Where or when
OK, so here it is, another holiday (Veterans / Remembrance /Armistice Day) and I have a cold. Clearly, all of my physiology is under the control of my mind. Let’s see... off the 11th, let’s schedule the common cold for the 10th. Yesterday would normally have been a day off as well, but I had an appointment with my dental hygienist and then a meeting at work. The meeting was no problem, because I sat by myself in a big auditorium. They brought in a brilliant economist to give us a look at the present and future of the area’s economy (not good).
You’re probably aware of the ARMS, the adjustable rate mortgages that started resetting a couple of years ago. But we’re heading into a new wave of ALT-A and option ARM loans that are just starting to reset. So that, at a point where maybe the foreclosures might ease and the real estate market start to recover, things will get even worse instead. So recovery might be over a five year or more period....
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/12/60minutes/main4666112.shtml
As I wrote that, I was thinking maybe the Chinese economy might float all our boats, but uh-oh:
http://www.businessinsider.com/jim-chanos-china-is-headed-for-a-huge-crash-2009-11
I liked this Businessinsider.com site so much, I went to add it as an RSS feed to my Google Reader. When I did, coincidentally, the top article to come up was about mortage resets, with a chart very similar to the one I saw yesterday:
As for the dentist, well I warned them about the cold, but they’re all latex gloves and surgical masks already. My dentist’s daughter, fresh out of dentistry school, has joined as a partner and she is one pretty Chinese-American lady and will also be a great dentist.
Anyway, then I came home and more or less slept through till about 2:30 am. On Coast to Coast AM they had Dr. Brian Weiss who, for a past life regressor, comes with some major cred.
From http://www.brianweiss.com/
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from "the space between lives," which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss's family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.
A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, Brian L. Weiss M.D. is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.
Dr. Weiss maintains a private practice in Miami. In addition, Dr. Weiss conducts national and international seminars and experiential workshops as well as training programs for professionals.
Weiss was very eloquent with the kind of voice that could easily sink folks into their comfy trances. So I spent the next couple of hours listening to him and the people who called in with their experiences, none of which were particularly interesting, actually. Of all the paranormal/supernatural ideas, reincarnation was the one that I most intuitively sorta believed in, even as a child. In the few, dreamed past-life glimpses I’ve had (or what I take to be such), I was in wars (American Civil War as a Southerner and Nazi Germany as a Jew). Not as a soldier, but as an immediate refugee/victim, fleeing or about to face the enemy....
I’ve never had any dreams or anything of the sort, but if I had to guess, I would say I probably lived in ancient Egypt and either Aztec or Mayan Central America and had particular bad experiences there, because I’ve just always been turned off by those two times and places. When I was a kid, I was supposed to be in a little play about ancient Egypt, playing some sort of evil priest or something. I couldn’t pull it off. And ended up staying home sick that day. Which is why, tonight, I watched the 1932 movie of The Mummy (which BTW involved reincarnation) --and it was the first mummy movie of any sort I’ve ever seen. I was surprised at how good it was. Man, those folks at Universal in the 30s really tapped into a cool horror vein. When I was a kid, they put out these plastic models of the Universal horror movie figures--I’m pretty sure I made models of The Mummy, The Wolf Man, Dracula and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. I don’t think I did Frankenstein. These were really models for the complete idiot. I think you pretty much glued two halves together. To the extent that any particular ability was involved at all, it was in the painting. Anyway, I think all those horror films were on about the same level except The Creature from the Black Lagoon, which was cheesy and rather boring, too.
I’ve seen quite a few movies lately. I’m going to give some very brief little reviews of them in my next blog.
You’re probably aware of the ARMS, the adjustable rate mortgages that started resetting a couple of years ago. But we’re heading into a new wave of ALT-A and option ARM loans that are just starting to reset. So that, at a point where maybe the foreclosures might ease and the real estate market start to recover, things will get even worse instead. So recovery might be over a five year or more period....
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/12/60minutes/main4666112.shtml
As I wrote that, I was thinking maybe the Chinese economy might float all our boats, but uh-oh:
http://www.businessinsider.com/jim-chanos-china-is-headed-for-a-huge-crash-2009-11
I liked this Businessinsider.com site so much, I went to add it as an RSS feed to my Google Reader. When I did, coincidentally, the top article to come up was about mortage resets, with a chart very similar to the one I saw yesterday:
As for the dentist, well I warned them about the cold, but they’re all latex gloves and surgical masks already. My dentist’s daughter, fresh out of dentistry school, has joined as a partner and she is one pretty Chinese-American lady and will also be a great dentist.
Anyway, then I came home and more or less slept through till about 2:30 am. On Coast to Coast AM they had Dr. Brian Weiss who, for a past life regressor, comes with some major cred.
From http://www.brianweiss.com/
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from "the space between lives," which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss's family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.
A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, Brian L. Weiss M.D. is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.
Dr. Weiss maintains a private practice in Miami. In addition, Dr. Weiss conducts national and international seminars and experiential workshops as well as training programs for professionals.
Weiss was very eloquent with the kind of voice that could easily sink folks into their comfy trances. So I spent the next couple of hours listening to him and the people who called in with their experiences, none of which were particularly interesting, actually. Of all the paranormal/supernatural ideas, reincarnation was the one that I most intuitively sorta believed in, even as a child. In the few, dreamed past-life glimpses I’ve had (or what I take to be such), I was in wars (American Civil War as a Southerner and Nazi Germany as a Jew). Not as a soldier, but as an immediate refugee/victim, fleeing or about to face the enemy....
I’ve never had any dreams or anything of the sort, but if I had to guess, I would say I probably lived in ancient Egypt and either Aztec or Mayan Central America and had particular bad experiences there, because I’ve just always been turned off by those two times and places. When I was a kid, I was supposed to be in a little play about ancient Egypt, playing some sort of evil priest or something. I couldn’t pull it off. And ended up staying home sick that day. Which is why, tonight, I watched the 1932 movie of The Mummy (which BTW involved reincarnation) --and it was the first mummy movie of any sort I’ve ever seen. I was surprised at how good it was. Man, those folks at Universal in the 30s really tapped into a cool horror vein. When I was a kid, they put out these plastic models of the Universal horror movie figures--I’m pretty sure I made models of The Mummy, The Wolf Man, Dracula and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. I don’t think I did Frankenstein. These were really models for the complete idiot. I think you pretty much glued two halves together. To the extent that any particular ability was involved at all, it was in the painting. Anyway, I think all those horror films were on about the same level except The Creature from the Black Lagoon, which was cheesy and rather boring, too.
I’ve seen quite a few movies lately. I’m going to give some very brief little reviews of them in my next blog.