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Here’s a link to the radio show we did last night with paranormal review radio. Hosts Anthony and Lucy asked great questions!

Well, it’s not exactly synchronicity, but it’s a case getting synchronized–coming into alignment.

 A few months ago, a woman name Kate Walker contacted us about a possible interview for a movie she and her partner are shooting on synchronicity.  She thought she would be in Miami sometime this summer, so we agreed we would drive down there for the interview.

Last week, Katy emailed me that she’d just heard one of our radio interviews about Aliens in the Backyard,  and that she was discovering that synchronicity was threaded through UFO encounters and abductions. We emailed back and forth for several days and she sent me a PDF file for a book called Allies of Humanity by Marshall Vian Summers. This is book 1 in what is now a trilogy and is being offered free at this link.  It’s also attached as a PDF at the end of this post.

The book consists of five briefings by a consortium of entities who have been observing the alien intervention of our planet. They observe – but don’t interfere, except to impart information. And the info is fascinating, about how these intervening aliens themselves aren’t evil, but simply have their own agenda. And their agenda involves utilizing humanity and this planet’s resources for themselves.

To that end, they are skilled at what the consortium calls the “mental environment,”  where the perceptions, the realities, that abductees experience are manipulated and sculpted.  Because they are so skilled in this mental environment, they are able to convince some abductees that they are here to help humanity, that they are spiritually evolved beings.

This premise certainly addresses the schism in the UFO community: the John Mack camp that believes  encounters are ultimately beneficial and the Budd Hopkins/David Jacobs camp that says these encounters are anything but.  For Rob and me, the bottom line is simple: when someone is taken against his or her will, it’s a violation. It’s wrong. No matter how you try to spin it after the fact, a travesty has occurred.

With channeled material like this, it either resonates or doesn’t. When I read my first Seth book in 1974, it resonated. When I read my first Ramtha book (JZ Knight), it did not resonate.  I tossed Ramtha in the trash and kept reading Seth. Allies of Humanity resonates for me…but with a few small caveats. I was never able to get through A Course in Miracles  because of the pervasive references to god. When I tried to read Miracles, I felt like a  12-year-old kid forced to attend catechism. It turned me off. Yet, people I respect rave about the book.

There is some of this god stuff in Allies, but more of it on the website. I suspect this is where the personality of the messenger (Marshall Summers) comes through.  At no other point in this material is there much of a sense of Summers at all. In the preface of book 2, it’s noted that the six briefings that comprise book 2 were channeled within 24 hours. That speaks of incredible creativity. When a novelist is hooked into characters and story, into plot and conflict and resolution, it’s as if you become a channel for the story itself. So I understand that kind of feverish pace.

But there seems to be a dire urgency in book 2. The Allies contend that the planets, its resources, and humanity are the ultimate prize in some sort of galactic war where military force, by agreement, is forbidden, and just about everything else is fair game. The allies talk about the importance of individuality, personal freedom, and spiritual knowledge to counteract the manipulation by aliens. They emphasize the importance of unity in mankind – instead of the divisiveness we see now.

What intrigues me about book 1 is nuance. Even the bad guys  aren’t evil. They simply have an agenda, like the Europeans did when they arrived in the Americas. And the supposed good guys aren’t rushing in to defend anyone, but are imparting information about how humanity can inure itself to this intervention. I’d like to know, however, how the aliens who are intervening got here. Are they from another planet? Are they inter-dimensional? Nothing that concrete is offered.

They do talk about trade routes in the universe that these various alien cultures use, but again, no specifics. Betty Hill talked about trade routes she was shown during her and Barney’s abduction and in 1968, an elementary school teacher and amateur astronomer, Marjorie Fish, decided to decipher Betty’s star map. In other words, Betty gave more specifics than the allies do.

 Do let us know what you think about the material.

