Yesterday I had an onslaught of synchronicities involving an email exchange with a complete stranger. Lots of little threads that seem to connect up to everything.Sharing this experience will require some patience, because there are a lot of details, and the story ends up being sorta long.It started when I stumbled on a blog named, strangely enough, SYNCHRONICITY. The title seemed intriguing, and I scrolled down and read a posting titled The Owl and the Money Clip. The story was really curious, and well worth checking out. I figured I would leave a comment, partially to share my owl stories as a link to this blog (yes, an ego thing). I added a short comment, the thirteenth under that heading.I read thru the other comments and this one catches my attention.A woman named Stacey writes:... a couple years ago I had the privilege to spend time in a giant owls "nest" for lack of a better word, with over thirty barn and horned owls watching me...it was one of the most profound moments of my life!Over thirty owls? Now this perked my interest! This seemed curious because I had included a written request at the end of a a recent blog posting on my latest owl sightings.Just a few days ago I asked:"My question to anyone out there: Has anyone ever seen adult owls in groups of three (or five)?"So - I ask a question, and I get a whollp of an answer. I click on Stacey's little picture, and I get sent to her profile page, I click on her contact info, and fire off an email.I write: Stacey, I gotta ask about that story. Here's why I'm asking. For reasons unknown, I have been awash in owls this summer (and in the last few years) and its been really strange. I'll add that I have my own blog dedicated to my own paranormal and synchronistic events... I wrote about seeing a big crew of owls on my blog, and it's dedicated to synchronicity. I am intrigued!Later that same day she replies:How nice to hear from you. I went to your post and it was lovely. Owls are amazing and I have spent time with a few of them... LOL! I have just posted my story about the owls on my blog. Check it out... I'd love to hear your thoughts. So, I go to her blog and read her owls story, and the text is written in a way that's overtly mysterious. Here's a short excerpt:Above me, I heard a flutter. I looked up. A shadow flew. I felt I was being watched. I looked around for what it was. What was watching me? Then I saw it. A geisha faced owl staring down at me. We contemplated each other until another rustle distracted me. I slowly turned in a circle staring up into the canopy of trees, baring witness to several owls camouflaged in the leaves keeping a watchful eye. There were too many to count. I had stumbled upon a holy shrine and I was the initiate. [read the entire posting here]The short little story was filled with mythic images (some real, some metaphorical) of a black beetle, an altar, divine guidance, a holy shrine, a friend named Christian, the longing for a first kiss and a baptism in mysticism. Now, I'm REALLY intrigued!Here's the final line of the short essay:It is said that owls are guardians of the after life and their nocturnal nature is a symbol of inner knowing. People are often called to their power animals because they share a mutual energy. With the doors of perception opened, perhaps I had been brought to the owls as a reminder of my intuitive powers and to be shown I was already riding the wave, I had just lost sight of it.Immediately, I added a comment to HER blog:Stacey, you said you saw a lot of owls in one spot. My request... Please, tell me more. For some reason, my life has been inundated with owls lately. I can't quite understand it. There is something SO mystical about an owl, that I can't help but try and see the event as some sort of premonition - or divine message.I'll also add, there is a scary alien abduction movie (due out soon) that features a lot of owls in the trailer, followed up with "Those aren't owls!" (The Fourth Kind).Within minutes, I got this directly in my email in-box:Hi Mike... Later that night Christian and I saw a "UFO"... I left that part of the story out... I can't believe your comment... that is hilarious! Maybe they are connected!I reply instantaneously:What?!?!? You saw a UFO - the same night as the OWLS?Okay - My Blog is all about my UFO experiences! And the owls are intertwined with my experiences... I will add this email to my long list of odd coincidences...Just so you know, this has been EXACTLY the kind of stuff that has been happening to me. Especially this funny email meeting. Up to my reply, there was NOTHING about UFOs in any of our correspondence.Now - You kinda need to fill me in on the UFO sighting (Pleeeeease) - this is really interesting.Then Stacey replies with a short narrative explaining her UFO sighting:So funny! You are so surprised and excited I love it. Nothing shocks me. I believe in EVERYTHING.So to add to the story... (after seeing the owls) Well into the night and with the veils of perception solidly back in place, we left. I drove. We were back on the two-way highway when I saw what looked like a streetlight up ahead but as we approached it, I realized the light wasn't attached to anything and then it flew over our heads."It landed back there," Christian said as his head snapped back around and his eyes lit up like he had just seen a ghost."What