March 8, 2003 1pm - MUFON Headquarters, Lakewood CO

Leslie Varnicle, Colorado State Director

• Introduced John Schuessler, who had an announcement.

John Schuessler, MUFON International Director

• There has been a national wide down turn in business, and MUFON has felt the effects.
• Sales and foot traffic at the museum have been slow. Only making $100 in sales, monthly, with $3000 in costs.
• Because of this, we are not renewing our 6 month contract. The museum will close in fall.
• Will be working on deficit spending until close.
• Looking into scanning files to get them online so the public can see what is in the files.
• Might look into getting offices without a museum.
• John will be working out of the house. He is making an office in the basement. Currently the basement houses one of the largest UFO collections, so to make room items will be sold at MUFON meetings.
• Everything at the bookstore is going to be marked even lower, including the jewelry, which is already below market.Â
• Will be selling everything, including the furniture.

Leslie Varnicle, Colorado State Director

• May will be the last physical meeting at the National MUFON headquarters.
• June will be the camp out at the UFO watchtower in the San Luis Valley.
• July is the MUFON International UFO Symposium at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Dearborn, MI.
• UFO awareness week is August 16^th to the 23^rd, here in Denver. We will look into possibly renting a Kiosk.
• As for meeting after the International office closes, I am open to suggestions.
• Everyone will notice you are sitting on nice cushions. They are compliments of Gail Barton, who made them herself.
• We have a nice quilt that was donated. It will be raffled off. Trying to get a lot of ticket buyers, so the raffle probably won’t be held until the May meeting.
• You will notice some new windbreakers with the new MUFON logo on them (Lin is modeling one). They are $45 at the counter.
• There are lots of items to raffle today, including a purple people eater.
• We will be scanning our files to get them online, and in a digital database. James Kerry will be heading up the initiative. This will solve a big problem. It will give people a way to work with the data.

James Kerry, Regional State Director

• We will be scanning in files on the computers here at the MUFON offices.
• If anybody has equipments they could lend, or donate, that would be helpful. In particular scanners.
• Scanning is just done at the offices, and volunteers will be asked to sign a non-disclosure release.

Leslie Varnicle, Colorado State Director

• James Kerry is a new Regional State Director.
• There is a prediction based off of the UFO sightings reports, that there will be a surge in sightings in late March. March 15^th to the 25^th should be the peak.
• There have been some increased sightings. Ed Burke is working one case now.

Edward Burke III, Colorado Assistant State Director

• I finally got a hold of the lady who made the report. She had 3 sightings beginning on Dec. 16^th. On that occasion she was taking her kid to band practice when she saw a disk over the Air Force Academy. She took pictures, but there is too much lens flare to make anything out.
• The next sighting was around Jan. 1^st. She saw a disc that she could see tip, and fly straight up into the air.
• The third was Feb 6^th or 7^th, she couldn’t remember. She took a picture of some lights, but the pictures are hard to make out.
• Ed handed copies of pictures out for everyone to see.

Leslie Varnicle, Colorado State Director

• We really need investigators. We have to ignore a lot of cases because we don’t have investigators. Talk to Rich if you would like to volunteer.
• Go check out Art Bell’s new website, at www.kingdomofnye.com. You can listen to a webcast of his show, or tune him in at KNYE 95.1 FM.
• How many HAM radio Operators are there here? (About 3 people raise their hands.)Â
• There have been a lot of email viruses lately, and there are reports over the HAM radios that there will be an internet attack from another country. So we may have to revert back to HAM, so we are looking for Ham radio operators. Please report to the Director.
• Next month’s speaker is Deborah Lindemann. She is a hypnotherapist that practices in Fort Collins. She works on unusual cases, including the local Stan Romanek case.
• May’s guest speaker will be Larry Russell, San Luis UFO investigator.
• June will be the camp out at the watch tower. We need to know by April who wants to join.
• In July we will hold a picnic for those who can not go to the MUFON International UFO Symposium in Deerbourne, MI.
• Now I would like to introduce Neil Slade, a frequent guest on Coast to Coast.

