Providing a comprehensive exposition of the transactional interpretation (TI) of quantum mechanics, this book sheds new light on long-standing problems in quantum theory, such as the physical meaning of the ‘Born Rule’ for the probabilities of measurement results, and demonstrates the ability of TI to solve the measurement problem of quantum mechanics. It provides robust refutations of various objections and challenges to TI.

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Mark Boccuzzi offers a practical and inspiring roadmap to cultivate awareness, deepen intuition, and integrate these extraordinary skills into your daily life. Through mindfulness, openness, creativity, and love, you will learn to navigate the world with heightened clarity and purpose. This book demystifies psi, framing it as a natural extension of human consciousness, supported by modern research and timeless wisdom.

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Drawing on the work of scientists, psychologists, philosophers, and theologians, Todd challenges the materialistic reductionism of our age and offers an alternative grounded in the visionary work taking place in a wide array of disciplines.

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Writers often draw on dreams for their inspiration, and those dreams are often precognitive, foreshadowing upheavals in the writer’s future. It means that literature may often be prophetic. Standard critical approaches focused solely on an author’s prior influences or present life context are inadequate to fully understand the miracle of literary creation.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

With these lines, from The Fly, William Blake posed a question of unusual prescience for a poet writing 200 years ago. At first glance, there seem to be few similarities between Homo sapiens and airborne insects. Yet Blake was not so sure. He could see connections. And in recent years, science has found that he was probably correct. Common fruit flies, or Drosophila, share 60 per cent of human DNA, making them perfect for research that has led to vital strides in treating cancer, autism, diabetes and many other ills. 

(New Thinking Allowed)

Shakespeare’s Tempest

Friday  27 June, 2023

4:30 PM – 7:00 PM Pacific Time.

Stage plays and movies have given us many versions of the story of The Tempest. Within our cultural history, and over the centuries we have received varied interpretations of this play.

Calvin is offering a fun-filled and insightful conversational evening to engage you in what otherwise is dry reading of Shakespeare.  But this participatory experiences of The Tempest will be anything but that.

Some of Shakespeare’s fundamental themes of this play have gotten lost, The video will present them a new and our subsequent discussion are always a fun, deeper dive into the material – that will have you come away with a personal connection to the material and perhaps the writer himself; to introduce ideas about the themes that you may not have thought about before.

We’ll discuss an archetypal understanding of the play’s characters, represented as three areas of Mind or Consciousness as they pertain to the characters Caliban, Prospero, and Ariel. Shakespeare seems to present us with much to discuss – magic, self-deception, betrayal, sex, revenge, and the ability to give for ( that goes beyond forgiveness), to redemption, and love.

This Zoom  Presentation of Shakespeare – ‘The Tempest’ – will introduce you to where the group, the Prosperos®, got its name.

Mark your calendar – Zoom Event

Friday, June 27, 2025

Time: 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time to 7:00 p.m.

Link and additional information to follow

And for those who have attended Calvin’s Salon events, you know it is going to be a good time…

See you there 

Calvin

6 JUNE 2025/BUSINESS & TECH/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com)

A local startup says their flying car is now operable, they’ve got a hype video for it, and insist they are now taking pre-orders for this $300,000 vehicle. But there may not be many places in the Bay Area you can legally fly it.

You might remember back in 2017 when then-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said we’d have flying cars by the year 2020. (He was ousted as CEO two months later.) But the idea has still been flying around Silicon Valley for a while, and we noted two years ago that a San Mateo-based company called Alef Aeronautics had received FAA approval to test their flying cars.

Flying Cars Are Here!

Back to the Future predicted them for 2015. It didn't happen. But now we're getting closer.

The dream of flying above traffic is becoming real.

Alef Aeronautics is making this happen with their Model A. pic.twitter.com/NeKgH4lREf

— Alex / AI Experiments (@byalexai) February 24, 2025

Whatever progress they may have made is shown in the brief hype video above. But now KTVU reports that Alef Aeronautics is taking pre-orders on this $300,000 flying car, the Alef Model A that they call the “first true flying car in history.” It’s sort of a hybrid driving and flying car that the company says is “Designed to drive on the street, take off vertically when needed and fly overhead above traffic.”

This Batmobile-looking contraption has “vertical takeoff and landing capabilities” according to KTVU, so it does not need a runway to take off or land.  It’s an all-electric vehicle, and can supposedly drive 110 miles (or fly 200 miles) on a single charge.

That’s a pretty limited range as far as electric vehicles go. But hey, it can fly! The company insists in a  press release that “On average, the Alef flying car uses less energy per trip than a Tesla or any other EV.”

There are other apparent drawbacks. The car’s pre-order page notes that “Alef ‘Model A’ is a Low Speed Vehicle (LSV) which has legal speed and other limitations in most states.” These low-speed vehicles can generally only go about 25 miles per hour, so this may not be a regular, daily-use kind of car.

And as KTVU adds, it is flight-legal in some areas, but only during daylight hours. That station also notes that these flying vehicles are “prohibited from going over congested or densely populated areas like cities or towns.” So that’s…. most of the Bay Area?

Either way, you can get on the pre-order list for $150, or the “Priority Queue” for $1,500. Again, the car itself — whenever it’s ready — will cost $300,000.

So when will it be ready? Alef Aeronautics tells KTVU that “If everything goes according to plan, and no major external changes, Alef plans to start production of the first vehicle by the end of 2025 or Q1 of 2026.”

