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March 5, 2017
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The Paracast Presents a Women's Roundtable with Erica Lukes, Chase Kloetzke and Kathleen Marden
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.
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This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present a special women's roundtable featuring Erica Lukes, Chase Kloetzke and Kathleen Marden. What obstacles have the women of Ufology faced in breaking the glass ceiling, and being taken seriously, and how about some of the great achievements of women in the field? Erica Lukes is currently researching historical and current sightings in Utah and is the Communications Director of the International Association of UAP Researchers. She hosts a weekly show on KCOR called “UFO Classified.” Chase Kloetzke is Deputy Director of Investigations and Special Case Manager for MUFON. Kathleen Marden is associated with the Mutual UFO Network, as Director of Experiencer Research and the Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters, as an advisory board member and consultant to its research subcommittee.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Erica Lukes Site: Erica Lukes, UFO Classified Radio Show Host KCOR
Chase Kloetzke’s Site: Chase Kloetzke - Author And Books, Radio Programs, Free Live Radio
Kathleen Marden’s Site: KathleenMardenUFO
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on March 5: Gene, Chris and special guest Erica Lukes discuss humans traveling to space, perhaps returning to the Moon. Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced plans to send a pair of tourists to the Moon in 2018, but Chris has no interest in making such a voyage. He explains why, and offers the surprising reason why he’d refuse even a quick trip around the universe in a spaceship piloted by ET. The discussion also focuses on Ufology’s glass ceiling, as Erica explains how women are still being judged differently in the field. Gene explains why he doesn’t believe MUFON has accomplished much of anything since it was founded in 1969.
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.
A Vision of a Changing Reality — A Fable
By Gene Steinberg
A long time ago, people believed the Earth was flat. A modern and quite fanciful “flat Earth” theory has it that our planet is what it seems when you look from ground-level, a disc. The Arctic Circle occupies its center, and Antarctica occupies its rim. The latter, they claim, is guarded by NASA employees to keep people from climbing over the wall and falling off the disc.
But to where?
While theories about a round Earth can be traced back to Biblical times, when Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage to India, and ended up discovering America, most people still believed in a flat Earth.
Even in the 21st century, there exists a handful of Flat Earth societies, which are generally meant as jokes rather than to be taken seriously. Otherwise, the concept of a spherical Earth, and spherical planets and stars, is by and large an accepted fact.
So has our reality changed to conform to our theories?
This is a wacky idea that may put us all in a “Matrix” universe, in which reality is not a constant, but something malleable, something that can be altered by an individual or collective belief, or maybe it’s all an illusion.
Almost like magic!
So when you read or watch a story in which magicians have genuine powers — rather than playing clever tricks via misdirection — it’s about people who can somehow alter reality. When you see magical powers on display in such TV shows as “Once Upon a Time,” an elaborate reimagining of classic fairy tales and other fables, you are witnessing someone who, the story goes, can harness such powers.
The DC Comics character Mister Mxyzptlk is often portrayed as a mischievous imp from the fifth dimension who has the power to alter reality with little more than a snap of his fingers — or a similar action — and thus cause all sorts of havoc. Well, until he is persuaded to say (or spell) his name backwards, which sends him, in disgrace, back home.
Our present-day society is based on science and logic. Any action that one can perform, anything that we can invent, is — or should be — based on sound scientific principles. If something happens that we do not understand, well the truth is out there. So we are left to expand research, test, and research again to figure out what’s going on. As scientists and engineers continue their work, they will, one expects, have a fuller understanding of the way things are. The suggestion that we know all that there is to know cannot be taken seriously.
Again, there’s nothing magical about it, although I suppose a highly advanced technology may strike those less advanced as magical.
However, there are unreal things whose reality we often accept without question, things that do not seem to follow the known laws of physics.
Consider someone who is very ill. Confronted with the possibility that the illness may cause death, some people lose their desire to live. Get it over with, and sometimes the loss of the will to live ends up accomplishing that fact. But a part of medical practice, where doctors care about more than collecting their fees, is about instilling in a patient the will to live. Sometimes that’s enough to help speed the recovery process.
I suppose the power of positive thinking might be sufficient to trigger your body’s immune system to work harder, to help you beat that illness. So even when all is lost, miracles sometimes happen. Science cannot explain it with facts and figures. It just happens.
Computer scientists have developed highly advanced computational systems that are faster than the human brain in many respects. The best smartphones in our pockets and purses have the power of the supercomputer of not too many years ago.
But we hardly call them alive. Even when the iconic digital assistant, Siri, responds to your commands with a perfectly normal human voice, it’s all about computational power and elaborate algorithms to attempt to parse your requests and deliver accurate responses. You want to set your iPhone’s Clock to sound an alarm tomorrow morning. Siri will do it or you, but you can hardly say “she” is alive.
