The Birds and The Bees Pt3: Immaculate Conception

The world has reacted strongly to the release of a few new creatures. Perhaps you've seen the London 2012 mascots, the alien-looking, one-eyed, camera-faced critters that have caused such a stir. We've got Chris Knowles running with the alien theme and pointing out the Templar origins of their names. Red Ice goes with the Orwellian and Zionist symbolism.

However, for our study, I am most interested in the "M" and "W" on their foreheads, since we have been looking at the double "M" or the flipped version for the last few months. Note the synopsis in the video also reads "Meet the Mascots."

Then we can look at their creation myth, as laid out in this video from the Olympic committee.

They are forged, or engineered, out of two globs...

Sorta like the other immaculate conception story coming out at the same time. Meet "Synthia" the cellular life-form created from scratch in a laboratory:

From petri dishes to shoe boxes.

Note the view count, while remembering that 5 o'clock is 17 in military time.

Just some quick food for thought while I'm working on the next segment for this series.

Stay tuned for Part 4.

UPDATE:

I knew I had seen that motif elsewhere. I just thought of two other guys, one with an "M" on his head, and one with a "W."

They like to ingest magic mushrooms and are representations of the dueling natures of man.

You know, "The Jungian thing."

The Birds and The Bees Pt2: Don't Worry Bee Happy

I had wanted to write this follow-up sooner, but I had to take a much-needed detour first. I found myself in Virginia for a recital put on by Melissa's dance school that explicitly incorporated the death/rebirth symbolism of the Easter/Spring period. Then we came back to NYC on a bus out of Newport News, VA. The address of the bus station? 317 of course.

We ended Part One of this series by touching on the Vonnegut book "The Sirens of Titan," which centers around the town of Newport, Rhode Island. Written in 1959, the book has a BlueBeam event, a man who is scattered across time and space gaining all sorts of knowledge and power who then builds a city on Mars. I'd be surprised if Alan Moore didn't lift 85% of the plot from this book for his "Watchmen," but maybe not all that surprised. At it's core, this sci-fi theme seems to be an attempt at explaining the ego-death experience. That is a universal challenge and where most of the symbols we look at lead us.

We have been looking at the repeated death/rebirth symbols for the last few months. But, we cannot have rebirth, let alone first-life, without "the birds and the bees." The public sex ritual of Tiger Woods and all he represents never disappoints to give us symbolic fodder and we can always count on the Nazi-antics of Drudge to spell it out for us:

Note the name Boehner (Boner), combining the political with the sex Wood, who now cannot perform (castrated like Osiris?) and leading us to the White House. All in 2010, the year of the Tiger, the year we make contact.

And, in case you missed this update to Pt1: Jesus wants to go to Venus,

it seems Jesus, the solar-powered SUN of God, really does want to go to Venus.

Now we have bees connected to space travel again. For actual space bees, let's take a peek at the Futurama episode "The Sting."

It opens with the robot Bender playing golf like our Tiger Woods on, what else, the 17th hole.

Bender then dons a bee costume for the trip to the space hive, where our cast enters a hexagon gateway.

Note the double B telling you to "Be the B" and the sexual overtones of the advertisement next to the episode. "Be the Boss, control your Staff!"

Here we see Fry killed by the sting of another Killer Bee, starting off our death/rebirth ritual.

Outside his funeral, this DNA-bearing spaceship-truck flies past, hinting at rebirth.

Later, Leela eats hallucinogenic honey and imagines that Fry is reborn out of the combo of DNA and Honey. We had already looked at the historical connections between honey and hallucinogens in the post Circumpunct Breakfast: Masonically Delicious! - see Terence McKenna and others for more on this.

She then imagines that the Jesus-resonating, reborn Fry takes her to his favorite planet, Venus.

In Leela's next hallucination, the cast of the show does a song and dance number singing "Don't worry, BEE happy," a variation on Bobby McFerrin's "Don't worry, Be Happy." While singing and dancing, they all die after being stung by bees - sorta like that Lady Gaga video. Nice disco-ball hexagons too.

Follow me on a tangent to look at the original Bobby McFerrin song, especially since his initials reunite the B & M that we have noticed again and again with the honey meme.

