I’m nervous, I have to admit.

Tomorrow morning I leave Los Angeles early and fly into Dallas. And then it all begins.

15 days.

Cheap motel.

Survival food.

No money.

Just beneficial cosmic rays.

I expect nothing. I’m doing this out of curiosity. Playfully. But under this playfulness I’ve set my intention. My desire. And that is to let it all unfold as it should.

As has been written in my stars.

Whatever happens.

I go there believing. But determined to have fun. Because it’s crazy, right? What I’m doing?

Some of you, maybe most of you, perhaps ALL of you, must think I’m nuts to go to Dallas because an Indian astrologer told me to.

But I think there could be something in all this.

Anyway, it’s an experiment. The Texas Cosmic Rays Experiment.

And very least, I’ll come back with a suntan!

Yesterday was a big day –

It began with interviews for PGS with Foster Gamble and his wife Kimberly. They are makers of the feature length documentary Thrive, which has been hugely successful world wide, and spawned the global Thrive Movement, which in part is attempting to make governments accountable, and to make this world a better place for us all.

http://www.thrivemovement.com

Foster is a Princeton graduate, scientifically trained, and as an Aikido Master he’s spent his life exploring the connections between science and spirituality. He’s lived his life intuitively, to great success, and his interview was truly fabulous. He’s smart, articulate, knowledgeable, credible.

Equally so is Kimberly, who came at the subject from her perspective of being an experienced and accomplished journalist. It was refreshing to get these two interviews that were grounded in a rational logic.

I then drove up to Redwood City to meet with a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist. He was attending a two day conference called the Social Innovation Summit. Here is their mission statement:

The Social Innovation Summit brings together top executives and thought leaders from around the globe to discuss opportunities for leveraging technology & innovation to affect social change.

The fellow I met was writing code for Steve Jobs when they were making the Apple IIe. He’s been around a while, and been hugely successful.

We talked for over an hour about PGS, and he asked me a bunch of very insightful questions. We have agreed to continue the dialogue.

I then drove across the Golden Gate Bridge up to Petaluma, north of San Francisco, to meet with Dr. Dean Radin, Chief Scientist with the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

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Here is the Institute’s “About…”

The Institute of Noetic Sciences, founded in 1973 by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, is a nonprofit research and educational organization whose mission is to support individual and collective transformation through consciousness research. “Noetic” comes from the Greek word “nous,” which means “intuitive mind” or “inner knowing.”  The Institute conducts and collaborates on leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness, exploring phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional scientific models while maintaining a commitment to scientific rigor.

Edgar Mitchell, the founder of the Institute, was the sixth man to walk on the moon. Evidently when he was returning to earth after his space mission, he had a moment of epiphany which he said later was like samadhi – a moment of enlightenment – where everything was clear and connected and understandable.

On the basis of that moment he started the Noetic Sciences Institute.

Dr. Radin is one of America’s leading research scientists, and the author of several best selling books on the science of consciousness, including the book which I’ve just finished, Supenormal. In this book he scientifically researches the claimed “super-normal” facilities which advanced yogis profess to possess, including clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, remote viewing, and even levitation.

Yesterday he took Jennifer and myself into his research lab at the Institute, and showed us an instrument with which he’s been able to demonstrate scientifically that mind can impact on matter. In other words, our thoughts can shift and alter things.

Amazing.

I will come back after Dallas and film at the Institute, and interview him.

Today I’m driving back to LA to have back-to-back meetings with investors. And tomorrow our Indian assistant, Ratshit… dammit… I mean RACHIT…. flies in from Delhi. He’s going to be helping us in Dallas, which is now only two days away.

Yikes.

Interestingly, late yesterday over a cup of coffee I had a fascinating conversation with Dr. Radin about astrology. He confirmed that there’s a scientific basis for believing that our solar system has a binary equivalent – another solar system – which it revolves around. This would explain, he said, the unusual orbits of the outer planets such as Pluto.

We concluded our conversation yesterday with him saying that scientists simply don’t know so much. They’re constantly coming up with theories, but they don’t know. They are decades, even centuries, away from truly knowing what’s going on. They’re constantly playing catchup, and debunking anything that threatens their fundamental understandings. Which of course is what’s holding them back.

