Check our Mysteries Blog to see the latest webpages and 'web articles' that have been UPDATED! (Click on the Mysteries Blog button on the left NAVBAR.)
The damned data Charles Fort gathered covered so many marvels, mysteries, and
monsters — including unidentified aerial objects [UAOs], frog
falls, disappearances of ships, red rains, earthquake lights, lake monsters,
animal mutilations, psychic explosions, and much, much
more — that if I were to name them all, the list would go on
for pages.
Indeed, Fort is even credited with inventing the word "teleportation".
Today, the people who study the wonders examined by Fort are called "Forteans".
The strange and unusual phenomena we Forteans research and write about is often
referred to as "Forteana".
Such associations as the International Fortean Organization just outside of
Washington, D.C., and the journal Fortean Times of London have sprung up in the wake of Charles Fort to carry on his work.
—
Loren Coleman, Mysterious America (2007)
1.0 Preamble
There are many, many true and real 'Mysteries' in the world (and some are even out of this world) that are a delight to behold, to explore, to discover ...
Harry Emerson Fosdick once said, "I would rather live in a world where my
life is surrounded in mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could
comprehend it."
Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair.
Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself — Eric Maisel similarly mused about his favorite pastime.
"Did Aliens build the pyramids?"
Excerpted from YouTube
Uploaded to YouTube by "jaser7" on October 06, 2006
Info/Description: Jason Martell on the Discovery Channel
Tags: jasonmartell xfacts UFO alien MARS NASA planetx nibiru
Hap Hagood advised us to "Seek the mystery in life; for it is the mysteries,
not the certainties, that make life exciting and worthwhile." This is echoed by
R. I. Fitzhenry — Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly,
for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity — while Amber Joy French told us, "My imagination unlocks the mysteries
of Life's unexplainable phenomena that railroad my existence."
On a more poetic note, Paul Gauguin wrote, "Oh mysterious world ... I have
become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul – a flower
which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe."
And as if not to be outdone, we have Albert Einstein, possibly the greatest
scientific genius of the previous (20th) Century, telling us that
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source
of all true art and all sciences ...."
and that
"The ways of creation are wrapt in mystery. We may only marvel, and bow our
head."
Please do not assume or conclude that, just because I present many views (in
the form of textual notes and video clips) on this website, it means that I am
in agreement with or that I believe in the views offered-proferred ... That
would be displaying such a parochial and provincial attitude, towards this
website and towards me as well!
As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading,
viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We
call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The
same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course.
Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies,
competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe in
... In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to
speak ... we have to remove our humongous ego! ... else we will never ever
really have gotten started in our journey of exploration and discovery of the
Mysteries of the World
.
Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me
is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's
night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its
detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize,
here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut
down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze
up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable
stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden."
Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book
together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where
masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules
as the center of the universe.
So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and
me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal
garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here
hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite
repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter
how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and
I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that
bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so
close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations
beyond.
[...]
— Katya Walter,
Tao of Chaos
Sub-title:
Merging East and West
(1994, 1996)
Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course].
Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would
prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of
accumulated knowledge.
The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which,
in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms.
This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have
seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".
[...]
— Christian von Nidda,
Our Secret Planet
(2005)
Check our
Mysteries Blog
to see the latest changes
to our webpages and 'web articles'
(click on the
Mysteries Blog
button on the left NAVBAR)
As stated in our
Mysteries Blog
, the 'Mysteries of the World' Website does NOT aim to sensationalize any
particular 'Mystery', although we will examine and explore all possible
viewpoints pertaining to each 'Mystery' — including the fringe
AND the mainstream.
We will, of course, come to a conclusion (eventually!) about each 'Mystery' ...
even if that conclusion may eventually turn out to be 'as yet unresolved' or
'unexplained to our satisfaction'.
