Some highly recommended documentaries attempting to pull back the curtain on the government and social media. Are you ready for what will be revealed?
Mysteries
Are You Paying Attention?
Categories: Critical Thinking, government, Modern History, Mysteries
Tags: American Conspiracy, JFK, MH370, Oliver Stone, social media, The Creepy Line, The Social Dilemma, Wormwood
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UFOs, From a Supernatural Realm?
“As a professor of the history of religion, I study reports of miraculous events and afterlife worlds in Christian history. This includes sightings of ariel beings of light, miraculous flying houses…monks and nuns who levitate and bilocate…[UFOs are] similar to religion because people see things in the sky, ariel objects…[and] UFO contact events include supernatural and paranormal elements that influence people’s lives.”- Diana Pasulka, Encounters
In part 1 of this series, Are We Alone in the Universe? we looked at what is the surprising (to some) reality of the rarity of life in the universe. In part 2, Are Aliens Among Us? we examined the nonexistent information that comes of the cyclic UFO/UAP flaps. The promised “disclosure” never comes, the alleged proof never materializes.
What of the small percentage of UFOs that can’t be explained away as misidentifications, frauds, or terrestrial technology? Professor Diana Pasulka isn’t the first to note similarities to what are often classified as supernatural, paranormal, or religious experiences. Unlike what she studied in Christian history, which were largely positive experiences, some UFO experiencers she spoke to, described “intense and dark energy” or los demonios: The Demons.
This isn’t surprising, as UFOs have a long history tied to abductions, terrible dreams, abuse, and other terrors. Many debunkers try to find rational explanations, but the problem is they predefine rational as anything excluding supernatural. Our ancestors were superstitious and unscientific, supposedly. We know better, don’t we? However, should we so easily cast aside voluminous stories and experiences from countless generations? Is that rational?
Astronomer Hugh Ross, has written on the multidimensional universe in Beyond the Cosmos, which allows for the existence of entities not bound by the four-dimensional existence as we humans are. In the book he coauthored on UFOs, Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men, Hugh Ross calls the “unexplainable” UFO events RUFOs: Residual Unidentified Flying Objects. He argues evil entities are behind many of these encounters and that this is a testable claim. He has said:
“All that is necessary to further prove the conclusion of demonic involvements is to continue surveying people to ascertain who has encounters with RUFOs and who does not” and it’s not hard to find a “correlation between the degree of invitations in a persons life to demonic attacks (séance, Ouija boards, astrology, witchcraft, palm or psychic reading.”
Have we prematurely tossed the beliefs of our ancestors, thinking they knew less than us? Have we decided a priori what we want to be true? Beliefs can be based on facts, but as Pasulka writes, sometimes, “belief has nothing to do with what is true.”
Derek Gilbert, coauthor of The Day the Earth Stands Still, has stated, “We have been visited by inhuman human entities for thousands and thousands of years.” These have been recorded in many ancient texts and traditions. Gilbert asserts that modern RUFOs similarity to paranormal experiences are “too many to be coincidence.” These are a “spiritual, supernatural attack from the demonic realm.”
Many serious researchers explore theses events and this history in far more detail. It’s easy to dismiss things that make us uncomfortable, or we have been told cannot be true.
But what if this world truly has been at war for many millennia, and what if the greatest weapon of the enemy is to convince us none of the stories from our ancestors are true?
Many great thinkers and writers have seen through the lie. Perhaps we should take care to not easily fall to deception. We can’t win a war by pretending the enemy doesn’t exist.
Categories: Mysteries
Tags: aliens, Derek Gilbert, Diana Pasulka, disclosure, Hugh Ross, paranormal, RUFOs, supernatural, UAPs, ufo, UFOs
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Are Aliens Among us?
This is part 2 in a series. See part 1, Are we Alone in the Universe?
“But where is the evidence? It’s MIA. Neither [David] Grusch nor anyone else claiming to have knowledge of secret government UAP programs has ever been able to publicly produce convincing photos showing alien hardware splayed across the landscape. And remember, we’re not talking about a Cessna that plowed into a wheat field. We’re talking about, presumably, an alien interstellar rocket, capable of bridging trillions of miles of space, and sporting technology that is obviously alien.” – Astronomer Seth Shostak
I have found the recent UFO (now called UAPs) revelations a bit curious. The media is acting like this is something new. The public is surprised the government is studying UFOs? Ever hear about Project Blue Book? Since the end of World War II, this topic has entered the public mind ever so often. The cyclic nature of UFOs is something to keep in the back of your mind. It makes this all seem orchestrated. Why, at certain times, are the flames of UFO encounters fanned?
I’ve already explained the unlikelihood of aliens visiting Earth, but getting past that, we need to first address a problem in ufology. Many researchers, though not all, seem to start with the assumption that UFOs are extraterrestrial life from other planets. The problem with this assumption is it colors these studies. For example, we often hear UFO sightings increased after WWII due to humans acquiring nuclear weapons. The aliens are supposedly here to monitor us and stop us from destroying civilization.
