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“ILLUSORY MECHANISMS” OF CONTACT

VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE OF THE SECOND KIND, Joseph Burkes MD 2023
Cases in the literature that support the Virtual Experience Model

Dr. Turner provides an important case showing how aliens create a strong form of virtual reality.
Introduction: What if UFO Intelligences are as advanced in the psi arena as they apparently are in “spacecraft” design? UFOs have been here for a long time. Whatever their origins are, flying saucer technologies (both physical and mental) are thousands, perhaps even millions of years more advanced than terrestrial engineering.

A Virtual Experience of the Second Kind (VE-2) is a real-time, full-sensory, psi-technology created illusion. In popular culture this is described as “virtual reality” (VR). A Virtual Experience of the Second Kind is analogous to what was portrayed as fiction in the sci-fi film “The Matrix.” I am suggesting that such illusory mechanisms of contact might be so convincingly real for Experiencers that they would have difficulty distinguishing them from events occurring in our 4D (spacetime) reality. Furthermore, such a "Matrix reality" type encounter could very well be recalled as if it were a physical event rather than as a psychic interaction.

In proposing the Virtual Experience Model, I am not suggesting that all Close Encounters are “illusory.” Both virtual and physical encounters are likely occurring. The challenge for researchers and experiencers alike is to tell them apart.
As a physician I should point out that these mechanisms of contact involving psi mediated illusions should not be called “hallucinations”, which are the result of disease states. Hallucinations are caused by drugs, sepsis and thought disorders, and should be distinguished from products of psi technology that is being contemplated in the Virtual Experience Model.

Furthermore, the Virtual Experience Model was first conceived by me within the paradigm of physicalism aka materialism. This philosophical perspective states that entire Cosmos is primarily matter and energy and that consciousness (mind) is merely an “emergent property” of neuronal activity. In contrast, idealism asserts that consciousness is primary and is the wellspring of creation. If this idealism paradigm is true, then perhaps the psi mediated mechanisms of contact that are outlined in the Virtual Experience Model are more “real” than an “illusory” four dimensional spacetime that possibly is being “projected” from a non-physical reality.

When it comes to so-called “alien abductions” also designated as Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, experiencers and investigators alike are confronted by many strange inconsistencies. Why has an “alien abduction” never been credibly captured on video? Why have the police or as far as we know the military, have never been able to stop one in progress?

The Virtual Experience Model attempts to address these questions in the context of discussing what I believe are the tremendous psychic powers of these “Others” that many experiencers now call “ET.”

What reports in the UFO literature support a mechanism of flying saucer intelligences being able to create virtual reality types of encounters? I discuss two cases in the hope that by promoting these narratives additional testimony will surface.

The following is a synopsis of Chapter 3 of “Masquerade of Angels”, by Karla Turner, Ph.D. with Ted Rice, Kelt Works 1994. This narrative demonstrates how UFO intelligence can use what might be called “psychotronic technology” to create Virtual Experiences of the Second Kind.

A MASQUERADE OF ANGELS

Ted Rice was a bank worker and part time psychic. He grew up in the backwaters of Alabama in the 1950s and attended college in Tuscaloosa. Later, he moved to work in Shreveport Louisiana. A woman by the name of Marie Jackson trained him in psychic development and brought him into a spiritualist association. By 1990, he was no longer active in the spiritualist movement but still maintained his friendship with Marie who was living in Florida. While visiting overnight at Ted’s mobile home, Marie reported having a bizarre experience.

THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE DISAPPEARED AND MARIE COULD SEE OUTSIDE

According to Karla Turner’s account, Ted was lying down in his bedroom while Marie was reading in another part of his house. Marie roused Ted and informed him the following:

“‘I was reading in bed,’ Marie told him, ‘still pacing, and don’t feel like I drifted off to sleep. I raised up in the bed and looked around, and suddenly all the walls in the trailer just, just disappeared!’... ‘I could see outside. I could see from one end of the trailer to the other, and I could see all the way down into your bedroom. The walls were just gone!... I saw the two strangest spirits I’ve ever seen in my life! They came right through where the wall should be, and they walked up and started trying to take me outside.’”

According to Dr. Turner’s narrative Marie vigorously protested to the “small grayish beings” that subsequently left her alone.

Chapter Five of “Masquerade of Angels” contains one of the remarkable contact experiences ever described in the UFO literature. Its importance should not be underestimated because if accurate, it reveals the tremendous psychic capability of non-human intelligence to create illusion. Dr. Turner’s account raises disturbing questions for the entire UFO research community and challenges some of the most cherished notions of the saucer subculture about the nature of CE-3s and CE-4s.

AN EXPERIENCER IS ENVELOPED BY A BLUE GLOW WITH LIGHTNING TRAILS

Soon after Marie’s encounter in Ted’s mobile home, he traveled to visit her in Florida. Another good friend of Marie’s called Amelia Reynolds was also visiting her. After several hours of conversation, the three retired for the night. Ted was assigned to the bedroom down the hall. Marie and Amelia slept in twin beds in a room on the other side of the house.

In the middle of the night, Marie was reportedly awakened by Amelia. She told Marie that she could hear a low flying helicopter flying. Marie reportedly heard no such sound.

Amelia suddenly froze while staring up at the ceiling. According to the narrative, Amelia told Marie that she was able to view the copter as if the ceiling and roof had completely disappeared.

“‘I’m not asleep.’ Amelia protested, raising her head from the pillow. Her eyes still gazed upwards. ‘I swear to you. I can see a helicopter right up there! By that big tree with all the leaves. I see the front of the thing, it’s rounded and the legs are folded underneath.’

‘Well, why can’t I see it, then?’ Marie asked, exasperated. ‘I don’t know. Amelia replied.’”

A bluish glow then reportedly materialized around Amelia while she sat up in bed. She told Marie that she felt paralyzed and was unable to move despite Marie’s urgings to “Get out of there!”

Amelia then described the appearance in the bedroom of two non-human beings, one tall green and lizard like, the other shorter and blue-black in color. Marie told Amelia that she did not see them and shouted for Ted to come and help.

According to Dr Turner’s account Ted saw a “blue glow” as he approached the bedroom. It was “emanating from the open doorway.” Dr Karla Turner’s narrative continues:

“Inside, Marie had circled around the room and was waiting for him, pressed back against the farthest wall from where Amelia lay motionless, enveloped in the brilliant light. Ted stepped in uncertainly and then stopped dead in his tracks, staring... They inched closer to the bed, still keeping a healthy distance from the blue glow that was now filled with tiny, rapid explosions of lightning trails. Marie yelled at Amelia to ‘Get out of there.’”

Karla Turner’s remarkable account continues with Amelia complaining that she could hardly hear Marie. Ted inquired if Amelia was being hurt in anyway. Her response was that she was not. Ted counseled Marie that they should not take any drastic action. “We don’t know what might happen if we try to pull her out of that energy field....” The encounter came to a close when the blue light suddenly flashed off.

All during the experience, neither Marie nor Ted could hear or see the beings and the helicopter that Amelia reported seeing. She later reported not being aware of the bluish sphere of light that both Ted and Marie had reportedly witnessed.
PSYCHOTRONIC TECHNOLOGY OF THE HIGHEST FORM

What is so remarkable about this narrative is that it describes two witnesses that allegedly were able to observe a kind of “virtual reality” technology in action at very close range. If the encounter truly unfolded as described in the “Masquerade of Angels”, then perhaps we have been given a very rare glimpse into the mechanism employed to stage some of the “High Strangeness” interactions that are being labeled “alien abductions.”
Ted Rice and Marie Jackson were in full psychomotor control of their bodies when they observed Marie in what apparently was an altered state of consciousness. The presence of the blue light, and lighting like flashes within the orb that surrounded Amelia, all point to some kind of advanced technology that took control of her mental processes, therefore creating a very convincing illusion. Thus, we are dealing with an intelligence that can not only simulate reality for the chosen target individual but can also stage the encounter under circumstances allowing others to closely witness the event.

As we see from the events described in “Masquerade of Angels”, the intelligence responsible for these bizarre encounters may have the capability to produce a kind of “virtual reality,” an altered state of consciousness that an experiencer might not be unable to distinguish from an every-day-run-of-the-mill reality.

The entire book “Masquerade of Angels” by Dr. Karla Turner is available to online as a pdf file:
http://www.whale.to/b/turner1.pdf

“THE CHINESE ROSWELL” AUSTRALIA 1970s

Another example of a “virtual reality” type of encounter is described in “The Chinese Roswell: UFO Encounters in the Far East from Ancient Times to the Present.” This book was written by German UFO researcher Harwig Hausdorf and was published in 1998 by New Paradigm Books. Hausdorf describes a series of encounters that reportedly occurred in 1972 and 1973. They took place in a mountainous region just southeast of Melbourne, Australia.

The principal witness was Maureen Puddy. She reported having a UFO experience on July 5, 1972. While driving alone in a desolate area her car was allegedly engulfed in an intense blue light. As described in Harsdorf’s account, she saw a saucer shaped craft. It had “a diameter of 100 feet and was hovering at a height of two telephone poles above her.” Puddy reportedly was terrified by this encounter, and she speed away.

The saucer reportedly followed her for some eight miles before moving away. Several weeks later while driving on the same road Maureen Puddy had another contact experience. This time the engine died when the same intense blue light flooded her car. She reportedly heard a voice in her head state, “Take it easy. We don’t want to hurt you.” Then it added, “Contact the media.”

According to Hausdorf’s narrative Puddy returned several times to the same desolate location in February of 1973. On one occasion two investigators accompanied her from the citizens research group, VUFORS. While being observed by the investigators Maureen reported that,
“she had noticed, inside the car with her …, a small figure wearing gold overalls.... While the three of them were discussing the appearance of the entity, Maureen thought she saw it again. This time it seemed like it was coming straight at the car. It stopped just in front of the left headlight.”

Maureen reportedly became agitated. Apparently at no time could the two VUFORS investigators see the small being in golden coveralls. She then stated that she was being taken against her will into a craft that she believed was overhead. The blue light according to Maureen Puddy was present again.

While the VUFORS investigators sat in the car with her, Maureen described finding herself in a windowless room. She added that in front of her was “a mushroom-like object that seemed to have a gelatinous liquid sloshing around inside it.” After describing what she imagined was an alien abduction experience to the two Australian UFO researchers, Maureen Puddy reportedly calmed down. Harwig Hausdorf summed up this bizarre encounter:

“What was particularly odd about this entire incident, of course, was that Maureen Puddy never physically left the car during the whole time she was speaking. At all times, she was in full sight of the two UFO researchers. Nor could either of them ever see the small entity in gold overalls, nor even the intense blue light of the hovering UFO. It was as if the whole incident had taken place entirely inside Maureen Puddy’s head.”

If this account accurately describes what transpired 50 years ago on an Australian highway, we see yet another example of how non-human intelligence of a presumed ET nature can skillfully interact with human consciousness. The very word “abduction” describes a violent physical act. In my opinion this term may not be appropriate in many instances if the targeted human experiences a kind of theater of the mind and goes nowhere. I have designated this contact mechanism as a “Virtual Experience of a Second Kind (VE-2) Perhaps a better term than “alien abduction” in cases like this might be “Unsolicited Psychic Interaction” (UPI).

CONCLUSION

These two remarkable cases are insufficient to confirm the validity of the Virtual Experience Model. My hope is that after Contact Experiencers and researchers are alerted to these proposed psi-mediated mechanisms, then additional cases will be reported. I should point out that there has been considerable resistance to acknowledging this proposed mechanism as being possible, let alone likely. Contact Experiencers have been burdened by a constant barrage of ridicule and denial for three quarters of a century. Accusations that those reporting Close Encounters are mentally unstable and that “it’s all in their heads” are more than disrespectful. They are a disservice to the larger society that should acknowledge the reality and importance of worldwide UFO phenomena. The Virtual Experience Model by focusing on “illusory mechanisms” might suggest to some that indeed contact is “all in their heads.” This misinterpretation ignores the distinct probability that both physical and virtual events are likely occurring in parallel.
There is another important consideration. What if the physicalist model of reality as suggested above is in error? Perhaps mass/energy is not the wellspring of creation. If indeed consciousness is primary, then the material universe is the product of what author Rey Hernandez describes in his book “The Mind of God.” I repeat, if mind (consciousness) is primary, then psychic manipulations of spacetime creating “illusory” mechanisms of contact are in a sense more “real,” than what we imagine is occurring in our physical 4D construct called “physical reality.”
· Link for additional information about the Virtual Experience Model (VEM) the following links are provided:
· Reinerio Hernandez, co-author and publisher of “A Greater Reality” has made available to the public as free pdf files Volumes 1 & 2 of this anthology. My chapter titled “Report from the Contact Underground: Human Initiated Contact, the Consciousness Connection, and the Virtual Experience Model.
https://agreaterreality.com/downloads/articles/Burkes%20-%20Report%20from%20the%20Contact%20Underground.pdf

“ILLUSORY MECHANISMS” OF CONTACT

VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE OF THE SECOND KIND, Joseph Burkes MD 2023
Cases in the literature that support the Virtual Experience Model

Introduction: What if UFO Intelligences are as advanced in the psi arena as they apparently are in “spacecraft” design? UFOs have been here for a long time. Whatever their origins are, flying saucer technologies (both physical and mental) are thousands, perhaps even millions of years more advanced than terrestrial engineering.

A Virtual Experience of the Second Kind (VE-2) is a real-time, full-sensory, psi-technology created illusion. In popular culture this is described as “virtual reality” (VR). A Virtual Experience of the Second Kind is analogous to what was portrayed as fiction in the sci-fi film “The Matrix.” I am suggesting that such illusory mechanisms of contact might be so convincingly real for Experiencers that they would have difficulty distinguishing them from events occurring in our 4D (spacetime) reality. Furthermore, such a "Matrix reality" type encounter could very well be recalled as if it were a physical event rather than as a psychic interaction.

In proposing the Virtual Experience Model, I am not suggesting that all Close Encounters are “illusory.” Both virtual and physical encounters are likely occurring. The challenge for researchers and experiencers alike is to tell them apart.
As a physician I should point out that these mechanisms of contact involving psi mediated illusions should not be called “hallucinations”, which are the result of disease states. Hallucinations are caused by drugs, sepsis and thought disorders, and should be distinguished from products of psi technology that is being contemplated in the Virtual Experience Model.

Furthermore, the Virtual Experience Model was first conceived by me within the paradigm of physicalism aka materialism. This philosophical perspective states that entire Cosmos is primarily matter and energy and that consciousness (mind) is merely an “emergent property” of neuronal activity. In contrast, idealism asserts that consciousness is primary and is the wellspring of creation. If this idealism paradigm is true, then perhaps the psi mediated mechanisms of contact that are outlined in the Virtual Experience Model are more “real” than an “illusory” four dimensional spacetime that possibly is being “projected” from a non-physical reality.

