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If you hit the link to come to this post in The Heavy Stuff (THS) perhaps you are familiar with `the wink’. The wink is specifically the `look’ you get when you mention `subjects’ your friends or family aren’t really `hip’ about - such as the subjects you find on this blog. For you new readers, that would include subjects such as Ufo’s, Doppelgangers, Orbs, Time Travel, Tulpas and Phenomenology. On the front page of this website www.theheavystuff.com you can find the last 15 posts - please visit the front page after reading this post.

But, as promised in the title, today THS would  like to rank the topics that might generate `that wink’ - and, as a host of www.squidoo.com/anomalyman- our daily website dedicated to the anomalous - we see alot to `wink’ at. This Wink Index will provide you with a rough estimate as to the percentage of folks who might `wink’ (think you are nuts) when you bring up certain fortean or esoteric topics. So, without further ado:

THE WINK INDEX

(The Forbidden Dozen)

12th

Topic - Ghosts - Wink Factor Index, 10 — Professing to have a belief in `ghosts’ is the least likely `thing’ on this listing to get you excluded from the next family outing. After all, most families HAVE GHOST STORIES of `aunt emma’ or know of other families having such stories. And, ghosts have a universal appeal - it means WE GO ON. And, 90% think that is a great thing or possibility. BUT, for a few - the idea of `living forever’ or `possibly being judged for eternity’ is horrible or frightening. And, for a few others, the hard materialists, Ghosts couldn’t exist and such talk is just silly. It is these limited folks that form the 10% that say NO to inviting you to the next party - because of you `running your mouth about Ghosts’ the last time you were there.

11TH

Topic - God - Wink Index Score, 20 - Obviously, this figure is dependent on the country one lives in - but, here in the great USA, God is as pure as apple pie and the American Flag - and discussing him with friends or family isn’t too likely to end with you  not getting invited to the next party or family re-union. Now, we also know that discussing religion or politics is often considered bad taste too. That said, perhaps one in five folks will find your talk of God a little over the top, making them uncomfortable - and probably assigning a term like `Jesus Freak’ to  you. This is regardless of how many proofs of miracles the believer in God will be able to recite. So, talking of God, just might not be the best thing for your networking. While others market to only the God niche with various products, reaping a fortune.

10th

Topic - Republicrats - Wink Index Score, 25 - If you need to ask what a republicrat is you should be ashamed that not one friend of your has been brave enough to broach the subject with you. Quite simply, folks who believe in Republicrats believe that each political party is identical.  Yes, identical. Except that one is a huge bloated Elephant and the other a  stupid, stubborn, Jackass. They, the believers in Republicrats,  point to the 35 years of joint `energy independence’ statements from `each party’ - the decades of jointly running deficits, a jointly promoted useless drug war and the jointly allowed open border policies - all, equally the responsibility of the `two parties’. But, despite that overwhelming evidence - one will not get all heads bobbing up and down in the room at the party - indeed, a good one out of four folks will think that - perhaps the next party (family reunion) might just be better without you. (Of course the hilarious part of this is that such a small percentage think you are wrong.)

9th

Topic - Time Travel - Wink Index Score, 25 — THS is going to make `time travel’  a large `category’ that would include predictors of the future such as the old Jeanne Dixon’s of the world, or Nostradamus, - and the `phenomena’ of `humans traveling from our future back to now’ - (of course the `extreme nutty edge’ of the `time traveler believers’ would be those that espouse that one can go back into time and interact or observe history and reality.) The `winkers’ would be told by the `believers’ of the astounding accuracy of some predictions; or of strange esoteric encounters with beings who seem to know mankinds future. And, while it is probably true that the subject matter makes more than 25% uneasy while listening to the `examples’; the media has positioned `time travel’ as possible based on Quantum Mechanics OR, at least, as an entertaining idea (as in Back to the Future). So, ultimately, the `time traveler guy’ will be invited back to next years pool party, you know, he `added some life to the party last year’ the spouse would argue. Just make sure to bring a host gift.

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Topic - Ufo’s - Wink Factor Index, 30  - Like `time travel’, this too, UFO’s will be a broad category of `topic’; including everything from lights in the sky to saucer shaped objects to mile wide motherships. Well, to be honest, that is an increasing scale but do average out to the 30 indexing. And, on this topic, the `believer’ will point out an incredible number of websites which seem to have more than enough `evidence’ to prove the `believers’ point of view. The believer will point to the multitude of high ranking folks who have made revealing statements or the credibility of some of the observers of crafts such as the police. BUT, the naysayer would say `show me the evidence’ loudly or `extra ordinary claims require …. (blah blah blah in the believers head)’. The `discussion’ could become `more than heated’ your `friends’ remember — and fully 3 in 10 decide to let your invitation to the pool party go unmailed this year. Fearing that if you were invited that someone might end up getting pushed into the pool.

7th

Topic - Rods, Orbs, Tulpas, - Wink Factor Index, 33. It’s at this level that the `believer’ becomes a `risk to the party atmosphere’. THS also knows that `some believers’ will tell you that all three of these phenomena are `really ufo’s’ - while `true believers’ in these phenomena of Rods, Orbs, and Tulpas will say they are NOT the same - resulting in fights now within `believers’ and others who think both camps are `nuts’. But, the `true believers’ in Rods, Orbs, and Tulpas (ROT) will tell you with a near wild look in their eyes about how Tulpas are `consciousness balls’ and that Orbs are the same thing. Other `true believers’ will tell you that `sky’ orbs ARE balls of consciousness - BUT - others will say that Orbs are Ufo’s and not alive balls of consciousness. And, finally, Rods have friends in neither camp - as many of the Rods believers - say that rods are `sky creatures or skylife’ that have evolved on Earth. The `whole mess’ of discussing ROT issues is nearly likely to get you on the do not invite list; unless you are family.

6th

Topic - EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) - Wink Factor Index, 45.  It’s one thing to share family Ghost Stories around the BBQ pit at the family re-union, it’s quite another to have Uncle Ed discussing the `PROOF’ about life after death for humans based on EVP recordings. Somehow, folks just aren’t comfortable with other family members who `possess the truth’ in areas of uncertainty - whether the subject is religion or politics - and EVP `loosely’ fits the religion category - especially to `believers in EVP’. After-all, they say, “what more proof do you want for everlasting life”? All the `science’ will finally bring out the professor side of the family - who will demand more `proof’ and scoff - and, `trumped’ by the `degreed one’ you find that a `label’ has been forever attached to you - a little nutty - unlike - of course, The Nutty Professor.

Part Two Tomorrow

(The Top Five)

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First, I want to thank you for returning to The Heavy Stuff (THS) for your needed dosage of madness. This is the one website that has the goal to take positionings on realities greatest mysteries - and one mystery is — how would the populace react to `indisputable’ alien presence.

Say, for example, that the internet story about a UN meeting on UFO disclosure this year is true and that the aliens themselves are indeed preparing to `show in the skies’ for all to see and experience. For the proof to be self-evident.

BUT, what if it was JUST that! A showing. No White House Lawn or London Big Ben landing. No `aliens’ climbing out of any ships. No mental telepathy communication within our collective heads. No aggression. Just, JUST the presense of a `craft in the sky’.

Would it really matter?

Would you expect politicians, our representatives, to behave in some different way? Would you expect wonderment or suspicion from the politicians? Fear, or hope? Stability coming or upheaval?

OR, would the information - and the sight - NOT rock the world.

What if the politicians of the world said - yep - `we see it too and don’t know what the crafts are doing’. `Now - move along’. Much like a policeman would do at the scene of the crime. An OFFICIAL `don’t worry about it’ stance/positioning. (While letting the media turmoil play out.)

