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My name

I would be more surprised if you had found my name in a dictionary. It's my own invention. Its intended meaning is the study of bits and pieces of everything from a wide variety of sources. This has been consistent with the broad dabbling that I have done over the last couple years in the Wikimedia projects. Eclecticology 17:05, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Edit summary field

Hi! Just some advise from a co-wikipedian with common interests: it would be super-nice if everybody took a couple of seconds to fill in the summary field after editing articles (e.g. fixing typos -- in fact, especially then), so all the watchlist users didn't have to check the diff to find out what has changed. Saves us all a little annoyance and some time. No need for a doctoral thesis in the summary, just some short abbrevs will do, like "typo" etc. --Wernher 15:42, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

After about twenty minor edits in a row I just get tired of lableing every one, but you've got a point. I'll be more disciplined about it. — Clarknova 20:46, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Squirrel picture

Hi Clarkanova... that's a very nice photo you've put on the Pine Squirrel page, but what species do you think it is? It looks much more like an Eastern Gray Squirrel than either of the pine squirrels to me, but I don't know T. hudsonicus well. seglea 21:11, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You, my friend, are right! — Clarknova 21:45, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Timewave Zero, &c.

Hi there. I'm officially wanting to ask you about the Timewave Zero screenshot you created. Did you make it? If so, do you know how to get the software? I've been looking everywhere but I can't find it. (Unofficially, I have the courage to ask you this because your user page makes you seem quite interesting. [end compliment])

Heh. Thanks. And yes, I have a copy, but unfortunately it's an earlier version, not the "Final" which allowed you to plot several waves, including the one based on John Sheliak's correction. I downloaded that one in 1998, but lost it when a machine of mine crashed. It's no longer being offered by anyone, which is a shame. It represented a lot of work by some very smart people.

I offer you three options. I can:

send you the standard email with TWZ attached,
give you my address, to which you'll mail five bucks for media and shipping (I make no profit), and then I'll send you my 3 CD set of McKenna lectures, interviews, and the TWZ software, or
do both.

Send an email to somanova at spiritelf dot com and tell me which you'd prefer. (This offer is open to anyone reading this page.) — Clarknova 18:06, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Added a permanent link to the TWZ software (in the form of a zip archive) to the Novelty Theory page. — Clarknova 04:33, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Voynich Manuscript

You are right about the title of Levitov's book, sorry. Thanks for fixing that.
Jorge Stolfi 02:55, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

It's because I'm supposed to be working. Meelar (talk) 05:35, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

Riddle on my page

Thanks for the additional riddle. Sorry for the long time until my thanks, but I don't visit my page that often. I was wondering if you could explain how a placenta leads armies. I'm just not making the connection. Thanks again. Remuel 14:44, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh's placenta was preserved, mounted on a pole, and borne before the army into battle. This was the first flag. They retain this symbolism in the unconscious, as can be seen in phrases like "mother country", "birth of a nation", etc. — Clarknova 19:19, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks.Remuel 16:34, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Your Advice

Thank you for the tips, I'll see what I can do, but I think I want to go through that moderation before I mess with trying to put up the heavily cited material, just so I don't get that immediately reverted back as well.

PS, I have to ask.... are you the Clarknova from #sputnik?

KV 06:48, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hermetism

Hermetism has also been rewritten substantially, I intend to fuse in some of the Hermeticism information that is also applicable to it...... and then perhap break off the relationship to other systems section into it's own article.

KV 07:12, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stuffed tomatoes

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aya stuff

I actually spent about two months living down there last summer, before heading over to peru to attend the first annual conference on amazonian shamanism (hosted by alan shoemaker and Soga del Alma). It was quite an experience, to say the least. I was living with a family of shamans, casimiro is about 75 and began his apprenticeship when he was still a kid, maybe 8 or 9. His wife, two of their sons, a daughter-in-law and a granddaughter also live there. There isn't really much aya tourism yet in ecuador, which is nice, and Casimiro is from the old school- none of the mestizo stuff you'd find in peru, his icaros are all from the jungle . . .

Honestly for such an intense two months (or perhaps because of that) i have trouble saying much about it . . .

None of the ayahuasca experiences were all that intense, compared to other experiences i've had and the experiences of others there. But that's basicly due to the stuff i was struggling with and working through at the time, i guess. I still learned a hell of a lot . . .

I don't have a blog or online journal or anything of that sort, but i am a member of the ayahuasca forum and have talked about some of it there. I do have about 5 more rolls of film that i haven't gotten developed for some reason, i'd like to do that and scan some more stuff in. dunno if i have any photos of finished tea, when it's done they kinda hide it until ceremony time.

I'd write a bit more but i have to drive down to school. If you've got any questions or anything or want some contact info just say the word . . . They're always happy to have visitors.

cheers

--He:ah? 22:59, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject.......

