Jose Caravaca’s external agent and UFOs

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As most of my readers know, I find Jose Caravaca’s Distortion Theory interesting and his concept of an external agent in control of or instigating some UFO encounters intriguing.

But Jose’s external agent has been a stumbling block for many who’ve stumbled upon his theory here and at his various internet sites.

Lately, as Jose has come to interpret (or explicate) his external agent one could almost call it an internal agent as Jose seems to put a psychic patina on the “mechanism” that causes people to think they’ve seen a UFO land, often debarking a crew of extraterrestrial visitors to Earth.

Moreover, Jose suggests that spiritual (religious) visions were created in witness minds by his external agent: Fatima, Lourdes, and many other apparitions, as listed in The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena by J. Gordon Melton [Visible Ink Press, Canton, MI, 2008, Page 11.]

The idea of a controlling mental activity – entity – is not far-fetched.

Freud’s id and superego are such, as is Jung’s collective unconscious or George Groddeck’s it and the many processes of the unconscious as enumerated in the scholarly 932 page The Discovery of the Unconscious by Henri F. Ellenberger [Basic Books, NY, 1970].

Lancelot Law Whyte’s The Unconscious Before Freud [Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1962] also provides ample examples of mechanisms of mind that interact with humans as if separate entities.

Two recent books that I’ve mentioned here recently also deal with the mental constructs that appeared early on in human development and seems to have resonated with early man much in the way that Jose suggests his external agent has interacted with those who have had a UFO or religious experience:

Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes edited by Marcel Kuijsten [Julian Jaynes Society, Henderson NV, 2016]

Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods by David Lewis Williams and David Pearce [Thames & Hudson, London, 2009]

Now I know most of you won’t get or read any of the books mentioned above – well, maybe Terry the Censor – but they all open the door to understanding Señor Caravaca’s external agent.

Jose’s concept of a mental configuration assuming the role of a controlling agency within humans differs in essence and kind from Jacques Vallee’s controlling agent insofar as Mr. Vallee allows his controller to lie outside the human, a paranormal construct that has a life of its own separate and apart from the person being introduced to a vision or event.

Jose Caravaca’s agent, as best as I can grasp it, is neurological/psychological entity in the scheme of those activities mentioned above in the books I’ve noted.

That a mental activity has a life of its own is hard to understand. I know that. And Jose knows that also.

But it’s the crux of his theory and works to explain many UFO encounters where a UFO or spacecraft is endemic and any crew that is witnessed behaves within the experience and mental configuration of the person witnessing the odd scene, a scene created uniquely for that person.

That two or more persons may relate similar observations or experiences can be explained by various psychological determinations, such as folie à deux, ordering or formative process, among others. (See books above.)

Now this is my take – my understanding – of Jose Antonio Caravaca’s external agent.

Don’t hold him to my interpretation. After all, it’s his theory and I’m just a fan of it.

RR