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http://www.ufomystic.com/2009/07/23/the-name-game/

The Name Game

It has been noted that names of witnesses to UFOs and other strange phenomena sometimes repeat themselves. An article by Frank Altomonte references an obscure 1957 case from my local area which is significant in this regard.

The original account was related by Coral and Jim Lorenzen in their 1967 book Flying Saucer Occupants (which is actually one of my favorite UFO books.)

A strange story about stalled cars and little men was told to authorities and the press on the morning of November 6, 1957, when Richard Kehoe, an employee of the General Telephone Company of Santa Monica, related his early-morning experience. This is another tale which has fallen into ill repute because of the reluctance of researchers to accept human-like occupants as real, and the lack of corroborating witnesses.

Kehoe claimed that while driving along Vista del Mar at Playa del Rey in California (a beach area) at 5:40 a.m. his engine stopped as did the engines of the two other cars. When the drivers got out to see what was wrong they saw an egg-shaped spaceship wrapped ‘in a blue haze’ on the beach. Kehoe claimed two “little men” (about 5 feet 5 inches, which isn’t really small) got out of the object and asked questions of him and the two other drivers, such as: ‘Where we were going? Who we were? What time it was? etc.’ He said their skin appeared to be yellowish-green in the early morning light, but that otherwise they looked normal. He said they were wearing black leather pants, white belts, and light-colored jerseys.

The two other drivers were identified as Ronald Burke of Redondo Beach and Joe Thomas of Torrance, and Kehoe claimed Thomas called the police. He said they sounded as though they were talking English but he couldn’t understand them, and said simply that he had to go to work. The men got back into their ship and disappeared into the sky, whereupon his car started up immediately. The ship was oval, tan or cream in color, with two metal rings around it upon which the object apparently rested, according to Kehoe.

Of course “Keyhoe” is a name famous in UFO circles. Major Donald Keyhoe was an early ufological force who in 1950 wrote The Flying Saucers Are Real, probably the first important book about the subject, which was based on his wildly popular article of the same name in True magazine from December of 1949. He was also the co-founder (in 1956) of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP.)

Another witness to strange things in the sky on November 6th of 1957 was Mrs. Charles Weitzel, who looked out of her kitchen window in Corona Del Mar (some 40 miles down the coast from the Kehoe encounter) to see something hovering over the ocean that looked like “an orange jack-o-lantern.”

Just over a year later on the night of November 8th of 1958, another witness, Charles Wetzel (essentially the same name) encountered a strange creature with “scaly skin, like leaves” and a “round, scarecrowish head like something out of Halloween” skulking in the seasonally dry Santa Ana river in Riverside, California. It climbed on the windshield of his car as he drove through the riverbed, clawing at the glass, and then slipped down the hood and under the car, where Wetzel ran it over.

The Weird California website has more on this, as well as a story on another Charles Wetzel, who sighted a six foot kangaroo in the wilds of Nebraska on July 28th of the same year. Both Wetzels (who were not related) had sons named Charles. Did Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weitzel of Corona Del Mar also have a son named Charles? Was the person who encountered the same goblin the next night in Riverside named Keyhoe or Kehoe?

Adding to this gordian knot is a letter received at the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization’s (APRO) headquarters in July of 1980. It described a dramatic UFO sighting involving eleven Air Force personnel on a training exercise. Bill Moore, who was on the governing board of APRO at the time, called the witness and found out that he hadn’t written it and that most of the details in the letter had been made up by someone else. It turned out to be a baiting exercise designed to hook in gullible UFO researchers and later resulted in Moore’s controversial involvement with elements of Air Force Intelligence.

The witness’ name was Craig Weitzel.

Loren Coleman, writing in his 1983 book Mysterious America said:

“Wetzel” is a German name, a corrupted form of “little Varin,” from “warin,” meaning “protector.” Should we therefore assume some elemental insight from a name that literally means “little protector or guardian?”

