What is it about 2% of people?
According to a study conducted by the Roper Organisation in 1991 (see Supernatural, Graham Hancock, pages 362-363, 408), 2% of Americans describe experiences that suggest they have been abducted by aliens. Parallel with this is the ability of 2% of people to become a shaman – either naturally or via hallucinogenic drugs. According to Hancock, and I’m sold on this theory, they are one in the same thing – an ability to see what others do not, to see things that are either hidden behind a veil, or are part of a collective imagination.
If I need more convincing, this news item about time-space synaesthesia succeeds:
Two per cent of readers may be surprised to discover that they are members of an elite group with the power to perceive the geography of time…
…”In general, these individuals perceive months of the year in circular shapes, usually just as an image inside their mind’s eye,” …”These calendars occur in almost any possible shape, and many of the synaesthetes actually experience the calendar projected out into the real world.”
I’ll be keeping an eye out for other 2% indicators. I can imagine that 50 years from now these people will have a special (high-status) place in society, and their talents are utilized in a respectable manner.
Yes! I believe in physical abduction,.. also slipping into another diminsion unknowingly, and also some are taken out of their bodies during the dreamstate. Like out of body experiences! Quite frequently. One doesn’t have to be a Shaman or take halllucinogenic drugs to see or know. Just open the mind’s eye (the Third Eye) and open thyself to many worlds.
This is quite a revelation. I do perceive the calendar as a circle and I am physically traveling through it. Every date has a specific spot in my brain. It is such a part of me that I never knew i was different. Now I want to know how the other 98% perceive it.
I, too, just learned that the calendar perceived in my mind’s eye is a ‘condition.’ A good friend of mine has it, too. I believe that number is much higher than 2%. Most people with synesthesia don’t know that the way they perceive reality is different so it is probably widely unreported. It does explain why I have an uncanny memory for birthdays.