American Cosmic

by D W Pasulka

  functions, could act as a transmitter and receiver not much

  different than our home computers and WiFi systems where

  the internet source enters our houses either through a hard-

  wired fiber network or a satellite signal wherein the data is then

  processed and used within our homes through our routers and

  radio- frequency signals.

  It’s interesting that the natural frequency of our DNA is

  similar to that of the frequency used for satellite communi-

  cation. Also, taking the computer model a step further, the

  calcium in our bones and its physical hard structure could

  act much like a large antenna to aid in sending and receiving

  data, as well as house many of our DNA and stem cel s in the

  bone marrow. In this model the human body and DNA be-

  come a biological internet and the data is likely stored with

  light photons, which in recent studies indicates an ability for

  the photon to share an exact twin state without restrictions of

  time and space. In other words, when a force of energy is ex-

  cited in one photon, its sister photon, thousands of miles away,

  experiences the same force instantaneously, which is referred

  to as entanglement.

  Tyler’s understanding of the body/

  phenomenon

  interface as an information translational process is

  grounded in materiality. The body and materiality are in-

  dispensable conditions for this process, he believes. He

  also refers to the idea that the human brain is not the

  center for thinking or even for the most important types

  of thoughts— the kind that lead to innovative and truly

  creative thinking.

  I find that this memory/ contact with an intelligent

  source (God) is much smarter than me, is more creative, and

  carries more energy and insight than I ever could using my

  own RAM and hard drive in my simple mind. I need to have

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  access to the depth and wisdom of this God- like internet to

  reach the fullest potential in my life, it seems.

  I practice a protocol of yoga to access my router rather

  than my RAM, direct sunlight to charge my DNA photonic

  cel s, propagate the natural energy outside in nature, and

  focus on my core body rather than my brain given that the

  concentration of our DNA is between our hips and neck.

  I think humans like to believe the head is the smartest and

  only part of their intelligent system, but this is probably be-

  cause it is the location that houses our sensors— eyes, ears,

  and nose. The body becomes as important as or even more

  important than our brains to optimize the storage, recep-

  tion, and transmission of this divine signal. So for people

  who practice calming the mind to allow the body to be-

  come more involved in the “thinking” process and perform

  functions that stimulate their computer, router, and WiFi

  signals, it wouldn’t be surprising to find out that they are

  much more creative, productive, and intelligent. They’ve

  learned to leverage whatever knowledge is on the internet

  of the divine universe rather than rely on their small out-

  dated laptop (their personal brain) that has no internet

  signal.

  Bennett says that the synthetic biologists of Silicon

  Valley and their biotechnological lexicons have become

  normative— that is, their worldviews are now our worldviews.

  The cultural worlds of the biotech industries impact and in-

  fluence millions and perhaps billions of lives. Their beliefs

  about what is sacred, or beyond human, filter through media

  technologies and into our own imaginations and memories.

  The human body is at the center of this sacred interface. The

  latest generation of scientists understands the materiality

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  of information. Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern, quantum phys-

  icist and author of the blog Quantum Frontiers: A Blog by

  the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter @ Caltech,

  writes: “I like my quantum information physical.”34 Scientists

  like James and Tyler are working to identify just what this

  material substance is, and how it works.

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  THE HUMAN RECEIVER

  Matter, Information, Energy . . . Contact

  All family members present were willing to discuss

  what happened with me, all acknowledged hearing an

  external voice urging them to look at the UFO, and all

  of them felt in some way profoundly affected by their

  UFO encounter. This is one example from dozens

  of cases, which I have personal y investigated in the

  Canadian province of Ontario, that demonstrates to

  a certain degree of what is known in UFO studies as

  “high strangeness.”

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  “WHILE DRIVING HOME FROM MY parents’ home I spoke

  to God for the first time. I looked up at the stars and said

  to both God and the Entities with which I was interacting,

  ‘I congratulate you—you have managed to completely

  transform a total atheist into someone who now believes

  in God, the spirit world, and life after death, more than any

  Catholic priest in Miami.’ ” Thus spoke Rey Hernandez,

  while driving in his car one day. What had happened

  to Rey?

  A UFO sighting or event often has the effect of com-

  pletely changing the direction of one’s life, much like a re-

  ligious conversion experience. This was the case with Rey,

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  a lawyer and self- described rationalist and atheist. After

  a series of sightings and related paranormal experiences,

  Rey, together with Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchel ,

  Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild, and Australian re-

  searcher Mary Rodwel , cofounded the Dr. Edgar Mitchel

  Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters

  or FREE. It is the first global, multilingual study of people

  who claim to have had UFO- related contact with non-

  human intelligence and related paranormal experiences.

