CNN report UFO conference 12 november 2007

You'll see by the commentary that perhaps ufology is gaining ground. We see Nicole Lapin, I think, embarass herself. And Gary Tuchman sort of makes sense of the matter, while throwing in the required ubiquitous jab.

Mind Reading

How long do you think it will be until we can watch our dream in HD?? I mean literally to visually watch what you dreamed last night.

In the future we will have perfected the dream reenactment. Among other things that is. Of course I think this is far far into the future.

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This open flood gates. I've suspected this for some time now. This is a way into someone's mind. Physically. We can and will learn how to better read brain waves and interpret them. Thoughts are things! And things can be seen in a sense and possibily read. Sorry I meant read. And just that will happen. We can and will be able to control things with our thoughts when we figure this out. It will begin as a novelty where we can open and close the garage door or change the channel on the TV. But then it will turn to a more inimical nature. We will see the dark side of knowing too much. For some this will have been the intended purpose all along. This will give us the ability to control, change, and for a large part, manufacture our environment.

And as we learn to read minds, this opens a slew of categorical ethical questions. Whose property is the mind and how can it be soley owned and inhabited? Shall we jump into a killers mind? A rapist? How will this affect crime and prevention of devious or, god forbid, national security type behavior. Will we choose to invade the minds of society in an effort to regulate thought?

This is scary territory and it is a reality. A reality that may bring us a higher scaffold of knowledge. And perhaps a higher aggresiveness of those in pursuit of power. What if Hitler had won?? What if Saddam won?? Understanding the mind is understanding how to control. Because if we can learn how they work, then we can learn how to change them to our liking. And everyones liking is different.

By the way the movies will be great. Especially last nights dream. Just don't be too curious and start watching your wifes dreams as well.

Bigfoot News

I don't know if bigfoot exists or not. I've been in remote areas before and there is a lot of land that is basically not travelled. I think it would be possible for such a creature to subsist, but there seems to be overwhelmingly lacking data. Maybe for good reason. And there have been a few newsworthy items I have come across recently.

1. A hunter in Pennsylvania acquired some motion activated pictures that are quite odd, whether Bigfoot or not. As you look at the pictures they are weird. Immediately some of the bigfoot people stated turning to this as proof as the giant hairy one. Apparently the beast has adopted yoga as a pastime. The sensible forest rangers are calling this a bear with mange. This seems to make sense as you compare with the picture of a bear with mange.

Now a recent poll of a popular bigfoot forum showe that a majority of Bigfooters side with the sensible bear with mange. But there still appears to some believers that won't dismiss this. They seem to think that it is a healthy primate. Even though we can see the resemblance in the photos. And also considering bears were photographed by the same camera about a half hour earlier. And there were only cubs present. Maybe this was Momma. Or Throw Mama from the Train.

Despite most people considering this a misidentification, this will be remembered as an episode where the bigfoot crazies tried to pass this off as bigfoot. Unfortunately in these types of fields, respectable people don't get partitioned from the wackos. The serious ones will keep looking and researching while the believers, well, do just that, believe.

2. I've only seen one episode, but the new MonsterQuest on the History channel was quite interesting. Of course this episode was on Bigfoot. I never give these shows too much credibility as they are intended to get ratings. I did like this episode and it left me with a number of questions.

To sum it up the crew was led by someone respectable, Dr Jeff Meldrum. They stayed 5 days in a remote Canadien cabin known for activity in the past. The found and recovered some DNA from an old blood-stained nail board used to prevent bears from breaking in. They also recovered hair and tissue samples. The tissue was thrown out because it did not appear to have enough sequences to do anything with. The hair turned out to be "close to human, but not entirely human". And the blood needs to undergo further time and money consuming tests if anything is to come of it. In addition to this, there were rocks thrown at the cabin on the last night. Who threw them?? Who knows, but no one stayed outside to investigate or film. There were supposedly cameras all over the place but pictures of this mystery throwing wasn't captured.