Notice the video set is two illuminated pillars beside an entrance to a smoke tunnel. It also has a holy trinity dancing in front of it, made up of Bobby McFerrin, Robin Williams (resonating Jake Kotze's favorite bird), and Bill Irwin (who we'll look at in a minute).

The video also gives us this shot of a financial meltdown (something we've seen a lot of in the the markets lately). I include this because in "Sirens of Titan" there is a stock market crash that the US President decides to stimulate his way out of with a new era of space travel. If you're living in the US in the year 2010, this may sound like a familiar scenario. Interesting.

Also noteworthy in "Sirens of Titan," is a spaceship called "The Whale." As I I had been looking at the fact that bees are perfect symbols for death/rebirth - bees have stingers and die after using them, they are potentially deadly themselves (see Killer Bees), but also are responsible for much life on this planet by pollinating the world's plantlife - I began seeing Bees and Whales as symbolically interchangeable, since there are Sperm Whales and Killer Whales. We also have "the belly of the whale" as a dark night of the soul or ego-death experience. So, when the spaceship called "The Whale" popped up in this book, I took notice.

This theory was validated when, in the Radio8Ball show that synced so strongly in Part One, Twig Palace sings her song "Little Finger." She sings a line that reminds us of Lucky's four magic charms and Elton John's Levon, "Let's blow up big balloons and send them soaring into outer space." The next verse has the people reincarnated as Bumble Bees. In the verse after that she sings, "If our honey lives don't suit us, let's be killer whales instead."

After making this connection, I saw an ad on the subway for a show called Whale Wars. If you have any doubt that the double "W" is an upside-down double "M," note that the station "AniMal Planet" has a highlighted "M" in the logo. The tagline on the advert and the synopsis on the animal planet website both read: "Whale Wars: It's not about whales. It's about 42 crazy die-hards with a mission."

So there's our ever-present 42 and this DVD case reminds us again that it's all about death and rebirth:

Oh, and my symbol junkies will love the logo of the "conservation society" those 42 people operate. Check it out:

Since Whales are Bees, and we're going with the "birds and the bees" theme, I next thought of the Tom Waits song, "Fish and Bird." Here are some of the lyrics:

Of a world that was so far away
And a song that we'd never heard
A song of a little bird
That fell in love with a whale

He said, 'You cannot live in the ocean'
And she said to him
'You never can live in the sky'
But the ocean is filled with tears
And the sea turns into a mirror
There's a whale in the moon when it's clear
And a bird on the tide

So, after all this, I saw a birdcage in the "Don't Worry, Be Happy" video, and said to myself, "Okay, there's our bird, where's the fish?" Well, I wasn't disappointed. As if summoned, a fishbowl falls out of the sky and Bill Irwin catches it, then places it next to the bird, where it belongs.

Wiki tells us that our third member of the Holy Trinity, Bill Irwin, has had a fascinating career. With roles in The Regard of Flight, Fool Moon, Waiting for Godot (alongside Steve Martin and Robin Williams), The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, My Blue Heaven, Lady in the Water, Across the Universe, Northern Exposure as "The Flying Man," 3rd Rock from the Sun, and Bye Bye Birdie. He is most known for his clown work, since graduating Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in 1974.

Yep, that Ringling Brothers. The one we were just looking at in "Bread and Circuses." You know, the one with the OZ Stargate on their site.

Remember, we had just looked at Ringling again, alongside Elton John (the guy who has an album called Goodbye Yellow Brick Road) in Part One of this series.

If you want more on the Circus and Space travel connection, see The Secret Sun here and here.

Oh hey, don't let me forget this headline. It's graduation season and high profile douche, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, spoke at a commencement ceremony telling kids, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." So now you know everything is going to be fine.

While I've still got you on a tangent or twelve, let's look at the other ad that popped up on the Futurama site. It's for something called Earth Eternal, with a logo that is obviously two E's back to back, but which creates something else all together.

It may be a nod to our 2010, year of the Tiger. In many artistic representations of the year of the tiger, the tiger is drawn with a "Wang" on his forehead, over its third-eye. It is the Chinese character for "King" and often appears on real-life tigers as shown in this picture from the zooschool site.

While in Virginia with a bunch of dancers, we watched this incredible tap routine from The Nicholas Brothers.

