Open Ends

"We’re so proud of ourselves as particle physicists that we now understand five percent of the universe, but there’s lots left to discover” - Jonathan Bagger, a high-energy physicist

A minor correction or is it a major one? The number these phycists derived was 4.9 per cent. Of course, the glaringly obvious observation, if you don’t know the whole value of what is being measured, how can you derive a percentage of it?

In the last post Frank Zappa’s perspective on the anomalous was starkly pragmatic despite the the common perception that Surrealists are far from logical but then again it depends on whose logic we borrow to analyse the unobservable. During the course of that interview Zappa noted that we do not have a language for that we do not understand only stereotyped placeholder references that reduce the complex as to make it navigable. Of course, Zappa parlayed this point of view into satire, a vaudeville of irrational logic. One sees that all around us. Who could have predicted the installation of a 7th Century Caliphate in Iraq during the 21st Century?

Within another harbinger of the weather here on this planet, we have the secret National Security Court issuing a single warrant to spy on some 7,000 individuals. This information was supplied as an example of transparency and yet if you think about a single warrant covering that enormous number of individuals without disclosing the rationale that lumps together all these folks, it becomes surrealistic, abstracted and paradoxical like so much of what we term rock solid reality.

You could characterize this as open ends becoming a means or as the philosopher said, if nothing is true then all things are possible and that insight came from Hassan-i Sabbah who founded the socio-politcal movement that invented the term Assassin, which interestingly derives from the word hashish which makes a hash out of rational logic.

As we grow older, we pick up our tray at the beginning of a philosophical buffet line of artistic underpinnings for rationality. You can chose between pointillism, abstract expressionism or cubism. One could easily say reality has always been an artistic expression and it’s many variants constitute a spectrum of a single organic unity posed as an open ended question which is the theme of this blog.

Zappa considered every sound to be music, whether it was a toy ray gun or a violin and as a statement he refused to put end caps or borders on what was inclusive. He once asked George Duke who could literally play anything to play a repetious four chord progression over and over again and Duke said “I can’t do that” as he had in his mind an anticipation of playing exotica. Zappa asked him in reply if playing that simple progression was beneath him.

There was certainly the touch of Zen in that.

Have you noticed the increasing velocity of our society throwing nuance out the window at every opportunity that presents itself all in the quest to make our behaviors “manageable”, predictable and serving a ill defined logic of comprehension trumping thought?

Recently I received a letter from Arbitron that has within it a crisp dollar bill as bait for a supplication of my willingness to participate in their ratings program. I kept the dollar bill and spent it without ever answering their persistent telephone calls.

Zappa On The Anomalous

This interview took place prior to Frank's disclosure that he had contracted terminal cancer. He passed away from what I was fortunate enough to survive after one year of treatment. While he had urinary issues as did I, he accepted the wrong diagnosis as being accurate whereas yours truly did not. In one of his last interviews, he was asked what his thoughts were regarding cancer. He said get tested and then get tested again. His views mirror my own in a less verbose way. Today, I watched his last interview taken from his bed. It was hard to take...that could have been me. The remembrance of death serves a purpose in reminding me I am lucky to have experienced the good, the bad and the ugly regardless of their and my own finite nature. Frank had a quiet courage in him as do all of us when we face every morning. yes, it sounds trite and that could be because it's obvious. For some, more so than others but it's there nonetheless.

 

It's About Time

We vector time by the rotation of our planet as the basis of our daily existence, to measure, compare and to create a means to coordinate our activities. Then some clever physicists realized that there is a definition of time that has nothing to do with clocks, calendars or the differentiation between night and day. 

Space became the basis of a more universal clock that seemingly has no hands to sweep around a dial. Referents that define space by comparison seemed to unify both the external and internal universes that serves as no more than a navigational aid, or tool making application.

Now we add the mysterious relationship of gravitational force in our local neighborhood of three dimensional semi-solid physicality and it’s relationship to electromagnetic forces and the tentative observation that gravity bends space. Not all gravitational fields were created alike.

Add to this the most primary essence of these forces which is termed light and we have Einstein imposing a speed limit on our space ( time) along the byways of the three dimensional universe.

Now we have the insertion of quantum mechanics violating the speed limit of our provincial neighborhood. Spooky actions at a distance, it is said. 

Note the word distance as comparable to space, hence time.

If this were not confusing enough we add another referent to space and time which is dimensional far beyond our own three dimensions as referents and we consider how many dimensions can light navigate? The last time I checked there the count was up to eleven dimensions. Which to chose? An open loop or a linear arrow of space and time? Or is it a closed loop? Can it be all three depending on our means of vectoring space?

Asking what time it is becomes a silly exercise in subjectivity and what we call eternity is a tricky business as space itself has a trickster element to it in relation to perception and beyond perception there is the trickster nature of space and one is folded into the other the last time I checked.

