Ever since I started listening to the Binnall of America
podcast I have found that my interest in UFOs has found itself
reignited. In fact I have noticed that
interest in this phenomena comes in waves and we are on the crest of a
new wave of UFO encounters about to hit as I see an escalation in reports from
around the world steadily increase.
Ever since I read Jacques Vallee’s monumental Messengers of Deception and John Keel’s wonderful books such as The Mothman.
I have stood by the perspective that
whatever is happening, UFOs are clearly not spacemen visiting Earth in a style
similar to that portrayed on Star Trek; clearly something even more spooky is going on. It seems that the best place to spot UFOs
also happens to be the best place to spot ghosts and cryptids such as
Bigfoot. Such as idea seems preposterous
but points the way to an exciting avenue of research.
It is difficult for a grown man to sound rational when
speaking about fairies. However it is
clear that there is a lot of overlap with Fairy Lore and UFO lore. Both mysteries involve little green men,
time distortions and lost time, similar hill/spaceship symbolism and often (perhaps
most importantly) UFO landing sites are often sites where people have had fairy
encounters, such as within Rendlesham Forest.
This is suggestive that we are looking at a common phenomena but viewed
through different cultural lenses, in this case that of a medieval agrarian community
and a modern technological one.
The phenomena is bigger than just aliens or fairies
however. In the past there are certainly
records that we have encountered these beings and given them various names
through history such as witches (African tribes referred to flying lights as
witches), Faerie, Djinns etc. At the
very least, the following features are found in all forms of the phenomena:
- Appearance: Often we have accounts of UFO occupants appearing similar to the descriptions given by people encountering fairies. We could perhaps ask does the term “little green men” refer to aliens or leprechauns. Similarly it has often been remarked how similar our friend Lam (as channelled by Aleister Crowley) looks is to the iconic grey alien.
- Time distortion – Often people encountering either will experience some sort of time distortion
- An interest in babies and fertility. In fairy lore we have the concept of a changeling. In UFO lore we have accounts of breeding-programs etc
- Accounts of flying lights. These are one of the most common parts of the phenomena and seem to be universal.
- The experience of going into the hill or going into the saucer.
- Ability to drastically harm – elfshot or strange cancers developing. In medieval fairy-lore branches of magic developed with regards to protecting from these beings and healing some of the damage they can do, which charms and anti-fairy talismans (such as iron) being developed.
On the other hand however there are also a number of
accounts of UFO's being witnessed by trained astronauts in outer space. Does this blow the idea that UFO's may be
some earth related phenomena such as what we would have called fairies a
death-blow?
One of the most fascinating witnesses is Dr Ed Mitchell. He
was one of the original Apollo astronauts. flying to and landing on the Moon
with Apollo 14. Among other things he holds the record for the longest Moonwalk
(9h17m). He is also noted to have an interest in psychic phenomena being the
astronaut who conducted ESP experiments with his associates on Earth whilst in
flight. His background was as a pilot in the Navy before joining NASA and he
holds several degrees including a number of doctorates, some being honorary but
at least one being research based. As such I think we can say he is a highly
intelligent man, a trained observer and a reliable witness.
In recent interviews he has gone on to express a belief in
UFOs (as spacemen) and shocked the scientific world with some views. For
example
If it was just one astronaut we might be forgiven in thinking that there could be other factors involved. However other astronauts and NASA staff have seen UFO's and ET's including Neil Armstrong and Dr Buzz Aldrin. There are in fact many testimonies from astronauts regarding UFOs they have encountered as detailed here. There are also very interesting albeit slightly ambiguous records of the dialogue between Neil Armstrong and Mission Control whilst he was on the moon. The moon itself is very interesting and I shall be returning to the moon in a future post, discussing some of its many mysteries.
I could equally well have dug into the thousands of
testimonies of people who have reported UFO's and other encounters throughout
history. However I have started with astronauts because these are a class of
people who are very intelligent, highly trained both in terms of observation
skills and also scientifically (although perhaps not as blinkered by a political scientific perspective as we might find in academia).
Also and I think this is important astronauts encountering "aliens"
and "UFOs" seems to suggest a "nuts and bolts" "Star
Trek" view of the phenomena - a view which I do not share so am interested
in looking to see if all is not as it appears.
Let’s now take a look at another perspective. For years, a number of researchers such as
Vallee have been suggesting that UFO's and entity experiences are something
other than spacemen visiting from another world. There argument suggests that
Aliens/UFOs have always been here and originate from elsewhere, what might
popularly be labelled another dimension.
