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On this edition of Sightings, scientists move one step closer to a Bigfoot encounter.

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It's a very tough, tough to find one of these things.

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I think we're the people who are going to find one, almost certainly.

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A paralyzed boy, praised for death.

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It was definitely, it was possessed.

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A supernatural light guides him home.

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I came back and I was a different man.

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Man, alien abduction.

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Could you be next?

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In the beginning, I thought I was going crazy.

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I know something has happened to me, but I was in extreme denial.

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And later, these people have seen a vision of their future lives.

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I was a little afraid the first time when I experienced my death in this life.

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Welcome to Sightings.

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I'm Tim White.

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In business, competition and secrecy are par for the course.

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Well the same holds true for paranormal investigators.

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That's a problem, especially for investigators in search of Bigfoot, who need to keep track

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of sightings and possible migration patterns.

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Now, one organization is trying to collect every report, footprint and eyewitness account

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into one communal database.

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It's called the Bigfoot Research Project, headquartered here in the heart of Bigfoot

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Country, the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

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For the first time, Sasquatch is online and every possible sighting, noise, footprint,

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hair sample and anecdote is being checked out, cross-referenced and rechecked.

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Already the computer analysis is paying off.

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This color film was shot by Roger Patterson in 1967.

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It has never been proven to be a hoax.

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These are footprints shot on videotape just weeks ago.

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They were discovered in the same area the Patterson footage was shot and the size of

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the prints and the length of the stride correspond exactly to the creature discovered 25 years

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earlier.

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One of the questions that arises is when is one going to be found?

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There's no answer to that.

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Today, a week from now, 10 years from now, nobody knows.

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There are no guarantees.

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The way we're going with our project, which is a very sophisticated project, I think we're

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the people who are going to find one almost certainly.

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The project is receiving grant money from the Academy of Applied Science in Boston, Massachusetts.

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This prestigious institution believes Peter Byrne deserves a chance to bring one in alive.

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It's not easy.

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It's a very tough task to find one of these things.

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We're dealing with something which is shy and elusive, very wary of man, which has

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an enormous area to live in and to hide in and it's not going to be found easily.

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While sightings were shooting this interview, a call came in to the project.

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Independent eyewitnesses were reporting something moving at the base of Mount Hood.

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Byrne's team responded immediately.

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They're clearly visible and they definitely are primates of some kind.

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They are walking upright and they're moving fairly fast.

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And the time we've been here, they've moved about 200 yards, maybe 250 yards.

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Analysis identified the two lower dark areas as rocks.

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Above these rocks, two shapes were moving at approximately two miles an hour.

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There were no reports of hikers at that time, but the distance was too great to confirm this

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as a big-vote sighting.

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Foot will be used to corroborate any other sightings in the same area.

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Photographs like this one come in every day, but Byrne quickly rules out all but a very

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few.

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This is a fake footprint.

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It's very square.

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You can see the line of the turrets across the top here.

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Simply straight, which is wrong.

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They should be angled.

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And then the sides are dead straight and it's recognizable as a fake footprint, probably

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made with a wooden mold or some kind.

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This is an important videotape.

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The Bigfoot Research Project is concentrated on right now.

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It's from Northern California and it's from late last year.

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And the photographers say that in here, in the center of the picture there, just there.

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The dark area.

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The dark area.

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You can see something and you can see something moving.

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Independent Bigfoot researchers Scott Harriet and Daryl Owen captured these images in Northern

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California.

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It was their first face-to-face encounter with an elusive creature they'd been tracking

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for 10 years.

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I can see him pointing at something after about 29 seconds.

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He then lowered the camera, looked at me and started crying.

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I mean, he literally had a little minor break, started crying and said, let's get out of

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here.

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I was very scared at that point as well.

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We went down the hill.

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I'm crying at this moment, so excuse my voice.

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It's right here.

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You can see it.

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The footage is being analyzed at Wonderfilm Design.

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Here advanced computer enhancement technology allows researchers to take a closer look.

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Right here would be the head and the arm down this way.

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And let me rock back and forth here.

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And as you can see, that it's something right there is moving while everything else in the

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picture stays static.

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There is something unusual moving in the thick woods of the Cascade Range, but the Bigfoot

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Research Project remains cautious in their optimism.

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Hokes' are rampant in a field where film and videotape are considered still the best evidence.

