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Sunday, November 10, 2013
Sunday, September 30, 2012
John Keel on Lee Harvey Oswald
There was no real evidence linking Lee Harvey Oswald to the assassination of Kennedy. Oswald was, in fact, connected with botht:he FBI and the CIA and was a 'sleeper' (inactive agent) being groomcd for an attempt on the life of Cuba's Fidel Castro. Oswald's background as a defector to the Soviet Union (and his marriage to the daughter of a leader in the Soviet security apparatus) would
have cast suspicion on the Soviets and led Cuba to sever relations with that county. What is certain is that the unknown conspirators of the Kennedy assassination were obviously aware of this plan, and by setting Oswald up as 'scapegoat', they provided a perfect cover for their gunmen.
U.S. investigatory agencies were obliged to stumble over themselves and cover up details of the murder in Dallas to protect themselves and their own plan against Castro.
have cast suspicion on the Soviets and led Cuba to sever relations with that county. What is certain is that the unknown conspirators of the Kennedy assassination were obviously aware of this plan, and by setting Oswald up as 'scapegoat', they provided a perfect cover for their gunmen.
U.S. investigatory agencies were obliged to stumble over themselves and cover up details of the murder in Dallas to protect themselves and their own plan against Castro.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Maitreya cult. Theosophy, etc. : Is SANAT KUMARA actually the Biblical Satan ("the accuser") / LUCIFER?
Kumara: prince, heir apparent, inheritor of the kingdom, parrot (ape of God?), peacock.
Sanat: forever, ever, as of old, olden, old one, ancient one.
Forever Prince
Forever Heir Apparent
Old One Inheritor of the Kingdom.
Hm.
The same entity that the Accursed Ones worship as Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel.
LUCIFER.
As Murugan, he/it also provides as follows:
Kartikeya symbols are based on the weapons - Vel, the Divine Spear or Lance that He carries and His mount the peacock. He is sometimes depicted with many weapons including: a sword, a javelin, a mace, a discus and a bow although more usually he is depicted wielding a sakti or spear. This symbolizes His purification of human ills. His javelin is used to symbolize His far reaching protection, His discus symbolizes His knowledge of the truth, His mace represents His strength and His bow shows His ability to defeat all ills. His peacock mount symbolizes his destruction of the ego.
His six heads represent the six siddhis bestowed upon yogis over the course of their spiritual development. This corresponds to his role as the bestower of siddhis.
And interestingly he/it has servants / manifestations which are little weird guys with Grey-like powers:
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Sunday, November 13, 2011
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?”
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Meryl Johnson, Experiments In ET-Human Communications
Meryl Johnson, Experiments In ET-Human Communications
I have been aware of my experiences with "aliens" for the past three years, and I consider myself too good a scientist to deny that something extraordinary is happening.
I woke up in mid-air, about to land on my poor cat, Alfred. He was huddled against the wall, looking at me with horror, paw raised to strike. I managed to shift enough before I landed on my bed to not crush him. He was sure I was attacking him, so I grabbed a pillow to put between us, so startled I almost forgot the strange "dream" I'd had before finding myself falling.
I hadn't been with the typical Greys, but with two extremely tall, skinny "men" with large, dark eyes, and we'd been sitting at a conference table asking each other questions. I'd felt extremely cold, suspicious, and rational. They wanted to know if I'd be willing to take part in an experiment in communications. They'd studied "us," meaning humans, for a long time, knew a tremendous number of facts about us, but didn't know what the facts meant. Of course, because of the one-sided nature of their visits, we didn't know much about them, either, and they felt it was time for this to begin to change. They wanted to teach me how to "see" this kind of experience correctly.
They'd chosen the bait well. I'm a scientist - how could I resist such an opportunity? There are risks involved, they explained, which was peculiarly honest of them. I didn't have to do this. I was interested, but dubious, aware of the danger of betraying humanity by cooperating with them. I set conditions. I reserved the right to change my mind and withdraw from the "experiment" at any time. I wanted assurances that neither I nor anyone else would be harmed as a result. I demanded the right to ask questions, to which I'd be given honest answers. I wanted to remember what happened. They agreed.
And in fact, they've kept their word. Twice since then, as the "experiment," and my experiences have entered new phases, I've been reminded that there are risks and I've been asked if I am willing to continue. Every question I've asked has been answered, usually within a few days, sometimes vastly more extensively than I'd had in mind. One question was not answered for a long time. I'd asked if they had music; this was finally answered (yes they do) in a way that signaled the end of a phase and the departure of my original "teachers." Also, at one point, I got very annoyed with them and sent them away. What had happened is a story in itself, too long to include in this article, but it involved whether or not they were going to trust me. When I insisted that they go, they went, as they had agreed. I eventually relented and allowed them to come back if they'd agree to a requirement of mutual respect.
