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Hello, and welcome to my website.

My name is Conrado Salas Cano. I studied physics at the California Institute of Technology, where I graduated with a B.S. in Physics with honors in 1998. Later I enrolled at Portland State University in Oregon where I obtained a M.S. in Physics.

In 2004 I moved back to my home country of Spain, where I have been based since. For a living, I help in my family’s real estate management business.

A LITTLE COMMENTARY ON CONSPIRACIES, SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY

by Conrado Salas Cano · November 2, 2023

I will mention here some of the literature, or the authors of some of the literature, dealing with conspiracies, what might be happening in the world behind the scenes, and spirituality. It seems rather clear to me that these topics are all related, and my own spiritual journey was kick-started by the realization of what this world is really about and who might possibly be behind some important global affairs.

I may not entirely agree with the literature or the authors I mention here, and I certainly cannot vouch for the veracity of what they say. However, I have found it useful in my personal investigations to read the work or the authors I mention here, or at least I have derived excitement, succor or intellectual stimulation from reading the work or authors I discuss here.

• Until about 2009, I liked David Icke very much.
  If pressed about his work, the intelligentsia and much of academia would probably have been, I imagine, quick to reject it out of hand as a “conspiracy theory”, at least until about 2008. However, I surmise that the term “conspiracy theory”, with its pejorative connotations, was in all likelihood invented by the intelligentsia itself: it has certainly been pushed and bandied about as a tainted buzzword meant to instantly attract ridicule to the “conspiracy theory” in question and prevent an open and cogent examination of its validity. Clearly, the idea behind this psychological verbal ploy by the intelligentsia and/or the Establishment is to prejudice the “respectable” person in society against entertaining the possibility that conspiracies may be more of a norm than an exception in political affairs.
  This makes sense because the Establishment has traditionally been allied with power, using the intelligentsia to culturally dictate what kinds of thought are acceptable. Power can be ruthless and shrewd. If a group is conspiring to take over a society or the world, it is logically in the interests of this group to deny, or use the intelligentsia to deny, that a grand conspiracy such as this group’s might exist.
  David Icke has argued that there is a unified, global conspiracy. If there is indeed such a global, far-reaching conspiracy, we can wonder: could its proportions actually be bigger than planetary?
  My assessment, after studying the evidence, is that extraterrestrials (ETs) exist and have been visiting and interacting with humans for millennia, their vehicles showing up sometimes as UFOs. Of course, some encounters with UFOs or otherworldly beings may be visitations by entities from other planes of reality or realms of existence, or even perhaps by time-travelers from the future (which could also technically be extraterrestrial as well). But I think it’s clear that Earth has been visited by some ETs that are much more advanced than us.
  Icke’s early book The Robots’ Rebellion, published in 1994, remains my favorite of all, and is very dear to my heart. When I was still in academia (I left university in 2004), I dreaded the textbooks that were foisted on me, but avidly clung on in private to The Robots’ Rebellion. The Robots’ Rebellion was a rallying cry for humans to stop behaving like subservient robots and being automatons for the system.
  For about the first half of the 1990s, an angry, populist David Icke struggled in his conferences to fill small, cold halls, and often –as he recounted later- was unable to pay for his venue’s expenses with the few people that trickled in to listen to him.
  Then in 1995-1997 came Icke’s next book, …And the Truth shall set you free which I found to be rousing and immensely thought-provoking when I first read it. Now, in retrospect (I have an edition reprinted in 2001) I realize that there are a couple of pages in that book that may have led some to regard Icke’s speech as inadmissible and anti-Semitic.
  In my view, Icke’s lack of formal “higher education” and of orthodox scientific training has been a priceless asset: thanks in part to it, he’s been able to see where others have been blind. However, it has also made him fall prey to a few technical blunders here and there. Some of these could actually be potentially serious, even embarrassingly gargantuan in proportions. I was riveted by his later book The Biggest Secret: however, in it Icke rather nonchalantly declared that the Earth is substantially hollow with entrances at the poles; and, to my knowledge, he has not retracted that assertion since the publication of that book.
  In fact, Icke does not bother to openly acknowledge his possible past mistakes. This is even so on the few occasions when he contradicts what he had said in his previous books.
  In 2001, I was surprised (and gladdened!) to see Icke appear as an expert in The History Channel in a documentary about secret societies.
  Then, after 2004 or so, Icke gave another turn to his research, and from that point on I must confess that I began to be less and less hungry for his new books. Still, I sensed that there might be profound insights in how he attempted to explain the purported baleful global conspiracy in metaphysical terms, discussing the nature of reality as informed by mystics and by his own ayahuasca trips, and broaching the ideas of quantum physicist and philosopher David Bohm.
  It was about this time when Icke started coming (a bit) into his own and getting at last some of the recognition I think he deserved. In 2008 Icke spoke at the Oxford Union debating society, at the heart of the University of Oxford.
  But Icke was beginning to clamorously rehash himself. Also, a few of Icke’s mistakes were getting cosmically serious by then. In a book published in 2005, Icke predicated that the universe is much smaller than is astronomically understood.
  Human Race: Get off your knees; the Lion sleeps no more is, I think, the last book by Icke I think I will ever buy. It is peppered with things I don’t like, albeit interspersed with some I like very much.
  On the one hand, Icke has vociferously spoken against the microchipping of humans: this microchipping is said to be part of the agenda of the global conspiracy.
  On the other hand, David Icke has, regrettably in my view, publicized a videoed interview with someone who had a dubious past in a child abuse cult, and who now appears to have at least partly fallen for a big con that has lately done the rounds in the internet. This con is –I am not joking-, the garbage that the Earth is actually flat (!) and that NASA has been covering it all up. My suspicion about this is that some well-funded agents, (perhaps even related to NASA!), have thrown this grotesquely barbaric (but shrewdly couched) con, this revolting ruse, this grand ploy, into the internet as psyops in order to test the gullibility of people in the “fringes” of alternative media, and to be able to more easily discredit anyone in those circles who, lacking the most basic scientific education, and eschewing even common sense, may have been taken in by such a ruse…. I suspect there has been a rather insidious social manipulation behind this ploy: as late as October 2018, videos peddling this flat earth trash were foisted on me among the top results I got when I searched the biggest internet free video site, YouTube, under the keywords “Global conspiracy”. I suspect that the Artificial intelligence-related algorithm in the YouTube search engine has been tweaked in order to dump the Flat Earth trash on anyone who, like me, looks into the subject of a global conspiracy.
  In 2016 Icke was interviewed on BBC News about his conspiracy theories. The interview didn’t treat Icke too unfairly, and went some way towards legitimizing conspiracy theories as models of reality.
  In 2020, David Icke, in an interview that was widely broadcast and then censored, denied the existence of covid19.

• When investigating the outré, a hard-nosed attitude is always a boon. I recommend Judy Wood's book Where did the Towers go?, which studies just how the Twin Towers of New York City were destroyed on 9/11. Her study is carried out in what I would regard as a forensic and very scientific manner, without going into conjectures about who really may have perpetrated those attacks. It is clear to me that Judy Wood’s findings have been suppressed, maligned and smeared even within the circles of those that are supposed to be interested in unraveling what really happened on that horrible day of September 11 2001: the so-called “9/11 Truth movement”. The book 9/11-Finding the truth, by Judy Wood’s friend, Andrew Johnson, is illustrative in this regard. A caveat for scholarly-minded readers, however: the third edition of this book, which is the edition I have (in paperback), was compiled from Andrew’s previous online articles in a sloppy fashion; a couple of figures in the book are wrongly numbered; and Andrew’s book also has URLs of what may be copyright-infringing material.
  Andrew Johnson once recorded an interview with me about “cold fusion” (more appropriately called low energy nuclear reactions) and other energy issues which could be related, Judy Wood’s book suggests, to the bizarre physical phenomena that occurred on 9/11. Reading Judy’s book has left me in no doubt that the destruction of the Twin Towers on 9/11 was accomplished through the horrendous weaponization of a physical process which, if used peacefully, could produce practically limitless energy: what in alternative circles is touted as “free energy”.
  “Free energy” refers to the hypothetical obtention of useful practical energy from an apparatus that does not harness any natural energy source ordinarily deemed available, so that the energy obtained from the apparatus is greater than the energy input required to run it. My suspicion is that peaceful “free energy” is very much a reality, at least on a small scale –in a proof-of-concept stage-, although this reality is still unaccepted by what might be regarded as “official science”, which actually can sometimes be not a very honest science, in my view.
  

• Jim Marrs was, I think, another able conspiracy researcher. Jim’s 9/11 book The Terror Conspiracy was packed with some very interesting details, but its publisher was actually named The Disinformation Company, and its logo was the red, horned silhouette of a devil's head. I am not fully sure if The Disinformation Company still formally exists: ostensibly this publisher for years sought to expose the disinformation that had penetrated our culture, but my suspicion is that The Disinformation Company, as its name proper would seem to betray, might have knowingly planted some disinformation on its own. Where The Terror Conspiracy’s assessments about what really happened on 9/11 conflict with those in Judy Wood’s Where did the Towers go?, I go with the latter.

