--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0703/feature3/multimedia.html > > March 2007 National Geographic magazine: > > "Once a second somewhere in the universe a star explodes with the > brilliance of an entire galaxy">>>
I saw one. No-one will believe this but, I saw one the day Doug Henning died. (I should point out I had, and have, no sense of interest or connection to Doug Henning or anything he did whatsoever...totally uninteresting to me). On the day Doug Henning died, I walked out of the dome in the evening, happened to look straight up, and I saw a bright point of light come alive and then fade slowly over about 2-3 seconds. I thought: "Wow, I just saw a supernova - amazing". I had studied astronomy in-depth as a teenager, and I could think of nothing else that would do that, so deep in the evening sky. It was like a silent beacon from deep deep in the warmth of space, there was a warmth and bliss to everything in those moments. And I thought, maybe I imagined it, but I'll just check its position and see if there are any reports in astronomy magazines. So I noted its position between Orion and Casseoppeia. A few weeks later I was in a bookstore browsing, and decided to look the position up, to see where it was. I was amazed to find that the constellation it was in was Auriga (which I had forgotten since my teenage studies), and further that Auriga meant "The Charioteer", so I thought that was neat, because Maharishi had always been going on about Brahman being the Charioteer. But further I looked and then I discovered that within Auriga, right around the region where I saw the supernova (or whatever it was) was a tiny constellation I had never heard of called "the Magicians". How funny, since it was the day Doug Henning died who was so close to Maharishi's heart. I don't know the exact time Doug died or wether it coincided at all with me walking out the dome around 6.45 - 7pm in the evening, but that is my story of having seen (maybe) a supernova. OffWorld
