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[email] Josh 12/26

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akittencalledjen
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Joined: 14 Dec 2004
Posts: 62
Location: Nr. Bristol, England

Welcome Home!

New email from Josh, subject: Welcome Home!

Quote:

I'm Baaaaaack!

Well, sort of. I still have to unpack. There are gifts to write
thank-yous for, a time-honored Celleri tradition (from my mother's
side, anyway)

I got a Christmas card from my father, a time-honored Celleri
tradition (from him, anyway). Ever since their divorce, holidays
have been a time for a card and a check, like clockwork. Do I resent
him for it? Well, to be honest he wouldn't be much company anyway.
He's always too busy with work or with buying new things for his South
Orchard ... house? Any house with five bedrooms and one occupant
should have a special name.

But I guess I love him, in that way you love all your relatives whom
you never see. The power of blood is like that, be it father or 3rd
cousin twice removed.

I had a lot of time to think on the road trip, and something is
bothering me. Something is nagging me about the way Alyssa told me
about when she found her site vandalized. I can't put my finger on
it, but I'm sure there was some important detail we're missing. Maybe
I'll reread my blog a couple times and see if I can figure it out. If
I do, I'll definitely let you all know.

Thanks again for being there for me. My health, my family, and my
friends are what I'm grateful for this year. I hope you can all be so
fortunate in your times of need.

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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 10:38 pm

bill
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Location: Tampa

Quote:

Something is nagging me about the way Alyssa told me
about when she found her site vandalized. I can't put my finger on
it, but I'm sure there was some important detail we're missing. Maybe
I'll reread my blog a couple times and see if I can figure it out.

If that isn't a prod to see what we missed in his blog... Embarassed

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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:11 am

GunslingerGulp
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Joined: 23 Sep 2004
Posts: 203
Location: Calla Bryn Sturgis

About the Stephen King quote:

Quote:

I'm sure I've seen "there are other worlds than this" somewhere before.

EDIT: The first book of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger

Those words are said by Jake before falling to his death, "Go then. There are other worlds than these", but he only dies in that world, he is later "drawn" from our world into Roland's world again. Anyways, that character, Jake, actually dies, but he is alive in a parallel world so he eventually meets Roland again, so you can say he had a "little death". Maybe the book is related somehow...

OT: The Dark Tower is a great book....

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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:05 pm

akittencalledjen
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Joined: 14 Dec 2004
Posts: 62
Location: Nr. Bristol, England

New Email from Josh, subect: A different way of looking at things

Quote:

Earlier today, I had a thought. There are two ways of watching a
movie. The first is social -- it's a casual way of watching moving
pictures. There's a certain art to this. You listen for audio clues
in the dialog, watch for unannounced cameos, and try to find common
themes with other movies. You then need to act out in recognition to
these queues, either by quoting the other movie, by exclaiming "Wasn't
she in...", or completing their sentences before the hero can finish
"Yippie kai-aye..." At the end of the movie, you win if you have won
over their crowd with the most impressive display of movie trivia.
The movie itself becomes inconsequential, and soon forgotten except
for those nuggets of trivia which can be used later. It's fun, and
needs to be shared with others.

There is a second way of watching a movie, though. It's beyond
entertainment -- it's for insight. There are some movies that don't
play well into the first category, and these are usually the best for
this. These are movies with a soul to them, that transcend the
ability of watchers to turn it into a game. They're the ones your
friends tell you are "boring". Sometimes they get a cult status
attached, and become popular because of their status and not their
content. These movies plant ideas with slow pans, angles and colors
that don't work well when translated into language. The actors emotes
become just as important as their dialog. The themes are exaggerated,
become more important then the plot itself. These are best watched
alone, at night, with no other distractions. You don't watch these
movies for fun. You watch them for yourself.

The most important difference between the two is when you watch movies
the second way, they stay with you. Ideas planted blossom at the
strangest times, days or months after the fact.

I'm beginning to think that dreams can be the same way. There are
some dreams that are simply flights of fantasy. These are dreams that
make a good night's entertainment, and are quickly forgotten. And
then there are these -- important, symbolic, and entirely worth
remembering. These dreams are affecting me in a very real and serious
way. They're more than just communiques from beyond -- they're
insights into a life that I couldn't get any other way.

I was thinking of breaking up with my girlfriend. There are times,
when I try to think about what's important to me, that she doesn't
even occur to me until much later. But then when I'm with her, this
all dissapears. The dreams aren't as important, the meaning behind
them vanishes, and all my attention is on interacting with her. It
becomes entertainment, a distraction. And she becomes part of one of
the most important things in my life -- that side which isn't serious
or contemplative. It's for that reprieve that I value her most.

Which brings me back to why I wanted to break up with her. All she
does anymore is complain that I don't spend enough time with her, and
some of the time I do spend is wasted on fighting, which destroys the
purpose of being with her in the first place. The circular logic of
it destroys our relationship. And the worst part is, if I explained
this all to her, she would single out the fact that she's more
important to me as a companion then as a meaningful symbol.

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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:18 pm

akittencalledjen
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Joined: 14 Dec 2004
Posts: 62
Location: Nr. Bristol, England

Another email

Josh just forwarded this email, subject: FWD: From A friend of Dr. Samuel Gees

Quote:

From: Rebekah Wilson
Sent: 27 December 2004 22:47
To: strangedreams
Subject: From A friend of Dr. Samuel Gees

Josh,

You don't know me yet, but I was asked by Dr. Gees to contact you. My
name is Rebekah Wilson, and I'm an associate of Samuel's. He
mentioned that he was in contact with you regarding a website
detailing some dreams you've been having recently.

