Why do UFO buffs prefer the ET option to time-traveling or other-universe visitors?
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Of course space travelers from other planets have been a
societal meme for a long time, brought to fruition by Sci-Fi writers and eventually
movies and television, exploding in entertainment media even today, whereas
time-traveling and multi-verses remain esoteric.
But there has to be more to it than that.
Two books I just got from Amazon -- Gods, Voices, and the
Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes by Marcel Kuijsten and
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the
Gods by David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce – offer the idea that The
Other has been in the mind of humans since the dawn of mankind.
Freud, in Moses and Monotheism, captivates readers
with his view of the origin of the adopted Hebrew god Jahve (Yahweh, Jehovah),
The Other.
ET’s represent, as those who understand the Ancient Alien
crowd know, The Other.
The Other is
essential to Ancient Astronaut theory.
For much of humankind God represents The Other. For the non
or less religious, The Other is anything outside the norm, the perceived
reality.
But what is The Other?
It is the concept of “God” (or divinity) that eludes from
the bicameral mind. I suggest you read about bicamerality. I know most (all?)
of you will not buy the books mentioned above (or any book for that matter) so
here are some links and an excerpt from Wikipedia for you:
“According to Jaynes, ancient people in the bicameral state
of mind would have experienced the world in a manner that has some similarities
to that of a schizophrenic. Rather than making conscious evaluations in novel
or unexpected situations, the person would hallucinate a voice or
"god" giving admonitory advice or commands and obey without question:
one would not be at all conscious of one's own thought processes per se.
Research into "command hallucinations" that often direct the behavior
of those labeled schizophrenic, as well as other voice hearers, supports
Jaynes's predictions.”
The idea that the origin of the gods (demons et al.),
The Other, derives from early consciousness is a bit too complex for a vade
mecum blog, like this one, but if you want to understand why ETs prevail in
the mind of most UFO buffs, you have to arm yourself with information that
explains the evolution of The Other conceptualization, and you won’t find it
online but in books like that by Lewis-Williams and Pearce, cited above.
Inside the Neolithic Mind offers a thorough rendering
of how early man arrived at the concept of “the spirit world” and belief in the
gods and after-life, without refuge in the Ancient Astronaut nonsense,
substantiating the human mental process with excavational proof from such
places as Nevali Çori, Göbekli Tepe, ‘Ain Ghazal, Jerico, and Çatalhöyük.
Now, I know that some of you (my pal, Dominick, for
instance) might find this topic of mine to be “beside the point” but it isn’t.
The evolution of the human brain and consciousness (or
thought) goes to the heart of why many in the UFO community believe in ETs, and
why that belief is delusional.
More to come on this, I’m afraid….
RR
posted by RRRGroup at
Saturday, July 22, 2017
4 Comments:
Hey, I love this stuff (I should read the Julian Jaynes´s book, it seems to be quite a classic). And yes, why the ufo experiences are often (always?) interpreted as an alien encounter? Maybe people who interpret he thing (whatever it is)as something like alien ships from outer space. Time travellers? Hyperspace?
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Jerry Cornelius, at Tuesday, July 25, 2017
it does appear we are inexplicably stuck with the ET option, even though the concept of LIGHT YEARS and what it represents is at least 'vaguely' understandable by anyone with a high school education. The explanations for getting around the difficulty of inter-stellar travel (ie worm holes ... and i think a new idea was floated a few weeks ago, that the 'space ships' are using stars as a power source) are almost harder to believe than travelers from another universe.
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jamesrav, at Thursday, July 27, 2017
The belief in the ET hypothesis is not "delusional" although some of the believers are delusional...not the same thing. Also, for me at least, it is far more difficult to get my head around the idea of "time travel" (whatever the hell that is) than it is that we may have been visited occasionaly by machine intelligence from another world. After all, Rich, there is a strong residue of reports, gathered by the U.S. intelligence community in the 1950 and 1960s, concerning the systematic probing of U.S.defense installations, that require an explanation. Other than ET, do you have one?
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Dominick, at Thursday, July 27, 2017
I've postulated(here), Dominick, that the probes are AI machines thinking they've come in contact with a like species: thinking machines.
Once they realize the machines are primitive "creations," they move on.
RR
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RRRGroup, at Thursday, July 27, 2017
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