• In my view, Jim Keith was a very able and streetwise conspiracy researcher: his book Black Helicopters over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order is very dear to me.

• My impression about Michael Collins Piper is that he wanted to be, or professed to be, an outstanding investigative loudmouth and a scourge of Zionism. His book Final Judgment: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy certainly appears to be a monumental exposé, seems to be very well referenced, and might even be an illuminating work of history, although, inasmuch as it may be anti-Semitic in its tone and intent, I have to disavow it.

• I much enjoyed the paperbacks Oklahoma City Bombing: The Suppressed Truth and AIDS Inc.: Scandal of the Century, both by Jon Rappoport, who has an artistic, independent, impressionistic journalistic style. Nevertheless, I cannot vouch for all their journalistic veracity.

• I’ve read Victor Thorn’s book 9/11 Evil, which is very inflammatory but makes in my view some very good points. Again, I don’t support its possible anti-Semitism.

• The Bilderberg group is the cabal of Earth’s very powerful magnates, often shadowy éminences grises, who have been convening regularly to plan major world affairs. Thanks to the dogged activism and the work of investigative reporters, this cabal is at long last being exposed, and even the mainstream media -particularly in Europe-, has had to finally admit to the existence of this preeminent off-the-record council.
  A good book that chronicled some of the hidden history of the Bilderberg group was Texe Marrs’s paperback Dark Majesty. When I first read that book I found it insightful: it explained the occult underpinnings of the globalist agenda pursued by the moneyed power-brokers behind the scenes and their network of secret societies around the world.
  Texe Marrs, now deceased, was a Christian minister. This brings the thorny subject of Jesus Christ. I think that Jesus really existed and that he carried out many of the miracles that are attributed to him, but I cannot be sure. These miracles might have included the Resurrection. Perhaps Jesus died on the cross and then, later in the Tomb, resurrected himself, and came back to life in an incorrupt body, a so-called “glorified body”, accompanied by a burst of luminous energy. If the Turin Shroud is an authentic relic, then maybe the ensuing flash of radiant energy at the moment of Jesus’s miraculous Resurrection would have been the anomalous agent that imprinted the cloth with his image.

• Mind-control is the takeover of the mind of someone else –the victim-. I have been enlightened by two amazing books with the testimonies and confessions of persons who proclaimed being healed victims of mind-control: Cathy O'Brien’s Trance Formation of America (co-written with the now deceased Mark Phillips), and Cisco Wheeler’s The Illuminati formula used to create an undetectable total mind controlled slave (co-written with Fritz Springmeier). Wheeler and Springmeier, however, commit in their book the error of wildly overestimating the number of neural connections in the human brain.
  I lived for some months in Cisco Wheeler's former house in Oregon City. Cisco likes to spell out her vision of the End-Time, which she, like many alert Christians who study the Bible, thinks we live in. In Cisco’s view, the majority of churches are demonically-contaminated and preach some false teachings. Cisco has also fleshed out some of her inside knowledge of the Illuminati. Cisco says she was born into, and later repudiated and escaped from, the Illuminati.
  The Illuminati properly speaking ceased to exist a long time ago, but Cisco used the term loosely to designate the powerful (sometimes priestly!) secret society and bloodline network that, according to her, has conducted something akin to Icke’s global conspiracy, but specifically at the behest of Satan, which she and Christian Fundamentalists equate to Lucifer and to a real (demonic) entity.
  Cisco seems to regard Jesus as her personal Savior: I don’t know up to what extent this attitude is healthy. Furthermore, I am not sure I ought to devote myself to the God, or god, Yahweh, as she calls for.

• William Cooper’s book Behold a Pale Horse was an underground classic which I think later studies of the possible global conspiracy owed much to..

• I enjoyed the book The Templar Revelation by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. Lynn’s solo book The secret history of Lucifer appears to whitewash the figure of Lucifer. Lucifer may or may not be real as an entity, and may or may not be Satan, but at any rate I don’t agree with Lynn’s slant, which I find to be a bit too dark.

• Authors Richard Leigh, Michael Baigent, and Henry Lincoln’s joint book Holy Blood, Holy Grail is a cornerstone classic of arcana and religious secrets, but it’s to a large extent smoke and mirrors, I suspect. I am hesitant to buy its (to borrow a term of Catholic resonance) cardinal thesis that Jesus Christ outlived the Cross, died of old age like an ordinary human being, and sired a lineage that would later give rise to a dynasty.

• With regard to the (not so) hidden knowledge of Astro-Archaeology, alignments of monuments with celestial bodies, etc., I can recommend David Ovason’s, well, monumental, book Lost Symbols?: The Secrets of Washington DC, and Giulio Magli’s book Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island. Some important observations are in order about the latter, however. Giulio has remarked to me that his book “should be corrected and updated”. Moreover, Giulio’s book, while recognizing the difficulty, even with contemporary technology, of moving into place (sometimes with amazing precision) the very heavy stones of Antiquity’s megalithic sites (such as the Pyramids of Egypt), still refuses to entertain hypotheses that remain for the most part academically unpalatable, like anti-gravity, or (advanced) ancient aliens as the builders of those monuments. I also clearly don’t agree with Giulio’s assertion in his book that there is no such thing as the paranormal!
  

• Lloyd Pye was an insightful maverick researcher on human origins. I met Lloyd Pye in 2012: it was a wonderful and very memorable experience. I like his book The Starchild skull – Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid?. Very sadly, Lloyd passed away from cancer in late 2013.

• Graham Hancock is by now a very successful author on ancient archeology and the real origins of human civilization. I liked his book The Mars mystery, co-written with Robert Bauval and John Grigsby.

• Joscelyn Godwin is a professor Emeritus of music/musicology who has penned the book Arktos, The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival, a scholarly study tracing theosophical concepts, Aryan lore, and the history of esoteric notions about the Golden Age. Godwin is a bit too guarded for my taste, but I like his book.

• I still enjoy reading John Major Jenkins’s paperback 2012: Mayan cosmogenesis. By 2010 I had become leery of all the hoopla about the year 2012 and the Mayan calendar. The hoopla reached a crescendo in 2012, when there was a furore in some quarters about impending, ostensibly dramatic, perhaps even apocalyptic, sudden world changes that, it was believed, imagined, feared or even hoped, would ensue when, according to the Mesoamerican Long Calendar, an era ended on December 21, 2012. Then the days passed after that singular date, and not much apparently changed in the world at large. Still it is entirely possible that, despite the harrowing current events in the world, we may be living on the eve of a new era in human consciousness and of a Golden Age, substantiating one of the tenets of New Age spirituality.

• Laurence Gardner's book The Shadow of Salomon has been very revealing to me, although my impression would be that the author knew more than he let on.

• Robert Lomas's book The invisible college chronicles very aptly the Freemasonic origins of modern science, through the Royal Society.

• I like Zecharia Sitchin’s book The 12th planet: it’s a classic work on the origins of Sumerian civilization. However, I do not buy Zecharia’s wild interpretation of the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation myth.

• David Wilcock’s book The Hidden Science of Lost Civilisations is bright and well-researched, but I have serious doubts about some of what he proposes there.

• Richard Hoagland has brilliantly combined knowledge of sci-fi, NASA's inner politics, UFOs, the hidden history of the space program, Masonic number rituals, possible relics of life or artifacts of intelligent origin in the solar system, “free energy”, and what he terms more or less correctly ”hyperdimensional” physics: this is the physics of those puzzling phenomena which Hoagland claims are best understood by invoking another dimension or other dimensions. I have read Hoagland’s book The Monuments of Mars, and also Dark Mission (this last one co-authored with Mike Bara). But I suspect that Richard Hoagland has deliberately included, or has been prompted to occasionally include, very weak or flimsy, even spurious, evidence alongside his otherwise brilliant and commendable research.
  The purpose of this would obviously be to make him a more easily discreditable target. In this manner it would have been easier for the intelligentsia and “official science”’s gatekeepers to caricature his line of research. His clown-like, buffoonish demeanor has certainly contributed to his fringe personality aura. Hoagland has been accused of being part of a counterintelligence operation and I would not be surprised if this were so.

• Exo-archaeology is the study of archaeological remains left beyond the Earth. Xeno-archaeology is the study of archaeological artifacts left (regardless of location) by intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations. A very good book on the xeno-archaeological/exo-archaeological/geological conundrum surrounding the Cydonia region on Mars, with a levelheaded scientific attitude, is The Case for the Face: Scientists Examine the Evidence for Alien Artifacts on Mars.

• With regard to the Moon and what really may have happened during the Apollo program, I recommend Mary Bennett and David S. Percy’s thick book Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers, which I find quite interesting; however, a few of its New Age hypotheses (at least in its 1999 edition) are fluffy and possibly (or very likely) incorrect. In connection with this subject, I have to credit the 1982 book Moongate: Suppressed Findings of the U.S. Space Program by William L. Brian II, an author I once had the privilege of conversing with in person. It comes across as a “hard” scientific book – William L. Brian II is a nuclear engineer. However, I do not buy the book’s suggestion that the Earth is hollow, and I have serious doubts about its hypotheses regarding the Moon.

