Loren Coleman On The Paracast

There is a new online chat with Gene Steinberg and Christopher O’Brien, 

which was conducted on May 1, 2014.

I agreed to do various interviews during what I think will become known as my quiet winter-spring of 2014. One that is out already is now on the Paracast.

Here is their site's description:

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May 4, 2014 (DOWNLOAD!): The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host Christopher O’Brien, a seasoned field investigator, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
On this week's show: Gene and Chris welcome pioneer cryptozoologist Loren Coleman back to The Paracast with an update of ongoing research into the field, including a global call for DNA evidence. You'll hear about case histories, including recent reports, along with a dose of myth busting. According to his bio: "Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say 'the' leading. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries."

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I discuss a wide variety of topics including cryptozoology, Bigfoot, and new species. But the hosts of the show certainly wanted to begin with the Twilight Language, the Copycat Effect, and the Fortean end of things - and that's where we went.

Besides briefly mentioning the legacy of the Museum, I can't recall actually talking about my published works, per se, resulting in my books, now or in the future. Listener questions were intriguing, interesting, and broadbased.

This Paracast is a rather casual, all-encompassing conversation that hits a lot of the landscape of my recent intellectual life. You might want to go watch a baseball game, instead, or read a good book. Cheers.

  NOW PLAYING! May 4, 2014 — Loren Coleman

The 1983 cover of the first edition of Mysterious America.

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Decatur Again: School Shooting Season Begins

Decatur, Georgia, was in the news a week ago. A school shooting nearly became deadly, and, I speculate because of the publicity about it, a workplace shooting occurred over the weekend.

Mass shootings follow a known pattern - another form of school, business-related, or mass violence usually comes within days of a well-publicized event - then more routinely another shooting happens in a week, two weeks, a month, and a year. It doesn't always take place with such regularity, but it often does.

The other predictor of future shootings is the copycat effect that comes into play after an end of the school year outburst. It feels like a Newtown bounce this fall may happen; I hope not but such a possibility is worthy of being on our radar.

Awareness is a key. People protecting others in schools, colleges, malls, churches, workplaces, and similar locations need to be alert. We are entering a dangerous "red zone" time of year. 

The Rebirth of Pan (1st edition, Firebird Press, 1983)

Mysterious America (1st edition cover, Faber & Faber, 1983)

Decatur again. Yes. We are use to Decatur in the weird news. Jim Brandon pointed out "Decatur" as a "power name" in his The Rebirth of Pan in 1983, and I wrote about it as part of the "Name Game" in Mysterious America, also first in 1983.

First described as "Atlanta-area," the "almost deadly" school shooting happening last Tuesday, August 20, 2013, occurred at Decatur, Georgia's Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy. The elementary school was named for the second AfricanAmerican astronaut, who died aboard the Challenger, the space shuttle that exploded after takeoff on January 28, 1986.

Michael Brandon Hill, 20, opened fire in the school, using an AK-47, to six bullets in the floor of the office. But as he was calmed down by school bookkeeper Antoinette Tuff, who spoke to Hill while on the phone with the 911 operator. She talked him into surrendering, and the publicity was heightened when President Obama called her a "hero."

Investigator T.L. Wortham of the DeKalb County Sheriff Department's Fugitive Unit told the media that as officers were apprehending the suspect, Hill said, "I'm sorry, I'm off my meds." Several weapons were seized, Wortham said.

Hill took a photo of himself (a "selfie") with an AK 47-style rifle and packed up nearly 500 rounds of ammunition — enough to shoot more than half the school's students - police later said.

After the Decatur incident, another shooting - with six shot - occurred on Saturday, August 25, 2013, in Lake Butler, Florida. The alleged shooter, Hubert Allen Jr., 72, was reported dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a “complete shooting rampage” at Pritchett Trucking. The owner of Pritchett Trucking and the farm, Rolling Oaks, Marvin Pritchett, 80, was first killed. Allen then drove to a local bar where he shot and killed Romando Gonzales Delgado, 28, and then killed himself. The gunman was identified as the step-grandfather of Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller.

Decatur, Georgia, has had its brushes with infamy in the recent past.

In June 5, 2012, a fight lead to a stabbing Decatur’s Columbia High School. Two days later, on Thursday, June 7, 2012, a gun was brought to the DeKalb County school after stabbing incident. And then on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, loaded guns were seized at two area high schools.

Mark David Chapman, the assassin of Beatle John Lennon, attended Decatur, Georgia's Columbia High School from 1971-1975. (His high school photograph is at top.)

Decatur, Illinois's old Transfer Station use to be located near Lincoln Square, named after the assassinated Illinois president.

My old hometown’s name, Decatur, (of Decatur, Illinois) has a Fortean mystique and synchromysticism about it that has created all kinds of mojo.

Several locations are named "Decatur" across the United States of America.

