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About UFO Experiencers: Ask Ray Hernandez of F.R.E.E.


Gene Steinberg

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On July 2nd, we'll be recording an episode featuring Ray Hernandez, Operations Manager of FREE, which stands for Foundation of Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters. This is the organization co-founded by astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, which focuses heavily on experiencers.

According to the material we have from the organization: The Mission of FREE will focus on “Research, Education and Support” but will primarily focus on scientific investigation through surveys and interviews on individuals who have had UFO related contact experiences with non-human sentient beings (commonly known as “ET Contact”) and to compare this group with individuals that have had other types of "paranormal contact experiences" through the following: NDEs, OBEs, Hallucinogenic/Entheogenic natural substances, hypnotic regression, Mystical Meditation Travel, Channeling, Remote Viewing, and human encounters with non-human intelligence, and related paranormal contact experiences.

In short, this discussion will cover a wide range of UFO/paranormal experiences and the possible causes of those experiences. Obviously there's a lot of debate about what's going on that we'll want to cover during this interview.

In addition, Ray will discuss his personal paranormal encounters.
 
I heard one of Ray's presentations at an Experiencers conference. He's a very credible, very engaging, funny guy. I don't have any questions for him. I am just very glad y'all will be having him on. I want to hear more about what he is doing!
 
1) If people who have consumed the drug DMT report experiences with striking similarities to those often described in abduction cases, should we be looking at DMT as revealing an alien truth, abduction experiences as a self-induced psychedelic experience or neither?

2) Why do the aliens reported to interact with people look so human? Why aren't they more alien? Is it because they too are formed by broadly similar processes that have acted upon us on earth or are their physical forms bound instead by the limits of our imagination?

3) To what extent can people who have had traumatic or unsettling experiences earlier in their life be made to rewrite these experiences through an intellectual construct, perhaps suggested by hypnosis, to make these events more palatable?
 
Does the 'Extraterrestrial' in the acronym mean that it's no longer open for debate, if these are actual encounters with physical beings from another star system? Does your organization allow for members having other ideas about that?

Was it a personal experience that convinced you of the existence of extraterrestrials on earth? If not, was there a particular case that "tipped the scale" for you?

Shouldn't we have more tangible evidence by now if it really was physical beings from outer space?

Do you consider ball-of-light sightings (Hessdalen, Brown Mountain etc.) a part of the UFO phenomenon or do you think they are natural (ball lightning, piezoelectricity)? If the latter, what to do with those stories about interactivity and strangely intelligent or playful behavior?

What about "fastwalkers"? Do you think videos like the ones made by Alison Kruse, which seem to be of high-flying, swift-moving objects, actually show "alien craft"? If so, what's with the erratic movement? As it's been said about a radar case from the german-swiss border, "it's hovering and zipping around like a fly, not some sophisticated atmospheric vehicle built by an advanced species." (and no, it wasn't an actual fly that somehow fooled two different radar stations, just as it's not flies, birds or bats in Kruse's videos).
 
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1. How do we account for the many different kinds of contact from so many different entities over the course of contactee history? Why are there so many different, conflicting messages from such a variety of entities and identities? Why are they not sending their messages in a more overt and obvious manner like posting their ideas up on twitter in a consistent barrage of verifiable science instead of relying on random telepathic exchanges?

2. Has there ever been a case of verified documented information that came through a contactee that was info that the contactee themselves did not have the ability to write i.e. solving ancient math problems or curing cancer, or information that was ultimately proven true in the future as an example of true precognition?

3. Is there anything that the contactees themselves have in common with each other that would help explain why these specific peoples are being repeatedly contacted?
 
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