Thursday, January 23, 2014

Control Systems and The Imaging Of The Number's Game


Illusions and Allusions of Control Systems

This is a story of a glaring mismatch between mathematics, the realities the anomalous represent, and the control systems both physics and language represent in terms of our being boxed in by them while attempting to think outside of the box. The way these systems operate is so obvious as to make them buried in our psyches as not measurements but as real as say, the physicality of a brick.
Investigators may want to avail themselves of what the study of metalanguage offers. Metalanguage is the study of our communications languages and how we image reality through our references in that regard. A subtlety and discernment of how we project consciousness into predictable pathways, that can be a house of mirrors that we have a difficult time separating ourselves from. The formal and stable systems we rely on to control psychic states in order to derive rules seem to be projected upon everything outside of ourselves.
Why? It may be a presumption that theoretically we can control everything, whereas the paradox is that how we frame problematic issues that we cannot control is the result of internal cybernetic controls.

Round and round we go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalanguage

As Gregory Bateson once observed.. how nature works and how we think are two entirely opposing realities. Is this so?

On one hand we have Jacques Vallee a one point defining UAP as a "control system" which struck me as a compounding of the fact we are led by the cybernetics of our own control systems.
At some point it was if a statement were made that outside manipulations with a mathematical precision rather than the indelible internal forces were responsible for the frameworks of reality that we inhabit.

At the same time, we have Vallee and Davis regarding the events of Skinwalker ranch as representative of a physics of the incommensurable. Are you confused yet?

Have you noticed that when you dig deeper into the dialog of the anomalous, you find control systems at the heart of the entire framing of the questions we ask? Government conspiracies,"extraterrestrial" intent in terms of exploitation, psychic manipulation, advanced avionics control systems..the list of similar examples all project ourselves as being enmeshed within examples of rationality being a metaphor for control..

We have to ask, is anything controllable or are we projecting our own pathological habits elsewhere?

At times, physics and mathematics in of itself seems to have evolved into evidence of an observer effect when it comes to the number's game where the coherence of calculations fold back onto themselves into chaos when searching for a singularity within a formula that binds together numbers as a tool versus numbers as a reality.
The question to my mind is the extraordinary extent mathematics defines reality in an everyday sense, whether it is the daily stock market reports, birthdays, check stubs, calendar based rituals...the list seems endless.

That being said, how much of this has to do with the realities that exist beyond this scrim of mathematics?
Mathematics, much like it's counterpart in the cybernetic control systems of language as a human invention of measurement has gone beyond a tool to become a abstracted barometer of how we view the world, which for all we know, has nothing to do whatsoever of what we may be, and yet physics plunges ever deeper into crossing the line between math as a measurement to math as a definition.

When the theoretical meets the highway and seems to veer off into the median when it comes to the application of rationalism and logic to the universe and so we ourselves as an expression of a higher number, has led to a layering of parallel paradoxes.
The referential aspect of numbers now seems to draw an interest in numbers as a reality versus a measuring device. One thinks of the representations of so called "sacred geometry" or the diagrammatic signs and seals of the  medieval occultists attempting to create a magical circle to draw the imaginal into their influence, to in effect, do their bidding.


Not much has changed as far as I can tell. After I read the below linked essay, I came away with despite the increased complexity of physics, they are still focused on a predictable and mechanical model despite they are observing a moving target that also represents themselves, a target that is not fixed in amber and while we can find similarities in patterns of cycles, this essay brought to mind the role of images and imagination as in Ibn Al Arabi's cosmology that represents a continuum of flux  based on contingencies that have no fixity from where we sit.

He said the end result of this is the best we can find are similarities in the sum that is incommensurable. The existentialist thread of our times continues along the back alleys and detours that suggest a yearning for a magic formula that is a conclusive argument wherein there is no conclusion as this is at the root of both transience and evolution both inward and outward. The situation where physics can tie shoelaces only to find they have bound their feet together is perhaps more the story of the weaknesses of human psychology than it is an accurate representation of what will always be in it's aggregate sum...incommensurable.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129530.700-from-i-to-u-searching-for-the-quantum-master-bit.html#.UuFG-dUo7nA

All of this brought to mind my re-reading another essay that on the other hand, recognizes the role of incommensurate nature of UAP.

http://www.skinwalkerranch.org/images/Vallee-Davis-model.pdf

All of this has resulted in a clash of personalities which then I draw a line back to the search for a fixed mathematical formula for the realities we inhabit as well as experience. In this report the sociological bias is of course..technology as a representation by projection of the application of immutable laws, the universe as a hard shelled spacecraft and there is more than enough irony in this if we view this essay's main thrust as a metaphor such as the physics numbers game. Imaging and imagination in both cases come to the fore.
Again it seems to affirm my personal trend of lately considering that we imagine we are conscious.
And at the heart of this is a deeply buried question beyond our measurements, how do we imagine what does not already exist? This seems to be at the root of conscientiousness itself as representing the mutable rather than the fixed conceptual models of the universe we have at hand. This, in turn, reminds me of RA Wilson's observation that we live in "naive realism"

This has a direct bearing on the context of the anomalous, does it not?

