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Cosmology for
Ufologists
Martin Gottschall, PhD ©
The cosmology
which is being developed by astronomers and scientists from
other fields of study has only a limited usefulness in UFO
research. It barely begins to help us to understand
cosmological aspects of the UFO phenomenon. Cosmology
endeavours to understand the universe at large - how it came
into existence, how it is evolving and how we came to exist in
it; so that we can begin to see our place in the scheme of
things.
When the
scientists' cosmology is applied to the UFO phenomenon,
instead of understanding, we get rejection and denial. It has
no place for the things which are central to the UFO
phenomenon, was not invented to help us understand it and
seems to say that UFOs as we understand them can not be real.
Of course, it might be their cosmology which is not real, or
rather not realistic enough.
The reason for
this unexpected state of affairs can be seen in the history of
the scientific paradigm as it evolved in the last few
centuries. "Science" has become progressively more and more
materialistic, meaning that it has adopted the belief that
everything in existence has a material cause. In short, it
rejected the multi-dimensional word view of previous centuries
as "ignorant superstition". The reasons that scientists might
have advanced in support of their view are not likely to be
their real motives, and should not be accepted at face value.
During the
formative centuries of science, it was engaged in a struggle
with the church, and it tended to counter the excesses of the
church with opposite excesses of its own. Now science finds
itself between a rock and a hard place. For science, the
universe is a place where the "fittest" survive. Enter the ET.
Who is fittest? Who will survive? The existence of ETs is an
intolerable stress to the scientific mind-set. This stress can
be resolved by scrapping this paradigm (which a small minority
have done), by rejecting the possible existence of ETs (which
is the most popular option), or by arguing that the universe
is just too big and ET will never come and bother us, but
maybe we can catch him/her on the radio (SETI - which a
growing number are opting for).
Science has
done an extremely bad job (far worse than the church) of
preparing us to face up to the existence of ETs, and it is
still in a state of denial. Is it any wonder that MJ12 (or
whatever its actual name might be) has completely ignored the
scientific community as such, and manipulated it perhaps even
more than the rest of us. If Ufologists want a cosmology which
works for them, they are going to have to invent it
themselves. No one else is going to do it for them. Here is a
first try:
PROPOSITION 1 -
DIMENSIONS
The universe is
multi-dimensional in the sense that what we call the physical
universe is just one level or dimension of reality. In
esoteric and new-age literature the difference between the
physical and other dimensions is often said to be a difference
of "frequency". However, this should perhaps be seen as an
effect rather than a cause of this difference, as illustrated
by the following idea.
In the physical
dimension, atoms of matter are composed of electrons and
nuclear particles (protons and neutrons etc). The nuclear
particles have about 2000 times more mass than the electrons.
Our bodies, organs and brains are held together and activated
by chemical activity which involves only a few of the outer
electrons of the atoms of our bodies, and the nucleus hardly
at all. When I move my finger for example, all the action is
associated with those electrons. The remaining electrons and
nuclear particles although 10,000 times more massive, are
passive participants, just going along for the ride - and
slowing me down.
Suppose that in
the dimension just "above" ours, the atoms of that dimension
were only 100 times heavier than the electrons in them rather
than 10,000 times as in our case. Everything would happen much
faster in that dimension, say ten times faster. Would it not
have a "higher" frequency? Our dimension is often described as
one of greater "density". If your body only weighed 1 kg or
less in that other dimension, would you not agree also?
Let us suppose
that for the dimensions of most immediate interest to us, and
our dimension, there existed certain similarities. These might
be that in each dimension there exists matter, energy, order
and geometry. The ancients believed that "as above, so below"
and expressed this idea in geometry. In our dimension order is
embodied in the idea of cause and effect which is experienced
as the arrow of time. We propose that these qualities -
matter, energy, order and geometry while not identical are
similar enough to be recognizable. The difference is what
separates dimensions and governs the degree to which adjacent
dimensions can interact with each other.
PROPOSITION 2 -
DIMENSIONS SHARE A COMMON SPACE
The space in
which our physical universe exists is also the space in which
other, possibly all other, dimensions exist. That is why
geometry is common to all of them. Imagine a planet like our
earth surrounded by a thick spherical shell of the dimension
which is next above the physical, and it in turn is surrounded
by another shell of the dimension above it, and so on. We do
not see these other dimensions, and our matter and energy does
not interact with them. However if we were somehow transported
into these dimensions, they would be just as solid and
tangible to us as the physical is when we are here.