Some considerations are very much like the non categorical opening of a zen koan as a question that provokes rethinking. What if you went back in space ( time) and murdered your grandfather?

Only a human being would pose such a question and yet the equilibrium the question poses in space is the consideration you would cease to exist as an example of linear causality.

Now the science community appears to have resolved this question through ( of course ) quantum mechanics and you could go back and murder your grandfather with impunity and still possess an existence, the world famous “I Am” principle would be unruffled.

The concept as demonstrated in a laboratory is based on uncertainty as a means of being capable of reorganizing possibilities as a self regulating mechanism.

http://thespeaker.co/time-travel-simulated-australian-physicists/

Regardless of what metaphysician or sage of old we refer to, they all have come to a similar conclusion that whomever is reading this essay occupies a dream state in a isthmus between the external and semi-solid physicality of the external universe and the unencumbered inner universe of observation. In both cases, it is safe to assume there are hidden variables.

http://www.superconsciousness.com/topics/science/why-consciousness-not-brain

In this context we could consider ourselves to be a time ( space ) traveler who is under the thrall of a aforementioned trickster that places illusionary street signs in our neighborhood as an act of suggestion that created a false sense of transient orientation. One could say in our  little neighborhood this perception became a rite of initiation, a tradition of orientation.

An interesting consideration is our critical assumption regarding what is known as the arrow of time and that all anomalous events regarding ghosts come from the past.

Even if we take the linearity of the arrow of time ( space) to be a horizontal timeline ruled by clocks and calendars, oddly enough we remain time travelers and this we can easily self verify.

A question then appears as a consequence of this framing of our travels through time which is are we traveling at all? Are we stationary as to suggest this is the reason behind ghosts as a transitional reformatting of energy as information that remain oriented here? This is what Rodney Collin called the “electronic state”  

Perhaps the iris of the human eye as pictured at the top of this essay that links the parallel universes of external and internal time keeping bears a relationship to what we see as a tunnel through the three dimensional physicality of the visible universe known colloquially as a black hole as the microcosm of the macrocosm.

Then we may as well consider that despite our own transitional state of semi-physicality, we too are ghosts, only of a different stripe lulled into possessing any number of false suppositions like the Flatlanders of Hinton’s exploration of perception linked to dimensional qualities.

Then again the further we remove ourselves from the psychological safety of both clocks and calendars as well as the safety of biology through the limits of perception things become rapidly abstracted. It tells us that certainty is a subjectivity and probing deeper into abstracted extensions of time, what of the ghost ships that patrol our atmosphere and their strange vectoring? Then again how do human ghosts vector themselves?

Do these ghost ships resemble what Gurdjieff termed ‘omni-present platforms” as a means to create a vectoring system for the disembodied?  Are the skies a highway for the dead as much as the bones of what were their habitations as merely referents they cannot walk away from?

Is the sky a proverbial river Styx? The metaphor of the heavenly afterlife of angels walking through the clouds closes a circle of human mythologies in a 21st Century context envisioned with the framework of technological picture frames..but then again..it’s about time and it's mysteries onto which we are folded within as the primary axis of the paranormal.

If quantum mechanics provides for the reorganization of energetic information imbued with physicality in a manner that allows time travel, a question arises. Is there more than one version of the past? If so, how many versions are possible on parallel paths or more cogently, parallel universes of human experience? Is there a universe where the butterfly effect runs in reverse, achieving what some scientists label as retro-causation?

We all know the old axiom from physics, that no information \ energy is destroyed, it is simply modified. We assume by perception that the arrow of time moves forward but does it also reverse, and if it does, is there a middle ground where a demarcation does not exist between them, rather a state that resembles the spectrum of a continuum? Are some cases of precognition evidence of retro-causation? Information carried from the future into the past which we call the present? What of persistent images that play as a unending spool in ghost visualizations? A woman is seen walking up a staircase over and over by witnesses through the centuries. The disturbance or reorganization of a certain vectoring by the physical rehabilitation of the locality where ghost behaviors occur, is this a case of quantum restructuring that causes the cubing of activity as an effect by the disturbance of the past? 

Is this subliminally sensed in it's original context? The rapping of hammers without a source of sound heard arising from a parlor on a summer day in 1909. Are the visions of strange airships originating from a future past? Rick Phillips and myself went through a prolonged discussion along similar lines some time ago and we both arrived at an odd conclusion. There is no such artifact as now. So, dear reader, if this is so what does this imply in relation to 1906?

Is UAP An Extraterrestrial SETI Program?

If we pare Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomenon down to it’s most essential attributes, what do we find? One could say it is a form of communication advanced in it’s characteristics regardless of their origin as compared to our knowledge of how they occur whether by intent or not.