Such sites are named after the War of 1812′s Navy hero, Stephen Decatur, who fought against the Barbary pirates. Decatur at one time conducted tests in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey in 1804, and fired on the Jersey Devil. The records say that Stephen Decatur identified the winged creature as a “devil” – pale in color, with leathery bat-like wings. Decatur perforated one of the thing’s wings with a fired cannonball, but it seemed unfazed, which disturbed everybody who was there at the time. It flew off.

The word decatur (French in origin) is loosely translated as “dweller at the sign of the cat,” and Native Americans who lived in the area that is now Central Illinois had numerous stories of encounters with large dark predatory cats, which are still sighted in the area to this very day.

Stephen Decatur, a Masonic figure of some noteworthiness, is responsible, as well, for the Stephen Decatur House in Washington D.C., which is located on Lafayette Square.

Should we be surprised if an outburst of new violence occurs in the wake of the copycat effect recoil from Newtown? Will it "pick" a location with a "power name"?

How can the next wave be prevented? Certainly, ignoring the patterns of the past is not wise.

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Top Ten Synchromystic Books of 2012

"Words are animals, alive with a will of their own."

~ C.G. Jung

Synchromysticism is the drawing of links and connections in popular and personal culture (through breaking news, movies, music lyrics, literature, historical happenings, patterned behavior and esoteric knowledge), and the finding of connections and lexilinks between occult knowledge (i.e. secret societies, cults and rituals), politics, mass media, and more.

"What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate."

~ C.G. Jung

Synchronicity, the name game, forteana, coincidence, and many other unique moments of our lives are also parts of the field of synchromysticism.

Synchromysticism is ''the art of realizing meaningful coincidence in the 

seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance.'' 

~ Jake Kotze

The following ten titles, in no specific order, are recommended as my top synchromystic selections of newly reprinted classic and new books appearing in 2012.

The Sync Book 2 

edited by Alan Abbadessa-Green (new 2012)

Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society

by Adam Parfrey and Craig Heimbichner (new 2012)

Zones of Strangeness: An Examination of Paranormal and UFO Hot Spots

by Peter A. McCue (new 2012)

Happy Trails to High Weirdness: A Conspiracy Theorist's Tour Guide 

by Adam Gorightly (new 2012)

The Other Side of Truth: The Paranormal, The Art of the Imagination, and the Human Condition 

by Paul Kimball (new 2012)

Soulmaking: Uncommon Paths to Self-Understanding 

by Michael Grosso (1997; new 2012 reprint)

Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind 

by Kirby Surprise (new 2012)

Coincidence: a Matter of Chance - or Synchronicity? 

by Brian Inglis (1990; new 2012 reprint)

Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier

by Brad and Sherry Steiger (3rd Edition, new 2012)

Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form 

by Robert Guffey (new 2012)

"There's no coming to consciousness without pain."

~ C.G. Jung

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Everything Is Connected

Cloud Atlas will be released as a film, in the USA, on October 26, 2012. The motion picture is written and directed by Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, and Andy Wachowski, based on the 2004 novel Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

"Everything is Connected" is the movie's tagline.

The Wachowski siblings are the directors, writers, and executive producers of The Matrix trilogy.

Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) from The Matrix.

"An epic story of humankind in which the actions and consequences of our lives impact one another throughout the past, present, and future as one soul is shaped from a murderer into a savior and a single act of kindness ripples out for centuries to inspire a revolution." ~ Cloud Atlas summary.

"If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere." ~ Charles Fort, Lo! 1931.

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The Man Who Predicted The Aurora Shooting

"One measures a circle, beginning anywhere."

~ Charles Fort, Lo!, 1931.

The avant-garde blog, Dangerous Minds, has posted a concise overview about a recent segment of my work. The piece relates to the pre-event indictors I saw that resulted in me anticipating a significant violent event would occur with the opening and release of The Dark Knight Rises.

On September 17, 2012, Dangerous Minds published "Copycat Effect: Meet The Man Who Predicted The Aurora Shooting" by British writer Thomas McGrath. You will want to read it.

I thank the author for his respectful article, which in a few hundred words tries to capture 30 years of my serious research of the copycat effect. I also appreciate those readers who are open-mindedly digesting this material, with the understanding that forecasting human behavior is going to be the next leap forward in foresnic psychology and the prevention of suicidal and homicidal events.

I've been doing this research for a long time. It is not often that someone captures the essence of it as well as this British profiler did.

I realize that some people don't like the use of the word "prediction" in the article's headline, for I am clearly not a psychic and do not claim to be one. But it is a useful handle to quickly communicate a concept about pre-event forecasting that few people understand.

If you read what I said on July 19th, the reality is that I did write before the Aurora event, in seemingly "prophetic" tones for people outside this field, that something big and violent, tied quite specifically to the opening of The Dark Knight Rises, was going to occur on July 20, 2012. This was not written after the fact. It was noted before it happened. There was a great deal to what I said, about past patterns, Joker copycats, violence, and examples like the anniversary of the Norway shootings that took place when Captain America was released on July 22, 2011.

