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Will Sheephogan

Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 624 Location: Pahrump Nevada
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:07 am Post subject: |
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Red Ice covers a nice article about Louis Proud's thoughts on the unconscious mind.
Forces of the Unconscious Mind
2007 12 21
By Louis Proud | newdawnmagazine.com
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=2506 _________________ SOMNIUM MENS est IANUA ut INFINITIO
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graylien

Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 174 Location: UK
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:12 am Post subject: |
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| Will Sheephogan wrote: |
Skep.... Dear sir... would you kindly ban the word "UFO" from this forum. It would force an issue in ones mind of accuracy if we just said that word no longer exists.
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Well, I for one would second that. Phrases such as "UFOs are real" or "I believe in UFOs" are quite meaningless since the term UFO is itself quite meaningless. It only attains meaning if you attach a secondary definition to it.
You can certainly believe in the existence of alien spaceships if you wish, or in transdimensional tulpas, but you can hardly believe in the existence of UFOs.
A UFO is merely something that someone has seen but failed to recognise. It is a flying object about which we have no knowledge. To claim knowledge about UFOs to make the claim "I have knowledge about flying objects about which I have no knowledge". Which is idiotic.
As for the difference between faith and belief, I would suggest that faith is a subset of belief. A belief is simply an idea which you think to be true. To have faith in something is to have a belief that something is true despite the absence of either a convincing logical argument or material evidence.
We are all agreed that there is convincing material evidence for the existence of the Moon. We are not all agreed that there is convincing material evidence for the existence of alien spaceships or transdimensional tricksters. Therefore belief in these things is a form of faith. _________________ Gef - the Eighth Wonder of the World
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TheScamDetective
Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 1351 Location: California
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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Gray
"You can certainly believe in the existence of alien spaceships if you wish, or in transdimensional tulpas, but you can hardly believe in the existence of UFOs."
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I think UFO is much better than ASS = (A)lien(S)pace(S)hips!!!!!
Sorry Will and Gray, but I vote to keep the term UFO!!! _________________ "It's our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Dumbledore
to Harry Potter
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Skeptical Site Admin

Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 1703 Location: Cincinnati, OH
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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I think the horse is out of the barn on the term UFO. Researchers like Richard Haines refuse to use it (preferring UAP or Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) but it will never go away and the implied connotation will always be that a UFO is an extraterrestrial spaceship.
Someone started using the term TRUFO - meaning true UFO. Not sure that the nomenclature really matters though.
S _________________ "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." -- Thomas Jefferson
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dr wu23

Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2295 Location: Indiana
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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Scam said: There is a big difference, imo, from believing that UFOs are real vs having "faith" in them.
Belief is intellectual agreement...faith is totally without logic or reason.
There is enough soft evidence to base a belief in the reality of UFOs. |
Some belief and some faith is intellectuall in nature. There are many excellent philosophical arguments for faith based theism but no objective science . There are also many good philosophical arguments for the existence of aliens but also little good objective evidence so far. Faith is definitely an issue in believing in ufos as alien ships.
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| carol said: well done Scam,its about time someone said exactly that,I for one have had it with this faith business being shoved in our faces everytime we decide that flying saucers actually exist. |
That's an interesting comment comimg from a faith based believer in God .  _________________ "Some say the valley has always been haunted ever since River ran.
The rippling waters fast as the colors conceal the Green Man."
Roy Harpur from The Green Man
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dr wu23

Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2295 Location: Indiana
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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From the article Will linked to:
"Gooch believes that the unconscious mind manifests paranormal phenomena in response to being repressed. In a “balanced” individual, he says, the two minds exist in harmony. But when an imbalance occurs, when the unconscious mind is not given its due, there is an externalisation of latent energies. It is then that we are haunted by creatures and forces from the mysterious universe of our other mind. "
This is very close to the ideas of Keel, Harpur ,and Little that our own consciousness is integral in co-creating these manifestations we call ghosts, daimons, ufos, fairies, etc.
We have met the paranormal entities and they are us.
 _________________ "Some say the valley has always been haunted ever since River ran.
The rippling waters fast as the colors conceal the Green Man."
Roy Harpur from The Green Man
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Carol Nistri
Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3352
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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now wait wait,Im getting confused here,no no,its not impossible..however UFOS is what those things we are talking about have been dubbed,we didnt do it,sure we can start substituting the word Flying Saucer but its been UFO for so long now that its used in every documentary and every book Ive ever read on the subject. Hey this is us were talking to and I for one hate having skeptics tilt me in any direction I dont want to go in,I refuse,ufos to me are referring to objects seen in the sky that make the viewer question just what they could be,weather balloons or Venus just dont send one rushing to the phone.UFOs as we know them do,and theres a TON OF SOFT EVIDENCE. As a matter of fact while Im at it and knowing full well what Ill get back Ill ask each of you to Tell us just what Hard Evidence would be according to you. You first Gray.
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Will Sheephogan

Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 624 Location: Pahrump Nevada
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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Dern Doc, I was just about ready to copy paste that same paragraph. You must be practicing some externalization ...
I hope everyone here can really see what a difficult and strange place the human mind can be to live in. It is almost as if we MUST face these strange - alien and metaphysical entities - understand what they are, so that the other half of our consciousness can operate unimpeded by their surfacing. In some sense it is necessary to identify, assign names and traits to the entities. Just so we can put them in their proper place when they breach the surface.
That was merely a dream, that was just my friendly spirit guide saying hello, that was just alien from outer space that crossed my consciousness.
There is no trace or evidence remaining of a solid vessel so it was an apparition that looked like a.......disc, alien, etc etc......
One of the mistakes we make is not giving the realm of the unconscious mind the first shake down and inspection of the evidence at hand. If there is no evidence but an image in your mind - the contact IS probably illuminating from there. _________________ SOMNIUM MENS est IANUA ut INFINITIO
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dr wu23

Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2295 Location: Indiana
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Will: Dern Doc, I was just about ready to copy paste that same paragraph. You must be practicing some externalization ... |
Speaking of externalization, check out my picture in the Rants and Raves photo thread.; I finally figured out my machine.
 _________________ "Some say the valley has always been haunted ever since River ran.
The rippling waters fast as the colors conceal the Green Man."
Roy Harpur from The Green Man
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Carol Nistri
Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3352
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| and Will,look for the hint of mischief in Dr.Wus eyes,I just knew it would be there,hes a handsome fellow by cracky.
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graylien

Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 174 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:40 am Post subject: |
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I think UAP is a much more suitable term than UFO. As for this:
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"Gooch believes that the unconscious mind manifests paranormal phenomena in response to being repressed. In a “balanced” individual, he says, the two minds exist in harmony. But when an imbalance occurs, when the unconscious mind is not given its due, there is an externalisation of latent energies. It is then that we are haunted by creatures and forces from the mysterious universe of our other mind. "
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...it's basically the old Freudian theory of poltergeists as promoted by Nandor Fodor and other spiritualist researchers of the post-Freud generation. The problem is that it attempts to explain one mystery by invoking two other mysteries (the unconscious mind and telekinesis).
For starters, the existence of an "unconscious mind" in the Freudian sense of the term has never been scientifically verified - despite the huge advances in brain mapping since Freud's era. Certainly you can demonstrate that different types of consciousness exist (waking/dreams/hypnotic state etc). But the theory that a coherent 'conscious' state of mind co-exists with a coherent 'unconscious' state of mind remains unproven. It may be a useful metaphor for use in therapy, but that hardly makes it a fact.
Secondly, what exactly does Gooch mean when he claims that the unconscious mind can be 'repressed'? Repressed memories or emotions are one thing. Repressing the entire unconscious mind is quite another. Exactly what is doing the repressing? If the conscious mind has no control over the unconscious mind, then how can it repress it? If the conscious mind can control the unconscious mind, then can we even justify using the term 'unconscious'?
And personally, I don't think you can construct a valid scientific theory simply by stringing together quasi-scientific buzzwords. "Externalisation of latent energies" may sound plausably scientific, but essentially all it's actually saying is "thoughts can become real". If that was actually true, don't you think we'd see the evidence for it every single day of our lives? _________________ Gef - the Eighth Wonder of the World
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Carol Nistri
Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3352
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:24 am Post subject: |
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| I wonder if Shirley Jackson read Freud and then wrote The Haunting,cripes this book skeert me,in it a young women (very depressed) goes to join a group to stay in a "haunted house',she has no where else to go as she admits to the doctor in charge of the group,in the end she dies in a car crash or committs suicide in a car,it was a very disturbing movie.Shirley Jackson says in one of her forwards that no where in history has there ever ever been a case of a person being killed by a ghost or entity,what happens is that the fear induced by this type of encounter causes the person to panic,which can lead to a fall down stairs or a car accident but the ghost or entity never does harm.He or she scares the spit out of you so you end up harming yourself.
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Will Sheephogan

Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 624 Location: Pahrump Nevada
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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| And personally, I don't think you can construct a valid scientific theory simply by stringing together quasi-scientific buzzwords. "Externalisation of latent energies" may sound plausably scientific, but essentially all it's actually saying is "thoughts can become real". If that was actually true, don't you think we'd see the evidence for it every single day of our lives? |
We do, it is called creativity... supposed to learn that growing up but all kids do anymore is copy paste from the internet and recite from television shows.
Also, Shakti Gawain wrote a book called Creative Visualization, it is kinda like lucid thinking ----"Creative Visualization is the basic technique underlying positive thinking, prayer, and casting spells. It is distinguished from normal daydreaming in that Creative Visualization is done in the first person and the present tense – as if the visualized scene were unfolding all around you; whereas normal daydreaming is done in the third person and the future tense – the “you” of the daydream is a puppet which the real “you” is watching from afar." _________________ SOMNIUM MENS est IANUA ut INFINITIO
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graylien

Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 174 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:50 am Post subject: |
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Oh, I've nothing against Creative Visualisation as a tool for self development. And you're quite right that thoughts can become real in the sense that everything we see around us was once merely a figment of someone's imagination.
But that's hardly the same thing as saying that our 'repressed' thoughts may take on an independent existence of their own, then turn into a bunch of aliens and come and abduct us. _________________ Gef - the Eighth Wonder of the World
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Carol Nistri
Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3352
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:38 am Post subject: |
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"But that's hardly the same thing as saying that our 'repressed' thoughts may take on an independent existence of their own, then turn into a bunch of aliens and come and abduct us."
ah ha! So your inclined to believe this are you?
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