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one thing that is constant in our
lives and in the universe is change.
Of course, there are all kinds of changes: changes in our personal
lives, changes in the community, the neighborhood, different technologies,
etc. We resist change to a certain degree. Some changes are forced
upon us and others we instigate ourselves. Capstone House can be
a valuable resource in the midst of a changing, hectic world.
In Capstone House,
we find a wealth of resources by which, and with which, to reorganize
our thinking and achieve a greater degree of purposefulness and
serenity. We can consult others who have had |
similar experiences
and have achieved solutions in their lives. As a Capstone member,
you can consult and check out books, tapes and videos that may be
helpful. In some mediation session, of which there are usually four
a month conducted at Capstone House, you may experience some life-
changing thought or revelation.
In the various lectures and workshops
you may encounter the person or the way of thinking that can enable
you to confront change and turn it into good. But, of course, we have
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MYSTERIES
OF THE UNIVERSE BEYOND OUR BIOLOGICAL SENSES
Mr.
John Cheshire has given us a series of presentations beginning,
several years ago, with an Introduction
to Perceptions of Reality. That was followed by several
papers resulting from further development of that theme. Topics
covered were: Mysteries of the Inanimate (Physical) Universe, Mysteries
of the Animate (Living) World, The Underlying role of the Quantum
Universe, and recently, he presented: Mysteries Beyond our Biological
Senses. What is beyond our biological senses? It must be psychic
phenomena. Mr. Cheshire has graduate degrees from Harvard Univ.
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For many years he
has been exploring the frontiers of science. He has shown how modern
science has reached the limits of understanding available to its
mechanistic, reductionist methods. Frontier science has reached
an understanding that we live in a non-local universe in which
everything (mind and matter) seems ultimately connected. Mr. Cheshire,
a philosopher of science and metaphysics (study of first causes
and the nature of ultimately reality) is supremely qualified to
discuss the subjects he has presented to us.
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memorialize a family member or friend on Capstone's Memorial Plaque
by donating $100 or more to the Capstone House, Inc. general fund
and giving the person's name exactly as you wish it to appear on the
bronze nameplate. Over the years Capstone members who have crossed
over to the next plane have their names recorded on the plaque,
the most recent ones being Marjorie Whitsitt Ph.D. and Dorothy L.
Coffee, both known to many people in this area. The first name inscribed
is Bruce N. Bowdler, oldest son of George Bowdler, one of the founders
of Capstone House. For details contact; Gladys Grimsley, Chairperson,
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Sound and Energy Therapy
Recently there was a fascinating program given by Mary Kern, RN - BSN, with
the title "Form Follows Frequency". The presenter is an outstanding
health educator, sound therapist and researcher. Mary is active and in the forefront
of the new study of the energy nature of the human body and related frequencies.
Her presentation included visuals, printed handouts, and demonstrations including
CD recordings of significant sounds and frequencies. The relationships
of the sounds and frequencies to human health was discussed with some verification.
It was a great program, with a capacity audience in attendance.
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The Capstone House Library was started in the late 1980’s first in the living
room of the founders and then it was housed with Don and Judy Ball where it
survived Hurricane Opal and was later transferred to Capstone’s Center at that
time on West 11 th St. During this time, many donations of books and tapes were
brought and given to the Capstone Library . Since moving to 1713 Beck Ave. the
Library took on a new look with great help by Milton Carlisle who organized
the existing system, including building many shelves.
The annual membership dues (basic individual rate is $24.00 a year) cover the
Library expenses. The dues cover the 12 months from January to December 32 and
help cover expenses involved with the publication of the Capstone Newsletter
and the entire expenses incidental to the operation of the Library.
So as you renew or join up for next year you are supporting your library and
all its functions plus all the other various activities we sponsored. we sponger.
We invite you to take part in one or more of the various interest groups sponsored
by Capstone. We have a wide variety of subjects that may interest you. There
is always a welcome here for you.
For those of you who have checked out books and tapes previously, please check
your holdings, return any Capstone books or tapes, and help us regain all our
holdings.
We need your help and cooperation on this.
Lunch with John Anthony West
CAPSTONE HOUSE INC. NEWSLETTER NORTHWEST FLORIDA ’S FUTURISTIC LEARNING CENTER
VOLUME 16 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 2005
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Capstone House (CH) Annual Membership Meeting
The meeting was held on Monday, January 17 at 7pm . All Officers and the Executive
Director gave their annual reports, and responses to inquiries. The president's
report includes:
1. Presented Life Member Certificates for 26 Life Members.
2. Numerous Volunteer Awards were given to supporting members and Board members
in recognition of their service, dedication and contributions to assist and
maintain CH as a worthwhile and beneficial center of learning.
