Eagle Synchronicity

I had just finished my Trickster's Realm column for BoA today on eagles and UFO events. Part of that column includes this experience I wrote about on Saucer Sightings. Later, Jim, not knowing I had just written the TR piece, says to me: "There's an eagle ..." meaning an eagle on TV. The sound was off and I wasn't looking up; I'm on the laptop. Then I go to the Register Guard newspaper site and find the following disturbing item about horse deaths in Toppenish, Washington:

TOPPENISH, Wash. — Yakama Nation police are investigating the deaths of at least 11 horses near the southern boundary of the tribe’s reservation over the last few months.

Tribal Council Chairman Harry Smiskin told the Yakima Herald-Republic that few details were available, including whether the deaths are related.

Motorists reported seeing the carcasses from Highway 97 in the Satus Pass area, where thousands of horses roam in herds. Len Schulmeister, the owner of Pine Springs Resort, which is 13 miles north of Goldendale on Highway 97, said he had seen eagles eating at the carcasses of three or four horses.

Speculation has focused on whether the horses were killed as bait by eagle hunters.

Although eagle hunting is illegal, selling the feathers can be lucrative. (source: Register-Guard)

Everything about this story is tragic, including the weird reference to eagle feathers.

Anya is a Channel: New Women of Esoterica Contributor

Anya is a channel is our latest writer to join Women of Esoterica, and her first piece is does justice to the "esoteric" in WOE. Antediluvian Dreams and the Collective Unconscious: A very well written essay on the late, great Alexander McQueen, discusses the fashion designer's creativity that found inspiration in the esoteric:

The genius of Mr. McQueen's approach that was so different than his peers was that he frequently mined the subterranean depths of his own dreams and nightmares and came out with something that Jungian psychoanalysts could only refer to as a byproduct of the "anima"-- that of the feminine unconscious of the male, the shadow self, the primitive feminine, the Hindu goddess Kali the Destroyer compassionately rebuilding the lover she has thoughtlessly trampled in her blind dance of ecstasy, the witch, the Cassandra, the reptilian part of our gene code, the canary in a coal mine laying in wait in all of us, waiting to reveal the message.

All This Knocking Has Me Wondering... Things To Be Seen?

My previous post had me thinking of attention, which led me to intent, which led me to... all kinds of things, (except getting ready for work, which is what I should be doing!) -- but yesterday, and the past week or so really, I've been thinking about sightings. My own sightings of UFOs, which have been plenty, and some have been dramatic. While I've seen some odd and interesting things in the past few years, nothing I can say that's been ... well.. "big time." I want big time! I know, be careful what you wish for.  More specifically, I've been wondering about the whys of sightings; why have they seemingly diminished? Are "they" done with me? Am I with them? Something else altogether? And so on...

So, in connection with the knocks, and I have no idea why this is pulling me in that direction, the intent is out there: let's see something! It'll be interesting to see what the day holds...

Knockings

Just a no account, very small odd thing that happened yesterday. Started off with my hearing huge, loud thuds, very distinct, against the side of my house. It sounded like someone hitting the side of the house with a board or something. So I go outside, look down the driveway, and see . . . nothing. No one. No person, animal, or anything at all that could have made a sound like that. It wasn't a sound from far off bouncing off the house, --- this was a definite sound of something hitting the house. If it was a person doing it, I would have seen them walk away; simply no way I wouldn't have, given the layout of the place, and so on.

I go into work, just arriving, door of my room is open, and I hear loud knocking from somewhere out in the hall. Lots of activity in the building and that hall, including custodians and maintence workers, but they usually try to not do stuff like that doing school hours, and, again, I would have seen whatever, or whoever, was making the sound. But when I go out into the hall, I don't see anything.

Later that day, I'm outside on the school grounds, and hear a few loud thudding, knocking sounds. Look around, don't see anything that could be the cause of the sound.

I am sure in all three cases, there is an reasonable explanation for the sounds; but it was a bit eerie -- especially the knocks I heard at my house -- and, that this knocking occurred three times on the same day.

Within the framework of mundane occurrances being the cause for the sounds is room room for synchronicity and signals. Something is wanting my attention. Now I have to figure out what!

Review of New Edition of 'Up Rainbow Hill'

Sean Casteel reviews Tim Beckley's reprint of contactee Dana Howard's 'Up Rainbow Hill' (the reprint includes my introduction) on UFO Digest. Insightful review and contains information about other Contactees as well.

Richard Dolan Responds . . .

On Alfred Lehmberg's News to Chew, we find Richard Dolan's response to Michael R. Schuyler's criticisms of Dolan's research. Excellent response from Dolan. Hat tip to Lesley at The Debris Field for link.

On a related side note, Dolan responds to Schuyler's criticism of Linda Moultan Howe, a woman insulted and made fun of by many. All her years of research, her hard work, her contributions, are considered nil by some critics. At the risk of sounding boring and quaint I'll say it -- sometimes I don't wonder if those criticisms are nothing more than sexist comments. I think Howe has been naive at times, and I don't agree with her take on the paranormal perspective of UFO research, and a few other areas of disagreement, (including what I've heard and observed on a personal level) but the point is, this isn't a personality contest. And to dismiss someone with such disdain, who's given the field so damn much, is ignorant. I'll be open and say I don't like Peter Davenport; I don't like him personally (I've had two interactions with him that have just put me off, sister!) and I don't like his politics. In fact, the pompous stuffed shirt makes me laugh. But so what? No one cares, except me. I can attack him, or I can appreciate his decades of hard work -- work that very few else have attempted to do, especially those critics -- and that's what counts, not that he's a verbose bag of wind.

Research in this field is a chimera; it's hard to ever really get at "it" -- all we can do is do our best, and get as close to it as we can, with honesty and integrity.

