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Two things.
Ordering tons of stuff to keep yourself in the MLM is called being Garage Qualified.
There is a book called Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, by Michael Shermer. He makes the point that people involved in conspiracies, cults, etc., aren't stupid. They aren't usually poorly educated. It is an interesting read, and your library probably has a copy.
I read it years ago, and it has kept me humble - none of us are above being sucked in by dangerous beliefs or people.
If you would like to know more about this, I would HIGHLY recommend this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Giants-Who-Ruled-America/dp/1591431719
Well worth it to know more about the background, lots of research and a convincing argument about what was here before native Americans.
They were the ones doing the investigation detailed in the original Hunt for The Skinwalker book. According to the book, they managed to capture some seriously unusual occurences with multiple witnesses and some photos and video. Orbs and UFO-type lights, the incredibly weird cattle incident where an adult Black Angus steer somehow ended up inside a closed and locked trailer, and most intriguingly what's come to be referred to as a "hole in the sky" (no relation to the Black Sabbath song). The latter was described as something like a portal, visible only with IRNV optics and at a specific angle, that appeared out of thin air at one point.
It's really such a remarkable and scary thing to think about. If prion disorders peak your interest, I highly recommend reading The Family That Couldn't Sleep. It's an accessible and easy read and it goes in depth on prion disorders.
Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer, while not specifically about the coC or Christianity, is a great read on, well, exactly what it says.
Michael Shermer was also on an episode of Mr. Deity some years ago and made some interesting points on skepticism and faith. edit: And honestly, go look through the Mr. Deity Youtube channel. It's an interesting, often satirical look at organized religion and the dumb things people do in the name of religion, featuring: Mr Deity (god), Jesus, Lucy (satan), and Larry (god's PA).
This incident was (along with the orbs incinerating the ranch owner’s dogs) the most shocking account of the George Knapp’s Hunt for Skinwalker book.
Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah https://www.amazon.com/dp/1416505210/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_Q6N3SBW2VCKPE3N5NK1T
Motivated reasoning plays a strong role in why people persist in believing in bad ideas, even well after they should've discarded them. And faith itself is a powerful amplifier of motivated reasoning. If you already believe in an idea; and the entire idea of faith is to get people to believe in certain ideas strongly; every thought you have about that idea is filtered through layers of motivation and complexes of belief about the world.
When inside a system of beliefs, you see the world very differently than when outside it. That's the entire purpose of systems of belief.
There's a decent book that covers this sort of topic in detail; from people believing in scams, cults, pseudo-science, to holocaust deniers. Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer. One insight I pulled from the book is: smart people aren't necessarily less likely to believe in false ideas, or to divest themself of bad beliefs. Smart people are more capable, after all, of coming up with intelligent-sounding reasons to believe in bad ideas. So it's really important to learn skills to test your ideas, and to find trustworthy sources for your information.
The book Hunt For The Skinwalker by Colm Kelleher and George Knapp is the best place to start that particular rabbit hole. The documentary isn't bad too, but you have to put up with Jeremy Corbell interjecting himself into the story again.
>I'm just someone that's very keen on Aliens and very interested in a potential disclosure of some sort.
If you feel like it, I would recommend Richard Dolan's book UFO's and the National Security State. It's a very long book, meticulously researched. It provides basically irrefutable evidence of a government cover-up (IMO). Things like the Twining memo, etc. - also outlined in Dolan's many YouTube presentations - make an open and shut case that yeah, all that "Flying Saucer" stuff was a huge deal in the 40s and 50s. It was a massive cultural event that touches millions of people's lives and our government was obsessed with them. Stories were not allowed to persist in the culture and got ridiculed out of existence.
Also "The Day After Roswell" is good. I really don't think people lie as much as some skeptics would have us believe. That story for example - it has to be either an amazing and true story, or one of the most grandiose, self-serving, well-put-together tapestries of lies ever created. Which I don't think it is.
