Monday, December 20, 2010

owl on a cold winter's night


Last week I saw an owl on a telephone post. I was walking to my car on a cold winter night, after leaving a friends house. At the time I was in a somber emotional mood. It felt like I was in confusing point in my life. I stood directly under the owl for a minute or so, and it watched me from above but never flew off.

The next afternoon my friend (who's house I left the previous night) saw a Great Gray Owl on a post right outside her window. Earlier that day, she had received an emotional email from an old boyfriend, and when they were dating they both had lots of curious owl sightings, including owl dreams!

I'm not sure what any of this means, but I feel obligated to pay attention.
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Text added Dec. 30th:
Just found this, more collected owl weirdness (LINK).

Saturday, December 18, 2010

audio conversation with Marla Frees




Two days ago I was cross country skiing alone in the Wyoming backcountry. There is a lovely trail that culminates on a very lovely mountaintop (called Windy Ridge), and I was racing against early darkness at this latitude in winter. I had my iPod and it was set on shuffle.

During the final chords of a loud punk rock song (good for skiing fast) I thought to myself:

"Hey, I should post that audio interview with Marla Frees, that was really good. Why haven't I thought of that before?"

This came in the form of a nice thought, something I've written about in previous posts. And, within seconds, the song ended and your voice came on, it was the same interview. It was a very magical moment; I didn't even know it was on the iPod. I recently updated some music, and I guess it loaded all the interview files I had stored on my computer. I was really impressed with our conversation, it was breezy and without any pretensions or nervousness.

I listened to the entire interview (taking me to the top of the mountain) and then I skied through perfect powder snow (with gravity helping) down to my car.

One-click audio download HERE.
One hour and 3 minutes

The conversation with Marla was recorded in April of 2010. The reason I contacted her was for me to make sense of some of my own life events, most particularly about the October of '09, and the synchronistic whirlwind that defined that month. Marla and I did a proper psychic session on Sunday October 4th of 2009 (Hey, I just noticed that's 10-4, a synchro-phrase for affirmative) and that session came at a VERY pivotal moment in my life. Please believe me when I say that Marla has VERY powerful psychic skills, and our initial meeting was astonishingly prescient.

I used about 15 minutes of edited excerpts from this audio file as part of a very ambitious podcast where I go on and on about the weird intensity of my personal experiences during October of last year. I'll add that I saw two owls on two separate nights during the editing of this deeply personal podcast, and I can't help but read something important into those curious owl sightings.

One valuable lesson learned is that one should NOT use the term "Flaky new age weirdness" when conversing with Marla, even with the overt use of air quotes!

I encourage you to visit Marla's website and her blog. She is also does interviews for Whitley Strieber's DREAMLAND.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

audio conversation with Andy Colvin

The Mothman is a mythic creature that made an appearance along the Ohio River in West Virginia in 1967. Multiple witnesses saw this apparition during a flap that also included a whole slew of paranormal weirdness. It is the subject of John Keel's must-read classic, THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES.

Andy Colvin was a boy in Charleston West Virginia during that heady time, and he claims to have had his own powerful experiences that go well beyond simple seeing a large red-eyed winged creature. And these experiences have followed him to this day.

One-click download HERE.
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His obsessive role as a researcher has culminated in three books and a 36-hour documentary (that's not a typo) earning him the title The Mothman Photographer. He also has a blog.

A simple snapshot taken by Andy's sister. There is a somewhat elusive figure in the window just above Andy's left shoulder. Make of it what you will.
These are representations of The Garuda, and if you squint your eyes a little, there is a resemblance to that figure in the window above.


During the interview Andy talks about a very curious photo from 1973 (see above). We see him as a 13 year old boy, with a blurry image out the window. At one point, his three year old son saw the snapshot, pointed to the window and said, "The Garuda." (see image to the left) And, if you look at the image, it does seem to take on the form of the the Hindu Deity, albeit fuzzy and elusive. But perhaps even more strange is the profound significance that this photo holds for Andy.

Here's a video clip of Andy interviewing the late John Keel about the paranormal strangeness that surrounds the Mothman mythos.

There is a four minute clip of Andy posted at the end of this audio interview. The edited clip was lifted from EERIE RADIO (episode 60) and it's well worth listening to, it fills out some of the details shared here.

And another good interview with Andy is archived on Adam GoRightly's UNTAMED DIMENSIONS.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

audio conversation with Jake Kotze

Synchromystic.

