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Unseen Forces
A Guide for the Truly Attentive
By J. Douglas Kenyon Atlantis Rising
Copyright © 2016 J. Douglas Kenyon
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-9906904-5-0
CHAPTER 1
Can We See the Future?
Scientists, Citing New Research, Say the Answer Is Yes
BY JOHN KETTLER
According to his interview on the Orion Books web site, Dr. Danny Penman has "a degree in Applied Biology and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Liverpool," plus a "diploma in Newspaper Journalism from City University in London."
He writes for both the magazine New Scientist and the British paper Daily Mail. In a piece for the Mail, the self-described "hard-bitten skeptic" recently detailed a psi encounter that shattered his own belief in a world confined solely to 3D-space, the rational and the material. It all happened when he met a down-to-earth middle class British woman known as Psychic Sally (Sally Morgan) after being sent by the Daily Mail to test her. What happened there forms the first part of this story. First, though, some thoughts on skepticism.
There are skeptics, and there are "skeptics." Here's the difference. A proper skeptic accepts nothing on faith and demands convincing evidence derived from repeated observation and experiment before being willing to change his or her current views, in this case scientific, on a given matter. Once convinced, a true skeptic will then alter the scientific theory to conform to the observed results, even if doing so contradicts a long held, even cherished, theory or model of how things are. Not so for the "skeptic," for whom no amount of proof will ever suffice.
A "skeptic" is someone altogether different than the kind of person just described, in that the "skeptic" pretends to be open to new ideas, new scientific principles, and so forth. The truth, though, is that he is someone who has a priori ruled out anything and everything that is not of 3D-space, rationalism, and materialism.
If you doubt this then refer to at least the earlier editions of Real Magic, by P. E. I. Bonewits (1989). There you'll find the chapter, written by Paul Kurtz, founder of that most high profile home of the "skeptics," CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal). Though the name fairly exudes open-mindedness, the organization, according to some, is anything but that and is prepared, it has been alleged, to use very rough tactics indeed, including, in order to defeat its enemies, the invocation of the very forces it so strenuously denies.
In "Sabotage of a Psychic Experiment" (http://psymag.tripod.com/ issue_1/1_sabotage.htm) the writers of the October 27, 2001, issue of the online Psychic Magazine describe how, after bluster and intimidation had failed to derail a meticulously crafted, rigorous psychic spoon bending demonstration in Uri Geller's home — a demonstration with prominent scientists in attendance as observers — stage magician and professional debunker James Randi, per his own emails, reportedly asked his followers to concentrate negative energy on the specific part of Uri Geller's home where the demonstration was to be held, at precisely the time at which the demonstration was to occur.
The spoon bending demonstration failed utterly but still, it raises disturbing questions about CSICOP and its tactics. What business does an avowed rationalist materialist — arguably CSICOP's best-known member — have in organizing what anyone with even rudimentary occult knowledge would consider to be a black magic attack, let alone one targeted not just at the experiment or the experimenter, but everyone in that part of the house or who might have entered it for hours to follow? The answer was obvious to the writers — money. Geller's demonstration was intended to win the Million Dollar Challenge offered by Randi. Had Geller succeeded, not only would it have cost Randi the prize, but it would've destroyed his credibility and the very basis of his wealth, which is gained from peddling his books, multimedia, and live appearances all over the world. Black magic to protect rational materialism? How ironic. How hypocritical, too.
Of course, this is the same group that threw Velikovsky to the wolves at the special AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) meeting in 1976 ostensibly to review his theories, but, in fact, to ambush him. They would also have us believe that the intelligence officer at Roswell Army Air Force Base, then Major Jesse Marcel, in the only nuclear strike formation in the world (the 509th Composite Group) was such an incompetent boob that he not only didn't know a radiosonde and its radar reflectors when he saw them, but ascribed to them utterly impossible material properties, and would have us believe that the Roswell Crash story of 1947 is really all about parachute equipped dummies thrown out of Skyhook balloons in the 1950s.
For a remarkable discussion of "skeptics" and a discussion of what makes them tick, read retired lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia turned afterlife researcher Victor Zammit's articles (www.victorzammit.com/skeptics). Zammit names names, cites other unanswered challenges, describes totally rigged tests set up by the "skeptics" — structured to not only be unwinnable, but which are in fact judged by the "skeptics" themselves.
