Culture of Contact Episode 56: Death After Life & An Alien Family
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Host Jeremy Vaeni takes you on a personal journey into death and a small town full of UFOs, alien abductions...and family.
Ancient Australian cave painting. This is often used as evidence of aliens visiting our distant ancestors. Perhaps what it actually depicts is death.
Enjoyed the honesty of your show. I think you are onto something re the death mask - the resemblance to aliens.
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Thanks, Karen.
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Santa does love me
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Jeremy,
You have no Idea how weird yesterday was for me. Lots of merlinial stuff - Whew!
ANd then I listen to YOUR podcast, and it gets weirder! I gotta re listen before I can comment properly, there was just too many things that rang out as relevent to ME, right at that moment.
And then, you make reference to ME, and my existencial angst over the term NEW-AGE and how stuck it makes me.
(And I even annoyed you!)
Two years ago, I was Joe Normal, and now I am dealing with ALL THIS MERLINIAL WEIRDNESS!
Thank you SO much for the new word!
xoxoxoxo
M!
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Wow! hey! The word stuck! Glad to see it!
You're very welcome.
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merlinial / mer’lin-e-ill
adjective
1 of or relating to events of high strangeness or heavy-handed weirdness, without an irresponsible descent into flightyness : the merlinial experience needs careful and thoughtful examintaion.
• transcending human understanding : the merlinial experience left a scar on my nose.
• of or relating to curious mysteries : the merlinal people at the UFO conference didn’t like the flute music.
• of hidden or esoteric meaning : the sighting of strange lights in the sky was of great merlinal significance, but nobody started a religion.
2 inspiring a sense of spiritual mystery, awe, and fascination without wearing sandles : the merlinail forces of nature need to be recognized, but c’mon - don’t go overboard.
• concerned with the soul or the spirit, but not so much as to spin around wearing a flowy gament : my belief system is expanded, to the point of a merlinail transformation, but I still listen to Ted Nugent - really loud.
ANTONYM new age.
FIRST Usage: “So use mystical. That works. Or make up a word. Merlinial”
[email message: Dec, 7, 2008 from Jeremy Vaeni]
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Deeeeeep maaaaaan...
I still maintian we are souless meat droids. That humans instinctively cling to life, recoil from death, fear dying and mourn the dead because we understand on a core level that gone means GONE.
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"humans instinctively cling to life, recoil from death, fear dying and mourn the dead because we understand on a core level that gone means GONE."
In a sense I agree with you. We fear the finality of death and so make up some afterlife smokescreen to cover that fear, both of which get in the way of seeing what is. I maintain (through having done it) that we can experience death while alive and see what is right now. We don't fear the organism dying. Hell, there are people who want to inject themselves into computers right now if it means eternal life here. So the body dying isn't the thing, it's this mysterious "self" that's what we want to preserve into death. So we make up stories about how the self is different than the body and lives on when it dies. If it truly does is incidental to our desire for it to be so and by that desire we live. All of that and this explanation become static noise. Shutting it off is listening.
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Per usual I like George Carlin's take on the subject: "When you get right down to it, death seems okay- it's dying that bothers us. People don't seem to mind BEING dead, it's GETTING dead that's the problem!"
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I often wonder why what your grandmother has is called dementia. Could it be that is has something to do with an aspect of something dimentional?
How often do you experience this weird redish vision thing Jeremy and does the image seem to fit the person in a symbolic way?
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Actually I'm not sure if my grandmother has dementia. She had a stroke and it's possible she will recover somewhat or totally within 18 months when the blood leaves her brain.
My grandfather had dementia. Personally I think he brought it on himself when he gave up on living those many years ago but it did snowball into its own mental illness. And that's what it is--mental illness.
The redish vision thing happens now and then. Comes and goes on its own. I don't know how many times as I've not taken stock in it until now. Does it fit the person symbolically?--I don't know because sometimes it happens with strangers. it often happens when I'm talking with someone for a long while.
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Ahem...
"dimentia"
"dimension"
Don't start wandering down that Jordan Maxwell "it sounds the same so it means the same" road!
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Those Australian cave paintings are spirit beings called 'wondjina.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandjina
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Thanks!
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The ancient Australians painted those eerie big eyed images, as a way to share or broadcast "something"
Now, Jeremy V. Broadcasts as away to share the "something" he experienced.
Anyway - I'm gunna followup on some other stuff soooon!
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I am not too familiar with Jordon Maxwell's work. I don't know if I am going down THAT road as much as just thinking and typing outloud so to speak.
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Jeremy,
When I listened to the recent podcast a number of things struck me so intensely, that I had to listen a 2nd time (and then double check some stuff a third time).
Jeremy - When you spoke of that feeling of an altered sense of reality, Oh Jeeez I feel like you are articulating something I've felt. You were, paraphrasing my explanation in a way that was so close - it left me feeling that my experience was genuine (and that is something I struggle with).
You listed your feelings and impressions:
* being underwater
* quiet
* Like a combination of a head rush and waking up in the morning and being groggy.
* "Almost like I'm recessed back into myself, like I'm not there, but I am there."
I wrote about this feeling on a previous PARACAST forum posting, and I had a handful of "experiencers" contact me personally in an attempt to get me to try and explain more, or to share, or to try to understand their own similar feelings. (Including Ally from this forum, and David Huggins, they both sought me out to share their same impression)
Below are some previously posted attempts to articulate this feeling. I am struck by how they seem to match waht Jeremy said.
My impressions:
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Y'know how it feels to wake up on the couch late at night, and decide to go to bed. Those steps between the couch and bed "sorta" describe the mindset.
Hmmm - how to use words... Weirdly quiet - sort of a pressurized fish bowl - the deepest part of my psyche is displaced, and moved to the forefront - maybe the normal thought chatter in my head is turned off - maybe - kinda - sorta..
a distinct warping of my psyche.
... strangely vivid, but at the same time I truly do NOT think it happened in “this” reality. That may sound hard to grasp, but it is the only way I can honestly describe the experience.
(and more)
The woman from your hometown spoke about an event in New Hampshire in 1993. I had a very vivid experience in Maine in 1993 (I lived very close to the NH border).
There was another family member that spoke of a sighting in 1973. I had a missing time event (with a very odd phenomenon in the sky) in that year in michigan.
I'll add that I am going to visit my family during christmas, and I realize I truly need to share this with my brother and sister. I was so worried about this - until listening to your podcast. Thanks...
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My grandfather had dementia. Personally I think he brought it on himself when he gave up on living those many years ago but it did snowball into its own mental illness. And that's what it is--mental illness.
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When you spoke of that feeling of an altered sense of reality, Oh Jeeez I feel like you are articulating something I've felt.
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