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344. Thank you for sharing that wonderful connection, Mira.

Dr. Jacques Vallee says we may live in an "Associative Universe," one in which our minds act as a rudder, guiding us in the real world toward destinations and realities that we first have thought about or pre-considered in some way, like a dream. Karl Jung called it "synchronicity," where two seemingly unrelated events occur to reveal an unexpected connection.

An astronomer and computer scientist by training, Dr. Vallee was among the first to apply computers to analyzing the UFO phenomenon when an assistant to the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Project BLUEBOOK fame and "swamp gas" notoriety. He describes the "Associative Universe" in detail in "Messengers of Deception," a study of UFO cults and people who manipulate followers and what it means to the greater society as a whole. He had been studying a UFO contactee group called, iirc, "The Order of Melchizedek" for several months. Dr. Vallee's concern arises from the changes to people's belief systems from both, having experienced the phenomenon and those who claim to have some sort of revelation from a higher power. Anyway, the guy was immersed in all things Melchizedek for a few weeks.

On an unrelated matter, Vallee flew to L.A. for a conference and hopped aboard a cab, picking one out of the dozen outside the terminal. When he finally got to his hotel room, he looked at his receipt for the cab ride and it was signed, iirc, John Melchizedek. Vallee looked in the phone book and he was the only Melchizedek in the entire city and suburbs.

The coincidence made him think that, perhaps the universe is organized along the lines of a series of information events. Time and space, rather than acting as a phonograph needle laid down at the beginning of track one and coursing through to the end of the side, may be a series of seemingly unconnected experiences woven together by our consciousness. Thus, our awareness serves to pick up the needle and put it down at different places on the album. A similar situation may exist in data storage systems, where key words help retrieve information faster than having to go through an entire pile of data to find the needle in the info-haystack. For us, our minds act as a sort of rudder, guiding us to the visualized destination, or connecting us in some other ways.

http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/UFO-info-age.html

This is an amazing universe. Perhaps important thoughts are like the clouds moving across the clear blue sky of the Universal Mind. Whenever possible, it really does make sense to visualize peace, justice, understanding and love. It could hasten the day when this becomes the kind of universe good people deserve. Perhaps we can break through the illusion that we are separate from our pasts and our futures long enough to touch what is out of our normal sense of space and time. It is an honor to have helped make ours a little closer world for you and the Niemöller family on this important day.