I realize now that I'd had many years of preparation for this experiment, blissfully unaware that I was actually in contact with anything unusual. I shouldn't have been unaware; there were plenty of signs if I'd taken them seriously and paid attention to them. I'd taken each uncanny incident as singular, never likely to be repeated. I didn't believe in the paranormal, and certainly didn't believe in UFOs - even though I'd had rare but spectacular sightings - or in their occupants being in contact with us. That I'd had plenty of preparation, though, was confirmed early in the experiment; I was told that I'd "passed many tests."
Once I'd agreed, I was in for months of almost nightly visits. This is no substitute for normal sleep, and I was exhausted! Luckily, since then things have slowed down. The lessons I was given were extremely intense. I want to say immediately that this is my experience, I have no idea how common or unique it is, whether I've managed to understand it correctly, whether it should be taken as metaphor or literally, or whether it represents any important truths.
The Experiment
They began by explaining, more or less, why the experiment was necessary; that there are vast cultural differences between us, somewhat as though I were dropped into, say, 5th century BC China with interpreters who couldn't comprehend my culture or technology, or I theirs. It's only through a difficult, conscious mutual exchange that we can begin to understand what we observe.
This was not a simple, linear process. There were definite themes, but they tended to overlap and even blend into each other. At first, I was lectured about my personal health. The advice given was perfectly ordinary, eat less fat, stop eating meat, get more exercise, so I didn't take it seriously. But then I was visited by two furious aliens and painlessly examined. They were doing what they could, they hissed, as they extracted clumps of decayed cells from my body, but there were limits to what they could do! Why wasn't I paying attention to their advice? Within a few days I had the worst cold I'd had in at least 15 years and went to my doctor. I rarely get colds, but tend to get a yearly checkup. While waiting for the doctor I casually read my medical chart and was shocked to discover that although he'd had all the usual tests run each year he'd never bothered to tell me the results, and I'd assumed that everything had been normal. My cholesterol was high, I was anemic, and in general I was in terrible shape! I was lucky that I'd merely gotten a cold! I immediately found a better doctor, whose advice, interestingly, matched that of the aliens. I began to improve my health and to take what the aliens had to say more seriously.
I could ask questions, and the questions I asked formed the basis for many lessons. I can't begin to summarize them all in a short article, but I asked about their culture and whether they had a religion or philosophy, mostly because I wanted to know if they actually had any. For months, I received lessons about reincarnation, the afterlife, spirit, and the nature of the sacred, until I began to worry that perhaps I was having these experiences because I was going to die soon. This turned into an examination of my nature as a "little primate;" my relationship to all life on this planet, the sacredness of physical life, and the advantages and disadvantages of being physical. The effect on me was profound; I've never loved life on Earth more! I was also offered a series of choices. I could become a medium, a psychic, a healer, channel, be a spiritual teacher, even a prophet. I turned them all down, and they were delighted! The point seemed to be that we have these particular talents if we choose to use them, not that they were offering me gifts. My impression is that it could be a terrible mistake to choose to use a particular talent while assuming that it's some extraordinary gift from them. If we do that, we're stuck with it, and it's as far as we go, having failed to grasp a more important lesson.
Other Lessons
Other important information I learned is that our sensory systems are quite different from theirs. This makes it hard for them to know whether we actually see and hear what they intend for us to see and hear. Everything gets complicated, too, by our emotional responses to them. We project our own emotional contents and impressions into the experiences, and then can't get the actual messages they are trying to give us. And we expect them to think and act like humans, according to human standards. They aren't human, and don't understand what we expect. This has caused a lot of confusion; they have trouble telling the difference between what we fear and what we want them to do, for example.
Actually, there are solid physiological reasons why we have trouble perceiving them as they really are. Our brains are hard-wired as we develop, and all information is transformed, correctly or not, into information as we'd expect to receive normal sensory information. That's probably equally true for them. I suspect that these, and other extraordinary experiences are so hard to comprehend because they happen at the limits of what we're physically able to perceive correctly.
Visual "Scenes" as Learning Tools
All of these points were carefully illustrated for me again and again by showing me scenes. I'd look at them, and be told to look harder. The scenes would shift and change, or even vanish. "That's what your mind does," they'd say. In other words, I'd constructed the scenes out of information they'd been trying to give me, and I'd have to learn how to "look through" those screens I'd constructed.
