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Alien Hiccups
Sheryl Gottschall
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UFO researchers
have thought logically, that if you show people photographs of
UFOs, video footage, presented first hand accounts of UFO
experiences, etc., that people would have to believe that UFOs
exist and everything would fall into place. Yet we know this
isn’t the case. People continue to deny the existence of UFOs
when the evidence is staring them point blank in the face.
Why? Because they aren’t ready to deal with a new reality that
doesn’t just include aliens but busts open their whole
understanding of the universe. Their safety net gets chopped
and they do a freefall into nothingness. In fact they can go
through a “living death”, where everything they previously
thought was true and anchored their reality, is suddenly
shattered.
In all
fairness, who can blame people for denying other realities. A
descent into nothingness where your world falls apart is never
easy and most of us don’t do it voluntarily. We are usually
dragged kicking and screaming into a new way of being and
carry the burden of it every minute we endure it, longing
desperately to make it through our own birthing process into
this new way.
The human mind
over the last few centuries has undergone a “narrowing” which
has left us unwilling to welcome impossibilities into our
life. The human bent for seeing things has evolved into tunnel
vision, especially if what’s outside that tunnel vision
threatens our response to it. So how did this happen? Perhaps
some thoughts from Professor Michael Zimmerman may help us
understand.
“In the
medieval European world view it was acknowledged that God was
at the top of what is termed as the Great Chain of Being.
Below Him was the immaterial realm where angels, spirits and
demons were part of the fabric of reality. Below this was the
material realm where men, women, animals, plants, rocks and
chaos existed. (chaos being the undifferentiated stuff out of
which everything is made)
The years 670
to 1800 saw the birth of the Enlightenment world view where
God is still in existence but now only acts an an activator
not an overseer. There are no miracles and the universe is a
great clockwork of interrelated parts. There is no longer an
immaterial realm and everything that now exists below God
exists in the material world only. All we’re left with is
physical reality. However, in this period there was
considerable interest in the possibility of ETs. Remember that
the telescope had just been invented, and that led to a lot of
speculation. So with angels banished, ETs are postulated to
occupy vacated positions in the Great Chain of Being....The
Enlightenment began a profound process of ‘disenchanting the
cosmos’. (1)
Now today we
have the 20th century worldview. ....In the modern view all
that is left is physical reality. You don’t even have a nod to
God at the top... There is no supreme being - except us...
Modern man conceives of himself as the potential master of all
nature and as top of the cosmic heap.....We are the source of
all meaning, purpose and value.” (2)
Poised, as many
believe we are, is our civilization on the brink of tottering
over the edge of our own creation. Humanity has evolved a
world view, which as you can see, if left to brew untouched
will evolve us right out of the picture. It has only taken 330
years for the evolution process to ease God out of our reality
and there are many who now feel that mankind's welfare is also
being insidiously eased out thus resulting in an extinction of
our own making. Where does it end?
Is it any
wonder we are having a hard time waking people up to the
concept of extra-terrestrial life when we can’t even convince
ourselves of the nature of our own existence and what is
necessary for that to continue? If we are raised in a social
structure that limits what we will accept into our reality, it
will not be too long before something happens which does not
fit into that reality causing one almighty hiccup in the
system, and this seems to be what is going on today. UFOs are
one great hiccup in the 21st century world view and with
anything that is undigestible it’s going to have a few
obstacles to overcome before it’s actually processed.
(1) “Frontiers
of the Soul: Exploring Psychic Evolution” by Michael Grosso,
Quest Books 1992. This book describes the wonderful interest
people had in the 1600 - 1800s in ET life.
(2) “How
Science and Society Respond to Extraordinary Patterns” by
Michael Zimmerman web site http:\\www.peer.org
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