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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Bilocation, Doppelgangers and Men In Black

John Keel wrote a book called the Mothman Prophecies that is entertaining, and at times unnerving. However, I felt the truly interesting takeaway from the book is his assertion that all paranormal phenomena, such as ghosts, UFO's, Sasquatch, aliens, Men In Black, and other phenomena such as bi location( a living person being in two places at the same time), clairvoyance, strange electrical disturbances, and the like are all interrelated.

Specifically, his opinion was that they somehow were projections or reactions to human consciousness or human energy, perhaps in another dimension. He thought that what people are experiencing in this realm are individual or collective projections of their own thoughts, conscious or subconscious. He also felt this explained why all of the above phenomena are always ephemeral in nature, often have little evidence outside of witness accounts, and never seem to make themselves easily known when one is actually looking to find them. John was an interesting an entertaining author, and this was a new take on some very well worn topics. He considered himself a Fortean author rather than a UFOlogist

Keel's point was that believers of one type of phenomena rarely believe in another (ESP vs Bigfoot for example), but that all the phenomena share more in common they do actual differences. While this theory is impossible to prove or disprove, it does take me back to the idea that human consciousness and our ultimate understanding of it and the mechanics of the universe is very limited. Perhaps we all have the ability to interact on many levels that we are only dimly aware of, that come to us by way of "intuition", "dreams" or "hunches", but that our logical selves, only recently developed on the evolutionary time scale, blocks out of our daily awareness.

Much like infrared light or X-ray radiation, just because we cannot experientially see or understand a phenomena at will does not negate its existence. It merely means we do not yet have the means to be in control of our awareness of that phenomena. Check out this link for further research of psychic phenomena.

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