Astrology, too?!
Acupuncture, homeopathy, energy healing – I’ve tried all those “weird sciences” and I’ve come away pretty well convinced that there's something to them. My friends say I’m quite gullible, and I confess to having embraced most of the New Age healing arts, but for some reason I’ve always drawn the line at astrology. However, recent events may force me to reconsider.
Here’s what the generic newspaper forecast said that life had in store for me today: “This is your week to explore new avenues and put your plans in motion. You will be brilliant in interviews and pulling things together for a project.” A bit eerie, considering what’s happened to me in the last 24 hours (and I won’t even count what happened three days ago, when Joel and I filmed two great interviews with Princeton scientists who talked about the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), or what happened 4 days ago, when we finalized plans to go to LA to interview current Red Sox outfielder Gabe Kapler: those events fall outside the window of my horoscope reading). But apart from those quibbles, here’s what’s been happening:
1. We got the OK to have our website linked to GCP’s website just hours before the New York Times did a feature article on a project that prominently mentions GCP’s role in its scientific validation (the project is quirky enough to merit a mention here – it’s called Global Orgasm for Peace, a day of simultaneous world-wide orgasms that is organized by peace activists who hope to harmonize the Earth’s energy field enough that it will both soothe the world’s troubled psyche and register on the computerized electronic gizmos that our Princeton colleague Roger Nelson has distributed around the planet). So hopefully the GOP will create world peace (yes, that’s quite a good acronymal oxymoron), and hopefully our linked website will get a ton of hits in the process
2. I finally got up the gumption to submit a conference proposal based on the Joy of Sox material, feeling ready at long last to “go public” to my professional colleagues. I put a proposal together for a conference whose theme is “The Science of the Miraculous”, reasoning that nothing could be more miraculous than the 2004 World Series. I hope the conference organizers see it that way too.
3. I finally got a call back from the one former Red Sox player I’ve been really lusting to interview – Bill “Spaceman” Lee, the ace pitcher and resident character of the Sox of the 1970’s. During today’s fast-paced telephone chat, I learned that he’s really eager to be interviewed for the film, that his fastball now tops out at 65 mph (he still plays in an over-60 league, where he struck out the final three batters in 9 pitches to win the championship game), and that he’s a fan of the writings of the Russian mystic Gurdjieff. He hasn’t lost his intellectual fastball, that’s for sure.
So maybe I’m not ready to have my astrological chart drawn up just yet, but it certainly has been a very interesting couple of days.
Here’s what the generic newspaper forecast said that life had in store for me today: “This is your week to explore new avenues and put your plans in motion. You will be brilliant in interviews and pulling things together for a project.” A bit eerie, considering what’s happened to me in the last 24 hours (and I won’t even count what happened three days ago, when Joel and I filmed two great interviews with Princeton scientists who talked about the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), or what happened 4 days ago, when we finalized plans to go to LA to interview current Red Sox outfielder Gabe Kapler: those events fall outside the window of my horoscope reading). But apart from those quibbles, here’s what’s been happening:
1. We got the OK to have our website linked to GCP’s website just hours before the New York Times did a feature article on a project that prominently mentions GCP’s role in its scientific validation (the project is quirky enough to merit a mention here – it’s called Global Orgasm for Peace, a day of simultaneous world-wide orgasms that is organized by peace activists who hope to harmonize the Earth’s energy field enough that it will both soothe the world’s troubled psyche and register on the computerized electronic gizmos that our Princeton colleague Roger Nelson has distributed around the planet). So hopefully the GOP will create world peace (yes, that’s quite a good acronymal oxymoron), and hopefully our linked website will get a ton of hits in the process
2. I finally got up the gumption to submit a conference proposal based on the Joy of Sox material, feeling ready at long last to “go public” to my professional colleagues. I put a proposal together for a conference whose theme is “The Science of the Miraculous”, reasoning that nothing could be more miraculous than the 2004 World Series. I hope the conference organizers see it that way too.
3. I finally got a call back from the one former Red Sox player I’ve been really lusting to interview – Bill “Spaceman” Lee, the ace pitcher and resident character of the Sox of the 1970’s. During today’s fast-paced telephone chat, I learned that he’s really eager to be interviewed for the film, that his fastball now tops out at 65 mph (he still plays in an over-60 league, where he struck out the final three batters in 9 pitches to win the championship game), and that he’s a fan of the writings of the Russian mystic Gurdjieff. He hasn’t lost his intellectual fastball, that’s for sure.
So maybe I’m not ready to have my astrological chart drawn up just yet, but it certainly has been a very interesting couple of days.
posted by Rick Leskowitz,MD at 9:47 PM
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