THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
June 7, 2015
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Alejandro Rojas, from Open Minds, Returns to 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+: We have another radio show, and for a low monthly or annual subscription fee, you will receive access to After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast without, the network ads, and chat rooms. NEW! We’ve added an RSS feed for fast updates of the latest episodes, and The Paracast+ video channel is coming soon. 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: He’s back for another go-round. Open Mind’s Alejandro Rojas. He’ll be talking about the latest developments in UFO research, including Slidegate episode, the so-called Roswell Slides, along and the recent Contact in the Desert event. Alejandro is Director of Operations for Open Minds Production, the host for Open Minds UFO Radio, editor and contributing writer for OpenMinds.tv, and emcee for the International UFO Congress. He is also a blogger for the Huffington Post. In short, he’s one busy gentleman. Ahead of this episode, Alejandro told us: “I have a feeling you guys are going to get me in trouble.”.
Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on June 7: Gene and Chris respond to some of the wackier criticisms the show. Chris also brings up a subject that we didn’t have time to cover on the June 7, 2015 episode of The Paracast, the disclosure of the Missouri location of Marley Woods, a place that was reported by researcher Ted Phillips to be a hotspot of paranormal activity. Once again, we invite Phillips to disclose more of the evidence he’s gathered over the years. Chris also briefly mentions the work of his friend and colleague, Ray Stanford, and the ongoing progress in putting together the San Luis Valley Camera Project. You’ll also hear about a plight of one of our regular listeners, who is seeking a donor for a kidney transplant.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Open Minds: http://www.openminds.tv
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.
Played for Our Benefit
By Gene Steinberg
Those of you who have followed Star Trek lore know about the legendary “cloaking device” that was invented by the Romulans and also used by the Klingons. In our real world, scientists are also working on ways to shield aircraft, usually military, from the enemy. So it may well be that there will be more and more effective methods devised, but what about the vision of that capability already being employed by an alien vessel?
I have little doubt that a space-faring race, hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us, would be quite capable of hiding their presence from us if they chose to do so. And that’s the important thing. If such beings are really coming to Earth, would they actually want their presence known? Wouldn’t they want to avoid interfering with the local populace, and how would that be done other than to somehow shield or cloak their presence?
A notable example in the Star Trek universe is “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.” The Enterprise crew returns to earth in a borrowed Klingon spaceship. Being forced to go back in time, they use the ship’s cloaking device to hide their presence from the locals, with sometimes humorous results.
Regardless, I have to wonder why ET, if they are really here, would want to allow us to know of their presence. Would they have some sort of edict, a prime directive, that would presumably prevent them from interfering with the affairs of the inhabits of another world? If that’s the case, the mere act of being seen may be the equivalent of interference, since lives of the locales may change as a result. How many people have gone into different lines of work, or abandoned previous pursuits, as the result of seeing one or more UFOs?
Would our visitors want to allow that to happen, or maybe they just don’t care.
On the other hand, I sometimes wonder whether the presence of UFOs, in whatever setting, is done strictly for our benefit. Why, for example, do we see UFOs engage in repeat actions, such as searching for soil samples. How many visits does it take to gather data about the local populace? How many people need be contacted – or abducted – to get the data they require?
If UFOs have been an ongoing presence in our world for perhaps thousands of years, what’s their motive, and do they persist in making their presence known? As I said, it shouldn’t take a great leap of technology beyond our own to keep them invisible to our eyes and instruments. But you almost get the appearance they are actually play-acting for our benefit, putting on shows so that we will see them in action doing their thing.
Some UFO researchers even suggest that the wink-in and wink-out phenomenon, sometimes observed in paranormal events, indicates that what we are seeing isn’t a physical object at all but some sort of projection, holographic or otherwise. This doesn’t mean there aren’t cases where people claim to have touched a UFO, but are they touching anything real? I’m not necessarily suggesting it’s something akin to the 3D Holographic Environment Simulator from Star Trek, which is affectionately known as the “holodeck.” But consider a civilization way ahead of us, one that is cable of making you believe you can see and touch something that isn’t there.
Why assume what we call UFOs are real physical objects and not products of some other force that we do not yet understand? That some believe they have seen and felt them doesn’t necessarily mean they are real in the sense that we regard as real.
