A lot of people don’t realise that WW2 was really a race to contact the extra-terrestrials and be the first to ally with them against humanity:
Note by Rowan: Only individuals self-selected for counter-suggestibility by their voluntary use of the hypnotic drug, salvia divinorum, will be of use against the kirlian mind-waves the aliens put out. And only agents of our own, attuned to the kirlian mind-waves generated by these new users, will be able to recruit them. But, which of our agents are doubles?
Speaking for myself: using salvia divinorum, I just rotated the entire world anti-clockwise by 360 degrees about the front-to-rear axis as seen when lying prone. An hour or two later, I rotated it again, at some even odder angle. After a few more minutes, I did it a third time. There doesn’t appear to be any determinate number of times the world can turn over like this, nor any determinate axis around which it will do so. Yet each world has a distinct air of alternate-ness. Roger Zelazny’s “Nine Princes In Amber” seems to me to give the best equivalent in science fiction of these alternate worlds: each of the princes is trapped in some humdrum role in one of nine ‘shadow worlds’, but by certain rituals can work his way back to Amber, the ‘real world’, where he will immediately find himself engaged in fierce and complicated feuding with the others .
It’s a good thing we have diluted versions of this stuff, otherwise we’d all end up like David Shayler, thinking we were really in some alternate reality, where — terribly revealingly — our dearest wish of the moment when that apparent alternate reality got spun off, had come true!
Kei & Yuri know what I mean, even if no one else does.
just because you’re not paranoid? nice twist on the old burroughs quip!
I once knew someone who had an “alien” experience. He was a very down to earth type of person and the experience really rattled him. It was the sort that follows your vehicle (or surrounds it?). It seems to be a fairly common type of “alien” interaction, from what I read.
It didn’t have any effect on him except to frighten him, which seems somewhat childish.
I have no idea what these seemingly random events mean. There is plenty of talk of such things on the net, often associated with apocalyptic expectations.
Another incident that I recall happened in when I lived in the tropics. The villagers watched a light gliding along above the ridges. I didn’t see it, but it was a popular topic of discussion for some time after that.
I tend to disregard their significance as they seem disconnected from the rest of our lives, unless we choose to adopt them as an interest.
An Australian newspaper recently had a string of ufo videos, can’t remember which one, which were interesting.
It is, of course, fertile ground for hoaxers, but people do see things from time to time.
Check this out.
http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/papua.htm
nice story — pity about the photo (and it’s credited to the good padre, as well!)
I don’t think that is a photo, it is credited to the author of the piece.
It was probably inspired by this sketch, which appears to be part of Gill’s presentation.
http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2007/08/reverend-william-bill-booth-gill-1929.html
oh,right, ‘billy booth’, not ‘rev. william booth gill’, OK.
If you spend a few days on the Delta Green Yahoo! list, you discover that all their scenarios are pre-configured with plucky little Israel as the US’s axiomatic ally. They ain’t gonna change that, either.
It does really bother the hell out of us that freely composed capitalist media is more boringly simply propagandistic regarding military and security agencies than the Soyuz ever allowed. Jesus fracking christ can somebody out of uniform or without a license to kill accomplish anything for once in the English-language escapist media?