• For the latest on “cold fusion” –more appropriately called low-energy nuclear reactions or LENR, and for some insights about “free energy”, there's the great magazine Infinite Energy by the New Energy Foundation, founded by Eugene Mallove. I recommend Tadahiko Mizuno’s book Nuclear Transmutation: The Reality of Cold Fusion, which was translated into English by Jed Rothwell (and which has an error in one of its formulas). For the more technically-minded reader, I recommend Hideo Kozima’s textbook Discovery of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon: Development of Solid State-Nuclear Physics and the Energy Crisis in the 21st Century: I was able to obtain the English edition directly from the author.

• Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon’s paperback Breakthrough power is refreshingly informative, or at least was so to me when I started reading it. An important note Jeane makes is that “free energy”-producing devices, when at last they become available, will not be, strictly speaking, “free”, in the sense that one will have to buy the hardware with the magnets etc., but then once running the devices will need no fuel, will be clean, and if they require a steady energy input the output will be much greater. Some devices may conceivably need no energy input at all (once up to speed), running on something like the background zero-point energy: this is the fabulously, possibly infinitely deep background sea of energy that underlies and permeates all of our 3-dimensional space per quantum field theory; and is also called, loosely speaking, the quantum vacuum or the zero-point field.
  “Free energy” will not be free, and in fact will come at a very painful cost, but if it is embraced with spirituality and wisdom it will bring much needed freedom. The obstacles that stand in the way of the advent of “free energy” are, I think, mainly political and economical: my guess is that genius inventor Nikola Tesla already showed, before the end of World War II, how “free energy” could be obtained. However, it doesn’t pay for utility companies to manufacture devices that produce energy too cheap to meter. When this -in my view- atrocious political and economical suppression of “free energy” is overcome, possibly through sheer, genuine grassroots initiatives or internet-mediated social networking; the hope of some praiseworthy “alternative” researchers and visionaries is that a little energy-generating device will power your home more or less for free, and with no gas emissions, radioactivity, or environmental impact. Personally I don’t see anything physical, or even technological, prohibiting this dream.
  However, perhaps it is better that “free energy” may not come until the low and reprobate behavior in much of humanity’s day-to-day conduct gives way to a greater spiritual wisdom. “Free energy” is certainly not the kind of boon to be misused: witness 9/11, where Judy Wood’s research clearly shows, at least to me!, that a horrible weaponization of some type of “free energy” effect was utilized.
  I personally do not rule out the possibility that LENR/”Cold fusion” might itself, in whole or in part, harness zero point energy. The reality of LENR/”Cold fusion” has not been as ignored and as unaccepted by “official science” as the reality of “free energy” generation from magnetic motors, which are theorized to tap zero point energy. However, as of May 2019, and despite a revival of interest in LENR by the US Congress following successful US Navy LENR experiments, the supposedly very prestigious, and supposedly very scientific, mainstream journal Nature still refused to acknowledge the full reality of LENR effects. And yet, there might be a possible application of “cold fusion”, ”free energy” and other possibly related, somewhat unorthodox physics, that may urgently have to be utilized. Early experiments have apparently shown that there exists the ability to neutralize the radioactivity of nuclear waste.
  NOTE: “Free energy” is used here in the context of extracting useful energy from the background zero-point field or similar, which is the general meaning of “free energy” in “alternative” studies. (“Alternative” studies are those studies which have been ostracized, often with scorn, by the mainstream). “Free energy” in this sense of extraction from the zero point field or the like is not to be mistaken with the thermodynamic concepts of “free energy” as employed in conventional academic texts, namely, Gibbs free energy (represented in those texts by the letter G) or Helmholtz free energy (represented by the letter F). In the past I wondered if there is actually a connection between these different meanings; now I hardly care. At any rate, my guess is that the so-called “Second Law of thermodynamics” can be violated, even macroscopically. …

• I recommend Paul A. LaViolette’s Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion. Aerospace writer Nick Cook's journalistic account, The Hunt for Zero Point is gripping, but it may slightly follow a hugger-mugger directive of controlling the release of information pertaining to the secrets of antigravity and zero-point energy. I surmise that zero-point energy and antigravity were “hunted”, and bagged, long ago. Their secrets have since been kept, for the most part, well locked up in the vaults of the black projects defense behemoth.

• I loved the books of Brian O'Leary, former scientist-astronaut and colleague of Carl Sagan. I especially adored what he called his New Science Trilogy: Exploring Inner and Outer Space, The Second Coming of Science and Miracle in the Void. O'Leary was even trained by NASA to go to Mars. He taught at Ivy League schools, but over time got disenchanted with academia's clinging to the old, materialistic, reductionist paradigm of science, and left university. During the last years of his life, he impassionedly called, from his beautiful bucolic retreat in Ecuador, for the restoration of our Earth's ravaged primeval ecosystems, for the long-prophesied definitive coming of the New Consciousness through an expanded science (the “New Science”) that embraced the reality of the paranormal, and for the dawn of an age of clean, cheap, “new energy” technologies, beyond conventional renewables, which may fully and ethically utilize “cold fusion” and the quantum cornucopia of zero point energy. (Brian O’Leary used the term “new energy” to designate and sagaciously introduce potentially practical energy sources unknown to, or not acknowledged by, conventional, “official science”). I am honored to have met Brian O'Leary and spent some wonderful time with him: he affected me so deeply.
  Some anthropogenic emissions constitute greenhouse gases and sometimes noxious pollution too. However, my view is that, as O’Leary himself explicated, a lot of those emissions can be avoided if “free energy” systems, such as those pioneered by Nikola Tesla, stop being suppressed. It is said that this suppression has been rather ruthless, not hesitating to employ all sorts of means.
  I suspect that there is more going on with our climate than what the mainstream media on the whole admits. While some of this covert weather modification may seek to combat global warming (and could be termed “geo-engineering"), I suspect that some instances of covert modification of the weather may be the cause behind some calamities like hurricanes and tornadoes, thereby amounting to covert weather warfare.
  

• I like the Lynne McTaggart’s book The Field, about the power of consciousness. She has started what she names the Intention Experiment, intended to gauge the paranormal influence of Mind, or of Intention, over matter and the physical world. The book Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?, written by Financial Times journalist Jonathan Margolis, makes it quite clear that the Israeli-British celebrity Uri Geller indeed has, or at least had, paranormal powers on a macroscopic scale, although of course he was an exceptionally gifted individual. Picknett and Prince’s well-researched and adeptly written book The Stargate Conspiracy also deals with Geller.

• Similarly pioneering have been Russell Targ's scientific studies into Remote Viewing, as chronicled in his and Harold E. Puthoff’s book Mind-reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities. Remote viewing is the ability of the mind, or of the individual consciousness, to perceive targets that are too remote to be espied through the ordinary physical senses; past events inaccessible to ordinary memory or standard historical research; or even likely future events (allowing a typically small amount of free will to change these if they are unwanted). Remote viewing is very much possible, but I have heard that its practice may put undue stress on one’s body, mind and/or soul, and may not always be entirely safe.

• Michael Talbot's The Holographic Universe is a must-read classic, in my view.

• Fritjof Capra’s bestseller The Tao of Physics was a classic, highlighting intriguing correlations between quantum physics and Eastern mysticism. But Capra now seems to me timid, with his ecological outlook that has become so tritely mainstream. His book The Hidden Connections is arguably an intelligent discourse on life and global society, but in it he still regards consciousness as merely an emergent property of transient functional ensembles of neurons.

• I salute “The campaign for philosophical freedom” that was launched by Michael Roll.
  Michael Roll’s article documenting psychic phenomena was published in the October 2004 issue of the Paranormal Review, the magazine of the Society for Psychical Research.
  A few years after that 2004 article, I heard that the Campaign for philosophical freedom’s website was abandoned by its webmaster Paul Read and, while The Afterlife Research and Education Institute (AREI) has graciously attempted to restore it, the restored version, on AREI’s own domain, is a little faulty.
  I ignore if Michael Roll is still alive. Michael’s efforts throughout his campaign and life as an activist were (or have been) geared to reclaiming for afterlife and mediumistic research the space that, in his view, this kind of research deserves among the hard, physical sciences (and not just there in the realm of babble psychology or parapsychology).
  We all have an eternal Soul, which exists really everywhere in the Universe. (By the Universe I mean this physical universe and other possible universes and planes of reality). When the Soul is incarnate in a human body, however, the Soul ordinarily perceives itself as being mainly “localized” or “concentrated” where its body is: the Soul typically regards its core presence as residing within the body. When a person dies, the Soul perceives its core presence as departing the body and typically going on to roam other planes of reality or realms of existence. The inventors of TV and radio demonstrated over a century ago, and with hard evidence, one of three things: 1) that the Souls of deceased persons can occasionally contact individuals living on this physical Earth (on this plane of reality), via capable mediums, 2), that some deceptive demons or perfidious spirits have a mind-blowing capability to impersonate deceased individuals, or 3), that the features and past acts of a deceased person can be brought back into life by a suitable medium, perhaps through the agency of some energy field or registry in the Universe which “remembers”, or records, those characteristics. In the most spectacular mediumistic cases through history, a substance was exuded that self-organized into the body form of the individual in question. In the old days of spiritualism, the substance in question was ectoplasm.
  Even a medicine Nobel Laureate, Charles Richet was involved in experiments of this nature where –at least according to Michael Roll-, deceased people returned. Michael Roll himself assured me that he once was embraced by his deceased father who had been materialized.
  A somewhat dated, and probably flawed, but in my view meritorious and pioneering, effort to expand/rectify quantum and classical physics ideas in order to grasp and accommodate paranormal phenomena is the book Intelligence behind the Universe!, by Ron Pearson, who was a friend of Michael Roll’s and an engineer, and who has now passed away.
  

