By Steve Hammons
Following on the heels of the release of the movie Men Who Stare at Goats, a new TV project about a CIA "remote viewing" unit is in the works, according to a Nov. 3 article in Variety.
Widespread interest in the topic of remote viewing has grown steadily since information about Project STARGATE emerged in the 1990s.
Recently, large amounts of documents associated with the project have been declassified and made public, although many remain secret.
The "Goats" movie deals with a wide range of human development methods that were explored in a U.S. Army activity headed by Lt. Col. Jim Channon. Remote viewing-type capabilities and the nature of human consciousness were part of these efforts. Channon served as an advisor for the film.
The Fox project is reportedly being developed with Chernin Entertainment, a TV-based production company associated with 20th Century Fox.
Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope and Lauren Stein will be the executive producers. Len Wiseman will direct. Writer Harris Wilkinson is also involved in the project.
Will they do their research to help ensure that their project is authentic and accurate?
PROJECT STARGATE
There are many individuals nowadays claiming to be remote viewers or to have knowledge of the U.S. Government's projects in these areas. However, only a relative handful have solid first-hand knowledge and understanding of the programs that later became known as Project STARGATE.
Although many people may have good abilities in ESP, or "anomalous cognition" as it is sometimes called, remote viewing was a term given to a specific scientifically-run protocol that had been developed and tested during years of research and real intelligence operations.
From the early stages of study at Palo Alto's SRI research center and think tank to sponsorship and management by various branches of the U.S. military and intelligence community, the research into and utilization of enhanced or advanced human perception yielded interesting, if not amazing results.
A former Navy SEAL officer wrote a very useful research paper on remote viewing for his graduate-level studies at the Marine Corps War College. He called remote viewing a good example of what he termed "transcendent warfare" – using leading-edge emerging knowledge to approach conflict in new ways. Transcendent warfare can be related to hard power, soft power and smart power – transcendent power.
Books, movies, TV shows and other communications platforms have explored ESP-related topics in one way or the other for many years.
Yet, the new Fox-Chernin project may have the opportunity to examine the subject more thoroughly in ways that potentially very large audiences will find intriguing and fascinating.
Because human consciousness is something we all have and experience, a TV project dealing with this subject is directly relevant to a wide and deep spectrum of viewers.
In fact, the potential educational value creates a significant synergy with the entertainment elements of such a show.
PART OF NATURE
As wider public awareness of ideas related to remote viewing has evolved in recent years, we now know that this ability and method are directly related to the intuition, instincts, hunches, gut feelings and "sixth sense" many average people have every day.
Scientific theories attempt to explain how we can obtain or access information and understanding of people, places and things outside of our direct five senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste.
A brief explanation might simply emphasize that physicists, psychologists and others have determined that things in this Universe of ours are connected in ways that do not seem logical and that we do not fully understand at this time.
Using these potential connections through our deeper minds as well as our other senses and resources can give us greater information and comprehension.
Ancient humans may have used these non-intellectual abilities more than we do today. Animals and other creatures using their instincts are probably also tapping into "non-local" information in similar ways. There may even be connections to these phenomena deep within our biological beings, our cells and our DNA.
In short, these are very natural and normal aspects of the consciousness of life and of Nature. This is one of the ways Nature works.
So, remote viewing and anomalous cognition are really not so anomalous or unusual after all. Better terms might be alternative cognition or perception, or maybe complementary cognition or perception. Integrative cognition or perception might be another useful concept.
It's a kind of perception that can work with our normal five senses and our intellectual, logical brain. But, Project STARGATE personnel also discovered that our thinking brain can get in the way of remote viewing and distort perception.
Remote-viewing types of perceiving may kick in more strongly when needed for survival in some kind of dangerous scenario that could involve injury and life or death situations. This is why these abilities seem to come forward in some military combat personnel, intelligence field operatives or assets, peace officers, firefighters and others.
The Fox-Chernin TV project about a CIA remote viewing group has the potential to take viewers into the amazing potential of not only a special aspect of the intelligence community, but also the human potential inside all of us.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Movie ‘The Fourth Kind’ sheds light on UFOs, human beings
By Steve Hammons
Are non-human intelligent beings abducting humans? And if so, how and why?
The new movie The Fourth Kind deals with a topic that has become part of the tales, rumors and reports associated with UFOs and theories about visitation to Earth of extraterrestrial, extra-dimensional or other intelligent beings.
In the film, due in theatres Nov. 6, Milla Jovovich stars as a behavioral health professional working with clients who have apparent sleep disorders.
She soon discovers that these individuals are having difficulties because they apparently have experienced something very frightening and troubling – they may have been abducted by non-human beings of some kind, and for unclear purposes.
So-called “alien abductions” have been explored in various books, TV shows and movies. But, is there any truth to this phenomenon?
ABDUCTION IN THE MEDIA
The concept of human abductions by “aliens” appeared on many people’s radar in 1987 and 1988 with the publication of the books Intruders and Missing Time by artist and researcher Budd Hopkins.
Hopkins had become interested in the UFO topic and began to question individuals who, under hypnosis, recalled these strange abduction experiences.
Some critics said hypnosis was an unreliable method to elicit accurate memories and that the people under hypnosis could be inadvertently persuaded to come up with false memories of alien abduction experiences.
However, when highly-respected Harvard School of Medicine psychiatrist John Mack, M.D., began to come to conclusions similar to researchers such as Hopkins, this topic gained credibility. (Mack was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, having written a biography of T. E. Lawrence – “Lawrence of Arabia.”)
In the early 1990s, Mack conducted a research study of 200 people who felt they may have had an alien abduction experience. He reportedly initially believed these people must have had some type of mental health problem. However, after interviewing and examining them, he found this not to be case.
Mack also noted that he felt an apparent spiritual or transformational experience on the part of these people was significant.
His subsequent 1999 book, Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters, remains one of the most respected works on this topic. His book Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens was published in 2007.
Another writer who explored this subject was Whitley Strieber. His book Communion, published in 1987, reported what Strieber claimed were his own abduction experiences. He went on to write several other books dealing with this topic.
The 1993 movie Fire in the Sky also brought the alien abduction issue into widespread public awareness. The film was based on an alleged 1975 experience of Snowflake, Arizona, resident Travis Walton, who claimed he was abducted in front of several fellow workers as they drove through an Arizona national forest after a day of clearing brush.
The 2002 TV mini-series Taken, produced by the Steven Spielberg organization, also further explored the ideas surrounding alleged abductions.
CREDIBLE REPORTS
According to some UFO lore, when elements of the U.S. Government became aware of unusual visitation to Earth during the 1940s, communication was made and liaison between certain officials and the visitors was established.
Many reports in the UFO literature suggest that it did become known that the visitors wished to examine humans – for purposes that are not entirely clear.
Stories and accounts of these abductions often involve people seeing a UFO, while driving for example, then experiencing “missing time” about which they have no memory – at least, no easily-accessible conscious memory. Later, they may experience troubling feelings or memories, along with physical marks or scars.
In other cases, people claim they are abducted from their beds at night. They report the same kinds of experiences as those who say they were taken while awake.
Both adults and children have may have had these experiences, according to the accounts in various UFO literature.