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Especially in the 1960s and 70s, it seemed like everyone with a first suit and a lot of

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spare time was coming up with supposedly authentic photographic evidence.

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Only a few pieces of photographic evidence have deserved serious attention.

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But even these compelling images aren't enough to satisfy scientists.

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I have to say that I'm a skeptic regarding the Sasquatch.

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It would probably be if we were able to verify its existence the most exciting biological

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find of the century.

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Until we find physical evidence that's indisputable, I think that all scientists have to take a

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rather pessimistic view as to its existence.

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Wildlife biologist John Bindernegel is one scientist who no longer shares the pessimistic

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view of his mainstream colleagues.

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I was very slow to come out of the closet, very slow to talk about this.

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I was concerned about my employability.

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Biologists weren't really accepting this as an actual animal.

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So I still remain very quiet.

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And I'm not sure why in the end I came out.

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I guess I found in the last few years talking to people that people weren't as disbelieving

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as they used to be.

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One reason may be the overwhelming number of anomalous tracks recently cited in Washington

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state.

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Down through here, there's a heel spot right here.

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It's about three to four inch wide here.

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Comes up across and here's a toe down through here.

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In this area.

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In this particular area there are two that are hanging in this area here.

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They've been here for better than a year now that they've had people who have seen them.

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Skeptical scientists put Bigfoot into the same mythological creature category as leprechauns,

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fairies and gnomes.

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But Bigfoot researchers asked, when was the last time you saw color film of a leprechaun?

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Have you ever seen the footprints of a gnome?

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Well, of course not.

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Bigfoot is different, they insist.

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He's out there somewhere and finding him is just a matter of timing, patience and luck.

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You would think that every inch of the Pacific Northwest would have been scoured by now.

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But since 1948, over 50 airplanes have crashed in Washington state.

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Remember to be seen again.

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If large reflective metal craft have remained undetected for as long as 50 years, perhaps

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it's not so far-fetched that researchers have yet to recover a Bigfoot.

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Coming up, a young boy's encounter with a supernatural light saves him from certain

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death.

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It was very dark and lonely and that was just replaced by a brilliant light.

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What happened to Will Barton was nothing short of a tragedy.

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After a serious fall, doctors told the 16-year-old that it would be a miracle if he ever walked

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again.

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Will Barton believes that first angels and then a near-death experience created that

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miracle in his life.

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Will's transformation began here on the family's thousand-acre ranch in Carmen, Idaho.

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They call it God's Country, a clean, safe place to raise a family, a place that tragedy

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usually forgets.

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We were having a family reunion and all of my brother's sisters were together for the

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first time in probably five years and we were having a really enjoyable time together.

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We had decided that we would have Christmas before everybody went home and William was

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assigned to get the Christmas tree.

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Will and his friend Matt volunteered to drive into the mountains in search of the perfect

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Christmas tree.

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And just boom, I saw the tree I wanted.

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It was just beautiful.

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Will wanted to climb the tree and cut off just the top, but his friend warned him it was

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too dangerous.

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I didn't see any danger.

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The hill was very, very steep.

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The tree was very, very tall and it was starting to get dark.

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It was definitely like I was possessed to get the tree.

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After a brief breathtaking moment at the top, Will's life changed forever.

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I just was enjoying the beauty when I could feel my arms scrambling out, trying to find

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branches, but I didn't have any control.

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I remember hitting the ground, but it wasn't very intense.

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Like you might think, it was just like jelly spotting on the floor and I couldn't feel

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anything.

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Will had fallen 50 feet into a steep ravine.

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His friend Matt needed help to rescue him.

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We were all in the home.

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Some of us were playing games, playing with the kids, and all of a sudden one of the brothers

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ran in and said, somebody's been hurt.

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So we started putting up a search and we searched and we searched and we searched and finally

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we found him.

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Will's sister Julie and brother Brad scrambled down the rocky slope.

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The temperature was dropping rapidly and there was snow.

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They struggled to carry Will up to the road but couldn't.

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They needed more strength and stomped on the cliffside to ask for that strength through

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prayer.

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Will told us later that he saw several what he perceived to be white men, angels so to

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speak, just come out of heaven and just carry him up the rest of the way out of the mountain.

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And it was incredible.

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Our strength was totally renewed and we just went up the rest of the way.

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This angelic vision and his rescuers renewed strength may have been key to Will's survival.