When it comes to so-called “alien abductions” also designated as Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, experiencers and investigators alike are confronted by many strange inconsistencies. Why has an “alien abduction” never been credibly captured on video? Why have the police or as far as we know the military, have never been able to stop one in progress?

The Virtual Experience Model attempts to address these questions in the context of discussing what I believe are the tremendous psychic powers of these “Others” that many experiencers now call “ET.”

What reports in the UFO literature support a mechanism of flying saucer intelligences being able to create virtual reality types of encounters? I discuss two cases in the hope that by promoting these narratives additional testimony will surface.

The following is a synopsis of Chapter 3 of “Masquerade of Angels”, by Karla Turner, Ph.D. with Ted Rice, Kelt Works 1994. This narrative demonstrates how UFO intelligence can use what might be called “psychotronic technology” to create Virtual Experiences of the Second Kind.

Dr. Turner provides us with an important case showing how \"aliens\" create a strong form of virtual reality.
A MASQUERADE OF ANGELS

Ted Rice was a bank worker and part time psychic. He grew up in the backwaters of Alabama in the 1950s and attended college in Tuscaloosa. Later, he moved to work in Shreveport Louisiana. A woman by the name of Marie Jackson trained him in psychic development and brought him into a spiritualist association. By 1990, he was no longer active in the spiritualist movement but still maintained his friendship with Marie who was living in Florida. While visiting overnight at Ted’s mobile home, Marie reported having a bizarre experience.

THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE DISAPPEARED AND MARIE COULD SEE OUTSIDE

According to Karla Turner’s account, Ted was lying down in his bedroom while Marie was reading in another part of his house. Marie roused Ted and informed him the following:

“‘I was reading in bed,’ Marie told him, ‘still pacing, and don’t feel like I drifted off to sleep. I raised up in the bed and looked around, and suddenly all the walls in the trailer just, just disappeared!’... ‘I could see outside. I could see from one end of the trailer to the other, and I could see all the way down into your bedroom. The walls were just gone!... I saw the two strangest spirits I’ve ever seen in my life! They came right through where the wall should be, and they walked up and started trying to take me outside.’”

According to Dr. Turner’s narrative Marie vigorously protested to the “small grayish beings” that subsequently left her alone.

Chapter Five of “Masquerade of Angels” contains one of the remarkable contact experiences ever described in the UFO literature. Its importance should not be underestimated because if accurate, it reveals the tremendous psychic capability of non-human intelligence to create illusion. Dr. Turner’s account raises disturbing questions for the entire UFO research community and challenges some of the most cherished notions of the saucer subculture about the nature of CE-3s and CE-4s.

AN EXPERIENCER IS ENVELOPED BY A BLUE GLOW WITH LIGHTNING TRAILS

Soon after Marie’s encounter in Ted’s mobile home, he traveled to visit her in Florida. Another good friend of Marie’s called Amelia Reynolds was also visiting her. After several hours of conversation, the three retired for the night. Ted was assigned to the bedroom down the hall. Marie and Amelia slept in twin beds in a room on the other side of the house.

In the middle of the night, Marie was reportedly awakened by Amelia. She told Marie that she could hear a low flying helicopter flying. Marie reportedly heard no such sound.

Amelia suddenly froze while staring up at the ceiling. According to the narrative, Amelia told Marie that she was able to view the copter as if the ceiling and roof had completely disappeared.

“‘I’m not asleep.’ Amelia protested, raising her head from the pillow. Her eyes still gazed upwards. ‘I swear to you. I can see a helicopter right up there! By that big tree with all the leaves. I see the front of the thing, it’s rounded and the legs are folded underneath.’

‘Well, why can’t I see it, then?’ Marie asked, exasperated. ‘I don’t know. Amelia replied.’”

A bluish glow then reportedly materialized around Amelia while she sat up in bed. She told Marie that she felt paralyzed and was unable to move despite Marie’s urgings to “Get out of there!”

Amelia then described the appearance in the bedroom of two non-human beings, one tall green and lizard like, the other shorter and blue-black in color. Marie told Amelia that she did not see them and shouted for Ted to come and help.

According to Dr Turner’s account Ted saw a “blue glow” as he approached the bedroom. It was “emanating from the open doorway.” Dr Karla Turner’s narrative continues:

“Inside, Marie had circled around the room and was waiting for him, pressed back against the farthest wall from where Amelia lay motionless, enveloped in the brilliant light. Ted stepped in uncertainly and then stopped dead in his tracks, staring... They inched closer to the bed, still keeping a healthy distance from the blue glow that was now filled with tiny, rapid explosions of lightning trails. Marie yelled at Amelia to ‘Get out of there.’”

Karla Turner’s remarkable account continues with Amelia complaining that she could hardly hear Marie. Ted inquired if Amelia was being hurt in anyway. Her response was that she was not. Ted counseled Marie that they should not take any drastic action. “We don’t know what might happen if we try to pull her out of that energy field....” The encounter came to a close when the blue light suddenly flashed off.

All during the experience, neither Marie nor Ted could hear or see the beings and the helicopter that Amelia reported seeing. She later reported not being aware of the bluish sphere of light that both Ted and Marie had reportedly witnessed.
PSYCHOTRONIC TECHNOLOGY OF THE HIGHEST FORM

What is so remarkable about this narrative is that it describes two witnesses that allegedly were able to observe a kind of “virtual reality” technology in action at very close range. If the encounter truly unfolded as described in the “Masquerade of Angels”, then perhaps we have been given a very rare glimpse into the mechanism employed to stage some of the “High Strangeness” interactions that are being labeled “alien abductions.”
Ted Rice and Marie Jackson were in full psychomotor control of their bodies when they observed Marie in what apparently was an altered state of consciousness. The presence of the blue light, and lighting like flashes within the orb that surrounded Amelia, all point to some kind of advanced technology that took control of her mental processes, therefore creating a very convincing illusion. Thus, we are dealing with an intelligence that can not only simulate reality for the chosen target individual but can also stage the encounter under circumstances allowing others to closely witness the event.

As we see from the events described in “Masquerade of Angels”, the intelligence responsible for these bizarre encounters may have the capability to produce a kind of “virtual reality,” an altered state of consciousness that an experiencer might not be unable to distinguish from an every-day-run-of-the-mill reality.

The entire book “Masquerade of Angels” by Dr. Karla Turner is available to online as a pdf file:
http://www.whale.to/b/turner1.pdf

“THE CHINESE ROSWELL” AUSTRALIA 1970s

Another example of a “virtual reality” type of encounter is described in “The Chinese Roswell: UFO Encounters in the Far East from Ancient Times to the Present.” This book was written by German UFO researcher Harwig Hausdorf and was published in 1998 by New Paradigm Books. Hausdorf describes a series of encounters that reportedly occurred in 1972 and 1973. They took place in a mountainous region just southeast of Melbourne, Australia.

The principal witness was Maureen Puddy. She reported having a UFO experience on July 5, 1972. While driving alone in a desolate area her car was allegedly engulfed in an intense blue light. As described in Harsdorf’s account, she saw a saucer shaped craft. It had “a diameter of 100 feet and was hovering at a height of two telephone poles above her.” Puddy reportedly was terrified by this encounter, and she speed away.

The saucer reportedly followed her for some eight miles before moving away. Several weeks later while driving on the same road Maureen Puddy had another contact experience. This time the engine died when the same intense blue light flooded her car. She reportedly heard a voice in her head state, “Take it easy. We don’t want to hurt you.” Then it added, “Contact the media.”

According to Hausdorf’s narrative Puddy returned several times to the same desolate location in February of 1973. On one occasion two investigators accompanied her from the citizens research group, VUFORS. While being observed by the investigators Maureen reported that,
“she had noticed, inside the car with her …, a small figure wearing gold overalls.... While the three of them were discussing the appearance of the entity, Maureen thought she saw it again. This time it seemed like it was coming straight at the car. It stopped just in front of the left headlight.”

Maureen reportedly became agitated. Apparently at no time could the two VUFORS investigators see the small being in golden coveralls. She then stated that she was being taken against her will into a craft that she believed was overhead. The blue light according to Maureen Puddy was present again.

While the VUFORS investigators sat in the car with her, Maureen described finding herself in a windowless room. She added that in front of her was “a mushroom-like object that seemed to have a gelatinous liquid sloshing around inside it.” After describing what she imagined was an alien abduction experience to the two Australian UFO researchers, Maureen Puddy reportedly calmed down. Harwig Hausdorf summed up this bizarre encounter:

“What was particularly odd about this entire incident, of course, was that Maureen Puddy never physically left the car during the whole time she was speaking. At all times, she was in full sight of the two UFO researchers. Nor could either of them ever see the small entity in gold overalls, nor even the intense blue light of the hovering UFO. It was as if the whole incident had taken place entirely inside Maureen Puddy’s head.”

If this account accurately describes what transpired 50 years ago on an Australian highway, we see yet another example of how non-human intelligence of a presumed ET nature can skillfully interact with human consciousness. The very word “abduction” describes a violent physical act. In my opinion this term may not be appropriate in many instances if the targeted human experiences a kind of theater of the mind and goes nowhere. I have designated this contact mechanism as a “Virtual Experience of a Second Kind (VE-2) Perhaps a better term than “alien abduction” in cases like this might be “Unsolicited Psychic Interaction” (UPI).

CONCLUSION

These two remarkable cases are insufficient to confirm the validity of the Virtual Experience Model. My hope is that after Contact Experiencers and researchers are alerted to these proposed psi-mediated mechanisms, then additional cases will be reported. I should point out that there has been considerable resistance to acknowledging this proposed mechanism as being possible, let alone likely. Contact Experiencers have been burdened by a constant barrage of ridicule and denial for three quarters of a century. Accusations that those reporting Close Encounters are mentally unstable and that “it’s all in their heads” are more than disrespectful. They are a disservice to the larger society that should acknowledge the reality and importance of worldwide UFO phenomena. The Virtual Experience Model by focusing on “illusory mechanisms” might suggest to some that indeed contact is “all in their heads.” This misinterpretation ignores the distinct probability that both physical and virtual events are likely occurring in parallel.
There is another important consideration. What if the physicalist model of reality as suggested above is in error? Perhaps mass/energy is not the wellspring of creation. If indeed consciousness is primary, then the material universe is the product of what author Rey Hernandez describes in his book “The Mind of God.” I repeat, if mind (consciousness) is primary, then psychic manipulations of spacetime creating “illusory” mechanisms of contact are in a sense more “real,” than what we imagine is occurring in our physical 4D construct called “physical reality.”
· Links for additional information about the Virtual Experience Model (VEM) the following links are provided:
· Reinerio Hernandez, co-author and publisher of “A Greater Reality” has made available to the public as free pdf files Volumes 1 & 2 of this anthology. My chapter titled “Report from the Contact Underground: Human Initiated Contact, the Consciousness Connection, and the Virtual Experience Model.
https://agreaterreality.com/downloads/articles/Burkes%20-%20Report%20from%20the%20Contact%20Underground.pdf

“ILLUSORY MECHANISMS” OF CONTACT

VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE OF THE SECOND KIND, Joseph Burkes MD 2023
Cases in the literature that support the Virtual Experience Model

This book describes an important case showing how \"aliens\" create a strong form of virtual reality.
Introduction: What if UFO Intelligences are as advanced in the psi arena as they apparently are in “spacecraft” design? UFOs have been here for a long time. Whatever their origins are, flying saucer technologies (both physical and mental) are thousands, perhaps even millions of years more advanced than terrestrial engineering.

A Virtual Experience of the Second Kind (VE-2) is a real-time, full-sensory, psi-technology created illusion. In popular culture this is described as “virtual reality” (VR). A Virtual Experience of the Second Kind is analogous to what was portrayed as fiction in the sci-fi film “The Matrix.” I am suggesting that such illusory mechanisms of contact might be so convincingly real for Experiencers that they would have difficulty distinguishing them from events occurring in our 4D (spacetime) reality. Furthermore, such a "Matrix reality" type encounter could very well be recalled as if it were a physical event rather than as a psychic interaction.

In proposing the Virtual Experience Model, I am not suggesting that all Close Encounters are “illusory.” Both virtual and physical encounters are likely occurring. The challenge for researchers and experiencers alike is to tell them apart.
As a physician I should point out that these mechanisms of contact involving psi mediated illusions should not be called “hallucinations”, which are the result of disease states. Hallucinations are caused by drugs, sepsis and thought disorders, and should be distinguished from products of psi technology that is being contemplated in the Virtual Experience Model.

Furthermore, the Virtual Experience Model was first conceived by me within the paradigm of physicalism aka materialism. This philosophical perspective states that entire Cosmos is primarily matter and energy and that consciousness (mind) is merely an “emergent property” of neuronal activity. In contrast, idealism asserts that consciousness is primary and is the wellspring of creation. If this idealism paradigm is true, then perhaps the psi mediated mechanisms of contact that are outlined in the Virtual Experience Model are more “real” than an “illusory” four dimensional spacetime that possibly is being “projected” from a non-physical reality.

When it comes to so-called “alien abductions” also designated as Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, experiencers and investigators alike are confronted by many strange inconsistencies. Why has an “alien abduction” never been credibly captured on video? Why have the police or as far as we know the military, have never been able to stop one in progress?

The Virtual Experience Model attempts to address these questions in the context of discussing what I believe are the tremendous psychic powers of these “Others” that many experiencers now call “ET.”

What reports in the UFO literature support a mechanism of flying saucer intelligences being able to create virtual reality types of encounters? I discuss two cases in the hope that by promoting these narratives additional testimony will surface.

The following is a synopsis of Chapter 3 of “Masquerade of Angels”, by Karla Turner, Ph.D. with Ted Rice, Kelt Works 1994. This narrative demonstrates how UFO intelligence can use what might be called “psychotronic technology” to create Virtual Experiences of the Second Kind.

A MASQUERADE OF ANGELS

Ted Rice was a bank worker and part time psychic. He grew up in the backwaters of Alabama in the 1950s and attended college in Tuscaloosa. Later, he moved to work in Shreveport Louisiana. A woman by the name of Marie Jackson trained him in psychic development and brought him into a spiritualist association. By 1990, he was no longer active in the spiritualist movement but still maintained his friendship with Marie who was living in Florida. While visiting overnight at Ted’s mobile home, Marie reported having a bizarre experience.

THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE DISAPPEARED AND MARIE COULD SEE OUTSIDE

According to Karla Turner’s account, Ted was lying down in his bedroom while Marie was reading in another part of his house. Marie roused Ted and informed him the following:

“‘I was reading in bed,’ Marie told him, ‘still pacing, and don’t feel like I drifted off to sleep. I raised up in the bed and looked around, and suddenly all the walls in the trailer just, just disappeared!’... ‘I could see outside. I could see from one end of the trailer to the other, and I could see all the way down into your bedroom. The walls were just gone!... I saw the two strangest spirits I’ve ever seen in my life! They came right through where the wall should be, and they walked up and started trying to take me outside.’”

