Making Sense of These Times - Worldview, Consciousness, Spirituality and Crop Circles

Crop Circle researcher Suzanne Taylor's website:

Making Sense of These Times - Worldview, Consciousness, Spirituality and Crop Circles

UFO-Mary: Chris Cunnyngham: Rick Perry and the Satanic Statue of Liberty | Esoterica | Big Think

Did you know that the Statue of Liberty is a satanic idol? I know, either did I!

UFO-Mary: Chris Cunnyngham: Rick Perry and the Satanic Statue of Liberty | Esoterica | Big Think

Outsider/Folk Art: Patroness of Fallen Women

About fifteen years ago, there was a local woman who sold religious folk art/outsider art items at her booth at the Saturday Market. Saturday Market is a long running street fair in Eugene (since 1970),  full of booths of hand made items, as well as food booths and lots of music.

I bought several things from her at the time and did a paper on her when I was studying folklore at the University of Oregon.

This is a beaded necklace, with a wood pendant. On the front is an image of St. Maria Magdalene. On the back is a little label: "St. Maria Magdalene Patroness of Fallen Women." This is what Books of the Times site has to say about St. Maria Magdalene:

There is a breathtaking moment in the Gospel of Philip, one of the Gnostic gospels, which were denounced by the church as heresy. The apostles witness Jesus kissing Mary Magdalene on the mouth. The apostles are horrified, jealous. ''Why do you love her more than us?'' they ask. Jesus' response is mysterious and enigmatic. ''Why do I not love you like her?'' he says.

What is the meaning of those kisses? Sexual passion? A profound friendship? Jesus anointing Mary Magdalene as his successor and as leader of the church?

Traditionally, Mary Magdalene has been seen as a reformed harlot, portrayed in paintings as red haired and bare breasted. But as Karen L. King, the Winn professor of ecclesiastical history at Harvard University, in the Divinity School, points out in her new book, ''The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle,'' nowhere does the Bible say that she was a prostitute.

I know I have that paper, with photos, around here somewhere. I also have other items that I hope to take snaps of and post. I think the woman -- a very colorful person! -- called herself "Sister Spirit" and I want to say "bear" was in there somewhere, but it's been many years and I don't remember.

She sold jewelry with decorated images of the saints and the BVM as well as Jesus. She was known for her Jesus nightlights: religious plastic nightlights of Jesus and Mary, (the kind you can buy at dime stores; I've even seen them at Dollar Store type places) painted, often with neon colors, and decorated with beads, glitter, feathers .

I haven't been to the Saturday Market for a couple of years; but when I have gone there, I didn't notice her around. I think she left the area some time ago, or at least, stopped making her wonderful folk art.

(cross posted on UFO Mary.)

READ THIS FAST!Speculative Realms: Mass Hypnotic Stupor: The MPD "JOKE" and the Paranormal Cult Stupidification of America

Gary Haden at Speculative Realms has another excellent and detailed article on the stupified supporters of David Jacobs: Speculative Realms: Mass Hypnotic Stupor: The MPD "JOKE" and the Paranormal Cult Stupidification of America

Read this now, because Haden says it's going down in three days, as is his blog.

Sorry to see his work go; he is one of the few who can write so very damn well, and with details and citations.

New Traditions, Day of the Dead, Pastor Mike Wants YOU!

A couple new entries at my blog UFO Mary: atheism, Pastor Mike's campaign to put atheists on a National Registry, altars, Day of the Dead, traditions, ...

Adam Gorightly's Untamed Dimensions Interview with Richelle and Regan

Back in 2008 Richelle and I guests on Adam Gorightly's Untamed Dimensions. It was great fun. So here it is for your listening pleasure.

Women Fighters In Reasonable Armor

Found this of cool armor for woman warriors. As Boing Boing points out, usually the armor, while sexy looking enough, isn't the least bit practical. Women Fighters In Reasonable Armor

savethemales.ca - Hollywood Peddles Specific Occult Themes

Another long piece on Henry Makow's site about the evil agendas of the Illuminati and Hollywood's occult ways. So much to have fun with here, but for now, I'll just quote the following line. After lamenting that one of the goals of this satanic cabal of movie makers is to "madate" sex sans purpose of reproducing, it is asked:

If people are not trying to have babies, by fucking, then what are they going to be trying to do?

