I haven't been able to find much at that site in the way of textual presentations of goals and methods of the research. I'd appreciate any links to such. In the meantime, following references to Bruce Duensing's work, I've read a number of his blogged texts and find his ideas challenging and intriguing.
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I'm also interested in reading his blog entitled "Intangible Materiality," linked at the above site, but that second blog is by invitation only. Does anyone here know his email address and can you pm it to me so that I might ask him for permission to read that blog? Thank you.
Much of the discussion regarding the co-creative process gets outlined in the Misterioso episode with Duensing, Greg Bishop's Paracast episode, my episode on the Paracast and on both our episode threads. These ideas were fairly well detailed in those threads and you were a participant for a bunch of that as I recall. I used the Babadook movie as an example of how we can create discontinuity in our lives.
I'll scroll through those threads and post some relevant links. Duensing and Bishop go into this co-creative process in depth on the Misterioso ep. But I would summarize it like this:
The UFO experience is a discontinuous event comprised of who the witness is prior to the experience, the phenomenon itself, the experience of the phenomenon and then finally the after effects of the UFO experience. While the UFO stimulus remains unknown, we can investigate the witness and understand their psycho-cultural context just prior to their experience. This psycho-social profile appears to greatly influence the nature of the experience providing ship and humanoid memes over different cultural eras.
The experience of the phenomenon is a biological sensory processing event, which is a limited experience: limitations of grey matter computation, limitations in how we may be processing unknown stimulus, perhaps even a stimulus that stretches our own capacities for shape, color, speed sound etc. causing our own processing systems to do the best they can under duress. Keep in mind this processing may be frequently taking place in a brain that is both flooded with all sorts of neurochemistry, might be flooded with fear, increased heart rates, pressure on the optic nerve as well as the potential for EM fields to be affecting those witnesses in close proximity in an even more significant manner when it comes to how time passes, hallucinatory events etc.
The UFO event also has these other features: we often see what we expect to see, culturally front-loaded sets of images and memes that define what the UFO should look like, witnesses who share events often produce contrary image reports, timelines and experiences. Preceding such events are other commonalities in the witness: high stress in their lives, a string of bad luck, ill health, family trauma etc.. These preceding events along with the UFO experience and the fallout of these events form a discontinuos narrative that the witness alone works to make sense of. That's an important frame to the whole of the UFO event. At the centre of the frame is often a destabilized individual under high stress.
But at the exact moment of stimulus, of seeing something impossible or unfamiliar, under a series of unique biological, psychological and cultural circumstances, the mind must still process what is being seen and the brain will make sense of it the best it can, providing, or backfilling the narrative as Duensing would say, to produce the image of the UFO we expect to see, or at least make sense of a liminal experience the best it can. The issue of liminality is particular to the abduction experience and how the default brain network may play a central role in assembling the discontinuos narrative into some type of linear experience that can be integrated into the normalcy of our lives.
This way of thinking helps to explain or provide insight into decades of variance, cultural parallels and patterns to the experience (ship sizes, shapes, capacities that appear to be just ahead of our ability and other variances such as actions of the ships or humanoids, especially feelings of intimacy e.g. experiences of telepathy, knowledge of personal facts, names etc. ) as well as why there is so little physical evidence, so much internalization to the experience and may even cause us to reconsider evidence that has been amalgamated into a linear narrative that may have no connection to the initial stimulus at all beyond chance e.g. the glowing fairy ring of fungus may get integrated into the landing tale of a UFO experience that may not be connected at all to that stimulus. Does that make any sense?
Btw, this in no means is an attempt to explain away all UFO events as purely internal evens, though some may just be that, but it is a model that tries to integrate various aspects & features of this experience into a possible framework, to perhaps know parts of the phenomenon a bit better.
