Messengers of Deception: if UFO contact is usually deceptive...

Accepting the postulate that UFO contact is a basically deceptive experience, and that there is a screen of illusion, including temporarily physical "props" and so on, why is it restricted to UFO type events? IS IT restricted to UFOs? Or is there a reporting bias?

That is, perhaps there are millions more experiences which are more "mundane" or are generally assumed to be "actually happening", even though they are also manufactured by the same entities behind the UFO contact...

For example, rather than looking at the "clues" to what is behind UFO encounters, why not look for other experiences that share the same features?

Experiences that begin in isolation or a strange zone of quiet, or experiences at night or during sleep; experiences beginning with a bright light; memories of medical experimentation or sexual molestation; memories of unknown flights or travel; dreams or memories of being in a cave or a military base; even unmarked helicopters or apparently too frequent flights of mundane helicopters overhead...

The insidious thing is when observation of phenomena that other people block out or ignore becomes hypersensitivity, leading to what is usually called "paranoia"...

I remember many years ago now, twenty years ago in fact, there was a chance encounter on New Years Eve between a party of us walking home from the beach and a fairly old man, obviously tipsy himself.

He had just been sacked the last week of the year and was pretty upset about it.

As a consequence of his upset, he went to great lengths to tell us, in vino veritas as it were, all about the job he had done for Telecom (Telstra as it now is).

Basically, his job was to engineer and supervise the installation, everywhere in the country, of "magic boxes" on the telephone poles and junction boxes, etc.

These magic boxes fulfilled two functions. Firstly, they were "simply" devices to allow monitoring of domestic telephony traffic - a fact confirmed in years since as the Echelon and Octopus conspiracies were unveiled. The second function, which he touched on, was that these magic boxes could make people hallucinate. Hallucinate... He realised he'd said too much when what he was telling us sobered us up, and he hopped on the last bus out of the city before finishing what he was lecturing us about. Intriguing stuff though.

But as he said to us at the time,

"Who would you tell? And who would believe you?"

John Keel: Disneyland of the Gods / Take a cue from Charles Fort

”Unknown, luminous things, or being,” he observed, ”have often been seen, sometimes close to this earth and sometimes high in the sky. It may be that some of them were living things that occasionally come from somewhere else in our existence, but that others were lights on the vessels of explorers, or voyagers, from somewhere else.” 

For the first thirty-three years of the modern UFO epoch (1947-1970) the notion that those mysterious lights and objects belonged to ”the vessels of explorers, or voyagers, from somewhere else” was the most popular theory. A handful of cranks and wishful thinkers spread propaganda that extraterrestrial visitants were flocking to this mudball. But the great UFO wave of 1964-68 attracted a new generation of investigators and scientists. They soon realized that the extraterrestrial hypothesis was untenable for many reasons. So they fell back on the explanation that the objects came ”from somewhere else in our existence.” That ”somewhere else” could be as elusive as the fabled fourth dimension, or the ”other planes” of psychic lore. Fort himself had realized early in the game that the events he was studying were not unusual. They happened year after year, century after century. More importantly, they tended to occur in the same geographical locations. This strongly indicates that these events – be they fish falling from the sky or strange aircraft adorned with flashing lights – are inexorably linked with the earth. They are as much a part of our environment as clouds and bumblebees.

When a UFO wave develops (usually about once every five years), we can be sure that sightings at Loch Ness will increase sharply, that showers of stones (always warm to the touch) will start pelting isolated homes in suburbia, and that people will start to disappear everywhere. These manifestations are accompanied by magnetic storms and sharp, dramatic deviations in the earth's magnetism in certain locales, particularly in areas such as the famous Bermuda Triangle. In the 1950s, a Canadian named Wilbur Smith devised a special instrument to detect and measure the collapse of molecular structures during magnetic storms. All kinds of objects literally fall apart when magnetic conditions are just right. Volunteer airline pilots carried Smith's instruments around the world and he was able to make crude charts of the phenomena. Unfortunately, no one continued his experiments after his death.

Charles Fort perceived a truth that had been ignored by scientists and historians. Our world has twosets of natural laws. One set tells us stupidly simple things about gravity and nature. The other tells us that space and time are constantly distorted in our reality, and that we are all subject to the still undefined laws of that second set. We never know when we might step through that magic door thatwill suddenly transport us 10,000 miles away. We never know when we might encounter a beast of a being from ”somewhere else in our existence.” Fish may rain on us, or red snow, or clouds of insects that no scientist can identify. Flying saucers will continue to buzz our farms and swamps, just as they have for thousands of years. Science attempts to work with the first set of laws and theycome up with Black Holes. Magicians, occultists and psychics strive to manipulate the second group of laws. In the closing years of this century, science and magic are merging. 