But what of abductions, you might ask? Just what is going on there, with people who claim one or more episodes of being taken, or kidnapped, by aliens for some inscrutable purpose, perhaps for an often painful physical examination. Many of these episodes have dreamlike qualities to them, and it’s oh-so-curious that the aliens employ primitive instrumentation to engage in those examinations. It appears to be akin to exploiting our base fears about such experiences coming true.
Those who believe that these abductions represent physical experiences ought to consider if the memories are genuine. Yes, I know about so-called “screen memories,” where some believe that possible symbolic memories of an alien encounter are manufactured by our visitors to shield what they really did. But that assumes their abilities to create fake memories are transparent and easily cracked with the right treatment, possibly including hypnotic regression.
But what if the abduction experience was itself a screen memory to mask something else entirely? Why assume that what you see is what you get? Also UFO abductions have occurred fairly often over the years (although not so much lately). Is it at all true, as some researchers suggest, that millions of Earthlings have been captured, examined, and turned back into the population forever scarred with frightening memories of such encounters?
If extraterrestrials wanted to create a hybrid race of some sort, yet another theory of their purpose, why do it in such an overt, terrifying fashion? How many genetic examples would they need, and wouldn’t there be far less invasive ways to retrieve genetic material? Look at the silly tricks that police employ in some of those TV shows to recover DNA evidence as a possible example of a smarter scheme, one that doesn’t involve torturing people.
Consider the possibilities, and whether or not some or all of those UFO-related experiences are exactly what they seem to be. Are we seeing or recalling the real event? Is it somehow manufactured for our benefit, a sort of alien sleight of hand, to hide something else entirely? If our attention is diverted to where something weird appears to be happening, what happens if you look in the opposite direction instead?
And one more thing: What if our memories of possible abductions and generic experiments are related to some sort of racial memory, where we recall, as a species, the original process from which humans were created by advanced alien scientists?
Does that mean that, when we seek ET, we merely need to look in a mirror?
I wouldn’t presume to have the final answers. But it may start with not taking UFO encounters too seriously as literal events. There may be other forces at work here that we just do not understand. Maybe it’s something that will evolve as our culture advances.
Sure, I’m probably just shooting from the hip here. But it’s not as if current UFO research has produced any better theories.
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June 7, 2015
www.theparacast.com
Alejandro Rojas, from Open Minds, Returns to 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+: We have another radio show, and for a low monthly or annual subscription fee, you will receive access to After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast without, the network ads, and chat rooms. NEW! We’ve added an RSS feed for fast updates of the latest episodes, and The Paracast+ video channel is coming soon. 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: He’s back for another go-round. Open Mind’s Alejandro Rojas. He’ll be talking about the latest developments in UFO research, including Slidegate episode, the so-called Roswell Slides, along and the recent Contact in the Desert event. Alejandro is Director of Operations for Open Minds Production, the host for Open Minds UFO Radio, editor and contributing writer for OpenMinds.tv, and emcee for the International UFO Congress. He is also a blogger for the Huffington Post. In short, he’s one busy gentleman. Ahead of this episode, Alejandro told us: “I have a feeling you guys are going to get me in trouble.”.
Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on June 7: Gene and Chris respond to some of the wackier criticisms the show. Chris also brings up a subject that we didn’t have time to cover on the June 7, 2015 episode of The Paracast, the disclosure of the Missouri location of Marley Woods, a place that was reported by researcher Ted Phillips to be a hotspot of paranormal activity. Once again, we invite Phillips to disclose more of the evidence he’s gathered over the years. Chris also briefly mentions the work of his friend and colleague, Ray Stanford, and the ongoing progress in putting together the San Luis Valley Camera Project. You’ll also hear about a plight of one of our regular listeners, who is seeking a donor for a kidney transplant.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Open Minds: http://www.openminds.tv
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.
Played for Our Benefit
By Gene Steinberg
Those of you who have followed Star Trek lore know about the legendary “cloaking device” that was invented by the Romulans and also used by the Klingons. In our real world, scientists are also working on ways to shield aircraft, usually military, from the enemy. So it may well be that there will be more and more effective methods devised, but what about the vision of that capability already being employed by an alien vessel?
I have little doubt that a space-faring race, hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us, would be quite capable of hiding their presence from us if they chose to do so. And that’s the important thing. If such beings are really coming to Earth, would they actually want their presence known? Wouldn’t they want to avoid interfering with the local populace, and how would that be done other than to somehow shield or cloak their presence?
