Some people think advancing our technology is the most important thing, and yes it is important but not compared to advancing the mind. Others think advancing culture, especially as it pertains to religion is what matters. but again, not compared to the mind.
It’s easy to see how advancing tech could play out, we’ve seen it on the big screen for decades. Star Trek has given us peeks at dreams. but it is harder to imagine how advancing the human mind would play out. there are very few depictions of that in Hollywood.
but one fringe turn deserves another, and if the debunkers are wrong about UAP then they could be wrong about any other fringe topic. if UAP are mainstream, any other connected fringe topic will go mainstream as well. especially a fringe topic that has clear connections to UAP.
These interrelations between UAP and psi phenomena are particularly pronounced in what has sometimes been termed “close encounters of the fourth kind”, namely the highly controversial alien abduction experiences (Bullard, 1987, 1995; Pritchard et al., 1994; for a recent “speculative analysis” of these phenomena see Dolan, 2020). They are seamlessly linked to close encounters of the “third” kind which can lead to this “fourth” kind of encounters.
The latter abound with phenomena of the entire spectrum of anomalous and parapsychological experiences, including altered states of consciousness, time anomalies, telepathic communication, hauntings and apparitional experiences including floating and gliding entities that may even move through doors and walls, inexplicable luminous and acoustic phenomena, somatic effects including the appearance of skin anomalies and scars, and anomalous physical phenomena, such as telekinesis and apports or deports of objects. Sometimes, also encounters with deceased individuals are claimed to have happened during alien abduction experiences.
I would like to stress again that I am not making ontological claims regarding the nature of these reported experiences. It is nevertheless evident that they closely resemble or match phenomena studied by parapsychologists for a long time already, and that similar experiential elements are likewise reported from the contexts of sleep paralysis, near-death experiences (just think of altered states of consciousness and telepathic communication with entities during such experiences), profound spiritual and exceptional experiences as well as religious mass events such as visions of Mary.
In short, notwithstanding the many controversial aspects of both parapsychological phenomena and UAP, including misperception, misinterpretation, and fraud, there is overwhelming evidence that the phenomena studied in UAPology and parapsychology have much in common. And, quite importantly: These experiences and phenomena can be studied with standard methods of research applied in the humanities and natural sciences, although it might not be trivial. But I second Jacques Vallée (1975) and many others: There is no way around it. No theory of UAP will be complete without taking their parapsychological aspects into account.
Concordant Deviance:Commonalties of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and Psi Phenomena
so what does that say about the future of the human mind? it says our potential is unlimited. the only thing holding us back is our concept of ourselves.
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