Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee 105 minutes long presentation

recorded June 28th, 2014 in Leeds UK

This was the second time I gave the talk titled: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee. I spoke at a small conference in Leeds England, hosted by the Exopolitics Great Britain Lecture series. I was given a whopping hour and 45 minutes to talk, and this allowed for fuller exploration of both my my research and personal experiences.

This is a nicely edited video presentation, with cutaways to the visuals. This complex story requires a lot of imagery and this is a wonderful format.

I need to send a huge thank-you to Anthony Beckett for his role as host, and asking me to cross the ocean to share my ideas. I grew a beard so (hopefully) I would appear smarter.

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Budd Hopkins on TV in the late 80's

Footage from a talk show appearance with Budd Hopkins around the time of the publication of his 1987 book Intruders. Also on stage with Debbie Tomey, the real name of Kathie Davis. The stories told on this show were quite new at the time. That said, it is curious as to how little has been added to the overall pool of knowledge after a quarter of a century.

Also of note: Some audience members are seen wearing HUGE glasses, unlike Budd who has rather normal sized glasses.

  a collection of documentaries on UFO abduction liked HERE  

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Joe Lewels talks about shamanism

one hour and 33 minutes

Joe Lewels wrote one of my favorite books on the UFO phenomenon, The God Hypothesis. I was excited to find his full presentation on-line.

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Mac Tonnies hosts a Canadian documentary from 2008

Mac Tonnies from 2008

Mac Tonnies was the on-camera host for a 2008 VisionTV production titled Life from Other Planets. This was part of a Canadian documentary series for CBC called The Supernatural Investigators. This episode was directed by Michael MacDonald.

This is a tidy little bit of investigative film-making. But for me, what shines through is Mac's screen presence. It breaks my heart to see his face and hear his voice. His soft spoken and thoughtful composure was obviously disarming to each of the people he was talking with.

Mac on the road during the production
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Graham Hancock on UFO abductees, shamans and owls

Graham Hancock

This presentation addresses the UFO abduction Phenomenon as something that has been ever-present throughout the history of humanity. He specifically talks about owls at about the 38:00 minute mark. I highly recommend this video.

UPDATE:
Chris Knowles posted a follow-up on this presentation. His essay is titled Wizards, Workings and Walk-Ins: Watchers and Otherworlds. He uses Jack Kirby as an example of this mystical shamanic powers that Graham Hancock attempts to define.

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UFOs on Thinking Allowed

These interviews are arranged, in descending order, 
by the awesomeness of each guest's haircut.

Michael Talbot - Synchronicity and the Holographic Universe

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Jacques Vallee - Implications of UFO Phenomena

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Terence McKenna - Hallucinogens and Culture

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Neil Freer - Who Were the Gods? (6 minute excerpt) 

Recently, Neil Freer came forward

 with his personal UFO contact experiences.

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John Mack - Human Encounters with Aliens (9 minute excerpt)

NOTE: 

If anyone can find links to this full interview with Dr. Mack, please lemme know! This seems like an excellent format for a deep conversation.

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UFO abduction and YouTube

In Search Of

Original air date 9/14/1978

UFO Captives - This episode follows a series of people who tell of alien abduction. Dr. Leo Sprinkle shows up in this episode. I am impressed at this report and investigation, especially for the late 1970's.
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The internet can be a bottomless pit of low quality videos. That said, there are some real gems in among the sensationalistic. I have listed and linked a series of highly recommended documentaries and archived excerpts.

The UFO Incident - (1975 - full movie) The story of Betty & Barney Hill Abduction staring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons

Intruders - (1992 - full movie) Made for TV movie based on Budd Hopkin's book of the same name. Richard Crena plays a melding of both Budd Hopkins and Dr. John Mack.

It has Begun - (1974 - full documentary) Rod Serling narrates this impressive film.

Mysteries of the Gods - (1977 - full documentary) William Shatner plays is straight in this even -keeled documentary.

John Mack and Budd Hopkins - A public forum where these two researchers share their icdeas and differing conclutions.

UFOs The Secret History - An excellent documentary featuring Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, Jerome Clark and a long list of other researchers and experiencers.

