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THE PROBLEM STATED AND, THEN, AN ASTRONOMER'S PERSPECTIVE
"This book was in gestation when a work titled 'Communion' shot up the American bestseller lists. As a child of the Fifties, I was astounded to see such a quaint story generate so much attention. After all, I had absorded my share of 'Mars Attacks!' bubblegum cards, B-movie aliens and UFO headlines. What made Whitley Strieber's account so special? |
By Harold Egeln
Shedding light onto UFOs and close encounters, which remain in the realm of dark gray matter among the mass media and mainstream science, is astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild. Just imagine him arriving at the Mad Matter Hatter's Tea Party in his 1947 Packard sedan and setting up his telescope.
While making discoveries by looking through his telescope, he chats with the guests at the party, in a dimly lit setting with lots of dark spots, discovering that they are not mad at all. He learns that each guest is like an "Alice in Wonderland," in a strange and awesome place called The Universe, moving through the inner space of outer space.
Dr. Schild, the famed astronomer and astrophysicist from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Observatory, spoke at a Mindshift Institute seminar on February 25 here in New York City, at the beautiful Pratt Mansion, home to a school across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sharing what took shape from that "Mad Matter Hatter's Tea Party" of anomalous experiences.
His absorbing presentation on "Dark Matter, Quantum Mysteries and Extraterrestrial Anomalies: New Directions of Thought from New Knowledge" set a framework for science that may lead to a whole new cosmological perspective which gives credence to what Schild calls "the modern miracles of UFO sightings, abductions, crop circles" and much more.
Just a week before his talk, Schild gave a Precision Cosmology overview talk on "Baryonic Dark Matter" at the Sixth Annual "Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe" Conference (Feb. 18-20) at UCLA in Marina Del Ray, of which The New York Times had an article about it on February 20, headlined: "Universe's Clusters of Galaxies Refuse to Follow Main Theory" by Times science writer James Glanz.
From there, Dr. Schild came to The Mindshift Institute's First Alexander Imich Lecture, a series in honor of Imich, founder of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center.
Going beyond what he calls the "radio astronomy charade" of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence based on radio scans of nearby stars, Dr. Schild goes into another way of scanning for ETI.
"Humans are quanta....with wormhole connections to Source," said Schild, placing humanity as a connective link to "new knowledge," coming by his inclusion of "anomalous phenomenon" in his studies, a methodology foreign to mainstream science which concentrates on the "objective world" while ignoring the "subjective world" of persistent human experiences which are "outside the box" of usual scientific research.
"Dr. Schild has consulted a new breed of 'experts,' -- the people who report anomalous phenomena," said Michael Mannion of The Mindshift Institute. "To his great surprise, their reports seem to contain facts that Dr. Schild can confirm scientifically." Backing this up are new scientific discoveries.
PLANETS, PLANETS EVERYWHERE
"The sky is full of planets," said Dr. Schild of the discovery by astronomers of over 100 exo-solar planets around stars in other nearby systems discovered since 1995. "Baryonic dark matter, which composes 90 percent of the universe, is also full of planets." Although those, with a no star shining on them, are frozen solid, except for possible internal heat sources. Baryonic matter, in theory, consists of densely bound non-luminous objects that evade overt detection, with Dr. Schild well-known for his studies in that area for over two decades.
After the Big Bang, "primodal hydrogen planets" were among the objects formed first. Now planets are everywhere, and there are likely countless worlds orbiting legions of worlds with intelligent lifeforms. "Eighty percent of my colleagues would agree," Dr. Schild said, that "life is abundant" given the great number of planets, implied by the discoveries of the last few years.
Dr. Schild, who gained fame in the late 1980s, but not without initial controversy, with his studies of the gravitional lensing effects of galaxies which bend the light of an incrediably distant quasar revealing evidence of "dark matter" surrounding those galaxies, is well-known in cosmology as a major contributor. That's been a giant step from what was told in books like "The Dark Side of the Universe: A Scientist Explorers the Mysteries of the Cosmos" by James Trefll (Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1988), and one of my early favorites on the subject of "dark matter and dark energy."
Of UFOs and close encounters, along with other "modern miracles, such as crop circles and near-death experiences," Dr. Schild said, "It's amazing how a whole civilization can be in denial," adding about the anomalies that "nobody says they are probably all related."
Mainstream science, he said, takes "a divide and conquer" stand when dismissing the anomalies when it says, "It's just these UFO people." But Dr. Schild decided to explore the inner space of outer space, making unexpected discoveries along the way that he could not ignore.
