Coast to Coast - September 24 2017 - Talking to the Dead - Zombie Apcalypse.nfo
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Coast to Coast - September 24 2017 - Talking to the Dead - Zombie Apcalypse
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DATE: Sunday - September 24, 2017
HOST: George Knapp
GUESTS: William J. Birnes, Greg Garrett
Researcher and author Bill Birnes has uncovered another bitter Edison vs. Tesla
create a device that picked up the frequencies of spirits that would allow us to
speak to the dead. In the first half, Birnes described Edison as the "Bill Gates
of his time" with wealth and influence to whatever he wanted. In 1930 he retired
from inventing and concentrated on his other interests such as extraterrestrials
and psychic phenomena, which was later edited out of his diaries by his family.
He believed that the living could communicate the dead by use of electrical
patterns of the brain that Edison thought survived physical death, and which he
called "life units."
Nikola Tesla (who had proven Edison wrong about the usefulness of AC current)
thought that the universe is composed of an infinite variety of sound and
electromagnetic waves, and that if you could zero in on the right ones, you
could hear the voices of the departed. His idea for a "spirit phone" would use
actually used them to test his spirit device on a "dark and stormy night" in the
fall of 1920. Unlike Edison, who went though countless sessions of trial and
that both had ideas that were "a hundred years ahead of their time."
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When humankind faces what it perceives as a threat to its very existence, a
macabre thing happens in art, literature, and culture. The dead walked in the
fourteenth century, when the Black Death and other catastrophes roiled Europe.
They walked in images from World War I, when a generation died horribly in the
trenches. They walked in art inspired by the Holocaust and by the atomic attacks
on Japan. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the dead walk in stories of
the zombie apocalypse. In the second half, Greg Garrett, author and Baylor
University professor, discussed how this "apocalypse" became an archetypal
narrative for the contemporary world and how these stories can also offer us
wisdom about living in a community with real-world ethical solutions, and invite
us into conversation about the value and costs of survival.
Garrett said that he was surprised to learn that the TV show "The Walking Dead"
was one of the most popular in the world and wondered what contributed to its
that the stories are not about zombies, but about human beings and how they deal
with extreme adversity. Garrett says this mirrors the fears that people have
about the present world situation. Garrett also said that shows and stories
about an apocalypse often illustrate the choices people make that people make
that can "make them inhuman." Garrett concluded that these stories are often
"like an ethics laboratory for us."
WEBSITE(S):
william.birnes.com
Greg Garrett Baylor University
BOOK(S):
Edison vs. Tesla: The Battle over Their Last Invention
UFO Hunters Book Two
Living with the Living Dead: The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse
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