UFOS and ALIEN VISITATIONS / ABDUCTIONS

Summary:

At the center of Alternative Thinking on UFOs and Alien Visitations/Abductions is the proposition that:

1) Aliens in UFOs visited earth in prehistoric times to create the human race.

2) Aliens assisted early humans in developing those early preliterate cultures. Aliens also assisted in the design and construction of their great stone monuments symbolizing those early cultures (Stonehenge, Sphinx, pyramids, Incan walls, Meso-American pyramids etc.) because early humans were not mentally or technically capable of building them.

MY RESPONSES TO PART 1

I know of no preliterate myth or carving that shows an alien- like God appearing either out of the "mist" or from a vehicle of some type to create human beings.

Human creation is always a part of a general creation myth describing the birth of earth and the heavens and its first God-like inhabitants. All of those creation myths begin with chaos or thought or the earth elements eventually forming those first Gods and eventually human beings. For a good review of them I suggest you see the Wikipedia discussion of them.

Yet for those who insist they have found ( or imagined) or had a vision of an Alien creation of human beings, all I can say in return is that while such a view of human creation is theoretically possible, given the fact that the reasons for our transition from animal to human will always remain in the realm of mystery and never be pinned down in a factual manner, I see it as a very weak theory of human creation.

I'm not talking here about "human" being defined as upright stance and brain size here; what really distinguishes the human animal from all the other animals: a human's ability to create stories: to reach back in memory and create a little world with a beginning, middle and end that allow humans to communicate very complex truths such as Macbeth and E= MC2.

This definition of human may surprise you, but it is a very old one and bears up under investigation. Tool-making, fire-creation, logic , etc. are really the result of our ability to communicate ideas via stories. Recent studies of chimpanzees show that while they can use tools such as sticks, they don't have the means, or interest, to pass the idea on to others afterwards.I suggest you take a look at at ALICE HICKEY: Between Worlds, as it is central to the book.

Yet if we merely resign ourselves to merely physical factors, I see it as highly improbable (given the growing scientific evidence) that such an Alien/human creation theory will ever outweigh the scientific theory on the natural evolution of the human species. I say this recognizing that the existing scientific evidence is somewhat sketchy and still somewhat limited to factors such as upright stance, walking stride, thumb, and brain cavity size and shape. Yet it can’t be ignored.

It's a question of which theory ( and supporting evidence) is stronger. Right now, I'd side with conventional science on the physical evidence that some form of ape became human but my deepest conviction is that the reasons for our becoming human ( and how that transition took place) will always be in the realm of mystery. Always.

This is very important, because physical characteristics really do not define what a human is, and therefore can't define the reasons why and when and how some primates became human, in other words, the physical characteristics of the primate that was to become human and the physical characteristics of the primate that became human would be the same, given that a large amount of time did not exist between the two.

What I am suggesting, and what I believe, is that the various mythic conceptions of the creation of humans are far more compelling than either the Alien theory or the various Scientific evolutionary theories.

Who are you going to believe on this matter of man coming into existence: the great metaphoric creation myths that indicate the truly mysterious nature of human creation, or some hastily concocted visitation scheme that misinterprets those early myths by taking them to be factual statements, or the scanty physical evidence of Science.

The great metaphoric creation myths were story poems—metaphoric stories issuing from the collective unconscious. These ancient metaphoric stories are as illusive as dreams when it comes to interpreting them. We can only feel their truth and be content to leave it at that.

If you would like to investigate a creation myth (The creation of human consciousness) that was made from a preliterate mindset, I suggest you take a look at ALICE HICKEY: Between Worlds.

MY RESPONSES TO PART TWO

There are a few glyphs, carvings and translations of preliterate myths that could be interpreted as Aliens visiting earth to instruct human beings in advanced thinking. But these are very skinny interpretations that could just as easily be interpreted as metaphoric representations of an unconscious entity or intuition doing the same thing.

After all, that is the way all human knowledge has advanced since the beginning of time, by intuition, either by a sudden insight interrupting our conscious minds or by an even more startling insight that arrives via psychic event, such as a vision.

