The CE4 Corner

The Cosmic Bridge, Close Encounters and Human Destiny

by Craig R. Lang, Certified Hypnotherapist

 

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Hypnotic Growth, Exploration and Healing for Mind, Body, Spirit and Beyond

Brooklyn Center, MN  763-257-7334  e-mail: craig@craigrlang.com

September/October, 2007: The Importance of the other stuff...

©2007 by Craig R Lang, MS CHt

This week, due to an experience that greatly affected my own personal perspective, I am going to diverge a bit from my normal fare for this column. In short, last week, I spent the week at the hospital.

No, I'm just fine, thanks for asking....

My adventure was part of a week of biomedical engineering field experience that goes with my job as an engineer for a medical electronics company. I spent most of this time observing various cardiac procedures in the operating room. These included things like pacemaker and defibrillator implants, angioplasties, atrial and ventricular ablations, and lots of other stuff that you hope you never have to have done. It gave me a completely new perspective on health, and on what happens if you let that health slide.

Why am I writing about this in a column where I normally write about UFOs, close encounters and other things extraordinary? Because, as Budd Hopkins has stated on more than one occasion, we spend 99.9% of our time in this world. And it is in this world that we need to be firmly grounded, healthy and balanced.

In The Cosmic Bridge, I discuss the many ways in which the abductee becomes a bridge between worlds. During their times "off-world" they undergo strange and extreme events. Surrounded by alien beings, they find themselves immersed in an alien realm. They undergo medical procedures and telepathic communication, being exposed to extraordinary things/ideas, and countless other reality-shattering experiences. For many of them, the effect is frightening. For nearly all of them, the effect is in total discord with their experiences in everyday (earthly) life.

I have observed that many experiencers, especially those who remain unaware of their encounters, seem to suffer a disproportionate amount of personal and family strife. I've noted that many of them are divorced, or are on their second marriages. Many I have met have had a history of substance issues or other means of compensation for their involuntary experiences. I speculate (there is not much hard data on this) that the strain of being thrust into the world of the extraordinary is enough to place tremendous strain even the most solid of lives.

Yet I also find that the more solid the person's life in the ordinary realm, the better he/she seems to handle their events in the extraordinary realm. In The Cosmic Bridge, I devote considerable print space to the idea that what one takes away from one's encounters, depends a lot on what one brings to them. I have found that experiencers who go into their encounters with a less positive state of mind - focused more on the dark side, fear, ill health, etc. - often come away with far less positive experiences. Conversely, those who have a positive approach to life, physical, mental and spiritual, tend to have experiences that are more non-negative during encounters. I suspect that this applies to physical health as well as mental and spiritual health - as ultimately, the mind and body are intimately interconnected.

As I describe in "Bridge," the phenomenon is a mixed bag, both positive and negative with ample opportunities to experience both. While objectively a rather small slice of time out of the experiencer's life, its effect on the experiencer's life is profound. Thus, whether one has a positive or negative experience can have a powerful effect on the rest of their life. And if, as I suspect, this is strongly affected by one's health and state of mind/spirit going into an experience, the effect of having a grounded, everyday healthy life experience becomes even more important.

Thus, bringing this back to my week in the operating room - I was repeatedly struck by the lesson that it offered - the importance of maintaining personal health . We truly spend 99% of our time in this world. And the more grounded we are in solid physical health, the better the consequences down the road. A balanced lifestyle - good diet, exercise, spiritual practice and intellectual challenge - all pay off, both on Earth and in the extraordinary realm.

Bio:   Craig R. Lang is a field investigator with Mutual UFO Network, and is a certified clinical hypnotherapist with the National Guild of Hypnotists.  He lives in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and conducts UFO and close encounter research in the Twin Cities metro area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul and in surrounding areas within Minnesota and Wisconsin.  He can be reached by e-mail at craig@craigrlang.com.  The Minnesota MUFON website can be reached at www.mnmufon.org.