Being Blown Out of Your Boxes

In recent blogs, I have been writing about having one's mind blown in various ways. A true challenge to those Beliefs, however, which, figuratively, "blows one's mind" can be great enough to cause the whole Belief System to be shaken, if not shattered.

Many individuals who have experienced such alternate-reality blasts, manage to suppress the experience/information and return to the, perhaps now shaken, security of their former lives. Most, at minimum, keep their experiences to themselves in fear of being thought, "not normal."

The standard Western Scientific version of, "reality" does not allow for anomalous events. To Western Science, the physical world is only physical, and, additionally, relatively, predictable. Basic Western Science maintains that reality is Real; it exists and is constant in that existence. Reality, for basic Western Science, is restricted by various Natural Laws, which allow for no deviation.

I have given as an example of this scientific certitude, in a previous blog, hail. Scientific Theory says that hail is formed in a particular way by nature in storms. The way they are formed only allows for them to become as large as a pea before they must fall out of the clouds, if not before. All reports of golf-ball- and baseball-sized hail, are, accordingly, false to Science. I have in my possession a news picture of a woman holding a hailstone, one of those which fell during a recent major tornado/storm in Oklahoma that is the size of a large melon.

There are many current reports, as well as reports of occurrences from the past, which cannot be accepted as true, simply because, the experienced reality event cannot coexist with, "normal" accepted, "scientific" reality/facts. If one chooses to believe the reality of what has either been experienced, or reported on, one cannot help but be shifted, at least somewhat, outside of one's mental boxes.

There is a group called, The Fortean Society" originally formed in the first-half of the 20th Century, who are followers in the footsteps of Charles Fort, who collected news clippings, and wrote extensively about, what he called, "damned" occurrences. Their stated purpose is documenting unexplained phenomena; primarily the kind of things that debunkers are fond of ridiculing.

I have, for the last fifty years, read reports and books written by and/or about individuals, not connected to these groups, of personal experiences they have had which are scientifically, "impossible," but which, for the experiencers, are indisputable. As a result, I am totally convinced that Western Scientific Theory does not even begin to describe actual reality. My mind was, essentially, blown in the 60's, but it continues to expand outward.

Recently, reports have been made by individuals who experienced, while driving, having been shifted to a different location, and having had to drive some distance to get back to where they should have been. Most such experiences are unique to themselves. As I have stated previously, traditionally, such events have been declared by oneself or others to be, "just your imagination," and suppressed. It is time to allow one's mind to be blown, rather than discounting and/or suppressing experiences and/or information. By coming to accept that, literally, nothing is impossible, one will make one small step toward becoming prepared for the future.

Currently, with the availability of the Internet, much information has become available to those who are open enough to seek it out; this has done much to crack open the minds of many people. This, as far as I'm concerned, is all to the good. For me, of primary importance, is the need to become clear enough in one's mind so that alternative realities are not rejected out-of-hand.

Understandably, most of us would prefer to stay in a predictable world, where such things do not, supposedly, happen. If, however, we allow the information to crack open our mental boxes, so that we begin to question what we have been Programmed and Indoctrinated to believe, life becomes much more interesting.

With that, I end today's blog.

Shirley Gallup