I updated my Mac operating system

Off-world computer generated effects, at the click of a mouse.

I just upgraded to Lion, and that's the latest operating system for my humble Mac. There is a program called PHOTO-BOOTH, and it has a handful of funny effects. You can choose things like sepia tone and X-Ray. But I was surprised to find that there is an effect called SPACE ALIEN. There seems to be embedded software that automatically makes the eyes bigger and changes the shape of the head to match the cover of Communion.

A while ago I would have hinted that the alien meme was seeping into our pop culture But now it's saturating it. I suspect the Reptilian overlords used back engineered technology from Roswell to create this odd effect.

Oh how the world desperately needs Mac Tonnies to chime in on this.

Also, compare the image (on the right) to an image I drew in October of '09, linked HERE. And while you're at it, don't you this space alien looks suspiciously like Masha Tyelna (well, sorta) from just a few posts down.

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audio conversation with Trish and Rob MacGreggor

The husband wife writing team of Trish and Rob MacGreggor.

Synchronicity is an an elusive subject, but it's been the focus of the last three books written together by the husband and wife team of Trish and Rob MacGregor. They've also created a website with a daily posting about synchronicity called Synchro Secrets. The main focus of this interview is the book to the left.

During this recorded interview we take turns sharing a slew of stories - and all of 'em are synchro-weird! We spend a lot to time on how synchronicty and UFO's are somehow intertwined with each other.

I also want to recommend an audio interview between Trish and Anne Strieber (Whitley's wife) from the UNKOWN COUNTRY site. This is lively conversation and it makes for a tidy companion to my interview.

Here's a link to a listing of all of their books.

One-click download HEREone hour / 35 minutes long

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Here's a funny little thing that happened during our conversation, Trish and Rob spoke about their time with Budd Hopkins. They shared a story where they drove him to meet with a person who claimed a UFO abduction experience. Now this is odd because I also interviewed another author who wrote a book on sychronicity, his name is Gibbs Williams and during that discussion Gibb's also said he had worked with Budd Hopkins.

So, we have two books on synchronicity, and all the authors surprise me by bringing up Budd Hopkins during the interview!

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Here's a question from the interview:
I’ve been interacting with a lot of people who claim the UFO contact experience. And I can state this with absolute certainty, these people have MORE synchronicities than the average person without any UFO connection. Why is that?

I get interviewed on the stench of truth

I did a two-hour audio interviw on the Stench-of-Truth podcast. The host was Ted Torbich, (seen at the left) and we covered an awful lot during our time. I spoke about a few of my own experiences, and also some of the curious stories I've heard as I venture along this path of self exploration.

One-click download HERE

2 full hours!

And, after we got done with the formal interviw, Ted and I kept at it for almost another full hour. That "appendix" to the other podcast will be posted (right here) soon!

interview with Dr. John Mack (in a link)

There is a woman contactee and blogger, pen-named Lucretia Heart who took a long interview with John Mack and then interjected her own set of personal insights throughout the diolog. As always, Dr. Mack is fascinating, and her additional comments add to the wierd intensity of the topic.

This interview is posted HERE, on Lucretia's blog, a site set up specificaly to catalog her paranormal experiences.

This is a long post and I'm at a loss to truly know if the conclutions are accurate, but the content and insights are riveting.

She also included a few images Masha Tyelna, with overt implications about her weird trans-genic appearence. Something that both Mac Tonnies and Christopher Knowles have commented on, for obvious reasons. Even I posted about it in the first few weeks of my own blog (see HERE).

Mere mortal or alien human hybrid?

And, for an audio interview with Lucretia Heart, (one of my best I've ever done) click HERE.

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I wanna hear your synchronicities

Why are synchronicities so intertwined with the UFO phenomenon? This line of investigation is seemingly overlooked, but it has always fascinated me.

I've been mulling over an idea for an article as a way to explore the divergent questions raised by this set of experiences. When I say article, I mean something much more in depth than just a short little blog posting. I really want to explore this extremely curious aspect of the phenomenon. Please know, this is personal for me, and here are a bunch of my own stories.

