It is my gut opinion that we live in a simulation of sorts, a matrix, or a bad dream. Whatever it is, there are times when a synchronicity or a glitch jolts us to ponder, often using a WTF just happened yelp.

I was born in New Jersey. I spent 8 weeks in 1974 at a Anasazi Chacoan outpost called Salmon Ruins, not far from Aztec Ruins, outside Aztec, New Mexico. It was there that I met a young Chicano who, for reasons I will leave out here, I married in 1997. I moved to El Paso, Texas in late October 2000 to start work as the medical librarian at the University of Texas – El Paso campus. The building was designed and built to look like a one of the ancient buildings in Bhutan. Many of the buildings were. We had a Tibetan altar in the lobby and thangkas and Tibetan religious statues. I loved that part of it having been initiated into the Nyingmapa School by the late Penor Rinpoche. I hated El Paso but there were benefits to working on a campus where Tibetans would often visit.

The fact that I moved to El Paso in 2000 is significant because I got to travel to Aztec, New Mexico in April 2001 to meet my husband’s family. Mr. D, as he was called, was a WWII veteran with a VERY interesting life story. I will skip over the violent child abuse and adultery. He was clearly dying when I met him and had “mellowed” out.

He seemed transfixed upon meeting me. I had heard so many HORRIBLE tales about him that I really wasn’t sure if I wanted to be around him at all but he seemed mesmerized. Mr. D. didn’t do anything out of the ordinary and didn’t say anything out of the ordinary either. He took us all out to dinner at a Ute Reservation Casino in Colorado where he took me aside from everyone else and had me play the slots next to him. He genuinely seemed delighted that day and my husband was shocked out of his mind since this man NEVER EVER EVER acted the way he did that day. The exact words were “OMG my dad is holding hands with Barbara and taking her around the casino! WTF?!!!!!”

And then he died; just like that – – a mere 7 weeks after we met. Upon his death, his oldest daughter found a stack of notes or letters to the family detailing his life. Tales of herding sheep at age 10 out in the desert alone with nothing but a rifle and dog and some supplies so he wouldn’t starve. Tales of getting wounded in Guam and being the last American alive to defend the area. Tales of lying flat on his back and pretending to be dead and shooting the Japanese out of trees. Scary stuff that we would eventually see depicted in the movie “Code Talkers“. And, of course, tales of working alongside his Navajo/Dine friends – the famous Code Talkers.

BUT, you’re wondering so what? BUT in that stack was a ‘letter” that gave a short history of how Mr. D met a Medicine Man and his TWO (2) wives who had EMERGED out of an underground “pueblo”. The unnamed Medicine Man decided to heal Mr. D who had been shot in the stomach and patched up rather poorly by doctors employed by the Veterans Administration. To do so, he PACKED (not sure what that entailed but we got the impression this man cut into Mr. D and PACKED) his stomach with peyote. Yup PEYOTE. He then gave BUTTONS of peyote for Mr. D to ingest for the rest of his life and he did a “healing” on him.

This strange man with two wives was one of the ANT PEOPLE! Oh, yeah. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Here is an excerpt from Ancient Code: I doubled checked with the Hopi dictionary = Hopìikwa lavàytutuveni : a Hopi-English dictionary of the Third Mesa dialect with an English-Hopi finder list and a sketch of Hopi grammar to make sure someone wasn’t just copying and pasting all over the Internet that the Hopi word for “ANT” is ANU. Friends or relatives, however, is simon not NAKI but it’s not my job to clean up mirror sites.

“The more you look at ancient texts and stories from around the world, you can’t help but see surprising patterns. Some are so glaring that it takes real effort to ignore them, but that’s what many people do. One example is from the Hopi Native America tribe and their beliefs in “Ant People.” The Hopi of the American Southwest are sometimes referred to as “the oldest of people” by other Native American tribes.

Once you learn about the Ant People, you can’t help but compare them to the ancient Sumerian texts of the Anunnaki. Why? Let’s take a simplified look, respecting the truth that only members of the Hope tribe could fully explain.

In ancient cultures, there is a common thread of worshipping extraterrestrial beings from the stars who will one day return. Animals symbolic of these beliefs appear frequently in ancient art.