The tales of these very close encounters range from highly questionable to apparently fairly reliable witnesses and researchers. This has also been the case with those who claim to have seen UFOs. While some reports of sightings may not hold water, many other witnesses have been found to be highly credible pilots, military personnel, peace officers and respectable citizens of all kinds.
When moviegoers head out to see The Fourth Kind, there will probably be more discussion about what has been going on with UFOs, unusual visitors and close encounters with humans.
It seems to be a subject worth researching, and there are many reliable and worthwhile sources of information available.
The Fourth Kind may help us understand more about alleged alien visitation and about ourselves.
Are non-human intelligent beings abducting humans? And if so, how and why?
The new movie The Fourth Kind deals with a topic that has become part of the tales, rumors and reports associated with UFOs and theories about visitation to Earth of extraterrestrial, extra-dimensional or other intelligent beings.
In the film, due in theatres Nov. 6, Milla Jovovich stars as a behavioral health professional working with clients who have apparent sleep disorders.
She soon discovers that these individuals are having difficulties because they apparently have experienced something very frightening and troubling – they may have been abducted by non-human beings of some kind, and for unclear purposes.
So-called “alien abductions” have been explored in various books, TV shows and movies. But, is there any truth to this phenomenon?
ABDUCTION IN THE MEDIA
The concept of human abductions by “aliens” appeared on many people’s radar in 1987 and 1988 with the publication of the books Intruders and Missing Time by artist and researcher Budd Hopkins.
Hopkins had become interested in the UFO topic and began to question individuals who, under hypnosis, recalled these strange abduction experiences.
Some critics said hypnosis was an unreliable method to elicit accurate memories and that the people under hypnosis could be inadvertently persuaded to come up with false memories of alien abduction experiences.
However, when highly-respected Harvard School of Medicine psychiatrist John Mack, M.D., began to come to conclusions similar to researchers such as Hopkins, this topic gained credibility. (Mack was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, having written a biography of T. E. Lawrence – “Lawrence of Arabia.”)
In the early 1990s, Mack conducted a research study of 200 people who felt they may have had an alien abduction experience. He reportedly initially believed these people must have had some type of mental health problem. However, after interviewing and examining them, he found this not to be case.
Mack also noted that he felt an apparent spiritual or transformational experience on the part of these people was significant.
His subsequent 1999 book, Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters, remains one of the most respected works on this topic. His book Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens was published in 2007.
Another writer who explored this subject was Whitley Strieber. His book Communion, published in 1987, reported what Strieber claimed were his own abduction experiences. He went on to write several other books dealing with this topic.
The 1993 movie Fire in the Sky also brought the alien abduction issue into widespread public awareness. The film was based on an alleged 1975 experience of Snowflake, Arizona, resident Travis Walton, who claimed he was abducted in front of several fellow workers as they drove through an Arizona national forest after a day of clearing brush.
The 2002 TV mini-series Taken, produced by the Steven Spielberg organization, also further explored the ideas surrounding alleged abductions.
CREDIBLE REPORTS
According to some UFO lore, when elements of the U.S. Government became aware of unusual visitation to Earth during the 1940s, communication was made and liaison between certain officials and the visitors was established.
Many reports in the UFO literature suggest that it did become known that the visitors wished to examine humans – for purposes that are not entirely clear.
Stories and accounts of these abductions often involve people seeing a UFO, while driving for example, then experiencing “missing time” about which they have no memory – at least, no easily-accessible conscious memory. Later, they may experience troubling feelings or memories, along with physical marks or scars.
In other cases, people claim they are abducted from their beds at night. They report the same kinds of experiences as those who say they were taken while awake.
Both adults and children have may have had these experiences, according to the accounts in various UFO literature.
The tales of these very close encounters range from highly questionable to apparently fairly reliable witnesses and researchers. This has also been the case with those who claim to have seen UFOs. While some reports of sightings may not hold water, many other witnesses have been found to be highly credible pilots, military personnel, peace officers and respectable citizens of all kinds.
When moviegoers head out to see The Fourth Kind, there will probably be more discussion about what has been going on with UFOs, unusual visitors and close encounters with humans.
It seems to be a subject worth researching, and there are many reliable and worthwhile sources of information available.
The Fourth Kind may help us understand more about alleged alien visitation and about ourselves.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Google logos, H.G. Wells help public preparedness on UFOs
By Steve Hammons
The Google logo “doodle” on Sept. 21, H.G. Wells’ birthday, showed the three-legged extraterrestrial invaders from Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds, published in 1898.
Recent Google UFO doodles sparked curiosity and motivated amateur sleuths who tried to determine the meanings of the mysterious flying saucers in Google’s logo on Sept. 5 and Sept. 15.
The War of the Worlds was made into movies over the years, including the most recent 2005 version directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins and Dakota Fanning.
One of the most noteworthy outcomes from the book was the Mercury Theatre radio broadcast on CBS based on the novel that aired live on Halloween, Oct. 30, 1938.
Some listeners believed the radio drama script by Orson Welles was a series of real news reports about an invasion of Earth by frightening creatures from Mars and panic swept many communities in the U.S.
WELLS, WELLES AND PROJECT BLUEBOOK
This incident has been cited as an example of mass hysteria that may have affected U.S. authorities investigating real unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and alleged extraterrestrial visitation to, or activities on Earth.
The first head of the U.S. Air Force’s Project Bluebook, Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, wrote in his 1956 book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects that "The [U.S. government's] UFO files are full of references to the near mass panic of October 30, 1938, when Orson Welles presented his now famous The War of the Worlds broadcast."
Project Bluebook, based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, in southwestern Ohio, claimed to be a straightforward investigative effort into UFO sightings. Some researchers allege that the project was actually a cover story of sorts that obscured and assisted other government activities in this area.
Google’s celebration of H.G. Wells’ birthday with a War of the Worlds logo doodle also reminds us of the 1938 radio show and the effects on the social psychology of the U.S. that Halloween night. The fact that the radio broadcast based on The War of the Worlds had such significant impacts on American society seems to make the book and the radio program highly relevant today.
Why? The acclimation and preparedness of the American and international public to the possibility of extraterrestrial contact may be an important goal now.
REACTIONS TO FICTION, FACT
How would Americans and people around the world react to a similar fictitious incident now, if it was misinterpreted as reality? How would we react to a real situation misinterpreted as fiction?
What would our response be to the realization that we truly are being visited by intelligent beings from elsewhere? Many credible researchers indicate that activities on Earth by intelligent beings from elsewhere are a reality.
Therefore, being psychologically and emotionally prepared seems to be important. The safe and steady acclimation of the public to such a possibility may be the best route to take.
We might remember that the first Google UFO logo on Sept. 5 was of a disc- or saucer-shaped craft apparently sending a beam of light or energy down to an “o” in Google. Clicking the logo took users to the Google search for “unexplained phenomenon” and a very large number of many interesting topics.
The Sept. 15 doodle showed a similar UFO over a series of crop circles that was linked to a Google search page for “crop circles.”
Both of these had no apparent direct connection with the works of H.G. Wells, other than the general concept of extraterrestrial visitation and the wide range of possibilities that Wells explored in many of his works.