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Will was rushed from the scene to a local hospital and the nightmare was just beginning.

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When Will arrived in the emergency room he was hypothermic, meaning he had a low body

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temperature from lying in the snow for a couple of hours.

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He was totally paralyzed although he was breathing on his own.

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We did a portable neck x-ray after he had been stabilized and that x-ray revealed a fracture

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dislocation of cervical vertebrae C4 on C5.

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I remember doctor, the doctor examining me and saying he had a needle or he had a sharp

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something sharp and he was saying do you feel this?

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No, do you feel this?

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No, do you feel this?

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Will was immediately transferred to the intensive care unit at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula,

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Montana.

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Prognosis was not good and Will began to deteriorate physically and mentally.

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When someone is totally out the chances of recovering are as near zero as you can get.

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He just laid there and kind of like he was in a trance and I said what's happening, Will?

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And he says I'm just practicing being a vegetable.

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To me it's the most single devastating injury that people get because they're locked inside

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a body, they can't do anything.

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It comes as a sudden thing and almost every instance from one minute laughing, having a

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good time to all of a sudden oh I've done something I shouldn't have done and now can

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you put me back together and we say no we can't.

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I'd pray at night and my prayer was please let me die.

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If I could I would have taken my life but I couldn't, I couldn't move so I did the only

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thing I could do.

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I asked my mother.

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He says if you really loved me you'd get me out of my mystery and you'd take this pillow

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and put over my face.

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She just looked back at me with loving eyes and didn't say, couldn't respond.

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Will had lost all hope of ever being able to walk again.

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He became uncooperative and refused to participate in rehabilitation exercises.

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Then an unfortunate mistake changed Will's life once again.

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They got me on the tilt table and tilted me up way too fast and I do remember I could

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see the floor for the first time in my new life and I could feel the blood just running

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out of my head and the room started to get a little bit dark and splotchy.

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And he just passed out and the nurse couldn't get a blood pressure, we couldn't get a heartbeat.

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I want to die and all those prayers that I'd said every night were answered.

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It was very dark and lonely and that was just replaced by a brilliant, brilliant light that

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just completely drowned the darkness and the whole soul which is completely immersed

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in this light.

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Will says the light offered him a choice.

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To die and go over this light was taking me or breathe and live.

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He started to turn blue by this time the other nurse had gotten oxygen to him.

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And as I laid there consumed by this light with the choice to make about quitting I thought

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about meeting my God and looking at him and saying I quit and I couldn't do that.

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And then his diaphragm started taking over again and he was breathing shallowly again.

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I came back and I was a different man.

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I could just feel my face shining and I just glowed.

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Will says he was transformed by the experience that took him to the very brink of death.

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I've heard and read of these various episodes of people seeing the light and the tunnel

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of light and the near death experiences and I'm sure that there's something that occurs.

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I don't think we have any scientific explanation.

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Before the accident William was very shy after his experience.

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It was like the dam broke and his whole being came out and we got to know William at that

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point.

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I was going to live my life and the doctors kept saying you'll never walk again will.

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But Will's near death experience had given him a new determination and he began to have

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hints of feeling throughout his body.

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He moved his toe and we were so excited I remember running out to the barn and I'm going

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to my twin brother and saying Rick, Rick he moved his toe and we just sat there and held

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each other and cried over a toe movement.

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He was almost like every week we'd get a new phone call saying he's sat up, he's

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you know walking now, he's standing up.

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What happened to Will when he saw that intense light cannot be easily explained.

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His family attributes the transformation to their prayers and faith.

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Doctors have a harder time explaining Will's recovery.

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Conventional medical wisdom would have said that he would be totally paralyzed for life

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and I certainly would call this a miracle.

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If you define a miracle as something that occurs very, very rarely, I mean it's probably

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somewhat analogous to winning the lottery.

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He's had a chance to have his life, to lose his life as he knows it and to have a back

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again and that's something that very few people get the chance to do in this life.

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Since his near fatal accident Will Barton has gone from paralysis to first a walker,

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then braces, a cane and now he walks on his own.

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Doctors have stopped putting limits on what he may be capable of next.

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With his recovery in full swing, Will is on to the next challenge.

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He's enrolled in college.

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What is intuition more than a feeling?

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Is it a psychic ability we all possess?

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25% of Americans tend to rely on their intuition.