The Hopi have a reverence for ants, similar to the way the Egyptians and Sumerians and other cultures had a special reverence for cows. The cows may have represented our Milky Way galaxy, and in the case of the ants, they described beings from the stars known as the Ant People.

The Hopi words for the Ant People or Ant Friends (Anu Sinom) create a direct link to the stories of the Anunnaki. It could be coincidental, but it is quite striking. The Babylonian sky god was named Anu, which is the Hopi word for ant. The word, Naki translates to “friends.” Thus, Anu-Naki translates to “ant friends” in Hopi. In both languages, they are describing extraterrestrial beings, but the Hopi say these Ant People came from under the ground.

Another strikingly similar word is the Hopi word sohu, meaning “star,” and the Egyptian word sahu means “stars of Orion.” This constellation is seen repeatedly across the globe. Ancient Astronaut theorists observe Orion and other systems such as the Pleiades appearing over and over in the layout of the pyramids and ancient structures.

Another coincidence?

In the Hopi legend, these Ant People were their saviors, taking them underground and teaching them how to survive two extreme cataclysms. Once again, we see stories of a great flood like that described in Sumerian texts and the Bible.

And now you’re wondering WHO CARES? Well, as I said, I think we are living in some sort of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE simulation, not unlike the one depicted in the movie, 13th Floor. And the glitch I felt the other evening. In the quote above I enlarged the word COINCIDENCE. And here is where it gets weird.

Ryan and I were chatting. I think it started with me rambling on about New Mexico and how Mr. D had been healed, ah yes, I wanted to talk about peyote’s healing powers. Anyway, blah blah blah and Medicine Man with two wives, Ant People. Well, if someone could have fallen backwards and jumped out of his skin all at once, that is the best description. I had to start the storyALL over again from the beginning and this time not skip anything.

I finished. Ryan then launched into his personal tale. I’ll skip the preliminaries which were quite funny. Ryan was at a wedding. His friends had hoped that he would hit it off with the wife’s sister. They did. In fact the sister wasVERY interested and started talking about how she wanted Ryan to visit her in Osino. Mmm. Okay. “I want to you to meet the ANT PEOPLE who come out at night”. And then, I wish I could find the words to describe the pantomime of “BE RIGHT BACK” and the look of OMG on his face, it was perfectly executed. Oddly, enough, for once I wasn’t laughing. The pantomime was hilarious but the topic, not so much. Ryan politely extradited himself and sought out his hosts.

“Oh, we are so thrilled you two hit it off. About that. Yes blah blah blah Ant People!” The poor couple just hung their heads and Ryan eased on out of the reception and tried not to remember it until I went and threw a KEYWORD out into the ether and hooked a matrix fish.

At which point I’m WTF! I thought they only resided in the New Mexico/Arizona areas. Nope, my husband tells me they are part of the Ute and Shoshone “folklore” as well.

OMG and they’re JUST down the road more or less?

There is an expletive to describe towns and villages and hamlets in the middle of nowhere. If you are an American, you’ll know what Bum F NoWHERE means. If you’re not an American, think of how you would describe some backwater tiny town far, far away from any major city. Most people want to get away from such a place. Nothing usually happens in such a place – nothing that you want to admit to anyway.

So, what are the odds that I would be married to a man whose father WROTE about a Medicine Man from the ANT PEOPLE and then I have a friend staying with me in a remote, mountain valley bedroom community to a gold mining and cattle ranch and casino industry who JUST happened to have been hit on by a woman who lives truly in a HAMLET off the interstate several miles from downtown Elko (I’m 15 miles from downtown by the way) who has ANT PEOPLE who come out at night and visit her.

SERIOUSLY? Who wrote this story arc? The AI is glitching! Read my last post about running into the Roma back in New Jersey and Rome and Carlin and how Ryan studied cartomancy with a Roma lady who traveled in one of those wagons you see on TV! Mind you I used to teach a course at UTEP on Prehistoric Rock Art so it’s not like I haven’t delved into the “stories” related to the ANT PEOPLE depicted all over the Southwest but I’m in #$%ing NEVADA !

One of the books I plan on ordering is one by Ron Morehead who Joshua P Warren talked about on his latest podcast. Morehead’s book is about QUANTUM PHYSICS and BIGFOOT. Ryan has been tracking Bigfoot stories in, yup, ELKO COUNTY. I cannot make this stuff up I wish it were fiction. I’d be bored out of my mind but I often wonder what my life would have been like if I had not stepped out of the ordinary life most lead into the TWILIGHT ZONE.

