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novelistparty · 1 year ago
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I've been bored of Marvel since the beginning.
All I could say about the first Avengers film was "that was too much movie" and "now I have a headache".
I do not understand the characters. I am not drawn to them.
With the massive budgets there ought to be a lot of world-class sci-fi but somehow there isn't. The settings are so big and so overproduced and so forgettable, visually and thematically.
The character development is "I have reasons to be mad and I am mad and I'm here to fight".
I could go on and on and on but I am stopping here to remember that the entire business proposition of Marvel is "BIG FILM for teenage boys" and then they know by market research that everyone else will probably go see it too.
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lithy-the-invader · 5 years ago
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Yes hello please tell me everything about your original idea 👀
I am very glad you gave me an excuse to just make an way to long post at 2am in the morning when I should have been asleep an hour ago <3
So the general premise is :
A far away alien race catches a transmission of a very corney and sappy scifi show from earth, think it is real and go off on an epic journey through space to find the utopic united planet system depiced in the show to join their rows while picking up other aliens along the way.
And now off to the meat of this post lol:
The story and setting bits:
So it starts off with three relatively young aliens from a planet that is shared by two diffrent races but also heavily plagued by racism and based on slave culture. The dominant race is very agile and over ground ground dweling bipedal spicies which is in general hermathroditic, they have the ability to see a wide variety of the light spectrum and therefore more colors and phenomena we can't see without instruments of sorts. Also they lay eggs and even tho they are omnivore they mainly live as vegitarian. They can see more colors and stuff BUT they are terrible at seeing in low light situations. The subjugated species is a mainly underground living species with for arms and four eyes. They are pretty strong, generally smaller than the other species, are more like us with their genders and are super good at seeing in very low light situations. But they mainly see the world in reds and greens AND are pure carnivores.
Anyways the three states I will call them catch the transaction while playing with some high tec equipment as children. The family of the two topsurface guy is rich bc of some space mining business and actualy bought a playmate and her parents so their kids could have company and also they can afford high tier education. So the three kids play with the stuff and accidentally catch tidbits of an age old transmission called "Captain Jack's search through the stars" and even tho they can't understand a single thing they get infatuated by seeing a crew of odly similar looking but still diffrent aliens working together on eye level. So they learn the language and try to understand more about the depicted utopian plane of existance only to decide that they want to leave their society to join the conglomeration of planets and come back as positive example to change the ways of their people. They do their best to study and learn things that could be usfull on a space travel, they even invent a lill upgrade for the already existing engines of the space ships of their people till they one day... Well steal a ship and start their journey.
Ofcourse their parents (both species) aren't exactly amused and are going to try to bring their children back (and accidentally do a lill something about the state of their society while doing so ) but yeah for the most part the three are now blasted off into space trying their best to find their way to earth while actualy pretending to be already part of the conglomeration they saw in the show.
They are going to be joined by two of the last members of diffrent races that basically killed themself by beeing stupid (the races not the last two survivors). Basically they gonna encounter a solar system with two plates that due to their elliptic trek around the star (screw physics who needs that anyways)change positions in regular intervals which made it possible to exchange chemicals between the two atmospheres which in turn was produced by the habitat species of the plant and needed by the other. They started a war bc of ethical differences and wups wouldn't you know it killing the other species slowly killed both and so the last one surviving is a midelaged scientist who more or less adopted a kid from the other species and does his best to keep them both alive. He will join the crew as doctor (there is a plot about why but damn I am already typing for an hour) and his lill buddy will stay a telepathic ( yes the lill dude is telepathic) secret for a while bc grumpy skelli raptor dad (insider name for him he is acrualy called G'nor) freas his new friends would understand what is going on. They get a really heart-warming story later on and the lill guy (they sre called Ift) is going to help the crew develop a universal translator so they don't have to rely on their telepathic skills as much.
Two other people that will join the crew are a headhunter named Corena and her adoptive father Terp a bar owner and tender. They formerly were tasked to bring the crew down bc they intruded the wrong sector of the galaxy but after getting into trouble as well for not killing some runnaway Idiots with basically no weapons on board or on their belt they both join them as Security officer and on board canteen/bar expert. They also accidentally bring a plague of feral potochillas on board which are quite adorable little creatures but also very miscifious.
Also on their journey to earth they gonna find a genetic reconstructed human who was 'build' by dna samples on some space garbage that somehow got to a planet with very intelligenent life forms that basically decided against space travel bc they saw other planets weren't ready yet and therefore got stuck on their home planet bored and curious taking every opportunity they can to get to know other life forms without leaving. She because she is a mix of multiple incomplete dna samples doesn't have eyes or a fully functioning nervous system (again I know that's not how genetics work but damn it this is fiction) so those are substituted with 'cyborg'-parts so she can live. She won't really join the crew, even tho she as a tec savvy person will sometimes help out with engineering but rather wants to be a passanger to get to earth and finally get to know her own race for the first time in her life.
I got a tone more but ehhh need some sleep now hahaha hope everything makes sens and I hope you enjoyed my brain salad.
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gettin-bi-bi-bi · 6 years ago
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Hi. I believe there is more than 2 genders and I have a friend who doesn't we never argue about it because we have different opinions and that's fine but the other day someone brought the topic up and we started talking about and it got to a point where she said give me proof there are more than 2 genders and I didn't know what to say just to clarify I still believe there are more than 2 genders I just didn't know what to tell her and I was wondering if u could tell me things I can tell her
[WARNING: This starts out as an attempt to Explain Things but turned into a rant about how some people do not deserve your emotional and intellectual labour. Sorry for being inconsistent but I don’t think I can do better than this.]
You can tell her that this isn’t an issue to “disagree” about. It’s a fact that more than two genders exist.
If she wants to argue with “biological sex” then tell her that intersex people are a reality, as much as she might want to argue against that - she’s wrong. There’s people with XX-chromosomes who were born with a penis. There’s people with XY-chromosomes who were born with a vagina. Or with a vagina and an enlarged clitoris/penis. Or there’s people who have XXY-chromosomes. There’s people who have XX-chromosomes and a vagina but have facial hair to an extend that most people would read as “masculine”.
“man” and “woman” are human-made concepts. There’s a long list of phenomena in humans that our society decided needed to be categorised into gender, such as chromosomes, hormone levels, distribution of muscle/fat, amount of body/facial hair, height, genitals and reproductive system. You might be able to argue that biologically “man” and “woman” are extreme cases in which A fulfills a lot of criteria for A and B fulfills a lot of criteria for B. But there’s women with visible facial hair, there’s men with boobs, women with high testosterone levels, men without a single hair on their chest. Hardly anyone, not even cis men and women, fit these categories exactly which only goes to show how arbitrary they are. And then you get a shitton of people who don’t fit in that binary at all because sex/gender is so much more diverse than just two options. We don’t even know how many intersex people exist because some intersex “conditions” (for lack of a better word) are never noticed and/or intersex people get mutilated after birth without consent (sometimes even without their parents’ knowledge) to force them into one binary gender (often female bc that’s “easier” to do in surgery). Hardly anyone has their chromosomes tested at birth - or ever - so we don’t. even. KNOW. how many people there are with chromosonal variations other than XY and XX.
And that’s only the biology and says nothing about a personal internal thoughts and feelings and identity. If your friend agrees (?) that intersex people as well as trans men and trans women exist then she must acknowledge the fact that genitals are not the same as gender. If she accepts that as fact then she should see that there’s sooooo many more options than just that.
Not to mention the simple fact that there are living breathing human beings who are genders other than “man” or “woman”. Non-binary people exist. There are and have been non-western cultures with a completely different understanding of gender (at least until they’ve been colonised and white people pushed the man/woman gender binary onto them). Your friend is extreme disrespectful to claim she knows better about other people’s gender than they do. It costs her zero cents to not be transphobic, nb-phobic and perisexist.
Sorry for writing myself into a rant here. At this point I honestly do not see why you’d even want to go through the effort of explaining this to her. If she were truly, honestly interested she’d just have googled this. It’s all out there and countless people have explained this before. There’s a difference in someone asking “I have never heard of that, would you mind directing me to some resources?” and someone demanding proof. She is trying to talk you into giving up. She is expecting you to do all the work for her. She is using your emotional and intellectual labour because she’s too lazy to do it herself which only tells me that she’s not actually interested in having her mind changed at all.
It’s not your job to change someone’s mind, especially not if they aren’t willing to listen and learn.
So.... yeah, you can tell her all that I’ve said above, you can give her resources, you can do all the work. Or you can find better friends because to me it honestly doesn’t sound like she’s worth it.