• Concerning the afterlife, maybe it is time to stop simply “believing” (in an unsubstantiated religious sense), and begin trying to know. Consciousness cannot die. Prime in this regard is also the work with mediums of Gary Schwartz at his University of Arizona laboratory for advances in consciousness and health. His book The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death was informative when it came out. I prefer the term “Hereafter” to “Life After Death” or even “Afterlife”. The Soul exists eternally, but lives a life only when it is incarnate in a body.
  I surmise that a part of Creation/reality consists of a continuum of infinitely many parallel planes of reality or of existence which correspond to the different “vibrations”: “vibrations” is a somewhat vague spiritual concept for which I cannot offer as yet a full-fledged scientific description, but whose colloquial and intuitive meaning might be adequate. God is the Source of All Things: they all emanate (or emanated) from God. Yet God is also (in) All Things themselves. The planes of higher vibration can be visualized as vibrating “more quickly”, and being more “heavenly”, and closer to God, interpreted as the Source. They are referred to as “higher planes”.
  Our vocabulary is problematic when attempting to describe these higher planes, but it can be said that, as the planes get higher in vibration, they can be construed as less “physical”, in the sense that they are less “materially dense” and things on/in them are, well, easier to accomplish and more apparently responsive to one’s wishes. Here I am using the word “physical” in the vague sense of being “tangible” or specifically involving bodily contact, “hard”/“tough” activity/interaction, or hardship. There is the other accepted meaning of the word “physical”, which means “relating to physics” or “natural forces”. It is important to emphasize that, in this last sense, all the planes, regardless of their state of vibration, are equally “physical” because they are all equally real. They are not mental illusions.
  The fact that each vibrational plane is really 3-dimensional, as opposed to the more standard, geometrical definition of a plane -which is 2-dimensional-, explains the dichotomy in using the prepositions “in” or “on” with the word “plane” in this vibrational, spiritual context. From now on I will use “on”.
  The lowest plane of vibration, the “ground” plane so to speak, is the most “physical” of the planes (in the first sense of the term “physical” referred to above), and is called the physical plane: my understanding is that physical matter is clustered within a very narrow vibrational bandwidth from the physical plane “upwards”. While in incarnate form, one is anchored through a (materially dense) physical body to this “ground” plane, but might experience sensations from, or ordinarily interact with, planes slightly above this ground plane in “rate” of vibration or “frequency”, within another very narrow vibrational bandwidth, which more or less corresponds to the vibrational bandwidth occupied by the particular kind of physical matter that makes up one’s physical body. And then I think that one’s consciousness can occasionally reach up to planes above this last bandwidth, more or less dimly perceiving or interacting with entities or spirit forms dwelling mainly above it. It is my understanding that demons, if they exist, allegedly are often “concentrated” just above, or slightly above, the vibrational bandwidth characteristic of our body, around the so-called lower astral plane. Just because a being or spirit form lies –mainly- around a higher vibrational plane, it doesn’t necessarily mean that he/she/it is more enlightened or more benevolent.
  Like the Soul, a spirit, spirit form or demon is consciousness and, as such, exists really everywhere, but for all practical purposes can be said to be mainly “localized” or “concentrated” within a certain region of space, and within a certain vibrational bandwidth, which is where that spirit, spirit form, or demon would perceive its “core presence” as residing, supposedly.
  In my preferred interpretation of “spiritual cosmology” (so to speak), the various vibrational planes all occupy the same 3D space: they just lie at different frequencies of vibration. But there is another interpretation of “spiritual cosmology”, which in the past I entertained, although now I tend to doubt it, and this is to posit that, instead of a spectrum of different vibrational planes, there is a spectrum of (sort of 3D) “parallel universes" or realities across an extra dimension. This extra dimension would come in addition to the three spatial dimensions of our ordinary physical universe/reality, and would be different from relativistic time. Even if this alternative interpretation based on the extra dimension is correct, properly speaking the vibrational planes would not themselves constitute different “dimensions”, which is how these planes are nebulously described as by New Agey authors, speakers and (more or less genuine) channelers who lack a proper mathematical understanding.
  I have also heard that time flows differently on the higher planes of reality (if it flows at all!), and perhaps there are realms of existence where time does not flow in the usual sense. More about time later.
  You emanate, or emanated, as a Soul from God, Who is the Source of All Things. You are just ultimately an aspect of God. All reality is the projection of, and is in fact, just One Being, God, One Consciousness. (Everything is conscious to some degree!). The Soul can become aware that it is One with the Infinite (God), which can be quite an indescribable realization.

• I have found healing in the two books by Brian Weiss, Many lives, Many Masters, and Messages from the Masters, which deal with past-life and in-between-lives regression therapy.

• I like Deepak Chopra, but only to an extent. For example, in his book How to know God, published in 2000, Chopra did not seem to accept the full reality of near-death experiences (abbreviated NDEs), contending that they can be duplicated artificially through oxygen deprivation in the brain and might just be an artifact of the suffocating cerebrum. I disagree with Chopra’s assessment, although I myself haven’t had an NDE (in this present incarnation of mine at least!). I particularly recommend the excellent NDE research that has been carried out by Pim Van Lommel and by Bruce Greyson. See also the very neat book Evidence of the Afterlife:  The Science of Near-Death Experiences, by Jeffrey Long and Paul Perry, and Eben Alexander’s personal account Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife.

• I have been much enlightened by the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, in particular by his book The Power of Now. Tolle totally rejects the ego in his later book A New Earth: Create a better Life, but I have a problem with that. It is true, I suppose, that spiritual development generally implies a progressive dissolution of the Ego. However, as long as we still keep our names and birth certificates, there will be one and then there will be the other(s), and there will be our individual stories. It is probably all right to want to have something desirable that others around you are having. Forgiveness is important, but sometimes spiritual healing cannot be brought about until some offenses that one suffered in the past are rightfully redressed. I agree with Tolle, however, that justice and good may not in the end triumph in the way that the vindictive Ego fantasizes. God has a funny, and humbling, sense of humor.
  I suppose that Eckhart Tolle, in the end, is right in his asseveration that Time itself is an illusion, and there is only the Eternal Now; however, this glorious, Timeless reality is -I surmise- God’s viewpoint, and can only be glimpsed in extraordinary or supernal experiences such as near-death experiences. When one is incarnate in a human body and caught in the rough and tumble of daily life, it is foolhardy not to acknowledge one’s past, and not to plan one’s immediate future for practical purposes.

• Barbara Marciniak's book Bringers of the Dawn has struck a deep chord in me, and gives me a sliver of hope that very spiritually advanced, formidable benign entities may be underhandedly guiding and assisting humanity from another realm, place or vibrational plane. In her book, Marciniak channels some entities; however, I am not sure if all the material that they dictate to her is literally true.

• I thoroughly recommend the paperbacks Disclosure: Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History, and Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications, both by Steven Greer. Greer seeks to make public –Disclose- all the very secret information that the military-industrial complex has thus far withheld on ET lifeforms, especially those of an advanced, intelligent kind, and on their most often mind-blowing, antigravity-enabled, UFO craft…; or at least that's what his initiative called The Disclosure Project for years purported. Greer has also seemed very impassioned in his asseveration of wanting to make available all the workable antigravity-enabling and free-energy-generating devices that have been suppressed -he says the suppression has been chiefly carried out by the military-industrial complex in the US. However, for years I was not really sure that Greer was in fact in a hurry to make those devices available. It looks like Greer has now testified in the US Congress under oath, explaining that since October 1954, when antigravity was achieved and secreted, “we have not needed rockets, jets, internal combustion engines and surface roadways”.
  Now, I think it is more than possible that some of these ET lifeforms Greer talks about are interstellar extraterrestrials. To Greer such interstellar ETs can only be enlightened, or at least benevolent, and I think there is a risk in this Pollyannish vision touted by Greer in his speeches and statements.
  There might perhaps be a few conceivable cases where secrecy regarding UFOs and ETs is justified, but in general I am against official secrecy and I support Disclosure. To many Christians who study the Bible, however, any lifeform described as extraterrestrial is actually a demon, or a creature spawned by demons, as part of a great End Times Deception, and must harbor an ill purpose. I do not share this view.
  The watchful, Bible-studying Christians might be at least partly right, however, in their prognostications that we live in something like the End Times. The US government already admits that UFOs are real, although it prefers to use the term “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAP). A full disclosure of all ET/UFO information that should be disclosed (which is in my view the vast majority of secret ET/UFO information), complete with an official admission from governments of the ET presence on Earth, and followed by open mass contact with ETs, would certainly usher in a whole new era in history. (My understanding is that the good ETs can know when we are ready for individual as well as for open contact). Of course, there is the very likely possibility that there was somewhat open contact with extraterrestrials in ancient history. But if there was, official History to date refuses to acknowledge it, just like it refuses to consider that a wondrously advanced, perhaps magical, civilization may have existed in Atlantis. Whether or not extraterrestrials interacted openly and widely with humans in the past, I think that these visitors from outside the Earth may play a cardinal role in the coming years. Due to the budding of an awakened and more positive consciousness in humans, what has hitherto been hidden might be about to be revealed.
  Now, if some of these current extraterrestrials that are so dear to Greer are indeed demons or demonic creations, or if they are just plain nefarious aliens, I agree with Greer that placing super-weapons in space may not be the proper way to defend against them. Such planetary defense measures might be justified if those aliens are caught in the particular act of attacking Earth’s population, but how can we tell if this is the case? Who would wield those super-weapons? Have space weapons already been used against extraterrestrial craft? Our governments have lied to us, or at least not told us the full truth, for decades on the issue of aliens, and only now is this starting to change.