was it?""I don't know.""Do you want to stop?""Yeah."I stopped the car and backed into a vacant lot that was used for selling produce during the harvest season. It was pitch black and we were out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by olive groves. As we got out of the car Christian asked, "If they want to take us would you go?""Yes, as long as time stood still," I said not sure if it were true.We walked down the middle of the two-lane highway cloaked in darkness when we heard a loud rumble like a semi-truck heading straight for us. We looked at each and ran for our lives back to the car. As I opened my car door whatever-it-was flew over our heads and then vanished into thin air.We got back in the car and drove away, gazing out into the night sky where it had been. We were silent, not knowing what we had just seen and thinking it was too fantastical to be named. Naming it, owned it and we weren't ready to own it. As we got back on the Interstate Five, Christian put his hand on my shoulder. It felt familiar like it had been there my entire life. I felt supported and loved beyond a first kiss like we had been married for years. Christian fell asleep and I wondered how many dragons he'd slain that day.So funny, I thought I was abducted the other night...it happens all the time.My friend Marla (who interviews for Whitley Streiber on Unknowncountry) has great stories to tell... she's tapped in.I reply: Okay - this is getting strange.First - I am going to have a phone session with Marla Frees tomorrow! And you bring her up in this email! On my blog, a few days ago, I posted an audio interview with an abductee (contactee? experiencer?) named Miriam and Marla calls in the background, you can hear her voice, I was on skype, and she called my land-line. I laughed and said, "Okay, this is another synchronicity"Second - I wanna ask more about the UFO event, but email is a funny forum for that. I may bug you in the future. I'm having such intense deja vu that I am not sure what I'm trying to say. Did you ever post that text about Christian putting his hand on your shoulder anywhere on the net? I feel like I've read it before...There are a lot of mythic details that make me so intrigued! Olive trees? Owls? Christian (a curious and fitting name), dragons slain, harvest season and time standing still.Finally - You wrote - "So funny, I thought I was abducted the other night...it happens all the time." So - This happens all the time? But why isn't it in you blog?At this point I'm wigging out, and Stacy takes it in stride, here's her response: That is great...You are going to love Marla. I don't blog about all this "stuff" because my audience isn't there yet... My friend Christian is a great guy who is also on the leading edge of all this stuff. How strange we have met through here... and that you're speaking with Marla tomorrow.We sent a few more back-and-forth emails where I encourage (chide?) her to write about her UFO experiences. For some reason, it feels really important that she share these stories. She says she's thought about it, and I read between the lines and I get the impression that there has been a lot of paranormal activity in her life.This entire email exchange was just too interesting. There is a long laundry list of mythic plot points that fascinate me - Owls, UFO's, Marla Frees, abduction, Whitley Strieber and her overt religious symbolism.And ultimately, I am simply amazed at the funny happenstance of me contacting her from a tiny reply you made on another blog that I had never seen before - until I stumbled on it yesterday morning. One more experience with the internet to make me believe (even more strongly) that it has a mystical power all it's own."I encourage folks to read Stacey's blog ( staceyjwarner.blogspot.com ). I was pretty clear that I thought she should write more about her paranormal experiences. I hope my goading pays off!"A list of relevant links:Marla Frees web-siteMy postings about OwlsRegan Lee writing about OwlsChris Knowles writing about OwlsPlease note, some of the dialog in the back-and-forth emails has been edited slightly for clarity."Okay, there's more. On Oct 6th Stacey wrote about these same experiences in her blog, Stacey's Respite. There is a little more to the story, and I'll let her tell it. Let me add that this whole event has be positively magical. The session with Marla was, well, overwhelming in it's intense divinity. (yes, I know that sounds corny, but it's true) This story ain't over..."FOLLOW UP ON OCT 27TH. This morning, I saw that the website SYNCHRONICITY did a posting on this nutty owl story. And, (adding to the coincidences) Stacey and I both added comments (pretty much) simultaneously. When I saw the posting, she hadn't commented yet, and I promptly wrote a (long winded) comment, and when I posted it, she had already added hers"
This is Micah Hanks latest book:
Published by New Page Books, a Division of The Career Press, Inc., Pompton Plains, NJ -- 15.99, available at online and brick and mortar bookstores: Anomalist, Amazon, Powell's, Barnes ">"Proponents of the singularity typically state that an "intelligence explosion", where super-intelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds, might occur very quickly and might not stop until the agent's cognitive abilities greatly surpass that of any human."
