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UFOS AND TELEPATHY

by Roger Marsh

Telepathy has a running history in the study of UFOs when witnesses testify they communicate with non-human entities without speaking. Eleven of the 241 cases logged into the recently-released book, UFO Cases of Interest, from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), include testimony the witness communicated or somehow interacted with the object.

Some describe telepathy, others intuition, the ability to summon a craft, or where the object reacts to the witness in some way.

Testimony varies and includes reports like this first case in January 2017 when the witness suggests the object was “summoned.”

A Mississippi witness at Canton reported watching and videotaping a group of “glowing, hovering orbs,” according to testimony in Case 81498.

The witness was standing outside talking to a neighbor at 1:21 p.m. on January 9, 2017.

“I saw this orb start flying around,” the witness stated. “It disappeared. Then when it reappeared, it came back with 15 more. It swirled above us for a few seconds and then disappeared.”

The witness says this is the second time she has seen UFOs and that she had summoned them.

“I know how to do it. The first time I did it, I saw the orbs, but then they morphed into a bird-like creature with white bodies and black tipped wings but continued to glow. They swirled above me and my neighbor, flew into a formation and then disappeared.”

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Mississippi MUFON Field Investigator Richard Hoffman investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown-Other.

​And in this January case, the witness was talking about a previous UFO case when the object appeared.

A Maine witness at Orrington reported watching two, silent, low flying, triangle-shaped objects, according to testimony in Case 82502.

The event occurred on Friday, January 13, 2017, beginning at 11:19 p.m.

“We left the Brewer Walmart around 10:50 right before they closed at 11 and we headed back towards Orrington. We were heading up the Brewer Lake Road and went around an 'S' turn and we had noticed these red lights down the road above the dam on the lake.”

The group was not far from the Bangor International Airport.

“So, it didn't seem like there was anything unusual about something like that; it looked like it was just beyond the dam and it was flying parallel to the road. It looked like it could have been a plane coming in. But there was something unusual about it, so when we saw it, I started talking about, I swear, how I saw a UFO the previous January.”

The group continued to drive down the road closer to the object.

“I'm still talking about the UFO. It was like it heard me talking about UFOs because this triangular silhouette went from being far off the road and fairly high in the air (500 - 700 feet) to swooping in very close probably 400 feet off the road and 200 feet high.”

Maine MUFON State Director Valerie Schultz investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown.

Then there are the cases where the witness sees an object, and “commands” it do something.

A California witness at Santa Rosa reported watching a bright ball of light that ejected two objects, according to testimony in Case 82613.

The witness and friends went to a local high school for skateboarding on March 9, 2017.

“As we were skating around on a blacktop, a very bright light caught my attention,” the witness stated. “At first I just thought that it was Venus being magnified by the atmosphere as it was so low on the horizon and it was not obviously moving. After a minute of me continuing to skate, I looked at it again and I realized it was not in the same place that it was. Then it became obvious that it was moving.”

The witness described the object.

“It had no blinking lights and was much, much brighter than a plane or helicopter, with no sound whatsoever. I brought my two other friend’s attention to the object. It slowly moved across the sky and then at the point in which it seemed to be centered in our view, it slowed significantly.”

The witness felt as though he was communicating with the object. 

“This happened within seconds of me asking, in my mind, for the object to do something to make it even more obvious that it was of otherworldly origin. This made be under the impression that this object was aware of me and my friends observing it. We continued to watch it as it continued its average speed again and then its path seemed to change from a perpendicular one to a diagonal path away from us. As the object was moving away, and we’re still watching, one of my friends was describing another UFO sighting that he had. He said something along the lines of, I was watching it and it dropped... and literally, immediately after he said that word, dropped, that object that we were currently watching dropped a twinkling light straight down from it that seemed to fall very quickly and disappeared before getting three-quarter the way to the ground.”

California MUFON Field Investigator Hady Felfly closed this case as an Unknown UAV.

In the following case, the witness believes the object is reacting to being watched.

A California witness at Rancho Cordova reported watching a disc-shaped object hovering 20 feet above the ground while others in the area seemed not to notice, according to testimony in Case 83576.

The witness and his fiancé were leaving a restaurant on Folsom Boulevard at Hazel Avenue at 8:30 p.m. on May 4, 2017, when the incident began.

