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June 5, 2016
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Walter Bosley Discusses Breakaway Civilizations, the Hollow Earth and Synchronicity on The Paracast
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This Week's Episode: One of our favorite guests, Walter Bosley, returns for to discuss the historical record of breakaway civilizations and possible interactions with visitors from space over two thousand years ago. The focus will center on his latest book, “ORIGIN: The Nineteenth Century Emergence of the 20th Century Breakaway Civilizations.” He’ll also examine the possibility that the crashed airship at Roswell, NM may have been sent by the hidden civilization that coexists with ours. And how do all those legends of hidden races dovetail with the legends of deros and teros from Richard Shaver? Walter is a blogger, former AFOSI agent and a former FBI counterintelligence specialist.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Walter Bosley’s Blog: Empire of the Wheel
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on June 5: Walter Bosley joins Gene and Chris as the discussion begins with an on-the-site report on the Contact in the Desert convention in Joshua Tree, CA., where Chris was shooting footage for a documentary. In addition to talking about some of the guests present, the question is raised, once again, whether more millennials can be attracted to UFO conferences. Bosley returns to the discussion of legends of a Hollow Earth, which are explored in further detail. He mentions the 19th century efforts of John Cleve Symmes to lobby Congress to approve a voyage to the inner Earth, and Edgar Allen Poe’s long-time interest in the theory. Gene and Walter return to 9/11 conspiracy theories before moving on to the legends of major occurrences happening every 50 years, which include the Lincoln assassination. So what happened in 2015?
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.
Faded Memories of the Past
By Gene Steinberg
There are various versions of the phrase “history is written by the winners.” But there are often so many versions of any major event, it’s hard to say who is really in control of recording them. Possibly nobody?
It’s not just a matter of producing an accurate record of things that occurred long ago, but yesterday’s news. Depending on your political orientation, or the news sources you trust, you may read a totally different version a particular story. This doesn’t grant those news sources equal credibility. There is often a right version and a wrong version, though there can be shades of gray just because people aren’t perfect.
So if you prefer one political candidate, you might emphasize the fact that he or she gathers large crowds at campaign rallies. But that shouldn’t obscure the fact that this candidate may have lost the election. It’s just what you find most important, although it would seem that failing to win ought to receive higher priority.
You might think that a sound or video recording of what someone says would be the final arbiter. That might be true if there s no editing, but I’ve caught certain news outlets taking phrases out of context to advance an agenda. So what someone says may seem harmful or negative even if it’s not when viewed in context. A famous example is “What difference at this point does it make?”
It’s widely used to denigrate a certain well-known political figure and the attitude towards a tragic event. But when viewed in context, when you see the entire statement, the actual intent is precisely the reverse. But that hasn’t stopped certain news outlets from pretending that it stands alone.
And don’t get me started about “you didn’t build that!” used as the cornerstone of a campaign to discredit another political figure by claiming that it was meant to diss business and entrepreneurship. But when viewed in context, it had another meaning entirely — the speaker was celebrating business — even though it was widely misused by some to advance an agenda.
Now in our paranormal corner of the world, what people say about their experiences may represent the only evidence of what really happened. If memories are faulty, you would hope there’s a second eyewitness to get a fuller understanding of the event. But even if there are dozens or hundreds of witnesses, the sands of time may cloud their recollections.
Imagine talking to someone decades after something occurred, and trying to track down additional sources of information. If it’s not recorded somewhere when it happened, you may get all sorts of stories. As soon as people begin to talk among themselves as to the details, comparing notes, all bets are off.
I recall a fun experiment sometimes done on late night variety shows. So a comedian whispers a joke to one person, who, in turn, whispers that joke to the person next to them. After ten generations of this experiment into spoken history, the last person is asked to recite the joke.
As you might expect, it usually has but a passing resemblance to the original, even if the details are very brief and direct.
There’s also that famous law school experiment where a crime is staged in front of a classroom without warning. The students are each asked to recall what happened. As you might imagine, the details of the incident will usually differ to quite a degree.
This would seem to indicate that human memory is just too faulty to accurately record much of anything with any level of accuracy. Or maybe one has to be trained to recall events accurately, which would explain whether oral traditions, passed on from generation to generation, stand a chance of being respective of the original source material.
But you can see now how difficult it is to get to the bottom of some of the most compelling UFO cases, particularly if the witnesses are asked to recall the inner details several decades later. Add to that the propensity of some to exaggerate their participation in a particularly significant event, and contamination from pop culture, interactions with friends, family and colleagues, getting an reasonably accurate consensus of what really happened might just be impossible.
