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Non-human (NHI) intelligence refers to an intelligence or apparently intelligent agency that is not human in origin or nature.

The term is broad and may not automatically mean extraterrestrial beings.

Depending on the context, NHI may refer to:

• Extraterrestrial intelligence: hypothetical intelligent life originating elsewhere in the universe.
• Interdimensional or trans dimensional intelligence: proposed entities associated with dimensions or realities beyond ordinary human perception.
• Non-human biological intelligence: highly intelligent animals or other organisms.
• Artificial intelligence: machine based intelligence, although this is usually discussed separately from NHI in UAP/paranormal literature.
• Unknown or anomalous intelligences: an intelligence inferred from unusual experiences or phenomena whose source is unresolved.

In UAP and parapsychology:

In UAP research, NHI may often be used as a deliberately neutral term. Instead of immediately saying “extraterrestrials,” researchers may say NHI because the available evidence may not establish where an apparent intelligence originates.

For example:

Observation: A person reports an apparently intelligent communication associated with a UAP.

Phenomenological fact: The person experienced the communication.

Interpretation: It may have been extraterrestrial, psychological, technological, paranormal, or something else.

Conclusion: The experience itself does not establish the nature or origin of the intelligence.

This distinction is particularly important in parapsychology, where unusual experiences may be studied without automatically assuming either a supernatural explanation or a purely psychological one.

Key idea: NHI is a category of inquiry, not proof of a particular explanation.

Shervan K Shahhian

Psychological Flexibility is the ability to adapt your thoughts and behavior to a situation while staying connected to what matters to you.

In psychology, especially Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), it means being able to experience difficult thoughts, emotions, or sensations without automatically avoiding them or letting them control your actions.

For example, someone might think, “I’m going to embarrass myself,” before giving a presentation. Psychological flexibility may not require eliminating that thought. Instead, the person may notice the anxiety, accept that it is present, and still give the presentation because doing so supports an important goal.

It commonly involves six related skills: acceptance of uncomfortable experiences; cognitive defusion, or seeing thoughts as thoughts rather than facts; present moment awareness; a flexible sense of self as context; identifying personal values; and taking committed action consistent with those values.

In simple terms:

Psychological flexibility: being open to your internal experiences, adapting to circumstances, and choosing actions based on your values rather than being controlled by difficult thoughts or feelings.

Shervan K Shahhian

Purported Memories are memories that someone claims to have, but whose accuracy or factual basis has not been independently established.

Simple definition

Purported: claimed or reported to be true, but not necessarily proven.

So, a purported memory may mean:

“A person reports remembering something, but we may not yet know whether the memory accurately represents an actual past event.”

Examples

• Childhood: “She has a purported memory of being left alone as a young child.”
• Past life claims: “He reports purported memories of living in another historical period.”
• Trauma: “The client describes purported memories of an event that occurred before they were old enough to have reliable autobiographical memory.”
• Paranormal experiences: “The person reports purported memories of communicating with a non-human intelligence.”

Important psychological distinction

A person may genuinely experience a memory as real without the memory necessarily being historically accurate.

Memory is reconstructive and may be influenced by:

• suggestion
• expectations and beliefs
• imagination
• source monitoring errors
• misinformation
• dreams
• emotional states
• repeated retelling
• hypnosis or guided imagery

Therefore, in clinical language, “purported memory” may often be a neutral phrase. It may not automatically mean false memory; it simply avoids treating the recollection as established fact.

Useful distinction:

Reported memory …“The person says they remember it. ”Purported memory…“The person claims to remember it, but its factual accuracy is unverified…”Verified memory…“Independent evidence supports that the event occurred.” False memory…“The person remembers an event that did not occur.”

Shervan K Shahhian

Phenomenological Facts are facts about a person’s directly experienced subjective experience what the experience is like from the person’s own point of view.

Simple definition

Phenomenological Facts: facts about how an experience is experienced, rather than claims about what objectively caused it.

For example, someone reports:

• “I felt a presence in the room.”
• “I heard a voice.”
• “I experienced intense fear.”
• “I saw a bright light.”
• “I felt as though I left my body.”
• “The experience seemed completely real to me.”

These may be phenomenological facts in the sense that the person genuinely experienced the sensation, perception, emotion, or awareness they describe.

Important distinction

The first column describes the experience itself. The second makes a claim about what caused or explains the experience.

In psychology and parapsychology

This distinction is particularly useful with unusual experiences. A researcher may take the person’s phenomenology seriously without immediately deciding whether the explanation is:

• psychological,
• neurological,
• social/cultural,
• spiritual,
• paranormal,
• or something not yet understood.

For example:

Phenomenological fact: “The individual reports a vivid experience of remembering a previous life.”

That may not, by itself, establish that reincarnation occurred. The reincarnation hypothesis is an interpretation of the phenomenological experience.

This approach allows you to be open minded without being uncritical: take the experience seriously, while keeping the explanation provisional.

Shervan K Shahhian

“The past is a teacher, not a place to live”

The idea behind that saying is a useful metaphor for present focused living:

“Pay attention to your present. The rearview mirror is small for a good reason.”

The rearview mirror represents the past. It is important to look back occasionally, to learn from mistakes, recognize patterns, appreciate accomplishments, and understand where you came from. But you may not safely drive forward while staring constantly into the rearview mirror.

The windshield in front of you, represents the present and the road ahead. It is much larger because your attention needs to be primarily directed toward what is happening now and what you are moving toward.

Psychologically

This may be understood as a balance between:

• Reflection: “What can I learn from what happened?”
• Acceptance: “I cannot change what already happened.”
• Present awareness: “What is happening right now?”
• Agency: “What can I do about it now?”
• Future orientation: “What direction do I want to take?”

The problem may not remembering the past. The problem could be becoming psychologically stuck in it.

For example

Healthy reflection:

“That relationship ended painfully. I can understand what I contributed, what I tolerated, and what I want to do differently.”

Rumination:

“Why did this happen? What if I had said something different? What should I have done? Why didn’t they treat me differently?”

The first uses the past as information. The second may turn the past into a place where the mind repeatedly lives.

A useful principle is:

Look in the rearview mirror long enough to learn from the past, but keep your eyes on the road.

Or even more simply:

The past is a teacher, not a place to live.

Shervan K Shahhian

Toxic stress is a prolonged, intense activation of the body’s stress response system, especially when someone faces serious or repeated adversity without enough supportive, protective relationships or resources.

Examples could include ongoing abuse or neglect, exposure to violence, severe family instability, or other persistent hardships. Over time, toxic stress may affect mind development, learning, emotional regulation, immune function, and may be physical health: please consult with a Medical doctor.

Importantly, some say that stress itself may not always harmful, Low level short term stress may be normal and even helpful?

What makes stress potentially “toxic” may be its intensity, duration, and lack of adequate support or recovery.

Supportive relationships, a safer and more predictable environment, adequate sleep and physical activity, safe environment, and professional support when needed may help buffer the stress response and promote recovery.

Shervan K Shahhian