Experiencers - A documentary about Alien Abductions featuring research from Dr. John Mack Harvard Psychologist. Sadly. Dr. Mack appears only briefly in this film, his death having occurred soon after production began. One segment involves a New England couple with abduction experiences who videotaped an unidentified flying object hovering above a lake a few hours before they were interviewed.

Touched - ET Encounters - documentary featuring Dr. John Mack

The Chris Bledsoe Case - A good documentary on a single case of alien abduction. In Fayetteville, NC on January 8, 2007, a father and young adult son, both named Chris Bledsoe (Sr. and Jr.) experience something unusual. The father says he lost a couple hours of time and tells of seeing a small humanoid entity.

Jordan Maxwell and Michael Linderman interviewed about the UFO phenomenon.

Tom Snyder interviewing J. Allen Hynek and Peter Gersten from the early 1980's

Intruders - Abductees Speak Out! Canadian documentary directed by Michael MacDonald, a close friend of Mac Tonnies.

Dr. John Mack on Oprah. Highly recommended

Budd Hopkins Interview on Alien Abductions (1997)

Budd Hopkins talks with Don Ecker in the late 1980's.

Budd on Unsolved Mysteries in an episode titled Missing Time.

English family tells of abduction in this BBC documentary.

John Mack featured in this documentary started before his death.

Budd featured in this documentary with an emphasis on witnesses telling their stories.

Budd talking about his book Witnessed (audio only)

Budd on a TV talk show in the late 1980's with Debbie Jordan.

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we are being spied on

This is the stuff that is NOT discussed by our presidential candidates.

William Binney is a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency. He helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans' personal data.

This man is considered one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in the NSA's history. Programs he created, intended for use on foreign operatives that have been turned against the people of the United States in a massive domestic spying operation, called "Stellar Wind," which is ongoing.

This is a subversion of the Constitution and of any number of laws.
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a competent telling of contact experiences

Chris Augustin presents at a UFO conference

This one hour video is a static camera pointing at a guy at a podium, but I found it really engrossing. This is a good presentation. A lot of things on the reoccurring checklist get checked off, and lots more. Chris Augustin has a really pragmatic and centered presence, and sometimes that feels rare within this phenomenon.

I found Chris on facebook as i was looking at some photos from a recent UFO conference in Maine. I saw his face on a few photos, and I read a few complimentary comments about his approach to the subject. So, I searched out his site, and found a link to this video (posted above).

This all happened last night, and as I was watching the video I thought to myself, I need to friend this guy on facebook. Within minutes I checked my email to see that I had received a friend request from Chris himself! I feel like I can take synchronicities in stride, but this one was pretty cool.

Please know, I will be bugging him to do an audio interview.

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Jason Moss shares an emotional experience

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Author and experiencer Jason Moss speaks about a set of events which is believed to have taken place in 1992. He describes some extremely strange and emotional experiences with a female hybrid entity that radiated a kind of intense kind of love. There is a frightening military and mind-control aspect to this story that shows up as a very real pattern in the overall phenomenon.

Jason, a self described starseed, has written a series of children's books; The Kind Fairy Adventures. He writes under the name J.P. Moss. These are a set of fantasy stories with a theme of magical adventure and the importance of love. I can't help but think his personal experiences have directly influenced his writing.

Curiously, Bashar gets mentioned in the first video, this is the entity channeled by Darryl Anka.

NOTE: As of Sept. 8th, I've just added PART FOUR in this series. I checked Jason's site on a whim, and I was the very first viewer of this most recent video.  I added PART FIVE on Sept. 12th, and PART SIX on Sept. 14th.

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video interview with Budd Hopkins from 1997

Two part video interview with Budd Hopkins by Maurizio Baita. Recorded in 1997 in San Marino, Italy. This video shows the thoughtfulness of Budd and his insights. This interview was posted by Open Minds.
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Richard Dolan calls out Nick Pope on his role in the UFO research community

screen grab from an interesting youtube site

Okay, first note that number, 1234. When ever I see that, I am compelled to PAY ATTENTION. I want to follow up with this video blogger known as PLANET under ATTACK, I sense something going on with this guy, nothing nefarious mind you, but synchronicity is forcing me to pay attention.. More after I dig a little bit.