I appreciate the accolades and accords given to me by Dangerous Minds author Thomas McGrath. I thank him for his clear reading of my insights, which, while grounded in Fort's and Jung's works that I read over 50 years ago, were not held against me. 

We all start somewhere, as per the famed quote up top, and I'm delighted with my conceptualizations that have matured nicely since then.

The Copycat Effect

(NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004)

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Olympics: Illuminati vs Cosmic Joker

Did the synchromystic moments at the London Olympics' Closing Ceremony have more to do with the Illuminati or the Cosmic Joker?

Chris Knowles recently addressed the issue of over-the-top disaster predictions for the London sports gathering in his "2012 Olympics: Fear Strikes Out. Again," as did the Guardian's "Are the 2012 Olympics part of a plot to take over the world?" They both looked at the real world consequences of such speculations.

Both discussions examined the role the conspiracy jockeys have in allegedly pushing people over the edge, such as in the suicide of Cosmic Mind blogger Rik Clay.

Here, we find the Guardian noting, "Rik Clay's Olympics theory was chiefly inspired by another British researcher, Ian R Crane, whom he saw speaking at an event in Glastonbury in 2007....It was Crane who first deciphered the 'Zion' in the Olympic logo, and who suggested a fake UFO invasion was being planned."

Muse performs with UFOs earlier, but closing 
ceremony performance went unseen in the USA.
Photograph at top: Credit Perez Hilton.

Knowles revealed the source of his feelings about what happened this way: "The evidence for the 2012 'false flag' plot -- all of it -- was based pretty much entirely on some wanker playing around with the logo and cutting and pasting until it read 'Zion.' There it was. Anything was now possible."

Why would they even have to post something like this? Because so many people were extending these "discoveries," even someone like Sandra Barr who stated, quite matter-of-factly in her July 31, 2012, "Blood Sacrifice at Aurora & The London Olympics": "Many people are now waking up to the fact that these seemingly unconnected random killings, are in fact well staged ritualistic sacrifices carried out by hapless victims either under mind control or hypnotized."

In Barr's 26 minute YouTube presentation, "Blood Sacrifice at Aurora, the London Olympics and 007," she predicted there would be a "false flag" operation on August 4 at the Olympics.

I have no problem with predictions based on history and human behavior, but how it is being used by some of these folks is just pushing the envelope.

False flag (covert operations) advocates frequently see the power players being the Jews, Mormons, Communists, Mossad, CIA, NSA, OTO, Aliens, MIBs, Ultraterrestrials, or the Illuminati behind any event that seems out-of-the-ordinary.

"What The Guardian doesn't mention is that this all springs from the fetid collective imagination of the extreme Religious Right," continued Knowles. "And meanwhile, Rik Clay will still be dead."

Being more Jungian and Fortean here, there is no need to always journey down the dark path. Evil things do happen. We would be fools not to realize that.

Sometimes people are linked to creating the darkness. But often, there seems to be something else going on, way beyond us. Looking for patterns, synchronicities, and coincidences does not have to then make the leap that they have been "directed" by anyone. The human-driven copycat effect can be thrown into occurring by the twilight language signaling, but it does not have to be set into motion and blamed every time, for example, on the Freemasons, of course. Or the feds, fellow-travelers, or foreign foes.

Let's review...

Synchromystic = from Late Latin synchronus, from Greek sunkhronos, from syn- + khronos time + Middle English mistik, from Latin mysticus of mysteries, from Greek mystikos, from mystēs initiate

Synchromysticism was first coined by Jake Kotze in August 2006, on his website-at-the-time, Brave New World Order. Kotze defined the concept as: "The art of realizing meaningful coincidence in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance."

Synchromysticism is defined as the drawing of connections in modern culture (movies, music lyrics, historical happenings and esoteric knowledge); and finding connections that could be coming from the "collective unconscious mind"; and finding connections between occult knowledge (i.e. esoteric fraternities, cults and secret rituals), politics and mass media, according to Wiktionary.

So, sit back and enjoy, in a surreal fashion, a few synchromystic moments from the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics ("A Symphony of British Music"), which may have everything or nothing to do with anything.

James Holmes Lookalikes

Credit: Higherside Chats

Phoenix

Credit: Bob Rickard

Batman & Robin from Only Fools and Horses, 

jumped from an exploding car (not seen in the USA?)

Credit: Timothy Hurford

Giant Octopus

Pyramid

Strange Orange Guys, i.e. the Pet Shop Boys

Russell Brand as Willy Wonka (right after I posted this)

Credit: Daily Mail

Brian May of Queen with a red fox on his sleeve and Jessie J.

Credit: Red Pill Junkie

The visual Wormhole created....

And finally, for those looking for it...here's Pele to represent the New World Order...

seen with Henry Kissinger before the closing ceremony on August 12th...

and below, caught together in the past.

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