Posted by Anonymous on 2019/02/23 under Life Monday, June 25, 2018 Within the hour I received an e mail from Cannon himself. It was only the second one he ever sent me. The first was in January 2017 in which he had said he was back in Bedford to visit his aging mum. He now said that he had spoken with my mother the previous evening when watching the Spain Vs Portugal soccer match on TV in the Charter House home where she was resident. His mother, he informed me, was also a resident there and on the same ward. I had not known that. I e mailed him back re what I had just been thinking about. He responded with – As I left Charter House on Friday evening, I saw their parents sitting in the front room of 30 Kimbolton Road. They had the football on the telly. Posted by James at 1:00 AM No comments: I stepped out of the shower and found that the Youtube recordings of Just A Minute had moved on to an episode which had been uploaded in November 2017 which I had not heard before. And, having noted that, I then logged on to Twitter and sent her a tweet – @sueperkins Ms P: I have taken the liberty of appending a comment to something YOU said at this Just A Minute episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZziiuyN6HEs … Buttock-clenching stuff?! Not exactly… but all quite true! paintings of Donegal, Ireland. All paintings are my own 🙂 When scrawling down earlier tweets by Mr Ferriter I saw that one, from November 2017, was a portrait study by an artist of whom I had never heard, although my wife said he was quite well known: John Singer Sargent – Head study by John Singer Sargent, with colour breakdown showing combinations used to achieve different areas of tone, light and shade. And at 20:20 that same day I noted that Zoe Margolis had just retweeted something from someone whom, unlike Zoe, I had never followed – Zoe Margolis Retweeted I'm a writer Later I was surfing across Youtube and found myself watching Bill Maher who, at 21:40 here, for the first time, made me aware of the same pleading in defence of a similar chap – Around that same time I heard, apparently stemming from the same "spiritual source", that Mussolini had become Colonel Gaddaffi. I scrutinised their faces and saw that there are similar lineaments. Around lunchtime on March 11th 2017 I was reading this piece of Jonathan Freedland´s in The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/11/1930s-humanity-darkest-bloodiest-hour-paying-attention-second-world-war A few moments later, at about 14:14, I saw I had two new e mails, the first having been sent at 11:25. Aysia Gadafi BCC I pray this mail get to you in good health, I am Aisha the daughter of Although I had lost count of the silly e mails I had received asking for my help to transfer and thus gain millions of $, most had gone straight into my Spam folder and not my legitimate Inbox. I had already been thinking of President Carter´s reaction to the 1986 US bombing of Libya which had led to the reported death of Gaddafi´s daughter. Carter shortly after appeared on TV saying that if somebody were to kill one of his children then " …there is nothing that I would not be prepared to do to get even." A couple of days later I was to receive two more e mails from a Aisha Gaddafi or Aisha al-Qadaffi. And then on March 17th 2017 one from a Ayesha Gaddafi. Each requested my assistance in transference of large sums of money. At lunchtime on January 24th 2017 I was rereading this Entry http://james-plasketts-coincidence-diary.blogspot.com.es/2006/03/part-two-narrative-epilogues-and.html specifically for stuff on the Holy Grail. Just a few seconds after I had read this of point (12) In Gnosticism the krater was a feminine principle; the mixing vessel filled with spirit, which the Creator sent down to earth so that those who strove for higher consciousness might be baptised in it. A couple of hours later I felt moved to look up, again, the meaning of ´Paraclete´, as used by Bernard Levin in his piece from The Times of February 18th 1988 apropos Parsifal in Point (1) of the above Narrative entry : When Parsifal enters he adds strains from the other world… Suddenly… we hear, for the first time… the Grail… in the struggle between good and evil… it is approaching, with its glorious news that the battle is almost over, and light has triumphed over darkness… I see the first hit when that word is entered into Yahoo is its definition in Wikipedia – In Judaism This last sentence also contained the very rare word ´cognate´. And that prompted me, some 30 mins or so later, to look up the meaning of ´cognate´ via Google At the lefthand bottom corner of that page there was a section headed Below it were listed four options. The first was Somehow I found myself taking an interest and that link…and I clicked in it… to find I had thus activated a multiple choice check on one´s understanding of the word ´cognate´ with FOUR possible answers. On the evening of February 20th 2017 I was moved by a reference to Luna Incognita resulting from my looking at the entry on ´Crater Plaskett´ in Wikipedia. The mapping of the moon´s dark side was proclaimed with a proto-map on the day I was born. It is a compilation of just over forty pages of extracts from his lectures with each extract referring