Pieces of Reality

The purpose of this post is to reintroduce this blog after a very long hiatus...

I started this blog two years ago after a "dust up" about who I am, where I've been, and what I've done. Dig around here a bit and you'll find a post about that. I won't hide and I won't lie -- which of course has gotten me into more trouble than lying through the teeth ever would have. After all if you have mark placed upon you for your failures, no amount of truth will ever make anyone believe you or take the mark away.

Those things were actually immaterial to the topics which were then at hand but to those who raised the issue thought otherwise. So I found myself banished but not wanting to set aside the things which my father had written I began to post some of them here.

My father was a engineering whiz with an IQ of somewhere between 140 and 150. He only had a bachelors degree but he loved designing things and building them... but at the same time he had been exposed to the "odd side of things" and over the years began to write down some of his observations of the "weird" things that are commonly called UFOs or UAPs... His opinions were not well liked at Mufon but he occasionally corresponded with a number of known UFO experts [Hynek and Vallee among them].

So I posted some of his writings here [most had been lost when he had to move out of his office space and could not afford to put his papers in storage]  but after a time I let this blog lapse...Not because I was not interested in "odd things" like UFOs or what they call ESP or PSI or Myth and Mysticism or Synchronicity but because what is the point of doing this if no one ever reads it? OTOH I'm not obsessed with the subjects except maybe Myth and Mysticism.

After sending the full text on a comment at a friend's blog, he asked me why I did not have a blog. I replied I have six of them but I 'm not using any of them now. He [Rich Reynolds] suggested I start again.

So I'll start again. I'm not so sure its a good idea but I'll give it a go.

The name of the blog "The Zeroth Circle"  has two components. One is the definition of Zeroth and you can see that definition to the upper right about the Zeroth Order Approximation. The second component is "Circle" which has its roots in Dante's "Circles of Hell" An astute reader will know there is no tenth circle in Dante's Inferno. So where did the Zeroth Circle come from?

Stop for a moment. Look around. Think about how wonderfully strange and grotesque this world is or can be. This is the Zeroth Circle-- the world we all live in. This world is a zeroth order approximation of Hell.

Think of the marvelous goofiness of the Skeptics and the Cranks and the Doers of Crapulous Deeds. The Lying Politicians, the Sinners, The Rodeo Clowns and the Barmaids at the Edge of the Known World. The Saints. The Healers. The Visionaries. The Average Janes and Normal Joes. The Heroes. The Murderers. The Geniuses. The Lies. The Truths. All of them marvelously impossible but upon whom this world depends for the very things which they are and which they do.

But let me tell you up front--- I don't have any special knowledge. I am not a saint. I am not after your money. I don't have a book or a TV show. I don't want you to come visit. I'm not asking for your trust or your blessings or prayers. [I'm Jewish by choice, I'm sure Jesus will understand].

What I do have are some stories. Some of them are even true. [I'm honest enough to tell you when they're not "true"].  Some are odd. Sometimes I have ideas. Sometimes Ideas get me. I've experienced high weirdness -- I have lived through "The Myth of the Dying God"... maybe I'll talk about it. I certainly don't expect you to believe me.

So welcome to you... I hope you'll find it of value.

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Card Fun: A little while ago I took out a deck of cards, shuffled and tried to guess the colors of the cards. I guessed the colors correctly 31 out of 52 times. [five cards better than chance]. Does that mean I'm psychic? No. It just means I can guess as well as anyone else.