From 'The Secret Sun': Torchwood's Children of Earth, and More

A fairly new blog (to me) and one of my favorites, is The Secret Sun. I love the newest post up there: Torchwood: (Suffer the) Children of Earth. Torchwood is my favorite TV show of this genre ever, and that includes X-Files, which I thought I'd never say. Of course, it isn't a contest. Secret Sun makes connections; not only with this post on the last Torchwood season, but with all kinds of esoteric items. If you haven't visited The Secret Sun, be sure you do so. It's among  the best esoteric blogs around.

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New Edition of Vintage Contactee Book: Over the Threshold

Contactee Dana Howard's book Over the Threshold has been reprinted by Tim Beckley's Global Communications. The book includes an introduction by yours truly. It's available at Amazon.com.

Blog: The UFO Chronicles

Just a general comment about The UFO Chronicles -- it's a solid blog, meaning, UFO Chronicles is a blog that consistently gives the rest of us "nuts and bolts" news of UFO sightings, interviews, news updates on same. A simple thing I guess, and maybe obvious, that it's easy to take for granted. Reading blogs like UFO Chronicles confirms that sightings of UFOs are happening every day, and just about everywhere. So thank you to Frank Warren for bringing us stories of UFO reports.

Zorgy Awards

Paul Kimball's blog The Other Side of Truth has his Zorgy Awards up again: Zorgy Awards Categories include Best Paranormal Blog, Best Paranormal News blog, Best Podcasts, etc.

Congratulations to everyone who's nominated! Glad to see Binnall of America coming in strong. And congratulations to Lesley of The Debris Field, for best news blog. To my surprise, this very blog The Orange Orb, is in the Best Paranormal Blog category. I'm seriously quite surprised for a few reasons (but hey, after all, I did come in third one year!) but thanks to those that nominated me. I don't expect to win; there are excellent and polished blogs like UFO Mystic and Cryptomundo, which are deservedly in the lead. Hard choice to make, which one to vote for.

So take a look and cast your vote for your favorites. . .

High Strangeness Bigfoot

I have links and some comments on my Frame 352 blog about the wonderfully intriguing article, with accompanying comments, about "paranormal" Bigfoot on the very excellent Blogsquatcher blog, take a look. At last count there were 45 comments!

Another New Contributor to WOE!

I am very pleased to announce that Interstellar Houswife has joined us at WOE. All our contributors are amazing; such varied perceptions and takes on things, and backgrounds, and it is so wonderful to have these women contributing, and I thank each one of them.

So welcome ISH, and look for posts by other contributors here as well. Also, you can check out everyone's websites and blogs by clicking on their names in the menu on the left.

Welcome, ISH!

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.

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