Culture of Contact

Culture of Contact Episode 45: Alan Steinfeld's New Reality

Jeremy Vaeni — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:56:55 GMT

New Realities host Alan Steinfeld & Culture of Contact host Jeremy Vaeni go toe-to-toe on the New Age. What is the New Age? When did it start? Is it crap? What about aliens? What about what's going on with Jeremy personally? Does it all fit together or is it a case of square peg, round hole--both are shapes so we try to make them fit?

This episode is so conversational it almost sounds like just a regular phone call.

Did You Know We Have A Message Board?

Jeremy Vaeni — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:12:39 GMT

Just reminding anyone who is interested that Culture of Contact has a message board at www.themabusscarab.com.

I've been negligent of it in the past but I'll be posting stuff there in the future so check it out. The thing I appreciate most about the website is that they're always restructuring and adding cool new features & graphics. They also bother to create trailers for themselves like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YIm40ONlaQ

Culture of Contact started out as a means of bringing together various ufo/paranormal web entities under one umbrella. Perhaps it's time to get back to that starting there: By making Mabus my online home away from home.

Wanna join me? It's free. And we can use naughty words. You know I'm a fan of that.

UFO Magazine Readers Want To Know Where I've Been....

Jeremy Vaeni — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:44:31 GMT

People keep asking me why I've not appeared in UFO Magazine in quite some time and the answer is because they rejected a couple of my articles. The second article I'll post below--but note that what I wrote in the first paragraph as to why UFO rejected the previous article, isn't the whole story. Some things will remain private and this is one of them. Suffice to say they didn't want to run it and I respect that as it's their magazine, their choice, no harm no foul.

The second article, however--the one I'm printing here--I mean OUCH! In retrospect I can totally see why they wouldn't want to run it. It's pretty brutal. Mainly they didn't like me "attacking" fellow writers at the magazine. They didn't mind my criticism of the magazine itself and, in fact, encouraged me to rewrite it only as such. I refused because my main beef is with one writer in particular, the intolerable Kate Mucci.

I've never met her; I'm sure she's a great person. End disclaimer.

I did run this article by Alfred Lehmberg shortly after I wrote it and although he doesn't agree with me--and I actually like his criticism. I think it's fair and hope he makes it into an article someday--he thought it was intellectually honest and so wasn't offended by my barbs.

Still, I do punch so many people in the face here, I can see why UFO wouldn't want to run it. I suggested they run it like a top secret document, markering out all of the offensive lines but...reading it back...there are too many.

Okay, so all of this preface is to say that A.) This is why I've not been in UFO Mag in a while B.) DO NOT take this to mean that I feel UFO Magazine is censoring me beyond acceptable practice C.) I'll be back in their pages next issue.

I harbor zero ill will. I just want to publish the damn article so here it is. End disclaimer.

More Cowbell

Hey, remember that follow-up story I was supposed to have published here regarding the big change in ufology from scientainment to something substantial? Whelp, turns out UFO wouldn’t print it. They said it needed “more Vaeni,” meaning there wasn’t enough of my own writing. In it, I quoted heavily from other people, including an entire email exchange between Nick Redfern and me.

More Vaeni. Right. It got me to thinking that, with the influx of new readers due to the success of UFO Hunters, what this column really needs is a new introduction to me and what this magazine needs is not more Vaeni but less crap (we’ll get to Kate Mucci in a minute) and less incestuous assumptions that the general reader even has a clue who we’re talking about when we reference without context lesser-known ufological characters.

So now who am I? Why am I here? I’m an alien abductee or “experiencer” if you prefer. For the sake of argument I’ll say that whatever this ultimately means, it applies to me. If it means I’m suffering delusions, fine. If it means aliens interact with me, fine. If it means some trickster force pretending to be delusions of aliens is suckling at the teat of my soul, fine. Whatever it is, it’s there and I’ve written about it, shot a movie about it, talked about it publicly, and so on and so forth. I’m not going to give my full resume here but tell you that getting to the truth of this is important, personal business to me and even though I make a lot of crass jokes (we’ll get to Kate Mucci in a minute), I’m feeling more and more responsible for how and what I promote in this field. I think anyone vying for the public’s attention has a duty to make sure they know what they’re talking about, within reason, and care enough not to promote known, case-closed charlatans. Even my pal, Tim Binnall, who hosts the Binnall of America podcast, won’t promote known charlatans. I single him out because he is more interested in the personalities behind the stories in this field than getting to “the truth.” He doesn’t think that’s even possible—so even a guy with that bent will not promote known hoaxers and con artists. This brings me to Kate Mucci….

Last night I was on the can, filling it with stew and my pupils with UFO Magazine. Thank Zeus I was already seated because by the time I got through Ms. Mucci’s glowing review of Michael Horn’s DVD The Silent Revolution of Truth, I was ready to shit myself. Seriously, Kate?—If you had been in front of me, and I not on the toilet, I would have accidentally vomited on your head. If you, the reader, are offended by the imagery in this paragraph, fantastic! Now you have a sense of how I feel anytime I read an endorsement of lies about a subject that affects my life like no other.

