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level such that the so-called genetic experiments allegedly performed aboard UFOs seem ludicrous
and grotesque. The ufonauts should go back to medical school.
Using the advanced paralyzing devices they possess, it should be simple for them, if they were an
extraterrestrial task force, to raid the blood bank of any modern research hospital where they would
also find collections of frozen embryos at various stages of development. And what kind of
psychologists are they, if any amateur hypnotist can readily uncover from the witness the details of
an abduction that was supposed to be totally erased from his or her mind? We have mind control
drugs that ensure permanent, selective memory loss. Wouldn't smart extraterrestrials know as
much?
In my view, the interaction remembered by the witnesses, if it was a real occurrence, should be
treated at the symbolic level. It does not tell us anything about the extraterrestrial origin of the
beings, and the idea that they must perform such experiments to enrich their race is merely another
contribution to the absurd character of the entire phenomenon.
Emerging fully armed into our local universe, the UFOs provide the physical support for our own
dreams. We do the rest. Our brains erect a ladder of symbols toward the darkened skies where the
strange machines hover, and we meet them more than halfway across the bridge of their strangeness
perhaps because we vaguely percieve that their irresistible, pathetic adventure is closely related to
our own. But the extraterrestrial theory is not good enough, because it is not strange enough to
explain the facts.
10. The Control System
Contact or Control
After forty years of puzzlement, we have plenty of data to document the impact of the UFO
phenomenon on our society. We have only to look around us and examine the shift that takes place
right now in human mythologies. We need only observe to what extent the subject of contact with
extraterrestrial life has become fashionable. We are as likely to find mention of it today in the
arguments of the scientists as in the statements of the fortune tellers. At one end of the academic
spectrum, our radio astronomers suggest that we ought to listen to the stars to decipher in the
galactic noise the possible murmur of newly born societies or the wise warnings of long
disappeared cultures. Astronomer Carl Sagan, long a UFO debunker, recently published a novel
called Contact. At the other end of the spectrum, Jeanne Dixon is quoted by a tabloid (which calls
her "the best psychic in the U.S.") as prophesying an imminent change in our understanding of
UFOs, "and it will bring great benefit to Mankind," she says.
According to an interview with Dixon published in May 1974, the UFOs are flown by women pilots
and come from a planet located beyond Jupiter but still undiscovered: "The people in the UFOs are
interested in us, but have avoided contacting us until now because we have not been mentally
ready."
As a society, we are developing a great thirst for contact with superior minds that will provide
guidance for our poor, harassed, hectic planet. I think we may be ready to fall into a trap, perhaps a
kind, benevolent pitfall. I believe that when we speak of UFO sightings as instances of space
visitations we are looking at the phenomenon on the wrong level. We are not dealing with
successive waves of visitations from space. We are dealing with a control system.
The thermostats that regulate your house temperature summer and winter are an example of a
control system. In summer, a thermostat allows the air to get warmer until a certain limit is reached,
and then the cooling system is triggered. But in winter, when the outside atmosphere turns cold and
the temperature drops below another limit, a different mechanism, the heater, comes into play and
warms the house. A naive observer might try to explain all this by assuming that warm is "good"
and cold is "bad." He or she would be right half the time. Another naive observer of the opposite
school might take a reversed view and decide that warm is "evil." He or she would also be right half
the time. To understand the whole phenomenon one needs a grasp of the control concept, and one
must be ready to understand that it needs two opposite principles for its function.
I propose that there is a spiritual control system for human consciousness and that paranormal
phenomena like UFOs are one of its manifestations. I cannot tell whether this control is natural and
spontaneous; whether it is explainable in terms of genetics, of social psychology, or of ordinary
phenomena or if it is artificial in nature, under the power of some superhuman will. It may be
entirely determined by laws that we have not yet discovered.
I am led to this idea by the fact that, in every instance of the UFO phenomenon I have been able to
study in depth, I have found as many rational elements as absurd ones, as many that I could call
friendly as I could call hostile. This is what tells me that we are working on the wrong level. And so
are all the believers, and this definitely includes the skeptics, because they believe they can explain
the facts as strongly as the most enthusiastic convert to Ms. Dixon's vision of Jupiterian Amazons!