We can see this even in modern times.

Einstein once said of intuition: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

A well-documented case of intuition concerns Frederick Kekule's (1829 - 1896) discovery of the structure of benzene. Kekule saw the answer in a dream of a snake coiled and biting its tail. In an intuitive flash, he realized that the molecular structure was characterized by a ring of carbon atoms. Benzene is a 6 carbon ringed compound with 6 hydrogen atoms with the carbon-carbon bonds arranged alternately single and double. This discovery opened the way to modern theories of organic chemistry.

My own experiences with intuition makes me favor the interpretation of these preliterate "Aliens teaching human scenes" as metaphoric representations of the arrival of an insight. After all, that is the way the preliterate mind operated, it expressed ( and interpreted) events in terms of metaphors.

If you are not aware of the difference between preliterate consciousness ( which was imitative/metaphoric) and modern consciousness ( which is explaining, factual) I suggest you read Julian Jaynes' The Origin of human consciousness in the Bi-Cameral mind. Or my own ALICE HICKEY: Between Worlds.

Once you are familiar with how the preliterate mind worked, you'll begin to see that all the art ( carvings, oral myths) left us are metaphoric in nature and not statements of fact as so many alternative thinkers take them to be. It is a big, big mistake to see them as statements of facts.

All that aside, there is still the alternative position that the great prehistoric stone monuments could not have possibly been built by Stone Age humans.

This position is widely held by many alternative thinkers. Yet they are completely ignorant of the artistic and anthropological evidence of the high native intelligence and construction capabilities of early prehistoric (Stone Age) humans.

I see most of these alternative views as being no more than highly speculative, imaginative exercises made possible by the fact that prehistoric cultures (having no writing) left no evidence as to how and why their great monuments were constructed as well as no written evidence as to how the nature of those cultures and how they evolved.

For example, there exist no such alternative views concerning the construction of the Parthenon (even though less than 2000 years separate it from Stonehenge) for the simple reason that the literate Greeks left voluminous written evidence of the particulars of its construction. Yet it is no less spectacular an achievement than Stonehenge.

Here are the details behind my responses:

The most significant Alternative World Views to have emerged over the past 50 years are these two:

(1) UFOs and

(2) Alien Visitations / Abductions.

Although scientists have for the most part dismissed UFOs and Alien Visitations / Abductions as nonsense, these alternative views continue to thrive and are wide ranging.

Right now, I want to take up a special part of those wide-ranging views, one which posits: extra-terrestrial beings (Aliens) transported themselves to earth via UFOs in prehistoric times in order assist the human race in their development as well as in the creation of their early cultures and the large stone monuments symbolizing those cultures.

I’ll call this special part of the existing alternative theories: Early Alien Visitations

The central position of Early Alien Visitations is that Aliens are superior beings from some unknown part of the universe who came to earth long ago to assist us and who have continued to visit in order to further instruct us and evaluate our progress.

Early Alien Visitations is based on several assumptions, which never seem to be questioned. I am going to state those assumptions now.

Here are the assumptions:

Assumption 1. That all of the preliterate stone carvings, cave drawings and oral myths that came into existence hundreds if not thousands of years before we learned to read and write (3300-1000 B.C. depending on the culture) have been seriously misinterpreted by our literate western scientific culture.

These misinterpretations are due to the fact that we failed to see that the many recorded appearances of various Gods in preliterate times were, in reality, recordings of physical visits by advanced beings from some other (or alternative ) part of the universe. Instead, we mistakenly saw them as spiritual (psychic) visitations.

Assumption 2. That preliterate humans and very early literate humans (Egyptians, Sumerians circa 3300 B.C.- 2500 B.C.) didn’t possess the skills necessary to design, engineer and build their monumental sculptures and structures, e.g., pyramids in early literate Egypt ( 2500 B.C) and monumental stone sculptures e.g., Stonehenge ( built in stages from 2950-1600 B.C.) in preliterate Bronze Age Britain.

Assumption 3: That there is no other universe (e.g., a spiritual or psychic universe) than the physical universe, a view it holds in common with our modern scientific view of the universe.

