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‘V’ in the World of ‘O’

Much has been written about the premiere of the new ABC drama “V” and its relationship to the election last year of President Barack Obama. As an article from the Chicago Tribune noted:

    Nominally a rousing sci-fi space opera about alien invaders bent on the conquest (and digestion) of all humanity, it’s also a barbed commentary on Obamamania that will infuriate the president’s supporters and delight his detractors.

While it’s true there are reasons why comparisons between the candidate of hope and the aliens who want change are plentiful, the show “V” is about much more than a critique of the Obama administration.

“V” begins as a show about aliens who suddenly appear in spaceships around the world and the reaction they receive.

Apollo 14 astronaut, a paranormal enthusiast, conducted ESP experiments on mission

Despite a glittering Navy career which culminated in his selection for Nasa, Edgar Mitchell maintained a secret passion which he took all the way to the moon, when he took his first lunar steps on the Apollo 14 mission, January 14, 1971.

Always a paranormal enthusiast, he covertly conducted Extra Sensory Perception tests with friends back on Earth.

Once back on this planet Captain Mitchell became increasingly outspoken on the subject of aliens, claiming first that he was 90 per cent sure they existed, then that the Roswell incident was real and that the US government is secretly testing alien bodies.

He was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout.

Mitchell's interests include consciousness and paranormal phenomena.

In 1973, he founded the nonprofit Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) to research into consciousness research and psychic events.

He has said that he is: "90 per cent sure that many of the thousands of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets" and that UFOs have been the "subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn't come out".

Michael Crichton's fascination with the paranormal

I recently finished “Travels,” an essay collection by late author Michael Crichton, of Jurassic Park fame. Like the title implies, many of the chapters are about the author’s visits to exotic locales around the world, from living with indigenous tribes in New Guinea to climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. But, for all the chapters about external trips Crichton took, there are just as many about what you could call internal travels, the journey inside oneself to take a look around and perhaps discover some kind of epiphanistic truth.

There’s talk of mediums communicating with long-lost souls, disembodied spirits still roaming the earth and just looking to relay a message. There are stories about week-long spiritual retreats, full of fasting and meditation, and at one point for Crichton, talking to a cactus. They are stories that, at first glance, seem so outlandish, so ridiculous, that you can’t believe that they’re included in a book labeled nonfiction. But then, you start thinking about the context of what you’re reading. You start thinking about the author.

Michael Crichton, although a prolific storyteller, was a licensed doctor. The first half of Travels recounts stories from his time in medical school and about the various rotations he did in all branches of medicine. He also was a scientist. Despite being fiction, almost all of his novels are based around some type of fringe science, some technique or method not proven, but not altogether impossible. He did painstakingly large amounts of research for everything he wrote, and it’s because of that research that the idea of bringing dinosaurs back to life actually started getting serious attention when Jurassic Park was released. Prey is equally as powerful, detailing a frightening tale of the science of nanotechnology gone awry.

What I’m trying to get at here is to simply ask you to think for a minute. Michael Crichton was a well-known scientist and physician, and yet in his book, he still speaks of these paranormal activities. There were never any questions about his mental stability, never anybody crying for his incarceration — aside, maybe, from enraged ex-girlfriends, of which he had many. And then, to make his case even stronger, the icing on the cake, Crichton doesn’t just speak of these experiences and allow you to laugh. He presents evidence and theories for their existence.




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