Westhampton/USA - Witwer Howard Taylor ist sich sicher, dass seine Frau ihn aus dem Grab heraus beschützt und über ihn wacht.
Mehr als einen Monat war vergangen, als der 73-Jährige seine Frau verlor und zu dem kleinen Mausoleum in den Westhampton Memorial Park ging, um seine verstorbene Frau zu besuchen. "Als ich vor der Marmorwand des Grabmals stand, wollte ich meinen Augen nicht trauen. Virginias Gesicht kristallisierte sich aus dem gräulichen Marmor heraus", erzählte der perplexe Rentner. Er dachte zuerst, dass er einer Sinnestäuschung zum Opfer gefallen sei und wäre nach Hause gegangen, doch als auch beim zweiten Besuch der Begräbnisstätte das Gesicht in der marmorierten Wand zu sehen war, kam er zu der Überzeugung, dass ihm die Verblichene ein Zeichen geben wollte. "Sie weiß, dass ich sie sehr vermisse und spendet mir dadurch Trost", ist er überzeugt. "Ich habe ihr zu Lebzeiten jeden Tag gesagt, wie sehr ich sie liebe und seitdem sie mir ihr Antlitz in der Wand zeigt, komme ich täglich zum Mausoleum und spreche hier mit ihr." "Howard Taylor ist keineswegs senil oder verrückt. Ich habe das Gesicht auch gesehen", berichtete der herbeigerufene Friedhofswächter Dean Bruce. Mittlerweile scheint das steinerne Gesicht der 84-jährigen Virgina Taylor eine Art Touristen-Attraktion zu sein. Dutzende Friedhofsangestellte und Besucher besuchen das Mausoleum und wollen sich die mysteriöse Marmorwand anschauen, berichtete Dean Bruce.
Im Jahr 2002 soll Verschwörungstheoretikern zufolge in Alabama eine einmotorige Cessna mit einer fliegenden Untertasse zusammengestoßen sein. Gutachter der Regierung wollen diese Theorie nun durch eine erneute Untersuchung des Vorfalls endgültig widerlegt haben.
Am 23. Oktober 2002 um 19:46 Uhr stürzte eine Cessna 208B Caravan aus einer Flughöhe von 820 Metern, kurze Zeit nach ihrem Start vom Mobile Downtown Airport in Alabama, in einen Sumpf in der Big Bateau Bay. Bei dem verheerenden Absturz kam der damals 54-jährige Pilot Thomas J. Preziose ums Leben. Doch schon kurz nach dem Fund der Maschine wurde der zunächst normal erscheinende Absturz zum Gegenstand von skurrilen Spekulationen und haarsträubenden Verschwörungstheorien. Auslöser für diese waren mehrere Kratzer und rotfarbene Spuren an der Front der Cessna, welche auf einen Zusammenstoß des Flugzeugs vor dem eigentlichen Absturz hinwiesen. So wurde spekuliert, dass die Cessna mit einer fliegenden Untertasse oder aber einem geheimen Testflugzeug der Airforce zusammengestoßen wäre und man dieses nun vertuschen wolle. Aufgrund vieler abstruser Hypothesen hat sich das US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB – US-Behörde, die für die Sicherheit von Verkehrsmitteln zuständig ist) im Oktober letzten Jahres dazu entschlossen, den Fall erneut zu untersuchen. Nach einer ausführlichen Rekonstruktion des Flugzeugwracks und der gegebenen Umstände des Vorfalls hat das NTSB festgestellt, dass es keinen Zusammenstoß mit einem Fremdkörper oder gar einer fliegenden Untertasse vor dem Absturz gegeben hat. Jedoch bieten auch die erneute Untersuchung und der veröffentlichte Bericht hierzu wieder viel Material für Verschwörungstheoretiker und UFO-Gläubige. Denn bei einer Untersuchung der roten Materialablagerungen an der Front des Flugzeuges konnten sowohl FBI-Experten als auch unabhängige Labors nur 21 von 34 der darin enthaltenen Substanzen analysieren und identifizieren. Trotz allem erklärten die Sachverständigen, dass es keine Hinweise auf einen Einschlag eines fremden Objekts auf die Cessna gab. Für die Rechtsanwälte, welche die Interessen des verstorbenen Piloten Thomas J. Preziose und dessen Familie vertreten, ist der Fall mit dem neuen Bericht jedoch noch nicht abgeschlossen. Sie fordern eine erneute Untersuchung, bei der Informationen des Militärs und der Regierung miteinbezogen werden müssen. Unter anderem sollen auch gemeldete UFOs und zur damaligen Zeit aktive Aufklärungsdrohnen und Testflugzeuge in die Rekonstruktion des Vorfalls integriert werden.

