Jordan Maxwell interacts with the extreme fringe of reality

I just listened to an excellent interview with one of the elder statesmen of the UFO research community, Jordan Maxwell. He tells of a first person experience in his youth that I found absolutely fascinating. I am posting a short (22 minute) excerpt of this audio interview. This experience took place when he was a teenager in 1959 in North Hollywood.

one-click audio download HERE

Jordan Maxwell is an author, researcher and Lecturer in the fields of Secret Societies, Occult Philosophies and UFOs since 1959.

This first person experience from Jordan fits a pattern. It's one more in a long series of accounts told by a researcher who is digging into the extreme fringe of reality. This story is particularly comprehensive, more than some others I've heard, but it is quite close in the flavor of other stories from other researchers. Some mysterious event takes place in their youth that has a profound impact on the direction of their life. I feel that, in some small way, I too fit this pattern.

Jordan claims to have had 36 of what he calls Peak Experiences, and this is only one. He talks about others HERE. There is a companion clip posted above, equally interesting.

This interview was conducted by Kerry Cassidy and Bill Ryan of PROJECT CAMELOT in September 2009. Linked here is the interview page, the full MP3 audio file and a you-tube video.

Jordan Maxwell's homepage is linked HERE.

And - He mentions the book, The Complete Works of Charles Fort.

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an update from Mike C

The content of this on-going blog is evolving. I have been posting more and more links to other sites. I am very cautious when I create these links, I feel strongly that the info needs to be relevant and interesting. If I am recommending you read an article or listen to a podcast, I feel it should be worthwhile.

This is a recent change for me and this blog. Just a few months ago I would have avoided doing this, but now it seems that I'm readjusting how I'm sharing this stuff.

The internet is overflowing with information, and if I find a gem in that chaos I'll post it here. I created a MISSION STATEMENT a while back, and creating interesting links seems to fit with that statement just fine.

peace,
Mike C

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William Henry interviews Richard Dolan

William Henry and Richard Dolan talk about the profound challenges with how public UFO information is handled, disclosure, open contact. Rich is an exceptional thinker and speaker.

This half-hour long audio interview is linked HERE, it'll be taken down in a few weeks and re-posted in a members only site, so don't wait.

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Max Ernst, ritual magic and UFOs

Overt UFO image from Max Ernst in 1929

The artist Max Ernst (1891-1976), was a prolific German Dadaist-Surrealist. And he seems to be much more. The image (above) is from a collage-based graphic novel titled The Hundred Headless Woman. It has two disc shaped UFOs, a nearly naked woman being abducted and an apocalyptic scene of destruction; all reoccurring themes in the modern abduction lore. This was 18 years before Kenneth Arnold saw his [first] set of UFOs.

Christopher Knowles has posted a genuinely ground breaking post about Max Ernst (linked HERE). I found it this morning in The Secret Sun. Knowles writes:

...every time I look at UFO photos and read about recent sightings or abductions I get trapped in the letters and the pixels like I'm encased in amber. When I start to look at UFOs through the prism of Synchronicity, Symbol and Strangeness, it all opens like a flower and thousands of puzzle pieces start falling into place like a Tetris game played by an invisible hand.

And then things start to happen. In this consensus space-time. Lots of things. Lots of really strange, sometimes impossible things.

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impossible talk with Jeff Kripal

I'm not the only one with a podcast. Here is Jeff Kripal's audio interview series. Jeff wrote what might be the most important book in my library, MUTANTS AND MYSTICS. If you don't presently own this book, you will never fully understand the universe.

The interview with Dean Radin is absolutely amazing, it's number 2 on the list below. Dean tells a story about finding a new office for his research that defies any established definition of reality. This is required listening!

the face at the end of the bed

I just finished reading a mind-numbing blog post (linked HERE). Lucretia Heart writes about being alone in bed when she was 16 years old, and seeing something that shattered everything.

...It was such a short duration of time, but long enough that there could be no mistake about what I was seeing. Everything in my life changed in that quick few seconds of time and I haven't been the same since. If I could point to the most pivotal few seconds of my entire life - this is IT. I mean, I've seen them while awake since then, but nothing is quite like the shock of the first time an intruding reality is UNDENIABLE...

Just even bare eye contact while I was in a fully conscious state was nearly so overwhelming as to make me feel insane. I knew that I knew that - THING - that was staring at me. But it wasn't a thing. It was a being. An intelligent being that wasn't supposed to exist, but there it was!

