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What I can share is a short bit that emerged about owls. Before beginning the hypnosis, I told to Yvonne to bring up the subject of owls at some point during the session. I requested she ask, “What is the meaning of the owls?” And near the end of the session she asked the question. Below is a (slightly edited) transcript:
Yvonne: What sense do you get about your connection with owls?
Mike: I get that the owl isn’t important. The owl is like a symbol, or like a sign on a door. It’s just a sign on a door and what’s behind the door is what’s important.For the next few moments I didn’t say much—all I did was mumble and stammer. I was struggling to say something about being and artist and that I understood something. Then there was an abrupt change, and I began speaking very clearly.
Mike: I understand how people take in a story, and how they need a symbol or a sign on the door. But the owl is meaningless to what is on the other side of the door. It’s just the doorway that’s important. The owl is the right symbol for the door. We are on this side, and EVERYTHING else is on that side of the door. There is a LOT more! We are in this little tight hallway here, and on the other side of the door is this vastness!I didn’t expect to say that the owl isn’t important. You could hear it in my voice on the recording, I was totally puzzled by the words I was speaking. It became a sort of poetry, and I had the feeling I sometimes get while writing, that sense of, “Hey, this is good!” Right in the moment, I knew this was really good stuff.
The imagery I got during the session was a long narrow claustrophobic hallway with a lot of doors. It was drab like something in a cheap hotel. There was a door with an owl on it that was flung open, and there was this scene of infinite space. It was a sort of dumb special effect like something out of a Dr. Who episode, an expansive view out into timeless multi-layered galaxies.
I used the term vastness while in the hypnotic state. I was trying to express something infinite and limitless—something akin to God.
EXTRA: The idea that owls aren’t important plays out as something similar to what Dr. Leo Sprinkle told me during my 2011 interview with him. He spoke about UFOs as a signpost. The post that holds the sign itself isn’t all that interesting, it’s just a stick of wood jammed into the ground. It’s the sign that’s important, ‘Bridge Out’ or ‘Wrong Way’ are important signs. He said, UFOs are not important, they are only signposts—it’s the sign that’s important.
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