The late Mac Tonnies was a severe critic of the conceptualizing of extraterrestrial communications as being composed of radio signals or relatively crude mathematical ciphers being sent as a codex for sentience.

He thought that this was a enormous underestimation of the technologies available to a civilization hundreds even perhaps thousands of years older than our own. All of this is the current premise of SETI.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

Why are these phantom projections seen exclusively in our atmosphere and why are their appearances inconsistent? Our own signal communications are often weakened or obliterated by atmospheric conditions. What of those arising from a distant planet?

Would they encounter even more complex and rare opportunities to broadcast through the medium of another planet’s atmosphere?. Our current knowledge of both holography and quantum mechanics are in their infancy. What applications could we derive from this nascent knowledge a hundred or a thousand years from now?

Could it be used to attempt communications with distant habitable planets? We already have the remote telemetry to determine which planets could harbor life at unimaginable distances from our own location. What of those thousands of years in advance of us?

What is a universal language more elegant than maths?

Visual images?

It was also Arthur C Clarke who observed that "If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative."

In UAP we have the aforesaid communication that combines the familiar with a recombinant image of the familiar in what could be described from our point of view, a hopelessly naive interpretation of what is possible.

One could say they resemble a child’s drawing of the evolution within aircraft technology that follows a protocol of mixing technological futurism with the contemporary line of reasoning that would anticipate future developments as if whoever created these projections knew in advance what the development of various applications of technology would lead.

In the contemporary era of living individuals, we have examples of this protocol. In WW2, the demonstration of aircraft seeking missiles arrived without it’s application being mastered here on Earth. 

In the Postwar era we had the demonstration that were a caricature of rocket propulsion leading to incredible velocities in their wake that has no discernable means of propulsion upon achieving a certain altitude much like our own space program that arrived later. 

However they were as if created with a sense of naivety as if they were created within the art form of retro-futurism. Now we have the naive demonstration of flying wings exaggerated to the size of two football fields. B1 bombers on steroids.

All we have in hand from UAP as I stated earlier is that it is communicating something. As many readers know, I have explored the permutations of this in various theories, one after the other.

What is the content of this communication if it could be summarized? Two striking characteristics are commonalities.

1. They acknowledge present technology specifically in relation to aircraft, not cars, boats or automobiles. Aircraft to us represent the traversing of vast distances quickly.

2. They take the state of this art to a next level.

Think of the resulting confusion among our own species a thousand years ago if any of our current technologies were observed.

We might say, the projection of these images are intentional. The message is one of “similar to” as in the real message is in the medium. What if these images are a intentional differentiation of our own visual language? Could they represent communications through spooky actions at a distance? A form of visual language? Could these be a metaphor that states:

1. A medium of traversing spacetime by sending a communication that is a visual codex? One that changes and says to us, our technologies are known and then acknowledges they change. A form that indicates both tracking and observation.

The message within this message as a response is to alter the acknowledgement by taking it one step further.

2. The state of the art here is acknowledged with a response of an advanced perspective just far enough from the leading edge without too much of an extension to state here is an example of an advanced perspective visually demonstrated.

If this concept is true it answers the question of purpose as opposed to our own concepts of purpose that see this phenomenon has having either none or being ambivalent. It also answers the behavior of UAP mirroring our own evolution of technology by differentiating a response.

Is the medium the message? Are these ghost images a reflection of Arthur C Clarkes vision of the monolith awaiting our advancement to respond?

Quantum Effects As A Weapons System

Regular readers of this blog know that I take the speculations I write about at an arms length to the point while they are considerations, I am agnostic to their probability as nothing about them can be completely verified.
Along with these speculations that are more benign I have always had another suspicion that until now, I have kept in my back pocket concerning Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomenon which is it represents a extremely advanced technological non lethal weapons system that is in a testing phase. It would not be ours in this play upon John Keel's theme of both external deceptions and those that are in the mind as a prelude. What if they could be combined in a technological sense as also a play on the futurism of Jules Verne through the mirror of extraterrestrials who could possibly possess a future weapon in the present tense.
At least non lethal in of itself, a play upon the concept underlying both the Greek Trojan Horse and the pervasive vivid quality of an invasion of ghost projections, a very effective means of creating a ghost armada.
The next logical question would be: What is the purpose of a ghost armada? The concept seems transparently benign. Perhaps not.


There is no need for the archaic concept of physically moving solid objects from point A to B which can be a very costly and long undertaking when you can invade by the projection of holographically interactive ghosts.
The purpose is deceptively simple. Which are the real objects and which are the quantum projected facsimiles? If your opponents targeting cannot tell one from another, that is an advantage in your court, especially with the enhanced advantage that what they appear to be is inconsistent and having no direct, observable purpose which hides their true purpose behind illusions. .


