Whats DB Doing???

Recently Dan Brown appeared on a TV show, chatting to Matt Lauer about the new illustrated edition of The Lost Symbol and various other topics. At one point Lauer asked him about his appearance at the Italian La Scala opera house, and wondered aloud if that would be in the next book. DB paused, and laughed awkwardly, before saying "Anybody that's seen La Scala knows it is an unbelievable piece of architecture, great amount of history." Very suggestive that this will play a part in the next Langdon novel.
Lauer then wondered whether the next book would take as long as The Lost Symbol did (5 years after DVC), to which DB replied "I have been informed...by my wife, that if this new novel takes as long as The Lost Symbol, my next media appearance will be on The Bachelor." DB Said he was taking a long break after Lost Symbol, but he later anounced he is working on another novel, he hasn't released anything on it, and hasn't confirmed if it will be another about Robert Langdon ...It has been told that an upcoming film based on the novel The Lost Symbol by author Dan Brown. It has been confirmed that Columbia Pictures will distribute the film, for release in 2012.The novel's story is the third with character Robert Langdon. In the film, he will be summoned to Washington, D.C., where he will be decoding the symbols of the Freemasons. Tom Hanks is expected to reprise his role as Langdon. Steven Knight was asked to write the script, though as of December 2010, Dan Brown replaced Steven Knight as writer of the film, making this the first time Brown has directly adapted a novel to a theatrical screenplay.

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A poetry By Kamal Haasan

Far far away from all galaxies lies a unknown unlimited power

Each one trying to find what it is in their own way by scribbling,painting,thinking

There is no way for humans other than fear, worship praise and sense it

All our deeds are pre-written Fate

If you try to overcome fate you will be 'kindly' troubled by your past births for which you have no idea what it was –

- Its that mystic power which gifts human foetus the deaf, dumb blindness etc,

-Even leprosy,cancer,piles are also his gifts,

- The worm living in intestine,by doing good deeds, will be gifted a new birth(of any living creature)

- Crorepatis will be tested but they need not worry much as they will be given a status after the test But the troubles of a needy and poor is a fun to watch, for the ultimate power,

Protector of Nations, the act of deceit,

Even War is caused by so called Almighty,

For those kings who does massive killings thru war, the Supreme Power gifts with Nation and Its Ruling Chair - Its the Almighty which allows one out of 4 million sperm to reach egg, to create a new life,God allows splitting of atoms just like he used to split demons back in those days And swallowed innocent and homeless people of a whole nation (Japan)

God will eat the flesh of a child and fulfill the wishes of devoted parents. This refers a story of a Abraham who offered to kill his own child to offer prayer to god. The god changed his mind so a goat was sacrificed and the child was saved. However some people still argue the sacrifice was fulfilled by Jesus - It is not personal choice but only family and relatives peer pressure to choose a religion. Also the act of relatives to persuade or force to pray, that begins in childhood Drawn in these preeches. Shit on these ponds of foolish idealogy to Wash away your brain with belief in God!

- Worship this god (Actually flame of champor) by drums and bells.

After all explanations about the reality of god and persuasions to use your rationality (Don't stitch what's already stitched - Dont keep repeating sayings - Dont crap)

By refusing to take the right path of wisdom, if you choose to be screwed, so be it. 

Original article

Weep not for me

Do not weep for me when I no longer dwell
among the wonders of the earth; for my larger
self is free, and my soul rejoices on the other
side of pain…on the other side of darkness.

Do not weep for me, for I am a ray of sunshine
that touches your skin, a tropical breeze
upon your face, the hush of joy within your heart
and the innocence of babes in mothers arms.
I am the hope in a darkened night. And, in your
hour of need, I will be there to comfort you.
I will share your tears, your joys, your fears,
your disappointments and your triumphs.

Do not weep for me, for I am cradled
in the arms of God. I walk with the angels,
and hear the music beyond the stars.

Do not weep for me, for I am within you;
I am peace, love, I am a soft wind that caresses
the flowers. I am the calm that follows a
raging storm. I am an autumns leaf that floats
among the garden of God, and I am pure
white snow that softly falls upon your hand.

Do not weep for me, for I shall never die,
as long as you remember me…
with a smile and a sigh.

Credits to: Joe Fazio and to Cassarah who posted this beautiful poem in
Cada coisa em seu lugar / Everything in its place

SCIENCE OPENS TO MAN ......

