While modern ufology has been a component of our cultural zeitgeist for decades and decades now, during much of that time it has generally been seen as a matter for astrophysicists and aviation experts. While ground-breaking researchers such as Jacques Vallee, John Keel and J. Allen Hynek, as early as the 1970s, suggested the anomalous and highly strange nature of the data takes us well beyond that kind of conventional inquiry, even today, the mainstream still tends to think of UFOs (now monikered as UAP) and NHI – the fancy new name for what we use to call “aliens”, as involving interstellar travelers arriving at Earth in sophisticated spacecraft.

For many, especially in still physicalist-centric Western civilization, this kind of enterprise represents, at least in potentia, a new kind of contact, and a new possibility for communication that takes us beyond what we’ve been limited to amongst our own species over the milenia. But, here again, the data – when one actually looks squarely into them – take us well beyond that notion. And that’s because – contact – and specifically contact with apparently non-human and non-conventionally human intelligences – has supposedly already been happening. The varieties of contact technologies or modalities that have meditated this non-ordinary kind of communication include mediumship/channeling, shamanic journeying, CE-5/HICE, dreams, psychedelics, and even fever states.

In other words, the issue seems to be not one of needing to wait for interstellar travelers to arrive to finally give us this opportunity, for it’s been available to us all along, with some cultures and people groups being more privy to this fact than others. Interestingly, these various modalities of contact and communication also seem to be possible regardless of what would seem to be the expected language and even species-specific differences. And that’s because mind-to-mind communication, known in parapsychological circles as telepathy, seems to be the general rule rather than the exception in these endeavors, thus bypassing the need for translation of written and spoken languages altogether.

But of course, these startling revelations raise further questions: if the issue is not one of needing to wait for interstellar travelers to arrive via superliminal (that is, faster than light) travel, then how exactly is this contact and communication happening? Have they been here – in our so-called “physical” space – all along? Or does the nature of this contact suggest space, and for that matter, time, is simply not what we’ve long assumed? How is it that these various contact technologies are able to connect us with alternative forms of sophisticated sentience, and what do they have in common that makes them effective? These are the captivating and consequential matters we’ll seek to engage with in this, the 105th episode of the Point of Convergence podcast.

For some time now here on the Point of Convergence podcast, we’ve been discussing the many ways that various forms of high strangeness tend to, well, converge. As we’ve discussed previously, often that means an individual who’s experienced one form of high strangeness is quite likely to have experienced others as well. The crossover effect, as one might call it, involves everything from NDEs (near death experiences), to contact with deceased, discarnate human beings, to OBEs (out of body experiences), to UFO sightings and apparent contact with non-human intelligences, as well as a wide variety of Psi phenomena (or what used to be more commonly referred to as “ESP”, or extra sensory perception) including clairvoyance, telepathy, psychokinesis, precognition, etc.

A central question that arises from the well-attested data we’ve just discussed is, what makes these more sensitive people the way they are? How is it that they are so much more attuned to this apparently broader bandwidth of reality than the rest of the population? Are they harbingers of what’s to come: a glimpse into the emerging evolutionary track of humankind in general? And regarding this shift into these new capacities, are these gifts, as one might refer to them, “natural”, or have such people been genetically “enhanced” somehow, perhaps by the intervention of a more sophisticated alien species?

The fascinating but bewildering case of Ted Owens is an interesting case in point, as it pertains to this question specifically. Not only was Ted Owens a man who seemed to know the future, and be able to — to absolutely discombobulating degrees — actually manifest it, often it seemed in whatever way he so chose — but he claimed to have had these astounding and well documented powers because of the very kind of alien intervention we just surmised about.

In fact, Owens went further. Not only did he claim that he had been entrained and led into certain kinds of life experiences, from early childhood on, by these highly advanced non-human intelligences, but he also insisted he had been operated on, neurologically, to fine-tune and further greatly enhance his innate predispositions for psychic and psychokinetic activity. Indeed, Owens claims all of the psychokinetic feats he went on to perform were done in partnership with what he called “space intelligences”, who were orbiting the earth in vast, sophisticated spacecraft that remained cloaked to the majority of the human race.