Jets are scrambled after mirages that blink out of existence. The USAF is completely confounded and the last possibility they want to admit is that they are dealing with a tactical weapon so far advanced that they are absolutely out of their league.

Such a tactic would be economically and maniacally clever.

All of this came to me while thinking about the history of camouflage beginning with the naval dazzle camouflage of the first world war to the invention of ghost armies and rubber tanks and aircraft in World War Two. These were always utilised passively to hide. What if they could be used in an aggressive sense? Not hiding but infiltrating. All of this led also to the thought of the future exploitation of quantum behavior manipulated to create holographic images used to render targeting a useless venture. What if it were being used now? However, since we are not that far advanced along in this application of discovery science, it's not possible. What of a civilization uncountable in years vastly older than our own? How would this fit in with Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomenon? I thought of Jules Verne who could have said the same toward the study of UAP when he said “The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.” In this case perhaps, not in a beneficent manner.

Of course, the sociological effect if any of this was true is brilliant, the use of this non lethal weapon absolutely confuses the populace so much so that they cannot agree if it is real or not and argue among themselves.
It is not of course, the main act.
if you think the effects of this possibility as theoretically possible, you could very handily tie up every weapons system with impunity, a distraction so large that disperses their direction of attention so widely that their targeting becomes a moot point.
Many of my posts have dealt with what we want from these investigations so we can turn the tables and ask what do they want (if a “they existed) and were using this extremely advanced weapon? What is their end game?
Logic tells me it’s something we have that we do know we have and that we will only know when they can exploit it or as an alternative, attempt to. What it may be is our greatest mystery which may be unique as worthy of making use of by others as a means to an end. Call it a supplement of knowledge as seen from those outside of it not prone to crib blindness as we are. It could be consciousness itself as we manifest it in perhaps a way completely foreign to them. Perhaps some aspect of it could be harnessed technologically once things could be put into order, a stable state which our globe lacks. A imposition of order. Peaceful perhaps but imposed none the less so this opportunity could be explored. A yet undiscovered quality or some yet to be determined element of our world we are unaware of in a similar vein. And so it goes in a game of probabilities fraught with equal uncertainty when it comes to the explorations of theoretical probabilities.


We have X craft and this could be the version of an extraterrestrial experimental testing phase that gets mixed into our mythologies so we cannot determine when it began or ended.
If energy is truly information I ask, then could it be a weapon? Could we be herded by the manipulation of disinformation into a stalemate of utter disorientation as a prelude by staging intentional misconceptions?


Your guess is as good as mine and all we have at our disposal is a game of probabilities. If true, then it appears to be working very effectively. if not true..well..you must be the judge of that in terms of our guessing game as we toss the coin up into the air. Jules Verne meets Jacques Vallee.

The Roots Of The Paranormal

Emotions Versus Intellect and Liminality

On the surface of our societies organisations, laws, religions and other architectural constructions that frame human relationships there is a counterpoint of chaos, cross purposes, open ended questions and ambiguity mixed with the denial that a great deal of what constitutes order is essentially a series of control systems that are in an odd way remain ad hoc in nature in that they are necessities created by the non existence of the same in our deepest fears that recognize anything and everything can and perhaps will happen through our own psychological weaknesses. One sees this operate in the anti-structure of emotional realms as superimposed on the rational intellect

The Trickster of Structures

One could say that society is based on rituals of initiation based on structures that in of themselves creates a Trickster lodged on the deception of appearances in the laws of human structures. Robert Anton Wilson applied the term of "naive realism " to this Trickster.
Idealism as a repeatable stereotype versus the realities posed by uncertainty characterized by unpredictability. Structure versus anti-structure. Laws based on chaos. One could call this a contest between the imposition of the idealism of legislated realities versus the underpinning of unlimited possibilities that created them. Consensus reality is repeatable, the paranormal is chaotic. One hand is washing the other.
We see this reflected in the goals of science to create a unified field theory that unites the predictable structure of classical physics with the anti-structure of quantum mechanics.

One could call this situation the Tao of the paranormal. In other words, a dynamo. Both are the result of superimposition and yet the separation of one from the other is the crux of investigation. As a result of this
this attempt to separate the two ( structure and anti-structure ) leads to the formulation of camps that reflect this focus on division versus multiplication of effects that are the consequence of entanglement.The extreme partitioning of the whole creates What Gregory Bateson termed a double bind that results in a defensive formulation of erstwhile cults of extreme beliefs one way or the other as to alleviate a conflict. In metaphysics this is known under many terms that acts as a buffer that generically is termed a projected illusion that is turn has another layer which is the finite capabilities of the senses in relation to the formulation of conceptual versus certifiable concepts of reality.

