Clif High of Half Past Human returns to the Solari Report this week. (click here for post on his first visit.)
Clif is a software developer who worked for a large software company. He became intrigued with the possibilities of using software tools to read, aggregate and interpret large amounts of information and feelings communicated on the Internet.
Part of his interest was the sense that humans are psychic. We have the power to anticipate actual events. If one can map and assess the intuitions of many, it will tell you something useful.
Best of all, Clif is a delightful man—he combines a brilliant mind with a good heart. He can discuss Russian astrophysics with you while pointing out what natural remedy may help your particular ill while sending you a picture of his strawberries ripening on the vine.
On this Thursday evening’s Solari Report, in addition to covering current market events and your latest questions, I will be speaking with Clif about his latest two scenarios (you can now buy them for $10 each at Half Past Human) to understand the issues and concerns of those expressing them through the Internet.
As someone dedicated to helping individuals, families, and communities manage and reduce their risk, I find Clif’s work powerful as both a mapping of our collective fears and opportunities and a planning tool for my business and my life.
Of course, everything comes down to “what do I do?” Clif’s wisdom on how to shift our hearts, minds and lives is as useful as his wide ranging networking, research and analysis of our collective “psychic storm.”
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Catherine,
Since you are interested in this topic, check out the work of Roger Nelson –
http://www.princeton.edu/~rdnelson/
Roger Nelson is about 20 years ahead of Mr. High, as far as research, it seems.
A list of links that describe methodology and history of Clif’s webbot program:
http://urbansurvival.com/simplebots.htm
http://www.urbansurvival.com/bothit5.htm
Then main page, middle of the way down…
http://www.urbansurvival.com
then the china quake warning
http://www.urbansurvival.com/nl20080510.htm
just a few to get started with….
We reviewed the methodology on Clif’s first Solari Report and will not be covering
this time — so check out the links if you are interested in methodology and history.
The latest report is rough reading, some scary stuff. I’m looking forward to hearing Clif again.
As dramatic as the reports can get, both Clif and George takes pains in explaining that by the nature of the emotional linguistics, it skews to the more dramatic. I do take heart in that both of these guys have the “hope for the best, prepare for the worst” attitude which we can all learn from.
I have been reading Clif High (and buying his products) since his first visit on the Solari report. I am curious as to Ormes and why Clif said (on the last interview) why he thinks they might protect us from the magnetic storm as we approach the Great Attractor (black hole at the center of the Milky Way). Would Ormes also be protection from the potential radioactive fallout from the potential Israeli mistake?
I also wonder what Mr. High would have to say about paper assets - e.g. stocks, money market, etc. Is it realistic to put all assets that aren’t for survival into metals?
I am curious to hear what Clif has to say about the possibility that the NASA moon bombing on Oct 9 could end up fullfilling the language of ‘ill winds’ circling the Earth.
Sparkgap:
I checked with Clif. He says, no, it is separate.
Catherine
From the little I know of his work, Clif’s asymmetric language trend analysis is based on the assumption that there is a synchronistic link between the future and the collective archetypes he perceives in his linguistic analysis of emotive words on the web.
It’s wonderful to see someone who appreciates the reality of archetypes do such analyses, but I want to point out three limitations of such work that I’m sure he is aware of:
1) When interpreting an archetypal database, our intuition is usually half wrong (or half right), which is why archetypal analysis also needs equal amounts of thought and feeling, as well as solid input from the sensate world (which his data set provides). Those of us reading his reports need to leave one foot resting firmly on empirical analysis, such as that provided by Zero Hedge here:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/money-sidelines-fallacy
2) Archetypal analysis is frequently led astray by the unconscious psyche, which Jung (the father of archetypal study) called Mercurius. The unconscious psyche can play terrible tricks on us. For example, Jung once thought he had proved the accuracy of astrology, only to have his proof immediately turned upside down. He realized he had let his unconscious lead him by the nose to a biased conclusion. In terms of interpreting Clif’s work, we need to remember that the purpose of such analysis is to see through archetypes to the real, not get led astray by them. Yes, most people live hypnotized by archetypes—Yes, it can be thrilling to allow our awareness of archetypes help us predict the future, but if we’re not extremely careful we may find ourselves simply replacing inside ourselves one archetype with another.
3) As I see it, the greatest weakness in asymmetric language trend analysis is that archetypes are a closed system circumscribed by the psyche and are not representative of total reality. The question always arises about archetypes: What is their source? Later in life, Jung posited the existence of a ‘psychoid realm’ from which archetypes arose. Jung often said that nothing could be said about the psychoid realm because it was transcendent to self and psyche—it defined the limit of his analysis. The archetypes Clif finds in his linguistic analysis tell us amazing things about the collective human psyche, but they do not provide a complete picture of the world we live in because there is more to reality than archetypes (ie the psychoid realm using a Jungian term, the Transcendent using a spiritual term, or that which is beyond experience using a philosophic term). The value in knowing how archetypes influence us is that it helps motivate us to see through them. For Jungians, psyche and matter meet in an unknown transcendent to human experience. For many spiritual people, the eternally real transcends human experience.
This is NOT to say there is NOT a synchronistic link between archetypes and reality—there is a link, which is why Clif’s analyses have been so prescient. However, as soon as you think you can nail the link with the conscious mind, it slips away.