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I Saw A UFO?
Last night I was looking through my mini-book, and there is this image that is sort of 5 images in one. One of them says "Post-Terrestrials" and it's a guy standing there with all sorts of crazy stuff in the sky. I began to wonder if it were possible for "Post-Terrestrials," or individuals who have activated higher circuits of consciousness than is typical among humanity, to have that kind of impact over the actual environment. The power to make crazy things actually happen in the sky and with the world. I then remembered my previous experiences of high-consciousness, and how it seemed like crazy shit just followed me everywhere. Let me preface my retelling of this incident by saying that it seems that I have been doing better and better with my consciousness recently, and I have been having a fairly insane amount of synchronicity(now, synchronicity has been the norm for me for a while, so I don't even consider it to be that unusual anymore, but the frequency has certainly been increasing again as of late).
Earlier today I was going to the gym, and I was thinking about my consciousness bringing about unusual/awesome things in the sky, trying to imagine it happening. Then, when I was driving home, that is exactly what happened. This thing shot downwards through the sky, and it was star-shaped, as in how you would draw a star. It was flashing bright neon green and red(those are the colors I saw, anyways, in the brief time that I saw it), and seemed to be emitting sparks; it seemed more energetic than physical. I was with my dad at the time, who is not the type to think about things outside of normal thoughts, and even he could provide no explanation as to what it was. I tried, and have continued to try, to think of any alternative explanation as to what it could have been, besides a UFO; I can not think of anything. So this was an amazing experience, and "coincidentally" coincided with the exact time that I was thinking about this sort of thing happening, providing another amazing synchronicity.
Earlier today I was going to the gym, and I was thinking about my consciousness bringing about unusual/awesome things in the sky, trying to imagine it happening. Then, when I was driving home, that is exactly what happened. This thing shot downwards through the sky, and it was star-shaped, as in how you would draw a star. It was flashing bright neon green and red(those are the colors I saw, anyways, in the brief time that I saw it), and seemed to be emitting sparks; it seemed more energetic than physical. I was with my dad at the time, who is not the type to think about things outside of normal thoughts, and even he could provide no explanation as to what it was. I tried, and have continued to try, to think of any alternative explanation as to what it could have been, besides a UFO; I can not think of anything. So this was an amazing experience, and "coincidentally" coincided with the exact time that I was thinking about this sort of thing happening, providing another amazing synchronicity.
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I wish you could have taken video. That would have been cool.
I have my own UFO issue that I'm dealing with plus I am researching the Leary stuff that Immersedone linked me to... will be a while before I have coherent thoughts on it...
Immersedone - it certainly was an Unidentified Flying Object... now to work out what it could have been! keep looking up...
@telly03 - the concept is 'out of the box' but not dellusional - you assume that 4 dimensions (3 space and 1 time) or as one theory paints 3 dimensions (2 space and 1 time) is the only reality that can support 'life' or 'consciousness'... physics / maths shows that there are many more dimensions and that space can be folded in (I think) 12 dimensions? certainly more than we knowingly experience.
What is a dimension though? you'll be stuck as its a mathematical concept that doesnt translate.
The mind is able to experience various states of consciousness (perhaps experiencing another dimension) - there are many reports of people considering that UFO's are here all the time but we dont see them as they do not feature in our perception of reality.
A good analogy I heard was like you walking past an anthill - your interaction will at best be destructive (so to be avoided) but there will be no intellectual communication or recognition from the ants - likely they wont even notice you if you wizz by in a car... maybe...
Unidentified Flying Objects are a fact - what they are and what youre seeing is something else.
Personally, I am neither for or against but I think youre dismissed too quickly - perhaps this is because you are open with the entire route of your theories and they challenge the very fabric of reality and leave you open to multiple criticism from multiple angles.
Good on you immersedone - you'll always have a place at my fire.
Just promise me please that if you ever manage to get to these higher planes that you will come back and find me and show me (no matter how dumb and blind I am) that you did it... if you do, I promise I'll never shut up about it (even if they lock me up for being a nutter!)
What bothers me is that your dad saw it too! On the one hand it proves that what you saw wasn't just your imagination, OTOH, can you really assume that your dad had the same higher frequency/consciousness that you suggest caused you both to see this?
