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October 8, 2023
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World-Class Paranormal Researcher David Perkins Honored with Chris O'Brien, Greg Bishop and David Marler 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.
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This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a special roundtable episode to honor the memory of the late David "Izzy" Perkins (1945-2023). Perkins spent decades laboring, mostly behind the scenes. to investigate and amass evidence about paranormal events. with a focus on the mystery of cattle mutilations. Featured guests include three of his friends: Chris O'Brien, cohost of The Paracast from 2010 through 2018, who has investigated hundreds of unexplained events in south-central CO/north-central NM. His investigations are chronicled in his “Mysterious Valley” book trilogy. He is also author "Stalking the Herd," a major work focusing on cattle mutilations. Greg Bishop has explored the strange and unknown for a number of years. In 2019, he co-authored "A Is For Adamski," an encyclopedic overview of the UFO contact movement. His long-running podcast can be heard at radiomisterioso.com, his latest project is a tarot deck based on the history of UFO research entitled the "Ufology Tarot." David Marler has had a lifelong interest in the UFO subject and has actively investigated and researched the subject for 33 years. He has one of the largest historical UFO archives of books, journals, magazines, newspapers, microfilms, audio recordings, and case files from around the world that covers the last 75+ years. He continues to accumulate material through his National UFO Historical Records Center.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on October 8: UFOs, pop culture, sci-fi and more are discussed by Chris O'Brien and Greg Bishop. The duo talk with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about the possible influences for UFO beings and other paranormal memes. In talking about a possible "co-creation" cause for such phenomena, possible "placeholder memories" are on the agenda. Chris O'Brien, cohost of The Paracast from 2010 through 2018, who has investigated hundreds of unexplained events in south-central CO/north-central NM. His investigations are chronicled in his “Mysterious Valley” book trilogy. He is also author "Stalking the Herd," a major work focusing on cattle mutilations. Greg Bishop has explored the strange and unknown for a number of years. In 2019, he co-authored "A Is For Adamski," an encyclopedic overview of the UFO contact movement. His long-running podcast can be heard at radiomisterioso.com.
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. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop.
UFO Sources and Methods
By Gene Steinberg
They are everywhere. If you can believe some of those numbers, people around the world are regularly experiencing UFO abductions. Our alleged visitors are out and about all over the place and few notice.
And if you can believe that 1991 survey from Roper of 5,947 adults, one-in-50 people have been abducted. The survey, by the way, was reportedly funded by Robert Bigelow. Yes, THAT Robert Bigelow!
To be sure, the number is absurd. It would add up to 33 million in the U.S. alone, and abductions occur all over the world. So can you even begin to imagine the outrageous result? Every single day, thousands of spaceships are flying across the planet mostly undetected, and they are busy kidnapping humans.
Now I’d find the survey more believable if it was restricted to people who had UFO encounters. Even then, one-in-50 would seem excessive, but at least it would be more believable, but that’s not saying a lot.
Whatever the number, it’s a sure thing that most experiencers don’t tell anyone what happened. Not family, not friends, nobody.
Even regular — so to speak — UFO sightings aren’t often reported. I recall how the late UFO lecturer, Stanton Friedman, would ask the members of his audiences to raise their hands if they had such an encounter. A small number would respond with a “yay,” but when he asked how many of those people reported them, most of the hands went down.
And that’s just about seeing something strange flying around. If the experience included someone or something taking them aboard an alien craft, it makes perfect sense that it is not happening terribly often.
But some researchers don’t subscribe to my cautions. So Dr. David Jacobs, a long-time and controversial abduction researcher, has estimated abductions in the millions. He claims that ET is here to create a hybrid alien/human race to quietly infiltrate the seats of power and take over.
If that’s true, and I find the idea outlandish, I do wish they’d hurry. Planet Earth is a mess with wars and extreme weather events. If the space people really cared about us, why aren’t they doing something?
No, I don’t subscribe to the concept of a possible prime directive about not interfering with the locals. Simply allowing people to see UFOs in flight is interference of the first order. Even a single sighting, without any contact, may change the life of the witness. It’s hard to imagine a more blatant effort to interfere.
My feeling is that, whatever is responsible for UFO encounters probably doesn’t care one way or the other.
That idea doesn’t account for abductions, however. If ET wants genetic samples, all they need is a few from each race and sex, with perhaps extra samples to account for different heights, hair colors, and so on and so forth.
Millions doesn’t make a lick of sense.
So what is happening to these people? Are they making it all up, going crazy, suffering from sleep paralysis — what? Does it make any sense at all to believe that millions of abductions have occurred?
But there are other possibilities.
One is what author/researcher/podcaster Greg Bishop calls “co-creation,” meaning that we all are somehow responsible for producing paranormal episodes.
What they see is thus very dependent on social and cultural conditioning. So in the middle ages, elves, fairies, leprechauns and other creatures of legend were encountered. Did these beings magically metamorphose or shapeshift into grays, so-called Nordics, reptilians, insectoids and other forms that imply visitors from space?