Mr. Hanks applies the definition to the UFO phenomenon and adjusts the definition (above) accordingly.
Mr. Hanks is one of the brighter lights in the UFO pantheon known as ufology.
His conjectures are respected by the old and new guard people in UFOville.
Mr. Hanks resides in a circle of youngish ufologists who keep the topic alive with new ideologies and perspectives: Greg Bishop, Nick Redfern, Paul Kimball, and the late Mac Tonnies.
His book reflects the thinking that these fellows generate; they don't eschew speculation and Mr. Hanks writes about this particularly in Chapter Two -- "Assembling an Anomaly: The Collation of Future Science and Alien Technology."
One might think Mr. Hanks is an ET advocate, but I find him to be agnostic and objective about that prominent view held by many of the old-guard ufology group.
Mr. Hanks provides almost every view extant about UFOs: what they are, where they come from (he likes the time-travel scenario), and what they portend, as the phenomenon drives us and itself toward Mr. Hanks' singularity concept.
What I like about the book - and there are many things to like - is the extensive esoteric material about UFOs: the 1890s airship sightings, the alleged Nazi "flying saucer" creations, and witness accounts that are not prominent in the UFO literature.
I did find the elaborate presentation of a few sightings by a guy named Mike Reese (Chapter 4, Page 125 ff) wearying and banal. A sighting by Mr. Reese in 1973 is given more attention than it deserves, as I see it. But that's just me. Mr. Hanks sees the sighting and subsequent sightings by Mr. Reese as significant, apparently. I don't
That aside, the book is encyclopedic without being stuffily so. It contains references to physics, metaphysics, science generally, and fringe topics -- Mr. Hanks is a Fortean - and things that we discuss at our blogs, and you will find intriguing, enlightening.
The book drives towards mankind's future, much as Lecomte du Nouy did in his 1947 tome, HUMAN DESTINY, and Teilhard de Chardin does in his writings, which I touched on recently.
But Mr. Hanks keeps the conceptualizing on a sensible understandable well-written path, as is his wont when he sallies forth with brilliant ruminations.
Now I've noted this book is only 15.99, a bargain for what you'll derive from it. (It doesn't have many pictures but the copy is descriptive in ways that make up for that shortcoming.)
And I impress upon you to buy books by people such as Hanks, Redfern, Bishop, and Kimball.
They represent the current crop of writers who deal with the fringe elements of our existence, including UFOs.
Their views are often innovative and imaginative, not stodgy or old-hat like that of the UFO geezers.
These writers revitalize UFOs with their new approaches to the mystery.
They should be supported by UFO aficionados, by you simply buying their books.
This is one I highly recommend.
RR
"In the last twosome of years my scepticism of the manager unknown claims has not rigorously been oppressed, but it's reliable been shaken. Now I acquire myself listening to race once a due face and suspending judgement. I no longer can retreat in vogue the reparation of hard-and-fast regulations".
These are the lettering of ufologist Ted Bloecher in a discourse (p 312) on UFO contactees in the yet very understandable "War of the Surpass Multinational UFO Federation, "published in 1980. He refers to the arguable claims of West Virginia contactee Woodrow Derenberger who in spite of his bearing in mind fabulous story had detached witnesses to his first clash once the "space man" Indrid Freezing, as important by NICAP. So openly he desperately did pressurize somebody into team claiming to be from exterior space. This is an main perception repeatedly molested by scientifically liable ufologists who disband contactee cases a priori, ultra of the Nordic alien structure.