FROM http://noeticindia.blogspot.com  

SCIENCE OPENS TO MAN new vistas of freedom. It liberates him from the blind fanaticism of the middle ages which often still finds expression in him. Science looks at the world objectively and draws certain conclusions from the available data. It, however, recognizes the fact that these conclusions are not absolute, because new information from newer data modifies or even rejects the earlier conclusions. This steady search for new facts and the constant readiness for its own reformation is the basic spirit of modern science.

But, even for the scientist it is sometimes difficult to adopt this right spirit of science. For, man is very much limited by his mental horizon and a breakthrough is a painful process. Carl Jung, the renowned psychologist, highlights this dilemma of the scientist: "Even a scientist is a human being. So it is natural for him like others to hate things he cannot explain. It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we can ever know? History of modern science has many glaring examples of how even eminent scientists stood on the way of the advancement of scientific knowledge by condemning new, bold, concepts and experiments.

 

Rishi and the Scientist

Superstitions, of course, have always grown around knowledge. A modern man who thinks that by his advanced stage of scientific knowledge he can give a rational explanation to the universe is as superstitious as a primitive man who follows blindly his traditional customs. But, in every phase of human history there emerge adventurous explorers of knowledge, and to our amazement we find that they have much in common whether they lived in some very remote age or in our own century.

It is the free spirit of inquiry and the common fields of agreement that link the ancient Rishis of India with the scientists of the modern age. In some of the utterances of top physicists like Einstein, Max Planck, Heisenberg, and others we near the echoes of the words of the Upanishadic sages who lived thousands of years ago.

Stepping Beyond the Senses

The special character and approach of modern science originated around the sixteenth century. In the words of Francis Bacon, one of the founding fathers of modern science, it was a revolt against a jumble of "unsound doctrines based on all sides by vain imaginations". Man can establish progressive stages of certainty about nature through the evidence of the senses helped and guarded by certain processes of correction - this is in brief the basic philosophy of science. Eventually science discovered that the range of the human senses could be considerably increased with suitable devices. It acquired new instruments - for instance, the electron telescope, the electron microscope, etc, - which opened stupendous vistas unknown to man's ordinary senses.

This extension of senses by external instruments is of great importance, which convinced the scientists that there are many things in the universe unknown to the senses. With more sophisticated instruments they found that more subtle facts of the universe could be known. This Rishi explorers of

yore discovered that man himself possessed many internal means by which he could develop the power of his senses to unlimited ranges transcending their ordinary scope, coming face to face with the deep truths of life and the universe.

We see the ancient Rishis and the modern scientists thus reaching a meeting point although they travel through diverse paths of enquiry. While the scientists made external instruments to extend the human senses, the Rishis discovered that mind itself has more powerful internal instruments which, when called into functioning enabled the seeker to delve deep into the truth of things. Compared. with these, internal faculties, they said, the external senses were extremely limited in their range. And, today we see science itself is stepping into the very exciting field of extrasensory perceptions, the mysterious faculties of human mind which were known to the sages from time immemorial.

This, of course, is a natural development of the scientific enquiry. The 'solid universe' of the nineteenth century physics melted into waves and fields of the twentieth century scientific vision. Starting directly from 'sensuous perceptions' science has reached such a stage that today it tends to ask a most startling question: "Where has the objective world vanished?" The new trend of science shows greater interest in the nature of human consciousness.

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The Power In Temples Digital Copy of the book " The Power In Temples " by SRIKANT , published ( 4th edition ) in the year 1987. Quoting this text in context of the Noetic Sciences developments gives me immense pleasure and gratitude. This is not meant for commercial uses or reprints. All the rights of the book and content are reserved by the author himself...

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Journal Publications-Noetics

This is a selected list of recent, peer-reviewed journal articles on various noetic topics related to things mentioned in the book, The Lost Symbol, that have been authored or co-authored by IONS staff scientists. They include such phenomena as perception through time, distant healing, interconnectedness, consciousness and health, individual and collective intention in the physical world, and transformation of consciousness.

Perception Through Time

• Intuition through time: what does the seer see?
  Radin D, Borges A. Explore, 2009 Jul-Aug;5(4):200-11.
• Toward understanding the pacebo effect: investigating a possible retrocausal factor
  Radin D, Lobach E. J Altern Complement Med. 2007 Sep;13(7):733-39.
• Electrodermal presentiments of future emotions
  Radin, D. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 253–273, 2004.