Wiki tells us that Fayard Nicholas "was a member of the Baha'i Faith since 1967." The Baga'i "ringstone" symbol should now look familiar to us, as it is the spitting image of the Wang and the back-to-back E.

I'm reminded that Bees communicate through dance as I watch these guys dance on a set with a now-familiar stargate design.

I know what you're asking yourself. Why does it always come back to 2001/2010 and Stargates and all that? Well, let's finish that Futurama episode, shall we?

Leela decides to find Fry's coffin, assuming it to be empty, to prove that he's still alive. When she gets to it, the classic music starts, and the coffin is shown to be a black monolith from the 2001/2010 films.

She opens it and finds a surprise...

The coffin contains non-other than a stargate:

Hitting us over the head with death-as-stargate symbolism.

But, if you think that's the end of it, you're going to be as surprised as I was.

To be continued...

The Birds and The Bees Pt1: Jesus wants to go to Venus

Let me tell you 'bout the Birds and the Bees

And the Flowers and the Trees

And the Moon, up above

And a thing called Love

May 4th started a blitz of wild syncs for me, and since that day is known in Japan as Midori No Hi, or "Greenery Day" (part of "Golden Week"), that seems par for the course. If you've been reading this blog, you know that Osiris, the Green Man, has been calling out to me for a while. So, on another Green Day, he told me to take another look at that box of Lucky Charms.

Let's remember that Osiris was dismembered, put back together without his penis, and was given a new golden phallus by the moon goddess (all of which is covered in the Mystery of the Wandering Member post). I had already connected Lucky to Osiris, since they are both green men, but look closely at the image of him. He has now gained the power of teleporting and is dematerializing from the bottom up. In place of his vanishing member is an erect moon.

It seems someone wants us to talk about sex, or the birds and the bees, as it were. So let's get to it.

The night of May 4th I went out with some friends, met a guy who I told that he reminded me of Agent DB Cooper from Twin Peaks, and, as we were leaving, one of the girls realized that she couldn't find one of her shoes. I reached under the couch she was sitting on and cut my pinky finger on a shard of broken glass - something that seemed insignificant at the time. I went home that night and had a dream about a yellow hummingbird that I apparently kept as a pet in my apartment. I turned my attention away from the yellow hummingbird and spotted a much smaller and much stranger creature: A mix of a bee and hummingbird, wearing a tiny little flowing dress. It was struggling to fly and I was trying to teach it how. It was unable and seemed perhaps sick or dying.

I woke up the next day, not completely surprised by the dream. I've been writing about honey and bees for a few months now, after all. But, something made me go to my computer, almost instantly upon waking, and look at the sync whole blog. I guess I knew what was waiting there: A post about dying bees from a guy using the name HummingWolf (wolf=flow). There's even a quote from Agent DB Cooper at the top of the freaking blog!

His post was in response to this video where they're talking about the reoccurrence of the letters DB, the 2001/2010 movies, dead bees, blood flow, pinky fingers, they sing a song called "Little Finger" with lyrics about bees, and they speak to Seth Green!

Okay, watch this:

The Radio8Ball Show With Seth Green & Twig Palace - 03/21/2010 from The Radio8Ball Show on Vimeo.

Seth Green is another green man , his very name is a combination of the Green man and Set/Seth, his dark half. Remember, it is Set who kills and dismembers his brother Osiris.

Then there's all the craziness with the little finger.

And the blog post even included a Dali painting with a tiger that Melissa pointed out was very similar to the tiger in the circus poster we examined in connection to Osiris, assassination, and Jake Kotze's 9/11 stargate. Note the Obelisk on the elephant's back and the threatening rifle.

But wait, there's more. If you've been following along as we find the constant pairing of the letter "M" or the double "M" with the Bee or "B" syncs, then you may have laughed as loudly as I did when the big story broke this week. In what is being called a "Fat Finger" incident, a huge fluctuation in the stock market is being blamed on someone typing "B" for billion instead of "M" for million.

But, if you take those into numerology, B=2 and M=4, so we go right back to the 42 of Jupiter to go with the Jupiter finger (or the "fat finger") that the SyncWhole boys are all up on.

If you'll allow me to continue on this tangent, the computer error with the B&M made me jump to IBM in my mind. (Read about IBM's connection to the Nazis if you don't already know about their disgusting past).

