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.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
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...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Phases and Bridges
It takes all kinds to make a world and many experiences to make a lifetime.
Each presentation I give on close encounters and alien abduction seems to recieve a different reaction. In some cases, after my presentation people seem to line up waiting to talk with me - frequently about their own experiences. At other times - even when I get enthusiastic applause and lots of discussion during the presentation - few people have their own experiences to describe.
The population of experiencers (having answered "yes" to all of the check questions on the Roper Poll of unexplained experiences) in the general population appears to be slightly less than one percent. Generally, the percentage I observe is higher. In each talk, I have found that about two to five people out of twenty have raised their hands when I have asked if anyone has had personal experiences with the unexplained. Indeed, among people attending a talk on UFOs and close encounters we would certainly expect to have a MUCH higher percentage, and in the end, I find relatively consistent numbers - about 10% to 25% of those attending are aware and acknowledged experiencers.
There are many ways in which researchers hear from experiencers. In addition to conversation following a talk, contact is often via phone or e-mail, and the rate of these has been about two to ten per week. And the biggest thing I have noticed - the rate of people contacting me has steadily climbed over the last year.
In each case, I marvel at how consistent their accounts are. Most fall into the classic Hopkins/Jacobs model, with frequent variations on a theme. But the most common component of a person's awareness is fear - how does one experience something which pulls the rug out from under one's personal reality, then return to everyday life. Added to this is the knowledge that such an experience can happen again at any time, without warning. In many cases, the exepriencer has no memory of the event, yet is left with a legacy of fear directed toward - what?
Where there is darkness, there is also light, and it appears that the realm of the phenomenon is no exception. Like every other passage in life, each stage of the phenomenon seems to have a finite duration. For most experiencers, the stage of fear-generating abduction encounters seems to last through the early adult years, at most. For many, they are even briefer. Furthermore, I have found that, with awareness, the experiencer can manage - and even take power over - their interactions with the phenomenon. Some appear to have even shut the phenomenon out of their lives completely. I have written on this in the past, and discuss it extensively in The Cosmic Bridge. In the future, I plan to hold a lot more discussion on how people have accomplished this. I am always interested to hear from anyone, just how they have managed their own interactions with the phenomenon - how it has changed over time. But for now, let us just presume that it is possible to take charge of your own life, even when it is beset with intruders from elsewhere.
I have often made the verbal observation that humans are scarier to me than aliens, and in the last several weeks, a number of people-oriented events have borne out this view. While the Visitors may be a source of fear and mystery, they do not seem to be overtly motivated by money or power - unfortunately, this seems to be the very core of the human motivation. A quick glance at the news will show this as a fundamental driver of current events - wars, corporate scandals, political quibbles over how to restructure our health-care system; all trace their roots back to this basic drive, money and power. I suspect that the Visitors are very well aware of this aspect of human nature, and thus we would probably not be considered to be qualified participants in the cosmic community.
On a personal note, I have noted several instances of the duality between human nature - in this case monetary/economic - and spiritual growth. This has seemed to limit what would otherwise be a great spiritual teaching. Again, to me this seems to be the Universe teaching transcendence of this type of polarity. I won't go into details, save to say that in some cases, proprietary and monetary considerations often appear to reduce what would otherwise be a powerful spiritual and healing tool, for both healer and client. I'm sure each of us has our own example(s) of this. 'Nuff sed...:-)
To me, this is another instance of the need to rise above such issues, to maintain perspective. Any particualar school or teaching must be seen in the context of the many. As with lifelong experiences with the encounter phenomenon, one lesson appears to be how to live life in multiple worlds - physical and metaphysical, earthly and extraordinary, spiritual and economic. In oh-so-many ways, we spend much of our lives in multiple points in the journey over The Cosmic Bridge.
Each phase of life leaves us with lessons, gifts of spiritual and practical growth. Whether the characteristics of any given phase of experience is positive or otherwise, each leaves us with something that enriches us. In my own life, Christianity, Transcendental and Himalayan Meditation, various hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis methodologies, all have left their gifts with my own soul, and hopefully these have passed in their own way to others around me. Like the experiences of many, these passages in life are part of the tapestry of our experience, in their own way, always remaining in our lives.
In recent months, I have found work again shifting from general healing back toward close encounter work. I'm not sure if this shift is long term, or if it is a short-term turn in the road. However, it feels like a fundamental shift in phase. Like experiencers, teachers and students, the world of hypnosis work changes continually. And each twist provides brings with it a lesson in the phases of life - changes in the world of humans and visitors - another step across The Cosmic Bridge.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Subconscious/Superconscious and Hypnosis - response to a question on my Plaxo site
This post is a reply to a question someone posted on my comment box on Plaxo. In summary, the person was asking about properties of the subconscious, superconscious and how hypnosis fit into the picture. Unfortunately, this is a big subject and the comment box is way too small to address such a detailed question. So I am posting the response in my blog, instead.
Read on and let me know what you think. Feel free to check out my site: http://www.craigrlang.com/ for more on hypnosis, and http://www.thecosmicbridge.com/ for more on human interactions with the extraordinary.
