08//27/17 - Rey Hernandez, Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters plus Miracles, Ghosts and Animals behaving strangely

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Odd news highlights this week - plus a few paranormal extras

• Miracle at Sacre-Coeur. Nun prays. Woman walks. BBC "Edited monologue by Abigail Brown."Other than the BBC link, I can find no additional details for this story. 
• Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel, features the old Albion State Normal School in Idaho. IdahoStateJournal. Filming in July, done in secret to prevent the locals from interrupting the shoot. Interviews include a former campus caretaker. Yes, he believes. 
• Kansas Spooky highlights include a 2013 note from Ariana Grande - who said a trip to the Cemetery in Stull, KS made a memorable impression. KC 
• Ghosts of Kansas State University: PrairieGhosts, Ghosts of KU: TheKansan
• Ghost Investigation at Sigma Nu, KU: LJW  - Yes, it is haunted. I was there for the investigation and follow-up. Ghost removed my necklace (in the basement during the report to the students, just to prove a point). Cheeky. Point made and appreciated.
• Ghosts of Kansas - KansasPress 
• Eight week course: Science of Happiness. Free at Link. Starts 09/04/17
• Meet Hennessy - the Dog who has his own room/cupboard under the stairs. UPI 
• Animals behaving strangely offer a clue about the severity of Hurricane Harvey -
  - Otis the Dog bags a sack of food to carry back home - prior to flooding. HuffPost
  - Hawk takes cover in a Cab, shows no desire to leave the vehicle. Several videos are posted by William Bruso/YouTube, including a final update. The Hawk was retrieved by TWRC, an area wildlife rescue organization. YouTube

Connecting a few dots here, I'm not the only one who has experienced paranormal activity in addition to a UFO/ET encounter. Joining me on Wendy's Coffeehouse/KCMO Talk Radio is Rey Hernandez, an Experiencer (listen to the extraordinary story of how the family dog was healed) and one of the co-founders of FREE, The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters. Wendy's Coffeehouse Podcast Link  Rey has the most recent results of the FREE survey and details about the upcoming book, due in 2018.

As for Rey's story, we've covered that in previous interviews on Conscious Living. Here, Rey talks with Michael Harrell of the Disclosure Gift Project. 2016



Rey mentions multiple sightings and experiences with people in white robes. My experience happened in the early 90's. I heard faint conversation at the end of the bed. Woke up to see two individuals in robes discussing me while looking at a chart. One of the two - I could not see faces - said, "She's awake," and they vanished. I am still curious about that event but my biggest question: What was on that chart?  

In the interview with Michael, Rey referenced Dr. Claude Swanson's book, The Synchronized Universe. I have two of his books and interviewed Claude several years ago in conjunction with an appearance in Topeka, KS. Very helpful and worth reading.

A few basics about FREE:
- FREE is not a Ufology organization. The purpose is to explore the possible nature of “Consciousness” by examining the role and impact on one’s reported spiritual and behavioral transformations as facilitated through various extraordinary experiences.

- English language research data results from Phase 1 and 2 has recently been published in the Journal of Consciousness. To date, over 3,500 subjects have participated in the English Language Phase 1 survey from over 110 different countries. Surveys are also running in Spanish, German, French, Slovak, and soon in Cantonese Chinese.  

Coming soon - the book: Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non-Human Intelligence

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Reality Chequered - Messages, Mediums and Websurf Divination

“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” - Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, The Mechanical Bride, Marshall McLuhan Estate




How did I get to the above info? Twitter: I follow Callum Cooper, Telephone Calls from the Dead/Amazon, and did a quick search to follow his latest activities. 

That led to a long read he had bookmarked on StrangeHistory: The Earliest Telephone Call from the Dead. Found more than one item of interest in that piece, including this one: source. Another referenced a book called, The Automaton Ear.

Curious, I searched and came up with this post on books, NYTimes, detailing the fascinating story of Marshall McLuhan and that review opened up several important issues -

Example: In "Understanding Media," McLuhan suggests that electric modes of communication--telegraph, radio, television, movies, telephones, computers--are similarly reshaping civilization in the 20th century. Whereas print-age man saw one thing at a time in consecutive sequence--like a line of type--contemporary man experiences numerous forces of communication simultaneously, often through more than one of his senses.

"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perception and arbitrary values."  - Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964

• Marshall McCluhan's Biography: Brainpickings 
• Wired: Why McCluhan Matters 
• On the 2017 (upcoming) CBC 7/28/17 Broadcast: Globe and Mail 
• The Guardian: Douglas Coupland on McCluhan: "It's cliche at this point, but if McLuhan is known for anything it's "The medium is the message." MIT.pdf. But I wondered what happens when the message doesn't matter, or, as we're seeing it, what happens when people don't care if the message is a lie?" 
• Google Doodle - McCluhan/07/22/17 
• Overview of McCluhan's history and influence on our timeline. pdf
• Notes on the most recent retrospective of his work: McCluhanGalaxy.wordpress
• Audio of Marshall McCluhan at Official Site for the Estate

Knowing vs. understanding. Def: Philosophy. It would seem there is a huge level of Tech Blindness in our ability to discern knowing and understanding regarding the subtle and pervasive influence of Media beyond use as a sales tool (in all forms). 

