Hummadruz

I was just reading about hummadruz on the Northern Earth website and I think I may have the answer. The info about the phenomenon is here:

http://www.northernearth.co.uk/permhum.htm

And here's my (possible) solution:

Probably caused by a person developing a freak sensitivity to their own nervous system. Hearing the low hum which comes from the electricity in the human nervous system vibrating below the lowest notes on a piano.

The nervous system's electrical activity vibrates in the range of 0.5 Hz up to frequencies sometimes in excess of 33 Hz. The lowest musical note on an 88 key piano keyboard is 27.5 Hz (lowest 'A' note - sub-contra-octave) which sounds very low and dark and mysterious but in terms of the human nervous system that note is a very high rate of human electricity. We only get up to that sort of frequency during hyperactivity or anxiety. These frequencies are called "High Beta". So the rest of our electrical activity, when we aren't hyperactive or anxious is in the range of the ELF (Extremely Low Frequency). For instance, one octave below the lowest note on the 88-key piano would be a note of 'A' vibrating at about 13.75 Hz, which is smack dab on the borderline between Alpha and Beta waves. Alpha is when the nervous system is dreaming or meditating, Beta is normal, everyday consciousness which focusses on work and ordinary things. A chromatic musical scale of 13 notes from a note of 'A' at that borderline of Alpha/Beta extends upward, culminating in a top 'A' which is the lowest key on the piano.

Human hearing is able to hear down as low as about 16 hz, which is within the Beta range. So we cannot actually hear sound a low as Alpha waves, but we can sense them as rhythmic feelings.

This information is helpful in terms of sensing within a room or a space of some kind. Also helpful with understanding the use of hymns in church or the Sanskrit 'OM'. Nervous system states vibrating at rates lower than Alpha level are into Theta, which is about 4 to 7 hz and is the level of Shamanic trances, deep meditation and sleep.

Please Don't Vote UKIP

I can't believe that bloody UKIP are gaining more votes. This is very worrying. I mean they're idiots! We need the European Union. I know the EU has faults but abandoning Europe isn't the answer. I can only see three reasonable directions for us to go in: (1) We stay in the EU and push for major reforms to make the EU democratic and accountable or (2) We talk to some other disenchanted EU member countries and form our own, breakaway, European Union which will be democratic and accountable from the beginning. Little by little we would win over the remaining EU states and, in the end, it will have been a velvet revolution for Europe or (3) I suppose there's the EFTA. What would happen if we were in EFTA instead of EU? Most people I've spoken to in Britain don't seem to be aware that EFTA exists or what the issues are. The EFTA people claim that EFTA countries are richer than EU countries and the people richer within EFTA states. However, Iceland is an EFTA country and they don't seem to be doing too well, do they? It's a question of who to believe. And I mean, what's the alternative? UKIP would destroy us AND Europe by taking us back to the days when European disputes were settled by fighting wars.

We need Europe, one way or another. Please don't vote for UKIP.

A few years ago I spoke to some UKIP people who had a stall in Exeter High Street. I had a big row with them. The bloody idiots thought we should "keep the traditional British Pound". I had to break it to them, not so gently, that we can't keep the "traditional British Pound" because we got rid of that in 1971 when we decimalised it into a Euro-Pound with 100 pennies instead of 20 shillings. The bloody idiots are trying to lock the stable door after we've sold the horse for scrap. And the Euro-Pound with 100 pence makes much more sense than than the old 240 pence model. The Euro-Pound makes it easier to trade with other decimal based currencies such as Canada and the USA.

UKIP are just exploiting people's ignorance.

Palestine

Judge Orders Conspiracy Re-Education For Lauryn Hill

From Prison Planet ( http://www.prisonplanet.com ):

Singer told to undergo counseling over ‘conspiracy theory’ that music industry strangles real talent Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com May 8, 2013 Grammy award-winning singer Lauren Hill has been ordered by a judge to “undergo counseling because of her conspiracy theories.” What was her conspiracy theory? That the music industry oppresses people with actual talent in favor of pumping out mindless nonsense. Yesterday Hill was sentenced to 3 months in jail followed by three months’ home confinement after failing to pay a tax bill because she had withdrawn from society following threats to her family. In June last year, Hill posted a diatribe to her Tumblr account complaining of how the music industry is “manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex.” As we’ve highlighted numerous times in the past, other recording artists have made it clear that anyone who doesn’t conform to the strict demands of the music industry or even, as Nicole Scherzinger recently remarked, sell their soul to satan, tends to find success hard to maintain in an industry that punishes individuals who dare to speak their mind. In numerous performances and speeches over the last few years, Hill has attempted to warn young people about how “pop culture cannibalism” and the deliberate reductionism of art and music is damaging a whole generation and turning them into passive, unthinking consumers – destroying inspiration and true creativity in the name of profit. The Judge’s order that Hill undergo what amounts to brainwashing and re-education simply for publicly proclaiming the fact that the music industry is designed to strangle true talent while promoting amoral, vacuous, mindless, turgid drivel, is part of the increasing trend towards labeling common sense as a mental illness if it goes against the establishment grain in any way. Since people who post vehement political opinions on Facebook are already being kidnapped and taken to psychiatric wards across the country, how long before criticism of the state is officially recognized as a mental disorder? Those considered hostile to authority have already been tagged as sufferers of “oppositional defiant disorder” under the the DSM-IV-TR Manual. The definition of this mental illness is, “a recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient. and hostile behavior toward authority figures that persists for at least 6 months.” The attempt to frame alternative opinions as dangerous mental disorders has also entered the political realm. In 2009, Psychology Today wrote a hit piece on Alex Jones insinuating that anyone who believes in a secret cabal ruling the world, which is a perfectly accurate description of the Bilderberg Group, has a mental disorder. We also reported recently on how Floridians are being encouraged to report their neighbors to authorities for making hateful comments about the government, leaving them to be targeted for home visits by police and “mental health professionals and caseworkers.” Lauren Hill’s case reminds us that the establishment not only seeks to ridicule, ostracize and sideline those who utter “conspiracy theories,” which has become a pejorative term for questioning authority, but they actually seek to have all dissent against the system classified as a form of mental illness in order to grease the skids for legally imposed “treatment” including re-education and even pharmacological lobotomy.