Paul Rand (not to be confused with Ron Paul's son, Rand Paul) designed the IBM logo in 1972. Then, in 1981 he made this redesign incorporating the Bee:

Paul Rand also designed the UPS logo which I keep seeing a variation of on subway ads for "The King of Queens" reruns. Apparently the main character in the show works for "IPS," a not-too-subtle hat-tip to UPS. But.... according to Wiki, the sitcom cast lives at 3121 Aberdeen Street. Now, Aberdeen is a place is Scotland, so we've got a Masonic nod there. But what about that number?

3121=CABA

That looks to me like Kabba, the very same sacred cube that Kotze posits is the center of the stargate rituals.

More stargates? Yup. Remember our teleporting Green Man from the cereal box? Isn't one of his 'four charms needed to grant him the power of teleportation' a horseshoe? Well, Chris Knowles laid out the idea of the horseshoe as a symbol of a wormhole or stargate.

Now, take this a step further, and remember that the double "M" is 44.

More factoids from Wiki: The last episode of "King of Queens" ran 44 minutes, was filmed on the Ides of March, features the adoption of a child named Ming-Mei, and...

The episode ends with a three-minute montage of scenes from the show's nine seasons to A Million Billion's song Milk & Honey. The final scene shows the words thanks for the ride…

There was another Stargate/Osiris-resonating story this week, as an airport security guard, aged 44 of course, kept walking through the gates of the Orwellian full-image body-scanner and being made fun of for his "small penis." Of course, after he beats the crap out of his co-worker he goes to jail and the poor guy gets his face spread all over the news as 'the dude with the small penis.' The daily mail article on this disaster includes this photo of airport bag-checkers playing with luggage that looks like bees:

I've been writing mostly about honey and honey bees, but I got to thinking - who is the Queen Bee?

We looked at Beyonce taking on the role of a Killer QueenB. Since then I have been thinking about the Queen song "Killer Queen," which is, at least on the surface, about a drag queen (by the way, the night of May 4th I met a guy named Leary who is a drag queen). But, what seemed to make the most sense in looking for a "killer queen" was Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. We've also been looking at all the assassination language floating around. Well, wouldn't you know it, there was a scare on Tuesday where they were afraid that Queen Beatrix might be the target of another assassination attempt while she was at a war memorial service (this of course comes after the Polish president actually was assassinated while on his way to a war memorial service).

Queen Beatrix has made a name for herself as a prominent Bilderburger and owner of Royal Dutch Shell. On Wednesday, the story broke that Shell has been spilling a record amount of oil in Nigeria, specifically in the Niger Delta. Here in the States, we're looking at a huge oil spill in our Delta ever since the wreck of the fascinatingly named "Deepwater Horizon." The combo of the triangular Delta and "Deepwater Horizon" remind me of that Lego Atlantis stargate set we looked at. Even down to the black cloud of the squid's ink.

But let us not forget that we've been looking back at the movie "Kill Bill" - whose main character, played by Uma Thurman, goes unnamed until the end of the second film, when it is revealed to be Beatrix. I decided to pursue this and do some research into Uma's career and background.

Uma dressed as a yellow and black Killer Bee in Kill Bill

It turns out her mom's first husband was LSD pioneer Timothy Leary, and the two were introduced to each other by Salvador Dali - that's when I know I'm on to something here. Her father is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies and named her after a Hindu goddess. "Uma" is another name for the goddess Parvati ("daughter of the mountains"), a wife of Shiva.

There's a statue of Shiva outside of the 17-mile long Large Hadron Collider, which some theorize may be a stargate itself. When I say "some theorize" I mean, like, guys working on it.

A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that the titanic machine may possibly create or discover previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or "unknown unknowns" - for instance "an extra dimension".

"Out of this door might come something, or we might send something through it," said Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN, briefing reporters including the Reg at CERN HQ earlier this week.

There's also a prayer to Shiva and Parvati at the end of George Harrison's last album, "Brainwashed." It's a fantastic album with songs like P2 Vatican Blues, calling out the P2 Masonic Lodge, The Rising Sun with beautiful lyrics like "Universe at play, inside your DNA, you're a billion years old today," and Looking for My Life, with the lyrics "I'd only hung around Birds and Bees."