Let me start off by saying, I understand what you are going through.
There are times in everyone's lives that they feel like they're
different, a freak, or an outsider. Some of us really are different
(or as we prefer to call it, Special) and that makes us uniquely able
to help you.

Until very recently, I was an FBI profiler. I was considered a great
young talent by those above me, and was quickly put to the task of
providing missing details needed to catch criminals. At first it was
difficult work, but then...the dreams started. Soon, a day after
examining the scarcest of evidence, I was able to make the connections
between seemingly random pieces of information that would prove to be
vital to our investigations.

I was contacted, much like you were, after my talent was mentioned in
a small newspaper article. Although I didn't at first trust him, I
did some research. Let me give you some background info on Dr. Samuel
Gees, so that you may begin to understand why I left the FBI to work
with him.

Samuel Gees was a graduate student at Harvard in 1961. His research
was groundbreaking work in a relatively new field, and a lack of
contemporaries made his own work difficult to continue on alone. He
began to experience "Mental Fatigue" and his work began to suffer.
But instead of dropping out like most would have, he was taken in by
Dr. Timothy Leary, then a lecturer of Psychology at Harvard. He
became one of Dr. Leary's first experiments in the use of
hallucinogens to treat mental illness, and like many others made an
amazingly quick recovery. Moreover, his experiences during their
treatment left Samuel with a profound new sense of purpose.

With a newfound strength and determination, Samuel's own work in the
field of Theoretical Mathematics became influenced by the ideas and
theories of Dr. Leary. His new ideas and insight into the possible
workings of the universe would become some of the cornerstones for
modern Physics.

In the late 60s, Dr. Gees met Carlos Castaneda during a lecture at
UCLA. In Castaneda's writing Samuel found amazing simliarities to his
experiences under Leary. He established a close relationship with
Castaneda and communicated with him often to try and convince Carlos
of the connections to work that Leary had established a decade before.
But by this time Timothy Leary was an outlaw and a pop icon, and
Castaneda didn't want his name associated with that reputation.
Instead, Carlos focused on the spiritual aspects of Dreams, and his
philosophy diverged from the more scientifically oriented theories of
Gees and Leary.

By 1996 there had grown a rift between Samuel and Carlos. Samuel had
worked with Dr. Leary on an alternative model of Consciousness, and
Castaneda saw this as incompatbile with his own teachings. It was
during that time that Samuel founded the "Order of the Castanedas," a
group of individuals he had found and was studying at the time whom
experienced strange phenomena in their dreams. He had hoped that by
showing Carlos his work that their relationship could be reconciled.
Unimpressed, Castaneda joked that Samuel should keep this name as a
reminder of his misguidedness.

Today, the Order seeks out those individuals that have been shown to
have remarkable talents through their dreams. We try to avoid
attention; we are usually misrepresented in the press, grouped
together with psychics, fortune tellers, and other frauds. But we do
exist, and we are making progress. Dr. Gees' research has helped us
gain control over our lives. We don't fully understand what is
happening to us, but every day we get closer.

Rebekah Wilson
Order of the Castanedas

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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:25 pm

Crisko
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Joined: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 183
Location: SLC, UT, USA

Re: Another email

Quote:

By 1996 there had grown a rift between Samuel and Carlos. Samuel had
worked with Dr. Leary on an alternative model of Consciousness, and
Castaneda saw this as incompatbile with his own teachings. It was
during that time that Samuel founded the "Order of the Castanedas," a
group of individuals he had found and was studying at the time whom
experienced strange phenomena in their dreams. He had hoped that by
showing Carlos his work that their relationship could be reconciled.
Unimpressed, Castaneda joked that Samuel should keep this name as a
reminder of his misguidedness.

Wow. That put an interesting twist on things.. o_x;

Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:16 pm

InSoM
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Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Posts: 109
Location: Newcastle

UPDATE

Apple harbour site updated/vandalised again.....

Newspaper clipping detailing A car accident suffered by Alyssa in july.

Doesn't help with that pesky number puzzle Crying or Very sad

[edit] noticed picture was in directory called savemysoul.

followed a hunch and tried all the other phrases/keys that we've learned so far and got a bonanza of puzzles. woop!!!
directories to try

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

/whyme
/dancewithme
/ademoninmyhead
/avengeme

Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:00 pm

akittencalledjen
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Joined: 14 Dec 2004
Posts: 62
Location: Nr. Bristol, England

Good job, DOUWANNA!

I tried a few others and got:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

http://home.earthlink.net/~appleharbor/isthistheend

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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:17 pm
Last edited by akittencalledjen on Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:25 pm; edited 1 time in total

InSoM
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Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Posts: 109
Location: Newcastle

number puzzle

/dance with me directory has music with the title.
the waltz of the sieve by Eratosthenes.

Eratosthenes sieve is a way finding prime numbers from a set number of integers.

Tried googling...
check this out!

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/Eratosthenes.html

click on the java, and I believe this could be involved in the solve for the number Grid!!

Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:25 pm

InSoM
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Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Posts: 109
Location: Newcastle

[SOLVE] /demoninmyhead directory

Same solve as the Why Me! gif in josh's blog...
split it into three and transpose onto each other, flip it about and you get

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

i will find you!

me thinks alyssa better watch out Twisted Evil

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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 12:06 am

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