Gents, >From about 1990 through about 1997, I jumped headlong into the world of the UFO experience and UFO abductions. I ended up after a few years about where Terry indicated he had landed... pretty well writing off the possibility of physical "visitors". I was in a position for most of those years to do SEM and EDS work, as well as optical microscopy, on supposed implants, alien spooge left on abductees, and crash retrieval fragments. Nada. In every case, the objects turned out to be either identifiable as a whole, or identifiable by composition. Some of this melodrama is only now starting to go away on the internet, such as the ..guh...caugh... bismuth magnesium Roswell metal. Been about a year since I had to pull out my knitting needle and try to deflate the mythos of that one once again. I've learned to breathe deep and control my ire when a whole new phase of implant / artifact / "smoking gun" poo starts around again, courtesy of personalities such as Lier, Howe, Boylan, yadayada. The uncontrollable urge to yell "I WAS THE ONE WHO ANALYZED YOUR GOL DANGED NECK IMPLANT THINGY AND IT REALLY IS JUST A PIECE OF A GOL DANGED FURNITURE SCREW!" Oh. Was that out loud?
In the end, the only evidence I found for the UFO experience was the deep and unique impact on the consciousness of the experiencers, and the fantastic levels of pure Jungian synchronicity. So overall, I've placed the UFO and alien abduction experiences into the ocean of the Human Collective Unconscious. Those aliens arose out of our own creation, and populate our virtual shared symbological network. My own experiences with analysis, experiencer interviews, and circulating among the "bigwigs" took me to this place, so I guess I feel differentiated from pathological skepticism. Hardware aliens in hardware saucers from hardware worlds. I weighed them in my balance and they were found wanting. But back to the fishbowl challenge. Well, here's my little contribution. If you were the keeper of a bowl o' sea monkeys whom you knew were a bit smarter than you had figgered they would be, when they came in the mail, one thing you might not want them to discover in their little bowl world would be any evidence that they were not your first pets in that bowl! I'd say the best place to look for evidence for the bowl o' sea monkeys theory is OOPARTS (out-of-place-artifacts) and archaeological enigmas. No, not the Baghdad Batteries, or the Great Pyramid, or Greek clockwork. Those bear testimony to human engineering skill and/or the notion of historical outliers. The one I have been puzzling over recently is firmly in the realm of anthropological history. In North America, a good number of the native tribes had some primordial stories about giants. Not the big smelly wildmen of the woods (Bigfoot), but actual giant tribes - giant humans. In almost all the Indian stories, the giants were dying out as the ancestors of the Indians made their homes in the land. Generally but not always, the giants were the enemies of the Indians remotest grandfathers, and their extinction was hastened by those conflicts. Now skip forward to the late 1700s. From across the frontier country later called Ohio, Western New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ontario, stories of giant sized (usually between seven and 9 foot) human-esque skeletal remains popped up as the plow broke open forest and meadow. Hundreds of accounts - some as late as the 1930s. (Several eight foot human skeletons were noted in the reports made at a dig from a CCC construction site off the coast of Georgia.) Now the prevailing notion among anthropologists who will even discuss the matter is that these were the "craze" of the era. The "Roswell" of an earlier time. The bones were just normal sized Indian bones, they say, but the mystique of Giants in the Earth New World biblical proof - which played a role in the birth of Mormonism, obviously - made 9 foot guys with weird shaped heads out of the actual Shawnee remains. And it may be so! Except that in a number of instances from the latter part of the "Giant craze era", 8 feet long or larger giant remains were taken off to some venerable institutions for study. Several accounts from West Virginia are cited in the 12th annual report to the Smithsonian of the American Ethnography committee which was in 1896 I believe. The said giant remains from Georgia were recorded by the credentialed archaeologists involved as having been delivered to the Smithsonian. Another group of big ones from a building excavation in Elrama PA in the late 1930s were supposedly dropped off at the University of Pennsylvania. The catch is that when inquiries are made to any of the institutions where the giant bones are (supposedly) cached, the requests are either ignored or records come up negative. A young post doc at Ohio state with whom one of my partners in this mess had corresponded, had done research on the Georgia case. Lo and behold, in the documentation he had used, no mention of abnormal human remains was found. Nor were any remains among the artifacts in storage for the case. Yet copies of the original report mention them repeatedly. Maybe not convincing on a onesy twosy basis, but it leaves a bad smell. Maybe all those accounts and measurements by town doctors or coroners or college museum curators were bogus, and filled with some mythos feeding fervor or delusion. There's a notion that something capable of revolutionizing the anthropological picture of the history of humanity was "scrubbed" along the way. But I may be wrong. The point though is that if we are really Sea Monkeys, we should search the bowels of our bowl thoroughly for those OOPARTS and Forteana that would whisper blaspemous hints that we are not the first batch / colony / crop here in this place. Makes you feel a little Lovecraftian, even on a sunny afternoon... N PS - With respect to the Food of the Gods. In his book Far Journeys, Robert Monroe claimed he was pulled into a dark alley on the astral plane and given a furtively delivered forbidden history of the real basis for life on Earth. The caviar-like resource for which humans are noted throughout the multi-verse? That which is harvested and sucked up by the gods like cosmic nose candy? Monroe called it "Loosh". High octane negentropic juice produced and released only by well ordered beings capable of perpetrating hate and mass violence on themselves... --- Terry Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jones Beene wrote: > > > even those who may have everything else that > technolgy has to offer, > > except ... soul? > > > Ah, the food of the gods? > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
