How Out-of-Body Experiences Could Transform Yourself and Society

I stumbled across this video above while writing a post about the movie, 'The Book of Life', which I'm still writing.

I have never heard of this lady from Brazil before now, but I loved this TED talk, because my thinking about life was changed when I had an OBE myself at around 11 years of age.
I only ever had the one OBE, but that was enough for me to know whatever we are, we are not our bodies and that they are just vehicles to get around and participate in this life we live as humans.
I sympathize with what this lady is saying, because I'm from her side of the fence, but good luck trying to convince the other meat puppets out there who haven't YET had one.
But if I had never had that experience at 11 years of age, I might have grown up an atheist with what I have seen throughout my life growing up.
You would do well to listen to these speakers on this post, because I know that they are telling the truth.
And it's not a case of this could happen to you ... it's a case of this WILL happen to you.
I hope for your sake it happens to you before your body dies, not because you are going to go to some heaven or hell when you die, because then you can live the rest of your life knowing that there is nothing to fear about dying ... because YOU don't.
But like that old saying goes, "dying is easy, living is hard". 
And that is where the challenge is and always has been. 

2016: The Death of the Pop Cultural Supermen?

This year we had the death of Superman when Superman battled the Batman on cinema screens across the world.

Not long after this movie's release the "Black Superman" passed away also during the year.

Will Smith playing Ali in Michael Mann's
 movie of the same name

Blackstar?!

Bowie passed away in the same year
as Ali and released his last album

"Johnny Wakelin got the idea of writing a homage to the boxing champion Muhammad Ali who fought on 30 October 1974 in Kinshasa against George Foreman in a matchup known as 
The Rumble in the Jungle, gaining victory in the eighth round. 

The song was Wakelin's "Black Superman (Muhammad Ali)" released in late 1974.
In January 1975 the song reached number seven in the UK Singles Chart.

It reached number one in Australia and spent six months in the US Billboard Hot 100 in more than one chart run in 1975, eventually peaking at No. 21 in September of that year.
Muhammad Ali, however, did not approve of the song and shunned it completely.

It is thought that the American success of Wakelin's song inspired DC Comics to publish the 1978 comic Superman vs. Muhammad Ali."

A bigger success was "In Zaire" (also about Muhammad Ali) in 1976, which reached the charts in many parts of Europe, with the chorus "And who was the victor in the night? Elijah Muhammad's boy Ali won the fight."

But when I was moving house I found a warranty for a piece of sporting equipment that has been residing under my bed for the last few years, which is a bit like my equivalent to a teddy bear.

It makes me sleep easier at night knowing my Louisville Slugger is under my bed. 

When I saw the warranty for the Louisville Slugger I thought wasn't Muhammad Ali nick-named the Louisville Slugger? 

Louisville Slugger working with licensee to make Muhammad Ali-inspired bat

Turns out he was.

Ali was born in 1942, which reminds
 me of another "Black Superman"

So, in a way, the "Black Superman" was also the "Batman", as well;-)

It was also weird how "The Greatest" passed away the same year when the greatest losing streak in Major Baseball was ended by the Cubs winning The World Series.   

Being not much into baseball, I didn't realize until I was taking the above photo that my Louisville Slugger was actually a softball bat and not a baseball bat like I always thought it was. 

Also, I thought it was synchy that I was reading Alan Moore's, 'Alan Moore's Writing For COMICS' and saw this passage starting on page (20?-)16 about taking your reader into an alley metaphorically and beating them with a softball bat.

Alan Moore Talks to Stewart Lee – Books Podcast
Luckily, I also have a solid iron bar next to my Louisville Slugger to give me more options on game day/night if need be;-)

I think my father would have got a kick out of passing away in the same year as the Supermen.

Eerie George Michael Synch in the new movie 'La La Land'

I saw the movie 'La La Land' last night at the cinema and there is a scene (see the You Tube above) where Ryan Gosling is playing with an 80s Retro band and as he is leaving the gig dressed as himself Emma Stone yells out, "George Michael" to Ryan as he walks away and you could hear the cinema audience gasp at the timing of this scene to real life events.
The thing is this film is really big on meaningful coincidences ... or synchronistic events in the two main character's lives.
Great film I think and must be the front runner for 'Best Picture' come Oscar night.

Starman/La La Land/StarLAnd?

Black Box-ing Day: Paint It Black?

George Michael, Christmas, Seals and Car/Pool Karaoke

Maybe the seal just wanted to do
 some Carpool Karaoke?-) 

I saw the movie the movie 'Sing' and there is a scene where the sheep gets woken up by his phone to the Wham! song 'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go'.

UPDATE: December 29th (Australian time), 2016

Another eerie postcard from the edge of 2016 -
Debbie Reynolds, Singin' in the Rain star and mother of Carrie Fisher, dies aged 84