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New ‘STAR GATE’ Archives Product

When the CIA released around five percent of the records from the collected projects now known as the STAR GATE program, I bought a program that ripped the multi-page TIF files into web-viewable GIFs, did this in detail, then I resized them all, and uploaded them to the web (at dojopsi.info).

Unfortunately, the index was a disaster. The filename in the index, if you went to that filename, it wasn’t that record. The file itself, the image, would have a different file number stamped on it. I really wracked my brain about it for awhile, but finally had to conclude there was no way to automate a scripting (such as if all the filenames were offset in the same way).

Depressed, given how much time I spent on it, I left the files just sitting there but without a clickable index.

Meanwhile, it turns out Tamra Temple spent about a bazillion hours (we’re talking months. This is an INSANE amount of work!) going through EVERY SINGLE FILE and renumbering them simply and making a detailed index with notes on content. She put it all in excel so it could be searched, sorted, and you can edit the notes and stuff for your own references.

After that much work on it, she well deserves a little compensation for the effort, and it’s not a bad price for this kind of thing. There’s more info and detail at the new website for it: http://stargate-interactive.com, check it out!

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The Matrix is YOU: The Truth Is In Here

I know. Only I could get cosmic about a magazine ad.

The great thing about digital cameras is that you can point and click any time, multiple times till you get it right, and transfer those files to the web, to friends’ cell phones, etc. Almost perfect.

The only thing is, you gotta go home or somewhere else, plug it in, transfer the image, then you have to be plugged into a printer, and then you have to have all the ink cartridges and the right kind of paper and so on, in order to print the photo.

I have too many cats, so floating fur and dust (and dander; how they love sitting on anything, in direct proportion to the likelihood doing so will destroy it) tends to wipe out affordable printers fast. I can clean them, sure, but the always-insufficient feeder-rollers give up far too soon, in a very efficient means of designed obsolescence.

Kinda makes me long for the days of Polaroid snapshots. Polaroid thought so too:

The perfect camera for live-feedback photos for the record, though it’s probably going to change technology on a far greater scale than that of course.

What’s innovative about this isn’t just that somehow they got a printer into something the size of a phone. It’s that their partnership with ZINK (for “Zero Ink”) is focusing on the paper. Their PR puts it this way:

Dye crystals are embedded in the ZINK paper and are activated by heat from a ZINK printer. The crystals then colorize, producing high quality, long-lasting, durable, and affordable images.

In other words, instead of putting something on the paper, it simply uses paper where every pixel of it contains the innate ability/probability to be any color, and then the ‘printer’ (so-called) using heat for communication, tells every pixel of the paper what color to become.

How cool.

I totally grok this as a metaphor for the holographic universe, and every person containing such inside them.

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So there’s a psychic analogy here. My mental model about how viewing works is a bit different than the standard I guess… too much Jane Roberts as Seth I suppose. To me it’s not only “As above, so below” but for viewing, it’s “As outside, so inside”.

In this analogy, you could consider the old 1970’s “Signal Line Theory” to be akin to the ordinary printer technology. The assumption is that there is information over there (aka ‘the matrix’), which uses ink to move it over here (to the viewer) to the paper.

But in my viewing model, it’s nearly the opposite. To me it’s more like the session scan process is finding the components inside me, and bringing out the unique quality of all of them within me. I usually use the analogy of a color-blind test. Imagine the viewer as “the whole circle.” The dots inside are all the aspects of them. These are all ‘information’, which is “reflected in their outer reality, but sourced from inside.”

Say the target was the number 29, or 70, for this image. The viewer would “look inside themselves,” and would “find that pattern”.

(The inside and the outside are not actually separate, in my model, but perceptually we definitely experience them as if they were.)

I guess another way of putting this might be, “The Matrix is YOU. The Truth Is In Here.”

I often think that technology, especially computers, are man’s attempt to project what is within him into external reality so he can better understand himself. This one works pretty well for that also.

PJ

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Mission Feedback: Joshua, Revised

I got to task TKR’s mission last week. Feedback was yesterday. It was a tasking experiment, or rather, more like a “let it be” kind of approach. I normally believe pretty strongly in a very clear definition of what a target is and the ‘focus’. But this target was an entire situation, with background from years ago, plus recent events, plus current interview (with two people involved). So I simply tasked the viewers to describe whatever they found most interesting about the target, and made the entire thing the target, so they could have feedback on the larger situation.

It’s quite a trip. I’d never read anything like this before. This guy says when he was a kid he had a “merging” experience with a grey alien. Whether or not this happened he obviously believes it did, to the degree that he feels so much “one with it” that he eventually had this plastic surgeon redo his face and head to look more like an alien. I mean, they cut off his ears for godssakes, all kinds of stuff. The feedback (which you’ll have to log into TKR and go to that mission and one of the tasks to get the link to and see in detail) is kind of shocking. Partly that governments would let surgeons do this for “artistic” reasons (!) (this doc is from France).

It got me thinking about the issue of ‘identity’, of course. In a somewhat more normal but still rather unusual social world, we have people who feel they were born the wrong gender, and they have physical surgery to change what they look and feel like. So, in a way, I’m not really sure how this guy differs psychologically, aside from the whole grey-alien thing. I don’t have any reason to doubt his experience, given it sounds like it has profoundly impacted him ever since.

Because the tasking was so ridiculously wide-scope there’s really no way to say who does well vs. poorly on that kind of thing, at least on a detail level. But I thought several of the sessions had some nice info. Bear in mind that because this doesn’t have a specific-clear task with feedback on that focus, it is not qualified within the Remote Viewing protocol; it becomes “psychic work”. Some missions are.