I love the term Synchromysticism, it was coined by the young enigmatic film-maker Jake Kotze. From his home in Winnipeg Manitoba, he has creating a series of delightful videos that attempt to define an elusive force that is welling up all around us.

Pop culture is easily dismissed as trite and vapid, and it can be dismissed by those searching for deep metaphysical answers. But hidden within the soup of our mundane movies and TV shows is a path to the divine.

We dig deep into psychedelics, interacting with aliens, crop-circles and transformative experiences all interwoven with synchronicities.

One click download HERE
1 hour / 35 minutes long.

Posted here are a few of Jake's short and mysterious videos. On one level they might seem sort of silly and clever for clever's sake, but on another level (at least for me) they resonate as something deeply profound.


Found media video as a pioneering form of communication.


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Jake’s videos on vimeo. Jake’s video’s on YouTube. Jake’s blog, The Blob. Jake’s written blog posts at the SynchHole.



TEXT added Oct. 23, 2011:
Here is a LINK to a really great interview with Jake done by the late Kent Daniel Bentkowski on his site The Kentroversy Tapes. This was recorded Oct. 22nd, 2007, four years and a day from today.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Christopher Knowles & William Henry

Two of our most impressive thinkers in conversation.

Christopher Knowles and William Henry share their insights in a half hour interview. Mr. Knowles uses his new book, THE SECRET HISTORY OF ROCK 'N' ROLL as a jumping off point toward deeper mysteries. Mr. Henry manages to frame this fascinating conversation into something perfectly transformative.

Listen HERE.


Sunday, November 21, 2010

profound essay on LUMINOSITY

Dan Mitchell shares some deeply profound experiences on his blog LUMINOSITY. This is a long and heartfelt post, and I encourage you to read the entire essay.

A short excerpt:
Shortly after 10pm on Tuesday night I felt a strange urge to go outside. ... This urge ... was much stronger than at previous times. So while my kids and my wife slept ... I put on my sweater and walked out the back door. When I turned the corner, I thought for a moment that I saw a deer standing in the middle of my driveway. Deer are not that common in this area, but they do come by every now and then. Then, my vision shifted and I thought I was now looking at a pale-skinned naked kid standing in my driveway which startled me even more. When my mind was finally able to process the image, it became clear that this was one of "them". This being looked incredibly similar to the stereotypical Gray, but not as "science fiction" as they appear in popular culture...

This event lasted less than ten seconds. This being stood about 5 and 1/2 feet tall, had pasty and very smooth skin, with a slightly over-sized head ... I remember saying "whooa!" loudly and putting my hand out almost like I was saying, "don't come a step closer". For about eight seconds it was standing directly in front of me completely still like it was undecided on what to do. It's eyes were huge and reflecting the floodlights behind me. This is why when I first saw it, I thought it was a deer or large animal. The effect in its eyes was so intense that I felt myself begin to momentarily disassociate, but quickly pulled it together. This leads me to believe our natural response is to enter trance states in their presence for our own protection. This may not be something they are intentionally doing.
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Note: The small photo above was used in Dan's posting because he felt it fairly closely matched what he saw in his driveway.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

audio interview with Lucretia Heart

“A great wind upon thin glass, shattering your paradigm.”

That haunting quote from Lucretia could sum up the entire two plus hour interview.

Lucretia Heart is a pen name. She shares her abduction and UFO related experiences on a haunting blog titled At Spiral’s End. Her written work is a collection of deeply personal life events. To add to the strangeness, both she and her husband are both abductees, and their parallel experiences are profoundly bizarre. Just so y'know, two experiencers marrying each other is not uncommon.

2 hours and 12 minutes long

This interview is a spiraling of topics, and here's just a taste of the topics we cover: The existential challenge of seeing a being in her bedroom while fully conscious as a 16 year old, an unexplained pregnancy, shared experiences with her future husband, contacting Budd Hopkins, the feeling of mission, the information loops among experiencers before email, a relationship with a hybrid being named Diana, Wonder Woman and the Goddess motif, bad wigs, a handsome hybrid being named Ethan, tiny handwriting and the role of blogging.

As a writer, Lucretia has been extremely prolific, there is a huge volume of her experiences posted on her blog. But somehow, we mange to avoid re-telling too much. Our conversation and it’s details is almost entirely composed of events that have never been shared on-line.