Hi Chuck,
I'm not familiar with the particular quote you describe, specifically from Stewart Edward White's The Betty Book (1936) one of "the invisibles" comments that "the subconscious is to the Beta [or spirit] body what the conscious is to the physical." However, I think that it has touches on some interesting points.
The relationship between the conscious, superconscious, subconscious, unconscious and the physical depends alot upon how one views models of the spirit/mind/body. In hypnosis theory, the beta state is the waking, conscious state of mind, the state in which your critical faculty is in full swing. In the alpha, theta or delta states, respectively, the subconscious and superconscious are increasingly accessible. Not sure about the analogy of the beta/subconscious relationship with the conscious/physical relationship. That's one I haven't heard.
The topic of the subconscious could take hours to discuss. I usually use the theatre metaphor. The conscious mind is what it within the spotlight. The subconscious is the part of the stage is not. Hypnosis is one process of allowing one's self to access the subconscious.
Simply stated, hypnosis consists of:
- focus and selective thinking
- bypass of the critical faculty, a.k.a. the suspension of disbelief.
It's the same process that you experience when you get absorbed in a story, a book, a movie, etc. or when you get 'in the groove', etc...
The critical faculty is what screens material according to your beliefs, etc. When bypassing the barrier of disbelief, it the subconscious will be more open to suggestion. However, it is important to note that the critical faculty is never very far away, and if there is something that crashes into your belief system, it will step in in an instant. Thus, in hypnosis, you still can't be "talked into" something that is contrary to your beliefs.
Also, strictly speaking, your brain records everything you've ever perceived. However, it is not typically possible for the conscious mind to access these deep memories due to the mental filtering of a lifetime of experiences and beliefs. In deep trance, it is possible to access memories in great detail - a phenomenon called hypermnesia.
There is a big debate of the relationship between the subconscious and the superconscious (the nonlocal spiritual part of the mind/soul). Some say that they are the same thing, others say that they are separate parts of the mind. Basically, assuming your beliefs accept parapsychology, the superconscious is the site of nonlocal phenomena such as past life association, etc.
Hope this helps.Let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanx,
-Craig
Read on and let me know what you think. Feel free to check out my site: http://www.craigrlang.com/ for more on hypnosis, and http://www.thecosmicbridge.com/ for more on human interactions with the extraordinary.
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Hi Chuck,
I'm not familiar with the particular quote you describe, specifically from Stewart Edward White's The Betty Book (1936) one of "the invisibles" comments that "the subconscious is to the Beta [or spirit] body what the conscious is to the physical." However, I think that it has touches on some interesting points.
The relationship between the conscious, superconscious, subconscious, unconscious and the physical depends alot upon how one views models of the spirit/mind/body. In hypnosis theory, the beta state is the waking, conscious state of mind, the state in which your critical faculty is in full swing. In the alpha, theta or delta states, respectively, the subconscious and superconscious are increasingly accessible. Not sure about the analogy of the beta/subconscious relationship with the conscious/physical relationship. That's one I haven't heard.
The topic of the subconscious could take hours to discuss. I usually use the theatre metaphor. The conscious mind is what it within the spotlight. The subconscious is the part of the stage is not. Hypnosis is one process of allowing one's self to access the subconscious.
Simply stated, hypnosis consists of:
- focus and selective thinking
- bypass of the critical faculty, a.k.a. the suspension of disbelief.
It's the same process that you experience when you get absorbed in a story, a book, a movie, etc. or when you get 'in the groove', etc...
The critical faculty is what screens material according to your beliefs, etc. When bypassing the barrier of disbelief, it the subconscious will be more open to suggestion. However, it is important to note that the critical faculty is never very far away, and if there is something that crashes into your belief system, it will step in in an instant. Thus, in hypnosis, you still can't be "talked into" something that is contrary to your beliefs.
Also, strictly speaking, your brain records everything you've ever perceived. However, it is not typically possible for the conscious mind to access these deep memories due to the mental filtering of a lifetime of experiences and beliefs. In deep trance, it is possible to access memories in great detail - a phenomenon called hypermnesia.
There is a big debate of the relationship between the subconscious and the superconscious (the nonlocal spiritual part of the mind/soul). Some say that they are the same thing, others say that they are separate parts of the mind. Basically, assuming your beliefs accept parapsychology, the superconscious is the site of nonlocal phenomena such as past life association, etc.
Hope this helps.Let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanx,
-Craig
Sunday, September 27, 2009
"... and the sky will turn red."
As I sit in my studio, looking out the window, I can see the weather changing. An hour or two earlier, we had warm sunshine in a blue cloudless sky. It was a perfect September day. Now, the clouds have moved in, the wind has picked up and the temperature has dropped. The storm coming in seems like a fitting metaphor for the topic I'm writing about today.
In the last few weeks, I've noted a lot more interest in the topic of 2012, Armageddon and similar cheery subjects. I'm not sure if it's an artifact of the tense times we live in, or if it's just that I'm a History Channel buff and 2012 sells. But in either case, my own consciousness has been bombarded with this stuff. Nevertheless, it's gotten me to thinking. The biggest themes that come through in many of the documentaries I've watched, the interplay of events within history, and the convergence of multiple threads of prophecy regarding this time period.
