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Book Review: The Nine: Briefing from Deep Space

By Stuart Holroyd

My travels as an editor have led me to this book from the latest book to be released by White Crow Books in the series from New Thinking Allowed. Since the New York Times release of Naval video footage and a story by Leslie Kean, the discussion around UFOs (or UAPs now) has gone from fringe woo-woo to “Hey, there must be something to this after all.” As a result, the book I’m editing has come from transcripts by people Dr. Mishlove has interviewed over the years who know about “alien encounters”. Only one has to do with the physical close encounters of the name-your-number. The rest are about the experiences of the victims or, as we say in parapsychology “the experiencers”.

I am not a believer in the “alien visitor” hypothesis considering that we have so little data about the origins of these phenomena but I do think something is going on, and has since we branched off from our ape ancestors to begin the genus “Homo”. If I’m starting to sound like the ancient astronaut theorists from the History Channel, please continue reading so I may disavow this idea and explain further what I mean.

One of the interviewees brought up this book called The Nine during their discussion with Dr. Mishlove and I thought it would be worth checking into. This is the book blurb:

Stuart Holroyd, skeptical, open-minded, and well-informed, became 

Observer to a remarkable U.S. group of psychics headed by a famous American scientist and an English aristocrat. They claimed that they had made contact with galactic intelligences and their “evidence” was astounding…

– Did three “selected” minds help to avert world disaster?

-Was the group in constant communication with extraterrestrials?

-Was it possible for these alien intelligences to effect a landing on Earth?

-Had they, in fact, already visited Earth in previous centuries?

-Did the group’s meditations avert Kissinger’s assassination and a Middle East holocaust?

from the book’s back cover

This is a pretty good summary of what I read. You’re probably wondering why Henry Kissinger is involved. This book was written in 1977 after the Middle East was having fits about Israel. Yes, I read this book just before Hamas invaded Israel in October 2023 taking prisoners, killing Jews and anyone else they came across which included Americans. The synchronicity is not lost on me.

The writer, Stuart Holroyd, is a British author famous for being one of the original “Angry Young Men” in the 1950s before it gained popularity in the 1960s. He went from being angry to looking into the paranormal and esoteric. The American scientist was Andrija Puharich who had over fifty patents, primarily medical, one of which involved hearing aids. He studied several very powerful mediums, healers, and Uri Geller, the Israeli famous for spoon-bending and other psychokinetic feats. The aristocrat was Sir John Whitmore, a racecar driver who had a near-death experience, which caused him to sell his pile in England and use his fortune to bankroll Puharich’s work for a while. The third was a trance medium named Phyllis Schlemmer, the Transceiver of the Nine. Several other people were tangentially involved with the project including a young man named Bobby who was to be an important addition to the group but opted not to stay.

Andrija Puharic and Uri Geller (1972)
Phyllis Schlemmer
Sir John Whitmore

The Council of Nine, as they called themselves, spoke through Phyllis while Whitmore and Puharich listened, sometimes using a tape recorder to capture what the Nine said. The author treats these events in chronological order and determines, from the many interactions the three principles had with The Nine, those communications he deemed were coherent and important. Interspersed throughout are reality checks. Holroyd pulls the reader through the fourth wall to say, “Hey, yeah, this reads like fiction, but I promise you, this stuff happened.” And, “Yeah, I bet you’re thinking ‘pull the other one’ right now, but if you look at it, it could just be nine super powerful dudes talking to these three humans.”

Puharich took these communications in stride since this wasn’t his first rodeo. He had worked with a transceiver and a healer and had received similar messages. However, the three principles frequently squabbled and their egos interfered with the plan on occasion. It is fun to read The Nine rebuking three accomplished adults over their issues with one another, but that’s where the fun ends and the explosions go off in your mind as you continue to read. Taking what The Nine say at face value as the author recommends, a series of messages peeking into their reality unfolds that would make Philip K. Dick freak. Like the President of the United States has several members of the White House Press Corp, The Nine used several spokes-entities as liaisons to speak through Phyllis, primarily one named Tom. 

