Distortion Theory: The physical presence of solid matter in psychical UFO encounters

UFOS CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: THE "SOLIDIFICATION" OF A PSYCHO-DIMENSIONAL PHENOMENON – PART ONE by Jose Antonio Caravaca

Copyright 2019, Jose Antonio Caravaca

Close encounters with UFOs are produced by the interaction of the human psyche with an external agent that connects it to an unknown expanded reality.

This happens because we are in the presence of a psychical paradigm, where the "vehicle" that moves from one reality to another, is our own actual being. And depending on the interaction of our psyche with this external agent, there will sometimes be a solidification of and to parts of the perceived phenomenon.

In other words, the "scene" represented before our eyes (the supposed extraterrestrial visitation), may contain matter, capable of leaving traces and marks on the ground.

Everything depends on the human factor and its potential to achieve the solidification, in our reality, of this authentic psychic architecture manufactured in conjunction with the external agent.

The diversity of the contacts (as observed in the UFO scenario) with this new expanded reality is determined by the participation (psychical and physical) of the witnesses.

The “event” originates as an exclusive, unique experience for the witnesses, produced in conjunction with the external agent, outside the “normality” of our daily (Cartesian) reality.

JAC

UFOS CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: THE "SOLIDIFICATION" OF A PSYCHO-DIMENSIONAL PHENOMENON – PART TWO by Jose Antonio Caravaca

Copyright 2019, Jose Antonio Caravaca

The existence of the external agent is the factor that makes possible this connection of the witnesses of the "anomalies"  (unexpectedly) with an expanded reality, and is the factor that catalyzes the possibility that the experience may contain physical parts. In fact, religious mystics have shown that sometimes the psychic universe they access during their experiences can be quantifiable and responsible for alterations in our physical environment, the Jesuit Herbert Henry Charles Thurston studied these events and included them in his book "The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism" (1953). In his work "The Mystical Phenomenon" (199) Juan Martín Velasco said that mystics originated a great quantity of inexplicable physical phenomena around them such as: "luminous phenomena, telekinesis, hyperthermia, bilocation, emission of heterogeneous substances: special smells, tears and blood coming from images, lengthening of bodily organs, resistance to fire, different phenomena in relation to death: lack of cadaveric rigidity, unusual movements, heat and colors in the corpse, no corruption of the body after death, etc.".

José de Cupertino (1603/1663), is an Italian saint, belonging to the Capuchin order, to whom more than 70 cases of levitation are attributed, in addition to being able to bilocate. The religious Veronica Giuliani began to physically present the stigmata of the passion of Christ in her body in 1693, after experiencing some mystical episodes. In addition, as noted Giuliani was able to levitate, multiply food and cause "odors of holiness.

The nun Sister Maria de Jesus de Ágreda is credited with the faculty of "bilocation" and of moving inexplicably from her convent in Agreda to New Mexico and Texas to evangelize the locals. The Inquisition took action in the matter (1635), and during the process carried out to the saint (1649-50) determining the authenticity of its manifestations. Among other miracles attributed to the nun it was said that she could levitate. Somehow these mystical phenomena demonstrated the ephemeral and diffuse frontiers that existed between the ordinary reality and that of the psychic universe to which our psyche accesses in certain altered states of consciousness. 

In other contexts, within spiritism, the medium Daniel Dunglas Home (1833/1866) stood out in the 19th century. He was capable of a long list of prodigies; he produced noises, sounds, music and blows, levitations and movements of objects, altered the weight of objects, made lights or luminous phenomena appear in the rooms, causes smells, was able to make solid hands appear before those present, and with a human appearance, Dunglas himself was able to levitate.

The physicist David Böhm said: "Everything material is also mental and everything mental is also material.” The separation of the two is an abstraction. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to think that if there is some kind of "intelligence" external to the human being in this vast mental universe it can originate psycho/physical alterations in our environment when interacting with the witnesses of the anomalies (potentiating psychic qualities of certain witnesses).

Throughout history it has been documented how access to that other reality can have consequences on our physical environment. I believe that in this case, the existence of an external agent is what makes possible a greater presence of these physical factors, but always in concomitance with the witnesses, essential in the creation of these paradigms.

JAC 

Science Fiction firsts and UFO firsts

Copyright 2019, InterAmerica, Inc.

The TLS (Times Literary Supplement) for January 4, 2019 has a review (Page 33) by Matthew De Abaitua of  Science Fiction: A literary history, Edited by Roger Luckhurst [British Library, £20].

The reviewer provides a discussion of various sci-fi genres and writes how some see Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as the progenitor of science fiction whereas others see the works of H.G. Wells as the beginning of the sci-fi oeuvre, while some academics allude to ancient sci-fi: Antonius Diogenes “proto-scientific discourse of navigation” (mentioned here a short while back) and Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis (51 B.C.) that “contemplates Carthage from the galactic perspective of the stars.”

Sci-Fi’s New Wave is covered [Ballard, Stanislaw Lem, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, et al.] and its disparate offshoots.

The review is bountiful and encourages readers to get the book it’s about.

Why I bring it up is that my academic pal Bryan Sentes touches on sci-fi at his blog [skunkworksblog.com], and where a current piece by him mentions Gerald Heard’s often noted here 1950 UFO book The Riddle of the Flying Saucers: is another World watching that offered the idea that bees might be manning UFOs (flying saucers).

And that, along with the review, makes me wonder what happened to the offbeat speculations about flying saucers that imbued the topic in the late 1940s and 1950s.

UFO speculators didn’t become and haven’t become more sophisticated, that’s certain; they’ve even become more stupid and unintelligent (me, among them).

The UFO crowd and its writers are swimming in fetid waters polluted by hackneyed UFO accounts that reek of pathetic explanation or conjecture.

UFO sightings and events are slopped on the ufological table and we enthusiasts eat it up, not complaining about the unappetizing victuals.

In movies where are the vegetable-oriented creatures [The Thing From Another World], the emaciated aliens encapsulated in robot-like casings [Earth vs. The Flying Saucers], the robotic extraterrestrials [The Man from Planet X], or the God/Jesus ETs [The Day the Earth Stood Still] et cetera?

In UFO lore, where are, today, the humanoids or beings from Venus, Mars, and/or far away galactic star systems?

Sure, such suggestive sources for UFOs are foolish, but so is that which engulfs the UFO topic, skeptical offerings as silly (or more so) as the unimaginative renderings of the Ancient Astronaut gang or the side-liners who give nothing vibrant in their submissions of what UFOs are or may be.

In the sci-fi world, at least writers keep coming up with extensions of a world where anything is possible, while in the UFO world, bloggers, Facebookers, and writers have settled for mildewed reclamations of old flying saucer tales (Roswell particularly) and lackadaisical rehashings of controversial UFO arguments from the glorious UFO past.

It’s no wonder that the UFO story has been relegated to horrendous sci-fi like presentations as the History Channel’s Project Blue Book, where UFO buffs are over joyously accumulating, as a sop to their wayward jaunts back to their errant youth.

RR