More from Ed Komarek

I sent Ed my post about his email, he's responded with a link I might find of interest, or, as he put it: "This ought to get you fired up." lol. What he sent me was something from Michael Salla, who I know is one of the exopolitics "kings." Other than that, I admit I don't follow this much or know more than that. Since there's a note at the end of the piece to freely distribute this, I'll repost it here:

Sources: http://exopolitics.org/Exo-Comment-62.htm & http://www.ufodigest.com/news/1107/publicpolicy.html
Exopolitics: Discipline of Choice for Public Policy Issues Concerning Extraterrestrial Life

There is growing debate concerning 'exopolitics', which is oriented towards public policy issues concerning extraterrestrial life; and its relationship to UFOlogy, which primarily focuses on evidence concerning unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Supporters of exopolitics largely accept that the existence of extraterrestrial life has been abundantly demonstrated by a vast pool of evidence over the last sixty years provided by eyewitnesses, whistleblowers, scientists, 'experiencers' and leaked government documents. Supporters of exopolitics claim it is now time to focus on public policy aspects of this evidence, rather than maintain a myopic focus on proving to perennial skeptics that UFOs are real and a legitimate focus on scientific study. Indeed, exopolitics supporters believe that much of this skepticism is unwarranted and can be traced to the debunking recommended by the CIA appointed Robertson Panel in 1953. The panel delivered a report, the Durant
Report, that recommended debunking the 'flying saucer' phenomenon and the possibility of extraterrestrial life, for national security reasons. The Report stated: "The "debunking" aim would result in reduction in public interest in "flying saucers" which today evokes a strong psychological reaction."

Many individuals are still trying to grasp what exopolitics is all about, and many 'UFOlogists' remain highly critical of exopolitics as an emerging disciplinary approach to public policy issues concerning extraterrestrial life. UFOlogists still have difficulty grasping that exopolitics is the forerunner to a legitimate academic discipline that will soon be established in every major university. Critics of exopolitics often tend to focus on some of the pioneers of exopolitical thought in terms of their methods and ideas, rather than the identifying the merits of a scholarly approach to public policy issues concerning extraterrestrial life.
The present situation is some ways analogous to the 19th century where there was much debate on how to prepare individuals for studying public policy issues for careers in international diplomacy and public office. Historians at the time argued that efforts to establish the discipline of 'political science' was ill founded, since the best preparation for a life dealing with public policy issues was to read historical works by Arnold Toynbee, Herodotus, Thucydides, etc.

Well, political science developed anyway as an academic discipline out of the department of history since it fulfilled a functional need. The functional need was to better understand public policy issues and how individuals could be trained to professionally deal with these.
Political science is now the discipline of choice for those wanting to study public policy issues and to be professionally trained to work with these. During the 1860's, political science departments began to emerge in many universities. Similarly, exopolitics will be the discipline of choice for those desiring to study public policy issues associated with extraterrestrial life since it fulfills a functional need. The functional need is to understand how extraterrestrial life impacts on public policy issues, and to professionally train to deal with these. Exopolitics will be first established in departments of political science as a legitimate sub-field as is currently the case with 'international politics', 'foreign policy', 'comparative politics', 'political economy', etc., in many political science departments. Eventually, exopolitics will emerge as a distinct department with an interdisciplinary focus spanning public policy issues relating not only to
political science, but to exoscience, exoreligion, exodiplomacy, etc.

Debunkers and Ufologists in general are poor students of history not to have observed how academic disciplines and sub-fields develop to fulfill functional needs. They are remiss in not observing how exopolitics will fill the functional need for the systematic study of public policy issues concerning evidence of extraterrestrial life. The choice of the word 'exopolitics' to represent this nascent academic discipline has long term strategic value due to the functional need it fills. Furthermore, exopolitics is the term of choice to deal with public policy issues like the national security cover up of extraterrestrial life and technologies.
UFOlogy as a field has little academic future since the functional need it serves will quickly be settled once the existence of extraterrestrial life is accepted. The reality of UFOs will be moot once they have been publicly identified as 'extraterrestrial', 'interdimensional' or 'intertemporal' in origin. Those devoted to UFOlogy are missing a great opportunity to contribute to establishing legitimate social science parameters for exopolitical study. Exopolitics is here to stay as the discipline of choice for a new branch of knowledge that will revolutionize academic studies and the world as we know it.