If you have ever met someone who met someone from the ANT PEOPLE or if you have met one yourself are ARE an ANT PERSON, please comment below or comment just for the sake of commenting. Thanks. I’ll go back now to my regularly scheduled weird evening.

When I first met Ryan he talked about a Gypsy (A Roma or Romani) woman who he met through her daughter. The older woman had once traveled in a caravan in a REAL wagon like you see in the movies around Nevada and the surrounding states. Ryan, being Ryan HAD to ask about Cher’s song and if it was true. The answer was a bit more chilling. Her family had to flee a town when the men were accused of being thieves and yes, the women had a certain “reputation” and she left it at that.

What grabbed my attention was the fact that this lady, who has now long since passed away, told Ryan after teaching him how to do a reading that she personally created, was that he had the GIFT. Ah, so I’m not wrong. If a Romani can “see” him, and pass on a technique and say that he had a special gift, knack, that none of her other “students” had, then I must learn this. And I’m not wrong about what I see either.

It took 4 months to get a lesson. I haven’t learned how to guide the querent YET but I did have my first lesson so Ryan could ask the questions that had been troubling him. When I got my first reading, he was taken aback as no on had ever asked the kinds of questions I asked. I asked two dead men to come forward and two living. But what we asked is private.

BACKSTORY – Or detour if you like. I met a 20 something Romani girl working at a gas station in Smithville, NJ back in 1998. She spied a book on my front seat by Alexandra David Neil ‘s adopted son, Lama Yongden. The young lady lit up like a Christmas tree and said “OH I LOVE books like that” and because I had JUST finished reading it, I gave it to her through my driver’s side window and never saw her again.

My next encounter was this past August 2021 in a trailer park in Carlin. But he was only part “gypsy” as he claimed but because of that he had sight and could feel energy. I would later find out from my husband, that there is a rather LARGE Romani population here in Elko County and he had treated several as patients. HUMPF – Wish he had said something years ago.

In college, the Anthropology Department Chair had written a book about the Gitani of Andalucia. I questioned her about the book because she talks about flamenco. I had studied flamenco guitar and my Puerto Rican Spanish professor had taught me the proper flamenco use of castanets. His cousin was a professional dancer back in Puerto Rico. I threw a hissy fit when Quintana admitted that she NEVER bothered to learn any of the musical instruments nor did she bother to learn FLAMENCO! HOW THE HELL do you spend years with a group whose life revolves around music and you’re not a musician. Her book reveals the lack of understanding of just what MUSIC does to a soul and to a culture. But that is the only rant I’ll let loose or I’ll lose my audience yet again.

So thats my backstory with Romani – that and we saw several dressed in full 19th century garb in Rome in 2003 and got pick pocketed on a subway by a gang. The Romani are an incredible people!

Cartomancy has a long history – some of it disputed. Some of it fascinating. Some of it forgotten. Two outstanding articles are freely available. Dusty White’s presentations on the history of cartomancy are also a must if you can wade through the audio.

A History of Oracle Cards

BUT I’ve never seen anything nor read ANYTHING like what I learned.

First you must purchase a brand new deck of 52 ordinary playing cards like you see in any supermarket or what they use in casinos.

Remove the four queens if you wish to speak to four women. Living or dead. But you must decide on four women you wish to query. You also must have known or know the women or men. You can’t ask questions of say the President of Romani or the actor or super model you fantasize about.

Remove the four kings if you want answers from men. Even if it’s only one man, you pick four. Again living or dead. Discard the Joker. ELIMINATE all distractions so put the kids and pets outside or avoid doing it at home at all. No radio, TV, or music or anything to take away from your focus for both the querent and the reader. Be great if we had one of those parlors where you close the heavy drapes and the door, right? Turn off cellphones and electronic devices that might suddenly beep. Unplug Siri and Alexa!

You cannot ask questions of the person holding the cards.

Choose the four women or four men wisely. If men, return the queens to the deck. If women, return the kings. Ask the querent to shuffle until he/she feels like they have shuffled enough. Have the querent hand the deck to the reader.

