In life sciences this always feels like a oxymoron of sorts.the phrase invasive species.especially in paleontology. because there is clear evidence that what would classify as an invasive species ended up carrying the flag of the major forms of life existing all throughout earth’s history. surely, it comes down to the idea that at one time every species alive must have classified as invasive. take australia, which fascinates me no end, due to the fact that it seperated and kept the largest indegineous population of marsuipials on earth. then humankind on a revist from the past brings rodentii and dogs. hard to think of dogs as invasive isnt it. but they were and due to the feral packs affectionately called dingos. they are. no less invasive then the walking catfish that swarm in rogue packs through some florida towns eating everything they can manage ravenously.then there are the africanized bees. which are held in check by competition mostly. which they excel at eliminating.picture that a single africanized queen merely has to invade a honey bee nest and viola, all the normal honey bees die off and are replaced by africanized agressive bees. it is almost like a horror story of a hermit crab that has an attitude taking over the shells and forcing the occupants to become them. somewhat unimaginable.

invasive though is always referred mostly by humans trying to maintain the garden of proverbial Eden manifestation of what is proper. they (humans) think they can see the future, forgetting of course that the earth ‘thinks’ in terms of millions of years. what may be a naturual progression of a species into another enviroment can be mistakenly viewed and maybe often is, as invasive. realistically i would wager a parsite type of animal as invasive. easily we can imagine the validity of that statement.but would we consider a beaver invasive? it must be, it pretty much changes everything that lives around it. how about a cuckoo bird. with its unique adoption behavior.killing of the true young birds in the nest of the alternate species of bird and then somehow fooling the much smaller adult birds to feed it. would that classify as invasive. i speculate that it probably would be. when viewed objectively.

some of the nitchze afficiandos may argue that we ourselves are invasive , highly and gravely more powerful then any other species on earth. this is however questionable. you see, it is not our nature to be that way. as foraging nomads we travelled all over, being highly successful in even our preancestory. in a way, we only became seemingly invasive when we began to copy the behaviors of what would be apparently true invasive species. irrigation , a tool for beavers, enabled alot of the problems we have now in modern times to exist.though , since it is not at heart what we are about or in our nature. i would argue that no, we are not invasive, just not really adapted to being the species of human that lives in large populations.

lionfish are a species that invade in the reefs and deep sea around florida. they have no naturual predator there. which is ironic, because we simply killed off the animal that would gladly have taken care of the situation.sharks. so sharks, in large numbers are seen as invasive. because, they interefre with the fisherman’s catch. the question becomes really intresting. one could declare the cicada and its phenomanal cycle of life as being highly invasive. except there is so much ecology that depends on that time of mating.which brings us back to trying to understand what classifies as invasive.

in paleontology it is hard to even remotely recognize an invasive species. after all the world was shaped differently land wise and as a result many types of animals fossils appear in places that would normally not make much sense. the celocanth, which by all accounts must have been a reef like adapted fish has now moved to the trenches and deeper waters. this would make that anceint fish an invader.wouldnt you think?

the real problem is, what enables invasive species to occur.we like to lay claim that we , in our magnificent way have once again been the bad guy in this dept. but really, honestly, our contribution to true invasive species is hardly even worth mentioning.the whole invasive concept is a survial trait and is very real and practiced across species of every life. an example is probably corn, which has an enamel that makes it hard to full digest. it does taste good though, many animals eat it. they carry it then it is discard through the waste.pretty much anywhere the host went. complete with fertilizer.cant get more invasive then that i woud think. but what an amazing strategy.

in the earth’s history, like i pointed out with the marsupials in australia, there are many different takes on the story.for example there is this kind of graph map. that was once created to show the limits the earth’s primates will go south and north along the equator.yet, primates are highly succesful. that means even with the high competition,somehow primates won the territory,by being an invasive species.so, in my opinion, i think there has to be more research on what truly qualifies as invasive.

you never know we may be messing up a pre-stage of evolution.

at what point realistically would a sucessful species be considered a invasive one?

the wolves were an invasive species to eurpoe from north america, the humans were invasive for a large part of the prey that lived. we ate out the last remaining giant sloths, then in the 12 century ate all th elarge birds that were the staple of the larest winged bird in modern times.van haast eagles. it would seem that realistically, that every single species of animal on earth is an invasive species of sorts. even the koala bear and even rabbits (as any farmer would tell you). what makes them invasive is the monetary loss.slightly different perspective for something that wouldnt be there if something wasnt going down.the fact that life adapts and well none of the prehistoric invasive species prevented the advent of humankind. sometimes if left alone, things just work.

friend: this is the book i got on sharks. it is a kid book about them but it has information i want to see if you agree with.

me: i only know about fossil stuff so i don’t know how i can help. but sure whatever, shoot.

friend: sharks can be found in all types of ocean and even fresh water such as the Mississippi river.

me: uh, it isn’t really like that.(she looks at me like a fisherman that has caught her fish)

friend: how so? what does it mean the river anyways?

me: well, ok the best way to think of sharks is by imagining the rain forest. you have the upper, mid and bottom canopies. you would be safe in saying that sharks persist in all of them. actually can survive in multi levels, by interchanging between the three. kind of like a snake in the amazon that lives in the trees. some don’t really even go to the ground. the whole life can work in the trees. same with sharks. the river , i am not sure if the Mississippi had any. at least not naturally there, doesn’t really make sense. 

friend: why? it says it can live in fresh water like the Mississippi. (she shows me the first line first chapter of the book. to the side is a picture of a oceanic blue. beautiful shark).

me: well ok the way the fresh water thing works is like this. lets say there is a great flood of sorts. the river that empties out into the ocean is teeming with the potentially good source of food. some sharks will follow that river in. the one in jaws, the great white. it actually did go into the river system at the new jersey island. hunting for food, following the river in. i think two or three people lost their lives in that river inlet alone. as for the fresh water type, that is typically a bull shark. which doesn’t go north. it goes south. from the gulf of mexico. one year there was a few of them that somehow ended up the other side, at California. which aside from being unique enough began to attack swimmers. the first recorded one in the media was this incredible tale, about how a guy rescued his young niece from a 4 or 5 footer, then after getting her to shore went back out and beat the shark crazily to try and reclaim the limb the shark had bitten off. he managed to do that and she was rushed to the hospital and apparently it was all good timing, as she still has the limb. according to the media at the time.

friend: so it was a bull shark? that lives in fresh water? what about the great white you mentioned? how come it went up the river how did it survive?

me: in the fresh water you mean?

friend :yea if it is a deep sea fish like you described before, how did it survive?

my eyes blinked blankly for a few seconds. before i submitted to once again being tasked with explaining stuff about biology.

me: well, the only real difference between fresh water and salt is the sodium percentage. the shark lives in the ocean, where there is a over abundance of salt. so it doesn’t really store any in it’s tissue.whereas, fresh water fish, store tons in their tissue in an effort to make up for the deficient. it really has nothing to do with the breath-ability or spurious ability to go between the two water types. the great white just wouldn’t be able to live very long of a life span.matter of weeks may not be so bad.

friend: i see…

she points at a picture of the hammerhead shark. reading there is something like 150 or so species of shark. ‘i thought there was more’ she said.

me:’there is, sharks are a huge collective. one of the last remaining forms of cartilaginous fish still alive. i think there are only two more other lines. one is a lamprey i think and the other is like i think saw-fish. i cant remember if they bunch skates and rays into the shark one or not. but they belong too. dogfish are the oldest representation of sharks.i love them they are neat. they cover all over and one of the smallest fish is a dogfish.’..i pointed at the hammerhead picture. ‘that shark is a perfect example of the way sharks have evolved. like from where they came from and as a existing advancement from the original lifeforms. do you know why hammerheads have that shape? ‘

she made a few pretty intelligent guesses.

i smiled then explained.’no , they are almost like the go between skates and rays, the head has electric and motion sensing nerves along the ridge. basically it is like a metal detector at a beach. they go along the sea bottom, waving their head over the ground, trying to sense for prey under the silt. this is basically how sharks began, as the medium spot of the ecological food chain in the devonian. there was a massive predator fish at the time that basically owned top dog billing. so, you see, like other fish, the shark adapted a school form of protection. in order to look big, against the predators that preyed on them. the hammerhead is the only shark that still really demonstrates this ability. by travelling huge schools. though , they are pretty big fish, you can only imagine what they were against…’

she looked at me.’things against sharks? really?’