Now, of course, there would be HUGE COVERAGE INITIALLY by the media - constant CNN and FOX coverage for sure. Perhaps even the local channels would go with the story for the first 48 hours or so - turning over their airwaves to the national news outlets. CNN and FOX ratings would go thru the roof; and, unlike a national tragedy - commercials would not only be sold - but sold to the highest bidder in new `ad inventory’. Everyone in the world with a media connection in their home would be riveted.

BUT, if nothing happened - if the crafts just stayed in the sky or came and went without incident - never showing aggression - THS guarantees that the interest by many if not most, would wane within a week or 10 days. Indeed, within 3 days the media would be reporting how folks are calling demanding their soap operas return - or - the return of their weekly series and normal escape entertainment.

SURE, there would be lots of speculation and endless talking heads over those 10 days on the media. America would `learn’ about the UFO ideas of the ufo buffs bigtime - including the wild ideas that the `aliens’ may live here and have done so for longer than mankind’s run on the ground of earth. Other wild ideas will say that the crafts aren’t even aliens - and that the crafts are some secret world group (of humans) - who have superseded the world governments.

(Some would argue that the crafts aren’t even real and that we aren’t real - that all is a simulation. OR, that while we are real, the crafts are virtual and made into 3-d images from secret spy satellites.)

INDEED, it would be like the Kennedy assassination - for those of us alive and old enough to remember. Folks would NEVER forget where `they were’ when they first heard the news that huge crafts were sitting over every major city in the world. In fact, it would be a world bonding as never before. (That is, for those with media access in the world.)

BUT, that first day - after watching for 18 hours straight - you would go to bed. The next day, you would eat three meals - talk with neighbors, perhaps even cut the lawn. And begin to form your own ideas as to what the phenomena is about. And, you would be beginning to realize that - perhaps - nothing was going to CHANGE. The Sonny and Cher song `The Beat Goes On’ would somehow be on your mind nearly all day.

IN addition to visual coverage of the crafts (THS is sure there would be split screens showing them over London, Moscow, D.C. The Pyramids, etc.) - the media, by the second day - would be mixing in `how life goes on’. The media would be interviewing truckers and asking them why they are working still (and others like cops or nurses) - and the answer would be that `life goes on’.

THIS `Life Goes On’ - would nearly become a mantra within 72 hours.

Sure, some humans would immediately go into their church’s the first day or days. But, few would remain there - as the bonding outside the church would probably be as meaningful. The bonding as earthlings, as humans, living their life — would move into the forefront.

It would be an emotional bomb for perhaps two weeks - max. Most, if not nearly all folks would return to `their work’ - most without missing a day even. The adrenaline would be nearly out of our systems.

Normal, negative emotions would return. The government, would still `have enemies’ and would still need conventional weapons (and more). Hunger in the world will still go on with no new determination to help our fellow man or overcome the human politics. A new nobility will not be the new norm for world politics.

And, slowly, it would creep into all of our consciousnesses - nothing has really changed. And, indeed, depending on HOW OFTEN the crafts `are shown’ - it could mean that Alien Disclosure will mean Virtually Nothing.

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Hello seekers of forbidden words - and welcome to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - a connection to thoughts not encouraged by the common media consensus. THS makes that comment based on the latest two blogs that picked up our last posting about Real Subjectivity - www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread363046/pg1  and http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/2008/06/real-subjectivity.html - THS assumes they read the post on anomalist.com or elsewhere since it wasn’t sent to either website. Evidently, the heavy words of this blog are reaching the very deepest trenches of the internet.

About the only group of folks associated usually with deep trenches are politicians - digging the public deeper and deeper trenches of debt and scandal; a cornucopia of follies that is literally beyond the belief of a significant  percentage of the population. Pick almost any issue and one finds the politicians out of touch with and not for the general desires of normal humanity.

So, it should not come as any big surprise that the fake politicians we all have to endure as a bad joke - act as if they are `immune’ to certain things. One of them, the human desire to have a change of consciousness, at times, on occasion, from the `normal base state’ of everyday normal consciousness.

Now, THS realizes that using words such as `enlightenment’  when speaking of a politician is meaningless. Indeed,  the words  `enlightened politician’ is probably an oxymoron. So, perhaps we shouldn’t expect much of our politicians when it comes to consciousness issues. Indeed, even the media seems incapable of handling the subject of enlightenment or attaining altered states of awareness or consciousness.

One of the few `altered states’ the `straight’ media puts out as acceptable  is the `runners high’. It is often allowed to be descriped as something beyond description and a consciousness state only shared by the community of long distance runners. The high is viewed as a great addition and one that some are literally running for - addicted to the feeling itself. But, since this doesn’t involve external chemicals,  NO negatives words are ever associated with the `runners high’. The users of the `runners high’ `drug’ never seem to have an afterglow letdown. IF one is very lucky, the media story will refer to the `science side’ and say that endorphins are released and describe the effects in blissful terms. Regardless if they understand the awareness state, NO politician, as yet, have stepped in to limit this access to bliss feeling thru endorphin release. Indeed, they encourage running, and, the desired MIND effect, ultimately, from running.

Then, we have alternative media, which puts out as desirable and reachable the `meditative’ high. Using the simple techniques of modern meditation or the classic `om’ concentration - the methods have been shown also to release the all desired internal brain and chemical changes - desired in an altered state of consciousness.

It is even said that similar `highs’ can be attained with headphones playing just the right sound waves. And, as of yet, no politicians have sought to limit meditators or those using new science for the desired effects. The desired MIND effect.

And, as you may know, the politicians are even occasionally forced by a `culture of folks’ to recognize `chemical’ access to special MIND consciousness. (Rastafarian’s are still waiting.) One such example would be the legal use of peyote on some reservations. As you also know this ONE example stands in stark contrast to the way that politicians usually address the `drug usage’ issue - unless it is for the BODY. It’s literally as if politicians think that they own the way we can access our MIND.

They act as if we shouldn’t control our body. Our `medicines’. Our mind desires.

After all, the politician says, we give you lowly folks a legal way to `change your consciousness’ - it’s called alcohol and you can buy it at the state store down the street and pay the taxes to get it. The State Drug also smells up ones breath, so you won’t use it when at work, earning our taxes to spend;  and the state has ways to monitor, easily, the public usage of the legal drug thru breathalysers and blood tests. Don’t worry public, the politicians say, no one is going to get too high.

BE happy, the politicians say, that we give you any access to a different BODY feeling.

The statistics speak for themselves - the HARD drug  of alcohol (any drug that can be overdosed to a death level is Hard) - is NOT easy to control mentally or physically. Generally, the consciousness ascribed with alcohol is not blissful or desirable. Generally, it clouds the mind and senses.

NOW, lets see, clouds the minds of the populace — sounds like something politicians would LOVE. If one can see clearly what is going on, folks just might say `throw all the bums out’. (After-all, after 35 years of Republinut and Democrap `energy independence’ - some might want to vote for Libertarians if they thought clearly). So, NO politicians want to take away this access to alternative consciousness with alcohol.

NO: what politicians don’t want are MIND drugs. Those, which may enlighten folks - those, they say, need to be illegal. 

However, MIND drugs which stupefy, made by the legal drug companies who support the two parties strongly, will be legal. But,  other (SOFT) mind drugs will be illegal - such as pot.

But, should we really expect such a lowly creature as a national politician to be anything but of the lowest mental capacity. Has any politician EVER said they enjoyed/ or enjoy the mind effect of pot?

How can that possibly be? Are they incapable of enlightenment?