There are many unexplained phenomena on our planet and in this Universe – or multiverse. Even as we discover explanations for some mysteries, different unexplained situations seem to emerge as physicists, psychologists and researchers of all kinds explore the unknown.
It seems possible that many of these mysteries, discoveries and situations could affect us in ways we may not fully understand at this time. But, by opening our minds to the possibilities, as H.G. Wells did, we can possibly become more prepared for new and unconventional developments.
The Google logo “doodle” on Sept. 21, H.G. Wells’ birthday, showed the three-legged extraterrestrial invaders from Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds, published in 1898.
Recent Google UFO doodles sparked curiosity and motivated amateur sleuths who tried to determine the meanings of the mysterious flying saucers in Google’s logo on Sept. 5 and Sept. 15.
The War of the Worlds was made into movies over the years, including the most recent 2005 version directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins and Dakota Fanning.
One of the most noteworthy outcomes from the book was the Mercury Theatre radio broadcast on CBS based on the novel that aired live on Halloween, Oct. 30, 1938.
Some listeners believed the radio drama script by Orson Welles was a series of real news reports about an invasion of Earth by frightening creatures from Mars and panic swept many communities in the U.S.
WELLS, WELLES AND PROJECT BLUEBOOK
This incident has been cited as an example of mass hysteria that may have affected U.S. authorities investigating real unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and alleged extraterrestrial visitation to, or activities on Earth.
The first head of the U.S. Air Force’s Project Bluebook, Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, wrote in his 1956 book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects that "The [U.S. government's] UFO files are full of references to the near mass panic of October 30, 1938, when Orson Welles presented his now famous The War of the Worlds broadcast."
Project Bluebook, based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, in southwestern Ohio, claimed to be a straightforward investigative effort into UFO sightings. Some researchers allege that the project was actually a cover story of sorts that obscured and assisted other government activities in this area.
Google’s celebration of H.G. Wells’ birthday with a War of the Worlds logo doodle also reminds us of the 1938 radio show and the effects on the social psychology of the U.S. that Halloween night. The fact that the radio broadcast based on The War of the Worlds had such significant impacts on American society seems to make the book and the radio program highly relevant today.
Why? The acclimation and preparedness of the American and international public to the possibility of extraterrestrial contact may be an important goal now.
REACTIONS TO FICTION, FACT
How would Americans and people around the world react to a similar fictitious incident now, if it was misinterpreted as reality? How would we react to a real situation misinterpreted as fiction?
What would our response be to the realization that we truly are being visited by intelligent beings from elsewhere? Many credible researchers indicate that activities on Earth by intelligent beings from elsewhere are a reality.
Therefore, being psychologically and emotionally prepared seems to be important. The safe and steady acclimation of the public to such a possibility may be the best route to take.
We might remember that the first Google UFO logo on Sept. 5 was of a disc- or saucer-shaped craft apparently sending a beam of light or energy down to an “o” in Google. Clicking the logo took users to the Google search for “unexplained phenomenon” and a very large number of many interesting topics.
The Sept. 15 doodle showed a similar UFO over a series of crop circles that was linked to a Google search page for “crop circles.”
Both of these had no apparent direct connection with the works of H.G. Wells, other than the general concept of extraterrestrial visitation and the wide range of possibilities that Wells explored in many of his works.
There are many unexplained phenomena on our planet and in this Universe – or multiverse. Even as we discover explanations for some mysteries, different unexplained situations seem to emerge as physicists, psychologists and researchers of all kinds explore the unknown.
It seems possible that many of these mysteries, discoveries and situations could affect us in ways we may not fully understand at this time. But, by opening our minds to the possibilities, as H.G. Wells did, we can possibly become more prepared for new and unconventional developments.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Google’s new UFO crop circle logo raises questions
By Steve Hammons
Google’s customized logo has again sparked curiosity and mystery.
On Saturday, Sept. 5, the Google “doodle” featured a disc-shaped UFO with a beam of light or energy connecting the saucer with the “o” in Google. Today, another flying saucer UFO is hovering over the Google logo in the form of a crop circle.
When visitors click the logo, they are taken to the search for “crop circles.” The previous anomalous logo took users to a search for “unexplained phenomenon.”
Interesting theories and connections related to the Sept. 5 logo quickly surfaced, since Google’s usual logo doodles normally celebrate or note significant cultural events. It wasn’t immediately clear what the UFO meant.
Today’s saucer and crop circle doodle is also somewhat mysterious.
However, a connection seems obvious: Both feature a disc-shaped UFO, and crop circles have long been theorized to be connected with extraterrestrial and/or extra-dimensional visitation and communication.
EARTH CHANGES
Although some crop circles have been created by humans, many truly seem to be unexplained phenomena.
In fact, crop circles played a part in my two novels, Mission Into Light and the sequel Light’s Hand. In Mission Into Light, the main character, Mike Green, is recruited into a small San Diego-based joint military and intelligence research group.
The unit, called the Joint Reconnaissance Study Group (JRSG), is tasked with investigating various interesting and unusual phenomena. Mike was on Team Two of three, three-person teams.
In Mission Into Light, Mike’s Team Two partners were pursing their own assigned intelligence and reconnaissance. Team leader Army Col. Ed Thompson and Army Special Forces Capt. Bill MacNeil were looking into something interesting.
At least it was interesting to them. Crop circles.
MacNeil had seen a TV show about them. He was on the Internet at the office the next day, finding out what he could about the strange phenomena. He found photos and information about the many different crop circle patterns on the Internet and he’d shown Ed quite a few.
Bill had worked on farms as a teenager. The idea that crops could be a focus of some strange, cosmic art and communication was fascinating to him.
Ed was also looking into something else. Something Team One member Navy Commander Dan Wells had talked to him about. The concept of upcoming Earth changes.
Wells had come to him on a Monday morning and told him about Team One’s Air Force Capt. Amy Mella’s dream and the conversations over brunch with her and Green. Dan told Ed about some of the Earth changes theories of geological catastrophe.
At a group meeting, Ed and MacNeil wanted to present the crop circle information and the Earth changes theories in as reasonable a manner as possible. They were confident that their group colleagues had open minds. They had Mac lead off with the crop circle phenomena.
“As you all know, we’ve been looking at the UFO area. We’ve expanded that line of research into the crop circle issue.”
He looked around at their faces. He and Thompson got a kick out of stretching their imaginations and watching their minds work as they tried out this new angle on their colleagues.
“You probably have heard about them. Large and often intricate symbols in fields of canola, wheat, and other crops. Clearly a form of communication.”
“Although there’ve been some pranksters and fakes, there are also many crop circles that cannot have been hoaxes. There seems to be mathematical, scientific, and symbolic meaning to the formations. Possible symbolic maps or universal symbols and messages. Maybe something to do with physics. It’s not completely clear.”
“In the apparently legitimate cases, the actual plants have gone through unique changes which have caused them to bend, and not break. And some biological and cellular changes in the plants have been reported by botanists.”
MacNeil reached into a cardboard box he had brought into the room and passed around packets of photos of crop circles, most taken from the air.
