Electronic logbook for the end of May 2020

Incidentally, although Yandex is not as good a search engine as the number one player in the field (and we all know its name), it seems to follow a more ‘laissez faire’ attitude regarding the featuring of certain topics within its search results. As is the case with Russia today (https://www.rt.com), I will remain forever intellectually indebted to Yandex because of the chance discovery I made there of material I would otherwise probably never have come across.  So I urge any reader of this post to be daring enough to go for the lesser known search engines (e.g. https://swisscows.com) because not all search engine results are made alike!

As the month of May is drawing to a close, I felt that I ought to force myself to write a few lines in the hope that this might spur me to resume my ‘web-logging’, i.e. the recording on this electronic platform of facts or trivia gleaned from my reading (be this on paper or on screen) or even the jotting down of my personal reactions to stuff I have either read, heard, seen or watched online.

With Ramadan (and within it my first ever three full days of total abstinence from both food and drink) behind me (the last day of Ramadan 1441 here was Saturday 23^rd May), I was glad that yesterday I stumbled across an article written in French about some exceptional individuals who were able to go without food for prolonged periods of time – in some cases, even for years, so it is claimed.  In French, the word for this is ‘inédie’, from the Latin word ‘inedia’ (in- ‘not’ +  edere- ‘to eat’). Entitled ‘Peut-on vivre de prana ? L’énigme de l’inédie et du respirianisme.’  (‘Can one live on prana? The enigmas of inedia and breatharianism’), the article delves on some cases I had already come across through my own chance reading and the subsequent research I had carried out upon further such fortuitous encounters with this subject (including on ‘sun-eaters’).

My purpose here is not to review this article by Alain Moreau. Rather it is to point out that, by apparently a nice wink from somewhere high above, this author touches upon some themes I have developed an interest in, especially of late – prophecies* being one such topic. Whilst browsing the catalogue where I came across this author’s name (https://jmgeditions.fr), several works (in translation) of an early twentieth-century Italian paranormal researcher hitherto unbeknownst to me (Ernesto Bozzano) caught my fancy. Some form of synchronicity? Maybe, maybe not as I guess that the answer lies in what I can take – and digest – from the three books of his I saw in that catalogue. However, first I need to borrow – or retrieve online – these books (namely on xenoglossia, bilocation and psychic phenomena preceding some important event in life).  

* Mr Moreau, for instance, even has an entry on the American self-proclaimed prophetess Sylvia Browne, whose ability to prophesise he says was ‘not worth much’ (despite conceding that she got it right regarding the coronavirus – you can read about this here [https://archive.vn/jd0Ac], an archived version of a British tabloid article, so as to avoid giving your consent to their website’s ‘cookies’).