THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
January 18 2015
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Brainstorming with Greg Bishop on The Paracast
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 3:00 AM until 6:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, the Boost Radio Network, the IRN Internet Radio Network, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
Announcing The Paracast+: You asked for it! For a low monthly or annual subscription fee, you will receive access to a higher-quality ad-free version of The Paracast, chat rooms, the all-new After The Paracast podcast, featuring politically incorrect color commentary, and other exclusive content. For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: It's all about out of the box thinking this week when Gene and Chris present one of our favorite guests, UFO researcher Greg Bishop, host of the "Radio Misterioso" radio show, who returns to the Paracast to engage in a freewheeling recap of 2014's top "paranormal" news stories and pontificate toward what may happen in 2015. This episode is being driven by events, where we talk about UFOs, the possibility of disclosure, whether traditional explanations, such as UFOs being spaceships, hold water, new science, Native American legends of sky people, and the impact of all these strange events on our modern culture.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Radio Misterioso: Radio Misterioso | In-depth conversations on the paranormal alternating with weird music. Live on Sundays 8-10 PM PST @ killradio.org
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
Reality, Dreams, Hallucinations and Otherwise
By Gene Steinberg
It’s a common perception that all or most paranormal events are physical encounters of one sort or another. Whether it’s sighting a ghost, a UFO, or a strange hairy bipedal creature running through the forest, we like to believe we are seeing something that’s real. In the case of UFOs and strange creatures, but clearly not ghosts, if we happen to get close enough we expect that we can touch them, smell them.
People who report they were abducted by gray aliens and subject to physical examinations mostly believe the experience was physical. There are spaceships, alien beings, and they have some reason, whether creating a hybrid race, or just routine exploration, to take us and perform sometimes painful physical examinations. They clearly do not share our sense of privacy.
In short, by our standards of reality, they all fit the bill. What we see is precisely what’s happening absent the normal variations in human perception.
But reality may not mean that what we see is what we get. We might interpret the presence of UFOs and abductors as creatures spawned on another world. Certainly the growing evidence of the existence of possible life-sustaining planets revolving around other star systems makes it all seem so logical. If life is abundant in our universe, clearly some civilizations have advanced beyond ours. It would be the height of ego to believe we are at the forefront of technology and not way behind compared to other intelligent creatures.
So if those civilizations have advanced way beyond ours, perhaps they have found ways to travel among the stars. Yes, we all know about the limitations of the speed of light, meaning such trips might normally take years to complete. But sci-fi writers have postulated spaceborne cities that are equipped with the means to sustain a large crew, perhaps though several generations, as they take voyages from one world to another that’s light years distant.
No, I have not forgotten warp drive, wormholes, stargates or other supposed shortcuts to speed travel, which perhaps shorten such trips to minutes, hours, weeks or months. So perhaps the trip to another star system is not much more difficult than Earth people flying from one country to another.
It’s all theoretical of course. We have no evidence whatever that such fanciful transportation schemes are possible in our real world. But they are worth speculating about, and perhaps some means will be devised to skirt the constraints of the speed of light and allow for speedy travel across the universe.
OK so far.
But I sometimes wonder if our entire concept of reality is wrong. What if what we consider real consists of constructs of some sort, perhaps sustained by our collective beliefs about this world and how things are? Would that mean that, say two thousand years ago, we didn’t just live in a more primitive society, but our entire existence was infused with our beliefs and culture?
Would this mean that, as was written in the Bible and other sacred texts, God and his chosen representatives did indeed visit us and impart wisdom in an effort to influence us to live a good and humble life? And, today, in a sci-fi inspired culture, are we instead visited by alien beings who come here from other planets for perhaps similar purposes or no purpose at all?
Can you, instead, suggest that the former also represents visits by alien beings? Or did the state of our culture dictate the reality, the presence of magical sacred beings who lived among us?
What I’m talking about here is a malleable reality that is influenced by our beliefs and expectations, or perhaps our collective unconscious.
Would that would mean is that, as our civilization advances, the universe somehow expands with it, and we discover more mysteries to explore, to, we hope solve?
All right, that’s a very Earth-centric view of the universe, suggesting that we are somehow collectively managing the entire existence in which we reside. Or maybe we are only glimpsing a tiny portion of the true reality, and this is just the best we can do.
I find the concept fascinating, though I wonder why our collective unconscious would desire to create rampant evil. Or is there a need for balance?
But maybe we are all asleep in pods, as some computerized intelligence manufactures the faux reality in which we reside. If humans reside in that sort of “Matrix-like” existence, what is the true reality? Can we awaken from the pods to see what is really going on? Or are we the remnants of a long-dead civilization that sustains itself through fantasy?
In this weekend’s episode of The Paracast, one of our listeners asks guest Greg Bishop, “If you had a chance to time travel to be a direct participant in a famous UFO case or sighting, which one would it be and why? What role would you like to play in the case?”
Feel free to listen to the episode for his answer. Chris and I have more to say about it in this week’s After The Paracast episode, so I won’t cover those responses here.
But for one thing: When someone believes they are being abducted by UFO beings, if you were the fly on the wall when it’s happening, what would you see? Would you witness a true physical event, that of some unfortunate individual being kidnapped by aliens? Or would you see someone lying asleep in their bedroom, or in their car, while this entire encounter plays out? What, then, is the reality behind abductions, or any paranormal encounter for that matter?
It is so easy to want to think that everything we sense is the real thing, that we aren’t being fooled into seeing and hearing things that are simply not there. I would find that more comforting as well, assuming the event is not unpleasant. But that doesn’t mean what we see is what we get.
The entire reality of the paranormal, and our entire existence for that matter, may not at all be what we expect.
