2012-Theories : Message: Romanek's Mystery Equations and the Cube of Space/part one

The Romanek Mystery and the Cube of Space

By Vincent Bridges

Part One

Just after New Year, I received an email from a friend with a URL to an article on Jeff Rense�s site. (http://www.rense.com/general46/stan1.html) And so I was introduced to Stan Romanek�s mystery equations. More than two weeks later, I am still confused on many points, but not on Mr. Romanek�s aliens. The question is not so much about whom, as it is about why?

I�m of the �show me the Alien� school of evidence. Extra-ordinary claims required extra-ordinary proof. So far, and I�ve been looking now for over 30 years, the evidence has proven to be very thin and inexplicably inconclusive. We have some evidence, admittedly vague, fragmented and open to a wide variety of interpretations, from ancient sources, and we have a complex pattern of non-human interaction continuing throughout the history of alchemy, witchcraft and magick. In the 19th century, we have phantom airships and in the 20th we have flying discs. Are they the hardware of alien excursionists, or just the artefacts of our own unconscious evolution, or something even stranger? (See my book The UFO Enigma at http://vincentbridges.com/highweirdness/UFOenigmaindex.html for an overview of the points raised in this section.)

We have no way to know, and one reason for this basic uncertainty lies in the sudden interest in the phenomenon by the American intelligence communities after 1947. Based on their involvement in and the public reactions to both Roswell and the Maury Island Incident in the summer of 1947, American intelligence quite rightly determined that the phenomenon was primarily psychological and proceeded from that basis. This led to a somewhat schizoid mind-set in which one branch of intelligence was collecting reports while another branch was managing those who made the reports. This confusion, understandable only to those inside of the intelligence communities, led to an underground of UFO conspiracy theorists where every researcher was free to pursue whatever piece of ignorance or manipulation struck a surrealistic chord in their imagination.

By the time the FBI got around to investigating contactee groups, the zietgeist had moved on once again. Also, as with the Maury Island Incident, science fiction was involved, except this time it was Television. It was no accident that Betty and Barney Hill�s �aliens� looked and sounded and acted like the �aliens� they saw the week before on the �Outer Limits� TV show. These similarities were only revealed under hypnosis, bringing a key element of quasi-spiritualism into the already volatile psychic mixture.

Just as the extremely questionable experiences of a pilot�s unusual mirage, translated by a hack reporters use of an odd metaphor, sparked a revolution in the way we experience the collective Other, so too did the strange mixture of science fiction and psychosis create a series of contexts in which to assess the event�s meaning. Roswell and Maury Island were the initial incidents in the pattern of the first wave, and the Hill�s experience introduced the new �contextural� framework for the next wave. We are still awaiting the third wave, as the current context runs through its myriad of possible combinations derived from the ever-change face of the Other in popular consciousness.

And that�s just the point. Once the intelligence communities discovered that the UFO underground was ripe for a sort of picking, very strange things began to happen. Taken from a purely psychological perspective it made a great deal of sense to control, and even manipulate, such a volatile and expansive need in a significant segment of the population. However such attempts at manipulation created feedback effects that morphed the contextual syntax into so many varieties of imaginative exuberance, far beyond what anyone inside the project ever imagined, that all meaning was rendered down to conjecture: What do you mean when you say �alien?�

Since as I write this we have a robot exploring an ancient lakebed on Mars, the irony is somewhat acute. We have become the hardware aliens that so frightened us half a century ago�

So do THEY exist? Have they been trying to phone earth and getting just the low techno hum of the pre-industrial until the last century or so? Or have they been visiting, controlling, manipulating and inspiring us for millennia? And if so, what could we deduce about THEM from the pieces of information, the residue and traces of their existence, THEY leave behind? Such is the state of UFO studies: the believers get it and see all kinds of evidence, while the sceptics are still ranting about actually �seeing� an alien.

To even begin to resolve that conflict, we must indulge in a thought problem, a conjectural game of �what if� so that we have some standard for evaluating the data. This hypothetical �map� or scenario gives us some coherence in the face of the raw details, but if it doesn�t describe the data set, then we have to discard it and design a new one.

Since we can�t make assumptions for an unproven �alien� race, we really can�t speculate how they would carry out contact. But, and here�s our thought problem, we can speculate on how someone who wanted the world to believe in the �aliens� would stage such a contact. This set of parameters would depend on several variables, but not as many as a real �first contact� might. For this reason, it makes a good deductive touchstone.

The first two variables are set and setting. The contact scenario would have to fit the times and expectations of the people it was meant to convince. And it would have to recapitulate the history of the UFO contact scenario it was meant to validate. The third variable is the pay off: enough advanced information must be given to demonstrate authority, but that information must be discernable in the mass of current intelligence for it to be credible. The shock is not the absolute novelty of the information, which is minimal, but the insistence, reinforced by careful attention to set and setting, on its literal truth.

So let�s imagine how such a scenario would play out. An unexplainable event is staged before a variety of subjects in a city where psy-ops and local reality testing is well established. The people who experience the event are observed, and the ones who match a profile for �true believer� status are the focus of subsequent encounters. Once a true believer is chosen, then other details are added the mix, evidence of various kinds, and a subconscious urge to explore the event further is triggered. This creates a need for the kind of experience related to the second wave of the UFO experience. This need, and its subsequent evolution into a connection to the unconsciousness, via mediumship or hypnosis or dreams, is manipulated to produce a kind of false revelation, the pay off phase, in which faux insights are revealed as a kind of �truth� supported and validated by the totality of the scenario.

Done correctly, such a contact scenario could be enormously influential, as we can discern from past trends in the UFO movement. Ultimately though, this kind of static can be used in the sense we are approaching here: as a kind of filter for hoaxing. When we apply it that way to the current UFO demi-flap, Mr. Stan Romanek and his mystery equations, we are astonished by the results. As I said above, the question focuses not on whom but on why�

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