Let’s take each of those assumptions and see if they have any weaknesses.

The easiest one to test is Assumption 2 (lack of skills). There is no hard scientific evidence this is so. It is merely hearsay by alternative thinkers who almost to a man seem to have no scientific or anthropological knowledge of the native intelligence of preliterate humans. Nor do they seem to have have any practical heavy-stone construction and engineering knowledge worth mentioning.

I'm sorry to say this, but most of them are basically well-meaning couch potatoes who have fabricated a rather sloppy position which holds that humans living in preliterate and early literate cultures lacked the intelligence, organization and problem-solving ability necessary to design and construct large stone structures.

First of all, the hard scientific evidence to date is that early humans were every bit as smart as we are, and that this intelligence was evident from the time some part of the human species homo sapiens left Africa 40, 000 years ago. This position is based primarily on the skull cavities of these humans having a size similar to our own, indicating equal brain size, and also, but to a lesser degree, on the quality of art they produced.

Here is the crux of my position: there are only 1400 years, an extremely small span of time, between the literate Greek homo sapiens who constructed the Parthenon (circa 430 B.C.) and the preliterate Britons homo sapiens who constructed the final monumental stones (sarsens and lintels) of Stonehenge (circa 1800 B.C.) .

Assuming there was a uniform distribution of native intelligence (logical ability, memory, problem solving) across the entire range of homo sapiens in Europe (since there is no anthropological evidence to the contrary) our preliterate Stonehenge Britons would be every bit as natively intelligent as the Parthenon Greeks.

Nor is it possible to posit that the Greeks went through a selective and extremely rapid evolutionary change (increase) in native intelligence over that 1400 year period and thereby jumped ahead of the Stonehenge Britons, since no evidence exists that such a gigantic evolutionary step did take place, but more importantly, that it could have taken place in such a short period of time..

Just so you’ll have a time scale for the important periods: Stone Age begins: 40,000B.C. / Bronze Age begins: circa 3000 B.C / Iron Age takes over circa1300 B.C.

Literacy generally began around 1200 B.C. for most cultures ( give or take several hundred years) with much earlier dates of 3300 B.C for the Egyptians and Sumerians.

Since no one has been foolish enough to suggest that the huge granite and marble Parthenon was engineered by aliens, it seems obvious that it is equally foolish to suggest that Stonehenge was engineered by Aliens, since both groups of homo sapiens were equal in native intelligence.

Everything follows from that, i.e., the problem-solving ability of both groups would also have been equal and both would have found solutions to carving and transporting large stones, lifting them, putting them in place.

Let me put it to you this way, if you dropped the Aristotle of 300 B.C. Greece into the plains of 1800 B.C. Stonehenge and pitted him against one of the builders of Stonehenge in a contest of stone construction problem-solving using only the tools available in 1800 B.C. Britain, it would be a draw, or possibly Aristotle might lose, being a philosopher with little practical construction experience.

Thus while their native intelligence would be the same, and therefore their problem-solving ability the same, we do have to consider that there are some important cultural differences that account for the finished beauty of the Parthenon and the rough aesthetic of Stonehenge.

Part of the difference is that the Parthenon Greeks of 430B.C. had been literate for 500 years ( since 900 B.C.) while the Stonehenge Britons of 1800 B.C. would have to wait another 2000 years so for the Romans to bring them a written language ( Latin) from which they could eventually fashion their own ( French, German, English).

This means is that there are written records of the actual construction of the Greek Parthenon that simply make it impossible for alternative thinkers to attribute extraterrestrial assistance in the construction of the Parthenon.

This holds for any literate culture. Egypt developed early writing around 3500 B.C.and had 1000 years of literacy behind them by the time the pyramids were built. Why alternative thinkers keep attributing extraterrestrial assistance to the construction of the pyramids when voluminous written and hieroglyphic records exist concerning their construction is simply beyond me.

However, since there were no written records in preliterate cultures, such as Stone Age Britain, alternative thinkers are free to make it up in any way they please for edifices such as Stonehenge.