GUEST SPEAKER: Neil Slade

• Neil was out of books, but had hand outs and cards. You can order books and more at www.NeilSlade.com. It’s had not quite a million hits, but close.

• Neil said he had been blown away by all the people who write saying they have tried these methods and they have worked.
• To start, a little history.
• Always been into music and art.
• Went to a fancy college, but dropped out and went to a city college. It felt more real.
• Got a degree in Music Education, with a minor in art.
• Always been interested in the creative process, and how people become geniuses.
• Taught music for a while. Gave over 26,000 music lessons.
• Then one day he was watching a show on channel 12 about these people in the woods having weird experiences. One lady, whom Neil later came to know, said something happened in her brain, and she had X-ray vision. She could see her blood and tissue under her skin.
• They also talked about Telepathy, and intense and longer sexual experiences. It really, especially the later, caught Neil’s attention.
• They were talking about a brain lab in the woods, called the Dormant Brain Research and Development Laboratory. The guy in the program that ran the place didn’t look typical. He was kind of far out with long hair, but he had the scientific lingo. He was talking in legitimate terms.
• Neil wrote him a letter, and the guy said to come out on visitor’s day.
• The Lab was out by Blackhawk. It was established in 1957 by T.D.Lingo.
• Neil then went on to explain Lingo’s history. You can read it here, at Neil’s site.
• Lingo ran the Laboratory for 35 years, before his death in 1993.
• In the summer there were “Brain in Nature” courses. There was also an intense 6 week program in how the brain works. They looked into their thinking and behavioral processes.
• Eventually programs were also set up in big cities.
• Lingo kept very detailed records.
• There were 1000’s of people that participated, but the core group was around 300 people. They went into deep research.
• Some of these people became famous and some notorious.
• Lingo had a post he called the Cosmic Mafia. No matter what you do there are beings, and consciousnesses that monitor you. You will reap what you sow. The Cosmic Mafia board listed people Lingo thought were trouble, and would reap what they sowed.
• Neil met Lingo in 1983, and subsequently became his primary assistant.
• Neil helped facilitate study groups, and wrote his first text in 1998.
• When Lingo passed away he left his material to Neil. There were boxes and boxes of stuff.
• Lingo was a non-conformist.  Many geniuses are like that; they go off on their own tangents. Lingo was a free thinker, and said what was on his mind, which is often too much for many people to handle. He would tell you BS to your face, if he felt.
• To begin studies the first thing you need to learn is about the brain.
• The brain is like an apple. There are layers, and those layers developed during evolution.
• As the animals evolved, it added layers to their brains. Extra cells in the brain helped the animals survive. Making it better to have our brain.
• The human brain is called tri-une, meaning three brains in one.
• If you cut open an apple, there are 3 things, or areas. You have the hard seeds in the middle, similar to the reptile’s brain. Then there is an area around the seeds, similar to the primate brain. There is the larger fruit area, which we eat, and is similar to the primate brain. Finally, you have the thin skin. This is similar to the gray matter in a human brain.
• The seeds were first. This is where your spine attaches to your brain. This part of the brain is the reptile brain. It controls basic survival functions, such as self-defense, counter attack, heart, breathing and other things that you need to live. However, like a reptile there is no emotion attached.
• A good way to describe what this area of the brain handles is the 4 F’s:

