The Heavy Stuff

Hello, welcome to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - thanks for visiting. Recently, THS has been examining what I call the `cracks’ in the reality structure. I’ve noted in my last post (Anomalous Realities - The Cosmic Crack http://theheavystuff.com/?p=117) two examples of such `reality cracks’ that seem to allow `perceptions’ that are non-ordinary. The two examples, which I’ve talked about often, were the appearance of `physical’ Doppelgangers `into’ our so-called normal reality consensus - and - the `physical reality’ that is shared by people who underwent Mutual Hypnosis under Dr. Charles Tart in the 1960’s (and one would assume afterwards - but the searches for mutual hypnosis are quite bare).

My so-called `take’ on the `paranormal’, I find, is quite different from others who are interested in or who are `experiencers’ of the `non-ordinary states’ which include non-ordinary perceptions. To begin with, I am not religious in any normal sense of the word; I was raised Atheist, and am an Agnostic. Therefore, perhaps, my access to `structures of perception’ that seem to include everything from Saints, Angels, Guardians - to Jesus and the Devil himself - has never revealed any of `it’s’ (religions) paranormal perception structure to me.

BUT, as you know, deep believers - and even those occasionally NOT believers - have claimed to have had `visions’ (perceptions) which include everything from `God sent’ miracles (show me a sign) to `actual’ appearances of these iconic `beings-entities’. Indeed, looking at a list of such non-ordinary events would put these `structures of being’ IN OUR `so-called REAL reality of ordinary consensus’ - AND - put HUMANS `INTO’ `their religious rhelm’ (I was sitting at Jesus’s feet).

Likewise, at least to me, the same can be said of those that `experience’ a Bigfoot - or - some other UNKNOWN entity that seems to have and be of a `temporal character’ only. (I’m always reminded of Husserl at this point, with his chapter title - The Transformation Of Ideas Through Temporal Characters http://theheavystuff.com/?p=74.) Obviously, Ghosts(in at least one sense), Gremlins, Stickmen, Mythical Beasts, Fairies and others fall into the same phenomena. (Is it too hard for esoteric thinkers of my website to understand that these entities would be virtually identical to Doppelgangers - in a phenomenology sense?)

Which brings me to another ontological crack of phenomenology - the so-called - missing time experience; one of the memes of the whole `alien abduction’ experience. And, as my regular readers may remember - I’ve blogged about this in my highly original post on THS called `The Missing Space Of Missing Time Experiences’ - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=25 - AND, while I have alluded to it before - I have had a `missing time’ experience(s) with two other people who experienced the same time loss (as we were all together). (If you go to the first post of this website I tell that I’ve had wo-wo experiences of many types - only slowly am I revealing them - as frankly, to me, it’s the `structure of the non-consensus realities’ that is of more interest to me.) This mutual `special consensus, non-ordinary event’ `left NO footprint’ of phenomenology in any of our consciousnesses - and yes, once, many years later (and about 5 years ago) I underwent `hypnosis’ to see if any data could be uncovered from my brain. (I am told that I can’t be hypnotised.)

(What motivated this post was that recently on the internet a man with `real time alien abductions which involved missing time’ was featured (interviewed) for a paranormal website - which over and over - seems to find `galatic warnings’ hovering around every paranormal event horizon. ———— What’s my point? My point is that the `interpretation’ of non-ordinary events is often skewed to what one expects to find. After-all, it would be pretty boring if `missing time’ recall was of `nothing at all’ - like mine. It also helps that I think a large majority if not ALL `apocalyptic messages’ may simply have another possibility more related to `consciousness’ than to `real alien warnings’ - http://theheavystuff.com/?p=132 - `A Twist To `Aliens’ Showing Us OUR Apocalypse’ ).

Finally, as `boring’ as Phenomenology is to most folks - it just may answer the riddles of events such as described above today in this post. Indeed, recently, I became aware of a new Phenomenology Philosopher, Alexis Jardines - who has concepts such as “actual-virtual correlations” - which I can fit hand in hand with my own Phillips Phenomenology Ideas http://theheavystuff.com/?cat=5.

Lastly, some of all this may even fit a Sartre idea on Phenomenology called `Doing and Having’ — yes, doing and having. How you ask? Well, he makes an interesting distinction about `things’ that `one creates’ - such as a poem, essay, (blogpost) - or -even a cane out of a piece of wood; that somehow, OUR creation of this `thing’ - ties it TO US in an ontological manner (yet it stands alone) in our common consensus reality we all experience. Well, how about the `creation by us’ that is not tied to common consensus?

More links of interest.
Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics)
Husserl’s Phenomenology (Cultural Memory in the Present)

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