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THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

When somebody sent a ping back on what’s been quietly parked on my blog onto his website (the headline isn’t what’s posted), I got inspired to rev up my energy to figure out what to do with it. A little while ago, I pointed Arianna Huffington at it — although we have a faint connection, she graciously answers my emails.

She told me to blog about it on Huffington Post.

Actually, I did blog there, briefly. I struggled for approval of my pieces during a probation period, and finally was told my topic was a bit off-putting.

I can relate. Scientists won’t sign my petition, A Call For an Investigation of What is Known About Crop Circles, that I wanted to get in the face of the establishment, cause it could threaten their funding.

Any thoughts out there about a Huffington Post blog for THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX? Any contributions? We could do a contest.

Oh god, another project.

Formula for Living

I have a new mantra, so to speak. Every so often, sometimes years apart, I get a new idea of a thought to be resting in — like Don Juan’s “assemblage point” in the Castaneda books. My new thought to be coming from is BE CONTENT, which brings me a wave of comfort whenever I think of it.

My movie has me consumed. I’m advised to take time off, to kick back at night, to have a life. But, thanks to the internet, there’s always more to do. Even writing blog posts. Always more. With BE CONTENT in mind, instead of fighting against my proclivity I just let it be. Much better. I can feel it even as I write it.

This isn’t new news in the big world. ‘Acceptance’ is my top of the list word. But being content is the doing of acceptance, acceptance also being a more complex concept.

What? Accept the horrors of the world? To accept them doesn’t mean to approve of them, but to recognize that what is is, which comes before trying to change things.

Oh, I expect I’m going to get a few backs up here. Accept Hitler? Well, yes. Oh gosh, there’s more that figures to be coming to me of what there’s always more of.

I came the closest to a mystical experience when I realized how vital acceptance is. It’s “being in the now,” as advocated perhaps most popularly at this time by Exkhart Tolle in books like, The Power of Now. My personal mystical sort of realization came with the idea that if one person did that totally, accepting everything (it came to me, sitting cross-legged on my bed, as “letting everything land in your lap”), we would have another Christlike being — and wouldn’t that be a wonderful model to have amongst us?! There would be no denying the power of the good that would emanate from such a person.

When I read this to a friend, I got this great quote back, “Contentment is the only true wealth!” Lau Tzu

A Cautionary Tale about Disclosure

This is a bit risky as a post because you may think it’s off the deep end. It’s that middle zone, where most people believe there is other intelligent life, but when it comes to evidence of that or claims about that, eyes roll up. Being a crop circle aficionado, I get my share — especially from what I’d characterize as intellectuals, who frequently get angry at me when I bring my topic up. That must be because I’m an intellectual and my fellow brainy folk must think I’ve abandoned them. (I was a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of NYU, which I display prominently in my promotion materials so I’m not taken as a nut case.)

So, with a wing a prayer, here’s one of the most interesting reports I’ve ever read. It’s about the nature of the visitors that I’d not known. And I give this report credence because it comes from Whitley Strieber, who is aces. He’d been a successful novelist before his abduction experiences, and then, with Communion: A True Story
, his first book about those experiences, he had himself a major best-setter.

I picked up these blurbs from the Amazon website:

“…COMMUNION is surely the most thought-provoking book on UFOs and alien visitation published so far.” — Rocky Mountain News

“A fascinating story…And it certainly could be true.” — Detroit News

“Powerful…Strieber’s storytelling ability makes his own terror and confusion feel real to the reader…Compelling reading.” — Seattle Times

“Powerfully written and involving!” — New York Times

“Should give second thoughts to even the most hardened skeptic!” — Dow Jones News

“Strieber comes through as both sensible and sincere…His book deserves to be taken seriously.” — Boston Herald

I’m legitimizing Whitley so you will click on to read a piece he’s just written, The Danger of Disclosure. I guarantee you’ve never thought about aliens the way Whitley presents them to us.

“One person who is never mentioned among those who might be involved in the disclosure process is me. Instead of allowing one of the very few people on earth, or indeed in its history, to have had much open contact to participate in the process in any way, I’m not simply marginalized, but carefully ignored on the theory that what I have to say would be too bizarre for people to accept.

“Personally, I don’t much care, but I do know that without even the virginal understanding I possess to add perspective, contact, should it follow disclosure, is apt to be a disaster for the human race…

“So, why would disclosure be dangerous? If it somehow leads to immediate and direct contact, it is going to devastate the human mind.”

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Whitley Strieber introduced What On Earth? at a Los Angeles screening