Spooky Action At A Distance
May 13, 2003
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
In my previous post I mentioned my friend with the computer problems (who also happens to be the one I wrote about on Sunday). She’s been under quite a bit of stress for the past few months as she has been finishing up her undergraduate degree. I’ve known her for nearly 14 years now, since we met when we were both in school at East Texas State University (now Texas A&M-Commerce). She quit school about the time I graduated and went out into the “real world”. A few years ago she decided to go back to school.
We’re both the same age (10 days apart) and sometimes we think spookily alike. But what’s more interesting is that sometimes I just get a sense that something’s wrong and shortly after that she’ll either send me an email or call. Or more interestingly, one time I had a dream that she needed my help and it was at the exact time she ran into the problem (it woke me up around 11:00pm one night, just a few minutes from the time she sent me an email).
I know that a lot of people refuse to believe that these sorts of things are possible, writing them off as coincidence or delusions, etc. However, I’ve encountered enough weird stuff in my life so far as to think that it’s the height of hubris to think that we know it all or to completely rule out such things. My belief is that these things are actually natural phenomena, it’s just that our science is not yet advanced enough to understand them (hence the title of this posting). Of course, that’s just a belief, and I can’t prove it.
I also commented the other day about coincidence, concerning getting an email from a friend I’d been thinking of contacting. When I mentioned this in my reply to him via email, he replied:
You know, I don’t know if I’m so quick to dismiss things as “coincidence.” I’ve seen some things that have concretely made me believe that there are things at work that we’re not aware of…whether it’s God or temporal distortions or little green men screwing with our heads who knows (but, any of these answers would be fascinating to KNOW for certain that they exist).
It would certainly be fascinating to know that they exist, but I suspect that that would open up a whole new set of questions to ponder.
Categories: Random Ramblings
Those things have happened to MB often enough she no longer dismisses them out of hand. Just because there is no current scientific proof for or against is no reason to disregard.
Sometimes I have to wonder where we as a collective people get off thinking that we have all the answers…that the culmination of the last 15 billion years or so would end with man as he is in 2003 with our Itanium processors and gas/electric hybrid engines.
It’s actually comforting to think/know/speculate that there may be forces at work that were not even enlightened enough to dream about yet.
This probably does not pertain , but, does the military use, or in the past, have they utilized something called ‘remote viewing’, or have I listened to too much late night radio?
Yes, I imagine I have.
But, the gentleman above, Rodney, speculates about possible forces and I wistfully think if we could discern those forces now, this planet seems rather in need of a few good ones. But, uhm, is there really such a thing as remote viewing in the military?
I think (and I may have been watching the same shows as you
that the CIA or the military may have toyed with remote viewing in the 60s or 70s. I don’t think it worked out, or at least that’s what the public line is at present. If they really had something like this working, I don’t think they’d tell anyone.
A brief bit of googling came up with this link: http://www.rviewer.com/main/history.html. I don’t know how accurate it is, but it implies that the CIA was involved with this as a defensive measure against what they perceived the Soviets to be up to at the time. I wish I could some across some definitive information on the topic (i.e. info directly from the government, rather than an outside source) that would say one way or another whether this was really a CIA program.
There’s a book out on the subject by the title “Remote Viewing”. It had a suitably lurid subtitle, which I’ve forgotten along with the name of the author. (My copy is in my storage unit, and I can’t remote view worth a damn…) Anyhoo, the book claims that the project was fairly successful until they brought in some New Age crystal-polishing types. Their antics ended up getting the program shut down. I’d take the whole thing with a grain of salt. One the size of Phobos… Still, I’ve seen some mighty weird fecal matter in my time. (Amongst other things, I’ve been present at two possessions. One hostile and one of a Voodoo priestess being mounted by a loa. And, no, not the tourist voodoo-show, either)