“There’s a portfolio of twenty examples for each of you. We can get you a much larger sample if you want. It’s on the Internet and there are some good books of photographs available. A brief report on some of the dynamics of the circles, locations, theories, and the like is attached to the photos. Maybe we can discuss it further after the meeting, if anyone’s interested.”
PARTS OF THE PUZZLE
In the sequel novel, Light’s Hand, crop circles continue to play a role. At a group meeting, the JRSG commanding officer, Air Force Col. Tom O’Brien, leads the discussion.
“Okay, the team leaders will now brief us on where we stand with the ongoing research and where we’re going. Commander Wells, do you have any more to add about the marine mammals and the geologic problems?”
“Lt. Commander Etienne, Capt. Mella and I will continue our work with the Marine Mammal Program with a new emphasis on the Pacific Plate problem, as we’ve said. We’re going cross teams a little, too. MacNeil’s work on crop circles may tie in with Earth geologic changes, so he’s going to be involved in some of our research. That’s about it for Team One.”
It may seem odd for a U.S. military and intelligence group to be researching strange things like UFOs, ESP, crop circles, near-death experiences and similar anomalous phenomena, but the JRSG mission statement spelled it out in some detail.
When Mike Green read it, he felt it was a straightforward document in some ways, yet cryptic and mysterious between the lines. The JRSG had already made a dent in some of the “areas of research” and barely scratched the surface of others, Mike thought.
The first research area was UFOs. Mike, Ed Thompson and Bill MacNeil had witnessed an apparent UFO in the distance during a chopper ride from San Diego to Fort Huachuca, Arizona. At least that’s what the Navy chopper pilot called it ... off the record.
Ed and Bill had also gone to Phoenix after the half the city spotted a huge v-shaped craft gently glide over town one evening. They asked a few questions over at Luke Air Force Base but didn’t come up with anything more than the general public and press knew.
Bill’s research into crop circles also seemed to be probably linked to UFOs.
And when Mike and Bill were sent from Fort Huachuca to Roswell, New Mexico, the trip was suddenly canceled due to a reported ambush to discourage them. Uncle Jack had showed up to take them to a safe house in Phoenix. Why would Roswell be a sensitive issue at this late date? Dozens of books, movies and TV shows had looked at almost every angle of the so-called “Roswell incident” in 1947.
Mike remembered Bill MacNeil’s thoughts about the crop circles he was investigating. And MacNeil’s friends in crypto were coming up with ideas that the crop circles are trying to say something about planetary or physics concepts that might be related to Earth changes.
MORE CIRCLES
As the second novel moves toward the final climax, crop circles play a key role. At the group’s office on San Diego’s Point Loma peninsula, Bill MacNeil was sitting at his PC and was on the Internet. He was looking at a Web site on crop circles.
Something was going on. He needed to advise the CO, Col. O’Brien and his team leader Col. Thompson.
“Sirs. You might want to take a look at this. This Web site is reporting a significant increase in crop circles in the last seventy-two hours. In England, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark. Over here, in Ohio, western Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, and Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. Down in Mexico too. And a few in Australia and New Zealand.”
O’Brien and Thompson looked at the screen of MacNeil’s PC. MacNeil clicked his computer mouse until there were three maps on the screen. One of Western Europe, one of North America, and one of Australia and New Zealand. The new and previous crop circles were marked. There were dozens and dozens of new circles noted on the maps.
While they were watching, three new circles were forming that very minute in British Columbia, Washington state, and California’s Imperial Valley, which was just east of San Diego County and west of Yuma, Arizona.
What did it mean?
Members of the JRSG quickly find out that a major event is in the making, and the crop circles seemed to be connected to it.
Maybe we should all take a second look at crop circles – what they are, what they mean, what they are trying to say. Google may be helping us recognize this.
Google’s customized logo has again sparked curiosity and mystery.
On Saturday, Sept. 5, the Google “doodle” featured a disc-shaped UFO with a beam of light or energy connecting the saucer with the “o” in Google. Today, another flying saucer UFO is hovering over the Google logo in the form of a crop circle.
When visitors click the logo, they are taken to the search for “crop circles.” The previous anomalous logo took users to a search for “unexplained phenomenon.”
Interesting theories and connections related to the Sept. 5 logo quickly surfaced, since Google’s usual logo doodles normally celebrate or note significant cultural events. It wasn’t immediately clear what the UFO meant.
Today’s saucer and crop circle doodle is also somewhat mysterious.
However, a connection seems obvious: Both feature a disc-shaped UFO, and crop circles have long been theorized to be connected with extraterrestrial and/or extra-dimensional visitation and communication.
EARTH CHANGES
Although some crop circles have been created by humans, many truly seem to be unexplained phenomena.
In fact, crop circles played a part in my two novels, Mission Into Light and the sequel Light’s Hand. In Mission Into Light, the main character, Mike Green, is recruited into a small San Diego-based joint military and intelligence research group.
The unit, called the Joint Reconnaissance Study Group (JRSG), is tasked with investigating various interesting and unusual phenomena. Mike was on Team Two of three, three-person teams.
In Mission Into Light, Mike’s Team Two partners were pursing their own assigned intelligence and reconnaissance. Team leader Army Col. Ed Thompson and Army Special Forces Capt. Bill MacNeil were looking into something interesting.
At least it was interesting to them. Crop circles.
MacNeil had seen a TV show about them. He was on the Internet at the office the next day, finding out what he could about the strange phenomena. He found photos and information about the many different crop circle patterns on the Internet and he’d shown Ed quite a few.
Bill had worked on farms as a teenager. The idea that crops could be a focus of some strange, cosmic art and communication was fascinating to him.
Ed was also looking into something else. Something Team One member Navy Commander Dan Wells had talked to him about. The concept of upcoming Earth changes.
Wells had come to him on a Monday morning and told him about Team One’s Air Force Capt. Amy Mella’s dream and the conversations over brunch with her and Green. Dan told Ed about some of the Earth changes theories of geological catastrophe.
At a group meeting, Ed and MacNeil wanted to present the crop circle information and the Earth changes theories in as reasonable a manner as possible. They were confident that their group colleagues had open minds. They had Mac lead off with the crop circle phenomena.
“As you all know, we’ve been looking at the UFO area. We’ve expanded that line of research into the crop circle issue.”
He looked around at their faces. He and Thompson got a kick out of stretching their imaginations and watching their minds work as they tried out this new angle on their colleagues.
“You probably have heard about them. Large and often intricate symbols in fields of canola, wheat, and other crops. Clearly a form of communication.”
“Although there’ve been some pranksters and fakes, there are also many crop circles that cannot have been hoaxes. There seems to be mathematical, scientific, and symbolic meaning to the formations. Possible symbolic maps or universal symbols and messages. Maybe something to do with physics. It’s not completely clear.”
“In the apparently legitimate cases, the actual plants have gone through unique changes which have caused them to bend, and not break. And some biological and cellular changes in the plants have been reported by botanists.”
MacNeil reached into a cardboard box he had brought into the room and passed around packets of photos of crop circles, most taken from the air.
“There’s a portfolio of twenty examples for each of you. We can get you a much larger sample if you want. It’s on the Internet and there are some good books of photographs available. A brief report on some of the dynamics of the circles, locations, theories, and the like is attached to the photos. Maybe we can discuss it further after the meeting, if anyone’s interested.”