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Michael E. Salla, Ph.D
Kona, Hawaii
11/24/07
www.Exopolitics.Org

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I agree actually with much of what is said here. I admit some of the academic stuff goes over my head; mainly because I'm tired and still reeling from eating too much dairy over the holiday, when I don't usually. More on that later. (the academics, not the dairy.)

Interesting it says this:

There is growing debate concerning 'exopolitics', which is oriented towards public policy issues concerning extraterrestrial life; and its relationship to UFOlogy, which primarily focuses on evidence concerning unidentified flying objects (UFOs)

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I think that's true much of the time; UFOs can't be seperated, not completely, from the idea of ETs.

And there's this:

Many individuals are still trying to grasp what exopolitics is all about, and many 'UFOlogists' remain highly critical of exopolitics as an emerging disciplinary approach to public policy issues concerning extraterrestrial life

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For some reason, it does seem that the concept of exopolitics is slippery; it shouldn't be, but I know it's been a bit difficult for me to completely "get it." Whether one gets it or not, I know a lot of UFO people are critical of exopolitics. I'm not sure why. As I've said, even if they may be misguided and assume much, at least they mean well, and are proactive. There's worse things after all.

A Nice E-mail from Ed Komarek

I received a nice email from Ed Komarek , regarding some of my past articles on American Chronicle.

I have a new piece up now,

Desire to Debunk, inspired by the Monster Quest Godzilla! episode.)

Great to see you posting about on the Chronicle. Just wanted to say hi. I assume you have seen my articles on the Chronicle also.

I would like to say that it is not arrogant of us to suppose we can understand ETs motives and agendas. There is a huge body of evidence out on the Internet as well as in every-bodies back yard if they really want to spend a lifetime digging into it all as I have.

Ed

I’ve written a few pieces on both the Disclosure Movement and Exopolitics. I can’t be irritated with those who might make assumptions about what I “believe” about these two topics, because I acknowledge I’m not sure what I think.

When it comes to both topics, I’m an observer, rather than an observer-participant. I’m at a distance; I find both topics interesting of course, and I understand their importance and part within the context of UFOlogy.

I don’t think there’s anything “wrong” with either. I think both are well meaning; after all, what’s wrong with wanting to establish positive relationships, or get the government to own up? Nothing.

With exo-politics, I do think we assume much; maybe it’s arrogant, maybe it isn’t. Maybe at times it is, other times it’s not so much arrogant as naive. I think that some of those heavily involved in exopolitics too readily believe the messenger -- sure, it’s an alien, but what kind? Just because it says it’s from Mars, doesn’t mean it is from Mars.

As far as Disclosure goes, good luck, I have a very hard time believing that the government -- any government -- will ever let the public know all there is to know about UFOs, flying saucers, aliens, the Face on Mars, or ET civilizations on the Moon. It’s a naive, wasted effort. Except.

Except that, being a squeaky wheel is subversive. Being subversive in this context is a good thing. And little bits get eked out to us here and there, thanks to the efforts of those who are willing to painstakingly go through the hoops one goes through to get information released. (like John Greenwald of Black Vault, etc.) Going after these things is at least well meaning, and who knows? Something could “give” at any time.

So, while I may think, in a slightly unintentional condescending way, that dogged pursuit of exopolitics and disclosure is misguided (for the most part) I’m not “against” the work. It doesn’t bother me, and I’m not into attacking, as many UFO researchers and writers seem to do, those that follow this path.