Are the Wetzels/ Weitzels protecting us from strange creatures from time, space and other dimensions? The Keyhoes/ Kehoes appear to be attractors for the UFO phenomenon. Idle speculation perhaps, but the “name game” may be evidence of a larger pattern that is inscutable to us as yet.

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http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/other-bog/

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For that blog, however, lately, I have grown to find “The Copycat Effect” too restrictive, and too tied to the name of my 2004 book. Indeed, I feel I need to return to a more broad-based exploration of areas of interest I have had for a long time. For example, my classic book, first published in 1983 and still in-print in a greatly updated/revised edition, Mysterious America, includes an often-quoted and well-known chapter, “The Name Game.”

I have, therefore, changed the name of that blog over at the blogspot.com site to “Twilight Language,” to more fully embrace the body of my work.

Why this name?

Most of what happens around us is ignored psychologically. The rationalistic filters allow for only the mundane details of most interactions to awaken any response. In deciphering mystery deaths, assassinations, suicide clusters, school shootings, workplace violence, killings, and other acts propelled to our attention via the media, we must forensically look a little deeper.

“Twilight language” concerns, to name a few of its parts, from psychology, the hidden significance of dates and other signs, from religious studies, the hidden symbolism that lies in stories and texts, and from criminology, the profiling insights that have revealed the ritualistic nature of certain crimes and violent incidents.

Nonfiction events in which the outcome may be a death are often only viewed in terms of the end result. They are more than this tragic statistic. They are a chain of events, a summary of incidents that contain the essence of many themes. These motifs are common to influential literature and ancestral traditions, which have imprinted people to such an extent, that these stories are passed down from generation to generation.

For all who wish to decipher the dates, locations, symbols, images, and twilight language surrounding, encompassing, and behind suicides, murder-suicides, and violent “random” acts to prevent or understand these incidents, the “text” may be as difficult to read as those created by the ancient Buddhists who hide meanings from outsiders. Their words in allegory, symbolism, and code were often misinterpreted and misused by unworthy or skeptical seekers. I would not expect anything less today.

Events appear to have the ability to attract additional symbolism and synchronicity. They trigger a type of behavior contagion in time and space, which generates other catastrophic events of ritual significance, as indicated by the symbols and twilight language that are attached to them.

I will keep making the same types of observations, encompassing varied Fortean, sociological, occult, and synchromysticism* themes, which I’ve been writing about for several decades now. This blog, as an extension of my writings, in part, is also an exploration in onomatology (the study of names) and toponomy (the study of places), in the context of current and past events.

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Loren Coleman's Twilight Language blog (renamed as of 2009)
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2010/09/adamski.html

THE TWILIGHT LANGUAGE EXISTS VIA "CODED WORDS," "NAME GAMES," AND "NUMBER COINCIDENCES" FOUND IN THE NEWS AND HISTORY. THESE WRITINGS LOOK AT THE HIDDEN MEANINGS AND THE COPYCAT EFFECT THAT TRANSFORM EVENTS INTO "HOT DEATH STORIES" AND "CELEBRITY HAPPENINGS." THESE REALMS ARE EXPLORED IN MY BOOK THE COPYCAT EFFECT (NY: SIMON AND SCHUSTER, 2004), AND IN FORTHCOMING BOOKS, WITH FURTHER EXPLORATIONS IN ONOMATOLOGY (THE STUDY OF NAMES) AND TOPONOMY (THE STUDY OF PLACES).

I first read about "the Name Game" in Loren Coleman's Mysterious America. Like Keel, he's also one of my favorite authors. I've even corresponded with him about the late John Keel.

People have long noted that the UFO and other strange phenomena seems to cluster around places with certain names. Coleman talks about how here in the U.S. many of these places have "Devil" names (i.e. their name contains some variant of the word "devil" in various languages). Of course, this isn't that surprising -- obviously people, being fearful and superstitious, gave such names to these places of strangeness. But it turns out you can also find this toponymic principle with many other place names, ones without such obvious associations. It almost seems as if the phenomena are "drawn" to places with certain names - names that btw often have unusual significance when you examine their etymological origins.

