I was just reading an article on salon.com (http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/11/19/trust/index.html?source=rss) in which a person was talking about their years of mistrust, anger and resentment. They had been in talk therapy for 18 months and had not made much progress. As a matter of fact, they even felt betrayed by their therapist because of something the therapist said and it simply made the issue worse. The upshot was that they were going through untold years of grief over events in the past that were imprinted deeply into their subconscious.
Just about everyone I know of has, at sometime or another, benefited from some kind of counseling, talk therapy, etc. Talk therapy can be extremely effective if the therapy client is willing to let it work, and if the therapist is the right one for the client. But it takes a lot of patience. It's also a long process, sometimes longer than the duration of the client's insurance, so the process often stops (and hopefully re-starts as the new plan year begins) short of its goal.
But there are quite a few ways to make talk therapy more efficient. NLP, EMDR, Hypnotherapy, Meditation, EFT, just to name a few. My own background is in hypnotherapy, certified through the National Guild of Hypnotists, and I offer hypnosis as service not in place of, but as an adjunct to the client's regular therapist. If someone describes an issue such as that in the salon.com article, a lifetime of anger and depression, I usually insist that they be seeing a therapist, and that the therapist give them a referral to see me as a hypnotist. But having said that, I believe that hypnosis work, such as the path methodologies pioneered by Calvin R. Banyan, could be of boundless help to that particular correspondent.
If one is willing to get out of their own way, to let go and allow the process to work, one can accomplish amazing things while in hypnosis. The healing possibilities are endless; I've seen people do amazing feats of healing while in hypnotic trance. And the beauty is that I'm just the guide, the clients do the work, themselves.
Typically, in a multiphase hypnotherapy sequence such as the path methodologies, the client begins with short term suggestion work to help alleviate the initial pain and to get them used to working with the hypnotist. You get to realize that being in trance is really nothing more than focused concentration and bypassing of the critical faculty, i.e. letting go and letting the process work.
The next step is to work backward in hypnotic regression to the original event that began the subconscious imprint - the Initial Sensitizing Event (or ISE). In the case of this correspondent, there is probably one lurking back in childhood that is at the center of the issue. Finding that would greatly help in healing - and that is the key, healing the hurt. In the first regression session(s) we can bring the adult resources and perspective - from those times when the client feels strong - back to assist that hurt little child. To the inner mind (often manifest in subconscious memories living somewhere in the Amygdula) this is emotionally indistinguishable from being physically held by a caring adult. Knowing that somebody cares is the greatest thing in the world to that little inner child. Again, the result of this on a client's face can be a joy to behold.
In most hypnotherapy work, the core of healing is forgiveness. In nearly every case, I've noted the client going back to some time when they have been hurt by someone. Many times, the person doing the hurting doesn't even know they've done it. But it happens, and to a little child it can be catastrophic. Thus, using some healing method like chair therapy can have truly amazing results.
In chair therapy, I invite the client to imagine the offender sitting in a chair across my studio from the client - safely far away, yet close enough for the client to let'em have it.... The client usually does just that and sometimes the air can get a bit blue in my studio. But the end result is nearly always a degree of forgiveness, far more than the person ever imagined was possible. The result is clearly visible in the client's bearing. Right in the chair in my studio, I can see their shoulders square up. Metaphorically, it is the weight of their anger and hatred, a heavy burden they have carried for years, being lifted off.
In many cases, that's all that's needed. But in others, there are possibilities such as putting a version of one's self in the chair and repeating the process - forgiving one's self just like forgiving anyone else. And the results can be similar, especially when a person feels a lot of guilt. There are lots of other techniques as well, but those above can really help. For more on this, I invite you to check out my Hypnotherapy Homepage.
The most critical thing is to allow the process to work. When the client is willing to set their resistance and disbelief aside, just as if they were reading a good book, amazing feats of emotional healing are possible. And when this happens, hypnosis as an adjunct to the person's normal therapy can help accelerate their healing in ways they may never have thought possible.
If you feel like that person in to Salon.com, please seek some kind of help. You deserve better than to live with a burden like that on your shoulders. If appropriate, please feel free to look for a therapist, a hypnotherapist if you and your therapist feel the situation warrants. Above all, please seek the healing you deserve - because you deserve it.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
A lot of reality to create.
I just sent out several new query letters today. Both are to some pretty high profile literary agents. When I looked at the stats for one of them, the Maas Agency, it showed that they had accepted no SF submissions in the last 30 days while rejecting at least 30 - at least among the users of http://www.querytracker.com. Not sure about the queries from other folks, but assuming that QueryTracker users are at least somewhat representative, this is a rather challenging statistic...
This is one of those times in which the ideas in The Secret can come in rather handy. Specifically, I like the idea of putting intent out to the Universe, in this case to have an agent accept my work - and subsequently, a publisher.