George Harrison also owned the production company "Handmade Films" with films such as The Life of Brian (with Jesus, Space Aliens, and Terry Gilliam with a red all-seeing-eye painted on his forehead years and years before he directed Heath Ledger in Dr. Parnassus with a red all-seeing-eye painted on his forehead), Time Bandits (featuring time-traveling midgets), Shanghai Surprise (Madonna's first real acting role), and more under it's belt. Last year they did Planet 51, a film about space aliens that was mentioned in the other Seth Green SyncWhole blog post.

George Harrison, no stranger to Indian tradition, had a song years ago called Maya Love. Well, Uma Thurman, herself named after a goddess, has a daughter named Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke and played a character named Maya in Duke of Groove. There's also another Maya that I know of. Maya the Bee.

Uma also has a son named Levon.

I've been trying to get upstate to see Levon Helm, former member of The Band. They held a concert called "Rock of Ages" in which they ceremoniously played the song "Genetic Method" at midnight between New Year's Eve and the New Year.

"Rock of Ages" takes its name from two old hymns. The Hebrew hymn has the line "They breached the walls of my towers and they defiled all the oils." Where the Christian version has the lines "While I draw this fleeting breath, when mine eye-strings break in death."

"Quantum: Rock of Ages" is also the name of a comic book some friends of mine have been doing for a while. It's about time-travel and the interconnectivity of multiple-dimensional existance.

Levon is also the name of an Elton John song (so named for The Band's Levon Helm) off the album "Madman Across The Water." Ponder some of these lyrics:

Levon wears his war wound like a crown

He calls his child Jesus

'Cause he likes the name

...

Levon sells cartoon balloons in town

His family business thrives

Jesus blows up balloons all day

Sits on the porch swing watching them fly

And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus

Leaving Levon far behind

Take a balloon and go sailing

While Levon, Levon slowly dies

The father of little Maya and Levon is Ethan Hawke. Making Levon Thurman-Hawke another bird resonator, like the dead Osiris' bird-faced son with his flying disc, and sorta like the now-forgotten Balloon Boy, whose name was Falcon, and who was supposed to have flown away from his father in an interplanetary balloon.

That reminds me, I was visited by a bunch of balloons the other day. About 5 of them had become tangled up in my clothes line and I had to set them free.

Perhaps, since the Balloon is another one of Lucky's four teleportation ingredients, I should have held on to them.

Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke met on the set of the DNA thriller Gattaca. Uma plays a character named Cassini. Ethan plays a character named Vincent Freeman. Freeman is a bit of a masonic nod in itself, as you are supposed to be a "Free Man" to become a Mason. However, it gets more interesting in that the actors who play Vincent Freeman in the flashbacks are Chad Christ in the teenage scenes and Mason Gamble in the boyhood scenes.

And the whole point of Vincent Freeman's struggle throughout the film? Well, he wants to get on a spaceship to a moon of Saturn. The moon named Titan to be exact.

Considering I am currently reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan," a book with characters named "Bee" and "Chrono" who end up on the moon of Titan....I think we're gonna need a part 2.

To be continued...

PS: I hit "publish" and saw that it was exactly 3:17AM

3/17 is the date of Osiris' death.

UPDATE:

Amazing. Look at these two headlines that just overlapped on Drudge:

It seems Jesus, the solar-powered SUN of God, really does want to go to Venus.

Interview with Michael Schacht from Gosporn

He gave a pretty good synopsis on his blog so I'm gonna use that. He wrote:

"We talked about the Illuminati, the epic fall of the Catholic Church, 911, Masonic control of religion, entheogens and the formation of egoic consciousness, how to interpret the Holy Bible, sex, spirituality and the Secret Gay Agenda!"

In related news, it seems the Unification Church is putting the Washington Times up for sale. Interesting timing.

Nice ad for Monsanto in there too. Oh, that reminds me, if you've been reading my study of the honey bee meme, you may be interested to know this story just came out:

Disturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter.

The decline of the country's estimated 2.4 million beehives began in 2006, when a phenomenon dubbed colony collapse disorder (CCD) led to the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of colonies. Since then more than three million colonies in the US and billions of honeybees worldwide have died and scientists are no nearer to knowing what is causing the catastrophic fall in numbers.

