Aug 13 2004 -- note to self -- I've been writing text for the Saturnian theory for months and it has increased in the recent month -- all revisions, and amended text, but everytime I write something and read it I am reminded of other things. At times I sit down and draw diagrams, sometimes I do specific web search or reread something in a book. What has struck me in the last two weeks is that a lot of the information is coming out of nowhere - that I have no idea how I thought of it. Much is also remembered pieces that just flit into memory. It reminds me of the claim Jaynes made that the Illiad, if it were a recollection of events of 1200 BC, was recalled by the mostly unconscious minds of the poet, the right brain put it all together unknowing to the conscious left brain. I particularly got that feelinga a number of times, that is, that a lot was being composed for me, that something in my mind was putting the informtion in order without conscious thought. Especially I was struck by the blandly stated fact I came out with: that planets are extruded from their primary with a rotational speed of the primary. Then when I checked the 'Eye of Ra' a few months later and sat down to make some diagrams, I concluded that Venus originally rotated at 10 or 12 hours. For this I had to get some data on the size of the rings and the location of the 5 mayor satellites, but it worked out. That also means that the ancients did not see Venus rotate about Saturn, it stood still from the Earth's perspective. Then also I had this insight to state that Venus probably blew up in 680 BC, I have no idea where that came from, but I used it. In augmenting the description -- because it must gave been one hell of a blast to lose all the rotational energy in a single moment -- I wrote "like a supernova" and suddenly knew there was a Chinese records of a nova at about that time -- had to look it up... but it wasn't there. This whole process also remind me of the opening quote I used (at one time), by Schrodinger, that it is "what you think about what everyone sees" as well as the quote from Newton, when asked how he had discovered gravity, and replied "by thinking about it incessantly". Update: Fri Aug 6 07:53:32 CDT 2004