In his "non-Fortean" work, Coleman studied suicide clusters, and has written about the copycat effect -- also known as the Werther effect -- where a particular suicide, crime, or extreme event will cause people to imitate that all over the world. However, Coleman has increasingly found cases where there are copycat incidents where it's practically difficult or impossible for the copycat to have "heard" of the inspiring incident, even though the mass media, as quickly as that circulates. Is some other stranger kind of "synchromysticism" going on?

It turns out this "name game" also works when we look at eyewitnesses and dates, as well. Paranormal events and sightings seem to cluster around certain witness names that recur frequently -- Wetzel, Adamski, Fayette, Trinity, etc. Again, it also seems like the phenomena are "drawn" to people with certain names. Why? And then there's the date phenomenon as well. Coleman notes that many important paranormal reports seem to fall on the auspicious date of June 24th -- John the Baptist's Day -- including the sighting by Kenneth Arnold on June 24th, 1947 which led him to coin the words "flying saucer" and seems to have launched the modern wave of UFO phenomena. But there are other date clusters as well.

These number-name-date-placename kinds of coincidences turn up in a variety of, shall we say, "human phenomena" as well, and this has often led conspiracy theorists to think there is some kind of Illuminati "master plan" behind all these events. But is there? Or is there some force in the universe beyond human intelligence -- what Jung called synchronicity -- that weaves these things together in the patterns that dance before our eyes? Maybe it is not a plot, but evidence, as Vallee suggests, that things in the universe may be linked through associations of information as well as space and time.

Robert Anton Wilson points out the strange coincidences around the number 23; a phenomenon that in turn inspired a movie, starring Jim Carrey of all people. Is he a madman simply becoming obsessed with the number? Or is he being driven mad by the terrible discovery that, sort of like in the movie Pi, the number is lurking behind and beyond phenomena like a hidden pattern ...

One of the things that has always fascinated me about the so-called "PoS/RlC mystery" is the way the date January 17th weaves in and out of it. The bottom line is 20th century hoaxers cannot have created all the significances of this date throughout history ... it seems more like a pattern they happened upon, something based on what Coleman calls "the twilight language". This mysterious pattern that connects ...

Incidentally, Jim Carrey was born on January 17th. This is one of the things I find meaningful, even if other "RlC researchers" just find it pointless.

BTW, if you're wondering why I natter on and on about the Surrealists and the Oulipo, it's because this very phenomenon I'm describing used to fascinate them and inspire their artwork. Bizarre and unusual events - not just ones we would normally consider "paranormal" - seem to cluster around certain names, places, and dates.

from Seeker's link

I am so into this Seeker
it is quite magical when it happens

great stuff
I can actually say this has happened to me repeatedly
I think its a matter of recognizing it ....we are so trained to ignore it

I'm teaching my friends and family how to be aware ...it really is cool when it gets going
this is very old ancient knowledge

Roger


I didn't think you would understand it
"the law of cause and effect",

Sakyong Mipham eloquently summed this up when he said;

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it
It is more than that and Self Awareness can enrich your life
Negativity begets negativity
In The Division of Labour, Durkheim argued that in traditional/primitive societies (those based around clan, family or tribal relationships) totemic religion played an important role in uniting members through the creation of a common consciousness

Mary Kelsey, sociology lecturer in the University of California, Berkeley, used the term in the early 2000s to describe people within a social group, such as mothers, becoming aware of their shared traits and circumstances, and as a result acting as a community and achieving solidarity. Rather than existing as separate individuals, people come together as dynamic groups to share resources and knowledge.

It has also developed as a way of describing how an entire community comes together to share similar values. This can also be termed "hive mind". Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, used the term to describe how the combined coherence in consciousness of a group of people could have an influence on the rest of society.

Or the collective unconscious.

Wolfgang Pauli, the physicist, was also interested in Jung's idea of synchronicity.