- Suggest Social Media Under-the-Influence-Ignorance Danger Zone now sits at a Yellow Tango level. Stepping on toes is part of the scene. Stopping is an option. Music stops. No harm, no foul.

- When and If this engagement morphs to Social Media Under-the-Influence-Ignorance Bull Fight Red level, music is irrelevant. Conditionally enraged Bull's sole purpose is take down. No discussion, no argument. Dancer in fight garb has not been trained as he considered the Bull a source of entertainment until the door opened to the ring.

Odds are, the game is not what it seems. 

McCluhan's bread crumbs? Learn about media in multiple forms and the purpose behind it: to engage energy (to shift behavior/emotion). In his words, "By knowing how technology shapes our environment, we can transcend its absolutely determining power."

The good fortune for HI (Human Intelligence). All things are possible.
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Phone calls from the Dead? McCluhan died in 1980 but he foresaw the issues now front and center in our timeline. How interesting the Medium fueled an information redirect via Twitter.


Tangential association: Callum Cooper also authored Conversations with Ghosts, about acclaimed Psychic Alex Tanous.

Shortly after reading that book, I had a visionary encounter. Took me by surprise but I had no doubt about the identity of the person who came walking toward me with a long stride and sense of direct purpose. Dressed in black, he had the distinctive mustache and a very deliberate gaze. It seemed he had something to give me and I automatically held out my hands. He smiled and, making no attempt to speak, handed me two items.

Ever-present, manifesting in each and every thought.   

I don't remember the position at the moment but, in one hand he gave me a wrapped present. White paper with a red bow.

In the other hand he gave me a celery heart with the beginning stalk just starting to bloom. I realized later that was an image I posted as an icon a few years ago and had photographed while trying to start celery from the leftover celery heart.

He turned and went back to a dark colored car that I cannot describe because it happened too fast.

My interpretation. The future is in our hands. What we do with the present is up to us. Manifesting our creation with each and every breath, we are capable of so much more than has yet been acknowledged. Our minds are endowed with extraordinary potential. Ref: Ingo Swann - Super Powers of the Human Biomind

Learning to work with and upgrade conscious knowing and intended thought in the present state is the challenge. To avoid recreating a past, escape the seductive embrace of the nostalgic and envision a solid and fully fleshed out (Utopian) future. Sci-Fi has been enthusiastically seeding this area (toying with dark and light aspects) for decades and the results are evident. Level up! 



Relative Notes: 
Graham Hancock's page - creation theme image echos the celery stalk symbol: Awakening Osiris
Medium - intervening state. Talking to Nightlights
Knowing vs. Understanding - Head full of Math, Genius level: 5 minutes with Richard Feynman
Laughing Squid: How to Solve the Information Paradox in the Event a Black Hole Deletes the Entire Universe. Oh, what a relief!

SciXFriday, AI and the Odds n Ends that make life Interesting

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts, The quote appeared in a 1919 book titled “A Shadow Passes” that contained a collection of vignettes depicting scenes in nature. Quote Investigator

A few short newsy bits ...

• IBM: AI will Augment Human Beings. Futurism
• Creativity, the next upgrade for AI.  IBM opened the floor to a few experts. IBM
• Hacking AI - Already! Party's over. QZ
• Lost and found - (add magic) BoredPanda 
• Woman finds ring on carrot: BBC - Ring 1/Sweden 2011, Mashable - Ring 2/2017
• Fake News before it became a meme: Guy Sims Fitch, invented by US Government. Props to the name dept. PaleoFuture.Gizmodo
• Dying art? Paste Magazine = Prank phone calls, a history. More shenanigans: Art of the Prank
• Corgi vs. Chicken .. DUCK! TwistedSifter

Directed by British filmmaker Magali Barbé, the self-funded sci-fi flick makes you think you are watching a commercial and then... Lost in technology? Strange Beasts will make you wonder.


Strange Beasts from Magali Barbé on Vimeo.

According to the filmmaker, "I just wanted to make a hoax video in a first place: I thought: “Ey, let’s make a fake commercial, about a pretend VR or AR game, and just post it online, and drive people crazy because the game will look so cool...” - Home Page: Maglibarbe

On the flip side - and darker in every aspect. This Sci-Fi Short (Augmented) directed by Ross Peacock. Produced by Ben Mortimer of Black Arrow Pictures explores AI with a dollop of Philip K. Dick. Hints as to why Elon Musk calls AI the, "biggest risk we face as a civilization" - Entrepreneur, and keeps sounding the alarm to hit the 'hold' button on unilateral integration of AI platforms before the situation becomes impossible to reverse. 

Coming up on Wendy's Coffeehouse -

8/27 - Rey Hernandez - Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters/FREE at Experiencer.Org. UFO Contactee studies ongoing. Results suggest the phenom is happening on multiple levels of awareness. Consciousness Studies 
9/3 - Dr. Richard House - Voice told him when he was a teenager, he would die at age 33. Subsequent NDE life reorientation induced a profound mystical awakening, Between Now and When
9/10 - Annie Kagan - The Afterlife of Billy Fingers, life after death revelations from a brother who checks back in. Book Promo on YouTube

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