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Intuition has been described as knowing something without knowing how you know it.

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It's also called gut instinct, hunch or even ESP.

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Some researchers believe that intuition is a spark and that many people can be taught

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how to take that spark and use it to ignite a greater psychic power.

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Intuition is knowing without knowing how you know.

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And for some people that means you get a flash, you see something in your mind's eye, you

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hear an inner voice that says, you know, don't trust that person when you first meet them.

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It's a way of knowing something that goes beyond what we think of as rational, logical

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knowing.

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Author Laurie Nadell believes the so-called sixth sense is present in everyone and that

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a lot of people use their intuitive power without even knowing it.

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How you perform in the workplace is a good indication of whether or not you're tapping

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into your psychic power.

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Certain people will go in and they'll do, you know, a lot of studies and they'll do time

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management studies and cost analysis and they'll get all the numbers and all the data and then

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you'll have somebody who's like a troubleshooter who's kind of a maverick and that person might

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go in and say, look, I want to talk to these three people and they'll talk to three people

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for 20 minutes apiece and they'll come up with a big picture of what's wrong.

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Long-term studies are now testing for intuitive ability, trying to determine if certain people

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are more psychically tuned in than others.

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25% of Americans tend to rely on their intuition and 75% tend to use their five physical senses.

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Now the same studies when given to children, they find that 51% of children like to rely

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on their intuition for problem solving and a lot of people come to me saying, you know,

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when I was a child, it seemed to me that it was more natural for me, it was easier for

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me to trust my feelings, to trust my instincts, you know, to come up with quick answers and

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now I'm always second guessing myself.

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I know mine was activated.

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I didn't realize that I had this and it seems to occur for me in very threatening, life-threatening,

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fearful situations or in very intense cases.

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They're going to make the arrest if it was, of course, state lines against her will, yes.

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Jane Finnegan believes it was her intuitive ability that kept her alive during the 14

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years she served as a New York City police officer.

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Today she's a private investigator.

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They went to bed and apparently everything was fine.

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When you have a missing person, there'll be a certain format that you'll follow.

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You'll find out if they had a driver's license, if they had a vehicle, evidence and things

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to lead you in an area.

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But I believe that what tangent you choose is generally an instinct and intuitive sense.

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I'm sure my boss would have like a stroke as I'm saying this, but it is true.

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Doctors now believe that women are able to pick up on kind of subliminal cues and eye

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movements, breathing, posture, physiology, pupils dialing, very subtle cues that men

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may not be aware of.

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Out of that, they are able to come up with a picture that this is somebody to trust or

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this is somebody not to trust.

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I've had a number of women come to me and say, this is a fairly common story.

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My husband had a business partner and he brought his business partner in for dinner.

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And I told him after dinner, Fred, don't do it, this man is going to take advantage of

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you, you're going to get hurt, you're going to get into trouble.

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And in each of these stories, of course, the man had gone off and hired the business partner,

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gotten into business with him and a year and a half later they found that the partner had

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embezzled or they were bankrupt or he had stolen or he had done something.

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I've come so much to trust my intuition that I really was able to develop my psychic abilities

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and I have since become a professional psychic and my home life is very exciting and interesting

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for me because my husband is a physicist and I was even in touch with people at Princeton

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Stanford, a lot of big universities are doing work on what we already know.

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We already know this.

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Not everyone has the potential to be a professional psychic, but there are ways to better develop

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your own intuition.

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It's kind of like the old joke about Carnegie Hall, practice, practice, practice.

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Part of what you're learning how to do is to focus your attention, then you can actually

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ask your intuition or ask your hunches or gut feelings to give you answers to questions.

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Beyond semantics, is there a difference between intuition and ESP?

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Are experts to find intuition as foresight based on some degree of prior knowledge, no

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matter how small that knowledge may be?

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Psychic ability on the other hand is foresight without any prior knowledge.

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Coming up, alien abduction, fantasy or fact.

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Either there's something very special about this fantasy or it's not a fantasy.

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Could you be next?

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Then, have these people traveled through time and a musical crop circle mystery?

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When the first reported case of alien abduction, the Betty and Barney Hill case, occurred

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in 1961.

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Most serious researchers felt that it was just a blip on the paranormal screen.

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But since then, thousands of seemingly credible people have made similar claims.

