Twenty-five years ago today, a hundred thousand people in Phoenix, AZ witnessed an unidentified flying object that hovered over their city at twilight and lingered into the night. Governor Fife Symington ridiculed what he and so many others had seen with their own eyes, and
I apologize for incoherence. This is a list of some of the facts that I think of as credible but difficult to reconcile with conventional notions of reality. I can't claim to bring any clear, unifying view to all these phenomena, but I hope that the many links might help introduce you to ideas that you may not yet be familiar with.
In any case, I intuitively feel that expanding our reality will be essential to the resistance to globalization that must continue and expand over the coming months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-p0GvX_26g
The UFO issue speaks to the issue of how human perception is steered by pictures developed prior to the particular perceptual act. We rationalize our perceptual “realities,” that can actually only be said to reflect our pictures, in innumerable ways, leaving a carnage of honest and reasonable questions stubbornly disregarded. The current lineup of cultural pictures we hold doesn't seem to be serving us very well, to say the least, so it is good to expose the pictures and flesh them out.
Why anyone would cleave to the idea that there is no one in the universe besides us who might be interested in/capable of creating spacecraft, is one such picture-based idea. A comparable one, I think, is that there are no past lifetimes (that being no more than a cultural residue of Judeo-Christianity imo). We are pretty much a science-worshipping culture but science would be able to prove neither.
Along the lines of what you say at the end, I wonder if we are being perennially visited by beings who are multidimensional, who claim other planets as home, and who don’t require craft to visit Earth. (I am aware of people who intuit this, and I have myself once or twice.) I can’t reasonably doubt that there are all kinds of things that are going on in my own midst that my perceptual apparatus makes a point of filtering out. The science of perception as much as proves this in certain domains. Maybe, by exposing pictures that inhibit broader perceptions, we could find the courage to move beyond them. Maybe, we would be able to open our perception and sense the presence of such multidimensional and other intelligences, to refine a sense of how to maintain the integrity of our own human selves in the presence of such beings while learning from them. I wonder if, by opening ourselves to such possibilities, we would see ourselves in an entirely different light, expanding our own capacity for intelligent behaviors. Could it be that that’s humanity’s job right now?
You bring up the possibility that Earth scientists retro-engineered alien science as a way to reinforce our cultural hierarchies by a huge order of magnitude. I would say, with the end of your post in mind: why stop at what scientists do and achieve? I think our science-worshiping cultural mindset is part of our problem. We can’t seem to allow more intuitive forms of processing until those who practice scientific disciplines are able/willing to stamp them with approval. (Of course, really great science is highly intuitive, and it’s the lesser scientists who grant these approvals.) The development of technologies that allowed the validation of acupressure points, millennia after their discovery, comes to mind.
As you say in somewhat different terms, the pictures we hold speak to what we consider too destabilizing to countenance. We seem to innately prefer a scary known to a scary unknown. No doubt, there is an evolutionary benefit to that. But maybe, the fear has everything to do with the pictures themselves, pictures that at this moment in history are unbelievably destructive of our overall health. I personally would say that one of the missing pieces in our cultural, scientist picture is the concept of an attractive, guiding Intelligence, that wishes for our wholeness.
I see analogies with other recent taboos: no serious people can have doubts about vaccines, or a about the parable of good Western nations fighting the evil Russia. I am not saying these (and other) claims are wrong, but I wish I could think about them freely.
I apologize for incoherence. This is a list of some of the facts that I think of as credible but difficult to reconcile with conventional notions of reality. I can't claim to bring any clear, unifying view to all these phenomena, but I hope that the many links might help introduce you to ideas that you may not yet be familiar with.
In any case, I intuitively feel that expanding our reality will be essential to the resistance to globalization that must continue and expand over the coming months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-p0GvX_26g
Fascinating, I didn't realize that you were into this. I will forward to people who are deeply tuned into this issue.
The UFO issue speaks to the issue of how human perception is steered by pictures developed prior to the particular perceptual act. We rationalize our perceptual “realities,” that can actually only be said to reflect our pictures, in innumerable ways, leaving a carnage of honest and reasonable questions stubbornly disregarded. The current lineup of cultural pictures we hold doesn't seem to be serving us very well, to say the least, so it is good to expose the pictures and flesh them out.
Why anyone would cleave to the idea that there is no one in the universe besides us who might be interested in/capable of creating spacecraft, is one such picture-based idea. A comparable one, I think, is that there are no past lifetimes (that being no more than a cultural residue of Judeo-Christianity imo). We are pretty much a science-worshipping culture but science would be able to prove neither.
Along the lines of what you say at the end, I wonder if we are being perennially visited by beings who are multidimensional, who claim other planets as home, and who don’t require craft to visit Earth. (I am aware of people who intuit this, and I have myself once or twice.) I can’t reasonably doubt that there are all kinds of things that are going on in my own midst that my perceptual apparatus makes a point of filtering out. The science of perception as much as proves this in certain domains. Maybe, by exposing pictures that inhibit broader perceptions, we could find the courage to move beyond them. Maybe, we would be able to open our perception and sense the presence of such multidimensional and other intelligences, to refine a sense of how to maintain the integrity of our own human selves in the presence of such beings while learning from them. I wonder if, by opening ourselves to such possibilities, we would see ourselves in an entirely different light, expanding our own capacity for intelligent behaviors. Could it be that that’s humanity’s job right now?
You bring up the possibility that Earth scientists retro-engineered alien science as a way to reinforce our cultural hierarchies by a huge order of magnitude. I would say, with the end of your post in mind: why stop at what scientists do and achieve? I think our science-worshiping cultural mindset is part of our problem. We can’t seem to allow more intuitive forms of processing until those who practice scientific disciplines are able/willing to stamp them with approval. (Of course, really great science is highly intuitive, and it’s the lesser scientists who grant these approvals.) The development of technologies that allowed the validation of acupressure points, millennia after their discovery, comes to mind.
As you say in somewhat different terms, the pictures we hold speak to what we consider too destabilizing to countenance. We seem to innately prefer a scary known to a scary unknown. No doubt, there is an evolutionary benefit to that. But maybe, the fear has everything to do with the pictures themselves, pictures that at this moment in history are unbelievably destructive of our overall health. I personally would say that one of the missing pieces in our cultural, scientist picture is the concept of an attractive, guiding Intelligence, that wishes for our wholeness.
I see analogies with other recent taboos: no serious people can have doubts about vaccines, or a about the parable of good Western nations fighting the evil Russia. I am not saying these (and other) claims are wrong, but I wish I could think about them freely.