Maddie
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mikehughes25 · 5 years ago
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The UFO Involvement I am becoming increasingly aware of the fact that humanity , with its intelligence ,is at present in a dumb down state. However the media puts out so much divergence , and cheap crap. This is an attempted ''cover up'' . To keep mankind in the darkness, and thus under the influence of the ''Lords of Materiality''. However such a thing can only happen if this planet was bereft of all of its Masters , initiates , , and the millions who stand for justice , and right human relations .. The glamour of a life empty of any soul qualities . It has been said we rub shoulders with soulless people everyday . The Higher Christ Principle has not as yet been born in humanity as a whole as yet . Right now we have only a nucleus of initiates working on the outer planes at this time. . However , as the forces of the 7th ray wax ever so powerful, then we shall see more master coming into the world over the next few hundred years or so . . Our job is to prepare humanity for the Externalization of the Hierarchy . The reality and work of the Space Brothers Interview with British author and editor of Share International magazine Benjamin Creme by Janez Ferjancic. Janez Ferjancic: Before you were engaged in the Reappearance work you were connected with UFOs in the 1950s. You knew George Adamski personally. Could you explain how it all started, and what were your experiences with UFOs? Benjamin Creme: I first read about UFOs in Flying Saucers have Landed, a book in which George Adamski wrote, in the last chapter, his experience of meeting a Venusian in the Arizona desert. The book itself was not by Adamski but by an Englishman, Desmond Leslie. It was the history of flying saucers over many ages, in different parts of the world. It was research ó historical, speculative to some degree, and it finished with Adamski's actual experience. Next I read Inside the Spaceships by Adamski, in which he was taken up in a spaceship, a saucer, onto what is called a mothership. This mothership was Venusian, and he had long conversations with the Venusian Master who, I think, was the Master of the ship, the chief person on board. In any case He was a Venusian Master. These were very interesting conversations, and so for me the UFO phenomenon was more to do with the purpose, the meaning behind the flying saucers as they were called, than the phenomenon itself. The fact that people from other planets ó some people think other solar systems but my information is that they come from other planets of our system ó were concerned enough to visit this planet was interesting, but the nature of their concern was much more interesting. Their concern was that we should not destroy ourselves. That we should change our way of life, our way of organizing our world, not to destroy the world from an ecological point of view, and not to destroy each other in a war using nuclear weapons. It was a philosophical, spiritual discourse which he had with the Venusian Master, and that is what really impressed me about the book. When I first heard about UFOs it was in 1947 or 1948, perhaps 1945, when a few reports appeared in our newspapers that a passenger plane had come close to what we call UFOs. The pilot would report it, the people in the plane would see it happening. They would see these round, disk-shaped objects, sometimes quite close to the aircraft, flying alongside, either one or many. It happened quite frequently but not every day ó or rather you did not hear about it every day. These reports were spaced out over a period of time. UFO over Voronezj, Russia The first time I heard or read anything about them, before I read the Adamski book, I believed they were probably either American or Russian special planes that they were experimenting with, which were built on an entirely different system, not like normal airplanes; they were round, saucer shaped, and so we called them flying saucers. I thought at first that they were secret planes, experimental flying objects of Russia or America, or both, until I read the Adamski book, and then it became clear that there was something else going on, that they were perhaps from elsewhere. Then, in the beginning of January 1959, I was contacted by one of the Masters of our Spiritual Hierarchy and my work began ó I have talked and written about it elsewhere. The work was with the Space Brothers, the people using the UFOs, and my Master acted as the liaison between us, so to speak. To me, the two became identified; the fact of having read Adamski left me very open to the possibility, although I had not thought very much about it. But I was immediately introduced to the flying phenomena and I was part of a group, of which Adamski was one, which met only out of the body. To the outer world, we worked secretly, but to ourselves there was no secret ó we recognized each other and we were part of a committee and did certain work which was assigned to us which was all to do with the UFO phenomenon. In my experience, what we call UFOs, the flying saucers, come from the planets of our own system. Not from the Pleiades, or Sirius or somewhere outside our solar system, but from, mainly, Mars and Venus. A few other planets like Jupiter and Mercury are involved, but the vast majority of sightings of the UFOs come from Mars and Venus. Practically all of them are made on Mars, even the Venusian ones. They are Venusian in design, and they are quite distinct, different in design and technology, but they are actually constructed on Mars. And they are all constructed by thought. The people in physical bodies on Mars and Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and so on are not at the same level or vibration of physicality that we experience. We know only three aspects of the physical: solid physical, liquid physical and gaseous physical. Above gas there are still four further levels of physical matter which so far have not been discovered on this planet. When they are discovered we will understand a great deal more about the nature and origin of disease, the purpose of life on this planet and of the reality of life on other planets. The beings on Mars and Venus and the other planets are on the four higher levels of the physical. If you went to Mars or Venus you would see no one, but nevertheless they are in physical matter, and have bodies made of that subtle, finer physical matter to which we give the term ëetheric'. We ourselves have bodies of dense physical, liquid physical, gaseous physical and the four etheric physical planes ó but we have not yet discovered the latter. They have been demonstrated to exist by the great scientist and psychologist Wilhelm Reich, who was a colleague and one-time assistant of Freud. He died in an American prison in 1957. He was arrested for purporting to treat diseases with instruments which he claimed (correctly) attracted matter from the etheric planes, which he called orgone energy. He saw it as one vast plane of orgone energy, which he saw, rightly, as being everywhere in the universe, substanding the outer solid physical plane. Esotericists understand the etheric plane as four planes, becoming finer and finer as they go higher. The fourth etheric is just above gas, and is invisible unless you have etheric vision. The reality of this etheric energy, of what he called ìorgone energyî, was demonstrated palpably by Wilhelm Reich in various simple experiments. Nevertheless, he was arrested because he used instruments which he called the ìorgone accumulatorî, boxes which accumulated the etheric energy of some levels, usually the two lower levels, the fourth and the third etheric, to treat diseases including cancer and various other diseases. In America that was deemed illegal. The Food and Drug Administration arrested him, refused to allow him to prove his work, and he died in prison. Unless one understands the reality of the etheric levels of energy as finer, subtler, levels of matter, one cannot begin to understand the UFO phenomenon, and one cannot understand the creation of crop circles ó because they are all related. The crop circles are created by people, mainly from Mars and Venus, with a few exceptions from other planets. The vast majority of them are Martian, some Venusian, and they are all over the world. Crop circles are mainly in the south of England, but they have been seen in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Peru ó all over the world to a greater or lesser degree. Our planet, like all planets, has a magnetic field; its magnetic energy travels in lines and criss-crosses, and where these lines cross is formed, eventually, a vortex, a force centre. The space people, in making the crop circles, are replicating on the dense-physical plane these magnetic vortices in our planetary magnetic field. So there is the planetary magnetic field on its own level, and then a physical plane counterpart of that, which is being replicated by the space people who are manning the UFOs, and creating the crop circles. photo: © Steve Alexander / Karen Douglas Crop circle in Giant's Grave, Oare, Wiltshire, UK JF: Why are they doing this? BC: They do this in order to make the foundation on the physical plane for a new type of energy, a new type of technology using that energy, which eventually will be developed on this planet. It is a gift for this coming time, the New Age which we are entering, which we call the Age of Aquarius, a time in which tremendous new discoveries in the use of the energy of the planet and of the sun will be found and adapted. This will entirely change our way of life on this planet, and will lead to a control of universal energy such as we cannot begin to imagine. In the next 2,500 years we will reach a stage where we can travel around our solar system at will, and out into the galaxy, exploring first our own solar system and then the vast galactic area, using energy which does not work within the time/space reality. So that distance is annihilated, time is annihilated. People think that if you are going to send something into the galaxy, it will take hundreds of years, the people would die before they could reach anywhere that was worth going to, and they would never return. It is not true. People come from Mars and Venus, which are not so far away, but they are still a long way away by our reckoning of distance, but they come here in minutes. It does not take time, once you understand that time does not exist and that the space which you thought you have to cover to get from one place to another does not exist either, and in minutes you can travel vast distances in space. JF: Why did they choose crops for showing these patterns? BC: Crop circles are used because they are seasonal. You only have crops for a short time in the summer and autumn, and then they are cut down, and you do not see the crop circles. Then they will grow up again next year, and the crop circles appear in the same places, because they are recreated each time in the exact same point, so that the energy is put in that field, or whatever. If put where all the energy is put, crop circles would be, literally, all over the world, including in the sea, on mountains and in rocks where nothing is growing. They are allowed to be seen, made real as a crop circle, as designs in corn, because it is seasonal; then it is cut down. This is a tangential way, without infringing our free will, of telling the people of Earth that the Space Brothers, as I call them, the people from other planets like Mars and Venus, are here, are part of a system, and they work in a systemic way, not just as separate planets. They are helping this planet to develop the technology of the future, and also to make known, without being too strong about it, that they are here, that they are aware of us, that they are helping us, that they have a very spiritual intention in coming here, and that they are 100 per cent friendly and harmless. JF: It is very difficult to believe in the true nature of the crop circles, because there are so many hoaxes. Could you tell me what percentage of crop circles are genuine and how many are hoaxes? And why are people doing this? BC: There are, of course, some hoaxes. These hoaxes are a tiny minority, perhaps 4 per cent, of the real and authentic crop circles which appear all over the world. The ratio of hoaxes to authentic ones varies from country to country. In this country (UK) ó because we have had so many crop circles and for so long ó they are probably a bigger percentage than elsewhere. If you have more crop circles, you have more hoaxes. And in other parts of the world perhaps there is not such a conscious involvement of people with the crop circles, so they do not take the trouble to make them. To make a crop circle is hard work, and they are usually very obvious and very clumsy and badly made. How anyone can mistake a hoax for a real crop circle ó if they visit the actual crop circles ó astonishes me, because they are so perfectly made when they are authentic. They are made in seconds by the people using the space vehicle. First of all they think of a design, decide what the design will be. It may be very simple, and if you follow the sequence of crop circles, you see that they become more and more elaborate, more complex, as the years go on. First, for variety, and secondly, to show a complexity and a degree of ingenuity and design which would be beyond the range of any hoaxer. The hoaxes are usually very elementary, rather badly made. Why are they made? I would say, for two reasons. One reason is that they are made by people who are paid to make hoaxes. Newspapers, for example, do from time to time put up money and employ, say, a group of university students who have worked out a way in which you can make a crop circle of a kind, a rather simplistic kind, but that would convince a journalist. Journalists know no more about crop circles than anybody else, than the average man in the street, and yet they come along with their cameras and look at it, and they say: ìYes, it is a crop circle, a real authentic crop circle, how wonderful!î, and then Jeff and Peter, or Willy and Robert, come up and say: ìNo, we made it, yesterday, we made it! The Daily Mail or The Sun paid us £2,000 to make this crop circle, we can prove it. This is a complete hoax, they are all hoaxes.