other people seeing owls

This is becoming a pattern. I will talk to folks, often friends I haven't seen in a while, and I'll fill them in on my book project. The topic will turn to owls and I'll ask them, "Have you seen any owls recently?" They'll reply, "Yes, just yesterday." Then they'll then describe a curiously close up sighting of an owl less than 24 hours earlier.

I'll think for a moment and then tell them, "I think maybe that was because of me."

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Bert Janssen and Heather Clewett-Jachowski in conversation

Bert Janssen and Heather Clewett-Jachowski

Bert and Heather are a husband and wife team doing crop circle and ancient sacred site research in the southern UK. They also have a very powerful story to tell that features a white owl. We spend most of our time digging into that event, which took place in May of 2011.

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The way this interview is framed, the white owl event is in the center of the web, and we try to follow some of the threads outward to see where they lead. I think stories are more interesting than speculation, and this interview features a wealth of really interesting stories.

Here's a link to Heather's White Owl story.

Bert's web-site HERE, and Heather's web-site HERE.

Bert speaking about the hidden geometry within crop circles

a stack of DVDs

I'm holding a stack of 31 DVDs from a 2007 documentary

I have a set of raw, unedited DVDs with footage from a documentary that was in production between 2007 and '08. There is a stack of 31 discs, each about an hour long. These include long interviews with Budd Hopkins, Dr. Leo Sprinkle and Dr. David Jacobs. At some point (hopefully soon) I plan on posting a few audio excerpts from these interviews.

For more about this documentary, click HERE.

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Skeptiko interviews Mary Rodwell

Alex from the Skeptiko podcast series interviews UFO abduction researcher Mary Rodwell. As always, I am impressed with the depth of his questions and the way he challenges his guests to dig deep. Highly recommended. 47 minutes long.

  Click HERE for a link to the Skeptiko interview  

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Archetypes and screen memories

Chapter in progress: This is an excerpt from a book project with the working title; Owls, Sychronicity and the UFO Abductee. I plan on posting a few samples from time to time. 

—Mike C

Most of the research for this book has been me reaching out to folks with curious stories, and just asking the question, “Do you have any odd owl experiences?” Most of the time the reply would be no. I got a lot of replies that played out as screen memories, the smallest percentage were the extremely unusual experiences that involved, as far as I can tell, real owls. I would ask this of folks through email, phone calls and in face to face meetings. A lot of the time I would ask this question to complete strangers, or to people I barely knew.

Peter was one of the experiencers featured in Dr. John Mack’s 1994 book Abduction, and the events in his life have been extremely intense. I’ve talked on the phone with him only once, and we've shared a few emails over the years. He’s been supportive and insightful in all of my correspondence.

As part of this book project, I sent Peter one of these emails, asking him that same question, had he ever had any odd owl experiences. He replied:

That is what got me in the door, so to say, to begin looking at this in my life. When I lived in Hawaii, there was a big old owl (that’s what I thought at the time) that would come to the sliding glass door off my bedroom at night. Of course under regression when I looked at the owl it was a whole other creature. So yeah, me and owls and ET's have a connection.

This owl fits cleanly into the screen memory category, it seems to play out as deceptive owl imagery projected into Peter’s mind, presumably so he wouldn’t be terrified of seeing a creepy gray alien. How this is done is a mystery, why is another question. One easy way to frame this is that the owl is nothing more that a convenient disguise, it’s a common enough animal, and those big penetrating eyes seem to match the likeness of the iconic alien. This might be exactly the reason for the owl deception, but it just feels too simple.

I suspect that this contact experience has been ongoing throughout the entirety of human history, and the reverence for the owl in folklore and mythology can be traced back to experiences just like what Peter described. The shamans and sages throughout time might have confronted similar owls, staring at them from their own doorways.

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