A "QUANTUM HOLOGRAM" SCENARIO
"Nature has given us a quantum hologram," he said of the fabric of reality, "that does not obey the traditional laws of space and time," he said. Because objectons are raised by scientists about the difficulties of long distance starflights, there is an alternative explanation, much like the transportation beam in "Star Trek" only on a grander scale.
The "spaceships" that may be the UFOs do not necessarily travel great distances. "Instead, the machine at a remote star projects a quantum hologram," said Dr. Schild. "It's projected to our atmosphere and reconstructs itself here." When sighted, they are often "semi-transparent, gradually looking solid and taking on color." In doing so, "it has a knowledge of its identity." That also infers, he adds, that "the spacecraft is semi-sentient," which is also a possible factor in often making them interactive with witnesses.
As it is reconstructed, the spaceship "takes on gravity, assumming mass and time after the projection of information." If this is all true, he noted, it could explain the blinking on and off of such UFOs, and their shape-shifting. Experiencers who he has personally talked with, give the impression that when they interact with the UFO and its inhabitants, "there is a certain amount of shared consciousness and information" at play.
That, Dr. Schild said, amounts to "cosmic consciousness." Which led him into a discussion of Wilhelm Reich, the mid-20th Century scientist and psychologist who is a major focus in The Mindshift Institute research by Mannion and Trish Corbett. Reich's study of "orgone energy" as the "life force" of reality. While supressed and repressed 50 years ago by authorities, it remains valid today thanks to researchers such as at Mindshift.
(Reich, who studied the character structures of human beings, died in November 1957. He was unjustly victimized by the government --they burned his books! -- and was dismissed by his colleagues. Ironically his death was within a day from when the Soviet Union launched its second Earth satellite into orbit, Sputnik II, with the first lifeform to spend time in space, a dog named Laika. The dog, who was not returned, lived for one week in orbit. The orbiting was also immediately followed by the largest flap of UFO sightings in the United States since 1952. Egg-shaped and diamond-shaped UFOs were seen in the Midwest, some stalling cars on highways. There were also reports of attempted dog-nappings by ufonaunts. This writer remembers these events vividly, clipping newspapers articles on Sputnik II, the UFO sightings and Reich's death. I now find the timing of all this curiously synchronistic.)
Dr. Schild also mentioned Apollo 14 Moonwalker Dr. Edgar Mitchell's exploration of this "cosmic consciousness" after Mitchell experienced an "eureka!" sensation of a living cosmos while gazing out into space on his return journey from Moon to Earth in 1971. It was a "Wow!" experience leading him to find the Institute of Noetic Sciences, with studies in sync with Dr. Schild's research.
"HOW THE WORLD WORKS"
In his talks with close encounter witnesses and adding his knowledge of cosmology into the mix, Dr. Schild feels that crucial "new knowledge" about "how the world works" is now emerging.
"They can tap into the consciousness of these remote civilizations," he said of "abductees who feel they are hybrids" or who have a sense of "dual identity," referring the audience to the account of "Greg's world" on The Mindshift Institute website (below in the Mindshift eJournal link).
In talking with Greg, arranged through Dr. John Mack as part of PEER's (the Program for Extraordinatory Experience Research's Multi-Disciplinary Study Group at Harvard), Dr. Schild discovered a scientific basis to his account, which centers on a apparent world in the Orion constellation with which the abductee identifies. Greg's experiences are referred to several times in Dr. Mack's "Passport to he Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters" (Crown Pubishers, NY, 1999).
Dr. Schild is mentioned in "Passport" and is the most public figure from PEER's Multi-Disciplinary Study Group, an absolutely essential academic element in researching close encounters, and which is also a prime component of the Search Project for Aspects of Close Encounters research.
He is first mentioned in connection with parallel universes during a discussion on dark matter by Dr. Mack (page 37 of "Passport ot the Cosmos," Crown hardcover edition, 1999), and then on the aliens using another dimension and "quantum fluctuations" "to organize mass and energy in our own dimension that we just haven't encountered yet," Schild said, as well as discussing "vibrations of all kinds." (pages 82-83).
Also, in remarks for PEER's Multidisciplinary Study Group Conference on Anomolous Experience, Schild referred to the then latest information on quantum theory which may be an indicator, he said in an interview with Dr. Mack in 1999, of "the workings of some higher intelligence or purpose within the multiverse, guiding events in our 4-D universe in ways we don't yet understand." (page 285)
"GOOD VIBRATIONS"
The astronomer also discussed the implications of the known electrical energy field which is a part of human beings and other groups of matter on Earth. "Everything in the world transmits its existence to the whole universe," Dr. Schild has found, with an electrical field "frequency" at work in people. "The frequency increases the more sentient the object. The sum of all frequencies is Source," he said, which could be a creator or basic being, or some all-encompassing knowledge and information node. "The purpose of all life in the universe is to come into contact with Source."