According to Dr. Turner’s narrative Marie vigorously protested to the “small grayish beings” that subsequently left her alone.

Chapter Five of “Masquerade of Angels” contains one of the remarkable contact experiences ever described in the UFO literature. Its importance should not be underestimated because if accurate, it reveals the tremendous psychic capability of non-human intelligence to create illusion. Dr. Turner’s account raises disturbing questions for the entire UFO research community and challenges some of the most cherished notions of the saucer subculture about the nature of CE-3s and CE-4s.

AN EXPERIENCER IS ENVELOPED BY A BLUE GLOW WITH LIGHTNING TRAILS

Soon after Marie’s encounter in Ted’s mobile home, he traveled to visit her in Florida. Another good friend of Marie’s called Amelia Reynolds was also visiting her. After several hours of conversation, the three retired for the night. Ted was assigned to the bedroom down the hall. Marie and Amelia slept in twin beds in a room on the other side of the house.

In the middle of the night, Marie was reportedly awakened by Amelia. She told Marie that she could hear a low flying helicopter flying. Marie reportedly heard no such sound.

Amelia suddenly froze while staring up at the ceiling. According to the narrative, Amelia told Marie that she was able to view the copter as if the ceiling and roof had completely disappeared.

“‘I’m not asleep.’ Amelia protested, raising her head from the pillow. Her eyes still gazed upwards. ‘I swear to you. I can see a helicopter right up there! By that big tree with all the leaves. I see the front of the thing, it’s rounded and the legs are folded underneath.’

‘Well, why can’t I see it, then?’ Marie asked, exasperated. ‘I don’t know. Amelia replied.’”

A bluish glow then reportedly materialized around Amelia while she sat up in bed. She told Marie that she felt paralyzed and was unable to move despite Marie’s urgings to “Get out of there!”

Amelia then described the appearance in the bedroom of two non-human beings, one tall green and lizard like, the other shorter and blue-black in color. Marie told Amelia that she did not see them and shouted for Ted to come and help.

According to Dr Turner’s account Ted saw a “blue glow” as he approached the bedroom. It was “emanating from the open doorway.” Dr Karla Turner’s narrative continues:

“Inside, Marie had circled around the room and was waiting for him, pressed back against the farthest wall from where Amelia lay motionless, enveloped in the brilliant light. Ted stepped in uncertainly and then stopped dead in his tracks, staring... They inched closer to the bed, still keeping a healthy distance from the blue glow that was now filled with tiny, rapid explosions of lightning trails. Marie yelled at Amelia to ‘Get out of there.’”

Karla Turner’s remarkable account continues with Amelia complaining that she could hardly hear Marie. Ted inquired if Amelia was being hurt in anyway. Her response was that she was not. Ted counseled Marie that they should not take any drastic action. “We don’t know what might happen if we try to pull her out of that energy field....” The encounter came to a close when the blue light suddenly flashed off.

All during the experience, neither Marie nor Ted could hear or see the beings and the helicopter that Amelia reported seeing. She later reported not being aware of the bluish sphere of light that both Ted and Marie had reportedly witnessed.
PSYCHOTRONIC TECHNOLOGY OF THE HIGHEST FORM

What is so remarkable about this narrative is that it describes two witnesses that allegedly were able to observe a kind of “virtual reality” technology in action at very close range. If the encounter truly unfolded as described in the “Masquerade of Angels”, then perhaps we have been given a very rare glimpse into the mechanism employed to stage some of the “High Strangeness” interactions that are being labeled “alien abductions.”
Ted Rice and Marie Jackson were in full psychomotor control of their bodies when they observed Marie in what apparently was an altered state of consciousness. The presence of the blue light, and lighting like flashes within the orb that surrounded Amelia, all point to some kind of advanced technology that took control of her mental processes, therefore creating a very convincing illusion. Thus, we are dealing with an intelligence that can not only simulate reality for the chosen target individual but can also stage the encounter under circumstances allowing others to closely witness the event.

As we see from the events described in “Masquerade of Angels”, the intelligence responsible for these bizarre encounters may have the capability to produce a kind of “virtual reality,” an altered state of consciousness that an experiencer might not be unable to distinguish from an every-day-run-of-the-mill reality.

The entire book “Masquerade of Angels” by Dr. Karla Turner is available to online as a pdf file:
http://www.whale.to/b/turner1.pdf

“THE CHINESE ROSWELL” AUSTRALIA 1970s

Another example of a “virtual reality” type of encounter is described in “The Chinese Roswell: UFO Encounters in the Far East from Ancient Times to the Present.” This book was written by German UFO researcher Harwig Hausdorf and was published in 1998 by New Paradigm Books. Hausdorf describes a series of encounters that reportedly occurred in 1972 and 1973. They took place in a mountainous region just southeast of Melbourne, Australia.

The principal witness was Maureen Puddy. She reported having a UFO experience on July 5, 1972. While driving alone in a desolate area her car was allegedly engulfed in an intense blue light. As described in Harsdorf’s account, she saw a saucer shaped craft. It had “a diameter of 100 feet and was hovering at a height of two telephone poles above her.” Puddy reportedly was terrified by this encounter, and she speed away.

The saucer reportedly followed her for some eight miles before moving away. Several weeks later while driving on the same road Maureen Puddy had another contact experience. This time the engine died when the same intense blue light flooded her car. She reportedly heard a voice in her head state, “Take it easy. We don’t want to hurt you.” Then it added, “Contact the media.”

According to Hausdorf’s narrative Puddy returned several times to the same desolate location in February of 1973. On one occasion two investigators accompanied her from the citizens research group, VUFORS. While being observed by the investigators Maureen reported that,
“she had noticed, inside the car with her …, a small figure wearing gold overalls.... While the three of them were discussing the appearance of the entity, Maureen thought she saw it again. This time it seemed like it was coming straight at the car. It stopped just in front of the left headlight.”

Maureen reportedly became agitated. Apparently at no time could the two VUFORS investigators see the small being in golden coveralls. She then stated that she was being taken against her will into a craft that she believed was overhead. The blue light according to Maureen Puddy was present again.

While the VUFORS investigators sat in the car with her, Maureen described finding herself in a windowless room. She added that in front of her was “a mushroom-like object that seemed to have a gelatinous liquid sloshing around inside it.” After describing what she imagined was an alien abduction experience to the two Australian UFO researchers, Maureen Puddy reportedly calmed down. Harwig Hausdorf summed up this bizarre encounter:

“What was particularly odd about this entire incident, of course, was that Maureen Puddy never physically left the car during the whole time she was speaking. At all times, she was in full sight of the two UFO researchers. Nor could either of them ever see the small entity in gold overalls, nor even the intense blue light of the hovering UFO. It was as if the whole incident had taken place entirely inside Maureen Puddy’s head.”

If this account accurately describes what transpired 50 years ago on an Australian highway, we see yet another example of how non-human intelligence of a presumed ET nature can skillfully interact with human consciousness. The very word “abduction” describes a violent physical act. In my opinion this term may not be appropriate in many instances if the targeted human experiences a kind of theater of the mind and goes nowhere. I have designated this contact mechanism as a “Virtual Experience of a Second Kind (VE-2) Perhaps a better term than “alien abduction” in cases like this might be “Unsolicited Psychic Interaction” (UPI).

CONCLUSION

These two remarkable cases are insufficient to confirm the validity of the Virtual Experience Model. My hope is that after Contact Experiencers and researchers are alerted to these proposed psi-mediated mechanisms, then additional cases will be reported. I should point out that there has been considerable resistance to acknowledging this proposed mechanism as being possible, let alone likely. Contact Experiencers have been burdened by a constant barrage of ridicule and denial for three quarters of a century. Accusations that those reporting Close Encounters are mentally unstable and that “it’s all in their heads” are more than disrespectful. They are a disservice to the larger society that should acknowledge the reality and importance of worldwide UFO phenomena. The Virtual Experience Model by focusing on “illusory mechanisms” might suggest to some that indeed contact is “all in their heads.” This misinterpretation ignores the distinct probability that both physical and virtual events are likely occurring in parallel.
There is another important consideration. What if the physicalist model of reality as suggested above is in error? Perhaps mass/energy is not the wellspring of creation. If indeed consciousness is primary, then the material universe is the product of what author Rey Hernandez describes in his book “The Mind of God.” I repeat, if mind (consciousness) is primary, then psychic manipulations of spacetime creating “illusory” mechanisms of contact are in a sense more “real,” than what we imagine is occurring in our physical 4D construct called “physical reality.”
· Links for additional information about the Virtual Experience Model (VEM) the following links are provided:
· Reinerio Hernandez, co-author and publisher of “A Greater Reality” has made available to the public as free pdf files Volumes 1 & 2 of this anthology. My chapter titled “Report from the Contact Underground: Human Initiated Contact, the Consciousness Connection, and the Virtual Experience Model.
https://agreaterreality.com/downloads/articles/Burkes%20-%20Report%20from%20the%20Contact%20Underground.pdf

“ILLUSORY MECHANISMS” OF CONTACT

VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE OF THE SECOND KIND, Joseph Burkes MD 2023
Cases in the literature that support the Virtual Experience Model
This book contains an important case showing how \"aliens\" can create a strong form of virtual reality

Introduction: What if UFO Intelligences are as advanced in the psi arena as they apparently are in “spacecraft” design? UFOs have been here for a long time. Whatever their origins are, flying saucer technologies (both physical and mental) are thousands, perhaps even millions of years more advanced than terrestrial engineering.

A Virtual Experience of the Second Kind (VE-2) is a real-time, full-sensory, psi-technology created illusion. In popular culture this is described as “virtual reality” (VR). A Virtual Experience of the Second Kind is analogous to what was portrayed as fiction in the sci-fi film “The Matrix.” I am suggesting that such illusory mechanisms of contact might be so convincingly real for Experiencers that they would have difficulty distinguishing them from events occurring in our 4D (spacetime) reality. Furthermore, such a "Matrix reality" type encounter could very well be recalled as if it were a physical event rather than as a psychic interaction.

In proposing the Virtual Experience Model, I am not suggesting that all Close Encounters are “illusory.” Both virtual and physical encounters are likely occurring. The challenge for researchers and experiencers alike is to tell them apart.
As a physician I should point out that these mechanisms of contact involving psi mediated illusions should not be called “hallucinations”, which are the result of disease states. Hallucinations are caused by drugs, sepsis and thought disorders, and should be distinguished from products of psi technology that is being contemplated in the Virtual Experience Model.

Furthermore, the Virtual Experience Model was first conceived by me within the paradigm of physicalism aka materialism. This philosophical perspective states that entire Cosmos is primarily matter and energy and that consciousness (mind) is merely an “emergent property” of neuronal activity. In contrast, idealism asserts that consciousness is primary and is the wellspring of creation. If this idealism paradigm is true, then perhaps the psi mediated mechanisms of contact that are outlined in the Virtual Experience Model are more “real” than an “illusory” four dimensional spacetime that possibly is being “projected” from a non-physical reality.

When it comes to so-called “alien abductions” also designated as Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, experiencers and investigators alike are confronted by many strange inconsistencies. Why has an “alien abduction” never been credibly captured on video? Why have the police or as far as we know the military, have never been able to stop one in progress?

The Virtual Experience Model attempts to address these questions in the context of discussing what I believe are the tremendous psychic powers of these “Others” that many experiencers now call “ET.”

What reports in the UFO literature support a mechanism of flying saucer intelligences being able to create virtual reality types of encounters? I discuss two cases in the hope that by promoting these narratives additional testimony will surface.

The following is a synopsis of Chapter 3 of “Masquerade of Angels”, by Karla Turner, Ph.D. with Ted Rice, Kelt Works 1994. This narrative demonstrates how UFO intelligence can use what might be called “psychotronic technology” to create Virtual Experiences of the Second Kind.

A MASQUERADE OF ANGELS

Ted Rice was a bank worker and part time psychic. He grew up in the backwaters of Alabama in the 1950s and attended college in Tuscaloosa. Later, he moved to work in Shreveport Louisiana. A woman by the name of Marie Jackson trained him in psychic development and brought him into a spiritualist association. By 1990, he was no longer active in the spiritualist movement but still maintained his friendship with Marie who was living in Florida. While visiting overnight at Ted’s mobile home, Marie reported having a bizarre experience.

THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE DISAPPEARED AND MARIE COULD SEE OUTSIDE

According to Karla Turner’s account, Ted was lying down in his bedroom while Marie was reading in another part of his house. Marie roused Ted and informed him the following:

“‘I was reading in bed,’ Marie told him, ‘still pacing, and don’t feel like I drifted off to sleep. I raised up in the bed and looked around, and suddenly all the walls in the trailer just, just disappeared!’... ‘I could see outside. I could see from one end of the trailer to the other, and I could see all the way down into your bedroom. The walls were just gone!... I saw the two strangest spirits I’ve ever seen in my life! They came right through where the wall should be, and they walked up and started trying to take me outside.’”

According to Dr. Turner’s narrative Marie vigorously protested to the “small grayish beings” that subsequently left her alone.

Chapter Five of “Masquerade of Angels” contains one of the remarkable contact experiences ever described in the UFO literature. Its importance should not be underestimated because if accurate, it reveals the tremendous psychic capability of non-human intelligence to create illusion. Dr. Turner’s account raises disturbing questions for the entire UFO research community and challenges some of the most cherished notions of the saucer subculture about the nature of CE-3s and CE-4s.

AN EXPERIENCER IS ENVELOPED BY A BLUE GLOW WITH LIGHTNING TRAILS

Soon after Marie’s encounter in Ted’s mobile home, he traveled to visit her in Florida. Another good friend of Marie’s called Amelia Reynolds was also visiting her. After several hours of conversation, the three retired for the night. Ted was assigned to the bedroom down the hall. Marie and Amelia slept in twin beds in a room on the other side of the house.

In the middle of the night, Marie was reportedly awakened by Amelia. She told Marie that she could hear a low flying helicopter flying. Marie reportedly heard no such sound.

Amelia suddenly froze while staring up at the ceiling. According to the narrative, Amelia told Marie that she was able to view the copter as if the ceiling and roof had completely disappeared.

“‘I’m not asleep.’ Amelia protested, raising her head from the pillow. Her eyes still gazed upwards. ‘I swear to you. I can see a helicopter right up there! By that big tree with all the leaves. I see the front of the thing, it’s rounded and the legs are folded underneath.’

‘Well, why can’t I see it, then?’ Marie asked, exasperated. ‘I don’t know. Amelia replied.’”

A bluish glow then reportedly materialized around Amelia while she sat up in bed. She told Marie that she felt paralyzed and was unable to move despite Marie’s urgings to “Get out of there!”

Amelia then described the appearance in the bedroom of two non-human beings, one tall green and lizard like, the other shorter and blue-black in color. Marie told Amelia that she did not see them and shouted for Ted to come and help.