I was also taught to "see through" the screens that they construct and to be aware that things can happen on several levels at once. They were dead serious about this, and if I can now "see through" what they're up to, it's because they taught me how to do it. There can be a gorgeous narrative working itself out, quite possibly meaningful in itself in a metaphorical sense, while "underneath" this, an examination or some other activity is taking place. I've learned to be aware of this and see both at once. I've learned to be quite suspicious of narratives, regardless of how beautiful or terrifying, and especially of the interpretations given them. They may not mean, or even be what we think.
I was told that abduction is only necessary for physical examinations or occasional special meetings. Communication can take place by various other means, ranging from meetings on the street, through abductions to "guided dreams." This seems to be true. One aspect of these experiences is the peculiar kinds of verification I've received, which often consists of daytime confirmation, often through synchronicity, indicating that I should take seriously what had happened during the night. Sometimes I've been given information, meaningless to me, but extremely meaningful to someone else. This has always been information I couldn't possibly have known by any other means.
Risks
As for the risks involved, they're quite serious. The biggest risk, so far as I can see, is the risk of self-delusion and self-deception. These experiences can serve as a quick trip to serious trouble in our lives if we assume that our interpretations are correct and act accordingly. This is true regardless of whether we give them positive or negative interpretations. There's no point at which we can be entirely certain that we are interpreting these experiences correctly and know exactly what they mean. There's still plenty that we have to learn. Having these experiences doesn't mean that we're in any way special or elite, or receiving special information from superior beings, either. I've been scolded more than once for becoming too trusting of my teachers! Which, again, seems peculiarly honest of them.
We remain responsible for ourselves, our behavior, and our own lives. We have no reason to suppose that the aliens are here to rescue us, take care of us, or be responsible for us in any way. We also have no reason to assume that we're under their control and pass responsibility for what happens to them. Assuming that they're arranging marriages, require us to move to different parts of the country, etc., can lead to disaster - unless it's in our own best interest to do these things.
Why should we take their advice any more seriously than that of anyone else's? Sometimes, months later, I can see that something that seemed extremely personal, and maybe helpful or harmful, at the time, was merely a quest for information on their part. Since we're all powerful individuals in our own right - both them and us - there are considerable risks on both sides. We need to be careful and work hard at developing better communications, taking nothing for granted as actually "solved" yet. Our minds are constructed for problem solving, to reach conclusions and demand immediate answers and explanations. This is one area in which we're not going to get this degree of certainty without a lot of hard work. At this point, interpretations are speculation. Letting our imaginations create myths out of this material is not the correct response.
Experiments In ET-Human Communications
by Meryl Johnson
My name is Meryl Johnson and I'm a museum scientist who has established research laboratories in major museums for many years. I have taught chemistry and traditional techniques of painting at a university, and have also headed research and development for an artists' paint manufacturing company. I have received awards as a computer programmer and have published poetry, fiction, and articles about art and technology.I have been aware of my experiences with "aliens" for the past three years, and I consider myself too good a scientist to deny that something extraordinary is happening.
I woke up in mid-air, about to land on my poor cat, Alfred. He was huddled against the wall, looking at me with horror, paw raised to strike. I managed to shift enough before I landed on my bed to not crush him. He was sure I was attacking him, so I grabbed a pillow to put between us, so startled I almost forgot the strange "dream" I'd had before finding myself falling.
I hadn't been with the typical Greys, but with two extremely tall, skinny "men" with large, dark eyes, and we'd been sitting at a conference table asking each other questions. I'd felt extremely cold, suspicious, and rational. They wanted to know if I'd be willing to take part in an experiment in communications. They'd studied "us," meaning humans, for a long time, knew a tremendous number of facts about us, but didn't know what the facts meant. Of course, because of the one-sided nature of their visits, we didn't know much about them, either, and they felt it was time for this to begin to change. They wanted to teach me how to "see" this kind of experience correctly.
They'd chosen the bait well. I'm a scientist - how could I resist such an opportunity? There are risks involved, they explained, which was peculiarly honest of them. I didn't have to do this. I was interested, but dubious, aware of the danger of betraying humanity by cooperating with them. I set conditions. I reserved the right to change my mind and withdraw from the "experiment" at any time. I wanted assurances that neither I nor anyone else would be harmed as a result. I demanded the right to ask questions, to which I'd be given honest answers. I wanted to remember what happened. They agreed.
And in fact, they've kept their word. Twice since then, as the "experiment," and my experiences have entered new phases, I've been reminded that there are risks and I've been asked if I am willing to continue. Every question I've asked has been answered, usually within a few days, sometimes vastly more extensively than I'd had in mind. One question was not answered for a long time. I'd asked if they had music; this was finally answered (yes they do) in a way that signaled the end of a phase and the departure of my original "teachers." Also, at one point, I got very annoyed with them and sent them away. What had happened is a story in itself, too long to include in this article, but it involved whether or not they were going to trust me. When I insisted that they go, they went, as they had agreed. I eventually relented and allowed them to come back if they'd agree to a requirement of mutual respect.