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

"John Keel: Not An Authority On Anything"


A Review

Last night was one of those nights where I was physically tired around 10 PM and yet my mind was restless and for some unknown reason my mental state felt energized but had no particular task at hand to make use of this mixed bag of physiology.
Like many others do, I began roaming around the internet. Moving from subject to subject in a sort of autonomic trance, I came across this site which contains the notes, personal correspondences and other personal papers of John Keel. I spent what was probably about two hours going through this material, which, for me personally was an invaluable lesson in gaining a perspective on the man himself as well as the times in which he lived. It would be safe to say I came away with a new perspective on the present as well.
Writing a blog and writing for a living are of course, two entirely different universes and I was struck by the financial pressures he continually had to grapple with while pursuing the investigation and field work on reports that generally at that time fell into the category of Fortean events. Yet I was also struck by an open letter he wrote to those that he knew that were also investigating UFO reports in 1968 which heavily criticized the community and scene at that time for not cooperating with one another, the constant competition, the in fighting and the lack of any consistent methodology. This was nearly a half century ago.
It was then no surprise for me to discover and digest the many notes and paperwork Keel created in an attempt to grow and maintain a Fortean community in New York City, while despairing "the state of the art", if you will.
The day before I had sent off the last of a trilogy of essays I wrote that had begun with Keel's work and then branched into other associated areas in subsequent submissions, one of which delved into Jacques Vallees theories and so it was around midnight when I came across a photograph,  of Keel and Vallee sitting together, side by side. Imagine that collaboration had it taken place. The photograph appears at the top of this page and Vallee is to Keel's left hand side.
There was also a significant amount of correspondence between Ivan Sanderson and Keel going back and forth on a possible collaboration which Sanderson , in a very chatty way, seemed more enthusiastic about than Keel himself. I took note of this lost and potential book that never came about thatb gave pause to further reflection.
I began to subsequently think about the rarity of such collaborations and then my mind turned back to Keel's open letter of 1968 to his fellow lone wolf investigators and of course it occurred to me that not much has changed in a half century.
Several years ago I had gone through a wave of highly strange anomalous telephone messages and calls and so it was with great interest to read Keel's hand and type written notes that specially addressed this and was somewhat surprised that he viewed these as deliberate harassment, which at the face value of it struck me as somewhat paranoiac, but his context was different than my own.
There is a wealth of this kind of material on the site and I highly recommend not only these personal notes etc of Keel as first person accounts but I think it's also invaluable to gain a perspective of the field and it's tattered history which has always been not only against the grain but an uphill struggle.
Thank you Doug Skinner for the free access to this material as well as for your time and energy I imagine that was spent on this ongoing project..It is well worth your time as a reader to visit.

http://www.johnkeel.com/


Monday, January 20, 2014

UAP As An Energy Exchange Of Information


If consciousness is an energetic form of matter that can be local ( physicality) and non local and if Princeton's Global Consciousness studies suggest that a unique field of this energy surrounds the planet, how is an exchange from one location to another possible? How do the imaging of hybridised forms that represent consciousness as an exchange come about? 
The topic of a global consciousness energy field and UAP was covered here:

http://tarnsitsandstations.blogspot.com/2014/01/unidentified-atmospheric-phenomenon-as.html

If this is so..well then why are these exchanges lost in translation? Is it a matter of how our minds assimilate and organize images and their associations..identities as forms? Information can be in a material and non material state as well as energy and one is reciprocal to the other, and this, in of itself may be at the root of the mysteries surrounding UAP. This being said, how we describe this phenomenon has little to do with it's nature inasmuch as a descriptor such as language is not the object that is described and simply serves as a placeholder. Yet, this is framework of communication. In the matter of UAP, the descriptors or terms have a life of their own, or steer us into premature conclusions such as unidentified flying objects.
Do our descriptors in effect form the mental and internal images that we observe as projections?
Is this why their forms will not sit still for a portrait?

Further, our terms serve perhaps as mnemonic molds as energetic information that creates a mold that fits images as placeholders for what is unidentifiable? Certainly something is amiss and it may be due more to  nature of the observer's nature as it does to what is observed, or, at minimum, on a equal footing.

