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October 22, 2017
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Author Nick Redfern Talks About Shapeshifters on The Paracast
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This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present everyone's favorite author on the paranormal, Nick Redfern, who is at it again with his latest book, "Shapeshifters: Werewolves, Tricksters, Monsters, and More," From werewolves, to elementals, to the Japanese Kitsune, we'll explore a number of strange stories about creatures that can change their appearance. But it definitely won't be anything like that outrageous TV show, "True Blood." Nick Redfern is the author of dozens of books on UFOs, Bigfoot, and cryptozoology, including "Monster Files," "Memoirs of a Monster Hunter," and "The Real Men in Black."
Chris O’Brien’s Blog: Our Strange Planet
Nick Redfern's Blog: http://nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on October 22: Gene and guest cohost Angelo Fiorentino (aka Angel of Ioren in The Paracast forums) discuss Tom DeLonge’s efforts to raise funds for alleged scientific projects and the failed predictions of disclosure. We also explain how Paracast+ subscribers can get special access to the premiere episodes of “Haunted,” a new reality show featuring Paul Kimball and Holly Stevens. Gene also recalls the flamewars from the forum over the years, including Michael Horn and Billy Meier, and Dr. David Jacobs and his dealings with a test subject who complained about his research methods. And what about UFO abductions? Are they, as Angelo suggests, mostly due to sleep paralysis? Gene also repeats his oft-repeated suggestion that Betty and Barney Hill were actually the victims of some sort of government experiment when they underwent their famous UFO abduction experience. And why, with a smartphone camera in almost everyone’s pocket, don’t we have compelling UFO photos nowadays?
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. Check out our new YouTube channel at: The Official Paracast Channel
UFOs and the Warm and Fuzzy Phenomenon
By Gene Steinberg
This is an issue I’ve argued about for a while now. Most people who believe that UFOs are real are also convinced they are advanced technological machines from other planets. That astronomers are finding more and more evidence of possible Earth-type planets revolving around other solar systems only expands the possibilities that intelligence life exists out there.
How much of a stretch is it to postulate that such life has advanced to the point where travel to the stars is possible? I mean we actually have scientists who are trying to crack the secrets of “warp drive,” the propulsion system that was used as a plot device in the Star Trek TV shows and movies to get spaceships from one place to another as quickly as possible.
After all, if it took a few decades to fly from Earth to Vulcan, or the Romulan home world, everyone would age a lot, or the crew would be stuck in suspended animation for decades on end. It would really be a messy situation dealing with the vast changes on the crew’s home planets. That’s also why they devised “subspace radio,” to allow for instantaneous communications across distances of many light years.
But the alleged spaceships people report in connection with the UFO phenomenon don’t seem so advanced. We have the craft that abducted the Hills in 1961 playing around with primitive star maps. Yet it didn’t take all that long for humans to largely give up on physical maps and embrace Google Maps and other navigation systems on their smartphones.
Of course, smartphones were themselves heavily influenced by the Star Trek communicator. But Star Trek supposedly happens in the 23rd century, so isn’t it strange that we’re capable of duplicating some of its fictional technology within the space of a few decades?
Unfortunately, it appears that the beings who pilot those UFOs are stuck with primitive technology. They can manage to travel many light years to reach Earth, and perhaps return home if we assume it wasn’t a one-way trip. But beyond the propulsion system and the advanced memory metal hulls of the craft to protect the crew against space hazards, the rest of the technology only appears to be slightly more advanced than ours. Well, at least at the time they are witnessed.
It sort of reminds me of those airships from the late 19th century. They were very much in the spirt of dirigibles, and they were usually piloted by humans rather than gray aliens. The writers of imaginary fiction at the time weren’t necessarily thinking or circular or spherical spaceships either.
Of course, it’s hard to believe that an airship would be capable of interstellar travel.
What about reports of people seeing what appeared to be television sets inside an alleged spaceship, or a grill on which to fry some really bad-tasting pancakes? Where’s the food replicator?
Why does ET seem to often be just one step ahead of us, as if to reveal the possibilities of the next stage in scientific development?
When Kenneth Arnold saw nine ellipsoid objects flying in formation near Mount Rainier in Washington State on June 24, 1947, they flew just fast enough to seem unconventional. You almost think the phenomenon showed up to put on a show for us, delight us, fascinate us, intrigue us. And yes, in some cases, frighten us.