In her convolutedly titled farticle, Believing Is Not Knowing, Mucci writes:

“Despite the shrill protestations of the debunkers who continue to assert that Billy is faking the thousands of photos and videos he has acquired during his experiences, there can be no doubt that this one-armed farmer in Switzerland has had amazing contact with beings from a distant star system.”

The Flat Earth Society called, Kate. They want their argument back.

If you missed it, the flick documents the claims of a one-armed Swiss farmer named Billy Meier who says he’s had a lifetime of open contact with aliens. He has the pictures and film to prove it. Except they’re fake. And the guy directing the documentary, Michael Horn, is the American representative for Meier. This is like Karl Rove directing a pro-war documentary on Iraq—you might want to check the sources before giving it a glowing review.

Might. But do you have to? What is Kate’s responsibility? Or “Old As” Dirk Vander Ploeg, another contributor to the magazine who gushes over this hoax? Is it anything? What about Alfred Lehmberg? He showed me his positive review of the Horn movie prior to its publication. Alfred’s take on any contactee experience that makes a splash is that there must be something magical/mystical behind it or else we wouldn’t be talking about it. What else but the real sparks our imagination thus, he wonders? Hey, I know! The imagination! That’s right! The imagination sets off imagination every bit as wonderfully as the real events it sometimes ponders and reorganizes. This is one of the benefits of having rich interior domains that transcend instinct as we humans do. We can even daydream about nothing at all while the world blows up around us. We’re fascinating that way.

I shared with Alfred my—make that Bruce Maccabee’s, Jacques Vallee’s, Jeff Ritzmann’s, Timothy Good’s, David Biedny’s, Nick Pope’s, Derek Bartholomaus’, Paul Kimball’s, an average five-year-old’s, some goldfish I showed it to’s—misgivings about the…um…evidence. Yet and still he went on to write said glowing review made passable only by the closer: “Give it a watch, even as a total fabrication and complete invention it is instructional because the truth of all things beckoning us will be just that kind of weird, only weirder I'm thinking.”

Kate Mucci did not write that. Kate Mucci wrote that Billy is clearly in contact with aliens and anyone opposed to this notion—you know? Experts in photography, film, and special effects?—are shrill debunkers. Madam, me thinks thou doth protest retardedly.

Kate’s not just a writer like the other fellows, she’s also co-host of the paranormal talk show, Out There TV, which airs in the U.S. and all over Europe. One assumes she has a much larger audience than they and I combined. Would it kill her to perform a simple Google search and find how Horn and Meier have been put to sleep time and time again? Like the undead they rise claiming, “No one has been able to put us down….No one has been able to put us down…” And then morons wash, rinse, and repeat based solely on this claim by them. It’s as if a proper, equal opposite rebuttal to all the proof in the world is, “But does that really prove anything?”

Actually, it’s not like that, it is that and the answer is yes it does. That’s the nature of proof, Kate, Dirk, Alfred, Tito, Jermaine, and Michael—IT PROVES THINGS.

Yeah, but what about all that expert testimony used in the flick to support the reality of the UFO footage, huh? What about that? Again, do your homework: Those experts have not panned out. Horn is misrepresenting most them. The credible ones. They say so themselves in written correspondences found at abovetopsecret.com. Seek them out. It’s your job. If it’s not your job, what is? If you’re not an experiencer, historian, philosopher, expert—what is your job? Just someone with a curiosity who can slap words together monthly? What qualifies your voice to be heard over anyone else’s?

If the writers aren’t capable of delivering material worthy of the long bus then what about the magazine itself? Does UFO see any value in quality control? We have a lot more readers now, eh? So what do you want to feed them? Facts or lazy journalism? Truth or wish fulfillment? Sorry to pick on you so badly here but I have a bit more vested interest in this than sales stats and don’t really want to be writing for a magazine that promotes known, proven, debunked garbage alongside genuine research performed by the likes of Stanton Friedman and Bruce Maccabee, as if it’s of equal value.

So here I am picking on the editor. I understand that the goal of the magazine is to sell advertisements and to appeal to a wide audience. I also understand that I’m not always going to agree with everything coming through here. But known hoaxers? Come on! You said yourself circulation has grown dramatically. How about a little discretion now that you can afford it? Does it not hold that many of the new readers are likewise new to ufology, and in plunking down cash for this periodical, expect to learn something real-ish from experts and educated pundits? Can we at least agree to cordon off the bobble-headed whimsy in its own leper section so visitors know to protect their eyes when reading?

If I’m wrong, tell me. Tell me what the mission statement of UFO Magazine is. Tell us all. Again, I want to stress, my only concern is that known junk is being promoted. I’m not even talking about the column by that New Age dude with the Gandalf beard or the radio show host who thinks moon gas is an angel. Purely the hoaxers hoaxing is my dilemma. Meier’s UFOs are only unidentified in that we don’t know the manufacturer of the toys and garbage can lids floating before the lens.* How apropos he used a garbage can lid for one of them. He may have lost an arm but his sense of humor is intact. So is mine. It’s my tolerance for BS that’s missing.