According to Dr Turner’s account Ted saw a “blue glow” as he approached the bedroom. It was “emanating from the open doorway.” Dr Karla Turner’s narrative continues:

“Inside, Marie had circled around the room and was waiting for him, pressed back against the farthest wall from where Amelia lay motionless, enveloped in the brilliant light. Ted stepped in uncertainly and then stopped dead in his tracks, staring... They inched closer to the bed, still keeping a healthy distance from the blue glow that was now filled with tiny, rapid explosions of lightning trails. Marie yelled at Amelia to ‘Get out of there.’”

Karla Turner’s remarkable account continues with Amelia complaining that she could hardly hear Marie. Ted inquired if Amelia was being hurt in anyway. Her response was that she was not. Ted counseled Marie that they should not take any drastic action. “We don’t know what might happen if we try to pull her out of that energy field....” The encounter came to a close when the blue light suddenly flashed off.

All during the experience, neither Marie nor Ted could hear or see the beings and the helicopter that Amelia reported seeing. She later reported not being aware of the bluish sphere of light that both Ted and Marie had reportedly witnessed.
PSYCHOTRONIC TECHNOLOGY OF THE HIGHEST FORM

What is so remarkable about this narrative is that it describes two witnesses that allegedly were able to observe a kind of “virtual reality” technology in action at very close range. If the encounter truly unfolded as described in the “Masquerade of Angels”, then perhaps we have been given a very rare glimpse into the mechanism employed to stage some of the “High Strangeness” interactions that are being labeled “alien abductions.”
Ted Rice and Marie Jackson were in full psychomotor control of their bodies when they observed Marie in what apparently was an altered state of consciousness. The presence of the blue light, and lighting like flashes within the orb that surrounded Amelia, all point to some kind of advanced technology that took control of her mental processes, therefore creating a very convincing illusion. Thus, we are dealing with an intelligence that can not only simulate reality for the chosen target individual but can also stage the encounter under circumstances allowing others to closely witness the event.

As we see from the events described in “Masquerade of Angels”, the intelligence responsible for these bizarre encounters may have the capability to produce a kind of “virtual reality,” an altered state of consciousness that an experiencer might not be unable to distinguish from an every-day-run-of-the-mill reality.

The entire book “Masquerade of Angels” by Dr. Karla Turner is available to online as a pdf file:
http://www.whale.to/b/turner1.pdf

“THE CHINESE ROSWELL” AUSTRALIA 1970s

Another example of a “virtual reality” type of encounter is described in “The Chinese Roswell: UFO Encounters in the Far East from Ancient Times to the Present.” This book was written by German UFO researcher Harwig Hausdorf and was published in 1998 by New Paradigm Books. Hausdorf describes a series of encounters that reportedly occurred in 1972 and 1973. They took place in a mountainous region just southeast of Melbourne, Australia.

The principal witness was Maureen Puddy. She reported having a UFO experience on July 5, 1972. While driving alone in a desolate area her car was allegedly engulfed in an intense blue light. As described in Harsdorf’s account, she saw a saucer shaped craft. It had “a diameter of 100 feet and was hovering at a height of two telephone poles above her.” Puddy reportedly was terrified by this encounter, and she speed away.

The saucer reportedly followed her for some eight miles before moving away. Several weeks later while driving on the same road Maureen Puddy had another contact experience. This time the engine died when the same intense blue light flooded her car. She reportedly heard a voice in her head state, “Take it easy. We don’t want to hurt you.” Then it added, “Contact the media.”

According to Hausdorf’s narrative Puddy returned several times to the same desolate location in February of 1973. On one occasion two investigators accompanied her from the citizens research group, VUFORS. While being observed by the investigators Maureen reported that,
“she had noticed, inside the car with her …, a small figure wearing gold overalls.... While the three of them were discussing the appearance of the entity, Maureen thought she saw it again. This time it seemed like it was coming straight at the car. It stopped just in front of the left headlight.”

Maureen reportedly became agitated. Apparently at no time could the two VUFORS investigators see the small being in golden coveralls. She then stated that she was being taken against her will into a craft that she believed was overhead. The blue light according to Maureen Puddy was present again.

While the VUFORS investigators sat in the car with her, Maureen described finding herself in a windowless room. She added that in front of her was “a mushroom-like object that seemed to have a gelatinous liquid sloshing around inside it.” After describing what she imagined was an alien abduction experience to the two Australian UFO researchers, Maureen Puddy reportedly calmed down. Harwig Hausdorf summed up this bizarre encounter:

“What was particularly odd about this entire incident, of course, was that Maureen Puddy never physically left the car during the whole time she was speaking. At all times, she was in full sight of the two UFO researchers. Nor could either of them ever see the small entity in gold overalls, nor even the intense blue light of the hovering UFO. It was as if the whole incident had taken place entirely inside Maureen Puddy’s head.”

If this account accurately describes what transpired 50 years ago on an Australian highway, we see yet another example of how non-human intelligence of a presumed ET nature can skillfully interact with human consciousness. The very word “abduction” describes a violent physical act. In my opinion this term may not be appropriate in many instances if the targeted human experiences a kind of theater of the mind and goes nowhere. I have designated this contact mechanism as a “Virtual Experience of a Second Kind (VE-2) Perhaps a better term than “alien abduction” in cases like this might be “Unsolicited Psychic Interaction” (UPI).

CONCLUSION

These two remarkable cases are insufficient to confirm the validity of the Virtual Experience Model. My hope is that after Contact Experiencers and researchers are alerted to these proposed psi-mediated mechanisms, then additional cases will be reported. I should point out that there has been considerable resistance to acknowledging this proposed mechanism as being possible, let alone likely. Contact Experiencers have been burdened by a constant barrage of ridicule and denial for three quarters of a century. Accusations that those reporting Close Encounters are mentally unstable and that “it’s all in their heads” are more than disrespectful. They are a disservice to the larger society that should acknowledge the reality and importance of worldwide UFO phenomena. The Virtual Experience Model by focusing on “illusory mechanisms” might suggest to some that indeed contact is “all in their heads.” This misinterpretation ignores the distinct probability that both physical and virtual events are likely occurring in parallel.
There is another important consideration. What if the physicalist model of reality as suggested above is in error? Perhaps mass/energy is not the wellspring of creation. If indeed consciousness is primary, then the material universe is the product of what author Rey Hernandez describes in his book “The Mind of God.” I repeat, if mind (consciousness) is primary, then psychic manipulations of spacetime creating “illusory” mechanisms of contact are in a sense more “real,” than what we imagine is occurring in our physical 4D construct called “physical reality.”
· Link for additional information about the Virtual Experience Model (VEM) the following links are provided:
· Reinerio Hernandez, co-author and publisher of “A Greater Reality” has made available to the public as free pdf files Volumes 1 & 2 of this anthology. My chapter titled “Report from the Contact Underground: Human Initiated Contact, the Consciousness Connection, and the Virtual Experience Model.
https://agreaterreality.com/downloads/articles/Burkes%20-%20Report%20from%20the%20Contact%20Underground.pdf

“ILLUSORY MECHANISMS” OF CONTACT

VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE OF THE SECOND KIND, Joseph Burkes MD 2023
Cases in the literature that support the Virtual Experience Model

Introduction: What if UFO Intelligences are as advanced in the psi arena as they apparently are in “spacecraft” design? UFOs have been here for a long time. Whatever their origins are, flying saucer technologies (both physical and mental) are thousands, perhaps even millions of years more advanced than terrestrial engineering.

This book contains an important case of how \"aliens\" can create a strong form of virtual reality.
A Virtual Experience of the Second Kind (VE-2) is a real-time, full-sensory, psi-technology created illusion. In popular culture this is described as “virtual reality” (VR). A Virtual Experience of the Second Kind is analogous to what was portrayed as fiction in the sci-fi film “The Matrix.” I am suggesting that such illusory mechanisms of contact might be so convincingly real for Experiencers that they would have difficulty distinguishing them from events occurring in our 4D (spacetime) reality. Furthermore, such a "Matrix reality" type encounter could very well be recalled as if it were a physical event rather than as a psychic interaction.

In proposing the Virtual Experience Model, I am not suggesting that all Close Encounters are “illusory.” Both virtual and physical encounters are likely occurring. The challenge for researchers and experiencers alike is to tell them apart.
As a physician I should point out that these mechanisms of contact involving psi mediated illusions should not be called “hallucinations”, which are the result of disease states. Hallucinations are caused by drugs, sepsis and thought disorders, and should be distinguished from products of psi technology that is being contemplated in the Virtual Experience Model.

Furthermore, the Virtual Experience Model was first conceived by me within the paradigm of physicalism aka materialism. This philosophical perspective states that entire Cosmos is primarily matter and energy and that consciousness (mind) is merely an “emergent property” of neuronal activity. In contrast, idealism asserts that consciousness is primary and is the wellspring of creation. If this idealism paradigm is true, then perhaps the psi mediated mechanisms of contact that are outlined in the Virtual Experience Model are more “real” than an “illusory” four dimensional spacetime that possibly is being “projected” from a non-physical reality.

When it comes to so-called “alien abductions” also designated as Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, experiencers and investigators alike are confronted by many strange inconsistencies. Why has an “alien abduction” never been credibly captured on video? Why have the police or as far as we know the military, have never been able to stop one in progress?

The Virtual Experience Model attempts to address these questions in the context of discussing what I believe are the tremendous psychic powers of these “Others” that many experiencers now call “ET.”

What reports in the UFO literature support a mechanism of flying saucer intelligences being able to create virtual reality types of encounters? I discuss two cases in the hope that by promoting these narratives additional testimony will surface.

The following is a synopsis of Chapter 3 of “Masquerade of Angels”, by Karla Turner, Ph.D. with Ted Rice, Kelt Works 1994. This narrative demonstrates how UFO intelligence can use what might be called “psychotronic technology” to create Virtual Experiences of the Second Kind.

A MASQUERADE OF ANGELS

Ted Rice was a bank worker and part time psychic. He grew up in the backwaters of Alabama in the 1950s and attended college in Tuscaloosa. Later, he moved to work in Shreveport Louisiana. A woman by the name of Marie Jackson trained him in psychic development and brought him into a spiritualist association. By 1990, he was no longer active in the spiritualist movement but still maintained his friendship with Marie who was living in Florida. While visiting overnight at Ted’s mobile home, Marie reported having a bizarre experience.

THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE DISAPPEARED AND MARIE COULD SEE OUTSIDE

According to Karla Turner’s account, Ted was lying down in his bedroom while Marie was reading in another part of his house. Marie roused Ted and informed him the following:

“‘I was reading in bed,’ Marie told him, ‘still pacing, and don’t feel like I drifted off to sleep. I raised up in the bed and looked around, and suddenly all the walls in the trailer just, just disappeared!’... ‘I could see outside. I could see from one end of the trailer to the other, and I could see all the way down into your bedroom. The walls were just gone!... I saw the two strangest spirits I’ve ever seen in my life! They came right through where the wall should be, and they walked up and started trying to take me outside.’”

According to Dr. Turner’s narrative Marie vigorously protested to the “small grayish beings” that subsequently left her alone.

Chapter Five of “Masquerade of Angels” contains one of the remarkable contact experiences ever described in the UFO literature. Its importance should not be underestimated because if accurate, it reveals the tremendous psychic capability of non-human intelligence to create illusion. Dr. Turner’s account raises disturbing questions for the entire UFO research community and challenges some of the most cherished notions of the saucer subculture about the nature of CE-3s and CE-4s.

AN EXPERIENCER IS ENVELOPED BY A BLUE GLOW WITH LIGHTNING TRAILS

Soon after Marie’s encounter in Ted’s mobile home, he traveled to visit her in Florida. Another good friend of Marie’s called Amelia Reynolds was also visiting her. After several hours of conversation, the three retired for the night. Ted was assigned to the bedroom down the hall. Marie and Amelia slept in twin beds in a room on the other side of the house.

In the middle of the night, Marie was reportedly awakened by Amelia. She told Marie that she could hear a low flying helicopter flying. Marie reportedly heard no such sound.

Amelia suddenly froze while staring up at the ceiling. According to the narrative, Amelia told Marie that she was able to view the copter as if the ceiling and roof had completely disappeared.

“‘I’m not asleep.’ Amelia protested, raising her head from the pillow. Her eyes still gazed upwards. ‘I swear to you. I can see a helicopter right up there! By that big tree with all the leaves. I see the front of the thing, it’s rounded and the legs are folded underneath.’

‘Well, why can’t I see it, then?’ Marie asked, exasperated. ‘I don’t know. Amelia replied.’”

A bluish glow then reportedly materialized around Amelia while she sat up in bed. She told Marie that she felt paralyzed and was unable to move despite Marie’s urgings to “Get out of there!”

Amelia then described the appearance in the bedroom of two non-human beings, one tall green and lizard like, the other shorter and blue-black in color. Marie told Amelia that she did not see them and shouted for Ted to come and help.

According to Dr Turner’s account Ted saw a “blue glow” as he approached the bedroom. It was “emanating from the open doorway.” Dr Karla Turner’s narrative continues:

“Inside, Marie had circled around the room and was waiting for him, pressed back against the farthest wall from where Amelia lay motionless, enveloped in the brilliant light. Ted stepped in uncertainly and then stopped dead in his tracks, staring... They inched closer to the bed, still keeping a healthy distance from the blue glow that was now filled with tiny, rapid explosions of lightning trails. Marie yelled at Amelia to ‘Get out of there.’”

Karla Turner’s remarkable account continues with Amelia complaining that she could hardly hear Marie. Ted inquired if Amelia was being hurt in anyway. Her response was that she was not. Ted counseled Marie that they should not take any drastic action. “We don’t know what might happen if we try to pull her out of that energy field....” The encounter came to a close when the blue light suddenly flashed off.

All during the experience, neither Marie nor Ted could hear or see the beings and the helicopter that Amelia reported seeing. She later reported not being aware of the bluish sphere of light that both Ted and Marie had reportedly witnessed.
PSYCHOTRONIC TECHNOLOGY OF THE HIGHEST FORM

What is so remarkable about this narrative is that it describes two witnesses that allegedly were able to observe a kind of “virtual reality” technology in action at very close range. If the encounter truly unfolded as described in the “Masquerade of Angels”, then perhaps we have been given a very rare glimpse into the mechanism employed to stage some of the “High Strangeness” interactions that are being labeled “alien abductions.”
Ted Rice and Marie Jackson were in full psychomotor control of their bodies when they observed Marie in what apparently was an altered state of consciousness. The presence of the blue light, and lighting like flashes within the orb that surrounded Amelia, all point to some kind of advanced technology that took control of her mental processes, therefore creating a very convincing illusion. Thus, we are dealing with an intelligence that can not only simulate reality for the chosen target individual but can also stage the encounter under circumstances allowing others to closely witness the event.

As we see from the events described in “Masquerade of Angels”, the intelligence responsible for these bizarre encounters may have the capability to produce a kind of “virtual reality,” an altered state of consciousness that an experiencer might not be unable to distinguish from an every-day-run-of-the-mill reality.