• Exopolitics is basically the study of the politics of interaction with extraterrestrials. An excellent book, in my view, is Michael Salla’s Exposing U.S. Government Policies On Extraterrestrial Life. Alfred Webre is a futurist, journalist, lawyer, and founding father of this new discipline of Exopolitics, which is still for the most part not recognized by academia. Webre has a good heart. However, I don’t fully trust all his information; perhaps unbeknownst to him, some of it might be disinformation pushed by intelligence agencies. Also, and as evidenced in one his books, titled Exopolitics: Politics, Government and Law in the Universe, he has sought in the past to legislate humanity's excursions into outer space and even onto other planes of reality. Personally, I don’t like to be subjected to legislation: I don’t think I need it to behave ethically.

• The paperback Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, by the deceased Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School John E. Mack was very important. John Mack studied alien abductions. These are, for those who still don’t know!, the kidnapping of subjects by ETs: abductees seem to be invariably human, at least in appearance! David M. Jacobs’s book Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions is a cogent and well-researched compilation and analysis of alien abductions.
  

• With regard to UFOs, homage must be paid to Josef Allen Hynek and his landmark brief The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. I also recommend Jacques Vallee’s book Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact. Whitley Strieber’s book Communion has been important and (I suppose) transformative too, helping understand what’s happening at the “gray fringes” of conventional reality.

• Nick Pope was in charge of the British Ministry of Defence's UFO project. His book Open Skies, Closed Minds is very readable.

• Then there is Richard Dolan. His paperback UFOs and the National Security State is exceptionally well-researched and –in my view- commendable.

• John Rhodes has to be credited as a pioneer in researching, from a physical, descriptive viewpoint, the possible presence of reptilian intelligent creatures or entities on, inside and off the Earth (or on another vibrational plane), some of which might be reported as “aliens”.
  Rhodes acknowledges that some of the alleged reptilian entities he studies -called “reptilians” in alternative circles-, might reside (or perceive their “core presence” as residing) on/around another vibrational plane (or dimension). And my impression is that he wants to redeem reptilians in general –which he clearly thinks exist- from bad connotations, connotations that, from what I’ve heard, might be deserved in some cases. In particular, if there are indeed races of “materially dense” reptilians operating on the “ground” level of vibration of our physical bodies (or, more exactly, within a narrow vibrational bandwidth from this “ground” plane upwards), there may be a general predisposition to fiendishness or baleful iniquity in their genetic, physical or phenotypical makeup. However, some individuals within these particular races or groups of reptilians may perhaps occasionally rise above such a genetic or bodily tendency, and express goodness or impart wisdom.
  A remark for the punctilious reader: there is only one so-called “article” in John Rhodes’s website which I find interesting, shows up in visible fonts, is complete and makes sense as a stand-alone piece of work removed from the rest of his website… and even that article is not very printer-friendly, consisting mostly of yellow fonts on a black starry background. My point is: John Rhodes is not much of an author by conventional scholarly definitions, but his off-the-beaten-path research helped pave the way.
  Also, Rhodes and I may not see eye to eye on some moral questions. I remember attending a lecture by John Rhodes around 1999, and on answering one of the audience’s questions he revealed, or betrayed, an unsettling indifference to, even acquiescence in, the hypnotic mind-control which, it is said, some of the reptilians subject their human victims to.

• Then there is the purported phenomenon that has been most popularized in recent times by David Icke. This purported phenomenon is discussed also in the paperback They Cast no shadows by Brian Desborough, book that I enjoyed immensely. Brian is the aerospace scientist who provided much of the anecdotal evidence for the (perhaps flawed) astronomical theses underpinning David Icke's The Biggest Secret.
  This is the phenomenon that some persons affirm having seen. Some persons affirm having seen, in a more or less altered state of consciousness, certain, ordinarily-human-looking individuals, often in positions of power, shape-shift to a reptilian, dragon-like, therianthropic or just plain grotesque form. This seemingly can happen at macabre Satanic ceremonies and in other settings too. Yes, shape-shift, like the werewolves and vampires of legend.
  If real, this shape-shifting phenomenon might invoke possession by demons, reptilian entities, or spirits from (around) the lower astral vibration. (When I say spirits from certain vibrational planes, I mean spirits that would regard their “core presence” as dwelling on those vibrational planes). My understanding is that the ingestion of human blood might be important for some reptilian forms and/or the human-looking bodies (hosts?) that those forms inhabit or possess. However, this ingestion is apparently not indispensable for the phenomenon of shape-shifting to occur.
  Personally, I have by now little doubt that these testimonies can be veridical. I don’t think they are hallucinations, or at least in my view they shouldn’t be considered as such if we are to follow strictly the Oxford dictionary definition of “hallucination”. Cisco Wheeler once privately confessed to me that she once saw in person the then Spanish monarch King Juan Carlos shape-shift. In addition to Cisco, I have met in person with another witness of the phenomenon: this particular witness assured me that she personally saw shape-shifting at close range, in a nearly intimate setting, and that the shape-shifter in question was a wealthy man with a private jet who moved in elitist diplomatic circles. And I have met in person yet another witness of shape-shifting: this other witness says he saw the phenomenon at close range, in a heightened, trance-like state of consciousness certainly, but positively without being on any drugs.
  To me the main question is “where”, in the full spectrum of reality, this phenomenon of shape-shifting occurs. Is it a phenomenon that impacts directly the vibrational bandwidth where our physical (“materially dense”) bodies are anchored? Or do witnesses of shape-shifting, via an altered state of consciousness, perceive phenomena happening around a –slightly- different plane, so that, if there is possession by demons, entities or spirits from around the lower astral plane, the form that these display around the lower astral vibration is what the witnesses discern?
  A source once showed me a black-and-white picture, or photocopy of a picture, of a very prominent US politician undergoing, or appearing to undergo, shape-shifting on half of his face. This politician had apparently been sitting in his limo when that picture was taken: the person who took it apparently died shortly thereafter, suspiciously it would seem. This leads me to think that the picture may have been authentic and that shape-shifting, at least in some cases, affects the actual (materially dense) physical body.
  The book The Murder of Reality by Pierre Sabak (whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting) is also very interesting in connection with these purported dragon-like reptilians, tracing their footprint on human language in an outstanding work of etymological research.

• Bruce Rux has written a comprehensive book, Hollywood Vs. the aliens: The Motion Picture Industry's Participation in UFO Disinformation, which makes very interesting reading to me. (In Bruce’s book there is an erratum with the mass number of an isotope though).

Of course I am mindful of the self-professed (and sometimes card-carrying) “skeptics” and their sensational-looking swipes at giving the pretense of debunking some unorthodox claims –and some religiously orthodox claims as well-, all supposedly in the name of science. I once listened to the now deceased James Randi from a few yards away at a conference. I also once shared a table with the now deceased Paul Kurtz (the founder of CSICOP - The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal-, the organization that was the forerunner of The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry). And I once shook hands with Michael Shermer. I bought and read Shermer’s hardcover book The Borderlands of Science. Here’s my take on this self-described “skeptical” movement:

• I think that some of these folks suffer from a pathological mental, emotional or spiritual padlock, which blinds them from recognizing the reality of phenomena that defy their limited sense of what’s possible.

• But my guess is that others, including probably the movement’s notables, know full well that such phenomena are real and, being smooth professional dissemblers (is “liars” too rude a word?), are actively engaged in their coverup, under the banner of “debunking”.

The practical collusion of these two attitudes is that, when reviewing unorthodox claims of weird phenomena, convoluted mental gymnastics will be undertaken in an attempt to explain away and give the forceful impression of having “debunked” such claims.

Only very occasionally do these so-called “skeptics” concede that some marginal phenomena at the fringes of conventional, officially-accepted science are or might be real, in order to convey the public-relations image that they are not entirely closed to new evidence. Generally, these “skeptics” are the last in society to be convinced that a new phenomenon is real, being typically dragged kicking and screaming into the acceptance of its veracity. I like to refer to these self-professed “skeptics” with uppercase “S”, i.e., as “Skeptics”, in order to distinguish them from those who just practice healthy, open-minded skepticism fair and square, something which is generally advisable in everyday life.