“I spotted the object at about 45-degrees from the horizon in the south,” the witness stated. “The weather was overcast and cloudy with winds from the west at 10-15 mph. When I first saw it, I thought it was a helicopter because of the green flashing lights that at first looked like navigational lights.”

The witness described the object.

“The object had a dark, matte grey or black finish and was silhouetted well against the clouds. It descended to a level where it was obscured by the parking lot tree and then descended to full view across the street. The completely silent object was approximately 60-foot in diameter, saucer-shaped with three white lights on the west facing side and a red glow underneath.”

The object stopped descending and hovered about 20 feet from the ground about 180 feet away from the witness.

“The object showed no visible signs of propulsion nor did it disturb the vegetation in anyway. At this point my fiancé wanted me to take a picture, so I sent her for my phone in the car. It seems as if the UFO knew she was coming back with a phone because it started moving off as soon as it was in her hand.”

California MUFON Assistant State Director Devlin Rugne investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown UAV.

Here is a case where the witness tried to communicate with the object.

A Canadian witness at Metaghan reported watching a series of cigar or “dumbbell-shaped objects showing no emissions, according to testimony in Case 83637.

The witness was driving towards Yarmouth from Church Point at 8:20 p.m. on May 10, 2017, when she spotted a dumbbell or cigar-shaped object hovering in the southern sky.

The witness noted a difference between these objects and jets.

“The object was significantly larger than a standard jetliner I would normally see in Nova Scotia skies. Nova Scotia is one of the busiest flight paths from international flights reaching US/Canada destinations. The outline of the object was fuzzy and the object(s) themselves were glaringly bright. The shape of the object was cigar-shaped, but with indents in from each respective edge similar to a dumbbell. I felt excited when I saw the objects (enough to call my husband and tell him what I saw!). I said out loud, ‘Hey! I see you! I wonder where you're from?’ I lost sight of the object(s) when I took my eye off of it (them) as I continued my drive to town.”

Canadian MUFON Field Investigator Paul Bedard investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown Other.

In the following case, the witness believes the object stopped to pose for a photo.

A Florida witness at Cooper City reported capturing a disc-shaped object while taking a photo of the moon, according to testimony in Case 84752.

The witness was in her backyard taking photos of the moon at 10:02 p.m. on July 1, 2017. The woman’s child filed the report for her.

“It sat nicely just beyond the palm trees in her backyard,” the reporting witness stated. “As she focused and snapped the first photo of the moon, she noticed a light zoom into view for a second or less as if the object got into place to be viewed in the photo. This happened so quick that the object appeared for that photo and then disappeared. She did not see any other movements except for the time it zoomed into place. It happened so fast that it was an accident on her part.”

The witness examined the photo.

“After zooming on the photo, I noticed a very bright, white light lining the entire outside edge of what seems to be a disc-shaped object. Also, above the lights you can see a dark, sloping outline and below the lights there seems to be some kind of object protruding out with more lights on it. The object could be upside down. The object seemed to be above the clouds when viewing the photo so it is difficult to guess on the size.”

Florida MUFON Pete Tirado closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

This next case involves a witness who believes the object reacted to it being photographed.

An Ohio witness at Girard reported watching and videotaping a “huge, glowing, disc-shaped craft” hovering over a golf course, according to testimony in Case 85012.

The witness and his family were returning home from shopping at 9:32 p.m. on July 7, 2017.

“This was the second sighting two nights in a row for me,” the witness stated. “Because of the sighting I had the night before, I was being extremely observant of the skies. It was almost dark, but the sun was setting, and the sky was clear with no cloud cover. We turned the corner off Liberty Street that runs parallel with the golf course. As soon as you turn onto this road you have a clear view of the golf course and the skies above it and as soon as I looked up there was a huge glowing, disk-shaped craft just hovering above the golf course.”

The craft was just a short distance from the witness.

“By my estimation it was hovering just above the club house at the time we turned the corner. As we made our way down the street to our house, the craft seem to move closer towards the houses that lined the third hole of the course.”

The witness stopped his vehicle when they reached the school on their right with the craft on their left.

“I immediately froze at first, having been shaken already from the event the night before. I couldn't believe it was happening again. The size of the craft was huge. Probably about 300 feet long. It was pulsating lights of yellow and red around it and it seemed to make no sound.”

The witness parked his car to inspect the “massive disk-shaped” craft.

“We stood there for about 10 minutes. I took my phone out to get a video because the night before my phone wouldn't work around the objects and I wanted to try again. This time I was able to get about 18 seconds on video before the craft started to move towards us even more and when it moves overhead of the homes on the course my phone shut down again.”

