Insectoid Aliens
“Take me to your leader cha cha cha”
Links from Mac Tonnies and this page, discuss the prevalence of insectoid beings in both UFO being encounters and altered states of consciousness induced by di-methyl tryptamine (DMT).
Clifford Pickover’s book, Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves delves into the strange world that DMT users often visit and states:
The molecule DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is a psychoactive chemical that causes intense visions and can induce its users to quickly enter a completely different “environment” that some have likened to an alien or parallel universe. The transition from our world to theirs occurs with no cessation of consciousness or quality of awareness.
Why do so many people using DMT see insects? The DMT insect race comprises “larval beings,” “alien space insects,” praying-mantis entities and so forth. Why so many visions of insects?
Pickover goes on to ask why DMT trippers only see “mantis-like” insectoids, and not ants, grasshoppers, butterflies, etc. We may also wonder why UFO witnesses only recall this type of being. One of my favorite abductees is David Huggins, who has been painting pictures of his perceived experiences for over a decade now. Many of his paintings depict playboy bunny-type female aliens lining up around him with mantis-like beings watching from the sidelines. How he came up with this scenario is interesting in light of the insectoid revelations of Pickover and his DMT experiences.
What is at the root of our perceptions that makes both UFO witnesses and DMT (and other psychedelic substance) trippers hook up with this particular insect? The answer may lie in areas that most UFO researchers do not care to tread, namely, that some of the same brain circuits are being lit up in the altered states that both experiences may induce. This leads us to the possible conclusion that the ufonauts are using parts of our brains that most of us never access in order to get to us. No wonder our society is stuck on the UFO problem.
Many indigenous cultures often move with relative ease (at least in their worldview) between the areas of four-dimensional reality and the “symbolic realm,” as I call it. It may be that this non-time-and-space-bound dimension is where the UFOs and their occupants reside. For us to declare that this is due to “imagination” or “delusion” is to say that our physics is the only “true” path to understanding.
The fact that we still haven’t figured out what we call the “paranormal” is evidence enough that we need to keep theorizing and evolving our methods of observation and study.
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Oct 18 2007 
October 18th, 2007 at 6:38 am
Hmm… makes me wonder if the creators of Space Ghost were tripping on DMT or alien abductess? The main villian is Zorak, a giant talking mantis. In the mid 90’s, The Cartoon Network revived the 60’s Hanna-Barbera Saturday Morning superhero as a Carson like late night talk show host with Zorak as a wise cracking sideman. It was the first Adult Swim cartoon and still one of its funniest. Obvious psy-op designed to prepare for dealing with the hive mind insectoids.
October 18th, 2007 at 6:40 am
This is a weird bit of synchronicity; the past few days I’ve been working on this very same thing! Now I can’t post it —
Nothing creepier than giant insectoid aliens. . .
October 18th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Crg,
That’s been one of my favorite shows since it began airing. CN are re-running old episodes and I have a couple of seasons on DVD as well as a Zorak figurine. OK, now I’m out of the closet on this one.
One of my fave Zorak lines is from the “Brak Show”: “Grease up and get in the sink!”
I for one welcome our alien overlords, as long as they’re funny.
October 18th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
regan,
Why not? You can certainly go into more detail than I did by sitting in front of the computer and hacking away for 5 minutes! I get the same feeling when Nick or you or Paul Kimball or Lesley at debris field post something I’ve been thinking about.
October 21st, 2007 at 7:50 am
Hi Greg and all!
The hive / insect aspect of these encounters has been a point of fascination for me as well these long years.
It fits into my own ideas about the nature of the ufo phenomenon as a sort Trasnpersonal Virtual Reality Communications Channel.
The nature of the realm itself is likely hierarchical and hive like so it doesn’t surprise me that beings within would seem as insectoid to us mammals.
However, due to the nature of this communications interface, I think we could very well be interacting with various hierarchies of living systems on this planet from that of the individual’s higher consciousness, to the human species collective consciousness, to the collective consciousness of the insect kingdom or the planet herself. Or just as easily, beings raging in the dimension right next door or in this same physical frame of reference across the universe (since time/distance are seemingly irrelevant to anomalous information transfer).
SMiles
October 21st, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Miles,
Your comments show an insight that eluded me when I wrote the piece.
It also seems that we are hamstrung by our language and how it limits us in our theorizing!
