Possible Explanations of the UFO Mystery

 

The United States government has acknowledged that something visible and intelligent has repeatedly been observed in our air space whose nature, purpose, and origin is unknown.  The good news.  No signs of mass panic or hysteria.  Even so, the apparent superhuman technology of the UFOs—their ability to play games with us in space as if we were children—are reasons the Government might be feeling uneasy these days.

 

There is a mass of data we cannot deny that imply powers beyond human capacity.  The phenomenon emanates from a source outside terrestrial existence.  No one seems to know what is really going on here. We are of course free to speculate, and I would like to toss out a few speculations on how we might understand the phenomenon.  

 

There are two forms of my explanation, both based on the premise of the existence of supernormal data (ESP and PK).  There is in fact a very large body of empirical data—ignored and avoided by most mainstream scientists—proving the reality of extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. There is a wide variance in the proven capacity to actualize psi, that is, the realm of the paranormal.  They range from minor and fleeting to major and  abundant.  The big psi-hitters we find among folks we call yogis, shamans, saints, near-death experiencers, and other psi-disposed personality types.

 

We don’t know the limits of the possible development of human psi-powers. There are cases that suggest what might be possible on a large scale.  Joseph of Copertino’s telepathic abilities were so extensive that his superiors insisted that he stop commenting on the thoughts of the brothers around him whenever they strayed from their prayers or spiritual thoughts.  Talk about not respecting boundaries!  Joseph moved weighty objects around that would normally require ten men.  On one testy occasion in a dispute he sent a bolt of force that knocked somebody off his horse; the dispute ended in a warm embrace  between the two men.  Joseph affected his clothing or even the walls around him so that things he used or touched were collected and preserved as sacred relics because they emanated unearthly fragrances, sometimes persisting for years.  The friar managed to make light of gravitation and was (shall we say) a frequent flyer and several times was caught bilocating; he was seen by, and interacted with, people in two different cities at the same time.  (There are sworn affidavits for this admirable performance.)

 

Imagine if Joseph appeared in a space suit to somebody in contemporary America, say, Mitch McConnel; it would be reported as a case of alien visitation.  My point is this.  I have no difficulty supposing that somewhere in the galaxies—and even scattered all over the galaxies—much, much older and more evolved lifeforms have developed the psychic powers we humans possess but to degrees vastly enhanced,  and subject to control.  Improving on Joseph’s supernormal relationship to mass and space, the more evolved intelligent lifeforms might have learned to cruise around the galaxies, unobstructed by time or space.   

 

If so, it must have been quite a bonanza to stumble on our beautiful planet, now dominated by an intelligent species whose psychospiritual evolution is obviously stunted.  If they’ve been visiting and observing us since the first cave painters and the great ancient civilizations, I can see why they may have got concerned when we figured out how to blow up the whole planet up with nuclear weapons back around the mid-1940s.  But their excitement (assuming they have emotions) must have really peaked when they realized we were on a path of destroying the entire life ecologies of the planet by heating up the atmosphere.

 

It needs to be underscored.  The visitors by no means are all nice guys. Anyone who reads Bob Pratt’s masterful and truly frightening UFO Danger Zone will be convinced of that.  Another problem is that the visitors have strong leanings toward deceit and mendacity.   It’s hard not to note that the visitors supposedly from outer space resemble us terrestrials; liars and psychopaths, types we’re  familiar with in our human jungle.  

 

So now a different interpretation is possible.  The visitors are real.  But they come not from outer space but from inner space, from another dimension of our subliminal being.  They come from the nethermost deep core of the mental universe we all as conscious beings inhabit.   We scarcely know the limits or the boundaries of our minds because all our minds of aspects of the one mind that lies hidden beneath the threshold or ordinary awareness. 

 

Beneath that threshold, even as we walk in our sunlit working world, our deep stories are unfolding, our dream selves are active, but in ways we can only guess or infer.  The problem is how to learn what is happening below the threshold.  And how, if possible, to make the most useful and entertaining connections with the roiling wonders churning in the psychic underground.  The more evolved beings, the configurations of higher consciousness, the elves and fairies, angels and demons, gods and goddesses—they’re alive and well, nested in the crannies of our subliminal selves, waiting, yearning, lusting for the right time, the right person, the right synchronicity.

 

So what I’m suggesting is that the UFO visitors come from outer space, beings much more evolved from potentials we already possess in germ or they come from the subliminal depths of our own living psyches.   Both options are a mind stretch. The crisis of survival we face as a species is forcing a confrontation with our cosmic brothers and sisters or with the hidden agents of our own potential evolution.  These are possible explanations, as far as I can see.  I know they sound far out; but the facts of nature are more far out than most anything we can imagine. Perhaps both explanations have some validity. What I believe is certain is that the visitors, whatever they are, are real, often bizarrely so.  And equally real are the shockingly strange powers that some human beings clearly possess.  As to the latter, my book, Smile of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief will serve to ground the reader in the solid fare of true weirdness and authentic impossibilities.