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Over the past twenty-four hours, something beautiful has happened to myself and my wife. It must have started sometime after nine last night. We first noticed it at close to one this morning.

Anne had gone to bed around nine. I was sitting up as I usually do. When I last looked at the clock, it was around ten thirty. Suddenly Anne appeared in the doorway. She had a rather perplexed expression on her face. She said, “What’s going on? What’s all the noise?” I looked up at her confused. There wasn’t any noise. Nothing was going on. She said, “What’s that on TV? Is that the NFL?” The television was dark.
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Researchers at MIT have successfully implanted false memories in mice. Using a technique called optogenetics, researchers were able to isolate neurons controlling a single memory in the brain, tag them, then later stimulate them with light to induce the memory.

“If mice had Hollywood, this would be ‘Inception’ for them,” said Steve Ramirez, one of the lead researchers of the study, referring to the 2010 science-fiction film. The study was published online in the journal Science.
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From a recent news story: "Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have successfully implanted a false memory into a mouse’s brain, a seemingly far-fetched idea reminiscent of a science-fiction film."

If scientists can implant false memories in mice, what does that say about the close encounter experience? Could it be that false memories can be implanted in people–not by somebody from MIT, working in public, but by people with a very different agenda and far greater scientific knowledge and technological skills than are possessed by those working in the public sphere?
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Connie J. Cannon brings her insights as a close encounter witness and a lifelong Mason to this enigmatic mystery. She and Whitley Strieber trade stories about the Masonic symbolism in their own encounters, and speculate about what the significance of the ‘Masonic connection’ that was so powerfully illustrated in Connie’s son’s experience two weeks ago. This will be among the finest discussions of the true enigma of close encounter that you have ever heard.
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