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Somewhere (I'll dig it up) there's a video. It's on the Yowie Hunters YouTube channel. Only watched it once, so stand ready to be corrected when I post the video
but, far as I remember, it concerned a young guy who went jogging fairly regularly up at Mt Tamborine. The video shows his usual route and I recognised it. Nice stretch of road
The young guy lived at home on the mountain. His mother phoned Yowie Hunters. Seems her son had returned from his run and said he'd been pounding along, late afternoon as usual, when he became aware of something pacing him. It was off the road he was running on and I think he said it was on the other side of a row of tall conifers that line the road
He described the thing as big and matching his stride. He'd never seen anything like it before. He doesn't run that route now, apparently
If he'd reported seeing a kangaroo pacing him a few metres away, it would make the news due to its oddity rating. Might be a header to the news-filler along the lines of 'Kanga preparing for marathon, choses itself a jogging buddy'. People would remark, 'Oh, how cute'. Maybe some expert would advise us that native animals are adopting human behaviours increasingly due to climate change or invasion of their native environment by over-development
but, if the jogger's story had featured some known creature, that story would be accepted
If Yowies exist in our 3 dimensional reality they might eventually be accepted by science and society
The problem with the Yowie lies in the fact it cannot be categorically established as an animal. It is said to have several human-type characteristics. As such, humans regard it as a threat to their supremacy over the natural/animal world. It's regarded by many as a challenge, an affront. So it's rejected out of hand by those who have a need (which they may not recognise as existing within themselves) to be top of the food chain
All of which is understandable. We humans guard what we consider to be our province. If enemy troops were spotted in the bush, or were to plunge down on to the road in front of us or jog alongside us, we'd feel threatened, particularly if those troops of unknown origin were reported as being of massive size and strength, etc
It's all about tipping-point. One Yowie report every few months can be dismissed. Ten a month would become a worry. Hundred a month and we'd have armed troops out there
But back to the guy on Tamborine Mountain. Young guy, fit, used to the terrain at that time of day, familiar with the fall of shadow, sounds alongside, etc. Most who exercise on the same route regularly are reluctant to abandon their route. For a start, they chose that route for a reason: comfortable distance to run, pleasant environment, easy access, etc. Yet according to the mother, her son quit his regular route after seeing an unidentified creature. The incident rattled/scared him sufficiently to force him to change his routine/route. He didn't want to encounter that creature again
no one asked him or the mother, but I feel it's safe to say that was the only part of life to change. He probably still eats the same foods as before, wears the same clothes, drives the same car, has the same friends, etc.
So what's left to analyse? If it was an inexpllicable 'psychotic break', it must have been of extremely brief duration
There's another possible explanation, insofar as he might have slipped into an altered state of consciousness as can occur when someone's faculties take over mundane processes. It can happen to people who drive the same route to work, for example, at the same time of day. They reach work or home and realise they don't remember too much of the drive
It's known that humans are tuned so that they see and hear less than one percent of the audio/visual spectrum. In other words, humans are designed to perceive less than one percent of all that exists around them
in certain cases however, and with certain people, a type of 'leakage' obviously occurs so that they see/hear/perceive more than the intended one percent. Those people experience paranormal activity -- sometimes once only in the lifetime, but for some it's several incidents and for others, it's continuous
altered states of consciousness can disable the 'censor' which would usually restrict them to that one percent of all which exists around them. Altered states of consciousness can be caused by illness, drugs (recreational and prescribed), shock and horror or something as non-frightening as scenery or elements of Nature (woods and forests, tranquil garden or lake for example) or routine -- and many other things, no doubt, sex being another
The Doors of Perception may have opened momentarily as the young guy jogged along at teh end of the day. His critical faculties would have been untouched by a momentary altered mind state and it would have been those critical faculties (in this instance, fight or flight) which interrupted his mental reveries to warn him that he was not alone. And would have warned him from which direction
his eyes swung immediately to the perceived source of threat. And saw what most likely did not intend to be seen -- a Yowie
Who knows why the Yowie was pacing him. Maybe the Yowie had been pacing him each night for weeks, unseen, because the jogger had been 'normally aware' (meaning almost non-aware, because humans can only perceive 1% of all that exists)
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