  Rey reminded me that, when I refer to his work, I should

  mention that he is just one of many qualified researchers

  “who have put in hundreds, even thousands of hours” in

  support of the organization.2

  As Jacques Vallee discovered, there are two types of UFO

  reports. There are those that are reported to “authorities”

  and those that are revealed to sympathetic listeners (who

  are sometimes also authorities). The fear of ridicule keeps

  many UFO testimonies subterranean, submerged within

  subcultures that nevertheless grow each year. This chapter

  explores the experience of Rey Hernandez and his wife,

  Dulce, and documents the unexpected twists and turns it

  took once he publicized it.

  The Hernandezes’ experiences are instructive for sev-

  eral reasons. First, each saw something extraordinary, yet

  they interpreted it differently. Dulce is a devout Catholic

  and interpreted her experience as divine and wit
hin the

  framework of Catholic theology. Rey, who was an atheist

  prior to his experience, is still interpreting it. In his work

  Rey delves into the testimonies of UFO contact. In its sec-

  ular form, testimony is a form of evidence. To give testi-

  mony in a court of law is to provide information that is

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  supposed to be true and to correspond to real- life matters.

  If one provides false testimony, it is called perjury. Within

  the history of religions, testimony is also a type of evidence.

  Many religious traditions are built upon the testimonies of

  believers. Believers report extraordinary things and events,

  such as miracles or sightings of supernatural beings. This

  testimony is often accompanied by information about the

  credentials of those who testify. In both religious cultures

  and UFO cultures, the “credible witness” is an important

  feature that helps lend credibility, if not to the actual reality

  of extraordinary claims, at least to the fact that credible

  people experience extraordinary events.

  Many of the scientist- believers I interviewed think

  that the phenomenon functions like a technology, and that

  the human is a receiver and transmitter of information.

  Rey and his cadre of colleagues— twelve retired physicists,

  neuroscientists, psychologists, and scientists— employ var-

  ious methods, including quantum physics, to explain the

  relationship between consciousness and contact with non-

  human intelligence. For them, this interaction defies a du-

  alist construction of spirit and matter and bridges the rift

  between two camps of researchers in ufology: the “nuts and

  bolts” materialists and the subjectivists, those who focus

  on the testimonies of experiencers. According to Rey, the

  scientists associated with FREE are working on theories that

  will provide an explanation of how these experiences are

  both physical and subjective: “This new holographic theory

  challenges us to deconstruct the artificial wall of separation

  erected between events that occur only in consciousness, and

  those that can manifest on a physical scale.”3 The key is in the

  code, and Edgar explains how this is so.

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  T H E S E R I E S O F E V E N T S T HAT

  C HA N G E D R E Y

  It was very early on a Sunday morning in March of 2012.

  Rey and Dulce’s beloved Niña, a Jack Russell terrier who had

  been a member of their family for sixteen years, had become

  paralyzed the night before. Rey had contacted a veterinarian

  friend, who said that Niña had most probably suffered a ce-

  rebral hemorrhage. The friend offered to open his office the

  following day, Sunday, to euthanize Niña. Deeply saddened,

  Dulce turned to her faith. She prayed to God that he would

  send his angels to cure Niña. That morning, her prayers were

  answered, in a way that would shatter Rey’s atheism and con-

  firm Dulce’s faith.

  Rey, in an interview, relates the first of a series of extraor-

  dinary experiences, and figure 6.1 is a depiction of what Rey

  saw. Rey’s wife saw something like figure 6.2.

  My wife woke up and [checked on] the dog to see if she had

  regained her mobility. Our pet was not able to move at all ex-

  cept just from the neck up. My wife then carried her down the

  stairs, and when she got down there she saw an object that was

  floating four feet off the ground, one foot [away from] the wal ,

  and it was metallic in shape—approximately like an upside-

  down- U. . . . It had these two ring lights in the center. My wife,

  being the good hardcore Catholic from Mexico that she is, she

  knelt down and started praying . . . basical y [saying,] “If you’re

  a bad spirit, leave. But if you are a good spirit or an angel or the

  Virgin Mary [stay].” Mexicans always see the Virgin Mary eve-

  rywhere [Rey laughs]. And she said, “Please stay and don’t let

  my dog suffer. My poor Niña.” Niña is her name, which means

  “little girl” in Spanish.