The passage of time is a fearsome enemy.
This explains why the debate over what happened at Roswell is so intense. Despite the obvious contradictions and concerns, it is the stuff of legend and myth. A spaceship crash lands on Earth, and its crew, dead or dying, is retrieved from the wreckage. An elite military force, the best of the best, retrieves everything and transports it to parts unknown.
The original story of a crashed disk in 1947 was changed within hours after it was fed over the news wire services. No, it wasn’t a flying saucer after all. It was just a crashed test balloon, and here’s a photograph to prove it.
There it lay until, more than three decades later, a UFO researcher talked to one of the witnesses, discovering there was more to the tale. The investigation led to a best-selling book, and many more. As you know they’re still talking about Roswell.
While the story of ET’s mishap spreads far and wide, there are still some who insist it was a weather balloon all along. Well, maybe the records that a flight didn’t happen were in error after all, or maybe it involved a test of some secret technology and thus the details were fudged.
What visitors from a breakaway civilization? Wouldn’t such inconvenient facts be hidden in the interests of national security?
But maybe it wasn’t anything significant after all, but once a few people decided to get their 15 minutes of fame, others decided to get into the act. There were many versions of key events, and maybe there were no alien corpses, or crash test dummies, or anything of the sort.
But wouldn’t it have been easy for the authorities to spread a few tall tales that intermingled with the fog of imperfect human testimony? So whatever happened was so obscured by disinformation that we’ll never know for sure just what really crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, or at the sites of other supposed key UFO events.
We’ll just keep debating these subjects on paranormal talk shows, in online forums, or in blogs, without ever coming to a satisfactory conclusion.
One possible solution would be for someone with responsibility to reveal the truth. Another is for a UFO to land in a public place with its pilots emerging to reveal who and what they are. In English no less. Or maybe the message will be broadcast in different languages around the globe, to use an old sci-fi film trope.
Forgive me if I seem jaded, but I do not expect either to occur, at least not in my lifetime.
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June 5, 2016
www.theparacast.com
Walter Bosley Discusses Breakaway Civilizations, the Hollow Earth and Synchronicity 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.
SUPPORT THE SHOW AND ENJOY A PREMIUM PARACAST EXPERIENCE! 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 After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast free of network ads, and chat rooms when you sign up for The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes, and we've launched The Paracast+ Video Channel. Check out our new “Lifetime” membership! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: One of our favorite guests, Walter Bosley, returns for to discuss the historical record of breakaway civilizations and possible interactions with visitors from space over two thousand years ago. The focus will center on his latest book, “ORIGIN: The Nineteenth Century Emergence of the 20th Century Breakaway Civilizations.” He’ll also examine the possibility that the crashed airship at Roswell, NM may have been sent by the hidden civilization that coexists with ours. And how do all those legends of hidden races dovetail with the legends of deros and teros from Richard Shaver? Walter is a blogger, former AFOSI agent and a former FBI counterintelligence specialist.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Walter Bosley’s Blog: Empire of the Wheel
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on June 5: Walter Bosley joins Gene and Chris as the discussion begins with an on-the-site report on the Contact in the Desert convention in Joshua Tree, CA., where Chris was shooting footage for a documentary. In addition to talking about some of the guests present, the question is raised, once again, whether more millennials can be attracted to UFO conferences. Bosley returns to the discussion of legends of a Hollow Earth, which are explored in further detail. He mentions the 19th century efforts of John Cleve Symmes to lobby Congress to approve a voyage to the inner Earth, and Edgar Allen Poe’s long-time interest in the theory. Gene and Walter return to 9/11 conspiracy theories before moving on to the legends of major occurrences happening every 50 years, which include the Lincoln assassination. So what happened in 2015?
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.
Faded Memories of the Past
By Gene Steinberg
There are various versions of the phrase “history is written by the winners.” But there are often so many versions of any major event, it’s hard to say who is really in control of recording them. Possibly nobody?
It’s not just a matter of producing an accurate record of things that occurred long ago, but yesterday’s news. Depending on your political orientation, or the news sources you trust, you may read a totally different version a particular story. This doesn’t grant those news sources equal credibility. There is often a right version and a wrong version, though there can be shades of gray just because people aren’t perfect.
