OBE Abduction Experiences

I’ve been watching videos by John E. Mack, the late Harvard professor and Pulitzer prize winner who was virtually outcasted from academia due to his obsession with alien abductions and UFO’s. He was ultimately hit and killed by a drunk driver.

I don’t believe in alien visitations, but some of his case studies are very interesting. I believe the bulk of his work comes from reports of people in dream states at night, and hypnosis which again I tend strongly not to believe in. The interesting cases are those which supposedly happened in plain sight during the day, but those are rare.

What I find most striking about these stories, is how incredibly obvious it is that they are OBEs. I am not the first to realize that “alien abductions” are a subclass of OBE. The OBE author William Buhlman is outspoken about the idea. The typical accounts I saw browsing youtube today occurred in sleep, almost always involved a very powerful paralysis, often involved floating sensations, a bright light with no point source, and many even involve meeting light beings which exude unconditional love.

D.J. Groethe, the atheistic materialist at Point of Inquiry related an experience on a recent show where he had a classic alien abduction/obe experience where he saw a little creature in his room. He knew that if he didn’t know about these experiences he may very well mistake this for some sort of alien encounter.

What is the ontological status of these beings? One thing we know is, they sure are convincing. I have never seen accounts of people who have lucid OBEs on a regular basis and walk around telling everyone that they aren’t real in some profound way. The tie between OBEs and abductions is obvious, but I wonder if John Mack realized it.

Get a load of this weird video that illustrates my point at the 5 minute mark:

I asked this guy why he could not see a playing card or read a number OOB. He wrote something about how astral vision was different. At least he was honest. OBErs can’t see the physical world at all. I’m sure they’ve all tried numerous times.

Total Wipeout

Is it not like shooting fish in a barrel with a Sherman Tank? I supply part two out of 5 here because of the glorious rampage of Hitchens at the 3 minute mark. “You’re a child made in the image of god, oh no you’re not you’re a faggit!”

The final result of the debate tallied by the audience was as devastating as one could conceive possible.

Catholics supported slavery, condemned Galileo, denied the natural history of the earth with vehemence, deny condoms in Africa at the expense of thousands, and turned a blind eye to Hitler’s final solution, only to stand on high in modern times and try to claim some moral highground, dismissing the errors of the past as trifling aberrations. Fry points it out saying that the Catholic church was for slavery before they were against it, then they made the excuse “well we couldn’t know better because nobody else did.”,

“Then what are you for!!!?” Shouts Fry.

The answer is “nothing”. Religion, primarily the Western ones, have been a chronicle of mankind’s marriage of emotion and mystery with ignorance and superstition.  It has been superseded in every imaginable way on every front there is -psychology, sociology, natural history, medicine, anthropology, and even meditation and spiritual inquiry itself. But since being trumped and swallowed whole by modernity under the very roots of the hallowed ground it plants itself on, these monoliths of stubborn unenlightenment still use the terms “God” and “Religion” as if somehow these words still speak for an institution with credibility.

I was astonished at finding these baby photos of my mom. The face portrays the spirit so well in her case, and it is entirely unchanged.

Penn and Teller on the NDE

This is the most disingenuous hatchet job I’ve seen Penn and Teller do. They pretend to examine the NDE and remain intentionally ignorant about key aspects of it. The whole thing is treated as if an obvious result of “lack of oxygen”. The garbled and meaningless hallucinations of fighter pilots are equated with fully lucid experiences “more real than anything on earth”. This whole video sequence was story-boarded on a spiral bound notebook laying on Penn’s lap while he was taking a shit the diameter of a coke can and scribbling away without the slightest degree of knowledge or research.

Beyond Savage, Beyond Dapravity

Just read the article at left. The cruelty found in Somalia is as savage and cruel as anything the Nazis committed on an individual level.

Apparently, one man has already been stoned to death (the adulterer) and the only reason the woman hasn’t been stoned to death is because she’s pregnant. They are a moral society after all. Once she gives birth, however, she will be stoned to death.

Will they start dragging her to the dusty street as soon as the baby crowns? Will the blood thirsty moralists (who call themselves Muslims) start throwing stones at her before the umbilical cord is cut? Why wait? Allah’s justice demands swiftnees.

They should put the stones in front of her, for every day of her pregnancy, and they should tell her that this stone will blow your eye out of your bloody socket. This stone will split your filthy breast. This stone will will break your pelvis. Let her see each righteous stone. Then tell her that you will hold her baby for her while her gusts are shattered by the very biggest stones.

Allah will not be patient.

Maybe they should just drag out the road when labor begins. They should get their stones ready. Make sure they’re big and blunt. Then they can all be ready and, at just the moment the baby is born, they can start bashing the blood right out of her. They can knock her brains out of her skull before the baby ever tastes the milk. Brains, blood, milk, let it flow in the streets.