Regardless of whether or not you believe Owens’ account about how he received his unique gifts, one thing is clear: he had these gifts. And he had them to degrees – it is fair to say – not seen perhaps in any other human being in the history of the world. And most compellingly, this is not merely here-say, pieced together from accounts found here and there. No, Owens case is very well attested, as well-known and much respected para-psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove — long known in the public sphere for his role as host of the program New Thinking Allowed, followed and documented Owens exploits for a full decade, ultimately resulting in Mishlove’s much respected book, The PK Man.

How is it that a human being is able to will into existence phenomena such as hurricanes, tornados, power blackouts, broadly reported UFO sightings, lightning strikes, droughts, almost on demand? As astounding as these exploits were, was this more about precognition? Did Owens somehow rely on happening to know these events were going to happen — which is of course, astounding enough, all on its own. Or, did he actually in reality manifest them? And if the latter is the case, did he indeed do so with the assistance and sometimes inspiration of an alien intelligence that was orbiting the planet at the very times these events were predicted and then occurred – as Owens himself claimed?

Regardless of where we land with these particular questions, the implications for the future of the human race, and for our very models of reality, are perplexing and profound. These paradigm-fracturing issues are the topic of this, the 21st episode of the Point of Convergence podcast.

In the long-running history of the UFO Phenomenon, numerous aspects of encounters with these Others stretch our imaginations to the breaking point, pushing the outer limits of our capacity to even conceive of technologies that could accomplish what our eyes and others senses are telling us we’re apparently witnessing.

In terms of the demonstration of evidently advanced technology, the craft controlled by this supposedly non-human intelligence make maneuvers that are not only death-defying, but that break our very notions of how physics works. Engineers and aviation experts tell us that, not only do we not have vehicles that can perform like this, but that we can’t really even presently conceive of how such feats could be accomplished — even theoretically. Add to the mix that reports suggest a direct consciousness link between pilot and craft is key to the operation of these vehicles, and our understanding is stretched even further.

Teleportation is another apparent feature on display with these craft. In other words, not only do witnesses — including trained, expert, military witnesses — see these UFOs/UAPs racing across the sky at breakneck speeds, making 90 degree turns on a dime, without even slowing, but witnesses have also reported seeing craft — even massive mother ship types the size of football stadiums – suddenly materialize before their eyes, out of nowhere. And they can apparently disappear — dematerialize — just as quickly and completely.

And the wizardry on display by these Others doesn’t stop with the demonstration of their external technology. They also readily demonstrate an ability to interact with us directly — mind to mind — that is equally baffling. Not only can they seemingly control our very perceptions: to the point that we can no longer trust the output generated by our brains to be an accurate depiction of what’s actually “out there”, but, despite clear species and vast cultural differences, they seem able to effortlessly communicate with us, telepathically, bypassing the need for language translation altogether.

Furthermore, not only is the means of their communication almost always telepathic in nature, but this direct telepathic communication seems to come across at a much broader bandwidth than typical human communication; meaning the entire, nuanced emotional content of a thought is shared — seemingly instantaneously. And even more startlingly, the human beings being contacted find that they can communicate back — through the same telepathic means — just as easily.

Somewhat disconcertingly to some, even when one chooses not to share a thought, one’s thinking and feeling seems still to be laid bare to these Others. In other words, they can seemingly read out minds and hearts, as it were. Furthermore, and even more discombobulatingly, they seem to have knowledge of ever figment of our lives, and not only in its present state, but going back into the distant past — as well as the distant future.

But how? How is all of this accomplished? How are we to make sense of this? Figures like Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon, and Dr. Rudy Schild, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have led the way in engaging in these matters, advancing some intriguing possibilities. And the fascinating new conceptions around the nature of the intelligence behind the UFO Phenomenon, postulated by Mitchell, Schild and others, is the topic of this, the 12th episode of the Point of Convergence podcast.