"A double bind is an emotionally distressing dilemma in communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more conflicting messages, in which one message negates the other. This creates a situation in which a successful response to one message results in a failed response to the other (and vice versa), so that the person will automatically be wrong regardless of response. The double bind occurs when the person cannot confront the inherent dilemma, and therefore can neither resolve it nor opt out of the situation."

Despite these attempts to build social moats around open ended situations, there remains the unpredictable and seemingly random extremes of behavior that surface continually that leave in their wake more questions than answers. The most open ended questions revolve around homicide that represent the genome of chaos in the origins whose effect is the murder of another being. Here we have the prosaic equivalence of what we term the anomalous  which requires a deeper look.

The Post Editorial Nature of Imposing Structure on Open Ended Questions

Nature versus nurture, lost opportunities versus fated circumstance, capital punishment versus lifelong incarceration, desire versus acceptance, outcasts versus the whole of social norms, the end game of capitalism, psychosis versus mediation, emotions versus logic. The list of choices can make for a perfect storm whose effects can last long after the bodies have long since been relegated to the ground. One could say these are a mirror image of what takes place in the anomalous cases of hauntings only it is the living that are haunted, or is it?

While the concept of purgatory as a form of fear inducing control in religious orthodoxy has been erased from the books as a form of punishment in the afterlife, the same remains in the wake of any murder. The Trickster's role in liminality is one of highlighting the limits of structure. While the superimpositions that result from the balancing and imbalance between chaos and order are evident and require nuance we find that in popular opinion, there exist two diametrically opposed camps of belief. The camp of structure versus the camp of anti-structure as a faux architecture. Angels versus Devils as a naive dualism versus the dynamo that propels and unites anomalous manifestations as a superimposition. Both camps assume a pathological desire to control that mimics the behavior of their container which are rules versus chaos, reward versus punishment as a means to make the incommensurable a domesticated and stereotyped form of predictability.

The victims of chaos are as random and as widespread as the reach of human relations bind them together. Again we have the haunting of the living by open ended questions that create an atmosphere of indelible uncertainty that is free floating as well as permanently locking them into could have, should have, would have. Within this perpetual motion of the unassigned possibilities there is an indisputable motive power that seemingly seeks the superimposition of human values onto inconclusive and irresolvable conflicts that are both intellectual and emotional.

One could say this is the axis of anomalous manifestations. The anti-structural nature underlying prosaic and fundamental concepts that are structural and more importantly....human experience as an expression of the consequences wherein these two forces act as a dynamo of life mirrored by what remains after the host has abdicated possession of it onto another medium as a imprint.

The Balancing of Forces

In all of this there is a larger question, the elusiveness of justice in both a concrete and existential sense or if we carry this into a literal church of orthodoxies, we have a deep seated sense of contradictions both obvious and subtle. Open ended questions in the Janus face of what is called morality as an abstracted case of rules that seem to not apply as much as they do both personally and in societal terms despite the architectures created since the time of Moses.

Another factor of haunting shared between both life and death.

The study of the paranormal is the study of what is disconcerting as well as illusive. In my research, the normal and the para-normal are joined at the hip. One could say the former has these questions buried below the surface of the taskng we are assigned to by the necessities of everyday life, but they are none the less present. In the latter they are more the surface itself as chaotic, persistent and as anti-structural.

The intellect is structural whereas emotions are not.

We attempt to apply rationality to the paranormal and come up empty handed. In some sense you have to have a strong stomach to delve into these matters having what is called a strong native psychological constitution. Emotions, I have found, are the basis for the creation of the probability of an anomalous manifestation to occur whether it is a UFO or a ghost as emotional fields of this expression of energy are a carrier wave as well as having a atmosphere conducive to anti-structural expressions.

In carrying this sense that the normal and paranormal are joined at the hip, I have seen one transfer to the other that raises a great deal of issues that are tied to human experience as a causal framework of open ended questions, one that persists beyond the physical death of the subject, which then has it’s own series of questions attached to them much as Shakespeare portrayed similar themes in Hamlet as a causal chain of consequences that play out as an analogy to Newton’s observation of classical physics.

One could say both normal consensus reality and it’s paranormal events of anomalous experiential manifestations pose what could be labelled unanswerable situations and yet perhaps our venturing into taboo areas of human nature serve a nobler cause yet to be determined. Motive, means and opportunity belong to us as an inheritance in the quest for freedom from within.

It is safe to say that the Anomalist, the Fortean, the  Paranormalist do indeed serve a nobler cause that provides no immediate answers yet remains a worthwhile journey regardless of the provocations that suggest otherwise. We press on...on a perhaps a fool's errand while others fall by the wayside and find more practical occupations and yet our quest is far from impractical.

The Passive-Aggressiveness of Silence.