I realize now that I'd had many years of preparation for this experiment, blissfully unaware that I was actually in contact with anything unusual. I shouldn't have been unaware; there were plenty of signs if I'd taken them seriously and paid attention to them. I'd taken each uncanny incident as singular, never likely to be repeated. I didn't believe in the paranormal, and certainly didn't believe in UFOs - even though I'd had rare but spectacular sightings - or in their occupants being in contact with us. That I'd had plenty of preparation, though, was confirmed early in the experiment; I was told that I'd "passed many tests."
Once I'd agreed, I was in for months of almost nightly visits. This is no substitute for normal sleep, and I was exhausted! Luckily, since then things have slowed down. The lessons I was given were extremely intense. I want to say immediately that this is my experience, I have no idea how common or unique it is, whether I've managed to understand it correctly, whether it should be taken as metaphor or literally, or whether it represents any important truths.
The Experiment
They began by explaining, more or less, why the experiment was necessary; that there are vast cultural differences between us, somewhat as though I were dropped into, say, 5th century BC China with interpreters who couldn't comprehend my culture or technology, or I theirs. It's only through a difficult, conscious mutual exchange that we can begin to understand what we observe.
This was not a simple, linear process. There were definite themes, but they tended to overlap and even blend into each other. At first, I was lectured about my personal health. The advice given was perfectly ordinary, eat less fat, stop eating meat, get more exercise, so I didn't take it seriously. But then I was visited by two furious aliens and painlessly examined. They were doing what they could, they hissed, as they extracted clumps of decayed cells from my body, but there were limits to what they could do! Why wasn't I paying attention to their advice? Within a few days I had the worst cold I'd had in at least 15 years and went to my doctor. I rarely get colds, but tend to get a yearly checkup. While waiting for the doctor I casually read my medical chart and was shocked to discover that although he'd had all the usual tests run each year he'd never bothered to tell me the results, and I'd assumed that everything had been normal. My cholesterol was high, I was anemic, and in general I was in terrible shape! I was lucky that I'd merely gotten a cold! I immediately found a better doctor, whose advice, interestingly, matched that of the aliens. I began to improve my health and to take what the aliens had to say more seriously.
I could ask questions, and the questions I asked formed the basis for many lessons. I can't begin to summarize them all in a short article, but I asked about their culture and whether they had a religion or philosophy, mostly because I wanted to know if they actually had any. For months, I received lessons about reincarnation, the afterlife, spirit, and the nature of the sacred, until I began to worry that perhaps I was having these experiences because I was going to die soon. This turned into an examination of my nature as a "little primate;" my relationship to all life on this planet, the sacredness of physical life, and the advantages and disadvantages of being physical. The effect on me was profound; I've never loved life on Earth more! I was also offered a series of choices. I could become a medium, a psychic, a healer, channel, be a spiritual teacher, even a prophet. I turned them all down, and they were delighted! The point seemed to be that we have these particular talents if we choose to use them, not that they were offering me gifts. My impression is that it could be a terrible mistake to choose to use a particular talent while assuming that it's some extraordinary gift from them. If we do that, we're stuck with it, and it's as far as we go, having failed to grasp a more important lesson.
Other Lessons
Other important information I learned is that our sensory systems are quite different from theirs. This makes it hard for them to know whether we actually see and hear what they intend for us to see and hear. Everything gets complicated, too, by our emotional responses to them. We project our own emotional contents and impressions into the experiences, and then can't get the actual messages they are trying to give us. And we expect them to think and act like humans, according to human standards. They aren't human, and don't understand what we expect. This has caused a lot of confusion; they have trouble telling the difference between what we fear and what we want them to do, for example.
Actually, there are solid physiological reasons why we have trouble perceiving them as they really are. Our brains are hard-wired as we develop, and all information is transformed, correctly or not, into information as we'd expect to receive normal sensory information. That's probably equally true for them. I suspect that these, and other extraordinary experiences are so hard to comprehend because they happen at the limits of what we're physically able to perceive correctly.
Visual "Scenes" as Learning Tools
All of these points were carefully illustrated for me again and again by showing me scenes. I'd look at them, and be told to look harder. The scenes would shift and change, or even vanish. "That's what your mind does," they'd say. In other words, I'd constructed the scenes out of information they'd been trying to give me, and I'd have to learn how to "look through" those screens I'd constructed.
I was also taught to "see through" the screens that they construct and to be aware that things can happen on several levels at once. They were dead serious about this, and if I can now "see through" what they're up to, it's because they taught me how to do it. There can be a gorgeous narrative working itself out, quite possibly meaningful in itself in a metaphorical sense, while "underneath" this, an examination or some other activity is taking place. I've learned to be aware of this and see both at once. I've learned to be quite suspicious of narratives, regardless of how beautiful or terrifying, and especially of the interpretations given them. They may not mean, or even be what we think.
