Why People Believe in Superstitions, the Supernatural, and the Paranormal

[Mikal]

2. — Alien abductions. Why so many claims, but no spaceships observed? And why are the abductees returned afterwards? Where are the aliens? Not another invisible unknown unseen!

There are many claims concerning Alien Abduction worldwide. Why so many claims? Because when humankind began to meditate it is growth in sentient intelligence, the beings were attracted here because we drew them here. They are far more mentally advanced, and far more advanced in sentient intelligence. Why are there no spaceships? Because they are not from outer space...they are interdimensional beings fully able to manipulate the perception of humanity. The abductees are returned afterwards because the beings are studying human biology for their own interests. They are harvesting human blood, semen and eggs and also medically inserting implants. The aliens are interdimensional and sentient in nature...only experienced in altered mind states...

One or two people could be called liars but hundreds of thousands worldwide, would tell us to drop our ignorance and wisely try to understand the dilemma that faces humanity.


Mikal

[austintorn@aol.com]

Our ignorance of the ancients intelligence is immense.

Translation: We are ignoramuses.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

(Just a joke.)


The 12 astrological signs representing the 12 main neurological nerves doesn’t really do anything for our lives; it doesn’t actually place man in the Universe and the Universe within man…

A heart is not really where emotions reside or is a brain running the 4 chambers, but a pump. Certain hormones affect heart rhythms. My heart goes out to all who wish life to be more than it really is, which, actually, is already pretty darn great!


It seems that some may have such an open mind that emotions such as hope and despair can trump the evidence of the senses, especially in times like these, when the world seems to be spinning out of control, when there is a surge of belief in astrology, ESP, and other paranormal phenomena, spurred in part by a yearning to feel a sense of control. The mind looks a bit too hard for explanations, especially for those that let one be connected to a larger reality, a comfort bolstered by the thought of angels that are watching over one.

Yet none of this is ever so clear cut that one can see it straight out. Why is it all so invisible? Or, to say the same thing, “inter dimensional”? Because it is not really there.

Science, as it explains more and more each day, actually thus pushes people to seek even stranger sources of mystery and wonder, such as being abducted by aliens.

What makes abductees stand out is an inability to think scientifically. They are often asked if they understand that sleep paralysis, in which waking up during a dream causes the dream to leak into consciousness even while you remain immobilized, can produce the weird visions and hopelessness that abductees describe. They say that they do but that it doesn't apply to them.

It’s really more that they didn’t know what was happening and so they settled on abduction as the most plausible explanation, it being the simplest for such episodes as a pain in the groin being the stealing of sperm by shadowy figures of ETs. But are aliens really the most likely reason for bad dreams, nosebleeds and bruises?

As for religion, it seems that humans are more irrational than rational in the human need to find meaning and purpose in life—over any attachment to empiricism, logic or objective reality.

As for other paranormal events, it’s not too far a step to see or hear what they are thinking intensely about through mental imagery.

So, there are no ETs abducting anyone. OK, that’s done. (Just joking again)


Tonight I will be wearing special night vision goggles to help me see some real ghosts and spirits, as again, they are near to invisible.

Probably just the thought of someone being in the area, in the old days, gave a sense of spirits being around.

[austintorn@aol.com]

As living pearls we’re strung out right and left,
Lovely and beautiful on the Earth’s breast.
Her bosom heaves, and one by one we’re cleft:
A thousand truths die, until none are left.

There is an old churchyard,
a large one that yet yawns to receive the deceased, as it has for 300 years.
Real cobwebs stretched across the archway…

Angel statues beckoned us in,
but were really just there to carry forth the souls of the dead to the heavens…

An inscription read:

All the world’s wealth can’t extend the power
That drains the cup and withers the flower.
What would be the price of a moment’s breath
Purchased from Death’s hand at this final hour?

As promised, we mummies had crept on into the heart of the graveyard,
even letting it get to us so as to be totally receptive,
and saw some freshly covered graves…
our rosy cheeks and warm breath exhaling mist—
the only life here in Corruption’s dim dwelling place,
decrepit death everywhere around and underground
as the Earth’s final benediction composed for the decomposing…

Alarmed, we wandered among some tombstones,
Under which rested little more than bones,
Where from the life had fled when dreams were dead,
Which under us became life’s stepping stones.