• • Feeding
  • Fighting
  • Fleeing
  • Reproduction

• The mammal brain is similar to the consciousness of a cat, or a gopher, etc. It adds basic social behavior, emotion, and nurturing. When reptiles are born, they split and are on their own. Mammals take care of their young.
• We can tell mammals have emotions. Take your dog for instance. When you come home, he is happy. He doesn’t have to tell you that, but when you come after him with the newspaper, he is not so happy.
• Socially reptiles are mostly solitary, and are 100% competitive.
• Mammals, such as wolves, lions, meerkats, all work together. They have cooperative behavior. Reptiles are 100% competitive, while mammals are 50% cooperative, and 50% competitive. Of course this all also has to do with the environment. If you are nice to your dog, your dog will be nice to you.
• The primate brain is the front part, the frontal lobes. These take up 1/3^rd of the bulk of the human brain.
• Some may know the story of Phineas Gage. In a terrible accident a railroad spike was driven though his head, through the frontal lobes. He survived, but he was different afterwards. He would go to get a cigarette when he already had one. He became agitated, and he didn’t know what he was doing from one moment to the next.
• Now we know what the Frontal Lobes do, and it can explained in an acronym, CICIL:

• • C - Cooperation
  • I - Imagination
  • C - Creativity
  • I - Intuition
  • L - Logic

• It allows you to predict events, and see connections. For example, when I look at a pen, I can see what it will do.
• As a human we can plan events, because we have a concept of time, planning, and abstract imaging.
• Animals with small frontal lobes can do some planning. A tiger can plan his next move, but not next week.
• Within our brains are millions of neurons and thousands of nerve cells. It’s a huge neural network that can connect in different ways, and the number of various connections is greater than the pieces of sands on the planet, or the stars in the sky. An incomprehensible amount of connections.
• This means our brain has more power then we can conceive.
• People say that we use 10% of our brains. That is optimistic. We can’t tell what percentage we use, if the potential is infinite. 10% is just symbolic for not very much.
• Those with a frontal lobotomy can’t work together with others, and have no cause and effect recognition.
• The higher on the evolution tree, the more and more cooperation.
• The frontal lobes allow us the ability to use time, and abstract think. We can come up with solutions, and make something new. The reptilian brain works off of genetic preprogramming.
• The frontal lobes also control intuition, which is where the non-logical knowing is. This is where you can find the 6^th, 7^th, 9^th, 9^th, 10^th, etc. senses. ESP and the paranormal.
• There has been some scientific investigation into it, Uri Geller for instance. He got criticism and praise. If you look at the case, it is amazing.
• There is a group in Arvada that investigates the medical aspect of the paranormal.
• There is scientific proof of a higher level. They’ve learned that if people move their brain energy forward, ESP turns on.
• You can switch on telepathy, pre-cognizant abilities, clairvoyance, telekinesis, teleportation, etc. Things start to happen without prediction.
• In our society only a trickle is used. We tell jokes, and decide to eat burgers, but it is only a trickle.
• Lingo tested children, especially problem children. They improved 30-40 percent in standardized testing, and 50 - 60 percent in the Getzels-Jackson Creativity Index.
• When people started clicking the amygdala forward, they experienced increased pleasure, better social relationships, less pain, better sex.
• Why do we only use 10% of the brain? (Remember the 10% is symbolic.) We are culturally conditioned to click back to the reptilian brain.
• Is life not how you wanted it? What happened? You were acting like a reptile.
• When you start clicking into the frontal lobes, things seem to fall together.
• Many people have experienced a peek experience. From when they began clicking forward, it took anywhere from 2 weeks for some to 3 years for others. It’s called popping your frontal lobe.
• This is a positive emotional experience, and you can see things clearly. We have all had a taste, but multiply it by a million. That is the pop.
• As more and more of the frontal lobe is processing, eventually a dam breaks. You know who and what you are, and the meaning of life. You come down, but you can build on it.
• So how do you get there? Although, it shouldn’t be a goal. Enlightenment is like walking through a gate that isn’t there.
• The amygdale is half between the reptile brain, and the frontal lobes. There are two, one for each hemisphere of the brain. The left amygdale actually controls the right side of the brain, and vice versa.
• The amygdala is the switch that activates the various parts of the brain. When you wake up, it activates the reptile, then the mammal, then the frontal lobes.
• When your boss yells at you, by reflex you click into the reptile brain with the amygdala switch.
• Lingo really studied the switch. We want to make the switch click forward.
• Some of the reason we click into the reptile brain is negative TV, newspaper, radio, cultural conditioning, trauma, and repressed trauma.
• Like when we are playing in the dirt when we are a kid and get yelled at. Now you’re afraid of dirt, and you waste all of this time cleaning yourself, or you don’t feel good. You forget the events that steer you.
• Go back and uncover the trauma and fix the short circuit. Created memories have the same impact as real ones. You can replace the old with ones that can have as much of a positive effect as a real one.
• There are two types of emotions. Positive and negative.