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level such that the so-called genetic experiments allegedly performed aboard UFOs seem ludicrous
and grotesque. The ufonauts should go back to medical school.
Using the advanced paralyzing devices they possess, it should be simple for them, if they were an
extraterrestrial task force, to raid the blood bank of any modern research hospital where they would
also find collections of frozen embryos at various stages of development. And what kind of
psychologists are they, if any amateur hypnotist can readily uncover from the witness the details of
an abduction that was supposed to be totally erased from his or her mind? We have mind control
drugs that ensure permanent, selective memory loss. Wouldn't smart extraterrestrials know as
much?
In my view, the interaction remembered by the witnesses, if it was a real occurrence, should be
treated at the symbolic level. It does not tell us anything about the extraterrestrial origin of the
beings, and the idea that they must perform such experiments to enrich their race is merely another
contribution to the absurd character of the entire phenomenon.
Emerging fully armed into our local universe, the UFOs provide the physical support for our own
dreams. We do the rest. Our brains erect a ladder of symbols toward the darkened skies where the
strange machines hover, and we meet them more than halfway across the bridge of their strangeness
perhaps because we vaguely percieve that their irresistible, pathetic adventure is closely related to
our own. But the extraterrestrial theory is not good enough, because it is not strange enough to
explain the facts.
10. The Control System
Contact or Control
After forty years of puzzlement, we have plenty of data to document the impact of the UFO
phenomenon on our society. We have only to look around us and examine the shift that takes place
right now in human mythologies. We need only observe to what extent the subject of contact with
extraterrestrial life has become fashionable. We are as likely to find mention of it today in the
arguments of the scientists as in the statements of the fortune tellers. At one end of the academic
spectrum, our radio astronomers suggest that we ought to listen to the stars to decipher in the
galactic noise the possible murmur of newly born societies or the wise warnings of long
disappeared cultures. Astronomer Carl Sagan, long a UFO debunker, recently published a novel
called Contact. At the other end of the spectrum, Jeanne Dixon is quoted by a tabloid (which calls
her "the best psychic in the U.S.") as prophesying an imminent change in our understanding of
UFOs, "and it will bring great benefit to Mankind," she says.
According to an interview with Dixon published in May 1974, the UFOs are flown by women pilots
and come from a planet located beyond Jupiter but still undiscovered: "The people in the UFOs are
interested in us, but have avoided contacting us until now because we have not been mentally
ready."
As a society, we are developing a great thirst for contact with superior minds that will provide
guidance for our poor, harassed, hectic planet. I think we may be ready to fall into a trap, perhaps a
kind, benevolent pitfall. I believe that when we speak of UFO sightings as instances of space
visitations we are looking at the phenomenon on the wrong level. We are not dealing with
successive waves of visitations from space. We are dealing with a control system.
The thermostats that regulate your house temperature summer and winter are an example of a
control system. In summer, a thermostat allows the air to get warmer until a certain limit is reached,
and then the cooling system is triggered. But in winter, when the outside atmosphere turns cold and
the temperature drops below another limit, a different mechanism, the heater, comes into play and
warms the house. A naive observer might try to explain all this by assuming that warm is "good"
and cold is "bad." He or she would be right half the time. Another naive observer of the opposite
school might take a reversed view and decide that warm is "evil." He or she would also be right half
the time. To understand the whole phenomenon one needs a grasp of the control concept, and one
must be ready to understand that it needs two opposite principles for its function.
I propose that there is a spiritual control system for human consciousness and that paranormal
phenomena like UFOs are one of its manifestations. I cannot tell whether this control is natural and
spontaneous; whether it is explainable in terms of genetics, of social psychology, or of ordinary
phenomena or if it is artificial in nature, under the power of some superhuman will. It may be
entirely determined by laws that we have not yet discovered.
I am led to this idea by the fact that, in every instance of the UFO phenomenon I have been able to
study in depth, I have found as many rational elements as absurd ones, as many that I could call
friendly as I could call hostile. This is what tells me that we are working on the wrong level. And so
are all the believers, and this definitely includes the skeptics, because they believe they can explain
the facts as strongly as the most enthusiastic convert to Ms. Dixon's vision of Jupiterian Amazons!
There are ways to gain access to the reference level of every control system. Even a child, if smart [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]