᚛ᚕᚑᚔ ᚖ ᚈ ᚌ ᚗ ᚏᚔᚂᚓᚓ ᚋᚐᚊᚔ ᚒ ᚋᚒᚉᚑᚔ ᚇᚐᚅᚒ᚜

Today there are still students of the phenomenon who reject the notion that the UFO phenomenon was reported before 1947. –Jacques Vallee

TL;DR: Contact with NHI has been ongoing for millennia. Agreements were made with NHI millennia ago; love your neighbor as you love yourself, lest you manifest your own destruction. Humans are the intelligent creators of reality on planet Earth. Some religions and governments throughout history have made attempts to maintain harmony by inducing behavioral change while respecting the free-will of individuals. Perceptions of ‘otherness’ result in unnecessarily violent behavior toward individuals and the environment. Too much disharmony in a balanced, complex system will inevitably cause subsystems to collapse until a more primordial balance can be struck. RESPICE FINEM

Knowledge takes time. Over the years we teach the young to be wise. […] The very young do not always do as they are told. –The Nox, Stargate SG-1

Introduction:

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Disclaimer: There will be discussion of religious and spiritual dogma in this thread. There will also be discussion of chemical-induced altered states of consciousness. I am not involved in any organized religion nor do I practice any formal religious rituals. I do not currently use any substances (other than those par for the course in the good ‘ol American diet; caffeine, sugar, and red meat among these). Consider your obligation as an investigator to the scientific process; consider your biases, formulate a hypothesis, gather good data, and let us be prepared to expand our worldview if we have been mistaken.

I’ve made an attempt to remove references to gods and replace references to Allah/God, etc. with a more secular “Creator” trying to be as appropriate as possible.ikr fml Please keep in mind that this is not to discredit or dimune religious teachings, rather to prevent unconscious biases from coloring readers’ interpretations of important concepts.

There will be no exhaustive discussion/analysis of the available data in this post. This is not a formal study. In fact I will present a lot of interpretation without any concrete methodology. Other than to bid we incorporate mindfulness in whatever methodologies are preferred by the investigator, I don’t care how individuals go about interpreting information.

Rather, consider this post a wake-up call to the honest investigators among us; be honest with yourself, keep an open mind, and remember that there is more to reality than meets the eye. Engage in speculation and perhaps more importantly, skepticism. If we can examine the ‘woo’ and accept the null hypothesis, then we will have learned something.

Language, Religion, and the ‘Altered’ Mind:

The art of language is an old one. There are Aboriginal stories of volcanic eruptions and once prominent -now submerged- islands that date back tens of thousands of years. Unwritten stories passed down through the generations. They kept these narratives alive, and harbored the truth about our world in their minds. Truths would be passed on and shared, but wouldn’t be supported with material evidence for dozens of millennia, not until we developed modern land change science.

But, and this is a big but, science isn’t the only way to truth. As evidenced by oral histories, a shared narrative and some personal observations may be all you really need to see the truth. In fact, science isn’t even in the business of proving anything. Science is in the business of disproofs. We accept the null hypothesis or we add statistically significant data to an accepted Theory. The question becomes, where do we look for data and what should our hypotheses be?

Understanding the language of NHI, the medium and meaning of their communication, we would be better equipped to understand the lessons they are trying to impart. Perhaps there are some old lessons that we have told each other that could help us correlate the lessons of NHI?

The oldest written story in known human history is the Epic of Gilgamesh, a diluvian myth dating back to around 2,700 BCE.

The story centers around a King of Uruk, named Gilgamesh, and one of his close friends, who was once an enemy. They go on an ill-advised journey to defeat a giant beast. Every few days they set up camp in the hills, here they perform dream rituals. They eventually encounter and engage the beast, and once he surrenders an argument ensues between the hunters. The King and his new buddy decide to execute the beast and his family, chop down the woods he was protecting, and build temple doors from their spoils.

A series of misfortunes befall the main characters of the story. Gilgamesh leaves his home, goes mad, and begins to look for a man said to have been gifted immortality.

On this new journey Gilgamesh rages at his misfortunes and repeatedly makes poor decisions that set him back. When he finally meets this immortal man, the man tells him a story about a flood. A storm lasted for six days and six nights, after which “all the human beings turned to clay”.

The Immortal man tries to demonstrate to Gilgamesh that immortality is not a skill to be learned, it is a gift to be given and received. Gilgamesh cannot comprehend and fails the first task to which he is assigned – to conquer sleep for seven nights. Gilgamesh is given a consolation prize, but he loses that to a snake, so he returns home empty-handed. When he arrives home, and he sees the massive walls of his city, he praises Urshanabi, a ferryman whose magic stones Gilgamesh had previously smashed. That same ferryman, after getting his stones smashed, had the good grace to help Gilgamesh build a raft and guide him to his destination.

There are many flood narratives the world over. It is likely that several floods caused by glacial melts, changing hydrology, and rising sea levels over the preceding millennia would have been observed by pre-historic humans, recorded in their oral histories, and passed on long enough to be written down with the advent of that technology.