A notable example in the Star Trek universe is “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.” The Enterprise crew returns to earth in a borrowed Klingon spaceship. Being forced to go back in time, they use the ship’s cloaking device to hide their presence from the locals, with sometimes humorous results.
Regardless, I have to wonder why ET, if they are really here, would want to allow us to know of their presence. Would they have some sort of edict, a prime directive, that would presumably prevent them from interfering with the affairs of the inhabits of another world? If that’s the case, the mere act of being seen may be the equivalent of interference, since lives of the locales may change as a result. How many people have gone into different lines of work, or abandoned previous pursuits, as the result of seeing one or more UFOs?
Would our visitors want to allow that to happen, or maybe they just don’t care.
On the other hand, I sometimes wonder whether the presence of UFOs, in whatever setting, is done strictly for our benefit. Why, for example, do we see UFOs engage in repeat actions, such as searching for soil samples. How many visits does it take to gather data about the local populace? How many people need be contacted – or abducted – to get the data they require?
If UFOs have been an ongoing presence in our world for perhaps thousands of years, what’s their motive, and do they persist in making their presence known? As I said, it shouldn’t take a great leap of technology beyond our own to keep them invisible to our eyes and instruments. But you almost get the appearance they are actually play-acting for our benefit, putting on shows so that we will see them in action doing their thing.
Some UFO researchers even suggest that the wink-in and wink-out phenomenon, sometimes observed in paranormal events, indicates that what we are seeing isn’t a physical object at all but some sort of projection, holographic or otherwise. This doesn’t mean there aren’t cases where people claim to have touched a UFO, but are they touching anything real? I’m not necessarily suggesting it’s something akin to the 3D Holographic Environment Simulator from Star Trek, which is affectionately known as the “holodeck.” But consider a civilization way ahead of us, one that is cable of making you believe you can see and touch something that isn’t there.
Why assume what we call UFOs are real physical objects and not products of some other force that we do not yet understand? That some believe they have seen and felt them doesn’t necessarily mean they are real in the sense that we regard as real.
But what of abductions, you might ask? Just what is going on there, with people who claim one or more episodes of being taken, or kidnapped, by aliens for some inscrutable purpose, perhaps for an often painful physical examination. Many of these episodes have dreamlike qualities to them, and it’s oh-so-curious that the aliens employ primitive instrumentation to engage in those examinations. It appears to be akin to exploiting our base fears about such experiences coming true.
Those who believe that these abductions represent physical experiences ought to consider if the memories are genuine. Yes, I know about so-called “screen memories,” where some believe that possible symbolic memories of an alien encounter are manufactured by our visitors to shield what they really did. But that assumes their abilities to create fake memories are transparent and easily cracked with the right treatment, possibly including hypnotic regression.
But what if the abduction experience was itself a screen memory to mask something else entirely? Why assume that what you see is what you get? Also UFO abductions have occurred fairly often over the years (although not so much lately). Is it at all true, as some researchers suggest, that millions of Earthlings have been captured, examined, and turned back into the population forever scarred with frightening memories of such encounters?
If extraterrestrials wanted to create a hybrid race of some sort, yet another theory of their purpose, why do it in such an overt, terrifying fashion? How many genetic examples would they need, and wouldn’t there be far less invasive ways to retrieve genetic material? Look at the silly tricks that police employ in some of those TV shows to recover DNA evidence as a possible example of a smarter scheme, one that doesn’t involve torturing people.
Consider the possibilities, and whether or not some or all of those UFO-related experiences are exactly what they seem to be. Are we seeing or recalling the real event? Is it somehow manufactured for our benefit, a sort of alien sleight of hand, to hide something else entirely? If our attention is diverted to where something weird appears to be happening, what happens if you look in the opposite direction instead?
And one more thing: What if our memories of possible abductions and generic experiments are related to some sort of racial memory, where we recall, as a species, the original process from which humans were created by advanced alien scientists?
Does that mean that, when we seek ET, we merely need to look in a mirror?
I wouldn’t presume to have the final answers. But it may start with not taking UFO encounters too seriously as literal events. There may be other forces at work here that we just do not understand. Maybe it’s something that will evolve as our culture advances.
Sure, I’m probably just shooting from the hip here. But it’s not as if current UFO research has produced any better theories.
Copyright 1999-2015 The Paracast LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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