Here is what is so different than anything I’ve ever seen. INVITE, yes INVITE each lady or gentleman into the room as if they were contestants waiting in the wings on stage to be invited onto the stage or into the studio living room.

“WELCOME Martha, please come in. Thank you for coming. Have a seat! Good to see you!” Do this whether the person is alive or dead. You the reader are summoning the SPIRIT of the person. YES, the SPIRIT will be answering your questions and they have no choice in the matter. They must answer truthfully if they know the answer. Truly welcome each individual even if you do know who he/she is and would like to punch the person out. YOU the, reader, are to stay dispassionate.

You can ask, which of these ladies (or men), are the most jealous of my success? Or wishes me harm, the most? Or stole from me the most? Or care for me the most? Affairs of the heart are why most people seek out a tarot reader. That and careers I guess. So which one of these potential bosses wishes to hire me?

Which of these men, betrayed me the MOST. The MOST is the keyword. For all you know at the moment, each one betrayed the querent.

The reader only guides the querent to ask questions from the heart. Guide, not put words in the querent’s mouth.

And the READER cannot gasp, gulp, spook, or get emotional. I stink at that. I did gasp and I did shiver but it was my first try.

My first inclination was to ask questions of deities but you can’t do that. You must have known the dead person well and the living person well. I protested that I thought I knew Shri Ganesha quite well but no, you can’t ask questions of non-humans per se. As the querent, therefore, I had to think of four men or four women I wanted to question. I picked four men. Two living and two dead. The answers were uncanny. Ryan got answers that were also uncanny and the last one unnerved him.

It MIGHT be possible to ask which store should I visit or which slot machine will pay off but that experiment waits for another day.

With the question asked, you go left to right with the cards facing the reader. You pull a card from the top of the deck, try not to look at it and lay it like you do in Solitaire about a half inch down from the top edge facing up on top of the first queen or king. If the card you pull is the SAME suite as the queen or king, STOP the answer is this person.

Keep pulling and asking and going left to right. The higher the number, the stronger the answer. You might not get an answer at all. Stop and ask another one.

You’e not supposed to read for yourself but having a Sun sign in Gemini, a Rising Sign in Gemini, and Mercury in Gemini, I thought one of my twins could be the querent and the other the reader to generate an example using cards I never opened until today that I bought in a shop in Xian, China in 1987. Yeah, I know cool, right?

If you have EVER seen this method used to ask question of the living and/or the dead using cards, let me know. It is unique in my experiences.

For the past month Ryan has been telling me tales of Red Haired Cannibalistic Giants in North America. There are several OUTSTANDING documentaries available on YouTube.

MegalithomaniaUK uses drones to fly over Lovelock Cave giving viewers a whole new perspective on the site. I highly recommend the series!

Winnemucca is only 231 miles from our house or four hours via Interstate 80.

In trying to see if there was a written account of a tale that Ryan had heard that these cannibalistic giants were once all over North America and that thousands of Native Americans had come together to defeat them in a series of great battles assisted by – wait for it – NON Cannibalistic giants – I found this site:

The Algonquin Legends of New England, by Charles G. Leland, [1884], at sacred-texts.com

The Story of the Great Chenoo, as told by the Passamaquoddies (pp. 247-248)

“What the Micmacs call a Chenoo, is known to the Passamaquoddies as a Kewahqu’ or Kewoqu’. And this is their origin. When the k’tchi m’téoulin, or Great Big Witch, 1 is conquered by the smaller witches, or M’téoulinssisk, they can kill him or turn him into a Kewahqu’. He still fights, however, with the other Kewaquiyck. When they get ready to fight, they suddenly become as tall as the highest trees; their weapons are the trees themselves, which they uproot with great strength. And this strength depends upon the quantity or size of the piece of ice which makes the heart of the Kewahqu’. This piece of ice is like a little human figure, with hands, feet, head, and every member perfect. (page 247)

The female Kewahqu’ is more powerful than the male. They make a noise like a roaring lion (pee’htahlo), but sharper (shriller) and more frightful. Their abode is somewhere in Kas mu das doosek, in some cold region in far Northern Canada.

In summer time they rub themselves all over with poo-pooka-wigu, or fir balsam, and then roll themselves on the ground, so that everything adheres to the body, moss, leaves, and even small sticks. This was often seen of old by Indian hunters“.

