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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (6904)	7/13/1999 11:23:00 AM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 32884

Mysticland or Jumbo Mumboworld It is a tremendously broad field of study. Study mundane belief systems, disregard none and give all equal benefit of your doubt. Try to exclude nothing, the less relationship it has to what you perceive as the real world, the more intense your study must be. Find the opposite of each thing and study that as well for balance. Learn to recognize shared reality. Grasp the fact that you do not understand, embellish that with a great amount of doubt. Eat and drink and sleep, if you don't you will die, but always remember why you do these things. Every waking moment that isn't spent eating or drinking or sleeping is yours to do with as you will. These moments should be the sole focus of your mission of discovery. The question is...why do we eat, drink and sleep ? If you do all these things, you will still not be able to bend spoons with your mind, but you could write wonderful quatrains.

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (6904)	7/13/1999 9:23:00 PM
From: Level Head	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32884

Where can I learn more about this? I've never quite understood the whole mystique. There are many good books on Nostradamus (I did finally learn that the pronunciation was not 'Nastydumbass'...). He was a most clever individual, which is generally true of successful psychics. It is not true of the unsuccessful ones, as I believe you are aware. Where to start? Perhaps James Randi's book on Nostradamus would be a good thorough treatment: "The Mask of Nostradamus : The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer" from Amazon.com When exploring a topic worth investing some time into, I tend to read many books on both sides. For example, "Six Viewpoints", a case study of UFO encounters by supposedly unimpeachable sources and heavily in favor of alien visitation, was illuminating in how transparently it suppressed and altered information to get its points across. It is enough to convince one that there is nothing to the UFO business but human gullibility, which was the opposite of its intended goal. I am fairly good at hearing both sides of a story from one narrative, which makes political speeches and even advertisements more interesting. I can perhaps answer questions for you on Nostradamus or similar topics, although perhaps we should haul this off to another thread. At least, this is the sort of thing that Silicon Investor is very good for. Level Head