The object frightened his family.

“This thing scared my daughter and my girlfriend. You can hear them on the video getting scared when it seemed liked the craft was reacting to me filming it. After my phone shut down we got in the car and I took my family home to be safe.”

Ohio MUFON Field Investigator Joseph Pavlansky closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

In this Missouri case, the witness believes the object reacted to the family leaving the sighting scene.

A Missouri witness at Christian County reported watching a “glowing structure that appeared above a house after a flash of three lights, according to testimony in Case 85508.

The events occurred beginning at 9:45 p.m. on July 29, 2017.

“We live out in the country in the Ozark-Rogersville area,” the witness stated. “During the day, a friend and I lit a fire. My friend noticed a plane-like structure off in the distance emitting red lights. The sky was clear with hardly a cloud, but I couldn't see what she was seeing, even after moving behind her into her field of vision. We laugh about it and moved along. This was approximately 5-6 p.m. Central Time.”

About 9 p.m., the two decided to leave.

“After locking the house and loading the dog into the car, my friend and I sat down in the front seats of the car, ready to start the ignition. I then see a flash of three, bright, white lights in my peripheral vision. They were stacked like a triangle, with two lights on the bottom and one on top. I immediately got out of the car to get closer to the object that appeared after the flash of lights. My friend, on the other hand, told me she was so scared for her life that she didn't move from her passenger seat in the vehicle.”

The witness described the object they were seeing.

“The object that appeared above the house was about 500 feet from us, and about 50-60 feet up in the air. It was unlike anything I've ever seen. It appeared hollow, but not like any hollow 3D structure in that I couldn't detect a definite inside edge. There were bright, white lights on the structure that appeared to glow from the inside out. Initially, I believed it to be helicopter-sized. I started yelling to my friend, ‘What is that?’ That is when this object stopped hovering above the house and changed directions, coming right toward us in our car. It appeared to be getting smaller the closer it got to us, but never smaller than about 15x15 feet. About 50 feet before our car, this object descends down towards us in a U-shape, then corrects itself and gains elevation. At its lowest point in the descent, I thought it might hit our car and I was afraid for my life – it was no more than 30 feet directly above the top of our car. It then regained its initial elevation of maybe 50 feet and disappeared into the tree line at the edge of the property. We immediately turned on the car, pulled out onto the main road and attempted to see it again, but it had disappeared. The most interesting part of this was not only the almost indescribable shape, but that it seemed to know we were leaving the property. It's very obvious (and terrifying) lurch towards our car was either on purpose (maybe to scare us?) or the result of whatever was operating it losing control of the structure. Either way, this appeared and disappeared out of nowhere with a clear intent that we should see it. Additionally, this object was completely silent and appeared incredibly aerodynamic. It wasn't inherently malevolent, but also didn't appear to be particularly friendly or welcoming. I honestly love reading about UFOs, but now that I have actually seen one, I wish I hadn't. This was a very scary experience.”

Missouri MUFON State Section Director Emmett Reary closed this case as an Unknown – Other.

In November, a Colorado witness felt an intuition to open his vehicle’s moon roof and look up.

A Colorado witness at Aurora reported watching a hovering, triangular-shaped object, according to testimony in Case 88459.

The witness was driving home at 8:55 p.m. on November 30, 2017.

“I had an intuitive sense to open the moonroof in my Acura RDX – specifically to observe the moon – which my son has been tracking for his class studies,” the witness stated. “When I did, I both saw the moon, as well as a low-flying, triangular-shaped object that appeared stationary. I slowed my vehicle and pulled to the side of the road to observe it. I was almost home, and our subdivision is close to both Buckley Air Force Base as well as wide open space east of the Denver-Aurora metro area. At first glance, I believed the object to be one of the many aircraft often sighted over the Air Force base; however, most of those craft fly during daylight hours, and in 13 years in living at this location, I have never observed a craft looking like this one.”

Colorado MUFON Field Investigators Richard Evans and Deborah Evans closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

This Kansas witness states they received “story flashes” from the object.

A Kansas witness near Manhattan reported watching “twin, star-like balls of light in the sky,” according to testimony in Case 88840.

The witness was driving home at 10 p.m. on December 9, 2017.