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:43 am
I sometimes worry that Greg Bishop and Nick Redfern occasionally tend to veer a bit too much toward the subjective or occult explanations and interpretations of ufo data in their admirable efforts to try to find new ways/methods to approach innovative means to view or understand the ufo phenomenon, and as a means to understand the experience of a witness, within a different context than is usually done.
The real difficulty, problem, and/or error in judgement comes in when what is observed seems to compel a need or attempt to interpret it as having been caused in some particular or speculative manner. Our minds seem to need to explain, at least to ourselves on some level, the nature or origin of what may have been experienced, either externally or “internally.”
Some incidents, however, may perhaps be best left in the “gray basket” Friedman has referred to, and left uninterpreted, as more often than not, I would suggest the desire or effort to “interpret” or define the source in some manner can lead to false categorization or misleading conclusions.
And yet, like an itch one is tempted to scratch, the brain continues to contemplate or analyze on some level what the experience or incident one may have witnessed actually means, and what I realize now is perhaps some cases of very “high strangeness” are not currently explainable, and the effort to pigeonhole or quantify the actual nature of the experience can and often does lead to misinterpretation or is perhaps what the ego needs to partition or deal with these kinds of incidents.
I know I’m not being entirely clear here, as this is a perplexing subject I’m exploring here on the fly, but, to try put it another way, it’s very difficult to try to step outside of our cultural or anthropic conditioning or background, but I think we must try when needed.
I’m a rationalist, do not believe or accept the premises of things termed “supernatural” or “psychic”, as those terms are typically understood, but do know from my own experience and others who I trust and whom I’ve discussed these issues with, that there are some things that seem completely “unearthly” or generally truly unexplainable. And it’s not that these kinds of cases or experiences are “psychic” or hallucinatory, but they are quite unsettling and perplexing.
On the other hand, I have experienced some phenomena, as have a couple other relatives of mine, in childhood or as teenagers, and one case as a middle-aged adult, that seemed incidents of extremely high strangeness, and are not in any way (apparently) connected with ufo phenomena, but seemed very real and without any explanation, and seemed to involve some form of non-human consciousness or intelligence in their behavior or at a minimum reactivity or interactivity with the percipient. Cases which are entirely baffling, and have often involved multiple witnesses that I am aware of.
I witnessed something once which led me to think I might have had a spontaneous hallucination, but not ever having had one before or since, I do not know what to do with the data. But I’m pretty sure what I saw did occur. I just have no idea what I saw was or have any realistic way to explain it.
As an example, I know of an interesting case where a relative of mine who just turned 21 saw a 5 1/2 to 6 foot tall praying mantis figure one time right outside his window when he was about 13 years old.
He’s not interested in ufo’s, has had no other anomalous experiences, and was not under the influence of any alcohol or drugs. The “mantis” stood stock-still, and appeared to be looking into his window from just outside his bedroom one afternoon. It seemed to be moving or wavering slightly, and moved it’s head slightly when he looked up after see some movement outside the window.
He told me he has never had any other anomalous experience of any kind, and he seems to me to be quite rational. He told me of this experience when I asked him if anything unusual had ever happened to him. He said he was extremely frightened by the experience, did not want me to identify him in any way with the experience, even to his mother or father, who he never told about the “encounter”, if it could be called that, and seemed kind of embarrassed and nervous about relating the incident to me.
He found it completely inexplicable. I asked if it could have been someone in an elaborate costume, and he said absolutely not. It just seemed to him that it was an incredibly large version of a praying mantis. When I asked for details, the only two things he mentioned that seemed diffent from an actual mantis insect were that 1) the eyes of the “mantis” did not seem the same as an actual mantis insect, being more distinct and darker, and that 2) there was something odd about the two front legs, that they were longer than an actual insect’s (the “knees” appeared almost at head level–he could see the “entity” from the mid-body upward above the window sill).
Neither of us knew what to make of his experience. He drew me a picture of what he had seen. The only other thing of note was that he felt it was watching him, and seemed to perhaps have “intelligence.”
He was alone in the house at the time. He moved toward his door, turning his head away from the window in fright, and when he turned to look out the window just before exiting his room, he said it was no longer there. He told me he was so scared that he didn’t dare to go outside to try to see where the “entity” might have gone.