The primary reason The Nine were in contact with the three was to avert a devastating possible World War III with Israel as the center of the conflict. Whitmore, Puharic, and Schlemmer together apparently made a perfect “human” to work through and with to achieve these goals. Bobby would have been a better transceiver but, according to Tom, he forgot what he came here to do. When asked why they didn’t force him, manipulate him, or use other tactics to convince him of the importance of his task, they replied that we humans have free will and The Nine cannot interfere, even if humans made the choice before coming to this planet. The message here is that we come to this life on planet Earth with a plan for our lives, but our memories get wiped and we may not achieve our goals. We also have free will to do with our lives as we want. It’s not all candy on Halloween though. If we don’t achieve our goals here, we get to go through remedial school when we leave our lives here and before we can progress to higher planes. 

Other messages and information include:

  • “…more advanced technologies would help ensure the survival of the planet”
  • Bioengineering. Both Phyllis and Bobby were re-engineered to be better transceivers.
  • “…dark forces that try to prevent all this happening, and one of their ways is to insinuate false teachings in the communications. It is not so difficult for them for they are sly and under the guise of something fine, they can be misleading.”
  • They had different forms as if they were from different planets
  • Many different types of craft would land over nine days leaving teachers behind to help Earth evolve (this is a future event).
  • “To raise the vibration of the souls, to bring them out of darkness – and when we say darkness, we do not mean negativity but true darkness – for they do not see and do not understand the cosmic, and they also do not understand that when they hate and when they are angry, this creates a problem for the universe. Only by raising the level of the consciousness of this planet, and perfecting the love and the core that is inside each human being, can we go on then to perfect other planets in the galaxies. This planet is one of the lowest that the soul comes to learn a lesson. The tragedy of this planet is its density. It is like a mire; it is sticky, and these beings get trapped in this stickiness…we are going to raise the level of this planet, make it a lighter planet. The energy then coming from it will be sent into the universe and will help raise the levels of consciousness and the levels of other planets…”
  • “…this planet has lagged behind, it hasn’t progressed like it’s supposed to…beneath this planet…are other beings, other civilizations, that there are other people with more technology that can help raise it, but this planet is so bogged down in pure ego, and without harmony and out of balance, that it’s upsetting the master plan.”
  • The Nine are equivalent to the top cosmic governing council
  • There is no other planet like Earth and every being that exists in the Universe must take a turn here. If this planet fails, then all the souls that haven’t had a turn here will not obtain the necessary growth.
  • UFOs come from many places, including the place The Nine inhabit, but many are not physical, just appear to be.
  • “…[The Nine] are not God. All of you and all of us make God…Many of your physical beings deify other physical beings, when it is truly them.”
  • “Many souls when they die are trapped in the atmosphere and are evolved over and over on this planet, and seem to be going nowhere. This planet was originally created to teach a being balance between the spiritual and the physical world, and so these beings never evolve beyond the belt of this planet. Their desires hold them to this planet.”
  • The emissary, Tom said, “The difficulty we have in understanding the problems you have in this gross heavy density world that as physical beings you must exist upon…”

Dr. Puharich had worked with another transceiver prior to Phyllis named D.G. Vinod who had achieved contact with The Nine. He had also worked with, and wrote a book about, Uri Geller who, Puharich claimed, had abilities given to him from superhuman entities which he said were The Nine. 

This can be taken at face value and be applied to the unknown experiences that humans have had even before the Roswell event’s flying saucers. This could also be a misinformation campaign if you are to believe those who think that Puharic was using mind control to test CIA tactics. Those people skeptical of Puharic tend to have a Christian philosophy and are against The Nine because they have been quoted as saying that Christianity is based on a false premise. Tom called Jesus of Nazareth the “Nazarene” and claimed he was simply human but given many superhuman abilities to guide humanity forward. Instead, we deified Jesus and created another religion. I guess you can see why Christians would be miffed and would want to debunk The Nine.