“I noticed that the left side of my window was full of stars and the right side was a completely clear sky,” the witness stated. “I looked up to my right and saw two, star-like balls of light that were pulsing and hovering in a general vicinity up in the sky. I saw the balls of light had color, but I couldn’t tell what color, due to the distance. The colors were blurred together. A few seconds later the ball of light on the right takes off in a rainbow-curved shape followed by a red-over-blue streak of light. There is a flash of light and the ball was gone leaving only one floating ball of light in the sky. At that point I thought it was a bomb and was waiting for an explosion. When none came I looked harder at the ball of light. It just continued to hover and pulse in the same spot. Eventually it faded with my drive, but each time I went to look for it I always ended up finding it sitting there watching me. During this whole experience I was getting flashes of someone telling me a story and explaining to me how we will soon become a part of that group. I have an idea for a book based on the story I was told during my experience.”

Kansas MUFON Field Investigator Michael McCord closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

And finally, an Oregon witness believes the object knew they were watching and turned on bright red lights.

An Oregon witness at Ontario reported watching a hovering triangle, according to testimony in Case 89165.

The witness was driving to Vale at 9:15 p.m. on December 23, 2017.

“We just passed Ontario Municipal Airport,” the witness stated. “We both at same time looked up above our car, maybe 100 feet up max, as a triangle-shaped craft turned bright red and as if it knew we were looking. It appeared like it was hovering for a split second and then rocketed so fast away from us, like Mach 5 or 6 – it streaked out of sight. This is within a mile or two of Malheur Butte Volcano. We both think this may be somehow related. We both at the same time said, ‘OMG, did you see that?’”

Oregon MUFON State Director Thomas Bowden closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

Il fantasma di Bedford

Era il maggio 1884, quando i coniugi Evans si trasferirono nella loro nuova casa di Bedford, una cittadina industrializzata ad ovest di Cambridge. Il marito James era un commerciante di antichità, e gli affari andavano piuttosto bene. Era un periodo in cui la diffusa passione per i reperti antichi spingeva moliti a creare imitazioni, più o meno grossolane, tanto che erano forse in circolazione vi erano più reperti falsi che autentici. James si era specializzato nel riconoscere le contraffazioni, sia per quanto riguarda i quadri, sia per quanto riguarda monete e statue di origine romana. La sua bravura e la sua riconosciuta onestà intellettuale gli avevano garantito una buona fama tra i nobili e i borghesi del tempo appassionati di antichità e che trovavano in Evans un consulente affidabile. Sua moglie Cathryn si occupava delle faccende domestiche e pare che fosse particolarmente abile con il ricamo all’uncinetto.

Sembrava che i coniugi vivessero una vita agiata e spensierata, ma all’improvviso qualcosa cominciò a disturbare pesantemente la loro quiete.

I primi incidenti cominciarono nell’agosto del 1984. La signora Evans continuava a trovare tracce di muffa lungo le pareti della stanza da letto. La muffa continuava a ripresentarsi, anche poco dopo la sua rimozione. Col passare dei giorni il fenomeno assunse tuttavia caratteri decisamente più inquietanti. In particolare le muffe si espansero anche in altre stanze della casa ed assunsero colori tra il giallo e il verde. Inoltre, progressivamente, cominciarono a prendere delle forme determinate. Le macchie erano sempre più simili a delle mani, delle mani inequivocabilmente umane. James Evans, in base a quanto riferito dalle cronache, era una persona razionale e attribuì il fenomeno semplicemente a delle infiltrazioni di umidità.

Fece quindi scrostare e ridipingere tutte le pareti coinvolte, ma il fenomeno si ripresentò dopo pochi giorni, più irruento di prima. La signora Evans cominciò a preoccuparsi seriamente: non dormiva la notte, mangiava poco e  - forse a causa del suo stato mentale poco sereno – cominciò a vedere ombre scure che si aggiravano minacciosamente per gli ambienti.

Così iniziarono a circolare strane voci sulla casa dei coniugi Evans. Si diceva che fosse infestata da fantasmi o da spiriti malvagi, e che i proprietari non facessero nulla per allontanarli. Infatti si erano categoricamente rifiutati di rivolgersi a spiritisti e medium – molto in voga all’epoca -, ritenendo che si trattasse di gente poco seria, che voleva solo approfittare economicamente di simili situazioni e sfruttare la faccenda per avere un po’ di notorietà.  

