Jul 06 2008
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Roswell 2008 Day 2
Farah Yurdozu, Stephen Bassett and Peter Robbins at the Hangar 84 party
In order to bring this wonderful and informative series of reports to you, I was up until 2:30 AM this morning. Know how you will sometimes feel ill if you don’t get enough sleep? And I only had three cocktails last night before locking the hotel room door behind me.
My powerpoint lecture was delivered into the capable hands of Roswell Conference crewman “Mark” this morning at 7. At 9:00, I was back and listening to the last 45 minutes of Karyn Dolan’s lecture on UFOs and the media desensitization of children. Karyn is concerned that children’s programs like Boobah (which is aimed at pre-verbal infants) are planting odd, wrong, and dangerous ideas about aliens into the impressionable minds of the very young. Unlike Karyn, I don’t have children so anything I say would be useless, although my friend and The Excluded Middle magazine co-founder Robert Larson’s quote about that show might confirm her opinion. When he first saw it a couple of years ago, he left a message on my machine: “You know how Teletubbies is like watching TV on acid? Well, Boobah is like a DMT trip.” Watch it sometime and see if he doesn’t have a point.
Scene from Boobah
Peter Robbins introduced me to the 1200-seat Pearson auditorium with a glowing biography. There were about 30 people there when I started, but I’ve spoken to an audience of three once, so no big deal.
The lecture was titled Alternate Theories of UFO and Alien Origins, and I think that the crowd was exposed to some ideas that they hadn’t encountered before. I talked about such arcane subjects as time travel, Tulpas, and the DMT research of Richard Strassman. This last one brought up my favorite question after the lecture. A woman stood up and asked how we know if the experiences reported under the influence of a psychedelic drug like DMT aren’t just “in people’s minds.” This of course brought up semantic and philosophical issues, but I also mentioned the history of shamanism and its use of altered states and mind-altering substances in order to find out things about distant places and situations that were inaccessible but important to pre-historic cultures, and how some of these impressions turned out to be correct in the “real” world. Why couldn’t this be applied to contact with non-human consciousness as well? A few more post-Strassman tries couldn’t hurt.
Turkish Ufologist Farah Yurdozu was next, with E.T. Presence and Reptilian Signs From Ancient Turkey to Modern New York City. She spoke about the ancient Hittite culture and its worship of reptilian/ demonic entities, and theorized that NYC may be going through a similar phase, using images of snakes, dragons, and pagan symbols that adorn the modern architecture of the Big Apple. She also showed recent video of UFO sightings in Turkey, while offering a running translation of the nervous and somewhat confused voices of the people who shot the footage. She pointed out that “Many of the sightings have been near places of historic significance or recent political turmoil.”
Phyllis Galde and Jerry Pippin
When I arrived for my interview with paranormal radio host Jerry Pippin, he was still talking with Stan “The Man” Friedman and Kathleen Marden, his co-author on Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. Yesterday, Friedman graciously pointed out to me that Marden wrote almost all of the book, but that the publishers wanted to bank on his name. The door to the interview room was locked, so I didn’t get to hear any of it. While I waited, FATE publisher Phyllis Galde gave me a t-shirt featuring a painting of the Kenneth Arnold sighting. There was an audience of about 15 people crammed into the small conference room where the interviews were held. When Friedman and Marden were done, they left me alone with Jerry and his engineer. I noticed that Pippin has gotten quite professional at radio interviews even in the last couple of years. He kept the flow of the conversation going, and knew exactly when to cut in, as well as when to shut up.
By the time we wrapped up, it was almost time for the Big Parade down main street. I was surprised to find Farah Yurdozu sitting high on the front seat of a convertible, waving to the crowd, followed by a a full orchestra sitting on a flatbed trailer (a literal bandwagon of course) who broke into the theme from Star Wars as they passed by. One other highlight: the scotty dog shaved with a mohawk down his back and dyed three or four different shades of green.
Richard Dolan got a primetime spot at 7:45 for an hour-and-a-half talk which I wanted to hear: Problems With Disclosure. Readers of this site know about my problems with the Disclosure movement, but Dolan took things a step or two further with a pretty slickified presentation. Dolan’s issues on government openness (and why we aren’t likely to see any) have more to do with vested economic interests and who would stand to lose if the power structure had to admit that it doesn’t know everything. Dolan argued that if there is indeed an alien presence and attendant, but secret advances in technology, the economic (and to a lesser extent) social upheavals that admission of this fact would cause are too risky to contemplate, at least for people who make billions from oil and weapons, among other useful products of commerce. Paradoxically, he also discussed why this vaunted disclosure phase of history might be inevitable. Rich and I had a long discussion after his lecture.