When For tstudied the bizarre events of the super-spectrum (a spectrum of energy beyond the known and thevisible) he was obliged to ask, ”If there is a Universal Mind, must it be sane?”

Doctors claim to see face in testicle tumour on ultrasound | Courier Mail

Doctors claim to see face in testicle tumour on ultrasound | Courier Mail

Doctors claim to see face in testicle tumour on ultrasound

This ultrasound image received November 2, 2011 courtesy of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario shows a face on a tumour. Source: Supplied

DOCTORS in Canada saw a divine face in the testes of a man admitted to a hospital with severe pain and an inflamed scrotum, a scientific journal article says.

Or at least, that is one possible explanation.
Two years ago, doctors at a teaching hospital affiliated with Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario spotted what appeared to be a face in ultrasound images of a 45-year-old patient's scrotum.
"While scrolling through the ultrasound images, the residents and staff alike were amazed to see the outline of a man's face staring up out of the image, his mouth agape as if the face seen on the ultrasound scan itself was also experiencing severe (pain)," doctors Gregory Roberts and Naji Touma wrote in the journal Urology.
"A brief debate ensued on whether the image could have been a sign from a deity (perhaps Min the Egyptian god of male virility); however, the consensus deemed it a mere coincidental occurrence rather than a divine proclamation."

The growth turned out to be benign and surgeons removed the testicle.
The discovery was published in the latest issue of the journal Urology under the banner The Face of Testicular Pain: A Surprising Ultrasound Finding.

Politics explained in one simple graphic

You have your basic choices- red or blue pill (the all important difference between conservative and socialist) or if you are a real deep thinker there's green, or even the single issue lunatics - pink for the gay agenda, brown/red for the self avowed communists, turquoise/olive drab for the immigration issue-

The main thing, the CRUCIAL thing, is to pick one and take it regularly.

Remember, if you don't self medicate, you won't get to play.



And no, under our political-media system, refusing to take any pill is not an option. Duh.

Reading meaning into Moffat's Doctor Who: a cautionary note: "An Interview with George Markstein

"An Interview with George Markstein

Q. What do you think about the fact that it was later discussed in universities?

A. Mmmm. ... yes ... amazing and ridiculous and a sad commentary on our day and age I would have thought, that a television series has been elevated apparently - by some people into a cult. What a pathetic thing. I mean, one is delighted that it amuses people, and one is delighted that it entertains people and it's a very satisfying thing to have originated something which has left such a mark and I'm very humble and very pleased about that. But having said that, when I hear that some benighted university in Canada is holding some sort of course for its students about the significance of THE PRISONER and when I hear people pontificating about its meaning ... the thing is a bizarre and unusual television series, no more, no less. It had some good things in it. It had some ridiculous things in it. It's fun! But the PRISONER "cult" is a terrific case of The Emperor's New Clothes quite honestly and if it gives people pleasure then so be it ... but it is the Emperor's clothes ... I mean ... how do cults grow? They're frightening, I think - they are really frightening. It shows how poverty-sicken people must be to have to cling to this kind of absurdity.

I think that in many ways THE PRISONER is a tragedy ... because McGoohan became a prisoner of the series and it's never nice to see that happen to a human being, the combination of ambition, frusation, wanting to be writer, director, actor - you name it. It was sad, it was very sad I think. It did something to him that wasn't very good and it was reflected in the series and that's why the series ended like that and that's why people have said "I don't understand the end". Of course they don't understand the end, because there is no end ... I don't think even McGoohan understood the end, or if he does, well, perhaps he does, but that is the biggest tragedy of THE PRISONER that Patrick McGoohan became a Prisoner himself.

THE PRISONER is really the sum total of the work and devotion of a magnificent team and they were all towers of strength. David Tomblin, I mean, there couldn't have been a PRISONER without David, Jack Shampan, the art director - what he contributed! He was way ahead of television design. And of course the writers, naturally I'm prejudiced about the writers who played the absolute key role ... people like Tony Skene, Louis Greifer, Gerald Kelsey and others. You know, it's not the McGoohan opera, it really isn't.

McGoohan is a brilliant actor - was a brilliant actor - and without McGoohan there would have been no PRISONER, but without the art director there wouldn't have been a PRISONER, without David Tomblin there wouldn't have been a PRISONER without the scripts there wouldn't have been a PRISONER. It's not a one man show, any more than it should be a cult of deep meaning to our day and age. It is not a solo effort, it was a team effort and I was very lucky to be a member of that team and, by God, McGoohan was very lucky to have that team round him.