PARTS OF THE PUZZLE
In the sequel novel, Light’s Hand, crop circles continue to play a role. At a group meeting, the JRSG commanding officer, Air Force Col. Tom O’Brien, leads the discussion.
“Okay, the team leaders will now brief us on where we stand with the ongoing research and where we’re going. Commander Wells, do you have any more to add about the marine mammals and the geologic problems?”
“Lt. Commander Etienne, Capt. Mella and I will continue our work with the Marine Mammal Program with a new emphasis on the Pacific Plate problem, as we’ve said. We’re going cross teams a little, too. MacNeil’s work on crop circles may tie in with Earth geologic changes, so he’s going to be involved in some of our research. That’s about it for Team One.”
It may seem odd for a U.S. military and intelligence group to be researching strange things like UFOs, ESP, crop circles, near-death experiences and similar anomalous phenomena, but the JRSG mission statement spelled it out in some detail.
When Mike Green read it, he felt it was a straightforward document in some ways, yet cryptic and mysterious between the lines. The JRSG had already made a dent in some of the “areas of research” and barely scratched the surface of others, Mike thought.
The first research area was UFOs. Mike, Ed Thompson and Bill MacNeil had witnessed an apparent UFO in the distance during a chopper ride from San Diego to Fort Huachuca, Arizona. At least that’s what the Navy chopper pilot called it ... off the record.
Ed and Bill had also gone to Phoenix after the half the city spotted a huge v-shaped craft gently glide over town one evening. They asked a few questions over at Luke Air Force Base but didn’t come up with anything more than the general public and press knew.
Bill’s research into crop circles also seemed to be probably linked to UFOs.
And when Mike and Bill were sent from Fort Huachuca to Roswell, New Mexico, the trip was suddenly canceled due to a reported ambush to discourage them. Uncle Jack had showed up to take them to a safe house in Phoenix. Why would Roswell be a sensitive issue at this late date? Dozens of books, movies and TV shows had looked at almost every angle of the so-called “Roswell incident” in 1947.
Mike remembered Bill MacNeil’s thoughts about the crop circles he was investigating. And MacNeil’s friends in crypto were coming up with ideas that the crop circles are trying to say something about planetary or physics concepts that might be related to Earth changes.
MORE CIRCLES
As the second novel moves toward the final climax, crop circles play a key role. At the group’s office on San Diego’s Point Loma peninsula, Bill MacNeil was sitting at his PC and was on the Internet. He was looking at a Web site on crop circles.
Something was going on. He needed to advise the CO, Col. O’Brien and his team leader Col. Thompson.
“Sirs. You might want to take a look at this. This Web site is reporting a significant increase in crop circles in the last seventy-two hours. In England, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark. Over here, in Ohio, western Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, and Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. Down in Mexico too. And a few in Australia and New Zealand.”
O’Brien and Thompson looked at the screen of MacNeil’s PC. MacNeil clicked his computer mouse until there were three maps on the screen. One of Western Europe, one of North America, and one of Australia and New Zealand. The new and previous crop circles were marked. There were dozens and dozens of new circles noted on the maps.
While they were watching, three new circles were forming that very minute in British Columbia, Washington state, and California’s Imperial Valley, which was just east of San Diego County and west of Yuma, Arizona.
What did it mean?
Members of the JRSG quickly find out that a major event is in the making, and the crop circles seemed to be connected to it.
Maybe we should all take a second look at crop circles – what they are, what they mean, what they are trying to say. Google may be helping us recognize this.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
‘Integrative perception’ useful in health, media, defense
By Steve Hammons
Human perception is related to a broad range of important endeavors in fields like health, media, national defense and many other areas.
New developments in human perception and consciousness have the potential to help us make progress on these and other fronts.
Perception is personal and also social. It affects families, communities, countries and the international community. Our perception and understanding of ourselves are key in the areas noted above, and in many other ways.
We can take a look a few examples to see how human perception affects progress in various activities and areas of interest.
HEALTH, HOLLYWOOD, DEFENSE
In the area of health, when well-known health and wellness expert and author Andrew Weil, M.D., appeared on CNN’s “Larry King Live” show on Sept. 10, he tried to apply his concepts of “integrative medicine” to the current national debate about health care.
Weil is the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson. He also serves as a professor of medicine and public health.
Another example is the new movie Men Who Stare at Goats, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. This film takes a look at innovative exploration of human consciousness within the U.S. military.
Although the movie and the book upon which it is based are reportedly slanted toward ridicule, many of these actual military and intelligence programs turned out to be quite valid and valuable. People who see the movie might become curious about these important and leading-edge efforts behind the scenes and explore them further.
As Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently noted, the perception of the U.S. internationally is an area of concern, despite recent progress. “Strategic communication” is directly linked to human perception.
In fact, in a paper for the Marine Corps War College some years ago, a Navy SEAL officer studying there noted that “transcendent warfare” may be a useful concept that optimizes forward-leaning research and activities in human perception and consciousness.
INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
When Dr. Weil was discussing his views of health with King on CNN, he noted the idea of integrative medicine. The concept of integrative medicine is similar to “alternative medicine” or “complementary medicine.”
Weil believes that leading-edge health and wellness methods can be successfully integrated with conventional Western medicine.
In his discussion with King, he suggested that Americans should take more responsibility for their own health and wellness through healthier eating habits, more exercise and other common-sense approaches.
He stated that the over-reliance, in his view, on high-tech and expensive technological and pharmacological methods to treat health problems is unsustainable and not always particularly successful medically.
Weil seemed to be saying that physicians and health care providers, government officials crafting health care proposals and all of us should consider “integrative” viewpoints and thinking about human health and the administration of health care services.
According to the Web site of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, “Since its inception, the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine has focused its efforts on three domains: education, clinical care, and research—with the primary emphasis on education.” The site notes that the “Defining Principles of Integrative Medicine” include the following:
1) Patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process.
2) All factors that influence health, wellness, and disease are taken into consideration, including mind, spirit, and community, as well as the body.
3) Appropriate use of both conventional and alternative methods facilitates the body's innate healing response.
4) Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive should be used whenever possible.
5) Integrative medicine neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts alternative therapies uncritically.
6) Good medicine is based in good science. It is inquiry-driven and open to new paradigms.
7) Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.
8) Practitioners of integrative medicine should exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration and self-development.
MOVIES, MINDS, INTELLIGENCE
Related to Weil’s views, we might wonder if this integrative perspective or integrative consciousness is applicable in other areas.
Although Weil is now best-known for his work in health, wellness, nutrition and integrative medicine, his 1972 book The Natural Mind focused on human consciousness.
This actually dovetails with the movie Men Who Stare at Goats and the real-life activities by the U.S. defense and intelligence communities regarding human perception.
Discoveries in the last few decades about human perceptual abilities have found that our instincts, intuition, gut feelings, extrasensory perception (ESP) and “sixth sense” appear to be quite real and valid.
A longstanding effort by the U.S. defense and intelligence communities commonly referred to as Project STARGATE found that humans have the capability to use “anomalous cognition” or unusual perception to gather intelligence. A specific protocol that was developed to do this came to be called “remote viewing.”
