Insight (Page 28)

“Cameron Crazies”it used to be that they were just the fanatical student supporters of Duke University’s basketball teams, named for Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium. However, after the hubbub around the release of Cameron’s film The Tomb of Jesus, I’d say that Cameron Crazies now also refers to all the hysterical critics driven crazy by writer-director James Cameron.

“Everyone around me had basically said, ‘You stink. You suck. You don’t know what you’re doing.’ recalls Cameron about his early career. Once again the Cameron Crazies are saying the same thing to him: theologians, archaeologists, quackademics, talking puppets on the cable channels and web writers.
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There’s a favorite painting of mine called “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” that features Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean sitting at the counter in a diner and being served by Elvis. I had a “Dreamland” moment like that while giving a presentation on Starwalker s and the Dimension of the Blessed the other night at the Zero Point Research Center in Santa Monica, CA. I looked out in my audience and saw the three iconic faces of Whitley Strieber, Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer triangulating one another. Wow! It was like going to Vegas and having all the fruit line up. I kept thinking about the incredible hard-earned wisdom, talent, and strength these three embody. I was thrilled to play Elvis and serve my best stuff (with a smile deep down inside).
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Pennsylvania has had a long history of encounters of the unusual kind. From yearly sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects to observations of mysterious creatures, the 2006 year was no exception, as mysterious incidents were reported by residents of the Keystone State from 35 counties in the commonwealth. During the past 47 years while researching and investigating these ongoing incidents, I have interviewed thousands of witnesses from all walks of life.
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This is the only poem we have ever published as an Unknowncountry.com Insight. The reason we are publishing it is that it captures the essential ambiguity and complexity of the close encounter experience in just a few well-chosen words.

Aliens and Angels by Marsha Carter.

Angels and aliens appearing in the mist of an ancient forest or the edge of sleep, an ancestral memory tatoo-ed in our DNA.

Dark blue patterns scar the skin of shamans. The thoughts of God expressed and “His gaze was terrible.”

The tiniest quantum particle changes when it’s observed. Our eyes, magnified, see that shining energy with no awareness that we too are terrifying.
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