When alleged gray aliens are administering painful physical tests to UFO abductees, you wonder why. Wouldn’t it be easier just to put the subjects to sleep so they wouldn’t have to endure the trauma. Why even make it painful? If these are truly advanced beings from the stars, surely they have ways to extract DNA, and even a fetus, in ways that don’t inflict pain on someone.
In Star Trek, Dr. McCoy just takes his tricorder and passes it over his patient’s body to get critical readings. He can administer a pill to cure kidney disease so dialysis is no longer necessary. Eyeglasses, contact lenses? Who needs them. Just a few drops of Retinax V and, unless you’re allergic to the substance, your vision will be perfect. Just perfect.
I can’t wait to ditch my visual aids, which consist of contact lenses and reading glasses. Just a few drops. Hmmm.
So I’ve often thought about the possibility that UFOs are just putting on shows for our benefit. Their spaceships appear to us in a form that’s only slightly more advanced than ours. It’s quite enough to be mysterious and all, but not something we wouldn’t be able to perfect before long.
I’m not altogether sure about abductions, since the experience appears to be subjective enough to make it difficult or impossible to know what’s really going on. Maybe that is the screen memory, and not the image of an owl. Besides, how could ET be so dumb as to allow a simple hypnotic trance to undo all of their elaborate programming to prevent their subjects from remembering what really went on?
Again, alien technology doesn’t seem so far advanced after all.
I often wonder if we’d even be capable of recognizing alien technology that’s thousands of years ahead of ours. Would they even travel here in physical spaceships and not some sort of stargate? Just enter the flowing watery field and, within seconds, you find yourself magically transported to another part of the galaxy. No fuss, no muss.
But if they use physical aircraft that we would somehow recognize in its true form, why bother? Couldn’t they just turn on a cloaking device and hide themselves from us? Why allow us to see them, unless their appearance is strictly for our benefit?
I’m only summarizing the basic illogic of the presence of UFOs. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, unless we are dealing with an intelligence that is presenting itself in a form that would seem warm and fuzzy to us, a form in keeping with our beliefs and expectations.
Maybe we aren’t ready to see them in their true form.
So I wonder: If, in a few decades, we have perfected warp drive and a transporter-type device, will we still see UFOs? And if we do, in what form would they appear? Will they still be just one step ahead of us?
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October 22, 2017
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Author Nick Redfern Talks About Shapeshifters 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 an exclusive podcast, After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast free of network ads, 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 also feature selected 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 print and eBook book offers! For more information about our premium package, please visit: https://plus.theparacast.com/.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present everyone's favorite author on the paranormal, Nick Redfern, who is at it again with his latest book, "Shapeshifters: Werewolves, Tricksters, Monsters, and More," From werewolves, to elementals, to the Japanese Kitsune, we'll explore a number of strange stories about creatures that can change their appearance. But it definitely won't be anything like that outrageous TV show, "True Blood." Nick Redfern is the author of dozens of books on UFOs, Bigfoot, and cryptozoology, including "Monster Files," "Memoirs of a Monster Hunter," and "The Real Men in Black."
Chris O’Brien’s Blog: Our Strange Planet
Nick Redfern's Blog: http://nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on October 22: Gene and guest cohost Angelo Fiorentino (aka Angel of Ioren in The Paracast forums) discuss Tom DeLonge’s efforts to raise funds for alleged scientific projects and the failed predictions of disclosure. We also explain how Paracast+ subscribers can get special access to the premiere episodes of “Haunted,” a new reality show featuring Paul Kimball and Holly Stevens. Gene also recalls the flamewars from the forum over the years, including Michael Horn and Billy Meier, and Dr. David Jacobs and his dealings with a test subject who complained about his research methods. And what about UFO abductions? Are they, as Angelo suggests, mostly due to sleep paralysis? Gene also repeats his oft-repeated suggestion that Betty and Barney Hill were actually the victims of some sort of government experiment when they underwent their famous UFO abduction experience. And why, with a smartphone camera in almost everyone’s pocket, don’t we have compelling UFO photos nowadays?
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. Check out our new YouTube channel at: The Official Paracast Channel
UFOs and the Warm and Fuzzy Phenomenon
By Gene Steinberg
This is an issue I’ve argued about for a while now. Most people who believe that UFOs are real are also convinced they are advanced technological machines from other planets. That astronomers are finding more and more evidence of possible Earth-type planets revolving around other solar systems only expands the possibilities that intelligence life exists out there.
How much of a stretch is it to postulate that such life has advanced to the point where travel to the stars is possible? I mean we actually have scientists who are trying to crack the secrets of “warp drive,” the propulsion system that was used as a plot device in the Star Trek TV shows and movies to get spaceships from one place to another as quickly as possible.
