Mothman Flutterings

Mothman Painting and Synchronicity of Matt Marshall

I came across an interesting site, with an interesting take, on Mothman. Matt Marshall, artist, offers his painting of Mothman with an explanation and description, as well as his encounters with mothy synchronicities after attending the Mothman Festival in Pt. Pleasant.

Synchronicities and Warnings? - Brad Steiger

It’s to be assumed that, in this field of UFOs, cryptids like Mothman, ghosts, the paranormal, etc. that synchroniciites will occur. Seems almost redundant to say “synchronicities.”

The “warning” isn’t that dire, nothing so dramatic in my case. Maybe more like a gentle reminder to be aware. . .

I had just finished reading a section in Andrew Colvin’s Mothman Photographer’s II, where he talks about being responsible for one’s own enlightenment, as well as the potential danger of getting too close and too deep with all this stuff, as we all know. Some researchers have just gone too far down that rabbit hole, without ever landing. It’s important to be grounded even while chasing after all these things.

I was still thinking about this this morning, when I woke up. For some reason, it was on my mind first thing. Then I log on and see this item and link on The Anomalist, to Brad Stieger’s Dangers And Hazards Of Exploring Shadow World. In this piece, Stieger writes that:

It takes more than watching a couple of specials on a cable channel and reading a few books to become a paranormal or UFO researcher.

It takes years of study and listening to others who have wisdom and insights to share, among other things.

This is an important article. Stieger goes on to relate the experiences of a group of college students who got too close before knowing what they were doing. The theories as to why things got out of control are extremely interesting, and right on, in my opinion.

Keep in mind that at the center, or at least close to, of all this stuff, is the Trickster, or Cosmic Joker, or whatever you want to call it. It plays with us, it messes around, it thinks things are hysterically funny. Problem is, what “it’ considers amusing is often dangerous to us; sometimes fatally dangerous.

Stieger goes on to include other accounts as well.

Maybe that’s what the meaning is behind the superstitions of Christianity and other mainstream religions about attempting to penetrate the mysteries of the Divine, the Creator, God/s. (”God works in mysteries ways; not for us to question why” kind of thing.) It got perverted somewhere along the way, but is it possible the original intent was to warn of getting into something before you’re ready?

A Series of Mothman Synchronicities

The following was posted a couple of weeks ago on my Orange Orb blog on blogger. But since I’ve started a Mothman blog/journal, I’ve reposted them here:

3/30/08
Mothman Synchronicity
I’ve mentioned in the last few posts I’m reading Andrew Colvin’s Mothman’s Photographer II, and how, among other things, he talks a lot about synchronicities. Synchronicity in this area of UFO and weird research/studies/explorations isn’t a new concept to anyone who has been involved in this of course. So here’s my little bit of Mothman synchronicity; I had just put a link up over at Women Of Esoterica, about Joan D’Arc’s new book, and then went over to the Paranoia Magazine site, where I haven’t visited in months. And sure enough, the Spring issue has an article on Mothman by Andrew Colvin.

4/6/08
More Mothman Synchronicity
I commented a few days ago about a bit of Mothman synchronicity here. I had a couple of other “Mothman moments” last night. Still reading Colvin’s book (almost finished) I was reminded of Gray Barker’s book Silver Bridge, which I’ve been wanting for years to get a hold of. So I took a break from reading and looked on eBay for the book; there were two on eBay, and four or five on Amazon. The least expensive was $69.00, and all the way up to almost $500.00. Sigh!

I go back to reading, and get to the part about positrons. Interesting on an intuitive level, but my head started to hurt. Not long after, I put the book down, turn on Coast to Coast with Ian Punnett the host, and the guest (animator Neal Adams) was talking about positrons!

4/7/08
Mothy, Stop!
As they say, synchronicities begin to happen and they just keep happening, even though much of the time they don’t mean much. Of course, the fact that they happen at all is enough; a reminder that we don’t live in the tidy little universe where all is well and rational at all times after all. That, and a big dose of humor.

I’ve been having Mothman synchronicities, here’s two more that happened last night: page 333, Colvin mentions Chica Bruce, who has been in my blogging news lately; Lesley wrote a piece on her at WOE, Adam Gorightly has interviewed her recently, and before all that, just a few days ago, I had stumbled upon her somewhere. Then I watched Unexplained last night, a segment on the Philadelphia Experiment and Carlos Allende. A couple hours later, reading Mothman’s Photographer II and right away, there it is on page 362, Carlos Allende.