Fu solo consentito ad un fotografo del giornale locale di posizionare la propria macchina fotografica e scattare alcune fotografie. Infine, per tranquillizzare la moglie che dava segni sempre maggiori di inquietudine, James Evans decise di chiamare un sacerdote per benedire la casa.

Da allora i fenomeni diminuirono rapidamente, fino a cessare del tutto. Non si scoprì mai esattamente quale fosse la loro causa, ma alcuni giornali insinuarono che Evans, a causa del suo mestiere e della sua passione per l’antiquariato, avesse collocato in casa una qualche statuetta di origine sconosciuta, la quale avesse portato con sé da lontano un qualche maleficio.

La maledizione sarebbe cessata solo in seguito alla benedizione della casa (forse accompagnata anche distruzione dell’oggetto). Da allora in poi, anche tra i successivi acquirenti dell’immobile, nessuno avrebbe riscontrato più fenomeni particolari.

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il loro sguardo è irresistibile e difficilmente siano in grado di dire “no” ad un micio che ci guarda con i suoi occhioni dolcissimi.

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Anche nelle giornate più difficili e quando abbiamo l’umore storto, loro sono accanto a noi e pronti a farci tornare il loro sorriso con la loro silenziosa presenza.

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Robot, androidi e macchinari che simulano il comportamento umano sono presenze costanti nei racconti di fantascienza e nei film ambientati del futuro.

Sembra quasi qualcosa di scontato pensare che nei secoli a venire il mondo sarà caratterizzato dalla presenza di automi intelligenti, dotati di una propria coscienza ed autonomia, un po’ come il Sig. Data di Star Treck. Non mancano nemmeno i racconti in cui i robot assumono aspetti negativi, ad imitazione ed esagerazione della malvagità umana, fino a divenire degli spietati assassini e dominatori della terra, a scapito naturalmente della nostra specie. 

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In quel tempo, infatti, le scienze erano in pieno fermento, in tutti i campi. Sembrava che il progresso scientifico fosse inarrestabile. Nelle botteghe degli esperti in meccanica e degli orologiai comparivano congegni meccanici ad ingranaggi sempre più complessi: si trattava di orologi che potevano rappresentare animali, esseri umani oppure soggetti religiosi, tutti dotati di un certo movimento. Il più delle volte si trattava di movimenti rigidi e limitati, ma non mancavano opere più elaborate, in grado di imitare sorprendentemente un movimento naturale.

Molti ritenevano che si trattasse di oggetti fondamentalmente inutili, privi di un loro scopo pratico. Si trattava invece di vere opere di ingegno, che dimostravano fin dove potevano spingersi la mente e le abilità umane, pur senza l’aiuto di motori elettrici, circuiti, computer e programmi informatici.

La nascita di queste macchine conobbe una vera esplosione, e tra gli inventori nacque una forte competizione. Una competizione che aveva come obiettivo anche creare stupore, meraviglia, intrattenimento. Furono allestiti veri spettacoli, spesso anche molto costosi, in cui si esibivano gli automi, divertendo il pubblico con movimenti che fino a poco prima erano ritenuti impensabili. Compivano persino azioni complesse come suonare disegnare, scrivere e suonare il flauto.

Nelle cronache irruppe però un vero e proprio gioiello della tecnologia e dell’ingegno. Almeno all’apparenza. Si trattava del “Turco” o del “Giocatore di Scacchi” dell’ingegnere Wolfgang Von Kempelen (n. 1734, m. 1784) costruito per dilettare l’imperatrice Maria Teresa d’Austria, che come molti nobili dell’epoca era appassionata di magia, illusionismo, pratiche esotiche ed esoteriche.

Il consigliere dell’imperatrice si mise all’opera e dopo parecchi mesi di duro di lavoro, nel 1770, si dichiarò pronto a mostrare la sua invenzione alla regina e al mondo. il pubblico si trovò davanti un pupazzo montato su una cassa di legno, ove era posta una scacchiera. L’automa era vestito con abiti orientaleggianti, proprio per suggerire agli spettatori un’atmosferica magica.

Il pupazzo era capace giocare a scacchi. Non solo, ma era talmente abile ed esperto da poter sconfiggere con favcilità i più importanti e bravi giocatori della corte. Sarebbe stato, insomma, qualcosa di ben paragonabile ai nostri software che riescono a battere persino i campioni.

Il fantoccio e il suo autore girarono per l’Europa, e si dice che la macchina sconfisse persino Napoleone Bonaparte.