Two gaunt actors with blue eyes and defined cheekbones are referenced to describe the tall being named Ethan.

The mysterious Ethan shows up as a key figure in the conversation. There are two postings about Ethan that are hinted at in the audio, but not fully explained. One is titled Are you ready for Armageddon? and the follow up is A letter to Ethan. In my opinion, both are required reading.
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Audio interview with Melinda Leslie

Melinda Leslie has been public with her own abduction experiences for over 20 years. For the last 18 years she has been actively researching the involvement of a clandestine group in the lives of abductees.

MILAB is an acronym for Military Abduction, and RE-ABS is an acronym for Re-Abductions. There is an important difference, and it is addressed in this audio interview.

One-click download HERE
2 hours and 39 minutes long

This research into the covert-operations of alien abductees is re-defining both the UFO cover-up and abduction paradigms. She has uncovered an ongoing program of monitoring, harassment and re-abduction of very vulnerable people.

Her years of investigation has meant the accumulation of a lot of data and detailed experiences, including her own. The covert-operations that invade the lives of the abductees be the best evidence for both the reality and importance of UFO abduction experiences.
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More resources:

This is a long interview, but there is still a lot more important info out there, and I strongly recommend visiting the links below.

Tim Binnall’s excellent interview from 2006. Melinda share a lot of her personal experiences.

Coast to Coast with Melinda and Niara Isley.

Coast to Coast with Melinda and Whitley Strieber.

Coast to Coast with Melinda and Joe Montaldo.

I also want to direct you to an excellent report from Melinda titled: RE-ABS: Not MILABS, and subtitled; How the Covert-Ops' Reverse Engineering of Extraterrestrial Abductees Shifts the Abduction Paradigm.
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NOTE:
If anyone has difficulty downloading this podcast, please visit the PODBEAN site HERE. And if you feel it would be easier if this large file was re-published as two smaller sized files, please let me know. Thanks, Mike C!

Friday, November 5, 2010

diet soap podcast


I'm part of an interview with Doug Lain now posted on his podcasting site DIET SOAP. We spoke about synchronicities, UFOs and the more bizarre aspects of the "experiencer" phenomenon. Doug is fiction writer, and very much a poet in the way he looks at complex issues. This mindset allows him to dig a little deeper into things that sit at our periphery.

The episode is intermixed with audio clips from Budd Hopkins and John Mack, as well as Doug reading from some of his own work. It's inspiring to listen to someone who takes on the role of an artist in the podcast format.

Doug also did a really good two part interview with Budd Hopkins, and during those episodes he shares some of his own experiences. Part ONE and part TWO.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

now on iTunes


The arsenal of Hidden Experience interviews (and other musings) are now available on iTunes. Over 24 hours of audio, all set up for easy downloading. Your iPod will take on a heightened aura of enigmatic intensity.

Just one click away, right HERE.

Monday, November 1, 2010

a comrade starts a new blog

There is a blogger with the pen name Lucretia Heart that I've written about and linked to on this site. She is also an experiencer with a very powerful set of memories. She'll post essays about her alien abduction experiences, but they are interspersed with other more "normal" stories. So any reader interested in her more bizarre postings is required to dig thru her site a little bit.

But, she has (finally!) started blog dedicated specifically to these decidedly strange experiences. This essential reading is now archived on a site called SPIRAL'S END.

She writes:
"I've had a lot of people interested in the freakier aspects of my full personal online journal. Given this, I've decided to start a version of that journal that concentrates solely upon the paranormal-- especially the alien abduction aspects of it... I'll be adding new entries as well as entries previously posted to my other journal."

This woman has had some frightfully profound experiences. And to make things more compelling, she is an excellent writer. When she says something, I pay very close attention.

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

audio interviews on a podcast site

All the audio downloads on this site are now stored and cataloged on a separate website, specifically set up for podcasting. I hope this makes it easier for anyone trying to search out the interviews and personal musings found on hidden-experience.

Presently there is well over 24 hours of listening available HERE.

There is also a LINK on the side bar (at the right) noted as Hidden Experience Audio.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

LUMINOSITY


A "police sketch" done by me from a description from Dan Mitchel. He sent me a rough drawing and a photo of his driveway. Double click for a high-rez view.


I just read a very vivid posting from Dan at LUMINOSITY. This first-person narative is required reading. Linked HERE, and a follow-up story HERE.