So, what do you do with this kind of data? How can or should one try to get a better idea of what may have actually happened? I don’t know, but I would appreciate it if others reading this would give me some pointers, references, or personal opinion. I am truly at a loss about how to empirically or even subjectively attempt to better quantify such an incident of this kind.
Any suggestions? I am very sincere about this. Mac/Greg/Nick/others–ideas and/or suggestions? I ask due to the above example, and more particularly due to something I witnessed in mid-July of this year early in the morning that seemed like something almost “Lovecraftian” or out of an episode of the Twilight Zone, the details of which I will not go into here, and which has periodically perturbed me ever since when I pause on occasion to contemplate or consider it.
I can provide details privately in general terms if I receive a basic response to this kind of intellectual and scientific dilemma for further discussion, if interested and/or required.
I would like to learn what tools or approach I might use in cases like the above, if possible.
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:33 am
Greg,
I am not knocking anyone’s’ ideas or hypothesis on why people experience these very similar scenarios, but I would like your feedback on my 2 cents, which admittedly are quite banal compared to a “Hyper Dimensional Realm” just beyond our reach.
A human body is covered and filled with trillions (literally) of microscopic bacteria, viruses, parasites, etc; especially the eyelids and lashes. With most, if not all, neurobiologists and the like stating that our brains purposely block out 99.999999999% of our physical waking world as a defense mechanism (so as not to go completely bonkers with sensory over-load or be eaten by that lurking saber tooth tiger because the cacophony of life in a forest is literally deafening and blinding when taken in its entirety), is it not conceivable to attribute these insect visions to our minds being “opened” to the ability to perceive and accept these organisms we live with actually being there? I have spent many hours in the “backs of my eyelids” and can emphatically say that I have watched a “paramecium-like” organism swim on the surface of my eye while entering into one of these induced states. Not a “floater”. Cilia, membrane, cytoplast and all. It was exactly as though I was looking through a microscope against the backdrop of the shape and color slide show that is always experienced. Others have been worm-like and termite-like in nature, but all in all a common factor is they are “insect-like” (non-mammalian) in appearance.
I have researched all the electron microscope images I can find on the biosphere that is the human body, and have, after the fact, found pictures of what I was seeing, and they were scans of the organisms that are found in and around the eye. Maybe there is a “praying mantis” and I just haven’t found it yet.
I have always treated those substances with the utmost respect and the attitude of a “seeker”/researcher a la Geiger, Leary, Crowley, et al, (and could probably put them AND Julian Cope to shame to boot) but those that I have been around who were in it for the party or first-timers almost always raved about more “realized” or “fleshed out” experiences. Such as “The tree TALKED to me”, rather than “I could feel as though I could hear the tree talking”. Could these shared images/scenarios be the product of our brains being allowed to perceive these critters we all have on our bodies, and how the “tripper” is prone to their perception?
I can’t help but wonder if Howard Hughes (believed in aliens/UFOs) or other Obsessive Compulsive germiphobes would experience these visions more so than non OCD “trippers”.
Thanks for any feedback you may be willing to give.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Hey plastic_jeezus,
I have those “bugs” on the back ofmy eyes too. From what I’ve read, it’s not an uncommon thing, and it’s got to do with the way the Vitreous humour develops during the first weeks of a child. You might find this interesting, I found it on Wikipedia:
Pathology
The collagen fibres of the vitreous are held apart by electrical charges. With aging, these charges tend to reduce, and the fibres may clump together. Similarly, the gel may liquefy, a condition known as syneresis, leading to cells and other organic clusters to float freely within the vitreous humour. These commonly lead to floaters which are perceived in the visual field as spots or fibrous strands. Floaters are generally harmless, but the sudden onset of recurring floaters may signify a posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) or other diseases of the eye.
I only can say that they do look like weird “worms” that seem to grow or clump with time, and they can be annoying as hell sometimes, especially when you get older and they get darker (kind of with a sepia tone), but with practice your brain learns to stop paying so much attention to it. In fact as you’re reading this you’re doin just that. It’s just when you go close your eyes in a fairly bright room, that the “floaters” get so distinctive.
And no, sadly current medical science can’t do a thing about it. Maybe if we’re lucky in the not-so-distant future they can replace our eyes with CLONED versions when our originals get too out of whack… but I’m not holding my breath on that prediction
Regards.