I think quantum mechanics suggests some ways the universe may be informationally connected (see the Aspect experiment).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_ ... .2C_1981-2

There also was some interesting stuff going on at Princeton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_ ... search_Lab

I don't think there are "no" coincidences, thinking that way simply leads to paranoia and silliness.

On the other hand, while agnostic, I have run into what Robert Anton WIlson calls the Cosmic Coincidence Control Center.

I admit we have minds that tend to impose patterns where they don't exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_Recognition_(novel)

However, even while controlling for this bias, you sometimes encounter things that seem to go beyond mere chance... simply another axis in the universe that links phenomena and events ... that's what interested Pauli.

Here is a coincidence for you Seeker

Moon is exactly four hundred times smaller than the Sun but four hundred times closer to the Earth so that both the Sun and the Moon appear to be precisely the same size in the sky – which gives us the phenomenon we call a total eclipse.

Whilst we take this for granted it has been called the biggest coincidence in the universe.

Another coincidence

Furthermore, the Moon mirrors the movement of the Sun in the sky by rising and setting at the same point on the horizon as the Sun does at opposite solstices. For example, this means the Moon rises at midwinter at the same place the Sun does at midsummer.


There is no logical reason why the Moon mimics the Sun in this way and it is only meaningful to a human standing on the Earth


Another coincidence

f the Moon was not exactly the size, mass and distance that it has been at each stage of the Earth’s evolution – there would be no intelligent life here. Scientists are agreed that we owe everything to the Moon.

It acts as a stabiliser that holds our planet at just the right angle to produce the seasons and keep water liquid across most of the planet. Without our Moon the Earth would be as dead and solid as Venus.


So Gee isn't those coincidences fascinating

The Moon orbits the Earth every 27.3 days, and is 27.3% of the Earth’s size.


So if there was a creator what better way to set up earth with its moon and sun

Just think about it

We are the creator...we are a huge living creating entity....what more do you want.

From what I've read, the debt remains ongoing. There are a lot of science fiction movies in which the Moon is destroyed, deflected out of its orbit, etc. Interestingly, many scientists now claim that might totally disrupt Earth's biosphere, because of its subtle, but nonetheless important, gravitational influence. We probably wouldn't survive, as would many other organisms. We always acknowledge our debt to the sun for our existence, but you're right - it may be the Moon that is just as important.

You familiar with the Cosmological Anthropic Principle, lov? Physicists have wondered about similar things, but in this case dealing with universal constants, not just our own solar system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

The universe seems "fine tuned" for the development of consciousness and intelligent life. Of course, critics of this principle will simply point out maybe there are an infinite number of possible universes, and the fact that we "happen" to be in a universe favorable for our own existence is .... self-evidently necessary, and proof of nothing else.

I maintain an open mind. My observation has always been that perhaps this means consciousness is not epiphenomenal to the universe, after all.

..conditions that are observed in the universe must allow the observer to exist.

The observer ....or witness has an important place in the equation
I think therefore I AM

when Moses asked for His name (Exodus 3:14). It is one of the most famous verses in the Torah.
Hayah means "existed" or "was" in Hebrew; "ehyeh" is the first person singular imperfect form. Ehyeh asher ehyeh is generally interpreted to mean I am that I am, though it more literally translates as "I-shall-be that I-shall-be.

that is some pretty heavy stuff

Sheila has a point
do we create? and if we do is it the collective unconscious that is making our universe

Are you saying nothing would exist if we weren't here to see it? I don't see us creating anything, just reconfiguring the stuff that is already here to suite our needs. We can't as much invent a blade of grass much less an entire universe.

No...i'm actually saying much more than that....we (and by that i mean DNA) are one entity..evolving together...we are part of "God" or whatever you want to call it. We are on this plain to learn & love and evolve.

Creation is God exploring God's Self through every way imaginable, in an ongoing, infinite exploration through every one of us. Through every piece of hair on your head, through every leaf on every tree, through every atom, God is exploring God's Self, the great "I am".

Back to the subject of the thread please...which is none of the above.

ok, one last question, God does not cause the creation, he's just another one of us trying to figure it out?