Perhaps they never have. Perhaps national politicians don’t have a natural human desire for an expanded consciousness. Perhaps it is that dull alcohol that has been deadening  and rotting their brains. Keeping them dullards and insulated from anything resembling an original thought. (All the while claiming to be deeply religious.)

Tell you what, perhaps it is time to send your congressman or woman a batch of brownies - or even a cookie or two. Perhaps if they realized that there is something other than the dulling of the consciousness, that they do - we could have something other than — pathetic politicians.

As with many of the outrageous topics covered in The Heavy Stuff  (THS) - today’s post - `Real-Subjectivity in a Material-Objective World’ - will be the result of  an undetermined exercise of thought. And, as with most of the postings here, is the result of a link THS has on our daily anomalies website (see and visit our short blogroll on the right for great reads) on Squidoo.com.  And, that link - was called - `You Don’t Exist, So Don’t Worry About It’ — here is the link to the 10 minute read which I will summarize too if you don’t read the article. — http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=63575

The basic premise is this - and I will quote the article:

Science and math suggest that we humans don’t exist, (even though there is really no math or science — more illusions!)The advent of quantum mechanics and modern physics increasingly imply that our existence as human beings is a kind of persistent illusion (THS EMPHASIS). We are under the false assumption that we’re people, we only imagine we have bodies and brains, and minds functioning inside those brains

The article goes on to support its viewpoint of the non existence of reality with the standard, well, beyond standard, delve into the Planck(ness) of reality:

To make a long story short, Planck was forced to conclude that matter at its most fundamental level is not continuous, not solid. There are no tiny billiard balls. When you break down an atom, you get an electron, a proton and maybe a neutron. But it turns out these are not the smallest units either. You can break things down further to bosons, quarks, W particles, tachyons and a lot of other shadowy “things” that just sort of wink in and out of existence.Where do things go when they “wink out?” Nowhere! They cease to exist! Then they come back again.So what? you might ask. Well, as you know, the human body is made up from the fundamental elements of nature. We are mostly water, but we also have iron in our blood, calcium in our bones, and such. But each of those substances are made up of individual atoms, which in turn are made up of ghostly bits of nothing that just sort of come and go, in and out of reality.Scientists call this blinking process “quantum fluctuation.”So when the elements of your body fluctuate, so does your body, and so do you! So does you brain and the chemicals in your brain! In fact, you may be in a state of nothingness more often than you are in a state of somethingness

Finally, the real issue - Being and Nothingness. Which, as followers of the deepest esoteric thought know, is the title of one of Sartre’s heaviest books about phenomenology and values — literally the stuff that became Existentialism. Indeed, the writer doesn’t seem to understand that when the physics breaks-down at the literal crux of material presence in the world — IS where phenomenology knowledge prevails.

Subjectivity and existence (of an observer) are literally side products of the evolution of the phenomenology of the material world. (YES, there is a phenomenology of the subjective world too.) Indeed, here’s how Sartre describes Being-in-itself:

“Non-conscious Being. It is the Being of the phenomena and overflows the knowledge we have of it. It is a plenitude, and strictly speaking we can say of it only that it is.”

Being and Nothingness, Time-Space and Awareness, Subjectivity and Objectivity, Memory and Fantasy – these are the subject matter of Phenomenology.

One might think that existence equals awareness of existence. But, being intellectually honest, a THING could exist without self-awareness. A space, would not NEED the existence of consciousness. Space would not need time. Indeed, in Planck(ness) level - space doesn’t (evidently) need even existence - to exist.

Space doesn’t need existence - to continue.

To be a `NEW’ space. Without Existence. (Of common reality.)

So, back to the Phillips Phenomenology - where `Space’ (any matter) is Not-Able-To-Be. Where the overriding characteristic of defining a `space’ is the attribute that IT DOESN’T EXIST. Or more appropriately, exists as a NOT ABLE TO BE. This is the characteristic that humans `see’ all around them; the very characteristic of our very physical bodies. Indeed, at the Planck level our bodies are NOT ABLE TO BE. That defines our space-beingness.

But, NOT our total beingness. As humans. As singular observers of other Not-able-to-be’s; such as the computer, our chair, or our spouse. NO, our total beingness has other chacteristics that are needed within a real phenomenology that explains human consciousness.

The one thing the author had right is that `subjectivity ISN”T found in the objective’ And, as the author says, the FACT IS that the `objective disappears from real(ity)’. For a duration of ones space - ones objectiveness vanishes.

The Phillips Phenomenology suggests that it vanishes into the `other’ part of the same space planck. That while this space vanishes - it becomes - (in the same space) - ABLE-TO-NOT-BE. It is being in this `suspended space-state’ that provides the bridge to the next `real existence of this space’. The able-to-not-be portion of space - being the subjective real counterpart - to the actual Not able to be.

Able-to-not-be

At this point, it might be easy to think of the able-to-not-be as Time, or perhaps where consciousness might BE. Afterall, something that wasn’t a space, was able to not be a space - would naturally be time. And, consciousness, the mind, wants to be viewed as this separate entity from the body - our space. So, again, at some level of understanding - these `things’ are able-to-not-be. BUT, what THS wants this post to be about is REAL SUBJECTIVITY - and - in two previous posts THS has touched upon this subject.

REAL SUBJECTIVITY

The two examples THS has provided of REAL Subjectivity are The Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 http://theheavystuff.com/?p=17 and the mutual hypnosis experiments carried out by Dr. Tart.  http://theheavystuff.com/?p=32. To briefly review, the Ghosts of Flight 401 were the doppelgangers of  the pilots that appeared on flights that re-used materials from the crashed flight. And, in Dr. Tart’ research, the mutual hypnosis participants entered into a fully viable mutual reality with `things’ structure and (time for) intentionallies and `new revealed landscape’.

What THS is proposing is that Doppelgangers represent that ultimate expression of a spaces Able-to-not-be(ness) ——– the doppelgangers are real spaces - actualizing the able-to-not-be virtual reality. Those representations seen on the planes WERE the pilots and their best attempt to be `real’ within our common NOT able to be consensus. They represented real subjectivity (and indeed seemed not to fit totally in with others who observed them) - an incredible rip in the ontological structure for a few precious moments of experience.

Likewise, the `real reality’ that those shared while under hypnosis had all the characteristics needed to be understood as a real place — a place with real subjectivity and seeming objectivity. A progression from the able-to-not-be level of consciousness, via hypnosis, and jumping to an internal NOT able to be space. At that moment, lending objectivity to a subjective world - with real subjectivity of a conscious being like a human.

Now, doesn’t this `real-subjectivity’ realm sound familiar? Could this be where `duplicate’ bodies `go’ to be abducted - and why the experience is so real? Since it (the able to not be) is simply a counterpart of our same space (Not able to be) - things would `have existence’ there too.

Suddenly, looking at the world’s paranormal thru the prism of phenomenology, rather than trying to `understand’ it with physics - makes sense. `Existence’ is tied with more than one kind of space and so is `Real’ and `Consciousness’.

So, guess what — You do exist and there is reason to be concerned. The exact opposite of the title of the article that got this article written.

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Hello fellow seekers of esoteric knowledge, welcome back to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - the one website that you can count on for Heavy material - bookmark now please. Today’s subject, the recent fun research article in papers that had the media conclusion that humans `see into the future’ — here’s the direct link http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,361623,00.html - it is a quick but confusing read (and confusing for a good reason). Go ahead, give it a read and return.

