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Solar, your topic is a timely one and has been the subject of discussion here on numerous occasions. Because you do have a point. Something about the UFO phenomenon tends to stick in the craw, neither digesting nor allowing itself to be purged over a lifetime of Mulder-like search for the...

We would probably agree that some words are more anthropomorphically loaded than others and that "progress" lies at the high end of that scale. It probably should be discarded. But I toss it in as a kind of place holder for a hypothetical natural process that results in ever increasing...

My usual disclaimer: The dog ate my homework for this thread so I am responding in a limited way to a few of the most recent posts. Hoping this is relevant to the discussion: It was drummed into me in reading work of the Sephen Jay Gould school that the notion of progress in biological...

I don't find this at all hard to believe. Two or three times in my life I have seen our pets clearly demonstrate levels of comprehension dogs and cats don't 'officially' have.

John Podesta's top regret on leaving the White House is he didn't reveal the truth about UFOs - Vox

Ha ! A good one. :) Only took me a full day to get it. :oops:

It's interesting and maybe a little telling to compare language expression in taped interviews done in the U.S. as compared with other English speaking countries--or sometimes even countries where English is a second language. Friends and neighbors: When it comes to expressing ideas, we are a...

Somewhat convincing. It would be interesting to have the original film evaluated.

To paraphrase what SpaceBrother said of UFOs: We find ourselves seeking evidence for things that do not adhere to our rules of evidence. I see the collective unconscious and other things in depth psychology and philosophy to fall within this category. Imagine sighting a strange animal in the...

A perusal of information about cattle mutilations, just on the FBI's official website alone, should be enough to convince the reader that there is enough smoke around this subject to indicate a strange fire. (much of the posted material is apparently in the form of photos taken of printed...

If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Chris, Thanks for the link. I think we have reached a point in our ability to study and control our own minds such that the psychedelic genie, in one form or another, is on its way out of the bottle. We know too much about our own brains to simply outlaw and ignore the altered state.

In America, at least, hundreds of thousands of children lack this kind of interpretive guidance and are left to assimilate what they have seen in the so very inadequate context of the inexperienced child's mind. A great observation. One my peeves is shock-and-awe marketing. It's fashionable...

Here is the crux of the matter for today's societies. After many decades of glowing screen hypnosis, I'm not at all sure we understand the functional relationship between exposure to virtual media vs reality. Or most directly, the effect of a child's spending crucial and largely...

It has indeed passed into the realm of classic American folklore. Attempts to integrate it and other events of that year into the larger context of documented American history are doomed to failure. I think, however, that it will in some small degree live on in a limited segment of public...

So--your take on reports of heavy handed suppression of witness testimony is that it's all so much small town urban myth? I don't mean this facetiously, but in asking your opinion regarding how so many (again) seemingly high credibility participants have claimed (albeit in retrospect) to...

An overblown comedy of errors cannot be ruled out. But yes, an official press release with virtually non-ambigious pronouncement that "we" had our hands on one of the flying discs that were so much in the pubic mind at that time--at least in New Mexico--is abby normal to say the least. And...

Burnt--Isn't bypassing the ego to meddle with the subconscious at least in part what the UFO is all about? It's almost as if the phenomenon has the equivalent of a hacker's "back door" into the operating system of the mind.