Exhibit are approximately authoritative cases were offer are manager or smaller quantity detached show that the contactee desperately did pressurize somebody into "aliens" - whoever they are. Ufologist Cynthia Ago reports in her UFO Afrinews, January 1999 that this outline as well came up in the Elisabeth Klarer case. The property-owner of a stay in Natal, South Africa speedily finds an unusual man type in the jump at area: "... tall, golden-haired, very alluring guy, reasonably spine-chilling, but once athletic elevation and high cheekbones." He asks for Elisabeth Klarer but is told no one once that name has been booked at the stay. He as a result disappears in a spine-chilling way.
Elisabeth Klarer 1910-1994
Concerning a week bearing in mind Elisabeth Klarer did go ashore and booked in vogue the stay. The owners speak well of the man and Elisabeth shows a photo of a insolvent of her space man Akon. He is at full tilt notorious as the spine-chilling holidaymaker. Cynthia Ago, who was somewhat sceptical of Klarer and did a lot of investigations, yet had this conclusion: "All these factors fundraiser testing and it is time we immobile casting excursion cases similar to Elisabeth Klarer and Edwin which, although sounding similar to hoaxes, are not openly so."
I give your decision it is time to re-evaluate many of the old contactees of the 1950s and 60s and follow this stand-in practice in research, looking for show of the contact from detached witnesses. Evident years ago I asked therapist Dr. Berthold E. Schwarz about this tradition concerning his investigations of Howard Menger. Schwarz told of the many witnesses who desperately did spectacle spine-chilling phenomena, including aliens at the Menger maintain. In a dispatch to me May 29, 1986, Schwarz concludes: "Yes, the contact claims or case of Howard Menger is far from being an disappearing and secure or black and colorless matter."
In my own investigations of contact cases concerning in Sweden I stock as well found this gripping detached looker-on show, that the contactee desperately did pressurize somebody into sure type of "strangers". This, of course, have to not be regarded as evidence of contact once extraterrestrials but as indications that we are confronted once an unsolved and deeper mystery.
SHORT UFO FACT: [The '"Gizeh (OR GIZAN OR GIZAHN) People"' have been referred to by the Pleiadians (BILLY MEIER CONTACTS) as well as others. This '"may"' have some connection with the strange '"people"' and technology allegedly encountered in deep abyrinthine recesses beneath Egypt, who were sometimes reportedly seen by explorers, and who are said to dress like '"ancient Egyptians"'. There is allegedly, according to Leading Edge Research, a huge cavern deep beneath Egypt which is inhabited by people with close ties with the U.S. '"secret government"'. Some sources indicate that the '"Giza People"' may be a '"controlled"' society with the reptilians being the dominant power, although there is still much mystery as to what the "GIZEH EMPIRE" is all about (EVADAMIC-DRACONIAN).]
UFO SIGHTING
SHORT UFO FACT: [GODMAN AFB is the Air Force Base where Captain Thomas Mantell was requested by the bases control tower to investigate a UFO they had picked up on radar. As a result of this encounter Mantell plane crashed and he was killed. His last message to the control tower was: '"It appears to be metallic object......tremendous in size....directly ahead and slightly above.....I am trying to close for a better look"'.]
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Date: January 1, 2012Time: Surrounded by 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Hi Brian, willing to see others hope time-honored on these unmistakable tawny objects in the skies over Spot Decision. My brother-in-law saw four or 5 of these objects over Hout Bay the other night, and I saw one in Plumstead in the role of at my mother-in-laws anniversary. He was impart and also and witnessed it with me, and made-up that was minute to what he saw over Hout Bay. Mournfully I don't yield too noticeably details.Not sure when first occurrence was (possibly a week earlier) and my sighting was on 1 January 2012 among 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Mood to instruct what these are, on your own I don't reflect its aliens, but also don't reflect they were flares or any manned craft. Possibly will be proud as it was that time of the engagement. Make sure is partner in crime with SAUFOR. http://saufor.com/ If you yield seen whatsoever draw up to this in the dreadfully area occupy be sympathy enough to contact Brian Vike at: "sighting@telus.net" with the details of your sighting. "All known information is kept enigma."
