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I have just written an art book based on my UFO contact experience. You can read about it here. The book is available on Lulu.

The Upside Down

In the alien, alienation must be at its maximum. Think of the most dejected state, that must be closer to the alien than the highest. 

Unlike the transcendent Other, an encounter with which can lead to redemption and transformation, to reflect on the alien is to look in a dark mirror, where only the lunatics and psycho-social rejects may be looking back at you. The alien is more cognate with the abyss than the zenith of experience. 

The mountain Roy Neary climbs is inverted. Why did the aliens rename Strieber's original book title ("body terror") as "Communion" if not to point to all this inversion as being key? The alien is like an anti-religion or anti-revelation, without being devilish as such, which is human. 

It's a thin line to walk, hence the secret has been kept, for a select few to tread carefully".

A Christological Joke

It strikes me that the Roswell crash is a philosophical allegory.

We are, you see, randomly thrown into the world and captured by a system (Heidegger/Althusser). As a result we do not have a culture of open meeting and encounter (as Levinas might want). Earth, it is Roswell. You are looking at a mirror of how we all live.

The question seems to be how we can elevate our society. So it ceases to be a random trap, and becomes instead a world where open, free, and conscious meeting is the norm. As above, so below. Roswell is for now a mirror of the human predicament in which we are the crashed and captured beings. You meet that by crashing and being captured.

That is either polite or a joke. We get, it seems, the UFO encounters we deserve.

Curiously Roswell means the place where a horse is led to water, recalling the famous proverb. You can lead the horse, but it may not drink. That looks like a pun on the Eucharist. Perhaps the alien has not only technological mastery, but a deep understanding of our cultural flaws and windows.

Soft Landing

Here is an interesting piece of local knowledge. It is on a UFO sighting reported to Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence.

This shows that a whole other history is available to us.

Regarding the continuity of UFO sightings over time, I have recently wondered if that is not a cushioning strategy? A sudden appearance of UFO reality might lead us to abandon our past. As it is, a re-investigation and re-reading of history will be possible instead.

Evidence shows this could run as far back - per the ancient alien hypothesis - as antiquity, even prehistory. The phenomenon exists at the periphery of our oversight, to minimise the sense of loss and ontological shock we might experience. Prior history will not be rendered meaningless, but continuous in a new reading.

It would be like the way the Christians reference the Old Testament afresh. The book is not rendered obsolete by the new believers, but re-interpreted and made relevant in a new way. Subtexts are brought to the surface and explained.

In that sense the UFO phenomenon is currently an unread subtext awaiting exposition.

UFO Alignment

Thinking about how difficult it was for the world of the church and politics to handle Galileo's insights, I think we have to be realistic about similar difficulties confronting us when it comes to UFO truth. Who knows how challenging to the current organisation of life the revelations might be? How vexatious and disputed?

The cliched example is free energy. If fossil fuel and energy poverty could be switched off overnight, how destabilising would that be to vested interests yes, but also to geopolitics, the balance of power, and ordinary life too? The revelations might be more unsettling even than that. What if materialism itself is false, or our understanding of the afterlife? Science would falter and many political ideologies that depend on a materialist view. Maybe the church would see an opportunity for temporary ascendance; but if Christ was an alien what then? Would there be a final adjudication between Judaism and Islam?

We need, I feel, to get away from a good and evil view of truth vs the conspiracy and think more in terms of strategy. What is the insider's strategy (which might in part be benign) and what is ours on the outside (which might in part be malign)? Can those two strategies ever meet? And how? Let us think in terms of a UFO alignment rather than of disclosure simply. An alignment where the different interests can come together.

Let us as seekers of truth also think more about how the world could prepare for startling ideas. Ideas that might dismantle such oppositions as right and left, even of hierarchy and up and down, are not to be handled lightly and need thought. Let us show willing to make the task of disclosure easier, by becoming aligned philosophers, poets, and artists! 

The House of Plague

The UN has suggested that the Epstein case may represent a crime against humanity. This is getting a bit of buzz on the UFO circuit, because of obvious similarities with UFO disclosure.

Should it be revealed there have been 80 years of deception and manipulation around the nature of life and our place in the universe, and maybe strategies to suppress technology, would it be a crime, and how should supervising authorities respond? It is a question that might find precedent in Epstein. That's helpful, given how ill-thought out and unprepared the legal territory would be.

There were similar thoughts during the pandemic. Might the politics and legitimacy of institutions under such difficult circumstances mirror an ET contact scenario? This essay, from the era of Covid-19, also looks at problems for SETI and Democracy.

Sadly, for something as possibly uplifting as extraterrestrial contact and the discovery we are not alone, we have to look at the annals of crime and disease for a map. 

Book Review

This is an engaging book. It is a classic for the psychedelicists, recounting an expedition into the rainforest in search of novel hallucinogens, but it also touches on Ufology. It is in this volume that McKenna first develops his theory that hallucinogenic mushrooms may be understood as a seeded alien technology. Their longevity as a feature of life on Earth makes them a vehicle for interstellar contact suited to evolutionary timescales.

It is not as daft as it sounds. Jung after all considered the UFO to be an archetype of the soul. In particular he saw the saucer, in its roundedness, as a symbol of wholeness that compensated for man's broken psyche in the age of war and destructive technology.

Insofar as the mushroom opens up an archive of hidden subjective knowledge, it may - McKenna argues - also open us up to the UFO as an ultimate transcendental object to be found at the end of time. Dependent on the social maturity of the subject experiencing the hallucinogen, knowledge may be revealed by the mushroom. Where the shaman finds community medicine, future man may find the blueprint for stellar travel, itself - following Jung - a form of medicine for contemporary man.