Distant Healing Intention and Distant Physiological Connectedness

• Compassionate intention as a therapeutic intervention by partners of cancer patients: effects of distant intention on the patients' autonomic nervous system
  Radin D, Stone J, Levine E, Eskandarnejad S, Schlitz M, Kozak L, Mandel D, Hayssen G. Explore. 2008 Jul-Aug;4(4):235-43.
• Of two minds: Sceptic-proponent collaboration within parapsychology
  Schlitz M, Wiseman R, Watt C, Radin D. Br J Psychol. 2006 Aug;97(Pt 3):313-22.
• Gut feelings, intuition, and emotions: an exploratory study
  Radin DI, Schlitz MJ. J Altern Complement Med. 2005 Feb;11(1):85-91.
• Event-related electroencephalographic correlations between isolated human subjects
  Radin DI. J Altern Complement Med. 2004 Apr;10(2):315-23.
• Distant healing intention: definitions and evolving guidelines for laboratory studies
  Schlitz M, Radin D, Malle BF, Schmidt S, Utts J, Yount GL. Altern Ther Health Med. 2003 May-Jun;9(3 Suppl):A31-43.

Consciousness and Health

• Effects of a mindfulness-based intervention during pregnancy on prenatal stress and mood: results of a pilot study
  Vieten C, and Astin J. Arch Womens Ment Health. 2008 Feb;11(1):67-74. Epub 2008 Mar 3.
• Negative affect, emotional acceptance, and smoking cessation
  Carmody TP, Vieten C, Astin JA. J Psychoactive Drugs. 2007 Dec;39(4):499-508.
• Effects of healing intention on cultured cells and truly random events
  Radin D, Taft, R., Yount G. J Altern Complement Med. 2004 Feb;10(1):103-12.

Individual and Collective Intention in the Physical World

• Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge
  Radin D. Explore. 2008 Jan-Feb;4(1):25-35.
• Effects of intentionally enhanced chocolate on mood
  Radin D, Hayssen G, Walsh J. Explore. 2007 Sep-Oct;3(5):485-92.
• Double-blind test of the effects of distant intention on water crystal formation
  Radin D, Hayssen G, Emoto M, Kizu T. Explore. 2006 Sep-Oct;2(5):408-11.
• Experiments testing models of mind-matter interaction
  Radin, D. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 20, NO. 3, pp. 375401, 2006.
• Random event generators: correlations of continuous random data with major world events
  Nelson, R. D., Radin, D. I., Shoup, R., and Bancel, P. A. (2002).Foundations of Physics Letters, 15, 6, 537-550.
• Exploring relationships between random physical events and mass human attention: asking for whom the bell tolls
  Radin, D. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 533–547, 2002.

Transformation of Consciousness

• I to we: the role of consciousness transformation in compassion and altruism
  Vieten, C; Amorok, T; Schlitz, M (2006). Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 41:4, 917-933.
• The role of transformation, spirit, and psychospiritual approaches on human brain activity and immunity
  Vieten C, (2004). San Francisco Medicine: Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society 77:7, 28-31.

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In the News

“The recent breakthroughs Katherine had made here in the field of Noetic Science had ramifications across every discipline – from physics to history, to philosophy, to religion. Soon everything will change, she thought.” (The Lost Symbol, pg. 34)

Sharing a striking similarity with the book’s female protagonist, IONS’ CEO Dr. Marilyn Schlitz, a world-renowned anthropologist and noetic scientist, has worked with the Smithsonian Institute and conducted secret government remote-viewing experiments. Dr. Schlitz also helped design a 2000-pound electromagnetically-shielded testing room – IONS’ own “cube” (also featured in the book) – where IONS conducts many of its experiments.

Dr. Schlitz tumbled onto the pages of literary folklore when NPR also noticed the resemblance, and she became a global spokeswoman for others digging into the promise and realities of noetic science.

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The human soul weighs 1/3,000th of an ounce!

That’s the astonishing claim of East German researchers who recently weighed more than 200 terminally ill patients just before, and immediately after, their deaths.

In each case the weight loss was exactly the same–1/3,000th of an ounce.

“The inescapable conclusion is that we have now confirmed the existence of the human soul and determined its weight,” Dr. Becker Mertens of Dresden said in a letter printed in the German science journal Horizon.

“The challenge before us now is to figure out exactly what the soul is composed of”, he continued. “We are inclined to believe that it is a form of energy. “But our attempts to identify this energy have been unsuccessful to date.”