Visit http://www.dojopsi.com/tkr/ and click the box to jump directly to “Missions” on the login page.

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Wanna View? TKR’s Weekly Mission

I occasionally task a target over at TKR’s project, the part inside the dojo. This week’s mission is my tasking.

If you want to play, GO VIEW by visiting TKR at the Dojo Psi, and — well, the easiest way is just to click “Go View” on the column at far-right after you login, because there is a little blurb at the top of the chat mat that announces the mission with a link.

(The ‘real’ way is to go to the Viewer Studios and on the column at far-left, in the middle section about “Missions”, clicking “Go View! (get a mission)”.)

For those who don’t know anything about Missions, I should mention this:

1. The feedback varies from ‘hard and complete’ to ‘none whatsoever’. In TKR’s “My RV” settings section, you can set your minimum required feedback. Feedback is up to the tasker.

2. The tasking varies because (a) it is allowed to be experimental at times, and (b) it is done by different people every week (TKR staff, generally, with occasional guest-taskers). Taskings may be highly-focused or wide-scope; how they are approached is up to the tasker.

3. You get a task and you have until the next Monday early evening to submit a session. All sessions are public so if you’re shy, use an alias. Viewers get feedback at 7:01pm (dojotime/eastern) Monday nights — privately, only they see it. That gives them time to think about it without distraction, make after-session notes, things like that. The task and its sessions and feedback go “public” at 8:00pm Monday nights (dojotime/eastern). When that happens, there’s a link on the chatmat, or you can click on the purple “RV Galleries” link and then the “Missions” link on the front page, to see all the sessions and details.

4. Every mission has its own discussion thread over on TKR’s RV Web Forum on the TKR at the Dojo Psi board, that is just for that mission (talk about the task, sessions, feedback, etc.).

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Tech headaches

It’s always something. WordPress 2.2 is the latest version of my blog software and I installed it as part of setting up this blog. As it turns out, there are PhP errors in the default installation that were causing errors on my blog. My server support couldn’t help… the problem was not the server.

Now you might think that wading through lines of code is something nerds like me do in my sleep, but you would be overlooking two minor points:
1 - I know nothing about wordpress, and
2 - I know nothing about PhP, the code it’s written in.

Despite this, I actually managed to find two bugs in the source code, which is probably a no-brainer, but of which I’m unreasonably proud. Probably because of the amount of time it took me!

So I’m putting it here so when some poor sap installs WordPress 2.2 (or a new theme later when still on 2.2) and goes searching for why his blog is broken, he might just find this post and it’ll help.

found bug 1
Directory: wp-includes
File: bookmark-template.php

line 331
'category_orderby' => 'name', 'category_order' => 'ASC', 'class' => 'linkcat',
needs to be changed to
'category_orderby' => 'cat_name', 'category_order' => 'ASC', 'class' => 'linkcat',
that resolves the problem of themes which call the bookmarks function such as
php wp_list_bookmarks();

found bug 2
Directory: wp-includes
File: bookmark-template.php
line 293
function get_linkobjectsbyname($cat_name = "noname" , $orderby = 'name', $limit = -1) {

needs to be changed to
function get_linkobjectsbyname($cat_name = "noname" , $orderby = 'cat_name', $limit = -1) {

that resolves the problem of themes which call the categories function such as
php wp_list_categories();

Mind you I also find ‘name’ instead of ‘cat_name’ issues in links.php(line526) and template_functions_category.php(line122) and category.php(line22) but it’s possible those are NOT bugs; changing them didn’t do anything for me, but if I run into more similar bugs I’ll know where to look.

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A blog and a plan

I’ve started this blog so I can talk about things specific to the Dojo Psi, to its projects or plans, and to some larger issues on occasion.

I’ve also revised and updated my firedocs blog, on which I plan to gradually write (or post if written by others) some basic info about viewing I think will be helpful to some.

As usual I have so much going on at once that I’m getting approximately nothing done at any speed worth mentioning. I am working on a book about RV, on a few fiction novels, single mom to an 11 year old drama queen fashion zombie, and fulltime+ employed in the internet/academic publishing industry. I also have my own viewing and personal life of course, meditation efforts that are usually under-pursued for sure, a local family and property that want attention, and a boyfriend who would really like more than ten minutes of my time a day though this seems so unreasonable sometimes. On top of that I have several programming projects I do on nights and weekends (related to the dojo or things it sponsors usually), and other online things (such as blogs and another topic I’m involved with online where I journal/blog and more).

Usually everything is in “ignore” mode except one thing. I get back to everything, in a sort of cycle, by which most people are mad at me or ignoring me or forgot about me. I don’t see how only 24 hours a day can possibly be expected to cover all this.

In any case, the plan for the last week was that I set up a blog for the Dojo Psi “proper” (here), revise my Firedocs RV blog which got its theme trashed months ago, post something on my Red Cairo and My Psiche blogs, help a couple former web clients who need my assistance (MM and CTT), catch up at work, and take care of my recently-injured-cat and my newly-blonder-kid who are both demanding too much of me lately.

Oh yeah, and work toward the new Larger Concept of the dojo’s software that is going to revise what’s underneath TKR’s hood and make all the projects function with the same core setup so it’s easier for the coming management tools to tie into all of them, and for things to actually transfer between projects or between multiple identities, and most importantly, so I’m only developing one thing with some variant displays/features, and not a ton of separate code projects.

I have to post something on the blog so it isn’t empty. So, this message is it.

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