I have never read anything so straightforward that describes the complete disintegration of the self, she writes with relentless clarity.

Thank you Lucretia for your bravery.

This same story is part of an audio interview, Lucretia shares this unbearable experience with a shaky voice. (linked HERE)

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owls and 1111

owl in flight

The 11-11 phenomenon is a term that gets used among people (like me) who take synchronicities very seriously. I found the number 1111 in my listings of all time page views on this blog. It was for the forth essay that I posted on this blog, a very strange story about owls, lots of them. The story is titled OWLS AT SUNSET, and was one of the defining moments of my life, and I feel that this short essay is worth reading.

owls, a beautiful story and a synchonous number

Now, I don't put all that much meaning into the number 1111, my focus has been on the numbers 12345. I am sharing this here simply because I made a very real commitment to post EVERY synchronicity in this very public format. And some of these number syncs seem to glom onto the weirder stuff. Believe me, I have been trying to find 1111 and 1234 in my bank statements and in time stamps ordinary emails, but they just don't seem to appear in those mundane places.

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audio interviews with Mac Tonnies

This is a clip of the late Mac Tonnies, where he sums it all up in a mere 33 seconds.

There is a remarkable selection of on-line podcasts featuring my friend Mac. The young author Mac Tonnies had quite a web presence, that and a beautiful voice. I did some searching, and here are a list of 13 different audio interviews available on-line. If anyone knows of more, please let me know and I'll add them here.

I rated these with *stars*, a simple 1 thru 5 system. Don't read too much into these numbers, all are essential listening.

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Binnall of America - may 10 2007 (part 1) *****
Binnall of America - may 10 2007 (part 2) *****
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Culture of Contact - jan 16 2008 ****

(or HERE for another LINK)
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radio mysterioso - june 2005 (part 1) *****

radio mysterioso - june 2005 (part 2) *****

radio mysterioso - july 27 2009 *****

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coast to coast AM from sept 28 2009 *****
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PARACAST - feb 1 2009 **
PARACAST - oct 26 2008 *****
PARACAST - june 15 2008 ****
PARACAST - dec 16 2007 ***
PARACAST - july 29 2007 ****
PARACAST - may 6 2007 *****
PARACAST - dec 31, 2006 ****
PARACAST - dec 3 2006 ****
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memorial audio

radio mysterioso - oct 24 2011 *****
paracast - nov 1 2009 *****
paracast - april 25 2010 **

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Mac talks about cats - feb 11, 2010 ****

A short message from a friend ***

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Mac not talking about UFOs

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Kenneth Arnold's daughter talks about her father

Outspoken daughter of Kenneth Arnold, Kim Arnold.

Kim Arnold is the daughter of Idaho pilot Kenneth Arnold, who reported a series of chevron shaped flying objects in 1947. He plays an important role in modern UFO history because this sighting created a media frenzy, and it was the genesis of the term Flying Saucer.

UFO history just keeps getting stranger. Kim is speaking out now, over 60 years since the event, and the story is much stranger than just a respected pilot seeing something odd in the sky. Seems like there was more going on, he saw multiple UFOs on three occasions, he was fascinated by synchronicities, he thought that UFOs were probably living organic entities - and - he even witnessed orbs in his home!

There is even a curious detail about a great gray owl (listen for it)!

one-click audio download HERE

one hour long

This is an excerpt from a podcast posted on the Eye Witness Radio Network. And Kim has created a website to share her memories and research about her father, Kenneth Arnold.

Idaho pilot and respected buisnessman, Kenneth Arnold

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video clip from James Fox featuring Kim Arnold
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Mac Tonnies on C2C from 2009

Mac Tonnies

Three weeks before he died, Mac was a guest on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. He was a breath of fresh air on a radio show bogged down with the dubious. During his time on the air, he clearly and engagingly explained his take on a wide variety of subjects. As always, he spoke with remarkable clarity. The entire show (I think) is posted below.

one-click audio download HERE

one hour / 48 minutes

He was a welcome guest on a wide variety of esoteric podcasts, but his performance on C2C was particularly impressive. He beautifully conveys his insights to a very mainstream audience. He had a way of articulating EXACTLY what I felt in my bones. He said it better and clearer than I ever could. A great intro to anyone unfamiliar with his work. If you listen, you'll be treated to a remarkable set of ideas.

This show was aired the night of September 28th, 2009.

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Terence McKenna ponders UFOs

Terence McKenna

1946 - 2000

This one-hour audio talk from Terence McKenna attempts to unravel the meaning of the UFO and it's overt influence on human consciousness.. He speaks with a clarity and depth that leaves me thunderstruck. His ideas seem an elegant match to the absurdity of the overall phenomenon.