In summary this is the main point from the research:

Researcher Mark Changizi of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York says it starts with a neural lag that most everyone experiences while awake. When light hits your retina, about one-tenth of a second goes by before the brain translates the signal into a visual perception of the world. Scientists already knew about the lag, yet they have debated over exactly how we compensate, with one school of thought proposing our motor systemsomehow modifies our movements to offset the delay. Changizi now says it’s our visual system that has evolved to compensate for neural delays, generating images of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future (THS bold)

Perhaps the most positive thing THS can say about this interesting article (how many articles talk about illusions and perception) is that it brings out into the open the murkiness of the `realness’ of  human perception and what we `say’ we `see’ IN reality. Indeed, the research brings into focus `the delay’  - that is simply part of being a conscious being - in `digesting’ reality. Meaning, it simply `takes time’ for an image of light to bounce off another object (or light bouncing off all objects) to reach the retina and be `counted’ or registered.

We are not instantaneous creatures.

But, we live in an instantaneous universe. A phenomenological universe.

Therefore, to bring our slightly delayed image from the past — to bring THAT up to the PRESENT - the reseach suggests that our `mind’ `provides’  a visual estimate of the `future’. Generating images. Generating estimates based on the known spaces within our perceptions. Known spaces being all the other objects we view. The things of our space that seemingly don’t change except at a micro atom level beyond perceptions ability (of a human).

The research does a great job of explaining the difficulties of living in a body - a space -  who’s living perceptions show and are best represented by  a `projected image’ that is compensated by the `comprehension lag’. Who says that consciousness isn’t complicated?

However, THS humbly suggests that what it `shows’  is that a `conscious space’ exists in a continuum with stability. That `being’ `behind’ (in the past) the present - the `real’ Present - is not a barrier to existence. The NOW of reality being a much larger place-space than one pin-point instant. At least for humans.

BUT, is it, as the media likes to toy with - seeing the future? The research suggests that what we see is a projection of `real spaces’ and their movement towards us or away from our space-body. One problem, THAT isn’t real. It is projected. The projected image is only that - our consciousnesses best estimate of what we will see via the projection of the existing spaces.

However, that projected reality could change. If those spaces `moved’ in a different `path’ within that 1/10th of a second — then — the projected `image’ of 1/10th of a second in advance would not and does not match reality - the reality of real spaces.

BUT, it evidently, literally, doesn’t matter. Much.

Evidently, so few `things’ change direction within 1/10 of a second in our lives - that 1/10 of a second of a heads up is enough. Indeed, our matching of `our subjective’ - with the `real objective’ - is more pliable than many would admit.

And the reason is obvious; our `objective’ is ONLY our space - our body. OUR contact with the now. The `out-there’ world is going to be a representation. Our now, can only `see’ `the others space’ when it is already `removed’ from that `representation’ (we see it only AFTER light bounces off of it).

BUT, is ANY of this `seeing the future’. Certainly, NOT what the research has shown. Certainly, seeing a projected image of reality - isn’t the `real future’ right?

After all, in 1/10th of a second - the EARTH will be thousands of miles from its current position in the universe. The article certainly isn’t suggesting that we are getting projections of our reality from a planet surface, our planet surface, in a different position than it is in? Is it?

Is the article suggesting that what we see is the surface of earth - 1/10 of a second from now and where Earth actually is? NO>NO> a thousand times NO.

Human phenomenology, indeed the phenomenology of any conscious space, only resides in ones space. Ones space has phases that become timelike to our perceptions. All those timelike perceptions are spaces too. And all those spaces have phases too. As THS has written before when covering the Phillips Phenomenology, each space comes with a past, present, and future, - and then - the lived experience `goes on’ or `runs off’ to the next most similar space with the least differences of all spaces.

All this phenomenology brings about incredible stability to a conscious space like humans. Indeed the progression from a baby consciousness to a toddler consciousness may involve learning to see objects as stable.

So, that leaves THS looking for something in the media - involving research - that might indeed, somehow, be connected to `knowing the future’. Is there such a story? Indeed, there is, and it is called the Noosphere.

Here’s a link.

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

Since this blog started with a three part series on the Noosphere, THS will save you all our reasons for thought that this experiment at Princeton may be literally the cutting edge of understanding `the future’ and what can be known about it. That said, here’s a link to those posts http://theheavystuff.com/?p=3.

Bottom line positioning of THS on the new research that we see 1/10th of a second into the future — NO.

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Hello fellow seekers and surfers looking for The Heavy Stuff (THS) - you have found it. Today’s issue: Why Global Warming has stopped. Yes, stopped. Actually, more accurately, it has formed a plateau and has been at a consistent level worldwide since 2001 — here’s a link to this side of the data — http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2007/12/global-warming-temperature .

Now, just to be factual, no one is saying that it is cooler than a few decades ago - because it is warmer. Indeed, no one is saying that it isn’t at the `highest level’ either - just that the data suggests that it no longer is increasing in temperature. That said, it is cooler than what was predicted for NOW just a few years ago according to the pattern of warming until then. And, each year that the temperature remains stable, humanity is further below the previous ominious projections.

As you know, most of this viewpoint and information is still under the major medias threshold of coverage.

If you read the article, one knows that the CO2 is still increasing — just the average temperature isn’t. A correlation that wasn’t expected and is part  of this mystery. Additionally, the article goes on to say just how precise a titration of aerosols into the atmosphere would have to be to pull off this strange plateau in the data.

It was reading of how precise this action would need to be that brought into my mind the obvious answer. Contrails.

Contrails you say? Yes, contrails. Those `jet trails’ that persist in the skies differently than in previous years - that nowadays sometimes form huge x’s in the sky or huge sets of straight side by side lines. The same lines in the sky denied by the government as having anything to do with them. If you have never googled `contrails’ you are in for an awakening.

Now, THS has written of our views on contrails-chemtrails before and I hope you will read them here http://theheavystuff.com/?p=19 and for that matter, you can find all my posts for this blog at http://www.squidoo.com/theheavystuff as you might be aware.

In a nutshell, THS feels that contrails are the most obvious example that someone with `world authority’ is altering our atmosphere - and has been doing so since the late 90’s. Since the public was not in the loop to do such activity, it was left up to the public to hope that the spraying was for some noble purpose. Amazingly, perhaps it was.

Perhaps all the spraying we see in our skies is/was to monitor, rain in, and even, to control the world’s temperature. Perhaps the contrails are to keep the Earth in some sort of balance at these higher temperatures for awhile. To stop the runaway train of consequences.

Indeed, read these words now from the article and what do you say?

The explanation for the standstill has been attributed to aerosols in the atmosphere produced as a by-product of greenhouse gas emission and volcanic activity. They would have the effect of reflecting some of the incidental sunlight into space thereby reducing the greenhouse effect. Such an explanation was proposed to account for the global cooling observed between 1940 and 1978.

But things cannot be that simple. The fact that the global temperature has remained unchanged for a decade requires that the quantity of reflecting aerosols dumped put in our atmosphere must be increasing year on year at precisely the exact rate needed to offset the accumulating carbon dioxide that wants to drive the temperature higher.

“Precisely the exact rate”. Titration by contrail jet. Titration by the number of `sorties’ sent up with a mission. http://www.revlu.com/chem.html

So, the chemtrail hype might have a purpose after-all. And, you read the position that contrails are used to exactly balance the temperature - here - first — in — The Heavy Stuff.

Assuming the superior intellect of readers of The Heavy Stuff (THS), means you are aware of the recent success of the Mars Polar Lander finding the surface of Mars after a journey of 422 million miles from Earth. You are probably also aware that we landed in the polar region of Mars because it has long been thought to have had the best chance of `having life’ in past eons. Specifically, the Lander is equipped with a robotic arm that will dig into the ground of Mars and later will `cook’ the soil and examine its vapors for telltale signs of previous `life’. The lander will also be able to determine if the water ice there has ever melted and flowed in past eons. (That said, images exist of surface changes on Mars in just twenty years that would suggest that occasionally `fluid’ breaks the surface and flows down hillsides.)