But a written language per se, is not really the point. The point is that concurrent with the advent of writing, there came the ability to accurately record thoughts and events of all kinds, and out of that grew not only a huge amount of reference material, but more importantly, a consciousness that eventually wanted to examine and report on everything, which in turn gave birth to mathematics, history, science, medicine etc.

Out of that, of course, eventually came a sense of art and architecture that could be passed down in great detail to future generations and in turn modified generation after generation, so that by 430 B.C, an extremely detailed tradition would exist, such as we see evidenced in the design of the Parthenon.

The native intelligence of the Greeks didn’t increase or change; what changed was the way the Greeks looked at the world because of literacy, i.e., they began to examine it and record everything around them.This logical, examining way of knowing the Greeks termed logos.

Needless to say, the knowledge that came with literacy grew slowly at first then like a chain reaction until it was encyclopedic by 430 B.C. (500 years after the advent of Greek literacy.)

A good metaphor would be that writing allowed the Greeks to fly up over the Greek world and observe it at long range.

The Stonehenge Britons however, had no way of doing this, of accumulating factual knowledge in great detail.

They only had their oral story poems, which were very poor vehicles for recording facts, but excellent vehicles for imitating and expressing the mysteries of life and death.The Greeks called this preliterate way of knowing Muthos.

For our Stonehenge Britons, Muthos immersed them in their all-consuming, spiritual preliterate culture. You might say they couldn’t see the forest for the trees

But here’s the important point: they didn’t want to see the forest for the trees because they didn’t really care about accumulating factual, physical knowledge. Preliterate consciousness was more concerned with artistically imitating and expressing the mysteries of human existence.

I’ll say more about this critical difference later, because unless you understand the preliterate mind, you’re going to misunderstand the meanings of all their all mythic story poems, which is exactly what has happened with many of our alternative thinkers.

We shouldn’t let this preliterate disinterest in explaining things convince us for one moment that these preliterate humans weren’t as natively intelligent as we are. Rather, their intelligence was intensely focused on spiritual matters, and the artistic imitations of those concepts.

We’ll see shortly that their artistic achievements were so accomplished as to leave no doubt as to their native intelligence being equal to that of the a Parthenon Greeks..

But to get back to the point at hand: Greek literacy resulted in a highly developed Greek sense of architecture, which is a partial way of explaining the architectural differences between the Parthenon and Stonehenge.

But the other thing that made the real difference between the Parthenon and Stonehenge were the tools each culture had to work with.

We shouldn’t be fooled by the crude stone sculptures and rock carvings done by Stone Age humans. They had neither bronze nor iron tools to work with—only other stones. You try it sometime.

The surviving Stone Age dolmens, stone structures, and rock carvings are really the only art form that could have been created with stone tools and the only ones that could have survived over the millennia.

Finally let me say this because it’s the elephant in the room: the Stonehenge Britons probably didn’t care about “finishing” their stones as the Parthenon Greeks did.

What was really important to the preliterate Stonehenge Britons were the spiritual implications of these stones, as stones.

It should be obvious to anyone by this time that outside of the stone burial structures built by many of these cultures, stones—as stones—were also used in a spiritual, even a healing way, by prehistoric cultures.

For example, there is increasing archeological evidence that the smaller, more numerous bluestones inside the larger sarsens at Stonehenge were used as part of a healing process. Why we don’t know, but it seems now that they were.

This may seem like so much nonsense to us now, because we’d rather think of Stonehenge and all the rest of the prehistoric stone monuments as astronomical calendars, but that is our modern scientific prejudice.

Undoubtedly they were sometimes used as directional (equinox) pointers to the Sun, but we have to remember that those planting and harvesting directions were also highly spiritual. God = Sun, remember?

As for dolmens, the long rows and arrangements of stones, it’s obvious they had a spiritual, perhaps a healing purpose. We don’t really know why they saw stones in such a way, or why they arranged them in the way they did, or exactly how they were used, but it’s obvious these stones had to have served a special purpose. It was very hard work moving and lifting them, right? It wasn’t a whim.