to The Holy Grail. I read swiftly through the entry on p.11, which is from a lecture in Basle of 22nd November 1907, headed simply – This brief extract concludes with the sentence – My son came home, saw the title of the work I was reading, and said that this formed a coincidence for he had just found a copy of The Bible. I had not listened to it before. It had arrived by e mail ten hours earlier. I was thinking about my six previously cited and advanced reasons – e.g. at Facebook threads – for accepting the existence of some Deity. In each instance there are of course counter arguments. a) Sceptics might say there is only my testimony to have experienced the Divine. I found myself thinking on how, in an exposition of why I accepted God´s existence, the importance of the faults with neo-Darwinian theory were only 1%. That caught my attention so I listened more keenly to the few minutes before and after that. Finally, at 16:00 Harris points out that we could never know what was going through the head of "JFK" just before his assassination. Living the Dream: A Coincidence Diary Sunday, September 19, 2010 Sic Transit Gloria It is a setting where a dying George Best has passed an envelope containing loose change and scraps of money to me and asked me to take it to an address in Alicante. As I hand the money over to an old guy in a modest setting in Alicante, some of the lineaments of his face strike a chord. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobby_Stiles Later I also meet up with Jackie Charlton and a guy with a vaguely familiar face who is forever bursting into high pitched flamenca song. At the end I realise that this is Gordon Banks and remark so to someone passing who concurs. I remark also to someone that Nobby Stiles must have fallen on hard times to be living in such reduced circumstances and he, naturally, agrees. I twig that these are all members of the 1966 England Soccer World Cup winning team. By the way, shortly after having just awoken from that dream I was intimating the outline of it to my curious wife when our 11 yr old son intervened to say that he will be unable to do the special extra-curricular football training as he has five red marks against him On September 15th 2010 I was saddened to see this news item – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/news/8002155/Nobby-Stiles-weeps-over-1966-World-Cup-medal-sale.html Then, two days later, I saw this thread at the Guardian Comment Is Free section – http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/17/dreams-famous-people-margaret-thatcher I was moved to contribute a selection of the dreams I had noted over the past three years including the above one.
(290) Neil Cannon and 30 Kimbolton Road
On the afternoon of June 16th 2018 my mind wandered back to an afternoon in late 1991 when I and a schoolmate, Neil Cannon, had played backgammon together in a house owned by parents of a friend of his in Kimbolton Road, Bedford.
Chris & Jonny Potter. We played chess & backgammon that afternoon.
Friday, May 25, 2018
(289) Elton fails to shoot Rowan
Of an afternoon in 2012 I found a scene from an antiquated Secret Policeman´s Ball popped into my head in which Elton John held a pistol out towards Rowan Atkinson which did not go off so he had found himself forced to go “Bang!”.
The following afternoon Byron Jacobs mentioned this very scene to me via social media site.
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Tuesday, February 06, 2018
(288) Career shift: (Artist/Entertainer!?) Writers Not Fighters, Singers and John S(e)argents of November 2017
On the morning of February 6th 2018 I was listening to episodes of the Radio/TV show Just A Minute.
I then took a shower and found myself musing on some remarks made to me the previous year on my lack of committed professionalism. But I responded that I was not really a chess pro. I even said out loud whilst showering, "I´m a writer, not a chessplayer!"
This I cribbed from a song of Gilbert O´Sullivan´s from the 1970s, although I had not heard the track in many years.
At 8:01 I heard Sue Perkins make a remark to host, Nicholas Parsons re a fellow performer, John Sargent – "He´s a dancer. He´s a dancer, not a fighter."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZziiuyN6HEs …
I next noted I had myself acquired, almost as I made above post, a new Twitter follower: Mr Morgan Ferriter –
#instaart#Donegal #WildAtlanticWay #ulster#oilpaintings #art #Ireland
Curious Zelda? @CuriousZelda 8m8 minutes ago
I'm a thinker
Not a fighter
Not a blinker
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
(287) The TV item pointing out the dolphin did not object to being pleasured
On the morning of September 26th 2017 I mentioned to my wife a piece she had, several times before, told me that she had presented for Channel 4.
It was on their COMMENT snippet, which followed on from Channel 4 News and she had spoken in defence of a man convicted of sexual assault by stimulating a dolphin with his hand.
She pointed out that, had the animal not enjoyed it, it could have made its feelings known in no uncertain manner.
The resurfacing of this incident surfaced after we had visited the beach and given scraps to a local seagull whom we had dubbed "Gavin".