Not all poems are pleasant—some speak of death,
Of life’s end, separate by just a breath
We saw tombstones overgrown, under swept,
Names unknown—and to all the message saith:

Read Me, it said, engraved beyond the brink,
You, who live, up above: of life go drink;
And you, underneath, now lying so dead:
Rest in peace, RELAX—it’s later than you think!

…but we saw no souls rising, heard nothing,
and noted nothing unusual at all in any way whatsoever,
nor could we ever,
for invisible they all were and are and ever will be.

Although it felt quite spooky, we knew that this feeling only came from an association with invented legends,
but we could understand how and why they could have been made up, for, in the old days,
when there was some sound or movement heard,
but nothing found, they still suspected someone or something about,
such as spirits and ghosts.

—Whence Cometh Our Help —

Born from stardust and nourished by sunlight,
I’ve filled my cup with wonders of delight.
Life is a treasure, a radiant gem,
A vision that I’ll never see again.

From the cold night beneath the stars… back…
to the warmth… of the log fire…

The stars are eternity’s running-lights—
They shine, even through the fathomless night!
From what bright star came the gleam in your eyes?
To what distant sun returns your smile’s light?

[austintorn@aol.com]

…the following is but imagined for this spooky night…

Holding hands, we then walked through a dense woods filled with shadows and mist. An old witch suddenly sprung up behind us, she being the specter of fear and all that was worrisome. “What is your deepest fear?” the witch asked of me. “Hell, death? Which shall it be? How about Heaven? Is that it? Chose one.”

“I banish you,” said I, “for death is merely the natural end of all living things. What has no death has therefore no life principle! My turn to live never would have come if it were not for the deaths of those who came before me. As for Heaven and Hell, those are only conditions that we create within ourselves: We turn our souls inside out to create a Heaven from the terrible image within. Hell arrives when we make our own difficulties in life by not using common sense. However, I do have one fear, although just one alone.”

“What is that fear?” asked the witch, her hopes suddenly rising, although her form was already beginning to fade away for the lack of my anxiety.

My partner answered for me, for she was my opposite twin and could think my thoughts, “His one and only fear is that of not living well!” And with that answer the specter of fear vanished like mist unrolled on the morning wind.

We moved on bravely now, continuing to hum the two-part Pachelbel canon, its soulful music sweeping us ever onward, upward, inward, and outward as our voices blended and parted, weaving in and out.


Before we could ponder further, we came upon another section of the cemetery and therein we stopped cold and abrupt, for there was an empty grave right in front of us. We jumped right into it so that we could better read the gravestone’s inscription. It read:

The Last Remembrance


En-graved is “THE END” of your earthly sigh:

Six sides ’round you: five are dirt, one is sky.

Shov’ling, Death talks to you at last and says:

“What were you doing during all of nigh?”

A little girl soon arrived with a withered rose and said, “Those who live must learn of death so that all the better they may live. Run along now, you two, before Death himself arrives with his shovel, for you are standing in a grave site. Which of you is ready for him? Behold my rose as you go and note my eternal youth—for that which never can die must be forever young!”

[austintorn@aol.com]

The brain also evolved to recoil from danger, which, way back when, were usually living things. Thus we tend to impute vitality to even inanimate threats, such as to the clothes worn by a murderer. (We wouldn’t touch them.)

The ideas of spirits and souls appearing in this world becomes more plausible if we believe in general that the nonphysical can transfer over to the physical world. From there it is only a small step to believing.

There is a clear survival advantage to imputing aliveness and asking questions later. That’s why, during human evolution, our ancestors developed what is called a hypersensitive agency detection device. Whether it’s a rock formation or a hungry bear, it’s better to assume it’s a hungry bear.

Defaulting to the “It’s alive” assumption was of such considerable value that evolution provided us with greater sensitivity to the presence of living agents than we needed. We respond to the slightest hint or indication of agency by assuming their are living things present.

