This all will be part of the “symbolic realm” rant I will post in a few days.

Thanks to everyone for your comments! I knew there were honest and undogmatic seekers still out there.

Yep, thinking outside the box is essential in ufology, as we all need to remember that the “U” in UFO _still_ stands for “unidentified.” And not for “alien spacecraft.” All bets should still off as to the source of all this weirdness.

You are spot on too - for many people, dinosaurs in Loch Ness, giant apes in the Pacific Northwest, and metal spaceships have been replaced by something weirder, something that is parodoxically real yet unreal, something quantum, and something seriously strange - and not before time.

The problem is that many mainstreamers don’t like their view of reality altered because it can be an unnerving idea to some of them to imagine that the world may be different to how we perceive it - dare I say even Matrix-like.

I say: bring it on.

I want answers; and I don’t want to hear about head-in-the-sand, “I don’t want to know” approaches. And it’s good to know that you don’t either.

For these reasons we grow up oriented towards the idea that monsters and such “MUST” be prehistoric survivals of some kind, with a genuinely biological basis in fact, and with breeding populations and food-source requirements like other “natural” animals.

Along with this, we tend to believe (early on) that UFOs..flying saucers…are metallic mechanisms of advanced technologies that “MUST” be from somewhere else beyond this planet.

That is, if such things are real AT ALL. To look for their point of origin we look to the stars and to galaxies and solar systems beyond our own. We hypothesize space-travel time conundrums, types of fuel systems and what-not that might facilitate “their” travel across space to meet up with us…or vice-versa. We take a typically science-fictional (Star Trek/Star Wars) approach to all this, with the key word here being SCIENCE fictional. We are still locked in to the Orthodox thinking paradigm.

But something happens to a lot of us over time. We see and experience a lot of things that start casting serious doubts on the “official,authorized, orthodox” versions of “how things are”.

With many of us this begins with ghosts and moves outwards to other areas of strangeness. In the case of ghosts, these things are encountered with…I have found…much more frequency than is generally realized and quickly lead many people to think twice about official “scientific” dictums of “No Such Thing” existing. From the doubts of science’s omniscience regarding ghosts, it then becomes a short leap over to questioning same on unknown creatures and on UFOs. Once that questioning has begun, there is almost no turning back from it.Not by any thoughtfully intelligent mind that has learned to “think outside the box”. And the more such a questioning mind learns about subjects like quantum physics, and that discipline’s theeoretical implications, the less and less one is likely to be a Pavlovian sycophant to the “This Is How It IS” mentality of Hard Science.

Learning about parallel universe possibilities, alternate vibrational realities and the like, can quickly work to open the mind to a greater range of considerations regarding “where do they come from?” than just “How many light years would it take to reach here from Andromeda?”.

This blog looks to be a “think out of the box” blog, and I like that. I like that a lot.

If you think most authors are getting rich off of UFO books, try it yourself. The best way to do this is pander to the common wisdom and go a step or two further (but staying comfortably within the ETH belief system.) It doesn’t matter if you have absolutely nothing to back it up with, in fact, it’s probably better.

The Lam workshop looks very interesting. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

If you think that UFO books sell in massive quantities, you are very wrong. In fact, for the most part, you could not be further from the truth.

No-one I know is (or if they are, they shouldn’t be) in the UFO subject just to sell books.

It’s about (or should be about) trying to get to the core of the UFO mystery (or “cores” is probably a better description, given that there are probably several things going on) and then trying to get that across to people who care and who are interested.

You might not agree with the info in Body Snatchers (which is fine; I put the information out there for people to see; not shovel it down their throats like some evangelical preacher).

But your selling-books comments shows you know not a damned thing about me and my reasons for being in ufology.

It’s to inform people.

..and sells books, you mean…real stories might not do that as well…

Daniel–thanks for the support. We need it! We have little or no control over the “terms of service.” Perhaps the fine people who make all this possible have done a little market research.

Nick–I had to do something. You’ve already posted 10 or 12 times!

More exciting and exclusive stuff to come from both of us. I will start posting UFO-related music files too. Should be able to do that by next week.