And please, let’s forget all this nonsense about them being pointers that interstellar UFOs relied on for getting from A to B on the earth. If they could find there way here and back from Alpha Centauri they could surely find their way around prehistoric France. They didn’t need rows of stone dolmens to guide them.

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For prehistoric cultures, everything was spiritual.

It’s the key to understanding them.

I think this little side trip into the preliterate view of stones helps partially explain why Stonehenge doesn’t look as “finished” as the polished Parthenon.

What is critical is that both cultures had the same native intelligence when it came to solving the intricacies of quarrying, transporting, carving, lifting and moving very large stones. Period.

What we really want to focus on, however, is the construction advantage the Greeks had. The Greeks of 400 B.C. had iron tools to shape the hard granite and marble of the Parthenon. They also had simple pulleys and the wheel, both of which seem to have been not available to the Stonehenge Britons. See http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/stonehenge-questions.html,)

The 1800 B.C. Stonehenge Britons, however, had only stone tools with which to carve out and shape the hard granite blocks of Stonehenge (it seems no bronze tools were used at Stonehenge, despite the introduction of bronze in Britain circa 2100 B.C.). See http://books.google.com/books?id=5khnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA471&lpg=PA471&dq=stonehenge++bronze+tools&source=bl&ots=CCwGji3GT3&sig=0MnPQCsoi7f9x9_P5dEwavyzFrc&hl=en&ei=bxqsTpyGKab0sQLWqKCeDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=stonehenge%20%20bronze%20tools&f=false

All this gave the Parthenon builders a tremendous advantage in speed of construction and stone finishing. But that’s it: a speed advantage. Not construction savvy.

It just takes a lot of guys if you don’t have iron tools and pulleys and wheels and the like, but it can be done with earth moving and levers and endless pounding..

(See: http://jonathanturley.org/2009/12/05/the-man-who-moves-blocks-stonehenge-mystery-unraveled-by-guy-named-wally-in-flint/ )

You don’t need beam-lifting spaceships for Stonehenge anymore than you need them for the Parthenon. And that goes for all the preliterate monumental stone structures both in the old and new world.

But if we just had these rough Stone Age structures and carvings as evidence of a Stone Age native intelligence equal to that of the Parthenon Greeks, we’d be in a bit of trouble.

This where the mind-bending art of some Stone Age cultures comes in. There isn't any doubt in anybody's mind today that high aesthetic capability is a certain indicator of high native intelligence.

Fortunately, despite the ravages of time, certain non-stone art forms have been miraculously preserved (such as the cave drawings in Altamira and other European caves which date to some 18,000 to 35,000 years ago—Stone Age Europe.)

We have the cave drawings at Altamira today only because the caves were sealed by a rock slide around 13,000 B.C., thereby preserving them.

Any other visual art forms, however, that would have been created by Stone Age humans: paintings on wood or fabric, wood carvings, clay sculptures, etc., would have long ago been dissolved by time.

However, a few very early fired-clay sculptures have miraculously survived, such as the Venus of Willendorf, an 11 cm (4.3 in) female figure estimated to have been made between 24,000 and 22,000 B.C.

If you don’t think this statue is as sophisticated and mysterious as anything made by Brancusi or Picasso, you just have to read the squabbling interpretations of anthropologists and archeologists to show you how mysterious it really is. They don’t have a clue.

It’s only when you look at the statue as a metaphor for the Mother Goddess aka The First Mother (which is how the prehistoric humans would have looked at it) that the statue explains itself.

The statue is not a representation of female fertility per se either, because a woman that fat ( if at all possible in an always-hungry, hunter-gatherer world) would not only be undesirable but would also be pretty much incapable of copulation.

And if she ever did manage get it on, she’d probably have died in childbirth. Ask any obstetrician.

It had to have been a metaphor for something else, namely a metaphor for the Mother Goddess/ Mother of all Humans.

The large fat breasts and belly and arms and thighs can only be human versions of the incredibly enlarged, gorged size of the queen bee, something that preliterate humans knew well and must have wondered at.

And honored: One out of Many: which is exactly how the Mother Goddess/ Mother of all Humans /First Mother was seen.