î It is a way of diminishing the value and the reality of the crop circles. Also, I know for certain, that the Ministry of Defence in this country pays money to the farmers to cut down the crop circles if they appear in their corn. Some of them, of course, go ahead and as soon as a circle appears they cut it down. Even if the corn is not ripe and they would not normally cut down that area of corn for perhaps a few weeks or a month. And so you get fields with a great hole in the middle of the corn, which is where there has been a crop circle deliberately destroyed by the farmer ó paid by the Ministry of Defence. JF: A crop circle appeared one week ago in Winchester which is quite elaborate ó a three-dimensional picture of a Hollywood-style head of an alien. You said that it was man-made which astonishes me, because you can't really recognize it from the ground. How can an ordinary person actually distinguish what is genuine and what not? BC: It is difficult for people who have not studied the subject, who are not to some degree well acquainted with the subject, to tell the difference between a true, authentic crop circle, made by a spaceship from Mars or Venus, and one that is just a fake. But if you have been looking at them over a period of time, and realized the differences, you can see instantly that this is a fake and this is authentic, they are very clear cut. I saw the Winchester photograph: there is a circle in which the spaces are divided into squares in both ways, it makes a kind of a cake, but decorated in squares, and near it a head, a kind of alien, imaginary alien's head. A head which is used every time a comic artist wants to design a spaceman, he gives him that kind of a head ó rather like the head of E.T. That to me is a complete fake. It has nothing to do with the crop circle beside it, which is authentic. This is done for one or other of those reasons, simply, that people like to play pranks, they like to destroy evidence, they like to be cleverer than those who are making the crop circles ó until the public and the media cannot make head or tail of the whole thing. It destroys the validity of the whole crop circle phenomenon. If you cannot tell the difference between a fake one and an authentic one, then the authentic ones lose validity. Not ultimately, but for the present time. Until it is proved that crop circles are, indeed, made by UFOs from Mars and Venus. The number of fakes is really very small, because they are difficult to do, they take time and energy, and people who are going to spend that time and energy to do it either have an overdeveloped sense of humour ó they see it as a great joke ó or else, they are being paid to do it. Both things happen. JF: Just to get it clear about that Winchester crop circle: the disk is genuine? BC: For the one I saw in the newspaper, the actual circle is a genuine one, and the head of an ëE.T.' is not authentic, but is a man-made one to nullify the validity of the other. JF: The crop circle phenomenon started to appear in the late 1970s, but even before, in the 15th or 16th centuries, people knew about them. Why are they appearing in such numbers now, and why mainly, as it seems, in the UK? BC: The number of crop circles is increasing all over the world. They have always been there, but only in small numbers. They are increasing because the plan of the Space Brothers ó in relation to the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet ó is to speed up the creation of this magnetic field of energy on the physical plane on the Earth to do with the coming technology. Why now? Because the whole process is speeding up. Because our own Spiritual Hierarchy, the Masters and high initiates of the Spiritual Hierarchy of this planet, are returning to the everyday world. They have not been out of the world, but They have been hidden away in the mountains and deserts of the world for thousands and thousands of years. They have been working behind the scenes but now They are externalizing Their work and are beginning to appear. Already, to my knowledge, there are 14 Masters living openly as men in the world, and the Master of all the Masters, the World Teacher, the Lord Maitreya, as He is named in the Spiritual Hierarchy, the One Christians call the Christ. The reason so many crop circles appear in southern England is because Maitreya lives in London, His ëpoint of focus' in the modern world. They are meant, subtly, to allude to that fact. photo: © Steve Alexander Crop circle at Waden Hill, Wiltshire, UK, 21 June 2003 JF: Will this process keep increasing? Are we going to make closer contacts with UFOs? BC: The Hierarchies of all the planets are in communication. This is something which people should understand. They themselves do not have that communication but Hierarchy does. The Hierarchy is made up of Masters of different levels and of disciples of even more varied levels. And from all these disciples, all these different grades of initiates, some of them may be part of groups who have been working with the Space Brothers. The Space Brothers have on this planet various people, like Adamski and others, who are used to bring the reality of the Space Brothers to the world, but also for other reasons, which I cannot go into; there are various aspects of this work which must be kept secret, for the time being at least. They have a great work in salvaging, in helping to restore the equilibrium of our planet, in particular to nullify to some extent ó within the karmic law ó the pollution of our planet. But for their work in purifying our atmosphere, mopping up with implosion devices the nuclear radiation which we pour into the atmosphere from our nuclear reactors and experimentation, this world would be infinitely more painful to live in. JF: You mentioned that there are different individuals who work together with UFOs on different projects. There is an interesting project in America, conducted by Dr Steven Greer called the ëDisclosure Project'. Could you comment on this? BC: Dr Greer is doing a useful thing. He is not working ó so far as I know ó with the Space Brothers but he is impatient with the fact that there is masses of evidence to prove that UFOs exist. Not proof of where they come from, or their purpose, but that they are real, do, in fact, exist. They have been seen by hundreds of thousands of people for years, and yet the governments of the world, most of whom have adequate data on their existence, refuse to make that known. There is a huge cover-up, from the highest levels, in America, Russia, Britain, the European and various other countries who have been collecting data, evidence from their pilots, policemen, soldiers, from the public for years and years. This amounts to a huge body of evidence which is never published, is never made known, is covered up. People disappear even, in certain parts of the world, and nothing more is heard of them. There is sometimes coverage by media to discredit the evidence, and so on. In this way the governments control what the public knows, or rather does not know, about the Space Brothers and the UFO phenomenon. In this way they can keep it down. Dr Greer is impatient with this, he has himself experience of UFOs and wanted to make it known. He has set up a means for other people ó ex-army, ex-RAF or ex-United States Air force personnel ó to come forward and give their evidence. When people of their standing and experience give evidence in this public way, they hope it will lead to a general, better understanding and maybe eventually an open statement by the governments of the world. Of course, when governments make such a statement about their knowledge, they are also at the same time committing political suicide. They think that if we know the technology that the Space Brothers have, which is so much more advanced than our own, then the ideas, the wisdom of these people (if it is possible to have at our service), is much more to be valued than that of our own governments. These governments do nothing but make war on each other, in competition destroy the economies of each other, and make life miserable for hundreds of millions of people throughout the world. Inevitably, we will say we want the Space Brothers to come and teach us their ways, we do not need you, Mr so-and-so and Mr so-and-so. They can see that as a loss of their power, and so they keep the whole thing dark. JF: Do you think Dr Greer will succeed with his initiative? Will governments come forward? BC: The governments will only act when they are forced to do it. When Maitreya is known openly. Maitreya is the World Teacher, the head of our own planetary Hierarchy, Who are beginning to return to the everyday world. When They are known, when Maitreya is known, He will be asked questions like I am being asked now, and the truth of the relationship between this planet and the other planets will become known. Then the people from other planets will land and the reality of their existence will be known. We have to understand that these ships and the people in these ships are in etheric matter, which is matter, but subtler than our physical matter. We, also, have the subtle matter in our etheric framework ó of which the physical is only a precipitation, downwards ó but we do not see it, and so for us it is non-existent. The Space Brothers can lower the vibrational rate of that etheric matter until it comes within our range of vision, so that we see the spaceships. But that is a temporary manifestation. When the Space Brothers live ó and some do ó on this Earth, they have to make, or take, Earth bodies to do so. In the first place, the knowledge, the acceptance of the reality of the Space Brothers, will come through the acceptance of Maitreya and the Masters of our Spiritual Hierarchy. They will confirm that the Space Brothers are real, that the spaceships are real, that the other planets have their citizens who have nothing but goodwill, who are harmless, who want to help each other and do help each other, and who help this planet in so far as the law of karma allows. When we accept them and see what they are doing and how they are helping us, then the development of this planet will go forward tremendously fast. JF: There are so called abductions and cattle mutilations. Should one take them seriously? What is this in relation to UFOs? BC: The question of abductions and cattle mutilations is part of the general cover-up. They are a way of invalidating the harmlessness of the Space Brothers and making people afraid of the Space Brothers. The Space Brothers know nothing of harm and mean no harm for this planet. If they had, they could have destroyed this planet long ago. No one is ever abducted in a spaceship. These cattle mutilations are deliberately made as cover-ups ó to put the blame on the Space Brothers and therefore to make people afraid of them. The whole thing is a plot against this enormously important and enormously serious interchange between the planets, to keep power for a limited number of people on this planet. It will be, as I say, only for a limited time until the Hierarchy of Masters is known and accepted, until Maitreya is known and accepted, and then the reality of the UFOs will come out. Those who say they are abducted have experiences of an astral-emotional nature in which they imagine that they are in spaceships. Nobody is ever taken up in a spaceship in a physical body. It is impossible. These spaceships are not solid physical. To be taken up into a spaceship you have to be taken out of the dense physical body and you go in the etheric into the spaceship, which are in themselves etheric. It is still physical, but etheric physical. Now, people say they are taken up and experimented on, things are put into their skin and so on. The Space Brothers know all about us, they do not need to do this. To me it is a nonsense, because they are so advanced in every way that they do not need to make any kind of experiment. They know the answers already. It is a complete nonsense that they should carry out genetic or sexual experimentation on people from this planet when they have a technology which is several thousand years ahead of anything that we could think of today. It is stupid, it is a blind, a deliberate way of attacking the concept of wise and superior, spiritually-oriented people. In this way, the people in control in, or even behind, the governments of the world, retain their control. JF: Could you say a few words on the energy in crop circles? Is it good to stay in a crop circle for healing, for example? BC: The crop circles are made by energy. The people in the spaceship form a design in their mind, simple or complex, and then, with a combination of technology and thought, that design is created in the crop. They always use a universal system based on ë9', rather than ë10', which we will adopt in the future. When we understand the nature of the mathematical ratios in the true sense, we will begin to understand the crop circle better. Many people think crop circles are ideograms ó which they are not. They are not giving us ideas, encapsulating ideas. They are designs, carried out to a certain formula, and the formula is universal. That is what they are reiterating over and over again in these designs. In every case there is an energy which is embedded in the ground, in the water, etc, wherever the crop circle is made. You must understand that the crop circles are only external visible points where these vortices occur, but these occur all over the world, even where there are no crops. So there are thousands and thousands of these energy spots, vortices, created by the Space Brothers. When they make a circle in a crop you see it; when they make it in the ocean you do not see it, but it is there, too. In this way they are forming a magnetic grid which will be a source of energy on the physical plane, like storage tanks of energy. So it will draw energy from our own magnetic plane, but using it on the physical plane in the technology which is coming. In using energy from the sun in relation to this magnetic energy we will do wonders in healing, in transport and many other ways; all our energy needs will be met. If you go to a crop circle and you are sensitive to the energy, you will find, if you are in one made by a Venusian spaceship, that it will be quite distinct from that in a crop circle made by a Martian spaceship. If it is made by a Mercury or Jupiterian spaceship it will be different again. These energies are different and they can have a healing quality. People spending a little time in a crop circle feel the energy, which is often of a healing nature and does heal. I would not recommend spending a lot of time in a crop circle, because one can be overcharged by the energy. Especially Venusian energy, which is very high in vibration. So I recommend care in spending time in crop circles. Spend maybe five or 10 minutes in it, but not sitting for a couple of hours talking with people, and so on. People do this, and then wonder why they are so overcharged. JF: On 20 June 2000, there was the first crop circle in Slovenia. The media reported it, and your Master confirmed it was genuine. Could you say whether it was made by a Martian or Venusian spaceship? BC: It was Martian. JF: Were there any more in Slovenia, which we didn't recognize? BC: One more in August in the same year. JF: Tomorrow I have an interview with a Second World War veteran, who was in the Royal Air Force. He had many UFO sightings during the war. He was in the RAF. There was this phenomenon of so called ìballs of lightî, foo-fighters, accompanying the aircrafts which were going to bombard Germany. Pilots thought those lights were secret weapons of the Germans. But German pilots saw the very same lights when they came to England, and thought it was the secret weapon of the English. Could you explain what these lights were? BC: All the space vehicles have listening devices, which may be two or two-and-a-half feet in diameter, and they can be directed from the spaceship itself, which might be ó if it is the usual scout ship ó 30 feet in diameter. These are sent down and connected energetically with the mothership, and they have instruments which can read the reports which are fed into very advanced computers. Our computers are ancient, backward things compared with the technology they have; these pick up data on everything: the quality of the air, the thoughts and ideas of individuals, if necessary. They may hover outside a room here and listen to this conversation, for example. Following an aircraft, they cannot be shot down ó they