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There's this big black triangle just moving real slow across the sky and kind of fall

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it over, launched it, and it got to about here, kind of stopped, tipped it a little bit,

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made a hissing sound, and it kind of continued on toward the north real slow and it just

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kept watching it.

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I could see some little detail in the back, like little circles and a little square, and

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I remember thinking, well that's where I went in through, was the bottom of it.

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Brian Koski is not lying.

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He honestly believes he's been inside an alien spacecraft.

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He isn't trying to sell a book or get his proverbial 15 minutes of fame.

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He wants answers.

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What is happening to him?

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The experts have radically different opinions about the root causes of his encounters.

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It's what we call waking dreams.

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When people start to fall asleep, many occasions, they have a mixture, a peculiar mixture of

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reality and fantasy or dreams.

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And in this particular state of consciousness, which is an altered state, they see little

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aliens and they see spaceships and lights in the sky and so on.

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People working with more than 125 alleged abductees, psychiatrist Dr. Richard Boylan

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believes the abduction experience goes far beyond dreaming.

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I was pretty skeptical personally, but when I saw people who were very mentally sound

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talking about these experiences and having nothing to gain by putting them out there

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and lots to lose, I had to start taking them seriously.

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Dr. Boylan encourages his patients to draw pictures of their extraterrestrial experiences.

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These images often arise during hypnotherapy sessions where repressed memories are supposedly

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brought to the fore.

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Skeptics say these memories are unreliable, but in the case of Connie Smith, she not only

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has memories and visions, she believes she also has physical evidence.

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I just woke up in the morning and I did have that groggy feeling that, you know, like I've

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been up all night, yet I got an eight hour sleep.

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And I sat down on the couch and I looked down and I had a mark just above my knee and there

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was no pain to it.

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You could poke and poke at it and there was no pain.

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And then I had a little scab in my belly button with a little pinhole puncture mark in the

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middle.

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And for the most part, I just kind of kicked it out, didn't think anything of it until

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my daughter came to me.

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She had the same huge bruise, which was not painful to her.

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Then I asked if I could see her belly button and I checked and she had the same thing as

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I did.

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Nothing in my psychiatric education, nothing in medical school, made me an expert on ufology

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and extraterrestrials.

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They either exist or they don't exist.

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They either abduct people or they don't abduct people.

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But that's not the issue.

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When somebody comes to me as a clinician, my job is to help them come to a point of comfort

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with their own experience.

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Dr. Rima Labo believes hypnotherapy may be unduly influencing alleged abductees.

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She uses biofeedback to achieve similar states of relaxation.

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Surprisingly, she's hearing the same kinds of abduction stories that have been reported

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by hypnotherapists.

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They appear to have been overwhelmed by an episode outside their own control and making

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which leaves them in a post-traumatic state.

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That's very interesting.

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Either there's something very special about this fantasy that causes what otherwise does

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not occur or it's not a fantasy.

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This was the craft I saw in 1973 out in the backyard.

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This is pretty much what it looked like.

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Brian Koski says his abduction was not a fantasy.

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He has vivid recollections of being aboard alien spacecraft.

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These little silver panels that they tend to control a ship with their mind.

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This is the tail that seemed to do their navigation from.

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I always saw those.

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I know something has happened to me, but I was in extreme denial.

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They can't tell the difference between whether it was a memory, a real event, or whether

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it was imagination.

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And this is the problem.

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Kurt had been troubled by periods of missing time.

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He remembers several episodes of coming to on his back porch, not knowing how or when

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he'd gotten there.

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Under hypnosis, Kurt filled in the missing time.

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I looked down the stairs to my right and standing there was a being that is very hard to describe.

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It's unlike anything I have ever seen or have since seen.

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It was approximately five foot tall.

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I call it kind of a pillowy liquid kind of being.

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There's no form to it.

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The only thing that even remotely resembles a human was what I believed to be two little

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black like raggedy and doll eyes that it had in the area that looked like its head.

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Other than that, unlike anything that I've ever seen.

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Keith Thompson is the author of Angels and Aliens.

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A book that tries to delineate between myth, imagination, and reality in the abduction

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phenomenon.

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Although he remains grounded in the laws of physics, Thompson still keeps an open mind.

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I believe they've had experiences of a reality that is somehow both part of our reality but

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also larger than our reality.

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It's almost as if my dog is sitting on the living room floor.

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I'm watching the evening news.

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I can follow what's going on in the evening news differently from my dog.

