farms in greater and greater numbers and casting their lots in the big cities. Cultural observers such as Liberty Hyde Bailey worried that the citizenry would become enervated by the urban rat-race and that the nation's youth would fall prey to decadence and dissipation. Some way had to be found to improve and uplift everyday life in rural America, and to save the well being of city-dwellers cut off from close contact with farming and the natural world.
Signs and Seasons and other writings by Burroughs spoke to these concerns on a number of levels. "I had to be a farmer," he once remarked. "I come of a family that has always lived on the soil." He celebrated the challenges of farm work as the very best training for success in modern business, appealing to a generation that had experienced the move from farm to city. As he put it, "The human output of the farm is good hickory timber"a maxim that no doubt endeared him to Henry Ford and the other sentimental industrialists who later became his friends. In truth, Burroughs had chosen the location of Riverby to allow him to live in the country while remaining close to the publishers of New York City. Although he grew grapes, celery, and other labor-intensive crops, his own farm life depicted in his books was rather comfortable and genteel, leaving him with "plenty of leisure to poke around the woods and sit under trees" to find "mental and physical relaxation."1 In this attitude Burroughs promoted and shared another way of interacting with nature besides toil, a view held by growing numbers of Americans who were taking up hunting, fishing, bird-watching, and other outdoor activities: nature as a place of leisure and recreation, a wholesome, rejuvenating refuge from the workaday routine. Even captains of industry like Ford and Edison were inspired to take Burroughs on camping trips.
As is clear from Signs and Seasons, Burroughs' own preferred outdoor leisure activity was bird-watching. He had first discovered the pastime in 1863, when a copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America "opened a new world to me," Burroughs recalled. "I went into the woods with new interest, new enthusiasm . . . and in the first flush of my pleasure studying birds, I wrote my first nature essay."2 Burroughs' observations about birds are thus fundamental to understanding his larger conception of nature, the nature that he was calling on Americans to embrace. What is surprising in his bird essays, however, is that the nature in which birds spend their existence is not sugarcoated or maudlin, as one might expect from an advocate of "nature appreciation." Instead, in chapters such as "The Tragedies of the Nests" in Signs and Seasons, Burroughs describes a harsh, Darwinian nature that is no less fascinating for the conflict and cruelty that it sometimes displays.
Burroughs, in fact, had little tolerance for nature writers who did not ground their descriptions of birds and other animals on careful observation informed by science. In 1903, he fired the first salvo in the famous years-long "nature fakers" controversy with an essay critical of William J. Long and other writers for anthropomorphizing, or projecting human traits and abilities onto their animal subjects. Some of these writers, for example, claimed to have seen their animal heroes performing first-aid on themselves, or luring predators to their deaths by a well-timed passing train. As became clear while the controversy played itself out (eventually involving President Roosevelt as an ally), Burroughs himself believed strongly that animals behave primarily by instinct rather than reason. "The animal is a bundle of instincts, impulses, affinities, appetites, and race traits, without the extra gift of reason," he concluded. "Animal behavior . . . is much more like the behavior of natural forces . . . ."3
This notion was part and parcel of Burroughs' larger view of natural processes, which he saw as amoral, relentless, and oblivious to human needs, ethics, or ideals. In his book Time and Change, he wrote, "There is so much in Nature that is lovely and lovable, and so much that gives us pause. . . . Of the virtues and beatitudes of which the gospel of Christ makes so much . . . she knows nothing. Put yourself in her way, and she crushes you; she burns you, freezes you, stings you, bites you, devours you." He called this realizationthat "we are no longer cozily housed in pretty little anthropomorphic views of things"the "cosmic chill." How then could Burroughs find such a nature to be "lovable"? He was not conventionally religious. Indeed, he was quite vocal in his rejection of organized religion and any reference to the supernatural. Yet Burroughs retained something of a religious, if not mystical, sensibility throughout his life. Thus he found some consolation in the philosophy of Transcendentalism. In his younger years he had idolized Ralph Waldo Emerson, and what especially stayed with him from Emerson was the idea of universal oneness, or monism: all things in existence are interconnected within a greater whole. Whitman and his expansive poetry embodied this concept for Burroughs, and science, particularly Darwinism, further reinforced it in his thinking. Human beings, as a product of evolution, were fully a part of the natural world and its processes. If what governed these processes was not a benevolent god, in Burroughs' view, it was no less something sublime and awe-inspiring, an all-pervasive creative force, or élan vital, as it was called by the philosopher Henri Bergson, whom he discovered late in life. As Burroughs wrote in Time and Change, "Nature works with reference to no measure of time, no bounds of space, and no limits of material. Her economies are not our economies. She is prodigal, she is careless, she is indifferent; yet nothing is lost. . . . She is blind, yet she hits the mark because she shoots in all directions."4 Operating across geological time-spans and cosmic distances, eternal nature for a brief moment had produced the reasoning animal, humanity, which in time would pass away and return to the elements from which it had emerged.
