Food for thought – Pooh bird Walking the dog this morning, thinking about a book by James Michener that I read many years ago. I don’t remember the title of the book, but the main character was a slightly malformed, very extraordinary, extremely intelligent man villagers referred to laughingly, as Pooh Bird. While digging at a tell in Israel his story somehow emerged to Archeologists and two things made the story amazing. The dig disproved the story of a hostile takeover of Canaan; proved the land was occupied over 200,000 years ago and blew the hell out of the 6,000 year “Old Testament” story of Adam and Eve. Pooh Bird had insights comparable to more ancient genius, was able to locate particular stars while deep underground and built a canal to transport water that saved inhabitants of the village when they were attacked by marauders. At the very beginning of my criminal justice career I learned that every written report must include who, what, when, where, why and if possible why. As I studied in college, I learned Modus operandi, method of operation, or habits of individuals; Corpus Delecti, which translates, body of the crime, but has greater meaning, because it can include evidence without an actual body. To illustrate my point, I studied a very old case from England where the body was actually eaten by the perpetrator, but investigators used insights and techniques that had not yet been proved scientifically. The evidence was grease particle along the hedges around the house, then police used a black light to notice protein stains in already cleaned wooden floors, which turned out to be human blood. Fast forward to 2014 and some are still trying to get me to accept what cannot withstand the test of 5 basic principles of investigation or research. Each day, I try to learn more, not go in reverse; sense there are things in the universe that are on a spiritual plane, unseen by the human eye and out of reach of normal reason. I recall what I experienced some as a child, before education and religious dogma caused me to relinquish what may have been valuable to the future. My grandmother understood, my mom encouraged me to keep growing, but social interaction challenged what made sense to me, saying my insights were of an entity that I no longer believe exists in the sense that it is presented.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 15:43:14 +0000
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