If nothing else, New Reader, I want you to know that there are those of us who will not put up with frauds. It’s been said that I and all abductees are in the same category as a Billy Meier, but we’re not. Yes, you have to choose whether you believe my story and what it is you believe about that story. This is because I come before you with nothing more than anecdotal evidence and my word. Sucks, right? On the other hand, what I don’t come before you with is fake photos. Billy does. So what’s to decide? He’s decided for you that he is not to be believed. Now try telling that to the writers and editors here in whom you put your trust and your money to know the difference.

Am I being too harsh? After all, the magazine did take out a blossoming scam artist named Dr. Dan Burisch not too long ago. Danny boy claimed to speak to an alien at a secret military facility but his background didn’t check out. So the magazine is capable of outing the awful. They also weren’t afraid to dedicate an entire issue to squeezing the life out of Project Serpo, a lame concoction from bored minds at the CIA. And I haven’t seen too much in support of Stephen Greer, yet another man with a preposterous set of stories. He sang a show tune at a press conference, wears muscle shirts, has a lisp and a limp wrist, and—get this!—claims to be heterosexual! Does that add up? Oh, also something about aliens or something. I don’t know. Is he even a doctor? I hear that part is true.

It’s ironic that the biggest piece of ufological fiction in history, The X-Files, got it right with their two seemingly paradoxical slogans: “Trust No One” and “The Truth Is Out There.”

Both are facts. The former needn’t be. If we don’t want to demolish scientainment can we at least make a vow to not willingly sell the tainment part as science?

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*NOTE: Actually, we might. The drum lid used for the “wedding cake” UFO probably comes to us via Harcostar and the nozzle of the real(ly plastic) alien ray gun probably comes to us courtesy of the friction motor Super Jet Ray Gun, a child’s toy made in Japan.

Culture of Contact Episode 44: David Huggins Sluttin' His Stuff

Jeremy Vaeni — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:01:08 GMT

Artist and intergalactic baby daddy David Huggins takes us through his lifetime of odd, blatant, in-your-face-and-on-your-junk alien experiences.

Plus some other stuff.

If you wanna check out Huggins' artwork of his experiences, we've got a lot of it online at www.cultureofcontact.com

Culture of Contact Episode 43: Jean Eisenhower Rattles with Fire!

Jeremy Vaeni — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:55:32 GMT

RattleSnake Fire author Jean Eisenhower takes us on a journey through her life--and what a journey it is! Shamanism, multiple personalities, alien abduction, MKULTRA, angelic guides, dolphins--My god, this episode has everything, including a very awkward reason for starting the interview late.

Oh, also, we answer one of the questions in her whirlwind of a book: Are Jim Marrs & Whitley Strieber disinformation agents?

This is the must-hear companion to the must-read book!

THANK YOU To All Who Are Buying My Book & DVD

Jeremy Vaeni — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:27:30 GMT

Just dropping a note to thank y'all for the resurgence in book & DVD sales on Amazon. Couldn't have come at a better time. I've just hammered out the contract with the theater for this year's Culture of Contact festival and it is going to destroy me financially. But hey! Maybe this will keep me from having to put a "donate" button on my website and praying!

The 5-cd "best of" set from last year's festival is coming soon. It won't be for sale at Amazon, just through me. It comes with a bonus 6th disk - Whitley Strieber's 2012: The War For Souls book launch. (Thanks, Whit!) If you want to pre-order it, drop me a line at: jeremy@valiens.com. I don't have the price in front of me but I believe it's $45. If not I'll correct it tonight.

Lastly, and on a whole other note, I wanna thank Bill Birnes at UFO Magazine. Bill takes a lot of shit from a lot of people in this field. I don't know how much of it is deserved but I can tell you that I've not seen an inkling of any of the complaints I've heard thus far. In fact, the opposite. We are financial & production partners for this festival, yet I set the price. I negotiated with the theater. I didn't consult with him beforehand, just did it and said, "Okay, what do you think?" If he wanted to he could sue me or tell me, "Screw you, Vaeni, I want out of our contract." But he didn't. He said let's do it--and can we use the money you owe me from last year as a down payment?

He never even asked me for what I owed him from last year in all this time.

This is who Bill Birnes is--and for all ye speakers who toe the line that Birnes did Corso wrong when co-authoring his book, you don't know what you're talking about. The fact that he's friends with the Corso family to this day should tell you that.

Anyway, completely different tangent. Just needed to say it. Thank you, Bill. And thank you all for your support.

Me? This Week? Doubtful. But Here's This!

Jeremy Vaeni — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:28:14 GMT

I dunno if I'll be doing a podcast this week. If so it definitely won't be up tomorrow. However, if you just can't get enough of my whine, be sure to check out Jeff Ritzmann's interview with me over at www.thesecondeclipse.com.

