Unknown Country - Friday March 14th 2014- Flight 370 Special

Friday March 14, 2014

Flight 370 Special, then NPR Correspondent Margot Adler on Vampires

First, Linda Moulton Howe reports on the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, including a discussion--a rational and accurate one--of aircraft disappearances that have been connected to UFO events, of which there are three known, all involving much smaller planes.

Then we continue with our regular programming: NPR Correspondent Margot Adler is also a leading expert on vampires, and Whitley Strieber calls her book Vampires Are Us "the most imaginative answer to the question of why we are fascinated by vampires ever written." But WHY do we find them so fascinating? Why do they appear in virtually every culture in the world? What are they, really, and why is the literature about them so vast? Are there real vampires, and what about psychic vampires? Listen as Margot tells her story of what happened when she brought that subject up during a lecture to Romanian women in Transylvania.

Anne Strieber tells her story of a terrifying experience she had with a psychic vampire while she was pregnant, and Margot explores the mystery of why we are, more and more, interested in vampires and the dead--or the living dead.

As always, Dreamland's take on this subject is completely unique.

This edition of Dreamland is dedicated to the missing of Flight 370 and to their families. Our prayers go with them in their suffering.

Subscriber Special

Paganism, Ritual and Gaining Control over Close Encounter

Many of us involved in the close encounter experience have discovered that, whether it is alien contact or not, it is also connected to encounters with our own dead, and with powerful energies that are mostly ignored and denied in the modern world, but were respected, understood and used in the past. Margot Adler, author of one of the seminal books on modern paganism, Drawing Down the Moon, here discusses the power of ritual and describes rituals she has developed herself.

Could ritual draw the mysterious energy that seems connected to both the dead and the visitors into form? Could we take the initiative in close encounter by using ritual?
Margot and Whitley discuss their experiences with ritual, and Whitley tells of his explorations of Vodoun, the voodoo religion of West Africa and how Vodoun ritual seems to cause its gods to manifest, at least in the minds of participants in the ceremonies.

But could there be more to ritual? Perhaps it goes far beyond conventional ideas of religious practice. Last week, we explored Starfire Tor's theories of reality shift manifestation, and next week we'll be talking to Robert Bingham, who can cause orb and UFO manifestations that can be photographed by large groups of witnesses in daylight gatherings.

Dreamland and Unknowncountry are about empowerment, and our subscriber area is devoted to actually becoming empowered. There is much, much more to our relationship to and ability to relate to the energetic world than we have been led to believe. Here, we explore the possibilities that facing this truth opens up to us.