This is a draft of my March/April 2016 CE4 Corner article.
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Life
is a tightrope. Some days are dominated by the right brain, as
hypnotherapy clients sit in my studio and pour out their life story. They spend
two hours in deep trance seeking the center of some problem in their life. Like
a detective, or like a programmer debugging computer software, we track the
problem down to the cause. Then we bring healing to that center. It is the
ultimate combination of right brain - emotional healing and left brain problem
solving, emotional debugging. In addition, other aspects of my life have
been filled with mathematics, physics, computers and electronics as I
experiment with new technology ideas. They form the balancing act of all
balancing acts, a world of spirit and technology.
In
the last few weeks, I have been putting together a class for my church on
science and religion. How do two of the great pursuits that make us human
interact. Do they conflict? Are they simply two ways of seeing the truth? Or do
they even have anything to do with each-other. I was again struck by that
delicate balance between two apparently-opposing forces.
At
the last MUFON conference I was struck by just how much UFO studies - and their
accompanying healing work - fits into that same balancing act. As I
was sitting in a lecture on UFO physics, the speaker (Robert Schroeder) was
describing how we could use the mathematics of Maxwell's equations along with
Einstein's general relativity and a unifying concept called Kaluza Klein
theory, to understand the physics behind UFOs.
Some
time later, I attended a talk on the spiritual aspects of UFO encounters. The
dichotomy the between physics/engineering and spirituality continued to drive
the question - is the phenomenon physical? Rather, are UFOs and close
encounters in some way, spiritual and/or (para)psychological? Whatever the case
may be (and they are probably at least a little of all of these), they have a
powerful impact on the lives of anyone the phenomenon touches. And as I was
sitting in that lecture, the stage was being set for me to once again see just
how real that effect was.
As
I sat in that lecture on UFO physics, I got a text from an experiencer in MUFON,
a woman who was at the same conference. She had begun to remember events that
had apparently occurred the night before. (I described this encounter in the an
earlier CE4 Corner, The Mystery Gets Real). I left the lecture hall and
went up to the room of the experiencer. It turns out that she and her roommate
were talking and both realized something extraordinary had occurred the
previous night. She remembered being outside the hotel (on the roof, actually),
then in a UFO, and then back in her room. At the same time, she recalled her
roommate being “worked on” by - well, by whoever they are. Events escalated and
the next few weeks turned out to be devastating to her as her life turned
upside down. In that time, I would again see just how far down the rabbit
hole the extraordinary encounter phenomenon can take us.
So
many other experiencers have had similar turning points in life. As they begin
to recall memories of events occurring in the phenomenal realm (aboard the UFO,
or wherever they go when they go "there") the impact on their
personal reality can be devastating. On a field visit I made to another state,
their state director and I visited the remote farm home of one experiencer. He
and his family had had a harrowing close encounter experience a few months
before. We interviewed the entire family, and then conducted an in-depth
hypnotic regression.
This
person was an excellent hypnotic subject and quickly went into deep trance. At
one point, he found himself reliving a time when he was the subject of an alien
"download" of telepathic visual imagery. As is so often the case in
abduction events, this imagery was of disasters, suffering and chaos in the
human and natural worlds. He suddenly burst into tears, yelling at the top
of his lungs "we're screwed". He emerged abruptly from trance and I
could feel the panic in his voice. He had just seen the apocalypse unfold in
front of him. We had a lot of healing work to do.
Many
experiencers have described being shown similar scenarios of tragedy and
apocalypse. This has apparently been going on for many years. In many cases the
predicted time has come and gone, We still appear to be here. In addition, the
predictions of some experiencers are even mutually exclusive with the
predictions of others – for example, one shows the world dying of drought and
turning to lifeless desert versus another showing floods innundating everything.
So whatever reason "They" have for this apocalyptic video fest, it
does not appear to be a literal prediction of effects. Thus, any information on
these should be treated with extreme discernment.
As
this particular experiencer returned from a between-sessions bio break, I
quickly re-induced trance and invited him to observe another time, a time in
which he had been told something that was clearly not true. He had had a
difficult life and had gained a lot of street wisdom in his years of rough and
tumble experience. This included the ability to recognize BS when he saw it. So
I invited him to use those same skills to observe the alien apocalypse
predictions. He paused for a moment and then said "It's all bull @#$%".
In
his mind, he stared the alien in the face. "I know you. You guys are
full of..."
(Note:
the reader can use their imagination for the rest of the dialog. I endeavor to
keep this column family friendly). He leered at the imaginary alien in front of
him, asserting his right to his own life, his own path and his own discernment. While
I believe we don't really know what the phenomenon is, in his mind, the aliens
(for lack of a better word) now have somewhat less power over him. It was a
moment of emotional and psychic healing of pain from a physical event - the
spiritual and the concrete working in a delicate interplay. It was that same
balancing act that I later came to realize as I sat in that audience hall at
the MUFON conference.
This
summer, as we hopefully get projects such as UFOTOG2 (a new UFO tracking, photography
and analysis initiative by MUFON), and begin to improve our skills in field
investigation of physical evidence cases, we will be focusing a lot on the
physical aspects of the phenomenon. Similarly, in recent months as I sit at my
computer I find myself absorbed in work on my own technology projects. Computer
screens of equations, diagrams and code sit in front of me. Yet the next day
might find an experiencer or other hypnotherapy client in my studio in deep trance,
journeying to the core of his/her personal issue(s). Both are vital elements of
healing work, delicately balanced ends of the teeter-totter.
Right
brained and left brained, spirit and science, mind and body, metaphysical and
technological. We push the boundaries of knowledge and see that neither can
completely provide the answers. Our endeavors are often a mixture of opposites
- two ends of the teeter-totter. They form that delicate balance between
sometimes-opposing forces in this realm we call life.