There is always the question: When putting intent out to the Universe, praying for results, or however you wish to phrase it, does something paranormal or metaphysical happen? Or does it simply mean that you really want something so you are going to go the extra mile to make sure the result happens? There is the old example of trying to manifest a new Maserati in your driveway - can it happen? Or does it simply mean that you will go to whatever lengths it takes to make that dream come true. In this case, I don't give a hoot about Maserati's, but agents and publishers would be really nice.
What I did do over the last couple of days, is to greatly optimize my query letter. Re-reading a few more of the tutorials on various writing websites, I discovered that I had made some big mistakes on the first set of queries I sent out. I'm not surprised as those were the first ones, even though at the time I thought I had them right. Now, I wish I could re-do those with a better submission. There has to be a first step for everything. We live and learn...
'Nuff for now. It's time to go meditate and maybe put out to the Universe visions of a zillion readers just loving The Fifth Key, flocking in droves to book signings everywhere.
Looks like I have a lot of reality to create. Wish me luck... :-)
This is one of those times in which the ideas in The Secret can come in rather handy. Specifically, I like the idea of putting intent out to the Universe, in this case to have an agent accept my work - and subsequently, a publisher.
There is always the question: When putting intent out to the Universe, praying for results, or however you wish to phrase it, does something paranormal or metaphysical happen? Or does it simply mean that you really want something so you are going to go the extra mile to make sure the result happens? There is the old example of trying to manifest a new Maserati in your driveway - can it happen? Or does it simply mean that you will go to whatever lengths it takes to make that dream come true. In this case, I don't give a hoot about Maserati's, but agents and publishers would be really nice.
What I did do over the last couple of days, is to greatly optimize my query letter. Re-reading a few more of the tutorials on various writing websites, I discovered that I had made some big mistakes on the first set of queries I sent out. I'm not surprised as those were the first ones, even though at the time I thought I had them right. Now, I wish I could re-do those with a better submission. There has to be a first step for everything. We live and learn...
'Nuff for now. It's time to go meditate and maybe put out to the Universe visions of a zillion readers just loving The Fifth Key, flocking in droves to book signings everywhere.
Looks like I have a lot of reality to create. Wish me luck... :-)
Predictions of Disclosure
In the last few weeks, the rumor mill has been busy. We hear myriad dispatches from "rumor central' about pending disclosure of government UFO secrets, impending Armageddon, open contact, chemtrails, global warming (and global warming not existing). It is fascinating to be an observer to the traffic on a number of e-mail lists - UFO, New-Age, Christian, political (right wing, left wing and the radical middle), etc., etc., etc...
One of the biggest surges of e-mails have been dispatches from contactees. Teachings of the Pleiadeans/Pleijarans, channeling from the Galactic Federation, apocalyptic scenarios left over from abduction encounters, etc. All seem to have the same theme - the crossroads has arrived. The theme is consistent; the lesson is the same. Yet in each case, the details are very different.
In a number of regressions I've done with experiencers, they have made predictions based upon information "the aliens told me". In each case, the central theme, whatever it might be, is very valid. There is a lesson to be learned in nearly every case. However, the details are nearly always wrong.
I have had several experiencers tell me while they were in deep trance, that they knew something was about to happen, a sighting, an encounter, a political or scientific occurrence, or some other event that could potentially be confirmable. Frequently, it's a prediction of some kind of contact. And in each case, the event did not occur.
A few years ago, a group of us on the New Civilization Network (http://www.newciv.org/) had a virtual room set up, the PSI room. In the PSI room, we had several years worth of round-robin remote viewing experiments. Over time, I noticed a pattern emerge - the generalities tended to be pretty accurate. We got pretty good at getting the general picture, observations - the emotions, impressions, sensations, etc. - all tended to be spot on. However, once we got into any kind of interpretation, or detailed predictions of what the scene was, we were pretty far off. It seems to work if one just sticks to the impressions and observations. When one starts getting analytical, the local mind replaces the non local and the channel shuts down. (or as skeptics would say, generalities are easy, specifics are-tough).
The most recent, very spectacular case of channeled predictions is that of Blossom Goodchild, the Australian Psychic who predicted that the Visitors would openly arrive in the skies over Alabama. It never happened.
Now on several e-mail lists, we hear channeled messages that disclosure is imminent. just like the aliens in the Alabama skies, we hear that very soon now (perhaps before the end of the year) President Obama is going to make a public announcement that the Visitors are real, and they are here. Will it happen? I certainly don't know - I'm not privy to the inner circles of the president's cabinet. However, I don't think I'll hold my breath.
On numerous occasions, I and other researchers have written speculative articles about how, in the grand phenomenal scheme of things, the government doesn't matter much. The Visitors will do what they do, regardless of what the government does. How does this make the government look? Certainly not very powerful. The result has been fear, a frantic effort to understand these Visitors from the sky. They may have a lot of data, but I doubt if there has been much understanding.
Steven Greer and other disclosure advocates have long been advocating a "come clean" philosophy, that government should simply put all their cards on the table. What would happen if they did? I suppose that depends upon what those cards are - cards that may or may not have fallen from the sky. Would it cause the collapse of society? I doubt it - unless, that is, the cards say something dark and sinister - something like "aliens have infiltrated every part of our society and are bent on taking over Earth." But again, I doubt that's the real picture.
