tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post7823958594699052133..comments2024-03-28T15:55:33.435-07:00Comments on The Big Study: Lights and Ghosts, Again.The Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-13997160471074458812012-05-07T08:16:55.098-07:002012-05-07T08:16:55.098-07:00Nothing wrong with being a skeptic... that's s...Nothing wrong with being a skeptic... that's simply saying that one uses ones mind to assess alternate hypotheses for non-obvious experiences. I am a true, and proud, skeptic in that sense. As long as i maintain the open-minded attitude which, according to the philosophers of science is supposed to characterize science [even though it rarely does], then I am on the "side of the empirical angels". <br /><br />Your report is amusing in a way you couldn't know: my sister-in-law just called me to tell me that their house had significant poltergeist activity all weekend. Hah!! The tricksters are active here at the end of May Day week. Take it as a privilege. I don't get those fun experiences and wish I did.The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-17274326208508132782012-05-07T04:10:10.770-07:002012-05-07T04:10:10.770-07:00Hiya Prof, I thought I'd sneak this in the bac...Hiya Prof, I thought I'd sneak this in the back end of the blog where nobody will read it. Believe it or not, I'm considered a skeptic and wouldn't like folk to doubt my intelligence.<br /><br />On Thursday evening, I was making a deadline and stayed late at work. I was alone in the building and had locked the doors. I had music on and was happily focused on the paperwork. At 20:30, someone opened the door in the next room, walked across the floor like I do (noisily)and opened the door outside of my room. Although initially startled, I waited for a colleague to pop in and say they'd forgotten something. Instead, the door to the stairs opened and then silence. Still expecting a colleague to burst in and attempt to make me jump, I watched the door and planned to be very blasé.<br /><br />Nothing happened and nobody entered or left. <br /><br />It left me slightly unnerved, but I stayed and finished the work just before 9pm. The only way out is through the doors and room from where the activity had arisen. <br /><br />The next day, I was reflecting on this and have to say it was most peculiar. The doors are 2 1/2 hour fire-doors (mandatory closers)and not inclined to excitement in draughts. The footsteps were swift and I felt them through the floor in my room. My door 'swished' as the air was displaced by the others opening. Altogether, I'd expect such incidents to have an air of uncertainty about them. Some sort of lingering doubts? Instead, the entirely solid, material reality of the incident is simply curious and not very 'ghostly' whatsoever. <br /><br />Despite asking at work the next day if someone was playing jokes, it's hard not to suspect mischief when the alternative is so strange. My sceptical side doesn't enjoy ambiguity when it's like this.Kandinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11598864214791609926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-58162854860346190632010-04-13T16:47:40.753-07:002010-04-13T16:47:40.753-07:00Can't comment on any of this other than it'...Can't comment on any of this other than it's much more about you than we need to know on the blog. I hate to say this, but you need to tune it down a bit. Let's depersonalize the discussions as much as we can.The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-89208231327154724432010-04-13T15:54:07.542-07:002010-04-13T15:54:07.542-07:00Part 2
This's where another Sufi term now com...Part 2<br /><br />This's where another Sufi term now comes in handy - the swimmer.<br /><br />In a lot of mythologies, there's this character - Odysseus , for instance - who's always getting thrown up on beaches by that particular mythology’s sea god.<br /><br />Notice, while Odysseus’s capable of assembling and captaining the crew of a ship himself, he's also capable of reaching land without use of a ship.<br /><br />Well, according to the theory, it'd take longer than many people's lifetimes to train most people to 'swim' to the 'other' side on their own - 'ship' building, therefore’s a way of speeding up the process.<br /><br />'Swimmers' though're supposedly' individuals sufficiently equipped with power and capacity not only to help others make it over to the far side but also 'swim' all the way back on their own in order to help still more make it over.<br /><br />Which brings me to the 2 dimensional (angular/ovular/circular/dot)light shapes: some of ‘em ‘re possibly just such 'swimmers' - i.e. individuals - from ELSEWHERE but of only sufficient capacity or strength to make preparatory exploratory sojourns until capable of coming more fully across.<br /><br />Which means some of the more 3 dimensional ones, may actually be 'swimmers' who've FINALLY managed to make it more fully across.<br /><br />Which leads to the possibility some of the succubus/incubusesque 'rape' episodes may actually be some of these 'swimmers' attempting to non-maliciously 'explore' or interact with life forms completely unknown to them, though of course to the life form being ‘explored’ it’s still a form of rape, even if unwitting.<br /><br />Ditto some of these ‘anal probing’ sessions with ‘greys’.