How did she get here? Well, some years back, the original Siri, voice actress Susan Bennett, went into a recording studio, where her words, consonants, vowels and other vocalizations were stored and used to create the iconic digital assistant.
Siri is obviously not alive, nor are any of the other voice assistants.
But what about the human soul? We know how to develop computer software with ones and zeros, and maybe add a little fuzzy logic along the way, but the end result doesn’t have a soul. It is not alive!
So what is the “X” factor that turns us into living creatures directed by what we call a soul? Does the essence that makes up Gene Steinberg or Christopher O’Brien survive the body’s death? Can it somehow be downloaded into a computer if we just discovered the technology?
In “Star Trek,” the Vulcan “katra" is someone’s living spirit, an essence that can by physically transferred from one person to another. In the film “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock,” the film concludes with a mystical ceremony in which Spock’s katra is restored to his otherwise soulless body. At worst, the reborn first officer of the Starship Enterprise is suffering from a severe bout of amnesia and has to be retrained.
So are such things as human souls part of our reality, or something that exists beyond our reality in a place we do not yet understand? That takes us to the concepts of heaven and that other place.
In our corner of the world, are UFOs themselves physical spacecraft? Does their ability to seemingly wink in and wink out of existence represent advanced propulsion methods that we might someday discover? Or are they operating beyond our reality? Do they even observe our laws of science?
What about the collective unconscious? Does it mean that we can all get together at the subconscious level and will something into existence?
When more and more people came to believe in a spherical Earth, did that reality alter our planet to assume such a form? Or was it, as most people believe, a sphere all along and we only needed to discover the scientific principles involved?
The presence of UFOs has certainly caused many people to look to the skies in the belief that life does exist elsewhere in the universe. At the same time, astronomers have confirmed the presence of thousands of planets orbiting other star systems, some of which may have surface conditions suitable for life? Did those planets even exist before UFOs made us think about them?
As I said, it’s just a fable, nothing to be taken seriously. How could it be otherwise?
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March 5, 2017
www.theparacast.com
The Paracast Presents a Women's Roundtable with Erica Lukes, Chase Kloetzke and Kathleen Marden
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, the Paracast+ Video Channel, episode transcripts, Special Features, Classic Episodes and there’s more to come! We’ve just begun to add podcasts and videos from Paul Kimball’s “Other Side of Truth.” Check out our new lower rates, starting at just $1.49 per week, plus our “Lifetime” membership and special free eBook offers! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present a special women's roundtable featuring Erica Lukes, Chase Kloetzke and Kathleen Marden. What obstacles have the women of Ufology faced in breaking the glass ceiling, and being taken seriously, and how about some of the great achievements of women in the field? Erica Lukes is currently researching historical and current sightings in Utah and is the Communications Director of the International Association of UAP Researchers. She hosts a weekly show on KCOR called “UFO Classified.” Chase Kloetzke is Deputy Director of Investigations and Special Case Manager for MUFON. Kathleen Marden is associated with the Mutual UFO Network, as Director of Experiencer Research and the Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters, as an advisory board member and consultant to its research subcommittee.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Erica Lukes Site: Erica Lukes, UFO Classified Radio Show Host KCOR
Chase Kloetzke’s Site: Chase Kloetzke - Author And Books, Radio Programs, Free Live Radio
Kathleen Marden’s Site: KathleenMardenUFO
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on March 5: Gene, Chris and special guest Erica Lukes discuss humans traveling to space, perhaps returning to the Moon. Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced plans to send a pair of tourists to the Moon in 2018, but Chris has no interest in making such a voyage. He explains why, and offers the surprising reason why he’d refuse even a quick trip around the universe in a spaceship piloted by ET. The discussion also focuses on Ufology’s glass ceiling, as Erica explains how women are still being judged differently in the field. Gene explains why he doesn’t believe MUFON has accomplished much of anything since it was founded in 1969.
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.
A Vision of a Changing Reality — A Fable
By Gene Steinberg
A long time ago, people believed the Earth was flat. A modern and quite fanciful “flat Earth” theory has it that our planet is what it seems when you look from ground-level, a disc. The Arctic Circle occupies its center, and Antarctica occupies its rim. The latter, they claim, is guarded by NASA employees to keep people from climbing over the wall and falling off the disc.
But to where?
While theories about a round Earth can be traced back to Biblical times, when Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage to India, and ended up discovering America, most people still believed in a flat Earth.