I often wonder if such channelings are a reflection of the aggregate field consciousness of humanity. The details may be superfluous. The important part is the underlying theme, the Jungian archetype that is the foundation of the message. In the case of the Visitor arrival predictions, the archetype is simple - the desire to see positive, benevolent beings arrive from elsewhere. In the case of disclosure, again the overall theme is quite apparent - the desire to know the truth. Perhaps the details are not as important as the expression of the desire to understand, once and for all, what our authority structures's role is in the Visitors' interaction with humanity. Thus, the message I take away from the increase in 'disclosure is imminent' messages is the crescendo of desire to know the truth - whatever it is.
So in the end we are back to the channeled predictions. Are we going to have disclosure in the near future? Is President Obama going to go on Prime Time TV and announce that the Visitors have arrived? If it happened, I would be pleasantly and profoundly surprised. But my bet is that the year will end, and next year will play out, with no official announcement. There will probably be no spectacular disclosure. There might be sighting info, investigations and Bluebook or other reports, etc., posted online, as the Canadian government apparently did earlier this year. But I won't expect to see too many alien ships appear in the Alabama skies, nor to hear an announcement on UFOs from President Obama.
When it comes to the question of coverup vs disclosure, I don't know what really goes on behind the curtain, but I predict that tomorrow will be pretty much the same as today.
One of the biggest surges of e-mails have been dispatches from contactees. Teachings of the Pleiadeans/Pleijarans, channeling from the Galactic Federation, apocalyptic scenarios left over from abduction encounters, etc. All seem to have the same theme - the crossroads has arrived. The theme is consistent; the lesson is the same. Yet in each case, the details are very different.
In a number of regressions I've done with experiencers, they have made predictions based upon information "the aliens told me". In each case, the central theme, whatever it might be, is very valid. There is a lesson to be learned in nearly every case. However, the details are nearly always wrong.
I have had several experiencers tell me while they were in deep trance, that they knew something was about to happen, a sighting, an encounter, a political or scientific occurrence, or some other event that could potentially be confirmable. Frequently, it's a prediction of some kind of contact. And in each case, the event did not occur.
A few years ago, a group of us on the New Civilization Network (http://www.newciv.org/) had a virtual room set up, the PSI room. In the PSI room, we had several years worth of round-robin remote viewing experiments. Over time, I noticed a pattern emerge - the generalities tended to be pretty accurate. We got pretty good at getting the general picture, observations - the emotions, impressions, sensations, etc. - all tended to be spot on. However, once we got into any kind of interpretation, or detailed predictions of what the scene was, we were pretty far off. It seems to work if one just sticks to the impressions and observations. When one starts getting analytical, the local mind replaces the non local and the channel shuts down. (or as skeptics would say, generalities are easy, specifics are-tough).
The most recent, very spectacular case of channeled predictions is that of Blossom Goodchild, the Australian Psychic who predicted that the Visitors would openly arrive in the skies over Alabama. It never happened.
Now on several e-mail lists, we hear channeled messages that disclosure is imminent. just like the aliens in the Alabama skies, we hear that very soon now (perhaps before the end of the year) President Obama is going to make a public announcement that the Visitors are real, and they are here. Will it happen? I certainly don't know - I'm not privy to the inner circles of the president's cabinet. However, I don't think I'll hold my breath.
On numerous occasions, I and other researchers have written speculative articles about how, in the grand phenomenal scheme of things, the government doesn't matter much. The Visitors will do what they do, regardless of what the government does. How does this make the government look? Certainly not very powerful. The result has been fear, a frantic effort to understand these Visitors from the sky. They may have a lot of data, but I doubt if there has been much understanding.
Steven Greer and other disclosure advocates have long been advocating a "come clean" philosophy, that government should simply put all their cards on the table. What would happen if they did? I suppose that depends upon what those cards are - cards that may or may not have fallen from the sky. Would it cause the collapse of society? I doubt it - unless, that is, the cards say something dark and sinister - something like "aliens have infiltrated every part of our society and are bent on taking over Earth." But again, I doubt that's the real picture.
I often wonder if such channelings are a reflection of the aggregate field consciousness of humanity. The details may be superfluous. The important part is the underlying theme, the Jungian archetype that is the foundation of the message. In the case of the Visitor arrival predictions, the archetype is simple - the desire to see positive, benevolent beings arrive from elsewhere. In the case of disclosure, again the overall theme is quite apparent - the desire to know the truth. Perhaps the details are not as important as the expression of the desire to understand, once and for all, what our authority structures's role is in the Visitors' interaction with humanity. Thus, the message I take away from the increase in 'disclosure is imminent' messages is the crescendo of desire to know the truth - whatever it is.