[it's 17$ on US amazon for a new paperback](https://www.amazon.com/Family-That-Couldnt-Sleep-Medical/dp/081297252X)
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if you still want to read it. It starts off pretty strong and ends pretty strong. The middle has some dry parts but an interesting read overall.
😂😂😂😂 man read The Ancient Giants who Ruled America, such a good book. Only focused on America but such good info. Smithsonian been covering this shit up since the beginning, might have even been founded to hide all this shit.
Start with Journeys out of the Body:
https://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Out-Body-Out-Body/dp/0385008619
This starts from the beginning of when he started experiencing spontaneous OOBE's and goes from there towards developing curiosity and then studying it.
The other books in the trilogy expand and detail the formation of Hemi-sync and the Monroe Institute.
Richard Dolan's youtube channel. He wrote UFOs and the National Security State vols I & II, the best historical treatment of the ufo subject, and does news and analysis on youtube.
Good article. I suggest everyone read Michael Shermer's book Why People Believe Weird Things. Shermer is a well-respected skeptic author, and he's very easy to read. He does a monthly column in Scientific American as well.
I'd also recommend Why people Believe Weird Things. Really fascinating stuff.
The most intelligent of us are more capable of justifying their ‘mistakes’ and fortifying their positions, regardless of rational.
It is on The Ranch:
>In March 2010, Joseph McMoneagle, one of the premier remote viewers in the U.S. was asked to observe a target designated as "22610" using traditional blind targeting protocols. "22610" was actually Skinwalker Ranch. Blind targeting protocols mean he had no knowledge that the ranch was his target. As expected McMoneagle's sketch of the Skinwalker Ranch, description of environment, animals present, and the characteristics of the two ranch managers and two security guards were excellent. But he indicated that a fifth individual was also present. McMoneagle described a male, 60-70 pounds, with a height of 4'3" with no hair. Age was not able to be determined. Exact physical features were unclear, as opposed to those of the managers and guards. McMoneagle said the fifth individual could not be seen by ranch personnel but did attempt test communications with them to see their response. He indicated that the communication was not precise or clear, and to the individuals on the ranch it would seem to come from above and behind their heads.
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>Pages 120-121 Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program
BAAS included remote viewing as one of their nine (9) proposed objectives to the DIA under the AAWSAP program, but it was not selected.
This is real. Wendigo, skinwalkers, orbs, paranormal... It's all real.
Try watching this instead, the show can be overly dramatic for sure The Hunt For The Skinwalker Also, this book was very interesting: Skinwalkers at the Pentagon
didnt know about the movie but i will watch it later today..
are you aware of https://www.amazon.com/Who-Built-Moon-Christopher-Knight/dp/1842931636 ?
who built the moon.. a book by christopher knight. speculative of course but a fun read
The Uinta Basin is known for its oil fields, not crop fields.
The NIDS team, however, did perform an interesting experiment in 2010 involving growing tobacco & spiderwort plants.
>The dry (dormant) seeds stored at Skinwalker Ranch exhibited very different germination rates than those stored under similar conditions in Las Vegas. All germination rates were higher in dormant seeds stored on Skinwalker Ranch compared with controls that were stored in Las Vegas. In contrast, seeds that were received from the commercial distributor and immediately transported to two separate locations on Skinwalker Ranch and utilizing identical grow lights, environmental conditioning, and germination methodology (peat discs) showed dramatically slower germination rates in both locations on Skinwalker Ranch compared to the Las Vegas Controls.
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>Though this data appear to be conflicting, the effects of electromagnetic (EM) radiation on dormant seeds are very different from EM effects on actively germinating plants.
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>Page 140-141 Skinwalkers at the Pentagon
It's a reality tv show produced by the same team as Ancient Aliens. There are liberties being taken. If you're expecting a science-based-docu-series, you'll be sorely disappointed.
However - if you believe the books, there is no doubt something very real is going on:
Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah (2005)
Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program (2021)
To your first point, Brandon has confirmed exactly that in interviews. He owned the ranch for ~2 years and already had his team in place.