Where do we find a criticism of silence on the part of our cultural institutions when it comes down to the organised nature of a roaring silence toward UAP? 
On the radar screen, it is invisible, more so than at any time in recent history, while the focus has turned to the historical archives of long ago events as a proverbial safety zone. 

Curiosity has been corralled into obscurities. One could say this is the inadvertent trivialization of the subject rendering it toothless. 
The fervor of years past to have the subject taken seriously has descended into the depths of circular arguments and juvenile name calling over ancient and largely irrelevant events that are as ambiguous as the participants are emotionally chained to jousting over their competitive superiority on a subject that lacks any verifiable expertise.

What happened? How did a widely reported global anomaly become a fringe topic, marginalized despite an overwhelming acceptance that something is tampering with our basic perceptions of what is possible? 
Perhaps it is worthwhile to undertake a forensic analysis of the state of the art as a non existent, which is a dangerous territory as a state confined to one's imaginative processes with the critical assumption in mind that analyzing data in a dream state is sufficient to explore what is actually taking place.

Looking at the historical record, interest in the subject has de-evolved into history repeating itself as witnessed by the predominance of tribal cults of worship proliferate now as they did two thousand years ago before the insertion of science interrupted the worship of what were essentially beliefs built upon the simple essence of suspicions. 
Any answer is better than none or is it?
A recent essay by a scientists suggested we are too ignorant to be studied in any great involvement by extraterrestrials and the state of no state of investigation toward the provocations of UAP may be handing the knife of this conclusion by the hilt to any would be party who held that opinion.
We seemingly are so infused with cross purposes as to be rendered incapable of organizing ourselves out of a paper bag.

The inexorable evaporation of belief systems based on faith alone continues unabated while the opposite if true in regard to a 500 pound elephant in the room.

The UAP phenomenon has been abdicated by technological science largely because it is benign and the discovery science required to probe its manifestations is considered largely to have no practical purpose in the sense we could make use of it in the application of further tools of a more pragmatic nature. 
At the same time nearly every discovery made by science at it’s beginnings had no practical purpose that could be utilised fully. What can we do with lightning directly? Yet it held the principle of electricity. The examples are endless. 
My mother used to say that ignorance is bliss but one has to wonder if the other side of the coin is that this has a price tag attached to it.

We have a phenomenon surrounding us that calls into question every critical assumption we possess in relation to the nature of the realities we inhabit. 
This abdication has a passive-aggressive nature in the formulations of a social nature that could be termed as silence becomes or is transferable to denial without a day in court or for that matter, a half hearted debate. 
For how many decades did science claim without investigation or the collecting of data that “rocks do not fall from the sky.” How can you deny such and such does not exist if you refuse to look at it?

It’s easy, easier than you would assume that it is.

Our planet is encircled by geocentric satellites gathering data continuously as well as having a permanent observation platform and as a result, the potential to utilize this data collection is profound and then there is the testimony of highly educated astronauts with multiple degrees, civilian pilots who risk their careers in reporting anomalies all of whom say there is uncertainty involved regarding what was seen. Yet this is glossed over.

We have inadvertent propaganda from the commercial nature of our media to make the subject entertaining wherein anything and everything is held on the same basis of credibility to the point of absurdity because that is profitable to their own interests in sponsor fees.

This is not rocket science and its not research. There is no research only those who call themselves researchers who are incapable of measuring anything beyond the minutia of decades old incidents because simply, that can be done easily with impunity for their marketplaces. Inference in the print media is the equivalent of the entertainment factor in cable television.

No one is collecting real time data for analysis and there is no conspiracy of withholding evidence as no one knows what any of this represents and it takes no effort to sweep this 500 pound elephant under the carpet because silence is golden, effortless in the onslaught of the lunatic fringe.

It would be equally naive to assume there is no interest in professional circles but as in any scientific debate doubt precedes evidence and yet doubt is considered evidence in the absence of attempting discovery of it as the scientific community is bound head to foot with competition for funding harnessed to capitalism at it’s rankest denominator, all of which is encircled with going along to get along, cash in hand.

In the end, it seems our place within the realities we inhabit has a lower valuation philosophically and economically then gadgetry that can either be sold and \ or weaponized as territorial prerogatives.  

And so, the book is closed, the dust gathers and time is meaningless in it’s passage in relation to a lost opportunity.

The Mind As A Microcosm of The Macrocosm?

One Consideration Leads To Another



Is UAP The Entanglement of Parallel Universes?

Since that period in which I organised a potential theory regarding UAP as a macro quantum effect, that included the confluence of energy as information, the observer effect and the strange evidence for the phenomenon of global “consciousness”, I seemingly find myself in a proverbial wormhole of making connections in regard to the microcosm of the observer to the macrocosm of UAP considerations.
We have the potential of meaningful coincidence in the nature of dream states and the phantasmagoria of Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomenon. We shift between the hybridised realities of dream states and vectoring ourselves by tasking the mind in the strict rules of three dimensions replete with what Einstein termed the illusions of physicality, who borrowed that observation from Plato in a scientific context.

