Comments on: Starting JIM AND THE FLIM http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/12/28/starting-jim-and-the-flim/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=starting-jim-and-the-flim Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:58:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve H http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/12/28/starting-jim-and-the-flim/comment-page-1/#comment-18323 Steve H Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:29:26 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/?p=867#comment-18323 Rudy, Tim Powers used a 'frozen river' analogy in The Anubis Gates to explain why time travel was only possible at certain times: the 'river of time' is generally completely iced over and impossible to enter or leave, except at certain periods when the ice is 'broken.' If you live in one of these periods, you can leave the river and slide back to when the ice was last broken. Perhaps the flims are from a bulge or break in the future, or dim and distant past, bridging a gap so far that bodies would never endure the trip? The future merging hasn't happened yet, so they don't know what will happen either? Perhaps we'll rub off on each other and have flim real estate developers and tv stars. Mac, I always figured the aliens were going to barbecue . . . after coming all that way, they need to blow off a little steam. Rudy, Tim Powers used a ‘frozen river’ analogy in The Anubis Gates to explain why time travel was only possible at certain times: the ‘river of time’ is generally completely iced over and impossible to enter or leave, except at certain periods when the ice is ‘broken.’ If you live in one of these periods, you can leave the river and slide back to when the ice was last broken. Perhaps the flims are from a bulge or break in the future, or dim and distant past, bridging a gap so far that bodies would never endure the trip? The future merging hasn’t happened yet, so they don’t know what will happen either? Perhaps we’ll rub off on each other and have flim real estate developers and tv stars.
Mac, I always figured the aliens were going to barbecue . . . after coming all that way, they need to blow off a little steam.

]]> By: Mac Tonnies http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/12/28/starting-jim-and-the-flim/comment-page-1/#comment-18307 Mac Tonnies Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:58:19 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/?p=867#comment-18307 I recommend Linda Howe's "An Alien Harvest," a seminal and well-researched (if credulous) look at "mutes." Her book predates some more of the now-familiar ideas that the "Grays" are seeking human assistance in order to become physical. I'm fascinated by the books of John Keel ("The Mothman Prophecies"), who's speculated along similar lines, although I suspect Jacques Vallee is more up your alley. (Aside from years of serious research, Vallee's a science fiction writer and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Ever met him?) I recommend Linda Howe’s “An Alien Harvest,” a seminal and well-researched (if credulous) look at “mutes.” Her book predates some more of the now-familiar ideas that the “Grays” are seeking human assistance in order to become physical.

I’m fascinated by the books of John Keel (“The Mothman Prophecies”), who’s speculated along similar lines, although I suspect Jacques Vallee is more up your alley. (Aside from years of serious research, Vallee’s a science fiction writer and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Ever met him?)

]]> By: Rudy http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/12/28/starting-jim-and-the-flim/comment-page-1/#comment-18304 Rudy Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:40:11 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/?p=867#comment-18304 Mac, that's a really useful comment. Possibly the collective unconscious mind of the beings in a given mundane spacetime region affect whether the astral/saucerian/UFOlogical/elvish plane can in fact merge into our normal lives. Can you give me a link to some good info about "cattle mutilation mythology"? Mac, that’s a really useful comment.

Possibly the collective unconscious mind of the beings in a given mundane spacetime region affect whether the astral/saucerian/UFOlogical/elvish plane can in fact merge into our normal lives.

Can you give me a link to some good info about “cattle mutilation mythology”?

]]> By: Mac Tonnies http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/12/28/starting-jim-and-the-flim/comment-page-1/#comment-18301 Mac Tonnies Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:23:53 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/?p=867#comment-18301 "We're about to pass into an era when the flims are fully visible to us all the time, and the astral and the mundane worlds are one." Your ideas re. the origin of the "flims" remind me of some of the esoteric speculation about UFOs and the "Grays," their ostensible occupants. Some speculate that, in order to infiltrate our reality, the UFO intelligence gently encourages our collective belief in it. As more and more people find the prospect of alien visitors acceptable, the UFOnauts are able to interact with us on a more versatile basis, even taking on organic physical form -- which is the direction some of the cattle mutilation mythology takes. “We’re about to pass into an era when the flims are fully visible to us all the time, and the astral and the mundane worlds are one.”

Your ideas re. the origin of the “flims” remind me of some of the esoteric speculation about UFOs and the “Grays,” their ostensible occupants. Some speculate that, in order to infiltrate our reality, the UFO intelligence gently encourages our collective belief in it. As more and more people find the prospect of alien visitors acceptable, the UFOnauts are able to interact with us on a more versatile basis, even taking on organic physical form — which is the direction some of the cattle mutilation mythology takes.

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