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January 18 2015
www.theparacast.com
Brainstorming with Greg Bishop on The Paracast
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 3:00 AM until 6:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, the Boost Radio Network, the IRN Internet Radio Network, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
Announcing The Paracast+: You asked for it! For a low monthly or annual subscription fee, you will receive access to a higher-quality ad-free version of The Paracast, chat rooms, the all-new After The Paracast podcast, featuring politically incorrect color commentary, and other exclusive content. For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: It's all about out of the box thinking this week when Gene and Chris present one of our favorite guests, UFO researcher Greg Bishop, host of the "Radio Misterioso" radio show, who returns to the Paracast to engage in a freewheeling recap of 2014's top "paranormal" news stories and pontificate toward what may happen in 2015. This episode is being driven by events, where we talk about UFOs, the possibility of disclosure, whether traditional explanations, such as UFOs being spaceships, hold water, new science, Native American legends of sky people, and the impact of all these strange events on our modern culture.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Radio Misterioso: Radio Misterioso | In-depth conversations on the paranormal alternating with weird music. Live on Sundays 8-10 PM PST @ killradio.org
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
Reality, Dreams, Hallucinations and Otherwise
By Gene Steinberg
It’s a common perception that all or most paranormal events are physical encounters of one sort or another. Whether it’s sighting a ghost, a UFO, or a strange hairy bipedal creature running through the forest, we like to believe we are seeing something that’s real. In the case of UFOs and strange creatures, but clearly not ghosts, if we happen to get close enough we expect that we can touch them, smell them.
People who report they were abducted by gray aliens and subject to physical examinations mostly believe the experience was physical. There are spaceships, alien beings, and they have some reason, whether creating a hybrid race, or just routine exploration, to take us and perform sometimes painful physical examinations. They clearly do not share our sense of privacy.
In short, by our standards of reality, they all fit the bill. What we see is precisely what’s happening absent the normal variations in human perception.
But reality may not mean that what we see is what we get. We might interpret the presence of UFOs and abductors as creatures spawned on another world. Certainly the growing evidence of the existence of possible life-sustaining planets revolving around other star systems makes it all seem so logical. If life is abundant in our universe, clearly some civilizations have advanced beyond ours. It would be the height of ego to believe we are at the forefront of technology and not way behind compared to other intelligent creatures.
So if those civilizations have advanced way beyond ours, perhaps they have found ways to travel among the stars. Yes, we all know about the limitations of the speed of light, meaning such trips might normally take years to complete. But sci-fi writers have postulated spaceborne cities that are equipped with the means to sustain a large crew, perhaps though several generations, as they take voyages from one world to another that’s light years distant.
No, I have not forgotten warp drive, wormholes, stargates or other supposed shortcuts to speed travel, which perhaps shorten such trips to minutes, hours, weeks or months. So perhaps the trip to another star system is not much more difficult than Earth people flying from one country to another.
It’s all theoretical of course. We have no evidence whatever that such fanciful transportation schemes are possible in our real world. But they are worth speculating about, and perhaps some means will be devised to skirt the constraints of the speed of light and allow for speedy travel across the universe.
OK so far.
But I sometimes wonder if our entire concept of reality is wrong. What if what we consider real consists of constructs of some sort, perhaps sustained by our collective beliefs about this world and how things are? Would that mean that, say two thousand years ago, we didn’t just live in a more primitive society, but our entire existence was infused with our beliefs and culture?
Would this mean that, as was written in the Bible and other sacred texts, God and his chosen representatives did indeed visit us and impart wisdom in an effort to influence us to live a good and humble life? And, today, in a sci-fi inspired culture, are we instead visited by alien beings who come here from other planets for perhaps similar purposes or no purpose at all?
Can you, instead, suggest that the former also represents visits by alien beings? Or did the state of our culture dictate the reality, the presence of magical sacred beings who lived among us?
What I’m talking about here is a malleable reality that is influenced by our beliefs and expectations, or perhaps our collective unconscious.
Would that would mean is that, as our civilization advances, the universe somehow expands with it, and we discover more mysteries to explore, to, we hope solve?
All right, that’s a very Earth-centric view of the universe, suggesting that we are somehow collectively managing the entire existence in which we reside. Or maybe we are only glimpsing a tiny portion of the true reality, and this is just the best we can do.
I find the concept fascinating, though I wonder why our collective unconscious would desire to create rampant evil. Or is there a need for balance?
But maybe we are all asleep in pods, as some computerized intelligence manufactures the faux reality in which we reside. If humans reside in that sort of “Matrix-like” existence, what is the true reality? Can we awaken from the pods to see what is really going on? Or are we the remnants of a long-dead civilization that sustains itself through fantasy?
In this weekend’s episode of The Paracast, one of our listeners asks guest Greg Bishop, “If you had a chance to time travel to be a direct participant in a famous UFO case or sighting, which one would it be and why? What role would you like to play in the case?”
Feel free to listen to the episode for his answer. Chris and I have more to say about it in this week’s After The Paracast episode, so I won’t cover those responses here.
But for one thing: When someone believes they are being abducted by UFO beings, if you were the fly on the wall when it’s happening, what would you see? Would you witness a true physical event, that of some unfortunate individual being kidnapped by aliens? Or would you see someone lying asleep in their bedroom, or in their car, while this entire encounter plays out? What, then, is the reality behind abductions, or any paranormal encounter for that matter?
It is so easy to want to think that everything we sense is the real thing, that we aren’t being fooled into seeing and hearing things that are simply not there. I would find that more comforting as well, assuming the event is not unpleasant. But that doesn’t mean what we see is what we get.
The entire reality of the paranormal, and our entire existence for that matter, may not at all be what we expect.
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