“Skeptics” sermonize that they just apply ordinary skepticism to their attitude, and insist that they are open-minded, but my personal impression from meeting some in the past is that they typically are not. So what is healthy skepticism? To me, healthy skepticism consists of being on one's guard and paying attention if one’s intuition says that something does not feel true in what one is hearing or reading. The mind can't be used for this lie-spotting purpose because it has been programmed. This is where I markedly depart from “Skeptics”, because they despise intuition and ascribe full epistemological value to rationality and what they describe as “training in science”, i.e., Carl Sagan's mythical baloney detection kit as espoused in his book The Demon-Haunted World (which I bought and read). But, to me, this is all a clever use of language. The “Skeptics” and other shock troops of the establishment have excelled at the pointed (and more obscurely couched) use of buzzwords. “Rationality” and “training in science” in reality mean adherence to the “Skeptics”' implicit dogma of what's possible, sometimes stilted on logical highbrow sophistry, and often accompanied by a good dose of mental gymnastics.

Some of the rhetoric used by “Skeptics” might be vitriolic, but some is constructive, however, and some of the “debunking” declared by “Skeptics” might be warranted and genuine: i.e., some claims of weird phenomena coming from the fringes of “official” science might indeed be bogus. I must say that I was reassured when I learned that Michael Shermer, whom I once met personally, is now friends with Deepak Chopra, despite the disagreements the two have over fundamental issues.

Revelation and important insights don’t arrive as the result of arduous striving in thought and of racking your brains. They dawn on you, effortlessly, often when you least expect it. So, really, “free thought”, while possibly good and enlightening at first, can in the end become an oxymoron, because “thought” can entrap you and cocoon you in pain, shielding you from the larger reality.

Throughout the human body, there have been said to be seven main energy points, called chakras, and more or less I personally buy the chakra theory. (Apparently new chakras are now forming and/or being activated in some individuals and the chakra map might be changing). One’s best intuition and intelligence comes, I have personally concluded, not from head-based thinking, but from the living pulse of the heart chakra, the one located (at least for humans!) at the center of the chest (the actual organ of the heart is a bit to the side of it). One’s feelings are sensed to spring from the heart, and indeed they do spring from the heart (chakra).

One’s “gut feelings”, which originate from a chakra anatomically positioned a bit lower in the body, might be a useful guide too, in some situations. But I think, or better yet, feel!, that heart-sourced intuition is one’s best guide, even in matters of truth-seeking. This doesn’t mean that one’s head (or one’s gut!) shouldn’t play a role in a decision or truth evaluation process. The heart sometimes can “consult” the head –i.e., rely on knowledge gained through experience and remembered and codified –at least in part- by the brain, or the heart can “consult” the gut, but the heart should take the final decision, in my view.

So, certainly, and returning to epistemology, my advice is to not accept any asseveration at face value, and this includes what the professional “Skeptics” rattle and what anybody else, including me!, may say. Instead, I suggest you listen to your heart and your intuition.

I think that, at bottom, there is only one law of Physics or of Nature, and this is that Consciousness creates its own reality, since reality needs an observing consciousness to exist. But the Consciousness that generates its own reality is none other than God’s…, from which all things emanate –or emanated-. Many aspects of Consciousness, being intermediate between dead matter and God (and much closer to the former!), have little say in what happens to them, or at least that is sometimes the appearance while they are embodied in incarnate form. For one to start creating his/her own reality in a miraculous or extraordinarily paranormal way, as some facile New Age teachings tacitly imply one can do, one would need to, either be mindlessly swept away in those magical moments of Love (I guess I should capitalize the word)…, or realize deeply enough, in an experiential, raw, non-transferable, mystical way, that one is God, and such a realization, while one is incarnate in a human body, appears to be exceedingly hard.

Still, the nature of consciousness in humans and in most everyday living organisms has contributed to the solidification of reality into an ordered pattern which, for much of everyday experience, is roughly amenable to the usual laws of Physics and (if such a thing can actually be defined), the ordinary laws of Nature.

MY (OTHER) WORKS

My works and publications (other than the essays on this webpage) are listed here.

Y ahora algunas notas y enlaces en español -If you don’t speak Spanish, you can skip this segment and move on to the next segment in English, or directly to the (self-contained) English PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT LIFE section-.:

UN POCO SOBRE MÍ

por Conrado Salas Cano· 5 de febrero de 2022

• El 25 de noviembre de 2006 di una Conferencia sobre nuevas energías en el Ateneo de Madrid, en la que hablé sobre las reacciones nucleares de baja energía (comúnmente, y tal vez no siempre correctamente, denominadas “fusión fría”) y sobre lo que en Física se llama energía del punto cero, mencionando la faceta experimental de estos temas y (posibles) inventos prácticos. Fue un día muy bonito para mí.

• Rafael Palacios puede pecar a veces un poco de sensacionalista. Su libro Extraterrestres: El Secreto Mejor Guardado en ocasiones peca de poco riguroso, no está del todo “pulido”, y de hecho tiene algún error sustancial. No obstante, en su conjunto el libro está bien. Es importante entender la realidad en que vivimos, y por tanto te animo a que veas, en el sitio web para compartir vídeos YouTube, el famoso vídeo de la corta pero explosiva entrevista que me hizo Rafael Palacios en Sitges durante la Cumbre Europea de Exopolítica 2009. (Exopolítica es el estudio político de los OVNIs que nos visitan y de las interacciones con extraterrestres). Yo en dicha entrevista me expresé con plena honestidad, de acuerdo con lo que yo en ese momento sentía, percibía y recordaba, aunque algún comentario que hiciera en el mismo sobre la “Élite que gobierna este planeta“ pueda ser una apreciación incorrecta o generalización injusta. Sin duda esa entrevista constituye el cénit de lo que ha sido mi vida hasta ahora, y la aportación mía al mundo de la que más orgulloso estoy.
  Tal como expliqué en dicha entrevista de Rafael Palacios en 2009, Cisco Wheeler me confesó haber visto en persona al Rey (ahora Emérito) de España Juan Carlos I cambiar aparentemente la forma de su cuerpo o fisonomía en cuestión de segundos. Y luego he hablado desde 2009 con otros dos testigos de este extraño y sobrecogedor fenómeno, que afirman haberlo visto con sus propios ojos, en persona, en otros individuos. Supongo que existen lo que se podría denominar como ángeles y demonios, y que espíritus del tipo de estos últimos pueden poseer a algunos seres humanos, incluso haciéndoles cambiar de forma física. O a lo mejor el fenómeno obedece a una causa diferente, pero en cualquier caso albergo pocas dudas de que es real.
  Pienso y siento que hay Dios (aunque a veces pierdo la fe), y que las almas tienen una existencia eterna después del fallecimiento del cuerpo. Opino que es importante conectar con Dios. Por “Dios” entiendo la Fuente, la Consciencia Creadora de Todo y de la que emanan las almas.

• En el año 2011 Greg Grisham me publicó en su blog un artículo resumiendo en español los MAYÚSCULOS y sensacionales hallazgos de Judy Wood sobre el 11-S (los Atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001 en EE.UU., oficialmente atribuidos a terroristas islamistas). Conocer estos hallazgos y toda esta evidencia descubierta por Judy Wood es vital para comprender lo que realmente ocurrió el 11-S. (Nota: en la firma de mi artículo puse una dirección web en la que ya no estoy).

• He tenido el singular privilegio de conocer en persona a Jesús Jofre Milà, y pienso que es sincero en todo lo que cuenta en su simplemente maravilloso libro Contacto con Sharhim: Un Ser de 5ª dimensión – Mi experiencia personal. A mi entender, Jesús contactó físicamente con un ser muy evolucionado y benévolo, posiblemente extraterrestre, cuyo cuerpo era mayormente de luz y energía. .

• Los libros de la Editorial Cydonia Más Allá de Lo Sobrenatural, de Marcelino Requejo, y Aragón Sobrenatural, de Carlos Ollés, están francamente muy bien, en mi opinión, y detallan interesantes fenómenos paranormales que claramente fueron muy reales.

• Mis objetivos son pacíficos y amorosos, pero es importante contar las cosas como uno las siente y las percibe. En otoño de 2020 Jaime Carrillo me hizo una entrevista (más extensa que la de Rafael Palacios del 2009, aunque tampoco muy larga), que se puede escuchar en YouTube. (Cometí un pequeño error de vocabulario en esa entrevista con Jaime, al referirme a los seres que cambian de forma como “metamórficos”. Lo correcto según la Real Academia Española es decir que esos seres se metamorfosean: no hay adjetivo (todavía) específico para describirlos, pues el vocablo “metamórficos” se refiere a otra cosa).

PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT LIFE

by Conrado Salas Cano· September 10, 2024

There are some scoundrelly humans in society. I have been taken aback on many occasions by the rascally behavior of humans around me, although I am far from being free of sin myself. I must confess that, on those occasions, I haven’t felt very human myself, although I was born in a human body, with its frustrating limitations. I have (often) been sick and tired of this life, wondering who the hell sent me here. In this regard, I have read Robert Schwartz’s paperback Your Soul’s Plan, and so I am cognizant of the spiritual notion that we as Souls plan our lives, before becoming incarnated in bodies, and I am no longer as skeptical of this notion as I once was; in fact, it makes a lot of sense to me now. It is said also that we as Souls, upon incarnation, forget all the pre-incarnation planning, as well as most or all of our possible previous lives, experiences or incarnations, in order to more intensely live the experience of this present life.

This world seems to be fallen from grace, with its low, unpleasant, chapfallen vibrations. Yet it seems that the whole of Creation may be magically alive and self-organizing. My feeling is that the second law of thermodynamics (which implies relentless overall decay) is in fact false, or at least applies only in entropic regimes, regimes where a positive Creative Consciousness is not in charge.

We can focus the light of consciousness on the great questions of existence. Does our physical body necessarily have to age and die?

I suppose that an intensely conscious presence can see through the illusion of Time. Eckhart Tolle has brilliantly suggested that the burden of time, the weight of a perceived past or an anticipated future, impairs cellular health, but that, with a proper spiritual presence, this burden stops being “accumulated” in one’s psyche and in one’s cells, or at least the rate of this “accumulation” slows down.

Some meditative spiritual practices such as yoga can activate energy flows, possibly drawing them from planes of existence with a somewhat higher vibration. (The term “Higher vibration” is used for these planes because these planes can be visualized as vibrating with a “higher pitched” musical vibration -using a musical analogy-, and being closer to God, so to speak.)

With a proper spiritual presence, combined with these active spiritual practices like yoga and with a proper diet, I suppose that biological ageing and deterioration –senescence- in the cells can be retarded, perhaps much retarded. Could a combination of this sort altogether stop, maybe even reverse, ageing?

It’s already been a few years since I turned 40 -that dreadful age when bodily deterioration is normally expected to gradually start-. I have tried to meditate, have since turning 40 done yoga, and have generally taken care of myself through a proper diet and exercise, but my hair has balded somewhat and I have a couple of gentle wrinkles on my forehead. (I don’t seem to be regrowing my lost hair, even though I have taken finasteride pills against my hair loss).

When it comes to the reasons for bodily death and for ageing, there isn’t just thermodynamics involved but also biology and other factors. Senescence may to a large extent be written in the genes. Of course thoughts and attitudes do play an important role. But we are all intimately connected, and seeing others who are close to one gradually age and senesce can be terribly dispiriting, reinforcing the notion that ageing is an inevitable part of life. And then, since one’s thoughts, ideas and attitudes play a role in the creation of reality through one’s consciousness, adherence to that notion contributes to physically creating further ageing and deterioration at the cellular and organismal level. Fighting ageing through positive affirmations, in the manner suggested by some facile New Age teachings or spiritual coaching advice, would appear to be a losing battle, once one has turned 40 or thereabouts.

It would appear that proper exercise, a bit of meditation and a proper diet, by themselves alone or in combination, can, like being blessed with good genes, only slightly retard ageing. So, barring a tragedy that may prematurely end one’s life, senescence seems to be in the long run inevitable, following maturity, for ordinary individuals, at least for ordinary individuals who have been born human! (a few animal species like some tortoises don’t appreciably age). It appears that senescence will continue being inevitable for ordinary humans until a form of powerful anti-ageing biomedicine, nanotechnology or bioengineering becomes available to most (ordinary) people beyond the few and only slightly effective dietary supplements currently in the market. May this day just be around the corner? Israeli scientists have apparently shown that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (the administration of pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber) can reverse processes related to ageing and elongate telomeres (which shorten with ageing). Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is not cheap, though.

Another, disturbing anti-ageing option, now touted by the rich in Silicon Valley, evokes the legendary or alleged regenerative powers in vampirism and human-blood drinking, is something akin to parabiosis, involves essentially controlled blood transfusions from the young to the old, is riddled with serious medical risks, and calls for ethics scrutiny.

Yet, miracles can happen.

And I said “ordinary” humans before because some individuals appear to be, well, not ordinary,… and I am not referring to individuals who suffer from that exceedingly rare, and apparently genetic, disease which arrests the body’s development causing pathological infantile bodily features, a disease called Neotenic Complex Syndrome. No, Leonard Orr (who has now passed) said he met over eight individuals (mainly yogis in India, I suppose) who had lived past 300 years of age. Pola Churchill, who interviewed Leonard Orr, further claimed that not all of these very long-lived individuals looked old!

And then, Levi Ben-Shmuel, writing for HuffPost, the big American news&opinion website and blog, has claimed to have met a 2,000 year old master at his ashram in India, and Levi says he was struck by how gracefully and easily this master, called Bhartriji Baba, moved. Levi had years of experience with the body in athletics and yet had seldom come across someone with Bhartriji’s vitality.

A paperback by Bob Frissell, tantalizingly titled Something in this book is True…, discovered for me the alleged existence of Mahavatar Babaji, an ageless yogi and saint who can purportedly manifest any body he wants. Haidakhan Babaji, a teacher who appeared in northern India from 1970 to 1984, and who reportedly performed miracles, is said by some to be that same Mahavatar Babaji. In this regard, I must recommend the book that is credited with seriously introducing the supernal figure of Babaji to the West: this book is Paramhansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi.

I think it is safe to say that none of these individuals, if they are indeed so very long-lived or somewhat ageless, have resorted to pharma-based biomedicine, surgery, bioengineering, nanotechnology or hyperbaric treatment (and I also very much doubt that they resorted to vampirism or the drinking or transfusion of human blood). On the contrary, they seem to have somehow activated a latent power of their consciousness or of their holistic being, empowered by yoga probably, and aided possibly by a careful natural diet and also perhaps by a herbal treatment à la Ayurveda. These individuals are exceptionally gifted and have devoted most of their lives to very rigorous ascetic practices, but the benefits of meditation and yoga are clearly open to all.

Jesús Jofre Milà, whom I have met in person and who I think is sincere and not deluded, has chronicled in his book Contacto con Sharhim- Un ser de 5ª dimension (available only in Spanish) that in the 1980s, in the course of an amazing trip to Peru, he met a certain elusive monastic order whose male adepts looked no older than 30. But he saw the passport of one of the adepts and its age was over 90! (There were also three women in that group: one looked younger than 30; another one looked older -but not much older- than 30; and the other, the group’s seemingly clairvoyant leader, also looked older than thirty although she still had a youthful face). In fact, the female leader enigmatically told Jesús she had always been on Earth, which probably meant that she was an immortal. Again, I think it’s safe to say that the members of this monastic order did not resort to vampirism, blood transfusions, pharma-based biomedicine, surgery, bioengineering, hyperbaric treatments or nanotechnology. However, the members of this monastic order did holistically balance the subtle energies of their bodies inducing cellular regeneration,  and, with a spiritual purpose in mind, these monks very much minded their diet, even the colors of the clothes they wore. Once Jesús sat in a circle with these monks and they all started repeating the spiritual mantra “Aum” with fervor, with the conclusion that they all achieved a partial, paranormal or magical, levitation: Jesús says in his book that he levitated although his dangling feet still touched the ground. Later in his life, in 1989, Jesús Jofre Milà also reports having had an amazing personal encounter with a highly evolved and benevolent (angelic, perhaps) being, a tall blonde being with an affable humanoid appearance, but made mostly of energy akin to light. -Jesús says that this being then took him to a mother ship parked way outside the Earth-.

The higher-“pitched” the spiritual vibrations –for lack of a better term- that a plane of existence has, the “higher” and closer it is to God-the-Source-of-All-things (who sits at the pinnacle of Creation); the vibrations of dead physical matter are typically quite low.

In some starry-eyed spiritual circles, there is talk of an incipient worldwide process that is –more or less appropriately- called “Ascension”, whereby the vibrations reached by the consciousness of humans and other life-forms on planet Earth (and possibly elsewhere in our universe too), are said to be undergoing a steady “rise”. This rise is said to be driven, or at least assisted, by a desirable and providential process affecting our solar system (and possibly the rest of our physical universe too). The Earth, along perhaps with the whole universe, is said to be on the eve of a fabulous transformation that will affect its very nature. It is also said that some good souls are working to help this “Ascension” move forward. It is argued that the powers that be and dark forces that want to be in charge of this world are doing all they can to keep the vibrations low, such as by spreading fear. It is further ventured in these spiritual circles that “Ascension” will over time entail changes in some bodies, leading eventually perhaps –at least in some cases- to the body’s transmutation into an (imperishable) body of light or a more “energetic” state, literally glowing with light. Such a transmutation into an imperishable and glowing body of light would, to me, be a most desirable form of bodily immortality.