me: hell yea, the ocean during the dinosaur times was full of top notch hunters.sharks didn’t really get into the upper branch till the big rock did it’s thing. the competition before that was too much.actually, ironically it was the sea reptiles that had that whole scene under wraps. the moasaur and pleisasaur.elasmosaur..you name it. even the crocodiles had a good fix on things at that time. sharks were like nomadic hunters, almost like what i would call the cat version of the ocean. the movies you see of the shark frenzy, where you will see the reef sharks spiraling and chasing the prey object up is akin to the same feeding behavior you see in seagulls. however, what happened was, after the dinos died out and the Oligocene came in, there was really no competition left. only the perciformes or boney fish. who mostly stuck around the fresh water and eventually over took all forms of the cartilaginous types. the grouper is an example of one form that has managed to survive. but, by that time, like mid Holocene, we had a new comer, megalodon, which theoretically could still be around. as they found a fresh none fossilized tooth of one , while trawling the sea bottom a few years back. very exciting stuff really.

friend: there are dinosaur sharks still around?

me: well pretty much that is synonymous when it comes to sharks to begin with.there were some pretty bizarre forms at the beginning, but generally speaking, once a shark always a shark is pretty much the point of thumb. though, to be honest there is no real way of telling.

friend: don’t the fossils show that?

me: no, unfortunately, we only have their teeth. the cartilage didn’t fossilize. so it is all guess work.

she sat quiet then asked how do we even know what they looked like then?

me: well, look at the hammerhead’s tail, what do you see?

friend: well it is almost even like a whales tail only up and down.

me: right and what else? anything else? (she shook her head no) ok, i thumbed through the book finding a six gill shark. what do you see here? she commented that the lower tail fluke was smaller.

i flipped back and forth between the pictures and then explained. 

see how the backbone ends in the middle of the tail of the hammerhead? that means this shark is pretty modern. maybe around the time of the advent of mammals. which is interesting, but anyways, see how the tail of the six gill has the backbone actually making up the top part of the tail but the bottom part is flesh? this is an example of ancient shark. dogfish show this tendency as well. hence they are one of the oldest forms of shark in existence, some skates have this and the angelfish, which is as close to a skate a shark can get without being an actual skate, has the same feature. there is also as you notice a different amount of gills on some of these then the modern ones. so going by this, we can assume that the length of the back bone as it reached the tip of the tail in some represented the size of the fluke. sharks are very adapted for the water, having never left the ocean for land. it isn’t hard to imagine what it would have looked like. even know, we have only the teeth, we can identify the teeth, then use this concept to re-image what it may have looked like. see that whale shark? it is modern, because of the tail. notice the spots? do you know what they are for? that is so it can look like a school of small fish.

she said: i thought they only eat plankton?

me:they do primarily but i have seen footage where one used that camouflage to lure a whole school of small schooling fish near it and it swallowed them all up.

she was silent. once a shark, always a shark i said.

we went through the book and i explained what i could. at the end i was frustrated, why don’t they tell the kids the stuff i know i asked. she said well they are just introducing sharks to kids, you know, i said, there is no point in not giving the details to little kids.what do they hope to achieve? information she said. i asked about sharks? or our stupid need to constantly misinform about them?

i said as long as they keep denaturing and misleading people and misinforming what chance do the sharks have?

Archaeology is one of the more fantized aspects of anthropology, we all imagine dr jones racing through the jungle with the anthromorhpic monkey statue in hands being held to his breast like a linebacker on a mad sprint. real archeology however is affectonately called the science of garbage. which is really what it is and if you ask me , a lot more fun. but i am funny that way i guess. the real indiana jones would be making a made dash through the sahara desert from the marauding nomads, while carrying a contaner of freshly aquired ancient, long since dried fruit pits and seeds. yep, the miracle would be how did the clams get this far and what purpose did these shells serve since they were piled seperately from the animal bones. rather fascinating adventure, even know i made it up. i kind of want to try to figure it out. this is the joy of real archeology, ancient trash. believe me, it is absolutely exciting to find stuff that has been thrown away or discard by anceint prehumans.but he goes after idols and goes into tombs of famous people and he has a whip. yes, he is more or less a tomb-raiding historian then a true archeologist. archeology deals mostly with before written history. this places the entire indiana jones movies at questionable authority.rule of thumb, if it is during written history and more importantly dealing with any single individual of history or of historical relevance. it is not really archeology. so what is archaeology?

here is an example of real archaeology. there was a digsite , which i cant seem to find online at the moment, of neandrathal. i think it was in the mid east. where they found the discarded skulls and broken bones cast away a considerable distance from the cave openings. this was a neandrathal site so, it became more interesting when around the entrance to the caves, they found seed husks and other types of vegetation refuse. what of it? why is this like that? big question.. much thought… then suddenly the realization that neandrathals have a social hierarchy and the organs and skulls ( as well as the bone marrow) was eaten by the males. the females and the children were eating the seeds and vegetation. they were not of the same social order as the males. so the whole discovery was that there was a male oriented culture that existed in neandrathal that is reflected even in the feeding behaviors. that is like finding the ark of the covenant. totally mind blowing to consider.

 so as you consider that real archaeology is the science of ancient garbage, you start to arrive to various conclusions. that being that one person’s garbage is another person’s treasure.which is really the whole aspect of the concept. look at it this way, if you were an archaeologist from some far off future , investigating the refuse of this century, what would you see? brand name articles of the same objects and commodities. you would see for instance two rival milk companies claiming that their own milk is 100 percent pure but theirs taste better. which is realistically impossible. so why would we see this? because of trade, and trade is where the major part of ancient archaeology is priceless.trade in some form or the other existed long before sapiens and long before agriculture. so to learn and investigate trash or refuse of the ancient peoples and to discover a trash object to them, is to learn great amounts about how their culture and social behavior works. what the people were like, how they saw the world. long before the advent of agriculture caused us to create language to keep tallies of merchandise debt.

 an example of this is when humanity was still primarily a foraging hunter and had some horticulture tendencies thrown in for good measure. horticulture is like having a garden but you don’t water it and it pretty much grows in the wild. it wasn’t uncommon for one tribe leader to offer access to a field of some desired fruit or seeds as form of gift. the bigger the gift a tribal leader gave, the better the relations were with the other tribe. even some of the native american Indians preformed a similar thing by trying to out do each other by giving the best gift. so look at it this way, it was like being given the most exquisite gold necklace by a chief. what this does is increase the prestige of yourself to other tribe members. however it is not because you got the necklace, it is because you have received such a wonderful gift by the higher esteemed gift giver. so you would walk around showing off the necklace and showing that you have strong relationship with the respected gift giver.agriculture of course has changed a lot of this, but the need to show you have contact with a higher level elite in the group sense is displayed by the need to have the highest esteemed object. which is claimed to be in use by highly esteemed individuals. by obtaining objects that rich or high officials have , it looks like you have a connection to them. 

 in modern times this has changed drastically to being just the owner of an expensive article. the meaning as it had in the past is hardly ever if even remotely passed on.now one would think such an elaborate system of trade and its meaning back then would have to have some way of being understood and practiced. you would for instance have to demonstrate a connection with more then one tribe. language was certainly a barrier so, the natives in north america utilized a form of sign language which aided in the communication of what is worth and what is not and how to get it.this universal language is pretty unique for the natives in north america and not really found in other places of the world. yet, trade and it’s meaning existed pretty much globally at some point. so, how did they communicate? 