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My dog hears the sounds.

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He hears the news man and the reporter's voice but doesn't track it the same way I do.

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Doesn't track the content.

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Likewise, I think in relationship to the UFO phenomenon, we're tuned into it.

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But it is so dimensional.

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It is so complex and so much more comprehensive than our capacity to perceive it that we can

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only pick out those parts of the signal that fit for us.

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We do our best to explain them to ourselves but we end up having to try to fit it into

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our categories and I think the problem with that is that it just doesn't fit.

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It's a larger reality.

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I believe I've been touched by something that's not from this reality that we're used to.

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You're not just seeing something in the sky and seeing that was weird.

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This is something that affects you all your life.

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I know it as real as I'm sitting here talking to you people that what has happened to me

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has indeed happened.

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Joining me now is psychologist Dr. Robert Baker.

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He is professor emeritus from the University of Kentucky.

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Dr. Baker is a researcher who believes that the alien abduction phenomenon is out of control.

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Dr. Baker, if supposed abductees feel that they're being helped through therapy and hypnosis,

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well, what's the harm in that?

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There's no harm in hypnosis itself.

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It can be used both for good and for evil.

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The problem is that the hypnotist should not mislead both himself and his client into believing

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certain things happened that never happened or believe that things didn't happen that

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did happen.

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What advice would you have Dr. Baker for someone who believes that they may have been the victim

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of an alien abduction?

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What should they do?

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You should go to see a therapist who can help you deal with the anxiety and the other aspects

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of your living that have been disturbed by this experience that you think you've had.

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Dr. Robert Baker, thank you for joining us.

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And we'll be back with more sightings in just a moment.

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Coming up, is time travel an amazing new possibility?

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It was very exhilarating, the initial impact of jumping into the future.

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Throughout history there have been visionaries.

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In the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci was designing helicopters.

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Is this ability to see into the future a special gift or something that lies dormant

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within all of us?

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Hypnotherapist Dr. Chet Snow believes that he may hold the key to unlocking a visionary

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power we all have.

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The first step, paradoxically, is to forget.

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Forget your preconceived notions about past, present and future.

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Allow your mind to ask the same questions great philosophers have asked since the beginning

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of history.

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What is time and can I travel through?

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It was very exhilarating, the initial impact of jumping into the future.

466
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I was a little afraid the first time when I experienced my death in this life.

467
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That was kind of scary.

468
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I like the world like it is now.

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I'm not sure about the vision I saw of the future.

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I want to start out by having us take a few deep breaths.

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So just close your eyes.

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Their visions are the result of a process called future life progression.

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In Santa Fe, New Mexico, Dr. Chet Snow believes relaxation techniques and hypnosis allow his

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clients to transcend time and experience a possible future.

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It is essentially what we have found is that when you're in the dreaming mind, you can

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bypass this concept of past to present to future and you're sort of in an eternal now.

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And so the mind can then look at the future and yet to the person who's experiencing it,

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it's what they're experiencing right at that moment and so it's like simultaneous to them.

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Until recently, interdimensional time travel was considered an exclusive club whose membership

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was limited to Nostradamus, Edward Casey and a handful of psychics and futurists.

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Certainly looking for the future or hunting for the future is a very ancient tradition

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and people have wanted to know about the future as long probably as there have been human beings

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on the planet.

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What has changed is that now instead of relying on a few psychics who have this extraordinary

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ability to look into the future, ordinary people can actually do a workshop and look

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into their own future.

487
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Now people can see a very personalized vision.

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We were supposed to die and experience our life in the future but for some reason it

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triggered me to experience my death in this life.

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So I wasn't really ready for that but it happened.

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When I looked in the mirror, I scared myself and I was really, really skinny and I looked

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at my legs and they looked like polio legs and I think I was like dying of some disease

493
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where you just get initiated.

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Death is an inevitable stage in any future life progression but it doesn't necessarily

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end there.

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Both Michael Husband and Joff Seljes experienced a personal future that took them to the sea.

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So the year was 2150.

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I was working in a underwater station.

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There were tanks filled with fish and there were long trays of salt water that also had

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sea life in them.

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And I was a monitor of some kind.

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I had machinery, I had notes and my job was to monitor the sea life.

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I was piloting a vehicle which went in and out of the water, up and down.

504
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When I went under the water, the water was very clear and blue.

