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July 10, 2022
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Discover the Incredible Intersection Between Pop Culture and the Paranormal with Paul Dale Roberts on The Paracast!
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This Week's Episode: Gene and guest cohost Tim Swartz present a combination of pop culture and the paranormal, how they influence each other, with author/researcher Paul Dale Roberts. Roberts became involved in reviewing comic books and interviewing comic book creators for Jazma Online! www.jazmaonline.com. He published one comic book entitled "The Legendary Dark Silhouette," that has been optioned by independent movie producer Howard Nash. In 2004, Roberts became a paranormal investigator and with 750 investigations under his belt and 750 paranormal articles he has written lead him to be in documentaries. He is also a Fortean investigator in which he investigates ALL things paranormal from Mothman, Chupacabra, UFOs, Crop Circles, Ghosts, Poltergeists, Demons and more. He is the owner of HPI (Hegelianism Paranormal Intelligence - International). and his articles were featured in legendary author Brad Steiger's and Timothy Green Beckley's books. His most recent book is "HPI Chronicles: Haunted Great Wall of China and Other Stories."
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on July 10: Paranormal author/researcher Paul Dale Roberts returns to continue the discussion with Gene and guest cohost Tim Swartz about the intersection between pop culture and the paranormal. There’s also talk about incredible Lunar and Mars mysteries, and whether there’s something unusual about them. Roberts is a Fortean investigator and investigates ALL things paranormal from Mothman, Chupacabra, UFOs, Crop Circles, Ghosts, Poltergeists, Demons and more. He is the owner HPI (Hegelianism Paranormal Intelligence – International). Significant investigations by HPI include the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, looking for Natalee Holloway’s ghost in Aruba, UFOs and Bigfoot at Mount Shasta, UFOs and USOs at Monterey Bay, Area 51, Guatemala City – Guatemala. He also writes community stories and is a former columnist for the Sacramento Press, former columnist for Haunted Times Magazine, has written small blurbs for Newsweek, Time, National Geographic Traveler and People Magazine.
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/. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop/, and check out our new YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOfficialParacastChannel
So is ET Dangerous?
By Gene Steinberg
Some humans are under the delusion that, as we advance technologically, we’ll figure out how to be nice to people. But all we get are more sophisticated ways of managing our endless tribal conflicts.
So if extraterrestrials are really watching us, we aren’t making a very favorable impression. Maybe they should just stay away.
Now in our pop culture, alien visitors have been either friendly or hostile. Early sci-fi movies would depict ET as having nothing better to do than to kill humans, or perhaps assume control of their minds to advance their own agendas to take us over.
Indeed, some UFO researchers are making a similar point. ET is abducting people to create a race of human/alien hybrids, who will blend in with our society over time and eventually take control without firing a shot. Compare that to the carnage wrought by the insectoid invaders in the 1996 film, “Independence Day,” where they just wanted us to die.
In the 1951 sci-fi classic, “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” Klaatu, the alien visitor, took a more even-handed approach. Humans need to get their acts together or they will destroy us in the interests of galactic peace.
That message was altered, no doubt to seem less threatening, when early flying saucer contactees embraced some of the film’s ideas. Their versions of ET only had our best interests in mind. They would urge, but not force us, to get our acts together. Those who claim to have channeled aliens or “high beings” received the same messages.
Peace and love. No that’s Ringo Star!
But those allegedly friendly ETs don’t seem to have any way with which to enforce such notions. Worse, they mostly contact unknown people, or when they abduct famous people, such as rock star Sammy Hagar, it’s not taken seriously. Aren’t those musicians mostly hopped up on drugs?
Then again, if a powerful politician admitted to such an encounter, that would probably be the end of their career. They can admit to being interested in learning more about UAPs, but that’s all. Well, not quite. The late Senator Harry Reid, once Senate Majority Leader and one of the key influencers in setting up that Pentagon UAP study, was said to believe the phenomenon had an offworld origin.
Now the Star Trek and Star Wars (and, of course Stargate SG-1) universes treat the matter more realistically from our standpoint. There are good aliens, there are bad aliens, and there are aliens that manage to stay independent of such considerations.
In Star Trek, the Vulcans, despite evidently visiting Earth from time to time to check us out, didn’t actually initiate first contact until we invented warp drive. Thus we became a potential threat to them, and by befriending us, they could better manage the situation.
Thus we have the more unequal and uneasy relationship between human and Vulcan as depicted in the TV show, Star Trek: Enterprise. They almost always wanted to exert control.
But looking at our real world for a moment, what if UFOs are from other planets as so many of you suspect or believe? Or are we close to being visited by aliens? How should we manage the situation? How would our visitors deal with us?
Obviously alien visitors mean alien motives. We couldn’t know their real purpose, and depending how different they are, we might not be able to make sense of it either.
With the technology to traverse the stars, no doubt they’d take the time to check us out before committing to an actual visit. And unlike the powerful but stupid aliens depicted in the novel “War of the Worlds,” and the films based on the story, they would make sure to protect themselves against local viruses. The possibility that ET would just die from the common cold doesn’t make much sense.