 if you investigate tribes and people world over one thing stands out really plain. string games. practically every race and nationality has an example of them. they are simply games that are used to tell stories by making loops of strings appear like the subject at hand. it was practiced everywhere and still exists to this day. though it is considered a kid’s game now, it was at one time a way of communicating complex stories and ideas to goups of people regardless of age and sometimes language. so in archaeology, string games are a fossilized cultural practice that exists to this day, whose meaning and purpose is completely separated and not fully recognized for it’s true purpose.how far back does this go? the inuit claim to have a string game that depicts a mammoth. when it comes to archaeology and it’s true use, we would never know this at all, if we were like indiana jones. focusing on only historical figures and objectives. there would be this undeniable question of how was this trade achieved so effectively that stone age tribes have fashion buried with them.incredible workmanship and creativity with materials that require skill. all because ideally they want to show that they were the receiver of a gift from an honored figure.

 squirrels are interesting animals. they do what they do without question and from what we gather, enjoy it. they fulfill what the species of squirrel does as it meant for on the earth with uncommon diligence and vigor. no questioning what a squirrel is, we have a saying that goes pretty much into the gist of squirrel-dom ,  we squirrel things away for later use. so, when we watch them we see the entirety of what they are meant to do, being preformed effectively and nonstop, they are the species squirrel. now, there is a problem with the idea of species when it comes to humans. we know we are a species. this cant be argued against effectively by the religious practices of denial, unfortunately for them  medicine and my beloved science anthropology/paleontology has pretty much forced them to resort to the what begot the amino acid as a last ditch effort to prove some miraculous superiority over the rest of the animal kingdom. words cant describe what goes through me when i encounter a person that will ,with great emotive and authority denounce anything regarding the science of anthropology or for that matter anything within the realm of zoology as pertinent to our existence. honestly, i just kind of stand there dumbstruck that such a mentality should exist in modern times, within the metropolis and with all the technology which is an application largely of anthropology ..shape of chairs even. it can really set a person back.

 anyways, superstition and wild theories is our thing isn’t it? i mean did we really believe in a tooth fairy? not sure, we just knew that if we went along with it, good things happen. 

 so, we have the species of human. this is a no-brainer statement. if you went up to someone and said what species are we, they would quip off the sapiens part easily enough. feeling satisfied that yes, we are separated by monkeys by name and that generally they are a whole different bag of marbles, although the similarities reprove our separation drastically more then our species traits. fine. i can go with this too, in fact i am not really different when it comes to this part of being human. i once asked someone what the one main question they would ask an alien species would be. you know, i have actually asked a few people this. they all have metaphysical and other social requests regarding the alien. when it is my turn, no matter what i do, i always come to the same exact question. for some reason, my logic always works the stuff out, can you help us..are you/we compatible etc etc… it always comes to one real question. i have only one. from this one i can figure everything i need out.

do you forget your animal like me?

 this is the the problem with us as a species. we forget we are a species. no problem with squirrels, i expect a squirrel to act a certain way and well, yea it does. but humans, we think we understand species and then somehow forget it. we forget that we have drugs in our bodies that enhance the bonding effect. that it was evolved over millenia , to permeate the non physical trait of culture. we forget that even if we think it is not affecting us, we are a species and this is a real thing in our species. there is no avoiding it. so, we see that interesting balance, between human mental constriction of i am not affected by it, not really understanding that the very energy to deny it is actually an expression of it. we sit around dazed and confused, because , humans will not allow themselves to be animals. 

 it is hard isn’t it? try to do this as an experiment. try to go through a day, constantly reminding yourself that you are a species of animal. try to watch your reactions and your behaviors as if they were you watching a squirrel just doing it’s thing. watch where you mind goes. it is hard. we tend to abandon it after what a person , individual would call a good effort. but strangely, we think that if we abandon it, it is gone.hence, we do not understand species,  not at all.  i suppose one would wager this as the source of problems around the world. laying claim that as a species we are warrant to act a certain way and so on. truth is, as a species we are not all that bad. not very aggressive against the earth at all. we became that way when we slowly became independent of the nature. then, that weird egomaniac mindset sets in. we began to force the mental image of what we think is real into the environment. now we see skyscrapers, buildings that at anytime, can potentially hold drastically more people in one place , than would be realistically possible. we consider this progress by the way. it is that whole bonding thing, you know..more the merrier?

 our species is fascinating.not by our mental application of our traits, but the traits and the story behind them. why we stand erect, why we see in stereoscopic, why we have complex vocalizations, the amazing dexterity of the primate mind using the miracle of our hands and the mind that is able to abstractly communicate things that do not even exist in the immediate environment. we are stunning. as a species, there has never been anything like us. but, as a species we practice defying our nature more then any other animal alive. present or extinct. 

which leads to curious conditions doesn’t it? 

 squirrels , they are perfect for what they do because, they do it. we on the other hand, have complete knowledge of what we are, what our species is, can use that as a convenient excuse for otherwise pleasure seeking behavior, but really.. we never do fully accept it. so between the two, one has a purpose and a valid effect the other has no clue what it’s purpose is and further has no idea how to prevent it’s very real effect. take a guess which one is which. maybe, we should start from base one. first, we should understand what species really is, then, apply what we understand towards the earth.you never know, we may give the squirrels a run for their money.

 steven greer is an interesting figure in the foyer of the ‘look at me’ types in the field of ufology. i watched his documentary yesterday called Sirius and was forced to intermittently pause and restart it in an effort to keep my companion both up to date with ideas and to relieve both of us from the shockarama of the visuals he had placed into the video. honestly not much of what he placed in the video visually was actually required or for that matter relevant. this got me curious as to his game. slowly i began to formulate what it is  that i recognize as wrong with that vision of the universe. how he portrays the essence of the ufo phenomena is both creepy and fully of mangled dissent. i kept finding myself doing a psyche profile on him every time a section was displayed. he, is troubled. it is obvious. 

 i mean absolutely no ill vision towards him. but honestly i am thinking of his message. which remains vaguely despot and displaced. with the infomercial mannerisms almost being as comical as a french mime overdosed on both caffeine and passion, you an see the painted face. it is weird. but more to what i see in him is this problem. so i find myself today motivated to speak to steve in the ethernet. i feel this need to explain something to him and you readers.

 there was a big mistake made in the 70′s. an agency that represented the divorced advancement of the human race and it’s vision of a grander future committed an act of potential terrorism, both beyond rational perception and beyond any form of rectifying , that we are all forced to just sit and wait.the potential of disaster is beyond anyone’s even my own imagination. we are at the mercy of fate. the agency, was nasa. the act was letting out two deep space probes, named voyager. the conflict is a map and visual description of both our technology state and well, what kind of animal life we are. nasa sent this billboard out without doing the one thing that remains dauntingly serious about this whole potential contact thing . nasa did not ask the earth for permission to place us, humanity, collectively , at risk.

 i am sorry, but this is the truth. i have wondered about it since it was done. the only real aspect of it that is worthwhile is that is shows exactly how subterfuge and other aspects of the industrial overlords can be and get away with this. they began popping out strikingly wondrous photos of planets that had been witnessed only by telescope before.rejoiced in new found knowledge and scientific inquiry and pretty much expanded our vision of the universe beyond all satiation. we want more and more. but, you can color a wolf all you want, make it look like an amiable rabbit, the point is, they have placed us at extreme risk. how this plays out, is a matter of time. it always will be, it always was.

 i know it sounds dismal, forgive me of that, i am not really a conspiracy dismal type. i merely point out the truth.

so, we have, in one stroke of awe inspiring genius more or less made our footsteps into the cosmos, being careful to keep our footpath clear. which is fine. what is done is done. we have leaped into the ocean with the sharks and we are out of our element. it is what we are best at.

 thing is, i think, i feel, i believe that many people including steven greer, have the whole concept wrong. i think that they do not understand how it really works in a universal sense. when, you watch these documentaries and you investigate some of the literature, all you see is conspiracy this and conspiracy that. how apparently so and so did this and big question of that . the vagueness is intended here, because , you see, it means nothing. it is only scared monkeys chattering about the suddenness of lightning. the sudden flash, the sound  and the recognizable effect it had on the area of strike. fear and unknowing, lack of control and question of motive. but it is tossed back and forth between us humans. it really goes no further.