In other news, time is running out for you to get all 3 days of the Culture of Contact Festival Oct. 16 - 18th for just $30.

Go. Go now to http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=CUL17

Insert the discount code MYTH and all 3 days are yours for $30.

And be sure to visit www.cultureofcontact.com often for updates on new speakers and events. Here's one now: I'll be premiering my highly anticipated mock-documentary comedy, The Silent But Deadly Truthvolution of Truth at the festival. If that ain't worth the price of admission, what is?

Lastly, if you want to be on the Culture of Contact emailing list and receive a periodic newsletter from yours truly, please email me at jeremy@valiens.com and I'll add you. Anyone on the old email list I'll add unless I hear protests.

--jeremy

Most Fun I've Had During An Interview... Hope Ya Like....

Jeremy Vaeni — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:21:50 GMT

Last night I was on a radio show called The Paranomalists. It started off just fine. All normal-like. But soon it devolved into an irreverent train wreck of a comedy that just plain rocked. Here's the link. I come on in segments 2 and 3.

http://www.theparanomalists.com/Schedule/past/PastShows.html

Krishnamurti on Youtube

Jeremy Vaeni — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:20:21 GMT

Hey, gang. Just found a bunch of Krishnamurti vids on youtube, Here's a couple, if you're interested....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg0tOj6GRGY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEIfMqM5wnM&feature=related

Culture of Contact Episode 42: Dr. Janet Colli: Aliens, Humans, and Oneness

Jeremy Vaeni — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:17:58 GMT

Transpersonal clinical psychologist and author of Sacred Encounters, Dr. Janet Elizabeth Colli, adds a beautiful final chapter to the last two podcasts, tying together the themes of deep spirituality and alien abduction. This may be the first time in podcast history where the guest turns the tables on the host and ends up giving him public therapy!

Did Jeff Ritzmann Get Answers To Our Questions From These Beings This Morning?

Jeremy Vaeni — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:41:48 GMT

EDIT: This podcast will be held off until next week. However, do check out Jeff's site and his episode this week featuring his very own wife finally breaking her silence on what she's experienced!

http://www.thesecondeclipse.com/

Hold onto your hats, folks, the weird got weirder....

So last night, I did a 2 hour interview for Jeff Ritzmann's podcast. We chatted for a half hour then were unceremoniously disconnected. Fine. Happens. We reconnected and went on for another hour and a half. One of the main points we touched upon is that quite possibly these people we call alien are interdimensional beings who need us to perceive them for them to be real in our spatial reality. If true, Jeff wondered if one of the ways they do this is to leave marks on the body of experiencers. It's generally held that these are space doctors taking skin samples, but what if they aren't? What if they're leaving evidence that is incontrovertible proof to the person on whose body these marks appear and that's the function they serve - To say WE'RE HERE. DEAL WITH IT in a manner you can't ignore?

We also considered whether this was evil or or not. Anytime Jeff would tell them to go away because he thought they were evil they'd respond, "Are you sure?"

There's always a sardonic riddle at the center of what they do, prodding us to confront them as a question. My take is that to give an answer we can understand would be evil. To say "We're aliens." Or "Yup, we're gods" would be evil because they're not that and we'd be stunted in our growth and our "relationship" with them by having false answers. So they don't answer it. They ask us to ask "What are you?"

We talked about differences in spirituality between East and West. Judeo-Christian doctrine gives us a loving father figure who takes care of us and gives us hope and continuance in an afterlife. What Jeff describes, however, is more like Zen - talks in riddles, no god outside oneself, smacks the student with a stick because that is more compassionate and effective in spurring growth than coddling and giving answers and safety. Jeff doesn't know about any of this stuff. I dunno if he even cares and that makes it more interesting to me that he's experiencing the rules of the game by way of a system that isn't what he knows or cares about.

Debunkers can't say he's experiencing delusions based on cultural cues. That answer is ruled out.

Okay, so Jeff wakes up this morning and says it looks like he was beaten up. He's got anomalous marks on several areas of his body, including a cut-like line running from his ankle to his shin that is healing as I write.

Jeff broke a molar a few days ago. It was sharp, jagged, and cutting his tongue to blood when he spoke for too long. He was planning on taking the inevitable trip to the dentist to get that fixed but when he woke up this morning, along with looking like he'd been mugged, that molar was rounded and looked polished. He says he's taking pictures of everything, so that's good.... Oh, and that hour and a half of the interview after we got cut off and reconnected? All static. He didn't want to ask me to redo the interview but damn if I don't want to.

So there ya go. How do you make sense of it? Do you make sense of it? I do and I can't see another way except the ineffective fall-back term coincidence....

This intelligence erased the interview so he'd know that what follows is in response to our conversation. They marked his body as if to say, "Yup. That's why we do it," which doubles as an admission that they are interdimensional beings, not space doctors.

They fixed his tooth as if to say, "Yes that looks evil erasing your show and fucking you up, but...Are you sure?" I doubt they'd ever come out and say "We are or aren't," as clearly they live in the question and ask us to engage them on that level.

