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create novel presentations of old ideas, and to proselytize. In this way it is suggested that ideas and beliefs are created by a specific combination of physical and psychological factors, and spread like contagions - cognitive viruses. “Experts” will tell us that the concepts of “Alien invasion” are merely memes, or metaphors, for penetration by forces we perceive as originating outside of ourselves. They suggest that such ideas are pathological contagions that contaminate our conscious and subconscious lives the same way a computer virus invades an operating system. It is then suggested that such a “virus” can destroy what is orderly and leave only fragmentation and disintegration. Some of them even suggest that the very idea of aliens is like the movie, “Alien”, where the creature breeds inside the human, and at some terrible moment, erupts in blood and gore. We are assured that this idea “eats at us from the inside out”. that conscious and our One person in ten says that they have seen a UFO. According to a survey, about ninety percent of us believe Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials. But it is the strangest thing I have ever observed that these statistics will lead ordinarily intelligent people to suggest that this is a “psychosocial phenomenon of huge magnitude”, rather than addressing the broader “reality” of UFO-ET phenomena. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome! I know whereof I speak because I tried that approach myself. I had spent years studying psychic and psychological phenomena, and had come to the firm idea that any and all of it was simply a matter of understanding the nature of consciousness, perception, beliefs, memory, dreams, memory of dreams, the formation of images and its philosophical counterpart - it was all mind, and nothing else. I was convinced that our beliefs created our reality, and that “you spot it, you got it”. If we didn’t believe it to be possible, we don’t see it. In early 1994, as I was going through the research, and after another series of strange events which I have chronicled in some detail in my autobiography, Amazing Grace, I had a conversation with Frank that was extremely distressing. Frank began by listing the string of strange, synchronistic and even somewhat miraculous events that had brought me to this moment. He cited point after point through my life history, right up to the past few years when the strangeness of events, including bizarre synchronicities, had multiplied to the point that I felt like I was living in a madhouse where normal reality no longer held sway. The effect of having all of these things brought together in a sweeping view 107 High Strangeness — Part One Whoa! That’s a heavy image!