3. A Review of Highlights and Activities of 2004.
4. The final activity was an open discussion about the advantages and accomplishments
of CH and possible new projects for future inclusion and development. There
is a need to attract money to pay the mortgage thus permitting expansion and
purchase of much needed equipment.
Review of CH Highlights and Activities
There are so many activities and members worthy of being complimented for their
work this past year; however we cannot cover everything here. Anyone that had
anything to do with any of our meetings deserves to be complimented and we certainly
thank all of you. Let me review a few highlights:
The Director of the Institute for Higher Learning, Dr. George Bowdler, supervised
many IOHL classes the past year.
CH now has a Reference Library room where some most valuable books can be read,
and videos viewed in the library.
Throughout the past year, member Walt Stoll, M.D. has presided over two health
meetings each month. He also contributed health education articles to every
CH Newsletter.
CH had outstanding programs each month on subjects of Space, UFOs and/or Crop
Circles. These meetings are presented by Jim Hayton, including a typed, professional
summary.
For most of the past year, Jack Hutchins has presided at weekly meetings of
the Reiki Sharing Group. The attendance says it is a most popular meeting. Jack
also taught a series of classes on Energy Medicine.
A wonderful series of programs on Angels, Ghosts, and Spirits was presented
by Gladys Grimsley
The Panama City Philosophical Society (PCPS) now meets at Capstone House. Its
three preceding meetings were: a talk by John Cheshire, a program by GCCC Art
instructor Roland Hocket, and third a presentation by GCCC Philosophy instructor
Carolin Woolson. All were outstanding programs. Each were followed by a food
and social gathering in the library. The CH founders are also members of PCPS.
The Capstone House Annual Conference at GCCC featured John Anthony West, a
writer and independent Egyptologist who has been studying and writing about
ancient Egypt for nearly three decades. It was thrilling to hear him speak about
his work and the geological redating of the Great Sphinx of Giza , proving that
it must be at least 10,000 years old (or older). That is about twice as old
as academics acknowledged. His work was the subject of an NBC Special on the
Mystery of the Sphinx. West won an Emmy for Best Research for his work on the
Video.
CH also sponsored a health program at GCCC. Two of the featured speakers were,
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members Mary Kern, RN, speaking on Sound Frequency and Vibration Therapy, and
Rita Jungman, RN, presented Functional Medicine. These are rather new subjects
presented at both the college and at CH.
Board member John Cheshire gave two lectures during the year, one in February
and another in September. His subjects cover every thing from ancient Egypt
to modern quantum physics and Future Energy Sources. He will speak again this
Feb/05.
Another new subject, developed at Harvard Medical School , was given by George
Bowdler to the New Science Group. The subject is known as EECP and is a non-surgical
treatment for some heart conditions, angina & congestive heart failure.
Another health program was given at GCCC by Rita Jungman, RN and Elizabeth
Markovich, RN regarding Functional Medicine and Alternative Healing. Both were
very well received.
Candis Harbison gave a wonderful talk about the local environment and its "biological
diversity". More species exist in St. Andrews Bay than in any other bay
in Florida . Their survival, however, is endangered by pollution and the current
rapid population growth and development in Bay County which occurs without adequate
concern for what was a wonderful environment for both people & other forms
of life entitled to live here.
Not to be forgotten are the great yard sales which so many people contribute
either by donating, purchasing, or "minding the store".
Forthcoming CH Meetings 2005
Capstone House (CH) is off to a good start this year. Several of our recent
programs were exceptionally well attended. We do have a variety of programs
on different subjects including metaphysics, psychic exploration, philosophy,
art, psychology, health, and space science. The number of programs varies a
little about 15 per month. The amazing thing is that these categories of subjects
are frequently "touched on" by some speakers every month, especially
new developments and futuristic knowledge.
On the 14th of February, CH board member John Cheshire will take us on a trip
to experience the saga of the creation of a giant new food source--farmed shrimp--amounting
already to $7 billion a year and which will expand in the future to many times
that. The early research required by this mighty new industry was performed
by the Japanese in the period 1930-1968, and the commercial development by John's
company Marifarms, Inc. from 1968-1982. Biotechnical developments at U.S. universities
contributed to the methods for producing this most valuable food source. Come
hear the story from one of the founders.
A special Capstone House Spring Health Program, coordinated by James DeRuiter,
MD, will be held at Gulf Coast Community College on Saturday, April 30. It will
be of interest to the public as well as those needing CEUs. In March or April
member Steve Imhof will present a program onthe subject of Science and Spirituality.
