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Siani said:
digigeek said:
Come on now. Most of that curmudgeonly stuff is a put on. I'm older than you and I totally "get" and appreciate my kids, the things they like, the way they are very curious about their world, and I even like a lot of what they are into...and they like a lot of things from my youth that I have introduced to them.

You guys sound just like your Dad's did when you were younger. Remember how the music you liked made perfect sense to him? Not! Have you forgotten how you promised yourself you would never get that cynical?

Everything around you is input and is important in its own context. Soak it up, filter it, take the good knowledge from it and live a happy life.
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Maybe you understand kids because you have some. I don't - so there's nothing 'put-on' about my failure to understand today's kids. The only frame of reference I have is to my own childhood days, which were very different to the way kids live here in the UK these days. BTW, I'm not a guy! :)
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Its no put on in my case (yes I am a guy ... well actually I'm a schtick ... which is something altogether a bit more ... alien :D)) ... and I guess I'm just over generalising. But some kids today ... totally baffling ... oh there are good kids around, always are ... but some of them ... so toxically over-confident, so obnoxious, so into truly nasty stuff like hip-hop and rap which is soooo nasty now (I remember Public Enemy, now they were cool ... apart from old Flavor Flav who was just a nut-job, and at least they weren't into the whole 'gangsta' thing which is just crap beyond belief) ... blimey, it was never like that in my day ... or then again, was it?? :P

schtick (who worked in a kids technology camp in the UK in the mid-90s and 'instructed' something like 12,000 kids so knows a little bit about how kids tick ... especially in the mid 1990s :D)
 
Here is a vote for Chris O'Brien. I recently listened to Greg Bishop's 2005 interview with him and he seemed pretty rational and quite well informed on the subject of cattle mutilations. He seems to lean towards the Vallee interpretation. He cites Ray Stanford as a mentor.

I would also like to hear Ray Stanford. I don't know enough about him to have an opinion yet but what little I do know is intriguing. I would very much like to hear him discuss his efforts in the technical work involved in the original Project Starlight International.(NOT Greer's thing!)

"He expresses disdain for UFO conspiracy theorists who are always “begging the government to tell them the truth about these things.”

“That's a scientific cop-out. If you want real data, you go out with real instruments and attempt to get it. And if you do get it, you analyze it and publish it under peer review,” he said.

Stanford regrets that his UFO research, which he considers “an order of magnitude more important” than the dinosaur work, hasn't been accepted by the mainstream. But he's undeterred. When Stanford's wife retires from her job at NASA, the couple plans to move back to Texas, where Stanford will again devote himself to UFOs."
 
Yucky?

Is this topic not sexy enough for you?

Will, the modern ufo age may have started in 1947, but history of the phenoma goes back to the beginning of our history.

Aliens, hybrids, ancient culture--this story has it all.

If a whole show can be devoted to the Aztec Arizona crash, which rests on a very flimsy bed of evidence and a slab of concrete, then something of this huge magnitude with a great deal of corroborating evidence deserves a show.
 
Gene,

Not sure if this has been suggested before (I haven't read the whole thread), but, why not set up a poll to see who the most "wanted" guests are? You'd have a huge list to start with, but as you have these guests on, the list would soon whittle itself down.
 
Well, Will, I guess you see what you want to see.

You say it's been done to death. I find this criteria preposterous, when part of the modern stuff is 60 year old crashes that exist in a cloud of mythology.

Honestly, you seem like a very nice guy, and you'd probably be a good guy to sit around and shoot the shit with, but sometimes I think you've sealed your mind up tighter than a ziplock.
 
The topic of Nuclear weapons and UFO's are beingt alked about on two threads. Have you guys (Dave and Gene) ever thought about asking Col. Charles Halt on?
 
Well, fair enough, Will.

And don't think I haven't wondered if my brain isn't indeed full of heavily used toilet paper, as you put it, because I have yet to be able to define why I interract on these boards. At first, I felt I had a unique perspective on many things, and that I had something to offer to the community at large. After I realized that most people weren't interested in sharing ideas, and that this wasn't a think tank or hotbed of inventiveness, and that people come here to expound their beliefs or confirm what they want to believe, I kept coming here. Why? I can't answer that.

Maybe there is no place online to engage in serious theoretical work, and the general level of discourse is more or less equal to the ATS UFO subforum.

In any case, it looks like if I don't write a book and go on the paranormal radio/podcast circuit, then really no one cares what I have to say.

