Beware, Thee, of the "fake psychic"

A mind whose gift is the ability to convince the gullible to part with their money, is nothing more than the personification of a self-interest profit.


"Fortune-teller cases seem to be on the rise"
2013-11-09 by Claire Suddath from "San Francisco Chronicle" [http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Fortune-teller-cases-seem-to-be-on-the-rise-4971084.php]:
A 65-year-old woman named Michele Zlotkin walked into a sparse, peach-colored Boca Raton, Fla., storefront that advertised psychic readings. It was just over a year ago and she had recently retired from teaching elementary school. For the first time in 40 years, she didn't know what she wanted to do with her life. She wasn't married, didn't have children, and her elderly mother lived in New Jersey.
"I thought, well, I have to start a new life," Zlotkin says. "So when I passed this store that said 'Spiritual Healer' and 'Psychic' on the front, I stopped in, thinking they could help."
Zlotkin had been to see what she calls "spiritual healers" before and had always found them comforting. "I sat down and talked to this guy named Trinity and I don't know what happened, but the next thing I knew, I was going to his place more often than I should've gone." Over the next six months, she would give $130,000 in gift cards, watches and cash to Trinity, who told her he was using them to get her recently deceased father out of purgatory.
It's tempting to write Zlotkin's story off as yet another misfortune of the superstitious or overly gullible. A search of newspaper records turns up similar arrests and trials dating at least as far back as the 19th century. According to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, over the past 20 years the percentage of Americans visiting fortune tellers and psychics has remained steady at 15 percent. Clearly not all those people would buy a $28,000 Rolex for a psychic who worked in a strip mall, as Zlotkin did. But hundreds of such incidents happen annually, and few psychics are ever prosecuted.
Recently, the number of cases seems to be climbing. In January, charges were dropped against an Orlando psychic after she returned $100,000 to a client who'd paid her to remove a curse.

$25 million scam -
 In September, a 62-year-old psychic named Rose Marks was found guilty in a Florida court of running a $25 million scam out of storefronts in Fort Lauderdale and Manhattan; during the trial, best-selling romance novelist Jude Deveraux testified that she paid Marks $17 million over nearly 20 years. Less than a month later, a Manhattan psychic named Sylvia Mitchell was found guilty of stealing $138,000 from clients who visited her Greenwich Village shop. She faces up to 15 years in prison.
At the low end, fortune telling starts with a simple palm reading. For a few dollars, a fortune teller will trace the lines on your palms and give a vague description of your past. You've had troubles, the psychic tells you, something isn't going your way. Meanwhile, the psychic is watching you for clues.
"They're very good at cold readings, by which I mean reading the body language of a stranger who's walked in off the street," says Bob Nygaard, a retired police officer in New York who is now a private investigator specializing in fortune-telling scams.
Nygaard is quick to point out that there's nothing inherently wrong with a palm or tarot card reading. In fact, fortune telling is protected under the First Amendment as free speech. Plenty of benign psychics will give you a glimpse into your future - however inaccurate that glimpse might be - and then send you on your way. Nygaard isn't worried about them. "I'm talking about people who run confidence schemes," he says.
Fraudulent psychics will endure a long succession of customers paying just the basic fee for the novelty of having their palms read, knowing that eventually someone will walk into the fortune-telling storefront who'll be psychologically pliable enough to be taken for a ride. Most victims of fortune-telling scams are emotionally vulnerable and socially isolated. They're often struggling with a personal heartache, such as divorce or bankruptcy. They're someone like Tiffany, a young IT contractor in Texas who'll give only her first name because she's embarrassed to admit that from 2007 to 2009, she gave $40,000 to a psychic she found on Craigslist.

Magical properties of crystals

Crystalline minerals conduct energy, and hold energy, making these mineral structures among the finest materials for magic tools.

"Accidental discovery dramatically improves conductivity"  
2013-11-14  [http://news.wsu.edu/2013/11/14/accidental-discovery-dramatically-improves-electrical-conductivity/]:
PULLMAN, Wash. – Quite by accident, Washington State University researchers have achieved a 400-fold increase in the electrical conductivity of a crystal simply by exposing it to light. The effect, which lasted for days after the light was turned off, could dramatically improve the performance of devices like computer chips.
WSU doctoral student Marianne Tarun chanced upon the discovery when she noticed that the conductivity of some strontium titanate shot up after it was left out one day. At first, she and her fellow researchers thought the sample was contaminated, but a series of experiments showed the effect was from light.
“It came by accident,” said Tarun. “It’s not something we expected. That makes it very exciting to share.”
The phenomenon they witnessed—“persistent photoconductivity”—is a far cry from superconductivity, the complete lack of electrical resistance pursued by other physicists, usually using temperatures near absolute zero. But the fact that they’ve achieved this at room temperature makes the phenomenon more immediately practical.
And while other researchers have created persistent photoconductivity in other materials, this is the most dramatic display of the phenomenon.
The research, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, appears this month in the journal Physical Review Letters.
“The discovery of this effect at room temperature opens up new possibilities for practical devices,” said Matthew McCluskey, co-author of the paper and chair of WSU’s physics department. “In standard computer memory, information is stored on the surface of a computer chip or hard drive. A device using persistent photoconductivity, however, could store information throughout the entire volume of a crystal.”
This approach, called holographic memory, “could lead to huge increases in information capacity,” McCluskey said.
Strontium titanate and other oxides, which contain oxygen and two or more other elements, often display a dizzying variety of electronic phenomena, from the high resistance used for insulation to superconductivity’s lack of resistance.
“These diverse properties provide a fascinating playground for scientists but applications so far have been limited,” said McCluskey.
McCluskey, Tarun and physicist Farida Selim, now at Bowling Green State University, exposed a sample of strontium titanate to light for 10 minutes. Its improved conductivity lasted for days. They theorize that the light frees electrons in the material, letting it carry more current.

