Giant Dragonfly Encounter in Eastern Kansas
Was this an Interdimensional Encounter or a Glimpse of an Elusive, Living Species?
In a holographic universe, experiencing meta-dimensions of reality such as moving backward or forward in time or engaging in psychic communication with other intelligence seems to come from the mystical implicate order unfolded and made explicate by energetic alchemy. These experiences tend to surprise us when we least expect them. I wonder if we may also cultivate a state of mind conducive to eliciting such encounters from otherwise mundane activities.
I experienced a possible interdimensional breach, one with which Bohm would’ve had a field day, back in the mid-1980s. I was driving east on I-35 in eastern Kansas one hot and sticky summer day, my ‘67 Mustang rumbling across the heatwaves, windows down, my hair blowing in wind, when something moving near a billboard on the right side of the highway caught my attention. A giant dragonfly, I mean absolutely breathtakingly huge and just beautiful, perfectly and utterly gorgeous, hovered in the air - rather like a modern dragonfly (most species of which don’t exceed a few inches in span), but much bigger than anything known to exist today. I’ve generally thought of it as having a 3 to 5 feet wingspan.
Whatever its size, surely such a dragonfly either exists in a parallel dimension or lives discreetly on our planet, well hidden from modern prying eyes. It looked a bit like this:
No joke, I did a double take, triple take, whatever. I looked as long as I could, which was too short for satisfaction - just a couple of seconds.
Years later I was somewhat surprised to learn that fossils of this (or a similar) species, from 260 million years ago, were found in the 1960s near Elmo, Kansas - not all that far from where I caught a glimpse of a giant, “extinct” dragonfly hovering near the highway.
STACE TUSSEL
Tags: cryptozoology, giant dragonfly, holographic universe, interdimensional, protodonata
March 5th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Stace,
Why did you publish this today? I’m curious.
There are lots of curious sightings of odd creatures (Mothman, bigfoot, giant birds etc) and I think we are dealing with something other than a remnant species. There is something much more strange going on…
Mike C!
March 5th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Why today…? I really don’t know why I chose to post this particular incident at this time. This is a story I’ve wanted to share with a wider audience for years, and since I’ve been writing a lot about solar activity and earthquakes, I figured it was time to get back to some of the inexplicable things that have happened in my life.
Seeing the giant dragonfly was quite a memorable experience! I have tossed around the idea of this dragonfly sighting as resulting from a “rip in the fabric of time,” so to speak…but I’ve also considered that the giant dragonfly may really exist to this day. The mystery of it all has stayed on my mind for all these years.
Just today I also found a reference to some fellow in Texas who said some years back he saw dragonflies as long as his arm…so that fits my description pretty well. Cryptozoologists may be alerted to look for more evidence along these lines, although again, who knows - was it a living specimen of a species thought to be extinct? Or was it a glimpse of another dimension?
March 6th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Stace & Chris Knowles are both bloggers, and they have created a set of Dueling blog posts, and both should read each-others writings. Curious explorations of the HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE.
A suggestion from Mike C!
LINK to Christopher Knowles’ site:
http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2010/03/synchroncity-and-holographic-universe.html
March 3rd posting on SECTET SUN,
Title: Synchronicity and the HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE
- and -
LINK to this site:
http://inter-intelligence-communications.com/
March 4th posting on INTER INTELLIGENCE COMMUNICATION,
first sentence: In a holographic universe, experiencing meta-dimensions of reality such as moving backward or forward in time or engaging in psychic communication with other intelligence seems to come from the mystical implicate order unfolded and made explicate by energetic alchemy.
(Stace, that was a GOOD opening sentence!)
March 19th, 2010 at 5:08 am
Stace - that was a fascinating experience. It would have been so captivating to have been there.
I also wonder if you have seen something that has passed through a doorway. I’d call it the same dimension but a paralell reallity, either linked by across distant space or the same dimension in another universe. I belive their are many tempral-spatiall doorways on our planet - some artificial, some natural. and I believe that sometimes creatures come and go accidently and at will. My partner has actually had the experience of passing through such a doorway. I wonder if you’re dragon fly did the same thing.
But so many possibilities. It could equally be surviving in this world.
Reallity is so much stranger than we realize. These glimpses that some of us are getting of something else, are pushing that boundary, ever so slowly. Whether it’s physical reality or the reality of cosnsciousness.
It sound slike you have so much more to share, when the time is right. There is a lot I’d also like to share with you.
Nice post Stace.