There well may be a fatal flaw to Ufology as it is practiced. Much emphasis (as a critical assumption) that in terms of witness reports that our perceptions and senses are accurate whereas they may not be in a extraordinary situation. One can read up on the comparatively small and finite range of our biologically based senses and simply acknowledge what was seen is an incomplete portrait even within normal circumstances. 

Perhaps the context of this post could expressed more simply:

"If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him. "
-GI Gurdjieff

In other words all the argumentation over what was seen may be a form of Trojan Horse, not one created by extraterrestrials or Greeks bearing gifts but one that resides within us as a limitation of our own awareness in regard to the mysteries of how our own minds work. 

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” 
― Arthur C. Clarke


Simple enough as a concept...and yet this leads to more questions than answers Albeit questions that need to be asked in new ways..

The simple answer is nobody knows, but the question opens a field of conjectures to my mind that suggest "What If" in a variety of possibilities..beyond that of aloof space men on a purposeless mission. 
UAP suggest to me a state where internal realities become external and vice versa as an exchange in of itself.
The prosaic becomes a hybridized experiential anomaly.  What is the medium of exchange?
This post weaves together Jacques Vallee's cosmology of physics within the Global Consciousness Study of Princeton University in the context of Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomenon. This is to be construed as a definitive answer to any of these questions but rather sketch an outline of other possibilities beyond the internal disagreements in Ufology that focus on the scientific materialism as it was known over one half century ago.

 


 The location of UAP occurs in the atmosphere and that energy is transferred between the earth's surface and the atmosphere via conduction, convection, and radiation.  In general, the atmospheric medium, by which the near Earth is surrounded, contains not only electric charges bound in atoms or molecules, or any form of matter, but it also contains a quantity of charge in an unbound state. 
Sometimes the unbound charges are positive, sometimes negative, but as a general rule most are of an opposite polarity to that of the Earth. Different layers, or strata, of the atmosphere, located at only small distances from each other, are frequently found to be in different electric-magnetic states.
 Most often UAP resemble plasmas as well as having an effect on electrical devices that resembles the effect of geomagnetic storm such as a solar flare or an electromagnetic pulse termed EMP.  Another attribute of close encounters with UAP is paralysis. 
It is not widely understood that "brain waves" are not confined to the brain, but actually spread throughout the body via the perineural system, the connective tissue sheathes surrounding all of the nerves. Dr. Robert O. Becker has described how this system, more than any other, regulates injury repair processes throughout the body. Hence the entire nervous system acts as an "antenna" for projecting the biomagnetic pulsations that begin in the brain, specifically in the thalamus. 

But back to EMP...

EMP events usually induce a corresponding signal in the victim equipment, due to coupling between the source and victim and one could reasonably conjecture this may also have an effect on the biochemical nature of the human electromagnetic fieldIn electronics and telecommunication, coupling is the desirable or undesirable transfer of energy from one medium, such as a metallic wire or an optical fiber, to another medium, including fortuitous transfer. What transfers and transforms this consciousness matter from one field to another? Coupling is also the transfer of electrical energy from one circuit segment to another. Perhaps the metaphors of electronic devices might be a parable to biology.


For example, energy is transferred from a power source to an electrical load by means of conductive coupling, which may be either resistive or hard-wire.  An AC potential may be transferred from one circuit segment to another having a DC potential by use of a capacitor.  Electrical energy may be transferred from one circuit segment to another segment with different impedance by use of a transformer. This is known as impedance matching. These are examples of electrostatic and electrodynamic inductive coupling. 

The question that these observable effects of electromagnetic exchanges perhaps suggest is a similar coupling between the human biophysical electrical field and the atmosphere that is a proverbial medium for anomalous experiential disturbances as well as the imaging that is known as UAP. One may wonder if a high energetic atmospheric state that is transient or is a potential acts as a carrier wave that allows both local and non local states of consciousness as energetic matter to be exchanged. 


“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” 
― Arthur C. Clarke

Ask yourself the question: Why do these experiential anomalies largely occur in remote locations? Is it due to the diminished capacity and conductance of artificial sources of electromagnetic radiation? In other words, less signal interference?

Just how energetic is our atmosphere? let me count the ways... At elevations above the clouds, atmospheric electricity forms a continuous and distinct element (called the electrosphere) in which the Earth is surrounded. The electrosphere layer (from tens of kilometers above the surface of the earth to the ionosphere) has a high electrical conductivity and is essentially at a constant electric potential. The ionosphere is the inner edge of the magnetosphere and is the part of the atmosphere that is ionized by solar radiation. (Photoionisation is a physical process in which a photon is incident on an atom, ion or molecule, resulting in the ejection of one or more electrons.) 
Could this field act as a coupling device between the states of matter, local and non local if the atmosphere has a sheath of global consciousness as it appears to have?