As our understanding about human perception and consciousness improves, it may become apparent that anomalous cognition is really not so unusual after all. Like the study of the health concepts of alternative and complementary medicine, the terms “alternative cognition” and “complementary cognition” might be more appropriate.
In fact, taking note of Weil’s perspectives, we might consider the term “integrative cognition” or “integrative perception” to describe using the full range perceptual abilities and capabilities of human consciousness.
This also brings us back to Adm. Mullen’s concerns about important defense challenges in understanding our own internal and external national behavior and how this is perceived overseas.
By examining some of these innovative areas, we can surely make significant progress in many important fields to deal with challenges facing us today.
Human perception is related to a broad range of important endeavors in fields like health, media, national defense and many other areas.
New developments in human perception and consciousness have the potential to help us make progress on these and other fronts.
Perception is personal and also social. It affects families, communities, countries and the international community. Our perception and understanding of ourselves are key in the areas noted above, and in many other ways.
We can take a look a few examples to see how human perception affects progress in various activities and areas of interest.
HEALTH, HOLLYWOOD, DEFENSE
In the area of health, when well-known health and wellness expert and author Andrew Weil, M.D., appeared on CNN’s “Larry King Live” show on Sept. 10, he tried to apply his concepts of “integrative medicine” to the current national debate about health care.
Weil is the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson. He also serves as a professor of medicine and public health.
Another example is the new movie Men Who Stare at Goats, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. This film takes a look at innovative exploration of human consciousness within the U.S. military.
Although the movie and the book upon which it is based are reportedly slanted toward ridicule, many of these actual military and intelligence programs turned out to be quite valid and valuable. People who see the movie might become curious about these important and leading-edge efforts behind the scenes and explore them further.
As Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently noted, the perception of the U.S. internationally is an area of concern, despite recent progress. “Strategic communication” is directly linked to human perception.
In fact, in a paper for the Marine Corps War College some years ago, a Navy SEAL officer studying there noted that “transcendent warfare” may be a useful concept that optimizes forward-leaning research and activities in human perception and consciousness.
INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
When Dr. Weil was discussing his views of health with King on CNN, he noted the idea of integrative medicine. The concept of integrative medicine is similar to “alternative medicine” or “complementary medicine.”
Weil believes that leading-edge health and wellness methods can be successfully integrated with conventional Western medicine.
In his discussion with King, he suggested that Americans should take more responsibility for their own health and wellness through healthier eating habits, more exercise and other common-sense approaches.
He stated that the over-reliance, in his view, on high-tech and expensive technological and pharmacological methods to treat health problems is unsustainable and not always particularly successful medically.
Weil seemed to be saying that physicians and health care providers, government officials crafting health care proposals and all of us should consider “integrative” viewpoints and thinking about human health and the administration of health care services.
According to the Web site of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, “Since its inception, the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine has focused its efforts on three domains: education, clinical care, and research—with the primary emphasis on education.” The site notes that the “Defining Principles of Integrative Medicine” include the following:
1) Patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process.
2) All factors that influence health, wellness, and disease are taken into consideration, including mind, spirit, and community, as well as the body.
3) Appropriate use of both conventional and alternative methods facilitates the body's innate healing response.
4) Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive should be used whenever possible.
5) Integrative medicine neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts alternative therapies uncritically.
6) Good medicine is based in good science. It is inquiry-driven and open to new paradigms.
7) Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.
8) Practitioners of integrative medicine should exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration and self-development.
MOVIES, MINDS, INTELLIGENCE
Related to Weil’s views, we might wonder if this integrative perspective or integrative consciousness is applicable in other areas.
Although Weil is now best-known for his work in health, wellness, nutrition and integrative medicine, his 1972 book The Natural Mind focused on human consciousness.
This actually dovetails with the movie Men Who Stare at Goats and the real-life activities by the U.S. defense and intelligence communities regarding human perception.
Discoveries in the last few decades about human perceptual abilities have found that our instincts, intuition, gut feelings, extrasensory perception (ESP) and “sixth sense” appear to be quite real and valid.
A longstanding effort by the U.S. defense and intelligence communities commonly referred to as Project STARGATE found that humans have the capability to use “anomalous cognition” or unusual perception to gather intelligence. A specific protocol that was developed to do this came to be called “remote viewing.”
As our understanding about human perception and consciousness improves, it may become apparent that anomalous cognition is really not so unusual after all. Like the study of the health concepts of alternative and complementary medicine, the terms “alternative cognition” and “complementary cognition” might be more appropriate.
In fact, taking note of Weil’s perspectives, we might consider the term “integrative cognition” or “integrative perception” to describe using the full range perceptual abilities and capabilities of human consciousness.
This also brings us back to Adm. Mullen’s concerns about important defense challenges in understanding our own internal and external national behavior and how this is perceived overseas.
By examining some of these innovative areas, we can surely make significant progress in many important fields to deal with challenges facing us today.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Google logo UFO linked to real unexplained phenomenon
By Steve Hammons
Visitors to Google on Saturday, Sept. 5, were surprised to see a classic disc-shaped flying saucer hovering above the Google logo. A beam of light or energy appears between the craft and the Google logo.
When visitors click on the logo, they are taken to the Google search page for “unexplained phenomenon.”
There seems to be some mystery surrounding the reason for this graphic. Although Google often adds unique art to its logo to celebrate or note certain significant dates, the reason for the disc-shaped craft image is unclear at this time.
It’s true that there have been some interesting stories in the news lately about UFOs other unexplained phenomena, but not really more than usual.
And, unexplained phenomena certainly include a much wider and deeper group of topics than simply theories about UFOs and visitors from elsewhere. At the same time, the connections among various unusual phenomena have also interested some researchers.
Additionally, several kinds of unexplained phenomena actually do have certain explanations, according to some investigators.
MANY UNUSUAL PHENOMENA
Of course, the idea of visitors from other planets, worlds or dimensions is one of the major subjects of interest and speculation. Are the many types of unusual objects, lights and apparent craft seen around the world over many decades (or centuries) related to visiting civilizations?
Are some of them advanced aircraft or spacecraft? Are they ours or theirs, or some combination of the two? What are the methods of propulsion and sources of energy? How and why are they operating in our skies and, reportedly, in our seas?
But UFOs are just one category of interesting anomalous fields of interest.
Other unconventional topics that hold the interest of the public and some scientific researchers include new developments in quantum physics, anti-gravity technologies, teleportation, wormholes and cosmic portals, other dimensions, life after death, the origins of the human race, mysteries of our DNA, human extrasensory perception (ESP) and alternative/complementary cognition, forgotten past Earth civilizations, unusual creatures and many other areas.
Google apparently gets a large amount of search requests for these kinds of subjects. Rightly so. These subjects are fascinating and fun to explore and consider. In fact, they might be a big part of our future.
Significant and credible research activities into these kinds of phenomena have resulted in partial explanations or at least reasonable hypotheses about various factors that may be involved. So, in some cases, they are not totally unexplained.
It’s probably a good idea for the general public to stay up-to-speed on these developments because they have the potential to affect each and every one of us.