have a forcefield round them. The spaceships, too, cannot be shot down, they also have a forcefield round them. They have often been fired at by fighter planes sent up to intercept them but there is no way the rounds can penetrate the forcefield of the ship, so it is a waste of time and energy. That is just Earth stupidity. We are a very stupid planet. We are a backward, dark planet whose people know nothing, believe nothing and understand nothing. But that is all going to change because the Hierarchy of Masters are coming back into the world. Some are already here, including the Master of all the Masters, Maitreya Himself, Who will be the first to become known. His mission begins in the very near future. This will throw a completely new light on the reality of life. These foo-fighters do a job ó I cannot tell you what the job is in every single case, it will vary from time to time. The spaceships have implosion devices which have usually a red light, and which are used to nullify or neutralize nuclear radiation on the Earth. They use different devices for different purposes, but very common are the small disks for carrying information. I have seen them. I have ducked as they come so close! They do not mean any harm, it is just a kind of ìhelloî. JF: Many people see these balls of light, also where crop circles have appeared. There is a famous UK video from 1996 by John Wheatleigh. Your Master confirmed that the video was genuine, but later it was discovered that there were some strange things with this video; the light, when the video was shot, was strange as the sun was on the other side. Also the man who shot the video disappeared. Could you say a few words about the video? BC: I do not know about that. I have not heard the evidence against the video, so I cannot really comment on this. All I can say is that the video is real. These lights which were seen were deliberately shown. The crop circle was made by the spaceship in seconds. Then these lights were put out to show that they were there, to draw attention to the fact that they had made the crop circle, to connect it with the UFO and so make it real, that it was not a mystery. Because if you just have a crop circle, or you are waiting for the appearance of a craft to make a crop circle and you do not see the craft, then there is a crop circle but you have no feedback on it. When you have lights, you do not know whether the lights or the UFO made the circle, but there is a connection between them, because no one has ever explained the lights which hovered over the ground. I do not know whether the criticism is valid; it may be from a technical point of view, but it cannot be from the actual, factual point of view, because it happened, the crop circle appeared. JF: In conclusion, do you think that without Maitreya we won't see UFOs becoming public knowledge? BC: Well, it is not the way I would put that. I would not say that without Maitreya we would not see it, but that with Maitreya we will see it. The fact that Maitreya is here ó I know with absolute certainty that Maitreya is here, living here in London where I am talking now ó will guarantee that the fact of our Space Brothers becomes known. He will begin His open mission very soon indeed. The world will gradually come to understand Who He is and what His mission is, and when they accept Him, then, of course, they will accept what He says about the Space Brothers and the UFOs. Then there will be an open interchange between them and us. Janez Ferjancic is a Share International co-worker from Slovenia. From the July/August 2004 issue of Share International
The UFO Involvement I am becoming increasingly aware of the fact that humanity , with its intelligence ,is at present in a dumb down state. However the media puts out so much divergence , and cheap crap. This is an attempted ”cover up” . To keep mankind in the darkness, and thus under the influence of the ”Lords of Materiality”. However such a thing can only happen if this planet was bereft of all of its Masters , initiates , , and the millions who stand for justice , and right human relations .. The glamour of a life empty of any soul qualities . It has been said we rub shoulders with soulless people everyday . The Higher Christ Principle has not as yet been born in humanity as a whole as yet . Right now we have only a nucleus of initiates working on the outer planes at this time. . However , as the forces of the 7th ray wax ever so powerful, then we shall see more master coming into the world over the next few hundred years or so . . Our job is to prepare humanity for the Externalization of the Hierarchy . The reality and work of the Space Brothers Interview with British author and editor of Share International magazine Benjamin Creme by Janez Ferjancic. Janez Ferjancic: Before you were engaged in the Reappearance work you were connected with UFOs in the 1950s. You knew George Adamski personally. Could you explain how it all started, and what were your experiences with UFOs? Benjamin Creme: I first read about UFOs in Flying Saucers have Landed, a book in which George Adamski wrote, in the last chapter, his experience of meeting a Venusian in the Arizona desert. The book itself was not by Adamski but by an Englishman, Desmond Leslie. It was the history of flying saucers over many ages, in different parts of the world. It was research ó historical, speculative to some degree, and it finished with Adamski’s actual experience. Next I read Inside the Spaceships by Adamski, in which he was taken up in a spaceship, a saucer, onto what is called a mothership. This mothership was Venusian, and he had long conversations with the Venusian Master who, I think, was the Master of the ship, the chief person on board. In any case He was a Venusian Master. These were very interesting conversations, and so for me the UFO phenomenon was more to do with the purpose, the meaning behind the flying saucers as they were called, than the phenomenon itself. The fact that people from other planets ó some people think other solar systems but my information is that they come from other planets of our system ó were concerned enough to visit this planet was interesting, but the nature of their concern was much more interesting. Their concern was that we should not destroy ourselves. That we should change our way of life, our way of organizing our world, not to destroy the world from an ecological point of view, and not to destroy each other in a war using nuclear weapons. It was a philosophical, spiritual discourse which he had with the Venusian Master, and that is what really impressed me about the book. When I first heard about UFOs it was in 1947 or 1948, perhaps 1945, when a few reports appeared in our newspapers that a passenger plane had come close to what we call UFOs. The pilot would report it, the people in the plane would see it happening. They would see these round, disk-shaped objects, sometimes quite close to the aircraft, flying alongside, either one or many. It happened quite frequently but not every day ó or rather you did not hear about it every day. These reports were spaced out over a period of time. UFO over Voronezj, Russia The first time I heard or read anything about them, before I read the Adamski book, I believed they were probably either American or Russian special planes that they were experimenting with, which were built on an entirely different system, not like normal airplanes; they were round, saucer shaped, and so we called them flying saucers. I thought at first that they were secret planes, experimental flying objects of Russia or America, or both, until I read the Adamski book, and then it became clear that there was something else going on, that they were perhaps from elsewhere. Then, in the beginning of January 1959, I was contacted by one of the Masters of our Spiritual Hierarchy and my work began ó I have talked and written about it elsewhere. The work was with the Space Brothers, the people using the UFOs, and my Master acted as the liaison between us, so to speak. To me, the two became identified; the fact of having read Adamski left me very open to the possibility, although I had not thought very much about it. But I was immediately introduced to the flying phenomena and I was part of a group, of which Adamski was one, which met only out of the body. To the outer world, we worked secretly, but to ourselves there was no secret ó we recognized each other and we were part of a committee and did certain work which was assigned to us which was all to do with the UFO phenomenon. In my experience, what we call UFOs, the flying saucers, come from the planets of our own system. Not from the Pleiades, or Sirius or somewhere outside our solar system, but from, mainly, Mars and Venus. A few other planets like Jupiter and Mercury are involved, but the vast majority of sightings of the UFOs come from Mars and Venus. Practically all of them are made on Mars, even the Venusian ones. They are Venusian in design, and they are quite distinct, different in design and technology, but they are actually constructed on Mars. And they are all constructed by thought. The people in physical bodies on Mars and Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and so on are not at the same level or vibration of physicality that we experience. We know only three aspects of the physical: solid physical, liquid physical and gaseous physical. Above gas there are still four further levels of physical matter which so far have not been discovered on this planet. When they are discovered we will understand a great deal more about the nature and origin of disease, the purpose of life on this planet and of the reality of life on other planets. The beings on Mars and Venus and the other planets are on the four higher levels of the physical. If you went to Mars or Venus you would see no one, but nevertheless they are in physical matter, and have bodies made of that subtle, finer physical matter to which we give the term ëetheric’. We ourselves have bodies of dense physical, liquid physical, gaseous physical and the four etheric physical planes ó but we have not yet discovered the latter. They have been demonstrated to exist by the great scientist and psychologist Wilhelm Reich, who was a colleague and one-time assistant of Freud. He died in an American prison in 1957. He was arrested for purporting to treat diseases with instruments which he claimed (correctly) attracted matter from the etheric planes, which he called orgone energy. He saw it as one vast plane of orgone energy, which he saw, rightly, as being everywhere in the universe, substanding the outer solid physical plane. Esotericists understand the etheric plane as four planes, becoming finer and finer as they go higher. The fourth etheric is just above gas, and is invisible unless you have etheric vision. The reality of this etheric energy, of what he called ìorgone energyî, was demonstrated palpably by Wilhelm Reich in various simple experiments. Nevertheless, he was arrested because he used instruments which he called the ìorgone accumulatorî, boxes which accumulated the etheric energy of some levels, usually the two lower levels, the fourth and the third etheric, to treat diseases including cancer and various other diseases. In America that was deemed illegal. The Food and Drug Administration arrested him, refused to allow him to prove his work, and he died in prison. Unless one understands the reality of the etheric levels of energy as finer, subtler, levels of matter, one cannot begin to understand the UFO phenomenon, and one cannot understand the creation of crop circles ó because they are all related. The crop circles are created by people, mainly from Mars and Venus, with a few exceptions from other planets. The vast majority of them are Martian, some Venusian, and they are all over the world. Crop circles are mainly in the south of England, but they have been seen in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Peru ó all over the world to a greater or lesser degree. Our planet, like all planets, has a magnetic field; its magnetic energy travels in lines and criss-crosses, and where these lines cross is formed, eventually, a vortex, a force centre. The space people, in making the crop circles, are replicating on the dense-physical plane these magnetic vortices in our planetary magnetic field. So there is the planetary magnetic field on its own level, and then a physical plane counterpart of that, which is being replicated by the space people who are manning the UFOs, and creating the crop circles. photo: © Steve Alexander / Karen Douglas Crop circle in Giant’s Grave, Oare, Wiltshire, UK JF: Why are they doing this? BC: They do this in order to make the foundation on the physical plane for a new type of energy, a new type of technology using that energy, which eventually will be developed on this planet. It is a gift for this coming time, the New Age which we are entering, which we call the Age of Aquarius, a time in which tremendous new discoveries in the use of the energy of the planet and of the sun will be found and adapted. This will entirely change our way of life on this planet, and will lead to a control of universal energy such as we cannot begin to imagine. In the next 2,500 years we will reach a stage where we can travel around our solar system at will, and out into the galaxy, exploring first our own solar system and then the vast galactic area, using energy which does not work within the time/space reality. So that distance is annihilated, time is annihilated. People think that if you are going to send something into the galaxy, it will take hundreds of years, the people would die before they could reach anywhere that was worth going to, and they would never return. It is not true. People come from Mars and Venus, which are not so far away, but they are still a long way away by our reckoning of distance, but they come here in minutes. It does not take time, once you understand that time does not exist and that the space which you thought you have to cover to get from one place to another does not exist either, and in minutes you can travel vast distances in space. JF: Why did they choose crops for showing these patterns? BC: Crop circles are used because they are seasonal. You only have crops for a short time in the summer and autumn, and then they are cut down, and you do not see the crop circles. Then they will grow up again next year, and the crop circles appear in the same places, because they are recreated each time in the exact same point, so that the energy is put in that field, or whatever. If put where all the energy is put, crop circles would be, literally, all over the world, including in the sea, on mountains and in rocks where nothing is growing. They are allowed to be seen, made real as a crop circle, as designs in corn, because it is seasonal; then it is cut down. This is a tangential way, without infringing our free will, of telling the people of Earth that the Space Brothers, as I call them, the people from other planets like Mars and Venus, are here, are part of a system, and they work in a systemic way, not just as separate planets. They are helping this planet to develop the technology of the future, and also to make known, without being too strong about it, that they are here, that they are aware of us, that they are helping us, that they have a very spiritual intention in coming here, and that they are 100 per cent friendly and harmless. JF: It is very difficult to believe in the true nature of the crop circles, because there are so many hoaxes. Could you tell me what percentage of crop circles are genuine and how many are hoaxes? And why are people doing this? BC: There are, of course, some hoaxes. These hoaxes are a tiny minority, perhaps 4 per cent, of the real and authentic crop circles which appear all over the world. The ratio of hoaxes to authentic ones varies from country to country. In this country (UK) ó because we have had so many crop circles and for so long ó they are probably a bigger percentage than elsewhere. If you have more crop circles, you have more hoaxes. And in other parts of the world perhaps there is not such a conscious involvement of people with the crop circles, so they do not take the trouble to make them. To make a crop circle is hard work, and they are usually very obvious and very clumsy and badly made. How anyone can mistake a hoax for a real crop circle ó if they visit the actual crop circles ó astonishes me, because they are so perfectly made when they are authentic. They are made in seconds by the people using the space vehicle. First of all they think of a design, decide what the design will be. It may be very simple, and if you follow the sequence of crop circles, you see that they become more and more elaborate, more complex, as the years go on. First, for variety, and secondly, to show a complexity and a degree of ingenuity and design which would be beyond the range of any hoaxer. The hoaxes are usually very elementary, rather badly made. Why are they made? I would say, for two reasons. One reason is that they are made by people who are paid to make hoaxes. Newspapers, for example, do from time to time put up money and employ, say, a group of university students who have worked out a way in which you can make a crop circle of a kind, a rather simplistic kind, but that would convince a journalist. Journalists know no more about crop circles than anybody else, than the average man in the street, and yet they come along with their cameras and look at it, and they say: ìYes, it is a crop circle, a real authentic crop circle, how wonderful!