505
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There were perhaps domes or something down at the ocean floor.

506
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I did look at a calendar and it was 2150.

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That was the year.

508
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Brainwave patterns recorded during future life progressions, mimic those recorded in

509
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the dream state.

510
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But Joff and Michael believe they have shared a vision of the future that cannot be a dream.

511
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We were both very stunned to find that we both had very, very similar visions.

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We had seen the same landscape.

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I suspect that I was patrolling the same ocean where his station was located.

514
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We described the same living quarters.

515
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So there were a lot of things, similarities that were surprising to us.

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Because time travel is an interior process, it can't be measured or charted.

517
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But while many in mainstream science dismiss future life progression as a mental exercise,

518
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they do believe in the possibility of time travel.

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In the realm of physics, time travel is possible in principle.

520
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If we look at particles and objects that are the size of atoms, they can be sped up enough

521
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so that we can see real time changes.

522
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For ordinary sized objects, people, rocket ships, airplanes, ordinary clocks, the speeds

523
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that are practical with current technology are simply too low to actually get any significant

524
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change in time.

525
00:36:21,020 --> 00:36:26,540
But after 25 years teaching physics, Dr. Jones feels there's much we don't understand yet.

526
00:36:26,540 --> 00:36:33,180
Personally, I think that time travel through hypnotic projection or some other kind of

527
00:36:33,180 --> 00:36:40,660
mental gymnastics is a possibility because I do believe that our current notions about

528
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time and space, as defined and described in science, are not the whole story.

529
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I don't believe that we really understand everything there is to know about existence

530
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and time and space and matter.

531
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At least I'm open to these other possibilities, and I do think they're possible.

532
00:36:55,780 --> 00:36:57,980
I personally am optimistic about the future.

533
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I think that once humanity gets awakened, then we will make positive and correct choices,

534
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and the future will turn out to be much brighter than some of the people have seen in these

535
00:37:07,740 --> 00:37:08,940
future dreams.

536
00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:14,620
Dr. Snow believes these visions come when the conscious mind releases its preconceptions

537
00:37:14,620 --> 00:37:20,980
about past, present and future, and steps into the time-space continuum, a concept first

538
00:37:20,980 --> 00:37:27,180
suggested by a visionary named Albert Einstein.

539
00:37:27,180 --> 00:37:31,900
Hypnosis has been used to great advantage by a number of professional therapists.

540
00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:36,820
But it's wise to remember that it's also been used by a professional showman in carnivals.

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For investing time and money in hypnotherapy, do your own research, investigate the claims

542
00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:48,380
made by the therapists, talk to former patients, and then make an informed decision.

543
00:37:48,380 --> 00:37:54,500
Next, is an alien intelligence using music to communicate through these crop circles.

544
00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:59,700
All of the right keys on the piano are present in the crop circles.

545
00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:08,580
Astronomer Gerald Hawkins drew worldwide attention when he proved mathematically that Stonehenge

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is a giant celestial calendar.

547
00:38:11,180 --> 00:38:15,060
Now, Dr. Hawkins has turned his attention to crop circles.

548
00:38:15,060 --> 00:38:20,420
He believes that some crop circles display geometric principles so advanced they can

549
00:38:20,420 --> 00:38:27,020
only have been created by the greatest mathematical minds on this planet.

550
00:38:27,020 --> 00:38:29,980
Geometry turns shapes into numbers.

551
00:38:29,980 --> 00:38:31,140
Here's an easy one.

552
00:38:31,140 --> 00:38:33,780
Two circles, one inside another.

553
00:38:33,780 --> 00:38:37,180
The big circle is twice as big as the little circle.

554
00:38:37,180 --> 00:38:39,740
In geometry, that's called a ratio of two to one.

555
00:38:39,740 --> 00:38:43,620
The big circle is two times the size of the little circle.

556
00:38:43,620 --> 00:38:48,700
Advanced mathematicians, like Professor Hawkins, can figure out ratios for almost every geometric

557
00:38:48,700 --> 00:38:53,860
pattern where we see just three circles, he sees a ratio of 16 to 3.

558
00:38:53,860 --> 00:38:56,500
Here we see three enigmatic crop circles.

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00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:58,660
Hawkins sees mathematical genius.