So in the end we are back to the channeled predictions. Are we going to have disclosure in the near future? Is President Obama going to go on Prime Time TV and announce that the Visitors have arrived? If it happened, I would be pleasantly and profoundly surprised. But my bet is that the year will end, and next year will play out, with no official announcement. There will probably be no spectacular disclosure. There might be sighting info, investigations and Bluebook or other reports, etc., posted online, as the Canadian government apparently did earlier this year. But I won't expect to see too many alien ships appear in the Alabama skies, nor to hear an announcement on UFOs from President Obama.
When it comes to the question of coverup vs disclosure, I don't know what really goes on behind the curtain, but I predict that tomorrow will be pretty much the same as today.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
"The game is afoot" - but what is the game?
Late this afternoon, I got a call from someone half way across the country. This particular person had had a lifetime of unexplained experiences. Apparently, most of them were not scary, but left the person with a tremendous sense of mystery - a big unresolved hole in life. For many, this seems to be the case. They don't have lot of fear, save for some anxiety about exploring the unknown. Just what might be behind the veil of amnesia? Mostly, they have an overwhelming curiosity - a desire to fill in the blanks in life.
For some reason, the last month or two has seen an upturn in calls like this. It's not clear whether the phenomenon is up to something new, whether people are remembering their experiences more for some reason, or whether this is simply a random grouping of events. Still, the content is interesting as always.
At the last MUFON meeting, another member told me about a presentation by one of the abduction researchers, describing a recent trend in abduction accounts. Apparently, the particular researcher (not sure which one) stated that nearly every abductee they worked with described how "They" seem to be integrating into our society. While, admittedly, I'm hearing this third or fourth hand, it still gives one pause for thought.
Over the last few years, I've written several articles about such "human-aliens" and their interaction with experiencers. Aparently, these beings/folks(?) are becoming harder to recognize, except by eachother and sometimes by experiencers. On more than one occasion, the Visitors have appeared to debrief the experiencer during an encounter. They seemed interested in how well the experiencers could recognize the ersatz-human. When the experiencer indicated that the being/person was difficult to distinguish from those around them, the Visitors said something like "good" (telepathically. of course).
There have been increasing indications that the Changes - to use David Jacobs' terminology - are pretty close to being upon us. For better or for worse, the Visitors seem about ready to do whatever it is they are going to do. Unfortunatley, researchers have very little idea what that is. However, such human-alien reports seems consistent with the Hopkins/Jacobs model.
Just how consistent is this flow of information from experiencers. Several researchers describe this as being nearly ubiquitous - a deep consistency in the accounts of alien abduction events. We hear about the small gray "away team", the escort to a waiting UFO, the reproductive/medical procedures while the experiencer is lying on the table. All seems powerfully consistent. The only problem is that people aren't telling me this same thing.
While I have a bit smaller of a database than does Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, etc., in the last year, I have still had far fewer accounts in which experiencers tell me of the classic small-gray abduction. Granted about half of events seem to fit the mold, but about half of them don't.
In addition to the classic gray alien encounter, I hear people describe metaphysical events, metaphorical/symbolic (dreamlike) events, and even a few cases of "simply" (it's never simple to be an experiencer) Awareness during Sleep Paralasys.
In every case, the experience is powerful. I believe that the experience is very real for the person to whom it is occurring, and it is not mine to judge whether an event is physical, metaphysical or from some other source. From a hypnotherapy perspective, they are all important. Yet the discrepency between what I hear and what other researchers seem to describe raises questions.
Am I simply not digging deep enough? Am I not asking enough questions, probing enough for details? Or are other researchers pushing too hard - a case of seek and ye shall find? In a sense, the skeptics are right when they say that a person in hypnotic trance is very suggestable. It might be easy to unconsciously impress one's own beliefs onto a client, and I've noted that beliefs within the UFO community tend to be relatively strong. During deep hypnotic rapport, there even appers to be a psychic link between hypnotherapist and client. Thus, when a researcher tells me that all of his/her clients are describing the same thing, I tend to wonder...
The same person I was talking with this afternoon told me that they had noted a lack of professionalism in UFO research. Indeed, there is a lot of "religion" in UFOlogy, an emphasis on spirituality (which is just fine) and a lot of deeply held beliefs. There are always politics present in any endeavor, and UFO research is no exception. Yet most of the people I know in the field maintain a solidly professional attitude. So I suggest that rather than a lack of professionalism, what is lacking is more scientific rigor.
How can we establish a scientific method - in the field of abduction research especially. What do we need to do to establish a body of knowledge, backed by hard data. And does such hard data even really exist? - It would be an understatement to say that there a lot of subjective and metaphysical aspects to this field. So what can we establish as provable hypothesis in the field?
The objective of the opening phases of a scientific inquiry is generally to establish a model, a working hypothesis of the phenomenon under study. The mark of a good hypnothesis is its ability to make testable predictions about phenomenon. What must we see to know whether our model of the phenomenon is true or false?
In my article on the Indigo hypothesis, I offer a few testable predictions that would tell us whether my theory is or isn't true. One of these is genetic - do indigo children (a criterion we still need to define) have specific genetic markers? Do the families of experiencers have these same markers? Does the population of Indigos and the population of experiencers correlate? Is there an overlap or is there no relationship at all?