That's my takeaway. I asked Jeff during the interview if he thinks there's a confluence of skeptical experiencers trying to force these beings to emerge in a tangible way right now. He said no.

I think you know my next question, Jeff....

Oct. 16-18 Culture of Contact Fest Tix Now On Sale For SUPER INEXPENSIVE!

Jeremy Vaeni — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:35:09 GMT

Wanna go to a UFO conference in the 5th borough of NYC, Jersey City, that's so cool it's not a conference, it's a festival?

Wanna do that for dirt cheap?

Go to www.cultureofcontact.com read all about it and use the discount code MYTH for a discount on top of your built-in discount. (Offer good until July 7th.)

How are we doing it for this cheap? Simple. We don't want only die-hard UFO buffs forking over big bucks. We want everyone there. YOU'RE everyone!

Hooray!

It's inexpensive, it's a great location, and it's gonna be awesome. Don't miss out--act now!

Sincerely,

Jeremy Vaeni
director, Culture of Contact

Culture of Contact Episode 41: Jeremy Vaeni Live, Naked, And Dropping A Deux!

Jeremy Vaeni — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:03:22 GMT

Last episode I gave you the subjective experience of Truth. This episode I give the objective, technical aspect...along with more subjective...along with rambling.

You asked for it so I'm dropping a solo deux for your listening pleasure!

Culture of Contact Episode 40: Jeremy Vaeni Live & Naked

Jeremy Vaeni — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:51:13 GMT

I ramble semi-cohesively for an hour about the energy shenanigans happening in this here body. For an hour. Thank you and goodnight!

No Podcast This Week. Instead, This....

Jeremy Vaeni — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:10:53 GMT

This is something I wrote in April, 2004. I have it posted as is on a blog site I rarely use so odds are you've never read it. In lieu of a new podcast this week, I'm forking this over. I forget how much or little I've actually spoken about this energy I've got rolling around the body. I wrote an unpublished book about it and I think because of that, and the fact that I reference it often and tell the I AM experience I let loose on Warning Radio often enough, that I assume we all know what I'm talking about. I mean, duh! I friggen wrote about it already! (In. An. Unpublished book. Good job, Jer.)

It's notably odd how the answers presented here have faded like a dream and I find myself questioning what this stuff is over and over again, unaware that I answered a lot of it years ago. What is that? Mental fuge? Too much aluminum in my diet? Or is it what happens when you teeter between the now state and time--you have to keep questioning anew because the answers, even the correct ones, become a roadblock to the now state.

They certainly do, because you cannot approach the now. It either is or it isn't. It either is you or it isn't. To speak it, to speak of it, is to kill it on impact. Speaking of it, writing of it, brings it into time and thus its death. From that dead thing, that word, that utterance, we ponder it and because we ponder it we are not being it.

One of the big misconceptions we have when we talk about such things is that we can't describe anything of the now, of "god," or what have you, because it's so much bigger than our definitions. It's a misconception because none of the well-bearded sages of yore meant that it's impossible to encapsulate in definitions and descriptions. What they meant was it's impossible to experience through those definitions and descriptions and so to blab about it beyond saying "It's true," is fruitless. Rather, it's fruitful in a very wrong direction: It is the beginning of belief systems and therefore separation and war.

I'm tempted to do a podcast about all of this energy business--start at the beginning and bring you to present--but I'll leave that up to you. Is that self-indulgent nonsense or self-indulgent nonsense that you want to hear? Let me know. Meantime, here's the blog post....

I Am Not At Your Window ... or .. Get To Steppin'

Wednesday I had a job interview with a prominent New York TV production house. The very first question the first producer put to me was, “So what is your book about?”

“Do you really want to know?” I asked. I was slightly nervous because it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what my book is about. I figured that by calling it, I Know Why The Aliens Don’t Land!, nobody would ever ask. It’s obviously about why aliens don’t land and almost obviously humorous. To that end, I included the article “the” and a giant exclamation mark in the title.

In response, she nodded and said, “Yeah,” when what she meant was, “Duh! I asked the question, didn’t I?”

I told her and the supervising producer that it’s sort of a mind opening device disguised as a book. It’s autobiographical but it’s not a very straightforward thing at all. And then the supervising producer chimed in with, “You trying to start a cult?”

“No-no,” I stated flatly, “that’s the sequel.”

They laughed. I didn’t get the job.

I understand the stigma attached to alien abductions and how easy it is to peg anyone claiming to interact with aliens as a lunatic of some sort, or an outright liar. That’s partly why I wrote my book: I’m no New Age space case and I’m certainly not a hoaxer. I don’t want to form a cult. I don’t even want to instill the kinds of fear it takes to sell products.

Here—I’ll prove it….