Er, I can think of several things one is "trying to do" "by fucking"...["...not trying to have babies"]

No wonder they're all so grouchy over there.

savethemales.ca - Hollywood Peddles Specific Occult Themes:

Kithra's Krystal Kave: UFO passings and world news

WOE contributor Kithra writes on her blog of the passing of Stuart Miller and Budd Hopkins:

Kithra's Krystal Kave: UFO passings and world news

I Come From Circus Folk

Not exactly a new blog; I've had this around for awhile but hadn't done anything with it: I Come From Circus Folk. I was enjoying the idea of it, but wasn't sure what direction I wanted to take. The other day, I was revisiting this new/old blog of mine, and almost ready to put it out there, playing around with templates, etc. but felt too tired to make a decision. Then I checked my bloglist, and noticed Nick Redfern's latest blog Nick's Fortean Pic of the Day, a great idea -- where Nick posts photos, drawings, book covers, etc. of Fortean goodness with a little history of each. creation. I commented over there that, maybe not exactly a moment of synchronicity, it was a little weird I had just been thinking of publishing my blog of circus folk images, then saw his new blog.

A special acknowledgement to the late Mac Toonies, who was a good friend of many, including Nick's. Mac's blog Things That Look Like Flying Saucers was the inspiration for Nick's Fortean Pic of the Day. Mac's blog was truly an inspiration, as I had noted on my blog Vintage U.F.O., and Mac kindly posted my comment on his blog.

Tina Sena: If it Walks like a Man, then it Must be an Ape with a Nice Haircut

Tina Sena does, indeed, rock. Her new column: If it Walks like a Man, Then it Must be an Ape with a Nice Haircut for Binnall of America is now up; I especially love this:

"Some believe in aliens. Some believe in gods. I believe some high and mighty beings with a bad sense of direction and a bad case of boredom decided they wanted to be special. Perhaps they wanted to be as special as we once were. And how does the bully make him/herself special? They dominate and oppress the perceived weaker person."

Roseanne Conner (Barr) Joins The Infowar : Federal Jack

I've always loved Roseanne. Here she is, now, looking great, and saying it!

Roseanne Conner (Barr) Joins The Infowar : Federal Jack

Columns on Binnall of America

Linking to Tim Binnall's BoA (Binnall of America) where you can listen to free audio interiviews with Tim and stellar researchers like Jim Marrs, Stanton Friedman, Nick Redfern, Stan Gordon, Ann Druffel, Timothy Good, so many more! Binnall of America Be sure you check out the new columns by Richard Thomas, Tina Sena, Lesley Gunter, Richelle Hawks, myself, Marla Pena, Bruce Priddy and Tony Morrill. There's a forum and a lot more at Binnall of America, so if you haven't explored the site yet here's your chance.

Camera Glitch in Masonic Cemetery

Photos and a bit about ghosts, maybe...

The Orange Orb: Camera Glitch in Masonic Cemetery

The Orange Orb: Back to Conspiracy Park

Sometimes I come across interesting things while walking in the park:

The Orange Orb: Back to Conspiracy Park

Psycho Bunny Deals With The Heat

Just sharing a link to a blog I like: Michele Witchipoo, cartoonist, artist, blogger and would be misanthrope. I can relate.
Psycho Bunny Deals With The Heat

On the L.O.W.F.I. Site: "Hum a Few Bars for Me" by David Andrew: Beeping Sounds

Hum a Few Bars for Me by David Andrew.

At the L.O.W.F.I. site, this guest article by David Andrew on the buzzing and humming sounds often heard by some abductees. I don't consider myself an abductee, as I often point out, for two reasons. One, I have no idea what the abduction phenomena is about and two, I don't have any specific conscious memories of the classic abduction scenario, even though I have had a lot of very strange experiences. As Jeremy Vaeni said to me once I've gone through "Abduction 101." (Missing time, strange dreams, obsessions, synchronicities, life time of UFO sightings, aliens...) Yet, I have heard these strange buzzings, clickings, hummings and electronic type sounds in my head many times during OOBEs and related experiences.

Andrew cites research done in this area of sound and brain wave patterns and writes:

Some abductees have reported humming or buzzing sounds just before certain abduction experiences. This made me wonder if these sounds might actually have a purpose that could be related to the abductee’s brain wave function. Could extraterrestrials be utilizing sound to affect abductee’s brain waves and, what would be the purpose in doing so? It seems quite evident that sound waves can affect brain waves.

 Andrew goes on to cite experiments done by the Department of Defense using sound to alter brain waves. While Andrew doesn't come out and say it -- and I don't know if this is his intent or not -- I wonder if he wasn't getting at MILABs. (Military Abductions.)

Either way, this pattern of hearing buzzing, beeping, humming sounds during sleep, OOBEs, abductions, etc. is something that is reported by some UFO witnesses, including myself.

These sounds are not heard by just abductees however. In some Bigfoot encounters and other high strangeness events witnesses report hearing these sounds. See Greg Taylor's Her Sweet Murmur, and my  Beeping article for UFO Digest.

