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There are some theories out there that would have you believe those encounters you've had with bigfoot, black panthers and even extra terrestrials were all inside your mind...no they're not saying you're crazy, they are talking about misplace, displaced, misinterpreted or lingering memories. Why is it that a horse will rear up in fear at a stick lying across the path - the same reaction it has to a snake - even if the horse has never seen a snake before? Why do most humans have a predisposed hatred and fear of serpents as well - displayed most obviously in the Bible? One theory is that there is such a thing as genetic memory or a lingering notion of something that is passed along through the years in the developing brains of generation after generation. I'm not talking about babies learning to walk or eat by watching and imitating their mother. I'm talking about birds knowing how to fly when first pushed out of the nest and baby turtles - fresh from egg - heading straight for water. Precognition almost. Some say humans still have a little pinpoint of fear of snakes left in our brains from the days when we were chimps swinging from the trees and had to avoid the serpents - lest they snatch away our young for a meal. The same logic can be applied to the numerous big cat and black panther sightings. The felines are being seen in places they shouldn't be like the east coast of America - where they supposedly went extinct more than a century ago - or places like Great Britain and Australia where they haven't existed since the Stone Age. The same theory would tell you that we have a lingering perception from the days we spent as cave men that every passing shadow and darting flicker in the darkness is some variety of sharp and sabre-toothed cat come to feat upon us. Carrying the idea one step further, there is evidence man, as we almost are today, once shared the Earth with neanderthals - hairy, beastlike giants that towered over us. Could such a remnant memory exist in our evolved brains and be responsible for sightings of bigfoot, yeti and the like - all across the globe!? Finally, not to leave anyone out, you may have heard the theory that people who claim to have had the proverbial close encounter of the 3rd kind - alien abduction - may, in fact, have just been reliving or remembering their own birth into this world. Put the facts together...the abductee is usually lying still and dormant , most likely in the same deep sleep found only within a mother's womb. Next the person is being drawn by an unknown force, which I won't detail here, toward a blinding light - unlike anything they have ever seen... Obviously disoriented by the strangest of surroundings, the abductee is poked, prodded, examined and explored by a team of odd-looking humanoids before ultimately waking up and finding themselves back in bed safely. So the next time you think you see a monster, stop and ask yourself ... is the real monster your own mind? by Brian |
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