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!