Nor does Zammit ignore the vexed issue in psi research of the "experimenter effect." He does this by considering what Michael Cremo calls the "knowledge filter," and then goes on to the impact that "out there" ideas have on the "skeptics" — not just in terms of threats to their deeply entrenched belief systems, but to a host of considerations utterly disqualifying them from any possibility of being unbiased observers and empiricists.
Dr. Penman's World Goes Tilt!
Fortunately for us, Dr. Penman is a proper skeptic who can and will change beliefs and theories to conform with the evidence.
Just as well, seeing as how he suffered a reality tunnel collapse and wound up unexpectedly exploring a gigantic metaphorical cavern system. The story, "Psychic Versus Skeptic," ran in the Daily Mail and is available online (www.newsmonster.co.uk).
Penman describes how "Psychic Sally" produced one bombshell item after another with no attempt whatsoever to draw him out with leading questions that would permit ambiguous answers later. Mincing no words, she told him "You're going to Greece." He'd decided a few day prior to go on holiday in Crete. When shown a picture of Penman's girlfriend, Sally told him that the girlfriend would be moving to either Oxford or Bristol. As it happens, the month prior, she'd accepted a position as college lecturer in Bristol. Where things went way out, though, was when he was told details of an utterly private family feud — no public records of any kind — concerning a clash of wills over whether his mother got to keep her own name or would adopt her husband's upon marriage. Moreover, he got to have a chat with his dead grandfather (specifically identified with the family name that wasn't the same as his birth certificate), and also with his dead mother, who approved of and advised him regarding his current girlfriend and warned him to avoid the previous one.
At this point, Penman had a very strong reaction — fear. As he put it, "I suddenly remembered all of my 'sins' and expected instant divine retribution." He rallied, though, and reverted to his normal empiricist mode: "Despite this, I decided to accept a paranormal explanation for Sally's powers only after ruling out all conventional ones."
Penman carefully checked all available records and quickly concluded that while there was some material available which a determined and lucky searcher might unearth, most of what he was told had no source whatsoever available to Sally. Thus, she'd either plucked it from his mind or had gotten it through psychic and/or mediumistic means.
The plucking possibility, which especially concerned him, was covert hypnotism. To see whether she'd laid the whammy on him as part of her method, he sent in two "undercover" testers wearing wires. In neither case did he find even a whiff of hypnotism. What he and his total of three covert testers did find is that Psychic Sally produced "at least some amazing insights that defied rational explanation." She didn't get everything right, but she did come up with surprising items: such as the (previously unknown to the client) location and nature of a girl's brutal murder; a description of not just one person's house, but the name and story of the ghost haunting it; another person's respiratory issues (annual throat problem); as well as such things like warning of excessive care- giving, to alcoholics and emerging introvertedness in one person's son.
Assessing the Experiences
Rather than simply falling back on his scientifically trained cynicism, Dr. Penman is not only open to the possibility that Sally is what she claims to be, but argues that (wait for it) "there are possible explanations from within the world [of] science." He goes on to say: "Strange as it may seem, in scientific principle at least, time can theoretically flow forwards and backwards." Thus, Sally could be remembering events yet to occur on our time branch. If this is unclear, then please watch the Back to the Future films.
Penman is also open to the possibility of life after death, reasoning that "our minds may reside in energy fields generated by our brains," thus creating the possibility of an imprint being created on that energy matrix, an imprint detectable and readable by those with special gifts or extensive training.
When it comes to what to do with this scientifically inconvenient and awkward set of phenomena, Dr. Penman rises to the challenge.
"Above all, the fact that we cannot understand how psychics such as Sally operate does not mean they are not genuine ... I have come to the conclusion that only the foolish mock that which they cannot comprehend." This, then, is the man whose own remarkable experiences inform his RedOrbitNEWS article "Many Scientists are Convinced that Man Can See the Future" (www.redorbit.com/modules/news).
The Apparent Scientific Basis for Seeing the Future
No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. A rigorous, repeatable experiment has been devised and run enough times, by enough credible scientific researchers, to show that most people can foresee the future to at least a limited degree.
You'd think that if someone randomly showed you images of various sorts of extremes, there'd be no way for you to anticipate what was coming next, let alone react to it in advance, but that's exactly what the work by Dean Radin found. Some will know Radin for his work on identifying negentropic (antirandom) changes in response to large scale societal trauma (9/11, Di's death, and so forth) to the networked True Random Number Generators, which make up the Global Consciousness Project. Time and again, and at way beyond random chance, people being tested somehow correctly not only anticipated the upcoming image, but reacted to it before it ever appeared.