Even in the 21st century, there exists a handful of Flat Earth societies, which are generally meant as jokes rather than to be taken seriously. Otherwise, the concept of a spherical Earth, and spherical planets and stars, is by and large an accepted fact.
So has our reality changed to conform to our theories?
This is a wacky idea that may put us all in a “Matrix” universe, in which reality is not a constant, but something malleable, something that can be altered by an individual or collective belief, or maybe it’s all an illusion.
Almost like magic!
So when you read or watch a story in which magicians have genuine powers — rather than playing clever tricks via misdirection — it’s about people who can somehow alter reality. When you see magical powers on display in such TV shows as “Once Upon a Time,” an elaborate reimagining of classic fairy tales and other fables, you are witnessing someone who, the story goes, can harness such powers.
The DC Comics character Mister Mxyzptlk is often portrayed as a mischievous imp from the fifth dimension who has the power to alter reality with little more than a snap of his fingers — or a similar action — and thus cause all sorts of havoc. Well, until he is persuaded to say (or spell) his name backwards, which sends him, in disgrace, back home.
Our present-day society is based on science and logic. Any action that one can perform, anything that we can invent, is — or should be — based on sound scientific principles. If something happens that we do not understand, well the truth is out there. So we are left to expand research, test, and research again to figure out what’s going on. As scientists and engineers continue their work, they will, one expects, have a fuller understanding of the way things are. The suggestion that we know all that there is to know cannot be taken seriously.
Again, there’s nothing magical about it, although I suppose a highly advanced technology may strike those less advanced as magical.
However, there are unreal things whose reality we often accept without question, things that do not seem to follow the known laws of physics.
Consider someone who is very ill. Confronted with the possibility that the illness may cause death, some people lose their desire to live. Get it over with, and sometimes the loss of the will to live ends up accomplishing that fact. But a part of medical practice, where doctors care about more than collecting their fees, is about instilling in a patient the will to live. Sometimes that’s enough to help speed the recovery process.
I suppose the power of positive thinking might be sufficient to trigger your body’s immune system to work harder, to help you beat that illness. So even when all is lost, miracles sometimes happen. Science cannot explain it with facts and figures. It just happens.
Computer scientists have developed highly advanced computational systems that are faster than the human brain in many respects. The best smartphones in our pockets and purses have the power of the supercomputer of not too many years ago.
But we hardly call them alive. Even when the iconic digital assistant, Siri, responds to your commands with a perfectly normal human voice, it’s all about computational power and elaborate algorithms to attempt to parse your requests and deliver accurate responses. You want to set your iPhone’s Clock to sound an alarm tomorrow morning. Siri will do it or you, but you can hardly say “she” is alive.
How did she get here? Well, some years back, the original Siri, voice actress Susan Bennett, went into a recording studio, where her words, consonants, vowels and other vocalizations were stored and used to create the iconic digital assistant.
Siri is obviously not alive, nor are any of the other voice assistants.
But what about the human soul? We know how to develop computer software with ones and zeros, and maybe add a little fuzzy logic along the way, but the end result doesn’t have a soul. It is not alive!
So what is the “X” factor that turns us into living creatures directed by what we call a soul? Does the essence that makes up Gene Steinberg or Christopher O’Brien survive the body’s death? Can it somehow be downloaded into a computer if we just discovered the technology?
In “Star Trek,” the Vulcan “katra" is someone’s living spirit, an essence that can by physically transferred from one person to another. In the film “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock,” the film concludes with a mystical ceremony in which Spock’s katra is restored to his otherwise soulless body. At worst, the reborn first officer of the Starship Enterprise is suffering from a severe bout of amnesia and has to be retrained.
So are such things as human souls part of our reality, or something that exists beyond our reality in a place we do not yet understand? That takes us to the concepts of heaven and that other place.
In our corner of the world, are UFOs themselves physical spacecraft? Does their ability to seemingly wink in and wink out of existence represent advanced propulsion methods that we might someday discover? Or are they operating beyond our reality? Do they even observe our laws of science?
What about the collective unconscious? Does it mean that we can all get together at the subconscious level and will something into existence?
When more and more people came to believe in a spherical Earth, did that reality alter our planet to assume such a form? Or was it, as most people believe, a sphere all along and we only needed to discover the scientific principles involved?
The presence of UFOs has certainly caused many people to look to the skies in the belief that life does exist elsewhere in the universe. At the same time, astronomers have confirmed the presence of thousands of planets orbiting other star systems, some of which may have surface conditions suitable for life? Did those planets even exist before UFOs made us think about them?
As I said, it’s just a fable, nothing to be taken seriously. How could it be otherwise?
Copyright 1999-2017 The Paracast LLC. 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!