The Para-Cafe is a personal landing space where any 'experiencer' may come and share their story, free of judgement, ridicule or any of the social stigmas that many of you have been pressured with.
What is an ' experiencer"? In general ufology terms, it has often been used to describe those individuals who claim to have seen or contacted some form of extraterrestrial intelligence. For our purposes, we are widening that definition to include any person - a man, woman or child who has witnessed or experienced any enigmatic, unknown or supernatural phenomenon. This may include Ghosts or disembodied beings/orbs or paranormal encounter, any unexplained flying phenomenon such as UFO's, USOs( Unidentified submerged objects) or strange lights in the sky unrelated to known modern day aircraft, strange encounters, cryptids ( unknown or unidentified animals) Angelic encounters, Miraculous events, the new highly intelligent, strangely gifted children ( also known as Indigo, Crystal or Rainbow children), past life memories.. and the list goes on. Anything unusual, unidentified or unexplained we welcome here.
We understand how difficult these encounters may be to reconcile with your daily life and the need many feel for anonymity when recounting their encounters. Out in the real world few may respond to your stories with respect or honest curiosity. Rather, you may be received with fear or judgment, religious censure, disrespectful dismissal of your stories or even ridicule. How many honest and intelligent men and women have told their stories, only to be met with an absolute refusal to believe the veracity of their experiences? Or worse, treated as simpletons, their accounts dismissed as easily recognizable natural phenomena. I myself have been met with the quiet discomfort evinced by family, friends and acquaintances, the polite smiles and distant gazes that resulted from the telling of my own encounters.
Many of us learn to keep these things hushed, closeted with family skeletons and other unmentionables, fearful of our reputations or those of our own families, perhaps even to protect a coveted or desperately needed job. Whatever the reason, too many of us bottle them up, package them away in deep layers of secrecy or consciousness in hopes of forgetting the day our lives, hearts and minds were forever changed.
For others, and perhaps a smaller percentage of the set that has experienced strange phenomenon, we've noted a consistent occurrence of supernatural phenomenon. Perhaps these have an inborn sensitivity that the common man does not. Individuals like this are often revered in more primitive societies though in modern western societies, not so much. Hysteria, Schizophrenia, the more modern diagnosis of Manic Depressive or simply the rather powerful social label of 'Compulsive Liar' have been applied to squelch the insights and strange experiences of these individuals. We certainly can't forget the frightening and, for millions of women and men, fatal accusation used in former centuries, "witch", a word that to this day is uttered in hushed tones and applied as an uncomfortable, curse-like social stigma.
It is with warm welcome and great hope that you will come here and share your stories. Your online anonymity will be preserved as much as you'd like to keep it. As an FYI, you may be contacted via whatever email is presented to us, in the hopes you may want to share this with a different, somewhat wider audience through the medium of an electronic book project already underway. In this case you may be asked for a more personal interview, either through an electronic voice program such as Skype or an actual face-to-face meeting for those that choose this route ( and live close enough to the Texas Hill Country to arrange such a meeting.) As always, the choice is yours. I do hope you will consider this option. It is one of the main reasons for the creation of this page and a project I am quite passionate about.
If you are interested in more information about the Project, or would like to contribute your story in a more private manner, you may contact me here:
What is an ' experiencer"? In general ufology terms, it has often been used to describe those individuals who claim to have seen or contacted some form of extraterrestrial intelligence. For our purposes, we are widening that definition to include any person - a man, woman or child who has witnessed or experienced any enigmatic, unknown or supernatural phenomenon. This may include Ghosts or disembodied beings/orbs or paranormal encounter, any unexplained flying phenomenon such as UFO's, USOs( Unidentified submerged objects) or strange lights in the sky unrelated to known modern day aircraft, strange encounters, cryptids ( unknown or unidentified animals) Angelic encounters, Miraculous events, the new highly intelligent, strangely gifted children ( also known as Indigo, Crystal or Rainbow children), past life memories.. and the list goes on. Anything unusual, unidentified or unexplained we welcome here.
We understand how difficult these encounters may be to reconcile with your daily life and the need many feel for anonymity when recounting their encounters. Out in the real world few may respond to your stories with respect or honest curiosity. Rather, you may be received with fear or judgment, religious censure, disrespectful dismissal of your stories or even ridicule. How many honest and intelligent men and women have told their stories, only to be met with an absolute refusal to believe the veracity of their experiences? Or worse, treated as simpletons, their accounts dismissed as easily recognizable natural phenomena. I myself have been met with the quiet discomfort evinced by family, friends and acquaintances, the polite smiles and distant gazes that resulted from the telling of my own encounters.
Many of us learn to keep these things hushed, closeted with family skeletons and other unmentionables, fearful of our reputations or those of our own families, perhaps even to protect a coveted or desperately needed job. Whatever the reason, too many of us bottle them up, package them away in deep layers of secrecy or consciousness in hopes of forgetting the day our lives, hearts and minds were forever changed.
For others, and perhaps a smaller percentage of the set that has experienced strange phenomenon, we've noted a consistent occurrence of supernatural phenomenon. Perhaps these have an inborn sensitivity that the common man does not. Individuals like this are often revered in more primitive societies though in modern western societies, not so much. Hysteria, Schizophrenia, the more modern diagnosis of Manic Depressive or simply the rather powerful social label of 'Compulsive Liar' have been applied to squelch the insights and strange experiences of these individuals. We certainly can't forget the frightening and, for millions of women and men, fatal accusation used in former centuries, "witch", a word that to this day is uttered in hushed tones and applied as an uncomfortable, curse-like social stigma.
It is with warm welcome and great hope that you will come here and share your stories. Your online anonymity will be preserved as much as you'd like to keep it. As an FYI, you may be contacted via whatever email is presented to us, in the hopes you may want to share this with a different, somewhat wider audience through the medium of an electronic book project already underway. In this case you may be asked for a more personal interview, either through an electronic voice program such as Skype or an actual face-to-face meeting for those that choose this route ( and live close enough to the Texas Hill Country to arrange such a meeting.) As always, the choice is yours. I do hope you will consider this option. It is one of the main reasons for the creation of this page and a project I am quite passionate about.
If you are interested in more information about the Project, or would like to contribute your story in a more private manner, you may contact me here: