Skeptics on Strieber: Magonia Blog

Expected review of Strieber; comments left, including one by Strieber himself who remarks that if riches were to be had from exploring and sharing one's anomalous experiences, he wouldn't have had to declare bankruptcy or lose his home, etc.

I have a couple of thoughts on the skeptoid's responses to experiencers of the strange. Those of us who experience a variety of weirdness are somehow fabricators, because of the variety of strangeness. Ghosts and UFOs and entities and telepathy and ....? It's all too much. Therefore, it's all crap. It doesn't seem to occur to them that there might be clues to the enigma in all that seeming variety of experience.

The second thought: that some of these memories, experiences and travels through one's own anomalous journey might be, at times, manipulated by humans. Yep, I do indeed mean sinister forces. It often seems beyond possibility for debunkers to consider that there is an orchestrated manipulation of phenomena by psychotic and sociopathic humans. THE MAGONIA BLOG: THE STRIEBER ENIGMA

Yoga, pt 2

OK, so more about yoga.  I went to my first official yoga class the other night and it was possibly even more amazing that my private consultation.  The form of yoga I am taking is rather new (mixed with old, of course), it is Dahn Yoga.  A mixture of yoga, tai chi and meditation.

I hope to some day meet the creator of this form of yoga, Ilchi Lee.

Not because he is necessarily a genius, but because he has managed to merge common sense, intuitive methods that most people may in some way instinctively know but shrug off as being woo-woo.  I include myself in that.  In a certain way that is genius.

Aside from the yoga and tai chi, this is the first time ever that someone has explained mediation to me in a way that makes sense. Previously I avoided anything to do with meditation because I did not feel that I could do it.  Last night at class, I literally was worried that I had to keep a grip to prevent having an OBE, which I would rather do in the privacy of my own home.  Perhaps some day I will be more open about that.

Oh, and my instructor, Jo, she is just awesome!  Someone you would hope to be teaching you and not someone you are just stuck with.

Most of all - The pain in my neck and back are totally gone.  I am going to guess that a lot of that was stress, but also that we can heal ourselves if we are trying.

Recent article about me in The Examiner (Thanks to Jeffery Pritchett!)

Examiner article on Anya Briggs

I Come From Circus Folk: Novel: Tom Mix Died For Your Sins

I Come From Circus Folk: Novel: Tom Mix Died For Your Sins

There is always more to learn

Some days it just hits me that there is so much still to learn that I want to learn about.  That is how today was.

I had a consultation at a Body & Brain Holistic Yoga center near my house.

I once attended what was supposedly a yoga class, but it was more of an exercise class.  Well, and last summer I did some yoga at home using DVD instructors or books - that was also more like exercise.  Never felt I was doing it right either.  For some reason as I searched the internet at 4 in the morning last weekend this particular yoga center stuck out for me and not really just because it is fairly near my house.  I can't really explain why and maybe that is the esoteric part of this post.  Anyhow, I scheduled an appointment.

I had about an hour private consultation and I am amazed at how much I learned in that short time and how great I felt when I left.

Jo took time to really find out about me and what my problems were and how I was feeling.  That alone was great!

Some just little things, like most women love massages and I really kind of hate them.  I just don't like strangers touching me.  I had assumed that that was because I was some sort of cold bitch! :-)  However, Jo explained to me that it is because I am too sensitive and the energy of others really affects me.  Duh!  Once she said it, it made perfect sense!  It is totally true.  I can normally sense someone's mood or stress, even if they aren't touching me and it does affect me.

Also, I learned some really simple practices for my neck and back pain that helped so much that I can't tell you the last time I felt so relaxed and pain free!

I loved it so much that I am hoping to be able to make it to a class at least twice a week!  Will keep updating on my progress and anything interesting I learn from it.

Paranormal Elements in Jane Eyre

I received a Kindle for Christmas and have been enjoying it very much. I downloaded several books in the public domain; including one of my favorite novels, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. I've read Jane Eyre at a number of times in my life, and still find the novel a wonderful read. But for the first while reading the book I noticed several passages referencing paranormal elements. Fairies, the "green" people, black dog, Jane's feelings of a preternatural nature. So I wondered if there was anything written about this and Googled "paranormal elements in Jane Eyre" and this is the first thing that came up on the Burnt Toast Film blog; a post from 2009: (I don't think the blog is active.): Paranormal Elements in Jane Eyre and the Realm of the Feminine.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

UFO-Mary: Holiday Cheer and Fear: Santa, St. Nicholas, Odin, Sinterklaas, and Krampus : Extraordinary Intelligence

Natalina at Extraordinary Intelligence Holiday Cheer and Fear: Santa, St. Nicholas, Odin, Sinterklaas, and Krampus about greed, American culture, Christams, icons and ... well read it for yourselves :)

Virgin Mary ad creates controversy | Weird | News | Toronto Sun

Virgin Mary ad creates controversy | Weird | News | Toronto Sun

Mary holds the pee stick and is ... well, you decide. Meanwhile, the ad has offended a lot of people, amused others. As is the way with religious stuff.