And holding US back too.

I’ve come to America to explore the science of intuition, and yesterday I made a good start.

(Dr. Dean Radin – photo)

It's 4am.

I've just woken up.

Where am I?

I guess you could cal it a mansion.

But it's too elegant for that.

It's at the end of a long winding private road, atop a wooded hill that looks out over a bay in Northern California.

We had to drive through two security guarded locked gates to get here. Past deer that wandered lazily in front of the car.

The grounds are palatial. Worthy of being called “botanical gardens.” Waterfalls, fountains, and at night it's lit like a fairyland.

The guest room in the guest house is more than five star luxury. The guest house is bigger than most people's regular houses. And certainly more luxurious.

We could want for nothing.

Our hosts' generosity and kindness is humbling.

Where am I?

I can't tell you.

All I can tell you is that the people who own this house, this mansion, this… magnificence… are helping me with my film.

They are aware, present, connected.

They are special people.

And three days out from going to Dallas, I feel the cosmos is already starting to work its magic.

I seem to be plugged in right now.

Jennifer and I had lunch today with a financier who has taken a real fancy to PGS. He sees it as the next The Secret. He’s taking it to a bunch of his clients.

It was a very productive lunch.

After lunch Jennifer and I drove to The Grove, which is a huge shopping mall just east of Beverly Hills. It’s like a giant theme park, but very chic. It was decked out with very stylish Christmas decorations.

Adjacent to the mall is a massive carpark, and I usually get a park there very easily, but today it was crowded. I drove around and around, looking for a spot – but it was full.

I was getting frustrated, in part because parking spaces usually come very easily to me. I have very proficient “parking angels.” But today they must have been out to a late lunch.

So I drove around this carpark for what must have been twenty minutes. It was driving me nuts. I just missed several spots which were quickly snapped up by other drivers who’d seen the parking space milliseconds before me.

My frustration level was mounting.

I muttered between gritted teeth to Jennifer that I usually get a park here no problems at all, and she calmly answered: Have you asked? 

Damn, she was right.
She’s always right.
I hadn’t asked.

If you want something from the Cosmos, you have to ask. That’s rule #1. Your people can’t help you unless you ask them for help.

So I asked.

I asked for a parking space right near the elevators.

And bloody hell – sure enough two spaces immediately became available. Two motorists began to pull out just as I drove up. And they were within fifty metres of the elevators.

After some twenty-five minutes of driving around, I suddenly had my choice of two parking spaces in the most perfect spot imaginable.

All because I asked.

I must admit I was a bit stunned.

Sometimes I forget that this stuff actually works. Or at least it works for me. And what the esoteric literature tells you is that your angels or Higher Self or whatever you like to call it does these little paltry things just to remind you that they’re there for you for the big stuff.

You just have to ask.

And trust.

And then you have to be aware. Because sometimes the offerings aren’t as obvious as two motorists pulling out in front of you. Sometimes you have to look around, because the signs aren’t always immediately apparent.

But they’re there.

First though, you have to ask.

I landed in the US yesterday – flew into LA – and already the universe has kicked in.

I won’t go into details.
However I’m astonished at how fast things seem to be moving.
And I haven’t even got to Dallas yet!

Before leaving Sydney, Jennifer and I had lunch with our three Camino friends – Jenny, Britta and Janet. Three of the most beautiful women you could ever hope to meet.

I’m now calling them The Three Caminos, which is a riff off the movie, The Three Amigos. 

At the lunch as well were two equally beautiful ladies, Narelle and Angela – both Camino veterans, and both fascinating women. Angela this year has walked 1600kms.

I find those that walk the Camino, and particularly the repeat offenders, if I can use that term, are fascinating people. You don’t walk the Camino without having a story within you. I love to hear those stories. I’m enriched by them.

Jenny began the lunch with a dedication reading from the John Brierley guide book – one of his spiritual passages. It’s a tradition for The Three Caminos when they get together for a lunch.

Lunch was a wonderful buffet of vegetarian food. And to top it off, Narelle brought out a lemon merengue pie which she’d made, with Camino arrows on it.

Man o man it was yummy!

After lunch the conversation came around to the Texas Cosmic Rays Experiment, and someone asked about my PGS – what was it telling me would happen in Dallas?