In the Abrahamic/Patrilineal religious traditions, there is a flood story based loosely on the Epic of Gilgamesh. A character named Noah received a promissory covenant from an NHI that so long as he went forth and helped his family, his animals, and his garden multiply, then there would be no more destructive deluges.

Also in the Abrahamic/Patrilineal traditions is a story of a legendary figure named Moses. Moses was a priest in the Egyptian court who become jaded by the status quo. He lashes out and attacks a man that was beating a slave. Moses then flees to another country.

In this new country Moses is married, and he goes to a mountain where he witnessed what he calls “a burning bush” and –after receiving a message from an NHI that called itself YHWH– he returns to start a slave uprising in Egypt. Moses, using his authority as a former member of the Royal court, his brother’s skill as an orator, and with the help of some plagues, convinces the Pharaoh to let the people go.

The enraged Pharaoh tries to retaliate against Moses, but is stopped by divine forces of nature. The lesson being that [the Creator] knows our plans, and will intervene if we seek to destroy life rather than create/shelter it.

Would you agree that our understanding of intentionality, causal reality, and the observer effect is naive? What are your thoughts on free-will?

The Cosmos is in darkness, only illuminated by the manifestation of [the Creator] in it. Whoever sees created things and sees [the Creator] not in them, or with them, or before them, or after them, is in need of light and is veiled from the sun of gnosis by the clouds of physical reality.

This is a quote from a book of Sufi aphorisms, the Kitab al Hikam, by Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari. The book was published in the 13th century, seven hundred years before the advent of quantum mechanics and the scientific description of the observer effect.

J. Robert Oppenheimer:

In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,
In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defend him.

The religions/Eastern schools of thought that make up Buddhism and Hinduism share common historical roots from the Asian subcontinent. Both philosophies teach karma, the cycle of incarnation, and liberation/self-actualization/Moksha. However, whereas adherents of Hinduism tend to follow rituals of enlightenment laid out in scriptures, and often worship gods or local deities that have personal significance, Buddhism takes a different approach. Buddhism teaches that the path to enlightenment is available to all seekers regardless of adherence to religion. The bodhisattvas journey to enlightenment simply requires reflection on the inner-self –wisdom, morality, and meditation.

Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. In 1939 Huxley began study of the Vedanta philosophy, the culmination of the Hindu Vedas. In 1953 Huxley enrolled in a trial to study the effects of mescaline, a psychoactive compound found in the sacred medicinal cactus, Peyote. This occasioned experience inspired Huxley to write The Doors of Perception.

Thomas de Quincy another English writer –who would dabble in opium before going out on the town– said of his drug-induced states of altered awareness:

If in this world there is one misery having no relief, it is the pressure on the heart from the Incommunicable. And if another Sphinx should arise to propose another enigma to man–saying, what burden is that which only is insupportable by human fortitude? I should answer at once: It is the burden of the Incommunicable.

Kurt Vonnegut was an Allied soldier during WWII. He and a group of fifty other Allied soldiers were taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken to a POW camp south of Dresden, Germany. During a series of allied fire-bombing raids Vonnegut took refuge in the basement of a slaughter house. Vonnegut and his fellow POWs were made to clean up the destruction caused by his own country-men, including the charred remains of some 25,000 civilians. This experience –witnessing our capacity for destruction– inspired his book, Slaughterhouse 5, but that harrowing experience also likely led Kurt to make this comment in his fifth novel, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater:

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it’s a much better argument against foxholes.

In his books, Kurt writes often about a fictional race of aliens called The Tralfamadorians. They are the beings from which the saying, “So it goes,” has its origins. So it goes – a philosophy of life and death. The traumatic experiences of Vonnegut certainly informed his worldview. His was a substantial contribution to my understanding of the way of things.

In Concluding:

So often claims will be used to discredit public faces of disclosure –people who should be our allies– centered around their experiences with remote viewing, psychic readings, channeling (summoning entities/craft), intuitions, synchronicities, and such…

How many of you would deny dreaming? Have you ever had an intuition about a friend or family member? Or have they any intuitions about you? Déjà vu? Have you ever perceived an event that then happened?

You are the Creator that manifests your reality. Dream of the possibilities that make up your past and future. Choose wisely. Engage in productive serendipity. Dance with the rhythm of the universe, but march to the beat of your own drum. If we become well-practiced, perhaps we can collapse wave functions in our favor.

Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Beware the power of rhythm and prose:

Rhythm
You have it or you don’t,
that’s a fallacy
I’m in them
Every sprouting tree
Every child of peace
Every cloud and sea
You see with your eyes
I see destruction and demise
Corruption in disguise
From this fuckin’ enterprise
Now I’m sucked into your lies
For me as a guide
[…]
Y’all can see me now ’cause you don’t see with your eye
You perceive with your mind
[…]
Bust a few rhymes so motherfuckers remember
[…]
Remember that it’s all in your head

Be mindful as you move through your environment. Enjoy the moments. Invite the stranger in for tea, share your stories, and learn something new. Fear is the mind-killer…

If you think death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I’ve said.