This is a subject he hasdealt with for a long time, and gave a similar talk
at a Washington conference. It has been said that science explains the world
and the structure of things, and spirituality gives it value. Byallowing science
and spirituality to unite we would certainly experience a more peaceful world.
This profoundly metaphysical
subject is of broad ranging interest to everyone. Please remember to read the
calendar in the Newsletter!
Extra Terrestrial Visitation
Such a futuristic program was just presented at the CH Space Science/UFO meeting
January 19, 2005 . A report published in the Jan/Feb 2005 issue of the Journal
of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS) was reviewed by the chairman. This
paper prepared by four "top of the line" physicists titled: "Inflation-Theory
Implications for Extraterrestrial Visitation". One of the authors, Hal
Puthoff, PhD, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin , Texas
, was speaker at the CH Annual Conference at Gulf Coast Community College ,
October 2003. The authors covered much more material than can be discussed here.
There is a copy of their Abstract,
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and Conclusions elsewhere in this newsletter.
It can be said that these four authors are recognized as outstanding physicists,
working at the forefront of quantum physics, the zero-point-field, and alternative
methods of space travel, are classic examples of the true tradition of open
minded scientists. That is, they willingly examine reports of new facts even
though the reported facts might be contrary to existing understanding of physical
science (Remember Madame Curie--and others).
In their JBIS paper on Inflation Theory, the authors review implications of
superstring and M-Brane theory which provide for the possibility of parallel
universes, and speculate that civilizations millions of years older than Earth's
might have developed the technology to pass from one universe to another
rapidly, if not instantaneously. If such were true, then the small number (a
few percent) of world wide genuine, UFO reports might be alien craft from elsewhere
(other universes). This is known as the extra terrestrial hypothesis (ETH).
These genuine reports should be studied seriously by scientists to acquire new
knowledge and also possibly for earthlife protection.
The authors also consider UFO's and the ETH within our universe since it likely
has a variety of sources of life, civilizations, advanced scientific technologies,
and many kinds of spacecraft.
To shorten this newsletter article, it is believed the authors of the JBIS
article would agree substantially with the following statements given here by
this CH writer concerning the Milky Way Galaxy and relations to ETH.
1. The earth is in the Milky Way galaxy, diameter 100 thousand light years,
approximately 13 billion years old, and it contains roughly 200 billion stars.
2. When stars form, planets and their moons form. The Sun has 9 (or maybe 10)
planets with altogether dozens of moons. Therefore most stars in this galaxy
must have planets.
3. Assume an average 5 planets per star rather than 10; then there would be
5 times 200 billion or one trillion planets. That is a million million planets
in this one galaxy alone.
4. However, if the average is only one planet per star, there would still be
at least 200 thousand million planets in our Milky Way galaxy.
5. If the total universe and all other galaxies are considered, then the possible
number of planets approaches infinity (an
uncountable number).
6. The Earth and its Sun is 4.5 billion years old; therefore more than half
the stars and planets in our galaxy are billions of years older than Earth.
7. There is no scientific evidence that life is unique to planet earth. Thus
it is assumed that the galaxy abounds with life in many forms. Because of the
plentiful time available, many civilizations have arisen and some have passed
on. Carl Sagan estimated 10 million scientifically advanced technological civilizations
in this galaxy's past, present, and future.
8. As the science writer Arthur Clark once said, aliens from an extra terrestrial
(ET) civilization a million years older than Earth's culture would appear to
us perhaps as godlike magicians, angels or actual gods.
The JBIS technical paper involves much more extensive study, review and analyses
of various related topics. Some topics include the following: recent scientific
advances, U.S. Air Force activity, the Condon Report and more recent sightings,
withheld information now available, inferring an ET strategy, and a proposal
for re-evaluation of the UFO phenomena. A copy of the paper is available in
the CH Reference Library.
To summarize this article, the JBIS authors indicate that scientists and governments
should seriously study, research, and investigate significant UFO reports to
ascertain the meaning and purpose of ET visitations and encounters.
Ed Wilbanks,
President
Lifetime Members Through 2004
Libby Hertell
Edward Wilbanks
James DeRuiter,MD
George Bowdler
Sandy Acosta
Don Bryan
Gladys Grimsley
John Pascoe
Donna Schneider
John Shelburne
Diane LaRoe
Linda Leonard
Anna Lou McCort
Joan Casey
Walt Stoll,Dr.
Reese Sunmer
Stacy Sherbert
Tom Bingham
Milo Lester
Larry & Dianna Walsh
David & Allegra Hackett
Milton Carlisle
Don & Judy Ball
Linda Grantham
Brenda Miracle
Brenda Orr