Publisher's Note - Count Down to the End of the World - 16 days

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As we close in on the last days of mankind according to the gaggle of channels and their party line IPhones with the Gods,  I thought I might suggest some things to do in preparation.

1.  Do not take your money out of the bank as the interstellar chatter might be wrong.  Besides, what would you do with it anyway.

2.  You might want to go visit someone you actually like just in case you are stuck with the same person in your next life you were with when it ended.

3.  If you have a bucket list you only have two weeks to complete it.  Consider revising the list.

4.  Should you have sensitive documents, like love letters to someone other than your wife or husband, you might want to burn them in case you get zapped out of here and your spouse is left behind and might find them.  You never know, he or she might hire a shaman to curse you in your next lifetime.

5.  In the unlikely event you have the opportunity to recreate yourself in your next lifetime you best decide who you want to be and secure a picture to take with you to give to the angel in charge of your new you.

6.  Figure out a way to practice being weightless since they claim you will have a light body, as in enlightened I presume rather than simply skinny.  You might try driving over hills fast to get that weightless feeling.

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The Joshua Chronicles now on Amazon

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I am pleased to announce The Joshua Chronicles is now available on Amazon digital books.  This is the 20th anniversary since I wrote the first edition.

It can be accessed at
http://www.amazon.com/Joshua-Chronicles-Jim-Putnam-ebook/dp/B00T514KJM

Here is a brief synopsis of the book.

THE JOSHUA CHRONICLES

By Jim Putnam

Synopsis

The Joshua Chronicles is a supernatural thriller that tells the story of an obscure soul in modern day New Jersey, JOHN McCORMICK, upon whose broad shoulders rests the salvation of humankind, a destiny he could not know nor desire.  A mysterious, middle aged man with no past, amnesia has wiped it out, he needs professional help.

When he seeks out JORDAN SAWYER, a prominent, successful and beautiful psychologist for help in unlocking his past, she encounters many psychological roadblocks and finally has to resort to the experimental recovered memory syndrome technique to peel away the barriers.

What she discovers is the memory of Joshua and a 2,000 year odyssey to protect the most valuable papers in the history of civilization, papers secured in an ancient lock box, from being destroyed by the evil PRINCE OF DARKNESS, the second most powerful force in all of creation.

Action delves into the mysterious world of the secret society of the Knights Templar from their founding in the flames of Jerusalem during the early Crusades, to their self-destruction in the 14th century.  Kings and popes feared this mighty organization and by the time of their annihilation they were the most powerful political force in the civilized world.

An inter-dimensional war of good versus evil in the eternity of the void between dimensions rages unseen until Jordan finds the keys to McCormick’s past.  Suddenly the healer has opened a supernatural gateway and unleashed the force of the Prince of Darkness into this dimension for the culmination of an epic battle between light and dark, between good and evil.  Jordan has triggered a final confrontation to determine who will rule mankind in the coming new cycle of civilization.

Will the truth prevail and whose truth?  To this mystical battleground come the unlikely and unwitting warriors, Jordan Sawyer and John McCormick.  With no agenda and no beliefs, Jordan finds herself being drawn into a world that simply cannot exist.

Determined not to get lost in McCormick’s madness, nor to abandon her responsibility to her patient, she intends to prove he is the victim of fictitious memories and reluctantly agrees to accompany him to a small village in France, the last known location for the lock box hidden by Joshua.  That was 600 years ago.

The second part of the story centers on the Village of Provins, France and the search for truth by Jordan and John.  Along the way they enlist the help of a rotund monk, two surviving members of the ancient Knights Templar, and a relic of a doorkeeper, as they descend into a labyrinth of secret passages in search of the lock box.  A cataclysmic encounter with the Prince of Darkness takes place and miraculously they survive to recover the treasured lock box.

The third part of the story concerns the nature of the secret papers.  There are two sets of parchments.  One is a personal account of a scribe to Jesus of Nazareth, Joshua, who befriended Jesus when they were children and kept a journal of the life of Jesus.  The second set of parchments contained the teachings of Jesus, written as he stated them.   No record of his teachings exist from when he walked the Earth, only much later accounts of his life as told through his disciples and others.  This is the definitive truth of what he meant to say.

McCormick and Jordan are to reveal these parchments and their secrets to a cynical and skeptical world.  The truth contained in the papers threatens some of the most powerful institutions and religions in the world.  Again the tentacles of the Prince of Darkness reach across dimensions to stop Joshua one last time.