For the most part, (there are exceptions of course and that’s for another time) those who are active in these areas are honest and well meaning, and are just trying, like most of us, to make sense out of things.

Podcast with George P. Hansen

A podcast I'm looking forward to! . . .

Interview with George P. Hansen, author of The Trickster and the Paranormal (which anyone at all involved in UFO and paranormal studies needs to have on their bookshelf) will be interviewed this week.

The Hipsters and UFOs

It's not cool, daddy-o, to like, dig UFOs, . . .

One of the best things I came across today comes from Greg Bishop over at UFO Mystic, who wrote:

Forget “disclosure,” we need a campaign to make the UFO subject hip and cool.

That's what he says in his piece Apparently UFOs Are Not "Cool."

I've often said how it's weird the left, of which I am a proud member, are the ones who mock the paranormal, ghosts, UFOs, the Fortean world. Not a sceintific study just my observation through the years.

Disclosure will never happen anyway. It's a noble but naive quest; as Bishop says, making the UFO topic"hip and cool" now, that's a challenge. But a good one!

Zorgy Hall of Shame and Linda Moulton Howe

It's a Hall of Shame, my friends. . .
My thoughts on Linda Moulton Howe as a canidate for the Zorgy "Hall of Shame" category.

Sunday ORB

The week’s anomalous whatever . . .

Busy cleaning house and getting ready for the holiday, as I’m sure many of us are.

A few interesting projects in the works right now that I’m excited about. Over the next few months they’ll appear; in the meantime, I’m excited about them and looking forward to working on them with others.

Crowley and ‘The Gray’ Icon
Interesting items lately on Crowely and what we’ve come to know and love as “the grays.” Read Richelle Hawks’ article:Yabba Dabble Doo: How Aleister Crowley Introduced the Iconic Gray Alien, for something different on the “grays.”

However, there are those that disagree with this take; for example, Cabinet of Wonders with
The LAM hypothesis, which is equally as interesting.

I don’t have an opinion on this either way, but I do find it fascinating. It’s an area I need to think about more before I can say more. Still, I think anyone interested in UFOs and entities, etc. needs to read these kinds of articles, just for the different ideas presented.

Preposterous Explanation
I have no idea what the “Florida Skunk ape” is; but one thing I can be confident in saying is: it isn’t a squirrel. I mean, really. Reminds me of Joe Nickell (chronic skeptic) and his owl theory to explain away Flatwoods. And Mothman. Oh, and the Kentucky Kelly Hopkinsville entities.

Speaking of Big Hairy Bipeds
Finished Peter Guttilla’s book Bigfoot Files, and loved it. If you’re interested in the ufo, high strangeness aspect of bigfoot, you need to add this book to your list.

Lots of good bigfoot blogs out there, including mine of course :) -- Frame 352:The Stranger Side of Sasquatch.

And I see Lisa Shiel, of Bigfoot Quest and author of Backyard Bigfoot, has another book coming out in the fall: Strange Michigan.

More Books
Since I’m finished with Bigfoot Files, I’m now ready to start Daniel Brenton’s Red Moon.

Ghosts and Aliens
A connection that’s fascinated me. Remember Jim Marrs’ Roswell Alien Ghost? Another area I’d like to explore more. I’ve often wondered if some entities that are ‘alien” whether from outer space or inter-dimensional, or terrestrial, like us, mimic ghost type characteristics. I think of my friend “Lola,” and her family, most of all who’ve had experiences with ghosts, Bigfoot, and UFOs. Something is going on there!

Part One: Phantasms Alien To Our Experience, from UFO Paradigm Probe, addresses this idea.



Vintage UFO
I was pleased and flattered to see Nick Redfern of UFO Mystic give me such a nice plug regarding my Vintage UFO blog. It’s a lot of fun. Check it out, and links, comments, info on “vintage ufo” stuff is always welcome.