Three readers of my book have told me that since reading it, they’ve suffered a nightmare or some kind of nighttime experience involving aliens and me. Two of them sound purely like dreams: I come through their bedroom window with some bald aliens and we abduct them. It’s frightening but it’s just a nightmare. This reminds me of when I was going through the bulk of my abduction experiences in high school and confiding them in friends. Inevitably many of them would relate similar nightmares or start to think they were being abducted—as if I have the power to unleash evil alien fury upon them.

The other “nightmare” or “experience,” or whatever it was happened to a close relative. The basic gist of it was that this alien presence told him, verbally and with a demonic voice, that they were going to take me and there wasn’t anything he could do about it. Kind of like, “You’re powerless. Tough shit.” He was asleep in his bed when this happened. It was a long experience, too, about a half hour. He knows this because that’s how long it took his wife to wake him up. She shook him and yelled his name but he couldn’t come out of it. There’s more to the experience than that but I don’t really wanna harp on it. For all I know it was a bad dream in a deep sleep. But elements of it sounded very familiar.

I certainly recognize the demonic voice.

Now if I wanted you to believe in me like a cult leader I would tell you with conviction that all of this is real and I am working with aliens or in direct communication with them or something to that effect. Like any good cult leader, I ‘d lie; like any great cult leader, I would believe that lie.

Instead, just like in the book, how about I give you the facts as I see them?

FACT: reading frightening material may produce nightmares. That’s obvious enough; however, when the frightening topic is true and abstract and could happen to anyone, it’s easier to mistake normal night terrors for genuine experience. This all hinges on the dreamer’s suggestibility.

So relax! It ain’t me in your bedroom.

FACT: the mind is indeed a tricky thing. We humans tend to divide our minds into the subconscious and the conscious. The mind is primarily the brain’s response to an apparent division between objects, as interpreted by our senses, and to the fact of death. That is what the mind is; how it is filled depends upon one’s upbringing, culture, etc. You know, all the filters and prejudices we incur and adjust as we age.

FACT: alien abductions do not fit into any known psychological ill. They are not dreams or hallucinations. Many are real, physical events—but not all. This has baffled researchers who think that perhaps aliens influence abductees via implants or by some high-tech device that interferes with brain waves. This has also emboldened skeptics who think that alien abduction experience can be induced using the right machinery. There have been a bunch of studies that show similarities between alleged abductions and what can be replicated in a lab. All one has to do is listen to the lab rats and listen to the alleged abductees to learn that what’s produced in the experiments is a shell of a thing compared to the real experience. Inducing someone to see a fearful silhouette in their peripheral vision is a far cry from the narrative structure and consistency abductees share. Get real!

FACT: but not all. Remember the, but not all from above? Yeah, many abductions are not physical experiences. And they aren’t due to implants. And they aren’t due to brainwave interference. There is something more to humans than meets the eye or any of the senses for that matter. This is because there is something more to us than our bodies, which produce our minds. We’re not our brain/egos alone. In fact, dissolve the ego and you will find that there is another piece of human biology that lies in wait. There is a different energy that inhabits our bodies fully when the brain is not expending its own energy to run the show and thus block out that other energy. Its subtle influence can be felt in the form of insight. It is the well from which insight, creativity, and that deep feeling of spirituality spring forth when we let our guard down, give up, or give over to a “higher power.” All of that is a mere taste of our potential.

THE FACT IS, there is an opening in, for lack of a better term, our ethereal body. The opening is located at the base of the spine. This is where waveform energy enters us and becomes its particulate form. It becomes thought and action, which we perceive to be our own. (It is our own in that it’s expressed within our individual bodies, but those individual personalities we mistakenly call “the soul” are again, nothing more than a sentient brain’s necessary illusion. We greet the material world using our own material processes.)

I hope this is still making sense!—bear with me!

So through that opening comes alien influence. “Alien” meaning any outside waveform being, or solid being using the waveform to inject its presence into the opening. I hope this description isn’t too vague or abstract. It IS very real, this opening. And everything I’ve just said about it is true on one level, but a higher truth is that all is one. All of the apparent things that make up the universe are really one thing. This whole “separate objects” point-of-view is not the point-of-view of Truth, it’s the point-of-view of Brain. Some of you will nod and say, “I knew that,” some will scoff, and some will wonder if I’m stealing from The Matrix trilogy. None of that matters. What you think about this does not matter. Throw out your opinions, your feelings, your defenses—your selves. Understanding only happens when the “me” is silent. When you are silent, you will understand all of this because you will experience a much broader, far richer world around you. It may be scary in retrospect but at the moment of clarity, there is no fear.

And as things get clearer and clearer and you start to wonder if aliens are talking to you or demons or angels or fairies or whatever it is that comes through that opening, you may scare yourself silly. Just keep going, because beyond that lies TRUTH in capitol letters. The TRUTH is, through that opening we taste the universe in one gulp. Nothingness…everythingness…the fabric of our being is the fabric of the universe, planet by planet, star by star—all life, all objects, and no thing whatsoever all at once.

Yes, the FACT is, we manifest as fear-filled animated objects dividing the world around us as our senses dictate. The TRUTH is, we are TRUTH. We are GOD. Not a piece of god; not the sons and daughters of god—God.