Believe it or not, this will be the THIRD time humans will probably be `exposed’ to the `idea’ of `previous life’ on the Red Planet. (Not including the romance of the `canals on Mars’ era.) The first time was in 1976 when a previous missions science tests were `inconclusive’ but tantalizing. Debate was vigorous on both sides about the results and the methods used to decide.

The second time was with  Mars Rock ALH 84001. Science tells us the history of this meteorite as being —> a 4.6 billion year old rock, with 3.6 billion year old fossilized primitive life, that was dislodged from Mars 16 million years ago, that fell to Earth 13,000 years ago, that was found in 1984, and that after a two year examination in 1996 was found to have:

organic molecules, mineral features characteristic of biological activity and possible microscopic fossils such as these inside of an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a meteorite. The largest possible fossils are less than 1/100th the diameter of a human hair in size while most are ten times smaller.

Perhaps you remember the uproar. It seemed the earth-human-life centered view of the world, indeed the universe, was not about to be pushed aside so easily. Perhaps there was contamination. Perhaps there were features of the rocks interstellar travels here that had contamination. In a word, nothing that needed to be seen under an electron microscope was going to replace the worldview. The religious view. At least in 1996.

Maybe the sun didn’t circle the Earth by dog gone it — and perhaps the Earth was not the center of the universe - but the sanctity of `life’ - Gods creation - was NOT to be proved to be elsewhere.  In 1996. And, eventually, those that proclaimed the rock to `prove life elsewhere’ - were forced to temper their words and declarations. And ultimately, in 1976, and in 1996, Earth’s humans were not ready to be displaced as God’s favored being and world. The Drake Equation was still in effect — life wasn’t `just everywhere’ — yet.

So, once again, and we humans are told that `looking for life’  will be in the next 90 days - and perhaps in just a few days — the `Is Life Elsewhere’? issue will erupt again. Somehow, whatever methodology that will ultimately declare `there is/was life on Mars’ — will ultimately be challenged by the power structures of humans NOT interested in such a finding. THS’s bet is that, for those humans that don’t want to believe that life exists elsewhere, they  will be given  some crumbs to cling to.

But, it is also possible that the test results will somehow be beyond reproach to scientists. In a `slow summer’ leading up to the political conventions, the `idea’ of `life elsewhere’ could become a fascination. And, once the `idea’ that there is life `beyond Earth’ - can the media leap to `other intelligent life’ be far behind?

It could even trigger `alien life’ questions to the candidates. Indeed, only a lazy media wouldn’t ask such questions.

It could become the `perfect storm’ of timing if those who claim to have Disclosure Information press their case. IF there even is a case to be pressed. The time will come to put up or shut up.

That said, all the media talk of `life on other planets’ will certainly have folks looking at the stars this summer — upward towards the miraculous. And, perhaps, if Ufo Waves are mass hysteria - or a mass `willing’ — or, nothing more than more folks looking up - this will be a hot summer. Which will only add to the `push to disclosure’.

You heard it here first.

Now, find more weirdness at my Squidoo lens — www.squidoo.com/anomalyman .

Hello fellow mind surfers looking to consume your daily dose of brain food from the internet. As The Heavy Stuff (THS) has told you before, THS gets it’s inspiration often from the websites you find on our blogroll. One example of the brain food in 2008 has been anomalist.com’s consistent linking to a new blog which often delves into the quagmire of `reality talk’ - and - this is just an example link of the material of this excellent thinker Bruce Duensing http://materialintangible.blogspot.com/2008/04/part-two-quantum-subjectivity-and.html#links

And now you know that it can make your eyes glaze over too - sometimes even encountering an article title like Part Two: Quantum Subjectivity and The Holographic Model. can make the brain freeze.

It is also true as you know that anomalist.com (and others) take a chance with this blogs more esoteric posts - especially posts which include phenomenology thoughts. So, when THS felt it was time to wade once again into the murky subjective waters of `experiencing reality’ - whether by our eyesight - or with `objective recording devices’ such as video cameras and other technology - THS wanted to show via Bruce’s writing just how nebulous it all can be.

The Heavy Stuff also feels that our phenomenology - avoids alot of the unknown physics of speculation - and ultimately is a simpler explanation for the basic description that simulates our real reality that we experience. Simulates you ask? If you look at THS’s blog postings recently - (upper right corner of front page of this website) - you can read more about how THS feels that reality is simulated instantaneously, continuously.

But, today’s mind excursion is to a subject we have covered before `Paranormal Videos - Dubious or Amazing’ — this was the link http://theheavystuff.com/?p=22.

And, if you read THS’s posting, one of the main points was about the `seeming increase’ in videos about all things paranormal - which THS felt was largely a matter of numbers. More folks with more cameras and more security cameras. Indeed, those with an interest in the paranormal should EXPECT there would be more. And, there will be even more in the future. Perhaps so many more as to challenge our very notions about reality.

THS also makes the point in the posting that the sheer quantity of `impossible’ videos (of ghosts, ufo’s) could make the impossible seem less miraculous - especially in light of video and computer capabilities of the 2000’s. Since anything can be faked; who’s to say that an unfaked video is special ———- nobody. But, again, as THS makes clear in the post - the paranormal (ghosts, ufo’s) have been captured `on devices’ long before the great advances in graphic capabilities.

But, back to the title of this posting - and looking at it thru the phenomenology THS has been describing over the past year to our dear readers. ` Could `camera’s’ be Capturing or Actualizing - a Virtual Reality?

Remember, THS phenomenology, the Phillips Phenomenology, describes `space’ as Not-able-to-be and `time’ as Able-to-Not-be. More specifically, the phenomenology says that both are really descriptions of SPACE. (Or, types of space(s)).

Science tells us today that `space’ - empty space - the kind without matter (remember our universe averages one atom per cubic yard) is `filled with virtual particals’. Virtual particles that don’t actualize. Virtual particles that don’t actualize in places with no matter. (That said, virtual particles exist and surround matter too.)

Virtual particles that are not observed and don’t actualize in places with no matter. Does that describe nothingness?

If you are familiar with phenomenology - perhaps one of the greatest issues is Being and Nothingness. Most phenomenologists would like to infuse space with Beingness - giving Beingness to matter. Nothingness, in this case, would be Everything Not Now. Only now would be infused with realness; with Being, to most phenomenology ideas.

Others humans who play with words would look at the reality issue as subjectivity or objectivity. Others would look at reality as a divide between what is known and what is unknown. Others as space - time. Or Ying-Yang. You get the idea, right? Two `phases’.

But, THS asks you — doesn’t Able-to-Not-be — something that ISN’T (this) space — describe TIME? And, if you are a follower of THS phenomenology, that time and space — the able to not be and the not able to be — combine — to form our reality of not-able-to-not-be?

Our completely determined reality of Not-Able-To-Not-Be. Our moment to moment, real.

And, that dear readers, brings us back to HOW the paranormal can gain a foothold in our observable reality. WHAT cameras may be capturing or actualizing when `filming’ recording - the paranormal.

First, by definition, the paranormal isn’t Normal. Isn’t of things that exist on a continuing ontological basis with matter. And, by this very definition ———– exist of things that ARE able-to-not-be.