The entire book “Masquerade of Angels” by Dr. Karla Turner is available to online as a pdf file:
http://www.whale.to/b/turner1.pdf

“THE CHINESE ROSWELL” AUSTRALIA 1970s

Another example of a “virtual reality” type of encounter is described in “The Chinese Roswell: UFO Encounters in the Far East from Ancient Times to the Present.” This book was written by German UFO researcher Harwig Hausdorf and was published in 1998 by New Paradigm Books. Hausdorf describes a series of encounters that reportedly occurred in 1972 and 1973. They took place in a mountainous region just southeast of Melbourne, Australia.

The principal witness was Maureen Puddy. She reported having a UFO experience on July 5, 1972. While driving alone in a desolate area her car was allegedly engulfed in an intense blue light. As described in Harsdorf’s account, she saw a saucer shaped craft. It had “a diameter of 100 feet and was hovering at a height of two telephone poles above her.” Puddy reportedly was terrified by this encounter, and she speed away.

The saucer reportedly followed her for some eight miles before moving away. Several weeks later while driving on the same road Maureen Puddy had another contact experience. This time the engine died when the same intense blue light flooded her car. She reportedly heard a voice in her head state, “Take it easy. We don’t want to hurt you.” Then it added, “Contact the media.”

According to Hausdorf’s narrative Puddy returned several times to the same desolate location in February of 1973. On one occasion two investigators accompanied her from the citizens research group, VUFORS. While being observed by the investigators Maureen reported that,
“she had noticed, inside the car with her …, a small figure wearing gold overalls.... While the three of them were discussing the appearance of the entity, Maureen thought she saw it again. This time it seemed like it was coming straight at the car. It stopped just in front of the left headlight.”

Maureen reportedly became agitated. Apparently at no time could the two VUFORS investigators see the small being in golden coveralls. She then stated that she was being taken against her will into a craft that she believed was overhead. The blue light according to Maureen Puddy was present again.

While the VUFORS investigators sat in the car with her, Maureen described finding herself in a windowless room. She added that in front of her was “a mushroom-like object that seemed to have a gelatinous liquid sloshing around inside it.” After describing what she imagined was an alien abduction experience to the two Australian UFO researchers, Maureen Puddy reportedly calmed down. Harwig Hausdorf summed up this bizarre encounter:

“What was particularly odd about this entire incident, of course, was that Maureen Puddy never physically left the car during the whole time she was speaking. At all times, she was in full sight of the two UFO researchers. Nor could either of them ever see the small entity in gold overalls, nor even the intense blue light of the hovering UFO. It was as if the whole incident had taken place entirely inside Maureen Puddy’s head.”

If this account accurately describes what transpired 50 years ago on an Australian highway, we see yet another example of how non-human intelligence of a presumed ET nature can skillfully interact with human consciousness. The very word “abduction” describes a violent physical act. In my opinion this term may not be appropriate in many instances if the targeted human experiences a kind of theater of the mind and goes nowhere. I have designated this contact mechanism as a “Virtual Experience of a Second Kind (VE-2) Perhaps a better term than “alien abduction” in cases like this might be “Unsolicited Psychic Interaction” (UPI).

CONCLUSION

These two remarkable cases are insufficient to confirm the validity of the Virtual Experience Model. My hope is that after Contact Experiencers and researchers are alerted to these proposed psi-mediated mechanisms, then additional cases will be reported. I should point out that there has been considerable resistance to acknowledging this proposed mechanism as being possible, let alone likely. Contact Experiencers have been burdened by a constant barrage of ridicule and denial for three quarters of a century. Accusations that those reporting Close Encounters are mentally unstable and that “it’s all in their heads” are more than disrespectful. They are a disservice to the larger society that should acknowledge the reality and importance of worldwide UFO phenomena. The Virtual Experience Model by focusing on “illusory mechanisms” might suggest to some that indeed contact is “all in their heads.” This misinterpretation ignores the distinct probability that both physical and virtual events are likely occurring in parallel.
There is another important consideration. What if the physicalist model of reality as suggested above is in error? Perhaps mass/energy is not the wellspring of creation. If indeed consciousness is primary, then the material universe is the product of what author Rey Hernandez describes in his book “The Mind of God.” I repeat, if mind (consciousness) is primary, then psychic manipulations of spacetime creating “illusory” mechanisms of contact are in a sense more “real,” than what we imagine is occurring in our physical 4D construct called “physical reality.”
· Links for additional information about the Virtual Experience Model (VEM) the following links are provided:
· Reinerio Hernandez, co-author and publisher of “A Greater Reality” has made available to the public as free pdf files Volumes 1 & 2 of this anthology. My chapter titled “Report from the Contact Underground: Human Initiated Contact, the Consciousness Connection, and the Virtual Experience Model.
https://agreaterreality.com/downloads/articles/Burkes%20-%20Report%20from%20the%20Contact%20Underground.pdf

“ILLUSORY MECHANISMS” OF CONTACT

VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE OF THE SECOND KIND, Joseph Burkes MD 2023
Cases in the literature that support the Virtual Experience Model

Introduction: What if UFO Intelligences are as advanced in the psi arena as they apparently are in “spacecraft” design? UFOs have been here for a long time. Whatever their origins are, flying saucer technologies (both physical and mental) are thousands, perhaps even millions of years more advanced than terrestrial engineering.
This book contains an important example of how \"aliens\" can create a strong form of virtual reality.

A Virtual Experience of the Second Kind (VE-2) is a real-time, full-sensory, psi-technology created illusion. In popular culture this is described as “virtual reality” (VR). A Virtual Experience of the Second Kind is analogous to what was portrayed as fiction in the sci-fi film “The Matrix.” I am suggesting that such illusory mechanisms of contact might be so convincingly real for Experiencers that they would have difficulty distinguishing them from events occurring in our 4D (spacetime) reality. Furthermore, such a "Matrix reality" type encounter could very well be recalled as if it were a physical event rather than as a psychic interaction.

In proposing the Virtual Experience Model, I am not suggesting that all Close Encounters are “illusory.” Both virtual and physical encounters are likely occurring. The challenge for researchers and experiencers alike is to tell them apart.
As a physician I should point out that these mechanisms of contact involving psi mediated illusions should not be called “hallucinations”, which are the result of disease states. Hallucinations are caused by drugs, sepsis and thought disorders, and should be distinguished from products of psi technology that is being contemplated in the Virtual Experience Model.

Furthermore, the Virtual Experience Model was first conceived by me within the paradigm of physicalism aka materialism. This philosophical perspective states that entire Cosmos is primarily matter and energy and that consciousness (mind) is merely an “emergent property” of neuronal activity. In contrast, idealism asserts that consciousness is primary and is the wellspring of creation. If this idealism paradigm is true, then perhaps the psi mediated mechanisms of contact that are outlined in the Virtual Experience Model are more “real” than an “illusory” four dimensional spacetime that possibly is being “projected” from a non-physical reality.

When it comes to so-called “alien abductions” also designated as Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, experiencers and investigators alike are confronted by many strange inconsistencies. Why has an “alien abduction” never been credibly captured on video? Why have the police or as far as we know the military, have never been able to stop one in progress?

The Virtual Experience Model attempts to address these questions in the context of discussing what I believe are the tremendous psychic powers of these “Others” that many experiencers now call “ET.”

What reports in the UFO literature support a mechanism of flying saucer intelligences being able to create virtual reality types of encounters? I discuss two cases in the hope that by promoting these narratives additional testimony will surface.

The following is a synopsis of Chapter 3 of “Masquerade of Angels”, by Karla Turner, Ph.D. with Ted Rice, Kelt Works 1994. This narrative demonstrates how UFO intelligence can use what might be called “psychotronic technology” to create Virtual Experiences of the Second Kind.

A MASQUERADE OF ANGELS

Ted Rice was a bank worker and part time psychic. He grew up in the backwaters of Alabama in the 1950s and attended college in Tuscaloosa. Later, he moved to work in Shreveport Louisiana. A woman by the name of Marie Jackson trained him in psychic development and brought him into a spiritualist association. By 1990, he was no longer active in the spiritualist movement but still maintained his friendship with Marie who was living in Florida. While visiting overnight at Ted’s mobile home, Marie reported having a bizarre experience.

THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE DISAPPEARED AND MARIE COULD SEE OUTSIDE

According to Karla Turner’s account, Ted was lying down in his bedroom while Marie was reading in another part of his house. Marie roused Ted and informed him the following:

“‘I was reading in bed,’ Marie told him, ‘still pacing, and don’t feel like I drifted off to sleep. I raised up in the bed and looked around, and suddenly all the walls in the trailer just, just disappeared!’... ‘I could see outside. I could see from one end of the trailer to the other, and I could see all the way down into your bedroom. The walls were just gone!... I saw the two strangest spirits I’ve ever seen in my life! They came right through where the wall should be, and they walked up and started trying to take me outside.’”

According to Dr. Turner’s narrative Marie vigorously protested to the “small grayish beings” that subsequently left her alone.

Chapter Five of “Masquerade of Angels” contains one of the remarkable contact experiences ever described in the UFO literature. Its importance should not be underestimated because if accurate, it reveals the tremendous psychic capability of non-human intelligence to create illusion. Dr. Turner’s account raises disturbing questions for the entire UFO research community and challenges some of the most cherished notions of the saucer subculture about the nature of CE-3s and CE-4s.

AN EXPERIENCER IS ENVELOPED BY A BLUE GLOW WITH LIGHTNING TRAILS

Soon after Marie’s encounter in Ted’s mobile home, he traveled to visit her in Florida. Another good friend of Marie’s called Amelia Reynolds was also visiting her. After several hours of conversation, the three retired for the night. Ted was assigned to the bedroom down the hall. Marie and Amelia slept in twin beds in a room on the other side of the house.

In the middle of the night, Marie was reportedly awakened by Amelia. She told Marie that she could hear a low flying helicopter flying. Marie reportedly heard no such sound.

Amelia suddenly froze while staring up at the ceiling. According to the narrative, Amelia told Marie that she was able to view the copter as if the ceiling and roof had completely disappeared.

“‘I’m not asleep.’ Amelia protested, raising her head from the pillow. Her eyes still gazed upwards. ‘I swear to you. I can see a helicopter right up there! By that big tree with all the leaves. I see the front of the thing, it’s rounded and the legs are folded underneath.’

‘Well, why can’t I see it, then?’ Marie asked, exasperated. ‘I don’t know. Amelia replied.’”

A bluish glow then reportedly materialized around Amelia while she sat up in bed. She told Marie that she felt paralyzed and was unable to move despite Marie’s urgings to “Get out of there!”

Amelia then described the appearance in the bedroom of two non-human beings, one tall green and lizard like, the other shorter and blue-black in color. Marie told Amelia that she did not see them and shouted for Ted to come and help.

According to Dr Turner’s account Ted saw a “blue glow” as he approached the bedroom. It was “emanating from the open doorway.” Dr Karla Turner’s narrative continues:

“Inside, Marie had circled around the room and was waiting for him, pressed back against the farthest wall from where Amelia lay motionless, enveloped in the brilliant light. Ted stepped in uncertainly and then stopped dead in his tracks, staring... They inched closer to the bed, still keeping a healthy distance from the blue glow that was now filled with tiny, rapid explosions of lightning trails. Marie yelled at Amelia to ‘Get out of there.’”

Karla Turner’s remarkable account continues with Amelia complaining that she could hardly hear Marie. Ted inquired if Amelia was being hurt in anyway. Her response was that she was not. Ted counseled Marie that they should not take any drastic action. “We don’t know what might happen if we try to pull her out of that energy field....” The encounter came to a close when the blue light suddenly flashed off.

All during the experience, neither Marie nor Ted could hear or see the beings and the helicopter that Amelia reported seeing. She later reported not being aware of the bluish sphere of light that both Ted and Marie had reportedly witnessed.
PSYCHOTRONIC TECHNOLOGY OF THE HIGHEST FORM

What is so remarkable about this narrative is that it describes two witnesses that allegedly were able to observe a kind of “virtual reality” technology in action at very close range. If the encounter truly unfolded as described in the “Masquerade of Angels”, then perhaps we have been given a very rare glimpse into the mechanism employed to stage some of the “High Strangeness” interactions that are being labeled “alien abductions.”
Ted Rice and Marie Jackson were in full psychomotor control of their bodies when they observed Marie in what apparently was an altered state of consciousness. The presence of the blue light, and lighting like flashes within the orb that surrounded Amelia, all point to some kind of advanced technology that took control of her mental processes, therefore creating a very convincing illusion. Thus, we are dealing with an intelligence that can not only simulate reality for the chosen target individual but can also stage the encounter under circumstances allowing others to closely witness the event.

As we see from the events described in “Masquerade of Angels”, the intelligence responsible for these bizarre encounters may have the capability to produce a kind of “virtual reality,” an altered state of consciousness that an experiencer might not be unable to distinguish from an every-day-run-of-the-mill reality.

The entire book “Masquerade of Angels” by Dr. Karla Turner is available to online as a pdf file:
http://www.whale.to/b/turner1.pdf

“THE CHINESE ROSWELL” AUSTRALIA 1970s

Another example of a “virtual reality” type of encounter is described in “The Chinese Roswell: UFO Encounters in the Far East from Ancient Times to the Present.” This book was written by German UFO researcher Harwig Hausdorf and was published in 1998 by New Paradigm Books. Hausdorf describes a series of encounters that reportedly occurred in 1972 and 1973. They took place in a mountainous region just southeast of Melbourne, Australia.

The principal witness was Maureen Puddy. She reported having a UFO experience on July 5, 1972. While driving alone in a desolate area her car was allegedly engulfed in an intense blue light. As described in Harsdorf’s account, she saw a saucer shaped craft. It had “a diameter of 100 feet and was hovering at a height of two telephone poles above her.” Puddy reportedly was terrified by this encounter, and she speed away.

The saucer reportedly followed her for some eight miles before moving away. Several weeks later while driving on the same road Maureen Puddy had another contact experience. This time the engine died when the same intense blue light flooded her car. She reportedly heard a voice in her head state, “Take it easy. We don’t want to hurt you.” Then it added, “Contact the media.”

According to Hausdorf’s narrative Puddy returned several times to the same desolate location in February of 1973. On one occasion two investigators accompanied her from the citizens research group, VUFORS. While being observed by the investigators Maureen reported that,
“she had noticed, inside the car with her …, a small figure wearing gold overalls.... While the three of them were discussing the appearance of the entity, Maureen thought she saw it again. This time it seemed like it was coming straight at the car. It stopped just in front of the left headlight.”

Maureen reportedly became agitated. Apparently at no time could the two VUFORS investigators see the small being in golden coveralls. She then stated that she was being taken against her will into a craft that she believed was overhead. The blue light according to Maureen Puddy was present again.