Incidentally, beware the ones who declare, “I am God.” Anyone who tells you that IS lying. This is not paradoxical, it’s just that we can only understand this intellectually—if at all—until we let go the ego, the “me.”

Okay, so I just babbled semi-coherently much like a cult leader, but without asking for your belief in me. This “Jer could be nuts” argument isn’t exactly a closed case, nor is the “Oh, he’s lying,” toss away line. So I will sweeten the pot. I will put up or shut up, as it were. I’m telling you there’s an opening connected with our physical bodies by an ethereal body that hovers in superposition around the physical. I’m telling you that through this opening other beings may influence us. I’m telling you that that stops when, through this opening, we experience ourselves as the universe and as nothingness, for then we understand not logically but in the core of our being that there are no entities influencing us because there is no us and there is no them. Reality is ONE FABRIC and we ARE that fabric. I’m further telling you that the reason this sounds so abstract is because it is transcendent of logic. It is not logical—it is greater than logic—but unfortunately, that which is not logical may only be interpreted by logic as either irrational or an ideal.

It’s not irrational—this is not some New Age superstition. It’s not an ideal—we can and in fact MUST do this now. There is no mystical future to strive for here. Time is not involved. It’s simple: When you stop talking and listen with the intent to listen (as opposed to listening with the intent to respond) something totally revolutionary takes place in your body.

Okay: still babbling; sorry. Put up or shut up. Right. * Ahem * …deep breath…

I can “produce” in my body an energy that is not normally present. This is different than when one’s brain waves switch over to Alpha in a deep meditative state (although I’m sure that happens with my brain too). If there is any serious researcher at the university level reading this who studies consciousness, biology, or whatever category this ultimately falls under, I wanna be your lab rat. I will show you what I’m talking about and I feel certain there must be a way to measure it.

We’re talking about the enlightenment process here—you know, the one the Buddhas and Christs and Krishnas of the world go through to “achieve” godhead. This is happening to me and I’m a total slob of a human. A real train wreck. I am spirituality for dummies. At the risk of sounding more grandiose than I already may, I think this is happening to me because, for whatever reason, it finally CAN happen to the average undisciplined Joe/Jane. I really wanted to sit on this information until my next book but I think it’s wrong, morally. I think I need to usher this TRUTH in as FACT to a world whose sanest patrons only believe in facts.

Facts in their purest form are a description of this living truth. The reverse is never the case because truth transcends—is broader than—fact. That which transcends something must also include in its makeup the thing it transcends. What this tells us is that consciousness transcends and includes the physical. Therefore, Truth must have a physical correlate. There is no no-thing without thing. The religious among us are thing pretending to be both thing and no-thing. The nonreligious pretend to be just thing. But in truth there is no division—just our cunning brains blocking out the fact of it, the truth of it, the living it.

I’m telling you there is a gateway by our lower spine that translates the intention of no-thing into action within our bodies. Ultimately, the intention of no-thing is to wakeup the physical world to the fact of its God-ness. This is the pinnacle of sentience, which is the type of consciousness exclusive to humans (and other highly evolved beings).

Humanity doesn’t have a gift over plants and animals, we have a charge. Our charge is to wake up. That’s our duty. Other beings may nudge us but it is we who must wake. Let’s get to it. Enough of the religious and cultish horseshit. I’ll take the first step only if you will step with me, not follow. As Jiddu Krishnamurti pointed out, “The fist step is the last step.” He’s dead now. Only Truth lives forever. Our first/last step is out of time. We’ve got eternity literally at our backs.

Who dares to move? Who dares to see this?

_______________________

Note: words themselves create division. Even though I’m talking about another energy that enters my body and talking about a “you” that exists beneath the façade of you, that doesn’t mean there’s a conflict. The discrepancy is that 1.) language is a barrier and 2.) these divisions are only surface appearances like ripples in a pond. Since we see ourselves as ripples, it’s hard to talk about us as POND, for even the word “us” is a division that does not exist.

Jeremy on Warning Radio

Jeremy Vaeni — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:41:38 GMT

http://warningradio.info/Warning%3A/Archive!/Entries/2008/5/26_Jeremy_Vaeni.html

The above link will bring you to a radio show I did on Monday. It's confounding to me. I'd love to jade your thinking with my take and then ask your opinion on it. So here's me jading you. Then give it a listen and let me know if I'm off my rocker or they just hear what they want to hear because reductionist thinking is what keeps some experiencers feeling sane. I like the debating aspects of the interview but the after chat seems way off to me as I told the producer in the following email for which I've received crickets in response....

Hi, Carol:

I listened to the episode's post-show chat last night and was surprised to hear that even these smart people (which are hard to come by in paranormal radio)--including a guy who says he's an abductee--did the ol' "we hear what we want to hear" routine.

