Mormonism and the UFO phenomenon
I’ve long been fascinated by Mormonism or Latter Day Saint
movement of Restorationist Christianity.
The cosmology, metaphysics, or theology of the church is
wacky but intriguing. Here are some highlights that make my point I think:
According to Mormon scripture, the Earth's creation was not ex
nihilo, but organized from existing matter. The Earth is just one of many
inhabited worlds, and there are many governing heavenly bodies, including the
planet or star Kolob, which is said to be nearest the throne of God.
Mormons understand that there are many gods and goddesses in
the cosmos
Mormon cosmology teaches that the Earth is not unique, but
that it is one of many inhabited planets.
According to Latter-day Saint Oliver B. Huntington, Joseph
Smith made a statement that there was life on the Moon.
[Smith] said the moon was inhabited by men and women the
same as this earth, and that they lived to a greater age than we do – that they
live generally to near the age of 1000 years. He described the men as averaging
near six feet in height, and dressing quite uniformly in something near the
Quaker style."
The above from:
The number of members as of 2018 were 16,118,169 members
worldwide.
Now, we UFO buffs have poo-poohed George Adamski for his
“Venus is alive with people” statements and Billy Meier is dismissed because
his UFOs are manned, allegedly, by citizens of a planet in the Pleiades star
system.
How is it that those of the Mormon faith believe Joseph
Smith, fervently by the way, while few believe anything that Billy Meier says
and no one – well, also maybe a few -- has had anything to say positively about
George Adamski’s “visitations” to Venus and other supposed inhabited planets in
our Solar System?
Joseph Smith’s “information” came from the Book of Mormon
which was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as
"reformed Egyptian" engraved on golden plates. Smith said that the
last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in the
Hill Cumorah in present-day Manchester, New York before his death, and then
returned to Earth in 1827 as an angel, revealing the location of the plates to
Smith, and instructing him to translate the plates into English for use in the
restoration of Christ's true church in the latter days.
Billy Meier’s informants were extraterrestrials from the
Pleiades and Adamski’s “information” came about by way of his travels to the
planets he ascribed as inhabited.
It’s all crazy right?
Not if you accept Spanish UFO researcher Jose Caravaca’s Distortion
Theory wherein an “external agent” uses an internal agency to project a mise
en scène upon or into a UFO witness’s mind, as a concrete reality.
Of course, the projection is not exactly sensible, but
Jose’s hypothesis is called “Distortion Theory.”
I like Jose’s “theory” as it accounts for such florid
renditions as that of Joseph Smith, and maybe George Adamski. Billy Meier’s
excursions strike me as imaginatory or hoaxed, and I know some will want to
debate the hoax suggestion vigorously.
Even the newly recounted Navy pilot “sightings” of UFOs can
be seen as fittable in Jose’s theory, without having to do much hammering them
into place.
At any rate, the Mormon idea of many Gods extant in the
Universe, and many inhabited planets goes down well with me, as do the hints in
The Hebrew Bible of Elohim, as well other mythological and
religious texts of ancient times and even into the relatively modern era; Urantia
is one and others can be found here:
More to come on this, of course, as it’s part of our simulated reality, another topic edging its way into scientific circles and
academia.
RR
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Sunday, June 30, 2019
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