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Oberon's Rest

Created on 2003-01-08 09:36:42 (#845476), last updated 2009-07-06

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Name:Tom from New England (Ticom)
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According to Germanic tradition, Oberon is the king of shadows and fey folk. He was also known as the Merovingian wizard Alberich. Some believe Oberon to be a reference to Freyr or Ing.

Oberon is the patron of those who explore invisible worlds and seek the in-between spaces.

Oberon's Rest is one of those in-between places many friends and I go to to regroup, recharge, and remember what it's like to be one of Oberon's Children. In times previous, the place was known by another name: Atlantis.


"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke

When I was a young hacker during the mid 1980s, I was blessed to have come across a book titled Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations, by Arthur C. Clarke. Report on Planet Three was a collection of speculative essays by Clarke published in 1972, and reprinted in 1985. I was becoming interested in parapsychology as well as radio/electronics at the time. There were two essays in that book that struck a chord with me: "More than Five Senses" and "The World We Cannot See". I was 16 and living in Putnam County, New York. That part of the Hudson Valley region is well known among paranormal enthusiasts for its mysterious stone chambers that predate the Native American inhabitants of the area. During that time, the region was also experiencing a significant amount of "UFO" activity. This is all detailed in the book Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, by J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, & Bob Pratt, and the book Celtic Mysteries in New England, by Philip J. Imbrogno, & Marianne Horrigan for those who are interested.



Arthur Clarke is also responsible for saying one other thing that has had an influence on my explorations. The quote in question is reproduced at the beginning of this bio. Consider what an average person from the Middle Ages would conclude about a cellular phone or the Yaesu HF transceiver that's in my ham shack. Someone from that era would think most of what we take for granted in the Twenty-first century as "magic". Now consider the average person today who uses a cellular phone or television. Chances are they are not familiar with the scientific and electronic principles of how those devices operate, but that does not make them incapable of using them. You should also consider the field of quantum physics. Scientists are still not too sure about it, but it's not discouraging them or causing them to disregard what they've already observed. For our purposes, this is all relevant because there are many in the new age and conspiracy theory scenes that dismiss and discourage the use of technology to investigate claims and rumors. I always laugh when one of these bozos mention some type of electromagnetic super weapon of the "New World Order", and get all bent out of shape when they are told about all the ways one could detect such a device and reproduce its function to be used against totalitarians. Scientia est Potentia.


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