Google is probably helping with that in several ways.
OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE
By conducting our own research and becoming more educated about unconventional phenomena of many kinds, we probably help prepare ourselves for the future.
Google and many other online platforms can provide useful information, though, as we know, there is much misinformation on the Web too.
If we use common sense and a skeptical and intelligent approach we can probably get a fairly good working knowledge of the state of current research in many of these areas regarding types of unexplained phenomenon.
This kind of public information or “open source intelligence” about unusual mysteries and leading-edge science is widely available online.
It is challenging to separate the false or misleading information from more accurate reports, but it can be done to a significant degree by the average person.
Google and other online platforms allow us to conduct effective research and intelligence-gathering about unconventional and conventional topics of all kinds. These information age technologies are helping move the human race toward new destinies that are sometimes difficult to imagine.
The flying disc on Google’s logo may help to get us thinking and open some minds. It may just be some fun. It may be associated with important thinking, perspectives and realities.
Visitors to Google on Saturday, Sept. 5, were surprised to see a classic disc-shaped flying saucer hovering above the Google logo. A beam of light or energy appears between the craft and the Google logo.
When visitors click on the logo, they are taken to the Google search page for “unexplained phenomenon.”
There seems to be some mystery surrounding the reason for this graphic. Although Google often adds unique art to its logo to celebrate or note certain significant dates, the reason for the disc-shaped craft image is unclear at this time.
It’s true that there have been some interesting stories in the news lately about UFOs other unexplained phenomena, but not really more than usual.
And, unexplained phenomena certainly include a much wider and deeper group of topics than simply theories about UFOs and visitors from elsewhere. At the same time, the connections among various unusual phenomena have also interested some researchers.
Additionally, several kinds of unexplained phenomena actually do have certain explanations, according to some investigators.
MANY UNUSUAL PHENOMENA
Of course, the idea of visitors from other planets, worlds or dimensions is one of the major subjects of interest and speculation. Are the many types of unusual objects, lights and apparent craft seen around the world over many decades (or centuries) related to visiting civilizations?
Are some of them advanced aircraft or spacecraft? Are they ours or theirs, or some combination of the two? What are the methods of propulsion and sources of energy? How and why are they operating in our skies and, reportedly, in our seas?
But UFOs are just one category of interesting anomalous fields of interest.
Other unconventional topics that hold the interest of the public and some scientific researchers include new developments in quantum physics, anti-gravity technologies, teleportation, wormholes and cosmic portals, other dimensions, life after death, the origins of the human race, mysteries of our DNA, human extrasensory perception (ESP) and alternative/complementary cognition, forgotten past Earth civilizations, unusual creatures and many other areas.
Google apparently gets a large amount of search requests for these kinds of subjects. Rightly so. These subjects are fascinating and fun to explore and consider. In fact, they might be a big part of our future.
Significant and credible research activities into these kinds of phenomena have resulted in partial explanations or at least reasonable hypotheses about various factors that may be involved. So, in some cases, they are not totally unexplained.
It’s probably a good idea for the general public to stay up-to-speed on these developments because they have the potential to affect each and every one of us.
Google is probably helping with that in several ways.
OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE
By conducting our own research and becoming more educated about unconventional phenomena of many kinds, we probably help prepare ourselves for the future.
Google and many other online platforms can provide useful information, though, as we know, there is much misinformation on the Web too.
If we use common sense and a skeptical and intelligent approach we can probably get a fairly good working knowledge of the state of current research in many of these areas regarding types of unexplained phenomenon.
This kind of public information or “open source intelligence” about unusual mysteries and leading-edge science is widely available online.
It is challenging to separate the false or misleading information from more accurate reports, but it can be done to a significant degree by the average person.
Google and other online platforms allow us to conduct effective research and intelligence-gathering about unconventional and conventional topics of all kinds. These information age technologies are helping move the human race toward new destinies that are sometimes difficult to imagine.
The flying disc on Google’s logo may help to get us thinking and open some minds. It may just be some fun. It may be associated with important thinking, perspectives and realities.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Movies on UFOs, other worlds help public acclimation?
By Steve Hammons
Recent, current and upcoming movies on stories related to UFOs, off-Earth civilizations and how humans fit into the situation continue to emerge from Hollywood.
A few examples include Aliens in the Attic, a kid-and-family-friendly movie released in July. Planet 51, scheduled to open in November, is an animated film and another one for kids and families.
The dark and introspective District 9 hit theatres in August and seemed to strike a chord with audiences and critics. The Fourth Kind, dealing with abductions of humans, takes the genre to a different level and audiences can check it out beginning this November.
James Cameron’s Avatar, due out in December, is already creating a buzz and promises to be visually exciting and thought-provoking.
And Curmudgeon Films recently obtained the rights to the story of an alleged Area 51 scientist for a movie project tentatively titled S-4: The Incredible True Story of Bob Lazar.
MEDIA AND ACCLIMATION
Are these films and many other creative works helping people prepare psychologically and emotionally for possible significant developments regarding UFOs and encounters with non-human and/or human-related beings from elsewhere?
To explore this question, we do not necessarily need to believe that UFOs and non-human or human-related civilizations are involved here on Earth. However, most people would say this is possible. Some people say it is probable. And others claim that it is a reality – a reality we need to deal with.
For people who are interested, the study of such situations is challenging. There seems to be much speculation and misinformation.
There also appear to be very interesting and well-researched documents, witness testimony and strong circumstantial indications that something along these lines has been going on.
In the mid-1950s, Walt Disney was reportedly approached by the U.S. Air Force and development of a documentary film about visitation of aliens to Earth was allegedly started. However, the plug was pulled on this project.
In subsequent decades, many “fictional” movies and TV shows did emerge that dealt with this topic in various ways. This trend continues now.
People can speculate about if this is an organized acclimation effort to prepare Americans and people around the world for an unconventional situation, or if it is just the creativity, imagination and money-making sense of the movie and TV businesses.
Either way, it is probably true that kids, teens and adults are today more prepared for the possibility or reality of the existence of non-human or human-related extraterrestrials, beings from other dimensions or similar kinds of unconventional scenarios because of movies, TV shows and books on these subjects.
SPECIAL SCENARIOS
Much has been written and discussed about the so-called “Majestic” or “MJ-12” group of experts reportedly formed after the Roswell incident.
Fewer people probably have heard of the alleged U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps “Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU),” which, it is claimed, may have been active even before the Roswell case, due to previous intelligence about unconventional situations.
Reports of activities like these could indicate that, as part of dealing with a complex scenario, U.S. leaders realized that the American people would need to be informed and prepared in some way that did not cause undue social or other problems.
Indirect methods such as movies, TV programs, books and other creative endeavors would naturally be resources that could accomplish this. The close bonds formed between Hollywood and the defense community during World War II could have been leveraged to deal with this new challenge.
It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Some of the recent and upcoming movies, like those before them, take a good, hard look not only at “aliens,” but also at ourselves – the human race. This seems to be a necessary part of acclimation about how we might interact with or respond to encounters with others.