Wikiproject: Egyptian Religion

KV 19:04, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

manly hall

put back the neutrality tags, and clean up tags, on the manly hall article, or correct them yourself, not really nice to push your occultish agenda down other people's throat's now is it? 195.134.69.158 15:29, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hi clarkenova

thought you might be interested in the following.... no worries if your not too bothered.........the playground continues nevertheless.......Thesource42 17:22, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

childish redirect

(the article presently on the main Clairsentience page .. if it stays there for 5 minutes ... is the old first draft before months of work was childishly trashed and a meaningless redirect to the clairvoyance page put in its place...Thesource42 17:17, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

the playground games continue...

ive posted this on the clairvoyance talk page after someone completely removed the clar#irsentience article which had gone through a process of months of work , rewrites , endless discussion , removasl of personal matereal , edits for style and content .... endless work on correct sourcing and wikpedia referencing and formatting..... the article which had been arrived at with co operation and discussion over many weeks and v man who himself put some hours into grammer , punctuation ... re editting for stlye and content ... and much help in correct sourcing and referencing .....Thesource42 17:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

this article was the sum of many peoples input , effort and hard work so i dont know how or who removed it so thoughtlessly and put the meaningless redirect to the clairvoyance page... any help would be great.... cheers..Thesource42 17:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hi guys

i see youve redirected the clairsentience article.... let me ask....what was the point of the weeks of discussions and rewrites if you guys were going to redirect it anyway....you should have told me t get lost out of here...... what was the point of it all? why did i listen to you ? at all? why did i remove all personal references? why did i reference and source all of my matereal diligently and in great detail ? why did i edit and re edit for style and content ? why did i make additional references to religios , anthropological ,socialogical , philosophical ,medical , physics , chemistry , botany , mental health etc so that all views were included and respected? why did i fulfill all of the above hurdles and hoops to fulfill wikpedia formatting and guidlines for you too to delete months of hard work and effort. your actions are without integrity or honour .....

clairsentience article redirect ?

Hi ..... whoever removed the clairsentience article and made it redirect ... can you please try and respect that the article that was there had evolved over a couple of months of discussion and many rewrites and multiple edits which involved much discussion over a long period...... .........i could delete this clairvoyance article.... but i wont because revert and delete wars then stupidly take place which is a real shame when a library becomes a bar room brawl......

..... i hope you can respect the clairsentience article...

..... ive been clairsentient for most of my adult life and it wasnt easy to come this far and to struggle for decades to articulate my experience in a way which makes rational sense to the world at large of which the clairsentience article is a manifest example..... so please try and respect the vast amount of struggle and work which has gone into it....

File:Gfi.socket.png

Now that's an interesting image... was that a manipulation of a photograph, or did you draw that freehand? 68.39.174.238 20:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Etisalat vandals

Those instances of vandalism were many days ago. We don't usually block vandals unless they have been vandalizing in the last couple of hours, and after a level 4 warning. — coel acan — 18:58, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Munditia

You’re right: it’s not the same reliquary. That wasn’t immediately obvious to me when I was creating the article. I removed the second image from the article. I found the (correct) image quite by accident, I forget how, saw that there was no article for Munditia, and started writing the article. There’s not much info about Munditia out there, at least not thus far. Thanks! Best regards. --Polylerus 16:52, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wilhelm and the McKenna conspiracy

Wow, I'm shocked to E-meet some one else who will consider the ideas of Wilhelm Reich anything but hogwash. We clearly have some common points of view and nothing to lose by sharing them. Might I ask you to drop me an E-mail if time permits? That way we can type like civilized people away from these vulgar public message boards. I'm at DBrown29@mix.wvu.edu and I hope to hear from you. Adiuex.71.61.220.31 (talk) 23:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology

SMART is a system used to kill the drive when the warranty is up —Clarknova 03:35, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

From what I read of your page, you came across as someone with intelligence... Obviously not if you write such rubbish as the line above. 86.136.139.202 (talk) 01:03, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Novelty theory

I have nominated Novelty theory, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Novelty theory (2nd nomination). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. ScienceApologist (talk) 00:20, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This marks the second time an attempt to delete the article has failed. At least this time the article creator was warned :) —Clarknova (talk) 01:59, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed move of Novelty theory to Timewave zero

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Re: Image for nomination

I replied on my talk page. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 08:48, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Snells law wavefronts

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Deleted image

I deleted File:Brzezinski-BinLaden.jpg as the image had no source given and no fair use rationale, as well raising all sorts of WP:BLP issues. I deleted it under Wikipedia:CSD#F6 (and other speedy deletion criteria almost certainly apply). Unless and until a valid source can be provided, please do not upload it again. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 15:09, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cute

Re: There is also an endless supply of mineral water...

Check. Undone. Was this a test of some kind? --ShelfSkewed Talk 04:37, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know the only two edits I've ever made to that article were disambiguating the Golden Dawn link and now removing the mineral water comment. Otherwise my only serious entanglement with Rosicrucianism was by way of reading Foucault's Pendulum. No, I'm as much in the dark as you. --ShelfSkewed Talk 04:53, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I enjoyed our correspondence anyway. Happy editing! --ShelfSkewed Talk 05:06, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Timewave_zero#Redirect proposal

Notice: You commented in an Article for deletion for Timewave zero , an RFC has been opened on whether this article should be replaced with a Redirect. Please comment on the above link. Lumos3 (talk) 15:46, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Medium is the Massage

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Unreferenced BLPs

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Speedy deletion nomination of Test;About

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Speedy deletion nomination of Test:About

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