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Virtual Reality and its “staggering potential” for students

Posted: January 2, 2015 in Genius Intelligence, Underground Knowledge
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It was 18th Century philospher Jean-Jacques Rousseau who said, “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” Proponents of Virtual Reality (VR) in this, the 21st Century, would most certainly agree.

Virtual Reality is one of many advanced learning technologies utilized within the walls of the Pedemont Orphanage, the fictitious Chicago institution we devised for our orphans in book two of our thriller series The Orphan Trilogy. However, we specify it’s not VR as most of us know it.

This excerpt from The Orphan Factory explains what we are getting at: “Like most Omega technologies, it was a technology that was decades ahead of official science, and although virtual reality was widely known and available to the public, this military version had been suppressed from the masses because of its incredible power.”

US Navy personnel use a mock VR parachute trainer.

Although a suppressed form of the technology lies very much in government cover-up theories, known VR systems have already been proven to be effective in a wide variety of diverse fields.

We explore VR in some detail in our new release bestseller, GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQ. An excerpt from this book follows:

Learning via this technology’s computer-simulated environment is currently used the world over in the military, medical, aviation and architectural sectors to name but a few.

VR allows users to practice as if they are actually engaging in activities in the real world. The difference between reality and virtual reality can sometimes be so small it’s indistinguishable to the human brain.

Or to put it another way, as we state in The Orphan Factory: “Carrying out assignments under the influence of this particular software was no different to performing them in real life – at least not as far as the mind was concerned.”

An article on VR appeared in Forbes on October 31, 2014, with the bold heading How Virtual Reality Could Transform Society. The article mentions that besides the current application of the technology in video games, “the true value of VR may lay in other applications. The technology has serious implications for training, education and entertainment outside the traditional game space.”

The Forbes article goes on to say that one VR company “demonstrates VR’s world-changing potential,” adding that this manufacturer’s version of the technology “could easily be used to transform military operational exercises, all kinds of training from medical to manufacturing and a host of other areas including social interaction, music, entertainment, communication, film, storytelling and having experiences that might otherwise not be possible such as free-falling, mountain climbing or swimming underwater for those incapable of doing it in reality.”

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Demonstrating VR’s “world-changing potential.”

One thing’s for sure, the potential for students to learn with VR is staggering. This is exactly why various prestigious learning institutions, not to mention private individuals seeking to boost their IQ, are investing in VR headsets.

Here are just a few of the possibilities Virtual Reality has to accelerate learning:

  • Studying with other students from all over the world in virtual environments that, for education purposes, will be no different to meeting face to face.
  • Stimulating imagination and creativity in bigger and bolder ways like building bridges or cruise ships or directing explosive action sequences in blockbuster movies on virtual film sets.
  • Doing things that are impossible in the real world such as transcending space and time by entering a VR simulated mock-up of ancient Egypt from a classroom.

VR will likely lead to endless possibilities throughout the 21st Century, and early adopters of this incredible technology may very well become more intelligent than those who are slower to embrace it.

 

To read more about Virtual Reality advanced learning technology check out GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQ: http://www.amazon.com/GENIUS-INTELLIGENCE-Techniques-Technologies-Underground-ebook/dp/B00QXQQWXO/

 

To view the discussion thread on genius intelligence (the phenomenon) in our ‘Underground Knowledge’ group on Goodreads check out: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-29-conspiracy-theories—a-discussion-group >>> Everyone’s welcome!

 

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Over half those polled believe Marilyn Monroe was murdered

Posted: January 1, 2015 in The Orphan Conspiracies, Underground Knowledge
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In the latest poll on our ‘Underground Knowledge’ group on Goodreads.com, we ask: Do you believe MARILYN MONROE committed SUICIDE or was MURDERED? Interim results show 56% believe she was murdered.

Intimate photos of Marilyn Monroe show her love of food

Only 15% of poll respondents believe Marilyn committed suicide and the balance (29%) are unsure.

Some of the comments received from those polled makes for interesting reading…

Here’s a sample of comments received (names withheld):

One of the many mysteries surrounding Monroe’s death was the amount of time it took for anybody to alert the police. The nearest police station to her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, was only three miles away and yet the police weren’t summoned until the following day (August 5) at 4.30am – a full six hours after Monroe’s publicist and other associates had been called to the house and found her dead.

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She was murdered obviously for multiple motives. It is interesting that the CIA and the Mafia have both been linked to the alleged murder. Marilyn is known to have spent her last night of life with Mafia boss Sam Giancana. Given the Mafia’s practice of warning their quarry in advance of their death with the notorious “kiss of death”, it seems rather telling in its own right.

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Unintentional suicide is entirely possible given the amount of meds she was prescribed, taken together with or without alcohol would depress respiratory function to the point where she would expire. Now the question becomes who persuaded her Docs to give her the combos of pills that were unsafe and was that intentional?

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What if Marilyn had no idea of the logical evil going on around her, and was completely innocent in her heart, and this was what scared the hell out of those in power; complications. details, complications, details to ad infinitum.

 

To check out all the comments, or better still to have YOUR say go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/113234-do-you-believe-marilyn-monroe-committed-suicide-or-was-murdered

Poll closes January 5.