Well, it's seems I've answered my own delimna. I'll continue to listen to the show, but there's no reason to keep checking into the forum.
 
Scott Story said:
Maybe there is no place online to engage in serious theoretical work
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I've often wondered about this. I've seen hints that there are some high-signal private lists out there but I haven't found them yet. Maybe somebody should start one. You could lurk through all the other lists and forums and privately invite people that didn't post in all caps and 2000 word run-on sentences. I used to scan ufoupdates but even that was at least 50% ufology politics and since it went to subscription all that is left is a few forums and yahoo groups. It is really time consuming to wade through them all to find a signal. I do prefer a proper piece of forum software like the Paracast uses as it is useful to be able link and embed multimedia. Open forums have advantages and disadvantages to be sure.
 
"Transpersonal psychology, as it was born in the late 1960s, was culturally sensitive and treated the ritual and spiritual traditions of ancient and native cultures with the respect they deserve in view of the findings of modern consciousness research. It also embraced and integrated a wide range of anomalous phenomena, paradigm-breaking observations that academic science has been unable to account for. However, although comprehensive and well substantiated in and of itself, the new field represented such a radical departure from academic thinking in professional circles that it could not be reconciled with either traditional psychology and psychiatry or with the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm of Western science."

Excerpt from "When The Impossible Happens" by Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D.

I'm still on the fence when it comes to his therapeutic use of LSD, but I'm sure he would be a fascinating guest. His website is: Dr. Stanislav Grof
 
Excellent suggestion, I second Grof. I've read a lot of his work and while LSD played a big role in his earlier work I think his later stuff is much more evolved than psychedelics research. (Although personally I think this sort of thing is a valid scientific avenue - and so did society at one time, consider for example that LSD wasn't illegal back when researchers like Grof were building their body of work.)

His work is in some senses a successor to Jung's ideas, and Jung himself was very interested in UFO's and related concepts. He's probably one of the best authorities on transpersonal psychology around and would no doubt have a lot of views on "post-quantum" consciousness and the other areas where it seems like physics and mind are coming a lot closer to each other in "respectable" science.

Not to conflate Strassman with Grof (they are apples and oranges), I've mentioned Rick Strassman before... while I don't think Strassman would be as "rich" a guest as Grof, I do notice Strassman is doing a lot of podcast and radio interviews of late.
 
I suggest Brenda Denzler, author of The Lure of the Edge Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs.

Brenda Denzler received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Duke University and currently works in North Carolina as a writer and editor.

I haven't read the entire book so I'm unable to comment on it's entirety but I recently ran across the excerpted Chapter 3: Ufology: On the Cutting Edge or the Fringe of Science? It struck me as a very fair and accurate portrayal of where ufology, both historically and presently, stands in respect to mainstream science.

There is also a Google Books preview.
 
Stuart Miller, former publisher of UFO Review and current publisher and editor of Alien Worlds Magazine out of the UK. Stuart always has some interesting things to say.
 
I think Dan Sherman would be a good guest to have on the show based on the short interview I just heard on a podcast.

To me he came off like a down to earth guy who claims to have been an intuitive communicator in the military, but his stories are not as crazy as Clifford Stone or someone like that.

If his story is true, he could provide a really interesting look into the nature of how these projects operate. He did say during the interview that Bassett's idea of Obama or Clinton revealing anything is unrealistic and that the only way it would come out is if the people in charge want it to come out or some extremely far fetched scenario of being pressured by just the right people. He had several insightful comments and was pretty open in saying he doesn't know very much in terms of the larger picture and what he has been told could be false, so he is far from pretending to know everything and seems like a reasonable dude.
 
macavity said:
I think Dan Sherman would be a good guest
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Going by his website, I'd love to hear the political discourse on that show :D
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On second thought............ maybe not such a good guest :)

Wow, I just read the anti-Hillary rant from his blog, scary! But if his story is true it wouldn't surprise me that neocon types like him are the standard within that black budget world.
 
I emailed Sherman just shortly after we started The Paracast, asking him if he wanted to come talk with us, he claimed that he didn't have the time. It looks like he'll only go on shows with huge reach, in order to sell more books. Based on that blog, it also seems that he's quite the go-getter, in terms of making money as quickly as possible.

I've read his "book". I was not impressed.

IMO, it's absolute nonsense. He's got nothing to back his claims up, and he seems less than genuine.

I call bullturds on his story.

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