Je, before I started seeing UFOs I had your attitude and I also made fun of people who reported the same experiences, so I don’t blame you for your cynicism. I’ve been trying to show you that several of us, espeically the psychics, have had direct experiences with supernormal phenomena but none of us are drug users, newagers or crazy; we are down-to-earth, regular folks and we’re still hunting for answers–it’s a beautiful, envigorating enquiry that will no doubt go on until our last breaths & maybe beyond that. Cultists are given all the answers, rather, and those answers explain everything but answer nothing [Image Can Not Be Found]
I also don’t think it’s necessary for anyone to believe anything I say, of course. Denying any of it might be counterproductive, though. I just like reporting this fun stuff [Image Can Not Be Found] and I especially like getting similar reports from other reputable people. I hear from a lot of nutty people but they rarely have first hand reports of supernormal experiences. I think the mind needs to be relatively stable and free of dogma in order to assimilate these experiences.
The best scientific evidence, for me, is empirical, which is to say, ‘based on observations.’ I qualify that by saying that observations from reputable people are valuable but observations by unstable people are pretty much worthless.
Thanks to the internet, we make friends throughout the world and in most cases it’s not hard to eventually discern the character of someone we correspond with.
Once in awhile, someone who has no character fools a lot of people but those individuals are quite rare. I suppose it’s a sort of gift to be able to do that. Politicians and clergymen typically have that gift, for instance, so I particularly watch for people who have good stories but are not evidently seeking a following or to have an advantage over anyone else.
I can say that one of the crop circle designs resembles the coil form that Carol favors and that the crop circle showed up a day or two after Carol’s friend, Linda, showed her the pattern.
I won’t deny that I’m foolish for believing such things (foolishness is an aspect of human nature that I doubt any of us will escape or evade) but, again, it’s impossible to use one’s subjective impressions to prove anything. Your impression that none of this is real is also subjective, after all. I’ve never encountered ET while busting a mountain top array, for instance, but I’ve seen some in 3D at other times, as have many people whom I know and work with. YOu may insist and believe that’s impossible but that doesn’t change my own experiences.
If a lot of reputable people pooled identical impressions, derived independently, that might be valuable for the ones having the same impression, as the psychics most often do in teh chat sessions. But if someone is disinclined to accept any of this as evidence that’s perfectly alright–we’re not promoting a belief system, after all.
The psychics often report seeing non-human species among the predators who interfere with some of us, by the way. There are other reputable sources of information like this that are not affiliated with Theosophy-derived cults, CIA-sponsored UFO study groups or psychotics. You didn’t mention them, Je, so maybe you’re not aware of that aspect of the enquiry about supernormal phenomena. If you have an open mind then I think you’ll need to account for them/us.
I say, ‘supernormal,’ because I once had a high school teacher who introduced the word to me and he was particularly rational and open minded. ‘Paranormal’ seems inadequate to me, as does ‘supernatural,’ since nothing that happens in the universe is exempt from natural law.
Supernormal is ‘exceeding the normal or average.’ Thanks to materialistic education and supertitious religious training most of us resist considering anything that challenges these ‘normal’ belief paradigms, which is why most people are either materialistic or superstitious. What I try to do is engage people’s imaginations so that they can consider the existence of beautiful, empowering aspects of reality that go well beyond these two oppressive mindsets. Imagination is a good thing when fear and the ego are reigned in.
I think you’re doing a good job with your detractors–staying in the clear. They desperately want you to engage them publicly in order to give them credence. As long as you can avoid focusing your readers’ attention on them the only thing they’ll be able to do is advertise your good work. That approach has worked well for me, too.
Engaging our detractors publicly is like wrestling with a pig in the mud: we just get filthy and tired and the pig enjoys it.
~Don