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:33 am
One slimly possible explanation for people “seeing” insectoid beings, might have something to do with our mirror neurons, our ability to mimic or feel what others feel. Maybe DMT and some otherworldy experiences trigger certain neurons that make us “empathize” with praying mantises, for some reason–I don’t know if people sometimes “feel insectoid” when on DMT, since I haven’t taken it. I wonder if some people who have never seen these insects, either in life or in pictures, see them as well, when on DMT, etc. One location I grew up at, in Massachusetts, had praying mantises of the BIG variety–about a third of a foot tall, or taller. I wonder if seeing mantises that size at that age might come back to me if I were under the influence of DMT.
Of course, our brains are complex, with many possible ways of reacting to stimuli. It may not be the mirror neurons that are firing, but others, so that maybe the effects of some substances might sometimes, by chance, be very targeted, triggering specific parts of our brains that contain images of things we’ve seen, so that under the influence of these substances, we think we’re seeing these things instead of simply picturing them in our heads. One substance might trigger certain neurons that store images of insects, and other substances might trigger other neurons that store other images, maybe of different insects, or animals that we take to be spirits, etc. Our brains sometimes like to become schizoid during drug trips, with one part showing the part that we normally consider “ourselves” things that “we” wouldn’t normally consider. When I was a teenager in the early 70s, I took my first (of only a few) hit of what I was told was acid, but it may have contained other substances; a fantastic variety of imagery was triggered when I closed my eyes and watched, of things I’d seen in my life, or imagined, so for me, whatever I took was non-specific in the types of images produced, but other substances might have very targeted effects. When I opened my eyes, I could see my surroundings in a normal fashion, but when I closed my eyes again, the show continued. In addition to the vast array of imagery, much of it was trying to tell me many, many things, by re-running many of my experiences through my mind quickly, with many such scenes all clustered around each other, new ones moving aside others even before the previous one was finished with its lessons. Much of it was memories I recognized, but some part of my mind was busily trying to show and teach me things during this trip, things I’d missed when I first had the experiences being shown to me, fitting things together faster than I could usually follow. At one point during this trip, many of the images collected around enormous rings, with a tunnel of rings containing these images, receding into the distance, curving up into the sky. Images that bore some relationship to other images were clustered near each other, with more zooming in from the surrounding area, to further illustrate all the things I was trying to teach myself ; I knew of mandalas at the time, so maybe that’s where I got that aspect, but I felt as if the drug had taken control of me, coalescing much of my lifetime’s experience, trying to show me so many things so quickly, that for me, it illustrated that our brains are actively figuring out many things even when we don’t totally realize it. After that experience, I could easily believe someone could take LSD or some other substance, or have something happen in their brain apart from any outside drug, and “see” things they were convinced were outside themselves, showing them things, and yet the whole show being produced from within our own brains, by some part of our brain that delights in being a ringmaster to help us, and by doing so, to help itself too. I have no idea if this could have anything to do with something as simplistic as left brain/right brain interaction, but I tend to think it’s more complex than that.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:00 pm
wintermuse,
Your comments are well-taken and intelligent, and pretty much echo my take on these weird things.
Yes, Nick and I try to make some sense of things in non-traditional contexts, but that is becuase so few people seem to be doing this. This does not make our theories “correct,” at all. It is, as you say, an attempt to lead us to some sort of understanding or change in our thought processes to get us closer to what these expriences mean to the human race, if anything.
The case of your relative reminds me of an account that Robert Anton Wilson related in one of his books. It seems that he saw a “giant spider” (something like 5 feet across) in the garden when he was a small child. If I remember correctly, he tried to make some sense of the experience by explaining his theory that strange things are probably going on around us all the time, but that we may be enculturated to shut them out as we get older. Either that, or as our brains mature, they become entranced with “normal waking consciousness” and that turns off some innate perception that we may have from birth.
Some of us may keep this ability into adulthood, or have flashes of it from time to time.
All of this points us the ephemeral nature of “reality” and how entheogens (AKA psychedelics) may allow us to tune into this wider spectrum on demand.
Not having had any of these experiences myself (that I can recall) I am afraid I am at a loss for an “explanation” or how to proceed when one wants to integrate it into his/ her view of things.
After the initial shock, I might feel lucky to have seen into another facet of our “reality continuum.” Or, it might just disturb me forever.