Perhaps this isn't the right place to go into too much detail about these experiences, since my sanity has already been questioned in this thread(hah), but let me say two general things. My "ability" to, let's say alter, my reality, is not limited to inanimate objects. It extends to humans as well, whether it be random people who just pop up in my reality for some reason, or whether it be people I know acting...let's say, not themselves. There are different interpretations to all of this, and for me the work is to better understand how it all functions. Each of us inhabits our own realities. It seems that as you raise your consciousness, reality is a more and more direct reflection of your self. As I say, this affects other people as well. And this is not just a sometimes thing, and it has nothing to do with their will. They absolutely cannot help it. If I am in a high-consciousness state, my consciousness' presence WILL be felt. As far as interpretation, it seems as though the other people can sense our shared reality being shaped in my presence, and they like to ignore it. No matter HOW STRANGE what is happening is, a common reaction is to just ignore it. They cannot deny what is happening, but they do not like to acknowledge it. It is as if they are uncomfortable with another's consciousness over-powering theirs in their own reality, and will bury their head in the sand to continue their belief in their own reality-tunnel.
Although this is certainly not all the details, it is more details than I generally share outside of people who I know well, and know that they can understand me, or relate to me. I'm certainly not claiming to be the only one who has had these types of experiences, and it seems likely to me that most others who have these experiences don't talk about it much, for fear of sounding strange, or "delusional."
I too have seen a UFO, but not under the same circumstances. I was once sat in my back garden, and my eyes were drawn to a plane -- or what I thought was a plane, at the time -- moving exceptionally fast, to my right. After turning my attention, and eyes, to the plane, something exceptionally extraordinary happened -- The light my eyes were tracking stopped, and 'backtracked'(reversed, went back in the path it was going) in the blink of an eye. In effect it came to a halt and simply reversed, or made a stupid-fast 180 turn.
People are welcome to believe or disbelieve this, and indeed I make no claims to what it was... But what I will tell you is that it scared me, to the extent that I got up off the floor and Usain Bolted into my house.
My belief is that I saw some sort of military craft, an experiment, a top-secret flying vehicle - something of that nature.
Unless you can summon another UFO I think your case was that of coincidence, having read up on UFO's and heard from many who claim to have the ability, and also claim to have tried and failed.
Chris
Imagine an ant in an anthill - it is a form of life that you recognise - if on this tiny planet there is an ant then statistics and the size of even the known universe leans towards there being lots of orders of life (from ant to human to ?) - all in different states of evolutionary progress.
This progress is both physical and consciousness driven - it is long established that animals, at least, have a consciousness (we are only scratching the surface and in recent years the peer reviewed papers published are incredible) - it would seem that even mainstream science cannot ignore that what was once considered a singularly unique human consciousness, the pinnacle of the evolutionary ladder, the height of all achievement and God of the universe, might just be one little speck in an infinite, 12 dimension space folded endless probability driven nothing!!
That pretty much summarises where we are at in our current accepted theories - If you start with the unsolved mysteries (which you can imagine outweigh the solved ones) then the theories explode - some are correct, some are wildly off - either way some are correct - the problem is all of them are very very strange - this means that in the future (after, I'm sorry to say, the current incumbent are dead!) accepted theories will seem almost alien to the present mindset - it is inevitable until we have a theory of everything and we are way way way off that!
Then there are the paradoxes - the things that can't be true but have to be to maintain the very fabric of our reality (as predicted by maths) - ponder my name for a while and see where it gets you - consider singularity or infinity... this shows you that whatever consciousness you have, some things are beyond you - definitely intellectually but perhaps also consciousness-ly (?!).
So now, in this state of mind, imagine another lifeform like you watching the ant - how do you explain to the ant that there is such a thing as a car or a house, or a mortgage, or guilt, tears or poems? Maybe now and again, your chemical signal alerts the ant to your presence - maybe not - you coexist but dont communicate or perceive eachothers' consciousness.
I read a book once where an anthill formed a consciousness - each ant acted as a process in the brain (imagine if we understood every one and it could be translated to a mechanical function) - so the anthill could communicate on a human level.
