Joseph Burkes MD 2020,edited 2024
In the course of fieldwork, sky-watchers have observed bizarre visual displays of what appear to be shooting stars. These sightings are anomalous because ordinarily meteors don’t typically change direction in flight, do zigzags, fly upwards or horizontally. I have suggested that these events might be part of the creation of illusions by non-human intelligences and can be categorized as part of a radical schema that I call the “Virtual Experience Model” or VEM for short.
HOLOGRAMS VS PROJECTIONS INTO OUR NEURO-SENSORY APPARATUS?
In my judgment, some of these “visual displays” are created by a kind of holographic technology that all present can witness. At times however, when observers are viewing the same section of sky, one may see a “shooting star” while another witness might not. If we discount the explanation that this is merely an example of “inter-observer variation”, we can entertain more exciting possibilities. This would include the idea that such images, as say meteors and even what we call “structured craft,” are being projected directly into an individual witness’ neuro-sensory apparatus. But what would be the purpose of “hoaxing” meteor displays?
COLLECTIVE IQ TEST?
In order to discern possible illusory mechanisms, staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) aka CE-5s can be very helpful. This involves following protocols in a group setting while sky-watching. Perhaps encouraging people to work together as a team and then correlating their findings in a supportive environment, might be some kind of collective intelligence test for the UFO research community. Flying saucer intelligences might be teaching us a lesson about illusion as a way of getting us to “think outside the box.” They show us what on the surface looks like prosaic happenings. One might ask, “Shooting stars, what’s the big deal?” But what if some of these shooting star displays are linked to human consciousness. This is exactly what occurred during a field investigation of mine more than a quarter of a century ago.
HIGH STRANGENESS IN JOSHUA TREE
In November of 1994, the Southern California CE-5 Working Group had established a field laboratory in Joshua Tree National Monument. While camping out in the “back country” at the base of Queen Mountain, my co-worker saw three stereotypical shooting star displays. He described each as being identical in terms of location in the sky, brightness, length of trail, angle of descent and color. I on the other hand, while viewing the same section of sky, saw nothing. To our astonishment, when my fellow contact worker requested that I be shown what he had just seen, by asking not once, but three times in a row, each time we saw an identical “shooting star” visual display. They reportedly matched his triad of sightings from just moments before.
Why would a non-human intelligence associated with the flying saucer phenomenon stage such encounters? Perhaps this is an exercise designed to help us understand bigger questions that have to do with the nature of reality.
In my opinion, the so-called aliens are not giving us simple ready-made explanations as to who they are and why they do what they do. My guess is that this is a way to challenge us to think through the implications of their mental technology. In the process, they are giving us an opportunity to figure it out for ourselves.
VEIL OF ILLUSION CALLED “MAYA’
From the narratives of many contact experiencers, it appears as if UFO Intelligences are promoting certain spiritual beliefs of established wisdom traditions. In both Zen and Hinduism, much of the teachings involve the concept of Maya, meaning the illusory nature of the material world. By showing us that things are not what they appear to be in the course of field work, they might be providing a kind of “hands on” spiritual lesson. Perhaps they are staging visual illusions as a way of encouraging us to see beyond illusion. In my opinion they are helping us realize that consciousness, and not matter, is the wellspring of “all that there is.”
IT DOESN’T ALWAYS HAVE TO BE ABOUT US.
We are also being given a chance not only to think outside of the box of materialism/physicalism, but also to learn perhaps that contact is not always about us. Those that are forever projecting human hostility on the alleged ETs, have responded to the “Virtual Experience” mechanisms as just another confirmation of “ET deceptiveness.” In my opinion, the statement that, “They create illusions to deceive us.” often comes from those that can’t imagine that the so-called “aliens” as physical beings might need to project illusions as a way of protecting themselves from attack. After all, a holographic visual display of a flying saucer can’t be shot down, thus killing its crew. Nor can a being that appears as a holographic-like-projection be bludgeoned to death during a close encounter.
I am suggesting that UFO intelligences actually might want us to go through this kind of discussion as a way of determining if we are truly ready for more open contact. If the multitude of encounters occuring on a planetary scale are only about us, reflecting a kind of infantile self-centeredness, what are the chances that we will be able to successfully integrate into what could be a much larger and more spiritually evolved galactic/interdimensional community?
What if they are trying to teach us that something is “real” even when it is not “physical?” In other words, they are educating us about how mental phenomena are crucial in understanding the planetary wide contact drama that is unfolding. I am referring to a necessary realization of the interconnectedness existing on a mental level between all conscious intelligent life in the universe. Or is that too much to ask of a race of beings that seems to be hell bent on self-destruction?
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- Reinerio Hernandez, co-author and publisher of “A Greater Reality” has made available to the public as free pdf files Volumes 1 & 2 of this anthology. My chapter titled “Report from the Contact Underground: Human Initiated Contact, the Consciousness Connection, and the Virtual Experience Model.
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“Virtual Memory”: A Virtual Experience of the Third Kind, VE-3
In the blog linked below I discuss advances in memory science and their implications for both the Virtual Experience Model and the use of hypnosis on contact experiencers.
Memory Wars II :Remembering Falsely, Hypnosis and the Virtual Experience Model
A blog analyzing an event at Skinwalker Ranch that supports the Virtual Experience Model. Dr. Kelleher was present when 6 observers using night vision equipment described seeing “completely different things.”
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The Interdimensional vs ET Hypothesis: Virtual Experiences and UFO Sightings as “thought forms”
Statement by Bigelow Aerospace Validates the Virtual Experience Model
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