 david hume once tried to prove existence of god or an alien life (all in how you see it), he created a cast of characters in a thought experiment. there was the skeptic, the believer and the indifferent. he used this to manifest an ability to uncover truths through the logically envisioned chat the characters had. i cant say that he was successful, he had to eventually make an allowance for the idea of faith, which ultimately would hand the winning wreath to the believer and therefore secure the validity of the entities existence. that tv show, ufo hunters, believe it or not, i only watched it once. guess what i saw? hume’s experiment being acted out. that is all.

 so, we have monkeys acting out the flash of lightning that was in the savanna. it becomes customized and by doing so, falls into locke’s concept of thought. we eventually claim ownership, individually of the phenomena and the actual event. all of this at first , is an attempt to understand it. but it goes in weird directions when resolution is not found. things go far out of the essence of the actual topic at hand.strange rituals will be made up and nearly neo-aztec sacrifice is made for no real progression, no real understanding, except basically that we are a bunch of monkeys scared of lightning.

 i do not doubt that what steve is investigating is scary stuff. that would most certainly be in top order. it is however human stuff. not what it is he and the people that follow potray that they are after. you can see more profound and absolute confirmation for every sinister plot device and action in his story / documentary then you can see about the very subject he is banking on. each and every person he shows, the witnesses all show the same thing. a wall and a barrier, the exclusive assumption that they have seen lighting up close and that they are giving us the lightning.

 last i checked, it pretty much does what it wants. the ufo phenomena is of it’s own will and any knowledge or precept is not any single human’s ownership. freewill, is simply that. which is the very real crux of the matter isn’t it? i have read and investigated as much as any civilian can about this subject for more then 30 years, my mother had a book called stranger then fiction, it was my first true introduction into this stuff. i am not a sponge, i assume that you readers aren’t too. that whole like attracts like thing certainly exists with me and people i meet.  so what we see is a person who is not getting his way, grouping up with people not getting their way and then putting across the fact that they are special and not getting their way. this is the baseline… i mean no insult, it just is what is there.

 i have lived a good part of my life not getting my way. i have even lived a good part of thinking that i was getting my way and discovering that i was wrong about what i thought was the way.the truth is, these people ,these individuals and this whole pseudo -hippy like  convention type of meditation is great for psychological therapy, but it is pointless towards any real contact. i question this extremely.

i question how the really mellow wanna be fakir that describes the ability to group and manifest a mob of believers and terrifyingly the later depicted lengthy group of insets of supposedly common worldwide people all proclaiming that they are members of this collective sect. i question it so strongly, that i am compelled to ask what is different about their so called methods and the one shirley mclaine was involved with. indeed, what is any different?

doctor greer, there is a race of humans, that existed in the american south west. they had this person in the tribe that can be found all over the world in different forms of gender or prestige. these people would for their entire life be instructed on how to address the unknown. they would be taught how to investigate the visions of the mind and they more importantly, were given a set of tools on how to deal with any state of consciousness. they are called shamans and these shaman types exist even on the cave paintings in france and you can see the miracle of their knowledge in the way they would attempt to draw human characteristics in the lions.the expression alone being an attempt to contact a deeper intelligence in the nature around them. the way the pictures showed things that only their minds, as complex as they were , could truly understand. the painters or shaman, who were under the intoxicating substance of mind altering drugs when they made these,showed math and science well beyond their potential understanding. if you look, you will see, they had a method and a true ritual for incorporating these images and recognizing what can be deemed only as alien.they commune with the otherworldly as a way of life.

 the same can be said from the myth and lore that has traversed down from the ages. the realization of vallez about there being at least a miniature humanoid race that lived or coexisted with humans for some time is both prevalent and ironically an example that i am trying to lead to in my discussion about you. you see steven, there is nothing new here. nothing at all. this is exactly what it is like for millions of years. we are an animal in the savanna. we are still in the savanna. the true context of contact, since before we were even human (sapiens) was as a member of the savanna. to an extraterrestrial race, we are nothing more then an animal in the savanna.

 you see, when we sent out voyager one and two, we mistakenly have increased our savanna beyond our scope of understanding. this of course would be quite obvious to anything that finds the probes. the caution displayed by even sharks, one of the most successful animals on earth, is key to how we should be. if there is even a remote possibility that what you and your people are doing is effective, then you should listen to life. it is the most experienced and advanced educator to what to do with alien life. it has had to deal with it since it began to evolve. every strategy ,every change ..everything is a result of that one thing. how to coexist and how to survive.for those who pay attention to such things, the only time an animal life seeks out the commune of another is when it has an upper hand or when to combined effort of both gain upper hand among the others. dogs and cats are self domesticated, we didn’t do it , they did it on their own. they are superior to us in their element as it is, so obviously there was nothing stopping them. we had mastery of agriculture and storage of foodstuff, which attracted rodents , this was easy catch for those two creatures. they slowly incorporated their way of life with ours, in the savanna, in the nature of things.

 this, is how contact has to be made. we have to be in our nature. we have to show that we can coexist. it isn’t about who is more aggressive and who is able to do whatever to get the attention on a individual or population level. unfortunately, that is already taken care of, thanks to nasa. if you look into the historical reports of the pretty obvious contact cases, you will find that the beings were only interested in coexisting. it is such a common theme and more prevalent that i am surprised most haven’t figured it out. they, the beings in question themselves have been demonstrating exactly how they wish to interact. heck, even one asked for water to make oatmeal cookies, in prehistory case a japanese emperor met with one, they went hunting together,  others just wanna check out some plant life or something. very rarely if at all is anything sinister done. which means that the monkeys are still just fighting over who saw the lightning first when it comes to us.

 you have to throw away the ‘ownership’ steven, if you want to achieve your goal. you have to explain it the way it is. not how monkeys around campfires gesture and pose but as a member of the savanna. this is exactly how they, the aliens will and if it is true, should see us.  it is after all how we see elephants is it not? they are sentient , so that means nothing to us. we still see them as a member of the african wildlife backdrop. a member of the coexistence of the savanna. which ironically, after sending out the probes, thereby expanding our range of presence beyond comprehension both in space and time, we have made our territory pretty  much relatively, exactly there. which will be of interest to any investigating species. how are we faring? what are we showing? are we aware of our actions?

 it wont do any good to get involved with the mad monkeys around the campfire, the truth is, it doesn’t matter what black ops bob thinks, the aliens, if they are there, operate way beyond any of our control. just look at the fear the foo fighters created in the world military during ww2 and after. it really has no bearing on them being here or not. what does, what really does , is how are we living, how are we showing that our thoughtless sending of the probes was not a mistake, that given all the screw up and everything that is so messed up about a bunch of homicidal monkeys dancing around a campfire because they didn’t get their way , somehow if given the chance we are ready? 

this remains questionable , if the educators that claim to bring the knowledge are too busy showing the monkey business and focusing on ‘that isn’t fair dept’. it is education of earth, as a planet. the understanding of what a planet is. how we affect a planet. how we understand that we can affect other planets. responsibility and the acknowledgement of actions. the recognition of things like ecology and the ability, this is very important steven, to change everything at once, because in the universe, things happen faster then all at once. especially when it comes to the possibility of a space/time travelling population. we have to show that monkeys do exist, but whatever, leave them be.. they will be included anyways. we all live in the savanna.

i have a saying that i recite to myself whenever i approach a mystery. start with what you know. I believe anything is possible but with the conditions met. in order for that to happen, you have start with what you know. seemingly baseline common sense stuff there but maybe i need to clarify something. always start with what you know is real, by real i mean, what you know truly exists. this comes into a better focus when a person considers that what we see on most sci fi movies is actually considered possible or potentially realistic by the majority of people. truth is, i sincerely hope not. some of the things we take for imaginitive future or fantasy projection are horribly misguided.