Here's my question:

Why does almost every person who claims a direct contact experience also say their lives are plagued with profound synchronicities?

When I ask UFO abductees (a term I loathe) if they've experienced any synchronicities, their immediate reaction is to roll their eyes and exclaim, "Oh brother, it's over the top!"

Even UFO Researchers who've never had any kind of personal sighting will readily admit that they've experienced an excessive amount of meaningful coincidences, especially relating to certain cases.

If you have had any synchronicities that seem to be related to personal UFO experiences, I would love to hear your stories.

Please contact me:
hiddenexperience.blog [the @ symbol] gmail.com
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Just so y'know - I'm planning to create a more formalized questionnaire.

owl leaves spooky imprint on window

An eerie image gets splatted onto a window

Kendal UK - A woman returned to her home to find a near perfect imprint of an owl on her window. The bird had apparently crashed into the window of Sally Arnold's home, leaving the bizarre image - complete with eyes, beak and feathers.

Experts said the silhouette was left by the bird's "powder down" - a substance protecting growing feathers. Mrs Arnold said she could find no sign of the owl, so assumed it had flown off without serious injury.

She said: "Fortunately, there was no sign of the bird and we can only assume that it had flown away probably suffering from a headache."

Read the full article HERE.

(Please note: This wasn't my house)

angel at the grocery store (audio)

This is an audio file I recorded over a year ago. I just found it on my desktop. It's just me reading a post titled Angel at the Grocery Store. It's under 4 minutes long, and it was the third thing I posted on this blog, and it one of the most heart-warming synchronicities I've ever experienced.

  Listen to this short little essay HERE  

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About that Mexican cashier in the story. She said nothing at all, to me or to the customers ahead of me in the line. She simply smiled and pantomimed everything.

In this essay I said that the Mexican cashier was pretty. Well, let me clarify that. You know who she looked like?

If you were doing a movie about the birth of Christ, and you needed to cast a beautiful young woman to play the role of the Virgin Mary, this girl would be who you would hire. Yes, she looked like the incarnation of Mary, mother of Jesus.

It is as if I had come face to face with an archetype of a mystical kind of purity and sweetness. This silent cashier was the embodiment of a subtle kind of perfect beauty. I had never seen anyone that radiated something so kind and calm—except this silent cashier. The Blessed Virgin/Angel/Cashier I saw looked very much like the actress Catalina Sandino Moreno. The girl I saw was barely 20. 

Catalina Sandino Moreno

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audio conversation with Brad Steiger (2011)

Author and researcher, Brad Steiger

Brad Steiger is one of the hard working giants in this field. I was delighted and honored to spend an hour listening to his deep voice on subjects that I find profoundly interesting. When you visit Brad and Sherry's web-site, be prepared because they have done a LOT of books and research.

  one-click audio download HERE  

one hour and five minutes

Brad and his wife, Sherry Hansen Steiger, just published a book titled Real Aliens, Space Beings and Creatures form Other Worlds.

Taken from first-person accounts and historical documents, this book chronicles a huge number of examples of alien encounters, conspiracy theories, and the influence of extraterrestrials on human events throughout history.

This interview is focused on only three chapters of the book; Contactees, Abductees and The Star People. The implications of these subjects is the stuff that absolutely fascinates me. It was a delight to get to ask Mr. Steiger for his insights on these mysterious topics.

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Text added January 2014:

There is a follow up interview with Brad as a companion to his follow up book. These two interviews will play well side-by-side, creating (in a sort) a full two-hour interview. That interview is listed HERE.

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Nick Redfern talks about the Men in Black (audio interview)

Nick Redfern is back!

This is his third visit, and he shares details and insights from his latest book, THE REAL MEN IN BLACK.

This is a look into the elusive stories of these denizens of the outer edge of an already strange phenomenon. Nick talks about the reports of MIBs throughout the modern era of the UFO phenomnenon, as well as recent tales from people who are presently experiencing high strangness.

One-click download HERE.

one hour / 41 minutes

Also in this podcast is a curious clip of Dan Aykroyd where he share his MIB experience and how it exactly coincides with the cancellation of his UFO documentary series OUT THERE.

