There is a meme "out there" about cycles of 23 years. It is the so-called "23 Enigma" and refers to the belief popularized by Robert Anton Wilson and others that meaningful incidents and events are connected to the number 23 (and alternatively by the rule of fives 2+3=5). Some of this is found in the widely misunderstood Illuminatus Trilogy.
There are strange coincidences of 23-year cycles popping up in modern history and personal anecdote that make it seem more than random, but the connection to this year is probably bogus; yet... as of today... more provocative. 2012 is 80% gone now - yet going back - there is little doubt that 1989 was a red-letter year for many who read this list. We cannot overlook the implications of a ~23 year gap ... if something should turn up in LENR in the next few months, and we can blame the 23 Enigma (or the Illuminati) on the delay. Also, for those who live in the SF Bay area of California, as did Wilson - 1989 was the year of the devastating Loma Prieta Earthquake. A big-one is overdue here, and October is looming ominous. If a Big-one does happen this year, 23 years later, then it will probably be during the "Series." 1989 was the year of another oddity in the Bay area - in Baseball of all things. That year both the local ball clubs won their respective pennants and appeared is what was called the Bay Bridge World Series. The big quake was seen on National TV during one of the games and the Goodyear Blimp caught the resulting fires for a large audience. The ball-parks are across the Bay from one another, and having two local teams in a World Series is extremely rare, but that rare event could happen again this year. IOW - that coincidence of Big Quake, Baseball oddity, LENR discovery, and so on - would not even be worth a passing mention - if the Oakland Club had not done something today that has never been done in Baseball before, preserving a chance to be in the 2012 World Series later this month - and the SF Giants are also in the playoffs. And if Brillouin and SRI/EPRI are listening, then they might consider that they are destined to be integral to the final part of this revised RAW 23 year Trilogy (since Rossi and DGT seem to have defaulted). Or maybe an unknown inventor, quien sabe? Wilson wrote about QM in the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, and Prometheus Rising and some tales which are predictive of future energy including The Final Secret of the Illuminati which I should probably reread - to see if they offer further insight. Many consider Wilson to have been a real prophet, but in the Trickster disguise - often leading the reader to an opposite conclusion to what the actual words suggest. Others think the Illuminati stuff too far-out or if anything, closer to metaphor, than real ... (even before the doomsday cults picked up on it, inappropriately). There is a way that they, the Illuminati could be both benign and real to some extent; and it is not just as a meme, or as "aliens," in the Philip Dick tradition ... or modern-day Greek gods, or even satanic - but all of that is as real as anything else in your brain, on the bottom line. Ah... the 23 Enigma... bring it on. Jones
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