THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
January 7, 2012
Secret Bases and Other Hidden Facilities Exposed on The Paracast
Special Announcement: The Paracast is heard Sundays from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM (Central Time) on the GCN radio network.
Please Consider a Donation to The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network or local stations. So we hope you're able to help fill the gap if you can to help us cover increasing server costs and other expenses -- or perhaps provide a little extra cash for lunch. No contribution is too small (or too large
. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! Last summer, 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 Brand New 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 http://store.theparacast.com/ 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.
Sunday, January 8, 2012: 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 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: Gene and Chris present veteran paranormal writer Nicholas Redfern, author of "Keep Out!: Top Secret Places Governments Don't Want You to Know About." This highly readable book is not just about UFOs, secret alien bases and so on, but about many of the mysteries and legends that surround a number of unusual places, often underground, around the world.
Christopher O'Brien's Site: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com/
Nick Redfern's Site: http://eventsfinal.blogspot.com/
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: https://www.theparacast.com/forum/. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
Have We Really Contacted ET?
By Gene Steinberg
If you believe in some reports about UFO abductions and contactees, ET has been having regular meetings with Earthlings. Sometimes the meetings are intended to express concerns over the way we treat this planet, while others are silent and frightening encounters, where the aliens stare impassively as our insides are invaded with strangely primitive medical instruments.
Now regular listeners to The Paracast know that I have serious concerns about so-called “traditional” contact stories. When it comes to abductions, I do feel that something has actually happened to these people, but there may be a number of explanations. It’s not as straightforward as it seems, but that’s worth another discussion at another time.
If any of those episodes involve genuine contacts with intelligent beings from another planet, the population at large isn’t being impacted to any great degree, because the claims are largely disbelieved. The media may report the stories, but with winks and nods and sometimes sarcastic humor. How could our society be harmed by something that never really happened, except, perhaps, in the minds of the alleged participants?
So even if some of these claims are genuine, ET has the advantage of operating in plain sight but going mostly unnoticed. No sense worrying about the impact to our society if “First Contact” has yet to occur. We can just look at the issue theoretically, while continuing to discover more and more possibly habitable planets in far-off star systems.
Besides, if ET lives so many light years from us, and travel faster than light is still theoretically impossible, there’s no sense being concerned that they truly have arrived. Of course, you can’t dismiss the possibility of city-sized spaceships journeying decades or centuries to reach a destination. In a circumstances such as this, the pilots who actually arrive may be descendants of the original travelers. There are certainly plenty of science fiction tales of this sort.
But what if a single or massed landing took place in public, with the media, public officials and billions of us watching? How would we react? Would a frightened soldier accidentally fire at an alien exiting from a space ship, similar to the episode depicted in the classic science fiction movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still”? Or would ET care enough to stage the encounter in a setting involving public officials they’ve already contacted, hidden from anyone but a select few? Or has that already happened?
But when the day comes that we know ET is among us, things can never be the same. You can say we would accept their presence, but that would seem a big stretch. The dominance of energy companies would vanish when it became obvious that there were new sources of energy that rendered our excessive dependance on fossil fuels as exercises in futility. When it comes to our religions, it is convenient to say that, since god created the universe, god also created the aliens. Thus it’s all part of a divine plan.
On the other hand, if the aliens do not have a religion, or codes of ethics that we do not understand, would that create serious problems for the organized religions? We sometimes find it hard enough to tolerate people with different religious beliefs, so how would we deal with aliens that expressed even more drastic differences?
Indeed, the very presence of advanced beings from out there could have a catastrophic impact to our society, witness how our own primitive civilizations have floundered in the presence of more advanced visitors from other countries.
I suppose if ET had a proper code of ethics, or at least one that isn’t too alien, they might consider the negative consequences of their attempts to communicate with us. Maybe we have to reach a certain state of civilized behavior, or develop a certain level of technology, before they take us seriously.
Consider one of the best “Star Trek” movies, where “First Contact” did not occur until an eccentric earth scientist developed a spaceship with faster-than-light capability (warp drive) and took a test flight at just the right time for ET to observe the event.
Maybe ET will continue to operate in the shadows until the right time. Or maybe they just don’t care, in which case the unpredictable might happen regardless of the consequences.
The Paracast Copyright 1999-2012 Making The Impossible, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy: Your personal information is safe with us. We will positively never give out your name and/or e-mail address to anybody else, and that's a promise!