One considers that the atmosphere can carry more than one state of matter, both molecular and energetic and one could ponder whether this medium is capable of being in a state of transient superimposition. In other words be fashioned as a sort of quantum clay that projects a state of matter not entirely physical and not entirely a wave form. 

And yet if we assume that what was seen is a self organised form of conscious matter or exhibits cellular intelligence instead, we also can suggest that what was seen has no corresponding physicality or if you will, a steady state, hence all the astonishingly wide varieties of experiential reports from triangular to egg shaped, or in a state of continual morphing or for that matter the equally enormous  varieties of "humanoids reported are projections, hybridized variants of prosaic realities that are not "solids"

Why?

Lost In Translation


What is mnemonic memory? The general name of mnemonics, or memoria technica, was the name applied to devices for aiding the memory, enabling the mind to reproduce a relatively unfamiliar idea, and especially a series of dissociated ideas, by connecting it, or them, in some artificial whole, the parts of which are mutually suggestive. 
One could call this an associative link between imprinting a key concept that recalls disparate information into a single statement. The linkage of images to the roots of language and then memory as the imprinting of a internal database of identifiers for perception of the external stability of images ( a house, a dog, a stop sign etc) is termed semiotics. 

One could reasonably consider that anomalous experiential encounters with strange beings ( strange in the sense of being in a disassociative context) might be internal projections lodged and steered by what is known versus what is unknown as simple and as odd as that observation may be, we might say that these encounters with strange beings are translations rather than direct descriptions for which there is no semiotic equivalences

One could say, that if this is so, something is seen that does not correspond to any semiotic identifiers. Taken another step, this may lead to composites being created using imprinted signs and signifiers that are hybridised out of necessity. Another step in these critical assumptions would be that these composites serve 
as a mnemonic memory.

A more fully fleshed out and accurate definition of semiotics is:

Semiotics, also called semiotic studies and including (in the Saussurean tradition) semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically. However, as different from linguistics, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems. Semiotics is often divided into three branches:
  • Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata, or meaning
  • Syntactics: Relations among signs in formal structures
  • Pragmatics: Relation between signs and sign-using agents
One could then say as a matter of attempting to create identifiers with familiar components, a screen memory has been unwittingly created. Not from without but from within.
One could go further down this route and suggest that these hybridised images once they are transferred externally by description become in of themselves mnemonic images that are distributed and then consequently imprinted in more than one individual as a semiotic qualifier. 
We may be creating our own screen memories in a unconscious manner similar to that of cellular intelligence as a match game that turns out to be extremely inaccurate. 
Perhaps, perhaps not...




Saturday, January 18, 2014

Varieties of Anomalous Experience


On the short list of potential purchases regarding the the subjects here, this new publication by The American Psychological Association might prove interesting...for what its worth I thought sharing this find, might be useful to some.

http://www.spr.ac.uk/main/publication/varieties-anomalous-experience-examining-scientific-evidence-2nd-ed

Reviews on Amazon look promising..

http://www.amazon.com/Varieties-Anomalous-Experience-Examining-Scientific/dp/1557986258

Friday, January 17, 2014

Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomenon As Projected Global Concioussness


We appear to have shape shifting plasma like orbs encircling our planet in an odd form of wave activity through the night skies while here on solid ground we have the same phenomenon apparently flitting through walls, doors, etc..a state of perhaps consciousness in a unique form of matter  that bridges the gap between local and non local manifestations. Are they one and the same?

"By applying Ockham's razor to the basic epistemological question 'What is reality?' the Buddhist idealists reach the conclusion that belief in an external reality is a 'superfluous hypothesis'" ~ Philip K Dick, in the introduction to "The Golden Man"

"There are no conditions to fulfill. There is nothing to be done, nothing to be given up.
Just look and remember, whatever you perceive is not you, nor yours. It is there in the field of consciousness, but you are not the field and its contents, nor even the knower of the field.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj


The old school of thought regarding this phenomenon as the representation of actual craft with physicality remains persistently lodged in the minds of those enamored of scientific materialism and on a parallel path there is a growing body of evidence that in terms of our own species, the projection of consciousness on a non local basis is steadily being verified by experimentation on several fronts.   In addition to this there are some multi-disciplinary schools of thought that have seriously considered the physical brain to be a transceiving organism for the non local basis of sentience itself.

http://nonlocal.com/hbar/qbrain.html

Then there is the matter if UAP is the result of projected non local consciousness, to whom does it belong?
Or is this asking the wrong question in framing it as the implication of ownership may be a result of our projecting our own critical assumptions regarding what appears to be our own situation simply at it's face value?  Then there is the matter of the state of matter we term consciousness in relation to the alteration of it's state on a planetary basis through physical death which occurs at a rate of 56 million per year, 153, 000 per 24 hours or 1.78 per second. Where does this energy transfer and in what state if consciousness, if it is considered a state of matter? 