The fact that you can’t see her face is also spiritual. Ask the ancient Hebrews about that.

For early Hebrews, God's name couldn't be spoken, meaning God is beyond comprehension, which is another way of saying: God's face shouldn’t/couldn’t be seen.

Look away, Moses! Remember how Moses was warned about not trying to look at God’s face? The same thing is being represented by this faceless female.

If we only had the caves at Altamira and this so called Venus as evidence of the high artistic vision of these prehistoric cultures, it’s enough to suggest that Stone Age man was artistically as sophisticated as the Greeks of 400 B.C., maybe even ahead of the Greeks in terms of their impressionistic qualities. It’s far more modern than what the Greeks were doing, as beautiful as that was. Think about it.

I rest my case.

Summary of responses to assumptions 1 and 3

Assumptions 1 and 3 are really different faces of the same coin. Let me repeat them:

Assumption 1. Many of the preliterate stone carvings, cave drawings and oral myths that came into existence hundreds if not thousands of years before we learned to read and write (3300-1000 B.C., depending on the culture) have been seriously misinterpreted by our literate western scientific culture in that we failed to see that the many recorded appearances of various Gods in preliterate times were, in reality, recordings of physical visits by advanced beings from some other (or alternative ) part of the universe. Instead, we mistakenly saw them as spiritual (psychic) visitations.

Assumption 3: That there is no other universe (e.g., a spiritual or psychic universe) than the physical universe, a view it holds in common with our modern scientific view of the universe.

Response to Assumption 1.

Of the numerous of cave drawings, clay sculptures, and rock carvings that have come down to us, there are a handful that portray a kneeling/standing human receiving something or looking up at, or praying to, a larger standing figure (Alien/God?). There are also a few portraying a figure (Alien/God?) in some kind of vehicle, or fire, or clouds, descending from, or ascending to, the sky.

These are the only ones that could realistically be interpreted as portraying an Alien being, but then again they could just as easily be portrayed as they have been for millennia: as spiritual/psychic visions of the Gods.

The great oral myths (Book of Moses, Odyssey, Iliad, Gilgamesh) that eventually were transcribed into writing also contain verbal descriptions of similar events (God giving Ten Commandments to Moses, Athena advising Odysseus). Again, we can choose to see them as physical visitations by Aliens or in the manner they have been portrayed for millennia: as spiritual/psychic visions of the Gods.

Take your pick. Which one you choose (Aliens or Gods) should be on the basis of which presents the stronger evidence. I’ll say more about this in my detailed responses.

The thousands of remaining rock carvings, cave paintings, clay sculptures, and oral myths are clearly portrayals of animals or hunting or important events (wars, floods) or dream/psychic images, something our scientific mindset has a hard time handling, but I can assure you that preliterate peoples didn’t, as their mindset was somewhere between the consciousness we enjoy today and an intuitive consciousness that was highly psychic and very at home with the dream state. See SOULSPEAK: The Outward Journey of the Soul, Chapter pg 222.

The oral myths, taken as a whole, are stories about cultural truths/themes, and not about God/Alien visitations per se. The correct way to look at them is to see the “visitations’, whatever they represent, as narrative elements that drive the much larger cultural truths and themes of the stories.

Response to Assumption 3.

Assumption 3: That there is no other universe (e.g., a spiritual or psychic universe) than the physical universe, a view it holds in common with our modern scientific view of the universe.

Unfortunately, most alternative theorists are as tightly wound into the western scientific view of reality as is the scientific establishment. Thus the only way they can explain the alien phenomena is to immediately assume that aliens are a physical reality.

Despite Harvard psychiatrist John Mack’s substantial findings to the contrary, namely that these visitations are psychic phenomena not physical phenomena, most alternative theorists continue to cling to the belief that the aliens are physical beings.

This does not mean that alien visitations are hallucinations, or the imaginings of idle minds. They are not unreal, but very real. But they are not physical.

Mack makes the point that psychic events have no place in western thought, so they are immediately considered unreal (hallucinations), whereas in eastern thought, such visitations are seen as real as the clothes you are wearing.