I don’t know if any of that helps, but an expanded view of reality is definitely in order for the greater part of western society and the cultures it has infused with its worldview.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:09 pm
plastic,
See my comments to wintermuse.
Re: our comments about OCD-types and their expanded awareness- It is well-documented that people with “nervous dispositions” tend to see/”hallucinate” strange stuff more than the rest of us.
In an interview I conducted with the late psychologist Dr. Mario Pazzaglini, he suggested that a random number generator or some such well-tuned electronic device could be placed in a mental institution or juvenile detention facility and allowed to run and see if its operation was affected by the storm of emotion and psychosis which would rage around it. Parapsychologist Dean Radin also had similar ideas along these lines.
Who knows? An experiment like that might tell us something that would point us in the right direction.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:16 pm
John,
I’ve had/ heard of similar experiences. It seems that sometimes the psychedelic (depending on which one is ingested) works on certain aspects of the individual, lighting up particular areas of the brain that “need work.”
You have of course heard of the Stanford Prison Experiment (the real one, not the music band) where Tim Leary used LSD combined with individual and group therapy to drastically reduce the recidivism rate in a prison.
There is also the substance called Ibogaine which has been used as an aid to breaking addictions and/or ingrained habits that an individual wants to change.
October 24th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Thank you Greg, for your kind and informative comments.
I would also like to thank John S., plastic_jeezus, and red pill junkie, above, for their input.
All of your comments provide food for thought. I suspect Greg comes closest, in suggesting the nature of reality is much more complex than our normal, everyday consciousness and focus usually permits us to experience or see, and think his comments on how other non-western cultures and their ways of “being” or seeing/interpreting can aid us in considering anomalous experiences.
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It may be duplicative, but I just posted the comment below to Mac Tonnie’s posthumanblues blog, and thought I should also post it here, as, even though my relative’s “mantis” sighting was addressed here, the incident that occurred to me in mid-July of this year is the one I’m most concerned about, and since I withheld details of that, thought I should provide some more data about it in order to see how others here reading this might help, offer an opinion, or suggest pointers or references to what I may have observed.
[Greg, I personally doubt an individual can manifest externally something equivalent to what you have noted before and is also part of Tibetan Buddhism, which is a tulpa, but my experience noted below seems to enter into that realm of possibility.]
[On the other hand, it may have been a hallucination of some kind, but I've never had one before or since, so that is an unsatisfactory potential interpretation or explanation, also.]
My experience seemed and still seems very real, and externally generated. I just do not know how to “deal” with it, or how to interpret it in any reasonable manner.
Regardless of whether, depending on whether I somehow internally, psychologically generated what I observed briefly, or, in turn, was external to me, and may have been created or displayed to me for other, unknown reasons, it is still completely inexplicable, which I find somewhat disturbing, but I avoid speculating too much, as I noted in my first comment here, as that, I think, leads to misinterpretation and false belief. But whatever it was, it happened, and I do know how or why.
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Posted to posthumanblues.blogspot.com/
earlier today (Oct. 23, 2007):
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Hmmm. It’s been days since I posted the comment above, and still no response whatsoever.
I also posted my comment above on ufomystic.com, and no pertinent responses there, either.
I guess I was interested in seeing if others might know of similar “mantis” incidents where there was no ufo component or DMT or ayahuasca influence. I was also curious about what tools, techniques, or data might be available for use in attempting to come to terms with or better evaluate such an incident, but no one has apparently wanted to post if there is some better way of looking at this kind of incident.
The only two possibilities I can think of to explain the incident above are 1) some aspect of brain function created a very realistic hallucination, which I think is the most likely explanation, or 2) there was some kind of actual entity there, which I find extremely unlikely, but should be considered as at least a remote possibility.
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In the experience I personally had in mid-July, my way of now rationalizing it or considering what happened and what I observed, was that perhaps a state of “hyper-vigilance” or “premonitory expectation” was in play, and that for some reason or in some way my brain generated a very strange, spontaneous hallucination. Of course, that is speculation, also.
The other rational possibility is that some light source somehow reflected off my glasses and/or eyes, but I went out the following night to the exact same location, and tried to see if I could observe the same effect, but nothing happened or was seen.
