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12.4.6

An Anomalous Melange

This week’s Trickster’s Realm is just a musing on a few anomalous things and my personal experiences and thoughts on events; or maybe I should say, nonevents. For example:

I don’t believe I’ve been abducted, and I’ve never stated I believe I've been abducted, as I’ve written on line in several places. Despite this fact, a few of the anti-UFOist Pelican crowd write openly that I believe I’ve been abducted. Interesting how some need to perceive those they deem loony stay in the loony category. Opinions are one thing; stating opinions as facts is another. It’s called lying, in fact. But leave that to the Pelicanists in their lairs (of course, pelicans don’t live in lairs, excuse the mixed metaphor) the fact is, I don’t believe I’ve been abducted. It’s possible, but I don’t think that literal abductions are the reasons behind the ‘abduction phenomena.’ For myself, the alien abduction is a non-event. (So far anyway.)

And yet, as I’ve also written on-line, I have had two episodes of missing time and several UFO sightings. Things aren’t so neat, as much as the irrationalist rationalist crowd would like it to be. Somewhere in the murky ‘gray basket’ of anomalies (as Stanton Friedman refers to the hard to categorize weird) is “the truth." So far, no one has it. I don’t think we’ll ever get it, and that’s okay by me. As I recently wrote on my blog The Orange Orb it’s as much the process and the journey as anything. ( UFO Studies: Journey and Process.)

Another topic that fascinates me is Bigfoot, I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because i have a fascination with anything to do with animals as well as cryptid stuff in general. The added amount of weird data surrounding Bigfoot only adds to the tantalizing mystery. UFOs, psychic connections, and other high strangeness events in many Bigfoot encounters are intriguing. There’s also controversy within the field of Bigfoot research regarding the ‘high strangeness’ aspect of some Sasquatch encounters. I can’t resist that either!

I’ve never seen a Bigfoot, and not sure I want to. I’m considered enough of a woo; after all, I’ve had psychic experiences, seen, heard and felt ghosts, witnessed more than one UFO and have had two episodes of missing time. I’m not about to add Bigfoot to the list. (Which brings up the question; if I ever did see a Bigfoot, would I tell my story publicly? Oh, probably. I was doomed to be damned a long time ago, what the hell. ) I do know several people who’ve seen Bigfoot, or who know someone who has. Living in Oregon, it’s not unusual to know personally of Bigfoot stories. Speaking of knowing personally individuals with Bigfoot experiences, that includes the high strangeness encounters.

Like Bigfoot stories, I know personally a handful of people who’ve experienced what they call alien abductions. Knowing these people personally puts the ‘alien abduction’ event in a different context than just dismissing them as nuts. Or victims of a sleep disorder. It’s even possible -- possible, mind you that it’s literal. I don’t know. Not having experienced it myself, I can’t say. But I’ve experienced enough weirdness surrounding UFOs and the paranormal that I stand firmly in that gray area of weirdness. (Can you stay firmly in such an ephemeral place? Hmm...)

I don’t know what’s behind the very weird aspects of ‘paranormal Bigfoot’ or alien abductions. None of us do. I do know that pretending they don’t exist, or being safe and lazy by dismissing them as delusions isn’t going to get us anywhere.

Until then, I’m having a fantastic time exploring along the way on my journey.

(Speaking of Bigfoot weirdness, join the Google Group Bigfoot Anomalies !)


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