The number of managed honeybee colonies in the US fell by 33.8% last winter, according to the annual survey by the Apiary Inspectors of America and the US government's Agricultural Research Service (ARS)

Note, I read that 2.4 as two 4s, or the 44 we've watched. Which also adds up to 8, giving us the companion number to the ever-present 33.

CBS ran the story as well with a very interestingly worded headline "Mysterious HoneyBee Killer Could Make Meals Bland."

Their main concern is that meals could become "bland," but I'm more interested in the phrase "honeybee killer."

Merging Memes: Smoke Signals and Honey Bees

One of my earliest posts (back in February) was about Smoke Signals. In it, we began looking more closely at the synchronistic implications of the Norway Spiral and the ramifications a shut down internet would have on the spreading of information. Obviously, smoke signals were a method of communication in and of themselves. But, I have begun to see non-man-made smoke signals as correlating to communication as a whole.

If you're reading this blog, you're probably on a quest for truth (be it spiritual, political, self-actualizing, whatever). I would wager a guess that the internet, the proliferation of information and the access to instant communication has benefited you on your way.

So, if there's anything to this connection between smoke signals and our modern society's electronic interface, we should look closer. Because there was a BIG smoke signal that started last week in Iceland. And it shut down modern man's system of metallic air ships. Or perhaps you hadn't heard.

Now we have the head of the CIA coming out this week and warning of a cyber-attack in very loaded terms when addressing a group of 300.

Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told 300 Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap delegates that the next “Pearl Harbor” is likely to be an attack on the United States’ power, financial, military and other Internet systems.“Cyber terrorism” is a new area of concern for the CIA, Panetta said. The United States faces thousands of cyber attacks daily on its Internet networks. The attacks are originating in Russia, China, Iran and from even hackers....“The next Pearl Harbor is likely to be a cyber attacking going after our grid…and that can literally cripple this country,” Panetta said. “This is a whole new area of threat.”

Funny, I thought they already had their "New Pearl Harbor." Think they wouldn't do it again?

The name of the photographer who snapped that volcano shot (on the 17th) is Lucas Jackson. (Sort of reminds me of the band Luscious Jackson). Also funny that RedIce just posted an interview with Lucus (who we had talked about in the first Smoke Signals post) to follow up on his view of the reoccurring spiral shape as portent of coming cosmic calamity. On a more positive note, it seems smoke is also on the minds of the SyncWhole crew.

Wow, I hadn't thought about that band in years, but I just searched them, knowing there had to be a sync since they popped into my head. What do you think was the name of the last Luscious Jackson album? Wouldn't you know it:

Thank you universe. That's a perfect segue into the next part of this. In the post "Lady Gaga and The Killer Bees" we first looked at the use of honey as poison and the bee as symbol of femme fetale. And we even connected it to the double "M."

After that post, I saw an ad for this book on the subway:

Not only is the author's name Mary B. Morrison, writing under the name HoneyB, but her book is called Married on Mondays. Bees and Ms. Interesting.

I pointed out in that other post that I believe there is a positive and negative side to all of these patterns (as there is to all of life) and that my girlfriend's name, Melissa, comes from the Greek and means "Honey Bee." What I didn't know until recently, is that my mom's name, Deborah, comes from the Hebrew and also means "Honey Bee." Assuming there's no unintended underlying Oedipal weirdness, I think that's pretty cool. Two very positive women in my life who can show me the good side to this meme.

Plus, BM is also medical shorthand for "bowel movement," and those are pretty nice too. :)

Mostly kidding; sorry ladies.

Seriously though, there are many positive aspects to the honey bee thing.

However, other day I was on the phone with my friend Rammer (an awesome artist, go check him out) and he had just seen the movie Kick Ass. Apparently, in this movie the characters are talking about wanting Count Chocula cereal, but can't find it and end up with a HoneyBee cereal. Then, while the kid's mom is in the middle of eating a bowl of her HoneyBee Cereal, she has a brain aneurysm and dies! What is with this repeated theme of poison honey?!?!?

I had a paranoid little thought later that night while making dinner. I looked at the honey I was adding to the stir-fry veggies and rice (ooh so yummy you missed it) and thought: There's been a lot of talk over the last few years about "colony collapse syndrome" and "disappearing bees." What if there's something wrong with the bees and it's going to carry over into the honey? What if the repeated theme of bees and death are a kind of smoke signal?