What other solid physical evidence can we use to determine the nature and reality of close encounters? Dr Roger Lier's work with implants is probably a good example of a solid scientific approach. Other areas might be measurements of the physical aspects of encounters, electronic monitoring of the experiencer's environment, etc. There are many possibilities for initial data and ultimately, I suggest that we can gather enough solid data to build a picture of the physics behind the Visitor presence - a working hypothesis that we can test further with observation and experiment.
In the mean time, most abduction resarch continues using tools such as witness interviews, hypnosis and, if we're extremely lucky, an occasional tidbit of physical evidence. Mostly, we are left in the subjective world of the anecdotal account. While extremely meaningful, it is not easly to glean concrete data from subjective human observations - especially when the human may be in fear an duress. It is also difficult to discern whether an event is physical, metaphysical, (para)psychological, etc. Thus, it becomes harder to develop a reliable picture of the nature oand purpose of the Visitors, etc.
Furthermore, while others describe a coherent picture of alien activity, a solid trend of activity leading toward - well, toward something..., I have not discerned this. While many researchers have described consistency between their own clients, I'm not sure how much similarity there is between researchers. To date, I'm aware of little if any rigorous meta-analysis of the data across multiple researchers (the Abduction Transcription Project, in the late 1990s was a good start).
Furthermore, I suspect that we know far less about close encounters than we think. Yet,I think the future of this research is bright. We are just beginning, and there is so much more to learn - assuming that the catastrophic changes such as those described in David Jacobs' book, The Threat don't occur and somehow hose us all. Truly, abduction research is at a crossroads.
What is happening? I have little or no idea, but something is. What is the phenomenon up to? There is the definite but subjective sense that, in the words of Sherlock Holmes, "The game is afoot." Unfortunately, we (or at least I) just don't know what that game is...
For some reason, the last month or two has seen an upturn in calls like this. It's not clear whether the phenomenon is up to something new, whether people are remembering their experiences more for some reason, or whether this is simply a random grouping of events. Still, the content is interesting as always.
At the last MUFON meeting, another member told me about a presentation by one of the abduction researchers, describing a recent trend in abduction accounts. Apparently, the particular researcher (not sure which one) stated that nearly every abductee they worked with described how "They" seem to be integrating into our society. While, admittedly, I'm hearing this third or fourth hand, it still gives one pause for thought.
Over the last few years, I've written several articles about such "human-aliens" and their interaction with experiencers. Aparently, these beings/folks(?) are becoming harder to recognize, except by eachother and sometimes by experiencers. On more than one occasion, the Visitors have appeared to debrief the experiencer during an encounter. They seemed interested in how well the experiencers could recognize the ersatz-human. When the experiencer indicated that the being/person was difficult to distinguish from those around them, the Visitors said something like "good" (telepathically. of course).
There have been increasing indications that the Changes - to use David Jacobs' terminology - are pretty close to being upon us. For better or for worse, the Visitors seem about ready to do whatever it is they are going to do. Unfortunatley, researchers have very little idea what that is. However, such human-alien reports seems consistent with the Hopkins/Jacobs model.
Just how consistent is this flow of information from experiencers. Several researchers describe this as being nearly ubiquitous - a deep consistency in the accounts of alien abduction events. We hear about the small gray "away team", the escort to a waiting UFO, the reproductive/medical procedures while the experiencer is lying on the table. All seems powerfully consistent. The only problem is that people aren't telling me this same thing.
While I have a bit smaller of a database than does Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, etc., in the last year, I have still had far fewer accounts in which experiencers tell me of the classic small-gray abduction. Granted about half of events seem to fit the mold, but about half of them don't.
In addition to the classic gray alien encounter, I hear people describe metaphysical events, metaphorical/symbolic (dreamlike) events, and even a few cases of "simply" (it's never simple to be an experiencer) Awareness during Sleep Paralasys.
In every case, the experience is powerful. I believe that the experience is very real for the person to whom it is occurring, and it is not mine to judge whether an event is physical, metaphysical or from some other source. From a hypnotherapy perspective, they are all important. Yet the discrepency between what I hear and what other researchers seem to describe raises questions.
Am I simply not digging deep enough? Am I not asking enough questions, probing enough for details? Or are other researchers pushing too hard - a case of seek and ye shall find? In a sense, the skeptics are right when they say that a person in hypnotic trance is very suggestable. It might be easy to unconsciously impress one's own beliefs onto a client, and I've noted that beliefs within the UFO community tend to be relatively strong. During deep hypnotic rapport, there even appers to be a psychic link between hypnotherapist and client. Thus, when a researcher tells me that all of his/her clients are describing the same thing, I tend to wonder...
