High Strangness

[Experiencer7]

On several episodes guests have been led reluctantly to discuss the weirder aspects of their research. Why not dedicate a show to the subject?
Crank up the "infinite probability drive" and see where we land.

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by xperiancer7

On several episodes guests have been led reluctantly to discuss the weirder aspects of their research. Why not dedicate a show to the subject?
Crank up the "infinite probability drive" and see where we land.

Actually, I've long felt that people who report, say, UFO encounters, tend to keep the stranger elements of their experiences to themselves. Or perhaps they might tell family members and close friends, but they don't want to reveal the "high strangeness" aspects, because people might regard them as crazy.

In short, this information might be a key to understanding what really happened to them.

[Irishseekers]

Originally Posted by xperiancer7

On several episodes guests have been led reluctantly to discuss the weirder aspects of their research. Why not dedicate a show to the subject?
Crank up the "infinite probability drive" and see where we land.

I have had strange stuff go on in my life do i now what it was Hell Know people are going to either believe you or not i dont really care it doesnt really take away from what i saw.People should not be afraid to speak ufos is a weird enough subject on it's own but we need all case's to be know so to fully understand this phenomen or get some little understanding at least

[Ally]

Maybe there should be a section of your "very personal" experiences. Even with that I don't think most people, including myself, are going to write about certain experiences. I have already crossed a certain comfort zone on this forum already. Not that I should care that much what other people think.

[Experiencer7]

Four years ago., on a cool, sunday morning., I carried a stack of personal journals., ('bout 18 inches tall) to my back yard. I stoaked up the BQ pit., and burned every damned one of them. The dreams continued., the weird, overwhelming incidents of synchronicity, precognition, semi-physical and physical manifestations also continued.,(unrecorded). Prayer was seemingly ineffective. So I sought medical aid. By this time., I was in pretty bad shape. They put me through a range of ineffective anti-depressants and anti-psychotics., until paranoid., suffering from auditory hallucinations., estranged from my wife and family., and on the verge of suicide they prescribed seroquil. Within a week., the dreams were all but gone., the voices faded. I am fortified to deal with the rest of it now. No., it has'nt ended. But my obssesion has. I can strike a genuine, unguarded smile now. I have my wife, my kids and grandkids. I was diagnosed with schizoid affective syndrome.,(schizophrenia). Many of my experiances fall into question due to the nature of this disease. I have come to terms with that. But it does not invalidate all of it. There were witnesses in many instances. Now., to all of you who are afraid to pour out your souls on this forum., stop being wussies.

[subject x]

I would enjoy a "high strangeness" episode.
It would probably be tough to get anyone even semi-credible to talk about it, though.

[Poi]

Other than a couple of incredible ufo sightings, one maybe-ghostly-but-pleasant visitation, a few stunning, seemingly intuitive events and some odd results in awareness experimentation, I'm a paranormal wall flower, interested, but not terribly experienced.

However, in the interest of baring my soul I've mentioned within these paracastical walls that my spouse of 29 years is finally opening up to me about his experiences, but it comes in dribs and drabs. I pull on that door handle occasionally because of his reluctance and I don't get much ... something I'm thankful for because I have a hard time handling it.

This isn't the guy I married, folks. This is a person who never reads or watches anything on TV about the paranormal, ufo stuff, nor is he interested in quantum science. Still, he tells me things, snippets of things that confirm he is in contact with someThing or someOne, much like the stories of abductees/contactees.

Except that he is occasionally extremely intuitive ... like I had a little upset stomach one day like everyone gets occasionally and he was sure it was serious enough to warrant a visit to a specialist ... who did confirm gall stones which resulted in surgery. One little upset stomach! Not so weird by itself except that he does this kind of thing often.

He has asked me to never relate what he's told me thus far, but there isn't anything he's said that doesn't match what some other contactees have said. He either omits the even stranger parts in his revelations or he may ignore them. Maybe he takes the contact for what it seems to be, too ephemeral to describe. We haven't had that discussion yet, but it's coming or at least I hope it is.

The one thing I think it necessary to quote, despite his request that I not repeat anything is, "They don't look like the THAT." Said with a lot of disdain, I might add. He'd walked into the kitchen where I was watching a show where Greys were depicted. He sat there for a few minutes and had had enough of the nonsense.

I have no idea who he's talking to or that he is really even in any contact at all. I've no idea if he goes to them in his dreams or while awake, but I know he is capable of visiting them while doing what he calls "leaving his body." He takes his ninety year old stepmom to church, closes his eyes and travels during those episodes. Having never heard of oobes, he's described how he leaves his body through his head and can see the congregation beneath his awareness. I've confirmed doing what he said I was doing here at home during some of those episodes ... except that I know he's intuitive so I don't put much stock in his apparent oobes. Those awareness experiments of mine seem to point to our having the ability to know more than we think we can anyway.

So I'm not sure if I'm only getting all this in a very slow leak because he's kept it secret for so long and/or because the very nature of what he has to discuss is so stunning, coming from who I thought was a regular Joe. Absolutely no one could have told me I'd be hearing this from him, not ever. I remain stunned.

[Ally]

Poi,
That is almost sad that your spouse felt the need to hide a part of himself from you. Would you have not married him if you knew this befroe hand or would you have felt closer to him?

[Poi]

That's easy to answer in hindsight, Ally. He's the same guy in every way most of the time and I've never felt we shouldn't have been married. Still, when the once secretive subject comes up, it's as though I'm in Never Land. If I'd known any part of this story before I married him, I'm not so sure I'd have married him just because I was a very different person all those years ago. I berate myself for all my prejudices surrounding the issue. He has a much better handle on what happens to him than I do.

So in a way, we're closer for his admissions because he trusts me to, at least, empathize now what I wouldn't have been able to handle AT ALL in my youth. I do a mental wig-out though. He's just fine with his mysterious other life because he compartmentalizes. I guess he learned much earlier than I that life isn't black and white. I was attracted to that so I might have married him anyway. Hard to guess.

[Experiencer7]

"ay, there's the rub"., to quote the bard. Potentially thousands/hundreds of thousands of genuine experiencers unable to share their data. An untapped pool of information. The highest common denominator of these accounts could be the key to understanding. "Blessed are the meek. For they shall inherit the earth." What then of the brave? Shall they inherit the stars?