An excerpt:
For the first time in my nearly 35 years, I have seen a solid "craft" at less than 20 feet and in a perfectly lucid state early this morning. This is absolutely unprecedented and I am still in a curious inward state because of the experience. Whether this was something that was beamed into my mind, I cannot say for certain.
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

impromptu session with Christopher Knowles


Even mainstream TV news tries to figure out what's in the sky.

This morning I was posting links the facebook page that accompanies The Secret Sun blog. I was concerned about the curious UFO reports from New York City on October 13th. Christopher Knowles was commenting as fast I was posting, and I finally emailed him and asked, “Do you wanna talk about this?” And he replied, “You wanna do a quickie podcast on it?” Within minutes we had our headsets on and we were logged into skype.

This wasn’t a formal interview, both of us were speculating off the cuff about what might be unfolding. We ended up overlapping the core subjects of both of our ongoing writings and viewpoints. The conversation ended up getting pretty deep, until we were pondering the search for God.

Balloons? UFOs? Are these a deep reflection of our place in the universe?

We contemplate much, and conclude nothing.

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We dig into the inevitable hoax revelations following UFO reports in the mainstream media, the use of hoaxes as media experiments, the nature of the phenomenon and the various controversies surround it, the strange timing of the NYC "sightings" hot on the heels of all of the stories about UFOs, space travel, exoplanets and much, much more.

Want more? Here are some links that will make things even murkier.

~ Audio interview with Stanley Fulham on Oct 16th. Podcast by Bill and Nancy Birnes. This was three days after the event.

~ UFO Disclosure Countdown Clock. This blog has been carefully logging info about the events of 10/13. This site also has a good collection of youtube clips take that day by people on the street as well as from mainstream TV news.

~ This youtube video makes a good case that what was seen were simply yellow balloons released in times square.

~ New York news report of the publicity event the same day in Times Square with (curiously) yellow balloons overtly featured in the photo and the text.


~ Video interview with Stanley Fulham the author of the book that predicted the events of 10/13. This two part youtube video is hosted by UFO researcher Randy Kitchur


~ Radio interview with a witness, as well as Jim Marrs. There is an excerpt from this interview at the end of the audio file with Chris Knowles.

~ An Associated Press report about a “gas leak” at the radar tower, and an evacuation of the facility. This curious event affected all three of NY’s major airports. Internet murmurings followed.

~ This interesting article about the mysterious "gas leak" from a VERY questionable source, that being Michael Salla.
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Extra text from Feb. 1st 2012:
Here's an interesting follow up in a recent news article that contradicts the "balloon" explanation. Linked HERE.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

audio conversation with Adam GoRightly

Adam and Robert Anton Wilson.

Adam GoRightly, self proclaimed crackpot historian comes to my rescue. This guy has a wealth of arcane knowledge and an uncanny skill at connecting very divergent dots. We tried to create some clarity with some contradictory phenomenon, but the outcome was something ever more perplexing. So it goes in this murky realm.

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The loose framework of this interview was all set around these points:

UFOs, occult rituals, secret government involvement, mind-control and the overlapping of hidden dimensions. And lets toss psychedelic drugs in there too just to round things out.

In an attempt to peer into this foggy real, we travel all over the map, touching on Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Arnold, Jack Parsons, Robert Anton Wilson, Terence McKenna, The book of Enoch, Philip K. Dick, Nick Redfern, the Maury Island Event, Doris Lessing, George Adamski, George Van Tassel, the star Sirius, James Shelby Downer, Christopher Knowles, Jim Keith, Ken Thomas, Farah Yurdozu, Kenneth Grant, Allen T. Greenfield, vivid dreams, astral projection, Chica Bruce, the Montauk project, Aaron MacCollum, reality tunnels, dimensional overlaps, ritual magik, Preston Nichols, Peter Moon, Stewart Swerdlow, disinformation, Project Monarch, Brice Taylor, Cathy O’Brien, Dick Cheney, giant shape shifting Reptilians, synchronicities, Neara Isley, Melinda Leslie, Whitley Strieber, Geroge Gurdjieff, Andrew Colvin, Mothman, John Keel, psychic abilities, Walter Bosley, Barbara Lamb, Anya Briggs, channeling, Go-Go dancers ... and (yes) Charlie Mansion.

Want more? Plenty of links below:

Adam’s blog.
Adam’s
website.
Adam’s books.
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This clip features the quote from Terence McKenna that we reference in the interview. It starts at about the 7:40 time count.