Extraordinary Investigations
August 2, 2013
I discovered with quite a bit of surprise the 7 DVDs by Stéphane Allix in a box set called "Extraordinary Investigations." Here is the link to order this box set:
I paid 24 euros for the whole thing. So it's not expensive. Good value for money.
It's a pity that someone like Allix didn't approach the UFO case with the same investigative rigor. He did so, in an interesting way, with abductions, interviewing John Mack just before his death (killed by a drunk driver). Allix interviewed credible "abductees" (which is how Spielberg probably got the idea for his series "Taken"). But that's where it stops. If he wanted to go further, what could he do? Turn to old stories like Canadian nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, to a speaker like Englishman Nick Pope, to actors of disinformation like Jacques Vallée, Peter Sturrock or Steven Greer? To a techno-enthusiast like Vélasco? To a clown like Denocla, who sells underpants with illustrations taken from the Ummo sheets, and DVDs presenting songs composed in "Ummite"? Worse, to question GEIPAN?
It would yield nothing.
The serious side is on the level of very advanced physics, beyond the reach of the general public.
A few years ago I had a drink with Allix in Paris. It didn't lead to anything, and I felt we were not on the same wavelength. Nevertheless, I was surprised when I became familiar with his series "Extraordinary Investigations," by the seriousness of his investigations, which I highly recommend. Allix is a man... serious. You can see it. He rarely smiles. That frozen face goes hand in hand with his left-handed writing, which is briefly glimpsed in some scenes (you may know that I have some graphology skills).
Allix is trying to uncover the mystery of the afterlife, following the death of his brother in a car accident. Until this work, I don't recall any serious programs on the paranormal. You may remember those of Jean-Yves Casgha "Boulevard of the Strange," confined to the "magazine" style. Something like:
- I'm in the haunted house with my microphone...
In Allix's DVDs, there is a much more rigorous approach, a methodology. The investigations are not filled with computer-generated images or reconstructions. It's simple, almost austere. "Just facts." It's likely that with computer-generated images and reconstructions, it would have been more "commercial." But that was not his goal, I think.
As they are, these are documents, and these 7 DVDs cover all paranormal phenomena. There are healers, telepathy, the performances of mediums, mental contact with animals, premonitions, and NDEs.
This material will serve as a basis for me to try to model these phenomena. And in this area, I have a lot to say. We can no longer deny the reality of these phenomena, which do not at all fit into the field of contemporary physics. It is necessary to expand "the geometric context," to consider another type of matter, which we could call "meta-matter," obeying the laws of a "metaphysics."
I think that it is now ripe for a scientist, somewhat familiar with traditional writings, with occultism ("what is above is like what is below"), and with some advanced geometric and mathematical tools, to start looking into these questions, not necessarily elaborate models, but at least some leads.
I would like to make a comment. Whether it's Allix or Charbonnier (NDE) or many others, all paranormal phenomena are approached as personal adventures ("me, it happened to me..."). In their statements, their anecdotes, the individual is at the center of the issue. Economy, society, collective thought, politics are left aside. But it's a whole. And the fact of reflecting, of trying to expand this reflection to these "macroscopic dimensions" of the phenomena would be an interesting continuation.
Allix and others also ignore the "dark side" of all these phenomena, I think, which is unavoidable, even if this approach is obviously a bit gloomy. If a healer can act on the astral body of an individual from a distance, simply by using a recent photograph, it's a beneficial action. But if you can do good from a distance, why not... do bad? It's obvious.
I think that one of these days I will write a book on the paranormal, where I will record decades of reflections.