Paranormal Burnout: Is It Just Me?

[bonaventura]

I've been following the unusual and esoteric for a very long time. There's a certain cyclical pattern to my interest; sometimes it's almost obsessive, or at least a tar pit of procrastination, other times, it's just taking a passing glance. But these days, I feel as uninterested, almost impatient with apparitions, UFOs, bigfoot, genies, precognition, telepathy, mediums, and so on.

Everything I'm reading about now, I've read countless times before. It's not just that there's no resolution in sight for many of these things; it's the tedium, the lack of any really interesting new happenings, the constant recycling of the same evidence, the same arguments, and the same refutations. It's a paranormal Groundhog Day.

I suppose I ought to confess that my interest in these topics was never that of a dewy-eyed believer nor that of an "investigator" (the scare quotes aren't for Chris, needless to say) nor that of a skeptic crying, "Ecrassez l'infame." I'm just a member of the reading, listening, and viewing public who likes to stretch his imagination and his presuppositions from time to time, and has gained endless hours of innocent merriment following the antics of the fringier folks in the field. But now I spend most of my time looking back (which is why I love all the shows with Jim Moseley) at follies past, with a perverse satisfaction in the occasional Source A or Imbrogno imbroglio. Even Alfred Webre ceases to charm.

So, is it the field, or is it just me? What should I be looking at to get the old fires burning?

 

[mike]

Most people expect a return on their investment, but sadly the UFO enigma remains all questions and few answers.
Ive been interested in UFO's for as long as i can remember, my earliest conversations about the genre date to when i was about 4 years old, 40 odd years later ive yet to lose my enthusiasim for the topic.

I can understand unanswered questions can go stale after decades with no answer.

 

[Astrocat]

I can't say I understand being so new to the field . I'm sure you'll find a way to keep it fresh . Who are some of your favorite ufologist to follow and why ? What books would you reccomend to a newbie?

 

[tyder001]

I've been thinking about getting Hair of the Alien by Bill Chalker (I think I got that right) Gray Aliens and the Harvesting of Souls by Nigel Kerner and just about anything by Raymond Fowler. Although, I'm not a true believer in the E.T. experience there are some interesting people doing some interesting research. It's frustrating since there is no hard evidence. But, there is certainly a lot of provocative evidence such as sightings and accounts of contact. After all that's one of the ways we find truth. We are a species that handed down our most sacred stories by word of mouth and symbols. I'm interested in the alien abduction part of it simply because it reaches across so many different questions of what and who we are. Many here are more interested in the nuts and bolts aspect of it. I'll defer to them in matters of the best u.f.o. books to read.

 

[mike]

I've been thinking about getting Hair of the Alien by Bill Chalker (I think I got that right) Gray Aliens and the Harvesting of Souls by Nigel Kerner and just about anything by Raymond Fowler. Although, I'm not a true believer in the E.T. experience there are some interesting people doing some interesting research. It's frustrating since there is no hard evidence. But, there is certainly a lot of provocative evidence such as sightings and accounts of contact. After all that's one of the ways we find truth. We are a species that handed down our most sacred stories by word of mouth and symbols. I'm interested in the alien abduction part of it simply because it reaches across so many different questions of what and who we are. Many here are more interested in the nuts and bolts aspect of it. I'll defer to them in matters of the best u.f.o. books to read.

Ive been to presentations by bill, he's a dedicated researcher. I actually personally asked him to a paracast interview but he declined to do one, real pity that.

The Khoury case is perhaps the closest ive seen to a smoking gun
Hair of the Alien by Bill Chalker

The DNA results give the case some real physical evidence that is truly strange