My Other Blogs
Check out my other blogs: Women in Esoterica (maybe I should start a contest for a better name: name that blog! And offer a prize. Hmm...)

Binnall of America
My latest Trickster’s Realm column for Tim over at BOA is The Big Moment, about the Disclosure Movement and the “big news” that was to come on November 12th.

While over there on BoA, check out the other great material: Tina Sena’s articles, Lesley, Khyron, and the podcasts of course!

Local news station confirms barium in chemtrails

Wow, a local news station airs this on chemtrails; with lab results of the trails!

Scientists like Edison are a sullen, craven lot. Scientists like Tesla ARE torpedoed, ruined -- shot! Tesla might have freed folk-kind. Thomas wanted wage slaves. Tesla reached beyond himself, and Thomas was, you see, depraved. ~ Alfred Lehmberg: Prepared!

Another great post from Alfred at An Alien View: Prepared!


Alfred’s up again this year for a Zorgy Award in the “best troublemaker” category.

Shifting

I went to a psychic/healer recently, and I’m not going to talk much about that. It’s very personal -- very private and intimate. (I know, even for me, who spills her paranormal guts out all over the internet.) But I will say it was “real,” and deep, and important, and all that stuff. Believe me dahlings, they aren’t all Sylvia Browne’s. (Even Sylvia Browne wasn’t always Sylvia Browne; I think she had/has something true there, but got lost and tangled somewhere along her path.)

But the one thing I will share is that, while I was sitting there in the chair, eyes closed, and she was dancing and signing and sounding all around me, weaving the matrix around my head and third eye self, she said:

That terrifying thing that happened to you, I can't quite get to it, but all that work you’re doing trying to find out what happened, asking what happened, all that terrifying unknown thing, just let it go, you don’t need to know every terrifying thing that’s happened to you.

I had the distinct feeling she was referring to my UFO -missing -time- wtf -did- happen -anyway quest.

I have the greatest trust and respect for this person, and do not regret any of what I experienced that day. But I don’t know if I agree with her on this. It is interesting to consider her words; do I need to know? If I did know, then what? So what? Maybe she said that to remind me there are other things in the world I need to deal with. I don’t mean the day to day bigger picture things; believe me, I’m all too aware of those things. I mean those things that make up me, that I’ve been carrying all this time. Each of us has those things, that are no one’s business, or maybe only a rare one or few are allowed to know.

Or maybe it had nothing to do with this at all. It doesn’t matter; what matters is the question itself: does "it" matter?

I think it does, but possibly with a shift in attention and focus. A shift in intent. I’m not entirely sure what that means yet, but it seems like a good start.

Shaver and Hoagland: Separated at Birth?

Were Richard Sharpe Shaver, and Richard C. Hoagland, separated at birth?

Shaver was the author of the "Shaver Mysteries," which FATE magazine publisher Ray Palmer believed were true, and gave them publicity in FATE. Briefly, Shaver's story was that there was a race of beings living inside the earth. "Deros" and "Teros," beings that kidnapped humans and did unspeakable things to them beneath the earth. Shaver had been in communcation with these beings; indeed, he was held prisoner by them.

Hoagland of course works tirelessly to bring news of "The Face" on Mars.


Don't misunderstand; I'm not suggesting one, or both, are hoaxers. Maybe one is, the other isn't. Or both are. Or both aren't. My point, if I have one, is just an idle observation on the physical similarities.

From UFO Blog: Is Full Disclosure Beckoning?

Good piece, with list of the panel to speak. I don't think much will come of it; see my column Trickster's Realm about this on Binnall of America when it comes out Monday. But good, bad, or in between, it'll be worth following.

Vote: Zorgy Awards

The Zorgy Awards are back. Right now you can vote for the various nominees that are posted at the Other Side of Truth blog. Vote now for your favorite paranormal blog, podcast, and more!

And while it’s with a great and deep sadness to report I wasn’t nominated this year! (I know, imagine!) like I was last year, there are still many other great sites to vote for!