î, and then Jeff and Peter, or Willy and Robert, come up and say: ìNo, we made it, yesterday, we made it! The Daily Mail or The Sun paid us £2,000 to make this crop circle, we can prove it. This is a complete hoax, they are all hoaxes.î It is a way of diminishing the value and the reality of the crop circles. Also, I know for certain, that the Ministry of Defence in this country pays money to the farmers to cut down the crop circles if they appear in their corn. Some of them, of course, go ahead and as soon as a circle appears they cut it down. Even if the corn is not ripe and they would not normally cut down that area of corn for perhaps a few weeks or a month. And so you get fields with a great hole in the middle of the corn, which is where there has been a crop circle deliberately destroyed by the farmer ó paid by the Ministry of Defence. JF: A crop circle appeared one week ago in Winchester which is quite elaborate ó a three-dimensional picture of a Hollywood-style head of an alien. You said that it was man-made which astonishes me, because you can’t really recognize it from the ground. How can an ordinary person actually distinguish what is genuine and what not? BC: It is difficult for people who have not studied the subject, who are not to some degree well acquainted with the subject, to tell the difference between a true, authentic crop circle, made by a spaceship from Mars or Venus, and one that is just a fake. But if you have been looking at them over a period of time, and realized the differences, you can see instantly that this is a fake and this is authentic, they are very clear cut. I saw the Winchester photograph: there is a circle in which the spaces are divided into squares in both ways, it makes a kind of a cake, but decorated in squares, and near it a head, a kind of alien, imaginary alien’s head. A head which is used every time a comic artist wants to design a spaceman, he gives him that kind of a head ó rather like the head of E.T. That to me is a complete fake. It has nothing to do with the crop circle beside it, which is authentic. This is done for one or other of those reasons, simply, that people like to play pranks, they like to destroy evidence, they like to be cleverer than those who are making the crop circles ó until the public and the media cannot make head or tail of the whole thing. It destroys the validity of the whole crop circle phenomenon. If you cannot tell the difference between a fake one and an authentic one, then the authentic ones lose validity. Not ultimately, but for the present time. Until it is proved that crop circles are, indeed, made by UFOs from Mars and Venus. The number of fakes is really very small, because they are difficult to do, they take time and energy, and people who are going to spend that time and energy to do it either have an overdeveloped sense of humour ó they see it as a great joke ó or else, they are being paid to do it. Both things happen. JF: Just to get it clear about that Winchester crop circle: the disk is genuine? BC: For the one I saw in the newspaper, the actual circle is a genuine one, and the head of an ëE.T.’ is not authentic, but is a man-made one to nullify the validity of the other. JF: The crop circle phenomenon started to appear in the late 1970s, but even before, in the 15th or 16th centuries, people knew about them. Why are they appearing in such numbers now, and why mainly, as it seems, in the UK? BC: The number of crop circles is increasing all over the world. They have always been there, but only in small numbers. They are increasing because the plan of the Space Brothers ó in relation to the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet ó is to speed up the creation of this magnetic field of energy on the physical plane on the Earth to do with the coming technology. Why now? Because the whole process is speeding up. Because our own Spiritual Hierarchy, the Masters and high initiates of the Spiritual Hierarchy of this planet, are returning to the everyday world. They have not been out of the world, but They have been hidden away in the mountains and deserts of the world for thousands and thousands of years. They have been working behind the scenes but now They are externalizing Their work and are beginning to appear. Already, to my knowledge, there are 14 Masters living openly as men in the world, and the Master of all the Masters, the World Teacher, the Lord Maitreya, as He is named in the Spiritual Hierarchy, the One Christians call the Christ. The reason so many crop circles appear in southern England is because Maitreya lives in London, His ëpoint of focus’ in the modern world. They are meant, subtly, to allude to that fact. photo: © Steve Alexander Crop circle at Waden Hill, Wiltshire, UK, 21 June 2003 JF: Will this process keep increasing? Are we going to make closer contacts with UFOs? BC: The Hierarchies of all the planets are in communication. This is something which people should understand. They themselves do not have that communication but Hierarchy does. The Hierarchy is made up of Masters of different levels and of disciples of even more varied levels. And from all these disciples, all these different grades of initiates, some of them may be part of groups who have been working with the Space Brothers. The Space Brothers have on this planet various people, like Adamski and others, who are used to bring the reality of the Space Brothers to the world, but also for other reasons, which I cannot go into; there are various aspects of this work which must be kept secret, for the time being at least. They have a great work in salvaging, in helping to restore the equilibrium of our planet, in particular to nullify to some extent ó within the karmic law ó the pollution of our planet. But for their work in purifying our atmosphere, mopping up with implosion devices the nuclear radiation which we pour into the atmosphere from our nuclear reactors and experimentation, this world would be infinitely more painful to live in. JF: You mentioned that there are different individuals who work together with UFOs on different projects. There is an interesting project in America, conducted by Dr Steven Greer called the ëDisclosure Project’. Could you comment on this? BC: Dr Greer is doing a useful thing. He is not working ó so far as I know ó with the Space Brothers but he is impatient with the fact that there is masses of evidence to prove that UFOs exist. Not proof of where they come from, or their purpose, but that they are real, do, in fact, exist. They have been seen by hundreds of thousands of people for years, and yet the governments of the world, most of whom have adequate data on their existence, refuse to make that known. There is a huge cover-up, from the highest levels, in America, Russia, Britain, the European and various other countries who have been collecting data, evidence from their pilots, policemen, soldiers, from the public for years and years. This amounts to a huge body of evidence which is never published, is never made known, is covered up. People disappear even, in certain parts of the world, and nothing more is heard of them. There is sometimes coverage by media to discredit the evidence, and so on. In this way the governments control what the public knows, or rather does not know, about the Space Brothers and the UFO phenomenon. In this way they can keep it down. Dr Greer is impatient with this, he has himself experience of UFOs and wanted to make it known. He has set up a means for other people ó ex-army, ex-RAF or ex-United States Air force personnel ó to come forward and give their evidence. When people of their standing and experience give evidence in this public way, they hope it will lead to a general, better understanding and maybe eventually an open statement by the governments of the world. Of course, when governments make such a statement about their knowledge, they are also at the same time committing political suicide. They think that if we know the technology that the Space Brothers have, which is so much more advanced than our own, then the ideas, the wisdom of these people (if it is possible to have at our service), is much more to be valued than that of our own governments. These governments do nothing but make war on each other, in competition destroy the economies of each other, and make life miserable for hundreds of millions of people throughout the world. Inevitably, we will say we want the Space Brothers to come and teach us their ways, we do not need you, Mr so-and-so and Mr so-and-so. They can see that as a loss of their power, and so they keep the whole thing dark. JF: Do you think Dr Greer will succeed with his initiative? Will governments come forward? BC: The governments will only act when they are forced to do it. When Maitreya is known openly. Maitreya is the World Teacher, the head of our own planetary Hierarchy, Who are beginning to return to the everyday world. When They are known, when Maitreya is known, He will be asked questions like I am being asked now, and the truth of the relationship between this planet and the other planets will become known. Then the people from other planets will land and the reality of their existence will be known. We have to understand that these ships and the people in these ships are in etheric matter, which is matter, but subtler than our physical matter. We, also, have the subtle matter in our etheric framework ó of which the physical is only a precipitation, downwards ó but we do not see it, and so for us it is non-existent. The Space Brothers can lower the vibrational rate of that etheric matter until it comes within our range of vision, so that we see the spaceships. But that is a temporary manifestation. When the Space Brothers live ó and some do ó on this Earth, they have to make, or take, Earth bodies to do so. In the first place, the knowledge, the acceptance of the reality of the Space Brothers, will come through the acceptance of Maitreya and the Masters of our Spiritual Hierarchy. They will confirm that the Space Brothers are real, that the spaceships are real, that the other planets have their citizens who have nothing but goodwill, who are harmless, who want to help each other and do help each other, and who help this planet in so far as the law of karma allows. When we accept them and see what they are doing and how they are helping us, then the development of this planet will go forward tremendously fast. JF: There are so called abductions and cattle mutilations. Should one take them seriously? What is this in relation to UFOs? BC: The question of abductions and cattle mutilations is part of the general cover-up. They are a way of invalidating the harmlessness of the Space Brothers and making people afraid of the Space Brothers. The Space Brothers know nothing of harm and mean no harm for this planet. If they had, they could have destroyed this planet long ago. No one is ever abducted in a spaceship. These cattle mutilations are deliberately made as cover-ups ó to put the blame on the Space Brothers and therefore to make people afraid of them. The whole thing is a plot against this enormously important and enormously serious interchange between the planets, to keep power for a limited number of people on this planet. It will be, as I say, only for a limited time until the Hierarchy of Masters is known and accepted, until Maitreya is known and accepted, and then the reality of the UFOs will come out. Those who say they are abducted have experiences of an astral-emotional nature in which they imagine that they are in spaceships. Nobody is ever taken up in a spaceship in a physical body. It is impossible. These spaceships are not solid physical. To be taken up into a spaceship you have to be taken out of the dense physical body and you go in the etheric into the spaceship, which are in themselves etheric. It is still physical, but etheric physical. Now, people say they are taken up and experimented on, things are put into their skin and so on. The Space Brothers know all about us, they do not need to do this. To me it is a nonsense, because they are so advanced in every way that they do not need to make any kind of experiment. They know the answers already. It is a complete nonsense that they should carry out genetic or sexual experimentation on people from this planet when they have a technology which is several thousand years ahead of anything that we could think of today. It is stupid, it is a blind, a deliberate way of attacking the concept of wise and superior, spiritually-oriented people. In this way, the people in control in, or even behind, the governments of the world, retain their control. JF: Could you say a few words on the energy in crop circles? Is it good to stay in a crop circle for healing, for example? BC: The crop circles are made by energy. The people in the spaceship form a design in their mind, simple or complex, and then, with a combination of technology and thought, that design is created in the crop. They always use a universal system based on ë9′, rather than ë10′, which we will adopt in the future. When we understand the nature of the mathematical ratios in the true sense, we will begin to understand the crop circle better. Many people think crop circles are ideograms ó which they are not. They are not giving us ideas, encapsulating ideas. They are designs, carried