I was told that abduction is only necessary for physical examinations or occasional special meetings. Communication can take place by various other means, ranging from meetings on the street, through abductions to "guided dreams." This seems to be true. One aspect of these experiences is the peculiar kinds of verification I've received, which often consists of daytime confirmation, often through synchronicity, indicating that I should take seriously what had happened during the night. Sometimes I've been given information, meaningless to me, but extremely meaningful to someone else. This has always been information I couldn't possibly have known by any other means.
Risks
As for the risks involved, they're quite serious. The biggest risk, so far as I can see, is the risk of self-delusion and self-deception. These experiences can serve as a quick trip to serious trouble in our lives if we assume that our interpretations are correct and act accordingly. This is true regardless of whether we give them positive or negative interpretations. There's no point at which we can be entirely certain that we are interpreting these experiences correctly and know exactly what they mean. There's still plenty that we have to learn. Having these experiences doesn't mean that we're in any way special or elite, or receiving special information from superior beings, either. I've been scolded more than once for becoming too trusting of my teachers! Which, again, seems peculiarly honest of them.
We remain responsible for ourselves, our behavior, and our own lives. We have no reason to suppose that the aliens are here to rescue us, take care of us, or be responsible for us in any way. We also have no reason to assume that we're under their control and pass responsibility for what happens to them. Assuming that they're arranging marriages, require us to move to different parts of the country, etc., can lead to disaster - unless it's in our own best interest to do these things.
Why should we take their advice any more seriously than that of anyone else's? Sometimes, months later, I can see that something that seemed extremely personal, and maybe helpful or harmful, at the time, was merely a quest for information on their part. Since we're all powerful individuals in our own right - both them and us - there are considerable risks on both sides. We need to be careful and work hard at developing better communications, taking nothing for granted as actually "solved" yet. Our minds are constructed for problem solving, to reach conclusions and demand immediate answers and explanations. This is one area in which we're not going to get this degree of certainty without a lot of hard work. At this point, interpretations are speculation. Letting our imaginations create myths out of this material is not the correct response.
by Meryl Johnson, ©1996
A Black-Hole Being Leads To A More Sophisticated Abduction Model
A Black-Hole Being Leads To A More Sophisticated Abduction Model
I have been interested in UFOs all of my life. My first consciously remembered encounter with other-worldly Beings is from the age of two and a half. It was not until four years ago that I became actively involved in the UFO movement. A significant event at that time caused me to want to remember more of my UFO related experiences. This event propelled me into a course of action that seemed to fulfill an educational purpose. I joined MUFON as a research specialist in 1992, and I am on the board of directors of Operation Right To Know. In 1993, I demonstrated in front of the White House to encourage our government to end UFO secrecy.
Frequent ongoing visitations prompted me to form a support group for other people like me. The name of our group is the Chicago Area Center for Encounter Support. I have been dedicated to promoting public awareness for the past four years. In 1994, I organized and funded an outdoor event at the Kluczynski Federal Building plaza and lectures at the Field Museum. Our speakers were Robert Dean and Stanton Friedman. I organized and funded a similar event in 1995, at the Federal Building, College of DuPage, and the Museum of Science and Industry. Our speakers in 1995, were John Carpenter, Yvonne Smith, Kay Wilson, and Edward Carlos, Ph.D.
The reason I was prompted to write about the Being pictured here is because I was immediately drawn to the cover of the September/October, 1994, issue of IUR (International UFO Reporter). I was very interested in Kelly Cahill's description of the black Being as "a hole in matter." Though Kelly's account of this Being was the first I remembered seeing in the literature, I believe this entity type may be more commonly encountered than reports suggest. Motivated by Kelly's description and sketch, I wrote to a fellow experiencer to relate my encounter with the dark, shadowy figure. As I was writing, he called to talk about his own encounter thirty-some years earlier with the same type of Being. He was reminded of this incident after being contacted by Kelly. Although we were both fully aware of this entity type in our lives, we had not yet got around to discussing it even after exchanging voluminous correspondence about our experiences. I had never felt a strong desire until now to learn more about this Being, perhaps because of its vagueness and tendency to slip to the back of my mind. I wonder how many other experiencers have noticed a similar lethargy or disinterest in delving into the nature of enigmatic entities with whom they may have had contact.