There is therefore in theory a line of reason that says that there may be a way, some way of being the anthill-brain... everyone then has their own theory on how this can be achieved if at all - nothing proved yet but that doesnt mean its all rediculous.
So now imagine, is it any more possible in your mind that one could communicate with another lifeform in close proximity if that communication is via a genuine 'evolutionary' progression (whether actual or artificial)??
Reworded, could someone summon an unidentified flying object with thought alone?
If the answer is yes or even maybe then you and immersed one have more in common than you know...
I might have seen a spirit once, idk. It may have just been sleep paralysis, thats the scientific explanation anyway. Though I didn't have any paralysis and I remember seeing a nebulous darkness darker than the background darkness of night sink below the foot of my bed. Also my dream stayed the same but everything turned dark right before.
In fact, rien de rien...
I have nothing to report, admit or confess to.... the only truly weird thing in my life, is me.
And I don't have to explain or justify that to anyone - it's plain to see.
which is why the Op is getting dangerously close (in my book, and my opinion) to seriously delusional, and somewhat vivid imaginary nonsense.
I wIsh I could take it seriously, but I'm taking it as seriously as I take the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Father Christmas, the Easter bunny and the Tooth Fairy.
@ImmersedOne, while I personally am very happy to accommodate the threads you post with regard to your interests, passion and wishing to publish your books, this kind of talk enters fantasy land, and unless you have something to back this up with, it's utter fictional, fanciful nonsense.
Some have expressed concern at how off-the-wall this sounds, and I personally question just how far this is going to travel before it gets so ludicrous, that it becomes a matter of calling a halt to such wild and frankly outrageous claims.
This is a Buddhist forum, and while we practice daily to increase compassion and acceptance - it may not be the right forum for you to post such material on a constant and frequent basis. Maybe there are Science-fantasy-new-age forums where this would sit - and fit - better.
But this Forum is about Buddhism, recognising the origin of suffering, the transcendence of suffering, and understanding Mind.
I really do not see how any of this fits, or actually has any relevance.
Sorry.
All talk and chopsticks!
I feel ashamed for being one who said, "he was smoking good shit.."
I think he is creative and I enjoy his posts now. I think he will need to balance his thread posting but I don't want anyone to go. Also, he takes critism well...we have hashed out some abuse in the past.
So please stay op...but be mindful...you could also pm. Lots of people here like UFO sightings and science fiction.
With love.
Thanks.
This whole "space" thing is fairly new to me, at least in terms of writing it out the way I have been. I've been enjoying the new outlet to share my latest ideas with some new people. First, let me say you could rightly call this sort of stuff "Science Fiction," as in it is based on Scientific Fact, and is "fiction" in the sense that anything that is not emperically duplicable is "fiction." I have participated a bit outside of my own threads, although I admit to have been having a primary interest in my own threads thus far. I think it would probably be a good idea, though, now that I have established myself as the "Science Fiction Guy" to mix in more Buddhist ideas in my postings as well, whether they be through posting in existing threads or threads of my own.
'Nuff said.
"Buddha-Nature" can be seen as the underlying essence within all beings/things, that from one perspective has the potential to flower into Buddha-Hood, and from another perspective is Buddha in his fullness. Buddha(you may include Dharma/Truth and Sangha/Fellow-Seekers in this characterization. To me, it is implied when I say Buddha or Buddha-Nature, which I see as the Unity of the Triple-Gem) is the Awoken ONE, who manifests as, or plays the parts of, all beings/things in reality, for the purpose of Awakening "All Beings," or "Himself" from another perspective. Thus all of the various differentiations are the result of our false-perceptions, which create the apparent duality and prevent us from seeing Reality-As-It-Is. Reality-As-It-Is is the Non-Dual. In True Reality, there can be no ultimate differentiations. So, I have felt strongly connected to the Buddha's teachings, and thus tread the Buddhist Path, seeking to understand his Truth fully. And yet when I got to a certain point of understanding, the Non-Dual became clear. Me labelling myself a "Buddhist" would put me in contrast with "Non-Buddhist," and this would be inconsistent with the Truth. The Truth comes before all labels, and is intertwined with them all. I therefore drop self-labels, so that I can understand and express the Truth as it relates to all areas and forms of human thought.