There is the issue of veridical data. None of the tapes that Puharic made exist and much of the experimental data has not been shared by the Stanford Research Institute researchers who looked at Uri Geller’s ability. Over and over in this book and the book “Uri”, Puharic claims that the tapes were wiped and the documentation disappeared. One has to wonder why that happened or even if it did. Why was a book about The Nine written but no proof provided? Is this another trick like the Scientology philosophy? Was it a CIA brainwashing program? Why were so many influential people involved? Why is The Nine still so pervasive today, especially amongst the wealthy and powerful? And, what happened to Puharic when he returned to the U.S.?

Without proof, we can only speculate.

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And So It Begins….

You would think that finally getting a book edited, re-written, re-edited, designed, and uploaded for epub platforms would feel like “Well done, mate,” but it’s just the beginning. 

I still remember vividly walking into the Rhine during the Wednesday weekly research meeting and being met with cordial greetings. I was so excited to get started on my psychometry thriller. The very first chapter was already written:

A woman is working late in an office. She rubs her palms nervously along her skirt as she waits for the jump drive to finish uploading a file. The room is dark, with just a few lights on here or there making every corner a possible hiding place for something sinister. As the progress bar reaches one hundred percent, she grasps the jump drive and quickly shuts down the computer she isn’t supposed to have access to. The drive goes into a zippered pouch in her purse as she gets up to leave, feeling a bit less nervous. She wasn’t noticed, it’ll be fine. Echoes of her heels clicking on the polished wooden floors sound like little gunshots. She stops to remove her shoes and continues to the elevator in bare feet. If only she could stop the sound from her rapid heartbeats which seemed, to her, a dead giveaway to her position. She presses the down button, then, again and again, it is taking too long. Was that movement over there? The air conditioner whooshes to life and she jumps at the sound before recognizing it’s benign. The interminable elevator dings its arrival slowly opening its doors in mockery of her desire to be gone. She glances into the car for any other travelers, then enters pushing the lobby button several times to make sure the elevator is aware of her impatience. 

The doors open upon a darkened corridor, wide with shuttered shops and cafes along either side. She glances first down one side and then the other, listening for any movement, footfall, or breath. Satisfied that she is alone, the woman heads to the exit down the corridor to the right. Her walk is more brisk than usual and she fails to mask the sound of her movements. Just this right turn and then the door out of here, she thinks, breaking into a quicker gait. She rounds the corner, in sight of the glass exit doors, when a hand grasps her purse, forcing her to twirl in place. All she sees is a flash of metal, and then wetness oozes down her front. The assailant pulls the purse from her grasp and leaves her to hold her throat together with both her hands as she tries to bring air into her blood-filled trachea. She collapses to the floor. The last thing her ears perceive is the rapidly receding click, click of the murderer’s shoes, and the bang of the exit door. The last thing she sees as her vision tunnels is her outstretched arm with the charm bracelet that means so much to her.  

“Not again!” Violette said, who was grasping the charm bracelet in her left hand. 

That was a pretty good first chapter in my humble opinion, but now I had to learn more about psychometry and how psychics and law enforcement worked together to solve crimes. It wasn’t long after that Sally Rhine Feather said “Elizabeth, once you finish that novel, could you work on one for young people?” And Calliope O’Callahan was born. However, after every meeting I attended, every book and research paper I read, and every talk I listened to, I realized how deeply rich the world of parapsychology is. Like a kid in a candy store, I wanted Callie to have all the abilities known to science, but that isn’t realistic. I was also more interested in the experiences and the effects than in the characters I created. My first completed draft went to a content editor. She looked at the story and found the characters flat and the middle to be quite boring. After I pulled myself off the floor, I learned more about the craft of writing, especially what makes a character’s journey compelling. The next three years were spent on this journey until I felt I had a draft worth sending out to a few interested readers. Their notes were encouraging so off to the second editor it went. 

The next fun part was publishing. I listened to numerous authors and other members of the publishing world compare and contrast self-publishing with traditional publishing. The last few years with Amazon as King Kong has thrown traditional publishing into a tizzy. I won’t bore you with details, but it’s why I went the self-publishing route. Self-publishing is like opening your own business, so I have to absorb the costs and responsibilities of my copyright (book). I am fortunate to have a freshly graduated mass media major helping me with social media, but I enjoy teaching, so I’ll be going to events when that is possible, and I will add those to my website. 