Most ridiculous court sentence I've heard recently. How the hell do they imagine a sentence like that is going to make Lauryn believe less in conspiracy. The draconian and manipulative nature of the sentence is straight out of some dystopian brainwash novel. Remember how Lauryn and The Fugees first became famous with "The Score"? It was all about refugees and fighting the the oppressive system. Then they set up their own refugee charity. Lauryn and Wyclef and their group have worked hard against that oppressive system and now it's trying to clamp down on them. This only exposes more conspiracy.

I just made up a poem.

I just made up a poem.

Moses supposes hip gnosis or Isis,
But Moses supposes acrimoniously

Subduing Freedom in Omaha, Nebraska

Neil Gaiman Speech: Make Good Art

Neil Gaiman - Inspirational Commencement Speech at the University of the Arts 2012



This speech is now being published as a book.

Get to Know the Writing of Alby Stone

I've known Alby Stone since the early 80s. I went to his wedding. I was introduced to him by Jim Kimmis, with whom I'd had a writing partnership at one time.

Alby is becoming so successful as a writer now that it's become a bit of kudos to know him. At first his books were non-fiction. Since the 80s Alby has been writing on subjects ranging from archaeology to myth, folklore to cosmology. More recently Alby has written fiction, including several novels.

Some of his earlier books are: "A Splendid Pillar - Images of the Axis Mundi in the Grail Romances", "The Bleeding Lance - Myth, Ritual & The Grail Legend", "Wyrd - Fate and Destiny in North European Paganism","Straight Track, Crooked Road - Leys, Spirit paths and Shamanism". Also these:


Ymir’s Flesh: North European Creation Mythologies
Published by Heart of Albion Press.
ISBN 978 1872 883 458. 1997, A5, 240 pages including index, full-page illustrations by David Taylor, paperback.
£12.95.


Explore Shamanism
Published by Explore Books, an imprint of Heart of Albion Press.
ISBN 978 1872 883 687. 2003.
demy 8vo (215 x 138 mm), 184 + x pages, 2 photographs; 17 line drawings, paperback
£9.95.

And now there's the fiction. Some of his newer books are:

The Hand of Fire

Five years after the events recounted in Secret Songs, historian Jim Glass is happy and contented. Then an old mistake is brought to light, an old enemy returns, and an older threat emerges. Meanwhile, Jim finds out much more about himself than he ever expected. Havensea may be sleepy on the surface but something dark and strange is bubbling away underneath it all. But what is it? How can Jim stop it? And what is the price he must pay?
The Hand of Fire is the final book in the Havensea trilogy.
Kindle Edition £3.18
Paperback £7.99

Secret Songs

Jim Glass is going back to Havensea in rather better shape than when he left and is looking forward to a long spell of peace and quiet. But trouble is stirring again and it isn’t long before his life is turned upside down – in more ways than one. The Havensea weirdness gets weirder, the dead refuse to keep quiet, and a new danger emerges to keep him occupied. Then the threat takes a murderous twist and Jim’s world is shattered.
Secret Songs is the second book in the Havensea trilogy.
Kindle Edition £3.18.
Paperback £7.99

The Forgotten Stars

A controversial book and a disastrous affair have made Jim Glass a public laughing-stock and a figure of hate. Now the disgraced historian wants to get away from his past and the ruins of his career. In a secluded community on Havensea, a little-known island in the Thames Estuary, he thinks he has found peace and quiet in which to lick his wounds and make a fresh start. But history just won’t leave him alone – and the island also seems to have plans for him. Pretty soon Jim finds himself in plenty of trouble and up to his neck in ancient mysteries and modern conspiracy, danger and weirdness. He learns that Havensea’s secrets are not only archaeological, and that some deaths are more permanent than others. Jim also finds out a great deal about himself, including just how far he is prepared to go to protect the things he cares about. Once again there’s a woman involved – but this time it’s different and more than Jim’s reputation is on the line.

 The Forgotten Stars is the first book in the Havensea trilogy.

Kindle Edition £3.18.

Paperback £7.99.

More information on his website. Alby also hosts some short fiction there on his site (including some by me).

Alby Stone's website is at:  http://www.vaingloriouslunacy.com/