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Shaman Australis HQ, sounds like a pretty rad place if you ask me

All done

It'll be avaliable here when it's finished

30 minutes to go..

Seems it didn't want to copy directly to my usb stick properly. Burning it to disk, then I need to edit it so we don't see the other boring things that channel decides to talk about and upload. Expect it on in an hour or so.

It wasn't AS bad as I thought it could have been but I logged a few things. First of all was that these plants are 'banned overseas' Torsten I think you're right. I am 90% sure that these plants aren't banned in most countries of the world. Certainly would be a minority. The brain damage quote should be interesting to juxtapose against scientific literature aswell. I've taped the commercial and am putting it on my thumb drive as we speak, destination youtube.

Peace out bulls. I wish you all the best

Good luck Greg, I will be tuning in in just over an hour Whoops, I for some reason thought it was at 5pm. Seems it is at 9pm. Nonetheless I will be tuning in!

If there is still a seed packet left I'd love one thanks. PM'd

I agree, maybe after the show has aired we should start a new topic compiling a fist of factual inaccuracies in their report and then when we've got something which looks professional pin it and direct the media watch team to the topic for a more in-depth analysis. Maybe we could also try and point out some short falls of some similar news paper articles which further supports out case of blatant propaganda being published about these plants and the people who use them. We could also get a survey going of the types of people who use this forum including age range, job status, interests etc which may help state our case that we are different from your everyday junkies, then again looking at all you guys I don't know... I think we have a chance to make some noise and if we don't act on it now we would be very foolish. Coupled with Greg Kasarik's radio interview this evening I can see that if we play our cards right we could make quite a stir. I'll start compiling a list of publications on ayahuasca and mescaline since I think this is the two substances they will target in their assault.

Just because I feel like something out of the ordinary today Musical genius at it's best. It's a shame that these days in order to pull girls you need to dress like and listen to Beiber rather than have as much swag as Bach himself!

ID: Yes! I do see a few things slightly different to how you are though, for example the effect of turning on and off of the plasma is not changing capacitance because the plasma conductivity is changing but because the surface area of the plate is changing. Capacitance doesn't depend on resistance. Also using the spring analogy we can say that the energy stored in the spring doesn't just depend on the spring constant but also the displacement (in our case voltage). I would imagine there would be some sort of hysteresis between changing the spring constant and the spring changing displacement so we are perhaps changing the energy although I'm not entirely sure on that one. Now imagine two of those flouro variable cap setups so that one is high when the other is low and a load connected in between. As you decrease the capacitance the potential is increased causing a potential difference between the two (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0n6xLdwaT0 for a good example of this, when the glass sheet goes in the electrostatic field in the electrometer decreases). The quicker the capacitance changes the higher rate of change of electrostatic flux otherwise known as charge and therefore the more power we see across the load. Zen: I've read a little about Wilhelm Reich and orgone but didn't know thatWilliam Burroughs claimed it helped with opiate addiction so thank you, you learn something new everyday FP: I said the same thing once, that was about 6 or 7 years ago and since then there hasn't been a day in my life where I haven't thought about Tesla concepts at least once..you've been warned

DTB: You live in Newcastle too? Good to see some more novocastrians lurking these ways. Even better that your familiar with Tesla. Perhaps all hope isn't lost for Newcastle Only problem with googling Nikola Tesla and free-energy is you see a whole lot of absolute non-sense which is probably a big reason why most scientists are skeptical of Tesla. CC: Interesting that you should compare Tesla with Einstein because Tesla once described Relativity theory as 'a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king ... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists' If only there were more information as to just what he meant by that. ID: Yes! That's an example of a system which exhibits the sort of characteristics I'm talking about however it is a physical system rather than an electrical which from my limited experimentation makes a world of difference. In a physical system the energy required to restore the mass or water droplets is equal to the energy obtained but in an electrical system this is not necessarily the case as the change of inductance or capacitance isn't proportional to the amount of energy you put in. Think of how much energy it takes to get conduction inside a flouro tube. Now if we coat the outside of the glass with a conductor since we have the conductive gas, the glass acting as a dielectric and then finally our conductive coating we have a capacitor which we can alter the capacitance value simply by oscillating the applied voltage above and below the gas ignition voltage. The capacitance would change very quickly and we aren't putting in very much work at all since we are only oscillating 10V above and below ignition voltage. Couple these capacitors up in parallel and you're starting to get quite a marked effect. I also love how you called it an open system. Open systems are free to exchange energy with their environment and so the 2nd law doesn't apply because it's open not closed. How well versed is your maths skills? I have a fairly old (1930s) Russian paper which was recently translated into english which deals with this sort of oscillator. They claimed that one of the capacative machines self-destructed Anyway here is a link to the paper; http://bit.ly/NutX2X