The same person I was talking with this afternoon told me that they had noted a lack of professionalism in UFO research. Indeed, there is a lot of "religion" in UFOlogy, an emphasis on spirituality (which is just fine) and a lot of deeply held beliefs. There are always politics present in any endeavor, and UFO research is no exception. Yet most of the people I know in the field maintain a solidly professional attitude. So I suggest that rather than a lack of professionalism, what is lacking is more scientific rigor.
How can we establish a scientific method - in the field of abduction research especially. What do we need to do to establish a body of knowledge, backed by hard data. And does such hard data even really exist? - It would be an understatement to say that there a lot of subjective and metaphysical aspects to this field. So what can we establish as provable hypothesis in the field?
The objective of the opening phases of a scientific inquiry is generally to establish a model, a working hypothesis of the phenomenon under study. The mark of a good hypnothesis is its ability to make testable predictions about phenomenon. What must we see to know whether our model of the phenomenon is true or false?
In my article on the Indigo hypothesis, I offer a few testable predictions that would tell us whether my theory is or isn't true. One of these is genetic - do indigo children (a criterion we still need to define) have specific genetic markers? Do the families of experiencers have these same markers? Does the population of Indigos and the population of experiencers correlate? Is there an overlap or is there no relationship at all?
What other solid physical evidence can we use to determine the nature and reality of close encounters? Dr Roger Lier's work with implants is probably a good example of a solid scientific approach. Other areas might be measurements of the physical aspects of encounters, electronic monitoring of the experiencer's environment, etc. There are many possibilities for initial data and ultimately, I suggest that we can gather enough solid data to build a picture of the physics behind the Visitor presence - a working hypothesis that we can test further with observation and experiment.
In the mean time, most abduction resarch continues using tools such as witness interviews, hypnosis and, if we're extremely lucky, an occasional tidbit of physical evidence. Mostly, we are left in the subjective world of the anecdotal account. While extremely meaningful, it is not easly to glean concrete data from subjective human observations - especially when the human may be in fear an duress. It is also difficult to discern whether an event is physical, metaphysical, (para)psychological, etc. Thus, it becomes harder to develop a reliable picture of the nature oand purpose of the Visitors, etc.
Furthermore, while others describe a coherent picture of alien activity, a solid trend of activity leading toward - well, toward something..., I have not discerned this. While many researchers have described consistency between their own clients, I'm not sure how much similarity there is between researchers. To date, I'm aware of little if any rigorous meta-analysis of the data across multiple researchers (the Abduction Transcription Project, in the late 1990s was a good start).
Furthermore, I suspect that we know far less about close encounters than we think. Yet,I think the future of this research is bright. We are just beginning, and there is so much more to learn - assuming that the catastrophic changes such as those described in David Jacobs' book, The Threat don't occur and somehow hose us all. Truly, abduction research is at a crossroads.
What is happening? I have little or no idea, but something is. What is the phenomenon up to? There is the definite but subjective sense that, in the words of Sherlock Holmes, "The game is afoot." Unfortunately, we (or at least I) just don't know what that game is...
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Notes from MN MUFON 11/14/09 Talk
Went to the Minnesota MUFON meeting yesterday and heard one of the most fascinating talks I've heard in quite some time. They could probably be entitled something like "The further adventures of..." - presented by one of our field investigators who had recently done several fascinating UFOlogical and Cryptozoological trips out west.
The first part of his talk was on his trip out to Washington this summer, Bigfoot hunting with the BFRO (Big Foot Research Organization). He had some fascinating stories, and s bit of physical evidence to describe. Apparently, one night while in camp, they were visited by the object of their hunt. They heard a crash during the night, and also a distant howl, often attributed to Sasquatch. The next morning, they found several snapped trees (relatively sizable trunks) and some pretty sizable tracks - definitely not those of a bear.
His next stop was at Jim Gilliland's ranch in Trout Lake, Washington. He spent at least one night there on a sky watch and had some pretty fascinating things to tell about it. Not sure how much they saw in the sky, but he had some great things to say about a Cherokee shaman who was there at the same time. Shamanism has always fascinated me - and it served as a little hook for me back into the metaphysical.
The next part of his presentation was on the Galactic Conference he attended in Denver. This is a fascinating talk and meeting in itself. Much of it was channeled material on how the coming changes will affect us, how this will open the door to open contact itself.
There was more, but I think you get the idea - this talk was fascinating...
I am attaching the rough notes I made from the talk. To see them, click here.
Hope you enjoy reading my rapid touch typing - lotsa typos there, but lotsa wisdom, too.
Enjoy...
The first part of his talk was on his trip out to Washington this summer, Bigfoot hunting with the BFRO (Big Foot Research Organization). He had some fascinating stories, and s bit of physical evidence to describe. Apparently, one night while in camp, they were visited by the object of their hunt. They heard a crash during the night, and also a distant howl, often attributed to Sasquatch. The next morning, they found several snapped trees (relatively sizable trunks) and some pretty sizable tracks - definitely not those of a bear.