Ghosts are able-to-not-be. That is THEIR space. Their space is `able-to-not-be’. —- And, folks, — the able to not be is part of our real reality. Virtual reality can easily be described as a `able-to-not-be’ reality - right? (Armchair physicists gather close.)

But, our HUMAN perception, generally, isn’t focused on the virtual reality. Humans do much `better’ (getting money, having friends, doing tasks) focusing on the `real’ - the real `things with spaces’ around us. NOT on the `things’ less dependent on that phase of space. Things that may exist virtually. Things that may `be’ able to not be - part of our common consensus observational reality. Beyond our sight expectations.

But, cameras are not human consciousness. And cameras, or other devices which can monitor `reality’, - thru their self-contained observation — could be capturing parts of reality below the threshold of common consensus. Or, even actualized parts of reality below the threshold of common human consensus. (Actualized in the sense of recording.)

Isn’t it possible that `ghosts live’ in the able-to-not-be?

Could `orbs’ be tulpas of dead humans? A manifestation of the able-to-not-be — on a temporary basis.

Could ghosts be full or partial orbs?

Don’t doppelgangers define able-to-not-be?

Don’t Bigfoot creatures seem to be in the able-to-not-be?

Wouldn’t the future and the past be in the able-to-not-be? (Actually the past would be in the Not-able-to-not-be.) (And if the past AND the future is in the able-to-not-be; that would allow past dead spirits of humans to be capable of making it to the present via the `future’.)

Finally, with that thought in mind — couldn’t the able-to-not-be have gradients? With some `things’ or `events’ more likely than other `things’ or `events’? Perhaps some `things’ are more real than others in the able-to-not-be. (Just like on this side?)

Could, for example, Ufo’s be becoming `more real’?

Perhaps the paranormal `thing’ can be generated from the `human end’ of thought. Sort of like a sweeping light of consciousness lighting up the filaments of the able-to-not-be. Lighting up the filaments of the possible. Bringing the unknown into the known. Bringing virtual to real. But, perhaps, only a camera is needed as the observing tool; and, not human consciousness.

Or, perhaps the ` paranormal thing  on video’ is NOT generated by humans. Perhaps the `things’ of the able-to-not-be `space’ have their own basis of existence. One not dependent upon our structure in the Not able to be. But a reality that `overlaps’ ours. One that has intentionality’s on THAT side. Over in the able-to-not-be.

Please visit THS’s squidoo site at www.squidoo.com/anomalyman for more thought provoking links.

Hello and welcome to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - the one website dedicated to taking a position about `heavy issues’ - and today’s heavy issue to be examined relates to the origin of some `ufo facts’ commonly referred to by the media. But, before that, THANKS for your recent support of this website - up in readers, and, up in time spent on the website - now over 6 minutes apiece - check out the latest about this blog right here http://siteanalytics.compete.com/theheavystuff.com/?metric=uv. Now, tell a friend to check us out too.

But, back to the heavy issue of the near lack of any real marketing research studies involving ufo’s - and, of the one that does exist from the 2000’s - the media’s general mis-interpretation of the results presented in the studies overview section. A mis-interpretation that has been repeated so much, and in so many different wordings, as to be now a misleading and mis-direction of the American public.

First, I recently covered the most igregious of the media’s ruthless slanting of the real ufo data available on my Ufo blog at http://ufodisclosurecountdownclock.blogspot.com/2008/05/14-myth-about-ufos.html — specifically, the oft told tale that 1 in 7 Americans have seen a ufo close up.

Indeed, it’s a tale that has been told and retold so many times in Ufo broadcasts and ufo circles for the past five years as to become almost set in stone. In a country of just over 300 million; that would exceed 40 million Americans (actually the study was done with those over the age of 18 only, so the actual total would be lower and only a % of total adults within the 300 million database) seeing Ufo’s. Tell me, has one in seven of your friends seen a ufo close up? If you have 30 friends — have 4 of them seen a ufo close-up?

The answer, of course, is that the brandied about figure is non-sense. Pure crapola. And, the simple reason is that critical parts of the original question seem to be omitted — to make the claim outlandish — and marketable to the gullible public. After-all, ufo’s are a FUN story. No need to check `facts’ from a survey. Right?

So, what IS that critical part left out from the original question? Well, the original question ISN’T -   Have you seen a ufo?     ……….   NO … The original question WAS — Have you or someone you know seen a UFO close-up?

Now, THS asks you, ——– isn’t the real question —- how many people would you tell if you saw a ufo? Think about it. It is the real question that was asked in a sampling method. The sample isn’t just finding if YOU have seen a ufo — what the sample is finding is if you OR have you heard a personal account — of a Ufo sighting. And, having heard a personal account, would be dependent, on how many folks are told by those that do see UFO’s.

It doesn’t take much of a mind exercise to see how this 14% figure quickly diminishes. If everyone who ever saw a Ufo close up told only 5 people ever — this would mean the REAL figure of those who have seen a ufo close-up — would be under 3% of the total sample. BUT, if a person told just 15 folks in their lifetime – suddenly, the REAL figure for the percentage of Americans who have seen a UFO close-up ——– IS UNDER 1% OF THE POPULATION.

You can do the math if the average person, who saw the once in a lifetime event, told 50 folks.

Now, where does the data come from - endlessly cited - for the 1 in 7 Americans have seen a UFO — from this 2002 study — http://www.freedomofinfo.org/national_poll.html with design and analysis done by the Roper Organization. The `fielding and interviewing’ of the project was done by an outside firm. The study was funded by the Sci Fi Channel (it would be interesting if this was revealed to the respondents). The best thing to say about the study is that the design is solid as is the sample size - for that matter - the analysis is solid too. It’s the media’s `interpretation’ of the analysis that is haywire.

Specifically, this is the paragraph the media doesn’t seem to be able to understand from the overview:

Alien EncountersOne in seven Americans say that they or someone they know has had at least one “close encounter” of the “First,” “Second,” or “Third” kind. The largest proportion (12 percent) say they or someone else they know has seen a UFO at close quarters. Much smaller proportions say they or an acquaintance have seen a UFO cause a physical effect on objects, animals, or humans (3 percent) or have had an encounter with extraterrestrial life (2 percent). Among those who believe in abductions, one-third claim to have experienced, or know someone who experienced, a Close Encounter of their own.

Now, as you can see, the real figure is 12% as they report it (that said, how can someone know someone who has been abducted and yet still doesn’t know someone who has seen a ufo — unless — ufo’s aren’t involved in abductions). Just for the record, 12% is more like 1 out of 8. But, as THS has said, this 12% is simply a measure of how many folks have seen or been told of a personal ufo experience. That 12% would need to be divided by the ratio of how many folks are told.

One of the other tenets that the Ufo community and the media like to say about the Roper project is this - again, from the overview:

Clearly, a majority of Americans are ready for the discovery of extraterrestrial life, with 42 percent saying they are “very prepared” and 32 percent saying they are “somewhat prepared

Well, really, a plurality is ready. Not a majority. The `somewhat’ prepared category can just as easily be tossed in with the not ready at all for a different take on the number and question. Indeed, with NEARLY 60%  of the population being LESS THAN TOTALLY READY  - could also be cited as a reason for caution among officials in government. And, another way to write-up the data.

Do you see how easy it is to play with words about the same statistics?

THS won’t even mention the `craziness’ of asking the question straight out without giving any `background issues’ upon which a respondent is to base ones answer about `being prepared’ for disclosure.

