This is footage taken at the Zaynab mosque in Syria where thousands of bystanders witnessed the sealed shut doors to A Miracle happened in the Maqam of Sayeda Zeinab (A.S) in the Arba3en of Imam Hussein (A.S) in Syria (1428 hijri – 2007).. The Shrine was firmly closed and nobody inside, and suddenly a Light came from inside the Maqam and the internal Large Gate started to open spontaneously (by itself) all people there saw that, it was VERY CLEAR.. and the amazing thing is that the door was openning in the reverse side of what it would normally open in!!
When Jake and Josh and my group of friends used to have those mystical journeys – we would gather together, usually under the influence of alcohol, and surrender to the randomness of the cosmos. Often peculiar phenomenon would happen in this heightened state of suspended group disbelief. One time, in the chaos of one of these episodes, I remember writing down something to the effect of:
“The meaning of life is oh wow oh my god but then it turns out to be something stupid.”
This is what happened: Someone had called on a cellphone and in our stupor we thought it was God. The voice on the other end was all static-y and I swore I heard someone reciting the Qur’an. We were all mystified. We totally believed it in unity at that moment. Then David showed up at the door a little while and we found out it he had tried to call earlier but his phone was dying…
The quote means that you can have these totally valid amazing experiences of God or Unity or whatever and they are amazing and real, but that usually there tends to be a come down. And that come down takes the form of an explanation. Usually something that makes that experience invalid or
have a stupid cause. I still think I heard God in that phone though – with all my heart and soul.
Jeremy Puma has been writing about this, and so has Ran.
But we also notice regularities in our experience. Experience is persistent — our world tends to stay the same over time. Experience is shared — we tend to see the same things as the people around us. And experience is somewhat chosen — we tend to see what we’re looking for, or expecting.
Also this leads to some “weird” but totally rational predictions, like if you go monster-hunting without a camera, you’re more likely to see a monster. Or as I said in my August 31 post:
As soon as technology gets to the point where we can’t tell a real UFO film from a fake UFO film, it will become much easier to film real UFO’s, because those films will be easily dismissible and will no longer threaten consensus reality.
I didn’t know it, but these ideas were put into practice years ago by a researcher named Ken Batcheldor. Here’s a good summary of Batcheldor and psychokinetic experiments, and Rhisiart sends a first-hand account:
I worked with Ken as a visiting occasional member of his last sitter-group, before his death in 1988. This technique, which he’d developed methodically over 25 years, is the most reliable way I’ve ever encountered during a lifetime of interest in the subject, to persuade ‘para’normal events to manifest pretty nearly on request. I saw more, and more spectacular, ‘para’normal incidents in Ken’s sitter-group sessions than ever before or since.
The Principle can be stated concisely as “Ambiguity of perception promotes paranormal events.” The setup in Ken’s groups was designed to promote a continuous flow of small, more or less ordinary events, particularly movements of the table round which we sat, whose actual cause was deliberately organised to be as ambiguous as possible: it was always possible for the sitters to get a sudden wave of belief that a particular incident was a genuine psi-event. But it was also always possible to explain it away with a ‘normal’ explanation, should anyone feel the need. It was this get-out arrangement which seemed to facilitate the steady build up of ever more striking and ambiguous events in the session, until undoubtable, striking psi-incidents started to slip themselves into the event stream.”