Got to love mother nature, the mistress above all masters! Thanks for making that a little more clear I probably should have put it in commas because it's not like that perpetual motion garbage I sometimes hear people come out with. That said though, it brings up an interesting part of my research into Tesla. Imagine you have a pendulum which has a definite frequency. Would energy remain constant if you could vary the mass on the pendulum at different periods on the cycle. Say when it is converting potential energy to kinetic there is more mass and when kinetic is being converted to potential there is less mass, you'd end up with a system where energy is not constant and thus the laws of thermodynamics don't apply in the normal sense, although you definitely cannot say we are creating energy from nothing. It would appear that energy appears from thin air when in the kinetic cycle and less when it's in the potential cycle. One could say that the conservation of energy has been violated but could it be that the law needs a slight amendment to account for non-linear systems such as the variable mass pendulum, perhaps energy which appears to come from nothing at one time must disappear at a later time or energy is conserved over time but not on a moment to moment basis, or perhaps it's conserved in space on a moment to moment basis but not over time or visa versa. Would it still count as energy conservation? Who knows, but now you may be able to see why I am so enthusiastic about working as an electrical engineer You might think that it would be terribly difficult to design a variable mass however in an electrical system there is the property of inductance which is the electrical equivalent of the property of mass in a physical system and changes in inductance aren't necessarily proportional to mechanical energy required to change the said inductance. There is also the property of capacitance which is the electrical equivalent of a spring, a spring converts kinetic to potential in the same way that a mass can convert potential energy to kinetic. So what if capacitance changes over time as well as inductance, now my head is really hurting. This might be a little hard for people to swallow but I am fairly certain it can be done..or maybe this is just a result of your brain on lsd I'd love to hear what others think about this idea.

I started a new topic so that we don't need to take away from the original topic, it's located here; http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=32800&view=getnewpost Or..

Good to see someone else interested in Mr T around here I said the dimensions because that was the ratios of the coil I am building, the final colorado springs coil, and this coil looks doesn't really resemble what most think of as a Tesla coil. The dimensions aren't as bigger deal with the primary and secondary coils as they are the extra coil, which is where the huge amplification is made. A properly designed extra coil is really just a 1/4 wave transmission line excited at one end by a very loose coupling to the primary/secondary so you'll want the lowest capacitance you can get for a certain coil of wire. Just so happens that an equal height to width coil gives you the least capacitance for the most inductance. You said yourself that the amplification is due to resonant rise/Q/Magnification Factor, which I agree with fully. However the more capacitance the lower this factor is going to be so you do not want a huge capacitance. It was tuned to the earth so it could send the most amount of power between transceivers however my main reason for trying to build it is investigate ftl signals by comparing a normal crystal radio set to a crystal radio set with the tesla coil as the antenna. I'll make a topic about this a little later because it seems some people are interested in the enigma that is Nikola Tesla

I know my lecturers make mistakes and that was sort of my point of talking about the ether in the first place. I know that space isn't empty, far from it, but we've not been taught like that or at least I've never been taught like that. I suppose I'm lucky that I had a keen interest in these topics since my early teens so I've had a lot of studying before I actually got formally taught it. You are right, by using em waves of extremely long wavelengths you can send messages to submarines but this requires huge amounts of power to do so and requires huge antennas to be erected off the submarine. There is no possible way that you'd be able to transmit any usable amount of power with this system but this is what Tesla was claiming to do. Tesla's system was a conductive phenomena rather than a radiative system and he stated this many many times only for it to fall on deaf ears. I agree that it is foolish for me just to take his word for it. However I am certainly not going to take a physicists word for it because the huge majority of them are still convinced that Tesla tried sending energy by exciting the ionosphere proving they haven't read a single word of Tesla's on how his system worked. In some cases the ionosphere was used but it was ground based transmission which was the primary focus of Tesla. They'd also have you believe that the top load of the tesla coil is the output when it is actually the ground which is the output. The list goes on. I'm not picking a view as such but when I feel that their both talking about different things I'm going to listen more to the one who actually built/designed it. Heres a few of Tesla's words taken from court documents (found here: http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/nt_on_ac.htm) As you can see he's pretty adamant about not having electromagnetic waves being emitted or as little as practically possible anyway, there goes just about every explanation I've ever heard from a physicist. Here is a few videos which show a scale model of a magnifying transmitter in action. First video shows effects like that shown in the prestige but this time it's not just special effects. The second video is one that shows a piece of aluminium being attracted to a bulb powered by the output of the transmitter and finally the third shows a piece of paper being attracted to the bulb. This machine I believe is still being perfected and so there will be more interesting things being shown on that channel at a later date. http://bit.ly/O1Bzum http://bit.ly/M1EN0q http://bit.ly/Nbszqq Peace!