 If that is so, what of the analysis of results from the Global Consciousness Project? If you are not familiar with Princeton University's program, you cannot understand it's relationship to the subject at hand.

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

Do these results suggest that a energy field of an unknown nature that represents consciousness in a both local and non local form , a third state that exhibits the ability of self organisation to produce unidentified atmospheric phenomenon? If this energy field exists, it is most certainly being fed at a rate of 56 million formerly individuated fields being released that as an aggregate, perhaps in direct relationship to conscious matter being  entangled in physicality among the living there may be a relationship between the two, as to allow this same matter in a third state to reflect, project anticipations (UAP) that are forever changing in terms of consensus projections in the energetic medium of the atmosphere. Think of it as a medium of transaction wherein two states of conscious matter create a third state that falls into line with what is observed.....a projected state of organised matter that neither has physicality as we define it nor is it stable.

The coherence of local consciousness to non local consciousness in it's two states would be required, and the same sum of coherence would be required as input as an imaging state of organisation would naturally be available if concentrated as a forced field superimposing itself on a global field creating coherent projections that are shared.

There is no purpose other than a state of affairs and the medium itself is the message.

Waves of activity as noted in the Princeton Project may well have a parallel in UAP wave forms in that the total sum of input as a consensus projection may need to reach a certain level of attenuation wherein it is sent as a imaging form of cellular consciousness in a context of feedback, a proverbial bridge of interaction.

Perhaps, perhaps not...

Friday, January 10, 2014

John Keel and Consciousness As A State of Matter


( Expanded and Revised)


From and Beyond John Keel

..The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. . .The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon."   -John Keel


“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”    ― Gregory Bateson

In the last post "Imaging Being who We Are" I took on the subject of the observer's traits of "false" personality in the context to be expanded here, which is to say that the quantum discoveries of observer effect are due to the role of imaging one's self and the allusions also falsely made that we are objectively conscious, which then folds onto anomalous experiential realities as reported. 


Rodney Collin who was one of PD Ouspensky's principal students once remarked that the familiar was so absurd that it constituted in of itself, a conclusive argument that miracles do exist. The fact that the layers of realities that science is probing are stranger than we formerly imagined makes the postulates that the anomalous can be taken with face values is patently a relic of 19th Century thinking, as well as the tradition derived from Newton that we live in a mechanical universe.

The passage we all share is certainly one of intoxication that originates in the senses themselves so much so, that one of the principle researchers into theoretical physics ( Brian Joesphson) suggests that the observer effect is a matter of being skewed by the biochemistry of sensory systems. In other words, our own biology has a role in perception as related to the outcomes we anticipate as observers in a manner that we are directly unaware of in a sort of crib blindness. And yet in a society based upon scientific materialism, the rationality of logic fails to note the malleability of this situation.

What Andre Breton noted remains...

 "We are still living under the rule of logic, that, of course, is what I am driving at. But in our day, logical procedures are only applicable in solving problems of secondary interest. The absolute rationalism still in fashion only allows us to consider facts directly related to our own experience. The aims of logic, in contrast, escape us. Pointless to add that our very experience finds itself limited."


Not surprisingly, given the mechanical nature of most analytic studies of anomalous experiential reality, the observer and the observed are separated in the sense that the observed is assumed to be divorced from the one who experiences the observation and what is observed has, in effect, a life of it's own. Nature does not operate in this fashion and to think that human observations fall outside of nature is patently ridiculous.
One of the more influential figures in the development of cybernetics, Gregory Bateson had a great deal to say about this and n considering that nothing in the paranormal field as reported falls outside of nature ( albeit a unknown relationship) what Bateson had to say is pertinent to the unknown nature of the anomalous.
The ecology of the mind within the ecology of nature.



Beyond the quantum role of biochemistry and the related electromagnetic field of the physical brain we can easily determine that what we anticipate by can be profoundly influenced by altering it's field by the ingestion of psycho-active drugs such as LSD..perception can be skewed and as a result so can personal anticipation of experiential reality in terms of what is possible and what is not. 
All of this in both a paranormal or anomalous context driven by consensus as well as what we could call a steady state of consciousness or normal waking consciousness fall under the term psychic phenomenon.  

"I abandoned the extraterrestrial hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs... The objects and apparitions do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs." -John Keel

There is a very thin red line between rationality and imagination when logic fails to create a plausible scenario for the inexplicable. In terms of the failure of a multitude of theories to attach themselves to a coherent narrative of explanation to paraphrase a famous quote, if nothing is true then all things become possible.