In measuring the frequency, he noted that it operates at every one second, at every one-forth of a second, at every one-16th of a second, and at every 64th of a second, in that progression of factors, 1:4:16:64.... Basically, Dr. Schild noted, "there is a 60 hertz power grid around our world. The whole place is jumping at 60 hertz."
Of the four known dimensions of the universe, not counting what could be a total of 11 dimensions, abductees convey to Dr. Schild, is that the "most important is time." "Time is a reciprocal frequency," he said, meaning that there is interaction throughout time.
Because of all these "vibes," humans and nonhumans act as "magnetic anopoles," making "wormhole connections to Source." "The aliens operate at a higher frequency" than humans, he adds, making their interactions easier and apparently also operate closer to "the Source."
Upon death, the tunnel seen by many NDE experiencers is probably "a wormhole," Dr. Schild asserted, referring to a 20 minute time span reported to him. "Someone went to the end of the universe and back in 20 minutes," he said. But when someone makes the transition through the "wormhole," that person is far beyond this reality, breaking the bonds with it.
That 20-minute time span comes into play with sexual intercourse, as he also noted that "after an orgasm, it takes 20 minutes for the fertilization process to occur." "There is some other relativity principle at work here."
And it may operate in "subspace." "Star Trek got it right," Dr. Schild said, by having starships traveling through "subspace." He felt that Star Trek's creator, Gene Roddenberry, had talks with scientists who understood these principles.
"THE CHALLENGE WE FACE"
Dr. Schild found an "incredible commonality" among "abductees' stories" that smack of reality, much as Dr. John Mack has discovered.
And it is not generated by collections of "Mars Attacks" bubblegum cards, movies like "E.T." or any science fiction story and "galactic longing" as supposed in the preface to "First Contact," the book about eminent SETI researchers quoted at the beginning of this article.
Knowing this, and the stories of other anomalies, Dr. Schild came up with the term "Modern Miracles" to describe UFO sightings and abductions, near-death-experiences, ghosts, crop circles, paranormal experiences, cattle mutilations and other anomalies usually dismissed by most scientists for being non-objective and absurd.
What are human beings and their place in Nature's scheme? "Humans are quanta in the orgone field, with wormhole connections to Source," he said, referring to the prevelent life force which Reich called "orgone energy." "Everything transmits at a vibration. Frequency increases with conscious access."
This may also have something to do with mini-black holes, Dr. Schild noted. A few years ago some scientists speculated about the possibilities of such microscopic black holes involved with brains and consciousness.
"Our holy temple of astrophysics," Dr. Schild said, dismisses these anomalies, whereas it can gain incredibly valuable, breakthrough knowledge in new ways if only it weren't so outrightly dismissive of subjective experience.
The astronomer, who also has a passion for classic cars and motocycles, had a hard time himself in getting peer review agreement on his study and proof of gravitional lensing. The effect was noted in observations, during the 1980s, of a time delay in the image of a distant quasar (Q0957+561) by a galaxy between the quasar and Earth. In a paper in 1986 Schild noted the time delay, and in 1988 he published his discovery of the microlensing effect.
However, when a prominent astronomer dismissed his discovery in 1991, Dr. Schild writes on his website, "I was shunned and ridiculed at research forums around he world." But Schild never gave up, and his persistence, despite the guffaws, paid off eventually, thanks to the work of other scientists. And, by 1996 his critical discovery was vindicated and accepted.
At the Mindshift seminar, when asked about "good and evil aliens," he replied, "The basic message seems to be benevolent." But there may be a tiny number who are not "good guys," according to visitation accounts, and have the capability of doing terrible deeds, according to what abductees have told him.
MINDSHIFT INSTITUTE'S CONTRIBUTION
"While science in general dismisses such stories as impossible, they do seem to be worthy of investigation to a small but increasing number of serious scientists," said Mindshift's Trish Corbett of Dr. Schild, thanking him for his presentation.
The Mindshift Institute has held roundtable discussions on UFO and related topics with a high level of audience participation over the past few years, adding much to the encounter dialogues, and had a program last September with Dr. Schild, Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Mack at Rangely in Maine, site of the Wilhelm Reich Library.