What puzzles me is how ignorant most alternative thinkers are about the reality of psychic events. I include in this, by the way, all those who have reported being visited and/or abducted by aliens.

It is one indication how dominant western scientific thought has become, i.e., it has sifted down to the everyday level of thinking about the world.

Yet for someone who is familiar with psychic events and their characteristics, as well as how real they can seem, it is obvious that those who have experienced such visitations are so oblivious to the clues imbedded in that reality that they never even consider that the visitation, as real as it seems, might not be the same kind of “real” as the clothes they are wearing.

What exactly are those clues that signal it is a psychic reality?

There are several:

The appearance of the aliens (large eyes, no mouth, telepathic speech and understanding) is not a Hollywood fabrication unconsciously imitated by those who have been visited. It is a primal unconscious projection of “those who know, who see all” with roots back into prehistory.

Julian Jaynes points out that in many middle eastern preliterate communities, small figurines with very large eyes were in every home and were obviously used to trigger the internal voices that preliterate humans relied on for guidance.

If someone were to object to Jaynes’ insight by saying that the figurines were representations of physical beings, i.e., physical Aliens, they would also have to explain the reason for their existence in so many homes and why they were generally placed above the buried bones of the ancestors of the person whose home it was.

Clearly preliterate man saw the source of his voices as being that of his ancestors and the Gods who created those ancestors. It was one long chain. Jung would call it the collective unconscious, but it was an unconscious much more available to the mind of preliterate man than it is to ours, where it surfaces primarily in dreams.

The other clue is that the aliens are never able to completely explain a final ultimate view of the universe and the role they play in it. There are numerous situations where those who have been abducted have been led to a “book of knowledge” that explains everything only to find it unreadable. This is a common occurrence in psychic visitations.

Another clue is that despite the “reality” of the aliens (and the space ships that abductees are brought to) there is always an intense emotional sense of something “special” about the scene that is not present in ordinary reality. This intensity is always present in psychic visions.

Another clue is that the visitations don’t generally occur as they do in the Hollywood version of such encounters where it is usually envisioned as an encounter between groups, e.g., the army and aliens, scientist and aliens, government officials and aliens. Rather they almost always occur as an individual encountering an alien or a group of aliens, which is how psychic visitations generally occur and indeed as they have been recorded in the spiritual man/God encounters that have come down to us from preliterate times.

Another clue is the telepathic communications used by the aliens. This non-verbal communication is a standard component of psychic visions and goes back millennia. Let me put it to you this way: the Gods have always spoken in the language of the person being visited. There is never any confusion as to what they were saying. And vice versa.

If aliens were physical beings, technologically advanced physical beings, you might just as well expect them to speak and hear through an electronic translator, such as we have today on our PCs.

Other clues are the time and shape changes that are always reported. This is normal in a psychic visitation.

And then there is this: after 50 years of intense scrutiny, no hard proof in the way of physical remains of Aliens or their craft have ever been obtained for scientific scrutiny. None. Oh, there are plenty of frauds, but frauds don’t count.

I could name more clues but let me say something about the reality of such visitations. They can be blindingly real. Abductees have reported that their alien visitations were as real as everyday life right down to the last nail in the floor (let’s put aside for a minute the “clues” I’ve mentioned that indicate that it was a psychic reality).

I have no doubt that a spellbinding reality can be fabricated by the unconscious and projected into consciousness. The human mind can create a reality so real as to completely fool us.

I have had several experiences where I woke up at night and walked about my room opening and closing doors, hearing intruders, etc., only to find that I was not really awake because I suddenly woke up ( this time for real) and found myself still in bed, or in another completely different room of the house, stunned at how I had been completely fooled by the reality of the fabricated “waking” experience.

I think I’ve said enough about the psychic nature of Alien visitations and abductions as well as their overwhelming “reality”. The fact of the matter is we are being visited, but it is not by physical beings.

The real question is: what or who is visiting us and why? This is especially relevant because modern western people have become, as a rule, strangers to their unconscious as compared to preliterate man, who seemed to have slipped between the conscious and unconscious realm quite easily.

