Vinland map, Linear A

[Bled Welder]

A really far out thing happened yesterday, I walked into an actual bookstore.  It had doors, bookshelves, the works.  Barnes and Noble.  The wild thing is that opposed to say, Amazon, which is all I use I don't care what anybody says, that tells you what you would like, since you like that one here's what people who think exactly like you are reading, what an actual bookstore with doors does, is it offers at one glance a bunch of books that you Might be interested in, and bingo, next thing you know you're checking out a few books that Amazon would never thought to inform you about.
In my case, there was three.  John Searle's "Rediscovering the Mind," because someone here mentioned him, and then an English fellow called Gavin Menzies, a book 1421, about some zany idea that Chinese discovered America and pretty much everything else around 1421, and mapped it, and then I had to have a laugh at the new Oxford History of Egypt.  Oh and then at the end I found the Penguin Oxfordman's new translation and selection of the Talmud, haven't read the Talmud yet.  Haven't read the bibles either, but I like the idea of reading the Talmud.
One of the maps Menzies uses is one of Greenland from 1421.  Page 347.  Didn't say why it was called the Vinland, but it was found in a Fiat! on California coast in 1965.  He has this whole research about how a history of some Oslo family that was stationed in Greenland at that time shows that the climate was much warmer there than it is today, etc.
In a recent book he postulates the existence of Atlantis as a real Cretan island, sank, I don't know anything about that, but I was struck by his dedication.  To a special woman of his life.  He wrote her name in Minoan Linear A script.  I have managed to remember and later draw two of the symbols that I'm coming to see.  One of Menzies' is very similar to the only two of mine that so far I've managed to remember and later draw.  I could send a scan of the dated page I drew on.
I understand how they're very simple symbols that both me and an ancient Minoan might easily imagine subconsciously then produce.  But still, kinda interesting.  The first one, if you add something to mine, or combine to the Linear A symbol, my second one if you chop off part of a Linear A symbol:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/lineara.htm

If you put exActly K-E one onto to each of the three prongs of S-E with the bottom rod moved in slightly, or the top I symbol, although I don't recall a bottom lateral bar.  And my second one, if you took the bottom bar off of T-A2, then exactamundo.
I'll try not to give a phenomenological running commentary tonight, unless something new and excellent happens, I will try to remember and write more of the symbols down.  They come on strings or bands, in multicolored hyperdimensionality and are engraved with a precision clearly neither I could imagine or any Minoan could chisel.  The bands come into view, bend some laterally, then go back into the far distance. With much other stuff happening at the same time, sometimes now coming out of my mind as well as into it.
The other evening five days ago when I went fully into a dream I had long ago forgotten but knew it when I saw it and then I went more fully into my subconscious, and maybe yours, I was pushing away my comp after closing it after writing an email as I laid back again in darkness with blindfold on eyes wide open and with state of art sound cancelling earphones with no sound playing, the sounds I hear a whole nother thing to describe yes there are sounds with it, of various forms but electric-made sounding sorta things, I suddenly exclaimed why am I pushing away the comp for! oh right, what was it, something about computer integration was being discussed on here so I placed my new Samsung Galaxy S II on my right chest and my closed laptop over my left arms and laid that way until next time I sat back up to report further, both on and locked solid into wifi.
But that Vinland map!  Does that help clarify things?  Have I furthered Vineland studies at all?  I think I read Vineland 20 years ago, but maybe not.  Did it exist then?  I recently reread the first fifty pages of it.












 		 	   		  
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