His next stop was at Jim Gilliland's ranch in Trout Lake, Washington. He spent at least one night there on a sky watch and had some pretty fascinating things to tell about it. Not sure how much they saw in the sky, but he had some great things to say about a Cherokee shaman who was there at the same time. Shamanism has always fascinated me - and it served as a little hook for me back into the metaphysical.
The next part of his presentation was on the Galactic Conference he attended in Denver. This is a fascinating talk and meeting in itself. Much of it was channeled material on how the coming changes will affect us, how this will open the door to open contact itself.
There was more, but I think you get the idea - this talk was fascinating...
I am attaching the rough notes I made from the talk. To see them, click here.
Hope you enjoy reading my rapid touch typing - lotsa typos there, but lotsa wisdom, too.
Enjoy...
Sunday, November 1, 2009
The beat goes on...
This is a draft of this months article, The CE4 Corner. Please feel free to read here, or go to my site and read this and previous editions of The CE4 Corner.
A couple of weeks ago, I had begun to wonder. I had had several successful clients, including one who just contacted me this evening as I was writing this article, telling me that she was doing great. Our work had worked. Then another client told me that he didn't think that his did - even though the symptom that he came to see me about had vanished.
Even though the work we had done was great, something about the work - something he couldn't identify - led him to his strange conclusion. It wasn't clear why he didn't think the work was effective - even when I pointed out that his issue was no longer present. Somehow, to him, the work didn't work, yet the person had healed. The news left me both encouraged and discouraged, and a little bit confused.
After hearing back from this person, I had to remind myself that the ultimate goal of a healer is to heal. The best thing you can tell a healer is that you don't need them any more. If you are speaking the truth as you see it, if the healing is complete, then the healer's work as an instrument of God/The Universe/The Higher Power/whatever you wish to call it, is done. Ultimately, the final outcomes, any secondary effects of the healing in the client's life are beyond our control. Their life is their own.
I believe this is a lesson the Universe has been trying to teach for many years. While one can continuously work for Good, doing healing work, research exploration and discovery, or any other endeavor - results are often beyond our control. In the end, each of us can only do our best. And it is vital to not become attached to outcomes. Shortly thereafter, work resumed with several new clients - each with successful results. The beat goes on...
Earlier this fall, I had the honor of meeting several new and wonderful close encounter experiencers. Both lived in the same area about a half-day's drive south of my home. Both had had powerful experiences with the extraordinary, and while they were both encounters, they had little resemblance to eachother.
One experiencer described an encounter with what can best be described as a 'monster' - somewhat vampire-like, yet with dragon wings and scales. As we delved further, it became clear to me that this was becoming a metaphorical exploration of her own life. Rather than a physical close encounter experience, this event belonged to the metaphysical, archetypal realm of the mind and soul. Still, her roommate had seen evidence that there was more to this than "just a dream." Both had seen the UFO that had prompted the original report. I finally concluded that this event was one of those 'outliers' that occasionally crop up in my own case files - not quite a dream but not a well-defined UFOlogical event, either.
While we ended up doing some great healing work, the inner skeptic in me surfaced. This often happens when events turn out to be non-UFOlogical in nature. It reminded me that 'we had not found our aliens.' Skepticism and discernment, UFOs and dreams, reality anomalies and mysteries of the mind; a flurry of questions and a fair degree of doubt filled my mind - the beat goes on...
Then came the next day and work with the other experiencer I had come to visit. This person turned out to have had much more of a classic close encounter experience. He described a classic sequence of events; lying in bed when he suddenly felt the familiar paralysis set in. Suddenly, the ‘little guys’ were again surrounding him - beings he had seen so many times before. Soon thereafter, he found himself in the alien realm, subject to medical procedures, etc. It was all classic stuff - straight out of Hopkins and Jacobs' books. After an hour or so, reliving a series of frightening events and resolving the fear surrounding them, we began the final phase of our work - forgiveness and personal empowerment.
Hypnotic regression sessions often conclude with a process called 'Forgiveness of Others' - also known as gestalt or chair therapy. In this work, the experiencer imagines that the offending party - in this case, the leader of the aliens - is sitting in a chair a safe distance away. The hypnotist then invites the experiencer to say whatever he/she wishes, with the understanding that the alien can not do or say anything in return. As a result, the air sometimes gets rather blue in the studio at that moment. The alien can then respond, eventually fostering a dialog between the experiencer and this representation of the aliens. If all goes as planned, the result is a degree of forgiveness - a releasing of the burden the experiencer has carried for years. When such forgiveness occurs, I often see the person's shoulders visibly lift, as if a physical weight had been removed from them. This case was no exception. Once again, I felt the satisfaction of having participated in a wonderful healing event.
As I drove home from this final session, I concluded that the trip had been a success. We had learned a lot, two experiencers had come to terms with - well, with whatever had happened to them. The intricacies of the phenomenon again drove home the point of how little we really know about close encounters. I also had to remind myself, once again, that the work was that of God - and to void becoming too attached to outcomes (even positive ones).
