Most of you will prolly say, Jacques Valee’s, and I tend to agree. But it is challenging enough to gather and grasp Valee’s ideas: most of his books were written back in the stone age. We are talking about the 1970s and 1980s: that’s when the Beatles and the Stones were rocking the joints in the US, Canada and Western Europe. Way before the Internet age. I did manage to get my hands on most of his books from that era. Now, he did write some books since the new millennium: Trinity, for example, which I haven’t read. But there is a dearth of books which summarizes his most recent position regarding UFO encounters. Nonetheless, he has verbalized his position in numerous interviews and other writers have expounded on his theories, which can be summarized as the “Control System Hypothesis” (CTH).
The most recent take on Valee’s CTH was done by Colm Kelleher and James Lacatski in their book “Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.” This seminal passage from the book summarizes UFO encounters thusly:
Everything works as if UAPs were a product of technology that integrates physical and psychic phenomena, and primarily impacts cultural variables in our society through the manipulation of psychological and physiological parameters in the witnesses
I’m gonna run with this since it captures Valee’s position concisely. This is not Valee’s take on individual UFO encounters but his sum-total take on the entire phenomenon. In other words, each negative or positive UFO encounter spawned by malevolent or benevolent UAP beings may be a subroutine of a large, umbrella program which we might call “technology.” The term technology is in vogue now since AI has taken on the metaphor of an all-powerful technology that could one day control us.
In Valee’s view, this technology is a force which intervenes in this world periodically to reinforce certain messages by manipulating cultural variables. This is what he’s been saying all along. If you go back to some of his older books, he was talking about a “thermostat,” yes, but he was really referring to a large program that we might call, the Program. The Program seems to be reactive but it’s also proactive since it performs surveillance of our landscape and assesses where we are culturally in terms of psychic development. Then it may initiate certain UAP or alien encounters, e.g., Joseph Smith’s encounter with Angel Moroni or the appearance of Marian apparitions in Fatima. The purpose may have been to grow certain religious sects or reinforce pre-existing Catholic beliefs. You could perhaps infer that the Program was trying to start an alternative to Protestant Christianity and move toward religious diversity in America in the 1800s by spreading Christian sects. While the apparitions at Fatima may have been to double-down on continuing veneration of Mother Mary in the orthodox Catholic Church, especially as WWI was winding down, and another world war was gearing up. This is just a retrospective take on these miracles which could have been NHI encounters.
The impacts of these alien encounters are long-term, according to Valee — you may not be able to gauge its impact in your lifetime, even if you are the experiencer. Together with other experiencers that have had similar encounters contemporaneously, the totality of such experiences determines the “path” that our society may travel from that moment on. It could do so in ways that may not be so obvious, since the collective consciousness may also be at work here especially after the emergence of the Internet, reinforcing and reverberating the images, symbols and emotional energies of such stressful yet mystical encounters and priming a new generation of experiencers and those ready to embrace and become familiar with such messages. This may be the “path-dependent” model of alien encounters and the result might be the creation of new inflection points in history created through new paths directing travelers.
Valee’s umbrella theory may not be very palatable to the followers of the Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis (ETH), who want to see fire-breathing aliens, or even the followers of Valet’s own Inter-Dimensional Hypothesis (IDH), who want to see angels, demons or the Jinn-like beings in between. But the overall view of the phenomenon is that of a God-like, control program nudging us in a certain direction. This despite all of the contradictions created by the encounters, which are nonetheless transitory. Most recently, for example, when we have developed the Internet, cloud computing and manufacturing efficiency through economies of scale, the previous encounters (including occasional UAP crashes) may have moved us toward the discovery of meta materials, fiber optics, AI, and move from client servers to clouds, and so on.
In other words, the Program is acting like the “invisible hand” that guides our society toward technological development so we can be “more like them.” More like them, or more like the Program which envelops us, watching and guiding us to have spiritual experiences — some harrowing, some enlightening — through UAP encounters. But the contradictions are part of the design: it’s a mixed bag of heterogenous experiences designed to confuse and lead you astray, perhaps to lull you into thinking that there is no such subtle and complex program influencing humanity. In this regard, marginalizing the experiencers and confusing and threatening them via MIBs / MILABS may be part of a subroutine for some, even though those exposed to these encounters may lead a life of despondency and could end up losing their minds. That’s also part of the design of a complex system controlling us. One thing to note is that the Program does not need to have quick lead times or quick turns: we are talking about the march of history, which is characterized by inertia, and the chaos and noise that are endemic to the human experience. All it needs is some directionality, some positive slope, to move toward order. It is a long-term program that will outlast any human being living and is designed to influence our children and their children, moving us toward other times and places. (If you’ve read this far, some might recognize Tom Campbell’s idea of a system moving toward less chaos and entropy. Wouldn’t go so far as to say love is the guiding force but the program seems to be moving us toward an Omega Point.)
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