IN A piece about âEnergized 5D Sound CDsâ not so long ago, we suggested that, along with âvibrational energiesâ, combinations of the words âsubtleâ, âenergyâ, âquantumâ and âphysicsâ were sure-fire indicators that texts mentioning them were fruitloopery deluxe (10 June, 2006). We feel itâs time to add âDNAâ to the list.
Take , which announces that âTheta DNA healing can be described as the practical application of applied quantum physicsâ and then hastily adds that it âdoes not require an understanding of theory or scientific disciplinesâ.
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Well, thatâs a relief, but what exactly is Theta DNA healing? One thing is certain: it has absolutely nothing to do with either DNA or quantum physics. Instead, we are told that Theta DNA healing is about âgoing beyond time and space, reaching the Source, the place of limitless possibilities, witnessing and co-creating reality, being the observerâ. There is much more of this ilk, but nothing that tells us in any concrete terms what Theta DNA healing actually involves scientifically. We are assured, however, that the technique âheals and transforms in momentsâ. Of course. Why not?
Phil Pattenden, who alerted us to this feast of psychobabble, also directs us to , which has all sorts of exciting things to say in the section âAbout Atlantisâ. This plunges straight in with the question: âWho originally settled in Golden Atlantis?â The answer, apparently, is: âIn approximately 20,000 BC a clarion call resounded throughout the Universes [sic] for volunteers to take part in the final experiment of Atlantis. Millions responded but only 64,000 were chosen at first.
âNews from Israel, thanks to Jacrom Page: the British consul general in Jerusalem is Richard Makepeace. âOne can but hope,â Page notesâ
âFor the glorious period of fifteen hundred years the people vibrated at the fifth dimensional frequency, their energy so pure that their chakras literally glowed with joy and vitality.â
Hello, itâs that âfifth dimensionâ again, taking us back to where we came in with those CDs. Something else to add to our list of fruitloopery indicators.
THE floods that swirled across the UK at the end of July left Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, cut off and half-submerged, and the county town of Gloucester threatened by a surge coming down the river Severn. Tom Saul, who lives nearby, was anxious to check the weather forecast for the area. He went to the BBC website and found he needed to reset the âWhere I liveâ preferences. Having hit the âchange locationâ button, he typed in âGloucesterâ, only to be informed: âSorry we have found no results for âGloucesterâ. Please try again with another postcode or town name.â
Saul was horrifed. Had the dear old town already been submerged to the extent that the BBC could no longer locate it?
SPELLCHECKERS may be partly to blame for this synopsis of the book Crystal Fire: Birth of the information age: âOn December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of the metalloid geranium. The power flowing from the geranium far exceeded what went in; in that moment the transistor was invented and the Information Age was born.â
Derrick Thatcher, who spotted this, notes: âIt was my understanding that flower power wasnât invented until the 1960s.â Feedback is merely disappointed that no one seems to have taken advantage of the free source of energy that Bardeen and Brattain apparently discovered.
AN ARTICLE on about a new program says: âAccording to Associated Press, the new program has a dragon drop interface.â Presumably the sentence had been transcribed from a phone call, surmises Don Jewitt, who concludes that the program in question actually has a rather less exotic drag-and-drop interface.
We are reminded of a personal ad in a newspaper in Sheffield in the north of England that we reported on (8 May 1999). It said: âProfessional man, 45, head on a stick, seeks similar womanâ. Puzzlement ensued, until the penny dropped that this too had been taken down from a phone call. We can only hope that hedonistic professional women in the Sheffield area got the message.
SOLAR-powered lights sound like a good idea. They charge up their batteries during the day and automatically switch on to make use of the stored energy when night falls. So Justin Story was perplexed by the instructions on the ones he bought: âPlease do not use until the batteries have been fully charged⊠To fully charge the batteries leave in continuous sunlight for 24 hours.â
He considered paying to launch them into space for a day â or taking them to the North or South Pole, depending on the season.
FINALLY, from the department of the blindingly obvious, comes this headline on a sent out by âMizzouâ, as the University of Missouri-Columbia likes to be known: âMizzou study shows that possessing a fake ID results in more drinking by underage college students.â
