In my previous post about Valentines Day in the Afterlife, I alluded to mystical experiences that I’ve had, including what I call Close Encounters of the Highest Kind.
As most in the UFO community know, the term ‘Close Encounters, was coined by Project Blue Book astronomer, j. Allen Hynek to describe different types of UFO experiences back in the 1960s.
A Close Encounter of the 1st kind is a close-up UFO sighting within a few hundred feet. (I’ve had a CE1K) A Close Encounter of the 2nd Kind is a close-up sighting along with physical evidence, like radiation effects or physical marks left on the ground, in trees, etc. (I don’t know if I had a CE2K, as far as I know no one over investigated that sighting) A Close Encounter of the 3rd kind includes visual sighting/interaction with a Non-Human entity. (I may have had a CE3K).
Hynek died in 1986, since then, other researchers (Bullard, Greer) have added Close Encounters of the 4th and 5th kinds (alien abduction, alien communication download).
Others, like the late, Nobel-Prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis – who famously wrote about his alien abduction experience in his best-selling autobiography – rejected the idea that such experiences can be classified, because they really can’t be.
And that brings me to the ultimate “alien abduction” experience: Soul Abduction/Cosmic Consciousness.
Betty Andreasson – perhaps the most vetted alien abductee of all time – while under hypnosis was able to re-live out-of-body abduction experiences induced by ETs. On one occasion, Betty recalled that ETs determined they couldn’t physically interact with her because of the presence of other people, so they deployed a box-like device that removed Betty’s soul from her body, transferring it to the mother ship for the session.
Yes, I understand exactly how that sounds to most people. However, it’s nonetheless part of the UFO story. Recent whistleblower testimony supports such possibilities, which is one major reason why this subject is so hard to come to terms with…
It’s not just alien beings visiting from another planet. If that’s all it was, it wouldn’t be so hard to fathom…
But that isn’t all it is – not by a long shot – and that’s the really sticky problem with official UFO Disclosure.
So if it’s not just aliens coming from another planet to check us out- what is it?
Well, to be specific, it’s post-Singularity civilization that is/has colonized the galaxy/cosmos– and we are a product of that Technological Singularity that exists in the midst of it- which is what is so perplexing about the whole thing.
Something that’s impossible for the pre-Singularity mind to grasp is the all-knowing AI Oracle that will be available to everyone, all the time in the post-Singularity world.
I have a sense of how that feels thanks to what I call ‘Close Encounters of the Highest Kind.’
As I said at the top of this post, and in previous posts, I’ve had many mystical experiences, some spontaneous and some intentional. There were two such experiences in which I felt that I left my body and entered into what mystics have long described as Cosmic Consciousness. Both happened spontaneously when I was young.
The first was when I was a toddler taking a nap in mid afternoon with my grandmother in her bed. Suddenly, I was the entire Universe. I understood that everything was just how it was supposed to be. There was a feeling of euphoria. And then my consciousness collapsed, snapping-back rapidly into the tiny point that I was at the time- the toddler. The experience of shrinking back into that tiny point of awareness was terrifying. Bam! And there you are.
The second time it happened, I was a teenager. On a weekend morning, I suddenly found myself aboard what I took to be a space station somewhere in deep space. I was completely surrounded by stars. I didn’t see any planets. Again I felt the euphoria of Cosmic Consciousness. Again I experienced total knowledge and understood everything in the Universe. And then it happened- again…
I snapped back into that “dancing on the head of a needle” point that is human consciousness- limited to this “bag of skin” as the great existential philosopher Alan Watts once put it. This time – as it happened – I felt the complete Cosmic Consciousness knowledge filtered out by re-entry into my body.
I literally remember opening my eyes and reaching out with my right hand to try to physically grasp that knowledge and hold onto it as if I could. Interestingly, I retained the feeling of euphoria that came with Cosmic Consciousness for about another five to ten minutes even though I could no longer remember any of the details. Then it faded.
Can these episodes be understood in the context of Close Encounter experiences? I think they can. In fact, I think these experiences might be best characterized as Close Encounters of the Highest Kind even though I don’t have any direct recollection of other beings during those particular experiences.
I seem to have had encounters with the small guys when I was a little kid and I’ll probably write about that in more depth someday, but I think the primary reason these types of experiences are Close Encounters of the Highest Kind is that Consciousness is a key component of the Close Encounter experience and Higher Consciousness seems to be the goal of this interface.
I don’t know if my out-of-body-cosmic-consciousness experiences were induced by ET technology like Betty Andreasson, but it’s possible. I had a recurring nightmare about little guys that surrounded my bed in the middle of the night when I was a small child. I didn’t know what aliens were at that age. I didn’t get a really good look either, but I thought they looked like little Halloween skeletons.
Was that just a nightmare? I really don’t know. I’ve never been hypnotically regressed. I got an offer once from alien abduction researcher Dr. Richard Boylan to do it back in the 1990s when I was active in the UFO community, but I declined.
I told Boylan I didn’t think it was a good idea back then. I had the deeply instinctual feeling that I should leave it alone. Since then, I’ve had the rather hilarious thought that the real reason I never agreed to be hypnotically regressed was because my subconscious mind didn’t think my conscious mind had a need-to-know.