out to a certain formula, and the formula is universal. That is what they are reiterating over and over again in these designs. In every case there is an energy which is embedded in the ground, in the water, etc, wherever the crop circle is made. You must understand that the crop circles are only external visible points where these vortices occur, but these occur all over the world, even where there are no crops. So there are thousands and thousands of these energy spots, vortices, created by the Space Brothers. When they make a circle in a crop you see it; when they make it in the ocean you do not see it, but it is there, too. In this way they are forming a magnetic grid which will be a source of energy on the physical plane, like storage tanks of energy. So it will draw energy from our own magnetic plane, but using it on the physical plane in the technology which is coming. In using energy from the sun in relation to this magnetic energy we will do wonders in healing, in transport and many other ways; all our energy needs will be met. If you go to a crop circle and you are sensitive to the energy, you will find, if you are in one made by a Venusian spaceship, that it will be quite distinct from that in a crop circle made by a Martian spaceship. If it is made by a Mercury or Jupiterian spaceship it will be different again. These energies are different and they can have a healing quality. People spending a little time in a crop circle feel the energy, which is often of a healing nature and does heal. I would not recommend spending a lot of time in a crop circle, because one can be overcharged by the energy. Especially Venusian energy, which is very high in vibration. So I recommend care in spending time in crop circles. Spend maybe five or 10 minutes in it, but not sitting for a couple of hours talking with people, and so on. People do this, and then wonder why they are so overcharged. JF: On 20 June 2000, there was the first crop circle in Slovenia. The media reported it, and your Master confirmed it was genuine. Could you say whether it was made by a Martian or Venusian spaceship? BC: It was Martian. JF: Were there any more in Slovenia, which we didn’t recognize? BC: One more in August in the same year. JF: Tomorrow I have an interview with a Second World War veteran, who was in the Royal Air Force. He had many UFO sightings during the war. He was in the RAF. There was this phenomenon of so called ìballs of lightî, foo-fighters, accompanying the aircrafts which were going to bombard Germany. Pilots thought those lights were secret weapons of the Germans. But German pilots saw the very same lights when they came to England, and thought it was the secret weapon of the English. Could you explain what these lights were? BC: All the space vehicles have listening devices, which may be two or two-and-a-half feet in diameter, and they can be directed from the spaceship itself, which might be ó if it is the usual scout ship ó 30 feet in diameter. These are sent down and connected energetically with the mothership, and they have instruments which can read the reports which are fed into very advanced computers. Our computers are ancient, backward things compared with the technology they have; these pick up data on everything: the quality of the air, the thoughts and ideas of individuals, if necessary. They may hover outside a room here and listen to this conversation, for example. Following an aircraft, they cannot be shot down ó they have a forcefield round them. The spaceships, too, cannot be shot down, they also have a forcefield round them. They have often been fired at by fighter planes sent up to intercept them but there is no way the rounds can penetrate the forcefield of the ship, so it is a waste of time and energy. That is just Earth stupidity. We are a very stupid planet. We are a backward, dark planet whose people know nothing, believe nothing and understand nothing. But that is all going to change because the Hierarchy of Masters are coming back into the world. Some are already here, including the Master of all the Masters, Maitreya Himself, Who will be the first to become known. His mission begins in the very near future. This will throw a completely new light on the reality of life. These foo-fighters do a job ó I cannot tell you what the job is in every single case, it will vary from time to time. The spaceships have implosion devices which have usually a red light, and which are used to nullify or neutralize nuclear radiation on the Earth. They use different devices for different purposes, but very common are the small disks for carrying information. I have seen them. I have ducked as they come so close! They do not mean any harm, it is just a kind of ìhelloî. JF: Many people see these balls of light, also where crop circles have appeared. There is a famous UK video from 1996 by John Wheatleigh. Your Master confirmed that the video was genuine, but later it was discovered that there were some strange things with this video; the light, when the video was shot, was strange as the sun was on the other side. Also the man who shot the video disappeared. Could you say a few words about the video? BC: I do not know about that. I have not heard the evidence against the video, so I cannot really comment on this. All I can say is that the video is real. These lights which were seen were deliberately shown. The crop circle was made by the spaceship in seconds. Then these lights were put out to show that they were there, to draw attention to the fact that they had made the crop circle, to connect it with the UFO and so make it real, that it was not a mystery. Because if you just have a crop circle, or you are waiting for the appearance of a craft to make a crop circle and you do not see the craft, then there is a crop circle but you have no feedback on it. When you have lights, you do not know whether the lights or the UFO made the circle, but there is a connection between them, because no one has ever explained the lights which hovered over the ground. I do not know whether the criticism is valid; it may be from a technical point of view, but it cannot be from the actual, factual point of view, because it happened, the crop circle appeared. JF: In conclusion, do you think that without Maitreya we won’t see UFOs becoming public knowledge? BC: Well, it is not the way I would put that. I would not say that without Maitreya we would not see it, but that with Maitreya we will see it. The fact that Maitreya is here ó I know with absolute certainty that Maitreya is here, living here in London where I am talking now ó will guarantee that the fact of our Space Brothers becomes known. He will begin His open mission very soon indeed. The world will gradually come to understand Who He is and what His mission is, and when they accept Him, then, of course, they will accept what He says about the Space Brothers and the UFOs. Then there will be an open interchange between them and us. Janez Ferjancic is a Share International co-worker from Slovenia. From the July/August 2004 issue of Share International
The UFO Involvement
The UFO Involvement
I am becoming increasingly aware of the fact that humanity , with its intelligence  ,is at present  in a dumb down state.
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This is your brain on art: A scientist’s lessons on why abstract art makes our brains hurt so good
Kandel’s took a Nobel-winning scientist who specializes in human memory to break new ground in art history
The greatest discoveries in art history, as in so many fields, tend to come from those working outside the box. Interdisciplinary studies break new ground because those steadfastly lashed to a specific field or way of thinking tend to dig deeper into well-trodden earth, whereas a fresh set of eyes, coming from a different school of thought, can look at old problems in new ways. Interviewing Eric Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, and reading his latest book, "Reductionism in Art and Brain Science," underscored this point. His new book offers one of the freshest insights into art history in many years. Ironic that it should come not from an art historian, but a neuroscientist specializing in human memory, most famous for his experiments involving giant sea snails. You can’t make this stuff up.
I’ve spent my life looking at art and analyzing it, and I’ve even brought a new discipline’s approach to art history. Because my academic work bridges art history and criminology (being a specialist in art crime), my own out-of-the-box contribution is treating artworks like crime scenes, whodunnits, and police procedurals. I examine Caravaggio’s "Saint Matthew Cycle" as if the three paintings in it are photographs of a crime scene, which we must analyze with as little a priori prejudice, and as much clean logic, as possible. Likewise, in my work deciphering one of most famous puzzle paintings, Bronzino’s "Allegory of Love and Lust," a red herring (Vasari’s description of what centuries of scholars have assumed was this painting, but which Robert Gaston finally recognized was not at all, and had been an impossible handicap in trying to match the painting with Vasari’s clues about another work entirely) had to be cast aside in order for progress to be made.
Ernst Gombrich made waves when he dipped into optics in his book, "Art and Illusion." Freud offered a new analysis of Leonardo. The Copiale cipher, an encoded, illuminated manuscript, was solved by Kevin Knight, a computer scientist and linguist. It takes an outsider to start a revolution. So it is not entirely surprising that a neuroscientist would open this art historian’s eyes, but my mind is officially blown. I feel like a veil has been pulled aside, and for that I am grateful.
Ask your average person walking down the street what sort of art they find more intimidating, or like less, or don’t know what to make of, and they’ll point to abstract or minimalist art. Show them traditional, formal, naturalistic art, like Bellini’s "Sacred Allegory," art which draws from traditional core Western texts (the Bible, apocrypha, mythology) alongside a Mark Rothko or a Jackson Pollock or a Kazimir Malevich, and they’ll retreat into the Bellini, even though it is one of the most puzzling unsolved mysteries of the art world, a riddle of a picture for which not one reasonable solution has ever been put forward. The Pollock, on the other hand, is just a tangle of dripped paint, the Rothko just a color with a bar of another color on top of it, the Malevich is all white.
Kandel’s work explains this in a simple way. In abstract painting, elements are included not as visual reproductions of objects, but as references or clues to how we conceptualize objects. In describing the world they see, abstract artists not only dismantle many of the building blocks of bottom-up visual processing by eliminating perspective and holistic depiction, they also nullify some of the premises on which bottom-up processing is based. We scan an abstract painting for links between line segments, for recognizable contours and objects, but in the most fragmented works, such as those by Rothko, our efforts are thwarted.
Thus the reason abstract art poses such an enormous challenge to the beholder is that it teaches us to look at art — and, in a sense, at the world — in a new way. Abstract art dares our visual system to interpret an image that is fundamentally different from the kind of images our brain has evolved to reconstruct. Kandel describes the difference between “bottom up” and “top down” thinking. This is basic stuff for neuroscience students, but brand new for art historians. Bottom up thinking includes mental processes that are ingrained over centuries: unconsciously making sense of phenomena, like guessing that a light source coming from above us is the sun (since for thousands of years that was the primary light source, and this information is programmed into our very being) or that someone larger must be standing closer to us than someone much smaller, who is therefore in the distance. Top down thinking, on the other hand, is based on our personal experience and knowledge (not ingrained in us as humans with millennia of experiences that have programmed us). Top down thinking is needed to interpret formal, symbol or story-rich art. Abstraction taps bottom-up thinking, requiring little to no a priori knowledge. Kandel is not the first to make this point. Henri Matisse said, “We are closer to attaining cheerful serenity by simplifying thoughts and figures. Simplifying the idea to achieve an expression of joy. That is our only deed [as artists].” But it helps to have a renowned scientist, who is also a clear writer and passionate art lover, convert the ideas of one field into the understanding of another. The shock for me is that abstraction should really be less intimidating, as it requires no advanced degrees and no reading of hundreds of pages of source material to understand and enjoy. And yet the general public, at least, finds abstraction and minimalism intimidating, quick to dismiss it with “oh, I could do that” or “that’s not art.” We are simply used to formal art; we expect it, and also do not necessarily expect to “understand it” in an interpretive sense. Our reactions are aesthetic, evaluating just two of the three Aristotelian prerequisites for art to be great: it demonstrates skill and it may be beautiful, but we will often skip the question of whether it is interesting, as that question requires knowledge we might not possess.
We might think that “reading” formal paintings, particularly those packed with symbols or showing esoteric mythological scenes, are what require active problem-solving. At an advanced academic level, they certainly do (I racked my brain for years over that Bronzino painting). But at any less-scholarly level, for most museum-goers, this is not the case. Looking at formal art is actually a form of passive narrative reading, because the artist has given us everything our brain expects and knows automatically how to handle. It looks like real life.
But the mind-bending point that Kandel makes is that abstract art, which strips away the narrative, the real-life, expected visuals, requires active problem-solving. We instinctively search for patterns, recognizable shapes, formal figures within the abstraction. We want to impose a rational explanation onto the work, and abstract and minimalist art resists this. It makes our brains work in a different, harder, way at a subconscious level. Though we don’t articulate it as such, perhaps that is why people find abstract art more intimidating, and are hastier to dismiss it. It requires their brains to function in a different, less comfortable, more puzzled way. More puzzled even than when looking at a formal, puzzle painting.
Kandel told The Wall Street Journal that the connection between abstract art and neuroscience is about reductionism, a term in science for simplifying a problem as much as possible to make it easier to tackle and solve. This is why he studied giant sea snails to understand the human brain. Sea snails have just 20,000 neurons in their brains, whereas humans have billions. The simpler organism was easier to study and those results could be applied to humans.
“This is reductionism,” he said, “to take a complex problem and select a central, but limited, component that you can study in depth. Rothko — only color. And yet the power it conveys is fantastic. Jackson Pollock got rid of all form.”