As promised, Paul Davids took the stage soon afterwords to introduce a showing of Roswell, his 1994 drama based on the Kevin Randle/ Don Schmitt book UFO Crash At Roswell. The audience swelled to a few hundred for the free showing, which started off badly. The film was run off a computer, which showed graphics for the DVD player along the bottom of the image. I suggested raising the screen a couple of feet to block it out, but just as I found the ropes that controlled the screen from backstage, someone on the crew figured things out. There was a huge round of applause, Davids breathed a sigh of relief, and the rest of the showing went off with nary a hitch.
During the panel discussion tomorrow, I will try to remind people that none of us would be here and the city of Roswell might not be reaping the benefits if Bill Moore and Stanton Friedman had not come here in 1978 and started asking around about crashed UFO rumors, which culminated in the publication of the 1979 book The Roswell Incident. Whether you believe a bona-fide UFO crashed near here in 1947 or not, this is a facet of the saga that is often sadly overlooked.
Tomorrow: Scaring up some action on the last day of the Roswell Conference 2008.
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July 6th, 2008 at 8:36 am
O.K. — two points. Greg: Did the dog TALK TO YOU? As a Fortean you know that dogs can talk. If not then maybe you should read Gogol’s short story “Diary of a Madman” which gives the necessary invocation instructions for certain success in understanding dog-speak.
Secondly I have to admit that my take on Strassman’s research plunged after reading his comments on the new Graham Hancock forum discussion:
http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=8&i=9998&t=9955
My take, from my own esoterica, is that the drug fixation is all too Western. For example, Wade Davis admits that drugs are not the focus of shamanic healing in West Africa. More importantly drugs are not used by the shamanic healers of the Bushmen culture, the dominant human culture from 10,000 BCE to 80,000 BCE. In the Bushmen culture 90% of the males were healers (it is true that of the females, 10% were healers, and some of them did need drugs to induce the healing trance).
So Greg, just as you asked me why isn’t everyone tripping when they go into high elevation, the reason drugs are not the key to “nonhuman consciousness” is because drugs are focused on electrochemical energy, while what I call “natural resonance” focuses on electromagnetic energy.
For example on the 4th I was hanging with Bookhouse Bert and I confessed to him that I need new pillows since I have to sleep without a headboard to my futon because otherwise my feet are facing the bathroom used by this old pervert dude I share a house with (too much information I know). OK the point being that when I’m asleep he sucks my electromagnetic energy out of my body due to his consciousness being focused in his electrochemical chakra and then having that energy go down to the tailbone chakra to create fluid. To justify this “too personal” posting I now invoke the book “The Alien Agenda” which describes almost the SAME experience for abduction encounters — an electromagnetic force entering into and converting a males’ energy into sex fluid. Secret of the Reptilian agenda btw.
So where was I? OK so anyway when the electromagnetic energy is pulled out of the head, instead of the tailbone (and feet), it does not get converted back into fluid but instead is focused as light energy. The same vision conversion happens when drugs produce increased DMT. In “natural resonance” the process, instead of being limited to electrochemical energy, relies on ionization of serotonin, enabling the stomach serotonin to now bypass the blood-brain barrier. It’s ionized by the ultrasound harmonics of the natural overtones (NOT found in Western tuning since that’s based on symmetric math) and this ionization is an open process enabling the increased focus on electromagnetic energy creation, not found in drugs.
Too much information? Sorry….
July 6th, 2008 at 9:55 am
“You know how Teletubbies is like watching TV on acid? Well, Boobah is like a DMT trip.â€
Best. Quote. Ever!!
July 6th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
LOL - well that confirms it for me Greg. First time I saw the Boobahs I said “the creator of that show has done DMT”.
Not that I’ve ever done anything illegal like having a DMT trip…
July 6th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
That presentation by Farah Yurdozu sounds absolutely fascinating. I need to look her up.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Drew,
What turned you off about Strassman’s comments?
Also, I don’t discount natural methods of entering altered states, it’s just that entheogens offer a quicker method for just about anyone.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Greg T,
I wasn’t implying anything about myself either…
July 9th, 2008 at 11:31 am
BenD,
I don’t see anything about her Roswell talk online, but you can contact her at farah_yurdozu@yahoo.com.