A well known Sufi was asked, 'What is invisibility?' And he said, 'I shall answer that when an opportunity for a demonstration occurs.' They believe in demonstrations and they believe in opportunities. They will not say a single word if the opportunity has not occurred, if the right situation is not there. You can ask the Master a question and he will say, 'Wait, when the right opportunity occurs then I will show you' -- because he does not believe in saying, he believes in showing. Some time later, the man and the one who had asked him the question were stopped by a band of soldiers. And the soldiers said, 'We have orders to take all dervishes into custody -- for the king of this country says that they will not obey his commands and that they say things which are not welcome to the tranquillity of the thought of the populace.' And the Sufi said, 'And so you should, for you must do your duty.' 'But are you not Sufis?' said the soldiers. 'Test us,' said the Sufi. The officer took out a Sufi book -- a book that is tremendously respected by the Sufis. It is called „the book of the books". It has only a few sentences written in it, otherwise it is empty. 'What is this?' the Sufi Master said -- as if he had not even recognised the Book. The soldiers had brought the Book which will be a sign of a Sufi -- the moment the Sufi sees the Book of the Books he will bow down. It is a great treasure. The Sufi Master said, 'What is this?' -- as if he did not recognise the Book. The Sufi looked at the title page. 'It is something which I will burn in front of you,' said the Master, 'since you have not already done so.' He set light to the Book and the soldiers rode away satisfied. The Sufi's companion asked, 'What was the purpose of that action?' 'To make us invisible,' said the sufi. 'For to the man of the world, visibility means that you look like something or someone he expects you to resemble. If you look different your true nature becomes invisible to him.' The Sufi Master is saying, 'I have become invisible to these soldiers because they could not believe that a Sufi could burn the Book. They have a certain expectation -- that the Sufis revere the Book. The moment I burned the Book we were no longer Sufis. I had become invisible to him. ' And that's how Sufis become invisible to people. You can't expect the things that they do. Sufis live a very, very hidden life, for a certain reason -- because they only want to live the essential religion. If you want to become visible you have to do many things. Sufis are not interested in the mass. No Master has ever been interested in the mass. Masters are only interested in individuals, and only in those individuals who are really in search, in authentic search. It is simple to avoid the unnecessary people and it is simple to attract the necessary people who need help... with just a few things. People are so insensitive -- with just a small thing you can become invisible because they don't look deep, they only look on the surface.

Researchers have found that omega-3 fatty acids in the form of fish oil can often help with breathing problems such as asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema, as well as with numerous other health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, ADD, arthritis, depression, and many more. It is also very important before, during, and after pregnancy.
So many of us today live fragmented, unconscious lives driven by fear, guilt, anger, anxiety, and tension. Out of touch with the earth, with never a glance toward the sky, we rush into an imaginary future with little appreciation for the miraculous gift of Now--the only time and place we can truly live. This stress-filled rush into the future creates many problems for us--physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
...this breath of life which breathes in each one of us is what one basically calls freedom. In biology it's called Life, in affectivity it's called Love, in psychology it's called Consciousness, and in theology it's called God. The difficulty is to bring these all together within everyone's understanding.
The ancient traditions and modern medical research have demonstrated the intimate relationship that exists between how we breathe and our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual lives.
Love will not bring you to ultimate contentment. It is not possible to change the nature of things. It doesn't happen. What can we do? Two plus two are four. It is a fundamental law of life that love brings you to deeper and deeper dissatisfactions. Ultimately love brings you to such a discontent that you start longing for the ultimate beloved, God, you start searching for the ultimate love affair. Taoism is an ultimate love affair: the search for Tao, the search for truth. It is possible only when you have failed many times, loved and suffered, and each suffering has brought you more and more consciousness, more and more understanding. One day the recognition arrives that love can give you a few glimpses -- and those glimpses are good, and those glimpses are glimpses of Tao -- but it can only give you glimpses; more than that is not possible. But that too is too much; but without those glimpses you will never seek and search Tao. Those who have not loved and suffered never become seekers of Tao – they cannot; they have not earned that worth, they have not become worthy. It is the sole right of the lover one day to start searching for the ultimate beloved. Love, and love more deeply. Suffer, and suffer more deeply. Love totally and suffer totally, because this is how the impure gold passes through fire and becomes pure gold. Do not escape from your love affairs: go deeper into them. Go into love, because love ultimately fails. And unless you know by your own experience that love ultimately fails, your search for Tao will remain phony.

The Chinese Tao, natural law, or way provides a cleavage of the totality into complementary creative and receptive principles. The Tao is a seamless web of unbroken movement and change filled with undulations, waves, patterns of ripples, vortices and temporary standing waves like a river. Every observer is an integral functioning part of this web which extends both into the past and into the future throughout space-time. It is the implicate order. No binary, ideal or atomic concept has any independent reality or permanence in this unchanging river of change. No symbol can be separated from the organic context of the whole. Nothing which happens, no event or process ever repeats itself exactly. Nevertheless the Tao is unchanging like a convoluted eroded stone which stands beyond time.
'Vast indeed is the ultimate Tao,
Spontaneously itself, apparently without acting,
End of all ages and beginning of all ages,
Existing before Earth and existing before Heaven,
Silently embracing the whole of time,
Continuing uninterrupted though all eons, ...
It is the ancestor of all doctrines,
The mystery beyond all mysteries'
It is only in this sense of unbroken wholeness that the Tao is subdivided into natural complementary creative and receptive principles of yang and yin associated with male and female, day and night, heaven and earth etc. The power of the creative lies beyond the describable, and complements the world of form. The two together form the mysterious totality of existence. Central to the organic nature of the Tao is the inextricable dependence of each attribute on its complement, from which it draws its very identity.
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only because there is evil.
Like Yahweh and Allah, Brahman and the Buddha nature in their aniconic cosmic aspects, the Tao cannot be named, cannot be symbolised nor captured by rational thought or symbols:
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.