After this six-year trek, I’m a published author, member of several parapsychology organizations, copy-editor for New Thinking Allowed publications and for the Journal of Parapsychology and newly minted member of the board for the Rhine. With these bona fides, I attended a local fan convention called ConGregate 9 in Winston-Salem to speak about parapsychology. Fans love paranormal subjects but have little if any awareness of what parapsychologists study, or that any of these experiences are real. It wasn’t attended by a large number of people, and as an unknown, I didn’t get top billing for my panels, but a con runner needs to think about what the fans want and I needed to keep my mind on the primary goal: get the subject of parapsychology out to a new group of people. It went well, and there was awe, support, curiosity, and vindication, which was very cool. I hope you can attend one of these fan conventions one day, or perhaps a library talk is more your speed, either way, it would be great to meet you to discuss more about your journey into parapsychology.

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Could Dark Matter be the Stuff of the Other Side?

I have been listening to the Yale philosopher Christopher Noёl on the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel and have had my mind blown away. With all the years of research I’ve been doing, I had pretty much ignored where our souls/spirit selves go when leaving this mortal realm. It’s kinda over there in the corner somewhere and then in another dimension, perhaps. Or, it’s a pocket universe that makes it hard for people of that realm to communicate with us, or we’re simply downloaded into an information field. 

Rather, I have become more excited about the latest Journal of Parapsychology paper about how parapsychologists could create an overarching theory of psi as those early biologists did the theory of evolution (“Toward a “Parapsychological Synthesis”: Proposals for Integrating Theories of Psi” by Michael Nahm). It goes into detail about the sundry and various hypotheses that were finally wrangled into a cohesive and coherent theory that could be accepted by science at large. When parapsychology as a science does this with the theory of psi, it will be one step closer to an accepted scientific endeavor. What Christopher Noël says about dark matter might be another option.

When I saw Christopher Noël’s interview on his most current book There Is No Veil: At Play in the Vast Here and Now, I was intrigued. He is a philosopher, which means he looks at life from unusual perspectives, pushing us out of the boundaries of our current modes of thought. I am an autodidact philosopher and can respect that trait in others even if it can be frustrating for the paradigm-thinkers. He begins with a story almost typical in American teenage society pre-social media: with an Ouija board. I cringe inwardly at this because it isn’t a particularly safe tool to use. It’s akin to leaving the front door of your house wide open after having sent invitations to strangers to come on in. Of course, that’s what happened to young Christopher and his companions, a low spirit who felt too guilty to move on to the next realm came into the house for a little tête-a-tête. They were lucky that this weighty soul had no ill intent toward them, he simply needed them to get married and have a girl child to replace the daughter he’d killed. You can’t make this stuff up guys. Of course, Christopher didn’t marry his friend and have the child, which frustrated the dead guy no end, but it did open up a mental door in Christopher’s mind. He, like I, did not have a cultural impediment preventing him from contemplating what this visitation meant. 

Later, he read Vera Rubin’s hypothesis about why galaxies behave as they do, that the speed of the outer solar systems within those galaxies was the same as those closer to the galactic center. This shouldn’t happen unless there is invisible matter using gravity to move them along to the tune of ten times more invisible matter than visible. What did this mean to Christopher Noël? That we’re swimming in dark matter, it’s all around us and more pervasive than the matter we can perceive. Imagine going down to the bottom of a deep ocean trench with movie director/producer James Cameron and you photograph a fish. That fish has spent its entire life miles below the surface in pitch-dark, cold, high-pressure seawater. That fish never goes to the surface and only knows this environment. To us, it appears to be the harshest and loneliest place on earth, but this creature knows no different. Not to mention, this fish does not perceive James Cameron in his high-tech bathysphere as he tries to get its attention for a photo op.