classic example of this is the transporter on star trek. which realistically is a bunch of undead humans running around commiting moral experiments on each other. after all, the device apparently disintergrates a persons atomic structure and heaven knows what else and in a piecemeal fashion shoots the atoms hopefully to a point in space. then reassmbles them according to a blueprint that is literally dependant on an algorithium.sadly it means every single person that has used one of these in the trekkie-verse is an undead version of them self. while i leave that to speculation. i merely point out that since we do not know when true death occurs. it is probably a wise idea not to mess with the molecular bonds and thier valency.but i do contend that anything is possible if conditions are met. so, ironically i consider life on titan to be actually very much along the lines of the transporter idea. no, it doesnt go from point b from point a. at least not willfully. however the dissemination and recontruction is probably very likely. i would also wager that the same possibility exists on triton and maybe the outwardly frozen europa. the way i see it work is like this, the sun and possibly some kind of geo-thermal effect is active in such a way that when the time is right. the amino acids do connect and do bind. the whole thing occurs in the air where it is most dense and when titon is closer to the solar/planet radiation. it is prime. then when that window goes by due to the orbits. it all just goes into pieces and diffuses into the greater whole of the atmosphere.this is pretty much what could be happening. the life, is cloned, like many microbes on earth and it probably cant evolve normally like our own.still, if dna exists in any form it is possible that it has chemically retained information that could enable advancement. triton is incredibly cold, but it may have the same idea going on with it as well.in and out of existence, just like any meson particle.imagine.anything is possible if the conditions are met.

in the real world there is this prevalent myth of a hairy tall primate that is magically appearing more on blurry videos taken by unwitting but strangely prepared witnesses then in any mythological base. honestly there is no way such an animal can exist in north america, without us knowing about it for centuries. you can imagine how many strongly debated send offs i have been involved in. online, the place of supposed shared information , i am attacked profusedly. funny thing is as a student of ancient humans, who has a deep fascination for anything paleontology related, i am not voicing opinion when i relate to the subject of scientific study. i am in actuality demonstrating the very somber and present state of affairs concerning such an animal’s existence. the opinion belongs to the people who did not feel it was worth the time to actually study the relevent fields in order to have a clear understanding of the things required for such a entity to exist.which takes roughly 3 to 4 years.so such people comment on what they dont know. even the naysayers i have met, use wrong assumption to credit thier stance on the improbable proof these exist.
as a student of anthropology and all the related stuff, i can tell you loosely that it is probably the lack of community that would be inescapable as proof towards the nonexistence of large hairy humanoids. there is no primate on earth, humanity included, that doesn’t in some way have a community or socialized behavior that is recognizeable in the enviroment. cats, are different, some dogs if abaondoned from the pack maybe, bears most likely are loners, but anything primate, not gonna happen. the reasons are not all that complex, simply put, it is the only way an animal not made for the enviroment can formulate a strategy to survive in a hostile enviroment. seeing as how we do not have claws, we are not super sense animals with radical smell or audio capabilities. this is how we survived and how primates have prevailed. coupled with our omniverous diets, it has proven to be a godsend. all primates have this as thier main tool. the lack of community and the reported size of the creatures in question , which means they need a lot of protien to even be able to have the energy to move, means simply that in a frozen wasteland that has had access from the proposed place of origin torn away either in the form of a land bridge or ice bridge. before and possibly during the time we supposedly had just begun to control fire remains  specualtive, since we know that the protagonists of the first fire control being either erectus or neandrathal had some pretty recognizeable behaviors involving commune. well, actually…you can see..it slowly starts to go south when you piece what you know into the puzzle.

people forget that the unexplained has one fundamental requirement in the universe. it has to obey the laws of physics. the only time it doesnt is because of etiher a law we havent found yet or a perversion occurs due to some force or energy we have not yet identified. in no way, for that matter were any laws not obeyed. for example magnetic poles have two forces, attraction and repel. both can be witnessed. but if seen out of context both can be seen as wholey different. these magnetic forces can go all the way down to molecular and atomic levels. what can be witnessed is beyond the scope of any single mind. yet, the sun sends massive amounts of this very thing at us with every solar eruption and it causes electrical outages and other electrical things. positive ions have been known to alter mood in humans. the more you investigate, the more seperated the connection appears, but really it comes down to what do you know? we know that electrical magnetism is the same as naturual magnetism and can be created by electricity and further, by static charge. we witness the shock everytime we scuff our feet on the carpet. it really isnt that far out there. but may i remind you that in no way does this mean that the curiousity of the subject at hand is invalid. just that it must follow physical law. by physical law i mean it must have a basis in reality.

for me, myself when handed a mystery or made aware of one. i always pay attention to myself. you see, humans have a built in model of the universe, as i have said before we have a internal understanding of gravity. truly, magnificent. it enables a baseball player to throw an out from deep left field. all of that is an arcane biological math that is as profound as a bat and it’s echolocation. quite the celebration of our origin i would think. so, we all have a sense of the universe built in. when a person looks at something objectively, they should pay attention to themself. listen to if they feel there is something wrong.then ask the questions. questions are a way of formulating the perception. i wouldnt exactly say they are meant to be answered, only that they help a person understand what it is about the physical universe that they are unconcioiusly sensing is wrong. it helps a person pinpoint what they see out of mode with the universe.vagueness withstanding, it still gives sense to true observation. you may say, first we have to sense then we investigate. not the other way around.

the subconcious self is our naturual language internalized. we have to translate what it sees into the verbally recognized fashion we call thought. the only way to effectively do this is to pay attention to it. since it talks in ways that are obscure, via emotion and perceptions. we have to remain open to it’s cues.this is teh bridge between true human intellect and the modern concept of thought. i think a perfect example is thales when he discovered the earth was round. it wasnt complicated. he noticed that the ships in the distance looked like they were ontop of the horizon and as they came near, they would sink into the vista of the vast ocean. so you see, subconciously, he recognized something. his intellect was telling him there was something strange about this vision. he correctly deduced that the reason the ships appeared to sink as they grew closer was because the earth was round. just like looking at a sphere and its circumferane then leading your eye to center, which would be the closest point to the observer.

this is the way most mysteries must be first ascertained. we are living animals with a very active sensory information connection to the universe. it never stops working.even in comas we are still gaining information from the enviroment. the trick is, allowing these senses to communicate to oneself. remembering that it isnt nescesarrily answering the questions , but trying to understand why the questions exist. this is what creates the bridge between mind and thought. when you consider the effect that sublimnal advertisement has had on behavior and social norm as a whole, you can see what i mean. these perceptions and these states of awareness are persistent and unrelenting towards recognition.

so it remains that nothing is impossible, as long as the conditions are met. but first we need to manifest the conditions.

 throughout my life i have constantly been into ufo. it was a natural path actually for a person like myself, who was conditioned to think and imagine worlds that were both exotic and alien to our being. after all, a walk through the Jurassic park is anything but ordinary. the giddy feeling of wanderlust just hit me now, as i am writing this. such is the way of a student of ancient earth. the first thing you learn is, anything is possible, it just falls under conditions. simple math, if a and b are met then you can bet c is certainly probable and given life’s avid fondness for opportunity most likely already active or most certainly was at one time. life as a universal force leaves no loose ends. it is as fascinated with the universe as i or any human with intellectual curiosity. never satisfied and always craving more.i think this tendency of myself came from living near the ocean. the vastness of discovery is treasure that remains unspoiled even to this day in my spirit. so strong is it, that i don’t even need to return to the spots to relive the fascination and in my adulthood, i choose not too. it is one part of myself i don’t want to grow up.

 but as i said, long have i contemplated the idea of alien life. it goes as stages. this is something i recognize in my fellow humans. we tend to go through these stages. first is the omnipotent wish fulfillment. we want an omniscient being that rights every wrong and as most myths go, be in battle with it’s nemesis the being that wrongs every right. the black and white, with us in the gray, such is the way we envision. this by the way is prevalent throughout history both in religion and just general human consciousness. i think we can all safely say that we would emotionally regret having to kill a beautiful animal. the ability to feel compassion and adore the grace of life is both strong and a powerful force in our minds. so you have that imbalance within, which is unnameable in prehistory only that it must be done.the gray. i have actually watched nature films, those that feel the perverse need to show the ravenous feeding of animals on each other. to see if there is any emotive empathy. to date, i cant say i have recognized anything that would qualify as mercy, only the treatment of another prey animal as a toy object, then the releasing due to distraction or boredom. i have witness this behavior in a killer whale with a seal. flipping it all around and i remember thinking how incredible the fact that the seal’s spinal chord wasn’t fractured and it wasn’t rendered paralyzed. the seal was released after the play time was over. the only benefit was the whale had already fed. humans, we do not have this.i don’t think we are actually capable of it.even the similar practice of it would be largely due to some perverse mental condition.some aspect of psyche that is in some way deranged. it is not within us to be this sick to any life.