- The Mayan Calendar
- Hopi prophecy
- Nostradamus (as interpreted by John Hogue, etc.)
- Interpretations of Biblical books such as Revelation, Daniel, etc...
- Father Malachai's listing of future popes - in which the current one is the last or next to last(?)
- Mother Shipton
- Terrance McKenna's TimeWave Zero interpretation of the I-Ching
- The WebBot predictions
- Writings of Jay Weidner and numerous others interpreting astrology, tarot, etc...
... and the list goes on.... Added to that mix, I hear a lot from close encounter experiencers, who describ nearly the same thing. Like the list of prophetic sources above, they differ in details, but the overriding theme is the same - we live in a moment of history, a crossroads in time that can lead us into a golden age, or into the abyss.
I have often dismissed such apocalyptic predictions with a brief smile before I move-on to the next thing on my daily list of things to do. And then I saw something else that gave me pause for thought. Some time ago, at a Minnesota MUFON meeting, we watched an older documentary on UFO abduction; at one point one of the abductees describes an apocalyptic warning from the Visitors. This came in response to her question of how we will know when these apocalyptic events are to come. The response was "you will see the sky turn red..." After reading the news of the last few days and seeing reports of the gigantic dust storms in Australia - apparently the worst dust storms they have ever had - I got very curious about this particular quote. Looking at the pictures from Sydney
Is there a background in the prophetic literature about this scenario? And have other prophets, or experiencers, described this same vision? I did a web search on red sky theme and came up with some interesting material.
- http://newprophecy.net/ has some ineteresting material on the red sky. On this site, the author, Michael McClellan, author of Nostradamus and the Final Age, makes predictions based upon his own interpretation of a host of different prophetic sources. Among them, recently has appeared "red sky" material.
- http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/prophecy/23/Books/Ishtar.htm has a number of UFOlogical-related sources, describing this.
- http://robertstan.bravehost.com/cccc.html describes a prophecy by Mother Shipton regarding the sky turning red and black...
...and the list goes on. I've always been pretty skeptical of the literal truth of such prophecy. Yet every time I hear of "warning signs" such as the red-and-black sky, the moon disappearing, etc., it gives me pause to wonder.
Currents in history have always fascinated me - foreshadowings, chains of events, people appearing out of the social woodwork to fulfill roles predicted in prophecies - all have a poetic and eerie ring to them. As I watched several History Channel shows about the rise of Hitler, I noted multiple predictions and foreshadowings from psychics as his time approached. As the critical time approached, the signs seemed to increase in detail. Currents in history became more finely resolved as such a key event approached. So today, are we seeing similar things happen? Are we seeing prophecy converging and becoming more detailed?
- According to John Hogue and several others who study Nostradamus extensively, we are still in the setting of the stage. Multiple "bad guys" will need to appear before the Third Antichrist (AC3) appears
- We don't yet have a particular person identified as AC3, though several candidates appear to be plausible
- We have apparently entered the era of the final pope, or the second to the last one, anyhow...
- We have the Christian vs Muslim conflict apparently shaping up, perhgaps providing the Armageddon stage setting(?)
- we have many of the 'signs and wonders' predicted in Matthew 24.
- We also have the 'spider web' over the world predicted in Hopi prophecy.
... again, the list goes on. But I think you get the idea. In each case, as we approach the critical times in history, prophecy and foreshadowing seem to converge. We arrive at more detailed, and increasingly precise predictions about events to come - warning signs that a tipping point of history is upon us.
In my web-search wanderings I found several interesting articles on just such tipping points. Simply put, the idea is that we have reached a tipping point in many of our world systems. A web search on "System tipping points" yielded the following interesting set of articles:
- http://researchpages.net/ESMG/people/tim-lenton/tipping-points/ explores the idea that many of the world systems such as climate, ocean currents, etc. are close to their points of instability and transition.
- http://www.usnews.com/mobile/articles_mobile/tipping-points-what-wall-street-and-nature-have/index.html describes research on multiple systems showing similar behavior. They all have unrecoverable tipping points, plus clearly defined signs that these have arrived.
All of these articles advance the idea that as we increase the levels of stress on the complex systems of our world - climate, economic, food distribution, land use, political/military, etc. - we will see characteristic signs.
Perhaps, in a way, prophetic signs correspond with some of the tipping-point indicators described in the above articles. It might be an interesting area of research to compare prophetic indicators to signs of critical world system tipping points. I'm betting that there will be at least some correlation. I suggest that the converging currents of history and the pace of change may have us past the point of no return. Perhaps the critical changes have already begun.
What the result will be, I doubt anyone knows. Will it be a social change? A shift in human consciousness? A much more physical change? Will it be something we can't even imagine? Or will absolutely nothing happen at all? Whether you, the reader, lives in a part of the world where the sky is red and black from smoke, clear fresh and blue, or (like my sky) gray from an incoming weather front, the message is the same. We seem to have reached that point where, at least metaphorically, the sky has turned red.
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