 I think it is very plausible that what these accounts amount to is that we imagine we are conscious as all we know is self referential. It is not so much a matter of a parallel universe as it might be our own is somehow turned back upon itself to expose a sort of charade we engage in unwittingly. The illusions of control and manipulation on our part are so pervasive that perhaps they are prone to distortions inasmuch as the puppeteer may also well be a puppet. 

One could say that other possibilities of realities beyond the self referential are not only plausible but are a necessity. 

In this in all the accounts of experiential anomalies I have read it is not the unfamiliar that ranks highest in the hierarchy of strangeness but rather the familiar is transformed while retaining it's characteristic identifiers.
Consequently the familiar in relation to imaging and anomalous images as experiences are entangled in a sort of game of basic principles whose boundaries are not grounded elsewhere but in the familiar themselves.
Of course this was the nexus of surrealism in all of it's forms which suggested the same implications as I am writing about.

 In relation to the concepts of "false personality" as related earlier are the recent investigations into the state of observers that set the stage ( perhaps) for these strange experiences, especially in the U.K under the auspices of the SPR. One could say the road begins where the script becomes unreadable, paradoxical, turned inward upon itself, this is the nexus of deconstruction where no map has or perhaps ever will be created. This is the death of Self before death..death before dying...even the most ardent existentialist would find this discomforting to the point of being unimaginable. But this is where we go to find answers, to achieve an impossible sobriety in the face of intoxication.


Depression, stress, a string of bad luck..The various realities of entangled states was first picked up from a investigation and a subsequent book entitled "Telephone Calls From The Dead"( published in the UK)  which I reviewed here some time ago. Here is one such investigative channel that is currently being undertaken..as an example of this specific probing into the observer's state


https://www.murvey.com/s?52c719a42df094666d012d80


One possibility is either a organic or inorganic ( psychological) form of disassociation as follows:


In psychology, the term dissociation describes a wide array of experiences from mild detachment
 from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experience. The major characteristic of all dissociative phenomena involves a detachment from reality – rather than a loss of reality as in psychosis. This is the "kicker" .Dissociation experiences are further characterized by the varied maladaptive mental constructions of an individual's natural imaginative capacity.


He pushed the glass before me.."Perhaps death is not reunification, or reconciliation.it may be when all the utility of pragmatism withers away in a sort of palsy..and one is led back upon oneself, one can only imagine what he knows but in a new frame of reference, a parable of appetites gained through living that take on a life of their own or so it seems. Turned back upon themselves..what do they say, man is not one, he is many.."

" What are you getting at?" 
"Instead of clarity we fall deeper into what pragmatism and sign posts have vouchsafed us against..the imagination of what may be since there is no defining characteristics of what is..in this so called death."

"Do you think we may experience this before the separation of the body?"
"Perhaps perhaps not..that is a matter for our imaginations..no mathematics or sentence structure could prepare us if this is true..as a matter of fact we may be hoisted in this by our petards  where our tool making of the mind turns against us..we are no longer writing the script...the script is writing us,,,"



Long ago, John Keel noted the following in his book entitled "Operation Trojan Horse"


"Recently the U.S. Government Printing Office issued a publication compiled by the Library of Congress for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research: UFOs and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography. In preparing this work, the senior bibliographer, Miss Lynn E. Catoe, actually read thousands of UFO articles, books, and publications. In her preface to this 400-page book she states:

A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked with mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects like mental telepathy, automatic writing, and invisible entities, as well as phenomena like poltergeist manifestations and possession. … Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demoniac possession and psychic phenomena which has long been known to theologians and parapsychologists."
pp. 44, 45.

In physics, a state of matter is one of the distinct forms that different phases of matter take on. Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. One could classify anomalous experiential realities much in the same manner in the context of what could best be described by the reductionist term of consensus reality.....perhaps as a solid One could say these states have a commonality in Tibetan cosmology in relation to consciousness ( which I suspect is imaginary) to what are termed Bardos. 

The Tibetan word bardo means literally "intermediate state" - also translated as "transitional state" or "in-between state" or "liminal state". In Sanskrit the concept has the name antarabhāva. It is a concept which arose soon after the Buddha's passing, with a number of earlier Buddhist groups accepting the existence of such an intermediate state, while other schools rejected it.
Used loosely, the term "bardo" refers to the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. According to Tibetan tradition, after death and before one's next birth, when one's consciousness is not connected with a physical body, one experiences a variety of phenomena. One wonders if disassociation provides the same opportunity.Or, then again the electromagnetic field of the physical brain along with it's biochemical basis may be prone to external fields that alter perception, as much as as the ingestion of mind altering chemicals.