I hate to say that I may have had some kind of hallucination, as it still doesn’t really explain what I saw, which seemed like a grey flurry of smoke that suddenly occurred out on a golf course at 3:50 am in mid-July, and that almost instantly transmuted into what I can only describe as a translucent, greyish-white, eye “pupil-like” shape in appearance, 3 to 5 foot diameter, manifesting itself at my upper right plane of vision, about 15 to 20 feet above the ground, which then jumped very quickly to right in front of me, about 10 to 12 feet distant, and then jumped again to my upper left, and then disappeared.
While I refer to the “object” or whatever it was as “pupil” like, it was not _my_ pupil(s) reflected in my eyeglasses, which was what I at first thought of as an initial explantion–the greyish translucent disk had rough, rugose edges, and there was no hole in the middle, and there appeared to be gaps or radiating “rents” in the smoky disk that jumped around.
I closely examined my own pupils in a mirror afterward, and they are distinctly different.
The disk-like object, btw, was not horizontal, or edge-on, it was vertical, like someone holding up a very large plate face-on.
The entire “display” took no longer than 1 second. But the thing appeared at my upper right for a fraction of a second, moved to right in front of me, slightly elevated, and then moved to my upper left before simply vanishing.
I’ve tried to search the net for any other similar sightings, but have found none. So, I’m still very perplexed as to what I saw. I have never seen anything like it before.
Being a rationalist, not prone to supposition or idle speculation, I can only describe what I observed, and have no firm conclusions about the experience in any concrete manner. But I know I did see it, it seemed external to me, and I have no way of interpreting the incident at this time. It is a complete unknown. Which is slight perturbing, to say the least.
While I tend to consider I might have had some kind of “brain-anomaly”, and that the experience _could_ have been internally generated, that also seems unsatisfactory.
Does anyone reading this have any kind of opinion or know of anything like this having been noted before? References or pointers?
I’m still very curious as to what I saw and what it might have been, but don’t have a clue about how I should consider or interpret the experience.
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I would appreciate others’ comments here on what they think could have occurred to me, as noted above.
October 27th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Wintermuse X9,
Very intresting experiance by your family member. I have heard of two seperate(Mantis?)sitings. One was from a older guy who was walking home, though this one was about 4ft tall and moved like a tumble weed, having 3 sets of legs. The other was seen by a young boy when he woke to watch cartoons, this creature was about the same size as the one you mentioned.He never seen the lower part as it was behind a island type counter, he seen two sets of arms or legs; but, thought it might of had 3 sets. The creature appeared to be going through his dad’s hat collection. If UfoMystic allows I give them permission to give you my email address if your intrested in emailing me for more info or if you have any questions.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Ya know…. when I was a kid, about four or five, I went to this small cinema complex with my older sister and brother to see a B&W Sci-Fi. I don’t recall the name of the movie, but the jest is this group of workers working on an underground tunnel found a craft, then a group of scientists are called in to research the object. I can’t recall what happens next in the film, but I do recall images of grasshoppers hoping across the screen to depict an invasion, but then the final image shows a town burning and in the flames appears a face somewhat like a praying mantis.
At this point in the film I stood up and started screaming, “I’ve seen that! I’ve seen that!” My siblings, embarrassed by my shenanigans, dragged me out.
I just wonder…
January 11th, 2008 at 10:02 am
abducted,
I saw that one when I was a kid too. It’s a British movie called “Quatermass and the Pit” (American title: “Five Billion Years To Earth.”
IMDB link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062168/plotsummary
May 14th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Ah, but what is lighting up the other part of our brains? Is it purely an internal biological switch flipping at random, or is it being activated by another intelligence?
I contend this: There is a doorway (or maybe tuner?) in the brain that can be activated by “hallucinogens.” It can also be activated by individuals who have turned on that biological system undiscovered by Western science involving kundalini energy & chakras. It can also be activated by outside intelligences accessing the place at the base of the spine through which kundalini enters.
In other words, it doesn’t begin and end with the brain unless you’re taking a drug for it. The fact that you can take a drug for it leads us to ignore the entire system. It’s unfortunate that we (again, in the West) invented the drugs prior to seeing the system. This is like inventing cold & flu medication with no clue that there’s an immune system.
So there is this system, see? And it can be manipulated, myeah, myeah….
May 14th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
valiens,
Agreed. Perhaps the “tuner” can also be activated accidentally.