I am consciously aware of only one encounter with this very unusual Being. The experience occurred one night forty-seven years ago when I was six years old. I lay frozen in terror as the Being stood and waited patiently beside my bed. I had experienced this irrational, seemingly conditioned terror response several times before. The first time was at the age of two and a half in the presence of an intense white light outside my bedroom window. I saw this entity as a dark, shadowy figure, very much an absence of light, but without the red, glowing eyes described by Kelly. I also felt its presence. Despite my feelings of terror, I did not think of the Being as sinister. At that age I did not attempt to find an interpretation for my experience or fit it into a familiar framework because I had not yet developed such a system of reference. I simply accepted it as something in my life. When I was older, I applied a psychological interpretation to the Being as looking dark and shadowy because its true form must have been too terrifying for me to behold.
I thought it unusual for me to make the visual connection with the Being on the cover of IUR because I generally do not relate well visually. My vision has been affected by a corneal disorder (keratoconus) resulting in poor vision in one eye and the loss of the other eye through numerous corneal transplants, a cataract extraction, and detached retina surgeries.
Some of my most significant encounters have occurred at the time of these surgeries and one, in particular, took place when I was effectively unable to use my eyes. I was confined to a face-down position after detached retina surgery. This encounter was prefaced by a sudden stillness of sound and movement. I then heard several squawks of terror from our family cockatoo. I felt as if I ran head-long into a wall of the alien presence as I sprang to the bird's rescue. My initial response was the old, conditioned terror which caused me to freeze in my tracks. For the first time, I was consciously aware of being given a choice and an opportunity to confront my fear and learn to break through the barrier of conditioning. I made the decision to go forward and participate with full consciousness in what was about to transpire.
I stepped into the hallway with my face down to commune with the Being. Suddenly, there ensued a barrage of poltergeist activity and considerable remote viewing. (I have experienced instances of spontaneous remote viewing in non-encounter situations in the past. In addition, during a hypnosis session I was aware of the mechanism which allowed me as a child to see without eyes.) Of interest at this time was the 'switched-off' condition of our dog who looked dead and displayed a frozen-in-time characteristic. She showed no sign of molecular vibration and seemed to be suspended in a state even more still than death.
After my interest was peaked by Kelly's account, it was inevitable that I would begin to think more in depth about the nature of the black-hole entity and the implications of its strange properties. I wondered if this Being intentionally projected itself as an absence of light as a means of low-profile camouflage. Instead of a hole as Kelly thought of it, perhaps the Being was composed of ultra dense matter. An entity which is sufficiently dense in our environment might trap light and other forms of energy and have a very low vibrational frequency. Is it possible that this is the antithesis of what some experiencers report as incorporeal or light Beings whose frequency of vibration is very high? I believe we should consider the possibility that density and vibrational frequency can be manipulated by an advanced technology to produce such variations.
Learning how the encounter experience is interpreted in the absence of visual cues may help us understand the relationship between alien abduction experiences and religious, near-death, out-of-body, and childhood sexual or ritualistic abuse experiences, as well as visitations by Beings described in folklore and mythology. There is a need for fresh data which enriches and expands our stereotypical view of the encounter experience. There is also a need to reexamine existing data from a fresh perspective.
Abduction research could move forward in significant new directions by looking beyond our comfortable existing models and exploring alternate paradigms suggested by some of the following:
Anomalous Experiences Reported By Abductees:
Some of the symptomatology such as memory impairment and sporadic invisibility, may be the result of exposure to elements such as electromagnetic fields in the alien environment. For example, a hypnotherapist in Santa Barbara, California, named Donna Higbee described instances of spontaneous invisibility that were reported by abductees in her support group and by other researchers across the country. She published her report in the September, 1994, issue of the "MUFON UFO Journal." In her report, Donna speculated that this effect may be the result of passing through a space craft's force field. In other anomalous experiences the effects seem not to occur randomly, but arise specifically in response to emergency situations. Some experiencers seem designed to convey knowledge about the visitors or knowledge about higher levels of existence to which mankind may aspire. Some effects demonstrate special properties of alien technology.
Through support groups we are learning that the traditional, simplistic model of an alien encounter does not adequately accommodate the immense complexity and diversity of actual alien visitations. This model also fails to encourage an understanding of the reality of the Beings with whom we are so intimately connected. The "good-bad" single agenda approach to the alien experience does not explain the many different occurrences of alien encounters. Our new model must encompass an alternative rational for the clandestine nature of some alien encounters; interaction at a participatory level with diverse species; reverse flow encounters in which the visited becomes the visitor after interdimensional penetration is learned by the abductee; and out-of-body encounters.