Cominciavano così ad essere molti gli sconfitti, ma erano molti anche quelli che avevano qualche dubbio sulla genuinità dell’operazione. Chi poté esaminare il “Turco” non fu però in grado di rinvenire alcun trucco.

Com’era prevedibile, si diffusero allora voci inquietanti, secondo le quali il macchinario o addirittura lo stesso autore sarebbero stati posseduti dal diavolo o da uno spirito malvagio.

Dopo la morte del suo inventore, la macchina passò di mano in mano, finché fu venduta al Principe Eugenio de Beauharnais, per una somma molto elevata. Sfortunatamente, il principe rimase assai deluso del funzionamento dell’automa e così pretese tutti i suoi soldi indietro.

“Il giocatore di scacchi” in realtà non era affatto una meravigliosa opera tecnologica: era infatti un pupazzo mosso da un uomo esilissimo e al tempo stesso abilissimo nel gioco degli scacchi, che si nascondeva sotto alla scacchiera e poteva seguire lo spostamento delle pedine grazie ad alcuni magneti posizionati in corrispondenza della scacchiera all’interno del cassone, e muovendo il braccio del fantoccio.

L’automa passò di nuovo di mano in mano e giunse negli Stati Uniti, ma anche qui l’inganno fu scoperto. Il Turco e il suo tranello furono smascherati davanti al grande pubblico nel 1836, quando Edgar Allan Poe scrisse un articolo in cui svelava il trucco.

Il Turco, “esibitosi” per qualche tempo a Cuba, tornò negli USA, e venne esposto in un museo a Philadelfia, dove purtroppo però fu bruciato nel grande incendio del 1854.

Sebbene si trattasse di una truffa, è un peccato che “Il Turco” sia andato perduto. Non era un vero robot, ma pur trattandosi di un inganno a modo suo ha fatto la storia della robotica e di quei tentativi – veri o falsi – che hanno portato l’uomo a sognare un mondo futuro fatto di macchine umanoidi.

Come diventare RICCHI

Quasi tutti hanno un sogno nel cassetto: diventare ricchi o quantomeno avere abbastanza soldi da non avere più preoccupazioni economiche. 

Tutti desiderano smettere di preoccuparsi dell'affitto, del mutuo, delle bollette, dell'assicurazione dell'auto e di altre spese, più o meno improvvise, che dobbiamo affrontare nel corso della vita. 

Al tempo stesso si sogna una vita rilassata, agiata, trascorsa occupandosi dei propri passatempi, viaggiando, visitando posti nuovi, mangiando in ristoranti di classe e soggiornando in ristoranti di lusso. 

Così ci si immagina un futuro sereno, dove ci si gode la propria villa con piscina e in cui l'unico pensiero è divertirsi e godersi  in pieno la vita. 

Sono desideri egoistici? Sì, senz'altro, ma non per questo negativi. Non dobbiamo affatto vergognarci di aspirare a vivere bene e in maniera spensierata. E, perché no? nemmeno di voler guidare un'auto di lusso e viaggiare in buisness class verso posti esotici. Sono tutti desideri umani leciti e legittimi, che in qualche modo fanno parte dell'essere umano.

Ma qui arriva la domanda fatale. Come fare? Come diventare ricchi? Come avere abbastanza soldi da permettersi tutto questo?
La ricetta per diventare ricchi e guadagnare montagne di soldi arriva dall'Università di Kriberg in Germania. Qui i ricercatori hanno esaminato la vita e la carriera delle persone più ricche al modo, cercando di individuare quali siano i fattori che li accomunano e che li hanno portati a simili grandiosi successi. 

Gli studiosi sono arrivati alla soluzione che per diventare ricchi sia più facile di quanto sembri. I miliardari erano spesso persone comuni, se non addirittura persone in difficoltà nate da famiglie povere.
A differenza degli altri però, sono diventati così ricchi e sono riusciti a guadagnare letteralmente montagne di soldi perché... hanno creduto nei loro sogni e non si sono mai scoraggiati, partendo dal basso e insistendo anche difronte a piccoli o grandi successi. Le difficoltà che per alcune persone potevano essere insuperabili sono state affrontate con coraggio e determinazione. Proprio questo li ha portati al guadagno, scalando la vetta del successo passo dopo passo, gradino dopo gradino senza mai stancarsi né fermarsi alle prime vicissitudini sfavorevoli.