A Few Notes On Transiting And Transitions

Mars, as it might have been — This artist’s impression (from the European Southern Observatory) shows how Mars may have looked about four billion years ago. The young planet Mars would have had enough water to cover its entire surface in a liquid layer about 140 metres deep, but it is more likely that the liquid would have pooled to form an ocean occupying almost half of Mars’s northern hemisphere, and in some regions reaching depths greater than 1.6 kilometers. (Public domain image)

Something that I’ve extracted from P.M.H. Atwater, The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences: The Ultimate Guide to What Happens When We Die (Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2007):

Some experiencers mention traveling through a tunnel as part of their near-death scenario. Some refer to this tunnel as long and dark and that they were alone in it throughout the journey. Others say that there were bright lights that flashed along its walls, or that it was colored or even transparent, and that other people were there. Almost everyone states that they swooshed through its length at great speed. Some said they heard and felt the sensation of wind rushing by them. Just as many people say the tunnel went up as down, or straightway.

In most cases, a light appears at the end of the tunnel, and experiencers note that is where they are headed — a light described as brighter than the sun but that doesn’t hurt their eyes if they look at it. This light is invariably experienced as loving, intelligent, accepting, forgiving, and ever so wonderful.

Ishtan Natarajan of Charlottesville, Virginia, recalls that one day, when he was just a youngster, he started to sit down when something happened to him. He has no memory of exactly what, except the aching sensation that he may have been attacked. Since his earliest years were filled with beatings and abuse, his suspicions may be right. About four hours later, when he regain consciousness, his mind filled with the awareness of a wonderful tunnel he had just been in. He began to paint that tunnel and continued to do so throughout his childhood and into his adult years. He often retreated there when young, as it became a place of safety and love. Still today, he regards the tunnel with deep affection. (12-13)

skdflskjlakjslsdklaj — Image taken from page 13 of P.M.H. Atwater’s book

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I offer links to a few interesting articles on current science. Here, for example, is a piece suggesting that we have already been subjected to an alien invasion from the planet Mars:

“Pieces Of Mars Have Landed On Earth”

Here’s an article by means of which I plainly hope to continue my fanatical, fundamentalist attack on science. Yet I do it with my characteristic stupidity and lack of understanding, since, if Graham Budd and Richard Mann are right, the great “Cambrian Explosion” of about 550 million years ago is less in need of explanation than many (including many Intelligent-Design advocates) have thought:

“Well established theories on patterns in evolution might be wrong”

This next item is difficult for a young-earth creationist such as I am — I’ve been identified as such, despite my denials, by a number of anonymous online critics, and who am I to doubt them? — to explain:

“A Giant Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the Transition to Quadrupedality in Early Sauropodomorphs”

Here’s a piece that suggests the birth of a whole new discipline, “space archaeology”:

“How to Search for Dead Cosmic Civilizations: If they’re short-lived, we might be able to detect the relics and artifacts they left behind”

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