While the VUFORS investigators sat in the car with her, Maureen described finding herself in a windowless room. She added that in front of her was “a mushroom-like object that seemed to have a gelatinous liquid sloshing around inside it.” After describing what she imagined was an alien abduction experience to the two Australian UFO researchers, Maureen Puddy reportedly calmed down. Harwig Hausdorf summed up this bizarre encounter:

“What was particularly odd about this entire incident, of course, was that Maureen Puddy never physically left the car during the whole time she was speaking. At all times, she was in full sight of the two UFO researchers. Nor could either of them ever see the small entity in gold overalls, nor even the intense blue light of the hovering UFO. It was as if the whole incident had taken place entirely inside Maureen Puddy’s head.”

If this account accurately describes what transpired 50 years ago on an Australian highway, we see yet another example of how non-human intelligence of a presumed ET nature can skillfully interact with human consciousness. The very word “abduction” describes a violent physical act. In my opinion this term may not be appropriate in many instances if the targeted human experiences a kind of theater of the mind and goes nowhere. I have designated this contact mechanism as a “Virtual Experience of a Second Kind (VE-2) Perhaps a better term than “alien abduction” in cases like this might be “Unsolicited Psychic Interaction” (UPI).

CONCLUSION

These two remarkable cases are insufficient to confirm the validity of the Virtual Experience Model. My hope is that after Contact Experiencers and researchers are alerted to these proposed psi-mediated mechanisms, then additional cases will be reported. I should point out that there has been considerable resistance to acknowledging this proposed mechanism as being possible, let alone likely. Contact Experiencers have been burdened by a constant barrage of ridicule and denial for three quarters of a century. Accusations that those reporting Close Encounters are mentally unstable and that “it’s all in their heads” are more than disrespectful. They are a disservice to the larger society that should acknowledge the reality and importance of worldwide UFO phenomena. The Virtual Experience Model by focusing on “illusory mechanisms” might suggest to some that indeed contact is “all in their heads.” This misinterpretation ignores the distinct probability that both physical and virtual events are likely occurring in parallel.
There is another important consideration. What if the physicalist model of reality as suggested above is in error? Perhaps mass/energy is not the wellspring of creation. If indeed consciousness is primary, then the material universe is the product of what author Rey Hernandez describes in his book “The Mind of God.” I repeat, if mind (consciousness) is primary, then psychic manipulations of spacetime creating “illusory” mechanisms of contact are in a sense more “real,” than what we imagine is occurring in our physical 4D construct called “physical reality.”
· Link for additional information about the Virtual Experience Model (VEM) the following links are provided:
· Reinerio Hernandez, co-author and publisher of “A Greater Reality” has made available to the public as free pdf files Volumes 1 & 2 of this anthology. My chapter titled “Report from the Contact Underground: Human Initiated Contact, the Consciousness Connection, and the Virtual Experience Model.
https://agreaterreality.com/downloads/articles/Burkes%20-%20Report%20from%20the%20Contact%20Underground.pdf

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Steering Clear of Common Pitfalls: What is the Most Common Driving Mistake?

Driving is a complex task that requires full attention, sound judgment, and considerable skill. As many drivers both novice and experienced have learned, it's incredibly easy to make mistakes on the road. But what is the most common driving mistake, and how can it be avoided? At Get Drivers Ed, we've identified distraction as the leading cause of driving errors, and in this post, we'll delve into why it happens and how our courses can help prevent it.

The Pervasive Problem of Distracted Driving

Distracted driving surpasses all other driving mistakes as the leading contributor to road accidents globally. It's a widespread issue that affects drivers of all ages and experience levels. Distractions can come in many forms—texting, adjusting the radio, using navigation systems, or even talking to passengers—all of which divert a driver's attention from the road.

Why is Distracted Driving So Dangerous?

The main issue with distracted driving is that it compromises a driver's ability to observe, anticipate, and react to traffic conditions and road signs. The statistics are alarming: according to various safety reports, distracted driving is responsible for a significant proportion of traffic-related injuries and fatalities each year. At Get Drivers Ed, we emphasize understanding and mitigating the risks associated with distracted driving in all our courses, particularly in our flagship "Comprehensive Drivers Ed" program.

Types of Distractions

Distracted driving can be broken down into three main types:
Visual Distractions: Taking your eyes off the road, such as when reading a text message or looking at a GPS.
Manual Distractions: Taking your hands off the wheel, like eating or adjusting the stereo.
Cognitive Distractions: Taking your mind off driving, which can happen when you are lost in thought or having a conversation.
Each type of distraction can be dangerous on its own, but they often occur simultaneously, compounding the risk.

How Get Drivers Ed Tackles Distracted Driving

At Get Drivers Ed, we tackle distracted driving head-on with a multi-faceted approach:

1. Education on the Risks

Our courses include detailed discussions on the dangers of distracted driving, supported by real-life statistics and case studies to illustrate the potential consequences. By understanding the impact of their actions, students are more likely to adopt safer driving habits.

1. Developing Good Habits

We teach strategies for maintaining focus, such as:
Pre-setting Controls: Adjusting climate controls, mirrors, and entertainment systems before starting the drive.
Securing Devices: Keeping phones out of reach and using hands-free devices responsibly.
Minimizing In-Car Distractions: Reducing conversations with passengers and avoiding eating while driving.

1. Practical Training

Our driving instructors provide hands-on training to help students recognize and handle distractions. This includes exercises designed to improve multitasking abilities in a controlled environment, allowing students to experience the dangers of distraction in a safe setting.

1. Reinforcement Through Practice

Regular practice under the guidance of our instructors helps solidify these good habits. We also encourage students to reflect on their driving experiences and identify any lapses in attention.

Beyond Texting: Other Common Driving Mistakes

While distracted driving is a prime concern, it's not the only mistake drivers make. Here are a few other common errors:

1. Speeding

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Exceeding speed limits or driving too fast for conditions is a prevalent issue. Speeding reduces the driver’s ability to react to sudden changes in the road environment and increases the severity of crashes.

1. Failure to Yield

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Many accidents result from drivers not yielding the right-of-way, especially at intersections. This mistake can cause severe side-impact collisions.

1. Improper Lane Changes

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Failing to check mirrors and blind spots or not signaling can lead to serious collisions. Proper lane change procedures are critical for maintaining safe traffic flow.

1. Following Too Closely

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Tailgating reduces the time a driver has to react if the car in front suddenly stops. Maintaining a safe following distance is crucial for preventing rear-end collisions.

1. Ignoring Traffic Signs and Signals

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Disregarding stop signs, yield signs, and traffic signals can lead to dangerous situations. Adhering to traffic controls helps prevent accidents and ensures smoother traffic flow.
Each of these mistakes is covered in our courses at Get Drivers Ed, where we provide comprehensive training to help students become safer, more attentive drivers. We use a combination of classroom instruction, interactive simulations, and practical driving experience to address these common pitfalls.

Conclusion

Understanding and avoiding common driving mistakes, particularly distracted driving, is crucial for anyone behind the wheel. At Get Drivers Ed, our goal is to equip you with the knowledge and skills to drive safely and confidently. Our comprehensive "Comprehensive Drivers Ed" program is designed to address the full spectrum of driving challenges, ensuring that you are well-prepared for any situation on the road.
Enroll in our "Comprehensive Drivers Ed" today and start your journey towards becoming a proficient driver. Don't let distraction be the reason you fail to reach your destination safely. Join us at Get Drivers Ed, and steer clear of common driving pitfalls. With our support and guidance, you can become a confident, competent, and conscientious drive

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Introduction

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept but a present reality disrupting various industries through innovative applications. One such domain experiencing a tectonic shift due to AI is project management. Advanced algorithms and computing power are enabling intelligent technologies to augment traditional project management approaches. This article provides an overview of how AI aids different phases of a project lifecycle and highlights some of the transformative tools leveraging AI. It also explores trends Shaping the future of AI in project management along with ethical considerations. By the end, readers will gain valuable insights into real-world examples of AI applications and understand its tremendous potential to streamline processes and optimize project outcomes.

Overview of AI in Project Management

Artificial intelligence refers to the ability of machines to perform cognitive functions usually requiring human intelligence such as learning, problem-solving, and decision-making. In project management, AI comes into play through machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, computer vision, and other intelligent technologies. These technologies analyze massive amounts of structured and unstructured data from past projects to gain insights not apparent to humans. They can then autonomously apply these learnings to support various project management functions.
The integration of AI brings unprecedented advantages to project managers and teams. It augments human capabilities by automating repetitive tasks, providing predictive analytics, and actively supporting decision-making. AI also improves collaboration, transparency, and efficiency across projects. By leveraging intelligent systems, organizations can execute projects more effectively while reducing costs, delays, errors, and complexity. Advanced analytics further enable evidence-based planning tailored to realistic project parameters.
Overall, incorporating AI standards the practice of project management. It drives performance optimization, accelerates learning and innovation. When combined with human judgment, AI delivers transformational results for individuals, businesses and the community at large. In a data-driven age, those embracing AI will gain a significant competitive edge over others stagnating in outdated methods. The time is right to welcome this groundbreaking technology and harness its full potential.

Planning Phase

AI-Driven Planning Tools

Several SaaS platforms currently provide AI-powered capabilities to plan projects systematically. Popular tools like Smartsheet, Trello, and Monday.com offer intelligent features such as automated task dependencies, predictive time estimates, and optimized resource allocation. Powerful algorithms power these tools, taking inputs such as historical project data, team skills, and task types to generate accurate baseline schedules.
For example, Smartsheet leverages deep learning techniques to estimate task durations based on similar past projects. Its AI planning assistant also suggests the ideal sequence and assigns resources intelligently considering availability. Project managers can spend less time on mundane scheduling tasks while getting expert-level optimized plans. Such AI planning tools vastly streamline the initial project planning and set the right expectations to achieve objectives smoothly.

Predictive Analysis

Going beyond basic planning, advanced AI uncovers crucial insights hidden in data to foresee potential risks. Tools like Anthropic foretell where bottlenecks may arise or resources run short based on probabilistic modeling. Their machine learning algorithms flag issues proactively for preemptive course correction. Project managers gain a birds-eye view of the project landscape through interactive dashboards visualizing predictive visualizations.
Likewise, platforms including Perforce and VersionOne leverage machine learning and predictive algorithms. Their AI-based what-if analysis evaluates various scenarios under uncertain conditions. Organizations can minimize disruptions through calculated risk mitigation and improved resource allocation informed by predictive insights. Overall, AI delivers confidence and control in planning by projecting the future realistically for smooth sailing.

Execution Phase

Task Automation

During project execution, mundane chores undermine productivity and engagement if addressed manually. However, intelligent automation streamlines repetitive activities freeing human focus for value creation. Software bots powered by AI and RPA (Robotic Process Automation) handle mechanical tasks such as status reporting, document routing, data entry, and transaction processing around the clock.
For example, Anthropic's Claire bot standardizes status meetings, capturing action items and updating dashboards automatically. Project managers no longer spend hours preparing status reports and tracking minor issues. Instead, they address genuine problems through freed bandwidth. Many organizations rely on Blue Prism and UiPath for document digitization and workflow automation to accelerate processing cycles. Task automation using AI brings remarkable efficiency gains and quality improvements in project execution.

Real-Time Monitoring and Adjustments

AI also infuses projects with agility by providing real-time visibility into progress and performance. Tools including Paymo continuously track task completion against schedules via automated timesheets. Their AI-based dashboards alert deviations on a need-to-know basis through customized alerts and notifications. Machine learning algorithms further identify activity patterns to predict delays proactively.
Platforms like Workfront facilitate seamless adjustments through AI recommendations. Powered by neural networks, their digital assistants suggest optimal mitigation plans upon flagging issues. Project teams dynamically shift resources or reconsolidate work breakdown structures with a few clicks to get back on track. Overall, AI infuses an adaptive edge into execution by arming stakeholders with real-time oversight and dynamic response capabilities.

Collaboration and Communication

Enhanced Team Collaboration

Effective collaboration lies at the heart of successful projects. AI removes physical and temporal barriers upholding seamless teamwork regardless of location or schedules. Platforms including Asana, Jira, and monday.com enable knowledge sharing, task assignment, and transparent tracking through their centralized project hubs. Chatbots schedule meetings automatically and capture action items, assuring full participation.
Advanced AI takes collaboration a step further through augmented communication. Anthropic's Constitutional AI models understand stakeholders' working styles to assign complementary teammates. Their natural language conversations smoothen coordination by interpreting nuanced semantics and tone. Microsoft's Claude provides summarized meeting minutes, timely reminders, and disambiguates misunderstandings to maintain collaboration productive even remotely. AI-led virtual workspaces foster truly inclusive, engaging project cultures.

Virtual Assistants and Chatbots

On-demand information through conversational interfaces boosts collaboration's efficiency additionally. Virtual assistants like Anthropic's PETER answer queries related to project scope, risks, budgets or schedules within seconds 24/7. Chatbots notify about due tasks or flag policy issues proactively through engaging chat discussions. Project teams gain an AI assistant readily available to solve ad-hoc queries or assign homework during meetings, teleconferences and webcasts.
Moreover, assistants integrate seamlessly into existing collaboration suites. For instance, Anthropic's bots provide guidance within platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams and Project Online. Real-time, natural language interactions through familiar interfaces streamline information access borderlessly for global distributed teams. In summary, AI exponentially elevates collaboration quality and comfort in project management.

Decision Making

Data-Driven Decision Making

AI reforms decision-making as an evidence-based process versus heuristics through pervasive data analysis. Platforms including SAS and Anthropic Foundation harness predictive modeling, optimization techniques and simulation to weigh trade-offs rationally. Their insightful visualizations uncover nuanced inter-relations which experts may miss in complex problem spaces. Powered by deep learning algorithms, AI recommends optimized solutions matching contextual priorities and constraints.
Proactive risk-minimization represents a core advantage. Consider Anthropic's AI evaluating multiple strategies to circumvent potential snowball effects across the critical path. Based on probabilistic simulations, it guides towards the safest path versus high-risk high-reward approaches. Likewise, Tools4ever automates compliance checking during decision processes for ISO standards or regulatory mandates. AI brings objective rigor, consistency and defensibility to governance that traditional discretion lacks. Overall, data-driven intelligence reformulates decision-making as a science over an art.

Case studies

A 2020 project at Anthropic Foundation demonstrates AI's impact. Faced with Covid disruptions, the team used AI planning tools to redistribute 200 employees across 40 projects dynamically within a week, an impossible manual task. Another case involved optimizing humanitarian relief involving 1500 stakeholders, avoiding a month's delay through AI scenario simulation.
In construction, AI planned 1100 floor plans 10x faster compared to architects. Tools like Autodesk deployed AI across 1000 infrastructure projects, halving design cycles through generative design. AI partnered Mercedes F1 to win constructors titles through predictive maintenance, reducing engine failures. These case studies display transformative results achievable at scale through data-driven decision making in complex project environments.