News From Elsewhere presented by The League of Western Fortean Intermediatists.

News From Elsewhere presented by The League of Western Fortean Intermediatists.

A page full of links to news and stories from Skylaire Alfvegren's amazing L.O.W.F.I. site. Have fun exploring!

Going Back A Bit In Time – Revisiting The Early Days Of UFOlogy And The Contactee Movement | UFO Digest provides video proof of ufos, alien abduction and the paranormal.

At UFO Digest, Sean Casteel reviews Tim Beckley's reprint of two stories of two female contactees, Dana Howard and Gloria Lee. (I wrote the intro for the Gloria Lee book.) As Sean points out, there are UFO researchers who reject the contactee era as embarrassing nonsense, or, as he puts it, attack Tim Beckley for exploitation:

Though Tim Beckley believes his motivations should be seen as altruistic, to others they are controversial even appalling. There are still some purists in the field who believe that “contactee” is a dirty word. Yet all things considered, Beckley is doing the UFO community a huge service by reprinting hard to find books from the 1950s, books written by early UFO experiencers who were the first to claim contact with the aliens after the initial sighting by Kenneth Arnold in 1947 that started it all.

Going Back A Bit In Time – Revisiting The Early Days Of UFOlogy And The Contactee Movement | UFO Digest provides video proof of ufos, alien abduction and the paranormal.

Adam Gorightly’s Untamed Dimensions

Crazy album covers, baby! Devil Girl of the Month, Lindsay Lohan for President! conspiracies and more on Adam Gorightly's Untamed Dimensions:
Adam Gorightly’s Untamed Dimensions

Tina Sena: Esotericana

Our contributor Tina Sena's current column over at Binnall of America:How To Make The Perfect Paranormal TV Show
In An Imperfect Normal World. Tina discusses paranormal programming, and has a proposal:

Which is why I propose that Syfy, National Geographic and the History Channel (and others like BRAVO, etc.,.) seriously consider doing a paranormal show with a mostly, if not all, female cast. And I'm not talking about your average formulaic paranormal show. It has to be something that's never been done before: A show for women, with women and about women from different professional backgrounds, investigating the oldest, weirdest, most paranormally significant places on Earth.

I'm for that! One of my dreams is to start my own paranormal UFO network. Hmmm...

A few years ago, I think on the Lifetime channel, there was a show about female abductees. Had a cheesy title, something like "I was abducted by aliens!" but it wasn't bad, despite the shaky camera stuff.

Binnall of America: Lesley's Grey Matters

Women of Esoterica contributor Lesley Gunter's current column, Grey Matters, at Binnall of America, where she writes about the "Creepy Summer" in New Mexico:

grey matters: "Always as I see it coming in the Stephen King story The Mist comes to mind, as does the Smoke Monster from Lost. I almost expect some horrible Lovecraftian-type creature to come slithering out of it and start devouring everything in sight. Meanwhile, I think that somewhere beneath that could be a fleet of UFOs and nobody would ever know."

Blog Find: Jennae's Thoughts on the Paranormal...and More

I followed a link on one of Nick Redfern's blogs: Jennae's Thoughts on the Paranormal...and More -- thought I'd share! It's very interesting. I always appreciate when a person puts themselves out there with their paranormal thoughts and experiences.

Her post "Beyond the Cutrian" which Nick linked to, discusses the idea of "monsters" coming from other dimensions. What's Jennae's conclusion? Read it and find out!

The Life of a Paranormal Writer | Lisa A. Shiel

Bigfoot author and witness Lisa Shiel (Backyard Bigfoot,) on being a writer of paranormal topics: The Life of a Paranormal Writer | Lisa A. Shiel

Reverse Speech

I was just thinking about Oates and the subject of reverse speech; how Oates used to be on C2C all the time, and the whole area of reverse speech. I think Oates and Art Bell, maybe it was another C2C host, had a falling out some time ago. I don't think Oates has been on C2C for some time. Anyway, have been thinking about this fascinating topic lately for some reason, and how, in my opinion, it's still ignored.In a bit of synchronicity, I find this link on Rense.com, linking to an interview with Oates and Rense about reversals regarding ET. (Years ago the two major competing AM stations in Eugene carried, respectively, C2C and Rense at the same time. The station carrying Rense dropped him; thankfully I still get my Fortean fix from KPNW in Eugene, which carries C2C, even though, unfortunately, they air the show beginning with the second hour, because we all know how important and wise Lars Larson is, which precedes C2C in our area.)

Some of you know what I think about Rense, but he's just the vehicle.  Still an interesting segment.