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".
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