In this book, Nick delves deep into the mysterious world of these mysterious operatives. He attempts uncover their origins and discusses classic cases, present day cases, previously unknown reports, secret government files, and the many theories that have been presented to explain this elusive mystery.

Interview with Dr. Colli on DREAMLAND, hosted by yours truly!

Whitley Strieber's DREAMLAND just posted an audio interview for their subscribers scection, featuring Dr. Janet Elizebeth Colli interviewed by me. This was a half hour long conversation where I share the story of the tent and Dr. Colli does her best to make some sense out of it. We also talk a bout the role of the shaman in our society. In a way, this is a follow up to the audio conversation I had with Dr. Colli earlier in the spring.

Dr. Janet Eliabthe Colli, a clinical therapyst who explores the subtal realms with people trying to make sense of the contact experience.

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Below is an excerpt of the blurb from the UNKNOWN COUNTRY site:


A Close Encounter Witness Interviews a Psychologist (linked HERE)

Here, in a first on Unknowncountry or anywhere, a close encounter witness, Mike Clelland, talks frankly about his experiences, and the experience in general, with Janet Colli. So, if you've wondered how you might approach a psychologist with your story, listen and find out! You will also hear an absolutely riveting exchange between two very articulate people. This is the close encounter experience from deep within its hidden reality.

123 followers

Image grab from the right sidebar, June 13th 2011.

As of today I have 123 people who are following this blog. This happened the same day I posted a synchronicitiy about that very number, a set of digits that seems to be invading my life.

another 12345 sychronicity

The frozen time-count on my humble DVD player

Here’s another 12345 bit of synchro-weirdness. The photo above is the time count on my DVD player, and no foolin’, the experience struck me as VERY strange.

On May 31, 2011 at 12:28 AM, I wrote an email to my psychic pal Anya Briggs. This letter has been edited slightly so that certian personal details remain private.

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On May 31, 2011 at 12:28 AM, I wrote an email:

Anya B,

I just watched the DVD titled CATFISH. It's a documentary, and it might be fake, and it deals with an artist who falls for a girl on facebook.

There is a lot to the story, but it ends up that this girl is a fake person, who doesn't exist.

Now, the DVD culminates with a loving picture of the fake woman, a still photo from a fake facebook page, and right at that moment my DVD seizes up. The number on the time count is 1:23:45.

I back up, and try again, and the DVD freezes up at the same count. I actually video taped this happening.

Now - I have become facebook friends with a mysterious girl, I don't wanna use her name in this post. I've been worried about her because she has been "hinting" about certain drama in her life, and it might be part of the phenomenon that is the focus of this blog.

Now, the fake character in the movie has the SAME NAME as my mysterious friend! It was a close up on her face when the time counter was stuck at 1-2-3-4-5!

-- More weirdness --

I'll add that I was just about to send her an email ... when the 12345 thing came on my DVD player...

peace,
Mike C!

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On May 31, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Anya Briggs replies:

!!!! That is TRIPPY. Wowsers. I don't know what to make of it but my guides are saying parallel universes and timelines play a role in this! Jesus!

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Please note that Anya replies at 1:23 AM. Also, please note the post below where the facebook syyncronicity also takes place on May 31st.

Anya Briggs, contactee, psychic and channel.

funny synchronicity

Here’s a funny exchange via facebook between my self and Christopher Knowles. I happened on May 31st, just a few weeks ago. The book in question was talked about during our recent interview. Lemme add that Chris and I have gone back and forth on the issue of the perceived shallowness of the New Age.

Well, this book is way over the top. But the voice of Ida is just so folksy and sassy, that it really allowed me a "way into" these nutty views.

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Christopher Knowles:
So for some strange reason I had to take my son somewhere today. So since I had to go way out of my way I stopped at the used book store. And what's waiting there for me? An unread copy of UFOs and the Psychic Factor by Ida Kannenberg...

Mike Clelland:
Get ready, this book is WONDERFUL! That sweet old grandmother has such a delightful take on this subject!

Christopher Knowles:
What are the odds?