Then be sure you let the baby see its mother’s bloody corpse.  Let that be a lesson.

Then again, maybe they should just cut the baby straight from the woman’s guts. Then they can pack her open womb with stones – poetic justice. Then spill brains. Bash them out.

Then, hurry up, I’m sure there are other women whose guts and brains need to be bashed out.

After all, morality must be maintained.

Justice must prevail.

The new AQAL

If we don’t survive bodily death, and annihilation is immanent (shit, even if we do), I propose an alternative to Kenneth Wilber’s Theory of Everything “All Quandrants All Lines” chart, as follows:

Book of Genesis Illustrated

You can see some examples and an interview here.

I just wish he would do Leviticus. Please R. Crumb illustrate Leviticus.

I will buy the hardcover and put it on my coffee table.

The vibrations are real

Okay, this is getting to be absolutely ridiculous, I know. I just went into the deepest state yet using the hemisync tracks in my ipod. I not only experienced the vibrations but was able to manipulate them and track them up and down my body. I could make them come and go. Being the weekend , I could analyze it in detail for as long as I wanted. When I was ready to stop the session, I could not move my body for a brief time. I was in paralysis. The vibrations stopped the moment I begin to reintegrate control of my body from the paralysis. So I think it is possible that the vibrations are spurred by an environmental movement of some kind- my furnace kicking on or something, but this is not the source of it. It is a very subtle vibration, it actually feels soothing and it travels up and down the body (or should I say, the microseizures travel up and down my motor cortex or through the microscarring of my Sylvian fissure?). So I am at a loss as to why I can’t have the OBE. I am getting as close as one can get. I actually feel at times I can just lift out, but so far no dice. My visualizations are far more lucid than usual. I really am enjoying the hemisync tapes. Without them I am sure I would not reach this level of control. It actually is enjoyable being able t0 explore these states even without having the OBE, so I plan on keeping up with my experimentation. And yes, I still place a card face up on the side every time just in case.

The perils of actually believing your scriptures

I believe most Christians in America today would denounce those who hold up signs about God hating fags. I like the statement in this video, its okay to have a fifth grade view of god as long as you are in the fifth grade.

What Christians deny is that their scriptures were written from a fifth grade perspective, or even less. A bright modern fifth grader knows more about the universe and the nature of planet earth than the scriptural authors from millennia past describing the “4 corners”. What they deny in their never ending capacity for self-deception and politically correct denialism, is that their modern view of “god” constructed by post-modernism, pluralism, civil rights, modern cosmology, and a computer with instant access to virtually any piece of knowledge garnered through history a mere 2 seconds away (and a painfully long 2 seconds), did not come about by reading their scriptures more closely or understanding their scriptures more thoroughly. It came about by ignoring large swathes of their scriptures outright and reinterpreting vast tracts of it to their own liking to avoid the pain of cognitive dissonance, and the alienation from their peers.

Did you catch that masterfull piece of editing – the man reading a passage from the bible “they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them”, and then an immediate cut to a black woman who says “I am going to read the passage very differently than someone who might be white male and straight.”

Right, there is soooo much room for symbolic reinterpretation here. They didn’t *really* mean it did they?

Why an educated modern uses the Western religions as a basis for their spiritual inquiry to this day baffles me. There is way better available now. We in the civilized world are a more advanced and moral people as a whole, despite not having a universally accepted national religious institution to help us justify our exploitation of others. The Eastern religions are vastly better as a whole than the Western, which is not to deny them of their silly superstitions (and not to deny that some Christian mystics reached the same conclusions).

These archaic Western religions are a cage for intellect. The reason people still use them as their spiritual base is fear and cultural imperative. Anyone who has read the old testament with any degree of belief was shaking in their boots at the capricious and whimsical wrath of the LORD. For those who grew up under the tyranny of this imaginary being, it is a leap of courage to just consider dismissing the slave driver. Particularly when the LORD’s son was so much nicer of a guy.

These people carrying signs in this video are surely being more true to the letter of their scriptures than the liberal Christianists who stopped being honest about what their scriptures actually say long ago. No matter how tolerant, pluralistic and modern Christians become, their scriptures remain printed the same way in the same book for all to inspect. And when they brave a wade through the passages of Leviticus and see that indeed, in no uncertain or symbolic terms whatsoever god *does* hate fags, I wonder when it will finally give them pause. I wonder when they will finally give it up and move on. To stand on one’s own feet and realize that you are more moral, more enlightened than your own god, your own tradition. And no amount of mental gymnastics or cross-eyed reading is going to magically make those scriptures fit into what you have become.

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