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The video in question (below) involves some info about Nick Pope, and a bit of extremely even-handed editorializing by Richard Dolan.

There is an audio excerpt played by the vlogger from Richard's new Saturday evening radio show on the GRA network. Nick recently got some coverage in the British tabloids by implying that we should all be aware that the upcoming London Olympics could be the site of an alien invasion. He said this in the role of a former MoD officer who was spent time on UFO reports during his government service. Here's a LINK to an article on the MAIL-online.

Watch this video and expect a a visceral reaction

About Richard comments directed at Nick Pope. I listened to that show live while working at my desk, and I had pretty much the exact same reaction as the vlogger who crated this succinct little video. Sadly, the reaction involves vomiting.

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something up there responds

my backyard

Just a few nights ago I was camping in the Tetons with my girlfriend Erika. It was a beautiful clear night and we simply slept out under the stars. We were at about 9,500 feet above sea level and it made for some amazing sky watching.

We were in our sleeping bags looking up into the sky, we saw a handful of satellites cruising along at a steady speed across the sky. We got to see a few impressively bright shooting stars too. As I was close to drifting off, we saw one little dot in the sky, it seemed like nothing more than the satellites we'd been watching.

As a sort of joke (with a new-age schmaltzy tone) I spoke to the little dot in the sky: "I love you!"

At that point, it sort of pulsed a little bit brighter.

Erika and I both saw it, and I did it again, this time with an even more cloying voice: "I love you my little UFO!" ( * )

It happened again, just like before, there was an instantaneous response.

It happened about six time total. One of the glowing responses was impressively bright. I asked Erika about it the next day, sort of like, "Did that really happen?"

She confirmed, that yes indeed it happened. She said that one bright pulse was really weird, she had never seen anything like that in her life. I agreed.

Before posting this I called Kim Carlsberg, who runs a curious skywatching service called Sedona UFO Sky Tours. She takes clients out skywatching with military grade night-vision goggles. I explained about what had happened in the sky while camping, and she replied, "This happens ALL THE TIME. We se these lights pulse in response to lasers and when we ask them to, we are communicating.'

I said, "Wait, what do you mean communicating?"

She said, "They'll respond directly to our requests, we'll ask them to light up, and they do. We are communicating."

And that was pretty much what happened with me and Erika under the stars just a few days ago.

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( * ) Yes, I really said, "I love you my little UFO." I said it in a childish sing-song voice, just like the My Little Pony commercials that I worked on back in my days in advertising. (example HERE)

I had seen this video (above) some months ago, and when I said "I love you" I was mimicking the people you hear in the audio. I am quick to poke fun at the new-age crowd, but this time the joke was on me. This is very accurate to what Erika and I experienced the other night!

Thank you Marilyn Brannon for sending me this video!

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Please note:

The very first comment came from an experiencer named Bright Garlick, and his time stamp was 12:34 AM. That means PAY ATTENTION!

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men in black caught on a security camera?

NOTE added April 25th:

Presently there is a lot of on-line buzz that this is a hoax. But the sources and chatter leave my head spinning and I'm left more confused than convinced. I actually don't have the patience to follow it. Here's a link: ABOVE TOP SECRET forums.

men in black?

Curious video from a security camera in a hotel lobby. I can't vouch for it's authenticity, but it's certainly intriguing.

Here is a written REPORT on this incident. Very formal and well worth reviewing.

Here's something for you English majors, check out the use of the quotation "marks" on the home-page to The Aerial Phenomenon Investigation Team on their web-site.

The Aerial Phenomenon Investigation Team is a group of “professional investigators, intelligence analysts, and scientists” dedicated to conducting investigative research and analysis regarding unidentified flying objects (UFO) and other aerial phenomenon.

Hmmmm, this makes me wonder.

I always think of the sign I saw on the streets of New York that said: "FRESH" FISH. Uh-oh, does this imply something worrisome?

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The Probe

Weird glass tubes, a Science-Fiction essential as well as something commonly reported by UFO abductees. Note the pyramid.