The expert’s report, co-authored by physicist Elke Fisher, got mixed review from top scientists around the world. Gerard Voisart, the leading French pathologist, was especially critical, saying that the weight difference between the living and the dead could be accounted for by air leaving the lungs. But Drs. Fisher and Mertens said they took that into account in making their calculations. They further stated that the device they used to weigh the soul has a margin of error of less than 1/100,000th of an ounce.“It occurred to us that the weight loss could be the result of an instantaneous physical deterioration,” said Dr. Fisher. “But after exhaustive study we agreed that was not the case. The only possible explanation is that we were measuring the loss of the human soul or some kind of life force.”

The communist scientists were careful not to link their study of the soul with a superior being or with afterlife. But church leaders contacted by the European press said the experts’ report confirmed the existence of God and heaven–and praised their breakthrough research.

“It’s ironic that communist scientists would conduct a search for the soul, much less declare that they found it,” said one clergyman.

Repeated attempts to get an official statement from the Vatican were unsuccessful. But one highly placed source said Pope John Paul II was aware of the German study. And he reportedly was most impressed. “The Roman Catholic Church has never concerned itself with the weight of the soul, but we are pleased with scientific confirmation of its existence,” the source said.

From the tabloid, Weekly World News, Nov. 8, 1988. By Ragan Dunn. This story appeared in the same issue as a story headlined, “Painting of Elvis weeps real tears”, and “Psychic makes river run backwards”.In the earliest 20th century, Dr Duncan McDougall measured the human soul at 21 grams.(The movie 21 Grams is based on the same findings).

In 1907, MacDougall weighed six patients while they were in the process of dying from tuberculosis in an old age home. It was relatively easy to determine when death was only a few hours away, and at this point the entire bed was placed on an industrial sized scale which was apparently sensitive to the gram. He took his results (a varying amount of perceived mass loss in most of the six cases) to support his hypothesis that the soul had mass, and when the soul departed the body, so did this mass. The determination of the soul weighing 21 grams was based on the average loss of mass in the six patients. Other studies were soon put forward to confirm the results. Experiments on mice and other animals took place. Most notably the weighing upon death of sheep seemed to create mass for a few minutes which later disappeared. The hypothesis was made that a soul portal formed upon death which then whisked the soul away.In the Roman Catholic Church, Saint Michael has four main roles or offices. He is the Christian angel of death, carrying the souls of all the deceased to heaven, where they are weighed in his perfectly balanced scales (hence Michael is often depicted holding scales). At the hour of death, Michael descends and gives each soul the chance to redeem itself before passing, thus consternating the devil and his minions. St Michael is the special patron of the Chosen People in the Old Testament and is guardian of the Church; it was thus not unusual for the angel to be revered by the military orders of knights during the Middle Ages. Last, he is the supreme enemy of Satan and the fallen angels.

IONS 14th International Conference

Exciting new additions to IONS 14th International Conference Noetic 2.0: Tools and Technologies for a World Transforming! Join attendees from 14 countries and 38 states!  We are honored and pleased to announce our newly confirmed emcees for the conference:Lawrence Ellis, a complexity-science organizational consultant and spiritual activist, andLynne Twist, IONS' former board chair and co-founder of The Pachamama Alliance.  Following each full day of rich and provocative presentations will be evening opportunities to celebrate, relax, or go even deeper. We are planning movies, rituals, transformative practices, and more. In particular we want to call out two special evening programs with storyteller, performer, ritual priestess, and author Luisah Teish and revered teacher, spiritual leader, humanitarian, and scholar-mystic Dattatreya Siva Baba. These are two powerful events you won't want to miss!  Friday night – July 22  Dr. Baskaran Pillai (Dattatreya Siva Baba) – Life Changing Sounds: How Sound, Mind & Matter Converge   Sound vibrations are the building blocks of mind and intelligence, and also of matter. To put it simply, mind and matter are synonyms. The yogis of ancient India knew how to influence matter – bend reality – with their own minds. Today, both quantum physics and yogic science agree that the "observer" is an important factor in the organization of the material world. Dr. Pillai will share powerful teachings and sound meditations to invoke a direct experience of the mind-matter connection.  Saturday night – July 23  Sacred Storytelling with Luisah Teish Our ancestors sat around a fire beneath the deep night sky and explained the sacredness of life, nature, and spirit though the art of storytelling. Their stories provided the guidelines for inner peace, spiritual education, and communal action. In the African Diaspora, myths and stories are housed in the body of cowie shells, stones, seeds, and bones. When these are cast, the voice of the Divine is heard, and the community contemplates the mystery of creation, applying to contemporary life the wisdom that emerges.

