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Turner Classic Movies, recently,
aired The Song of Bernadette, the story of the young girl who was visited by
the vision (perhaps the Blessed Virgin Mary) at Lourdes which established the
miracle spring that is aid to cure illnesses and disease.
That event – the presumed
visitation by Mary, the mother of Jesus/Christ – followed by the alleged
visions of Mary at Fatima was preceded by a slew of visions and appearances by
supposed divine entities earlier in human history.
From time immemorial mankind has
been subject to either quasi-psychotic hallucinations or intrusions into human
reality by entities from another reality.
The story of the Saints is replete
with visions and voices, considered by The Church (of Rome) to be authentic
contact by holy beings.
Joan of Arc had visions, Moses was
confronted by a burning bush, Muhammed heard voices, Joseph Smith was visited
by an angel.
Jesus mother had an angelic
visitation which affected her son, causing him to either hallucinate visions
and sounds later in life or he, like she, actually was contacted by ethereal
beings he thought was God or God’s angels.
Saint Paul had a grand psychotic
episode on the road to Damascus, Ezekiel saw a divine entity in a chariot,
Elias [Elijah] went up to heaven in a fiery chariot, as did Enoch [Enos] before
him.
While some religious cults were
started by such experiences or co-opted the instances, the manifestations were
so bizarre and extraordinary that their intrinsic meaning was layered by errant
human explanations and exploitations,
Did transcendental beings actually
make contact with certain human beings? Or did some human beings have psychotic
episodes that were painted as divine interventions, for lack of a
not-yet-understood psychiatric etiology?
Paul Kimball and his friend Mac
Tonnies, along with Jacques Vallee and a few other persons feel that humankind
may be the brunt of contact by forces or entities trying to relay a message – a
message that we are to dull to perceive correctly.
This is the same as that in he
religious sphere. The divinities have proscribed behavior and messages that
have been thwarted or perverted by humans.
The AmerIndian myths, the Hindu,
Mayan, Aztec, Olmec, Buddhist, Sikh, Shinto have created theologies that are
not only abstruse but ill-defined as precepts for human conduct.
So, let’s assume that from the
religious haze that had gone before, entities or beings (ethereal or not) tried
a new approach.
Since human beings have primarily
thought that divinities came down from the heavens, the beings hoping to get
our attention instigated appearances of flying machines, sometimes with
entities aboard, to get our attention once more as happened in the formative
years of mankind’s evolution.
The modern appearances of the
heavenly machines or message-intended artifacts came as airships – the 1890s
airships of UFO lore.
But in the absence of any
cognitive resonance by those who saw or interacted with the airships, the
aerial constructs went on to become flying disks or cigar shaped craft, and
today they show up as triangular objects flying above, all without the kind of
verbal or visual contact that occurred in the heady days of the Hebrews and
other Middle East tribes.
What does this tell us?
That the messengers are
incompetent, not able to conceive a cogent message that we can understand, or
they are playful, even devious creations out to have fun with humankind, as
they’ve been doing for all of man’s history (and prehistory): the Vallee
thesis.
I get the impression that Mac
Tonnies – and Paul Kimball will correct me if I’m wrong – felt the “others”
were not being obtuse but proffering important messaging that we humans are
still too stupid to understand – Tonnies’ Post-Human Blues as it were.
UFOs and other ethereal,
evanescent beings and appearances have a meaning that is profound but we just
don’t get it.
We can nail the physical aspects
provided by the “others” as Paul Trent did with his now (in)famous photographs
or the Hills encountered and reported eventually.
But we can’t fathom the meaning,
yet, of these visitations.
The prophets of old made a stab at
meaning but muddled the already muddled message.
Some contactees, as Nick Redfern
understands it, also received actual messages from the “others” but these too
became warped by human interpretation or, as I see it, the inherent madness
(insanity) of the messages or the entities providing them – exampled by Jose
Caravaca’s Distortion Theory and thoroughly exampled by him.
Yes, there is a message in the UFO
phenomenon, but is it a sensible message or a devious ploy? Or is it just an
imposed hallucinatory phenomenon telling us something worthwhile but still
obscure.
Or is it the psychotic
manifestation of an Evil omnipotence and His/Its minions toying with a creation
(human beings) which evokes jealousy in this Jungian/Gnostic God who can’t
create things as beautiful as that created by mankind: art, music,
architecture, literature, even iPads, tablets, computers, and other things
mundane but out of creative ability for this malevolent God.
Are UFOs a vibrant distraction to
keep man on edge, unable to create beautiful things while contemplating this
ornery phenomenon?
Or are UFOs a message that we need
but can’t grasp and haven’t grasped since way back when?
You tell me…
RR