Related: San Mateo-Based Startup Wins FAA Approval To Test Their Futuristic, $300,000 Flying Car [SFist]

Image: Alef Aeronautics

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jun 6, 2025 This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 1986. It will remain public for only one week.  The late Gay Gaer Luce, PhD, is author of Body Time and founded and directed the Nine Gates Mystery School. Here she describes the importance of the mystery school tradition within modern society. Now you can watch all of the programs from the original Thinking Allowed Video Collection, hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove. Subscribe to the new Streaming Channel (https://thinkingallowed.vhx.tv/) and watch more than 350 programs now, with more, previously unreleased titles added weekly. Free month of the classic Thinking Allowed streaming channel for New Thinking Allowed subscribers only. Use code THINKFREELY.

New Thinkin Jun 5, 2025 Sasha Chaitow, PhD, is a British-Greek cultural historian, author, artist, and lecturer whose work explores the rich intersections of esotericism, philosophy, and the arts. An internationally exhibited artist, she is the author of several books including her translation of The Hieroglyphica of Horapollon Niloos, the topic of this video conversation. Her other books include Son of Prometheus: The Life and Work of Joséphin Péladan and Atalanta Unveiled: Alchemical Initiation in the Emblems of the Atalanta Fugiens. Here she discusses the history of this fifth century Greek manuscript that originated in Alexandria, Egypt. A copy was discovered during the Renaissance that was believed, at that time, to be of great antiquity. It purported to interpret the Egyptian hieroglyphs and was extremely influential in the development of Renaissance emblems and symbols. Subsequent scholarship has revealed that the interpretations of ancient Egyptian writing were largely inaccurate. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:37 Who was Horapollon Niloos? 00:10:22 Renaissance impact 00:17:38 Fifth century Alexandria 00:30:28 Paganism never died 00:42:34 How accurate was the Hieroglyphica? 00:46:34 Ancient myths as allegories 00:54:14 Academic disputes 01:03:07 Middle eastern cultural fusion 01:07:53 Summary and conclusion New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He currently serves as Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on May 1, 2025)

New Thinkin Jun 4, 2025 Darryl Robert Schoon is a financial analyst famous for having predicted the 2008 market crash. He is author of Light in a Dark Place: The Prison Years. He has also written a novel titled You Can’t Always Get What You Want. He is a minister with the Temple of Universality in Tucson, Arizona. His website is www.drschoon.com In this video, rebooted from 2019, he shares his unusual journey, as a student of metaphysics, working with affirmations and processes for obtaining inner wisdom. Although he was able to achieve enormous financial success, ultimately he ended up in prison with a ten-year sentence for drug dealing. While in prison, he expanded his meditation practice, achieving a state of oneness, and began questioning the subconscious factors that were running his life in spite of his conscious intentions. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on October 31, 2019)

Moon Wobble Peaks June 13, 2025

Click here to see the Moon Wobble Chart 

If this is useful to you please consider a contribution below:

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*** General suggestions / observations ***

• This cycle is based on empirical data meaning enough data was observed and recorded to make it possible to suggest attitudes and  reactions.  Keep in mind that we all have free will and thus results will vary from one individual to another.

• The graph shows the energy high at the beginning of the cycle (not unlike any other astrological aspect) followed by a slow down before it gets strong and again this reflects years of tracking and noting feedback from our many students.

• If you are making a decision during this time you might want to let it set for a day or two then check your decision again to see if it still makes sense. However, you can feel into the ebb and flow and find good times to work on self emotionally in both the low and high points. Impatience, emotion and acts without thinking are common.

• With practice you can feel when the energy is there to help bring completion to tasks, goals and projects you may be working on.

Aloha,
The Prosperos

New Thinking Jun 2, 2025 William Van Gordon, PhD, is a Chartered Psychologist who lectures and conducts research in psychology at the University of Derby in the United Kingdom. He sits on the editorial board for various academic journals including Mindfulness and Mindfulness and Compassion. He is also co-editor of two academic anthologies: Mindfulness and Buddhist-derived Approaches in Mental Health and Addiction, and The Buddhist Foundations of Mindfulness. William has over 100 academic publications relating to the scientific study of meditation. Prior to joining academia, William was a Buddhist monk for ten years. In this interview, rebooted from 2019, he suggests that, while biological pathogens are well-known and understood, little attention has been given to the possibility of psychological pathogenic agents. Nevertheless, some conditions — such as obesity — that are not considered communicable have been increasing globally at an alarming rate. Van Gordon postulates that inverse hallucinations, i.e., mindlessness (the opposite of mindfulness) are the source of many public health problems, as well as other social problems. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on October 9, 2019)

A.Word.A.Daywith Anu Garg

bunny boiler

PRONUNCIATION:

(BUH-nee boy-luhr) 

MEANING:

noun: A person who is dangerously obsessive and vengeful, especially when spurned.

ETYMOLOGY:

After a character in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction who boils a pet rabbit belonging to the family of a married man who has an affair with her but then spurns her. Earliest documented use: 1990.

NOTES:

As the playwright William Congreve said in 1697: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” In Fatal Attraction, that fury came with a pot of boiling water.

While the term is vivid shorthand for obsessive behavior, it often reflects a double standard: strong emotional reactions in women are pathologized, while similar behavior in men may be cast as tragic or intense. [e.g., Trump and Musk]

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