Dr. James Martin Peebles. The Man, The Mystic, The Seeker of Truth by Linda Pendleton

New Book by Linda Pendleton

James Martin Peebles, The Man, The Mystic, The Seeker of Truth. Historical Biography 1822-1922

“If I know my own heart, it beats in accord with the divine effort to better humanity, and throbs in tenderest love toward all races and the people of all lands.”~James Martin Peebles, Immortality, 1880

A compelling historical biography of an extraordinary man, James Martin Peebles, an intellectual, reformer, physician, author, who, with his remarkable achievements and his fascinating life story is a testament to the connection between creativity, freedom of thought, and humanity, all embraced and overshadowed by the world of spirit. 

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Linda 

A Special Lenni Lenape Delware Chief and his Tribe, 376 Years Ago

 

Special Gratitude I owe to a Lenni Lenape Chief and his tribe, because if not for his actions 376 years ago, I would not be here.

I discovered through my family genealogical research that my ninth great-grandmother, Penelope (Thomson) van Princes’ life was saved by an American Indian by the name of Tisquantum, Chief of a Lenni Lenape tribe, members of the Algonquian language family and now known as the Delaware.  The year was 1643.  Penelope and her first husband, Kent van Princes, had sailed from their home in Amsterdam, Holland, across the Atlantic to the new world, planning to settle in the New Amsterdam area.  The ship encountered a storm along our Eastern seaboard and made a landing on the rocky shoals near Sandy Hook, New Jersey.  The recorded story is that Penelope’s husband was deathly ill, and after the passengers made it to shore, the van Princes couple were left behind while the other passengers departed for the New Amsterdam Dutch settlement of what is now New York City.  The following morning, three Indians, described with feathers sticking up from coppery, shaved heads, attacked the couple.  The husband, in a semiconscious state, was unable to defend in any way and was killed with one blow of a tomahawk.  Penelope was brutally attacked, partially scalped, a knife wound to her arm, and a deep slash across her abdomen which exposed her bowels.  The Indians left her to die there in the dense woods not far from the beach.

A strong and determined young woman, she somehow managed to hold her bowels in her abdomen and in grief and pain, lay there in a hollowed-out tree for seven days, surviving on tree sap and fungi.  On the eighth day she was discovered by Tisquantum and a younger Lenape.  Tisquantum carried her back to their village, and there she was nursed back to health using what I would consider to be Shamanistic Native American medicine.  Chief Tisquantum, said to have been named for a noble ancestor, knew a little English, and asked Penelope to teach him more English during her recuperation.

In 1644, Penelope married Richard Stout and they had ten children.  Penelope lived to be 110 years of age.  She and Tisquantum remained friends until his death.  A monument and commemorative coin have honored her in Monmouth, New Jersey.  The coin depicts Penelope and Tisquantum.  

-Linda 

 

UFO event, Ariel School, Zimbabwe

 

In 1995, Dr. John E. Mack, gave a lecture in Sedona, Arizona, which my husband Don and I attended.  We had the opportunity to speak briefly with Dr. Mack following his two-hour-plus talk, and he kindly autographed our hardcover first-edition copy of his Abduction book.  Dr. Mack had recently returned from Ruwa, Zimbabwe with his research associate Dominique Callimanopulos, where in November 1994, they interviewed a number of children, sixty, who, while on recess outside their classrooms, had witnessed a landed spacecraft and alien beings.  

Dr. Mack was a leading authority on extraterrestrial encounter experiences.  In 1993 Dr. Mack founded the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER), and the research program was funded early on by philanthropist, Laurance Rockefeller. 

The late Mr. Rockefeller, the grandson of John D. Rockefeller, was responsible for the UFO Disclosure Initiative during the Clinton White House whose main request was that all UFO information held by the government, including from the CIA and US Air Force, be declassified and released to the public.

The PEER research foundation has been replaced by the John E. Mack Institute whose mission is to explore the frontiers of human experience, to serve the transformation of individual consciousness, and to further the evolution of the paradigms by which we understand human identity.

Sadly, Dr. Mack’s credible and passionate research into the UFO abduction  phenomena and other explorations of human experiences were cut short when he was hit by a drunk driver while crossing the streets of London in 2004, there to attend a T. E. Lawrence Society Symposium. 

But Dr. Mack’s work is not over.  Filmmaker Randall Nickerson and team are working on a documentary on the Ruwa school event.  The documentary, "Ariel Phenomenon," is awaiting distribution funding.   

This video by Randall Nickerson is fascinating.  Two of the children, now adults, answer numerous questions.  It is a long video, but worth listening to.  

 

 https://youtu.be/UCqVpwg0oPc

Linda 

Dr. Glenn Doman, Intellectual Potential

 
The late Glenn Doman, founder of the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia who, for more than half a century, had studied the development of human intelligence in thousands of children worldwide, stated, “We are persuaded that every child born, at the instant of birth, has a greater potential intelligence than Leonardo da Vinci ever used.”

Doman's initial work in physical therapy with brain injuries led him inevitably into the problems of brain-injured children.   This life-long study of brain injuries became the primary focus of the Institutes when it was established in 1955.  This work revolutionized the treatment of brain-injured children, resulting in world-wide interest in the Institutes' methods.  His insights into child-brain development, whether involving an injured or a well brain, led him to the conclusion that traditional educational methods were actually hampering rather than enhancing a child's natural ability and desire to learn, severely limiting the innate intellectual potential of our species.

His primary focus was on developing the intellectual potential in young children, including fully rounded creative expression.  This spectacularly successful method teaches babies to read virtually from birth.  As his program expanded, he also began teaching young children math skills, encyclopedic knowledge, foreign languages, gymnastics and music.

He found that virtually all human learning occurs from birth to the age of six and, from that point, the ability to learn steadily declines and the major strides in our growth is thereafter more a matter of wisdom than learning.  Doman felt that learning, or the desire to learn, is most intense during the first six years of life.  The most interesting aspect is that Doman's methods are producing individuals with extremely high intelligence.

I used his techniques of How to Teach Your Baby to Read with my own children who were a bit older at the time, and I also used his techniques with my husband, Don Pendleton, following his brain hemorrhage.  And after writing to Glenn Doman about that, he called to tell us both how good that was for healing.  Thank you, Glenn Doman.   

Don and I also wrote about this in our book, Whispers From the Soul, The Divine Dance of Consciousness.  

~Linda 

Inspiration

“Inspiration is universal. It over-swept with grandeur all the past ages, and is just as fresh now as in time’s earliest morning. Poets, as much as prophets, are illuminated with a divine radiance. They think, they write and sing from the very depths of their being.”
~ James Martin Peebles (1822-1922), author, spiritualist, physician, healer

 

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