Jesus Christ is said to have given off a burst of radiant energy at the moment of his Resurrection. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, at that time Jesus Christ attained a so-called glorified body (perfected and impervious to disease and senescence, presumably), and then, at the end of his ministry on Earth, Jesus Christ “ascended” or was taken up (body and soul) to heaven. I personally find this Catholic scenario possible. This heaven may have been a “superphysical” plane of existence, “vibrating” “higher” and closer to God; a place physically above the earth’s surface in the skies; or both. Other prophet-like preternatural individuals may have also been in olden times bodily taken up to “heaven” in a somewhat similar vein, according to various interpretations of the Christian Scriptures and the lore of other faiths. Imagining that a fate not too different from this may soon open up to human beings en masse, a spiritual current within what might be broadly regarded as New Ageism has come up with the generic term “Ascension” to designate what it regards as the impending transformation of Earth and humanity into a new state, where bodies of light and glorified bodies will be commonplace, and where (formerly) human beings might be able to easily travel up –in a sense, be raptured- to “heaven” with their bodies… and/or many aspects of “heaven” may be brought down to Earth. Wondrous paranormal powers, and creation on a macroscopic scale through the power of intention alone, will also have become ordinary, according to a certain (very optimistic) interpretation of this grand Ascension vision. This celestial fate (David Wilcock would probably use the term “apotheosis”) will have been enabled, at least in part, by the cosmically-driven “rise” in vibrations which would have happened of late, and which would presumably perfect and exalt all things, lifting them “higher” and closer to God.

Is “Ascension”, as bandied about in these New-Age-type spiritual circles, real? If it is, the grim realities of everyday life seriously test my hope that I will see glowing bodies of light becoming commonplace during the course of, well…, my lifetime. Nevertheless, a good book to study is Susan Shumsky’s Ascension: Connecting with the Immortal Masters and Beings of Light. I like this book even though it fails at times to successfully tease out plausible historical reality from embellished myth, as it studies the possible instances of Ascension and masterly immortality (or quasi-immortality) in legend and lore.

I think I would like to be ethically rejuvenated, and I am pretty sure that I would like to evolve into a being of light and/or acquire a glorified body (ideally I think I would like to create any body at will!)…, but how would I go about this?.

In November 2017, Jesús Jofre privately transmitted to me what could perhaps be a masterly lesson: he said that I can actually achieve rejuvenation and transmutation through the latent power of my own enlightenment alone, aided only by a careful natural diet and perhaps some proper exercises or practices which my intuition can naturally discover, and, moreover, that for this to happen, I just need to sincerely desire it, cast my desire into the Universe…, and then totally forget about it. If true, this teaching would be fabulous. But I do not sufficiently trust this teaching. Therefore, and since I’d rather not try distasteful or downright ethically questionable practices like the ingestion or injection of human blood, if a safe, principled –and affordable!- form of biomedicine or bioengineering is developed down the line that can be medically shown to extend one’s lifespan with a good quality of life,…, well, then, despite my dislike of most if not all of transhumanism, I guess I will be tempted to try that form of biomedicine or bioengineering, unless, that is, something miraculous happens to me before which gives me the flawlessly youthful body I desire (or think I desire). I have already taken resveratrol-based nutritional supplements which have been approved here in Spain where I live.

Returning to sociology, I feel that efficient and wholesome organization of a society may perhaps not require government as we know it. This may be particularly so if effective and precise telepathic communications become possible on a mass scale. However, my perception is that humans as a whole are still not spiritually ready for the abolition of standard governments. There are still too many scoundrels around. And I have even wondered if humans are ready for the blessings of so-called “free energy" (as extracted from zero-point energy and the like), great paranormal powers or open benevolent ET contact. In my view, these things should happen only as evil disappears from our society.

I hope, probably with justification, that a total global economic crash will not happen. By subscribing to a brighter economic future, we can help create a self-fulfilling prophecy of a positive nature. But, in the times we live, that means saying a big loud “NO” to the 2030 Agenda, which is really about decimating humanity and enslaving us via AI, not about sustainability.

For all the talk there has been about gold as an asset in these times, I still haven't bothered yet to trade any of my money for gold. After all, even the act of trading money for gold takes time and energy which detracts from the value and quality of my life. While I don't discourage the purchase of gold as a personal preparedness measure, I prefer the spiritual gold that results from a successful personal or individual alchemy.

My understanding is that the financial system works by lending fake money, totally or partially fabricated out of thin air with no backing on actual wealth, and then by demanding that the loan be paid back in full with real wealth, plus interest. This certainly seems to be wrong. However, it is virtually impossible these days to work without money or banks, so I am not saying that taking out a loan at some point, if one is in need of such a loan, is wrong! And I don’t like digital currencies: even if they are backed by real wealth -such as gold-, they will probably entail more daily exposure to EMFs (such as those emitted by electronic devices), which irritate me. (And of course, there is the obvious issue of the government’s monitoring of electronic transactions, which is not the case for cash)

Work in a business-as-usual world can be a Monday-thru-Friday cesspit, and so, in such an environment, my view is that physical activity is important, at least as long as our bodies are (mostly) confined to this particular plane of reality, with its often depressing and miserably low rate of vibration. Vigorous physical exercise cleanses the body, energizes one’s outlook, and releases endorphins, which are natural antidepressants. I feel that good health in a hyperconnected, computerized society calls for periodic physical exercise, and also for periodic disconnection from digital electronics and EMFs (such as from Wi-Fi). This kind of detox will continue being important even if free-energy-generating devices become widely available. (I have heard that some of these devices create a general “life-charging” ambience around them). Or, perhaps, in spiritual terms, we will not rightly deserve these free-energy-generating devices while our lives are Ego-driven and attended by shit of various kinds. Feces don’t seem very divine to me, but an organism or being that sustained itself only off air and energy, wouldn’t –I imagine- need to excrete them. As for a body or being literally glowing with light, it could conceivably defecate luminous, physically glowing feces, but somehow I find this unlikely. And as regards a glorified body, like that attributed by the Catholic Catechism to Jesus Christ after the Resurrection, well, I also find the concept of glorified feces hard to envision.

I suppose that, from a final, metaphysical standpoint, we are all God because All is One; however, I find that the Way of Humbleness is the better Spiritual Path. I prefer to think that I am inconceivably insignificant without God. In fact, without God I am truly nothing, I realize. Yet, by surrendering to God, I suppose one aligns oneself with the omnipotent Divine Will behind the Universe, and That is real power.

ME AND EXERCISE

by Conrado Salas Cano · October 25, 2023

I was born in 1975, and, intermittently, I was a runner from about 1990 until 2017.

I took a shot at races until 2013. My personal best in the standard marathon is an official 2:59:33 at the 2010 international Zaragoza marathon, over a course which, if I recall correctly, was certified to be (at least) 42,195 meters long, and had no elevation differential between start and finish. In this race, I inadvertently shaved off a few yards (ten yards at the most) because a couple of gentle curves along the course were not very well signaled, although it is practically certain that I made up for those yards along the rest of the course, for example in the pit stop I was forced to take. I explained this later to the race organizer and he assured me that my time was valid.

Around that time, I produced one or two agonistic training sessions that indicated I had a greater running potential than what that personal best indicates, although this was never translated to an actual race result. In one memorable training session in late 2011, I may have averaged under 4 minutes/km for 20 miles. If I didn’t, then I must have come really close to averaging under 4 minutes/km (or 6:26.24256/mile, I have a weak spot for decimals).

On June 9 2013, I accomplished with some elation, and under bothersome rain, my best valid, official 10 km time, a 38:31, in a pretty flat road race over a properly-measured course with no elevation differential between start and finish.

After that, however, some nagging, persistent right hip pain compelled me to see a doctor, and I was diagnosed with a cam-type femoroacetabular impingement in my right hip. I was told that I hadn’t been born with the ideal hip joint for running. I began to think about trying my hand at a triathlon, where good running is important but is not everything.

On June 17 2014 I had a femoroplasty, and the hip surgery and subsequent rehab went very well. In fact, for months after rehab I seriously contemplated attempting a triathlon, and logged 12 hour training weeks that combined stationary biking, swimming and increasing amounts of running.

But I never actually attempted a triathlon, and, in fact, soon thereafter I began to think that my years of pushing myself hard to be competitive as a stand-alone runner might be over. I clearly didn’t have the genetics to excel as a runner, ever. And I no longer had the motivation to try. Besides, I was too old…, or so would conventional sports physiology dictate.

I had become tired of competition, not just in sport, but in life in general.

In November 2017 a routine X-ray check revealed that the cartilage in my hip joint was all but gone. I was later informed that this was largely, if not entirely, due to a slight congenital malformation. I thought that, for safety, I should refrain from further running, at least until I could magically or biomedically regenerate my hip cartilage! But, even without further running, my hip surgeon’s prognosis was that I could need a prosthetic hip at some point in the distant future. I don’t think this will happen but, since November 2017 until early March 2023, I only did the vigorous exercise that made me feel better while avoiding too much impact on my hip joints (that is, swimming and riding the stationary-bike, for the most part). In a non-vigorous way, and with a more spiritual orientation, I have done a little bit of very basic yoga (when I try yoga, I have to adapt some asanas to the condition of my hip).

In March 2023, I was diagnosed with a hernia. I successfully underwent surgery to fix the hernia after which I did practically no exercise for a month in order for the scar of the surgery to heal and for the mesh that has been installed inside my body to perfectly settle. Now I am back to exercising. And, in fact, on October 24, 2023 I was told by a trauma specialist that, since I have felt no pain in my hips since 2017, I can try resuming running, with caution.

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