WHAT?

When they get ready to fight they grow as tall as the highest tree? Not knowing what species of tree all I can assume is the Micmacs of Nova Scotia and Northeastern Maine were referring to the Eastern Cottonwoods which can grow up to 23 meters high or 75 feet! Sounds ridiculous, right? And YET, Hanuman-ji and Sun Wukong are often depicted as being 100 feet in height when battling demons!

Now I know this sounds like a far left hand turn off an interstate while traveling 80 miles an hour from the middle lane BUT what is it with the Japanese fascination with giants? And what special effects were used in this film for the military parade?

Here is a longer clip. Stop before the fellow claims it’s authentic footage. It’s NOT. It’s CGI.

But the idea that one can grow tall to battle monsters seems to have some primal Jungian collective unconscious appeal.

I became hooked on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 1. Never got much past that. Now I know why!

The history of the show is really fascinating but the point I want to make is the monsters grew to the size of skyscrapers and thus the Power Rangers needed to leap into robots to fight them. DINOSAUR themed robots no less! Gozilla anyone?

I‘ve ordered the book. It just shipped this morning but it will probably not arrive until October. Can’t wait!

I hope you all read the first two posts about Siddhars and Supernatural Abilities. This post is going to focus on the use of mantras in Tantra and in what I will call magick and/or sorcery. AFTER I take another detour or so it will seem.

Recall what I wrote about Sri Hanuman and Sun Wukong. Since there is no such thing as a coincidence, while extracting passages about mantras from Lutgendorf’s tome on Hanuman, I saw a pop up ad on Netflix for a new movie called New Gods: Nezha Reborn. I ASSUMED the character that had this ugly mask was Sun Wukong but NO – it’s the EVIL Six eared Macaque or SPOILER ALERT, IS it Sun Wukong afterall?!

And even more synchronicities! As I was typing yesterday an email notification popped up. None other than Jim R. McClanahan had JUST uploaded his latest blog

I posted a comment on his Facebook page and let him know about the Nezha movie and the Six Eared Macaque and he wrote back “That movie has driven a lot of traffic to my site for some reason. My article on the Six-Eared Macaque got 3,265 views in April, which is tenfold the normal monthly views”.

The general consensus from what I see is that this six eared macaque who shape shifts so that he looks EXACTLY like Sun Wukong, may also be a stone monkey and possibly born at the same time and may be a brother or sorts. BUT the six eared macaque is classified as a demon.

So back to mantras. Guanyin created a magical headband to control Sun Wukong and then she gave Tang Sanzang (aka Tripitaka) a mantra (or “spell”) to recite which would “activate” the band and cause unbearable, debilitating pain to Sun Wukong if his demonic nature were to emerge.

You can spend days reading Jim’s blog and I highly recommend doing so, but I must get back to mantras and Siddhars and/or people seeking after supernatural abilities.

Philip Lutgendorf’s incredibly detailed and heavily footnoted academic tome on Sri Hanuman includes material I never expected to find.

“Because tantra is understood to connote a body of esoteric knowledge capable of generating awesome supernatural powers and even immortality, known or suspected tantrics—particularly those of the ‘‘lefthand’’ path who may ritually engage in normally forbidden practices such as extramarital sexual intercourse and the consumption of meat and alcohol— have been both admired and feared. They are believed to have the power to invoke supernatural beings to carry out their will, especially deities in their dangerous wrathful (raudra) aspects, or to practice ‘‘black magic’’ (Hindi mūth, literally a ‘‘fist’’) through fatal curses and spells” (p. 103)

I’m not sure if you need me to “unpack” that paragraph or not. There are many forms of tantra but if you re-read this paragraph you might notice the summoning of the “WRATHFUL” aspects of a deity. In the TV series Vighnaharta Ganesh the infamous asura Durgamasur in Episode 395 prays to a “form” of Mata Adishakti known as Nimavata in front of a puja fire. Durgamasura prays to summon Mata to seek help. In the next episode Durgamasur is hell bent on compelling the goddess to tell him how to defeat Mata Adishakti.

And this is the point, the producers take great pains (pun intended) to depict Durgamasur sitting on a bed of blood red hot coals offering a twisted form of puja to elicit a boon. The actor, Manav Sharma, is to be commended for his wicked performance as he pretends to eat the coals and cut off parts of his body. He screams for Mata Nimavat to give him darshan and to tell him how to how to defeat Mata Adishakti.