Developing ideas about ghosts and spirits is simple a derivative of this hypersensitivity to the possibility that a living being is present.

[austintorn@aol.com]

The belief that minds are not bound to bodies reflects a deep dualism in the human psyche. No matter how many times neuroscientists assert that the mind has no existence independent of the brain, some still think of our essence as mental, and of our mind as being independent of the body.

Once you've signed onto that, existence after death is really quite natural.

And yet, they won't/can't explain, for it is all invisible…

…and what is visible, the brain, is ignored…

???

[austintorn@aol.com]

This dualism of both mind and body is deeply ingrained in some humans; there is such a drive to know everything that the rational is bypassed in this quest; however, one cannot really know everything, as the nature of the origin of the universe is unknown and also long gone. Yet, they must know…

Even now, after decades of brain research and revelation, there are still those, who, using their mind and not their brain, will say [with no basis], after neglecting science's brain findings altogether:

"I am not just a bag of chemicals!"

And yet, every atom of which they are made is chemical, including such energy as photons emitted by atoms and such…

…as is every reaction in their bodies and brains…

[austintorn@aol.com]

Humans have become suckers for weird beliefs. They are even ecourgaged by brain systems that evolved for other things. For example, a bundle of neurons in the superior parietal lobe, a region toward the top and rear of the brain, distinguishes where your body ends and the rest of the world begins, this being quite a useful feature. Without it, we would bump into everything.

However, other areas send “turn off” signals to this area when we are falling asleep, having sex, praying, chanting, or meditating deeply.

One then feels part of something larger than one’s self; however, one is not. When the brain is unable to find the dividing line between self and world, the brain adapts by experiencing a sense of holism and connectedness. This then promotes other beliefs that bring a further sense of connection, even if they involve alien kidnappers.

So it is that the brain is hijacked rather than the person being abducted. Those who still wish to be abducted can claim that the ETs only tune in on one’s own electromagnetic fields which alter greatly in the stages of sleep. Why is it ever the case that believers will grasp onto just that which will still explain and allow the abductions? Well, that is human nature gone to extreme, too.

Also, the quiteus of this same brain areas leads some to figure that they have become one with the cosmos or with God during meditation, but, alas, it is only that induced floating feeling of oneness.

Anyway, do avoid meditating while going to sleep, as was often warned about back in the early days of TM… long before the latest rash of aliens were thought to be probing your body for information. At least they are nice enough to return you; however, for some reason they can never learn enough, so they have to continue abducting on and on…

Sometime in the future of this thread: an actual meditation trip.

[leskey]

Hi, Mikal.

Our ignorance of the ancients intelligence is immense.

...YOUR knowledge of the ancients IS immense.

"I will give you new ears to hear" pertaining to the ability to know and understand the meaning behind all words, also Taurus means..."the Labyrinthe"...pertaining to a nerve deep in the inner ear...the journey through introspective consciousness, nerve conduction to the heart, the integration of consciousness which is simply uniting the brain in your head with the brain in your heart which produces electrical activity in the frontal lobes of the brain. One of Venus's several meanings..."to decipher." The ancients knew about all the planets, that is very evident in the meanings of their thought systems.

The highlighted section would have been pertinent to the ROE Thread!

Genesis 3:4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

You have concisely explained a great deal...

[leskey]

The brain also evolved to recoil from danger, which, way back when, were usually living things. Thus we tend to impute vitality to even inanimate threats, such as to the clothes worn by a murderer. (We wouldn’t touch them.)

The ideas of spirits and souls appearing in this world becomes more plausible if we believe in general that the nonphysical can transfer over to the physical world. From there it is only a small step to believing....

Developing ideas about ghosts and spirits is simple a derivative of this hypersensitivity to the possibility that a living being is present.

Hi, Austin.

...and yet the further science delves, the greater the justification of the "superstition."

Forensics can now prove that a paticular person was present in that shirt, for the murderer did indeed leave a part of himself (and where he'd been and who he'd accompanied) with it...

So was the superstition silly, or were some peoples' senses more fully developed? Who knows?