Why would aliens, so much more advanced then us, care if we had nuclear weapons? Why are these advanced beings crashing all of the time? Why are they mutilating cattle?
None of it adds up. The exponential increase in technological research during the Cold War, much of it secret, is a much more rational explanation. Many UFO accounts, when looked at a little deeper, appear rather terrestrial from a technological aspect. Even events like the iconic Roswell crash, with its alleged alien bodies, has a terrestrial explanation, one that’s more diabolical than aliens harassing us (see the work of Annie Jacobsen and Joseph P. Farrell). What then of the whistleblowers who claim they have access to secret sources about UFOs?
In the 1980s, Bob Lazar revealed he had worked at a site associated with Area 51 where they were reverse engineering alien spacecraft. He also claims to have glimpsed strange bodies that may have been alien. I undertook a meta study of Lazar, and looked at a number of Lazar’s interviews, documentaries and writings. His story has stayed remarkably consistent over the decades, and he doesn’t come across as a deceiver, nor has he benefited financially in a significant manner. As a whistleblower, though, the government has largely left him alone. Here are what I think are the potential interpretations concerning Lazar:
- What Lazar is saying about aliens is true, and the government had recovered spacecraft.
- Lazar misidentified and misunderstood what he saw and worked with.
- The government wanted Lazar to believe there were aliens, when they weren’t, so he would spread misinformation to cover up classified projects.
- The government and Lazar, together, spread misinformation and there aren’t any aliens.
All things considered, I suspect it is #2 or #3. What about others in this UFO space like David Grusch, Luis Elizondo, or Steven Greer? Even when people have solid credentials, as many of these people do, it still comes down to “a guy says he knows a guy who knows another guy who heard from a guy that the government has alien spaceships” as astrophysicist Adam Frank wrote. We see a lot of secret sources, things that were seen but cannot be revealed, etc. Are these people being unknowingly used to spread disinformation? Are the efforts of some, like Greer, influenced by their own personal beliefs? Is the government about to use the alien scare as way to control us, as Werner Von Braun warned many decades ago? Whatever the case, over the past seventy years, no whistleblower or person with access to secret knowledge has brought us closer to evidence of aliens visiting Earth.
What of the small percentage of UFOs that can’t be explained away as misidentifications, frauds, or terrestrial technology? Astronomer Hugh Ross calls these RUFOs: Residual Unidentified Flying objects. These, as professor Diana Pasulka discovered in her research, are “UFO contact events [that] include supernatural and paranormal elements that influence people’s lives” much like similar events throughout history she had found in ancient archives, though those weren’t described as UFOs.
In part 3, we will take a look at what these encounters may be. Is there a part of this world our ancestors intimately knew, which we have relegated to myth?
Categories: Mysteries
Tags: Annie Jacobsen, bob lazar, david grusch, Diana Pasulka, Hugh Ross, Joseph p farrell, luis elizondo, steven greer, UAPs, UFOs
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Who Came to Ancient America?
Unlike many “reality” shows, the History Channel series, The Curse of Oak Island, has a real dose of history behind its premise. If you can bear with the typical reality show style editing and pacing, you will be rewarded with clues to the island’s history. However, as they say, there is much more to the story.
This region of the North Atlantic seems to hold many more secrets beyond what Oak Island may hold. Paul Chiasson writes in The Island of Seven Cities and Written in Ruins of evidence pointing to Chinese visitors to Cape Brenton Island. Mysterious ruins and Chinese words in native languages are among the clues.
Graeme Davis’ Vikings in America attempts to unravel the scope of Viking excursions into the Americas. No one questions they were here, only the extent and impact of their travels.
In Irresistible North, Andrea Di Robilant tracks down the legendary Zeno brothers of Venice. Did they make it to the New World?
And finally, no ancient mysteries would be complete without throwing the Knights Templars into the mix. In Templars in America, Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins trace a globe trotting mystery that may have crossed paths with the Zeno brothers and followed the trail first blazed by the Vikings.
So, are you ready for some exploring?
Categories: Ancient America, Ancient Sites, Forgotten Places, History, Legend, Mysteries
Tags: Andrea di Robilant, Curse of Oak Island, Graeme Davis, Irresistible North, Island of Seven Cities, knights templar, Oak Island, Paul Chiasson, Tim Wallace-Murphy, Vikings in America, Zeno Brothers
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Lost City of Z
David Grann‘s book The Lost City of Z reintroduced readers to the true story of Percy Fawcett‘s epic search for the legendary Lost City of Z in the Amazon. Now, it is being told on the big screen this spring and may be a welcome respite to the same old, action films. Check out the trailer here:
Categories: Ancient America, Forgotten Places, History, Mysteries, Native Americans
Tags: Amazon, David Grann, movies, The Lost City of Z
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Choose Your Adventure
The busyness of the Christmas season has become nearly a tradition itself. Many are bogged down in the Retail Apocalypse right to the last hours of Christmas Eve. Stores will do anything to get in you in the door and our leaders will smile at the minor economic bump and run and hide when it’s erased with post-holiday debt. Nevertheless, perhaps you’re like me and try to carve some time out of these weeks to tone it down a bit. Perhaps you’d like to go on an adventure? Disappear into the jungles searching for lost cities like Indiana Jones?