Telly Updates summarizes the scene. Because the subtitles are not always accurate, I quote from Tanaya:

Durgamasura says Mata, you are the Ansh of Aadishakti. Her power flows in you so you know her weakness, how do I defeat her? What do I do Mata! Mata Nimavat says Durgamasura, you are anyway going to be killed by Adishakti, so try what you can. I will help you because I am forced! Mata says Durgamasura, just know that no god or goddess can hurt innocent Cobras, go and use Shesh Naag to help you in your process to defeat Adishakti. Durgamasura says yes Mata, you are right. I shall summon my friend Mayasura, he will help me because no one can escape his maya, not even Brahmadev.

An ansh is one of the forms of a deity – not the same as an avatar but a form. It’s very confusing but let’s not get lost in this detail. The point I wish to make is that by using horrific forms of self mutilation, it appears that in Vedic times, it was possible to coerce a deity to do something against his or her will.

Now keep in mind that Sun Wukong acquired his supernatural abilities through arduous study and practice under the tutelage of a “sifu” (guru). His counterpart, the Six Eared Macaque only listened in on the lessons (from afar) which made him vulnerable in the very end. Nonetheless, Sun Wukong did, more often than not, stray towards doing evil prior to receiving the headband.

Nikola Tesla never ceases to amaze me! As you all recall, Yasmin Boland introduced us to Kulreet Chaudhary, MD who lives at the same ashram in India that Yasmin visits. Dr. Chaudhary’s book, Sound Medicine, was not yet out and as soon as it was published I ordered it.

What you all don’t know is that back in 1969 I saw an exhibit of musical instruments from around the world and I bought the book by Laura Boulton.

I am proud to say my copy has held up okay. The edges of the paper have yellowed but the pages themselves are in good condition and the cover is fine. It was one of my prized items. I imprinted on Laura Boulton and wanted to be an ethnomusicologist from the moment I read the first page. I spent years collecting instruments and folk music. I was even a guest on a children’s TV show back in the late 70s! I still have a studio recording of three of the guest appearances. But as my friend, Brent would say ” STOP WITH THE STORIES ABOUT YOUR LIFE! GET TO THE POINT”.

I did NOT know that Tesla was good friends with Samuel Clemens (aka MARK TWAIN!)

I also had NO clue that Tesla used SOUND to heal none other than MARK TWAIN! Seriously, this should have been in the history books. I grew up near Edison, New Jersey and even visited the Edison labs on a school trip in 1965! And my grandfather was friends with a guy who has worked with Edison who DESPISED the man. Used to lock his employees in the lab until THEY, not he, invented something.

Tesla, on the other hand, appears to have been a really nice guy. Weird. Possibly, an extreme INDIGO (star seed) or as some speculate a NON-HUMAN!

I wish Research Gate had existed when I was working on my doctoral dissertation. It’s fantastic! I just download this entire paper for free.

“Speaking of good and useful electricity, Tesla used to say that one should protect himself from bad electricity, the so-called “evil spirit” [9]. Giving an interview to an amazed journalist of the “Sun” magazine he said: ‘’One of the beneficial effects of water is that it mechanically washes away the electricity from the skin. If you put some clay on the bottom of the bathtub, it will absorb all the harmful electricity from your body. Grounding is placing one’s bare feet on the ground, grass, or sand, especially when it is humid or wet. Rinse your hands and/or feet under running water to remove any static electricity. Spending time by the water, like lakes, rivers, fountains, waterworks or streams, will fill you with natural electricity that will successfully fight the damaging one’’ [9]. (p. 396)

WOW! I just HAD this conversation with “Ryan” about three weeks ago and we talked about creeks last night. Elko has hot springs. In the late 1800s and early 1900s we even had SPAS but no more. When you live in a barren desert, water is super precious. Las Vegas is just figuring out how precious as the water in Lake Mead keeps dropping.