With a strategy as cunning and deceptive as those of their adversary the Prince, McCormick and Jordan move to counter the threat.  From the ancient civilization of the Templar to the offices of modern boardrooms, the Prince of Darkness uses the tools of society to wreak havoc and fear.  McCormick, with Jordan’s help, must beat the Prince at his own game to fulfill his destiny.  He was chosen, before time began, for this mission.

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The NSA Secrets - What haven't they told us?

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Just think of the possibilities.  Maybe the "other stuff" Edward Snowden hasn't told us has nothing to do with the ramshackle Operation Prism run by NSA.  What did they call it?  A clandestine mass electronic surveillance data mining program.

 

So far we know our government knows everything we are doing on the Internet, on cell phones and land lines, and even post office info on everything you got or received in the mail.  That ain't bad for what used to be an unknown spy program.

 

That means our government has figured out how to get digital information on you from the Internet, phones, email and snail mail and they promise they won't use it to violate your right to privacy.  Do you buy that?

 

 

So what else might we find out is being done with taxpayer money and top secret status?

 

How about Remote Viewing?  It has long been rumored that NSA had a secret Remote Viewing project to determine if they could use out-of-body travel to infiltrate Soviet missile sites.

 

 

According to The Farsight Institute, the following is their explanation.

 

What is Remote Viewing? Here's a Simple Explanation ...

 

Remote viewing is a controlled and trainable mental process involving psi (or psychic ability). Remote-viewing procedures were originally developed in laboratories funded by the United States military and intelligence services and used for espionage purposes. The scientific understanding of the remote-viewing phenomenon has greatly advanced in recent years, and as a result the process of remote viewing can now be reliably demonstrated in both laboratory and operational settings.

 

 

There are a number of styles of remote-viewing procedures that are popularly practiced, such as Scientific Remote Viewing (SRV), Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV), Hawaii Remote Viewers' Guild procedures (HRVG), as well as a few others. Remote viewers use one or more of these styles to gather descriptive data of a "target," which is usually some place or event at some point in time. Remote viewing is always done under blind conditions, which means that the remote viewer must know nothing about the target when conducting the remote-viewing session.

 

All of the various styles of remote viewing require both training and regular practice in order for a remote viewer to become proficient. Remote viewing is normally considered a controlled shifting of awareness that is performed in the normal waking state of consciousness, and it does not typically involve an out-of-body experience, hypnosis, an altered state of consciousness, or channeling.

 

 

Remote viewing is often performed in laboratory experiments involving psi functioning. The targets used in such experiments are normally considered "verifiable," which means that everything that needs to be known about such targets either has been or can be determined so that the remote-viewing data can be compared with the target facts. A great deal of research is currently being done with regard to remote-viewing processes. Researchers are trying to understand the underlying mechanism of psi functioning, as well as to develop theories that explain various known and repeatable phenomena associated with remote viewing.

 

It is a matter of historical record that remote viewing has been used operationally in the past with considerable success by the U.S. government for espionage purposes, and a number of books recounting such programs have been published. There was even an official (and largely positive) evaluation of a significant part of the government's early remote-viewing program. Popular interest in remote viewing is often associated with this history. Current levels of governmental support for remote-viewing research and operations in the United States are not publicly known, although it is commonly assumed that efforts to utilize remote viewing for espionage purposes continues today, both in the U.S. and elsewhere.

 

 

The Farsight Institute is a nonprofit research and educational organization that is dedicated to understanding the remote-viewing phenomenon itself through the process of scientific experimentation. Our mission is to investigate the process of remote viewing itself. It is our belief that a more complete understanding of the remote-viewing phenomenon will have collateral benefits to much of science and society. Due to how the remote-viewing phenomenon manifests in controlled experiments, the remote-viewing phenomenon appears to be based on quantum-processes. Much of the research done at The Farsight Institute blends the theory of quantum mechanics with interpretations of experimental remote-viewing data. This has lead to new insights into the remote-viewing phenomenon as well as the nature of time and physical reality. For example, new research indicates that alternate futures actually do exist, and that the past exists simultaneously with the present. New research also suggests that at least information can be transferred in a manner that violates relativistic limitations of the speed of light, and that information transfer across time does not require enormous energy consumption that would be associated with worm hole singularities. These questions are among the most profound addressed by science today.

 

 

In simple terms, a person at a lab with handlers leaves his body and travels to a designated location where he or she can observe what is going on.  It is not known whether they could actually interact with people in that existence.  Any success in time travel either forward into the future or back in time has been kept from the public.

 

But imagine the consequences.  What would happen if you could go back in time and warn Lincoln that he was going to be shot at Ford's Theater.  If you could convince him you were legit and he skipped the theater engagement the future would be radically changed.

