Aug 06 2007
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Black Dogs of the Woods
Back in April I wrote an article for the blog on the admittedly weird links between UFOs and sightings in the UK of so-called Phantom Black Dogs. For those interested, I have just written an article for the new issue of Fate magazine on these elusive and mysterious creatures, extracts from which can be found by clicking here.
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August 6th, 2007 at 10:50 am
The idea of dogs being messengers of death is quite intriguing. Gurdjieff made a big deal about the difference between the instinctive and moving centers as two of the three lower energy centers in humans, the third being the sex center.
A “level one” person according to Gurdjieff is someone who mainly learns by instinct meaning by physical sensation and rote. Gurdjieff argued that animals also mainly learn in this fashion. A person who has their dominant consciousness in their instinctual center — the base of the sacrum or tail of the mammal — experiences reality as a constant holographic ritual.
The mechanical universe created by Newton is also guided by physical sensations and as the logarithmic intensity of holographic technology increases there is an increase in the instinctual perceptions of humans, acting as automatons. The political left calls this dynamic the “commodity fetish” meaning that sex sells technology as a sort of “missile envy” dynamic (creating increased levels of neurotic perversion) but Gurdjieff takes this Freudian psychology to a much deeper level.
As humans’ left-brain critical thinking is reduced to simple “click consumerism” the separation with our subconscious causes the cerebellum to more easily project our instinctual resonance with physical sensations — or the astral realm of death. Stan Gooch’s newly reissued book focuses on this topic as well.
The anthropologist who specialized on the Bushmen (humanity back to 80,000 BCE), whereby 90% of the males become consciously able to project holographic images used for electromagnetic healing, also wrote a book on dogs. She argues that dogs domesticated humans more than vice versa and that dogs retain much of their wolf instincts. I used to train sled dogs in Alaska so I have quite a bit of first-hand experience but a recent book I read about hunting dogs — “Rocky Mountain Warden” — detailed how there was a critical moment when the dog finally accepted its owner — i.e. “domesticated the human.”
This is a Fortean reality whereby a natural resonance or psychic connection between the dog and human occurs creating the “group soul” supposedly dominant in tribal cultures. One biologist wrote the following on the connection to supernatural religion:
Dog is to Man as Man is to God.
August 6th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Reminds me of the Robert Johnson song, “Hell Hound On My Trail.”
Think he was talking about a simillar apparition/entity?
Fortunately, I’ve never seen such a thing, but I had a very vivid dream of a big (black) cat helping me get to sleep one night when I was suffering much stress over my impending immigration. It gently pressed its claws into my shoulder as I lay there, my memories and thus my anxieties were completely removed from me and I got a good nights sleep. As I awoke I dreamt the same thing again only this time it put my memories back.
Very strange
August 6th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
UV:
There are a lot of Black Dog legends and tales in popular culture - the Conan Doyle novel “Hound of the Baskervilles” was based upon one such legend; and there are many pubs in the UK called “The Black Dog” and whose origins can be traced back to sightings of such creatures.
Nick
August 6th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
UV:
The dream link is an interesting one too, as many such encounters with some of the stranger crypto creatures have occurred in altered states/dream states, sometimes with people getting a weird feeling that things were not quite right in some way before their experience occurred.
I personally had a very weird “Sleep Paralysis” type experience in late 2002 with a cloak-wearing figure with a wolf-like head while I “slept.”
The skeptics would put this down to an interrnal experience of a hypnogogic type nature, but I’m not so sure…
August 6th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Drew:
This is a book I think you would find very interesting: “Howls of Imagination.” I read it a couple of months ago and is very intriguing. The link gives good background on the subject matter:
http://www.hoap.co.uk/general.htm#HOI
Nick
August 6th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Nick,
Yes, I have to say that, having only recently found out what ‘Occam’s razor’ is all about, that it is, to say the least, abused quite heavilly by skeptics.
If I see a Goodyear blimp its a Goodyear blimp; if I see helicopter its a helicopter. If, however, two friends and I see a triangular shaped craft hover a few hundred feet above my friends’ car then I’m pretty sure that’s what happened (which it did, incidentally). No conclusions drawn, if you really adhere to Occam’s razor I think it far more likely that we saw a solid triangular object with lights at each corner and one in the middle as opposed to, say, a psycho-social, shared halucination that may have something vaguely connected to mythology or a human guilt complex concerning abortion. (I’m currently reading Encounters at Indian Head: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Revisited)
Your experience seems very reminiscent of an Anubis, whereas mine seemed to perform a quite distinct task in an unusual way.
August 7th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Nick consider the Maury Island UFO-JFK connection I was surprised to encounter the following in Ron Rosenbaum’s amazing book: “Travels with Dr. Death”
“Some of the bitterness can be attributed to the aftermath of the British invasion of Dallas-area buff turf in the past decade.”
The next page states:
…”I come upaon a fascinating photomontage of Grassy Knoll gunmen on the front page of Coverups! There is Black Dog Man — I’ve seen him before ….”
“Black Dog Man. At first he was a furry shadow on top of the concrete wall behind the grassy knoll….the furry shadow looked more canine than conspiratorial and dubbed the dark apparition Black Dog Man….”
August 8th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Drew:
Very intriguing! I’m going to follow-up on this. Thanks.