 however fear of contradiction ensues, shark-finning is not a healthy past time. but i remark, we live in the gray. the people that do it on a grand scale both respond and endeavor to an unrealistic force. one that is a perversion of nature. they fish in this horrid way , because it is the optimal foraging strategy they have grown to elect as their main way of getting money .which is not an object but a principle of merit that enables them to get anything they want from other people that have ventured into alternate foraging strategies. for example: one guy makes furniture, because he gets money , the fishing people catch fish to get money. the money enables the furniture maker to obtain the food and sundries required to live, the money buys the furniture to provide sundry and luxury to the fisherman. such is the way we live in modern times. immediately removed from what we would naturally have to do on a constant basis. imagine that you would have to gut, skin and prepare rabbits or any animal, that you would have to know how to thread and create your clothes, that you would have to know how to start a basic fire, that you would have to know how to forecast reliably the weather in order to be able to traverse over a far range. imagine that you would have to know how to make your own tools and you would have to have some sort of knowledge of the animal life and plant life to stay alive. we are removed greatly from this, but we live in the grey. this is not a recent fashion either, people began to recognize the gray long ago. so, we began to imagine omniscient life, life that lives outside this strangely inescapable circle of conditional existence. we began to imagine it demanding a way that is both humble and modest. we wanted a father and mother figure to provide guidance for sciences and psychology that we did not know the name of yet. so we gave imagination names and we applied our vision of moral right and wrong to it.

 in this aspect, one can say that we have had contact with an alien intelligence since before we could write words. for this recital, this inception of ideas and mores as they were pushed onto the mind and therefore true interaction of the universe by even the stone age people , is nothing more then an alien intelligence and the effect it would have on us. after all, as we perfected the vision and the sincerity of the moral concepts, so too did the intelligence evolve into something seemingly alien. this was so powerful a force, so magnificent a concept, whose success was largely due to our social behavior and the need to look good to the alpha male. be it father or hero figure, that when we reached the advancement of the age enlightenment. the time when humans realized the earth was decipherable according to provisions that if followed could place any mysterious thing into a manageable concept, the fore bearer, emmanual kant himself had a paradox that cant be reliably answered. which is that if someone has done something socially bad or morally, having done penance for it and now is among the normal population, having acquire a possible way to be in a position that may repeat the action (if the person is still of that moral thought) do we inform the employers of the  person’s past or do we remain out of the issue. this, is an example of how far the alien intelligence that humans created has gone. such a complex and versatile intellect. we do tend to outdo ourselves don’t we?

 anyways, that is the usual first , albeit highly generalized of course, mode of consideration. as a kid, a person would envision an alien like superman or any multitude of personages that would avenge the evil of the wayward human or alien mind. we apparently desire an avenging god. which feels somewhat contradictory. my main plaint against religion is if the so called god loves unconditionally why then all that destruction, which is authoritatively reported to be its own doing and action? allowing all the male children in kingdom born on a date to be killed, in order to have its miraculous one of virgin birth. doesn’t seem to be all that unconditional. so, yea, we want an avenging god or alien. it is the juvenile aspect i suppose.

 we have matured thankfully to some degree thanks to the way science and then technology have demonstrated the plausibility of some beliefs, but also ironically from some doctrines as well. the idea of passive /aggressive demonstration and other forms of public deference to imposition being none violent is relatively new. still on the drawing board. somewhat ironic isn’t it? i mean here we have the proof of psychological mindset, being so strong and having the influence to literally meld and change whole civilizations. so we know that the simplicity if mindset in a population alone is potentially enough. but apparently in a very large sense, the same action, when done toward a social more or some aspect of human existence is acted out. the lack of violence means it is not as serious. not taken as equally deterministic. it appears that we are losing faith in the alien intelligence we created. 

 or maybe, for the record, the climate and ecology has shifted for it to survive. anyways, we then turn to the very real possibility that the aliens are just like us, with better toys. which is probably very true. this is where i am in my adult hood. constantly trying to understand how alien culture works. trying to understand how a nomadic group of neandratal worked out social hierarchy and if it was based on relativistic principle or lore , maternal or paternal bound castes. you name it. this is the vast methodology that incorporates the majority of my mind. when i get bored, i apply it to animals, extinct and surviving and when i wanna fantasize, to space. such is the way of being a student in paleontology and having wanderlust that exceeds the existence of his own time.

 there is one thing, that i can truly state. we have been aware of alternate life , like our own, for millions of years. we knew about it’s possibility as far back as homo erectus. as is demonstrated through artifact and more definitive through behavior of neandratal as is demonstrated by areas of domicile. cro-magnon with it’s intricate weaving of art and tool mastery. we have consciously not only knew, but in some ways, prepared or reacted in ways that would mean plainly, we know we are not alone.

any archaeology student and any one who looks into this objectively will come to this point. strange things have happened. the question remains, what and when and more importantly is it happening even now?

i remember the ocean was this incredibly massive foreboding living entity. it is dark blue, so beautiful, roiling and crashing against my security of land. i knew it was winning, that piece by piece land was being stripped from me. i would be inevitably engulfed with the rest of the biomass the ocean calls its own. i knew that this was a matter of time. like the ocean, space is just a huge engulfing recycling mystery of forces beyond my conception. within that other life lives, beyond a doubt. it really all comes down to a matter of time.

it is just a matter of time.

 I once had a blog that was dedicated to ufo and all strangeness. there are ideas and perceptions about this phenomena , ( one of the few times that word has been used correctly in modern language); which remain stigmatic to a persons vision when researched. one of the most prevalent ones is this strange bias that ufo or alien visitation only truly began with media that can be reproduced. for example photographs. such is not the case, not in a long shot, in fact i am more apt to accept to a higher degree second hand testimony from before technology like that exist. it deals with the mindset of the people at the time. one example i always have at hand in my mind when i read stuff about visitation is the french coast invasion in the 14 hundreds. there were three disc like objects that flew off the coast in full view of hundreds of people. they went a few miles offshore and in each, an occupant in a suit that can only be described as a deeps sea diver type leaped off and dived below the ocean surface. this was while the french naval batteries were trying like mad to shoot them in the water. they wasted over one hundred rounds of cannon fire, to no avail. the discs eventually scooped their passengers up and they flew off over the land and up the coast. subsequently there were sightings in different regions of France two more times, one more inland and the other more north up the coast.

 so what of it? why would i focus on that as a guideline when reading the reports and paraphernalia of the ufo stuff? well, compare that to the tale of a person who when she was a little girl in 56 claimed to have been abducted. she stated (later in the mid 80′s) , that a huge green fireball went soaring over her farmhouse and collided into the ground and barn. she then recounted that the military appeared and they were scooping up everything with gadgets and even stated she saw some officers walking with aliens at one point. she was in her room and story goes that an alien was smooth talking her, and telling her that she is safe , the military then advanced into the room and she describes the military in a  derogatory fashion from the start. she describes that she was wary of them and that she didn’t trust them.this is in 56. the problem? there is no real likely reason a little girl in 1956 would distrust the military. they were seen as heroes by one and all. they had just won the war very recently. the greater part of the populace didn’t see the military as anything like one would see them today. in other words the more you read her description , as she describes the event in her recollection as a little girl. it becomes mysterious why she automatically was thinking of the military personal ( who were trying to calm her down and give a sedative) . in fact, in one objective view , you would actually interpret the military personal , a nurse and someone else, as trying to help a little girl that was suffering trauma from having a bromide meteorite smash into her barn. the fact they spent hours trying to help her talk it out and help her relax, shows only the true dedication and genuine concern. the female, didn’t see it this way. she describes it, as if she was living in the 70′s and it was the ‘man’ that had come to brainwash her.

 no matter how modern the story looks, no matter how detailed and recognizable it is, you have to question the time and place. so, the french 14 or 16 century one, i submit, there is no way these people, could have perceived technology that would exist centuries after them and further more not refer to it in a religious context. but as a deftly inscribed description of alien craft. they were able to describe the craft and the divers, the fact they could fly (with no wings?). this remains remarkable. i can only assume that this is as true and reliable as a photo. 