Rael Against the Machine: UFO Cult Leader Gains Political Asylum | Who Forted? Magazine

The Raelians offend a lot of people: Christians, atheists, the UFO Police and so on. They really offend some Muslims, as history has shown. Here's the latest:
Rael Against the Machine: UFO Cult Leader Gains Political Asylum | Who Forted? Magazine

Negar Azizmoradi, leader of the Iranian branch of the International Raelian Movement, has been granted asylum status in the United States after facing persecuting in her home country.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Raelian Church, they’re the pro-orgy UFO cult started by a French race car driver who believes Jesus was a prophet contacted by the extraterrestrial race that seeded human on life on Earth. Nothing weird, or anything. There’s also that whole embarrassing incident when they claimed to have created the first human clone back in 2002 (they didn’t).

Azimoradi’s family received word that she was to be arrested after publicly stating her Raelian beliefs, an arrest that would most likely have amounted to a death sentence in Iran.

The 'C' Influence: Hear And Read Writers Of The C Influence In 2012

New items of esoteric interest at The C Influence blog:The 'C' Influence: Hear And Read Writers Of The C Influence In 2012

Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery' - Yahoo! News

Twisted religious bastards: Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery' - Yahoo! News

Animal Forteana: UFO Disclosure Countdown Clock: MUFON Reports Becoming Jaw Dropping - This Batch Includes A Dog Abduction

Links to Lesley's Debris Field and UFO Disclosure Countdown Clock on Mufon's latest of a dog abduction:
Animal Forteana: UFO Disclosure Countdown Clock: MUFON Reports Becoming Jaw Dropping - This Batch Includes A Dog Abduction

Paratopia Episode 146: Jaime Fritze �

Ghost hunting, and just what are ghosts anyway? Looking forward to this one: Paratopia Episode 146: Jaime Fritze

Saturness: Sometimes you'll give crappy readings...

I really like this blog on all aspects of Tarot and divination cards. Here's a recent post about those times when your reading is just "crappy" which happens:Saturness: Sometimes you'll give crappy readings...

A Sorcerer's Corner: Carlos Castaneda's Doomed Romance with Knowledge | Reality Sandwich

The wonderfully articulate and insightful Aeolus Kephas writes, with extreme eloquence, about the reality and truthfullness of Carolos Castaneda's works:A Sorcerer's Corner: Carlos Castaneda's Doomed Romance with Knowledge | Reality Sandwich I've always found the debate about Castaneda weird (he was a fake, he was real, he was just an academic in a library,he was an adept, a shaman, a trickster, a....) to be missing the point. Many have rejected Castaneda because he was "proven" to be a "fake." For me, that simplistic dismissal makes no sense, and clearly misses the point of what Casteneda gave to the world.

Lesley: "Cult of Pet Haters!"

Lesley's new Grey Matters column for Tim Binnall's site is now available, and as always, it's a good one. Lesley writes about the "pet haters" in Billy Meier's cult. I agree with everything Lesley has to say:Cult of Pet Haters! I'll just add that, even if it's all true -- Meier is absolutely truthful and his ETs are real and their messages are the real deal -- they can all take a long walk on a short pier. Just because they say something doesnt mean we have to like it, agree with it, or believe in them and follow them on their psycho paths. Okay, a bit of a rant there, but read the article for yourself and be sure to read the other great articles while you're there. And be sure to check out the podcasts too!

R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey, 1926 – 2011 | GeekDad | Wired.com

R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey, 1926 – 2011 | GeekDad | Wired.com

I loved the Dragons of Pern books. Anne McCaffrey, thank you for your wondrous words through the years. Rest in peace.

Black Peter | YUFOLOGY

Tina Sena writes about "Black Peter" at her blog Yufology:Black Peter:

Growing up in a haunted house, you learn a few things. First, never open your eyes when you KNOW something is standing over you and, Second, never ever assume it's just your mom. I had run in's with that kind of stupidity. Thinking the lady in white standing by my window was my mom, or the vague outline of a dark mass standing at the foot of the bed was my mom. Not this time. I was hyper-aware that whatever was standing over me was radiating a malevolence that my mother did not possess.

I remember talking myself into breathing calmly. Into making the thing, whatever it was, believe that I was still asleep. I had succeeded because eventually the darkness was replaced with the twinkling lights of the Christmas tree. But whatever it was, it wasn't gone. Yet.

On being a MILAB

From a forum comment I left about being a MILAB:

On a spiritual level, we chose to be MILABs so that people would never have to be MILABed again- we chose at a certain level to understand the experience of the MILAB and to talk about it openly what is really being done to members of the human populace so that people who are not having this done have the choice to participate in ending this battle, this struggle- so that others would receive a clarion call of help to those who cannot help themselves. We chose as figureheads to destroy the mind-body-spirit connection so that we would learn the "art" of cruelty and inhumanity so that our stories could be enlightening the masses so that their sensitivities would be awakened to become more compassionate in the process. It is all about love and compassion and we have chosen a hard road, but make no mistake, we are on a very real, tangible level waking up the masses one at a time. Psychicly people could not have done the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon without the aid and assistance of people like ourselves, the disappeared, the abducted in other ways, the kidnapped, the silenced, the tortured- spiritually the energy of that awakening to these experiences has fueled the revolution of the masses to just say no to it ever happening (or continuing to happen) ever again. "First a ripple of consternation, then a revealing" is what my guides call it.