Nikola Tesla and Vibrational Medicine

Nikola Tesla also examined the effects of mechanical vibration on the human body [3]. It is known that he made a ‘’vibrator’’ for treating painful leg muscle spasms [2–4]. <I use a TENS unit that also has settings for EMS (electric muscle stimulaton> Here is how Tesla later recalled his work in this field of research: “Electrical oscillations of an extremely high rate act in an extraordinary manner upon the human organism. Thus, for instance, I demonstrated that powerful electrical discharges of several hundred thousand volts, which at that time were considered absolutely deadly, could be passed through the body without inconvenience or hurtful consequences. These oscillations produced other specific physiological effects, which, upon my announcement, were eagerly taken up by skilled physicians and further investigated. This new field has proved itself fruitful beyond expectation, and in the few years which have passed since, it has been developed to such an extent that it now forms a legitimate and important department of medical science [18]. On February 6, 1894, Tesla patented his mechanical oscillator called Means for generating electric currents [7].

Tesla left a record about how he accidentally came to the discovery of mechanical treatment while using the mechanical oscillator: “I had installed at the laboratory one of my mechanical oscillators with the object of using it in the exact determination of various physical constants. The machine was bolted in vertical position to a platform supported on elastic cushions and, one day, as I was making some observations, I stepped on the platform and the vibrations imparted to it by the machine were transmitted to my body. The sensation experienced was as strange as agreeable, and I asked my assistants to try. They did so and were mystified and pleased like myself. But a few minutes later some of us, who had stayed longer on the platform, felt an unspeakable and pressing necessity which had to be promptly satisfied, and then the stupendous truth dawned upon me”. It was a discovery of laxative effects of mechanical oscillators, or technical therapy in a broader sense, about which Tesla said: “When I began to practice with my assistants mechanical therapy we used to finish our meals quickly and rush back to the laboratory. We suffered from dyspepsia and various stomach troubles, biliousness, constipation, flatulence and other disturbances, all natural results of such irregular habit. But only after a week of application, during which I improved the technique and my assistants learned how to take the treatment to their best advantage, all these forms of sickness disappeared as by enchantment and for nearly four years, while the machine was in use, we were all in excellent health” [12, 26, 27]. 

Apart from his assistants, Tesla gladly offered his visitors the opportunity to try out the mechanical treatment [12]. One of them was the famous writer and Tesla’s friend, Mark Twain [12, 14]. Tesla described it like this: “He came to the laboratory in the worst shape suffering from a variety of distressing and dangerous ailments but in less than two months he regained his old vigor and ability of enjoying life to the fullest extent” [12, 26].

LAXATIVE EFFECTS

More often than not, when I work on someone, I’ll tell them that they will a) vomit in x number of minutes or b) have a blasting emissions in x number of minutes.

OH NO NO I’m fine.

WAIT FOR IT.

Seriously, I don’t have to . . .

OMG

It’s one reason why I live alone. Your pain (emotional or physical or caused by “karma”) will GO away but you will probably think, do I really want to talk to Auggie’s mom when I’m not near a toilet?

To end on a happy note, I found this:

I found it by following up on the original article about Tesla that included a fascinating piece:

Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni

Debertoilis and Coimbra write “Certain kinds of sounds seem to have a large influence on the emotional processing of individuals. For example, hearing traditional mantras, or a non-semantic sound used in meditation has an effective influence on human brain activity, which has been shown in scientific publications (Xu et al, 2014). During the last experiments in the Hypogeum, the sound of a horn played in the Oracle Room was felt crossing the body of one of us (F. Coimbra) at high speed, leaving a sensation of relaxation, while standing in front of the prehistoric paintings in room 20. After some minutes, that instrument was played again and the result was similar but even more relaxing, accompanied by the illusion that the sound was reflected from the author’s body to the walls.

Please note that I choose to take screen shots from PRIMARY sources after stumbling upon a blog or news article that, 9 times out of 10 fails to provide a full citation to the original source. That is why as a retired, librarian, I insist on finding the originals so readers can do their own research.

I’ll end with this really incredible PRIMAL Danish/Scandinavian/Norse Viking music by Danheim. If this doesn’t stir your blood cells, you’re probably dead. I prefer the first 12 minutes and not so much the rest of it. If this music doesn’t trigger a primal memory, may I suggest remixes?

I created this Playlist to get myself motivated to use SOUND and movement therapy (dance, rocking back and forth when I broke my big toe) to treat osteoarthritis. It works for me, try it! Just don’t throw your back out trying to pretend you’re at a RAVE!