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Black Sun

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There is talk of a black sun, it features in paintings and in architecture from a time gone by, comes up as ideas and theories and find its way into our modern time. Also having been attributed to the Nazi’s in more recent times, a sun wheel symbol with a design consists of twelve radial sig runes, 12 sections and a black centre. Almost looking like a slightly older version of the modern UN logo with its sections and decoration giving it a more Romanesque feel.

Sound Garden – that song from the 90’s ‘Black Hole Sun’, showing strange lizard-like humans, with faces distorting and revealing their hidden nature, along with the arrival of the black sun. The music video to it made quite the impact on me in my youth, some things you see are weird, and you know they are weird, but something makes you file it for later. And as it turns out, ‘later’ has arrived much more than I thought it would for many thoughts and ideas I have had over the years.

Demon faces – there exists a condition apparently, which causes people to see faces as distorted with what has been described as demon like features. It’s called Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), and seems a rather weird thing for some brains to do. They say often caused by a stroke, a seizure or a migraine. But does everyone think to tell someone else if they started seeing ‘demons’? This is where the above music video will get a mention again, because when the faces distorted, it was more of an elongation of features, which could just be the visual effect they were trying out at the time. Eyes larger than you would expect, a sinister grin bigger than the face, and strange automated and repeated actions, showing they are here but aren’t like us. A bit Stepford kind of thing. But when I saw the imagery they are putting forward for this PMO condition, I thought of that song and those faces. Because wouldn’t it be an awfully easy way to discredit it if people did have the ability to see demons or shapeshifters, making them out to be crazy, or that they have a brain injury or something. Even possibly making the people themselves think they are crazy.

Rupes Nigra / Black Rock – this also comes up now and again, having been charted on old maps as a real place, a mountain it is said. Placed where the North Pole is, shown as having land and the central point on old maps, but it looks like just ocean today, but with a round shape showing as it would if you took something flat and wrapped it around a globe. But it is also near to where I found old maps to show the vortex mentioned in Maps and Islands.

Much has been changed, rewritten, buried, relocated, and just plain destroyed or lost to time. But much of what was, often comes to pass again, and much of what is will become new folklore and myth and fade away until its time comes again. It seems as though we are entering a different time, where things of old might be coming back, and how we thought it was turns out to be something quite different…

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Seeing Colours

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What we believe we see seems to be a matter for debate. And although I was aware that people have differences in depth perception, and perceive colours differently to a point, I believed if you weren’t deemed colour-blind, then we all pretty much saw the same ‘colours’. There is also the subject of colour synaesthesia, where people will ‘see’ colours for things that you wouldn’t ordinarily have the need or ability to assign a colour for, but when hearing the word, letter or concept, the brain conjures a colour to accompany it. Of course, there are probably varying degrees of that as well, and until someone talks about it, or mentions it as a thing, they may just presume everyone does it. Same with Aphantasia and Hyperphantasia, discussed more closely in my book – Meeting in the Middle of Nowhere, of some people not having visual imagery in mind or an internal monologue. Sounds like a routine thing to acknowledge or understand, but when it’s discussed in real time from each perspective, the real differences in thought processes can be startling.

But it seems there are all sorts of other smaller differences going on too, that most of us still aren’t even aware of. So subtle or unnoticeable that they never get brought up or mentioned as a point of discussion, as it would seem as boring as walking up to someone and trying to start an interesting conversation by observing they have arms. Now, if everyone else was armless, then it may be a conversation starter, but we don’t walk around asking people if they see a blue sky if it’s a clear day. You’ll comment perhaps on that nice day, but not usually to clarify that the other person is also seeing a blue sky. Although, maybe we should be. The below picture is from a documentary I watched recently, and was quite surprised by two things about this image. Firstly, that there is only one colour in the image, and the ‘other colours’ aren’t actually there and your brain is filling it in for you. That confuses my brain, because I believe I am seeing four colours, but the second strange thing, was when the arrangement of colours was read out to go with the image, it did not match what I was seeing, they say the arrangement is as follows –

Top left = red / Top right = blue / Bottom left = green or aqua / Bottom right = orange

However, it is also seen as –

Top left = green or aqua / Top right = orange / Bottom left = red / Bottom right = blue

Yet the only colour available they say, is grey. Quite an odd one, and if there wasn’t a difference when the person on the screen casually explained the ‘colours’ being presented, I wouldn’t have wondered any further than the grey to colour aspect. Now I question how each brain is deciding to rearrange those ‘colours’ and see them differently to another brain. Does using the right or left side of the brain more dominantly determine whether the image colours are seen in reverse? Seems there really can be more to something than meets the eye…

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Towering

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Not just tall, but towering. There seems to be a need to build extremely tall buildings, but not of a completely logical nature. Unless there is of course something of great value to hide or protect, or you are looking to protect yourself from something, as is said of some of the structures noted below. We have skyscrapers today, so it doesn’t seem to so unusual to our eyes to have massive buildings in cities, not so much in the rural areas though. They would stand out more, just as these remnants of the past do in these modern times.

China – where there are many towers throughout the region of the lower Himalayan mountains, some of them square, some star shaped, but all very tall and looking like a remnant of something industrious. Maybe small components of an old system, like speculated about Star Forts. But it’s said they are ancient from around 200 AD onwards, probably for storage they say and as we do have very large silos today for similar, it doesn’t seem a completely unreasonable explanation at all.

Bologna – the whole city was towers for hundreds of years, with only two towers remaining today. It’s said they were for defensive purposes, but with them taking up to ten years to build each one, and with no real threat put forward as warranting that type of defence, I’m not so sure. But for whatever reason, we like tall and towering structures, in great numbers in some cases.

Water towers and folly’s – there are many dotted throughout England and quite probably Europe and other places too. Mentioned in my article – With Purpose, Or Just Folly?

The Tower of Babel – a famous and disputed tower that was the culmination of one language and a want to break into heaven it is said. with a round tower being built to facilitate this. Although the site of Babylonia is known, and there are ruins of a vast city which are mostly still hidden from view, the small area allocated as the tower doesn’t quite fit. But strangely, there are three circular areas around the city, with spiral designs, and two of then having a very angled edge with one facing water as in the below painting by someone who never visited the site they say. It’s a tantalising myth, and with ruins of a city visible but still have covered and lost to time, who can say for sure.

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