This concept of the natural world, if taken to heart, could have personal and practical consequences for one's way of life, according to Burroughs. "There can be little doubt, I think, that intercourse with Nature and a knowledge of her ways tends to simplicity of life," he asserted. "We come more and more to see through the follies and vanities of the world and to appreciate the real values." He himself had apparently reduced his existence to fundamentals, with his farming and forest retreats. "I love a small house, plain clothes . . . direct and immediate contact with things, life with the false trappings torn away," he declared in his essay, "An Outlook Upon Life."5 Simplifying also extended to matters of aesthetics, such as home construction and interior decoration. Living close to nature, in short, was for him not just a matter of a temporary trip to the wilderness. It involved one's entire lifestylean idea with resonance down to the present day. Much like Henry David Thoreau, Burroughs became an icon of the broader impulse toward simplicity that was being heard increasingly throughout American culture by the turn of the century, as Americans began to clear away the bric-a-brac of Victorian households. Arts and Crafts furniture and the earthy architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright were just two manifestations of this cultural transformation, along with the celebrity of writers like Burroughs. His guestbook at Slabsides held almost 7,000 signatures, indicative of the pilgrimages of those seeking a wiser way of living.
It is small wonder then that Burroughs could write in the opening of Signs and Seasons that "he has only to stay at home and see the procession pass. The great globe swings around to him like a revolving showcase. . . ." Here Burroughs was referring mainly to the natural rather than the human procession, and this attitude, too, was rooted in his view of nature, especially his belief in the oneness of creation. Unlike his friend and rival John Muir, who preferred his nature remote and wild, Burroughs cherished the partly wild, partly humanized landscapes of his locality. His idyll was "a tract of wild land, barely a mile from home, that contained a secluded nook and a few acres of level, fertile land shut off from the vain and noisy world . . . by a wooded, precipitous mountain." 6 The value of local landscapes, as opposed to distant spectacular wilderness areas, is an issue that has only lately been recognized by the mainstream environmental movement, with growing efforts to preserve farmland and other open spaces from the encroachments of urban sprawl. Burroughs still has lessons to teach about treasuring "one's own landscape.
Some biographers have noted that Burroughs inscribed a copy of the newly published Signs and Seasons to one of New York's state forest commissioners, an official charged with overseeing the vast Adirondack Forest Preserve. The gesture was typical of Burroughs, who left activism and politics largely to others. "I am not a fighter," he once wrote. "I dislike any sort of contest, or squabble, or competition, or storm. My strength is in my calm, my serenity, my sunshine." In contrast to Muir, who helped to found the Sierra Club, or Roosevelt, who protected millions of acres of wild lands as president, Burroughs saw his role as that of the literary naturalist, who would "enlist your sympathies and arouse your enthusiasm" for nature, as he put it in The Ways of Nature.7 One of his few public stances occurred in 1913, when he was roused to go to Washington to lobby for a federal bird protection law. Nevertheless, Burroughs' contribution to the conservation movement should not be underestimated. He may have no equal in the period as an agent of cultural change, transforming attitudes toward nature on the individual level, including the thousands of schoolchildren who read his books and formed local chapters of the John Burroughs Society. Most recently, Burroughs has been hailed as a precursor to modern eco-criticism, as radical in his way as Edward Abbey or Gary Snyder.
It is often remarked upon that Burroughs, the ultimate homebody, died in 1921 while on a train in Ohio en route from a stay in California. With his last words he asked how far he was from home. Burroughs had done some traveling in his life, to England, Alaska, and Hawaii, among other places. He had also written poignantly and cryptically about a perpetual sense of homesickness that afflicted him, which "almost amounts to a disease, this homesickness which home cannot cure." The passage has been much analyzed, and it seems to reflect both his feeling of loss that the rural world of his youth was vanishing and his sense of the "cosmic chill" that seemed to offer little consolation for the finality of death. But Burroughs in the end could be at peace wherever he might be, immortalized within nature, as he envisioned it in one of his last books, Accepting the Universe: "I shall be diffused in great Nature, in the soil, in the air, in the sunshine. . . . My elements and my forces go back into the original sources out of which they came, and these sources are perennial in this vast, wonderful, divine cosmos."8
Robert L. Dorman, Ph.D., is monographs librarian and assistant professor of library science at Oklahoma City University. He is the author of A Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 18451913.


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