Does Jose Antonio Caravaca’s Distortion Theory explain almost every fantasy?

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In reading a New York Review of Books review by G.W. Bowersock about the new book The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère that transposes Carrère’s autobiographical effort to Christianity, The Acts of the Apostles by Luke, St. Paul, the Damascus episode, et cetera, I see a UFO connection. [NYRB, 4/20/17, Page 60 ff.]

The review might only be interesting to Gilles Fernandez and other intellectuals so I won’t bore you with a synopsis of the review or book.

What stirred me was the reprise of St. Paul’s hallucinogenic episode where a light from Heaven surrounded him [Paul] asking, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?” (Saul was Paul’s Jewish name, as you know.)

I’ve always thought this was an epileptic-like hallucination brought on by Paul’s guilt for persecuting followers of Jesus.

But in the context of other similar episodes – Moses and the burning bush, Ezekiel’s vision of an odd wheeled object, Socrates “conversation” with a mysterious phantom soldier, Joseph Smith’s brush with the angel Moroni, the appearance of a specter in Malcolm X’s jail cell, et al. – and the many weird encounters filling the pages UFO lore, I think my pal and colleague Jose Caravaca’s Distortion Theory with an external agent conjuring up images and incidents, using the psyche of the person involved, may be a cause and explanation for such events.

Of course I lean toward a neurological episode to explain such visions and/or sounds, but that such things happen to persons without further psychotic like incidents beggars the neurological etiology.

That is, persons having such “hallucinations” don’t go on to have more, usually, and the incident they experience is unique to time and place.

Why? I do not know.

But Señor Caravaca’s “theory” opens the door to a possible “external intrusion” but, again, to what end?

In the Moses or Smith visions (“hallucinations’) the purpose seems to be a catalyst to further a “plan” of Caravaca’s “external agent” whether it’s God, a demon, or just a being from the id or someplace else (another dimension, time, or universe).

I hope some of Jose’s erudite Facebook friends see this and offer suggestions.

Image above from patheos.com

RR

Dream Interpretations (from the Civil War era)

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British Ufology no longer matters?

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Where are the vibrant British UFO buffs? They seem to have gone all Brexit on us.

A 1992 article provided an overview of British ufology then:

http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1541.htm

My pal Nick Redfern, a Brit through and through, is more American than I am.

Of course we all see Nick Pope all over the place but he’s become Americanized.

And the old-timers. Jenny Randles, Martin Shough, and the recently deceased Peter Sturrock show up now and then in UFO circles.

And the younger “geezers” such as David Clarke, Joe McGonagle, and Andy Roberts pop up often on Facebook but not in U.S. venues as they used to.

CDA (Christopher Allan) is a UFO regular at a few blogs (this one, Kevin Randles, and a few others?) and the only voice I hear from the British Empire, besides Nick, who really has become an American UFO voice.

Noting those above doesn’t mean they influence, as the Brits once did, ufology very much.

Nick does certainly, and Pope is a cable network “star,” as is Nick, but do you know the others, aside from CDA?

No, you don’t.

The Brits, once, dominated UFO conversations, but have withdrawn into a cloistered Facebook circle, dealing, not with UFOs very much, but everything else that Brits think matter.

A loss for us UFO buffs.

We still have Jose Caravaca’s Spanish ufologists and Gilles Fernandez’ French skeptics, but where are the Canadians or Australians, who make a splash now and then but not the UFO tidal waves they used to?

Without the British Empire ufologists we are left with the American dolts, and I mean all those excepting Nick Redfern, a de facto American, or Kevin Randle; the Americans a motley, incoherent group pretty much.

Do the Brits know something the rest of us don’t?

RR