Quantum Leap

Can the present affect the past? If so, would that be cause and effect in reverse, or synchronicity?

That's the question that we are wondering as we post this quite extraordinary tidbit of information that involves President Obama and the birthers. In case you've been missing in action, the birthers are a crazed contingent of far right and far from right fanatics who believe Barack Obama was born in a foreign country, not Hawaii. In spite of his birth certificate showing that he was born in a hospital in Hawaii, the birthers persist, saying it's all a conspiracy.

The new twist on this story comes from ace conspiracy investigator Peter Levenda (author of Sinister Forces). But first, to put things in perspective, Peter makes it clear that he considers the birthers' contention bogus. Notes Peter:

"I believe that the arguments set forth by the "birther" movement are without foundation because one would have to believe that a conspiracy existed as long ago as the day of Obama's birth (or even earlier) to defraud the presidential election process. I study conspiracy theories, as you know, and this one is beyond the pale. Efforts to prove that Obama was born in Kenya (for instance) have been demonstrated to be false and the result of forged documents, etc. I feel that there is a tangible element of racism and paranoid hysteria in these allegations that devalue honest journalistic investigation."

Okay, that being said ...

"There is a synchronistic element hidden within the "birther" allegations that no one has noticed so far. It is truly bizarre, and its existence suggests to me that the fury of the birthers has its origin in the "sinister forces" of which I write. I even hesitate to bring this up, knowing full well what the reaction will be among the birthers and how they will use this synchronistic piece of "evidence" to add more fuel to their fires, full as they are of heat and no light. But, here it goes:

"In the two birth announcements from the Hawaii newspapers mentioning that a son was born to Mr and Mrs Barack Obama on August 4, 1961 we notice that the next announcement in the series, directly below that of Barack Obama, is for a son born to a Mr and Mrs Norman Asing on the same day."

Seems innocuous, unless you have a sharp eye and familiarity with the language of Indonesia.We'll let Peter explain.

"Asing is a word in the Indonesian national language, Bahasa Indonesia, and means ... "foreign"!
You will recall that Barack Obama spent four years in Indonesia growing up and still has a good command of that language.

"Now the birthers will say that this is evidence that there was a conspiracy back in 1961 when Barack Obama was a week old, and that the birth announcement for Mr Asing was a coded message to their followers that "the eagle has landed" or something (much, I assume, to the real Mr Asing's dismay).

"My interpretation, of course, is somewhat different. I believe that the birther movement was so intense that it created a ripple in space-time. (I write about this in Sinister Forces in connection with the Kennedy assassinations, the Texas Tower Sniper, etc. all of which were predicted in novels and plays long before the events took place).

"I believe that this announcement is a clue, but not of a conspiracy. It is a prediction of what would occur, a prediction created by the intensity of the debate and the passions of the individuals involved whose quantum effects were felt not only in the present and presumably in the future but... also in the past.

"I would never have noticed this had I not spent many years living in Malaysia which uses a national language quite similar to Indonesia's, and in which the word "asing" has the same meaning, so it was only serendipity that brought my attention to the birth announcement where the word "Asing" jumped out at me because, you see, in Malaysia and Indonesia I was also "asing": a foreigner."

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So, to sum up, Peter is suggesting that the emotional intensity of the birther movement and their contention--no matter how wrong--affected the past, synchronicistically resulting in the appearance of the name Asing directly below Obama.

This explanation is interesting--present circumstances exerting influence on the past--and could relate to previous synchronicities we've posted about authors writing about future events...namely, Edgar Allan Poe penning a tale about a dramatic case of cannibalism on the high seas 47 years before it occurred, and Morgan Robertson 'novelizing' the sinking of the Titanic (he called it the Titan) in Futility 14 years before the tragedy.

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