owls and wilderness

sandstone travel above the Escalante River canyon

I just spent 20 days as a guide teaching lightweight expeditioning skills down in the Escalante region of the Grand Staircase National Monument. I was awoken by a lone owl out my window in Idaho in the pre-dawn on the morning I began my drive down to southern Utah.

I never once slept in a tent, instead I was simply lying out under the stars. I heard an owl on almost every night. Once, while sitting up in my sleeping bag in the minutes before bedtime, as I was peering out into the darkness, I saw a white owl zip past me, quite close, in the glow of my headlamp.

I also heard it right above me in tree i was sleeping under. I feel pretty strogly that the call matched a western screech-owl. This is what I heard.

Right now I'm tired, creaky, sunburned and more deeply alive. There is a heartfelt and rejuvenating value to spending time in wild places.

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White owls and UFOs in among the sacred sites of England

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

I am adding these excerpts from my work-in-progress. My hope is to give folks an insight into the flavor of the project. The stories that follows are from two different researchers, both focusing on the ancient sacred sites in Wiltshire county in the UK. Maria Wheatley and Bert Janssen both tell an eerily similar experiences. Both stories invoke a white owl and an orange orb. (click on the "Read more" link below left)

 read more below 

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Hoot and Run (not my pun)

owl imagery

Stephanie Foo killed a snowy owl—with her car—driving in Big Sur, California. It was stuck on her grill. She’d never seen an owl before. The next day, she saw a guy selling owl t-shirts, went on a hike and saw an owl sticker in the middle of the woods, and a leaf with an owl face on it. Later, an owl flew next to the car on the highway, hovered next to the passenger window, and turned its head to look at Stephanie's boyfriend. Stephanie slowed down, not wanting to hit another owl, and the owl slowed down too. Afterward, she looked up what owls represent and apparently it’s wisdom or doom. Her boyfriend got fired that week.

This little story comes from the This American Life web-site (here).

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