The episode was enticing and different. I liked it but on a serious note there are many unanswered questions. I'm sure there will be lots of aftermath in the bigfoot world about this, especially since Meldrum was involved. I tend to think some theatrical and hidden things were happening unbeknownst to Meldrum and others. I wonder how this will play out, there is already a lot of talk about it.

Where is the Evidence for UFO's

Where is it??

Where are the bonafide pictures, videos, physical pieces?? Where is the data that verifies the existance and appearance of something weird?

The UFO world seems to be constructed of blurry pictures, photoshop projects, unknown metallic pieces, and testimonies numbering in the thousands. But how do we convince whoever we are trying to convince?? There never seems to be any real solid proof. And I think many ufologists would love to continue this.

As I conjure up thoughts of anything I would deem having credibility I think of cases like Iran 1976, Rendlesham, Belgium triangles, Phoenix lights, Shag harbor, Malmstrom, and on and on and on. In each of these cases the evidence is sketchy. But there is still some compelling stuff. Enough to at least try to investigate and get at what truth might be there.

Skeptics would dismiss cases based on sketchy evidence, and rightly so. But I think there may be more to this phenomenon than just pure empirical evidence. There seems to be a sort of tie in with perception and congnition with the supposed craft or encounter. We keep trying to separate belief and rational scientific proof. I wonder if belief is a part of the whole phenomenon in some way. This thought seems to sprout an tangled medusa of alternative ideas. Maybe we are indeed creating the whole phenomena. Not that the encounters aren't percieved as real, but perhaps our consciousness and psyche manifest these enigmas.

If this is the case, I don't know that we will ever gather useful evidence. Perhaps we need to undergo another or several intellectual jumps to be able to comprehend what is actually happenining. I suppose this would be evolutionary in a sense as our brain chemistry at least would change. And as we begin to merge ourselves, even biologically, with newer technologies we may become less like Dr Frankenstein and more like God.

But as this stems into another conversation we are left with little evidence. Very fragmented, unverified, undetermined, unconvincing data. It is as if it were a game. Just like when I play magician with my kids. I'm terrible but convincing to them. And perception really is reality. If I wanted to I could convince them that I am doing real magic. And never unveil my tactics. If I wanted to. And taking a closer look at genuine ufology, it seems to me that maybe something is maybe doing just that. Or perhaps they are lazily and irresponsibly meandering about their way in the multiverse and are seen. Or perhaps yada yada yada. To the rabbithole we go.

And to those that claim to have this great physical life-changing, paradigm shifting, evidence stop "saving it for the right time" and show it already. Where are the alien implants and who is testing them?? Where is the metal that reshapes itself?? And if the metal reshapes it self, why didn't the craft mend itself wholly?? Where is all the great evidence claimed???? Some one show it !!! Until that happens we will live in the same foggy underworld of charlattans and alien babies. Of reptilians and Zeta Reticuli. We may never get any where in this popular culture meets truthseekers. Not "The Truthseeker", but real truthseekers.

Where do I stand on ufology?

My observations of ufology as an armchair type guy. Just confessing my ignorance.
1. UFO's exist, but who's to say what they are? ET, unknown energies, hoaxes, misidentified, multidimensional, psyche. Hard to tell but would warrant objective scientific investigation. Ha, ha. All joking aside, UFO's are something, whether mundane or not.

2. Disclosure is not the way. What would the government disclose and what would be witheld? And how would anyone know? There's lots to say on disclosure, but I'll suffice it to say that lack of proof and engrained predispositions seem to hurt this movement. Now I will say that other countries leading the "disclosure" movement may ultimately put pressure on the US. Possibly, but I think not. And if they were bombarded enough that they might release some softball type of report. And what if the know, but they don't know what the hell it is?? How would the disclosure people react if UFO's are drastically different then what they expect?? Like I said, lots to talk about.