January 7, 2012
Secret Bases and Other Hidden Facilities Exposed on The Paracast
Special Announcement: The Paracast is heard Sundays from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM (Central Time) on the GCN radio network.
Please Consider a Donation to The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network or local stations. So we hope you're able to help fill the gap if you can to help us cover increasing server costs and other expenses -- or perhaps provide a little extra cash for lunch. No contribution is too small (or too large
. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! Last summer, 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 Brand New 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 http://store.theparacast.com/ 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.
Sunday, January 8, 2012: 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 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: Gene and Chris present veteran paranormal writer Nicholas Redfern, author of "Keep Out!: Top Secret Places Governments Don't Want You to Know About." This highly readable book is not just about UFOs, secret alien bases and so on, but about many of the mysteries and legends that surround a number of unusual places, often underground, around the world.
Christopher O'Brien's Site: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com/
Nick Redfern's Site: http://eventsfinal.blogspot.com/
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: https://www.theparacast.com/forum/. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
Have We Really Contacted ET?
By Gene Steinberg
If you believe in some reports about UFO abductions and contactees, ET has been having regular meetings with Earthlings. Sometimes the meetings are intended to express concerns over the way we treat this planet, while others are silent and frightening encounters, where the aliens stare impassively as our insides are invaded with strangely primitive medical instruments.
Now regular listeners to The Paracast know that I have serious concerns about so-called “traditional” contact stories. When it comes to abductions, I do feel that something has actually happened to these people, but there may be a number of explanations. It’s not as straightforward as it seems, but that’s worth another discussion at another time.
If any of those episodes involve genuine contacts with intelligent beings from another planet, the population at large isn’t being impacted to any great degree, because the claims are largely disbelieved. The media may report the stories, but with winks and nods and sometimes sarcastic humor. How could our society be harmed by something that never really happened, except, perhaps, in the minds of the alleged participants?
So even if some of these claims are genuine, ET has the advantage of operating in plain sight but going mostly unnoticed. No sense worrying about the impact to our society if “First Contact” has yet to occur. We can just look at the issue theoretically, while continuing to discover more and more possibly habitable planets in far-off star systems.
Besides, if ET lives so many light years from us, and travel faster than light is still theoretically impossible, there’s no sense being concerned that they truly have arrived. Of course, you can’t dismiss the possibility of city-sized spaceships journeying decades or centuries to reach a destination. In a circumstances such as this, the pilots who actually arrive may be descendants of the original travelers. There are certainly plenty of science fiction tales of this sort.
But what if a single or massed landing took place in public, with the media, public officials and billions of us watching? How would we react? Would a frightened soldier accidentally fire at an alien exiting from a space ship, similar to the episode depicted in the classic science fiction movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still”? Or would ET care enough to stage the encounter in a setting involving public officials they’ve already contacted, hidden from anyone but a select few? Or has that already happened?
But when the day comes that we know ET is among us, things can never be the same. You can say we would accept their presence, but that would seem a big stretch. The dominance of energy companies would vanish when it became obvious that there were new sources of energy that rendered our excessive dependance on fossil fuels as exercises in futility. When it comes to our religions, it is convenient to say that, since god created the universe, god also created the aliens. Thus it’s all part of a divine plan.
On the other hand, if the aliens do not have a religion, or codes of ethics that we do not understand, would that create serious problems for the organized religions? We sometimes find it hard enough to tolerate people with different religious beliefs, so how would we deal with aliens that expressed even more drastic differences?
Indeed, the very presence of advanced beings from out there could have a catastrophic impact to our society, witness how our own primitive civilizations have floundered in the presence of more advanced visitors from other countries.
I suppose if ET had a proper code of ethics, or at least one that isn’t too alien, they might consider the negative consequences of their attempts to communicate with us. Maybe we have to reach a certain state of civilized behavior, or develop a certain level of technology, before they take us seriously.
Consider one of the best “Star Trek” movies, where “First Contact” did not occur until an eccentric earth scientist developed a spaceship with faster-than-light capability (warp drive) and took a test flight at just the right time for ET to observe the event.
Maybe ET will continue to operate in the shadows until the right time. Or maybe they just don’t care, in which case the unpredictable might happen regardless of the consequences.
The Paracast Copyright 1999-2012 Making The Impossible, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy: Your personal information is safe with us. We will positively never give out your name and/or e-mail address to anybody else, and that's a promise!