PROPOSITION 3 -
DIMENSIONS ARE INHABITED BY SENTIENT BEINGS
Sentient life
and life of every imaginable kind exists not only in the
physical but all other dimensions as well. This proposition
has a direct bearing on Ufology in that it admits the
existence of ET visitors who might come from somewhere in our
physical dimension, or some place in a different dimension.
Notions of this kind have been put forward by many researchers
and contactees, and we need to be able to entertain ideas like
this proposition, to be able to handle the wide variety of ET
data which already exists.
PROPOSITION 4 -
THE DIMENSIONAL CONCEPT IS PART OF OUR DAILY EXPERIENCE
We may not
realise it, but this dimensional idea is actually part of our
daily lives. It is becoming increasingly apparent that
thoughts and feelings are not just brain cell or chemical
processes but substance and energy different from that which
scientists recognise. The ideas behind "soul" and "spirit" are
dimensional concepts.
Light rays can
pass through each other without affecting each other. The same
can be said of electric, magnetic and gravitational fields.
These things are crucial building blocks of the physical
dimension, and they interpenetrate the same way that we
propose adjacent dimensions do. Neutrinos are particles which
are produced by certain nuclear reactions, yet they do not
interact with matter except to a minute degree. A neutrino can
pass right through the earth with almost no prospect of
interacting with the countless atoms through which it passes.
It is as though the neutrino belonged to another dimension. We
witness its creation in certain nuclear reactions, and then we
lose "sight" of it.
PROPOSITION 5 -
THE MATTER AND ENERGY OF ONE DIMENSION CAN BE CONVERTED INTO
THAT OF ANOTHER
Not only can
physical matter be converted into physical energy and back,
but matter and energy can be changed from that of one
dimension to that of another. This may be embodied in the
notion that all the matter and energy of all the dimensions of
existence derive from the one universal substance/energy. Here
again we see an idea discovered in the physical dimension
extended as an interdimensional concept.
An extension of
the idea of the one universal substance and energy is the idea
of dimensional projection. The universal substance and energy
can be "stepped down" from a higher dimension to a lower
dimension, and "transmuted" from a lower dimension to a higher
dimension. This means that in the matter and energy of the
physical dimension, and of all other dimensions also, there is
latent the quality of all other dimensions as well.
PROPOSITION 6 -
THE UNIVERSE IS MORE ACCESSIBLE IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS
From the
physical dimension the universe is both huge and ancient. It
takes billions of years for rays of light to traverse even a
portion of it. In the higher dimensions the far reaches of the
universe may be much more readily accessible, to the degree
that any chosen star or galaxy can be reached almost as fast
as we might think of them. For example, the spiritual
dimension has been traditionally understood as having the
properties that from any one point of space or time, any other
point of space or time can be reached directly, without having
to pass through any intervening points. This makes every point
in space and time as "close" or accessible as any other. If
you believed that time travel and "space warps" were invented
by science fiction writers, think again.
While there are
doubtless ways of traversing the physical universe at speeds
above that of light which are themselves physical, the
ultimate means of space travel must be dimensional. In this
procedure, the vehicle moves up a few levels dimensionally,
traverses space and then returns to the physical dimension
possibly on the other side of our galaxy. This method
resembles the so-called "wormhole" concept of making an
otherwise impossibly long journey vastly shorter.
PROPOSITION 7 -
THERE IS A GOVERNING PRINCIPLE OR "MANAGEMENT" OF THE UNIVERSE
This system of
dimensions is ideally suited for some kind of hierarchical
management of the universe. It may well have been created this
way for that very reason. By maintaining a subtle balance of
control and isolation, the "management" can ensure that the
"grand design" is achieved while at the same time individuals
exercise freewill choices, learn and grow.
When science
adopted its one dimensional view of the universe, it also
rejected the personal and collective protection which a wisely
managed universe provides. As a consequence, most scientists
are emotionally incapable of facing the idea that ET (in fact
many kinds of ET) is here now and probably always has been
since before our sun was born.
This
proposition implies that life and intelligence designed and
created the universe, which in turn allows certain parts of
life to come into existence and evolve. We do not need to
resolve the evolution/creation issue in favour of one or the
other because, depending on your perspective, each can be
perfectly true.
We can adopt
the idea that the universe and the life in it are both created
and creative.