What we call "God" IS creation...we ARE creation.

this is why i really appreciate tdchardin...
it is a lovely way to view creation
thanks sheila

That's actually a very pagan way of looking at things, Sheila. If you stop to consider that the human body is made up of cells and particles all functioning together to create and maintain a whole "being", then each being is the collective sum and total of its diverse molecular parts. If God is likewise the sum and total of his diverse parts, who is to say that we aren't the molecular bits?

TCP

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ... yeah, found him fascinating as well. I often discuss him in class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin

However, I don't think he was a pantheist, and the worldview Sheila is describing could really be best described as pantheist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

It's more commonly found in Eastern, rather than Western, religious traditions. But it has had Western exponents, including Spinoza, and some might even argue, Einstein.

You familiar with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, Jim?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation

I'm sure you've also heard of the paradox of Schrodinger's cat ... half dead, half alive.

According to Copenhagen physicists, the cat is half dead and half alive until you open the box, collapsing the wave function via consciousness (the observation of a conscious observer/percipient).

In that sense, yes, consciousness "created" the state of the cat.

That I can agree with, I just don't think we as humans have anything to do with it. God is our answer for everything we don't understand. The creation happened despite us and if we were all to be wiped out, which is almost certainly inevitable, nothing would change on the grand scale of things. In other words, I think we put way too much importance on our importance. Life, in every form, has this unexplainable need to survive. No emotions, no conciseness, a drive to go on in any way shape or form. So as I see it, if there is a plan to this creation, it is for life to continue on, with or without us.

DNA has a plan.

sure seems like it.

DNA in particular, and nature in general, are minded....

So far, the smallest known bacterial genome contains 580,000 DNA letters. This is an enormous amount of information, comparable to the contents of a small telephone directory. When you consider that bacteria are the smallest units of life as we know it, it becomes even more difficult to understand how the first bacterium could have taken form spontaneously in a lifeless, chemical soup. How can a small telephone directory's worth of information emerge from random processes!

I have a whole thread that discusses DNA somewhere on this forum, i might try & find it to remember what i said about DNA emitting photons/electromagnetic waves...apparently the cells of living beings emit photons at a rate of up to 100 units per second/ per square centimeter of surface area....the emission source is the DNA.
It seems the wavelength at which DNA emits these photons corresponds exactly to the narrow band of visible light.
ergo, DNA emits visible light...this astounded me when i read it enitially and seems to hold the answers to so many questions if i could only get my head around it.
But i need to find where i got this from as i have a terrible memory...obviously my brain cells are fried

I suspect you'd like the works of Jeremy Narby a lot Sheila ... he's right up your alley.

http://deoxy.org/narbystew.htm

I don't know what to make of all of his claims, but it seems his theories began when many of the shamans and medicine men he was working with told him that while under the influence of entheogens, they spoke to "serpent teachers" within plants. He eventually theorized they might be communicating with DNA itself.

Oh yes....Absolutely

The human DNA is a biological Internet’ with evidence that DNA can be ‘influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies.’ This suggests that ‘our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body, but also serves as data storage and communication.’ The Russian scientists and linguists have found that the genetic code ‘follows the same rules as all our human languages.’ In effect, human language did not appear coincidentally but is a reflection of our DNA.

"The Russian researchers believe that ‘Living chromosomes function just like a holographic computer using endogenous DNA laser radiation. This means that they managed to modulate certain frequency patterns (sound) onto a laser-like ray which influence DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself. Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and language is of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of the human language! This, too, was experimentally proven!’ Of course the frequency has to be correct. But for the purposes of this article, the Russian research shows how science now can demonstrate a way to reprogram DNA through language and frequencies"

if you're interested in this subject, which i think you are, here's the original thread.

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=941&start=0

the Language of DNA.

mind you, looking back, i see that Jake has deleted all his replies to me (and i can't blame him, i was young & in full rant mode.) which makes it read all a bit lop-sided

Interesting stuff. Reminds me of Avatar.