Christopher takes a leap of logic and hypothesizes that this dark matter may be the stuff of our next life evolution. Let me take you along the trajectory of that leap so you might understand better what he’s thinking. Dark matter and dark energy are not visible to us nor to our measuring devices. We can only see their effects on the matter in the universe. This is akin to circumstances before the invention of the microscope where instead of bacteria, viruses, and fungi causing disease, something called “bad humors” was the culprit and leeches were the cure. We can frequently see effects before we understand the cause in science which pushes us to make better devices for perception and measurement. Now, through the use of microscopes, we know that it’s single-celled organisms causing us so much trouble. 

Why is dark matter currently impossible to perceive even with our advanced telescopes and spectrophotometers? It may be that it exists at a different frequency than our visible matter does. It may be less dense with its atoms having more space between nucleus and electrons. Perhaps the only perception device able to handle the presence of dark matter is the human brain. Every once in a while, something made of dark matter may be able to consciously lower its frequency to our level of visible matter and voila: ghost.

At the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, a number of physical mediums were given credit for creating a mysterious substance that was later called ectoplasm. Noises, shapes, the sudden appearance of objects (apports), movements, all of these things were attributed to the medium. Perhaps the truth is that the spirits could condense their atoms, attune their frequencies to match our own, and create matter from what appeared to be thin air. They could manipulate our matter from their realm to make things happen for us to perceive. It may explain, Christopher states, why it tends to feel cold around ghost events because of the rapid deflation necessary for the ghost to manipulate our environment (e.g. dry ice or liquid nitrogen) or apported items feel hot to the touch when they first appear (rapid increase in density).

I had the pleasure to listen to Laura Lynn Jackson who has a cameo appearance in my first book (under a different name). She is one seriously talented psychic medium who has the infectious joy of a saint. When asked where the other side might be, she said, “It’s right here” pointing directly in front of her. She told us that our spirit guides and soul family are present all around us all the time. They are trying to make contact with us but it’s difficult because we’re not paying attention. She said that they find it easier to manipulate things that have energy flowing through them or are affected by electromagnetism. They may cause lights to flicker or they may change the T.V. channel while you’re watching a show. All of those little glitches we tend to put down to mechanical failure. It sure does sound like something an entity from a higher frequency realm might do to get our attention.

Christopher mentions that Fredrick Meyers, founder of the Society for Psychical Research (1882), visited famous medium Geraldine Cummins thirty years after his death. He described his new home to her: 

It is a structure so fine, it is invisible to the mortal eye and the finest  instruments of the scientists. Ether is a bad term, but I cannot find another word to define it. This is a kind of air or as I would like to say, a fluid or an emanation. It is the ancestor of matter as we know it.

Noël states further that the etheric body that inhabits our physical body may be why we have evidence of out-of-body and near-death experiences. The etheric body just goes on a walkabout and then reinhabits the corporeal body once more. It could also be why psychokinesis works. People may have the ability to manipulate the dark matter/visible matter ratio within an object to make it move the way they want (e.g. table levitation). Or spirit knocks which are measurably different from rapping on an object with a knuckle or tool. They have a noise spike like pressure has built up in an object and then is suddenly released.

This is where my mind went blewy. I’ve been spending time considering that our matter was being controlled by a complex set of software, that or we’re living in a holographic universe as avatars. His hypothesis never even computed before, but makes so much sense. Not only that, but it means that with the advent of better measuring and perception devices, we humans might be able to bridge the gap between our perceived universe and that of the spirits.

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Jeffrey Mishlove and “New Thinking Allowed”

My history with parapsychology began when I walked into a weekly research meeting at the Rhine Research facility just off the Duke University campus (please see my post about J.B. and Louisa Rhine). A group of mostly retired psychologists was discussing the most recent article in the Journal of Parapsychology as I sat down at the table. I was unemployed and working as a volunteer at the local museum so I was wearing the volunteer T-shirt at the time. I told the group that I was not a researcher, nor was I interested in being one, and that I wanted to write accurately about parapsychology. Thus began my journey into the deep and vast ocean of books, research papers, and websites involved with the subject. 