And I’d hope that, if we visit an inhabited world some day, we’d take appropriate precautions and demonstrate equal concern for the health and safety of its inhabitants.
While landings and contacts are widely reported in the UFO world, it’s hard to believe much of it represents genuine physical meetings. For one thing, how would they be able to keep much of that activity a secret unless the experiencer chooses to tell?
All right, if they are hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us, traveling in secret and preventing outsiders from witnessing the contacts they have with humans should be very simple. Indeed, such contacts, I suppose, may be done using mental projections, a 3D holographic device or a similar piece of technology to provide for maximum security.
Or they might not even care if they’re found out. Humans, after all, are primitive war-mongers who may not even deserve respect far as ET is concerned. So what they do doesn’t matter, although clearly there are limits. There is, for example, no attempt at overt contact, massed landings. When they do contact us, it’s done in secret so outsiders don’t see them in action.
Some have suggested ET is employing their version of a prime directive, a non-interference policy. Perhaps, but even a single sighting is sufficient to influence or sometimes change a person’s life. That is interference by any definition. Maybe they just don’t care, or maybe their policies lie somewhere between those extremes.
The real question, however, is whether we should be prepared to welcome visitors from the stars. Even if they assert they are peaceful, I think of the masked reptilians from the two “V” TV series, in which they claimed to be our best friends. But, in reality, they were here to infiltrate our power centers and eventually take over.
In a sense, that sort of mirrors the conspiracy theories about human/alien hybrids. It’s all about silent takeovers.
If there’s a point to all this, it’s that any outreach from beings claiming to be our “brothers” from other planets should be treated with extreme skepticism and caution. We can hardly know what they are really up to, or whether anything they tell us or show us is really true.
At the end of the day, they might indeed be here to protect us, to prepare us to join a galactic brotherhood and live in a peaceful universe. But our inability to even get together with our fellow citizens ought to be sufficient evidence to demonstrate that we should be deeply skeptical.
Indeed, if our governments know that ET isn’t so friendly, that would be a key reason to keep the truth about UAP encounters secret. Perhaps they hope to buy time and somehow devise a suitable defense against alien hostiles. But don’t bet on it!
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July 10, 2022
www.theparacast.com
Discover the Incredible Intersection Between Pop Culture and the Paranormal with Paul Dale Roberts 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.
THIS IS IMPORTANT! YOU CAN SUPPORT THE PARACAST AND ENJOY THE ULTIMATE PARACAST EXPERIENCE AT A SPECIAL LOW PRICE! We have another radio show and we’d love for you listen to it. So for a low subscription fee, you will receive access to an exclusive podcast, After The Paracast, plus an enhanced version of The Paracast with the network ads removed, when you join The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes on your device. Flash! Use the coupon code ufo20 to receive a 20% discount on five-year or lifetime subscriptions. And PayPal now accepts cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, in payment. And if you don't want to use PayPal, we now also offer a second payment option, from Stripe, that accepts major credit or debit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. For "qualified users," you can now take advantage of Pay Later options, so act now! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and guest cohost Tim Swartz present a combination of pop culture and the paranormal, how they influence each other, with author/researcher Paul Dale Roberts. Roberts became involved in reviewing comic books and interviewing comic book creators for Jazma Online! www.jazmaonline.com. He published one comic book entitled "The Legendary Dark Silhouette," that has been optioned by independent movie producer Howard Nash. In 2004, Roberts became a paranormal investigator and with 750 investigations under his belt and 750 paranormal articles he has written lead him to be in documentaries. He is also a Fortean investigator in which he investigates ALL things paranormal from Mothman, Chupacabra, UFOs, Crop Circles, Ghosts, Poltergeists, Demons and more. He is the owner of HPI (Hegelianism Paranormal Intelligence - International). and his articles were featured in legendary author Brad Steiger's and Timothy Green Beckley's books. His most recent book is "HPI Chronicles: Haunted Great Wall of China and Other Stories."
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on July 10: Paranormal author/researcher Paul Dale Roberts returns to continue the discussion with Gene and guest cohost Tim Swartz about the intersection between pop culture and the paranormal. There’s also talk about incredible Lunar and Mars mysteries, and whether there’s something unusual about them. Roberts is a Fortean investigator and investigates ALL things paranormal from Mothman, Chupacabra, UFOs, Crop Circles, Ghosts, Poltergeists, Demons and more. He is the owner HPI (Hegelianism Paranormal Intelligence – International). Significant investigations by HPI include the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, looking for Natalee Holloway’s ghost in Aruba, UFOs and Bigfoot at Mount Shasta, UFOs and USOs at Monterey Bay, Area 51, Guatemala City – Guatemala. He also writes community stories and is a former columnist for the Sacramento Press, former columnist for Haunted Times Magazine, has written small blurbs for Newsweek, Time, National Geographic Traveler and People Magazine.
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/. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop/, and check out our new YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOfficialParacastChannel
So is ET Dangerous?
