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Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world for the purpose of healing, divination, or to aid human beings in some other way.
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Beliefs and practices categorized as shamanic have attracted the interest of scholars from a variety of disciplines, including anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, religious studies scholars, philosophers, and psychologists. Hundreds of books and academic papers on the subject have been produced, with a peer-reviewed academic journal being devoted to the study of shamanism.
From Wikipedia
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I’ll postulate that you can’t make this shit up….
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Following on from this morning’s dream I do indeed have a shaman’s drum, a bodhrán, it is on the floor to my right between the paper shredder and the filing which contains vast amounts of medical paperwork and the stack of papers and patents which I used to file a quantum optics patent at the IPO in the UK. I did indeed “pass” a foundation course in Shamanics and have practiced self-same art from time to time.
One could argue that this is a strange quantum superposition state, someone with a passable knowledge of quantum as applied to molecules, non-linear optics and light, entangled with someone who does shamanic journeys, drumming and uses sage smudge sticks to clear spaces.
I suspect that this may qualify as a form of eccentricity.
As a basis for a film plot it already at tad unfeasible.
To add to this I was {in real life} a co-founder of a high power laser start-up company spun out of a top UK technology university. I “invented” a working extreme ultraviolet light source (EUV) prototype. I wrote the patent application. EUV lithography is the driver for the production of the top, most recent, semiconductor technologies and is (perhaps) behind the four trillion dollar valuation of AI leviathans. An EUV lithography kit from ASML is probably THE most complex commercial instrumentation currently planetarily on sale. It has a hefty price tag. Humanity is facing the AI – robotics – human computer interface transition. Maybe by surgery we will all be cyborgs. I am on my way, it seems, to being bionic.
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I kicked around at various top-end UK universities for a while and did my Ph.D. at the ultra-niche Royal Institution of Great Britain. From time to time I get surveillance dreams from people at the river house and Langley.
I identify as a retired gardener who lives in a very rural setting. We were kept awake by early harvest. The ivory towers and dreaming spires are a long way away. I look most like a hefty pikey prepper who, because of hip arthritis, walks like a duck. Why I would be under surveillance is a bit of a mystery.
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The dream suggests that they are using the very latest technology. Something I am unaware of.
Developing the plot all the spook agencies in “developed” countries will have some kind of a Quantum section and some kind of an AI interest. They will also be very interested in drones and robotics given what has been unfolding in Ukraine. There is always money in arms and defence. There may be blue-skies on the edge interest in the weird and the wonderful such as quantum telepathy. The interest in cryptography goes way back. I have been to Bletchley Park. Chronologically I could be a reincarnation of Alan Turing. If this were a film, he might be coming back to clear his name / seek revenge only to find himself immortalised on a bank note!! I am not he.
In the film the spooks would have cyber-psi-quant specialist units under top secret development. It would be quite advanced. There would be a psi-ops force perhaps monitoring me in the dream state. There may be psi-ops protection for senior eyes-only spooks in all agencies.
The dream suggests a very English quasi Fawlty Towers thrombie or thromby going on. I am the outsider kept at arm’s length and a kind of dirty secret.
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I am on a gardening leave far from the metropolis and its is power struggles and schemes.
For some reason I am being talked about in the hallowed corridors of academe. But at who’s behest?
In a film script someone might be sent to talk with me and the plot might evolve in bizarre and imaginative ways. There could even be a race between different agencies.
Somehow, I would be entangled back in to the outer world of techno. The trouble is I am, in reality, pretty much past anything like that. They would be a tad disappointed…
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This morning we were discussing preparing a list of things to do before I get operated on. The most obvious thing is clearing the drain down to the septic tank before the operation. This clogs every six months or so and we need it fixed late October. There is no way that I can lift the inspection cover and use plumber’s rods post-op. We need to get a wood delivery and I need to do some wood sizing with the axe and chain saw. I need to cut several months kindling
In all likelihood I will not hear much about my sleep apnoea test until I see the lung doctor next March. It does not seem urgent to me. There is plenty on my dance card. Unless she deems otherwise nothing will happen on that front until next year. I was thinking this morning that given how well I feel generally, apart form the hips, all this medical stuff seems like a massive overkill.
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I have no logical explanation for the dream this morning unless something truly bizarre and highly unlikely is actually transpiring across the channel….