There’s something of a synchro for me connected to this video. Yesterday I was writing about a series of interviews that Carl Jung gave to a doctor in Houston in 1957. Today, Bernard Beitman, a visiting professor of psychiatry at University of Virginia who is writing a book on coincidence, sent me a different video about Jung. I started watching it, then noticed, to the right,  a video called Interview with Jung.  It’s fascinating to hear him talk about his relationship with Freud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kdF-qV6PpE

If you scour the Internet in search of unusual coincidences, sooner or later you’re likely to run across a story – or make that stories – about Hugh Williams. These are seafaring coincidences that span nearly 200 years.  Here is one version:

A vessel went down in the Menai Strait off the coast of Wales on December 5, 1664. All 81 passengers were lost with the exception of a man named Hugh Williams.

On December 5, 1785, 121 years later, another ship sank in the Menai Strait, and again all of the passengers drowned except one – Hugh Williams.

Move ahead to December 5, 1820 and another ship, a 25-passenger vessel, sank in the Menai Strait. And once again there was a sole  survivor. You guessed it, his name was Hugh Williams.  We could call him the unsinkable Hugh Williams. And notice the month and day are the same each time, as well as the survivor.

Where did this story originate and is there any truth to it? Or is it  just an old maritime tale that has been passed down over time?

The first reference to the unsinkable Hugh Williams is found  on pages 281-282 of North Wales, Including its Scenery, Antiquities and Customs,  1804, by Rev. William Bingley. It describes a Hugh Williams who escaped from a shipwreck on December 5, 1785.

A version of the three-part story appears as a footnote on page 155 of Cliffe’s Book of North Wales, published in 1851.   The story includes the sinkings on December 5, 1664 and 1785, with Hugh Williams, the only survivor.  The date of the 1820 sinking, however, is Aug. 5, not Dec. 15. But Hugh Williams is still listed as the sole survivor.

The footnote goes on to mention that, “Again on May 20th, 1842, a boat was crossing the Menai, near the spot where the above catastrophes happened, when she upset with 15 passengers,  and all perished save one; but in this instance the name of the survivor was Richard Thomas.”

Another book, Guide to North Wales, by Francis Coghlan, was published in 1860. It repeats the story of the three shipwrecks, and includes the August date for the third sinking.

Apparently, an English writer decided this would make a better story if it was brought closer to home. So here’s another version:

On December 5th 1660, a ship sank in the straights of Dover and the only survivor was named Hugh Williams.

On 5th December 1767, another ship sank in the same waters and 127 passengers and crew members died. The only survivor was a Hugh Williams.

On August 8, 1820, a picnic boat capsized on the Thames. There was one survivor – Hugh Williams.

On 10th July 1940, a British trawler was destroyed by a German mine. Only two men survived, one man and his nephew, and they were both named Hugh Williams.

Notice how the Dec. 5 date only occurs twice and the years vary from the earlier version, and the clever twist when there are two survivors. Of course, they are both Hugh Williams.

What are we to make of it all? It seems there is a basis for at least the Hugh Williams story. But it seems that the Dec. 5 on the 1820 sinking probably doesn’t ring true. So the version in the video probably has been altered to make the story seem more mysterious.

But how mysterious is this story?

Coghlan’s account of the three shipwrecks ends with the comment: “This extraordinary coincidence can only be explained by the circumstance that the name of Hugh Williams is very common in these parts.”

Blogger Rick Spillman, who gathered some of these references, not only notes that in Wales Hugh Williams is a common name, but that the Menai Strait  “is a particularly nasty body of water with strong currents and rough seas.”

While the video asks if the Hugh Williams saga is the strangest coincidence ever recorded, the answer is probably not. But it’s a good one, a classic, and historical.

Nika and Noah, in my messy office, peering out the window at – a squirrel? Well, maybe.  But they could also be drawn to the window by some  dim hope that a squirrel might appear and help itself to our ripening mangos.

Or maybe it’s lizards that attract them? Or birds? That’s the thing with these two: they are so fully ensconced in the moment that everything else is forgotten. I wonder about that, how we humans can be so fully immersed in the now that everything else falls away.