 and so.. this is how it goes, things like this swamp the ufo as a condition in society. we all have an individual stance and further an individual myth behind it. to some it is totally human made. this is not probable. sightings, reliable as detailed and highly relevant as modern ones go before written history. multicultural too. though i am skeptical of the daniken artifacts. i am not dissuaded by the testimony of individuals throughout history.

one example was a priest in 15 century italy. who was visited by two beings. he described the two individuals as explaining the meaning of the universe and the philosophy as a metaphysical condition.the whole thing was almost based on existentialism. the ideas that the priest related were far , far , very far beyond the way people of his time envision the universe.there is no way such modern vision of life and death would remotely exist at that time.yet there it is, written down, eternally, for people to read and contemplate. this priest was visit by two aliens who told him tons and tons of information.not a god, not a holy spirit , not an angel , he describes them as being from space. which is where they informed him they came from. so before the sky was understood to be gas and with a boundary, this priest knew that earth was finite and space was eternal.it boggles me.

 i trust that story more then i trust 99 percent of the footage or photos i seen on the net. it is because. in the 15 century, the church was totally against any philosophy that contradicts the churches.they were actively making sure that none of the conflicting attitudes of the pre-socratic greek philosophers spread. in other words, there is literally no way the priest could have a concept of metaphysical existence.none at all.

so as you can see, the idea that only modern accounts are reliable is poppycock. many of the ancient ones don’t describe a father figure type of alien or an all seeing and wise one. they were described in all sizes and shapes with mischievousness to emphatic traits. don’t recall one that was hostile to any human in the ancient literature.

 We humans have long had an unconscious envy of the animals that maintained superior senses over us. Most of our daydreams as a child in one way or another always involve a super ability. Things like superior pheromone saturation being popular for many teenagers alone. The list is vast when we look into the literature through the ages. Even outside of normal mythology we find in the religious texts and lore examples of super sense and ability. One example is saint Agnes, who was claimed to have breasts that would seduce any man. They apparently were so powerful that they had to hack them off when she was imprisoned, so the guards wouldn’t be placed under their power. this is real, this did happen, one super sense of humanity is the insistent nonsense we partake of in our history. glibness aside, there is this bizarre necessity to have super sense in our imagination.long have we pondered both the validity of it as well as the essence of it. one of the first things i had learned about relationships with people is that the imagination is an impossible foe. if, a person is against another human being’s imagination, it is a hopeless task. reason being, the imagination is not bound by physical law, it can evolve and adapt beyond the original source, sometimes to a point of the original source not even being recognizable. we all do this, it is part of being the ‘tool’ ape. we fashion models in our minds. everyone is a creator of sorts. so the act of ‘knowing’ things beyond the present evidence or environment , since it remains unfathomable, logically, has always been regarded as a super power and often times providence of magical practices. be they religious leaders or arcane masters.

 humans, are fascinating as an animal. we are like sharks, in dark water. with only our sense of peculiarity to guide us as we circle around trying to identify and assess aspects of our selves. such is the case here. the fortune tellers, the seers and modern clairvoyants all have one thing in common, the fact they are iconic of a element of human existence that is recognized by and until now has defied explanation. we of course do not have the entire spectrum figured out, but rest assured we have a working concept. the first thing though, in keeping with the spirit of this topic, is to refer to probably the one power or sense that defies explanation. we do actually have one. it is a phenomena, which we can not for the life of us, figure out. it is called intuition.  i don’t wager it is uniquely human, but i would also conjecture it is hard to recognize in animals. communication after all plays a large part in all the supposed super sense and abilities. there is however a unique version of it , that does surely exist in humans. as it is lent to us by our rational thought. where we can go, in our abstract nature with the models of the universe that we each have at our disposal, for comparison, we seem to be able to deride seemingly impossible knowledge from incredibly unrelated facts.

 it is funny. most people would never place intuition among the favorites, the list as follows would contain esp,precognition,clairvoyance,premonition,remote viewing, mind over matter and many other abilities that we claim or sense, as it were , we have. of these all i can safely devise a pretty good outline of what may be happening. the power of unconscious suggestion is a true force in human populations. it can even create stuff like deja vu, serendipity and that weird sense of going to the right place at the right time for the right reason. all of these can be systematically explained effectively, by suggestion and unconscious environmental stimulus. the mind is an information hungry simbiot when it comes to the world. you may say it is like a glutton who will continue to eat when full.

 but intuition? it defies everything. it literally can come from nothing. it is like a knowledge that exists instantly and if followed always proves to be right. we have saying that explain this, always telling someone to follow thier intuition when a choice is presented.

 examples of intuition : knowing how to use a machine, never having seen it before. knowing how to recognize a language structures and possibly more, never having seen it before. a large part of the old farmer tradition relied on intuition.knowing how the animals and the environment interplay. much of the almanac as it existed in prehistory was built on various forms of intuition.intuition itself is easy to follow, it is just learning how to listen to it. that apparently is the problem. we have another name for an aspect of it, common sense. which, many jokingly would agree is a rare commodity. yet, it does exist in all of us. it can be a future projection, a past insight or present sensation. all of these can more can be the main part of an intuitive response. yet, what it is, technically, still remains unanswered. the large problem is the fact that there is no indicator at all. there is usually, no way the information unconsciously could have reached the performer. they just somehow knew what to do.

 so, you cant guess the blackjack table and be kicked out after being accused of cheating, but you can intuitively know how long you can stay around before they kick you out.(though in that aspect i would postulate that the dealer is sending signals). is it a true survival trait? yes. in fact that is why it defies explanation. it is a sense, that we can only see through it’s eyes. therefore we can not extract much from it. it just happens. we have social intuition, female intuition being famous. it seems to be, at best a state of mind. where it comes from is beyond present rational discourse.

 the present biggy for us, is called esp. we are told that we have that as a primarily latent thing. it was claimed proven by a mathematician. however the story of that is somewhat jaded. they only talk about the odds of getting something right an extraordinary number of times. they do not however explain that if a person gets something wrong an x number of times , this too is esp. this is kind of funny. if you guess say 62 cards wrong out of hundred, then you have esp, according to the math. when we learned about suggestion and body language. we tried to eliminate the aspects of the test that would contain conceivably an element of those fallacies. things became more and more inconclusive. however, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. intuition would have told you it was flawed from the start.

This is a subject that i find many people have a problem with.largely because most people believe themselves to be something of an armchair commiserate of the application of psychology. such is this tendency of modern humans, i would even wager that some psychologists do not have the right idea of psychology.( i am a bold one aren’t i?). the main consensus of the difference between psychiatry and psychology is that the latter can prescribe drugs. this is however far from the real case. i remain somewhat  disappointed with the clinical psychologists that practice this formula. it is non progressive and not really what psychology is all about. it is things like this that derange the mindset of the public.as it is, the public really are only aware of a minor part of the real science and this provides an interesting entry point into this discussion, for as the reader learns the truth, they will hopefully become aware of the real concept of psychology.

first, why would a previous student of anthropology even know about psychology? well, psychology is part of anthropology. this is a funny thing to me when i try to talk to people about it. the field of anthropology is a study of the human, this is actually divided up into 4 fields, and depending on your personal vision potentially five. those divisions are archeology, physical, cultural, psychology and (still debated) linguistic. anything outside of these is called applied anthropology and that would include things like forensics, primatology, human anatomy,clinical psychology and sociology. the latter remains questionable for it’s use of cultural anthropology as data to inscribe a non existent variation of social norm based on statistical average. i personally don’t like sociology , it removes the elasticity of the human individual towards survival and life strategies. it seems to dictate a mental vision of some mental attitudes very similar to the church, in tending to a flock of human lemmings. it also makes people think that cultural anthropology is a subset of it, when really it is the other way around. for the record, sociology is not a real science, it cant be reliably falsified. you will always get some kind of conflicting data , which makes us all proud of ourselves as individuals i think. we always want to be the lesser percent.