Like I say, the book is engaging and stimulating.

Jung - A Letter

A letter from Carl Jung has been brought to my attention. In it, he acknowledges - but slightly regrets - the literal reality of the UFO. Regrets, because the psychological dimension is so rich in itself! This of course makes the UFO strange. Not all machines have such psychological counterparts to the same degree I suggest. I mean, we do not fret too much the psychology of the Fridge. Not until Roland Barthes anyway. It's a nice letter worth knowing.

A Manifesto for Experiencers

 A wonderful manifesto in the Global Policy Journal. It speaks for me and I urge you to read it.

Blind Men

This article is interesting and important. According to it, ongoing UFO secrecy and current American Defense policy are now in major contradiction. Because we are reaching now into space militarily.

Quote "If substantiated, the claims raise stark questions about whether America’s ability to maintain awareness in orbit - the foundation of its space superiority - has been compromised by a secretive mechanism of its own making". End quote.

In particular Golden Dome may turn out to be no more than puffery. Blind from the beginning. The question is really "who rules?". Our public defense systems or the UFO and its hidden guardians in power?

Democracy and the UFO

I made this meme for my Facebook and I thought I would discuss it here too.

The fact UFO activists are intimidated, co-opted, fed disinformation, and generally controlled and suppressed and not left alone, well - it is as if they were political activists, and that suggests something.

The UFO situation must be radical in some way (for good or bad we don't know). If it were just change neutral, a damp squib, there would not be all the effort that we discern. Everything is a clue in that sense, and that is what makes the UFO an interesting puzzle. The key to ufology might be that another world is possible - here, on Earth - and that other world is frightening to power in some way.

I guess the ultimate deception could be that there is nothing to the UFO at all, and it is just made to look like there is, but I personally think that is an over-reading, a stretch too far. I mean, even such a move as that might be political - to distract the social demographic attracted to UFOs from pursuing other political interests. In that respect, it is notable that a demographic study of witnesses and contactees showed an even spread in terms of ethnicity, gender, political affiliation, and religious identity. So there is just not much there there to provide a particular angle for power. This argues against the manipulation being to distract a particular demographic.

Unless it is precisely that. The Star-Trekky vibe of the UFO demographic implies a world without division or strife. Maybe that very potential is feared if it were to organise. Just a reading, just speculation, but pulling the plug on UFO studies in 1969 - one year after 1968 - seems significant. It stalled an incipient global movement that was a) not just American and b) focused on a unifying mystery rather than a conflict-based model of divide and rule. There was also of course the hippyish open-mindedness associated with UFOs to worry about too.

Things may not look related but insofar as we are being divided and ruled, so long as globalism = Americanism, and so long as conflict remains our model for history and progress, there is a UFO connection to everything, and it is political. They would not suppress this subject so much if it were not so important!

All one can do is speculate. But I stick to two sayings always: if there is a conspiracy, it is man-made and therefore readable. Everything is a clue. We must keep puzzling away, and demanding a more open debate, for whatever change is feared by those who manipulate the field should be entirely in the public domain, and there for all to discuss and weigh, equally, and in a spirit of mutual encounter. That is, if we want UFOs to be an object of democracy not tyranny.

Another Lamentation

Ufology is strange. On the one hand official denial, then the occasional leak from those doing the denying.

I think it is a bit of a flypaper strategy. Feed a drop to the fans doing the research, keeping them happy but at a low level, and control the narrative at both ends.

We are never experiencing the phenomenon pure, or in a spirit of public inquiry, but always as a government construct, always as a veil rather than the full reveal.

Puritans running a token strip club or speakeasy, watching the customers come and go. One official channel even had the acronym TTS AAS. You figure it out!

On Herodotean Disclosure

A lightning bolt of sorts.

Regarding UFO disclosure, it is interesting that the opening gambit of historiography in the West (in Herodotus I mean) is precisely the word: "apodeixis" or disclosure. This word means the making manifest of something, or showing forth of something! History begins with disclosure. The current impasse in Ufology finds an echo in the past, but at the beginning not the end.

There is a whole nexus of possible ideas here. The absence of a final "apodeixis" by the governments of the world may at root to be a problem in how we are approaching history itself. There is confusion. How we want things to end is in fact how it all should begin. We make a mistake, perhaps, if we expect disclosure at the end of a process. Disclosure should really show an innovative new relation to how things start as a process. That is the Greek example.

Endings versus beginnings. There is something Hegelian about how we await disclosure at the end. Like the way we await a final apocalypse (which would change the categories of existence), we await disclosure. Between the ancient and the modern concepts of history, there is a displacement, such that "apodeixis"/disclosure necessarily makes no sense, and is broken. Disclosure, I have written before, is the detour of politics into religious language, a dis-empowering manoeuvre. It is, it seems, also vexed in a secular sense too. It is a garbled concept in many ways.

Herodotean apodeixis implies that things are not self-evident; an inquiry into things requires some exposition. Perhaps UFO disclosure is a hidden wanting in us to find something primal about the universe. In a world where rights and the right direction of history are seen as self-evident, disclosure is a concept in a kind of identity crisis. It wants UFOs to be a matter of self-evidence too, yet surely it will be the result of deeper work than that? Won't it be - like Herodotus - a new civilization beginning? There is power in the Greek concept that the modern one misses. Let us live as seekers of apodeixis not disclosure.