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"10XCSN Explained
It has been a real privilege to be a small part of the http://www.halfpasthuman.com/ predictive linguistics project over the past 9 years and this week two events have occurred that have shown me - without a doubt - that the future can be personally known, at least to some degree.

The first major 'hit' (e.g. getting a prediction absolutely, undeniably, smack-dab right) goes back to a column I wrote and posted at the http://www.urbansurvival.com/ site on Saturday October 11th, 2008 under the headline "Things we don't like to talk about..." Now, in order to prove to you that I didn't just go and write that page yesterday, and to ensure that everything is on the up-and-up, here's the Google cache of the report from October. Link.
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Now Grasshopper, I'm going to take you to time monk school: Let me share the little problem, which as a 'time monk lite', I was pondering last October.

Knowing what I did at the time about coming/forward events out a few months, what could I write in what's now the semi-distant past that would show undeniable foreknowledge that the event many months ago, but which without giving away the future (and taking a risk of being party to making it happen would still underscore how really precise the technology can be in the right (no axes to grind) hands.

What we were expecting (October 08) was to see an event to take place in Ohio which would become a kind of a rally-point for the rising confrontation between omnihumanity and PTB / authority.

Much as the Kent State shootings in 1970 became a rallying point for the (then) anti-Vietnam War movement after four students were killed in a confrontation with armed forces of 'authority', we had linguistics that led us to believe something of a similar but different nature would be taking place in the same kind of geographical area.

So I decided to write about this future event back in October '08 by calling it "10XCSN" which I can now reveal referred in part to Crosby Stills, & Nash, the popular rock and rock group that wrote and performed a memorial to the Kent State Shootings titled simply "Ohio". This was a hugely emotional song. The liner notes from the CSN album "Decade" touched on how deeply moved people were by that song as Neil Young wrote:
"It's still hard to believe I had to write this song. It's ironic that I capitalized on the death of these American students. Probably the most important lesson ever learned at an American place of learning. David Crosby cried after this take."
So that - so we're now clear - is what the "CSN" part of the "10XCSN" was about.

What about the "10X" part? Ah. How many students were killed? Four. Ask you what four times 10 ("10X") that number would be? Forty, you say? Bingo.

So finally time unveils the "event" that we've been waiting patiently for these past six-months: "Block party becomes Kent riot: 40 arrests and climbing as police break up mob" reports the Record-Courier's Kasha Legeza-Burton. So that's as close to a perfect fit as we can offer: 10XCSN referred in October of 2008 to the 40 (+) that were to be arrested at Kent State, scene of the 1970 shootings memorialized by CSN and 10-times as many humans involved.

Whether we will see this morph into a musical (or viral video) rallying point against corpgov remains to be seen. But I'd suggest that the odds of getting 10XCSN in October and having the underlying event 'fade to real' in the present is well above statistical 'chance' although you're welcome to make your own informed decision about that.
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While I personally wish that Cliff would continue the project, there's more --- much more --- that falls under the general subject line "Things we don't like to talk about..." and I totally respect his decision to hang it up for a while.

I take some solace in both Bob Dylan and then Jimmy Hendrix ssinging of "All Along the Watchtower"

There's a hint or two, if you want them, in the Wikipedia entry about "Watchtower" :
Commenting on the songs on his album John Wesley Harding, in an interview published in the folk music magazine Sing Out! in October 1968, Dylan told John Cohen and Happy Traum:
“ "I haven't fulfilled the balladeers's job. A balladeer can sit down and sing three songs for an hour and a half... it can all unfold to you. These melodies on John Wesley Harding lack this traditional sense of time. As with the third verse of "The Wicked Messenger", which opens it up, and then the time schedule takes a jump and soon the song becomes wider... The same thing is true of the song "All Along the Watchtower", which opens up in a slightly different way, in a stranger way, for we have the cycle of events working in a rather reverse order."[5] ”
Christopher Ricks has commented that "All Along the Watchtower" is an example of Dylan's audacity at manipulating chronological time: "at the conclusion of the last verse, it is as if the song bizarrely begins at last, and as if the myth began again."
And maybe it will.

The lyrics of Hendrix's version are personally poignant because I associate it with our 'time monk' mentality - look but don't touch; we're just here to learn to Dance with Universe better:
"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
The other event that was 'trippy' specifically involved me personally - one of those things that falls out of the 'model-of-the-model' [MoM] (a subset of the big modelspace that is used for referential integrity checks where we sometimes look at our own futures a bit) and something happened exactly on schedule and right down to some unbelievable levels of detail that I won't go into here, but I can assure you, it was a world-shaker. Imagine having 6-months of lead time on how a meeting would go.

It's like someone saying "You'll be on the corner of this street and that at this time on Thursday April 23 and the phone will ring and it will be this person and here's what the conversation will be about...and don't forget to ask about X because that unlocks things hidden from most. " Damned if it didn't happen exactly...

Dangerous stuff knowing the future in advance, another reason why you might want to hold to the mental imagery of "Three riders are departing and the wind's begun to growl...." Fine time to be outta Dodge."
Several Peoplenomics readers wrote in to correct my lyrical quote: "Two riders were approaching..." I was told.

"Nope, you're not getting it...the three riders would be Cliff, Igor, and me..."

Does the technology suggest anything we haven't talked about? Well, having your money in a local bank of high quality is something on my personal list this week.

Oh, and does the world end in 2012? No. At least a few folks with "be on the road with cheerful courage" but whether that means we'll all be driving Saleen 7's to a party with friends, or wandering around in an out-take from Mad Max's world gleaning what can be found in the leftovers of 2012...well, don't want to spoil the adventure for you.

But the life-changer in all of this for me has been a developing appreciation that 'be careful what you wish for' has implications that go deeper than you might ever imagine. Want to change you life? Ask yourself this: "How many minutes a day do I spend consciously embedding my expectations about the future into the form I want it to arrive in?"

You might be pleasantly surprised. Or, then again, we could be wrong."