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A new book that I’m going to provide more on, upcoming, is
the basis for this conjectural posting…
Believing in Order to See: On the Rationality of
Revelation and the Irrationality of Some Believers (Perspectives in
Continental Philosophy) by Marion, Jean-Luc [Fordham University Press;
Translation edition, April 3, 2017]
Obviously, for serious UFO enthusiasts, UFO sightings and
encounters that have become iconic in the lore, have make their presence known
to loners or inside select, hidden or sedate milieux.
That is, the UFO phenomenon is a lonely observed phenomenon,
usually. UFOs, the prominent UFOs found or highlighted in the literature, don’t
appear to the great unwashed masses but generally to a select individual or
two.
Persons seeing or interacting with UFOs are solitary or in a
solitary environment. What does this tell us?
Like the Biblical prophets of The Jewish Bible or the
visions of Muhammad and the Saints of theology, along with the “hallucinations”
of adepts, ancient and more recent, UFO witnesses experience things that really only pertain to
them.
(This observation -- UFO witnesses experience things that
really only pertain to them – goes to the heart of Jose Caravaca’s Distortion
Theory, often lauded here, but I’ll forego the theory for the moment.)
When one reads (or studies) the odd accounts from
individuals who think they see and, thus, report, weird things – UFOs, Big
Foot, ghosts, sea monsters, et al. – those individuals lack, as I’ve
noted several times (to the dismay of some) sophistication petty much.
They are (UFO witnesses, paranormal witnesses, et al.)
simple folk usually, naïve, not well-educated, ignorant by all standards of
intellectualism. That’s harsh but true and verifiable.
Why would this be the case, the reality?
It’s not that such persons lack common sense or worldly
intelligence. They are just culturally inept: the visionaries of Christ on the road
to Emmaus and the young girls who think they saw the Virgin Mary or the blokes who
see Sasquatch in their field of vision, and those who are afflicted by MIB,
just like those who thought they were attacked by “Spring Heel Jack” in the
1800s or the many who believed they saw Airships just before the turn of the 20th Century.
What causes these nondescript persons to have such
visions/experiences? It’s got to be something in their DNA or a neurological
“disease” that has captured their mental faculties.
It couldn’t be actuality could it? That is, they couldn’t be
privy to such visions or experiences like the Shamans of old, could they?
Most persons seeing UFOs or Big Foot and ghosts, et
cetera, haven’t ingested hallucinogenics it seems, as Shamans did (and do).
And this is where exploitation comes in.
Shamans only saw or had (have) visions and insights to other
realities because of the use of accoutrements to hallucination: cannabis,
psilocybin mushrooms, and other “natural” hallucinogens.
Using those visions, Shamans came to understand, even in their
primitive mind-sets, that they could work their tribes and peoples to their wills.
Some will say that Shamans actually had transformative
visions, but that is a canard. Shamans were (and are) con-men.
Psychedelics and hallucinogens don’t bring visions of
reality but, rather, distort reality and those thinking they have had or had
profound visions using LSD or eating certain mushrooms are in that category of
madness often elucidated here and by persons more capable that I am to discern
that particular insanity.
This takes me to UFO witnesses who like Shamans exploited
their visions or sightings, knowing or thinking that they really had a vision
of a flying disk or extraterrestrial (or any of the other paranormalities mentioned
above).
Some UFO witnesses were brought into the public spotlight
against their will: Lonnie Zamora, Frank Mannor (the 1966 Ann Arbor/Dexter
“swamp gas” observer), Robert Taylor (recently highlighted here), et al.
While others exploited their sighting or vision/experience:
Kenneth Arnold, Betty Hill, the Bentwaters (Rendlesham) crew, et al.
(And then there are the possible hoaxers: Sonny Desvergers,
Travis Walton, Whitley Strieber, et al. the modern Shamans.)
Yes, UFOs are seen, or thought to be seen by some innocent
observers, selected by God or Jose Caravaca’s “external agent” or just those
who have a temporary bout of madness.
Then there are those who have an odd experience,
self-induced, who take their experience into the public arena to minor,
short-lived acclaim
(And finally we have the hoaxers or mischief-makers, whom we should ignore.)
UFOs open the door to studies of madness or insanity, in a
number of ways, and that’s the thrill of ufology for some of us.
RR