March 26th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
The interesting thing about your post is the number of different ideas you touch on while mentioning your curious observation. I picked up a new word from Wikipedia because of your post:
“In the United States dragonflies and damselflies are sought out as a hobby similar to birding and butterflying, known as oding, from the dragonfly’s Latin species name, odonata. Oding is especially popular in Texas, where 225 out of a total of 457 known species of odonates in the world have been observed. With care, dragonflies can be handled and released by Oders, like butterflies.[8]”
Another interesting comment from that same article in Wikipedia:
“Japanese children catch large dragonflies as a game, using a hair with a small pebble tied to each end, which they throw into the air. The dragonfly mistakes the pebbles for prey, gets tangled in the hair, and is dragged to the ground by the weight.”
Your statement re what you saw- “Whatever its size, surely such a dragonfly either exists in a parallel dimension or lives discreetly on our planet, well hidden from modern prying eyes.”- was one, because of the way you put it, that made me think again about the idea of alternate worlds.
David Deustch talks at length in “The Fabric of Reality” about the multiverse and the MWI- many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The term multiverse’ was, strangely, or not so strangely, coined by William James. What is the connection between the multiverse and mind?
If your observation was anything other than simply mistaken, or a hallucination, and I don’t really think it was either of those things, then to explain, or understand its occurrence necessitates a change in our understanding. Not only does it possibly challenge evolution, but our ordinary understanding of what is possible. It is something of a paradox, and not unlike Olber’s paradox, leads us further away from the ‘ordinary’ path(s) than one might think.
Perhaps it does live discreetly, like Bigfoot and others, and to cross its path is something akin to invading its world, and to see it as it is, requires a certain state of mind, and a modicum of grace as well.
Last but not least. I find the other comments interesting. In particular I ended up on Bright Garlick’s site from her comment and from that on Bewilderness. Here is the beginning of her experience(s):
“You might say it started with the dreams, but it’s more accurate to say it started when I noticed they had changed. It took much longer before I became aware of the other things. The dreams were first: they ranged from prophetic to archetypal to bizarre, and they had feelings attached, a sense of “literal-ness” in some cases, that I didn’t know how to describe. On any given day I’d be reeling from their impact. My mind changed about them, about why I was having them and what they meant, on an almost hourly basis. I’d never before considered dreams very important, and might not have in this case, except that suddenly they felt so different that I couldn’t help but take notice of them.”
June 19th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
I live near dallas tx. I saw a dragonfly in north dallas that was at least tenn to twelve inches in length (body). I was wondering what kind of dragonfly this was.
June 21st, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Thanks for reporting your sighting, Jon. There are no known, existing dragonflies with body lengths of longer than about half a foot - but of course that doesn’t mean that they’re not out there. I have no idea what kind of dragonfly you saw, but I would love to hear more about your experience - when and where (e.g., over a pond, marshy area, in your yard, etc.) it happened, for instance. How closely were you able to observe the dragonfly?
According to an internet search, mysterious giant dragonflies are reported with some frequency, unlike “giant honeybees” or “giant grasshoppers,” for instance - indicating to me that there may be a real dragonfly species (or perhaps more than one) that is eluding capture and identification. That fossils exist of presumed-extinct species, and that these fossil finds and many of the modern reported sightings are both occurring in similar areas (the distance from my sighting to yours in Dallas isn’t very far) makes exploring this possibility further even more important.
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:46 pm
I’d like to send you two photos related with one gigant dragonfly. But the point is this: They, I say “They” because only appear or are visible when I take and watch the photos, don’t see them on the air at any time. This is very very strange, I think that this kind of insect or thing developed an invisible field, knows how to disappear to the human look, is an interdimensional entity or high tech with insect shape that vibrates to the frecuency of the camera flash. Also I want to say you that according to the relation between the “insect” and the objects, its size is huge, not cms, Meters¡ maybe 10 meters¡ If you give me an email I could to send you the two photos. But you must promise me that you’ll modify part of the ambience or background of the photos because its entorn allows to acknowledge the site and country. I guess that you know what I’m talking about… Right?
[Note from Webmaster: Stace is corresponding with Joe and will post photos he may supply, as appropriate. Thank you!]
July 24th, 2010 at 7:30 am
So many times I have been drawn to take digital photos outside, and often get UFO craft sometimes red in colour passing over, that I cannot SEE when Im looking out.Our eyes are just not high enough in light frequency to get all the details that pass in front of us, so these photos should make good viewing if you can put them up Stace, and many thanks to Joe.Every picture tells a story, so im interested to see what these offer, perhaps they have the alien tag to them, and if fact are ufos, with the brain telling joe its a big dragonfly, something he can understand and deal with ?