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Is this where space aliens come from?

Feb 21, 2004 1:39PM PST
http://www.funreports.com/2003/10/22/50707.html

The incident took place in the town of Yukhnov in Russia's Kaluga region. One fine Saturday evening a mother and her daughter were cooking dinner for their family, the father was watching TV and their 16-year-old son was out with his friends. There was an interesting program on television - the two ladies stopped doing the kitchen work and joined the man. About an hour later, the man incidentally looked in the window and could not believe his eyes: an UFO was hanging in the air above the roof of the opposite house. It was a "common" flying disk, rays of light were coming out from the bottom of the disk and the man could even seen aliens coming down on the ground on one of those rays. The father decided to warn his son about a possible danger of being abducted by aliens, so he dialed his cell phone number. The son did not believe....(end of story at link)

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Unless the family were looking at an alien program on T.V, why in hells name should they have that visualisation even if the gas was escaping? NT
Feb 22, 2004 12:18AM PST

NT

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I was wondering that myself.
Feb 22, 2004 1:02PM PST

Why would people under the influence of a petro gas see such a thing? I'm not sure that all of them saw this, maybe just the father. I guess it was a delirium, and you never know what you might see when having one. I had a strange one about 3 years ago, maybe from a drug reaction, maybe from the pneumonia. Didn't see aliens, realised it wasn't real, yet at the same time the delirium existed. That's kind of odd because when I was 5 I had pneumonia and had a delirium that time too, while in the hospital and my Father right at the bedside. Upset him a bit.

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I was just looking up viseo cortex brain in google and came upon this interesting article James
Feb 23, 2004 2:38PM PST
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Apols for jumping in here. I found this fascinating because ...
Feb 23, 2004 6:10PM PST

I was surprised that I practice this imagery thing all the time but had no idea that it was taught as a recognised beneficial skill.

For example, I'm not a list-maker because it's far too depressing to read the list of things-to-do! So I visualise myself doing all of the actions which will bring about a particular solution. This is different from a list which says "resolve this" or whatever. I can think of plenty of other examples - and I guess I'm not the only one who does this instinctively.

The article was particularly good IMO because it shows that you can develop this as a skill. A couple of one-liners will stick in my mind for a long time: "Empty yourself of everything, return to the source of the stillness", which reminded me of a dentist who told me to think of "Wide open spaces and faraway places" (and I still do that when staring into the overhead light!), and also "...reinforces that the mind is the master and the body is to follow". (We always image an army of soldiers in our body that we re-group to fight a pain or whatever.)

Steve, I am impressed by your choice of light bedtime reading... and apols since it was addressed to James.

Regards
Mo

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Oh good golly!
Feb 24, 2004 1:32PM PST

If I did that I would be tired before I started! Shocked

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Strangely enough ...
Feb 24, 2004 8:54PM PST

It means I get a good night's sleep, knowing that when I get up I will know exactly what I Have to do (the rest can wait). Before that, I was forever waking up in the middle of the night in a panic with the worry of what was gonna happen. I did have a another side-trick for this eventuality, which was to lean out of bed and turn one of my slippers upside down, so that when I got up, I would remember that there was something I was supposed to remember. The bad days were when both slippers were upside down! The image thing works rather better for me. Happy

Regards
Mo

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No problem Mo - Glad you enjoyed the link - the mind is surely a facinating part of our body and by the way I do meditation - not a million miles away :)
Feb 24, 2004 1:44PM PST

nt

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Curious, for those that don't object to responding, how many here have tried Tai Chi
Feb 24, 2004 5:46AM PST

or something similair.

Or any ritualized meditation, not just the body/mind combinations.

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Not quite Tai Chi, Karate ...
Feb 24, 2004 7:23AM PST

which I signed up for - and, like the guy in the article, couldn't memorise the movements quickly enough on my first night to keep up with the others (for whom it was not their first night, I should add). So I went home and practised - and promptly put my shoulder out. So endeth me and Karate.

I know this is not what you were asking, but I have been meditating on it ever since - honest.

Regards
Mo

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Chuckling, thanks for the view, and reminder perhaps
Feb 24, 2004 7:45AM PST

that some arts we think of first as physical are also mental, and perhaps metaphysical.


And thanks for the smile.


roger