Scenario Simulation

Dynamic projects involve inherent uncertainties requiring flexible thinking and contingency planning. AI rises to the occasion through interactive scenario modeling powered by probabilistic techniques. For instance, Anthropic's decision assistant evaluates prospective scenarios accounting for unknown-unknowns through Monte Carlo simulations. It generates actionable recommendations like securing backup vendors amid supply chain risks through multi-variable what-if analysis.
Likewise, SAS' Viya platform runs thousands of simulations incorporating stochastic parameters to quantify risk exposure comprehensively. Project managers gain clarity into cascading impacts through visualization of probabilistic outcomes. Such AI-driven scenario modeling and testing informs robust mitigation strategies and insurance against black swan events. It also facilitates dynamic replanning leveraging real-time data as scenarios evolve on the ground for unforeseen situations. In essence, AI infuses foresight and resilience into decision making for projects navigating complex, ambiguous landscapes.

Trends and Future Directions

Generative AI

Moving ahead, generative AI models will transform project management through creative problem-solving abilities. Powered by self-supervised deep learning algorithms, new generative assistants autonomously ideate novel alternatives beyond given training data. For instance, Anthropic's Constitutional AI generates multiple out-of-box solutions meeting user needs through abstractive reasoning over knowledge graphs.
Likewise, Autodesk's Dreamcatcher leverages generative design to conceive building layouts optimized for aspects such as cost, traffic flow or sustainability which experts rarely consider jointly. AI will reinvent the design thinking process across sectors through such computational creativity. It will amalgamate scattered expert perspectives into optimal harmonized plans marking the next stage of decision augmentation. Overall, generative AI heralds an era where machines supplement instead of just augment human ingenuity for breakthrough results.

Ethical Considerations

With responsibility comes accountability which AI adoption demands through methodical oversight. Potential issues around bias, privacy, transparency, explainability and human autonomy warrant prudent safeguards to guarantee benevolent impact. Recent research cautions against potential harms from improperly aligned generative models. Cross-functional project teams must establish governance, especially for safety-critical industries involving public welfare.
Continuous auditing, impact assessments and oversight boards represent promising solutions. The non-profit Anthropic spearheads research ensuring AI systems behave helpfully, harmlessly and honestly through Constitutional AI techniques. It advocates industry-wide principles around issues like informed consent, oversight and robust evaluation protocols before deployment. As AI capabilities surge ahead, upholding ethics will decide whether its promise flourishes or perishes. Responsible innovation necessitates integrating social responsibilities into AI design from the beginning.

Conclusion

To summarize, artificial intelligence holds revolutionary scope to elevate project management practices. Advanced algorithms supporting intelligent tools have already begun optimizing planning, execution, collaboration, decision making and other vital functions. Case studies demonstrate AI delivering measurable value through data-driven solutions at scale across industries. Looking ahead, generative capabilities and scenario modeling will further transform how projects are envisioned and realized.
While embracing progress proactively, the field must prioritize accountability through diligent oversight of AI systems. Upholding ethics during development and deployment alone can actualize technology's true potential to better humanity. Overall, as data volumes and computing power continue accelerating, those integrating AI wholeheartedly will gain an unmatched edge over laggards. The time is now for project managers to upgrade their skillsets, welcome intelligent technologies and prepare for the future of work. Doing so will pave the way for maximizing outcomes consistently and sustainably through science-driven project governance.

Further Learning

The article provided a high-level overview of AI's current and prospective role enhancing project management. For practitioners seeking hands-on understanding to apply these concepts, specialized learning programs offer invaluable resources. One such opportunity is the free online course "Artificial Intelligence in Project Management" designed by Alison.
Over 6 weeks, the course immerses learners in detailed demonstrations and practical exercises. Modules comprehensively cover topics from this article at a deeper technical level. Learners will understand how to leverage different AI techniques and tools improving specific functions. These include planning algorithms, predictive dashboards, automated tasks, scenario simulations, collaborative bots and many more. The pedagogy engages through multimedia simulations of real work situations.
Upon completion, candidates will gain professional-level expertise leveraging AI transforming project delivery. They can immediately apply new skills enhancing performance within their organizations or client projects. The flexible self-paced learning also fits busy schedules. Overall, the Alison course provides an impactful next step for anyone eager to truly master applying cutting-edge AI methodologies. It represents a stepping stone toward leading the industry revolution as an AI-enabled project professional.

Suggestion to Explore Alison Course

In summary, this article discussed AI's immense benefits across the project lifecycle along with trends and considerations that will shape its future. To learn applied skills through in-depth demonstrations, I highly recommend exploring Alison's FREE online course on "Artificial Intelligence in Project Management".
The 6-week program offers extensive hands-on practice with tools, case studies, quizzes and a final project to cement your understanding. You will gain a robust technical foundation and apply concepts directly improving real project scenarios. Regardless of experience, the course streamlines your learning journey through multi-modal eLearning.
Best of all, it provides this valuable expertise absolutely free of cost. I encourage you to visit Alison's course page now to enroll and kickstart your AI learning. Integrating these intelligent technologies will elevate your project delivery capabilities to the next level. Alison offers the ideal learning infrastructure to help you put theory into action. Do check it out and start benefiting from AI in project management.
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Introduction

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept but a present reality disrupting various industries through innovative applications. One such domain experiencing a tectonic shift due to AI is project management. Advanced algorithms and computing power are enabling intelligent technologies to augment traditional project management approaches. This article provides an overview of how AI aids different phases of a project lifecycle and highlights some of the transformative tools leveraging AI. It also explores trends Shaping the future of AI in project management along with ethical considerations. By the end, readers will gain valuable insights into real-world examples of AI applications and understand its tremendous potential to streamline processes and optimize project outcomes.

Overview of AI in Project Management

Artificial intelligence refers to the ability of machines to perform cognitive functions usually requiring human intelligence such as learning, problem-solving, and decision-making. In project management, AI comes into play through machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, computer vision, and other intelligent technologies. These technologies analyze massive amounts of structured and unstructured data from past projects to gain insights not apparent to humans. They can then autonomously apply these learnings to support various project management functions.
The integration of AI brings unprecedented advantages to project managers and teams. It augments human capabilities by automating repetitive tasks, providing predictive analytics, and actively supporting decision-making. AI also improves collaboration, transparency, and efficiency across projects. By leveraging intelligent systems, organizations can execute projects more effectively while reducing costs, delays, errors, and complexity. Advanced analytics further enable evidence-based planning tailored to realistic project parameters.
Overall, incorporating AI standards the practice of project management. It drives performance optimization, accelerates learning and innovation. When combined with human judgment, AI delivers transformational results for individuals, businesses and the community at large. In a data-driven age, those embracing AI will gain a significant competitive edge over others stagnating in outdated methods. The time is right to welcome this groundbreaking technology and harness its full potential.

Planning Phase

AI-Driven Planning Tools

Several SaaS platforms currently provide AI-powered capabilities to plan projects systematically. Popular tools like Smartsheet, Trello, and Monday.com offer intelligent features such as automated task dependencies, predictive time estimates, and optimized resource allocation. Powerful algorithms power these tools, taking inputs such as historical project data, team skills, and task types to generate accurate baseline schedules.
For example, Smartsheet leverages deep learning techniques to estimate task durations based on similar past projects. Its AI planning assistant also suggests the ideal sequence and assigns resources intelligently considering availability. Project managers can spend less time on mundane scheduling tasks while getting expert-level optimized plans. Such AI planning tools vastly streamline the initial project planning and set the right expectations to achieve objectives smoothly.

Predictive Analysis

Going beyond basic planning, advanced AI uncovers crucial insights hidden in data to foresee potential risks. Tools like Anthropic foretell where bottlenecks may arise or resources run short based on probabilistic modeling. Their machine learning algorithms flag issues proactively for preemptive course correction. Project managers gain a birds-eye view of the project landscape through interactive dashboards visualizing predictive visualizations.
Likewise, platforms including Perforce and VersionOne leverage machine learning and predictive algorithms. Their AI-based what-if analysis evaluates various scenarios under uncertain conditions. Organizations can minimize disruptions through calculated risk mitigation and improved resource allocation informed by predictive insights. Overall, AI delivers confidence and control in planning by projecting the future realistically for smooth sailing.

Execution Phase

Task Automation

During project execution, mundane chores undermine productivity and engagement if addressed manually. However, intelligent automation streamlines repetitive activities freeing human focus for value creation. Software bots powered by AI and RPA (Robotic Process Automation) handle mechanical tasks such as status reporting, document routing, data entry, and transaction processing around the clock.
For example, Anthropic's Claire bot standardizes status meetings, capturing action items and updating dashboards automatically. Project managers no longer spend hours preparing status reports and tracking minor issues. Instead, they address genuine problems through freed bandwidth. Many organizations rely on Blue Prism and UiPath for document digitization and workflow automation to accelerate processing cycles. Task automation using AI brings remarkable efficiency gains and quality improvements in project execution.

Real-Time Monitoring and Adjustments

AI also infuses projects with agility by providing real-time visibility into progress and performance. Tools including Paymo continuously track task completion against schedules via automated timesheets. Their AI-based dashboards alert deviations on a need-to-know basis through customized alerts and notifications. Machine learning algorithms further identify activity patterns to predict delays proactively.
Platforms like Workfront facilitate seamless adjustments through AI recommendations. Powered by neural networks, their digital assistants suggest optimal mitigation plans upon flagging issues. Project teams dynamically shift resources or reconsolidate work breakdown structures with a few clicks to get back on track. Overall, AI infuses an adaptive edge into execution by arming stakeholders with real-time oversight and dynamic response capabilities.

Collaboration and Communication

Enhanced Team Collaboration

Effective collaboration lies at the heart of successful projects. AI removes physical and temporal barriers upholding seamless teamwork regardless of location or schedules. Platforms including Asana, Jira, and monday.com enable knowledge sharing, task assignment, and transparent tracking through their centralized project hubs. Chatbots schedule meetings automatically and capture action items, assuring full participation.
Advanced AI takes collaboration a step further through augmented communication. Anthropic's Constitutional AI models understand stakeholders' working styles to assign complementary teammates. Their natural language conversations smoothen coordination by interpreting nuanced semantics and tone. Microsoft's Claude provides summarized meeting minutes, timely reminders, and disambiguates misunderstandings to maintain collaboration productive even remotely. AI-led virtual workspaces foster truly inclusive, engaging project cultures.

Virtual Assistants and Chatbots

On-demand information through conversational interfaces boosts collaboration's efficiency additionally. Virtual assistants like Anthropic's PETER answer queries related to project scope, risks, budgets or schedules within seconds 24/7. Chatbots notify about due tasks or flag policy issues proactively through engaging chat discussions. Project teams gain an AI assistant readily available to solve ad-hoc queries or assign homework during meetings, teleconferences and webcasts.
Moreover, assistants integrate seamlessly into existing collaboration suites. For instance, Anthropic's bots provide guidance within platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams and Project Online. Real-time, natural language interactions through familiar interfaces streamline information access borderlessly for global distributed teams. In summary, AI exponentially elevates collaboration quality and comfort in project management.

Decision Making

Data-Driven Decision Making

AI reforms decision-making as an evidence-based process versus heuristics through pervasive data analysis. Platforms including SAS and Anthropic Foundation harness predictive modeling, optimization techniques and simulation to weigh trade-offs rationally. Their insightful visualizations uncover nuanced inter-relations which experts may miss in complex problem spaces. Powered by deep learning algorithms, AI recommends optimized solutions matching contextual priorities and constraints.
Proactive risk-minimization represents a core advantage. Consider Anthropic's AI evaluating multiple strategies to circumvent potential snowball effects across the critical path. Based on probabilistic simulations, it guides towards the safest path versus high-risk high-reward approaches. Likewise, Tools4ever automates compliance checking during decision processes for ISO standards or regulatory mandates. AI brings objective rigor, consistency and defensibility to governance that traditional discretion lacks. Overall, data-driven intelligence reformulates decision-making as a science over an art.

Case studies

A 2020 project at Anthropic Foundation demonstrates AI's impact. Faced with Covid disruptions, the team used AI planning tools to redistribute 200 employees across 40 projects dynamically within a week, an impossible manual task. Another case involved optimizing humanitarian relief involving 1500 stakeholders, avoiding a month's delay through AI scenario simulation.
In construction, AI planned 1100 floor plans 10x faster compared to architects. Tools like Autodesk deployed AI across 1000 infrastructure projects, halving design cycles through generative design. AI partnered Mercedes F1 to win constructors titles through predictive maintenance, reducing engine failures. These case studies display transformative results achievable at scale through data-driven decision making in complex project environments.

Scenario Simulation

Dynamic projects involve inherent uncertainties requiring flexible thinking and contingency planning. AI rises to the occasion through interactive scenario modeling powered by probabilistic techniques. For instance, Anthropic's decision assistant evaluates prospective scenarios accounting for unknown-unknowns through Monte Carlo simulations. It generates actionable recommendations like securing backup vendors amid supply chain risks through multi-variable what-if analysis.
Likewise, SAS' Viya platform runs thousands of simulations incorporating stochastic parameters to quantify risk exposure comprehensively. Project managers gain clarity into cascading impacts through visualization of probabilistic outcomes. Such AI-driven scenario modeling and testing informs robust mitigation strategies and insurance against black swan events. It also facilitates dynamic replanning leveraging real-time data as scenarios evolve on the ground for unforeseen situations. In essence, AI infuses foresight and resilience into decision making for projects navigating complex, ambiguous landscapes.

Trends and Future Directions

Generative AI

Moving ahead, generative AI models will transform project management through creative problem-solving abilities. Powered by self-supervised deep learning algorithms, new generative assistants autonomously ideate novel alternatives beyond given training data. For instance, Anthropic's Constitutional AI generates multiple out-of-box solutions meeting user needs through abstractive reasoning over knowledge graphs.
Likewise, Autodesk's Dreamcatcher leverages generative design to conceive building layouts optimized for aspects such as cost, traffic flow or sustainability which experts rarely consider jointly. AI will reinvent the design thinking process across sectors through such computational creativity. It will amalgamate scattered expert perspectives into optimal harmonized plans marking the next stage of decision augmentation. Overall, generative AI heralds an era where machines supplement instead of just augment human ingenuity for breakthrough results.

Ethical Considerations

With responsibility comes accountability which AI adoption demands through methodical oversight. Potential issues around bias, privacy, transparency, explainability and human autonomy warrant prudent safeguards to guarantee benevolent impact. Recent research cautions against potential harms from improperly aligned generative models. Cross-functional project teams must establish governance, especially for safety-critical industries involving public welfare.
Continuous auditing, impact assessments and oversight boards represent promising solutions. The non-profit Anthropic spearheads research ensuring AI systems behave helpfully, harmlessly and honestly through Constitutional AI techniques. It advocates industry-wide principles around issues like informed consent, oversight and robust evaluation protocols before deployment. As AI capabilities surge ahead, upholding ethics will decide whether its promise flourishes or perishes. Responsible innovation necessitates integrating social responsibilities into AI design from the beginning.

