The CE4 Corner
The Cosmic Bridge, Close Encounters and Human Destiny
by Craig R. Lang, Certified Hypnotherapist
Hypnotic Growth, Exploration and Healing for Mind, Body, Spirit and Beyond
Brooklyn Center, MN 763-257-7334 e-mail: craig@craigrlang.com
November/December,
2007: Evidence and Agendas, Notes from the Area 61 Conference in
©2007 by Craig R Lang, MS CHt
This was
the second year I have presented at the
The
My talk
was on UFO sightings in
After my
talk, several people whom I suspected might be experiencers came over to my
book table. I got to talking with several of them, hearing a number of stories
about UFO sightings, abductions, and other anomalies. Also,
several other people approached me about doing work on various healing topics,
such as weight loss, fear management, etc. Most of them live in the
Usually, the discussion came back, once again, to the topic of the alien nature and agenda. What is the phenomenon doing? Who/What are the Visitors and why are they here? I have always had to make it clear that I certainly do not know the answer. I do not believe that anyone else does either. In The Cosmic Bridge, I talk about a few possible ideas - namely the Nature Preserve metaphor, the Indigo Hypothesis, the Deardorff model, and a few others. Yet in my view, there are far too many unknowns to draw any firm conclusions. We simply know too little about the phenomenon.
The final
speaker was a ghost hunter from
He had some interesting comments to make about orbs, specifically that some of them have been detected with film cameras. The key here, however, is that the cameras were film-based, rather than digital. His comments were that from an evidential point of view, digital cameras are nearly worthless, since the evidence cannot be scrutinized. However, film photography leaves negatives which are available (presumably) to investigators. Ultimately, he stated that what counts is the evidence.
How, I wondered, does this apply to close encounter research? In truth, I believe that it applies in a big way(!!!). In anomaly investigation, evidence is the Holy Grail, and yet in my research, it is almost unattainable. I deal with anecdotal accounts of events that occurred many years previously. They are those flickers of memory, meaningful and informative, so tantalizing in their suggestion that there is so much more we do not yet understand - and so much that we cannot (yet) prove.
The biggest issue in close encounters, as in any other scientific research, is how we can characterize, quantify and measure a phenomenon. How can we develop ways of capturing verifiable evidence for CE4 events? Is there any way to do this? How does one quantify an alien agenda? And how does one measure a superposition of realities? Again, I don't know, but I believe that there are things we CAN do to gather evidence of the phenomenon.
Some possible avenues of research
come to mind:
1.
Continue
to collect and catalog ground traces left from UFO touch-downs.
2.
Set
evidence traps - ways in which the Visitors may betray their presence, such as through the use of hidden cameras, placing aluminum foil
under throw rugs in the bedroom, the abductee carrying a personal GPS device,
etc.
3.
Measurement
of physical phenomena associated with encounters, such as paranormal fallout.
Are there electromagnetic anomalies associated with an abduction experience?
Does the abductee have unusual EM characteristics, especially in the short time
after she/he returns from an encounter?
4.
(Continue
to) Develop means of measuring PSI ability, and construct a baseline of data
about the experiencer and the non-experiencer. Does PSI ability vary between
the two groups, and/or vary either before or after an encounter?
5.
Examine
the family lines of experiencers for genetic or other medical anomalies. Are
Indigo children more common in the family lines of abductees? And what does this imply about their genetics, etc.?
It would be easy to brainstorm a myriad more such experiments, and I invite anyone to send more ideas, either to myself or to other researchers. As a hypnotherapist, I tend to focus on the mental, emotional, spiritual and metaphysical aspects of the phenomenon. I would hope to see more research out there, focusing on physical evidence of the mystery.
I have lots of other notes from that afternoon, but for the moment,
these cover the bases of the talks and discussions. To me,
once again, the whole afternoon/evening simply drove home the diversity of opinion on the phenomenon, and how strange it really is.
As I have stated so many times before, I believe we really know very little about close encounters. The only thing I can truly conclude is that UFO and CE4 researchers have a whole lot of work to do.
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
