The Psycho-dynamics of Ufology: A desire [need?] to believe

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Freud’s classic theory that God is a wish fulfillment of humankind can be applied to the pseudo-study known as “ufology.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud%27s_views_on_religion

The idea that religion and God are delusions help support my view(s) that the obsession with UFOs is steeped in a need by “ufologists” to believe in something outside themselves.

That is “ufology” is a kind of religion for those who are enamored by or flush with interest in UFOs.

(And that interest has created a concomitant slew of UFO skeptics, who can be likened to those who profess they are atheists in the realm of religion.)

The need to have a God or advanced extraterrestrial space beings derives, as Freud (and others) suggests from a psychic void within humans. (Read Wikipedia material linked above.)

We who remain interested in flying saucers or UFOs hold on to an infantile need for something or someone to comfort and take care of us.

UFOs, hosted by alien creatures, supposedly advanced, fill the bill more than an elusive God who remains “hidden” from us as Richard Elliott Friedman tells us in his superb book The Hidden Face of God, often mentioned at this blog and others of mine.

That is UFOs offer, if real ET vehicles, a tangibility to something above and beyond us in ways that the elusive God of history and religion doesn’t.

The Ancient Alien/Astronaut crowd represents the best example of what I’m suggesting. They are firm believers in beings that replace God in the human mind or psyche.

Those of us not as delusional or cracked as those in the AA firmament pretend that we are interested in UFOs as a kind of mysterious phenomenon.

But scraping away that pretense we find that we UFO buffs are just as belabored as those of the AA ilk, masking our need for something beyond us, something more profound than what we are or where we find ourselves in reality.

We can say or think otherwise but those who seek out and continue to immerse themselves, even if supplementary to their personal religious or anti-religious beliefs, are just as delusional as religious fanatics (or believers) and those who are religious antagonists (atheists or UFO skeptics).

UFOs are not ET vehicles, certainly as represented by the plethora of UFO reports gathered over the years.

The odds against UFOs being ET craft are palpable, just as the idea that a God of the universe, a Supreme Intellect, Being, or Creator being obsessed with this paltry Earth.

But that for another time.

RR