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Mike Clelland

Disciplines:
synchronicity
uap/ufo
biology/owls
parapsychology/high strangeness

Summary

American writer and researcher who has documented the puzzling frequency with which owls appear in association with UFO/UAP encounters and high strangeness experiences — The Messengers — contributing to the research on the symbolic and psychological dimensions of contact phenomena.

Core Contribution

Documents the owl synchronicity phenomenon — owls appearing as real birds, in dreams, and in imagery at moments connected to UAP encounters and high strangeness experiences — contributing to the evidence that UAP phenomena have a symbolic or psychological dimension that cannot be explained by a purely physical model.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Messengers

Stories from the Messengers

Historical Influences

John Keel Jacques Vallee

Intellectual Lineage

USA Idaho UAP research

Contemporaries & Peers

Kripal Pasulka

Minds Influenced

UAP high strangeness researchJungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

The Messengers Owl synchronicity

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