One could state with impunity that we experience nothing directly as all that we experience including our eye sight is a simulation created by the mind and here as they say, "things get tricky"
Some of  us are old enough to remember the old Memorex commercial that compared the live voice of Ella Fitzgerald to a tape recording and posed the question which is real, the tape recording or the physicality of Ella herself?
 No I am not suggesting solipsism but rather the Trickster nature of consciousness itself.

Every day of every week we confront ghost images as a routine matter and dreams as such are simulations. Images that arise from the ongoing associative process of memory in a dream state are created by a literal observer effect as we are witnessing our thoughts as external realities.

Could the same apply to UAP?

One could say this represents a vague intuition that the inside of the mind’s membrane we inhabit is reflected by how the outside ( meaning our environment ) functions in terms of UAP and other similar phenomenon considered to be anomalous, such as classical categories of similar ghost phenomenon. Ghosts as simulations having no independence from their observer.

One recalls the example of whether a sound is heard in the forest when a tree falls if there is no one there to hear it. One could say it does or it doesn't. One represent an open system of external possibilities while the other represents a closed system utilizing feedback.

One could say this is a parallel choice in the study of UAP in terms of it's characteristics as a series of simulations based on the contents of memory as well as the inexact nature of it's forms as a whole.

Last night before going to bed, I walked over to the kitchen and grabbed the remote control for the fountains in our garden and shut them off.
Then I shut down the kitchen lights, put some dirty dishes in the sink, walked over that gate for the dogs, opened the bedroom door, undressed, took off my glasses and rolled into bed. My state and orientation of habitation was firmly in the grasp of classical physics.

The next thing I recall was sitting at a counter lodged between an oriental woman in her thirties with a rather cherubic face and to my left, a seven year old or so young boy who was also oriental. He had a bowl before him full of lettuce like shreds and what oddly enough looked like french fries atop it. The woman told me that we needed to cajole him into trying this dish, which I did without questioning what I was participating in. The next moment I was atop a small motorcycle like contrivance on my way down a street and ran out of gas. In another moment, I was walking down a fairly dingy hallway painted with a fairly ugly pink \ orange color and it struck me that the place looked pretty shambling. I turned a corner and to my amazement was a woman in her fifties, dressed in old fashioned clothes and I immediately apologized for my intrusion. She took it all in stride and said there was no need for an apology, this happens all the time.

This morning I woke up back into the realm of classical physics and it occurred to me that just perhaps upon entering my sleep cycle , I had departed the universe of laws assigned to tasking and had entered an experiential microcosm of quantum realities wherein probability was delimited.

Tasking versus non tasking came to mind. I seemingly exist in a transient isthmus between two parallel universes wherein energy as information is organised by the locality of spacetime as it is vectored.

The inside of this microcosm is presented by the outside becoming inside in a observer effect through the appearance of the surrealism of a dreaming state not constricted by tasking.

In other words having no purpose as we define purpose in the classical universe of physics. The observer organizes effects as if they were driven by outside causality as a simulation. It brought to mind Ibn Al Arabi saying that no two individuals see heaven alike just as no two UAP events are exact copies of one another. If consciousness is a projection of an effect which we cannot locate can it occupy a proverbial isthmus as well as we ourselves do as perhaps a similar process?
 Then a biblical quotation allegedly from Jesus came to mind paraphrased as birds can perch in a tree but humankind has no place to rest their heads. A metaphor of the mind \brain relationship as being local and non-local in the same encapsulation?

Through The Looking Glass

Does the mind as a microcosm exhibit the same quantum realities when not assigned to tasking a three dimensional state as does the environment exhibits when the same projected effects result in UAP upon an energetic environment that surrounds us?
“What odd thoughts” I thought to myself, a sort of fine madness.
“At least it’s a interesting madness” I thought.
Simple questions on the surface of complex issues. The simpler the question the more complex the answer? The really “maddening”inference is that perhaps we exist neither here nor there in terms of inside versus the outside and of course I immediately considered just how impractical such considerations are but then again how do we define practical?
Arrghh. HG Welles came to mind when he wrote “the mind at the end of it’s tether” Then again we have a situation that is defined by the impossible being witnessed.
Kites and strings, surrealism as realism and through the looking glass we go through a wormhole and again in search of what? Connections between information, the non tasking of the phenomenon and the ghosts of a potential simulation that mirrors our own experiences in the manner such as we confront nightly
Then another thought arose, just how prosaic and stereotyped the formulations of paranormal theorists are. It is as if they were trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole and as a consequence the observer is isolated from what is observed.

