When I was younger, the prevailing hypothesis were that UFOs/‘flying saucers’ were – physical – extraterrestrial craft visiting earth.
More esoteric explanations were not part of mainstream consideration.
Fast forward to now, and we have an assortment of connected individuals, following on from Hal Puthoff and his psychic ‘investigations’ at SRI, through to NIDS, AAWSAP, TTSA etc, all seemingly under the sway of the esoteric Vallee school of thought bringing in all sorts of paranormal phenomena.
Plain and logical psychological and neurological explanations for experiences aren’t even worthy of consideration for these guys, immediately discarded in favour of quasi-mystical theories of almost spiritual beings communing with our consciousness, perhaps popping in and out from ‘other dimensions’. The lack of any physical reality or actual tangible evidence all utterly irrelevant to this take on things.
The more I read here, and the more I hear from some of these UAP showmen personalities, I think I can discern the main reason for the shift in tack to talk of consciousness, extra or interdimensional beings and all the other types of fanciful conjecture.
After decades, we have absolutely zero physical evidence – not a single photo, video, artefact, nothing – that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that there are NHI of whatever nature here or visiting. All we have are a mix of misidentification, hoaxes and a residue of ‘unexplained’, that we can’t assume have a non prosaic explanation. Any imagery with any detail turns out to be a hoax.
From Rendlesham, where sighting (lighthouse) lights was later turned into a tall tale with seeing a landed craft with symbols and binary mental downloads, to Salas’ nukes being taken offline and rebooting because of a power outage, to Ruwa – nothing that initially seemed to make you think holds any water under examination.
This perhaps gets to the nub of things. Without any physical evidence whatsoever, ALL that’s left is to turn to is the esoteric and mystical, to the entertainment of ideas that are utterly unexaminable, let alone provable, and can’t even rise about the level of conjecture..
Once you move beyond the nuts and bolts and the need – or even desire – for physical evidence or proof, we move from science and reality to effectively an unfalsifiable belief system, where we obviously assume that a ‘grey’ seen passing through a wall into your bedroom is ‘real’ – whether physically or metaphysically- and not a straightforward hallucination effected by the neurochemical workings of your brain matter.
Freed of the need to provide any evidence or proof, we now can keep the UAP show on the road – indefinitely.
Doesn’t matter that there’s no evidence of any sort whatsoever, we just need to attune our minds (aka Greer), or abandon all known physics and science in favour of fanciful theories of extradimensions and ‘consciousness’, or that the laws of physics don’t apply to aliens. It’s the exact same desire for something exciting that leads millions to fervently believe that JFK was killed by anyone but Lee Oswald. The same desire that led our ancestors to believe that a death wasn’t a result of natural causes, but because you’d been struck down by the gods.
Once we start abandoning the norms of scientific investigation, and start entertaining all sorts of notions of ‘consciousness’ and extra/inter-dimensional, energy or whatever beings etc (which no one can adequately even expand beyond buzz words in a desperate attempt to find an answer, but which collapse under the slightest scrutiny), we are standing at the abyss of an inescapable rabbit hole that we need to step back from and have a really hard think about what all we’re being asked to believe – purely on trust, and all to often from rather sketchy individuals more interested in self promotion and with a proven track record of being less than straight.
We also risk confusing so many issues.
Sure the US government agencies have been investigating UFOs long after they denied it (they’d be remiss if they didn’t).
Sure it seems there are things to hide as the Schumer amendment was gutted.
But that doesn’t necessarily entail they’re trying to cover up NHI.
Who knows what is so secret here – perhaps secret military technology – but based on numerous government and intelligence activities, it’s increasingly hard not to get the impression that they actually WANT people to believe they are concealing craft and alien bodies, who conveniently only crash within reach of the military.
High time to stop at the edge of the rabbit hole, throw a bucket of cold water over your head, and have a clear hard look at whether what you see down the rabbit hole has any relation to reality whatsoever.
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