UFO-Mary: Sister Joan Chittister, OSB: In Search of the Divine Feminine

UFO-Mary: Sister Joan Chittister, OSB: In Search of the Divine Feminine

StarworksUSA — Annual Women's UFO Symposium

StarworksUSA — Annual Women's UFO Symposium

First Annual Women’s UFO Symposium

The Women's UFO Symposium brings together leading women in UFO research, documentation and related information.

The first annual Symposium will be held at the Somervell County Expo Center and Texas Amphitheater in Glen Rose, Texas on May 19-20, 2012. The event will be hosted by Tracie Austin Peters, producer and host of "Let's Talk...Paranormal" radio and TV talk show.

Symposium admission includes all speaker presentations. A Meet & Greet with conference presenters will be held Friday evening, May 18, and a Texas Bar-B-Que will be held Saturday evening, May 19. Symposium registrants may purchase admission to these events separately. Space is limited, so early registration is encouraged.

Print and mail our Registration Form, with payment, today!

* Special Award to Angelia Joiner - This event is near the Stephenville, TX Sightings
* First Time Keynote Speech by Kim Arnold (Daughter of Kenneth Arnold)
* James Carman will screen his film THE HIDDEN HAND, winner of the 2011 EBE Film Festival Award for Best UFO Feature Film

Canadian team draws heat for ‘Jack the Ripper’ nickname - Big League Stew - MLB�Blog - Yahoo! Sports

They say it isn't based on Jack the Ripper. No connection at all ...Canadian team draws heat for ‘Jack the Ripper’ nickname From the article:

From the London Free Press:

Team president and general manager David Martin was unapologetic, saying the name, Rippers, is a common baseball term that speaks to the bat prowess of the cartoon character they've created as part of a marketing strategy.

"That (Jack The Ripper) is not our story," said Martin, when told about the reaction. "Ripping a ball is used in baseball all the time."

Martin said the character's name is Diamond Jack, a frustrated hockey player who found he could "rip" the cover off baseballs. Despite his talent, teams grew weary of the expense of replacing balls so Diamond Jack decided to form his own team in London, Ontario.

"It's Phantom of the Opera meets baseball. He's a mysterious character who is somewhat edgy," said Martin.

Say, you know who was also a "mysterious character" who was, uh, "somewhat edgy"? The actual Jack the Ripper. The guy murdered at least five streetwalkers in the Whitechapel District and though his identity has never been revealed, he is most often portrayed as wearing a black top hat and a long black coat.

You know, just like the outfit the guy in the London Rippers logo is wearing.

The Orange Orb: Crop Circle Dream Memory: Beep!

I had a dream the other night involving the beeping sound that some experience during paranormal, UFO and anomalous events. In that dream, a crop circle appeared, along with skeptics. Here's what the dream; for the rest, including the beeping (with links) go to:The Orange Orb: Crop Circle Dream Memory: Beep!

There's a large, beautiful and intricate crop circle. We're all amazed and wonder at how it came to be. It literally appeared, not over night, but over a few minutes. One moment we were looking over at the large field where there was no crop circle. Turned our attention elsewhere for a few moments. Turned back, and there, was the crop circle. Huge and intricate.


Then a group of skeptics come along. They're loud and arguing and demand that we listen to them. The crop circle is a fake! They shout at us. And to prove it was a fake made by man to fool us, they throw little pods of dirt on the crop circle. These pods, the debunkers smugly tell us, contain a chemical that "exposes" the fakery, and bright yellow squares will show up within the crop circle. The yellow squares are proof the circle is a fake. So they thrown the pods on the circle, and stand back, big stupid grins on their faces, waiting for the proof that will reveal how fake the crop circle is.

We wait and watch. At first, the yellow squares begin to pop up. The debunkers are overcome with joy. Ha! they say. But a few moments later, the yellow turns red, then other colors, then "over rides" the crop circle. In other words, the "proof" the skeptics have shown us hasn't proved a thing. In fact, the "real" crop circle takes over, obliterating the debunker pods.

The skeptics are mad and embarrassed. Most of all, they're baffled. Confused. They can't understand that the crop circles are real and have an as yet unexplained source that transcends prosaic explanations.

UFO Magazine - UFO Magazine Blog - Boycott MUFON. Stop David�Jacobs.

UFO Magazine - UFO Magazine Blog - Boycott MUFON. Stop David Jacobs.

Dr. David Jacobs (Dr. of history, not psychology) is set to speak about his new angle at L.A. MUFON on the 15th. Why MUFON is buying into this scam as legitimate research and valid I don't know. Of course, MUFON has been in decline as an organization for some time now. Its days of being solid are gone.