Yet another 25th of May on which I realise that I do not own anything lilac to wear.
Happy Wear The Lilac Day, everyone!
(Pic by Marisa DeMeglio from NYC, USA.)
#GNUTerryPratchett #WearTheLilac #HowDoTheyRiseUp #TruthJusticeFreedom #DiscWorld #TerryPratchett #NightWatch #Alzheimers #RegShoe #SamVimes #JohnKeel
BEYOND THE BOGGLE Jack Hunter (ed.) #DeepWeird; the Varieties of #HighStrangeness Experience. August Night Press, 2022.
The term 'high strangeness' was coined by #JAllenHynek in his 1974 book, The UFO Experience. He used it to describe accounts which seemed to stray beyond the limits of his Type One, Type Two, etc. classification system for #UFOReports, and which were being ignored by #UFO researchers who were fearful of stepping outside a 'scientific' approach to the phenomenon.
It was not long, however, before some of these #HighStrangenessExperiences were granted admission to UFO respectability, with the expanding categories of '#CloseEncounter' reports, but researchers like #JohnKeel and a young #JeromeClark were pushing the limits further with their exploration of stories such as '#Mothman', and accounts of psychic and #ParanormalExperience & involvement in UFO and #CryptidEncounters.
The 'Deep Weird': “These are experiences that push, and often far exceed, the boundaries of what the dominant models of Western #Science and #Culture allow for, and yet are relatively commonly reported worldwide.”
#Paranormal #Fortean #Cryptid #Anomalies #Parapsychology #Perception #CulturalBeliefs #NatureOfReality #Parapsychologist #Book #BookReview
Found some interesting theories about the best times to see #UFOs and do #psychic work like #remoteViewing.
Currently #reading the classic 1970 #ufo #book Operation Trojan Horse by #JohnKeel and am very troubled by how big a deal he makes about buying *three whole quarts of water* when thinking that there might be a 3-day water shortage.
He should've been drinking more than that every day, but acts like he's done an absurd thing by buying the equivalent of ~2.8 liters of water.
Really living up to the hardboiled midcentury NYC reporter stereotype here.
Today I wrote about #JohnKeel 's Wednesday phenomenon theory about #UFOs and connected it to some other stuff I've read lately.
https://www.buriedsecretspodcast.com/magical-days-for-ufos-and-witches/
Defending the Mothman: High Strangeness Holiday Special | Episode 005 | Haunted Objects Podcast
#Mothman #Hellier #HauntedObjectsPodcast #HighStrangeness #MothmanProphecies #JohnKeel #MenInBlack #UFO #Cryptid #PointPleasant