Since that time, additional experiencers have appeared in the world of Minnesota MUFON. Each has a powerful story to tell and each is at a distinct point in their phenomenal journey. Several have begun hypnotherapy work - including a couple of people from other areas of the country. Several hypnotherapists in the National Guild of Hypnotists have begun working more with experiencers. If this trend continues, more and more people will be able to find help in their own location. .
The journey continues; progress occurs one step at a time. The phenomenon is busy as always and so are the UFO researchers and the hypnotherapists of the world. They mystery continues. The beat goes on...
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A couple of weeks ago, I had begun to wonder. I had had several successful clients, including one who just contacted me this evening as I was writing this article, telling me that she was doing great. Our work had worked. Then another client told me that he didn't think that his did - even though the symptom that he came to see me about had vanished.
Even though the work we had done was great, something about the work - something he couldn't identify - led him to his strange conclusion. It wasn't clear why he didn't think the work was effective - even when I pointed out that his issue was no longer present. Somehow, to him, the work didn't work, yet the person had healed. The news left me both encouraged and discouraged, and a little bit confused.
After hearing back from this person, I had to remind myself that the ultimate goal of a healer is to heal. The best thing you can tell a healer is that you don't need them any more. If you are speaking the truth as you see it, if the healing is complete, then the healer's work as an instrument of God/The Universe/The Higher Power/whatever you wish to call it, is done. Ultimately, the final outcomes, any secondary effects of the healing in the client's life are beyond our control. Their life is their own.
I believe this is a lesson the Universe has been trying to teach for many years. While one can continuously work for Good, doing healing work, research exploration and discovery, or any other endeavor - results are often beyond our control. In the end, each of us can only do our best. And it is vital to not become attached to outcomes. Shortly thereafter, work resumed with several new clients - each with successful results. The beat goes on...
Earlier this fall, I had the honor of meeting several new and wonderful close encounter experiencers. Both lived in the same area about a half-day's drive south of my home. Both had had powerful experiences with the extraordinary, and while they were both encounters, they had little resemblance to eachother.
One experiencer described an encounter with what can best be described as a 'monster' - somewhat vampire-like, yet with dragon wings and scales. As we delved further, it became clear to me that this was becoming a metaphorical exploration of her own life. Rather than a physical close encounter experience, this event belonged to the metaphysical, archetypal realm of the mind and soul. Still, her roommate had seen evidence that there was more to this than "just a dream." Both had seen the UFO that had prompted the original report. I finally concluded that this event was one of those 'outliers' that occasionally crop up in my own case files - not quite a dream but not a well-defined UFOlogical event, either.
While we ended up doing some great healing work, the inner skeptic in me surfaced. This often happens when events turn out to be non-UFOlogical in nature. It reminded me that 'we had not found our aliens.' Skepticism and discernment, UFOs and dreams, reality anomalies and mysteries of the mind; a flurry of questions and a fair degree of doubt filled my mind - the beat goes on...
Then came the next day and work with the other experiencer I had come to visit. This person turned out to have had much more of a classic close encounter experience. He described a classic sequence of events; lying in bed when he suddenly felt the familiar paralysis set in. Suddenly, the ‘little guys’ were again surrounding him - beings he had seen so many times before. Soon thereafter, he found himself in the alien realm, subject to medical procedures, etc. It was all classic stuff - straight out of Hopkins and Jacobs' books. After an hour or so, reliving a series of frightening events and resolving the fear surrounding them, we began the final phase of our work - forgiveness and personal empowerment.
Hypnotic regression sessions often conclude with a process called 'Forgiveness of Others' - also known as gestalt or chair therapy. In this work, the experiencer imagines that the offending party - in this case, the leader of the aliens - is sitting in a chair a safe distance away. The hypnotist then invites the experiencer to say whatever he/she wishes, with the understanding that the alien can not do or say anything in return. As a result, the air sometimes gets rather blue in the studio at that moment. The alien can then respond, eventually fostering a dialog between the experiencer and this representation of the aliens. If all goes as planned, the result is a degree of forgiveness - a releasing of the burden the experiencer has carried for years. When such forgiveness occurs, I often see the person's shoulders visibly lift, as if a physical weight had been removed from them. This case was no exception. Once again, I felt the satisfaction of having participated in a wonderful healing event.
As I drove home from this final session, I concluded that the trip had been a success. We had learned a lot, two experiencers had come to terms with - well, with whatever had happened to them. The intricacies of the phenomenon again drove home the point of how little we really know about close encounters. I also had to remind myself, once again, that the work was that of God - and to void becoming too attached to outcomes (even positive ones).
Since that time, additional experiencers have appeared in the world of Minnesota MUFON. Each has a powerful story to tell and each is at a distinct point in their phenomenal journey. Several have begun hypnotherapy work - including a couple of people from other areas of the country. Several hypnotherapists in the National Guild of Hypnotists have begun working more with experiencers. If this trend continues, more and more people will be able to find help in their own location. .
The journey continues; progress occurs one step at a time. The phenomenon is busy as always and so are the UFO researchers and the hypnotherapists of the world. They mystery continues. The beat goes on...
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