560
00:38:58,660 --> 00:39:04,900
The circle makers have set up a theorem where we can prove by Euclidean geometry that the

561
00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:15,860
large circle is exactly 16 over 3 times the area of the middle circle, 16 thirds.

562
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A very strange number, but it's exactly the note of F in the third octave.

563
00:39:23,060 --> 00:39:26,060
How can a fraction be a musical note?

564
00:39:26,060 --> 00:39:29,260
Different notes travel to your ear at different frequencies.

565
00:39:29,260 --> 00:39:31,580
C is wavier than G.

566
00:39:31,580 --> 00:39:36,860
The difference between C and G, like the difference between geometric shapes, can be written down

567
00:39:36,860 --> 00:39:38,380
as a ratio.

568
00:39:38,380 --> 00:39:41,300
Here are the ratios for one musical scale.

569
00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:44,980
Here are the ratios of eight crop circles Hawkins has studied.

570
00:39:44,980 --> 00:39:48,660
Strange numbers, but they're exactly the same.

571
00:39:48,660 --> 00:39:55,860
The maker of the circles is, we have to admit, clever, not only in making them, but in what

572
00:39:55,860 --> 00:39:59,160
is encoded in them.

573
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,940
One possibility is that they're not humans.

574
00:40:02,940 --> 00:40:09,740
Is someone or something with a superior intellect sending us messages through these complex circles?

575
00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:14,700
Are these combinations of geometric patterns really combinations of notes that play out

576
00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:16,880
an extraterrestrial message?

577
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:22,000
At the University of California, San Diego, professor of music, F. Richard Moore, is looking

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for a musical message that might be encoded in the crop circles.

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What I did was to use a computer to synthesize the sounds so we actually hear them in the

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00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:35,000
precise relationships that they are expressed in these mathematical theorems.

581
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:41,280
The first set of results is just a sequence of 14 different sounds that correspond to

582
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:49,200
the 14 different crop circle theorems that I've been provided with.

583
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:53,920
After playing the circles one at a time, Professor Moore combined them.

584
00:40:53,920 --> 00:41:02,000
This is the crop circle chord, and it's all 14 of these messages combined into a single

585
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:10,960
chord that lasts for several seconds.

586
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:19,400
In trying to communicate things between different species or different types of intelligent

587
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:24,080
beings, we have to rely on things that are very fundamental, having to do with basic

588
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:30,200
relationships because we have no conventional way of discussing things when you don't know

589
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:35,240
even the size of someone or what temperatures they like to live at and this sort of thing.

590
00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:39,720
Could the math of the crop circles and their musical properties simply be the product of

591
00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:43,240
a coincidence and an overactive imagination?

592
00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:45,640
Fields don't naturally lie down in circles.

593
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:49,320
Lots of crop fields have lots of tramplings in them.

594
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,760
Horses and cows walk around in grains of wheat and barley all the time.

595
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,800
They don't leave circles.

596
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,600
Circles are special and that's why we recognize them.

597
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:03,000
They are too special to suspect that they're there for no reason at all.

598
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,280
Professor Moore's passion for music and his skill with computers challenges him to search

599
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,480
for meaning in the crop messages that lie a continent away.

600
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,920
He believes though that we've got a long way to go.

601
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:19,480
The stage of development that we're at is, corresponds to a tribe of Neanderthals discovering

602
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:25,000
suddenly a grand piano sitting in the middle of a field and our problem is to discover

603
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,080
its function and to learn to use it.

604
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:33,360
And it'll be a while I think before we figure it out.

605
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:39,360
The idea of using music as a form of intergalactic communication is not unique to Dr. Hawkins.

606
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:45,120
When NASA launched the Voyager space probe in 1977, among its cargo was a 12-inch copper

607
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:50,520
disc and a playing needle in case the Voyager was intercepted by intelligent life.

608
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:55,200
The record carried greetings in 55 different languages, a message from then President Jimmy

609
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,080
Carter and 90 Minutes of Music.

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On the next edition of Sightings, survivors thought it was the end of the world, an explosion

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bigger than 2,000 A-bombs.

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And now, Russian scientists believe a UFO crashed in Siberia.

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Then, a grisly supernatural force may have caused these bizarre deaths.

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And you can't see it, you can't touch it, but a mysterious ghostly energy has been

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captured on tape in an exclusive Sightings investigation.

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That's next time.

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Until then, remember, no mystery is closed to an open mind.

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For Sightings, I'm Tim White.

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