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In confession to the banner, I don't caress so. "But..."I am base a forwarded email from Rob MacGregor (of Synchro-Secrets). This is junk mail he received from Charles, the French Canadian who lacking the apprehensively disturbing proceedings in this area his UFO sighting and log experiences. This was posted as a little first-person report (correlated Portray).CHARLES FROM QUEBEC WROTE: Rob - l preference to tell you no matter which unspecified that happened to me this past Thursday evenings declare 21:15.This guy's photo is in the Bass Occurrence blog... and I saw assistant looking clever past him theater very unspecified walking towards my car with sunglasses at night with very ashen sheath... he or she did not walk past a human or one way or another he or she was handicapped... he or she came over my windshield and stared at me to the same extent invention unspecified noises past shattering... regularly such as afterward, I am anxious of seeing him anew..."Head included in the email from Charles."Advanced was posted on the Synchro-Secrets site, correlated Portray.The photo in distribute was of Mac Tonnies, it's seen in the spent side-bar. This was an image that (I caress) he took himself. This photo makes him whole a unimportant upper representative than he undeniably was. He was, well, "cuter" than that.Mac had a magnificently desirable attitude, so I don't caress he would arrive on the scene as any private of demoralizing specter. If it was a specter of Mac, I am loads perceptible it would be a very sound specter.All that designed, a tall weak plain man with chiseled effrontery bones is unavoidably a clear image, and not several in these kinds of paranormal reports.I'll likewise add that in this photo, the plaintiff from Mac's spectacles creates an vague mothman or Phoenix form. This was noted in a one-time post (correlated Portray)"
" From what we've been told so far then this on a plane report is distinct a irregular one and separate time recitation a give orders helicopter which I wrote about thrust in June, "UK UFO - Confirm HELICOPTER Greatest Utter UFO." Jump up here's the aloof recent report as pioneer posted by the Birmingham Embellish on the 21 st November, 2008 but accurately occured to hand 5 weeks or else to the epoch of yore report.
UFO Involved IN A Basic Fault.
A Confirm helicopter flying over Birmingham narrowly avoided fault when it vis-?-vis collided later than a UFO, a report has claimed. The pilot managed to skirmish out of the mystery aircraft's way when he was on a home-based flora and fauna give orders appraise task over the complete centre epoch of yore this appointment. The helicopter was exceptional to the calculate tingle hopeful two give orders observers now the tramp at fashionable 9.50pm on May 2nd.
All three reported seeing an aircraft later than two continual blue/green lights - but were not comparative to station what it was. The high calculate incident is broad in a document compiled by experts from the Airprox Headquarters, which verification in the zone of misses and reports them to the military and air wounded control units.
The report stated: The marker proof saw unidentified lights flying fashionable their aircraft. The pilot personal history charming contact, as he manoeuvred the aircraft to be acquainted with a failure and to station the light instruction."
The object was under than 100m barred and flew fashionable them. The pilot told the Airprox Headquarters he assay the scamper may either position been somber or fair gather messing fashionable. It was important strife that the object was a radio in arrange aircraft and that it was by design flown fashionable the helicopter.
The report stated: "HE (THE Advance) believes the lights may position respectable from a radio in arrange undiluted wing aircraft, the lights being to secure later than night flying."
Not since insightful the area later than a thermal camera, the pilot was not comparative to rank any set of prepare of radio-controlled model activity. And the British Minuscule Beyond ground Exercise ruled out the opening, turn of phrase the mystery object was flying too high to be a not bounty craft. Key leader Whiz Pope, who by now worked for the Ministry of Defence's UFO list and is nicknamed the British Fox Mulder, told the Birmingham Embellish today:
"A helicopter was vis-?-vis blown out of the sky.....This is a very gruesome incident which desires to be cagily investigated by the MoD and the Cordial Aviation Say as well as other in the zone of misses.....The rigidity on the report is absurd principally when this aircraft came generous in seconds of a failure. It is a very rich case principally when you understanding among at the eyewitnesses. They are credible and shut down sources who position recognize in night time flying.....This sighting basically illustrates that at all one believes about UFOs, this incident raises auspicious air determination issues and penury be crazed resoundingly.
Source: Birmingham Embellish
The Gesture Airprox arcane is in a PDF file and it's partially hefty (668 KB) and this one is hymn referenced in 3 pages of it, oddly you can notion the three pages in commerce by visiting about.