real psychology suffers greatly at the hands of clinical psychology. the reason being is how things really happened. it starts with Darwin, who said, we come from monkeys. this as you can imagine had it’s abrasive effect on the ego structure of the elitist group. the story of this of course still goes on to this day. we actually have modern schools trying to force the contradiction into the science classrooms. creationists are constantly trying to force a faith based belief system into the same reference as a science that has long since been proven to be pretty much the way things went. common people do not understand how destructive this is, because they don’t understand how science, real science , works. there must be a falsifiable identity with any of the facts that exist in a science statement. this means simply, i must be able to prove the exact same thing , through exact demonstration the exact same result. so for example, i can prove anywhere that gravity is a force that attracts objects to earth. i can also prove that undeniably it is not a form of magnetism. plus although at different spots it may fluctuate in strength, i can still prove nonetheless it is persistent. (the solar system itself remains the testimony of this fact). it is somewhat comical that the very same egalitarianism that would deny this providence of science in order to save hubris of the human race, find no problem in accepting species in pedigree animals. when, beyond a doubt, the very concept of primate, or primitive as applied in anthropology, clearly can show that yes, a lemur has very much the same physiological traits as humans. adaptation and the eons of application of different strategies notwithstanding, we still have the same type of teeth as them. a fact that remains one of the only ways we can identify a majority of the potential pre-human fossils.

now, what happened next after Darwin is interesting. Freud came out and made his mark on the psyche of the people. he is thought to be a brilliant psychologist. however, i have a different take on him. to me , he is a primatologist, who studied the primate species of man. i say this because basically the whole end result of his work is a simple statement, that we think like monkeys. i get a kick out of this. believe me when i say , i have had heated arguments with psychologists about this. which is really just a extension on their part of the way the early nineteen hundreds felt about the whole enterprise. imagine, a greater then though self inflated eclectic club , known as human, first had to swallow the concept that we come from monkeys, then a brilliant man came forward and said we think like them. the next step, psychology. which as it tried to figure out it’s place in anthropology, found out via two men , skinner and Walton, that we also act like monkeys. well that was the last straw. the conspiracy and disfavor revolving around skinners experiments and the illicit claim that he actually experimented on his very own daughter, to Walton and his emancipation from the apa, based on a scandal that would be non effectual in the modern world , involving his wife. forcing him to take his behaviorist theories and apply them to a alternate profession. media, which to this day is a valid and real science that is preying on an unsuspecting public, too brainwashed to actually understand the ramifications of that statement. seriously, just like i can guarantee gravity, a real science, behaviorism and the manipulation of it can be constantly proven in laboratory and public. we , the public are the great experiment that is making commercial enterprises rich. kind of nice that the guinea pig in this aspect actually pays the researcher. as a fellow human , all i can say is, the strength of this science, as it is applied to creating a market is so strong, it can influence humans to do things like stapling their stomach or any other objectively gross form of self mutilation , just to appease the mating instinct alone. it is because of this deranged abuse a lot of social and cultural things hang in unrealistic balance. i have no idea where we are going because of this, but, i can at least say that because unnatural motivation exists in the instinctual urges, if this was to continue for any earth relative amount of time, we would be at the mercy of the very thing we create. almost like being trapped in a space capsule, while moving through cosmos. at total mercy to the technology that put us there in the first place.anyways, so we have darwin: we are monkeys, Freud: we think like monkeys and the cherry on top, psychology: we act like monkeys. first, i am generalizing psychology and a sole aspect of it to show you how it applies to anthropology. the scope of psychology however remains incredibly diverse.

If i were asked who i think a good example of a psychologist is, i would easily say desmond morris. as a teen i was endeared to read his work and i have always found it to be pretty sound in his application of psychology. though, his title is a zoologist, he applies his science ina wonderful way where the psychology of the human animal is quite evident.because in its base form psychology is simply how or why we see the universe the way we do.thusly, in his book the naked ape, morris explains why we have less hair and look the way we do. the conception is both dextrous and very well formulated. a person would have a hard time not applying some aspect of his premise to many of modern day behaviors. the book is a joy to read and i will leave those who havent read it to seek it out.just be suffice to say that as a form of example, his brilliance clearly demonstrates what psychology is about.incedently the social hubris that is prevalent amongst us has had a field day attempting to discredit and potentially weaken the concepts of morris cooly adept and sober analysis. i mean , the fact that females show more cleavage when ovulating is always met with varied acceptance. it seems the game that darwin had brought forward to us, still is being played at the entry level.

as for psychology as we understand it, there is a kind of rift between the public representation and the actual science. when, at about the early 1900′s all this fascinating discovery began, the application of the data was extremely more expansive. clinical psychologists were making a mint and they were randomly applying their perception and variation of the science on the public. with mixed success and unrealistic personal gain.the psychologists, were miffed greatly by this. it was like a baseball player simply getting a jersey and talking the talk obtaining the wealth and recognition. so, in an effort to try and control the clinical or applied anthropology of psychology, they were at a point of banning any clinical psychologists from their get together. eventually it was finally decided that, a clinical psychologist can only declare them self a doctor of psychology if they at some point submit a research paper or in modern times dedicate some time towards the research of psychology. the same kind of situation exists for medical practitioners. though i do not know if it for similar reasons.i imagine it probably is though, it makes sense. as knowledge of the human anatomy is an applied aspect of anthropology. i am sure there is some aspect of this control in the field of medicine. remember, medicine is not necessarily a biological or physical thing. tribal medicine for instance, which is yet again an aspect of anthropology through cultural means, is not entirely a take two pills and call me in the morning aspect.

as for the beginning tenets of psychology, there were three major visualizations. which i personally became to realize that in actuality is really four. the fourth being a mixture of the other ones, which i tend to believe is the real psychology. there was structuralism, behaviorism and individualism. the first was a concept of linear foundation. sort of like a baby needs to learn how to walk before they begin to explore the greater part of the world. the flaw in it is evident in our prehistory, as for instance, our prehuman ancestors didn’t need to learn how to make clothes first in order to manifest the ability to create fire. secondly behaviorism, is largely where i am at  or strive for anyways when i write to you guys, because it is the purest form of expression in the organism. you might say it is the equivalent of the spirit of the animal is in the eyes. however, since most humans can easily think or truly be expressing something completely different then what is visibly or not relevant to the senses, this creates some curious contradictions. an example is how we can defy our instinct to run from fire, in order to use it. all other animals run. so, visibly you would potentially see the psychological stress of being near fire, but mentally we are able to overcome this and make use.hunger strikes, abstinence and many other types of deprivation are forms of this.lastly is the individualism, which is quite effective as a social manipulator. examples include the iq test, business best employee awards and any other form of recognition that in some way excludes an individual from the rest. basically the whole thing came up as a debate against the other two. sure, i may be that, but i am different type of perception. people liked that one instantly, it made them human and made them feel empowered again instead of just another form of monkey. this spread like wildfire into the business sector , who used the tests to manifest the perfect worker. through statistical analysis. the ones that would be deemed most worthy were the easily manipulated ones, the ones that would be rejected would be the free thinkers. eventually, the tests were banned as a form of occupation testing, but not without actually even resorting to the ludricious idea of the shape of the skull of the person, which is formed through random chance at birth, being an indicator of intelligence and competence. it was called phrenology and is ludicrous. but that is the legacy of individualism.nowadays you see its use in the magazines as tests. how to tell if your mate is human. take our test, take the score at the bottom and see what kind of individual you are. crazy stuff. but still pretty strong. in the clinical psychology aspect it is how they apply the dsw, or list of disorders and syndromes and how various recognizable symptoms are tallied up.

the funny thing, about individualist and what it has become as use is, it is under the conformity of a structuralist backdrop. so true psychology is largely behaviorism, with variances of the other two mixed in for good measure. this makes perfect sense for an advanced species such as our self, when it comes to our social behavior and interactions. but does this entirely answer the question, which anthropology created it for? that being why do we see or sense or perceive the world the way we do? we as a species? be hard pressed to find any definitive construct for that. easier to find a dr phil bonker fest with variations of obvious common sense strewn about with good measure. this, is the power of individualism and clinical psychology at work. basically, what the original psychologists were concerned about has happened. which is indeed disconcerting.