Indeed, the overview — slips in this near unanimous view about how a alien disclosure by the government would affect their own religious views:

A full 88 percent say that such an announcement would have no impact on their religious beliefs

The above `fact’ from the Roper study and doesn’t get as much airplay as the 1 in 7 Americans statement - and - with good reason in THS’s opinion. It just shows how much phone survey participants will give a quick `wink’ answer especially to far out questions. It also shows perhaps the bigger issue and one that has little to do with religion — this seems to be the surveys way of asking — will you fall apart if you find out aliens are here?

Not so much a reflection of their religion — or perhaps — showing that religion has LESS of an overall impact on mentality than the media wants to say.

The new Vatican position on Aliens — will not require huge changes in belief by the common folk. Humans will still have saviours to respect and worship - and aliens will have to do with the `science’ of the world/universe — that GOD CREATED. (And that aliens will never prove differently.)

Religion has already figured out how to save it’s positioning towards man.

Now, back to the Roper Study — here’s another quote:

Many Would Like to Meet Extraterrestrial Life Here on Earth When it comes to encountering extraterrestrial life forms themselves, more than half (52%) of Americans say they would be very or somewhat interested.

THS would like to, once again, emphasis that they `throw in’ the `somewhat interested’ in making the statement. THS asks you; if you had ANY interest in confronting that humans may not be the only intelligent species inhabiting earth - would YOU say ` somewhat’?  And, please, look at what the total is INCLUDING THOSE ONLY SOMEWHAT INTERESTED — 52%.

Perhaps a better summary on this one would have been — Majority leery of aliens, don’t seek to meet one.

As you can see — summaries and analysis words - are in the eye of the beholder ——— or often to satisfy the paying client.

Are you ready to see how murky these studies are — how words are twisted and meanings injected — ok — look at this:

Many Wonder What Government Really Knows About Other Intelligent Life

Government Has More Information Than It is Sharing with Public…

More than half (55 percent) of all adults say that the government does not share enough information with the public. Younger Americans are more apt to believe this; a clear difference of opinion exists between the 18-to-49-year-olds and those 50 or older.

And indeed, later in the study it shows that 34% of Men and 47% of women say the UFO information should be classified or are uncertain if it should be classified. That is hardly a rush to desire for full disclosure from the governments of the world. No mandate exists for disclosure in the world of real marketing research.

You won’t find those words in the report.

But, you will find these words:

V. A Majority Already Believe in the Extraterrestrial

To Many Americans, UFOs Are Real and Have Visited Earth in Some Form

More than half (56 percent) of the American public think that UFOs are something real and not just in people’s imagination. Nearly as many (48 percent) believe that UFOs have visited earth in some form

Hold on now; when did belief in a ufo — become — belief in Extraterrestrials? Don’t some `believers’ think these are other terrestials who have lived on Earth longer than man? Don’t some think Ufo’s are from another spiritual dimension? Etc. — The statement makes a leap in logic as far as THS is concerned.

Again, their own information above shows that less than 50% believe Ufo’s have made it to Earth even. See how easy that statements about numbers can be twisted for the client. [Want a funny number for your head from digging deeper into the research — only 76% (who have seen) who had a friend tell them that they saw a Ufo close up - believe them. 1 out of 4 doesn’ t believe the friend or their own eyes. How many friends will you tell when you know that 1 in four will think you are nuts?]

Here’s more from the report:

Humans Are Not the Only Form of Intelligent Life in the UniverseTwo-thirds (67 percent) of adults think there are other forms of intelligent life in the universe. This belief tends to be more prevalent among males, adults ages 64 or younger, and residents of the Northeast as opposed to North Central and South.

Perhaps it’s just being THS — but — isn’t it just as amazing that ONE IN THREE THINK NO INTELLIGENT LIFE EXISTS ELSEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE. Does that sound like a populous ready for disclosure?

It’s not as if the data doesn’t have some `fluxes’ - such as this information:

Claims of at least one Close Encounter are more common among males and among 18-to-24-year-olds

Really;? Interesting that young folks are more likely than a lifetime of living to have an encounter - don’t you think? Perhaps `someone they knew’ who had this Ufo experience was one of their 400 MySpace `friends’? (That 14% number seems to be shrinking to zilch.)

Finally, we make our way to perhaps the most controversial of the findings of the Roper study - that of alien abduction signs. I’ll let the study speak for itself:

Four in Ten Americans Have Experienced At Least One of Five Events Associated With UFO PhenomenaWhile a number of unusual personal experiences arguably can be tied to UFO phenomena, believers of UFO abductions have identified five events that are of particular interest in examining whether UFO abductions may have actually taken place. These five events are highlighted in the list of unusual personal experiences shown below, and hereafter will be referred to as “key” events

Those `key events’ run the gambit of esoteria let alone Ufology. The events include `seeing a ghost’ `feeling paralyzed’ `missing time’ `feeling you left your body’ `feeling your body flying thru the air’ `puzzling scars’ `balls of light’ `dreams of ufos’ `seeing a strange figure’.

THS take:

Seeing ghosts — little to nothing to do with ufo’s; Feeling paralyzed — medical condition; Out of body experience - consciousness related, low ufo correlation probability; Flying feeling — lucid dreaming; puzzling scars - anything, not mysterious; dreaming of ufo’s - could be related; missing time - could be related; seeing entities - could be related; balls of light - tulpas or consciousness related.

You can make of all this what you want — but — to say that folks have been abducted by aliens if they had four of these events — seems a reach in writing. Again, probably for the client.

Indeed, I’ll leave you with the very last words of the summary:

Moreover, believers of abductions are significantly more inclined to have experienced four of five key events than are non-believers (4 percent vs. 1 percent, respectively). This same finding holds true for those who have experienced, or know someone who has experienced, a Close Encounter (5 percent) versus those who have not (1 percent

You know the Beatles song where they count the holes in the wall - if you dig deep enough into the data you find they excluded about 2% of the sample from being able to participate in the last `abduction’ grouping — it seems they gave a nonsense phrase and then asked if that phrase had ` a special meaning for the respondent’  — I guess that got rid of the nuts.

But, if you think that all that is not without slippery slopes — you should see what passes for UFO research in Google - that has nothing to do with real marketing research methodologies – like the Roper Study.

For example - http://www.alienufosecret.eu/forum/index.php?action=vthread&forum=14&topic=334 where 1,099 individuals, recruited from Ufo sites - participated over the internet — over one year. The study ended in March 2007. I use the term `study’ lightly.

And guess what this `ufo survey’ found? Well among the highlights would have to be:

85% believe extraterrestrial civilizations are visiting the Earth; 86% want the ET’s to `show up’ un-ambiguously; and 62% did not support the use of space weapons against the aliens (does that mean 38% DO?).

I bet you are becoming more survey savoy by the minute - you guessed it - online surveys with the sample determined in this manner are NOT REAL. Yet, this was the second choice by google. The pickin’s are even slimmer the more you dig into the internet.

So, that’s it — the world of UFO research. Where the ONLY study done with real methodology produced the famous statements by the media  that 1 in every seven Americans have seen a Ufo close up and that millions had been abductd — even IF the real number was perhaps 1 out of 100 have seen a ufo. THS makes no guess as to abductions; we will leave that to our relentless media.

Believe it or not.

The Heavy Stuff (THS) wants to welcome back the readers of part 1 of this post — stats show that over 3,000 unique visitors have read that posting - (thanks to about.com, dailygrail.com, crystalinks.com and anomalist.com and others) and, due to the subject matter, it would be advisible to do so before continuing with this post if you haven’t had the chance. Here’s that link http://theheavystuff.com/?p=56.

Of course, that `subject matter’ is the 1970’s college dorm late night favorite subject  of `what is reality’? Yes, younger readers,  before the Matrix - the very structure of realitywas something the `college heads’ thought discussion worthy. Perhaps is was those higher times that allowed a clearer seeing of the thin vail of reality - the illusionrefered to by the mystics and shaman of yester ages and days gone by.

