Copyright 2018, Jose Antonio Caravaca
Why
don't stories about UFOs connect in a global plot? Why does each UFO episode
seem unique and unrepeatable? Why do so many different types of
extraterrestrials exist? Why do some encounters with UFOs seem to be
hallucinatory? Why are contacts with the crew of flying saucers absurd and
nonsensical? Why are paranormal phenomena recorded in ufological experiences?
At this
stage of UFO research, it is clear to us that close encounters with UFOs are
not produced by usual physical events, that is, witnesses are not observing the
landing of an interplanetary spacecraft manned by scientists from a distant
galaxy. It is more likely that all this that we have labeled and studied as
close encounters with UFOs is, in reality, fleeting visions of an expanded
reality, which is sometimes perceptible to some people.
Since
the dawn of humanity there has been speculation about the existence of
"invisible kingdoms" inhabited by beings or entities intermediate
between Gods and demons, who are able to engage in dialogue and contact with
certain or chosen people. All the cultures of the earth have abundant oral and
written traditions, framed in shamanic, mystical or magical rites, that
describe the contacts with these alternative realities and their
"inhabitants". But the most curious thing about this question,
according to the varied folklore recorded, is that, even though some common
structural lines (gods/demons/hidden kingdoms) have been preserved, all these "magical"
traditions seem to develop differently, depending on the individual or culture
that perceives them.
This
would indicate that the perception and contact with this phenomenon has to
undergo some kind of "influence" or "decoding" by the
psyche of each witness that makes it substantially different from that of
another person. And it is the main reason why these paradigms have such a
personal and non-transferable patina when confronting each other.
It must
be taken into account, as a vital point of our research, that on most
occasions, the visions and contacts with these "invisible kingdoms"
or their "dwellers" were not carried out in physical form, but that
the different "initiates" did so through trances, dreams or visions,
that is, in a wide spectrum of altered mental states. More than trips or
physical encounters, these experiences were powerful and revealing psychic
(spiritual) experiences for their protagonists.
In the case of close encounters with UFOs,
the main and perhaps only important difference for our study, with the
"magical" traditions exposed above, is that, in this case,
"something" from that "other" reality establishes a
"bridge" of contact between both worlds. Opening a fissure through
which these "invisible kingdoms" can partially access our reality. We
are not facing a shaman, mystic, initiate or religious who wants to voluntarily
access a mental stage that allows him to access a contact with their gods or
enter their "kingdoms".
In the
UFO phenomenon we are facing another scenario. At least it seems that the
"vision" is embedded in the middle of our daily reality. Therefore,
the casuistry that we have recorded in 70 years, would be the result of a
sudden and unexpected irruption, by the witnesses, in this expanded reality
that somehow "feeds back" from its unconscious to take shape before
its eyes. In the UFO question, and probably in other so-called anomalies, an
"external agent" from that unknown universe, for reasons that may
have to do with the cerebral/neuronal conformation of witnesses, decides to
establish a direct contact between both realities through the psyche of people.
Therefore, witnesses are not aware of what is going to happen and are subject
to modify the phenomenon in a broader and more disconcerting way than those
people who have a pre-conceived interest and purpose in their contacts.
But how
does this happen? These experiences originate when the "external
agent" (a type of "psychic entity") that inhabits this portion
of reality hidden from our ordinary senses, interacts with the psyche of
witnesses, and is able to fabricate ephemeral dimensional "layers" on
the border between the two universes that contain the elements described by UFO
mythology. And this is caused by the interference that the human psyche produces
in what is perceived. And it is that, just as the "psychonauts"
interfere in the content of their sacred or magical visions, the witnesses with
the information contained in their unconscious contribute, without being aware
of it, almost all the "visual/narrative" material that will configure
the content of the ufological experience.
Because
the psyche of the observers, by momentarily entering this reality, manages to
cross the barriers of ordinary consciousness, which allows it, among other
things, to construct and add elements in a scenario that stands in a border
zone between both universes. And under this "psychic influence" the
witnesses can interact with this other expanded reality, in a totally different
way to the known one, creating its content in that same moment in an
instantaneous way without having anything foreseen. For that reason, the
contents are highly creative, malleable and unpredictable. And that is also why
anomalous experiences manifest themselves in such a wide range of representation
(ghosts, Marian apparitions, UFOs, etc.), since the archetypal, cultural,
folkloric, social, etc. content of the human imaginary is so broad and rich in
details and nuances that it offers an almost infinite field of
"action".
UFOs
are a new metaphor, a new form of expression of this expanded reality to show
us the existence of a psychic universe with broad repercussions for human
consciousness. The flying saucers are reactualizations of ancient myths and
folklores, but they preserve the internal message: 1.- There are other
realities 2.- There are other forms of life. Only the external appearance of
the phenomenon is transformed as human civilization advances, since, otherwise,
under other "clothes", the bearer of the message would not be at the
height that the individual waits. And since people's participation determines
many aspects of their experiences, it is likely that what is visualized fits
the prevailing thoughts.
However,
at this same time, in another cultural context, the external agent can manifest
using more arcane and primitive roles. Everything depends on the witness, as a
catalyst of these realities; he will build a mental construction adequate to
his interests, which is the carrier of the message. Although, as we have
registered, in the majority of occasions the witnesses are not able to
integrate totally their anomalous experience in their daily life, and to
understand really the sense and the transcendence of the perceived thing.
The
technification of society and the increasingly deepening distance from human
roots means that these bridges between the two universes are more difficult to
establish. The encounters incited by the external agent tend to disappear in
function that the individuals, the necessary keys to establish these
connections are farther away from certain mental frequencies. After all, we are
talking about the evolution of consciousness and the existence of other levels
of reality. Perhaps one day science in an analytical way may explain some
of these issues, but what I have no doubt, is that we have chosen the longest
and coldest way ...
JAC