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  Then all of a sudden these green lights started blinking

  and started flashing on her—like scanning her. At that point

  she freaked out and she started yelling for me. She started

  screaming my name. It was six in the morning, and I thought

  she had seen a cockroach or a little mouse on the floor [Rey

  laughs]. I just totally ignored her. After 10 or 15 minutes

  of screaming for me to come downstairs, she went upstairs

  and literally hauled me out of bed. When I got downstairs,

  what I saw was not the object that she had seen. . . . What

  I saw was, I guess could be described as a plasma- object.

  This was not just an object; I call it a plasma- being, a light

  being, because it did control my mind. It was . . . approxi-

  mately two- to- three- feet in width, one and a half to two

  feet in height, cylindrical in shape, but it didn’t have any ex-

  ternal outer edges because it was pure energy plasma. Multi-

  colored, translucent, and when I looked at it I did not have

  any peripheral vision . . . just straight ahead at that object.

  I could not see to my right or to the left or up and down. . . .

  I was just focused only on that object. What I did was quite

  irrational—I stared at it, I waved my hand at it, and then

  I said, “Ah B.S.” . . . Then I turned around, I walked up-

  stairs, I went to my bed, I folded my hands on my belly, and

  I looked straight up at the ceiling. So for 15 minutes I was

  in this hypnotic state with nothing entering my brain/ my

  consciousness. After 15 minutes, it was [as] if the hypnotist

  said, “OK Kid, wake up, we’re finished with your wife and

  your pet.” And all of a sudden I woke up and I said, “Oh my

  god, what in the world just happened?” I ran downstairs and

  there was my wife jumping up and down, saying “Hallelujah!

  Hallelujah! The angels cured her! The angels cured her!” She

  was running around the living room dancing, and the dog

  was running up and down with the energy of a little puppy.

  Right there my whole worldview was totally shattered [Rey

  laughs]. That was the first event.4

  Figure 6.1. Rey Hernandez’s depiction of what he saw, the “red energy

  being.”

  Figure 6.2. Dulce Hernandez’s depiction of what she saw, “the energy

  craft.”

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  Dulce said that she had not seen what Rey reported

  seeing. He insisted that he had been asleep for forty- five

  minutes after he left the living room. He pointed at the clock

  to demonstrate that forty- five minutes had indeed elapsed.

  Dulce insisted that she never left the living room and that

  Rey had never gone back upstairs. According to her, she

  had walked downstairs with Rey behind, looked down, saw

  Niña running around, and then started to celebrate. Then

  she saw Rey. Their recollections of the event were completely

  d
ifferent. Later, Rey would incorporate the idea that “missing

  time” must have been a factor in the event, and that the non-

  human beings had taken his wife and dog, healed them, and

  then returned them.

  My wife does not want to speak much about the incident and

  acts like nothing of consequence happened— to her this entity

  was merely an Angel that had answered her prayers. Maybe

  she is correct. Our living room corner wall is on the north-

  western corner of our house. At 6 am that corner is dark be-

  cause light does not enter that corner. We have closed drapes

  on the western window as well and that part was dark because

  the sun was just rising on the southeastern side. We also have

  a wall dividing the windows from the sun rising in the east

  from this western corner. We know what we saw was not an

  optical il usion.

  This event shattered Rey’s view of reality. At the time, he said,

  he was a “pure rationalist”:

  I went to Catholic mass but just to comfort my wife. I had

  never read any UFO, ancient alien, paranormal or “new age”

  books. I believed that all the new age “metaphysics” litera-

  ture was pure BS from ex- hippies even though I considered

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  myself an ex- hippie while living in Berkeley, CA, from 1981

  to 1988 while attending a PhD Program in City and Regional

  Planning. I was a total skeptic. I was a pure rationalist and any

  “metaphysic” or UFO related themes were pure BS. On that

  day, my world view came crashing down.5

  After this experience, Rey did what most experiencers

  do: he sought out materials to help him understand what

  had happened to him. He had never had any type of para-

  normal experience and certainly never encountered an “en-

  ergy plasma being.” He wasn’t Catholic like his wife, so he

  wasn’t sure it was an angel, although he wasn’t ruling out

  that possibility either. He thought that he could find answers

  in the UFO and paranormal literature. Perhaps what they

  had encountered was some type of nonhuman intelligence.

  He looked for answers on the internet and ordered “tons”

  of books about the topic. His intensive “book encounter”

  was interrupted, however, by more strange and anomalous

  events.

  T H E N E X T E V E N T

  The next event occurred in May of 2012, when Dulce re-