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Saturday, March 11, 2017
(286) Gaddaffis "reborn"
In the mid 1980s the idea circulated that Madonna was Marilyn Monroe reborn. She denied having any confidence in it. I heard from people close to a "spiritual source" that the "source" had stated that it was authentic. But Madonna was born in the 1950s and Monroe died in the early 1960s.
The goalposts quite shifted as I was then told that it was a kind of "thematic or archetypal life".
Ah, well…okay then. There are parallels; American, blonde, actress, singer, beauty, superstar…
But, without being ´armed´ with the supposition, these similarities might never occur to you. Also, of course, two autocrats who, in effect, ran their own fiefdoms and were then both killed by mobs.
The photo of Mussolini prompted me to mention this suggested progression of identity to my wife and she said that she had heard it from me years before and had dissed it because their lives overlapped.
I did not recall her saying so, I knew Mussolini was hanged at the end of World War Two but was uncertain of when the other guy appeared.
So I Googled Gaddaffi and discovered from Wikipedia that he was ( probably) born in 1942. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi
I originally entered something re "Death of Colonel Gaddaffi". My second search was just his name.
It read –
To
the former leader of Libya (Col. Muammar Gaddafi) . I have a business
proposal for an investment in your country, I would need your mutual
respect and trust, kind support and assistance to transfer the sum of
$9million USD. I assure you that you are 100 per cent safe. I would
love you to indicate your interest to enable me provide you more
details on how the transaction will be completed.
And this was the first specifying a recognisable individual. Indeed, one with her own Wikipedia Entry –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayesha_Gaddafi
It had been sent almost three hours earlier, but only now appeared.
Those words from an ex-President, devout Christian and subsequent Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Over a decade after I had read that in fact Gaddafi´s daughter had not been killed and the story was just an attempt to smear US integrity.
It was only in respnse to this patently bogus e mail purporting to be from her that I was led to other pieces on Ayesha Gaddafi and thereby learned for the first time that the story was in fact true.
And also false.
Her adopted sister had been killed by those US bombs.
And two more e mails from her arrived on May 25th. And several more in early June 2017.
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Friday, January 27, 2017
(285) Further on The Holy Grail
On January 23rd 2017 I had already begun searching for more gen re something which had recently, once more, started to very much preoccupy me: The Holy Grail.
An e mail arrived from David DeAngelo headed -The Holy Grail of One-Night-Stands.
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Through further researches I gathered that the quest for the Holy Grail represents very much a personal and individual attempt to contact the divine.
Works such as H. Kahanne’s and R. Pietrangeli’s "The Krater and the Grail, Hermetic Sources of the ‘Parzival’ " clarified to me how the symbolism of the Grail was born from ancient cults and myths, e.g. the Greek krater was the deepest bowl of creation and divine wisdom.
So the krater could be viewed as the most primal aspect of the Grail pantheon. –
–
My wife mentioned, re portions of tomato soup she had just prepared for us using a soup-making machine, since our cooker was temporarily out of action,
"There you are; mine´s the cup, yours is the bowl."
…
At lunchtime on Jan 25th I found myself thinking on being asked a question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? re the meaning of ´cognate´.
My reply would have been that I had only ever come across the word once and that was in a piece by Anthony Burgess. But it meant ´of like mind´.
Surely this is what the shepherds who were tending their flocks must have experienced when the angel appeared to them with glad tidings of great joy.
The tidings in Parsifal are brought in Act Three, when the Spear, which pierced Christ’s side heals the wound of Amfortas’ guilt…
And… what is the Christian message but hope?
Surely Wagner is saying that Parsifal is neither Christ nor John the Baptist, but the Paraclete of St John’s Gospel, who is sent to comfort the world: "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you." And it is man, sinful but capable of redemption, who receives the divine gift from the hands of "the innocent fool, made wise by pity."
Philo speaks several times of "paraclete" advocates primarily in the sense of human intercessors.
The word later went from Hellenistic Jewish writing into rabbinical Hebrew writing. For a summary of rabbinical usage see Jewish Encyclopedia 1914 "Paraclete".
The word is not used in the Septuagint, the word "comforters" being different in Job. Other words are used to translate the Hebrew word ??????? (m?na??em "comforter") and ???? ????.
In modern Hebrew, the cognate 'praklit' (??????) means 'solicitor' or 'legal counsel', 'praklit ha-mechoz' means district attorney, and 'praklitut ha-medina' the Israeli equivalent of the solicitor-general.