Many who criticize -- who attack -- don't do much in ways of contributions to understanding the UFO phenomena. And if you believe their line that their contribution is the so-called calling out of others, or "exposing" people, for some imagined greater good of self-imposed UFO Policedom, you'd be mistaken, as they most surely are.

Wolf Moon Tonight

Tonight is a Wolf Moon; the brightest and fullest full moon of the year.

Venus Contactee Update

I stumbled on a bit more about Omnec Onec: The case of Omnec Onec, an alleged 'Venusian'. Other Venusian contactees, Venusians, and "walk ins" are mentioned, including Val, or Valiant, Thor.

Omnec came to earth in 1955 from Venus, specifically:

in a town called Teutonia (a city whose name reflects earlier Venus-Earth contacts that included a trip to Venus by a German scientist). She alleges that she lived on an astral plane -- without a physical body -- until she was instructed by her leaders to travel to Earth with a message of peace and brotherhood.

Like many of the Contactees, the 1950s seemed to be the decade. However, as researchers have pointed out, including Nick Redfern (Contactees: A History of Alien-human Interaction) there are plenty of contactees, (reffered to as "hidden contactees")in the world right now; they haven't gone away with the ending of the '50s.

The first International UFO Congress convened in Tucson, Arizona, in November 1991, in the presence of presenters Valery Uvarov and Marina Popovich from Russia; Irina Gracchi from Brazil; Anthony Dodd from England; and Omnec Onec from Venus. A standup survey of the 300-or-so attendees would attest to the fact that Omnec stood out from all other presenters.

I love the following description of Omnec at the conference: silver stilettos, "blood-red" polish:

Omnec had a very high IQ. She seemed to know a little bit about almost everything, and could carry on a conversation with anyone about anything. She also had a considerable degree of physical charm: Maybe it was the Chicago accent combined with blood-red nail polish, combined with spiked silver heels - which collectively upstaged her alien intelligence, like the floating vixen in a magic show.

Continuing the Contactee/Venusian theme, here's a clip of researcher Greg Bishop (UFO Mystic blog, author of Project Beta,) speaking on the Contactee era at Gaint Rock, California.


Related items:
Women From Venus
Venusians, brought to you by Burlington UFO and Paranormal Research Center

Researcher Scott Corrales has translated my Women From Venus article into Spanish. Very nice! You can read it at his blog Arcana Mundi.

Visit The Orange Orb

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New Trickster's Realm: Women From Venus

On Tim Binnall's BoA: Women From Venus.

A typical Contactee encounter took place between human and alien who was often, but not always, Venusian. Contactees were invited into space ships, taken for rides to other worlds, given lessons and information on coming changes for earth and humanity, metaphysics and the like. But there were some Venusian encounters of a different kind.

These Venusians had a different way of going about things. Instead of meeting human contacts out in the deserts or woods, they took another approach. "Omnec Onec" was a Venusian who "walked in" or took over, the human body of Sheila, a seven year old girl who had died in a bus accident. The book, UFO: From Venus I Came, relates the story of this human/Venusian "Contactee."

Computer Problems

I'm having computer problems and that's why I haven't posted much lately. It's a little scary to realize how much I depend on my laptop; all my stuff is on there and so on. I'm using another computer at the moment but not sure how much time I have with it. So, there's that. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

New UFOlogist Cartoon: Lesley Gunter

Artist Dennis Rano, who has a site full of great caricatures of UFOlogists, has a new one up of Lesley Gunter.

White Triangles

Billy Booth has an item about a white triangle sighting. And a visitor's comment contains a link to another report of a white triangle, with photo.

Update on Hotlinking and Stealing Content

In response to Hotlinking and Stealing: Don't Be An Ass, Atrueoriginal has   written up this, which is very illuminating and gives us more details on what's going on with the hotlinking and stealing of her content.

Lesley at The Debris Field, and Interstellar Housewife have been posting about this as well. The more bloggers, writers, website owners, etc. who confront the issue of hotlinking and stealing, the better.

Giving credit in a passive aggressive manner doesn't help much. I've seen sites post articles of mine, in full, without "by Regan Lee," or even "from The Orange Orb," just the article. Then, at the bottom in teeny font, is the url, not even the name of the source with link embedded, or name. Sure, technically the offending site links back to mine, but my ego is big enough to want my name up there for all to see under the title of the damn thing I wrote. Or at least, the title of my blog. Speaking of egos, I'm more than happy to have others use my stuff, use it all you want! Just cite my name and link back.

Hotlinking and Stealing: Don't Be An Ass

Stealing content is nasty, and just because it happens to a lot of us doesn't make it right. No matter how small or trivial it might be, ripping off content and making it appear as if it's your own writing, from your own site/blog, is wrong, unethical, immoral, and lazy. What's worse is when it's from someone who should know better; a UFO or Bigfoot site/blog, etc. that appears to be valid.

Speaking of asses -- supreme asses -- Atrueoriginal, who brings us daily UFO and paranormal news with her Alien, UFO & the Paranormal Casebook, has been the victim of hotlinking. Hotlinking is not only stealing content, which is bad enough, but often costs the legitimate writer/site owner money. Other victims of this latest theft of content and hard work include Jospeh Capp of UFO Media Matters.

For more on this see Lesley's post on her blog The Debris Field, and be sure to read the comments, many from Atrueoriginal, that further explain what is going on, and what to do about it.

In some ways this is an elephant in the room among UFO, paranormal and Bigfoot, etc. researchers. No one wants to come across like they're a whiny nitpicking nerdling, but when someone rips off your content, no matter how small the item may be, it's stealing, and people who steal shouldn't be allowed to get away with it.