The organization's informative website also has an excellent E-Journal with very thoughtful entries, wonderfully written and expressed.
FABRIC OF THE COSMOS
Just a whole month later, on March 24, Columbia University astrophysicist Briane Greene, author of "The Elegant Universe" published in 1999, about super-string or M-brane theory, and shown as a three-part public TV series this past February, spoke to a packed house at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Union Square here in the city. He summarized his latest book, "The Fabric of the Cosmos," taking superstring theory and other related aspects further.
Although not asked about UFOs, he was asked a question about "life after death." While hoping for it, he felt that "consciousness disappears" upon death. "The universe doesn't care," he said. But the tiny, intricate substructure of the individual remains in place, and how that may make any difference to the dead individual cannot be known, Greene explained.
Greene, in answer to another question, was also dismissive of British scientist Rupert Sheldrake's studies of "Morphic Energy Fields," connecting links of consciousness, calling the basis as "not rational." But, he added, he has met Sheldrake, and admires and respects him as a person, although they may not agree.
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At the Schild event, Alexander Imich was honored with an award and a cake by The Mindshift Institute, for his many accomplishments and to celebrate his 101st birthday, in great health.
Five years ago, when he was only 96, he founded the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center (APRC), of which he is president here in New York.
Dr. Schild's presentation marked the First Alexander Imich Lecture in a series by The Mindshift Institute.
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Harold Egeln, the founder of S.P.A.C.E. (Search Project for Aspects of Close Encounters) is a professional news reporter who works for two Brooklyn weekly newspapers, and who is also an environmental journalist. In the 1980s he served as the executive director of the New York Metro Peace Council of the National Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy. He is also the vice president of the New York Space Society, a chapter of NSS, the National Space Society, an organization promoting human spaceflight founded by space rocket pioneer Werhner von Braun in the 1970s. |
By Harold Egeln
New York City, Tuesday, April 13, 2004 -- The hit play, "The Abduction Project" by the Collision Theory performance ensemble about the close encounter experience from the inside, will be performed at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena this month, the first play by the ensemble to be performed outside of New York City.
It was debuted to packed performances at the HERE Arts Center in Soho here in the city in February and March 2001, and was created, in part, based on interviews with encounter witnesses, and the deep and open-minded interest of its producers.
For more on the play, visit The Collision Theory website below and follow instructions for more information, and also see our own review of "The Abduction Project" below.
The performance of this play is a major step both for this remarkable ensemble of actors with a unique style of expression, as well as a big step forward for the Close Encounter Experience, getting its Inner Spaces out into an audience at the CIT, home to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a NASA space program action center.
Watch for a report on an interview with the performers from a S.P.A.C.E. Seminar three years ago in a future issue of this journal in this section. We also hope to interview Collision Theory producers and performers about the response to their performance at CIT.
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By Alan White
April 2004 -- In the year 1939 when I was a growing 14-year-old boy, I was abducted by alien beings in New York City in Manhattan between Lenox Avenue and Mt. Morris Park at 123rd Street in Harlem. Since then the park's name was changed to immotalize some famous person whose name now escapes me.
In those days no one was aware of or even concerned wit the UFO phenomeon. The world was focused on Hilter and his antics leading to World War Two.
When experiencers I know have told me if I remember the experience at age 14, it's a probability that it took place much earlier than that. I don't recall anything earlier. except vaguely related being in a crib against the window, looking up to the stars in the sky, and not yet able to speak a language wondering to myself, "When am I going back home?"
Then 12 years later, I had an extremely traumatic experience which I must refuse to detail simply because it still frigthens me to the core of my being, being then an immature teenager and not yet understanding myself, much less a profound happening like the mysterious UFO.
Phenomenon to complicate my growing life! It is too painful to remember and there was nothing, absolutely nothing at all to relate this to. There was no history in my teenage mind to support this strange happening, no news report, no media attention and no UFO magazine to read about this harrowing event in my youth. I will say with much mature understanding that I can now liken it to what could be called "A Rape!" -- spiritually, mentally and physically.
I never mentioned it to my adult guardians because I reduced it to a dream to protect my sanity. I wouldn't dare tell my schoolmates nor friends nor even my close cousins, fearing ridicule or being accused of madness.
I would venture to say that the visitors of those days and a little later in my life were less compassionate, if I can overuse that word, or concerned, as the visitors much later in my life , then (in a very conscious experience in 1993) aboard a ship when they telepathically exclaimed, "We know YOU!... We won't hurt you... We'll take you back in few hours" -- humph! Very considerate of them in comparison. After taking my DNA, marking up my body and probing me like an animal, implanting me, and leaving me with nose bleeds for the next three years when it unexpectedly fell out.
