Did Anyone Hear Paul Kimball?

[Carol Nistri]

I did, he's one terrific guest.

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Paranormal Interactions
Mon 01-21
Called the Jack Kerouac of the paranormal, Paul Kimball, has been experiencing various paranormal phenomena in his travels along the weird highway of life. He shared his realizations that many strange experiences are actually interactions with advanced non-human intelligence including ghosts, time travelers, and aliens.

[paulkimball]

Originally Posted by Carol Nistri

night? I did,hes one terrific guest.

last show recap

Paranormal Interactions
Mon 01-21
Called the Jack Kerouac of the paranormal, Paul Kimball, has been experiencing various paranormal phenomena in his travels along the weird highway of life. He shared his realizations that many strange experiences are actually interactions with advanced non-human intelligence including ghosts, time travelers, and aliens.

Thanks Carol. Glad you enjoyed it... I always like chatting with George.

Best,
Paul

[dr wu23]

Paul,
From some of the things you said in the quotes at the link it sounds similar to what Dr Vallee has been saying for a long time.
Do you think his ideas have validity especially the Control System Hypothesis as it relates to many of these 'ufo events'?

[ChrisPerridas]

Carol, I'm still running behind. I'll download tonight and start listening.

Paul, it is terrific you are part of this forum!

[paulkimball]

Originally Posted by dr wu23

Paul,
From some of the things you said in the quotes at the link it sounds similar to what Dr Vallee has been saying for a long time.
Do you think his ideas have validity especially the Control System Hypothesis as it relates to many of these 'ufo events'?

Hi Doc,

I think in general Vallee's ideas have a great deal of interesting elements, although I disagree with him on the control system aspect, in the sense that I don't think the ANHI (advanced non-human intelligence) is trying to control us - rather, I see it as a case of it / them trying to inspire us, and to fire up our imagination, all as a way of encouraging us to explore the possibilities that exist beyond the mundane "here and now" that so many of us fit ourselves into.

Best,
Paul

[paulkimball]

Originally Posted by ChrisPerridas

Carol, I'm still running behind. I'll download tonight and start listening.

Paul, it is terrific you are part of this forum!

Hi Chris,

I've been here (and in previous versions) for years, although much less active now than I used to be. Still, I pop by to say hello from time to time, when time allows.

Best,
Paul

[dr wu23]

Originally Posted by paulkimball

Hi Doc,

I think in general Vallee's ideas have a great deal of interesting elements, although I disagree with him on the control system aspect, in the sense that I don't think the ANHI (advanced non-human intelligence) is trying to control us - rather, I see it as a case of it / them trying to inspire us, and to fire up our imagination, all as a way of encouraging us to explore the possibilities that exist beyond the mundane "here and now" that so many of us fit ourselves into.

Best,
Paul

I think that might be the case too (and Vallee has said that also in Messengers of Deception and elsewhere that it might be a learning process) yet many times the phenomenon is not very friendly from our point of view. It seems to have educational as well as detrimental elements....as if one 'group' is trying to help us to reach higher truths about reality while another is trying to scare or confuse us.

[Darrell]

good cop, bad cop?

[paulkimball]

Originally Posted by dr wu23

I think that might be the case too (and Vallee has said that also in Messengers of Deception and elsewhere that it might be a learning process) yet many times the phenomenon is not very friendly from our point of view. It seems to have educational as well as detrimental elements....as if one 'group' is trying to help us to reach higher truths about reality while another is trying to scare or confuse us.

I address that idea of "fear" and whether it / they mean to harm us in my book, based on my own experiences with Ghost Cases (which was definitely scary). I don't think they mean us harm - it's just another aspect of their "performance." Here's the gist of it:

"I’m willing to entertain the possibility that those experiences could well have been a form of performance art by an advanced non-human intelligence designed to appeal to one of our most primal emotions: fear. In doing so, perhaps that intelligence is giving us greater insight into the full range of human experience and thereby helping us to a more complete understanding of ourselves.

Then again, like the filmmakers who created hits such as The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, and The Exorcist, or even the Cirque performer Kris and I encountered, they may just want to entertain us (and themselves), and see how far we’re willing to go in the face of the unknown.

H. L. Mencken believed that the one permanent emotion of what he called the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, and the inexplicable.

'What he wants above everything else is safety,' Mencken wrote. 'His instincts will incline him towards a society so organized that it will protect him against all hazards, and not only against perils to his hide but also against assaults upon his mind – against the need to grapple with unaccustomed problems, to weigh ideas, to think things out for himself, to scrutinize the platitudes upon which his everyday thinking is based.'

It’s a point of view with which I have always agreed, and something I wrote about in 'All Afraid,' one of my first songs as a young musician.

What are you so afraid of,
What has brought you to this state?
Where are your natural emotions?
You’re such a sad, sad thing…

An advanced non-human intelligence would understand that reality is far more complex than we can imagine. Many things may remain inexplicable even to them. But they would also understand that safety isn’t an option if one is to progress. Fortune, after all, favors the bold. But we have been taught to fear the unknown, to the point that we live in a world where fear seems to be the guiding principle. We have become the “inferior man” of whom Mencken wrote.

Perhaps an advanced non-human intelligence has built a 'haunted house' and opened the doors to all of us, to see if we can understand our own fears, confront them, and overcome them. If this is the case, then there’s only one question that we really need to answer.

Do we have the courage to enter, or will we let our shadows of our fear continue to haunt us?"

[dr wu23]

Originally Posted by paulkimball

I address that idea of "fear" and whether it / they mean to harm us in my book, based on my own experiences with Ghost Cases (which was definitely scary). I don't think they mean us harm - it's just another aspect of their "performance." Here's the gist of it:

Perhaps an advanced non-human intelligence has built a 'haunted house' and opened the doors to all of us, to see if we can understand our own fears, confront them, and overcome them. If this is the case, then there’s only one question that we really need to answer.

Do we have the courage to enter, or will we let our shadows of our fear continue to haunt us?" Perhaps an advanced non-human intelligence has built a 'haunted house' and opened the doors to all of us, to see if we can understand our own fears, confront them, and overcome them. If this is the case, then there’s only one question that we really need to answer.

Do we have the courage to enter, or will we let our shadows of our fear continue to haunt us?"

That's very similar in many ways to what Whitley Strieber has said about the 'Visitors'. He once asked them if they could help him be less afraid and they said they would try but that it would be very hard. He also believes this is an educational process that intends to goad humans into a higher level of understanding about the universe.
So where are the Visitors from...or in some bizarre way are they us?