This was the first hit. – https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/cognate
For Everyone.
Play The Challenge
I chose the right one of the four (´Similar´).
Four possible correct options is, of course, what would have been presented had the word´s meaning featured as a question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? – the very scenario upon which I had not long before been pondering.
That entry linked to the ESA Press Release of March 1st 2007 which features just before Point (1) of Entry http://james-plasketts-coincidence-diary.blogspot.com.es/2006/03/part-two-narrative-epilogues-and.html here.
One subsequent lead which resulted from my entering´Luna Incognita´into my search engine was this, from a NASA Lunar Science Institute seminar of April 2013 –
One subsequent leadS ipeaker: Ben Bussey, Johns Hopkins University – Applied tfrhPhysics LaboratorLuna Incognita”
Abstract: When we began this integrated research project, the lunar Polar Regions were regarded as “Luna incognita”, the unknown Moon. During the last four years we have striven to further our understanding of the Polar Regions so that they are now as well known, and in some case better known, than the rest of the Moon. ”Luna incognita” has become “Luna cognate”:
Here I now learned of yet another meaning for ´cognate´. This time in Latin.
It means ´known´.
… … …
Circa 18:23 on Jan 25th 2017 I was reading clips from the book
The Holy Grail
from the Works of
Rudolf Steiner.
The Gospel of St John
"This is represented in the Holy Grail, the shining chalice, the attainment of which floated as a shining goal before the knight of the Middle Ages."
In fact he had scooped up some five minutes earlier, in Paseo de las Delicias, a Gideons copy of the Nuevo Testamento, including Psalms and Proverbs, and, of course, the Gospel of St John.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017
(284) "Only 1%" accept the validity of subjective experience as well as obective facts
Circa 11: a.m. on January 12th 2017 I was doing some cleaning and had on in the background this podcast of Sam Harris´:
https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/60-an-evening-with-richard-dawkins-and-sam-harris-2
Those are –
a) Over forty very brief experiences of compassion way beyond normal consciousness and which could only be described as Divine.
b) That others report such experiences of the Divine.
c) These coincidences
d) The faults with neo-Darwinism.
e) The philosophical argument from design.
f) The very existence of the ´Occult Classics´.
b) There is only the testimony of the other claimants too.
c) That coincidence does not necessarily point to anythng beyond itself.
d) Lack of authentic evidence for neo-Darwinian theory does not demand acceptance of a Deity. Strident anti Darwinists such as Dr James le Fanu and Richard Milton have no religious beliefs.
e) Those who detect design in Nature that they attribute to a Higher Power speak only for themselves.
f) And claims re an ´outpouring of Esoteric truth´ in books which began in the late 19th century with Blavatsky have yet to be independently corroborated. Some people simply like drawing attention to themselves. Plus a lot of the writings of Blavatsky, Bailey, Besant, Rudolf Steiner, etc is largely repetitive verbiage.
Point a) was the overwhelming one.
Impossible for the experiencer to doubt some Divine component to reality after even one such experience. I promoted it in my mental reckoning from 80% significance to a full 90%.
Point (c) I demoted from a significance of 10% to now only 5%.
re point d), however, I, continued with an allocation of just 1%. It may at best be called "indirect evidence", since Darwin critics like Milton and le Fanu harbour no belief in a Deity.
Within four seconds of my thinking that I heard what Harris says at 17:17 of the podcast.
Circa 12:50 he and Dawkins agree that personal and introspective experience may be of value scientifically. Harris expounds on how he has been trying to do away with the distinction between outer ´canonical´ fact and subjective experience. For him each is valuable.
And when making the short drive home after a lunchtime visit to the beach I found my car immediately behind a black one with a numberplate ending in JFK.
(263) The dream of Nobby Stiles fallen on hard times.
On the morning of October 23rd 2007 I dreamed and then recorded the saddest dream –
"Are you Nobby Stiles?" I ask.
He says something back, with a laughing annoyance at having been recognised.
I see a slightly balding Sir Geoff Hurst towards the end, as we are chatting in an apartment not to high up. I am slightly nervous not only that I but also that someone else might fall from/through the window.
in class.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/17/dreams-famous-people-margaret-thatcher?showallcomments=true#comment-7698442
I note at that thread that, although it was a conscious decision on my part to contribute the Stiles dream, I was only doing so in response to a request from The Guardian for people to send in such dreams about the famous.
And so it got published just a couple of days after the pieces on Stiles´ financial concerns.