In the interim, more certain than not, there were other experiences during the years where they seem to block my recall for reasons unknown to me, for there were snatches and flashes of unusual thing occurring in and to my mind.
Still I put all of this on a back burner until I came back home from the service to the country's defense the year before Roswell, in 1946.
I often think now that the advanced visitors of that time protected me from any harm. Years later while in a pharmacy as I browsed on a revolving bookstand, I was shaken to the very depths of my being on seeing the eyes of those beings of a far gone youth on the cover of a book which brought back memories of too many invasions in my still virgin consciousness, probably through the 30s and 40s of my adult days.
Prompted by a new friendly experience, I joined a support group called S.P.A.C.E. where other experiencers saved my sanity with stories from people abducted from three to six years of age. During one of these group meetings a well-known human visitor to the group asked if I would be hypnotized. I said, "No!" because if there is anything I really need to know about my contact with otherworldly beings and events, I want my own consciousness to bring it to the surface.
I long ago, till this day, stopped trying to prove and convince other people of the mysteries of the UFO phenomenon. I don't think there are many experiencers from my teenage years still alive, but still I haven't been alone since there were sightings and abductions LONG BEFORE ROSWELL, as far back as the 1800s.
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Article Copyright@2004 by Alan White
NOTE: Within the S.P.A.C.E. Experience there are at least three other living and lively people, in addition to Alan White, who were born in the early or mid-1920s who had childhood visitation-like experiences. Also, some experiencers have told of their grandparents who were alive and young in the 19th Century who seemed to have had visitation experiences. Many other such cases have been reported outside of S.P.A.C.E. -- Harold Egeln.
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By Harold Egeln
On the "Circus Maximus" of what was once called "that vast wasteland" of TV programming, (by Newton Minnow 40 years ago) where violence, bloodshed, barbarians and moronic carnival sideshows now dominate, TV viewers are fixated on the grisly autopsies, weapons and murders of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigations."
But way before this 21st Century, continuing the stream of violence of the last century, CSI, to those who follow UFO developments, meant "Civilian Saucer Investigation."
During the heyday of Flying Saucers in the 1950s, when UFOs were big news stories, the CSI New York and CSI Los Angeles organizations were comprised of early pioneering grassroots UFO investigators.
In Los Angeles CSI: LA was founded in 1952 by three men, Ed Sullivan, who worked for the North American Aviation Corporation as a technical writer; Victor Black; and Werner Eichler. Its members included rocket pioneer Walther Beidel. It was "the first flying saucer club to pursue a serious, systemmatic and scientific investigation of the UFO mystery," writes Jim Moseley, co-author of "Shockingingly Close to the Truth: Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Uologist."
Mosley was president of CSI: NYC briefly. We plan to mention some of the others in this group, once we find their names in one of the books I have (which are a great many!). "This group was a quite serious bunch and was also responsible for for some very good research in the early years."
Also, In 1953 the Flying Saucer Bookstore was opened in New York City by James S. Rigberg, who also published the "Flying Saucer News," part of the Flying Saucer News Clubs of America (FSNCA). The bookstore was in the heart of the Theater District, at 359 West 45th Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, and lasted into the late 1970's.
I first stumbled across it in 1975, making at least one more visit back then ( and now wishing I made more!), and getting one issue of the Flying Saucer News, which I still have. I bought two books on my first visit, one being "Seth Speaks." I was intending later to buy a book called "The UFO Controversy In America" by Dr. David Jacobs, but, to my regret, never did. The only business in the city that has "Flying Saucer" in its name is the Flying Saucer Cafe, opened in early 2000, on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.
A few people in our S.P.A.C.E. group mentioned that when they were young adults in the 1950's they served as civilian airplane spotters, looking for enemy aircraft at the period of the Cold War when the city stopped its business during Air Raid Drills. Such spotters elsewhere did spot UFOs.
Those who were in THE REAL CSI (whose initials have been trashed these days) were pioneers of UFO organizations in NYC and LA. We wonder and ask, where are they now?
The February issue of "Popular Mechanics" has a feature cover story on "When UFOs Arrive" and how the U.S. government would respond to such an open contact. True contact happens all the time with many people in several different ways. But the scope, nature and reality of this contact is unpopular with mainstream science and the general media. In an upcoming feature IN MAY, we will examine this issue. WATCH THIS SPACE.
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