The Outer Limits continues to haunt me. Last night I watched a dreamlike episode titled The Probe. It was first aired on January 16th 1965.

This unsettling episode begins with an airplane crash into the pacific and its crew awaken in a weird vacant room. The sequence where this small team tries to figure out where they are is wonderfully creepy. All of it done on a sparse set with minimal special effects. I feel strongly that modern film-makers (with giant budgets and computer generated special effects) simply couldn't capture the eerie mood in this modest teleplay.

But more than anything, I just loved that this episode had spooky glass tubes. This corn-ball imagery of women trapped in glass tubes was something Mac Tonnies dearly loved! The definitive collection HERE.

A pulp fiction standard image, the beautiful woman trapped in a glass tube.

This is a drawing done by an abductee in 1978.

What struck me was how many plot point in this episode mirror what gets reported in the UFO abduction literature. I'll simply list them in bulleted points.

• A weird empty room with rounded walls.
• View screens with an odd set of symbols.
• Another view screen: "...in 4 or 5 dimensions."
• A Betty Hill type star map (implied in the dialog, but not seen visually).
• Distorted memories.
• A craft with a sterilized antiseptic interior.
• The alien presence is taking ocean samples and analyzing them.
• The abductees being trapped in a chamber and washed with a strange liquid.
• The woman in the episode gets a strange glowing tube pushed up against her belly button area. This sequence is overtly sexual, and seems to mimic some of what gets reported by female abductees.
• The episode is titled The Probe, and when the craft is shown rising above the ocean it looks a lot like what gets reported as a "probe" by present day witnesses.
• Abducttees will occasionally tell of walking unattended within a craft, these stories seem to have a claustrophobic nightmare quality.

Christopher Knowles wrote a 3-part set of posts about the mystical insights of THE OUTER LIMITS and Bruce Rux does a 3-part interview on the same subject. Both these geniuses have better skills at this, but its fun to try and tap into this meme.

The screen writers, Seeleg Lester and Sam Neuman wrote The Probe as well as the only two-part Outer Limits episode, The Inheritors with Robert Duvall. This episode deserves it's own post with the aliens abducting mind-controlled children as the government tries helplessly to stop whats happening.

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the late Michael Talbot talks about the holographic universe

The book THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE had a profound impact on me. Both Whitley Strieber and Mac Tonnies have referenced it and it's bizarre conclusions. Let me add that Michael Talbot has really great hair.

This video was unknowingly was posted at 12:34 (so there y'have it).

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LIFTED (animated short from Pixar)

UFO abduction has seeped into our collective pop-culture so completely that mainstream kids cartoons can present the narrative without a single word of dialogue.

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eye witness account of a close-up UFO sighting

This is a very clear and heartfelt bit of first-person testimony. I was particularly impressed when she described the occupant of the craft, her description matches what i have heard personally and read in the literature. My impression is that this woman is sharing a very real memory.

I don't have much information about this compelling clip. All I know is that it's an excerpt from a BBC documentary from 1977. For me, there is something captivating about 16mm footage shot in one long take on a cloudy day. Beautiful.

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Additional info added Christmas 2011:

I found a few images on-line that show this woman's renderings of the craft and it's occupants. I've added them below.

Jack Kirby super heroes as UFO occupants

John Mack documentary

During my on-going research into this mystifying phenomenon, I've had the chance to speak to a handful of folks who have worked with Dr. John Mack. Each of them have praised his insights and his compassionate nature.

I am deeply impressed with Dr. Mack's ability to grapple with this elusive experience. I'm glad he was such a vocal spokesman for his own research. We are all fortunate that he was so open to allowing these filmmakers access to himself and his patients.

Jeff Kripal articulates the impossible

Video teaser for an upcoming documentary.

Author Jeff Kripal just said yes to an interview.

I have two of his books, AUTHORS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE and MUTANTS AND MYSTICS. Both these books are thick, and (sadly) I won't be able to read them in their entirety before we talk. But from what I've gleaned so far, I am deeply impressed. This guy is tapping into something that I have been struggling with, and he is articulating what I'm seeing - and sometimes experiencing.

Here's a bio of Jeff Kripal, and here's an essay on Jacques Vallee.

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