Bluntmuffin, I know that physics implicitly says that space is something but my beef with them is that they still tell us it's void. Relativity (correct me if I'm wrong) states that space is empty, or at least that's how the several different teachers/lecturers I've had have explained it to me as such. All I was pointing out was that space isn't an empty void and there must be an ether of some description. I do agree with you that you cannot define this something as a medium in the traditional sense. I cannot give you 100% proof of faster than light. I said that because that is what Tesla himself said. Refering to Tesla's article on 'Famous Scientific Illusions'. Tesla claims that the waves from his magnifying transmitter were akin to the movement of the Earth's shadow over the Earth. It starts out with an infinite velocity at the north pole and slows until it gets to the equator where the velocity is then c and then speeds up as it approaches the south pole and as it does so the velocity tends towards infinite. Of course I cannot prove to you that these currents are travelling faster than light (I am planning on building a scale model of the magnifying transmitter Tesla made in Colorado Springs so hopefully one day I can show to you) but I would rather trust Tesla on what his transmitters were doing over todays scientists, after all they haven't been able to send electricity through the earth in the same way he did to this day. Although this is unsurprising since what the vast majority of people think of as a Tesla coil really isn't what Tesla built at all. This is what Tesla really built; http://www.coe.monta...ado_springs.jpg As you can see Tesla's primary was huge and was only one turn, the secondary coil is the same diameter as the primary and has approximately a 20% height/diameter ratio then the really magical part of a Tesla coil (which is what is really lacking) is on the left. An equal height to diameter coil with a large spacing between turns to reduce interturn capacitance so that it has what he calls a very high magnification factor otherwise known as Q factor. See Colorado Springs Notes if your interested. Most people think of something like this when they think of a Tesla coil; http://www.hacknmod..../tesla-coil.jpg -Primary and secondary are completely different diameters -Secondary coil has a height/diameter ratio much greater than 20% (in this case it looks roughly 280%) -Absolutely no extra coil, a must for any true Tesla coil Anyway, you might be able to tell that I am right into this stuff and could go on for hours but this is a little off topic Maybe I should start a new topic? If you are interested in hearing a little more about true Tesla things and not just academias take on it check out the writings of Eric Dollard; http://www.gestaltre...s/eric-dollard/ Particularly his theory of Anti-Relativity writings.

I find it hard to believe that the whole time you were undertaking an engineering degree you never heard of the ether. I'm going into my second semester of EE at the moment and have heard about it a lot. Before roughly 1919 there was a widespread belief that light required a medium to travel through (in my mind this is still correct). This medium was called the ether. The Michealson-Morley interferometer experiment disproved a static ether (the earth moves through it) but there are other possible mediums. The biggest proof for the existence of a medium of some description in my mind comes from the fact that vacuum permeability and permittivity are non-zero values. How can 'empty space', which science calls nothing, restrict the propagation of electrostatic and magnetic fields. You say you like philosophy (also that your from the hunter, great place to live ), ask yourself how can nothing have properties. When I asked my physics professor this question he answered 'yes', obviously knowing that he couldn't answer the question. To me this was the wrong answer. I've thought about this problem for a little while now and my answer has stayed the same since the first time I asked myself - it cannot. So what is 'empty space'? Space is alive, not dead like physics would have you think and I'm using nothing but observable phenomena to come to that conclusion. If your interested in knowing more check out Nikola Tesla, the father or modern AC, radio, X Ray, Fluorescent lighting and much more. He was able to send electrical energy faster than light through the ground with one wire.

Awesome Ethos, delighted that I inspired you. Funnily enough your words have inspired me too and I'm thinking up crazy wood carved pipes as we speak. Can't wait to see it turns out

I thought I'd chuck this up for anyone who is interested. I finished uni for the semester and to keep myself occupied between looking for jobs and tending to the garden I've been making this. The carvings aren't the best but at the same time I think it adds to the design. The carvings are inspired by the mazatec culture with the leaf at the front being that of Salvia Divinorum. The twin right/left handed spirals on the side represent their absolute belief of male/female attributes in all processes. They say that mushrooms come up where the blood of Christ has dropped and to me 'god' or christ is formless/sexless so where the right hand spiral becomes a left hand and visa versa the mushroom appears. Anyway enough of my description, let the pipe speak for itself.

Thanks for the tip, I have a soldering iron or two lying around so next time I might give them a go

Yeah I was thinking of two spirals shaped like the Caduceus, which has connotations to healing I'm not sure I'd be too good at doing a spore print on the stem, my leaf shape was dodgey enough. I shouldn't be too hard on myself though since this is my first carving. I certainly won't be stopping at this one, I have shown a friend and he's already asked me to make him one so I might have just found another hobby to add to my list.

Thank you Amazonian. I used oak for the stem and I'm unsure which wood was used for the bowl as I found it lying around in dads stockpile of wood for the pizza oven. I'll ask him tomorrow and let you know. I sort of cheated with the pictures as I drew them on with an engraver and then coloured them with permanent marker I'm thinking of engraving some sort of image into the stem however I am unsure what just yet.

You should be able to see pictures now.