I'm curious if the cast takes anyone's story at face value or not? If yes, then that's fine, actually, because it means you just didn't take mine at face value--which I'm all for. It means something about what I was saying didn't ring true or I didn't convey it well. But if the answer is "No, never," then why do you have a show at all? Just to then do a round table where you say "Yup, this is all subjective. Glad that guy's experience is helping him personally but he'll never get that it's all in his head."

Except for the one host who's an abductee. I assume his experiences are real.

I'm glad we had a mini debate about sleep paralysis because that stuff needs to get fleshed out. However, it's not because I'm married to a belief that aliens came to me in my room--in fact I said over and over I don't think this is aliens, necessarily. I don't know what it is. Somehow this got translated after the segment into "Whelp, he's a guy that firmly believes it's aliens and there's just no talking sense to someone like that."

Huh?

Were we having the same conversation? I don't know about aliens but I do know it's not sleep paralysis. How do I know that? Because I wasn't asleep. And I wasn't paralyzed. So why isn't that the end of that hypothesis? Sure, people are paralyzed during abductions--but the correlation in "legit cases" is a false positive. Just as there are both planes and birds in the sky, these two things can coexist without having to wrongly reduce them into one just because you're a fan of Occam's Razor.

I never said I thought my experiences should serve as proof enough that this is all real. I said (basically) that the footage of me hooked up to an EEG proves I'm not just making stuff up about this energy in the body. Somehow, uttering the word "proof" in one very specific context got translated into I think my whole story is proof of the whole thing being real.

I don't normally write to shows but I think yours is a good one. I just want to have this out there as a cautionary tale because I feel like what's happening is this: You've got a guy who's an abductee but intelligent and skeptical enough not to be a New Age flake and certainly doesn't want to be lumped in with such. And he's flanked by "experts" in various (possibly) related fields. Everyone wants to get to the bottom of this as best they can, and rightfully so. But abductee dude has a problem. The problem is, scientific materialism keeps him grounded and so when something comes along that transcends this, he has to reduce it to something logical. ANYTHING logical. Sleep paralysis... mental illness... brain chemistry... And the abductions still happen. But he's not crazy...not crazy--as proof he's got it in a box. It's all under control.

Everyone's case has a prosaic explanation except his. He's not questioning because he wants to find something out, he's questioning as a defense mechanism to feel sane and secure with the unknown presence infiltrating his life.

I get that. I do. I've played this game too--and sometimes I catch myself doing it still. But dude, wake up. If it doesn't look like or smell like sleep paralysis, it ain't sleep paralysis. The "but how do you know?" carries no more weight than not being able to tell you I know we had a conversation last night. How do I know I wasn't asleep dreaming it?

Because I wasn't. The end. That's not zealotry, that's actually a question answered. It's time to answer SOME questions or else we'll never hear the signal in the noise. I think, ultimately, you've got a good team of people to do that via the podcast, you just have to learn to listen in a way where you're not hearing what you want to hear.

--jeremy

Culture of Contact Episode 39: Neil Freer, The Long Lost Interview

Jeremy Vaeni — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:38:00 GMT

Neil Freer is one of the higher ups in the Greerian Exopol Movement as well as a Futant.

One of those terms I made up. The other he made up and applies to himself. Discuss.

This is an interview I did many, many months ago (last year, I think) for Book of Thoth. It never aired. Whelp, I'm airing it now so sit back, relax, and enjoy the fresh air that is Neil Freer - The Long Lost Interview!

It's an MP3. It's 61mbs. I tried to make it smaller per the instructions posted in the Budd Hopkins interview but...they don't work. Or I can't work them. It's self-explanatory so I don't think it's me this time. Sure sign it IS me.

Culture of Contact Episode 38: Smokin' Budd Hopkins

Jeremy Vaeni — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:52:38 GMT

Budd Hopkins. Need I say more?

This episode is an MP3, so happy downloading and Lotusland - happy vacation!

Fans Of Me... HEAR ME.

Jeremy Vaeni — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:53:36 GMT

Hey, listeners of the show and readers of the website....

Let's take a vote on whether or not you want a message board. See the What did you think of this article, poll? Let's use that.

YES = You telling me: "You're retarded. You should have made a message board ages ago. Of course I want you to kill off the comments section and create a message board through www.cultureofcontact.com"

NO = You telling me: "Dude, too many message boards. Just keep it simple. Keep the comments section as it is. I can ignore the assholes I don't like and who needs a fucking emoticon list anyway?"

NO OPINION = You telling me: "I don't give a shit; just let me know what's going on."

Vote Now!

[Note: the comments section is now open to discuss your vote but not to vote in and not to vote in as a joke because I said not to vote in it. I'm on to you.]

Culture of Contact Episode 37 - Karyn Dolan Has Arrived

Jeremy Vaeni — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:33:29 GMT

Karyn Dolan ain't just the wife of Richard Dolan, she's also a paranormal investigator in her own right. (And a podcaster in her own right too! Check out www.keyholepublishing.com for details on her paranormal show!) We'll talk to Karyn, but first...a brief message from "Dr. Steven Greer."