What Do We Know?

Here's a question for you to think about: If you are a person who's familiar with all of the old and modern ufo cases, what are some of the assumptions about the ufo phenomenon that you believe we can now make with a reasonable degree of certainty?

Here are my first 2 of the list:

1) There are one or more intelligent sources behind the ufo phenomenon (ie, not all ufos can be explained by natural phenomena and psychological abberations)

2) People are being intentionally deceived by at least one of these intelligent sources. They want to be seen, but they don't want to be seen for what they are. They want to be seen as something else.

If we can accept only those first 2 points, I think this might clear up alot of the wacky cases like Billy Meier and George Adamski. Cases where seemingly sane and intelligent people are supporting wacky ideas.

If there is an intelligence behind the ufo phenomenon, and it wants to deceive people as to what its true identity is, then it only makes sense that this intelligence would contact suggestible people in positions of influence and direct them *away* from the truth. These people of influence would then misdirect the masses.

Why would seemingly sane and intelligent people follow the zany ideas of a certain person?

Consider this scenario for the Billy Meier case:

A legitimate intelligence contacts Meier, and fills his head with foolish and false ideas. Events are arranged so that some of his close associates experience a few of these paranormal events, and thus they become convinced of Meier's "authenticity". The cult is born.

After Meier spreads the word and gathers followers, the job has been done, so the intelligence disappears. However, when time goes by and no additional paranormal events occur, Meier's followers reasonably begin to doubt his contact with the space brothers. The intelligence is now long gone, so Meier fakes photos in order to hang on to the followers he's gained.

Now take into consideration the first 2 points which I think we can reasonably assume. With that in mind, I find the above scenario more reasonable than the idea that a man (with no unique ideas and second-rate photos) gathered such a rabid following of seemingly sane and normal people, based upon nothing paranormal at all. I suspect that something legitimately paranormal initially occurred around this man. But the intention of this intelligence was deception, and everything that has occurred since then was in fact intended by this intelligence.

Now let's consider another more current case: Steven Greer and his Disclosure Project. It certainly seemed to have started sanely enough, but then went rapidly down nutty lane. I even donated money to them after watching Out of the Blue many years ago, because I thought the organization had great promise.

What if, perhaps, this Disclosure Project was recognized by the intelligence behind ufos as an organization that could legitimately threaten the shroud of deception held in place? Who would be the person to "contact" who could effectively neutralize the threat that the Disclosure Project posed? It would of course be Dr. Greer. He even claims some sort of contact, as I understand it. I see no reason to disbelieve him out of hand, and so the possibility stands that he was also contacted by this intelligence, which I think filled his head with ideas that effectively discredited and neutralized the Disclosure Project.

So here is the hypothesis, which is built from only those first 2 assumptions: One motivation of the ufo intelligence is to contact individuals and organizations that have the potential to damage the deception held in place, and the intelligence takes steps to neutralize the threat.

On the plus side, this hypothesis runs alongside the Vallee ideas of this intelligence as a sort of human psychological "control-system".

On the minus side, it does not fit neatly into the "either he is a charlatan or he is the real deal" dichotomy. For people without flexible minds who like to make snap judgements, this would be a hard thing to digest.

A Valuable Exercise

Recently I was relating a story of something very strange that happened to me when I was younger, and I realized that there was a technique I had employed which I would really like to share with everyone.

Several months ago I was listening to an interview (on the Paracast I believe), where a man mentioned that people should sit down and make a list of the unexplained things that have happened to them in their lives. After hearing this, I decided to sit down and do it. I can't tell you how useful this has been to me.

When I first sat down to do this, I honestly thought that my life had been pretty uneventful regarding paranormal experiences, and that not much has happened to me. In fact, that's how I've described myself to others on numerous occasions. However, after sitting down and compiling this list, I was surprised to discover that not only have I experienced *alot* of bizarre things, but the process of sitting down and making a concerted effort to recall memories actually caused me to remember things that I had previously forgotten.

This exercise worked well for me, and it's especially appealing to those of us who look dubiously upon hypnotic regression for memory retrieval. Perhaps no regression is needed after all!

I would recommend to everyone reading this that you should set aside about half an hour to just sit down and write all the unexplained events that you can remember occurring in your life, even if you think nothing has happened to you. Keep the list handy, so that when something comes to your mind at a random time, you can append it to the list.

I suspect that you'll be surprised to discover the bizarre things that lie buried in your past. I certainly was.

"Other-Dimensional" Entities

Inspired from a recent discussion, in this blog I'll be playing around with the "inter-dimensional theory" of ufos.

Thinking on this theory, my first realization is that I really don't have a solid concept of what another dimension might be. I understand dimensions in the basic sense (length, width, depth), but as to "other dimensions"... that's another story.

So what would it mean if these beings associated with ufos exist in another dimension?

One possibility is that another dimension means simply "outside of our range of perception". Our senses are basically just various receiving apparatus which pick up waves of different types which are being transmitted and reflected from the "external world". Our senses are able to register only an extremely narrow range of these waves.

It would make sense to me that a hypothetical being who only transmits/reflects waves which are beyond the capacity of our sensors to receive is equivalent to a being who exists in "another dimension".

Following the speculative road with this definition of "other dimensions", where does it lead us?

Well firstly, I see no reason to assume that the beings associated with ufos have the same range of perception that we do. Which means that these hypothetical beings could potentially be outside of our range of perception, while still being able to perceive us. And additionally, if such a being is capable of altering the frequency of the waves which it transmits or reflects, then it can conceivably make itself perceivable by humans and invisible to humans at will.

If one accepts such a possibility, that there might exist beings who are just as "real" as we are, but transmit/reflect only waves outside of our range of perception, then this leads to a load of other interesting inferences.

If other beings do exist outside of our range of perception, then there is no reason to assume that the amalgamation that I consider "me" consists of only what is perceivable by my poor-quality receivers. Parts of me that are just as much "me" as my arms or legs might exist beyond my capacities of perception. In addition, these other beings might be able to perceive these unseen parts, and perhaps manipulate them in various ways, affecting our moods or behavior in ways that would seem totally random to us.

Something to consider when we wonder why humanity and life on earth always seems to be going in a direction diametrically opposite to the direction most people want.