After all, if it took a few decades to fly from Earth to Vulcan, or the Romulan home world, everyone would age a lot, or the crew would be stuck in suspended animation for decades on end. It would really be a messy situation dealing with the vast changes on the crew’s home planets. That’s also why they devised “subspace radio,” to allow for instantaneous communications across distances of many light years.
But the alleged spaceships people report in connection with the UFO phenomenon don’t seem so advanced. We have the craft that abducted the Hills in 1961 playing around with primitive star maps. Yet it didn’t take all that long for humans to largely give up on physical maps and embrace Google Maps and other navigation systems on their smartphones.
Of course, smartphones were themselves heavily influenced by the Star Trek communicator. But Star Trek supposedly happens in the 23rd century, so isn’t it strange that we’re capable of duplicating some of its fictional technology within the space of a few decades?
Unfortunately, it appears that the beings who pilot those UFOs are stuck with primitive technology. They can manage to travel many light years to reach Earth, and perhaps return home if we assume it wasn’t a one-way trip. But beyond the propulsion system and the advanced memory metal hulls of the craft to protect the crew against space hazards, the rest of the technology only appears to be slightly more advanced than ours. Well, at least at the time they are witnessed.
It sort of reminds me of those airships from the late 19th century. They were very much in the spirt of dirigibles, and they were usually piloted by humans rather than gray aliens. The writers of imaginary fiction at the time weren’t necessarily thinking or circular or spherical spaceships either.
Of course, it’s hard to believe that an airship would be capable of interstellar travel.
What about reports of people seeing what appeared to be television sets inside an alleged spaceship, or a grill on which to fry some really bad-tasting pancakes? Where’s the food replicator?
Why does ET seem to often be just one step ahead of us, as if to reveal the possibilities of the next stage in scientific development?
When Kenneth Arnold saw nine ellipsoid objects flying in formation near Mount Rainier in Washington State on June 24, 1947, they flew just fast enough to seem unconventional. You almost think the phenomenon showed up to put on a show for us, delight us, fascinate us, intrigue us. And yes, in some cases, frighten us.
When alleged gray aliens are administering painful physical tests to UFO abductees, you wonder why. Wouldn’t it be easier just to put the subjects to sleep so they wouldn’t have to endure the trauma. Why even make it painful? If these are truly advanced beings from the stars, surely they have ways to extract DNA, and even a fetus, in ways that don’t inflict pain on someone.
In Star Trek, Dr. McCoy just takes his tricorder and passes it over his patient’s body to get critical readings. He can administer a pill to cure kidney disease so dialysis is no longer necessary. Eyeglasses, contact lenses? Who needs them. Just a few drops of Retinax V and, unless you’re allergic to the substance, your vision will be perfect. Just perfect.
I can’t wait to ditch my visual aids, which consist of contact lenses and reading glasses. Just a few drops. Hmmm.
So I’ve often thought about the possibility that UFOs are just putting on shows for our benefit. Their spaceships appear to us in a form that’s only slightly more advanced than ours. It’s quite enough to be mysterious and all, but not something we wouldn’t be able to perfect before long.
I’m not altogether sure about abductions, since the experience appears to be subjective enough to make it difficult or impossible to know what’s really going on. Maybe that is the screen memory, and not the image of an owl. Besides, how could ET be so dumb as to allow a simple hypnotic trance to undo all of their elaborate programming to prevent their subjects from remembering what really went on?
Again, alien technology doesn’t seem so far advanced after all.
I often wonder if we’d even be capable of recognizing alien technology that’s thousands of years ahead of ours. Would they even travel here in physical spaceships and not some sort of stargate? Just enter the flowing watery field and, within seconds, you find yourself magically transported to another part of the galaxy. No fuss, no muss.
But if they use physical aircraft that we would somehow recognize in its true form, why bother? Couldn’t they just turn on a cloaking device and hide themselves from us? Why allow us to see them, unless their appearance is strictly for our benefit?
I’m only summarizing the basic illogic of the presence of UFOs. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, unless we are dealing with an intelligence that is presenting itself in a form that would seem warm and fuzzy to us, a form in keeping with our beliefs and expectations.
Maybe we aren’t ready to see them in their true form.
So I wonder: If, in a few decades, we have perfected warp drive and a transporter-type device, will we still see UFOs? And if we do, in what form would they appear? Will they still be just one step ahead of us?
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