In fact, some of the best abstract artists began in a more formal style, and peeled the form away. Turner, Mondrian and Brancusi, for instance, have early works in a quite realistic style. They gradually eroded the naturalism of their works, Mondrian for instance painting trees that look like trees early on, before abstracting his paintings into a tangle of branches, and then a tangle of lines and then just a few lines that, to him, still evoke tree-ness. It’s like boiling away apple juice, getting rid of the excess water, to end up with an apple concentrate, the ultimate essence of apple-ness. We like to think of abstraction as a 20th century phenomenon, a reaction to the invention of photography. Painting and sculpture no longer had to fulfill the role of record of events, likenesses and people — photography could do that. So painting and sculpture was suddenly free to do other things, things photography couldn’t do as well. Things like abstraction. But that’s not the whole story. A look at ancient art finds it full of abstraction. Most art history books, if they go back far enough, begin with Cycladic figurines (dated to 3300-1100 BC). Abstracted, ghost-like, sort-of-human forms. Even on cave walls, a few lines suggest an animal, or a constellation of blown hand-prints float on a wall in absolute darkness.
Abstract art is where we began, and where we have returned. It makes our brains hurt, but in all the right ways, for abstract art forces us to see, and think, differently.
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37 surprising jaw-dropping facts about yawning you’ve probably never heard about
Too many yawns, especially if I am not tired, makes me wonder about the meanings of yawning. I wonder about why I yawn so much at sometimes. Or why is the action seems so contagious? Could yawns be a symptom or even a cause of any health problems?  I am sure you have asked yourself some of these same questions if not all of them, and that is probably why you are here. Because of that, I will share 37 yawning facts with you now. I hope that they will be both informative and helpful for you.
Physiological Facts about Yawns
Our list of 37 surprising yawning facts will begin with some statements surrounding the foundational physiology involved with yawns.
#1.  Scientific Knowledge about Yawns Is Very Limited
We must begin approaching a topic like this with a confession. There is a huge debate regarding the evidence available about human yawns.
Many have conducted research in pursuit of answers to questions  like these. What causes yawns? Why yawns are important bodily functions? What do they mean to our health? What  do they communicate in our social settings? That means that when you go to a search engine looking for answers to questions about yawns, you are likely to find inconclusive and contradictory responses that do not really answer your question.
That is the first fact about yawns that we must face. But despite those limitations, there are still plenty of things we are certain about. The aim of this list is to show you the things we are certain (or relatively certain) about.
#2. The “Cooling” Theory Has Its Origins in the 4th-3rd Century BC.
Interestingly, the thought that the involuntary production of yawns is a way in which the body (or at least part of the body) cools itself down can be traced all the way back to the ancient Greece.  The father of this theory was the famous physician Hippocrates who lived approximately 460-370 BC. Hippocrates postulated that yawns are the body’s natural way of curing a fever.
While the current research still shows that this is not quite accurate, it also shows that the truth of the matter is probably much closer to Hippocrates’ idea than doctors have thought for many years. The most common medical thought prior to this more recent research was that yawns were a way of receiving oxygen when needed. But the most recent research in the field points against that and toward cooling down the brain whenever it gets overheated.
#3. Yawns Really Are Contagious
It is not merely a long-lasting legend that we have heard enough to believe it and practice it. We do not yawn just because of the power of suggestion. It really is contagious. The most recent scientific research points to the activity of the yawn starting in the brain. Neurons in the brain trigger a type of mimicking response when we see somebody else yawn. This chemical reaction happening in the brain causes us to follow the other person in their behavior. However no evidence points to this being in any way a voluntary response.
#4. We Do Not Necessarily Yawn because We Are Tired
Tiredness is part of the reason we yawn. Scientists think that the overarching cause of yawns is overheating that can happen in the brain.
Extreme tiredness can cause the brain to overheat. But that’s not all: changes in weather and air pressure, location, drastic changes in heart rate, and use of certain over the counter or prescription medications and other drugs can all contribute to the human brain overheating. Regardless of the reason for the overheating, current medical researchers point to the yawn as the natural physical response to overheating that starts to cool the brain down.
#5.  Yawns Are Reflexes
By definition, this means that yawns are involuntary. However, like most (if not all) involuntary actions, we can also force them if we so choose. That is an important statement to be made at the beginning, as we will have to make a distinction between involuntary and voluntary yawns with many of the upcoming statements.
That differentiation will be specifically made as fact #11.
#6. A Baby Begins to Yawn before Being Born
Throughout pregnancy, ultrasound pictures show motion that appears to be yawns. Doctors believe that  these seem to coincide with the development of the fetus’s nervous system. Therefore, a fetus’ yawns are more common in the earlier stages of pregnancy. The closer to birth, the further the nervous system develops, and the further the nervous system develops, the less the fetus yawns.
#7. Yawns Change Our Heart Rates
This chart shows how the moments leading up to a yawn, the time during the yawn itself —usually approximately six seconds—effect the heart rate. As your breathing changes during the process of a yawn so does the heart rate. Your heart rate reaches its highest point during the yawn itself.
#8. Multiple Muscles Are Involved in the Action of a Yawn
Thoracic muscles that are active in the chest, aka the diaphragm, the larynx, and the mouth all work together to make a yawn happen. This action sends a liquefying agenda called surfactant to cover the alveoli in our lungs.
#9. The average Yawn Lasts Around Six Seconds
While six seconds is a rough estimate, it is fairly accurate. Any involuntary yawn from 6 to 8 seconds is considered completely normal and healthy. When yawns last more than 10 seconds, then it may be a sign of abnormality or disorder
#10. Yawns Are Not Limited to the Human Species
Almost all animals yawn though presumably for a wide variety of reasons. However, not a whole lot is currently known about why animals yawn. The only thing known for certain is that some species including primates (and very likely also some members of the canine and feline species) yawn in order to communicate dominance over their surrounding creatures.
Some animals, including some breeds of dogs, seem to yawn because they do not sweat. Their bodies, much like human brains, are able to cool off through their yawns. Other animals, like sharks, appear to be subject to contagious yawns just like humans, but there are some species that do not seem as susceptible to this.
Several types of insects are assumed not to yawn at all because their breathing is significantly different from that of other animals, but this is limited to reptiles, and it is not true for all kinds of reptiles.
#11. Yawns Increases Your Rate of Respiration
A yawn improves the levels of oxygen in the brain. In order for that to happen, respiration much increase. Even though it feels like we breathe slower when we yawn, the opposite is actually true. The phenomena allows the speed at which oxygen flows either to or out of the brain, whichever is necessary at the time of the yawn.
The Relationship between Yawns and Health
The next section of our facts about yawns will move from physiology to personal health. These will help us determine how yawns are helpful for areas of our health but how they can also be indicators, if not even symptoms, of diseases in others.
#12. Yawns Can Be Good for Your Brain
There are some outdated beliefs that yawns are related to breathing and oxygen levels and that they are always related to tiredness. Also it has naturally crept into the minds of many that yawns must be a way in which the body relaxes. However, the most recent data shows that relaxation seems to be just a side-effect. The predominant effect of voluntary yawns on the brain is one of activating. That means yawns are not slowing the brain down, as it has often been thought.
Instead of being merely a naturally induced stress reliever, yawns actually activate certain brain activities. That makes us more aware of our surroundings, more conscious of our role in whatever situation we find ourselves, and better equipped to process and think through things quickly and to respond appropriately
#13. Forced Yawns May Increase Productivity in All Areas of Life
Because of the benefits for the brain just noted, it has become increasingly common to see athletes make yawns part of their training disciplines. The action helps mindfulness and focus on achieving the goal at hand. In social situations, this research points to the likelihood that yawns activate brain activities that make us better able to communicate, relate to, and empathize with others.
It is thought to enhance meditation, prayer, and other spiritual activity improving our focus and intentionality. In other words, in whatever situation or place you find yourself, a few simple voluntary yawns may help you improve your abilities and your performance in any activity according to these studies. In addition to positively impacting brain functioning within a given situation, other evidence also shows that it can enhance memory functioning as well
#14. Understanding the Neuroscience Data Requires Differentiation between Voluntary and Involuntary Yawns
Research at Duke claimed to stand against the assertions that yawns can have the positive impact on the brain activity. However, the full report points to assumed facts about involuntary yawns, not interacting much with the data surrounding forced yawns. It suggests that the contagious effect of yawns does not spread empathy. Howerver that does not preclude the possibility of voluntary yawns helping an individual become more empathetic towards others.
This points to one of the most important considerations in weighing the data: weighing it against the variable of whether the yawn is voluntary or involuntary. More research regarding voluntary yawns can help further develop these ideas on empathy and consciousness. Meanwhile further research on involuntary yawns could serve very useful for insight into schizophrenia and autism, as is suggested from the study performed at Duke.
#15. All the Good News We Have Discovered about Yawns Must Not Be Taken Too Far
While all these things about the positive health effects of yawns seem to be true, there is a limit. In the last section especially, where we just looked at the mental benefits, that are largely related to occasional voluntary yawns.
If you continuously yawn for a long period of time without any control over it, this is not a good thing. Of course, this can be a sign of being too tired. People who suffer from insomnia, sleep apnea, chronic fatigue syndrome, and other disorders related to unhealthy sleep cycles are likely to find themselves unable to control the large quantity of yawns that they produce and the extremely short amount of time between those many yawns.
However, just like yawns in general, excessive yawns are not necessarily related to tiredness. The action can be a symptom of heart disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and strokes. Excessive yawns can also be related to obesity. The rest of this section on health and yawns will deal with how yawns seem to relate –sometimes positively and sometimes negatively—to specific physical and mental disorder.
#16. Yawns Can Decrease the Pressure Caused by Ear Barotrauma and Even Cure It
Ear barotrauma is the common disorder marked by a rapid increase of pressure in the eardrum. This is what happens when altitude is increased and why so many people experience pain and discomfort in their ears when flying. Anybody who flies often has discovered that forced yawns help to loosen that pressure. And if ear barotrauma is still causing problems after the plane has landed, that continual yawns will most likely help.
#17. A Disciplined Series of Yawns Can Improve MS Symptoms
Consistent reputations of long yawns associated with muscular sclerosis seem to mollify the symptoms of that disease according to the reports of an important MS survey. The length of the yawns appears key to those who have reported being helped by the action.
Those who report patterns of yawns that lasted for several minutes also reported the highest level of benefit from the yawns. Also, because insomnia is a common symptom of MS, these lengthy patterns of yawns are conducive to falling asleep, thus serving to help with many different problems related to MS.
#18. Yawns May Help to Lessen the Frequency and/or the Intensity of Epileptic Seizures
Similarly, epilepsy patients report that when they practice a discipline of forcing yawns along with yoga-style breathing and stretching, they are less prone to seizures.
These 87 conversations currently online at Treato.com, reveal the benefits of such forced yawns for people who suffer from epilepsy. Many of the participants in these conversations provide helpful tips and personal stories of how to take advantage of this natural preventative measure, assisting to lessen the frequency and intensity of epileptic seizures.