Or, what if all the reoccurring Osiris symbolism (you know the god of grain and death) is a synchronistic confirmation of all our worst fears about GMO foods and/or the Kissinger/U.N. "food as weapon" doctrine. Food for thought.

Rammer also informed me that a debate broke out between the folks at grinding.be and VigilantCitizen. Now I don't want to get between the transhumanists and the ultra-religious as they fight - perhaps the truth is somewhere between their two camps. Whatever. What they were fighting over was the meaning of the Black Eyed Peas song "Imma Be." Rather, they were bickering over the video.

But, however you wish to interpret the video, it's no stretch to realize that, in the song, they are singing "I'm A Bee."

Last night I speculated to Melissa, my honey bee, who is also a dancer, that perhaps there is an innocent repetition of this theme by the performers since bees communicate through elaborate dances. If you were a Lady Gaga or a Beyonce or a Black Eyed Pea and you sang and danced for a living - and as a way to communicate through your art - a bee would be an appropriate symbol for you to adopt.

She agreed, but then told me that I had just reminded her that she heard the Erykah Badu song "Honey" earlier that night. She pointed me to the lyrics:

Fly free baby, fine with me

I'm in love with a bumble bee

Ooh Slim boy, you killing me

But you so sweet to me

You know, the Erykah Badu that had just created a bit of a stir by filming her latest video at the location of the JFK shooting. The "stir" is that she's naked in the video. I don't care about that. Look deeper.

On the video, for Badu's track Window Seat, the singer drives to the Plaza in scenes consciously aping the famous grainy Zapruder movie footage of the assasination, and begins with familiar radio commentary of Kennedy's fateful visit and Badu wearing a scarf in the style of Jacqueline Kennedy.She then walks down the route that Kennedy took, while shedding her clothes (with the video pixilating her genitalia). By the time Badu arrives at the point where Kennedy and Texas governor John Connally were struck by Lee Harvey Oswald's[sic] bullets, she is naked and – after what sounds like a shot being fired – falls abruptly to the ground as if struck. The video then shows a blue graphic that appears to seep from Badu's head.
Badu said she shot the video in one take at 3.30pm on 13 March [3/13], with a hidden cameraman following her.

See, now it gets a bit scary. Did I mention that the double M - in numerology - would be 44?

I was over at Jake Kotze's blog and noticed a link to the slow-emanations blog with the post subject "88." Since I have been looking at the 88 for the last couple months I took notice. The entire post is a single, yet beautiful, image of a Tarot-like 88, the blogger is from North Carolina, and above his info reads "MIRRORRORRIM."

Then, while I was at grinding.be I took special notice of another post simply featuring one image, Sunset over Asheville, North Carolina.

This struck me since that's where Obama, the 44th president, just made headlines - by hiking.

It's a bit strange that a neo-con site like Drudge felt a link to a photo of two people they dislike hiking was important enough to merit a headline. It's not like it was a photo of them hiking at Bohemian Grove. Well, it's strange only until you start incorporating lessons from people like Steve Willner. If you're not listening to his "Cracks in the Wall" series, you're missing out.

Many synchromystics, and anyone with a keen eye, have noticed the importance of the word "Woods" this year - mostly using the Tiger Woods story as vehicle. Note also, 2010 is the year of the Tiger. So, when I saw the Obamas in the Woods, I took notice.

There was another headline for a non-story, in which Obama's senior advisor went on Leno and revealed the "secret" that "Obama loves Pie." That made me laugh because Steve often says in his audio series that the culture creators "love Pi." But then, who doesn't?

Anyway, the Drudge "Woods" headline links to a single photo, among a gallery of 389 (8+9=17, making 317, the number of Osiris' death.) The photo caption reads:

President Barack Obama, right, watches as first lady Michelle Obama jumps as they go for a walk on a trail off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, N.C.

Not only does the Blue Ridge remind me of the Norway Spiral, it also reminds me of Chris Knowles' look at the Stairway to Sirius, which would be enough to bring all these elements together in northern Europe. But when you toss in the word Asheville while Europe is blanketed in the stuff?

When Obama doesn't go to the funeral of the murdered Polish president because of a giant cloud of Ash - But goes instead to a place called Asheville....

Well now you've got a serious smoke signal. And a genuine mystery on your hands.