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Avoiding the Pitfalls
on the UFO Trail
Sheryl Gottschall
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Over the years
I have listened to and read stories based on hearsay, gossip,
scandals, fuzzy thinking, disinformation, illogic, clouded
reasoning and out and out lies about the UFO phenomenon.
Unfortunately I have to report that most of this was reported
by the UFO community at large. There is a whole lot of garbage
out there folks and because of a lack of discernment it keeps
getting passed around. A halt to this perpetuation needs to be
called for if we are ever going to shed some light on the
mysterious subject of UFOs. It can prove to be quite a
challenge to differentiate between truth and illusion.
I have had my
fair share of this to deal with too and over time I have
developed a system that seems to work, at least for me, in
keeping me on track in this mine field that we constantly wade
through. Here are a few suggestions that I hope prove helpful
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Don't be
frightened into believing something. If someone told you that
the world was going to end tomorrow so you had better do "so
and so" today then you would be far more easily manipulated
into doing it through your fear of the imminent happening.
Through your fears you can be made to pay attention to a lot
of garbage. Be aware!
Don't become
someone else's mouthpiece. Test and assess all information
before integrating it otherwise may just be giving up one set
of badly thought out information for another.
Does the
information "ring" true to you. We use this phrase along with
"strike a chord" in our daily vocabulary yet most of us don't
give it a second thought. It truth has a particular vibration
that attracts us to other knowledge of a similar ilk. We are
drawn to it and when we hear or read something that doesn't
have that same "ring" or vibration to it we recognize this and
usually disregard it. Check if your bell went off.
Do your own
research by backtracking information. When you hear a speaker
or read a book, do they give the source of their material so
you can do your own research? If not is this a hindrance and
if so why didn't they include it? When people quote biblical
scriptures I usually go back and check the original and find
they have (a) placed their own interpretation on it and (b)
taken it completely out of context.
Develop your
analytical abilities. Read background material such as the
sciences or any other area that will give you the tools to
pull something apart and put it back together again. For
example, if you read a book claiming that the greenhouse
effect was a hoax you may study some earth sciences material
that may satisfactorily disprove the claims of the other book.
This way you broaden your appreciation of information (or lack
of it) by becoming self educated.
Let things
prove themselves. If authors keep giving dates for events to
occur and they don't, how long are you going to keep taking
notice of them. Wake up!
How does the
information make you feel. When I read or hear something of
great value my body recognizes it at an energetic level. It is
empowering, expanding, and washes over and through me like a
golden light. This is real soul food and is always the truth.
En-lighten-ment. The Aha experience! Understand that there are
two types of truth. Truth is like a great river with many
tributaries. My life, one tributary, takes a different course
to yours, another tributary, yet we both have the same source
and hold the same content as the original source. What is my
personal truth is not necessarily the same as your personal
truth but our personal truths are part of a greater truth. My
personal truth may be that UFOs are made from metallic
substances and your personal truth may be that they are a form
of bio-technology, made from biological substances and grown
like plants. The greater truth is that "something" else exists
in the universe besides us. Our personal truths serve us as
individuals on our path but both truths are heading us towards
the same realization. We need to create tolerance of other's
truths.
Use your
intuition. If you feel little alarm bells going off in your
gut, or anywhere else for that matter, then pay attention.
Your intuition is your best friend. It always serves your best
interests and whether it states politely or yells from the
rooftops "warning, warning!!" you better listen.
Does this
information/speaker disperse and divide me from others. Anyone
who is intent on telling the truth and is acting with higher
motivation will not want to set you against others. Turning a
group of UFO people against scientists, the government or
military will not serve any purpose except to create even more
division. We need to break down the barriers so there is no
longer an "us" versus "them" attitude. True they may have not
served the public well in this field but who let them get away
with it?
Are you seeking
a form of escapism? People seek to escape reality because life
is too harsh, too tough, too boring, too negative, too
materialistic, too limiting. Escapism occupies our attention
through illusion and leads nowhere. I have seen people strain
with hopes and wishes for the earth to be obliterated because
they fear and loathe humanity and what it "seems" to have
become.
They want to be
saved by aliens and whisked off whilst the aliens clean up the
mess that humans have created. Guess what? It ain't gonna
happen! Ask yourself "do I seek the company of aliens because
I hate humans so much?" This loathing of the human condition
is created from a sense of feeling alienated from the world
around us. Is violence (earth in upheaval) really the only
tool for transformation left for us on this planet. Far from
it. You need to go on a diet from negativity for awhile. Stop
reading the papers and watching the news!!!
Are you
attached to the glamour of being an "insider". How many people
have I seen do this. People think that because they know
"something" that others don't that they are smarter, brighter,
more intelligent, and in the know than anyone else. There is a
certain glamour in the UFO community that attracts others who
are looking for some glamour in their own lives. To an
outsider it can seem exciting, mysterious, adventurous and
even courageous. However if the truth be known, it might be
about 5% like that and the rest is damn hard work.
Do I have an
agenda? Is someone giving me just what suits my own private
agenda - making me "special", allowing me "off the hook",
giving me an "out", serving my "prejudices". If so it is not
likely to be the truth.
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