• • Reptilian brain - Negative
  • Frontal lobes - Cooperation - Positive

• Why is it set up this way? It enhances survival. It’s good for survival to use the CECIL functions. Bad emotions are reptilian, and don’t use as much brain.
• The nose knows. Here is a basic technique to clicking the amygdale forward. The olfactory cells are connected to the amygdala. Our ancient ancestors, the wolves and dogs had to see ahead. With their nose first, they could smell and know danger. If it was a bad smell they’d click backwards into fight or flight mode. If it was a good smell, like a female wolf, they would run faster. We still retain this olfactory connection, and can be demonstrated in aroma therapy.Â

• • To demonstrate the effect on the amygdale, smell something bad. We didn’t have any bad smelling things, so we imagined. Then think of the emotions related to those smells. You cringe, using the back part of your brain. Then think of good smells. You almost feel light, and can feel the front part of your brain working.
  • This doesn’t mean you have to smell stuff all the time to click forward, but you can learn to manipulate the amygdala with consciousness.

• Make your finger wiggle. How did you do that? You moved chemicals in your brain and sent a signal to cause it to wiggle. You can do the same with the amygdala. You can affect it with mere thought alone.
• You’ve got to know where the switch is. The amygdala is 1 inch inside each temple.
• Here’s another exercise. Imagine you are holding a feather. Stroke the feather, and feel how soft it is. Take the tip of that feather, and tickle an amygdala. You couldn’t imagine that without your frontal lobes.
• There is no instant Nirvana, although after two weeks of experimenting some people have popped, but you can solve more of your problems. More and more things in your life work.
• The key is your emotions. If it feels good, and creates a good emotion, you are clicking forward.
• The good emotion, in the long term kicks on more senses, such as the paranormal.
• Here are three examples.

1. Neil was talking to his mom on the phone, when she asked about an old croquet set. She wanted to play. Neil said he didn’t know what happened to it. He looked all over for a new croquet set to buy, but couldn’t find one. Then driving to a lesson he decided to take a new way. There, one block away, was a nice croquet set lying on the side of the road to be thrown away.

o These types of things aren’t controlled. Immediately, you’re not going to be able to look at a pencil and make it move. Although, Tim (who was present) made a device, and on a radio show asked people to concentrate on making it move. That night there were strange noises and the device had moved.

o The potential exists. Sometimes the brain takes control and fixes the issue.

2. One day Neil was running late for a lesson. When he got out the door and own the steps, a neighbor asked for the time. Looking at his wrist, Neil realized he had forgotten his watch.  Because he was running late he didn’t go back to get it, and just left. Later in the car, worried about how late he was running, he looked at his wrist to get the time from his watch, and his watch was there.

3. A month ago at Barnes and Noble, Neil saw a Discover magazine story about the brain and the amygdala. It was corroborating what he wrote about. He thought wow the group would like to see this. Thinking cooperatively. Neil reached in his coat pocket only to find $2, not enough to buy the magazine. Dang! On the way to the door, Neil thought he heard something hit his foot. Looking down, there was $10 on his shoe.

o It was the cooperative thinking.

• The longer you practice clicking forward, the more it seems you are at the right place at the right time. Keep it up, and one day you will have the big bang.
• Before taking some questions Neil pointed out that there is more information to be found at his website: www.NeilSlade.com. Including books and CDs.

Question: What about the negative news and TV, is that bad for you? Neil responded that yes it is, but just don’t let it fester.