Finally he relented and took an interview with Kevin Burns (RIP, Former head of Prometheus Entertainment). That meeting was when he was introduced to Dr. Taylor and he was added to the team. Initially, Brandon Fugal also insisted he maintain anonymity, but they obviously convinced him otherwise.
As to your second point, here is a quote to that effect from Dr. Taylor found in Skinwalkers at the Pentagon:
>”We don’t like to talk about the hitchhiker too much because everybody’s afraid it’s going to trigger it or something. I have several colleagues that were putting instruments out to measure things at their house, as well as at the ranch. And we’re measuring simultaneous events occurring at both places. That may be a thousand miles apart.”
I thought so too, for further reading I highly recommend this book:
What is happening at the ranch is 100% real. The DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) studied the ranch and some of their extremely compelling findings were published in Skinwalkers at The Pentagon. Brandon Fugal purchase the ranch after the DIA study was complete. Brandon Fugal hired Travis Taylor, former leader of the US government’s UAP task force to help study the ranch and communicate their findings to the public via their TV show. Any time you have a TV show, you need to realize that Brandon and his team need to make money and have the show be successful in order to continue to fund their research and grow the team. Sure, there are some overproduced moments, but nothing is fake or contrived.
The most detailed source for the Sherman's experiences is the book "Hunt for the Skinwalker" by Colm Keller and George Knapp. Here's it on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Hunt-Skinwalker-Science-Confronts-Unexplained/dp/1416505210
The Shermans originally went public with some interviews for Utah newspapers, then with George Knapp. Almost all of their experiences are in the book, including the one you're looking for.
BTW, those dark entities are still haunting people on and off the ranch to this day. Not in detail, but some have mentioned it during interviews.
That’s because it wasn’t known when that NYT article came out. Did you bother looking into the book I mentioned?
https://www.amazon.com/Skinwalkers-Pentagon-Insiders-Account-Government/dp/B09HR54GQF/
Are you familiar with the fact UAP are being taken seriously by congress and they are getting classified briefings?
I’m open to the idea this is all an elaborate farce but if it is it really begs some answers and not dismissiveness. DOD and Bigelow aerospace absolutely were involved at researching paranormal on skinwalker ranch. It’s a fact. Same thing as the classified briefings and congressional hearings.
If you really want to know the truth about Skinwalker, read the books:
Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HR54GQF/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_38BVHMBNRVMM00F7RD4J
Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah https://www.amazon.com/dp/1416505210/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_0CSZW1Q1WMD6EQR69D56
People tend to discount the stories without consideration because they contain too much “woo” for their liking. I attribute it to our own ignorance. Remember, the academics of our world at one point believed in the geocentric model. The geocentric model states that the sun/universe revolves around earth and to contest it was heresy. You could be put to death for stating otherwise. It took a long time and many brave people before we accepted the truth. The death these days are more metaphorical. It’s your career that dies rather than your physical body. The result is the same though.
I’m not saying I believe everything that happened there but it at least deserves our consideration. Discoveries only occur when we study the anomalous. If you accept the established “truths” of the world as unwavering fact and never look closer, how can we have scientific progress?
TL;DR: He chose to be a part of the UFO community.
He was a high ranked CIA before retiring, also an admitted experiencer and believer of some "intelligence" though I can't pin down exactly his beliefs but he was also involved in an Orb Project as he described it, and he has an expertise in frequencies, if that is the right way to describe it. I'm still learning about him myself so I cannot not say much or why you should be interested. I'm interested because he is retired CIA as well as a believer. His mention of "The Orb Working Group" was especially interesting to me, which he said was officially disclosed in Skinwalkers at the Pentagon book. (Published 2021) John Ramirez mentioned this in the interview with John Greenwald. (at 22:22)
If there was nothing to this, the DIA would not have investigated it. And we would be saying that Jim Lacatski is a liar in Skinwalkers at The Pentagon. It’s not like Brandon Fugal’s show is the only source to go by here.