I spent as much time as I could in the Alex Tanous library reading from the hundreds of books it has, I took courses and participated in research studies, but I still wanted to learn more. Of course, I surfed the net and landed on the “New Thinking Allowed” YouTube channel where hundreds of videos on subjects ranging from aliens to meditation can be found. I tried to stick to videos on telepathy, dowsing, remote viewing, and mediumship, but the other titles tantalized me enough to delve further into related subjects.

Jeffrey Mishlove is the current host of the channel and he’s been the public face of parapsychology since his original public television show “Thinking Allowed” began in 1986. He migrated to YouTube with the “New Thinking Allowed” in 2015 where he has posted both taped interviews and live stream events several times a week. 

Dr. Mishlove is the only parapsychologist to have received his Ph.D. from an accredited American University migrating from an anomalous psychology interest that had him working with people incarcerated in prison. He wrote two books “The Roots of Consciousness” which was his doctoral dissertation and “The PK Man” about Ted Owens, a talented psychokinetic whom Jeffrey researched. He won the Bigelow Institute essay contest in 2021 with his piece “Beyond the Brain” about survival after bodily death which brings many concepts together into a “bundle of sticks” creating strong evidence for life after death. He is not your run-of-the-mill researcher, rather he is a most knowledgeable and patient interviewer who brings out the most in his guests.

I applied to the New Thinking Allowed foundation to be a volunteer beginning with editing the closed captions on the YouTube channel. Since I suffer from hearing loss and tinnitus, I find accurate subtitling to be important for those in the hearing-impaired community and worked on many videos along with a team of four others. Jeffrey put out a request for editors to work on a book he wants to publish (and hopefully will be) called “Psychic Liberation”, a compilation of a few dozen YouTube transcripts. We worked on this for over two years meeting once every few weeks with Jeffrey to discuss our progress and assignments. I got a chance to look at the first draft of “Beyond the Brain” and found the arguments compelling as did the judges from the Bigelow Institute. I recommend that you go through this multi-media essay for one of the most definitive and thorough arguments for the survival of consciousness that I’ve ever seen. 

Amongst his many distinctions, Jeffrey also managed to win a libel case against The Amazing Randi who had made claims in the Journal of Psychology that Jeffrey did not have a degree in parapsychology and that, if he did, he was obviously incompetent. Had he not won that court case, he would not have been inducted into the various scientific associations that have benefitted from his membership.
Although I have great respect for Jeffrey, you will not see a character based on him in my novels (yet). That being said, if you want to watch some really cool, mind-bendingly informative videos about the esoteric, sign up for the weekly newsletter at NewThinkingAllowed.org.

The New Thinking Allowed Foundation has just released its maiden periodical called “New Thinking Allowed” magazine for Spring 2023. You can find it here. For future releases and interviews, join the New Thinking Allowed newsletter.

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On Alien Visitation

My favorite movie of all time is “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. On the surface, you might claim that that makes me an UFOlogist or heavily into alien visitations. Well, my eleven-year old self was, but then I grew up. “Close Encounters” is really a film about facing the scary unknowns and finding out that they are pretty amazing and magical when you find the courage and tenacity to explore them further. As an eleven-year old growing up in Kansas, I had no idea about alien visitation or what the three levels of alien encounters were. With no internet at the time and well before Mulder and Scully were on the search for the truth, I had to find books on the subject…in the library. The Roswell crash, of course, piqued the interest of those who believed that our federal government had been keeping alien encounters under wraps, but this was the cold war and they could have been keeping a Soviet plane crash quiet.

I was also alive during the first moon walk, the first space shuttle launch (and crash) and the Voyager missions. My generation got to watch astronauts and probes expand us beyond our little rock three spaces from the sun. We learned the extreme difficulties of launching people into the treacherous depths of our solar system to the point that we still haven’t sent humanned missions to Mars, Ganymede or any other suitable location forty years later. Our best and brightest, who lived for space travel, questioned whether aliens would be able, much less willing, to travel to our planet and why. They would have to be so far beyond our meager skills just to leave their own solar system and then travel for decades or centuries just to make it to our neck of the Milky Way (see Kardashev scale). Their reasons to travel here would have to be compelling and a few, just plain scary. To travel this far and not make official contact, not use our planetary resources, not try to supplant the dominant species on the Earth makes no sense. If you research further, you will find there is a progenitor claiming physical evidence of alien abductions, encounters and alien ships, the other UFOlogists are parroting his claims. The physical evidence simply isn’t there.

