During the Solar Eclipse yesterday, although clouds hid the sun here, the energy was palpable. I’ve been feeling a growing breathlessness for a week now, and yesterday I yawned until my jaws ached, and then sobbed my heart out, releasing some of the pressure surging inside me as I watched the moon gradually cover the sun on the NASA channel.
Last evening, still sizzling, I got to bed early and saw the movie “Arrival”, about a visitation of 7-fingered oceanic aliens who come in peace to help humanity, but are misunderstood by our military and barely escape being destroyed in a full-out ‘counter-attack.’ What saves the day is a beautiful young woman who succeeds in understanding their language and saves the world through trust and love, and meets the man of her dreams in the process!
I totally believed every bit of it, down to the 7-fingered aliens who communicate by squirting squid-ink glyphs in the water!
I’m a sucker for these fantasies. In fact, though, there are stranger things than that happening in the real world, believe it or not. Most don’t get into the popular media, but many of us are following them elsewhere and letting each other know of our finds. The internet is a treasure trove of information, and easy travel makes it possible to go see them for yourself – like crop circles and megaliths, for example. I’ve been doing that for years.
Some twenty ago I brought my skeptical husband to the megalithic alignments in Brittany, which he had summarily dismissed as a geological anomaly after seeing the pictures from my first trip to Carnac. I will never forget that moment, watching him gaze out at the array of massive stones marching, twelve rows across, through the actual landscape as far as the eye could see, the wind riffling his hair, when he breathed out,
“Holy Mackerel!”
That was a great moment for me.
So here are some of my favorite mysteries, and I’d like you to do me the favor of noticing your own immediate reactions to them:
– Crop circles.
– Skeletons of human giants in North America.
– Advanced civilizations on Earth thousands of years before the Egyptian pyramids.
Humanoid mummies in caves on the Nazca plain in Peru, as well as the immense drawings on the Nazca plain itself, detectable only from the air.
To our mainstream belief system, phenomena like these are put in the ‘lunatic fringe’ category, not worth more than a glance, if that. Unexplained anomalies have been considered, by the academic establishment, as heresy, “Heresy that must be gently but firmly stamped out…” because they do not fit into the accepted mold of what is considered possible in the world.
All that means to me is that the accepted paradigm needs to expand to include a reality much larger and more complex than what we can see with our eyes or measure with our instruments.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” says Hamlet to his friend. Shakespeare, of course, got it.
We may be too scared to look, but that does not mean they do not exist. I am one of those who wishes to look, because evidence of a larger version of reality feels right to me – it fits – while the standard view of the world feels tight, and leaves out too much. There is little sense in pretending we live in a smaller world than we actually do, as that obviously restricts our lives and imaginations to only a fraction of our birthright! And yet, people have gotten burned at the stake for believing in this larger, more complex reality, much less practicing in it.
I find it still not always safe to speak my mind.
I recall a dinner gathering here of my son’s Astronomy friends, and the conversation turned to gossip about one colleague whose irritating ideas drove the others crazy. What I was hearing sounded perfectly reasonable to me, so I asked,
“What if he’s right?” The table turned suddenly quiet, and there was uneasy laughter. One fellow finally spoke up,
“If he’s right,” he said, “then we’re all out of a job. We’d have to re-think everything we know.”
“Not to mention our funding,” muttered another.
Nor your status with your colleagues, nor your livelihood, I thought sadly.
But they were speaking honestly and were willing to engage with me, which is not always the case.
Another time, a friend suffering with a migraine allowed me to put my hands on his head. I did what I know how to do until I felt the pain fade away to almost nothing. He took a deep breath, opened his eyes in gratitude, but then backed away from me, as if I were a witch.
“Oohh…no,” he said. “If what you did really works, I’d rather have my migraine back!”
So here we are on planet Earth at a seeming dead end, and something is definitely wrong. It’s all going out of control around us: the climate; the environment; the economy; the politics. We’ve been building up to this, so it’s not news. My guess is that the problem is systemic, and has been for a long time. The accepted mindset may indeed be ready to shed it old skins and make way for a much larger view of the reality we live in.
We still have time to ask the right questions and act on the answers.
Might the seemingly impossible be, in fact, possible? What if saying Yes could mean our survival? What will it take for us to pay attention to so-called heretical possibilities?
Take the crop circle enigma, for example – the perfection and beauty of extraordinary artworks in fields all over the world. What do they mean? Who or what is creating them? What does the geometry signify? The new ones are breathtaking; check them out: http://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2017-crop-circles
Have you heard about giant human skeletons being unearthed in North America?
http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/top-ten-giant-discoveries-north-america-005196
Then there is the recently discovered Gobekli Tepe in Turkey near the Syrian border, an enormous buried site dated at 9600BC, in process of being unearthed. Here is evidence of a sophisticated, artistic culture with a technology surpassing ours that academic archeology says is impossible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
There is more, much more. I love the new find on the Nazca Plain in Peru, where mummies have been discovered dated about 450AD, whose anatomy is humanoid, but are not entirely human. They are 3-fingered-and-toed with elongated skulls. The hoax factories are being insistent, but they don’t convince me. Check it out for yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZPDhPeQnRY
If even a portion of this information is true, and not somebody’s very elaborate hoax, then the Mystery remains. (Just one unexplained crop circle would do it, and there have been thousands all over the world.) That’s all we need to know – that there is more to who we are and have been than meets the eye.
I’d like to consider the Full Solar Eclipse of this week as a line in the sand between what was, and what will be, and to take up the challenge of asking unpopular questions, to open my mind as wide as I can and help to re-calibrate a larger, more dimensioned view of the world.
If that makes me a heretic, so be it.
Our lives may well depend on it.