Contact:
 * Matthew McCluskey, professor of physics, Washington State University [509-335-5356], [mattmcc@wsu.edu]
 * Marianne Tarun, physics post-doctoral research associate, [509-335-5653], [mariannetarun@wsu.edu]

Atoms share light across vast distances

"Distant artificial atoms cooperate by sharing light, international research team shows"
2013-11-15 from [physics.verticalnews.com/articles/10870404.html]:
Calgary CA - An international team of scientists has shown for the first time that atoms can work collectively rather than independently of each other to share light. Quantum physicists have long discussed such an effect, but it has not been seen before in an experiment.
The team included scientists from ETH Zurich (a leading university in Switzerland) who performed the experiment and theoretical scientists from the Universite de Sherbrooke in Quebec and the University of Calgary in Alberta.
The researchers showed the sharing of light or "photon-mediated interaction" between artificial atoms confined to a one-dimensional quantum system.
Their paper, "Photon-mediated interactions between distant artificial atoms," is published this week in the top-ranked journal Science.
"It's an unobserved effect that has been discussed for decades, and we see it with excellent agreement between theory and experiment," says co-author Barry Sanders, professor of Physics and Astronomy at the U of C and iCORE Chair of Quantum Information Science.
The two artificial atoms "showed a coherent exchange interaction, something not seen before for distant quantum systems in an open environment," says lead author Arjan van Loo, a PhD student in the Quantum Device Lab at ETH Zurich.
Realizing fundamental quantum interactions between individual quantum systems in one dimension is crucial to advance quantum-based devices.
"Systems like ours are expected to be useful for routing quantum information along quantum communication lines (one-dimensional waveguides) on devices used for quantum information processing or quantum communication," says co-author Andreas Wallraff, professor of Solid-State Physics at ETH Zurich.
This research shows that "man-made electrical circuits can now be engineered in such a way to exhibit behaviour that is not possible in 'natural' quantum systems," says co-author Alexandre Blais, associate professor of Physics at Universite de Sherbrooke.
Getting artificial atoms to work collectively could lead to control of microwave fields in superconducting circuits with benefits, including ways to protect quantum information against "noise" or damage to the signal, says Sanders, director of the U of C's Institute for Quantum Science and Technology. "I think what we've shown is going to be critical for future applications."
The key to the team's approach was to do the experiment in one dimension rather than in three dimensions where the interaction between atoms is weak and declines significantly with distance.
"In our experiment, we surpassed these limitations by specially engineering the critical properties of our artificial quantum systems," says co-author Arkady Fedorov, a postdoc at ETH Zurich, now at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, when the experiment was done.
The researchers confined two artificial atoms to one dimension using a waveguide (similar to confining light in an optical fibre), which greatly increased the possibility of the two systems interacting and enabled the researchers to measure this interaction.
Using superconducting circuits, the team was able to put two artificial atoms alongside the waveguide and then send a microwave field through this one-dimensional waveguide.
At a distance of approximately two centimetres - much larger than typically expected for quantum systems - the two atom-like systems formed a type of weakly bound molecule, due to the exchange of photons ('particles' of light).
"We also observed how the superconducting circuits either synchronize to emit radiation much more efficiently displaying superradiance (a very bright source of radiation), or how the circuits trap radiation, turning the two systems dark, as they do not emit photons anymore," Wallraff says.
The Canadian theorists used the "Mammouth" supercomputer, part of a national high-performance computing platform coordinated by Compute Canada, to solve analytical equations, and "also worked a lot with the experimentalists to understand intuitively the physics going on," says co-author Kevin Lalumiere, a PhD student in Physics at Universite de Sherbrooke.

Bio-energetic fields

Entheogenic oil extracts and chakra points

Chakras & Spinal Column

Tantra: Akasha, Dwyashtapatrambuja, Kantha, Kanthadesha, Kanthambhoja, Kanthambuja, Kanthapadma, Kanthapankaja, Nirmala-Padma, Shodasha, Shodasha-Dala, Shodasha-Patra, Shodashara, Shodashollasa-Dala, Vishuddha, Vishuddhi

Vedas (late Upanishads): Kantha Chakra, Vishuddha, Vishuddhi

Puranic: Vishuddha, Vishuddhi

Preparing Alcohol

This recipe for HoboCore Cider is straightforward and simple to overstand, even for one who has no knowledge of chemistry.
Be Aware, Thee, Alcohol is a psychosis-inducing narcotic which high risk of addiction... the following is provided for medical research purposes only.
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