{"id":424,"date":"2010-10-10T16:20:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T05:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=424"},"modified":"2011-06-23T22:42:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:42:10","slug":"two-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2010\/10\/two-percent-424.html","title":{"rendered":"What is it about 2% of people?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study conducted by the Roper Organisation in 1991 (see <em>Supernatural<\/em>, Graham Hancock, pages 362-363, 408), 2% of Americans describe experiences that suggest they have been abducted by aliens. Parallel with this is the ability of 2% of people to become a shaman &#8211; either naturally or via\u00a0hallucinogenic\u00a0drugs. According to Hancock, and I&#8217;m sold on this theory, they are one in the same thing &#8211; an ability to see what others do not, to see things that are either hidden behind a veil, or are part of a collective imagination.<\/p>\n<p>If I need more convincing, this news item about \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18723-time-lords-discovered-in-california.html\">time-space synaesthesia<\/a> succeeds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two per cent of readers may be surprised to discover that they are members of an elite group with the power to perceive the geography of time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;In general, these individuals perceive months of the year in circular shapes, usually just as an image inside their mind&#8217;s eye,&#8221; &#8230;&#8221;These calendars occur in almost any possible shape, and many of the synaesthetes actually experience the calendar projected out into the real world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be keeping an eye out for other 2% indicators. I can imagine that 50 years from now these people will have a special (high-status) place in society, and their talents are\u00a0utilized in a respectable manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study conducted by the Roper Organisation in 1991 (see Supernatural, Graham Hancock, pages 362-363, 408), 2% of Americans describe experiences that suggest they have been abducted by aliens. Parallel with this is the ability of 2% of people to become a shaman &#8211; either naturally or via\u00a0hallucinogenic\u00a0drugs. According to Hancock, and I&#8217;m sold on this theory, they are one in the same thing &#8211; an ability to see what others do not, to see things that are either hidden behind a veil, or are part of a collective imagination.<br \/>\nIf I need more convincing, this news item about \u00a0time-space synaesthesia succeeds:<br \/>\nTwo per cent of readers may be surprised to discover that they are members of an elite group with the power to perceive the geography of time&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8221;In general, these individuals perceive months of the year in circular shapes, usually just as an image inside their mind&#8217;s eye,&#8221; &#8230;&#8221;These &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,307,317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-new-age","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->