For a lark, I watched an episode of “New Thinking Allowed” with Joseph Burkes, an Emergency medicine physician who spent his youth as an activist and then later as a close encounter seeker. I was listening half-heartedly hearing much of what I’d heard for decades until the last ten minutes of the show when he made a claim that I hadn’t heard from xenophiles before: we aren’t being visited physically, we are being visited holographically. Dr. Burkes who had written a chapter in the book “Paths to Contact”, is now more of a proponent of psychic rather than physical alien visitation. Here are Dr. Burkes’ comments:

“…Experiencers describe over fifty different phenotypes of so-called ETs. (The term “phenotype” refers to category by appearance.) How is this possible? Where do they all come from?

Is the entire galaxy sending representative to visit us, mostly at night, in our dreams, and in our fantasies? Are there dimensional portals allowing such beings to enter into our reality from other planes of existence? Why is there such a terrible paucity of physical evidence?

We are left with narratives and the rather simple-minded formula that for many goes. “If you remember it then it physically occurred.” Back in 1990 during a series of contact experiences I believe that I was actually shown by an intelligence associated with flying saucers how they create illusion. It was a kind of “show and tell” lesson that one might use to instruct children. Thus, I came up with the Virtual Experience Model. According to this schema the “ETs” can create hologram like displays that we interpret as “craft,” a Virtual Experience of the First Kind (VE-1)

2. According to an account in Dr Karla Turner’s “Masquerade of Angels”, they can create a virtual reality experience that is technologically mediated, a VE-2.

3. And according to Dr. Andrija Pucharich’s experience with Uri Geller in the 1970s the alleged aliens can create in us virtual memories, i.e. impregnated ones that don’t correspond to any physical event, a Virtual Experience of the Third Kind, VE-3.

courtesy of https://cryptozoologycryptids.fandom.com/wiki/Alien

One might ask, “So what if some of these different types of so-called aliens are just illusions? For all we know the assortment of phenotypes are created by some form of intelligent energy. They might be confounding us by produces visual displays that we interpret as physical beings, but in reality, are a kind of “masquerade of aliens.” If this is true then a radical reassessment of the entire field of UFO studies is in order. I imagine the resistance to this iconoclastic model is quite high. With not much success I have been promoting the Virtual Experience Model for nearly 20 years against what passes as “conventional wisdom in the UFO field. Despite my having to go against the current, it is my hope that understanding the mechanisms of contact will allow us to strengthen our investigations into “This Otherness That Experiencers Now Call ET.” This is one of my alternate designation for UFO intelligences.

The use of technologically mediated illusion can explain the confusing picture of close encounters with strikingly different phenotypes. Dozens of beings with radically different appearances might not exist at all, but rather we encounter them in a series of theater of the mind productions. With an ability to create virtual reality, or the technology to implant false memories that many recall as “abductions,” UFO intelligences could make it appear as if the whole galaxy is visiting Earth.”

Since I have been spending much of my free time researching psychic ability in its many and varied forms, this became a light switch moment for me. Apparitions, aliens, discarnates, animal spirits and other forms of communication coming at us when we’re not quite awake or alert may just be from a single universal consciousness. We may be generating a comfortable or desirable visage for the entity most of us long to communicate with. I brought this up at the Rhine’s weekly meeting and there were many nodding heads save one. We have a residential Carl Jung fan who sees these sorts of visions as originating within our own psyches. We can generate a self-inflicted hallucination if we want it badly enough just like the Lost Boys could bring Tinkerbell back by clapping. There are two places where this argument falls apart. First, there are people who have made claims of alien contact who were not actively seeking it, nor were they fans of aliens. Second, shared visions or mass hallucinations if you will, have occurred during Dr. Burke’s alien encounter sessions many, many times. Airplane pilots will agree about a UFO encounter and RADAR will pick up the rapidly moving blips. Sailors on ships will describe an event with incredible agreement, yet no physical proof exists. These people do not want to see anomalous events because their careers might be at risk for making a report to that effect. I doubt that their psyches were primed to see aliens. Mass psychic telepathy seems unrealistic as well. My hypothesis is like Dr. Burkes’ holographic projection that mimics a physical object somewhat like the projections on the holodeck in “Star Trek: Next Generation”. The other encounters during meditation, hypnogogic (just before sleep) or hypnopompic (waking) states, however, may be telepathic communication. Either way, to me this seems to be the most logical hypothesis for alleged alien contact.