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Membership of our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group has now topped 430, making it one of the fastest growing groups of its kind – if not the fastest – on the popular Goodreads site.

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This group is open to everyone! All you need is an enquiring mind, an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times. Our members include scientists, historians, conspiracy theorists, students, authors, doctors and many more.

To visit our Underground Knowledge group go to: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group

 

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Meet the polyglots…fictional and real

Posted: January 1, 2015 in Genius Intelligence, Underground Knowledge
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In our thriller series The Orphan Trilogy our (fictitious) Pedemont orphans all speak a large number of languages and are therefore polyglots. Although we never actually specify how many, it’s implied that each orphan can speak dozens of languages.

They also have the ability to learn new ones quickly, and more than once we show our orphans, or orphan-operatives, completely mastering languages in the days leading up to a new mission.

While this may seem far-fetched, there have been persistent reports of CIA agents mastering languages within one week. If true, this is most likely a direct result of classified learning techniques or brain technologies not available to the general public.

Besides speculation on secret language techniques and suppressed technologies in the world of espionage, is speed learning languages really possible? We explore this in our new release book GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQ.

Here’s an excerpt from the book:

In 2004, British autistic savant Daniel Tammet shocked Icelandic peoples when he appeared on live television to demonstrate his almost-overnight mastery of their notoriously complex language. Tammet spoke fluent Icelandic, having only studied the language for seven days.

Autistic savant Daniel Tammet…shocked Icelandic peoples. 

Besides savants like Tammet and others born with rare genetic gifts that allow for such rapid memorization skills, is polyglotism, or the ability to master multiple languages, achievable for the average person?

Yes.

Notable polyglots throughout history include the following (with numbers in brackets corresponding to the amount of languages they spoke fluently): Cleopatra (9), Mithridates VI of Pontus (22), John Milton (11), Noah Webster (23), Arthur Rimbaud (10+), Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (39), Friedrich Engels (20+), Nikola Tesla (8), José Rizal (22), Harold Williams (58), Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan (36) and Kenneth L. Hale (50).

Memory is obviously a major part of mastering languages quickly. Perhaps one Joshua Foer, a former journalist who became a mnemonist – someone with the ability to recall unusually long lists of data – has some answers for those desiring to be polyglots.

Foer authored the bestselling book Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, which chronicles his journey to becoming a memory expert. The book also describes how after only one year of training he was able to become USA Memory Champion.

“Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information,” Foer writes in Moonwalking with Einstein. “The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.”

Irishman Benny Lewis is a contemporary polyglot who speaks 12 languages fluently. Lewis, who taught himself Dutch in only six weeks and proved it by recording a video of himself being interviewed in Dutch, runs a website devoted to teaching others how to speed-learn languages.

The self-confessed “mediocre student” has also published a book titled Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World, which has received excellent reviews.

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“The book is everything I’ve learned in 11 years of full-time language learning,” Lewis told UK news site Metro in an article dated March 13, 2014. “It’s all the changes in mentality and, of course, the techniques, because there are plenty of tricks to mastering a language from scratch.

“Language books are generally written by people with PhDs in linguistics or born into multilingual environments and I didn’t see anything that was relatable. I did poorly in school – barely passed German – and felt people would relate to that.”

Some of Lewis’ simple language learning techniques include: speaking the language from day one rather than studying text books; listening for specific words or segments you recognize rather than entire sentences; making vivid mental associations in order to remember certain words.

Bulgarian educator and psychiatrist Dr. Georgi Lozanov (1926-2012) created an education system known as Suggestopedia, which is primarily used for speed learning languages.

Although Baroque and classical music is extensively used in the curriculum, Suggestopedia (also sometimes called Suggestopædia) involves a lot more than just listening to specific compositions. Essentially, the controversial and unproven learning method incorporates a combination of passive and active learning. It also employs various arts – including singing, music, drama and paintings – to put the mind in the most suggestive state for learning.

Admittedly, Dr. Lazanov’s education system is not a conclusive method for speed learning foreign languages and has been written off as mere pseudoscience by some researchers. However, a report on Suggestopedia by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) makes for interesting reading.

Compiled by UNESCO education experts at a meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1978, the report concludes: “There is consensus that Suggestopedia is a generally superior teaching method for many subjects and for many types of students, compared with traditional methods. We have arrived at this consensus following a study of the research literature, listening to the testimony of international experts, observing films portraying Suggestopedia instruction and visiting classes in which Suggestopedia is practiced.”

Dr. Lazanov claimed throughout his career that foreign languages could be mastered in a tenth of the usual time by following his methods.

From the numerous examples listed in this chapter, it should be clear that learning multiple languages in rapid time is possible. And, unlike naturally-gifted savants such as Daniel Tammet, it should also be noted that Benny Lewis and many other historical and modern polyglots are essentially savants-by-training.

Therefore, it does indeed appear possible for the layman to acquire the necessary skills to become a polyglot.

 

To read more about polyglots and savants check out GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQ: http://www.amazon.com/GENIUS-INTELLIGENCE-Techniques-Technologies-Underground-ebook/dp/B00QXQQWXO/

To view the discussion thread on genius intelligence (the phenomenon) in our ‘Underground Knowledge’ group on Goodreads check out: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-29-conspiracy-theories—a-discussion-group >>> Everyone’s welcome!

 

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