Mike Clelland > Quotes

“   Something very odd is going on in our world. It is not simply the manifestation into our physical reality of things that western culture merely considers symbolic or archetypal. It is also that these manifestations appear in a bizarrely synchronistic manner. It is as if someone or some intelligence is pulling the strings of our reality, and doing so in order to tell us something. To teach us.”
― Mike Clelland, The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee

“We should expect artists to be more sensitive and more open to abstract thoughts and ideas. If they are more open, they should be capable of tapping into the mystical static that is bouncing around the collective ether. True inspiration is a mystery, and any artist can describe how getting lost in this zone can create a sort of timeless trance where things just flow magically. An artist’s best work comes from a mindless place, unhindered by logic and intellect. This could be the concert violinist standing on stage, or the illustrator hunched over in the corner with a sketchbook. Although it almost always falls short, the Hollywood machine is continually trying to come up with the next UFO-themed product. But where do these ideas come from?”
― Mike Clelland, The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee

“This stuff is a swirling mess that will challenge any thinking person’s rigid perceptions. It’s a boiling soup of contradictory ingredients like UFO abduction, synchronicity, archetypes, shamanic initiation, totem animals, altered reality, psychic visions, powerful mind control—and owls.”
― Mike Clelland, The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee

“Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do… Look at every path closely and deliberately… Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question… Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use. —Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan”
― Mike Clelland, The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee

“The owl is a symbol. It’s much more than just a bird with big eyes, it represents something in the darkness just beyond what we know in our conscious minds. It’s a red flag forcing me to pay attention, a clue to look deeper. Again, why owls?”
― Mike Clelland, Stories from The Messengers: Accounts of Owls, UFOs and a Deeper Reality

“When you eliminate the tent and embrace the tarp, you end up much closer to the natural world.”
― Mike Clelland, Ultralight Backpackin' Tips: 153 Amazing & Inexpensive Tips for Extremely Lightweight Camping

“Moldavite is a green crystal that originates from one source—a meteorite that crashed into what is now the”
― Mike Clelland, Stories from The Messengers: Accounts of Owls, UFOs and a Deeper Reality