These vivid dreams found in the Bardos usually follow a particular sequence of degeneration from, just after death, the clearest experiences of reality of which one is spiritually capable, and then proceeding to terrifying hallucinations that arise from the impulses of one's animal  instincts that parlay the metaphorical into a context wherein the familiar becomes strange......the familiar as terrifying which corresponds to the waking state and its reactions to various innovations of the familiar turned back upon itself.The differential between illusion and delusion hides within the familiar if it is so that we experience the physicality of the natural world in a state of dreaming...

 Consciousness As A State of Matter

On the topic of John Keel and his influence on your author, this timely piece by Nick Redfern sums up his ( Keel's) dissenting viewpoint regarding the nature of unknown atmospheric anomalies very accurately and succinctly as psychic phenomenon.

.http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/01/john-keel-selected-writings/
If consciousness is a state of matter...then it may parallel having more than one state than the ones we are intimately embedded within.

Historically, the distinction is made based on observable and qualitative differences in the properties of these varieties of states .Matter in the solid or stored state maintains a fixed volume and shape, with component particles (atoms, molecules or ions) close together and fixed into place. Matter in the liquid state maintains a fixed volume, but has a variable shape that adapts to fit its container.Hence the metaphysical definition of truth being comparable to a liquid that in of itself has several states of mutability.  Its particles are still close together but move freely. 
Matter in the gaseous state has both variable volume and shape, adapting both to fit its container. Its particles are neither close together nor fixed in place. Is consciousness, in of itself, as a yet to be recognized form of matter conform to all of these states while transcending each? Then there is the matter of the observed and particularly the observer.

What I am making an approach toward is my original methodology of exploring the anomalous. You have in physics, the relationship between the observer and the observed and about five years ago I said that this relationship is changing and the progress of science in consciousness studies as well as in quantum physics has verified the approach as a matter of pragmatism You can more easily explore the observer than you can what is observed. Not to diminish the complexities involved and the many many traps this methodology entails..
The non local attributes of remote viewing, the physicality of the mind \ brain, the strange storage of past events that permeate the locations of former human habitation...all of these come to mind is consciousness were a form of matter that had the various attributes of all the aforementioned states that mirrors what I called a "third state of realities ( always in the plural) wherein what is observed follows this same path of crossing various classifications of various observable states. I doubt that this is all a series of coincidences lined up as if they were waiting for a starting gun.

""In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
-EA Poe

As I have demonstrated ( perhaps) I am moving further afield than my contemporaries and much of this can be attributed to the work of John Keel having an enormous influence on the context of these matters. While others argue over the material basis of anomalous experiential realities I am fairly convinced that the foundation philosophies of making round pegs into square holes by projected intent on the part of observers is a critical assumption that the observer freely chooses what is theorized whereas it it is a matter of suggesting to the already dreaming awareness that suggests to itself continually, reinforced by self referential material that they themselves have been pinned by from without.

Mountain climbing on a moonless night in the midst of a bustling street. Verifying one step is on solid ground before moving the other.in a dream as so much of a balm that.inconsequential noises startle us..we must move on where the wind will erase our tracks..the cinema of the mind and we as protagonists in someone else's imagination hang by our fingernails to the hope of a cracking warm fire and more tales to throw into the flames... making a soot across the mounting drifts that surround us. As Poe would say, a dream within a dream.

Fade to white...

Friday, January 3, 2014

Imaging Being Whom We Are



Imaging and imagination in regard to whom we assume we are versus what we are bears evidence of what I have come to realize, that we imagine that we are conscious, which is more of a game than it is a text. Going further afield than most, in the past I noted the correlations between surrealism, anomalous experiential realms and the traps of referential language. 

“Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.” 

― Robert Anton Wilson

“The imaginary is what tends to become real.” 

― André Breton

I recently commented at another blog on the subject of Roswell..I said: 


"Whether one believes in labels as a Ufologist or a Fortean or a Skeptic, they all share a game that seeks causation, a linear, explanatory narrative of rationality upon the presumed threat of a blank page or two. You can count the agnostics with one hand. One could say in the stubbornness of a blank page, all realities are naive ones. Each little community has a certain provincial charm to them decorated with the minutia of their choosing as wallpaper. "


In hindsight, I appear to be in the same territory as the father of surrealism, Andre Breton, while not recognizing this at the moment I wrote that passage.


“A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park. . . . And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether.” 

― André BretonNadja

Returning to my comment, I seemingly went deeper into this territory..



