New book alert

Hi readers

I recently came across a reference to a new book titled "How to Find a Habitable Planet" by James Kasting.

For those of you keeping up with this topic click here for a link to details about the work.

"The Sensed Presence Effect."

Hi readers

Oc occasions, people report feeling that there is "someone" or "something" present, even when they know they are alone. It happens to mountain climbers, solo sailors and others. In a recent article titled "The Sensed Presence Effect" in Volume 301 number 4 April 2010 of "Scientific American," author Michael Shermer suggest four possible explanations.

"1) The hallucination may be an extension of the normal sensed presence of real people and is, perhaps triggered by isolation. 2) During oxygen deprivation, sleep deprivation or exhaustion, the rational cortical control over emotion shuts down, as in the fight-or-flight response, enabling inner voices and imaginary companions to arise. 3) The body schema, or our physical sense of self-believed to be located primarily in the temporal lobe of the left-hemisphere-is the image of the body that the brain has constructed. If for any reason your brain is tricked into thinking that there is another you, it constructs a plausible explanation that the other you is actually another person-a sensed presence-nearby. 4) The mind schema, or our psychological sense of self, coordinating the many independent neural networks that simultaneously work away at problems in daily living so that we feel like a single mind."

Comment:

I have previously written about the "sense of presence" and "sense of self" and its possible application to abduction reports, in posts dated 22 Oct 2009 and 27 Oct 2009.

RIP Michael Thalbourne

Dear readers

Adelaide based parapsychologist Dr Michael A Thalbourne passed away during the week. Yesterday, I went to his funeral at Felixstowe. In attendance were family, friends and colleagues. A sad loss.

Click here for a Wiki entry.

Northern Territory "UFO invasion"

Hi all

Here is a link (click here) to a recent newspaper report about the Northern Territory's "UFO invasion."

Paola Harris

Hi readers

Autumn has well and truly settled upon Adelaide. Grey skies, and rain today.

I'm continuing my look at all things to do with Exopolitics. Another person involved in the movement is Paola Harris. I went to her website at http://www.paolaharris.com/home.html

The header for the website is "Paola Harris Exopolitics." Just below this header is a statement " In the spirit of continuing my own field research with some sense of integrity, I feel it is time for a "reset." I am very excited to be a more integral part of the European Exopolitical movement."

"Exoplitics is defined as the study of Extraterrestrial presence on Earth and its sociological as well as, political implications for the planet is my main focus. I therefore need to distance myself from "conspiracy theory" and unsubstantiated claims which tend to marginalize and derail serious research in this field."

On her home page "Paola Leopizza Harris is an Italo-American photojournalist and investigative reporter in the field of extraterrestrial related phenomena research."

There is a link to "Exopolitics Institute Courses" where Paola Harris is listed as a course instructor for the topic of "Developing the road to disclosure-Quantum Cosmology."

The site has adverts for three conferences, at two of which Paola Harris is shown as a speaker.

There are also adverts for her books:

1. 2010 "Exopolitics:All of the above."
2. 2007. "Exopolitics:How does one speak to a ball of light?"
3. 2003. "Connecting the dots-making sense of the UFO phenomenon."

The site also has "News archives," "Engagements," "Contact" and "links" tabs.

Elsewhere I learnt that she has a masters degree in education; is the International Liaison Director for the Exopolitics Institute and lives both in Rome and Boulder, Colorado in the US. Her new non-profit organisation "Starworks Italia" aims to bring prominent UFO speakers to Italy.

Back to Exopolitics

Dear readers

Well, it's a perfect Autumn day here in Adelaide. Partly cloudy skies and 22 degrees centigrade maximum. I'm back looking at more material dealing with Exopolitics, in my bid to understand the origins, players and detail of this topic.

One of the individuals mentioned on the www.exopolitics.org website was Ed Komarek, who along with Mike Jamieson ran "Operation Right To Know" (ORTK) in the USA, between 1992-1995.

ORTK was a political activist group (click here to read some of their Newsletters.)

Ed Komarek has published a blog for several years now (click here to go there.)

The blog's home page reads "Exopolitics is based upon the understanding that earth is being visited by many advanced extraterrestrial races with diverse ethics, motives and agendas.The dynamics of the interactions between ET races and this interaction with earth humanity is to be explored on this site."

Ed's "About me" area includes "He was involved in exopolitics long before the word Exopolitics was coined by Afred Webre..." Ed lives in the USA and is now aged 61.

You can browse the blog articles by title and he also has a free e-book available at: http://authors.exopaedia.org/edkomarek which gathers together his earlier articles.

Recent articles on the blog include:

(1) "Brazil UFO/ET disclosure" -about the opening up of official Brazilian government UFO files.

(2) "Intel product for Policymakers" which includes "I think the four major UFO/ET issues are: The overpopulation driven ELE (Extinction Level Event), UFO/ET disclosure and how to pay for it, International Security Issues relating to trade with extraterrestrial races, and consciousness issues. Some of the secondary issues are: Issues dealing with the secret space fleet's atomic reactors, and Solar Warden's general effect on global security..."

A 30 October 2009 post "Is disclosure imminent?" states "I am aware of six different civilian-government high level disclosure efforts lobbying for UFO/ET disclosure..." The list is:

1. Steven Greer's Disclosure Project.
2. Clay and Shawn Pickering's Ad Hock Military UFO Working Group.
3. Steven Bassett's Paradigm Research Group.
4. Dan Smith's CIA R & D Disclosure Operation.
5. Gordon Novel's Project RAM Disclosure.
6. Ed Komarek's source "...a person that claims to have close ties to a member of Congress well informed on UFO/ET."

Exopsychology

Hi readers

After spending quite some time reading about Exopolitics, I needed a change of pace...to Exopsychology!

I came across a site run by Michael Gintowt (click here.)

Canadian Michael Gintowt has a Masters degree in psychology and has interests in the paranormal and normal sciences. He defines the term "Exopsychology" as "...the study of UFO phenomenon from a psychological, scientific, and multi-disciplinary perspective."

"We start with the hypothesis that this phenomenon has something to do with the evolution of our consciousness. "Aliens" are not necessarily from other planets..."

The home page has a number of "Categories" such as "Disclosure", "International Exopsychology", and "Experiences." Clicking on a category brings up a series of blog entries on that topic.