Fortean Anomalies

Charles Fort (1874 – 1932) is perhaps the best known researcher of unexplained anomalous phenomena. Fort is said to have compiled as many as 40,000 notes on unexplained phenomena, which came from what he called "the orthodox conventionality of Science", which were odd events originally printed in respected mainstream scientific journals or newspapers such as Scientific American, The Times, Nature and Science.
Collectively these phenomena are now referred to as 'Fortean' phenomena, or Forteana. Reported events include teleportation (a term Fort is generally credited with coining); poltergeist events, falls of frogs, fishes, inorganic materials of an amazing range; crop circles; unaccountable noises and explosions; spontaneous fires; levitation; ball lightning (a term explicitly used by Fort) There are many phenomena in Fort's works which have now been partially or entirely "recuperated" by mainstream science — ball lightning, for example, was largely rejected as impossible by the scientific consensus of Fort's day, but is now generally recognized as a genuine phenomenon.

Purported phenomena with explanations considered to be outside the scope of conventional science can be classified as paranormal phenomena

Phenomena considered outside the scope of parapsychology, but possibly within the scope of paranormal includes for example:

* alien abduction experiences
* cryptozoology
* spontaneous human combustion
* UFOs

To be classified as paranormal, a phenomenon must lack a scientific explanation. When an anomaly receives a valid scientific explanation, it becomes "perinormal." Perinormal is a term that has been suggested to describe previously unknown forces, which at first appeared to be paranormal and were later verified scientifically. For example, while the idea of stones falling from the sky was once considered anomalous, meteorites are now acknowledged and well understood.(Ack: wikipedia)
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Change Is Inevitable

Everything of the world is given to changes. Every cause and effect is a transaction, which can only be done with lot of energy changing hands. Such release of energy makes action imperative. Napoleon in those unsettled times when the fledgling Republic faced enemies all around, proved his skills during the seige of Toulon. Subsequently in his meteoric rise he had no qualms of sacrificing so many of his divisions at the battlefield to prove his genius and scoring over their enemies. In their defeats French citizens gloated and they looked to the little corporal as a savior. In each victory he made France sit up and notice him. He showed he was worthy to be compared with Alexander or Caesar. Each victory dragged him farther and farther made possible by so much energy he could mop up. Events did neither go away nor stop; he could not have stopped with Austrelitz or Jena. It was irresistible to ride the crest of the wave of these memorable victories. He had a grateful nation in his pocket. But the retreat from Moscow and Waterloo changed all that. In his fall the nation saw in him more sinned against than a sinner. His funeral in 1840 was a great event and the whole nation mourned in the passing of an era. But change is inevitable as with every transaction in energy. France had reverted from an empire to a Republic. By 1898 in the Chamber there was not a single deputy which belonged to the Bonapartist. From 100 deputies to none. Bonapartism was dead within 27 years after his death.
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Virtual Energy

Energy which a life form would require in order to achieve the impossible is something other than real time energy. Let me explain.
Truth of actions may work from contrary positions and in pursuit of contrary agendas. It may not at times make sense to others immediately. Those whom we now revere as great artists, poets how many of them were denied of their rights by their contemporaries!
At the moment I am reading the life of Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann. Wilde was the first to expose and ridicule the hypocritical Victorian Age and paid the price for it. He accepted ignominy of prison life stoically and after having paid the unjust price the society exacted from him, he did precisely as he chose to live. In his own admission he put his talent into his art and genius into his life. The hide-abound Victorian society may have treated him as a Pariah but the later generations would reinstate him in their acclaim as a true rebel and a genius.
Look back at the lives of artists like Van Gogh or Paul Gaugin. What they sought was something new that was lost to those who had their eyes to the commonplace. Quality of their truth often misunderstood at times and even brutally checked it is natural then in the eyes of majority if their lives have been considered as in vain. It is Oneness and identity in particular, that take care of relevance of a life form: where we go by appearances or by finite time we merely deceive ourselves.
Virtual energy is part of real time but transcends its finite slot. How one may ask? It is in that energy being counted as relevant even where its ‘handler’ has ceased to exist. In that chain of events, which a life- form has handled, energy keeps holding on to which there is no mistake, though the sequences may merge into many other waves. Every time we rely on the past we have come a full circle: in our ability to overcome our present needs we acknowledge our indebtedness to the pioneering effort of our forefathers. In a manner of speaking they are still relevant. Their energy, virtual energy that is, is connected with ours. If we can thus connect with Time-Space it must be conceded that real time energy does indeed hold a bag of tricks.
Unity of life where energy component of every generation is reconciled on a common standard in which no species or matter are excluded: time-space is transferred into Time-Space mode. In order to indicate this unity of life I attribute the ability of creative geniuses -or pioneers in whatever field, art, literature, science or technology, to give new directions to others to a different source. Virtual energy.
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