Lately I feel trapped. The phrase "You were born in the wrong era" haunts me. There's this restless need deep in my chest to explore horizons. When I'm going down the 75, or the country backroads, I have to fight then restrain my urge to yank the car over and run through the fields. In a world that's charted, catalogued, and claimed it's hard to feed this need.
As a child, I turned to books. I'd escape into someone else's adventure for a few hours at a time, nurturing a wish to have one of my own. When people asked "What do you want to do when you grow up?" I had to bite down my true answer: that I wanted to have adventures. That I wanted to see the world and find myself.
It wasn't until high school that I began catching glimpses. I knew that the narrow Evangelical worldview I grew up with was just that--narrow. But it wasn't until a Summit Ministries conference in L.A. the year of Obergefell that I collected my first shred of hard evidence.
This section is dedicated to my "woo-woo" experiences and explorations. These days it seems like everyone and their para-socials have material to report here, so I'm gonna do it too! The following are essays, research, and musings on psi phenomena, spiritual encounters, and spooky stuff.
To be clear, I am not claiming that I have exclusive access to universal truth, that I am qualified to directly speak on the "hard" sciences, or that I have any kind of specialist knowledge. I am but a man living in a machine's world.
But I can say that I have excellent research skills; that I reason deeply; and that I write clearly.
The world is a much much more complicated environment than we are led to believe. The "hard" sciences tend to exaggerate how much we understand. This is not to say that there is nothing we know (or can know), but rather to gently remind us that science is a new invention. It has evolved good conventions and gives us powerful tools to make a better living. Its powers put us on the moon and have cured deadly diseases.
Science is also a toddler.
Or, perhaps, a teenager because science encourages an arrogant mindset: "We already know how that works. Duh, Mom."
The moment we claim to know the world we doom ourselves to ignorance.
Remote Viewing Experiments
Remote Viewing (RV) is a psi-powered phenomenon that was used by the CIA in the 70s to spy on the Soviets (and likely still used today). The process was perfected by physicists Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff. In my experience, RV is the easiest psi skill to play with. You can find my own explorations in the form of audio recordings here.