I was listening to Clif High’s Perplexity the other day, and it reminded me of something Ingo Swann went to great lengths to make crystal clear. In Secrets of Power, Volumes I & II, Swann repeatedly describes humans as a “power species”—and he explains why this is not just flattery, but a statement with cosmic consequences. Yes! Cosmic Consequences!
Joseph Patrick Farrell also asserts this, and we will get onto that another day but in Secrets of Power, Swann explicitly connects the idea of humans as a rare “power species” with the likelihood that this status could attract the interest of non-human intelligences.
He states that:
Humanity’s latent psychic capacities—if developed—could operate at levels capable of “engineering reality itself” rather than merely reacting to it.
Such abilities would place us in a “different order of beings” within the larger cosmos, distinct from species bound to purely instinctual or material interaction.
This level of capacity would inevitably attract the attention of other intelligences, both human and non-human, because control or alliance with such a species could shift power balances across planetary or even interplanetary scales
Innate Power Potentials
Ingo believed this because he saw that we are biologically and psychically wired with latent capacities—physical and extrasensory—that go far beyond the requirments for mere survival. If fully developed, these abilities could operate at a level capable of engineering reality itself, not just reacting to it. Such potential would put us in a completely different category of beings in the cosmos—set apart from species limited to instinct or machinery. And that kind of capacity? It would attract attention—human and non-human—because controlling or allying with such a species could shift the balance of power on planetary or even interplanetary scales.
So what did Clif say that got me fired up? Well, he’s admitted to reading Ingo, so it’s not surprising we’re thinking along similar lines. But Clif takes it somewhere fascinating—into the actual mechanics of how reality is materialized….oh and aliens : )
The standard alien story says they’re advanced. Brilliant. Omniscient. But what if they have a flaw? What if—despite all their technology—they can’t influence the probabilistic fabric of reality itself? Clif’s model calls reality an Event Stream—a probabilistic field of unfolding moments, shaped by observation and intention. And humans? We’re not just in the stream.
We can move it.
Let’s bring in Alfred North Whitehead. He argued reality isn’t built from things—but from occasions of experience. Each event is an act of becoming—born from relationship, perspective, and memory. Quantum physics echoes this: the double-slit experiment, the observer effect, wavefunction collapse. In all of them, conscious observation determines what becomes real.
As Clif says:
“The observer is a participant in the shaping of the flow of events.”
We are not passive witnesses. We are conscious attractors, pulling certain probabilities into manifestation. And here’s the kicker: maybe NHIs can’t do that.
But we can.
The Human Hand on the Wheel of Reality
Clif High’s conception of the Event Stream is, at its core, an argument for the participatory nature of reality. It is not a theory of the universe as an inert stage upon which events happen, but of a living, responsive field into which human beings are inextricably woven. In his view, the Event Stream is not external—it is co-created through our ongoing engagement with it.
Here, High echoes an intellectual lineage stretching from Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy to John Archibald Wheeler’s participatory universe, and on to the esoteric traditions of Hermeticism and Vedanta. In each, the observer is not a passive witness but an actor, feeding experience back into the world’s unfolding.
The Eternal Now
High asserts that the past and future are mental constructs—useful for navigation but ontologically illusory. Reality is the sequential surfacing of potential into the Eternal Now, a flow of possibilities into the single moment where life is actually lived.
This position aligns with David Bohm’s implicate order and Whitehead’s “actual occasions,” both of which describe the world as a ceaseless series of becoming rather than a fixed structure. In this context, the Event Stream is the reservoir of proto-events—the as-yet-unrealized field from which actuality is drawn.
The Rule of Assumption: Steering the Stream
High’s most practical contribution is his elaboration of what he calls the Rule of Assumption, which he offers as a corrective to the popular but often diluted “Law of Attraction.” The Event Stream, he argues, is not moved by idle wishing or verbal affirmations. It is responsive to psycho-emotional coherence—a fully embodied state of being in which thought, feeling, and assumption align.
He identifies four prerequisites for influencing the Stream:
Proximity – The desired outcome must be near enough in potential to be reached; one cannot pull a distant probability into manifestation without losing the energetic thread.
Intensity – Emotional charge matters. Vivid, high-intensity feeling bends probability more effectively than lukewarm desire.
Harmony – Internal contradictions act as static in the signal; if the desire and the inner reality clash, the field responds with incoherence.
Serenity – The aim must fit within a higher cosmic order. Manifestations that serve tyranny, harm, or parasitism are naturally self-limiting.
The central mechanism is not words or images but felt reality. As Neville Goddard once put it, “feeling is the secret.” High agrees: embody the state as though it has already occurred, and you impress it upon the Stream.
Emotion as a Technology
High is explicit: Reality responds to feeling more than to thought. In this, he converges with disciplines as disparate as Daoist internal alchemy, which transmutes emotional energy into spiritual force, and the experimental findings of parapsychology, in which intention modulated by emotion affects random number generators and other probabilistic systems.
He also draws a distinction between human capacity and the limitations of artificial systems. Machines, he argues, cannot do this work; it requires the embodied observer effect—life engaging life. Without consciousness, the feedback loop collapses.
The Political Dimension: Predictive Programming
Where High moves from metaphysics into the realm of strategy is in his treatment of predictive programming. Media, he suggests, does not merely report events—it preloads consciousness to accept them. The method is simple: introduce imagery, narratives, and symbols that emotionally seed a certain future. When enough human beings internalize and feel it, the Event Stream tilts toward making it real.
This is not a new observation; Rudolf Steiner warned that images and stories could be used as occult tools to steer collective will, while modern mass psychology, from Edward Bernays onward, has sought to capture and direct attention for political ends. High’s point is that such manipulation works precisely because humans, and not the manipulators themselves, are the psi-engines capable of crystallizing probability.
The NHI Hypothesis
One of High’s more provocative speculations is that non-human intelligences—whether alien, interdimensional, or otherwise—may have played a role in shaping human evolution specifically to exploit this faculty. If they themselves lack the ability to influence the Event Stream, engineering a species that can would grant them indirect control over reality’s unfolding.
This would cast the whole history of human culture, religion, and even myth-making in a different light: less as the accidental byproduct of evolution, more as the training and deployment of a psychic interface species.
Strengths of the Model
High’s theory, while unconventional, integrates several strands of thought with surprising coherence:
Reality as participatory – Matching both modern physics and ancient metaphysics, the idea that the observer helps create the observed.
Emotion-intention coupling – Recognizing that feeling, not merely thought, drives the interface with probability.
The Event Stream as a real field – A workable metaphor for Bohm’s implicate order, Whitehead’s occasions, and Jung’s collective unconscious.
Predictive programming as engineering of consensus reality – Plausible within mass psychology and historical precedent.
Life as the key to influence – The insistence that consciousness, not mechanism, is the active agent.
Closing Reflection
High’s Event Stream theory is less a rejection of science than an extension of it into the domain where physics, philosophy, and esotericism meet. Its strength lies not in offering a final model, but in reframing the human role from spectator to co-author.
If he is right, our interior states—what we allow ourselves to feel, assume, and embody—are not private at all. They are infrastructural to reality itself. And the most subversive act in such a universe is not rebellion in the streets, but the disciplined cultivation of inner coherence toward futures of our choosing.
In that light, the Event Stream is not merely “out there.” It is in us, of us, and—if we have the courage to claim it—steered by us.
All of this stuff is in Season Four..so get ready : )
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