In the first half, Ken Druck, an authority on courageous living, spoke candidly about his journey of resilience and healing after a tragic loss. When his daughter Jenna died as a result of a bus accident while studying abroad, "My world was decimated," he said. "But I realized I had to find the courage to go on and live out the rest of my life without making despair the central organizing principle of my life." He emphasized the universal struggle of navigating grief and chaos in a world rife with challenges, stating, "We're all living in a what now moment... questioning the very basis of what's happening in our world and in our lives." Druck found a way to transform personal pain into purpose, noting that even though he walks "with a limp in his heart," he has found the courage to move forward, not just going through the motions, but to create a good life.
"The greatest part of my wholeness as a human being is my capacity to turn the brokenness into compassion, into action, to help people who are suffering," he continued. Druck shared his practice of asking himself four questions every day when he goes out for a walk-- a kind of emotional inventory: what weighs heavily on his heart, what brings him joy, what promises he can make to himself, and what he can let go of to foster well-being. He pointed out the need to shift from self-criticism to self-compassion, saying, "We often have our foot on our throat" with impatience, pressure, and negative judgments. "We need to move our hand down to our heart," he said, "because if our hand is on our heart, there's patience, there's support, there's encouragement, there's faith, there's all the resources that we need to begin to summon the courage and the strength that we need to go on."
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In the latter half, Ruben Uriarte, a seasoned investigator in UFO phenomena and a director with MUFON, shared his insights into UFO sightings and crashes, as well as alien bodies. He detailed significant incidents along the Texas-Mexico border, particularly the 1974 Chihuahua retrieval case when a military plane was said to crash into a UFO. The incident was monitored by satellites, "and the Mexican army retrieved both the craft and the plane," he reported, hinting at government secrecy surrounding the case. Uriarte revealed that a historical study found that between 1947 and 1978, there were 43 documented UFO crashes globally, resulting in the recovery of 131 alien bodies. Focusing on the Southwest US, he cited that in Arizona, there were six crashes with ten bodies retrieved, and New Mexico had twelve crashes with 46 bodies.
He recounted a particularly striking incident from Mexico City, where a police chase of a low-flying disc led to a security guard witnessing a reptilian creature. "She described it as having skin that looks like a dinosaur," Uriarte stated, noting its profound impact on her, causing her to quit her job. Some of the aliens associated with UFOs had highly exotic forms, as in a chilling encounter experienced by a man stranded in a ravine in a mountainous area in Mexico. He saw a large disc start to descend, and then beings that looked like salamanders, with "bodies that were so thin, or even translucent that he was able to see the organs within the creatures." Uriarte also touched on a recent uptick in UFO sightings in Mexican resort towns such as Cancun and Puerto Vallarta.
News segment guests: Mish Shedlock, Howard Bloom