The scenario of human contact with more advanced civilizations is often compared to the experience of Native American Indians who encountered the technologically more advanced Europeans beginning in the 1500s until the “conquest” of what is now the western U.S. in the late 1800s.
The Native American Indian tribes, cultures and civilizations suffered quite a bit from this interaction. This is an understatement.
Would this happen to our own human cultures in the face of a technologically-superior race from elsewhere? This is a question that has been carefully considered by many researchers.
BE PREPARED
Preparing ourselves for the possibility or reality of contact like this seems to be wise. Being prepared for possible situations of many kinds is usually a good idea. This can enhance safety and the chances for good outcomes.
Movies, TV, books and other kinds of creative activities have an important part to play in these efforts. They help us explore and consider various possibilities. They prepare us psychologically, emotionally and spiritually, as well as forming common perceptions among us that might be helpful.
Of course, there are other unusual and thought-provoking subjects that may be both related, to and somewhat independent of, the topics of UFOs and visitors.
These include leading-edge thoughts and scientific research into teleportation, time travel, anti-gravity methodologies, advanced human perception, life after death and similar kinds of subjects. Plenty of movies and creative works have tackled these topics too, often with great results.
I like to think that my own two novels, Mission Into Light and the sequel Light’s Hand, as well as the subsequent movie screenplay and two TV pilot scripts based on them, help move the ball forward in these areas.
The books tell the story of the “Joint Reconnaissance Study Group,” a San Diego-based U.S. joint-military service and intelligence team of ten women and men who are tasked with conducting special research and operations. The novels bring readers and viewers into the inner workings of this special activities group as they explore different kinds of mysterious phenomena and the connections between them.
My adaptation of the books to a movie screenplay and a one-hour TV pilot, both closely based on the novels, might also spark interest along the way.
A two-hour TV pilot written by two other screenwriters, based more loosely on my novels, is also a good example of using the TV media to entertain and inform. With the help and guidance from a highly-qualified science advisor, we made sure that our concepts were sound.
Maybe one day these projects will make it to the big or small screen. It would be rewarding to think that these works could contribute not only to the body of worthwhile film and TV projects, but also help somewhat in the larger situations we might face.
Recent, current and upcoming movies on stories related to UFOs, off-Earth civilizations and how humans fit into the situation continue to emerge from Hollywood.
A few examples include Aliens in the Attic, a kid-and-family-friendly movie released in July. Planet 51, scheduled to open in November, is an animated film and another one for kids and families.
The dark and introspective District 9 hit theatres in August and seemed to strike a chord with audiences and critics. The Fourth Kind, dealing with abductions of humans, takes the genre to a different level and audiences can check it out beginning this November.
James Cameron’s Avatar, due out in December, is already creating a buzz and promises to be visually exciting and thought-provoking.
And Curmudgeon Films recently obtained the rights to the story of an alleged Area 51 scientist for a movie project tentatively titled S-4: The Incredible True Story of Bob Lazar.
MEDIA AND ACCLIMATION
Are these films and many other creative works helping people prepare psychologically and emotionally for possible significant developments regarding UFOs and encounters with non-human and/or human-related beings from elsewhere?
To explore this question, we do not necessarily need to believe that UFOs and non-human or human-related civilizations are involved here on Earth. However, most people would say this is possible. Some people say it is probable. And others claim that it is a reality – a reality we need to deal with.
For people who are interested, the study of such situations is challenging. There seems to be much speculation and misinformation.
There also appear to be very interesting and well-researched documents, witness testimony and strong circumstantial indications that something along these lines has been going on.
In the mid-1950s, Walt Disney was reportedly approached by the U.S. Air Force and development of a documentary film about visitation of aliens to Earth was allegedly started. However, the plug was pulled on this project.
In subsequent decades, many “fictional” movies and TV shows did emerge that dealt with this topic in various ways. This trend continues now.
People can speculate about if this is an organized acclimation effort to prepare Americans and people around the world for an unconventional situation, or if it is just the creativity, imagination and money-making sense of the movie and TV businesses.
Either way, it is probably true that kids, teens and adults are today more prepared for the possibility or reality of the existence of non-human or human-related extraterrestrials, beings from other dimensions or similar kinds of unconventional scenarios because of movies, TV shows and books on these subjects.
SPECIAL SCENARIOS
Much has been written and discussed about the so-called “Majestic” or “MJ-12” group of experts reportedly formed after the Roswell incident.
Fewer people probably have heard of the alleged U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps “Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU),” which, it is claimed, may have been active even before the Roswell case, due to previous intelligence about unconventional situations.
Reports of activities like these could indicate that, as part of dealing with a complex scenario, U.S. leaders realized that the American people would need to be informed and prepared in some way that did not cause undue social or other problems.
Indirect methods such as movies, TV programs, books and other creative endeavors would naturally be resources that could accomplish this. The close bonds formed between Hollywood and the defense community during World War II could have been leveraged to deal with this new challenge.
It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Some of the recent and upcoming movies, like those before them, take a good, hard look not only at “aliens,” but also at ourselves – the human race. This seems to be a necessary part of acclimation about how we might interact with or respond to encounters with others.
The scenario of human contact with more advanced civilizations is often compared to the experience of Native American Indians who encountered the technologically more advanced Europeans beginning in the 1500s until the “conquest” of what is now the western U.S. in the late 1800s.
The Native American Indian tribes, cultures and civilizations suffered quite a bit from this interaction. This is an understatement.
Would this happen to our own human cultures in the face of a technologically-superior race from elsewhere? This is a question that has been carefully considered by many researchers.
BE PREPARED
Preparing ourselves for the possibility or reality of contact like this seems to be wise. Being prepared for possible situations of many kinds is usually a good idea. This can enhance safety and the chances for good outcomes.
Movies, TV, books and other kinds of creative activities have an important part to play in these efforts. They help us explore and consider various possibilities. They prepare us psychologically, emotionally and spiritually, as well as forming common perceptions among us that might be helpful.
Of course, there are other unusual and thought-provoking subjects that may be both related, to and somewhat independent of, the topics of UFOs and visitors.
These include leading-edge thoughts and scientific research into teleportation, time travel, anti-gravity methodologies, advanced human perception, life after death and similar kinds of subjects. Plenty of movies and creative works have tackled these topics too, often with great results.
I like to think that my own two novels, Mission Into Light and the sequel Light’s Hand, as well as the subsequent movie screenplay and two TV pilot scripts based on them, help move the ball forward in these areas.
The books tell the story of the “Joint Reconnaissance Study Group,” a San Diego-based U.S. joint-military service and intelligence team of ten women and men who are tasked with conducting special research and operations. The novels bring readers and viewers into the inner workings of this special activities group as they explore different kinds of mysterious phenomena and the connections between them.
My adaptation of the books to a movie screenplay and a one-hour TV pilot, both closely based on the novels, might also spark interest along the way.
A two-hour TV pilot written by two other screenwriters, based more loosely on my novels, is also a good example of using the TV media to entertain and inform. With the help and guidance from a highly-qualified science advisor, we made sure that our concepts were sound.
Maybe one day these projects will make it to the big or small screen. It would be rewarding to think that these works could contribute not only to the body of worthwhile film and TV projects, but also help somewhat in the larger situations we might face.
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