Question:  What about remote viewing? Neil says if remote viewing is real, it would take frontal lobe access.

Question: What about the nutty professor type? It seems geniuses are weird in ways. Neil agreed. There seems to be some who have extra abilities in one part of the brain, but are deficient in others. Einstein for example was obviously a genius, but sometimes he couldn’t remember the way home.

Question: When you are clicking forward, can it have an effect on the people around? Neil says of course. The effects can sometimes be shared around you, or you can be affected by them. Sometimes you can find what everybody is looking for when they can’t. Kind of like a brain radar.

Question: Does thinking affect your health? Neil responded that it does, and is medically proven. There are studies such as the healing power of laughter.

Question: What about people who are already creative, is there a way for them to develop their creativity? There certainly are, and you can find some of them on my website (www.NeilSlade.com). You can find material there in the library link.

Question: What’s this got to do with UFOs? Neil said he didn’t know, but that he had seen a UFO.

The key may be in opening yourself up to that type of experience. Stan Romanek is a good example. He wasn’t interested in UFOs. After meeting Stan, sometime later Neil was in his car, going to take the dogs for a walk when he saw a light moving in the sky. He pulled over to look, but couldn’t figure out what it might be. It certainly wasn’t a mylar balloon. Neil was the only one pulled over, and seemed to be the only one to see this thing. He walked over to a group of kids at the bust stop to ask if they saw it. They looked up and said, oh yeah a satellite. It definitely wasn’t a satellite, it was during the day. When you click forward you open yourself up to more experiences.

Neil said he had a close friend that was a monk and assistant to an important Buddhist figure, at a peer level with the Dhali Lama. He asked his friend to ask about UFOs, figuring such a wise person might know. His friend asks, and the response was I don’t know. It was an honest answer, and seems to be the theme for the issue. Nobody knows.

Question: If we taught this in schools, what would be the effect? Neil answered stupendous. Lingo actually did train a school’s teachers. Teachers were actually dancing in their classes and singing the blues. It was very successful, so much so that it was shut down. Our culture is biased against brain self control.

Question: Do you have any tips for choosing the right events in our past to fix? Neil said to start with the most recent. Slice off the top event, because often you won’t remember the old ones. Once you resolve more recent ones, older memories will begin to surface. Lingo said you need about 6 old ones to be pretty clear.

The process is to relive the event, then relive the event again, but the way it should have happened, with love and understanding. You can then change your circuitry. Keep repeating this until you are bored with the subject, and have lost any tension about it.

Question: Did Lingo experiment with drugs? Neil explained that Lingo didn’t permit drugs. Neil experimented as a kid. Looking for altered states of consciousness, and maybe they can help, but it seems to be a crap shoot. You may click wrong, and have a bad experience. Amphetamines and opiates also have a downside. You can try it, but it won’t take you to the same place as clicking into your frontal lobe. One is kindergarten, one is college.

Question: How do we get these feathers out of our heads? Everybody laughed.

Question: Are kids different because they haven’t had the negative effects from society? Neil stated that kids naturally use their frontal lobes, unless they experience something new or threatening. Kids have great imagination and creativity.

Lingo said that what clicks us back are inhibitors, and once those are removed we click foreword. Maybe kids don’t have these inhibitors, and learn them.

The main site of our guest is:

www.NeilSlade.com

Leslie Varnicle, Colorado State Director

• Lin and Leslie raffled off today’s prizes.
• Gail is collecting email addresses of members. We may give you the choice of getting the newsletter electronically to save money.
• Be sure to look for the minutes on the website with color pictures.
• There is a rumor that the Marriott SE, at Hampden and I-25, might be able to offer us a deal on using their space for meetings.
• The 2004 Symposium will be held there, at the Marriott SE.
• The 2203 symposium is in Deerbourne, MI.
• Keep looking for members, we need membership.
• Finally, we would like to present John and Kathy Schuessler with a plaque for outstanding membership.