"Yet in many instances this game field of a blank page or two becomes the molehill that appears to be a mountain, as if the solution to causation is why the milkman stops at this house versus the one across the street would assuage the discomfort of claimants. There is an air of romanticism about all this scuttling about the game field of blank pages. No one wants the game to stop. Each requires the cooperation of the other in a competition to corral the imagination in a tight noose. .while counting on the whole shebang remaining open ended. The Disneyland of the Mind... "   

The demarcation between the dreams of sleep and the dreams of our waking hours are based upon a biological behaviorism that is observable such as immobility versus mobility and the physicality of tasking this or that reaction to circumstances which is defined as consciousness. Let loose from being enmeshed in these stimuli in the alleged state of wakefulness, we enter a self organizing tasking without the physicality of mobility, where the same associations are played out as a narrative that mimics a linear narrative while the question is posed, 


What am I?

n the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits... In the province of connected minds, what the network believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the network's mind there are no limits. 


-John C Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)



True self and false self are terms introduced into psychoanalysis by D. W. Winnicott in 1960. Winnicott used the term "True Self" to describe a sense of self based on spontaneous authentic experience, a sense of "all-out personal aliveness" or "feeling real". The "False Self" was, for Winnicott, a defense designed to protect the True Self by hiding it. He thought that in health, a False Self was what allowed a person to present a "polite and mannered attitude" in public. But he saw more serious emotional problems in patients who seemed unable to feel spontaneous, alive or real to themselves in any part of their lives, yet managed to put on a successful "show of being real". Such patients suffered inwardly from a sense of being empty, dead or "phoney".True self is sometimes referred to as the "real self". The Sufi would perhaps say more accurately ( in another context) that our natural state falls between bewilderment and anxiety.

Gurdjieff would parallel this view by saying our personality is made up of a false personality, which is concerned with our ego (pride, vanity, self-conceit, imaginations and day-dreams about ourselves, etc.), and personality proper, which is developed through education, vocation, training and study of all kinds, and which enables us to earn our living. Our ordinary, illusionary or imaginary self is a collection of "I's", and when ruled by it our mood changes according to which "I" has been stimulated (we sometimes recognize this in others, but rarely in ourselves). In contrast, our fundamental self is consistent and is ruled from within by consciousness.

One could say what we imagine ourselves to be has few limits outside of being human. From Adolph Hitler to the schizophrenic to the grocer, the baker and the candlestick maker.  From Breton to Nixon.

The universe may mirror this same relationship as in what is more encompassing is reflected in a constituent process in the human being. The lack of a conclusive definition of either one leads to suggestibility in terms of a semi hypnotic state. The universe suggests this and we suggest that and in between lies the anomalous of hybrid experiential relations as if a conversation were taking place of which we are unaware and yet we are exposed to by it's effects.

The impossible becomes a defining characteristic through the anomalous and yet imaging and imagination remain hidden behind the seeming stability of our waking dreams. This street sign is there just where we left it yesterday and yet there is the juxtaposition of the unpredictability of human nature which may reflect the same hidden in the pantomimes of the universe imaging what it may be. 


While the sidewalk remains in place , we do not necessarily are required to walk upon it. We might chose to walk on the grass. The same may apply to the universe. What this brings to mind is a lack of mechanical activity, a freedom of self organisation  whose basis is oddly enough the stability of energy in various states of storage as a stage to be walked upon as a vehicle. 


We have sidewalks and stop signs in our imagination through memory as a false dichotomy that becomes a defining principle of reality. We imagine we are conscious. Thou art That does not apply in the metaphor of mirrors. Yes, the image represents what was placed in the range and reflected back as a reciprocal process but it lacks a certain dimensional quality that corresponds to physicality.


Call it a trick of the light. What is between the face and what was reflected?


This morning I was watching a sparrow drink from a depression in my driveway and correspondingly I say "sparrow" as a reference, a symbol that stands for something else entirely that is unknown and while science can define relationships, and the ties that animate mechanisms, behaviorism, there remains for me a profound puzzle that accepts these probes by divisors and yet what remains is lodged between Taoism and pantheism, placeholders that suggest to me there are parallel mirrors of meaning derived from what appears from the surface of these matters. Unfortunately for me it seems I cannot surrender into acceptance of this or that as a conclusive framework or conglomeration much like a Stoic.


Every reality is a naive reality.


One could say that those that imagine they are abducted by aliens are referring to alienation in of itself as a visionary experience. The loss of the freedom to remain or go where one chooses. The humanoid faces that lack defining individuated characteristics that also lack eyes as a representation of a society whose directing organisation is aggregate. The aseptic environs of a technocratic process driven by a religion of science.

Do as I say.

“Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.” 
― Robert Anton WilsonThe Illuminati Papers


Abducted? Perhaps all of us have been in our sleep by way of our environment and the result are improvisational by nature down to necessity, glued to a backdrop. Behind the props and the flats and scrims we have decorated the stage with, we walk along seeing these examples of physic architecture as tools, as surely as if they were hammers, saws and nails. Reflections without physicality that direct us to turn left or right or compel us to imagine what we may be.