A Strange Anniversary Conversation

Today is our 31st anniversary. Being old and tired, (but hardly bored with each other) (as you’ll soon see why) we agreed to stay home after a long hard day at work, enjoy our bottle of good wine and Trader Joe’s pizza, and each other. Tomorrow, rejuvenated with the weekend vibe (three day weekend for me!) we’ll go out and have fun.

So tonight, of course we’re watching the Larry King program because it’s the UFO show. (More on that later.) My husband, let’s say his name is, er, “George,” was pretty good about remaining quiet, although he managed to interject a good number of outraged sputterings, especially when Oberg was on, but overall, George behaved. It wasn’t until the very end of the program that George said to me:

“We've had weird UFO abductions or whatever happen,at least twice. That one in L.A. was the weirdest.

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I did a huge “huh?!” I asked:

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What do you mean, ‘at least twice?’ And, what do you mean, the L.A. one was the weirdest?!

In Oregon years ago, we saw the Orange Orb, that followed us on our way back in from Cottage Grove about 30 miles away. That incident included missing time and what I've always maintained a sighting of a silver sphere hovering above a pasture on the way out.

Turns out that’s wrong. At least according to George.

So we shouted at each other -- out of excitement and ‘wtf’s” not in anger -- just your basic abduction confusion:

Me: “What do you mean, that’s wrong! We saw that orb coming back from Cottage Grove when we lived on Friendly St.!”
George: “No, we saw it when we lived on Hilyard."

Oh boy.

So we went round and round, and it turns out, according to George, this is what happened:
1. Something weird happened in L.A.
2. Something weird happened in Oregon, when we lived on Hilaryd St. near the University of Oregon.
3. Something weird happened when we lived off Lorane Highway, at the top of Friendly St.

George: No, no, you’ve combined two different sightings into one thing. Your memory’s been messed with.”

Me: “How do you know it isn’t YOU whose memory wasn’t messed with?”

(I was pretty proud of that one.)

George just looked exasperated. He insists he’s right. I remember it the other way.
I don't remember anything weird at all happening when we lived on Hilyard.

It’s quite possible of course he is right, and does remember the incidents more accurately than I. Regardless, it’s clear we’ve both experienced some very weird things through the years.


L.A. (West Hollywood area)
I remember that one just fine. Well, obviously not all of it. Neither one of us do. If we did, that’d be a different story. But we both agree on this one; we agree it happened, we agree it happened just the way we both remember it. Walking back from our favorite place, Barney's Beanery. What should have taken us an hour at the most -- maybe -- took us a good two hours. When we entered the apartment we commented how odd it was that it was suddenly 4 a.m., then went promptly to bed, only to wake up at four the next afternoon. We slept straight through, very surprised to find that we slept so late!

I did have a few strange UFO dreams back then; one in particular that I call the “Geisha Woman” dream, about a tall chalky white being with huge black wrap around eyes, “pretending” to be female, with me inside a glass domed UFO in space and George in some other part of the UFO. She was very intelligent and very emotionally cold, detached, and didn't give a damn that I was scared and angry that she wouldn't let me see George, who was being kept in another part of the craft.

But the reason why I say it wasn’t the strangest, is because we didn’t see any kind of craft that night. We didn't have a UFO sighting. Not a hint. But George says it’s the weirdest, because we both agree on everything; no arguments about who was where, etc. We agree on where we were coming from, where we were going, that a couple of hours of missing time occurred, that we commented to each other on the oddness of the late hour as we walked into the apartment but also went promptly to bed, not waking up until 4:00 the next day.

Hilyard St. (Eugene, Oregon, near the University of Oregon campus)
Well, don’t remember anything weird there. I mean, aside from the horrid, spoiled, evil fraternity and sorority morons that lived in the frat and "sor" houses surrounding our little apartment. God, what assholes. Other than that, nothing.

