Apr 16 2007
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UFOs and Earth Lights
On January 11, I posted a blog to this site titled Ghostly Grays that delved into the issue of so-called Ghost-Lights and Earth-Lights, in which I mused on the possibility that at least some of these “things” were (at a rudimentary level) self-aware. In that blog I made reference to an excellent article written on the subject by Earth-Light authority Paul Devereux.
Well, Fortean Times magazine has now posted, in its entirety, that same Devereux article on-line.
It makes for very good, thought-provoking reading on what some UFO phenomena may - or, conversely, may not - really be; and makes the intriguing - and often overlooked - connection between some types of UFO encounter and earthquake activity.
As Devereux states:
“One of the earliest modern investigators to raise awareness of earth lights was, of course, Charles Fort. In assembling his compendious record of unusual events, Fort began to spy possible connections that virtually no one before him had the range of data or wit to perceive. He linked strange aerial lights with earthquakes, predating modern geological ideas of ‘earthquake lights’ (EQLs). For example, he drew attention (New Lands, 1923) to the December 1896 earthquake in the Hereford – Worcester region of Britain. He found reports describing such effects as ‘a great blaze’ in the sky and a flying ‘luminous object’ coincident with the quake. Fort acidly commented that ‘the conventional scientist’ of his day had a ‘reluctance toward considering shocks of this earth and phenomena in the sky at the same time.’”
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April 17th, 2007 at 9:20 am
OK Nick Redfern: Have you read Paul Devereux’s book “Earth Mysteries”? He ends the book by discussing Alan Eriera’s work with the Kogi in the Andes — “From the Heart of the World.” I guess Devereux actually interviewed Eriera (sp?) and got more details. To be a shaman of the Kogi you have to sit in a cave, soon after birth, for nine years straight. The only contact with the LIGHT is through another shaman or “mama” training you and also your mom giving you food (that has to be white — for light).
Anyway Devereux focuses on something that was new to me — he said the Kogi did this “ritual sweeping” that started out physical — with the mamas supervising the farmer-laborers. They sweep towards the forest to clear a path — physically and spiritually. Then the trail continues — but only on the astral realm — into a lost spirit village deep in the forest. The Kogi stated that shamans used to met in this special place — spiritually travelling from all over the world — but today the place is unused.
Now compare this information from Paul Devereux with New Age leader Drunvalo Melchizadek who, soon after Eriera’s “From the Heart of the World” documentary, claimed that the Kogi are now working with Drunvalo and have stated that Drunvalo’s work is key to bringing in spiritual evolution, etc.
As detailed in the Stargate Conspiracy, the CIA-New Age scene works to assimilate real land-based traditional shamanism and replace it with these hokey fake “techno-spiritualists.” Meanwhile the Kogi’s real message is that the world is being destroyed by modern technology — the opposite of Drunvalo Melchizdek’s message.
I actually went to the Andes with an indigenous friend from there and she saw the “From the Heart of the World” documentary before we returned to her homeland. She could not believe that the Kogi would actually meet with any whites.
To say, as Devereux does, that these are “macro-quantal” lights makes sense in terms of modern science. I’ve communicated with Professor Steve Strogatz, author of the best-seller, “Sync: The science of spontaneous order” (2003) and plasma can definitely defy gravity, moving as if it’s alive. But quantum chaos science relies on CIA-military supercomputers to create A.I. which is destroying ecology.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Drew:
Yes I have read Paul’s Earth Mysteries. Unfortunately, all too many people in ufology ignore books that tend to have an emphasis on earth light type phenomena because they consider it not to be exciting enough for them, or they think it won’t say what they deperately want to hear about the ETH.
I went on an expedition with Paul and author Rob Riggs in 2005 to Texas’s Big Thicket area of forest where there have been various ghost light-style reports, as well as “wild man of the woods” type stories.
Paul’s a cool guy.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Nick — similarly, mainstream science, i.e. CSICOP and the ever popular Richard Dawkins — pooh-pooh any paranormal reality (I, personally, was banned from the “number one” science blog by professor PZ Myers, a rabid follower of Dakwins). Consider the new article on “crank acoustics” in the Journal of the Society of Acoustic Engineers — it dismisses cymatics by the Steiner follower, Hans Jenny as well as levitation acoustics of John Keely, purportedly stolen by Skull and Bones for UFO technology. But then quantum chaos mathematician professor Ralph Abraham is a big fan of Hans Jenny’s cymatics — even his collaborator.
So there’s this strange dynamic in science with the quantum chaos researchers at Los Alamos and Santa Fe Institute (military New Age science) full-on into mystical research (Abraham’s recent essay in the World Future’s journal is “The New Sacred Math” based on the d’Alembertian wave equation) and then the real effect of this paranormal research is the destruction of Nature.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Drew:
Coincidentally, for a new project I’m working on, a couple of months back I interviewed a guy who had worked at Los Alamos in the 80s and knew of a projact that involved trying to invoke non-human-intelligences (as they were termed) using Crowley and Parsons’ style invocations that resulted in outright psychic backlash.
Since I have gotten about as far as i can with this aspect of the story (since then - when faced with threat of outright exposure from me - several others have also spoken to me). It’s a weird and disturbing story.
Nick
April 20th, 2007 at 2:07 am
Ooer!
Keep up the good work, Nick.
[It's a peculiar thing - and something many ufologists probably don't realise -but when they dismiss the likes of earthlights (for, as you put it, not being "exciting enough"), they're really being no different from those scienT*TS who dismiss UFOs as mere anomalies not worthy of their interest.
[I, myself, am becoming more and more aware real knowledge is found in the piddly unspectacular details rather than in spellbinding big "stage shows" filled with all manner of extravagant "special effects".
[But then that, I suppose, is the point of the story of Aladdin: it isn't the fancy jewel-encrusted solid gold lamps that hold the power, it's the little battered, cheap piece of crap-looking one.]
p.s.
You do realise you’ve been advising too many UK MPs too well what questions to ask?
D’you see what the British Parliamentary b*st*rds are up to now with all this talk of basically completely cutting the b*ll*cks off the freedom of information act!
p.p.s.
If one of these days you happen to spot mysterious men in black types coming towards you with a bag of oranges and what looks suspiciously like a length of bondage rope - run like the bl**dy clappers, mate!
I’m serious.
p.p.p.s.
Failing that, say hello to Stephen Milligan for me.
April 20th, 2007 at 5:48 am
Alan
I think the biggest misconception that a lot of people have about FOIA is that it opens *all* doors (or even most). Never has, never will.
Granted so far, it’s opened a lot of doors for UK Ufology. But whether it continues to is definitely a different matter!