Before I could answer, Jennifer jumped in and reminded me that as soon as we’d walked out of the astrologer’s office in Mumbai, after he’d given me his prediction, I’d told her that this was the way we would finance the film. That we had to go to Dallas, no question.

And my PGS is still telling me that.

But I don’t expect it.

I’m not being contradictory, it’s just that I’m not expecting anything from Dallas. I’m open to all things, and I’ll be exploring options, opportunities, and forming relationships, but I’m not expecting anything.

I have to allow the cosmos to unfold for me as it should.

And it will.
I expect that much.

I know, because it’s already started.

I’m posting this to prevent any confusion –

I’ve been contacted by a few people on this blog wondering whether we’re in partnership with Arlene on mounting a Portuguese Camino tour next year.

We’re not.

She’s promoting a tour that will be a vastly different experience to what Gone Tours offers.

We wish her well.

Jennifer and I leave for the U.S. tomorrow, and in preparation for this trip, and for my filming, I’ve been doing quite a bit of research. I’ve also dipped back into books I’ve read before too including –

• The Web of Life, by Fritjof Capra
• Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
• Thinking Fast and Slow, by Prof Daniel Kahneman
• Search Inside Yourself, by Chade Meng Tan

Basically, I’m reading scientifically and factually based books at the moment.

Professor Kahneman for instance won the Nobel Prize for his work on the psychology of judgement and decision making. His book Thinking Fast and Slow examines the science behind intuitive versus rational decisions.

It’s fascinating.

I’m currently reading Supernormal, by Dr. Dean Radkin. It sets out to prove scientifically whether the extraordinary  psychic feats and abilities of yogis and others can be substantiated empirically.

And they can.

But some very interesting stuff has come out of this reading. For instance –

• What we know of the universe has been gathered from only 4% of detectable data.
• DNA is 96% unknown “junk.”
• What most people call intuition is what Professor Kahneman calls “expert recognition.”
• The largest form of energy that exists in the  universe is what scientists call “dark energy” and they don’t have a clue what it really is or where it comes from.
• We still cling to a Cartesian mechanistic view of the world even though with breakthroughs in quantum mechanics and Unified Feild studies it’s now been proven to be incorrect.
• The universe is largely flat. And there is a theory that there are multiple universes.

What I’m learning is that scientists are constantly playing catch up to the ancient seers and mystics.

What’s in that 96% of DNA that we don’t know about – that so called “junk?” If we are such highly evolved beings, why would it be there? What’s it’s function?

And the universe FLAT? And MUTIPLE universes? That bends my head.

So what does all this have to do with intuition?

Well, I’m exploring, amongst other things, where does intuition come from, and how does it work. Essentially I’m filming in India for the spiritual view, Italy for the religious view, and America for the scientific view.

American will also provide fertile ground for the spiritual as well –

There’s a lot of material out there that looks at intuition in a superficial way, slanting the subject towards the particular bias of the writer, or filmmaker. There’s a lot of really hokey stuff been written on intuition.

I’m approaching this journalistically, with my own particular slant.

Which, as by now I’m sure you know, is severely skewed…

My brother Bob and his 21yr old son Rupert today walked into Santiago.

They made it!

Today on their last stage they walked from Arzura, some 40kms.

I’m so proud of them both. It took them 31 days in total – without a rest day.

That’s remarkable.

They did hardly any training (although my brother swears about the benefits of doing 300 squats a day beforehand!), and both were harbouring previous medical and health issues.

Interestingly, it was not my interest in the Camino that spurred them to do the pilgrimage. Rupert watched The Way, then urged my brother to watch it, and that’s what got them thinking that maybe they should do it together – as father and son, just like in the movie.

So right now they’ re in a Santiago restaurant bingeing out on paella.

They deserve it!

Here is the third and final part of the sequence I shot with the astrologer in Bombay.

If you were in my shoes, what would you do?

Would you go to Dallas and stay in a cheap motel and hang out for fifteen days to see if the Cosmic Rays do their stuff?

What would you do?

Link to: Bombay Astrologer Prediction Pt3

Here is the second of three parts of the sequence I shot with the Bombay Astrologer –

Link to: Bombay Astrologer Prediction Pt 2