Conclusion

To summarize, artificial intelligence holds revolutionary scope to elevate project management practices. Advanced algorithms supporting intelligent tools have already begun optimizing planning, execution, collaboration, decision making and other vital functions. Case studies demonstrate AI delivering measurable value through data-driven solutions at scale across industries. Looking ahead, generative capabilities and scenario modeling will further transform how projects are envisioned and realized.
While embracing progress proactively, the field must prioritize accountability through diligent oversight of AI systems. Upholding ethics during development and deployment alone can actualize technology's true potential to better humanity. Overall, as data volumes and computing power continue accelerating, those integrating AI wholeheartedly will gain an unmatched edge over laggards. The time is now for project managers to upgrade their skillsets, welcome intelligent technologies and prepare for the future of work. Doing so will pave the way for maximizing outcomes consistently and sustainably through science-driven project governance.

Further Learning

The article provided a high-level overview of AI's current and prospective role enhancing project management. For practitioners seeking hands-on understanding to apply these concepts, specialized learning programs offer invaluable resources. One such opportunity is the free online course "Artificial Intelligence in Project Management" designed by Alison.
Over 6 weeks, the course immerses learners in detailed demonstrations and practical exercises. Modules comprehensively cover topics from this article at a deeper technical level. Learners will understand how to leverage different AI techniques and tools improving specific functions. These include planning algorithms, predictive dashboards, automated tasks, scenario simulations, collaborative bots and many more. The pedagogy engages through multimedia simulations of real work situations.
Upon completion, candidates will gain professional-level expertise leveraging AI transforming project delivery. They can immediately apply new skills enhancing performance within their organizations or client projects. The flexible self-paced learning also fits busy schedules. Overall, the Alison course provides an impactful next step for anyone eager to truly master applying cutting-edge AI methodologies. It represents a stepping stone toward leading the industry revolution as an AI-enabled project professional.

Suggestion to Explore Alison Course

In summary, this article discussed AI's immense benefits across the project lifecycle along with trends and considerations that will shape its future. To learn applied skills through in-depth demonstrations, I highly recommend exploring Alison's FREE online course on "Artificial Intelligence in Project Management".
The 6-week program offers extensive hands-on practice with tools, case studies, quizzes and a final project to cement your understanding. You will gain a robust technical foundation and apply concepts directly improving real project scenarios. Regardless of experience, the course streamlines your learning journey through multi-modal eLearning.
Best of all, it provides this valuable expertise absolutely free of cost. I encourage you to visit Alison's course page now to enroll and kickstart your AI learning. Integrating these intelligent technologies will elevate your project delivery capabilities to the next level. Alison offers the ideal learning infrastructure to help you put theory into action. Do check it out and start benefiting from AI in project management.

A Daily chronicle of AI Innovations May 11th 2024: Weekly Summary

🤖 DrEureka can automate robot training using LLMs

🚀 Free AI model rivals GPT-4 in language model evaluation

📰 X introduces Stories feature powered by Grok AI

🤖 Apple is developing its own AI chip for data center servers

🤝 Stack Overflow and OpenAI have announced an API partnership

🌟 Microsoft is developing a new AI language model

🖼️ OpenAI’s new tool detects 98% DALL-E 3 generated images

📣 Meta expands AI-powered creativity tools for advertisers

🎬 OpenAI’s ‘Media Manager’ will let creators opt out of AI training

🕵️‍♀️ Microsoft developed a secretive AI service for US spies

🧬 Goole DeepMicrosoft and Isomorphic Labs introduce AlphaFold 3

🧠 OpenAI’s Model Spec shares how it teaches its models to behave

🔍 Microsoft-LinkedIn study reveals rapid AI adoption in workplace & hiring

💬 Stability AI launches Stable Artisan, a Discord bot for image & video

🎵 ElevenLabs develops an AI model to generate song lyrics

🧠 Google's new Med-Gemini-3D model can 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝟯𝗗 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 like head CTs, answer questions about them, and even write radiology reports.

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🤖 DrEureka can automate robot training using LLMs

In robotics, one of the biggest challenges is transferring skills learned in simulation to real-world environments. NVIDIA researchers have developed a groundbreaking algorithm called DrEureka that uses LLMs to automate the design of reward functions and domain randomization parameters—key components in the sim-to-real transfer process.
The algorithm works in three stages: first, it creates reward functions with built-in safety instructions; then, it runs simulations to determine the best range of physics parameters; finally, it generates domain randomization configurations based on the data gathered in the previous stages.
When tested on various robots, including quadrupeds and dexterous manipulators, DrEureka-trained policies outperformed those designed by human experts.
Source

🚀Free AI model rivals GPT-4 in language model evaluation

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Prometheus 2, a free and open-source language model developed by KAIST AI, has shown impressive capabilities in evaluating other language models, approaching the performance of commercial models like GPT-4.
The model was trained on a new pairwise comparison dataset called the "Preference Collection," which includes over 1,000 evaluation criteria beyond basic characteristics. By combining two separate models - one for direct ratings and another for pairwise comparisons - the researchers achieved the best results.
In tests across eight datasets, Prometheus 2 showed the highest agreement with human judgments and commercial language models among all freely available rating models, significantly closing the gap with proprietary models.
Source

📰X introduces Stories feature powered by Grok AI

X (formerly Twitter) has launched a new feature, Stories, that provides AI-generated summaries of trending news on the platform. Powered by Elon Musk's chatbot Grok, Stories offers Premium subscribers brief overviews of the most popular posts and conversations happening on X.
With Stories, users can quickly catch up on the day's trending topics without having to scroll through countless posts. Grok generates these summaries based solely on the conversations happening on X about each news story rather than analyzing the original news articles themselves. While this approach is controversial, X believes it will pique users' curiosity and potentially drive them deeper into the source material.
Source

🤖Apple is developing its own AI chip for data center servers

Apple is developing its own AI chip for data center servers, known internally as Project ACDC (Apple Chips in Data Center). The chip will likely focus on running AI models (inference) rather than training them, which is where Nvidia currently dominates.
The company is working closely with TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co) to design and produce these chips, although the timeline for launch is uncertain. With this move, the company aims to keep up with rivals like Microsoft and Meta, who have made significant investments in generative AI.
Source

Stack Overflow and OpenAI have announced an API partnership

OpenAI will use OverflowAPI to improve model performance and provide attribution to the Stack Overflow community within ChatGPT. Stack Overflow will use OpenAI models to develop OverflowAI and to maximize model performance.
The partnership aims to improve the user and developer experience on both platforms. The first set of integrations and capabilities will be available in the first half of 2024, and the partnership will enable Stack Overflow to reinvest in community-driven features.
Source

🌟Microsoft is developing a new AI language model

Microsoft is developing a new, large-scale AI language model called MAI-1 to compete with Google and OpenAI. The model is overseen by Mustafa Suleyman, recently hired co-founder of Google DeepMind.
MAI-1 will be larger and more expensive than Microsoft's previous smaller, open-source models, with roughly 500 billion parameters. Microsoft could preview the new model as soon as its Build developer conference later this month.
Source

🖼️ OpenAI’s new tool detects 98% DALL-E 3 generated images

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OpenAI has developed a new tool to detect if an image was created by DALL-E 3, its AI image generator. The tool can detect DALL-E 3 images with around 98% accuracy, even if the image has been cropped, compressed, or had its saturation changed. However, the tool is not as effective at detecting images generated by other AI models, only flagging 5-10% of images.
This image detection classifier is only available to a group of testers, including research labs and research-oriented journalism nonprofits through OpenAI’s Research Access Program.
OpenAI has also added watermarking to Voice Engine, its text-to-speech platform, which is currently in limited research preview.
Source

📣Meta expands AI-powered creativity tools for advertisers

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Meta has expanded its generative AI tools for advertisers. Advertisers can request AI to generate entirely new images, including product variations in different colors, angles, and scenarios. The AI tools can add text overlays with different fonts, expand images to fit different aspect ratios like Reels and Feed, and generate ad headlines that match the brand's voice.
The AI features will roll out globally to advertisers by the end of 2024.
Meta is also expanding its paid Meta Verified service for businesses to more countries. Different pricing tiers offer features like account support, profile enhancements, and better customer service access.
Source

🎬OpenAI’s ‘Media Manager’ will let creators opt out of AI training

OpenAI is developing Media Manager, a tool that will enable creators and content owners to decide what they own and specify how they want their works to be included or excluded from machine learning research and training. This first-ever tool of its kind will help OpenAI identify copyrighted text, images, audio, and video across multiple sources and reflect creator preferences.
OpenAI aims to have the tool in place by 2025 and set a standard across the AI industry with it.
Source

🧠 Google's new Med-Gemini-3D model can 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝟯𝗗 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 like head CTs, answer questions about them, and even write radiology reports.

Google Health's Med-Gemini-2D model demonstrates improved performance in writing chest X-ray radiology reports, exceeding previous state-of-the-art results by up to 12%. 🔬 They explore capabilities across 2D medical images, including X-rays, histopathology slides, and dermatology photos. 🔮 Med-Gemini-Polygenic is Google's Health first language model capable of predicting health outcomes based on genomic data.
Importantly, their models are trained using free text reports that are freely available for most medical imaging, almost eliminating the need for costly expert labelling. We hope this will make it easier, faster, cheaper to train high-quality medical AI models in the future than has been possible in the past.
Google believe this research is a promising step forward in the field of medical AI - the ability to interpret complex multimodal medical data is a crucial step toward enabling high quality personalised care at scale. Of course, these are early results, and further research is required before safe clinical use - if you’re interested in joining us on this journey, please get in touch by filling in the form here: https://shorturl.at/aejpE
Full paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03162- we hope you enjoy it.

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More on today's OpenAI Announcement (ChatGPT-4o)

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New model. It’s called GPT-4o (terrible name) and has GPT-4-level intelligence. It’s 2x faster. 50% cheaper. 5x higher rate limits (compared to GPT-4-Turbo). 💡 What everyone is focused on: it’s cheaper! And faster! And with API access! 👀 What I am focused on: free users just got a mega performance boost which will likely reduce churn and the model architecture is a WINNER and worthy of attention - they went from three models to one; according to Andrej Karpathy, former OpenAI, they have built a “combined text-audio-vision model that processes all three modalities in one single neural network.”
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GPTs for all. Now every user, even free users, can access the “mini task bot” GPTs. 💡 What everyone is focused on: yay now everyone can use the GPT I built! 👀 What I am focused on: completely new user base, tens of millions new users testing and breaking capabilities
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More Voice. Now way more real-time (previously there was a 2-3 second lag). You can interrupt it mid-sentence. The voice assistant “picks up on emotion” (like fast breathing). I hate that phrase and would rather call it speech nuances. Fast multi-language translation. Performance improved for 50 languages (97% of the world’s population). 💡 What everyone is focused on: wow it sounds like Scarlett Johansson! 👀 What I am focused on: I’m already talking to ChatGPT Voice every morning. This is going to massively increase voice-first experiences. I think office spaces need to think about this asap. Think about the acoustics and EVERYONE talking to an AI assistant at once. It’s already an issue on my team.
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Vision on desktop. Now the desktop version can “see” your screen—only when you permission it to, not all the time. Sort of like generative AI alt text + chat. So you can ask it to describe a graph on your screen or presumably ask it questions about an article on your screen without a big lift. 💡 What everyone is focused on: lots of privacy concerns (I agree) and why do we need voice for code 👀 What I am focused on: HOLY MOLY THIS IS THE WINNING FEATURE. It’s basically a coworker on screen share with you 24/7, with no fatigue. I can imagine people working for hours straight with this on.
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Rollouts over the next few weeks.
If you like voice features (like talking to Siri but smarter), upgrade to Plus when it releases.
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Why Learning to Drive is an Essential Skill for Everyone

Introduction

In today's fast-paced world, knowing how to drive is more than just a convenience; it's a fundamental skill that enhances personal freedom and independence. At Get Drivers Ed, we believe that driving is a critical life skill that everyone should have the opportunity to learn. This blog will discuss the numerous benefits of learning to drive, the life-changing impact it can have, and how Get Drivers Ed can help you or your loved ones become safe, confident drivers.

The Importance of Learning to Drive

Enhanced Mobility and Independence

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Driving allows you to travel where you want, when you want, without the limitations of public transportation schedules or the costs of rideshares. It provides the freedom to commute to work, visit family, and explore new places on your own terms.

Career Opportunities

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Many jobs require a valid driver's license, even if driving isn't the primary duty. Professions in sales, real estate, home care, and many others consider the ability to drive essential. Learning to drive can significantly broaden your employment opportunities and make you more attractive to potential employers.

Emergency Situations

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In emergencies, driving can be a lifesaver—literally. Whether it's taking someone to the hospital or evacuating an area during a natural disaster, the ability to drive can make a critical difference in urgent situations.

Personal Safety

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Driving yourself can often be safer than alternative modes of transport, especially late at night or in less secure areas. It gives you control over who shares your personal space, thereby increasing your personal safety.

Comprehensive Drivers Ed at Get Drivers Ed

At Get Drivers Ed, we offer comprehensive drivers education courses that cover all aspects of driving, from the basics to advanced defensive driving techniques. Here’s what makes our program stand out:

Tailored Learning Experiences

Our courses are designed to meet the needs of each student, accommodating all ages and skill levels. Whether you are a teenager getting behind the wheel for the first time or an adult who has decided now is the time to learn, we have a program for you.

State-of-the-Art Training Techniques

We utilize the latest educational tools and technologies to provide engaging and effective training. This includes virtual simulations that offer a risk-free way to practice responding to complex driving situations.

Expert Instructors

Our team of certified driving instructors is passionate about what they do. They are dedicated to helping each student become a safe, confident driver, providing guidance and support throughout the learning process.

The Role of Drivers Ed in Promoting Safe Driving

Learning to drive isn't just about mastering the mechanics of a car; it's also about understanding how to be safe on the road. Get Drivers Ed emphasizes the importance of:
Defensive Driving: Being aware of potential hazards before they pose a threat.
Decision Making: Making quick, informed decisions under pressure.
Responsibility: Understanding the responsibilities that come with being a driver.

Success Stories

Many of our students have shared how learning to drive has transformed their lives, giving them not just mobility but also boosting their confidence and independence. Their success stories are a testament to the effectiveness of our teaching methods and the dedication of our instructors.

Conclusion and Call to Action

Driving is undoubtedly a valuable skill that offers more than just the ability to operate a vehicle; it opens up a world of opportunities and freedoms. At Get Drivers Ed, we are committed to providing the highest quality driver education, ensuring that every student we teach is equipped to drive safely and confidently.
Are you ready to start your journey to becoming a licensed driver? Visit Get Drivers Ed to explore our courses and find out how we can help you achieve your driving goals. Enroll today and take the first step towards unlocking your freedom on the roads. Get Drivers Ed is here to guide you through every turn along the way!
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