Embryonic Realities of Habitation

“We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action. ... It must, it shall be undertaken to-day, and yet we put it off until to-morrow, and why? There is no answer, except that we feel perverse, using the word with no comprehension of the principle. ... [Then] The clock strikes, and is the knell of our welfare. At the same time, it is the chanticleer-note to the ghost that has so long overawed us. It flies—disappears—we are free. The old energy returns. We will labor now. Alas, it is too late “
-Edgar Allan Poe- The Imp of The Perverse

“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

Any researcher into para-normal matters, must make the obligatory descent into the proverbial “dark matter” of what constitutes normality as a string of statements as opposed to questions. Sooner rather than later, one discovers that in every truth there is a kernel of fiction and in every fiction there is a kernel of truth. One could say this is a matter of comparative analysis. One could say an unwritten rule is also a stereotype in that hindsight and post editorial revisions are inherent in the nature of transience, or truth as a verb of transit rather than a noun designating a destination. One might consider rules as a pragmatic placeholder of orientation in the larger universe and nothing more ...as we are held in place to it by an evolving umbilicus.



At Richard Reynold’s blog, he recently created three posts simultaneously on Slenderman as a motive for murder, the potential fabrication of a false symbol on the craft witnessed at Socorro NM, as well as the upcoming reveal of Kodachrome slides that purport to be a major revision of what actually occurred at Roswell.

This was my reply:

“The topic of memory as both pliable and, at times, indelible, is linked in my mind to your other post on Slenderman regarding the twelve year old claiming that this fictional character was the impetus to commit murder. Then there is the post on Zamorra that suggests that his memory of the event was an intentional fiction and this possibility is based on a son’s memory of his father.
I suspect Slenderman as a motive is a screen to avoid the recounting of the actual motive of these young girls that posits that such a motive as a memory does not exist.
The son’s memory does not count as evidence with collaboration and it raises more questions than answers. I think any researcher must leaven how they define truth. Yet the opposite is more of a statement than a question as another pitfall.
Then (as you suggest) the USAF has made a policy and strategy of manipulating fabricated scenarios to cover what actually occurred at Roswell. .
It may be all three posts are more about the creation of a false memory or account of an event as a screen, as memory itself may be pliable to some degree there is no litmus test other than material evidence to the contrary to contest the validity of either a lie or the truth in regard to “planted” memories. These memes of truth seem to be nothing more than bootstrapping a relative position in relation to ambivalence. In other words truth may be more of a matter of philosophy than direct verification.
. However, even evidence itself (more often than not) cannot fully reveal the truth as a conclusive statement of facts strung together by causality.
How much do we accept without direct verification on faith alone? I would say an enormous amount. While some have said “truth is a pathless land” we have paths culturally planted all around us as a proverbial labyrinth. What is an acceptable lie versus an unacceptable one?
For this there is no objective, collective arbitration of belief.”



All of this reminds me of film noir, especially the classic film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s “The Big Sleep” which revolves around a seemingly impossible convoluted and complicated plot line. There are two versions of this film. The first version was lengthy and included scenes of exposition that clarified certain threads of the parallel plot lines and the second was edited for the sake of brevity that yet, created more incoherence and inference. The second version was the one released for exhibition. The point of bringing this up is that the second version is the critic’s preferred version as it creates more of an atmospheric effect of mystery. One could say there was a preference for an aura of mystery versus coherence as a entertainment factor, a means to draw an audience into a alternate reality wherein everything and everyone is under a cloud of suspicion. There is the question of preferences in relation to coherence versus innuendo.
Does this remind you of an issue with paranormal research?

Not that long ago I wrote an essay on structure and anti-structure being the two magnetic poles that are always constructing transient conceptual models of what may be. However, on a subliminal basis, we also must recognize that these, in of themselves are architectural artifacts of the intellect having no more sway than a suggestion as a practical matter.

A negative reaction to this state of affairs would posit that achieving any conclusive argument is a fool’s errand and on a more positivist note, we have a open rather than closed system of opportunity to peer behind the curtains of our own fallacies, which is perhaps the most constructive undertaking we may have at our own disposal as both the normal consensus realities we navigate as well as the deconstructive para-normalities we face open up a slight hole in which to traverse other possibilities beyond the known and unknown as false benchmarks of a relative position.

One could reasonably state that all of the parallel realities we inhabit are embryonic in their nature and that any positivist statements of fact are examples of what Robert Anton Wilson termed “ naive reality”.

Therefore the paranormalist must have in their bag of tools a native instinct that everything should be questioned as the fictive detective Philip Marlowe recognized out of necessity and yet that positioning of relative truths may represent the equally embryonic nature of the universe, which is still in transit attempting to determine what it may be by experiment.

As above, so below.