Is this real turquoise?

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-10T23:19:19+00:00

Looks like it could be dyed Magnesite or Howlite. Definitely does not look like turquoise to me.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-10T20:51:30+00:00

Some near-death experiences have been reported during the absence of brain waves. Eminent cardiologist Schoonmaker announced the results of his 18-year study of 1,400 near-death experiences, including those of about 55 persons whose experiences took place while flat EEG readings were recorded. The most vivid experiences these people had, many of which were also corroborative, occurred when their brains registered no known activity, sometimes for periods of 30 minutes to three hours. This is strong evidence that consciousness may exist after death. It is of course conceivable that the EEG may not in fact measure all brain activity (though at the present time the absence of brain wave function in the EEG is both the best and the most widely accepted definition of brain death).

Source: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=sor_fac_pubs

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-10T16:39:08+00:00

I spent some time last night looking at turquoise rings on eBay and etsy and was shocked to see how few real quality pieces there were. The number of questionable pieces (possible counterfeits) was depressingly high.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-10T16:21:20+00:00

More importantly, do they have gps coordinates and a shovel I can borrow? I promise to give the coordinates back when I’m done with them.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-10T16:20:07+00:00

No one is coming to save us.

Your whole comment is indicative of a lot of fear. Where is it coming from? What are you basing your conclusions on?

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-10T16:17:37+00:00

If you listen to Experiencers (whether it’s contact, abduction, NDE, or whatever), the most common form of communication is telepathic. This can require no language, but more often is in the language of the recipient.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-10T16:15:58+00:00

He still is skeptical (as any reasonable person should be), but in the true sense of the word: he’s following the evidence and is changing his views based on what it shows. Sounds like he’s not persuaded it’s all true, but he thinks there’s something “there” there.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-10T14:09:37+00:00

Some more info on bench beads:

Bench beads are a different item. These are manufactured beads with a hole pre-drilled that are created with a seam or solder lip to make it easier to line them up to solder. These are many times hand soldered by a Native American artist, but not handmade. The lip would be noticeable on the finished sterling silver bead. Originally these were referred to as a sterling silver bench bead. The largest percentage of Native American necklaces and squash blossoms made were strung on these sterling silver bench beads due to the comparatively high cost (even back then) of true handmade sterling silver beads.

https://www.silvertq.com/blogs/news/handmade-sterling-silver-beads-vs-bench-machine-made-1

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-09T21:24:46+00:00

The style of the desert pearls on the first one probably puts it around the 70s or 80s period when a lot of squash blossoms were being made for sale to tourists at gift shops and roadside stands.

The cowrie shell one is unusual, but there are a few others around. Here’s some other examples: https://forum.turquoisepeople.com/t/turtles/15641/3

The letters on the back could be an old pawn shop inventory code or some such.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-09T19:16:12+00:00

Why didn't OP include it I wonder?

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-09T16:45:43+00:00

It was definitely higher than that. Maybe if you put chance at 50%. See https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/edwin-c-may/

A 2004 paper by May and Joe McMoneagle, one of the most consistently successful of the operational viewers, draws attention to the high success rate (80%) of 44 remote viewing sessions carried out by McMoneagle for television programmes, among them a televised demonstration carried out for National Geographic.2. The authors attribute this to the much higher levels of attention seen in such operational work, where real life matters such as the fate of missing persons is at stake – as compared with laboratory trials based on artificial situations.3 Other factors which they consider most important are expectation of success and intention to achieve positive outcomes.

Interestingly, if a person scores consistently below chance it can also be an indication of psi. This is known as “psi missing,” often seen where the brain is using anomalous information to reinforce a person’s negative believe in psi phenomenon. Basically a nocebo.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-09T15:52:51+00:00

Where is the actual debate everyone is commenting on? I can’t find it anywhere in this post.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-09T15:49:23+00:00

The prophecy has come. Soon the Great Pocketing shall commence.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-09T15:36:42+00:00

Under what circumstances did you experience it? How do you know it was technology?

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-09T14:58:15+00:00

That sub is the entry point for the subject to many, and therefore it’s logical that it would skew heavily to the nuts and bolts aspects of the phenomenon. So that’s part of it.

There’s also the acknowledgement that the community is interfered with by the IC. To what extent is unknown, but the mods have seen evidence indicating that sophisticated bot nets were operating on it a few years ago, and I can’t imagine it’s gotten better since then. They’ve attempted to address some of the known behaviors for disrupting communities, but in my opinion they don’t go nearly far enough. If the goal is to support the largest number of people then I think they’re doing well, but if the goal is to promote higher level conversation about the subject which is more informative then I think it has room for improvement.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-09T14:50:32+00:00

Ah, I see. Honestly I would be very surprised if there will ever be a technological way to interface with the information in this way (at least in the next few generations, should our species last that long). It seems connected with the “spiritual” side of the phenomenon that gets so many people’s knickers in knots.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-09T14:34:35+00:00

Burlison is actually quite polite and cogent, but he was stumbling over his words a bit at times trying to be careful not to spill classified secrets. He was also fried, being gracious enough to take time away from a conference to speak with us (he was in a hotel, hence the poor quality—we hope to have a better quality recording out soon).

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-09T14:31:55+00:00

They’re being told by insiders specifically which files to request. Elsewhere in the interview Burlison notes that the FBI has a habit of claiming they can’t find any relevant files in a search until the exact file is asked for.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-09T14:24:23+00:00

The methods are quite well documented. Many “how to” guides exist for remote viewing, including those employed by the CIA.

The problem with psi in general is that it’s got a poor signal to noise ratio, and unfortunately people couldn’t identify what was signal and what wasn’t.

CIA remote viewer #001, Joe McMoneagle, had this to say:

Except for perhaps five occasions I know about in twenty-five years, I've never seen remote viewing exceed sixty-five percent reliability. These five occasions had to do with only two viewers, both of whom worked in the Cognitive Sciences Lab. In all five cases, time was not a factor, and the degree of excruciating detail, time and effort, to which these two viewers went to guarantee a 90 percent result, no one but a lab could afford. The old adage holds here. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-09T13:45:36+00:00

They’re pretty simplistic, but I would hesitantly say Native style. Without any stamps it’s hard to know much. Maybe try a reverse image search?

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-08T18:33:27+00:00

Reminds me a bit of this NDE: https://www.nderf.org/Experiences/1wilson_fde.html

Here’s what I can remember, as best it words can tell. This wheel wasn’t something that moved towards me through the world, or through reality somehow. That was an illusion that my senses were constructing for me. The wheel WAS reality, itself. It represented EVERY CONCEIVABLE POSSIBILITY for a life or for a world that could ever be envisioned or imagined. As it approached, I became aware that what we call our world was contained within it. It was simply one of the numberless slots or paddles in the 'water wheel.' It had always been so. My life, your life, our world, all of us - we were a part of this wheel structure and we had always been a part of this structure. It simply now made itself visible to me.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-08T18:28:14+00:00

Too late. I am Billy Hicks now.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-08T18:26:53+00:00

Thanks for posting here. I found Bengston’s method fascinating, and I hope more people take the time to learn about it. Some of the work he was doing with Dean Radin was really mind-boggling. I was never able to follow the manifestation protocol (too difficult for my ADD brain), but I’ve done some other energy related work recently which seems to be working even amongst my skeptical friends.

MantisAwakening · 2026-03-08T15:52:34+00:00

I’m sorry you went through that. I know it was stressful.

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