 

 

On another note, since you are traveling out-of-body that puts you into the spiritual realm so does that mean you could interact with angels, or demons?  What would happen if someone encountered a powerful fallen angel, the epitome of evil on earth?  Could the physical limitations of the human brain even start to absorb the magnitude of such an encounter?

 

 

Participants in the secret remote viewing experiments sometimes died in the midst of encountering some form of demon, evil or absolute darkness out in the spiritual realm.  It was as if they died of fright.

 

 

Certainly remote viewing was possible.  I knew a former audio engineer named Robert Monroe who actually patented out-of-body travel techniques through his Monroe Institute.  He dedicated his life to finding ways to use such techniques to help people trapped in their bodies by mental illness, altruism and ADHD among many other techniques.

 

Robert Monroe

 

I joined his Foundation which then became his Institute back in the 1970's and watched in amazement as he used science to study the metaphysical world.  In fact we did a lot of experimenting with another of his inventions, hemi-sync.

 

Hemi-Sync is short for Hemispheric Synchronization, also known as brainwave synchronization. Monroe indicated that the technique synchronizes the two hemispheres of one's brain, thereby creating a 'frequency-following response' designed to evoke certain effects. Hemi-Sync has been used for many purposes, including relaxation and sleep induction, learning and memory aids, helping those with physical and mental difficulties, and reaching altered states of consciousness through the use of sound.

 

Robert Monroe (1915-1995) was the pioneer in the investigation of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and the author of the ground-breaking book entitled Journeys out of the Body. His record of out of body experiences in places unbound by time or death has comforted millions of people who have encountered paranormal incidents.

 

 

Unpredictably and without his willing it, Monroe found himself leaving his physical body and traveling via a second body to locales far removed from any physical or spiritual reality he could comprehend. In the ensuing years, Monroe and his group began work on means and methods of inducing and controlling this and other forms of consciousness in their laboratory. As specialists in creating patterns of effective sound, they used this base for their research.

 

Their efforts gradually produced significant results, and attracted International interest among people from all walks of life. In 1974, he founded the Monroe Institute and began conducting learning seminars in self-control of human consciousness. Three patents were issued to Monroe for the methods and techniques so generated, and the trademark, HEMI-SYNC, also became broad public knowledge. Other works by Monroe are Far Journeys, and Ultimate Journey.

 

Robert Monroe

 

The Monroe Institute

 

Our Vision

The Global Awakening of Humanity

Our Mission
To enhance worldwide cooperative efforts in furthering the exploration of consciousness, expanded awareness, and discovery of self.

The Monroe Institute provides experiential education programs facilitating the personal exploration of human consciousness. Over the last 30+ years, tens of thousands of people have attended the Institute’s residential and outreach programs, and millions have benefited from our educational materials. The Institute admits students of any race, color, creed, and national or ethnic origin.

The Monroe Institute also serves as the core of a research affiliation investigating the evolution of human consciousness and making related information available to the public. The Institute is devoted to the premise that focused consciousness contains solutions to the major issues of human experience.

A greater understanding of such consciousness can be achieved through coordinated research efforts using an interdisciplinary approach.  For this reason the Institute is working in collaboration with researchers and clinicians in many areas, especially through university and clinical collaborations and our Professional membership and Board of Advisors. 

The results of such research efforts are meaningful only if there are practical applications—something of value for our contemporary culture. As a nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to the exploration of human consciousness, the Institute proposes to introduce or enhance abilities that will constructively change humankind’s direction and destiny.

Ours is a mission of service in which we use the technology created at The Monroe Institute to better the lives of all those we can reach.  Bob Monroe wanted to provide something of value to humanity, help people lead better and more fulfilling lives. 

We strive to carry out that legacy by reaching out to communities that can benefit from this technology, not only those who are able to come to our programs.   We are working on several projects with this intent.

The Monroe Institute serves as the core of a research affiliation investigating the evolution of human consciousness and making related information available to the public. The Monroe Institute also provides experiential education programs facilitating the personal exploration of human consciousness. Over the last 30+ years, thousands of people have attended the Institute's residential and outreach programs, and millions have benefited from our educational materials.

We are a nonprofit charitable organization furthering the evolution of human consciousness through our Education Programs and associated Research. The Institute is internationally known for its participatory educational programs that provide opportunities for the personal exploration of expanded states of consciousness. The Monroe Institute admits students of any race, color, creed, and /or national or ethnic origin.

So I say NSA could tell us their experiences about remote viewing and other metaphysical activity or do we just have to wait to see if Snowden releases it in his next round of exposing secrets.

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