So if you prefer one political candidate, you might emphasize the fact that he or she gathers large crowds at campaign rallies. But that shouldn’t obscure the fact that this candidate may have lost the election. It’s just what you find most important, although it would seem that failing to win ought to receive higher priority.
You might think that a sound or video recording of what someone says would be the final arbiter. That might be true if there s no editing, but I’ve caught certain news outlets taking phrases out of context to advance an agenda. So what someone says may seem harmful or negative even if it’s not when viewed in context. A famous example is “What difference at this point does it make?”
It’s widely used to denigrate a certain well-known political figure and the attitude towards a tragic event. But when viewed in context, when you see the entire statement, the actual intent is precisely the reverse. But that hasn’t stopped certain news outlets from pretending that it stands alone.
And don’t get me started about “you didn’t build that!” used as the cornerstone of a campaign to discredit another political figure by claiming that it was meant to diss business and entrepreneurship. But when viewed in context, it had another meaning entirely — the speaker was celebrating business — even though it was widely misused by some to advance an agenda.
Now in our paranormal corner of the world, what people say about their experiences may represent the only evidence of what really happened. If memories are faulty, you would hope there’s a second eyewitness to get a fuller understanding of the event. But even if there are dozens or hundreds of witnesses, the sands of time may cloud their recollections.
Imagine talking to someone decades after something occurred, and trying to track down additional sources of information. If it’s not recorded somewhere when it happened, you may get all sorts of stories. As soon as people begin to talk among themselves as to the details, comparing notes, all bets are off.
I recall a fun experiment sometimes done on late night variety shows. So a comedian whispers a joke to one person, who, in turn, whispers that joke to the person next to them. After ten generations of this experiment into spoken history, the last person is asked to recite the joke.
As you might expect, it usually has but a passing resemblance to the original, even if the details are very brief and direct.
There’s also that famous law school experiment where a crime is staged in front of a classroom without warning. The students are each asked to recall what happened. As you might imagine, the details of the incident will usually differ to quite a degree.
This would seem to indicate that human memory is just too faulty to accurately record much of anything with any level of accuracy. Or maybe one has to be trained to recall events accurately, which would explain whether oral traditions, passed on from generation to generation, stand a chance of being respective of the original source material.
But you can see now how difficult it is to get to the bottom of some of the most compelling UFO cases, particularly if the witnesses are asked to recall the inner details several decades later. Add to that the propensity of some to exaggerate their participation in a particularly significant event, and contamination from pop culture, interactions with friends, family and colleagues, getting an reasonably accurate consensus of what really happened might just be impossible.
The passage of time is a fearsome enemy.
This explains why the debate over what happened at Roswell is so intense. Despite the obvious contradictions and concerns, it is the stuff of legend and myth. A spaceship crash lands on Earth, and its crew, dead or dying, is retrieved from the wreckage. An elite military force, the best of the best, retrieves everything and transports it to parts unknown.
The original story of a crashed disk in 1947 was changed within hours after it was fed over the news wire services. No, it wasn’t a flying saucer after all. It was just a crashed test balloon, and here’s a photograph to prove it.
There it lay until, more than three decades later, a UFO researcher talked to one of the witnesses, discovering there was more to the tale. The investigation led to a best-selling book, and many more. As you know they’re still talking about Roswell.
While the story of ET’s mishap spreads far and wide, there are still some who insist it was a weather balloon all along. Well, maybe the records that a flight didn’t happen were in error after all, or maybe it involved a test of some secret technology and thus the details were fudged.
What visitors from a breakaway civilization? Wouldn’t such inconvenient facts be hidden in the interests of national security?
But maybe it wasn’t anything significant after all, but once a few people decided to get their 15 minutes of fame, others decided to get into the act. There were many versions of key events, and maybe there were no alien corpses, or crash test dummies, or anything of the sort.
But wouldn’t it have been easy for the authorities to spread a few tall tales that intermingled with the fog of imperfect human testimony? So whatever happened was so obscured by disinformation that we’ll never know for sure just what really crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, or at the sites of other supposed key UFO events.
We’ll just keep debating these subjects on paranormal talk shows, in online forums, or in blogs, without ever coming to a satisfactory conclusion.
One possible solution would be for someone with responsibility to reveal the truth. Another is for a UFO to land in a public place with its pilots emerging to reveal who and what they are. In English no less. Or maybe the message will be broadcast in different languages around the globe, to use an old sci-fi film trope.
Forgive me if I seem jaded, but I do not expect either to occur, at least not in my lifetime.
Copyright 1999-2016 The Paracast LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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