1234 words on a 5 page document

screen grab 

Whenever I receive an email of an unusual owl account, I'll create a document with the text. Then I continue adding to it with each new email reply. This system helps keep my ever growing flood of reports a bit more organized.

The image above shows the word count for a document I added to this morning. I pay attention to these small number synchronicities, although I am not sure what it truly means.

1,234 words and 5 pages 

makes 12345

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speaking in Eureka Springs, Arkansas

I will be one of the presenters in the upcoming conference in Eureka Springs Arkansas. This will be the 30th year of this event. The conference was started by the late Dolores Cannon, and her daughters now run this annual event.

Link to the conference site HERE

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Terence McKenna and Kenneth Ring on UFOs and NDEs (video, audio and transcript)

parts one and two, these are required viewing.

A short conversation, in two parts, between two extraordinary thinkers, Terence McKenna and Kenneth Ring. The book The Omega Project was written by Ring, and in it he explores the relationship between the UFO phenomenon and the Near Death Experience. This video was created shot on location in Prague, Czechoslovakia during the International Transpersonal Conference in June 1992, known at Prague Gnosis.

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MP3 audio download

This was initially posted her back on January 14 of 2014 (on my mom's birthday!) I have since added the audio as an MP3 below. Sadly, the sound quality is poor but if you pay attention, you can still hear all of it.

You can read this as a transcript too! 

Kenneth Ring and Terrence McKenna talk about UFOs and NDEs 

one-click PDF reader linked above

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Jacques Vallee on modern UFO research

colleagues on the California Cost

A short Q & A with Diana Walsh Pasulka and Jacques Vallee (shown above) on how to apply modern computer research techniques to the UFO phenomena.

  Interview linked HERE  

Peter Maxwell Slattery talks about owls

Peter talkin' owls

My friend—I mean—mate, Peter Maxwell Slattery just shared a tidy video post about his owl experiences. A nice set of personal experiences with owls and the UFO presence. And, he gives a wonderful shout-out for my book (Thanks mate!)

   More with Peter...

An long format essay on his experiences HERE.

An video interview from 2013 HERE.

A video interview from 2015 HERE.  I was pushy about this one, I was in full "promotion" mode for the book and asked Peter to do an talk together.

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Whitley Strieber wrote eloquently about owls in decades past

recommended reading

I’ve recently purchased two of Whitley Strieber’s books on Kindle, Transformation (1988) and The Communion Letters (1997). I already had both of these in their paper versions, and I read each of them shortly after their publication. 

author and experiencer

Having these in a digital format allows for easy word searches, and the word I looked up was owl. I expected owl stories to be peppered throughout these books, but I was impressed at the insights offered by Whitley. What he says is, in many ways, what I have worked so hard to say in my own book. Yet what he has written is poetic, perceptive and right to the point.

Now I am fully aware that I read these books with great care, this includes all the stuff about owls, and decades later I wrote my own book with a similar flavor to my speculation. I honestly didn’t remember any of the specifics when rereading these excerpts now. Yet it seems fair to say that I absorbed these ideas during my initial reading. This may have sat in my mind in some semi-dormant way, quietly informing me during my years owl research.

In retrospect, I am glad I didn’t find these quotes during the writing process of The Messengers. I feel I would have leaned on these ideas like a crutch. Whitley and Anne are quoted extensively in my book, and I would have added some of these excerpts had I have seen them. Curiously, both books were on my shelf during the writing process, yet I never opened them, though I sure opened Communion (1987).

This blog will now serve as a platform for these powerful quotes about owls and their connection to the UFO experience.

  click the "Read more" link below to see the rest of it.