No, seriously, you can for only a few dollars.
In The Lost City of Z, you can follow the trail of legendary explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925, he disappeared into the Amazon looking for the fabled city. When you’re done, head to Honduras in Jungleland and search for Ciudad Blanca — perhaps the fabled El Dorado. Then head back down south and follow the footsteps of Hiram Bingham and explore Machu Picchu in Cradle of Gold.
So take a breath, turn the lights down, and vanish into another world.
No E.T. Here
A little aside for today: For those who still think “crop circles,” especially intricate ones, can only be explained by aliens, see this.
Sunken Continent?
Scientists have found evidence of a lost land off South America. Sunken part of that continent? Or a completely unknown land from deep history?
It’s the kind of thing that fiction is made of.
Categories: Forgotten Places, Mysteries, Prehistory
Tags: Atlantic, Atlantis, lost lands, ocean, South America, sunken land
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Ghosts?
Paranormal fiction is massively popular right now. This once subgenre of fantasy now warrants its own section in bookstores. The plethora of vampires and witches that populate many of these books don’t hold my interest. Epic fantasy with vast armies and creatures of ancient myth do. The paranormal and supernatural variety — which seem to be more or less the same thing — hone in on more human-based beings and present-day settings. I’ve always equated paranormal largely with ghosts and they don’t figure too much into fiction. In fact, you are more likely to find books on allegedly real ghost sightings than on imagined. This is what separates this one element of the fantasy world from the rest. Many believe ghosts are real. Trolls and vampires? Not so much.
But do ghosts exist?
There are countless ghost sightings and experiences by thousands of people. Even if one tries to find natural reasons for them all, there are many left that are a bit supernatural. Of course, that doesn’t mean they aren’t natural, only part of nature we don’t always know is there. Dimensional physics. Zero point energy. Nuclear energies that bind molecules together.
Think about it. Person dies in a horrible manner in a battle. What energy is released? If you believe we are more than our carbon atoms, what happens when a soul is (which, be definition, transcends our normal, everyday dimensions) ripped from a body? Does this leave imprints in space? These wouldn’t be a “living” ghost, more like a photograph. Or do traumatic incidents create rifts in the fabric of spacetime? Is this why some hear voices or see scenes from the past played out?
From a physics standpoint, such things aren’t necessarily the realm of fiction. Still, not all ghosts fall into this category. What about ones that are claimed to actually interact with people? Is there some type of being not angel or demon?
Some would say all such ghosts are demons. I heard a ghosthunter recently make a distinction that demons disguised as ghost always show their true colors sooner or later. Others will argue that any studying of or hunting for ghosts is to be avoided. Any “living” ghosts must be of evil origin.
This stems from endless haunted house movies and biblical warnings about spirits in 1 Timothy 4:1, 1 John 4:1, etc. “Spirits” most likely means demons. Yet there appears to be non-demon, non-angel entities described in 1 Samuel 28 and Mark 9:2-8. Are these ghosts? Scripture is not entirely clear on what classifications these manifestations should be considered. However, the witch’s surprise in Samuel seems to indicate she saw something that she had never seen before, nor expected. So was it a ghost of or an act of God? And in Mark, there is no indication that Elijah and Moses were anything but Elijah and Moses. So in the end, the Bible does not appear to contain examples of what are typically defined as ghosts outside of demonic entities.
What are the nature of ghosts that can’t be explained by physics or demons? Or perhaps those are the only explanations we require.
Were there Giants in Ancient America?
“Now that’s an odd question,” you ask. “Giants?”
Well, I haven’t posted on ancient history in awhile, so let me wander for a bit. The thing is, many of the old county histories detail the findings of giant human bones throughout the country. There have been hoaxes, so many are apt to discard all accounts. Why would history after history write about something nonexistent? These books aren’t full of fantastic tales, but report local history matter-of-factly.
Then we never hear about the giants again.
Suspicious? Perhaps. Why no discoveries since? A cover-up or were there simply not that many of them? Were they just inspired by the tall-tale-telling of the 19th Century? Was inserting giants into histories just a passing fad?
The tone and widely spread accounts seem to argue for authenticity in the face of no proof of hoaxing. So were they all misidentifications of mammoth or other animal bones, as some have suggested? Or perhaps we are just reading our understanding of the past into history.
Without actual bones, this is mostly an exercise in various views trying to disprove the other. Perhaps if some of the more extreme views have not clouded the issue, and others weren’t so quick to dismiss things that didn’t fit the status quo, maybe it wouldn’t be such a fringe topic.
Ultimately, we should ask, legends often have kernels of truth, so why not history itself?
Darrick Dean 