Carlos Castaneda and Anthropological Fraud

Here's a lawyer in Canada who makes sure his readers know for sure that Carlos Castenada was a fraud. And, while he makes an excellent case, some of Castenada's ideas were indeed NEW at the time and really first explained by him - such as controlled lucid dreaming. That said, this link - http://fdbgasrgq.blogspot.com/2009/10/carlos-castaneda-and-anthropological.html makes for good reading and a desire to dig into what this guy has written about over the years. I know that his find of this anti-Castenada book was new to me
The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies Barf Stew feature link.

Synesthesia - Here's a real over the top topic for you on your weekend. "An example of this is the bouba/kiki effect. In an experiment first designed by Wolfgang Köhler, people are asked to choose which of two shapes is named bouba and which kiki. 95% to 98% of people choose kiki for the angular shape and bouba for the rounded one.....Even 2.5 year-old children (too young to read) show this effect.[61]" Here's the link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaesthesia#Links_with_other_areas_of_study

By the way - check out where my only Castenada post ended up about 8 weeks ago - http://news.senseoflive.com/category/carlos-castaneda/

And, my UFO blogpost of 2 days ago ended up here in the recent news area on the right sidebar - other cool links too - http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/ -- Lots of Barf Stew here.

Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: "Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans." - http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_57960.shtml I carried this guys story about the airplane terror incident the other day -- a cover-up is evidently underway -- and here is MORE detail.

http://genome.fieldofscience.com/2009/03/healing-touch-for-cancer-thanks-nccam.html You crave Barf - here it is.

Fannie, Freddie exec pay suggests stock worth nothing - Barf Stew at it's best - The Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still to come bust - http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fannie-freddie-exec-pay-suggests-stock-worth-zero-2009-12-28?reflink=MW_news_stmp

The Recession Begins Flooding Into the Courts - http://www.cnbc.com/id/34607983 And not one banker, appraiser, or mortgage broker went to jail. The Great Recession.

Ok, that's enough Barf for today - Except for this time travel into the past - 1900 exactly - on a pier with a steamboat coming in -- you will NOT believe the detail in this picture.http://www.shorpy.com/node/7400?size=_original

Huffington - Move Your Money: A New Year's Resolution - (Revolution)

Wow. What a powerful call by a major internet influence in America. I witnessed the shouting match between Huffington and Krudlow on CNBC - heavy and barfable. A must read link and possibly - action. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/move-your-money-a-new-yea_b_406022.html

Science Question from a Toddler: Why is poop brown? - http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/30/science-question-fro-4.html The answer is a click away - Stewable.

Blackwater: Private Army In The News Again - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121502690 You can listen to - or - read the story at this link. To me, Private Armies - Barfable.

From the glimmers of hope category - Panasonic’s new home battery could store a week’s-worth of electricity - http://green.venturebeat.com/2009/12/24/panasonics-new-home-battery-could-store-a-weeks-worth-of-electricity/

Talk to the Dead -- Intuition Expert Laura Day Tells Us How (Really!) - Don't start a new decade without this ability - Barfable - http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/12/28/laura-day-how-to-talk-to-the-dead/?icid=mainhtmlws-main-ndl4link4http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemondrop.com%2F2009%2F12%2F28%2Flaura-day-how-to-talk-to-the-dead%2F

http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/2021-Organ-memory.html - Organ memory - read these stories about how folks who get transplants often have memories involved with the person who gave the organ. Stewable.

More guns equal more crime? Not in 2009, FBI crime report shows. - http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2009/1223/More-guns-equal-more-crime-Not-in-2009-FBI-crime-report-shows. Never mind, of course, that anything that there was `more of' in 2009 - could have the same correlation. That said, as more `home invaders' get shot - it could be beginning to matter to everyone in a positive overall manner.

http://www.paranormalnews.com/ You will find my The Heavy Stuff blog on this listing today. Many other links of Barf Stew quality too.

Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid - http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx/science/0/APNews/Science/20091230/U_EU-Russia-Asteroid-Encounter?pageid=1 Under reported for sure on this one.

Ready for something really unusual - really strange - kinda erotic - but - rated G? Well, look no further than this video of the worlds tallest woman embracing a much smaller woman. Barf Stew - Video Soup. http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1549493190612310484#