PROPOSITION 8 -
ALL THINGS EXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY IN SEVERAL DIMENSIONS
We can extend
proposition 5 to include the idea that not only substance and
energy but life itself has an ultimate source from which it is
projected into every dimension. There is a thread linking
every particle of matter, energy, life and consciousness to
its original source, that passes through a number of
dimensions. This is a basis for example for the notion that a
human being has a "divine spark". An awareness of this
possibility keeps our minds open to our links with the greater
universe, and a denial of it traps us not just in one
dimension, but in the small portion of it which we consider
"real".
PROPOSITION 9 -
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS TO TRANSMUTE TO THE NEXT HIGHER DIMENSION
This notion is
current in both new age and contactee circles. According to
this view, most of the life in our solar system already
resides in higher dimensions, and what is left in the physical
dimension must soon make the transition to a higher dimension,
or continue physical existence elsewhere in the universe.
Indeed, this transition is seen as the climax of the coming
new age.
When this
change comes, life in our solar system will cease to exist in
the physical dimension, and no one will be able to inhabit it
at the physical level any more (a new heaven and a new earth -
Revelation). This means that at least some of the physical
matter now in existence will be transmuted into matter of the
next dimension. Since each physical atom might become raw
material for a hundred atoms in the next dimension, we can see
how the physical dimension can serve as a repository for
matter and energy for many aeons of time, until it is needed
at higher levels.
One of the
mysteries of astronomy is the so-called dark matter of the
universe. About 90% of the gravity which holds galaxies
together can not be detected by astronomical means. There
might be any number of reasons for this but chief of them
could well be that 90% of the solar systems in our and other
galaxies no longer exist in the physical dimension.
PROPOSITION 10
- WE ALL CAN TUNE INTO HIGHER DIMENSIONS
The most
powerful means we have of furthering our own evolution, is our
faculty of attuning to higher dimensions. The great
discoveries and works in art, music, science, invention,
philosophy etc which exist in our world today owe a great deal
to the inspiration of individuals from higher realms. Indeed
some things like sacred scriptures are deemed to be literal
inspirations.
In the UFO and
kindred fields there are many individuals who claim to be
"channels" for such inspiration. The most important thing we
can learn from channels is not what they say or teach,
although in many cases they offer profound wisdom, but that we
can each activate our own means of attunement to higher
dimensions, develop our own discernment, and reduce our
dependence on intermediaries. As we strengthen our own links
with higher dimensions, we hasten the day when we can climb up
and down the dimensional ladder, like the patriarch Jacob
climbed the ladder of his dream. This is one aspect of
preparing for ET contact.
PROPOSITION 11
- ETs CAN BE DIMENSIONAL OR PHYSICAL
An awareness of
the dimensional universe allows us to accept ETs who are
physical and also ETs who come from other dimensions as
equally real. For example, when George Adamski claimed that
his ETs were native to Venus or other planets of our solar
system, many "knew" he had to be a liar, and to this day they
have been unable to benefit from what those ETs had to offer.
It is a peculiar thing that people who have not the glimmering
of a clue as to how a UFO works, can be so sure as to what the
occupants of such a craft can or can not be or do.
On the other
hand ETs who have well defined physical interests in humans,
as for example the "greys" are likely to be from the physical
dimension, or are looking for a way to migrate into it.
SUMMARY
The UFO
phenomenon has been an enigma to us for many decades despite
the ease with which we can distinguish it from other
phenomena. Surely the reason for this is not so much lack of
information, of which we have literally mountains, but the
lack of ideas and concepts we can use to make sense of this
vast body of information. One body of such ideas which we
clearly need, is a cosmology which allows us to recognize all
the variety of ETs which have been encountered, and benefit
from the information about them which we already have.
This is just a
first step. Since ETs are living beings, we need a much
expanded range of ideas and concepts on the nature of life and
the faculties possessed by living things as well as sentient
beings. ETs are also representatives of ET societies, and we
need to expand our ideas and concepts relating to societies
too, if we are to discern things about ET societies from the
clues given to us. We could go on in this vein, but this is
surely enough for a start.
If you have
wondered why after a half century Ufology has made so little
progress in understanding its subject, perhaps these
propositions will explain why. We have not yet seriously tried
to create a conceptual framework that can cope with our data.
Most "mainstream" Ufologists actively resist anything that
lies outside the conventional materialistic (one dimensional)
viewpoint which is paraded everywhere as the accepted
scientific paradigm. With this millstone around its neck,
Ufology has been drowning in its own data for decades.
Scientists as a group will not come near the UFO phenomenon.
They know full well, that their materialistic doctrine was
expressly designed to ignore any domains of life other than a
selection of what was already known to them.
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