By Gene Steinberg
Some humans are under the delusion that, as we advance technologically, we’ll figure out how to be nice to people. But all we get are more sophisticated ways of managing our endless tribal conflicts.
So if extraterrestrials are really watching us, we aren’t making a very favorable impression. Maybe they should just stay away.
Now in our pop culture, alien visitors have been either friendly or hostile. Early sci-fi movies would depict ET as having nothing better to do than to kill humans, or perhaps assume control of their minds to advance their own agendas to take us over.
Indeed, some UFO researchers are making a similar point. ET is abducting people to create a race of human/alien hybrids, who will blend in with our society over time and eventually take control without firing a shot. Compare that to the carnage wrought by the insectoid invaders in the 1996 film, “Independence Day,” where they just wanted us to die.
In the 1951 sci-fi classic, “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” Klaatu, the alien visitor, took a more even-handed approach. Humans need to get their acts together or they will destroy us in the interests of galactic peace.
That message was altered, no doubt to seem less threatening, when early flying saucer contactees embraced some of the film’s ideas. Their versions of ET only had our best interests in mind. They would urge, but not force us, to get our acts together. Those who claim to have channeled aliens or “high beings” received the same messages.
Peace and love. No that’s Ringo Star!
But those allegedly friendly ETs don’t seem to have any way with which to enforce such notions. Worse, they mostly contact unknown people, or when they abduct famous people, such as rock star Sammy Hagar, it’s not taken seriously. Aren’t those musicians mostly hopped up on drugs?
Then again, if a powerful politician admitted to such an encounter, that would probably be the end of their career. They can admit to being interested in learning more about UAPs, but that’s all. Well, not quite. The late Senator Harry Reid, once Senate Majority Leader and one of the key influencers in setting up that Pentagon UAP study, was said to believe the phenomenon had an offworld origin.
Now the Star Trek and Star Wars (and, of course Stargate SG-1) universes treat the matter more realistically from our standpoint. There are good aliens, there are bad aliens, and there are aliens that manage to stay independent of such considerations.
In Star Trek, the Vulcans, despite evidently visiting Earth from time to time to check us out, didn’t actually initiate first contact until we invented warp drive. Thus we became a potential threat to them, and by befriending us, they could better manage the situation.
Thus we have the more unequal and uneasy relationship between human and Vulcan as depicted in the TV show, Star Trek: Enterprise. They almost always wanted to exert control.
But looking at our real world for a moment, what if UFOs are from other planets as so many of you suspect or believe? Or are we close to being visited by aliens? How should we manage the situation? How would our visitors deal with us?
Obviously alien visitors mean alien motives. We couldn’t know their real purpose, and depending how different they are, we might not be able to make sense of it either.
With the technology to traverse the stars, no doubt they’d take the time to check us out before committing to an actual visit. And unlike the powerful but stupid aliens depicted in the novel “War of the Worlds,” and the films based on the story, they would make sure to protect themselves against local viruses. The possibility that ET would just die from the common cold doesn’t make much sense.
And I’d hope that, if we visit an inhabited world some day, we’d take appropriate precautions and demonstrate equal concern for the health and safety of its inhabitants.
While landings and contacts are widely reported in the UFO world, it’s hard to believe much of it represents genuine physical meetings. For one thing, how would they be able to keep much of that activity a secret unless the experiencer chooses to tell?
All right, if they are hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us, traveling in secret and preventing outsiders from witnessing the contacts they have with humans should be very simple. Indeed, such contacts, I suppose, may be done using mental projections, a 3D holographic device or a similar piece of technology to provide for maximum security.
Or they might not even care if they’re found out. Humans, after all, are primitive war-mongers who may not even deserve respect far as ET is concerned. So what they do doesn’t matter, although clearly there are limits. There is, for example, no attempt at overt contact, massed landings. When they do contact us, it’s done in secret so outsiders don’t see them in action.
Some have suggested ET is employing their version of a prime directive, a non-interference policy. Perhaps, but even a single sighting is sufficient to influence or sometimes change a person’s life. That is interference by any definition. Maybe they just don’t care, or maybe their policies lie somewhere between those extremes.
The real question, however, is whether we should be prepared to welcome visitors from the stars. Even if they assert they are peaceful, I think of the masked reptilians from the two “V” TV series, in which they claimed to be our best friends. But, in reality, they were here to infiltrate our power centers and eventually take over.
In a sense, that sort of mirrors the conspiracy theories about human/alien hybrids. It’s all about silent takeovers.
If there’s a point to all this, it’s that any outreach from beings claiming to be our “brothers” from other planets should be treated with extreme skepticism and caution. We can hardly know what they are really up to, or whether anything they tell us or show us is really true.
At the end of the day, they might indeed be here to protect us, to prepare us to join a galactic brotherhood and live in a peaceful universe. But our inability to even get together with our fellow citizens ought to be sufficient evidence to demonstrate that we should be deeply skeptical.
Indeed, if our governments know that ET isn’t so friendly, that would be a key reason to keep the truth about UAP encounters secret. Perhaps they hope to buy time and somehow devise a suitable defense against alien hostiles. But don’t bet on it!
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