This so intrigued the Nobel Prize winning chemist Dr. Karry Mullis that he offered up himself as test subject. Mullis characterized the experience as "spooky" because he could see "about three seconds into the future." When a Nobel laureate speaks on scientific matters, this tends to get the attention of fellow scientists — at "little" establishments such as the University of Edinburgh and Cornell. Related discoveries were not long in appearing.
Researchers discovered that gamblers reacted to the cards they got before seeing them, that people afraid of certain animals had fear reactions before seeing as much as a single image. Others found evidence in the stories of precognitive events by people who decided not to fly on the planes hijacked on 9/11, soldiers who knew they would come through unscathed when they had no such rational expectation, the more well-known cases of soldiers who knew before a mission or battle that their time was up the next day, even the little girl who dreamed that her Aberfan school was gone (116 students and 5 teachers killed the next day by a huge coal waste avalanche) and that everything was black.
Professor Dick Bierman, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, took Radin's simple experiment into realms where facial expressions and external actions were of no concern whatsoever. He carefully monitored not just brain activity, but what parts of the brain were excited, and in what order, right before the images were shown. In 20 expensive, complicated trials, conducted over a period of weeks, he confirmed Radin's work and that of others to such a level that he bluntly stated "We're satisfied that people can sense the future before it happens" and thereupon shifted his investigational focus to determining "what kind of person is particularly good at it."
According to Nobel laureate, Cambridge physicist Dr. Brian Josephson, "So far, the evidence seems compelling. What seems to be happening is that information is coming from the future."
CHAPTER 2
Underwater Bases and Alien Civilization
Is the Answer to the UFO Enigma to Be Found Deep Beneath the Sea?
BY DAVID H. CHILDRESS
Ivan T. Sanderson was born in 1911. Before he died in 1973, he wrote over 18 books on the UFO phenomenon. A trained biologist, Sanderson was, nevertheless, fascinated by the unexplained and wrote on many exotic topics, such as mystery animals (including Bigfoot and the Yeti), lost civilizations, UFOs, and "Ooparts," or "Out-of-Place-Artifacts."
In Invisible Residents, first published in 1970, he put forward the curious theory that "OINTS" — Other Intelligences — live under the oceans. This underwater, parallel civilization, he proposed, may be twice as old as Homo sapiens and may have "developed what we call space flight." In the book, Sanderson argued that the OINTS are behind many UFO or USO (Unidentified Submarine Object) sightings as well as the mysterious disappearances of aircraft and ships in the Bermuda Triangle.
In the years since his book was first published, Sanderson's ideas have been largely dismissed as crackpot ravings, though Hollywood has managed to capitalize on some of them and make several movies along lines suggested by him, including Cocoon, The Abyss, and others.
Sanderson's original book is long out of print, but the original theory remains, in whole and in part. In whole, it is the rather fanciful notion that an underwater humanoid civilization — with advanced technology, no less — is inhabiting the deep oceans of our watery planet. In part, he is giving evidence, and attempting to explain, the often bizarre UFO–USO sightings that involve metallic craft exiting or entering large bodies of water, typically the ocean (though in some cases rivers and lakes).
Sanderson subtitled his original book: "A Disquisition upon Certain Matters Maritime, and the Possibility of Intelligent Life under the Waters of This Earth." However, the most important part of his investigation on this subject seems to be the enduring enigma of the UFO phenomena itself and the very real possibility that some UFOs are able to travel underwater, and the related possibility that some theoretical "UFO Bases" are actually underwater, rather than underground or in space as advanced by the typical "Moon as a Space Base" theory.
Indeed, how fascinating a theory for the serious UFO investigator is the suggestion that bases for these craft may well actually be underwater? What better place to have an impenetrable base than deep within the oceans of the planet? Yet, if UFOs, or at least some of them, are coming from beneath the oceans or lakes of our planet, does it necessarily mean that there is another civilization besides our own that is responsible? In fact, could it be that since WWII a number of underwater UFO bases have been constructed on the planet by the very human governments of our planet? We know that many of our governments, on nearly every continent in the world, have constructed submarine bases that are hidden in oceanside cliffs or even entirely underwater. Could some of these underwater bases house UFO-type craft that are capable of moving through the water and through the air as well? Some evidence may be pointing in this direction. On the other hand, as Sanderson and others have conjectured, extraterrestrials may also be using our oceans for space bases. The enigma endures .
Statistically, UFOs are most commonly seen around (1) military bases, (2) electrical power lines, and (3) bodies of fresh water. UFOs coming out of the earth's oceans are, generally, in a category unto themselves.
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