Or is it possible that the form of the encounter doesn’t represent what’s really happening?
So why would they assume such forms?
In his appearance on this weekend’s episode of our premium bonus podcast, After The Paracast, Bishop talks of “placeholder memories.” That means, when you see something that is beyond your ability to interpret, the mind alters the form into something that is more acceptable or familiar.
That would explain adopting sci-fi images in the 20th and 21st century cultures.
But what about talking or exchanging thoughts with these entities? What about the messages they sometimes convey that humans are too warlike and our destroying the environment? Experiencers are exhorted to spread the word from our Space Brothers about peace and love.
Yet another theory is that these curious and sometimes frightening experiences are actually messages from Mother Earth itself. As we continue to despoil our planet, it is responding in the only way it can. Well, except for extreme weather of course, and maybe that’s a factor.
Of if you consider a co-creation process, maybe mankind is actually generating its own encounters to try to persuade more of us to get our acts together. This, of course, doesn’t preclude the possibility that we are interacting with an unknown external force that makes its presence known through cultural archetypes.
But unless those in power receive these messages and act positively on them, nothing is going to change. Not now, not ever.
Yet another possibility forms the core of the theories about interactions with the multiverse. So our visitors aren’t really from another planet or another place in this dimension; they come from a parallel world. They arrive by slipping in and out of portals that are located in so-called window areas around the world.
So they may not even have to use advanced technology to make the jump. Planetary conditions here and there may interact somehow to create these effects. We just have to locate them, enter them, and accept the consequences.
This doesn’t mean that some UFOs are also visitors from other planets. More and more planets that may have favorable surface conditions are being discovered revolving around nearby star systems. Perhaps some have spawned civilizations that have mastered interstellar travel. Or maybe they have tamed dimensional portals or wormholes to act as sources for quick transfers from one place to another.
Actually, I’d prefer a stargate myself, if it manifests itself similarly to the “Stargate” movie and TV programs. You enter this blue watery mist, and, seconds later, you arrive safely across the galaxy.
That’s the ticket. Except, of course, if there’s a breakdown in the transport system and you’re stuck between these two locations with no way to exit.
In the meantime, after following all of the back and forth through the decades about UFOs, it’s clear to me that we haven’t begun to understand that’s really going on. Maybe we’re not meant to know, that we must continue to explore, but that means that we’ll never have a solution to the UFO mystery.
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October 8, 2023
www.theparacast.com
World-Class Paranormal Researcher David Perkins Honored with Chris O'Brien, Greg Bishop and David Marler 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.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED UP FOR THE PARACAST+ YET? PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PARACAST+ SO YOU CAN SUPPORT THE SHOW 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 bonus 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! Take advantage of our lowest rates ever! And use the coupon code ufo20 to receive a 20% discount on five-year or lifetime subscriptions. Act now! It's easier than ever to susbcribe! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a special roundtable episode to honor the memory of the late David "Izzy" Perkins (1945-2023). Perkins spent decades laboring, mostly behind the scenes. to investigate and amass evidence about paranormal events. with a focus on the mystery of cattle mutilations. Featured guests include three of his friends: Chris O'Brien, cohost of The Paracast from 2010 through 2018, who has investigated hundreds of unexplained events in south-central CO/north-central NM. His investigations are chronicled in his “Mysterious Valley” book trilogy. He is also author "Stalking the Herd," a major work focusing on cattle mutilations. Greg Bishop has explored the strange and unknown for a number of years. In 2019, he co-authored "A Is For Adamski," an encyclopedic overview of the UFO contact movement. His long-running podcast can be heard at radiomisterioso.com, his latest project is a tarot deck based on the history of UFO research entitled the "Ufology Tarot." David Marler has had a lifelong interest in the UFO subject and has actively investigated and researched the subject for 33 years. He has one of the largest historical UFO archives of books, journals, magazines, newspapers, microfilms, audio recordings, and case files from around the world that covers the last 75+ years. He continues to accumulate material through his National UFO Historical Records Center.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on October 8: UFOs, pop culture, sci-fi and more are discussed by Chris O'Brien and Greg Bishop. The duo talk with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about the possible influences for UFO beings and other paranormal memes. In talking about a possible "co-creation" cause for such phenomena, possible "placeholder memories" are on the agenda. Chris O'Brien, cohost of The Paracast from 2010 through 2018, who has investigated hundreds of unexplained events in south-central CO/north-central NM. His investigations are chronicled in his “Mysterious Valley” book trilogy. He is also author "Stalking the Herd," a major work focusing on cattle mutilations. Greg Bishop has explored the strange and unknown for a number of years. In 2019, he co-authored "A Is For Adamski," an encyclopedic overview of the UFO contact movement. His long-running podcast can be heard at radiomisterioso.com.
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. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop.
UFO Sources and Methods
By Gene Steinberg
They are everywhere. If you can believe some of those numbers, people around the world are regularly experiencing UFO abductions. Our alleged visitors are out and about all over the place and few notice.