Direct link to The Psychedelic Salon, where I found this excellent audio essay. This talk was recorder in December of 1982. He is quoted below.

One-click audio download HERE

the talk with Terence begins at the 4:50 time count

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The extraterrestrial is the human over soul in its general and particulate expression on the planet. . . . The over soul is some kind of field that is generated by human beings, but that is not under the control of any institution, any government, and religion. It is actually the most intelligent thing on the planet, and it regulates human culture through the release of ideas out of eternity and into the continuum of history.

The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with

- Terrence McKenna, 1982

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Here's another fascinating talk where Terrence talks about his TIME WAVE ZERO ideas and how they colide with the 2012 meme. Linked HERE.

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Mac Tonnies "interviews" Whitley Strieber

Mac on a road trip production for a documentary with the CBC

During one late night phone call, Mac Tonnies told me about a back and forth series of questions he asked Whitley Strieber. Years ago, in a long ago era of the internet, Whitley briefly maintained a simple on-line bulletin board system. His goal was to provide a forum to answer questions from his readers. Mac used this forum to connect with Whitley; this must have been sometime in the early 90's.

I just found the interview on Mac's website, it's still on-line, and it makes for bittersweet reading. The interview is posted HERE and it is in a readable print-ready PDF format below.

If I remember the conversation correctly, Mac sent in questions over a period of time (perhaps weeks), and then collected his questions and replies from the forum and ganged them all into one document, and this document created an "interview" of sorts. I clearly remember him explaining to me how impressed he was with the thoughtful quality and seriousness in the way Whitley answered those questions.

Mac wrote of Whitley: "I was impressed with the quickness and sincerity of his replies."
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Mac Interviews Whitley

audio interview with Trice Sheridan

Last night I did an audio interview with a Trice Sheridan, she is a researcher and director for ICAR. I had met Trice at a series of UFO conferences, and I found her to be wonderfully thoughtful and dedicated to her research. We've corresponded a little over the years, and it was me who suggested to her that I be a guest on her audio show, something I don't normally do.

Before the show, I sent her a few links to some of my blog postings and interviews, and she dug into this stuff in a way that left me impressed.

The interview is linked HERE.

It's a two hour live podcast posted on Joe Montaldo's Paranormal Radio Network. And that's Trice in the photo.

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Oh those numbers!

I made a copy of the audio interview using my skype recorder, and the number 123 curiously shows up again. I am continuously struck by how this number appears on my computer in relation to my on-going paranormal work. I have searched for this number in my files in relation to mundane documents and it just doesn't seem to happen. The 123 thing seems to want to cluster around UFO's and owls.

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intriguing UFO report in Utah (with audio link)

One of several cell phone photos from the event.

There is a very interesting audio report posted on Whitley Strieber's DREAMLAND. Linda Moulton Howe reports on a UFO experience in Utah. It is fascinating and scary, complete with missing time, multiple whitneses and three cars mysteriously relocated miles away.

The audio report linked HERE. Please note, this audio interview is no longer free, it is now part of the DREAMLAND membership files. The audio MP3 is dated Jan. 27th 2012.

Written report with photos HERE.

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 Follow up info / April 6th 2012 

There is more to this case than one might imagine. First, in the comment section it was noted that there was a UFO video on the Weather Channel that featured a glowing blue image in American Fork, near Salt Lake City Utah. (Linked HERE)

The event with the blue-lights over American Fork Utah took place the evening of Jan. 27th 2012.

The event reported by Linda Moulton Howe took place in the early morning hours of Dec. 13th, 2011.

This video of the blue-lights was immediately used as a way to "solve" the report from Linda Moulton Howe. But, another video appeared shortly afterwords. This is a follow-up showing an young man named Andrew Smith building a funny contraption in his garage. The "UFO" was constructed of gas filled black garbage bags and a ring of blue LED lights. 

Follow-up video linked HERE.

These videos are interesting because they show how these unrelated events can cloud a very intriguing report.

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Secret Sun Radio Mystery Hour with Jeff Kripal

Jeffrey Kripal (author of MUTANS AND MYSTICS) gets interviewed by Christopher Knowles (author of OUR GODS WEAR SPANDEX) at this LINK at The Secret Sun.

One-click audio download

HERE

And, I interviewed Jeff myself late last year, audio linked HERE, both of these are awesome!

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