<br /><br />Saying all that, I know from personal experience some of these 'things' are little bastards: not only vicious, but deeply malignly intentioned - both ones from here AND there, (both human, non-human, and human/non-human collaborations).<br /><br />In fact, I actually went through a phase - as part of my 'training' - when this huge, planet-sized energy life-formed 'god' 'd periodically be unleashed on me. I was 'enabled' to see myself as it 'saw' me: it viewed our form of matter-based life as a sort of disgusting skin-encased grub or maggot of fat and grease, both filled with and oozing all manner of disgusting pustulent sticky fluids and seething gases.<br /><br />It loathed our form of life so much it'd've actually squashed me like a bug if it'd've been allowed to; ‘something’ seemed to keep it sufficiently at bay to just prevent this, though, almost as though to observe how I reacted, but at times this hateful thing still actually managed to squash me down on my knees or pin me down folded in two. It kind of made me know how the ants felt when me Dad used to infuriatedly squash them with his thumbs for daring to run across our kitchen tops.<br /><br />Anyway, I tell you all this, for what it’s worth, in the sincere hope you never have to go through such things yourself, Prof, but if you do, know that they're survivable.<br /><br />p.s.<br /><br />Prof: “the lunar crater Gassendi is the site of more transient anomalous light phenomena [15 cases since 1900] than almost any place on the Moon. And, no, I don't think that there's any possibility of a connection whatever”.<br /><br />Ah, but what if the person who chose the name read the same thing as you?<br /><br />Nuhhh!!!alanborkynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-72895904095874861872010-04-13T15:25:17.901-07:002010-04-13T15:25:17.901-07:00Part 1
Prof: 'Roll thinks that he himself nev...Part 1<br /><br />Prof: 'Roll thinks that he himself never gets to see the lights because he is somehow a "hex" throwing cold water on the phenomenon.'<br /><br />Possibly he was what used to be known in the trade as an anchor, Prof.<br /><br />The Sufis use the extremely ancient image, (viz Noah's Ark, Jason's Argo), of assembling specialised crews to build and man ships to take them to the realm of spiritual enlightenment.<br /><br />Supposedly this's figurative, but another possibility’s: 1) it ain't figurative at all; 2) crew and ship're one and the same thing ('organ'-ised in such a way the specially chosen 'parts' can function as a mindbendingly more powerful new 'energetic' whole); 3) some of the UFOs witnesses report may be examples of such crews - from HERE - going on trial runs to try out some of their new capacities; 4) some of the contactee reports may be examples of such crews from ELSEWHERE going on far more advanced outings before taking on the void, (i.e., the THREE BALL SORT OF THINGS UNDERNEATH Adamski's flying 'saucer' may've been a nervous system 'interpretation' of the REAL crew).<br /><br />Such a crew/ship, though, so the esoteric theory goes, requires two key components: at least one member who functions as what's been called the powerhouse, who everyone else feeds off; and in the event they don't have sufficient control of that power once it’s fully unleashed, another member capable of functioning as a sort of dampener to step things up or down; or, in the event of an emergency, at least slam on the brakes.<br /><br />(This, supposedly’s also why Black Arts/Voodoo practitioners sacrifice, say, babies: not as a gift to the Devil, but to harness the kid's spirit as a sort of unwitting genie-like powerhouse; and this's supposedly why such practitioners live in perpetual dread of the day the kid cottons on to where they 'came' from - because there ain't a set of brakes that can stop what happens next).<br /><br />I also suggest the source of Uri Geller’s debacle when he 'failed' on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show back in the '70s was they set an ‘anchor’ or what they'd've thought of as a jinx on him.alanborkynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-32683233616526929872010-04-13T04:58:02.348-07:002010-04-13T04:58:02.348-07:00anomalousness agreed. I tried to very briefly lay ...anomalousness agreed. I tried to very briefly lay out a few lines of thought [smoke-blowing fragments only] in the Midnight in Finland post earlier. To my knowledge, we have not had a good discussion of the various hypotheses which could "model" the sensation of non-blinding bright light or non-reflecting bright light [which seem to me to be the same thing] anywhere in the UFO or Psi community...and I haven't had time to put my inadequate head to it either.The Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811807639219365621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019724693487670016.post-36984962664596050742010-04-12T19:32:55.968-07:002010-04-12T19:32:55.968-07:00Hello, Prof.
I am curious as to how/why these b...Hello, Prof.<br /><br /> I am curious as to how/why these bright lights could be 'non-blinding' to the experiencer's vision. Perhaps they are not truly light, and only mimic some of light's more common properties. Some, not all. Perhaps they choose not to blind their audience. In any event, a most interesting post. (The idea of intelligent light vis-a-vis the French nobility is somehow comforting.)richardnoreply@blogger.com