And, in part one - THS - covered the `normal’ Matrixlike idea that `we’ (yes, you and I) and everything else — was simply the result of a running software program made by at least one civilization. In essence, an artifical being within an artificial reality.

In the first post, it was perhaps the logic of the `low threshold’ that was the most worrisome aspect of IF we are a simulation. Afterall, if only ONE civilization EVER ——— EVER — produced and ran (these are most important words)  a `reality simulation software - in which ‘the spaces within the program could have self-awareness‘ ————– THEN — the `real odds’ of us (you and me) being real - in the manner WE think of real —– may be quite small. And, that the odds we ARE a simulation — quite large. Indeed, in part one - THS threw out some numbers to just form an opinion as to what the odds might actually be - or - to set you thinking about the hard numbers of the situation.

BUT, a closer look might dramatically INCREASE those odds  - that is - increase the odds that  we are real. (Isn’t that nice?)

After all,  being realistic, `how many’ computer simulations are `left on’ to run their course ———— for 13.7 billion years? (Makes THS wonder what the longest running simulation software is with mankind?) And, the need to upkeep a program in the running state by any sustained entity for those 13.7 billion years? Can any entity exist with such a purpose? Or, even having the interest to see what a computer program would produce after 13.7 billion years?

[Now, obviously, a huge caveot, what we think of as`time’ may literally be an illusion that our scientists can’t quantify in a meaningful way as part of the very software - so deception is possible to the self aware spaces like you and everyone else.]

When one thinks of this needed structure  to run a program for 13 billion years in THAT MANNER — the odds certainly seem to swing IN OUR FAVOR  (that we are real in the manner we like to think of ourselves as being, (or are we?)) — at least to THS. INDEED, THS boldly predicts that ————- the ratio of advanced software programs - that simulate a reality –  and, that are left `on’ for over 13 billion years ————is indeed —- LESS than the number of civilizations with self-aware entities. This fact bringing our odds at being real to better than 50/50 in all probability.

Isn’t is nice to think of the odds, our odds, in this more realistic way? Using thought logic alone to verify facts that indicate that  we probably ARE real? Indeed, do you want one more twist to help that logic?

How about the fact that for us to view our reality as 13.7 billion years old — the entities that would have to have made the software - would have had to been of and from 2nd generation stars to probably have advanced life?  Second generation stars were billions of years after the big bang.

Therefore, they, the software makers, would have had to have been here before 13.7 billion years to have US (you and I) `running as software’ that long — and since NO intelligent life would be setting up software prior to the big bang ———– we MUST be real. As we like to think of real.

Somehow, THS is not surprised. LOL.

So, that leaves us with the other choice - a Reality that must be Simulated. Simulated Instantaneously. Simulated instantaneously continuously via some actualization process. The science of today says it is actualized thru quantum mechanics. (Some like to think in a holographic manner with this question.) Frankly, the idea that reality is simulated, continuously,  is just as daunting and amazing.

BUT, is the actualization of reality really more a `process of phenomenology’ - than -  of physical matter going from future to present to past? Isn’t reality, really, more a `description of spaces’ than anything else? A description of matter.

Get ready to put on your thinking caps.

Could the very three IDEAS/descriptions  of `spaces’ — `real’ — and, `consciousness’ - be as involved in `producing a real’ for a person (or any conscious space) – as physics - or, at least, about equally so?

For example.

What if the `space’ for an individual, literally each space - `had two places or phases’ — one phase/place being ———- NOW (the physical matter, atoms, of a space) ——- and another phase/place of the same space has/being a PAST ( THIS is what is `shown’ (into reality) as light plays off the `body’ of the space - this space has no matter and is only a representation) too.

`Other’ persons — never see our NOW and we never see theirs. We see only their `immediate past’, literally, a ` visual representation’ of their now and the next `phase’ of their space.

What we SEE is the - reality Simulated - INTO one space. AS one space.

All those spaces (this includes books, people, planes, etc) `still have’ their  `embedded’ physical characteristics. The atoms still have spin, the person is moving from place A to B - and they both exist on a macrolevel too where they are part of a planetary system moving thru the universe at a small fraction of the speed of light.

But, it all is Simulated — within an instant - and with other spaces visual representations, as being a `real’ determined `moment of space/time’. The literal light (or time) interpretation of our space location - as shown to `others’.

Note the nebulousness and movement of the `real thread’ in all this phenomenology of one’s space.

First, your space - any location of space - is the first location of `real’. Your space, your atoms and all that your matter brings with it in regards to qualities of physics — still has for that angstrom Planck of time — an overriding characteristic. That overriding characteristic IS those very qualities of physics - in relation to all other spaces- MAKING (actualizing) that very infinite sliver of reality, for you, becoming, - NOT ABLE TO BE.  Not able to be anywhere, or anywhen, else. Except at that actualized duration of virtual particles.

Not able to be ——– becomes —— makes —- (actualizes) - that spaces now. The only `space’ for that space. The most perfect description of that space. (This is referred to by Juilian Barbour as the best matching space to the previous one with the least intrinsic difference.) That space and its relationships are counted-experienced-lived-actualized. That space only exists within the `physical matter’ that one instant. The very limitation of `time’ to bring it - the space - to literally `being’ a  4 dimensional object. During actualization. During the `first phase’ of that space — where the `real’ is centered.

The very `thing’ which brought about the `counting’ `actualization’ - light - IS located - in a sense — at the `back’ of that space; as IT `fades into’ THE PAST. —- BUT, this ` outside light’ - bringing with it the simultaneously `showings’ of all equally `spaced’ `spaces-objects’ riding the light wave. In a nutshell, bringing our visual reality into our potentialfor consciousness to interpret our visuals. (Other objects.)

Time for those thinking caps again.

ALL those representations, including our own space representation, — when in display, have a new overriding characteristic —- all those representations are ABLE TO NOT BE.  (Separate from our original space as it has now been struck by and become light.)

Yes, `the real’ transfers in a sense out to our outside reality - from our body. Our space transfers our real into this `common space’ of now - via the light reflection on our matter.

Obviously, our matter is NOT included in our `image’ of our space to others. The `space’ which represents identically that original space - is the space of ABLE TO NOT BE.  (Many many folks want to say that this is time — time —- not realizing that `time’ is a particular `space’ counted once.)

As you can see — we already seem to have `two reals’ — our real space (matter) and our identical representation of that same space in it’s next phase of ontology.

So, our Now, (yes, your now too) has a `foothold’ in two `reals’ - all within one space. Our own space. Our own phenomenology of our space/matter.

But, what is even more impressive — is that those collective spaces — all of the spaces we see within our reality — go on to form ` that space’ — the one that is literally = to our collective ABLE TO NOT BE’s.

The space we commonly think of as our reality.

That - is `the space’ - the counting - the collective actualization of our `determined reality’ that we all experience. Our collective NOT ABLE TO NOT BE. The collective spaces we all brought as spaces to that one `moment-space duration’.

Collectively, all spaces transfer their real characteristics to the `final’ collective real space - for counting. Placement. Realness. A third place where real can be said to be contained.

Time watching the play

of which words

have no say.

What is not able to not be

IS

And, is, with time, watching, ever watching.

R. Phillips - 1970’s

The dichotomy is that the final `resting’ of real - and one with a direct connection to our space which has real freedom - is within our real determined reality where everyTHING has to BE —- not able to not be.

After all, if the present could be changed, would it be real? Could it be lived without determination?

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