#19. Migraine Sufferers Can Catch a Migraine through Monitoring Their Yawns
Patterns of excessive yawns can be common just before a migraine headache is about to set in. As an early sign of a migraine’s likely imminence that occurs as early as it does, the rapid yawns are generally reported to be easily distinguishable from usual yawns. You know, usual yawns are those that are caused by either tiredness, air pressure, or high brain temperature.
Therefore, these types of yawns can be very useful. Why? Because they can alert you that it might be a good idea to take any medication you have that can prevent the full onset of a migraine, to practice meditative breathing, to take a nap, or to do whatever it is that best helps you when experiencing a migraine. Catching it in the early stages like this can help to alleviate a lot of the pain usually associated with migraine headaches.
#20. Excessive Yawns Can Increase the Intensity of Panic Attacks
On the other side of this yawn/disease spectrum, yawns can also be symptoms of disorders. Research on anxiety disorders indicates that anxious states can cause yawns that are not helpful. As breathing patterns change when anxiety increases, so the likelihood to yawn rises with it. This test can help determine if your yawns are a symptom of anxiety or not. Yawns can be part of the hyperventilation that occurs during a panic attack.
When we yawn, we take in much more oxygen than we do when we breathe normally; the same occurs with the hyperventilation related to anxiety attacks. Thus, the combination of anxiety and yawns means taking in far more oxygen at a given moment than is healthy, unfortunately making the anxiety even more acute.
The best way to remedy this, then, is to monitor your breathing. Take significantly slower and deeper breaths, paying as much attention to the exhaling as the inhaling since you are not void of oxygen even though it probably feels as if you are.
#21. Yawns May Be Able to Function like Antidepressants
Some of the research in the relationship between brain chemistry and depression seems to indicate that yawns may help to regulate serotonin levels. While further research must be done on this, if it turns out to be correct, then it will confirm that yawns help to free neurotransmitters, making them of the utmost use for brain receptors, thus acting like antidepressants and helping in the treatment of depression.
#22. Yawns Can Be Symptoms of Breathing Deficiencies Caused by Obesity
People who are more than 100 pounds overweight are susceptible to a far higher rate of yawns than people who are either at a healthy weight or who are underweight. The excess fat in the body inhibits the circulatory system in its consistent flow of oxygen throughout the body. Thus, the result is similar to that of the hyperventilation that occurs with panic attacks.
Too much oxygen is taken in without the ability to be distributed appropriately and evenly throughout the body. That excess oxygen prevents the person from healthy, natural, consistent, deep breathing. The unhealthy involuntary yawns, then, occur because of the lack of healthy breathing and oxygen flow
#23. There is a Disease Marked by Excessive Yawns
The scientific term for excessive, unhealthy yawns is the Vasovagal Reaction. Some sources identify Vasovagal Reaction as a series of reflexes that resemble yawns, saying they are different, but not specifying how. So, this is another area where the research is not conclusive, but for the sake of simplicity we will assume that Vasovagal Reaction is a series of yawns.
The bodily reaction is caused by the vagus nerve, and its effect on blood vessels is most likely what causes too many yawns that are not helpful. While the Vasovagal Reaction, in and of itself, is not serious, it can be a symptom of various serious diseases. Medical researchers believe that the Vasovagal Reaction is an indicator of the potential for heart attacks and aortic dissection.
#24. Yawns may be early signs of neurological disorders
When the motor cortex experiences any interruption in its communication with the brain (especially with the brain stem and the hypothalamus), yawns and an excess of cortisol production can occur. It is thought that these may be the earliest signs of many types of neurological diseases including different types of strokes
#25. People with Schizophrenia and Autism Yawn as Commonly as the Rest of the Population but Do Not Experience the Phenomenon Contagiously
While there does seem to be a connection between yawns and empathy as noted before, that association probably has nothing to do with the other fact that yawns are contagious. The spread of a yawn from one person to another appears to be something that happens void of any emotional connection between the people spreading the yawn.
People who are on the autism spectrum or who suffer from schizophrenia——those who are generally hindered from much ability to empathize effectively with others—are just as prone to yawns but not in the transmissive way that most of us are. This is a primary reason so many have thought for so long that contagious yawns are responses of empathy, even though the most current data contradicts this
The Relationship between Yawns and Communication
Our third set of facts about yawns will relate to body language and what a yawn tells about us, our thoughts, and our attitudes to others. What the other person receives and understands from this aspect of our body language may or may not be accurate. The likelihood for misinterpretation of body language is what makes this such an important topic. What does a yawn really communicate to others?
#26. A Yawn Can Communicate Boredom
A 1986 study by Robert R. Provine and Heidi Hamernik claimed to affirm the commonly held—but difficult to prove—idea that yawns are a reflection of boredom. Through subjecting college students to two different types of visual media (one full of various visual stimuli and one void of such), they observed something that’s not suprising at all. They came to the consclusion that those experiencing less visual stimuli yawned more often than those who had a supposedly less interesting visual experience
#27. The Boredom Study May Be Outdated and Require Revision
The Provine and Hamernik study raises questions about the subjects’ relationships to the visual media. In 1986, music videos such as those used in the study were practically the height of an exhilarating visual media experience. As the world of visual media was much different in 1986 than it is now, we may wonder how far removed the two experiences really were from each other.
Would the subjects really have found the one as boring as the experimenters have assumed they did? Regardless of any answers that might come to this question, their study is very important for giving affirmation, whether right or wrong, to those who believe that people who yawn are doing so because they are bored.
Furthermore, the more updated research will confirm boredom only as one of many possible reasons, and not even one of the more common reasons for yawns, as will be further explored in the next item.
#28. Surprise! A Yawn Does Not always Communicate Boredom
As has been addressed above, there are many possible causes for yawns, so we should always be leery of jumping to one cause that we see in another person without knowing more details about their present state of mind, health, etc.
Assuming that someone yawns, because they are bored, is often a quick, ignorant judgment. Why?
Because that could be dangerous as it gives us a potentially wrong view of the other person which can even lead toward negative self-talk.
It would be silly to claim that if a person yawns when I talk, then I must be boring him or her. So, although boredom may be a possible reason for yawns, it is important that we are wise to know other possible causes and not too quickly diagnose that reason in others.
#29. Other Nonverbal Cues Work Together to Indicate Whether or Not a Yawn Is the Result of Boredom
So, since a yawn itself is not enough to determine if someone is bored, how do we avoid sending the impression we are bored if we accidentally yawn in a social setting? The answer is simple. We just have to pay very close attention to our other nonverbal cues.
If we make sure we are not looking at a clock, staring at our phones, or doing anything else that could make us look distracted, then we begin to protect ourselves from sending the unfortunate nonverbal message that we are bored. If we are otherwise attentive, and perhaps even apologize for the yawn and provide an explanation for its reason (if we know it) then we avoid any risk of miscommunication.
If you explain, for example, that you did not sleep well last night, nobody will be able to misjudge your yawn as a cue of body language pointing to boredom. They will no longer be tempted to read more meaning into the yawn than is actually present
It is thought that when a person is caught off guard, startled, or in any type of sudden situation of intimidation or fear, that person is not able to yawn in that situation. However, yawns nevertheless can communicate fear as they are very likely to occur immediately after the initial shock has begun to wear off. So seeing somebody yawn while you are talking could just mean that you said something that somehow shocked them
#31. There Is Very Likely a Connection between Yawns and Sexual Intimacy
In males, androgens are the hormones that trigger both sexual arousal and yawns. Medications with sexual side effects also seem to trigger yawns for both men and women. Specific effects of yawns on sex have not been studied very thoroughly yet, but further research could produce very interesting insight into the connection between yawns and communication
#32. Yawns Could Be a Subconscious Sign of Physical Attraction
As with the last statement, the research on this topic is very limited and inconclusive. Differentiating a yawn of attraction from all the other possibilities is not something that is currently possible.
Therefore, it would be very dangerous to take the idea for granted or for any individual to assume that he or she can recognize such a yawn from another person as a type of romantic invitation. But once more research is accomplished, this too could shed much light on the relationship between yawns and human relationships
Debunking Common Myths about Yawns
Throughout our look at the various facts about yawns, we have already encountered some misunderstandings that are widely believed. The final section of our investigation will go into greater detail into those wrong ideas.
However, it must be stressed once again that the research into yawns is still very limited. Even though there are facts known and myths debunked, the information available changes fast. Therefore, it is important that we pay attention to the most recent research and weigh it critically with what has gone before it. That way we can be as aware as possible of what sources are worth taking seriously.
#33. There Is No Single Cause of Yawns
Everything we have looked at so far has made this statement obvious. Yet many myths to the contrary exist. While very little has been proven about the cause or causes of yawns, one thing is certain: there are many possibilities, and none of them are exclusive.
So anytime you hear a single explanation for a yawn that attempts to pigeon-hole the activity (Ex.: “He or she yawned because he or she is tired,” “he or she yawned because he or she is bored,” etc.), you should be cautious to avoid taking such an explanation too seriously. Instead, we should consider all the other possibilities that we looked at earlier in the survey concerning the meanings of yawning.
#34. Yawns Are Not Caused by a Lack of Oxygen
Again, we may be limited in how much information we have available regarding the cause of yawns, leaving us to appropriately assume that there must be many possible reasons for the action as we have done above.
One thing that is sure, however, is that the long-standing belief that the predominant reason for yawns is a lack of oxygen is contradicted by the best research available. We already discussed the relationship between yawns and anxiety attacks. There, it was suggested that during a yawn, there is too much oxygen, creating the need for slower breathing during hyperventilation so as to avoid excess oxygen.
#35. Not Everyone Can Catch Your Yawn
Indeed yawns are contagious as we looked at before. And it is also certain that everybody yawns. Those two facts, however, do not imply, however, that everyone catches yawns as the common myth would like for us to believe.
Children, however much they may yawn, are not prone to the transmission of another person’s yawn until they reach the age of 4 or 5. Also as mentioned before, people with autism and schizophrenia seem less likely to transmit or receive contagious yawns
#36. Yawns Probably Do Not Communicate Empathy as Was Thought in the Past
This is not to say that there is no link between yawns and empathy. In the earlier fact, “Yawns can be good for your brain,” we saw how intentional yawns can help us become more mindful of other people and in that sense activate empathy.
But that does not mean that another person catches the yawn because they are empathetic to us. The origins of contagious yawns are still very mysterious. But they seem to be more connected to factors of age and the time of the day than to our relationships with the people around us.
#37. Myths about Yawns Can Prevent Us from Receiving the Great Potential Benefits that Yawns May Provide
The myths that yawns are always produced out of boredom or tiredness have brought about the unfortunate consequence of the societal belief that it is rude to yawn. We have shown that yawns can have many causes that are in no way offensive. But because we have been trained to believe that the action is rude, we often work hard to suppress yawns. That way we are preventing ourselves from receiving the potential benefits we have discussed at length already
Conclusion
I sincerely hope that you enjoyed this list of 37 yawning facts. Feel free to contact us with any comments, questions, or insights you have on the topic. We would love to hear what you have to say about this article.
As I have looked for answers to why yawns occur and what they might mean, some of the conclusions are tentative, but there are still several things we know for sure about yawns. Thank you for joining me in this analysis of the data as we discovered what we could about the physiology, psychology, sociology, and spirituality of yawns.
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