We are being invited through our encounter experiences to extend our minds and sensitivities. We must emerge from our self-made cocoons to initiate contact with other sentient species on an individual level. This is required in order to partake intellectually, spiritually, and physically in a much more expansive universe. As we begin to broaden our understanding of these experiences and other intelligences in the universe, we may begin to understand ourselves. The first step in this process is breaking through a very fixed mind-set. I think some of these alien visitors are trying to show us how to do this. It could be the key to our survival.
by Mary Kerfoot, ©1994
A Black-Hole Being Leads To A More Sophisticated Abduction Model
by Mary Kerfoot
I was born in Ottumwa, Iowa in 1942. I received my B.S. degree in experimental psychology at the University of Iowa and a Master's degree in experimental psychology at Lehigh University. Four years later I went back to school to obtain a degree in math at Michigan Tech University specifically to begin a career in computers. I have worked in the computer industry for the past 21 years. I currently work as a systems analyst. I live in Schaumburg, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. I have two sons, ages 28 and 30, with my late husband, a retired Ph.D. structural engineer. Our eldest son is a programmer like me and our younger son is completing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering, following the path of his father.I have been interested in UFOs all of my life. My first consciously remembered encounter with other-worldly Beings is from the age of two and a half. It was not until four years ago that I became actively involved in the UFO movement. A significant event at that time caused me to want to remember more of my UFO related experiences. This event propelled me into a course of action that seemed to fulfill an educational purpose. I joined MUFON as a research specialist in 1992, and I am on the board of directors of Operation Right To Know. In 1993, I demonstrated in front of the White House to encourage our government to end UFO secrecy.
Frequent ongoing visitations prompted me to form a support group for other people like me. The name of our group is the Chicago Area Center for Encounter Support. I have been dedicated to promoting public awareness for the past four years. In 1994, I organized and funded an outdoor event at the Kluczynski Federal Building plaza and lectures at the Field Museum. Our speakers were Robert Dean and Stanton Friedman. I organized and funded a similar event in 1995, at the Federal Building, College of DuPage, and the Museum of Science and Industry. Our speakers in 1995, were John Carpenter, Yvonne Smith, Kay Wilson, and Edward Carlos, Ph.D.
The reason I was prompted to write about the Being pictured here is because I was immediately drawn to the cover of the September/October, 1994, issue of IUR (International UFO Reporter). I was very interested in Kelly Cahill's description of the black Being as "a hole in matter." Though Kelly's account of this Being was the first I remembered seeing in the literature, I believe this entity type may be more commonly encountered than reports suggest. Motivated by Kelly's description and sketch, I wrote to a fellow experiencer to relate my encounter with the dark, shadowy figure. As I was writing, he called to talk about his own encounter thirty-some years earlier with the same type of Being. He was reminded of this incident after being contacted by Kelly. Although we were both fully aware of this entity type in our lives, we had not yet got around to discussing it even after exchanging voluminous correspondence about our experiences. I had never felt a strong desire until now to learn more about this Being, perhaps because of its vagueness and tendency to slip to the back of my mind. I wonder how many other experiencers have noticed a similar lethargy or disinterest in delving into the nature of enigmatic entities with whom they may have had contact.
I am consciously aware of only one encounter with this very unusual Being. The experience occurred one night forty-seven years ago when I was six years old. I lay frozen in terror as the Being stood and waited patiently beside my bed. I had experienced this irrational, seemingly conditioned terror response several times before. The first time was at the age of two and a half in the presence of an intense white light outside my bedroom window. I saw this entity as a dark, shadowy figure, very much an absence of light, but without the red, glowing eyes described by Kelly. I also felt its presence. Despite my feelings of terror, I did not think of the Being as sinister. At that age I did not attempt to find an interpretation for my experience or fit it into a familiar framework because I had not yet developed such a system of reference. I simply accepted it as something in my life. When I was older, I applied a psychological interpretation to the Being as looking dark and shadowy because its true form must have been too terrifying for me to behold.
I thought it unusual for me to make the visual connection with the Being on the cover of IUR because I generally do not relate well visually. My vision has been affected by a corneal disorder (keratoconus) resulting in poor vision in one eye and the loss of the other eye through numerous corneal transplants, a cataract extraction, and detached retina surgeries.
Some of my most significant encounters have occurred at the time of these surgeries and one, in particular, took place when I was effectively unable to use my eyes. I was confined to a face-down position after detached retina surgery. This encounter was prefaced by a sudden stillness of sound and movement. I then heard several squawks of terror from our family cockatoo. I felt as if I ran head-long into a wall of the alien presence as I sprang to the bird's rescue. My initial response was the old, conditioned terror which caused me to freeze in my tracks. For the first time, I was consciously aware of being given a choice and an opportunity to confront my fear and learn to break through the barrier of conditioning. I made the decision to go forward and participate with full consciousness in what was about to transpire.