(a little while later)

Christopher Knowles
OK, so I pick up this book, thinking "what's this all about, what's it got to tell me?" and open the book up at random as I do with new non-fiction books. I open the book up to page 103 and my eyes focus on the second paragraph...

Mike Clelland:
Ha-Ha! Seems "they" manipulated your path! I love this kind of stuff. Really and truly, it just slays me.

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Now check out the funny part. Here’s the first two sentences on page 103 of that cool book, this is what the the second paragraph says:

An example of these mysteries may be that we want him to read a certain type of book. We manipulate his path and so that he stumbles over certain books, which he feels “inspired” to read.

Ida Kannenberg, contactee, psychic channel and author.

UFOs get mentioned in MAD MEN

The restaurant sequence.

I had a curious thing happen over the winter, it happened while watching the episodic television drama MAD MEN. (Episode title THE GOOD NEWS)

At about the 12 minute mark the characters are having dinner in a small dimly lit restaurant, it features Don Draper and a women from California. As I watched I had the strangest sort of day dream, what if I was in that restaurant, sitting at the table with those fictional people. I wanted to ask these fake TV characters their views about the UFO phenomenon.

This episode takes place in 1965 and the world hadn't been quite as saturated on the topic. I sat there watching, and this narrative played out in my head. I would ask them questions in the hopes of getting some different perspective on this stuff.

This was really odd. I've watched a lot of movies and TV in my life, and that feeling of wanting to enter the fictional scene and ask questions simply doesn't happen. But it did that night, and it was decidedly unusual.

The next scene was them driving home from the restaurant. This is followed by a curious scene that takes place the next morning in the full light of day. Don Draper is seen painting the wall (in his underwear) at the women's house. She sits on the couch and they talk.

Then, at the 21:20 time count the women says something that gets my attention.

Women: "I've seen UFOs."

Don: "You saw a UFO?"

Woman: "Does that scare you? The idea of another civilization on another planet smart enough to find a way to get here."

Don: "It doesn't scare me, but the odds are against it."

Woman: "Well I saw something once, and I'm telling you, it knocked me sideways. I started thinking of everything I was sure was true, and how flimsy it all might be."

Don: "You don't need to see a UFO to know that. That's not a great way to think about things."

So, I had a curious thought where I projected my self into a TV drama. I wanted to ask the characters their views on UFOs, and within minutes I get their answer. I'm not sure what it means, but lemme tell you, it felt strange.

Note that the woman says: "I've seen UFOs" Plural!

Any UFO investigator would ask why has she seen more than one. The implication would be that she  might be an abductee?

The 1966 publication of John G. Fuller's The Interrupted Journey matches the time line of this episode. This was the story of Betty and Barny Hill's abduction account, the first such book in any popular form. The title of the episode, THE GOOD NEWS, is often used as a synonym for the New Testament and the teachings of Jesus.

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triangle+scar+left+arm searched on-line

Close up of a tiny set of three dots on my left arm. This curious scar has been there since I was in elementary school and it's faded in a way that the lower left dot is barely visible anymore..

There is a curious statistic on my side-bar. If you scroll down and look at the application titled MOST READ POSTS ON THIS SITE, EVER. The majority are audio interviews with popular authors, but there is one that seems out of place. It’s a post I did last summer titled: Tiny dots on my left arm. (linked HERE)

Why is that post so popular? It’s baffled me, until this morning.

I just recently looked at my stat-counter and found where I could check “Keyword Analysis” and found that the fourth most common way people arrive at my site is by searching out this phrase: “triangle scar left arm”

The implication is that people (from around the world) are using google as a tool to search out an answer about triangle scars on their left arms. Since last summer I’ve received a handful of comments (and emails) where people will say that they have the exact same scar, or something very similar.

The fact that this somewhat obscure post is so popular seems to indicate that there is a very pattern of people out there with odd triangle scars on their left arms, and they are seeking answers. The implications of this is extremely curious, at least to me.

A photoshop recreation that matches the memory form my youth. This shows the curious symmetry and definition of the dots. 3/8 of an in is pretty much 1 centimeter.