I believe this is what happens during meditation, when we sleep and dream, even when we’re driving some familiar road and enter a dreamlike state. At those moments, we aren’t fretting about bills, schedules, who said what to whom and oh yeah, my feelings are hurt and suppose, what if…?

Then Rob made some noise from the other room, the noise that meant he was headed off to teach a yoga class. The  dogs turned their heads simultaneously, as if checking to see what was going on in the other world, that place where the humans don’t get excited about squirrels.

And they quickly turned their attention back to the window and whatever it was outside that fascinated and riveted them.

So whenever I’m in the midst of some dramatic moment, worrying about this or that, I’m going to utter one word: SQUIRREL. And it will snap me back to this image, this NOW, and hopefully will plop me into the current of NOW.

This video of a UFO captured by a photographer is surprisingly clear. Thanks to Debra Page for alerting us to it!

I was driving this morning to an appointment, listening to an interview on National Public Radio of a horror story…with a good ending, and a couple of interesting synchros to boot.

It’s the story about Kirk Noble Bloodsworth, 53, the first American sentenced to death row, who was exonerated by DNA evidence. Bloodsworth spent eight years in prison, two of them on death row after falsely being convicted of sexual assault, rape and premeditated first-degree murder of a nine-year-old girl in 1985. At the time of his arrest, Bloodsworth, a former Marine with an honorable discharge, had never been arrested.

Even though five eyewitnesses had placed him with the victim, he continued to maintain his innocence throughout his trial and subsequent incarceration. In 1992, while in jail, Bloodsworth read an account of how DNA fingerprinting had led to the conviction of Colin Pitchfork in the killings of Dawn Ashworth and Lynda Mann. Hoping to prove his innocence, he pushed to have the evidence against him tested by the then-novel method.

Initially, it was thought that DNA evidence- traces of semen in the victim’s underwear – had been destroyed. However, Bloodsworth kept pursuing the issue and finally the evidence was located in a paper bag in the judge’s chambers. Testing proved that the semen didn’t match Bloodsworth’s DNA. He was released from prison in 1993.

Bloodsworth was on the radio today in the aftermath of the State of Maryland’s decision to abolish the death penalty, the eighth state to do so. Bloodsworth’s case was cited as a major impetus for abolishing the law.

When asked in the NPR interviewer about his thoughts on the justice system, Bloodsworth said that initially he was confident he would be found not guilty because he didn’t do it. He gave his alibi, but five witnesses proceeded to misidentify him as the perpetrator. He also said it was his pursuit of justice that eventually set him free, not the workings of the justice system.

He told a story of his attorney coming to visit him in jail while he was on trial. They sat in chairs facing each other with a glass partition between them. Behind the lawyer was a brick wall. Bloodsworth recalls the lawyer saying: “You’re in a heap of trouble Kirk, but I’ll do all I can to help you.”

The lawyer finished the conversation repeating, “I’ll do all I can to help you.” He then placed his hand on the glass in front of Kirk, in lieu of a handshake. “Then he stood up, turned, and walked right into the brick wall,” Bloodsworth recalls.

That turned out to be a fitting symbol, a synchronicity for the conviction that was to follow. Another synchro is his name. DNA from his blood proved he was innocent and freed him. Bloodsworth, indeed. A book (pictured above) called BLOODSWORTH was written about his case.

Today, Bloodsworth is a program officer for the Justice Project, and he has been an ardent supporter of the Innocence Protection Act (IPA) since its introduction in Congress in February 2000. The IPA establishes the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program, a program that will help states defray the costs of post-conviction DNA testing.

Though released from prison, Bloodsworth was not formally exonerated. In 2003, nearly a decade after his release, prison DNA evidence added to state and federal databases identified the real killer, Kimberly Shay Ruffner. A month after the 1984 murder, Ruffner had been sentenced to 45 years for an unrelated burglary, attempted rape and assault with intent to murder, and ironically had been incarcerated in a cell one floor below Bloodsworth’s own cell. In 2004 Ruffner pled guilty to the 1984 murder.