To me this implies a tremendous force from the collective unconscious that is breaking into our consciousness, although there is some indication that many of the people who are visited by aliens are not as “ thick” as we might think, i.e., they seem, on closer inspection, to have the ability to surrender somewhat easily to their unconscious.

If we push aside the question of UFOs for a moment, as they are really a separate issue despite their frequent association with Alien visitations, and just concentrate on the Aliens being psychic visitations, we still have to answer the following:

1. How have these psychic visitations managed to break into a modern consciousness which is so locked into the physical world.

2. Why now, at this point in time?

3. To what purpose?

I have no definitive answer to these questions, but can suggest what may be happening.

First let me tell you a story. I have an acquaintance who may be the most literal, unintuitive person I have ever met. We meet annually when he comes to Florida and he always looks me up. He is quite bright and capable of expressing himself lucidly, but he tells me the physical world is the only world he has ever experienced. He has never had a vision or heard voices and never dreams, but we know that to be scientifically impossible. The truth is that he never recalls his dreams, i.e., his consciousness must block out the memories of his dreams.

Yet he is not closed minded. He frequently asks me questions about my intuitive/psychic experiences, and I often have the impression I am a New Guinea native being gently questioned by an anthropologist who doesn’t have a clue.

Yet as extreme as his case may be, I would say it’s quite representative of at least half of the American population.

Here’s where I’m going. One year, I would say 6 or 7 years after we first met, he said he wanted to tell me something because he thought I’d understand.

He went on to tell me about a trip he took to Paris many years before with several friends. One afternoon he decided to go to a location where a beautiful small medieval church once stood that he had a hunger to see. He knew it had been replaced long ago by an apartment house, but he just wanted to visit the locale. His companions weren’t interested, so he decided to go alone.

When he got to the area and turned the corner, right in front of him was the medieval church. He opened the door and the church was ablaze with candles. He raced back to his companions and dragged them to the church.

But the church wasn’t there, only the apartment house. He looked at me for some kind of explanation as to what had happened and I told him he had a vision. But it wasn’t a vision, he said, it was real. I told him visions were real, but they were a psychic reality constructed by his unconscious that for all intents and purposes can seem as real as his shoes.

He asked me why it had happened, why then? I told him my best guess is that his unconscious wanted to wake him up to the mystery of human existence and must have taken advantage of the slight chink in his conscious armor caused by his hunger to visit the site and managed to break through.

Now here’s the real point. When I brought this up several years later he had no recollection of this ever happening.

His conscious armor had repaired itself by forgetting an experience that threatened to topple his entire world view if he had fully admitted it into his conscious mind.

That is the situation with most of us today.

I think what is happening is that a new form of consciousness is evolving, one that is more intuitive, not more logical. It is a re-balancing, because our older consciousness has become unbalanced in its internal insistence of logic over intuition, self over soul, reason over feeling.

Every 2300 years or so, a new form of consciousness seems to arrive. You should read Jung on this. We are in the first stages of The Age of Aquarius, which is the name of the current 2300 year cycle.

There is no way to scientifically explain what is happening, but I believe the energy that is allowing these extraordinary psychic “Alien” appearances to burst into our consciousness is coming from that transition

And I also believe that despite the thick, modern consciousness of most of those who have been visited or abducted, there also exists somewhere within them the kind of hunger my friend was feeling. Maybe it’s not a hunger for the beautiful church, but a hunger for a richer, more meaningful world. After all, I can’t imagine a more sterile world than current American culture.

There has to exist a chink in the armor for the psychic projection to break through, but once the opening occurs, it comes through like a thunderbolt.

That is what I think is happening and why at this time. It’s going to grow like a snowball racing down a hill. There will be even more and more Alien visitations over hundreds of years and simultaneously, bit by bit, children will appear who are not smarter ( which is what is happening today as we are about to crash and burn) but more intuitive, wiser.

The so-called Indigo Children may be a harbinger of this, but they are only the beginning.

Anyway, what remains to be answered is: what are the Aliens trying to tell us? Or to put it more succinctly, what is our collective unconscious trying to tell us?

MORE TO COME.

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