The Asylum

 

 
A story by Kahlil Gibran
 

I was strolling in the gardens of an insane asylum when I met a young man who was reading a philosophy book.

His behavior and his evident good health made him stand out from the other inmates.

I sat down beside him and asked:

‘What are you doing here?’

He looked at me, surprised. But seeing that I was not one of the doctors, he replied:

‘It’s very simple. My father, a brilliant lawyer, wanted me to be like him.
“My uncle, who owns a large emporium, hoped I would follow his example.
“My mother wanted me to be the image of her beloved father.
“My sister always set her husband before me as an example of the successful man.
“My brother tried to train me up to be a fine athlete like himself.

“And the same thing happened at school, with the piano teacher and the English teacher – they were all convinced and determined that they were the best possible example to follow.
“None of them looked at me as one should look at a man, but as if they were looking in a mirror.

“So I decided to enter this asylum. At least here I can be myself.’

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Lion & Nurse

An African lion has been filmed 'embracing' the woman who nursed him back to health in an animal shelter in Colombia. Ana Julia Torres runs the Villa Lorena shelter for abandoned and maltreated animals.

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People in Cali, Colombia, are shocked to see the bond between a large African lion and a woman who saved it from abuse, involving long, affectionate kisses and hugs between the pair.Ana Julia Torres, who runs the Villa Lorena animal shelter in Cali, fed and nursed Jupiter the African lion back to health years ago after it was found abused and emaciated in a traveling circus."It is amazing to see an animal like that be so sweet and affectionate," said Torres. "This hug is the most sincere one that I have received in my life."Torres, 47, said her work rehabilitating animals began more than a decade ago when a friend gave her an owl that had been kept as a pet.Later, when she asked her students to bring their pets to school, she realized many families illegally kept wild fauna from Colombia's biologically diverse jungles in their homes.The number of animals under her care grew, and now Jupiter is among 800 recovering creatures at Villa Lorena, where Torres looks after, among others, burned peacocks, limbless flamengos, blind monkeys and mutilated elephants.

Most of the animals are caged, though some, like iguanas, roam freely around the grounds of the shelter, which are enclosed by a 13-foot wall.Torres said she relies on donations and her modest teacher's salary to run the shelter."We dedicate our lives to the care of these animals without one single peso from the state," Torres said.Torres said many of the animals were rejected as infants by their parents in the wild or found abandoned on the streets of Cali.Torres said because she opposes exhibiting animals in circuses, she decided to keep her shelter closed from the public.
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SUPERMOON ???? AGAIN DEC 26 ???

In astrology, a supermoon is a full or new moon that coincides with a close approach by the Moon to the Earth. The Moon's distance varies each month between approximately 354,000 km (220,000 mi) and 410,000 km (254,000 mi).Speculations of a link between the occurrence of supermoons and natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunami are extremely tenuous. Arguments have been made that natural disasters coinciding with years in which supermoons occurred were influenced by the Moon's increased gravitational strength, though because of the monthly alternation between lunar apogee and perigee such an argument cannot be supported unless the disaster in question falls on the actual date of the supermoon,It has been argued that the Indian Ocean tsunami and earthquake on December 26, 2004, was influenced by a supermoon which occurred 2 weeks later on January 10, 2005.However two weeks before a supermoon the Moon is at the opposite point in its orbit: its apogee (greatest distance). Thus a supermoon effect is impossible.Most recently, astrologers argued that the Sendai earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, was influenced by the March 19 supermoon, the closest supermoon since 1992. The problem with this claim is that on March 11 the Moon was actually closer to apogee than perigee, at approximately 400,000 km (240,000 mi) from the Earth, which is further than the average distance between the Moon and the Earth throughout the Moon's orbital cycle.While some studies have reported a weak correlation between shallow, very low intensity earthquakes and lunar activity, there is no empirical evidence of any correlation with major earthquakes.

LIST OF SUPER MOON DAYS 

Pray For All....

 I am residing in a coastal area which was previously affected by Tsunami...May gold help Japan to rise back..

A boy looks at an award certificate that he found among debris after an earthquake and tsunami struck Ofunato City
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Japan's most powerful earthquake since records began has struck the north-east coast, triggering a massive tsunami.