I stepped into the hallway with my face down to commune with the Being. Suddenly, there ensued a barrage of poltergeist activity and considerable remote viewing. (I have experienced instances of spontaneous remote viewing in non-encounter situations in the past. In addition, during a hypnosis session I was aware of the mechanism which allowed me as a child to see without eyes.) Of interest at this time was the 'switched-off' condition of our dog who looked dead and displayed a frozen-in-time characteristic. She showed no sign of molecular vibration and seemed to be suspended in a state even more still than death.
After my interest was peaked by Kelly's account, it was inevitable that I would begin to think more in depth about the nature of the black-hole entity and the implications of its strange properties. I wondered if this Being intentionally projected itself as an absence of light as a means of low-profile camouflage. Instead of a hole as Kelly thought of it, perhaps the Being was composed of ultra dense matter. An entity which is sufficiently dense in our environment might trap light and other forms of energy and have a very low vibrational frequency. Is it possible that this is the antithesis of what some experiencers report as incorporeal or light Beings whose frequency of vibration is very high? I believe we should consider the possibility that density and vibrational frequency can be manipulated by an advanced technology to produce such variations.
Learning how the encounter experience is interpreted in the absence of visual cues may help us understand the relationship between alien abduction experiences and religious, near-death, out-of-body, and childhood sexual or ritualistic abuse experiences, as well as visitations by Beings described in folklore and mythology. There is a need for fresh data which enriches and expands our stereotypical view of the encounter experience. There is also a need to reexamine existing data from a fresh perspective.
Abduction research could move forward in significant new directions by looking beyond our comfortable existing models and exploring alternate paradigms suggested by some of the following:
Anomalous Experiences Reported By Abductees:
- Sporadic, often very specialized memory impairment.
- Spontaneous episodes of invisibility.
- Passing through physical obstacles that the experiencer is on a collision course with.
- Spontaneous episodes of dissociation producing a gap in consciousness; a unique sense of non-existence that feels like you have slipped into some other plane of reality for a time. This should be differentiated from functioning on 'automatic pilot.'
- Simultaneous awareness of events or objects in multiple planes of reality; a variation on the dissociation (above) in which consciousness remains functional in several dimensions simultaneously.
- Free-fall for a long distance with no injuries. For example, falling from a cliff or an airplane and being drawn gently toward the Earth as though encapsulated in a reduced gravitational field.
- Encountering two dimensional objects which behave like three dimensional objects.
- Full, unobstructed view of a luminous, glowing sphere that should be partially hidden by trees or shrubs. However, the trees or shrubs seem not to exist between the object and the viewer.
- Materialization and dematerialization of objects in the environment.
- Feeling an emotional, spiritual, or psychological 'alien state' either telepathically, empathetically, or remembered on your own.
- Rearrangement of objects in the environment to effect a sudden, miraculous rescue of a person.
- Frequent occurrence of striking synchronicities.
- Consciously remembering UFO related material by reliving the incident through any of the senses or abstract conceptualization, as though it were happening at the moment.
Some of the symptomatology such as memory impairment and sporadic invisibility, may be the result of exposure to elements such as electromagnetic fields in the alien environment. For example, a hypnotherapist in Santa Barbara, California, named Donna Higbee described instances of spontaneous invisibility that were reported by abductees in her support group and by other researchers across the country. She published her report in the September, 1994, issue of the "MUFON UFO Journal." In her report, Donna speculated that this effect may be the result of passing through a space craft's force field. In other anomalous experiences the effects seem not to occur randomly, but arise specifically in response to emergency situations. Some experiencers seem designed to convey knowledge about the visitors or knowledge about higher levels of existence to which mankind may aspire. Some effects demonstrate special properties of alien technology.
Through support groups we are learning that the traditional, simplistic model of an alien encounter does not adequately accommodate the immense complexity and diversity of actual alien visitations. This model also fails to encourage an understanding of the reality of the Beings with whom we are so intimately connected. The "good-bad" single agenda approach to the alien experience does not explain the many different occurrences of alien encounters. Our new model must encompass an alternative rational for the clandestine nature of some alien encounters; interaction at a participatory level with diverse species; reverse flow encounters in which the visited becomes the visitor after interdimensional penetration is learned by the abductee; and out-of-body encounters.
We are being invited through our encounter experiences to extend our minds and sensitivities. We must emerge from our self-made cocoons to initiate contact with other sentient species on an individual level. This is required in order to partake intellectually, spiritually, and physically in a much more expansive universe. As we begin to broaden our understanding of these experiences and other intelligences in the universe, we may begin to understand ourselves. The first step in this process is breaking through a very fixed mind-set. I think some of these alien visitors are trying to show us how to do this. It could be the key to our survival.
by Mary Kerfoot, ©1994
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