Book!

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.