Cars, ships and buildings were swept away by a wall of water after the 8.9-magnitude tremor, which struck about 400km (250 miles) north-east of Tokyo.A state of emergency has been declared at a nuclear power plant, where pressure has exceeded normal levels.Officials say 350 people are dead and about 500 missing, but it is feared the final death toll will be much higher.In one ward alone in Sendai, a port city in Miyagi prefecture, 200 to 300 bodies were found.In the centre of Tokyo many people are spending the night in their offices. But thousands, perhaps millions, chose to walk home. Train services were suspended.Even after the most violent earthquake anyone could remember the crowds were orderly and calm. The devastation is further to the north, along the Pacific coast.There a tsunami triggered by the quake reached 10km (six miles) inland in places carrying houses, buildings, boats and cars with it. In the city of Sendai the police found up to 300 bodies in a single ward. Outside the city in a built-up area a fire blazed across several kilometres.Japan's ground self-defence forces have been deployed, and the government has asked the US military based in the country for help. The scale of destruction from the biggest quake ever recorded in Japan will become clear only at first light.

Deadliest earthquakes

27 July 1976, Tangshan, China: est 655,000 killed, 7.5

12 Jan 2010, Haiti: 222,570 killed, 7.0

8 Oct 2005, Pakistan: 80,361 killed, 7.6

31 May 1970 Chimbote, Peru: 70,000 killed, 7.9

Source: USGS

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Julian Assange

The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange condemned a court order for his extradition to Sweden as "political and legal gang rape", the Australian Associated Press reported. A British judge ruled today that the 39-year-old Australian can be extradited to face rape and sexual assault claims, dismissing arguments that he would face an unfair trial."I would say that what we're looking at here is political and legal gang rape of my son," AAP quoted Christine Assange as saying.

About Assange

In 1987, after turning 16, Assange began hacking under the name "Mendax" (derived from a phrase of Horace: "splendide mendax", or "nobly untruthful"). He and two other hackers joined to form a group which they named the International Subversives. Assange wrote down the early rules of the subculture: "Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information".The Personal Democracy Forum said he was "Australia's most famous ethical computer hacker."
The Australian Federal Police became aware of this group and set up "Operation Weather" to investigate their hacking. In September 1991 Mendax was discovered in the act of hacking into the Melbourne master terminal of Nortel, the Canadian telecommunications company.In response the Australian Federal Police tapped Assanges' phoneline and subsequently raided his Melbourne home in 1991. He was also reported to have accessed computers belonging to an Australian university, the USAF 7th Command Group in the Pentagon and other organisations, via modem. It took three years to bring the case to court, where he was charged with 31 counts of hacking and related crimes. Nortel claimed his incursions cost them more than $100,000 dollars. Despite representing hacking as a victimless crime, he nonetheless pleaded guilty to 25 charges of hacking. Six charges were dropped. He was released on bond for good conduct after being fined A$2100. The judge said "there is just no evidence that there was anything other than sort of intelligent inquisitiveness and the pleasure of being able to—what's the expression—surf through these various computers" and stated that Assange would have gone to jail for up to 10 years if he had not had such a disrupted childhood.Assange later commented, "It's a bit annoying, actually. Because I co-wrote a book about [being a hacker], there are documentaries about that, people talk about that a lot. They can cut and paste. But that was 20 years ago. It's very annoying to see modern day articles calling me a computer hacker. I'm not ashamed of it, I'm quite proud of it. But I understand the reason they suggest I'm a computer hacker now. There's a very specific reason". In 2011 court records revealed that in 1993 Assange helped Victoria Police Child Exploitation Unit by providing technical advice and assisted in prosecuting persons.
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Listen to The Alchemist..........Listen to your Heart...............

“Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked, when they had made camp that day.

“Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.”

“But my heart is agitated,” the boy said. “It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it’s become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I’m thinking about her.”

“Well, that’s good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.”

“My heart is a traitor,” the boy said to the alchemist, when they had paused to rest the horses. “It doesn’t want me to go on.”

“That makes sense. Naturally it’s afraid that, in pursuing your dream, you might lose everything you’ve won.”

“Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?”

“Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you’re thinking about life and about the world.”

“You mean I should listen, even if it’s treasonous?”

“Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly. If you know your heart well, it will never be able to do that to you. Because you’ll know its dreams and wishes, and will know how to deal with them.

“My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”

“Every second of the search is an encounter with God,” the boy told his heart.
“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him,” his heart said. “We, people’s hearts, seldom say much about those treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later, we simply let life proceed, in its own direction, toward its own fate. But, unfortunately, very few follow the path laid out for them—the path to their destinies, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out indeed, to be threatening place.

“So, we, their hearts, speak more and more softly. We never stop speaking out, but we begin to hope that our words won’t be heard: we don’t want people to suffer because they don’t follow their hearts.”

From “The Alchemist”