3. Stephen Greer seems to be Dr Jeckyl, Mr Outrageous Duality. I mean his claims are so extensivley preposterous it takes away tremendously from any good he has done. And I think the 2001 National Press Club was the best possible turning event at the worst possible time with the worst possible ringleader. Some of the testimonies are compelling. So he's done good and bad, well, maybe mostly bad.

4. Billy Meier UFO's are obviously hoaxed. I don't really need the story and the rants and the cultist mentality. There is very good evidence. THE PICTURES. Do you remember watching Mr Rogers when they went into the little tunnel and came into this miniature world??

5. There's a lot of shows to listen to but many aren't asking the right questions. It's as if we care to just perpetuate this whole field. Let people talk and talk and spew and spew out garbage until the show ends. I want the proof, I want the truth, I want the real scoop. Don't insult my lack of intelligence with your phony, sell a book, made up, theory. I guess at this point I stop listening anyway. Unless its the Paracast. They ask the right questions.

6. There seems to be a paradoxal duality with our society. We accept supernatural belief, but only if doesn't conflict with current paradigms. We accept religion, but dismiss UFO's. We pray. We believe in life after death. A path to (insert your favorite afterlife here). A bunch of old writings that some people base their entire lives on. I guess the will to believe is somewhere inside us. The will to believe is embedded at some level deep in our DNA. I guess maybe we do it to get through life. Anyway, maybe their is something to the meaning of life and maybe there isn't. But the fact remains that it is OK to talk about these issues, even publically, but it is not OK to talk about UFO's. Alien life. Advanced life. Aliens are perhaps more probable than god. But I suppose they can't offer us eternal life. Whoops, forgot about heavens gate.

The aliens have taken me. Goodbye for now.

DENNIS KUCINICH ADMITS SEEING U.F.O. DURING THE DEBATE

DENNIS KUCINICH hangs himself??

You listen to it and watch it. What do you think because everyone has an opinion. I really hate politics, but it is a neccessary evil. And much of it doesn't even seem logical. We have a potential candidate for president (well, not really, but he plays one on TV) He is asked a question and then hangs himself. It is the impossible question. Did you see a UFO? I mean are you now officially ending your politcial career by anwering this question truthfully?? Are you a quack? An imbecile? The same answer apparently answers all of these questions.

People somehow take his answer as this: I saw a UFO full of aliens that were here to give me a message. If 14% of the country saw a UFO then we have a major problem. We need to recruit mental health professionals by the bundle. Conclusions are basically put into the mouths of the truth tellers. The conclusion is that aleins are invading and that the person who "saw" it is without a doubt insane.

Did he see something unusual? Yes. Did he say they were aliens from Zeta Reticuli? No. The fact is that there are many qualified sightings of unidentified flying objects. Enough said. I'm not here to go into that just yet, but the aftermath of this is uncalled for. I guess he should have lied. Was it stupid, courageous, or just honest?

Here is the contradiction. If he was asked if he believed in an invisible man in the sky that will save us and give us eternal life, what should his answer be?? We apparently can deal with one supernatural ideology, but we can't do anything but snicker and chuckle when it comes to weird stuff in the sky.

We seem to be in this loop that when a UFO "flag" comes up we act a certain way. We are programmed to reject, make fun of, ridicule, and seek therapy. Of course we know that there certainly couldn't be life elsewhere. And God forbid, he saw a military craft or a balloon or a hoaxed UFO and actually told the truth about it( that being he didn't know what it was). But there seems to be another "flag" that goes up when we say God. God is here to help. When things go bad we pray. The president actually prays. I'm sure that does a lot of good. We seem to clearly be programmed differently for this word "God" than we are for UFO.

I think it will take the discovery of life on Mars or a solar sytem moon to change this programmed response. People are clearly uncomfortable with aliens, but are completely comfortable with God. And why shouldn't they be. It sure seems nice, heaven and all the puffy clouds and the big gate. We're not so sure about the aliens though.