And if you can believe that 1991 survey from Roper of 5,947 adults, one-in-50 people have been abducted. The survey, by the way, was reportedly funded by Robert Bigelow. Yes, THAT Robert Bigelow!
To be sure, the number is absurd. It would add up to 33 million in the U.S. alone, and abductions occur all over the world. So can you even begin to imagine the outrageous result? Every single day, thousands of spaceships are flying across the planet mostly undetected, and they are busy kidnapping humans.
Now I’d find the survey more believable if it was restricted to people who had UFO encounters. Even then, one-in-50 would seem excessive, but at least it would be more believable, but that’s not saying a lot.
Whatever the number, it’s a sure thing that most experiencers don’t tell anyone what happened. Not family, not friends, nobody.
Even regular — so to speak — UFO sightings aren’t often reported. I recall how the late UFO lecturer, Stanton Friedman, would ask the members of his audiences to raise their hands if they had such an encounter. A small number would respond with a “yay,” but when he asked how many of those people reported them, most of the hands went down.
And that’s just about seeing something strange flying around. If the experience included someone or something taking them aboard an alien craft, it makes perfect sense that it is not happening terribly often.
But some researchers don’t subscribe to my cautions. So Dr. David Jacobs, a long-time and controversial abduction researcher, has estimated abductions in the millions. He claims that ET is here to create a hybrid alien/human race to quietly infiltrate the seats of power and take over.
If that’s true, and I find the idea outlandish, I do wish they’d hurry. Planet Earth is a mess with wars and extreme weather events. If the space people really cared about us, why aren’t they doing something?
No, I don’t subscribe to the concept of a possible prime directive about not interfering with the locals. Simply allowing people to see UFOs in flight is interference of the first order. Even a single sighting, without any contact, may change the life of the witness. It’s hard to imagine a more blatant effort to interfere.
My feeling is that, whatever is responsible for UFO encounters probably doesn’t care one way or the other.
That idea doesn’t account for abductions, however. If ET wants genetic samples, all they need is a few from each race and sex, with perhaps extra samples to account for different heights, hair colors, and so on and so forth.
Millions doesn’t make a lick of sense.
So what is happening to these people? Are they making it all up, going crazy, suffering from sleep paralysis — what? Does it make any sense at all to believe that millions of abductions have occurred?
But there are other possibilities.
One is what author/researcher/podcaster Greg Bishop calls “co-creation,” meaning that we all are somehow responsible for producing paranormal episodes.
What they see is thus very dependent on social and cultural conditioning. So in the middle ages, elves, fairies, leprechauns and other creatures of legend were encountered. Did these beings magically metamorphose or shapeshift into grays, so-called Nordics, reptilians, insectoids and other forms that imply visitors from space?
Or is it possible that the form of the encounter doesn’t represent what’s really happening?
So why would they assume such forms?
In his appearance on this weekend’s episode of our premium bonus podcast, After The Paracast, Bishop talks of “placeholder memories.” That means, when you see something that is beyond your ability to interpret, the mind alters the form into something that is more acceptable or familiar.
That would explain adopting sci-fi images in the 20th and 21st century cultures.
But what about talking or exchanging thoughts with these entities? What about the messages they sometimes convey that humans are too warlike and our destroying the environment? Experiencers are exhorted to spread the word from our Space Brothers about peace and love.
Yet another theory is that these curious and sometimes frightening experiences are actually messages from Mother Earth itself. As we continue to despoil our planet, it is responding in the only way it can. Well, except for extreme weather of course, and maybe that’s a factor.
Of if you consider a co-creation process, maybe mankind is actually generating its own encounters to try to persuade more of us to get our acts together. This, of course, doesn’t preclude the possibility that we are interacting with an unknown external force that makes its presence known through cultural archetypes.
But unless those in power receive these messages and act positively on them, nothing is going to change. Not now, not ever.
Yet another possibility forms the core of the theories about interactions with the multiverse. So our visitors aren’t really from another planet or another place in this dimension; they come from a parallel world. They arrive by slipping in and out of portals that are located in so-called window areas around the world.
So they may not even have to use advanced technology to make the jump. Planetary conditions here and there may interact somehow to create these effects. We just have to locate them, enter them, and accept the consequences.
This doesn’t mean that some UFOs are also visitors from other planets. More and more planets that may have favorable surface conditions are being discovered revolving around nearby star systems. Perhaps some have spawned civilizations that have mastered interstellar travel. Or maybe they have tamed dimensional portals or wormholes to act as sources for quick transfers from one place to another.
Actually, I’d prefer a stargate myself, if it manifests itself similarly to the “Stargate” movie and TV programs. You enter this blue watery mist, and, seconds later, you arrive safely across the galaxy.
That’s the ticket. Except, of course, if there’s a breakdown in the transport system and you’re stuck between these two locations with no way to exit.
In the meantime, after following all of the back and forth through the decades about UFOs, it’s clear to me that we haven’t begun to understand that’s really going on. Maybe we’re not meant to know, that we must continue to explore, but that means that we’ll never have a solution to the UFO mystery.
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