From Alexandra Jacobs April 2024 NYTimes review of Caleb Carr’s My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me, the author of “The Alienist” has written what he calls a “meow-noir” about the cats in his life.
“J. Alfred Prufrock measured his life out in coffee spoons. Caleb Carr has done so in cats… In a boyhood marred by abuse, neglect and the upheaval of his parents’ divorce, cats were there to comfort and commune with Caleb. Indeed, he long believed he was one in a previous life, ‘imperfectly or incompletely reincarnated’ as human, he writes.”
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From IANDS:
Calling all transpersonally-prepared US mental health professionals!
IANDS has posted its inaugural list of US mental health providers specially prepared to work with clients who have had transpersonal experiences such as near-death experiences, after-death communication, and past-life memories (https://conference.iands.org/mental-health-providers/)
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https://noetic.org/blog/can-humans-feel-the-future/
Heading: Can tweets predict negative unpredictable events?
One of these lines of research involves the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), which uses a global network of electronic random number generators located in cities around the world. The GCP tries to figure out if big global events that capture the attention of millions of people can somehow affect data produced by random number generators (RNGs).
If emotions about a future event can somehow influence our present mood, could this collective mood shift be noticeable in social media posts (i.e. reflected in the words we use)?
The results of the study suggest that emotional reactions to a future event that cannot be anticipated or inferred might “ripple backwards” in time to affect one’s present mood, and that this can happen on a collective scale.
It also implies that human minds may be collectively and continually interacting with the physical world in subtle ways, and that we may be unconsciously and continually “feeling the future.”
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