I remember a weird “UFO” dream at the time though, about a robotic alien type being entering our apartment and causing problems.

It's while we were living on Hilyard that George insists we saw the silver sphere. We saw it out on Lorane, going out to Cottage Grove. (That part I agree with.) Silver sphere, above a pasture, daytime, a beam of light coming down from underneath the thing. I said to George tonight that I always thought it was weird that a beam of light would be necessary in the daytime.

We agree on the thing we saw, and place, but not the timing. I remember it as on our way out the same time we saw the orange orb which was on the way back. And I remember we were living on Friendly St. at the time, while George insists it was Hilyard.

(One question I have about this is: if the orange orb sighting took place another time, where were we coming back from? The only thing out that direction is . . . Cottage Grove. We didn't know anyone who lived out that way, from our house to Cottage Grove. But as George mentioned, we did just take off and for long rides in the country back then; true. I loved to do that on the motorcycle. It's possible we weren't coming back from anywhere in particular, as in visiting someone, but just out for a drive.)

Friendly St. (Eugene, Oregon, at the corner of Lorane, semi-woodsy rural area in parts)
I remember the orange orb at night, on the way back from Cottage Grove to visit his friend. The friend George says we went to see a year or so earlier when we lived on Hilyard.

George doesn’t remember seeing an orange orb. He does remember me trying to call someone when we went into the house (on Friendly) but I ended up just putting the receiver down. After all who was I going to call? The police? Airport? At that time, I didn't know about MUFON, or anything related to reporting UFO sightings.

Dreams started then too. Awful dreams about being paralyzed in beams of light so strong I could almost see through things. The sense of people -- or beings -- above me. Not being able to move. Screaming my head off for George, who I knew was nearby, but also being taken. Did I just say “taken?” Christ.

History
George said “Obviously we didn’t have what they wanted,” and I agreed. We’ve never talked about that, but when he said it, it made sense, and I acknowledged I’ve thought that myself many times.

He also said:

“Then again, we’ve both had life long experiences with this weird stuff. Maybe they got what they wanted a long time ago.

”

George also mentioned the uncomfortable and strong awareness that "they" are present at times. I too have felt that. Last time I felt that was a few years ago in this house we're now in. We've been here about ten years. This feeling that "they" were in the room, listening, watching, was confirmed by others. (One of whom has had her own history, along with many family members, of Bigfoot, haunting and UFO encounters. Connections?)

We don't talk too in depth about these events except for a couple of times a year. It's too close and chilling and just plain weird. We both get highly uncomfortable; anxious and need to stop. And yet, we talk around these things every day.

Something happened, something seemed to have happened a few times with the both of us. Neither one of us remembers actually seeing any beings. It’s as if we’ve come up only so close to this phenomena, and then, a steel door seals shut on us.

Oh, and please, someone tell me it was just sleep paralysis. I dare you.

I’m still not willing to say we were abducted. I can’t say that, because I don’t even remember seeing aliens, let alone being inside a craft, or being rudely probed, etc.

But something happened. While obviously there are trickster mind control alien game playing shenanigans going on with screen or cover memories, the reality is, something very real -- just highly strangely real -- occurred. And more than once.

What Chemtrails Really Are

I saw this on Jeff Rense.com, also noticed Lesley at Debris Field posted the link: What Chemtrails Really Are. It’s not pretty, and the mind control part gives me the creeps. One question: how does this person know any of this for a fact? Or even a strong hypothesis? No sources, no anything. . . only strong opinions, presented as factual. Lots of connections made, lots of knowledge on related things, and it could be, but we don’t know.

Whatever it is, meanwhile, the spraying continues.

Meanwhile, . . .

Another illustration of the skeptic phenomenon of dissecting an anomalous event -- in this case, alien abduction -- whilst knowing not of what they speak. Or, speaketh. Whatever. Brought to you by the JREF. (James Randi Educational Forum.)