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Book Review: “Our Secret Powers: Telepathy, Clairvoyance, and Precognition. A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal” by Terje Simonsen

I do hope you’re enjoying the educational aspect of this blog but, I confess, it is a spit in the ocean compared to the vastness of fiction, non-fiction, periodicals and white papers in the topic of Parapsychology. I have read a few dozen or more to diminish my ignorance, and though they have been helpful, I have found “Our Secret Powers” to be my new favorite go-to book. It is filled with so much enjoyably wrought information, I struggle to disseminate it properly in a simple blog entry, but I will try to touch on some of my favorite highlights.

I enjoy watching the Youtube channel “New Thinking Allowed” hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove which pretty much covers everything parapsychological amongst other esoteric topics. I stumbled across an interview with the author Terje Simonsen who is a Norwegian journalist of esoteric traditions. Though much of the interview touched on the previous books the author has penned, they also spoke a bit about “Our Secret Powers” which intrigued me enough to purchase the Ebook.  

If you’re a die-hard paranormal fan or believe in ESP, this book will educate you on the history of parapsychology, the types of ESP that exist and provide some fun stories of psychics in action. However, its main goal is to convince fence-sitters and mild skeptics that ESP and paranormal phenomena do exist and that scientists other than parapsychologists have found compelling evidence to support ESP. The author provides logical arguments to support his position and even outs some scientists (Marie Curie and Isaac Newton among them) as believers in occultism.

Chapter One begins with the recent archeological finding of King Richard III’s remains under a parking lot in London. The account of Philippa Langley, a screenplay writer and member of the Richard III society, is that after having spent many years researching Richard III and where his body might be buried, she had a feeling that she was in the right spot. Ironically, the spot had a letter R spray-painted next to it. Several more stories of successful excavations through clairvoyant means follow. The next chapter involves the Cold War fear that Soviet psychics were using their powers to harm important Americans. or find strategic places using Remote Viewing. The U.S. launches it’s competing barrage with what would eventually be called the Stargate Project. We learn more about the relationship between occultism and the burgeoning field of parapsychology and the anthropologists like Charles Darwin who wrote about unusual experiences on their expeditions. One chapter delves into the question about consciousness, another into thought yet another into the physics of ESP and more about transpersonal psychology. The topics run amok.

However, threaded throughout is the question “How did this happen?” How did a man named Swedenborg in 1759 describe a fire in Stockholm from about fifty miles away as it was happening? How did objects appear in mid-air in a kindergarten room and land on the floor unscathed? How did a man heal a baby suffering from months of cholic without ever having met the child? Do we live in a world where a field of consciousness links us all together? Is time a block where future and past are simply a construct of our brains?

Also liberally peppered amongst the anecdotes looms the scientist’s dilemma. There is no society more authoritarian than that of the experimental scientist. They must toe the line of conventionality building upon the structures of their predecessors never to deviate or suffer censure. Those mavericks who point and laugh at convention send their white papers to stuffy periodicals hoping for publication. But more often than not they suffer the worst possible fate: “The Emperor’s Wrath”. Scathing rebukes from fellow scientists follow such “offending” articles and the funding for these mavericks dries up. Parapsychologists can’t even catch a break on Wikipedia! Scientific method insists upon replication of experiments to prove the hypothesis, but paranormal phenomena are not so easily replicated. As a result, parapsychology, more of a non-physical, soft science, receives scorn from physical scientists. If more of those skeptical academics were to read this book, it might bring them around to the possibility that parapsychological study is worth expanding their views beyond the scientific method.