I am always a bit coy about bandying words like dimension
around so let us define what I mean. Rather than say dimension perhaps we can
say from a parallel reality existing and mingling with our reality as we know
it. If you imagine our reality as slides from a filmstrip and the other reality
as another filmstrip held next to ours I hope this illustrates what I am
saying. Certainly there is nothing that
I am aware of in physics to suggest such a view is impossible.
Some UFO accounts emphasis strongly the trickster aspect
commonly entangled with fairy experiences and some accounts are blatantly
absurd (although not necessarily fictional)! One of my favourites is the pancake giving
alien. The only witness here was one Joe Simonton who was in his house making
breakfast one April morning. He heard a sound like tires on a wet pavement and
went outside to investigate. On doing so he saw a round disk about 12 ft high
and 30 ft in diameter. From this a hatch opened when three men came out and
telepathically asked Joe to fill a jug with water. He did so and was then given
three pancakes before the UFO closed up and flew off. The pancakes were genuine
and I believe tested and shown to be totally unremarkable. As absurd as this account is there is no
evidence to suggest that Simonton was lying or mad except that this encounter
is totally bonkers to our consensus sense of reality; something which may itself be an
illusion.
With cases like this one the mind begins to boggle. It
certainly breaks the "nuts and bolts" mould simply by being so
absurd. Yet there was clearly a
technologically gloss to this instance. We have a spaceship and the
"aliens" were described as wearing tight fitting uniforms so beloved
of 1950s/60s era B movie science fiction. But the event itself is more
suggestive of a trickster entity such as faeries are reputed to me. I can
imagine them in their mushroom/spaceship after this literally killing
themselves with laughter over this and seen in this light it is hilarious.
Other accounts are more sinister and fairies have been known
to turn nasty. There is a similar aspect to this with UFOs where phenomena such
as Cattle Mutilations and Men in Black rear their ugly heads. Many examples of Men in Black seem to suggest
an inhuman quality to the visitors as if there are something not quite human
and doing an imperfect job as masking themselves as such. More interesting we could also examine this
inhumanity and wonder if the inhuman sense is itself deliberate in order to
create even more disquiet – if you can create illusions, why create almost perfect ones?
I suppose we could ask the question as to which is the truer
picture. Are alien spacemen being seen though an olde-worlde earth perspective
and encountered as fairies or are we seeing fairies through a scientific gloss
perceiving them as spacemen?
Actually I rather think that to categorise them as one or the other would be naive. Throughout history they have shown many forms. However the Pancake incident does seem to reinforce the idea that there is a cultural filter over what we humans are perceiving. Our minds work by symbols and once a symbol is used to associate with a manifesting energy then it seems that the mind likes to keep it that way. In other words if one tends to perceive an energy as a spaceman one probably always will.
One of the most common aspects of these phenomena is that of
the flying lights. These are described variously as spacecraft, fairies, flying
witches etc. It is even possible that the Will-o-the-wisp phenomena is more
complex that simply marsh gas as suggested in some cases, although just as some
UFO's can be Venus, presumably some will-o'-the-wisps will be marsh gas. Some
researchers such as Michael Deveraux have suggested that flying lights are
linked to places of high electro-magnetism on the earth’s crust and this does
seem to be a variable in the phenomena. Michael Persinger’s work in Canada has
also suggested that electromagnetic fields can distort human perception,
activate transcendent states and give one the sense of being abducted and/or
out of one’s body.
I think that this research is incredibly important and in no
way invalidates the paranormal aspect of these phenomena. Rather it is saying
that the brain is capable of these states (which is interesting and wondrous in
itself) and that these states can be triggered by electromagnetism. It points
to electromagnetism as being a component in the phenomena but does not make
this a necessity.
For example, I can create an illusion of heat and burning in my mouth by eating "hot" chillies. The capsaicin in the chillies stimulates the same nerves in my mouth that get stimulated when I eat hot (as in heated) food. This shows that senses and experiences can be fooled and stimulated by other means and just as chillies are not really hot (in the heated sense) phenomena may not be really electromagnetic, rather the electromagnetism is stimulating the same parts of the being that gets stimulated by phenomena. We don’t know of course and it would be hasty to assume anything here other than that much more research is needed.
Given that astronauts also perceive UFO's not only on the
moon but also in the empty stretch between the Earth and the Moon, I would
suggest that the electromagnetism in the earth crust is not the only factor in
this. Perhaps this phenomenon needs a carrier to transmit it to us. One such
carrier may be electromagnetic radiation, another may be marsh gas etc, and
another may be orgone energy as postulated by Wilhelm Reich. Again we are really on the edge of speculation
here and are jumping into unknown territory.
Perhaps a form of perichoresis takes place through the
transmitting medium whether it be EM radiation, marsh gas and orgone each being
relatively simple "building blocks" so any influence from another
dimension may find it very easy to impress and emerge in our reality through
this media. This is sort of like those pictures we see of flying birds in the
work of MC Escher – If one gets caught in the detail one sees the birds but if
one steps back and looks at the picture as a whole we see a larger picture
emerge.
There is a wonderful example of perichoresis in Salvador Dali's
"Destino" animated film. If you do watch it take
a look at how Zeus "emerges" from the archway. The goodies start at 4m and 50s into the piece.
Perichoresis might also be a component towards an explanation for Crop Circles. Andrew Collins excellent book The Circlemakers suggests that orgone is responsible for the circles, and this may well be correct. However orgone may suggest the mechanism by which circles are formed but doesn’t necessary address the issue as to the nature of the information coming through and this I believe is where need to look towards perichoresis. Something elsewhere is impressing these patterns on our reality.
It has been suggested that astronauts are changed by the
simple fact of going into space and we do see a lot of returning astronauts
being caught up in paranormal projects, getting religion or simply being awed
with wonder, something many of us lose as we get older, more cynical and jaded.
Certainly for me I find images such as the opening sequence
of Carl Sagan’s "Cosmos" very moving and would love to experience
something like space-flight and really see and experience some of the images
NASA release. I can imagine that being out there, would really open the mind to
wonder and perhaps create an "enflamed with prayer" type of state
where magic happens. There is an updated space flight sequence based upon the one in Cosmos in Jodie Fosters "Contact" based upon Sagan's book
Contact Space Flight
Could this act of wonder have the effect of switching astronauts on, perhaps making them more spiritual and psychic? Is it possible that "reality" is loaded so that the act of a species travelling into space switches them on in a way similar to magic does opening up the larger universe?
In a sense something similar happened a billion or so years
ago when life on earth evolved vision. At that point the visual universe opened
up and because visible to all. Granted this was actually for our distant
very-very-pre-human relatives but the event is rather staggering, nature went from
being blind to being able to see. Our very language of spiritual attainment
uses this as a metaphor. Words like “Enlightened”, “Illuminated” may in some
deep atavistic way still remember this event and carry it on in our being and
terminology for extended awareness.
There are some very interesting peculiarities surrounding
the evolution of vision. First of all it seems to have developed on several
places independently, so all life with vision does not share a common ancestor
who was the first creature with sight. Rather there are several possible
ancestors. This sort of suggests that the pattern of sight was programmed into
evolution (in a very heretical and non-Darwinian way) to emerge perhaps in a
similar process to how Sheldrake’s Morphic resonance is presented.
More interesting still is the fact that sight is supposed to
have evolved before the brain at least in its current form developed. This is confirmed by looking at the human pineal
gland in the centre of the brain. It actually possess some photosensitive
properties suggesting that whilst atrophied will have certainly acted as an eye
in our ancestors. It seems that the brain grew around the eye, adding abilities
to process the new visual data being received. The brain of course does a lot
more than think, and it does act as a filter and translator to what we see. For
example at its simplest it filters out the blood vessels in our eyes which we
do not see. It also tends to take out unexpected anomalies in our vision. The problem however with the idea that the
pineal gland is an eye is that this is not supported by the fossil record. However if not, why does it have
photo-sensitive properties?
Some experiments were done years ago involving a man dressed
as a gorilla running onto a baseball game and waving at the audience. The
majority of the audience didn’t even notice him because it was so far outside
our expected vision that it simply processed the data out. This can work
conversely as well and expected objects can appear in our visual matrix.
I think that we are on the verge of a perceptual leap
perhaps similar to what was experienced when life evolved the ability to see
portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Changes are taking place both through
our personal evolution as magicians and as individuals as a part of the human
species going into space which are shifting our perspective and as a result
enhancing and mutating our perceptions to see the universe in a more connected
magical state where we will be able to see the fairies, UFO's etc in all their
myriad forms and maybe not understand but certainly communicate and interact
with.
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