Hi, I'm David
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 2:25 am
Greetings All.
Paul and I have been conversing via email for a month or so, and I'm finally getting around to officially joining the forum. Ever since the Dave Grusch Congressional hearing, I've been doing A LOT of reading, lurking, asking questions, more reading. Paul and I connected via a mutual LinkedIn contact of which neither party remembers the other...how's that for funny (weird, not ha ha)
I guess I'll just copy-paste a draft for a Reddit forum I never joined. It probably best shows my initial cheesy state of mind earlier in the summer when I was a starry eyed, babe in the woods to all this ontological strangeness. So to quote Speilberg's Jurassic Park "hold onto your butts"
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Greetings Earthlings! "Nanu Nanu" (yes I'm GenX born 1973). Please hear me out as I introduce myself. If you're afraid this is TL;DR here's the quick 'so what': I'm looking for my Lost Tribe. In the midst of this morass of UFO/UAP disinformation, obfuscation, paranoia, astounding technology, and ontologically shocking implications, I need kindred sojourners who are also looking for answers while following true-truth and real-light while navigating our way through the shadows and in-between spaces.
***FULL DISCLOSURE***
I "want to believe" and am a true seeker, however, I'm just a babe in the woods noob related to Reddit, r/UFOs, all things paranormal, and prior to Dave Grusch's congressional testimony only thought Close Encounters, E.T, ALF, Indiana Jones, X-Files were mainly fiction.
For decades I've worked with a friend who's been to Roswell, MUFON, secret soldier conferences, and drives around New Mexico every summer. I am spiritual however, and while NOT proselytizing, I do affiliate with an institutional Christian church (complete with dogma, doctrines, creeds and traditions).
Growing up Roman Catholic and then ending up at Wheaton College. Yes, 'that' same conservative evangelical bastion which has produced Billy Graham (and Wes Craven and Barth Ehrman), former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats (prior to Avril Haynes and John Ratcliffe) and also Ken Klippenstein of the Intercept! Wheaties also include Wallace Broecker who first popularized the term "global warming" and Kenneth Landon who worked in the OSS with Wild Bill Donovan pre-CIA.
On campus, we have C.S. Lewis' wardrobe as a trans-dimensional portal into Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien's desk on which he wrote the mythopoeic, Pre-Arthurian "Hobbit", and Madeleine L'Engle's drafts of "A Wrinkle in Time", a children's primer on Einstein's theory of relativity and space-time and Planck's quantum physics theories. Wheaton's campus also has one of Roger Babson's anti-gravity monuments given to only a dozen universities around the U.S. in the 1960s.
So as you can see, Wheaton alumni and like-minded friends are a gaggle of inconsistencies and contradictions, a ragtag of truth seekers and misfits, raggamuffins and vagabonds, skeptics and believers. I started this journey with fellow Watcher, Coleman Luck of Thorncrown Studios (who produced the original Otherworld and Equalizer TV series in the '80s, and is old friends of Bryce Zabel). He put me onto works by: Jacques Vallee, Allen Hynek, John Mack, David Jacobs, Leslie Kean, Ross Coulthart, Hugh Ross, Michael Heiser, and Diana Pasulka.
I'm a trained archivist and professional librarian of 20+ years (think last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark at Area 51). I'm reading, I'm listening, I'm testing the spirits, but I'm treading water and feel isolated, alone, and afriaid of just taking another "blue pill" rather than trust that the Matrix is real and head down the rabbit hole. So give a shout out if you're a fellow Wheatie (Crusader or Thunder) kindred spirit in these Stranger Things matters, or just a fellow pilgrim looking for the Celestial City.
Synchronistically yours, Cunning Doves
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So, that's my Prologue...with likely many more chapters to come.
Glad I can finally put on one of Uncle Andrew's magic rings and jump into the pool at the Wood Between the Worlds.
Best, David Osielski ("O-SHELL-ski")
Paul and I have been conversing via email for a month or so, and I'm finally getting around to officially joining the forum. Ever since the Dave Grusch Congressional hearing, I've been doing A LOT of reading, lurking, asking questions, more reading. Paul and I connected via a mutual LinkedIn contact of which neither party remembers the other...how's that for funny (weird, not ha ha)
I guess I'll just copy-paste a draft for a Reddit forum I never joined. It probably best shows my initial cheesy state of mind earlier in the summer when I was a starry eyed, babe in the woods to all this ontological strangeness. So to quote Speilberg's Jurassic Park "hold onto your butts"
=================================
Greetings Earthlings! "Nanu Nanu" (yes I'm GenX born 1973). Please hear me out as I introduce myself. If you're afraid this is TL;DR here's the quick 'so what': I'm looking for my Lost Tribe. In the midst of this morass of UFO/UAP disinformation, obfuscation, paranoia, astounding technology, and ontologically shocking implications, I need kindred sojourners who are also looking for answers while following true-truth and real-light while navigating our way through the shadows and in-between spaces.
***FULL DISCLOSURE***
I "want to believe" and am a true seeker, however, I'm just a babe in the woods noob related to Reddit, r/UFOs, all things paranormal, and prior to Dave Grusch's congressional testimony only thought Close Encounters, E.T, ALF, Indiana Jones, X-Files were mainly fiction.
For decades I've worked with a friend who's been to Roswell, MUFON, secret soldier conferences, and drives around New Mexico every summer. I am spiritual however, and while NOT proselytizing, I do affiliate with an institutional Christian church (complete with dogma, doctrines, creeds and traditions).
Growing up Roman Catholic and then ending up at Wheaton College. Yes, 'that' same conservative evangelical bastion which has produced Billy Graham (and Wes Craven and Barth Ehrman), former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats (prior to Avril Haynes and John Ratcliffe) and also Ken Klippenstein of the Intercept! Wheaties also include Wallace Broecker who first popularized the term "global warming" and Kenneth Landon who worked in the OSS with Wild Bill Donovan pre-CIA.
On campus, we have C.S. Lewis' wardrobe as a trans-dimensional portal into Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien's desk on which he wrote the mythopoeic, Pre-Arthurian "Hobbit", and Madeleine L'Engle's drafts of "A Wrinkle in Time", a children's primer on Einstein's theory of relativity and space-time and Planck's quantum physics theories. Wheaton's campus also has one of Roger Babson's anti-gravity monuments given to only a dozen universities around the U.S. in the 1960s.
So as you can see, Wheaton alumni and like-minded friends are a gaggle of inconsistencies and contradictions, a ragtag of truth seekers and misfits, raggamuffins and vagabonds, skeptics and believers. I started this journey with fellow Watcher, Coleman Luck of Thorncrown Studios (who produced the original Otherworld and Equalizer TV series in the '80s, and is old friends of Bryce Zabel). He put me onto works by: Jacques Vallee, Allen Hynek, John Mack, David Jacobs, Leslie Kean, Ross Coulthart, Hugh Ross, Michael Heiser, and Diana Pasulka.
I'm a trained archivist and professional librarian of 20+ years (think last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark at Area 51). I'm reading, I'm listening, I'm testing the spirits, but I'm treading water and feel isolated, alone, and afriaid of just taking another "blue pill" rather than trust that the Matrix is real and head down the rabbit hole. So give a shout out if you're a fellow Wheatie (Crusader or Thunder) kindred spirit in these Stranger Things matters, or just a fellow pilgrim looking for the Celestial City.
Synchronistically yours, Cunning Doves
=================================
So, that's my Prologue...with likely many more chapters to come.
Glad I can finally put on one of Uncle Andrew's magic rings and jump into the pool at the Wood Between the Worlds.
Best, David Osielski ("O-SHELL-ski")