DISTORTION: TO THE ENCOUNTER OF A NEW COGNITIVE REALITY by Jose Antonio Caravaca
Copyright 2019, Jose Antonio Caravaca
If the UFO close encounters are the product of an elaborate "psychic
architecture" arising from the bowels of the human psyche in collaboration
with an unknown external agent, we could argue that everything visualized in a
UFO experience, even though it may have a physical reality, is a kind of
"induced lucid dream", where everything manifested, occupants of the
flying saucers included, does not have a real and independent existence after
this phenomenon occurs/finalize.
This means that the conversations with
the UFO crew and the actions of these entities are only psychic elaborations
arising from the joint interaction between the external agent and the
unconscious of the witness. And this clearly indicates that we are not subject
to manifestations (beings, gods, angels, demons...) that you want to manipulate
us, or inculcate some kind of belief. We are being victims of an ancestral
paradigm related to human consciousness, where the cultural filter influences
is what is observed. But not from the point of view that psychiatry or
psychology wants to indicate to us.
And it is that this phenomenon
associated with the human psyche that is manifested/expressed through a
chimerical visual scenography where the "inhabitants" of this other
reality are actually springs and psychic mechanisms, like the characters of our
dreams, that show us the existence of a cognitive universe, which is as real
and transcendent, as the "Cartesian" universe that surrounds us.
Probably the current frontiers of our
cognitive understanding are delimited by our inquisitorial and mechanistic way
of understanding reality. Beyond the concepts widely accepted by our
science, there is another dimension that connects us directly with an ancestral
universe, where symbolic, atavistic and archetypal language connects us with
nature and our primordial being.
It is very likely that shamanic
initiations, the folklore of many peoples, religions and myths are based and
built upon sporadic contacts with this new reality, where human psychic
capacities are revealed in their fullest extent.
The revelations from this new reality
are carried by "emissaries" emerging from the human collectivity
itself and expressed in the symbolic language of dreams and creativity. The
"labels/definitions" of these "entities/emisaries"
(extraterrestrials, elves, fairies, angels, etc.) are produced and arise from
our own unconscious participation in the elaboration of a "bridge"
that introduces us to this new cognitive reality.
And it is precisely in this
"bridge" where the "mundis imaginalis" originates that can
take us to a knowledge that surpasses our understanding, or we can remain
stagnant, ecstatic, elaborating artificial myths created from these "visions".
The external agent is an intelligent "spring", a mechanism of a
cosmic consciousness (collective unconscious?), a "boatman" who wants
to take us to the other side of the shore, where perhaps many secrets of our
own existence await.
So the close encounters with UFOs and other anomalous manifestations with
different entities and creatures, would be nothing but "noise" caused
by our own consciousness, which clouded by numerous
sociocultural/religious/philosophical stereotypes create products from our own
fear of this new mental stage, making us create a whole rich mythology in
fantastic and unknown beings. As if the interferences of our contacts were the
last reality expressed by this new universe.
Because our psyche when faced with this
paradigm, in this bridge, is able to build (with a high degree of imagery and
creativity) a new "parallel reality" that seems real and
unquestionable. Without knowing that the true cognitive reality that awaits us
on the other side is much more profound, wise and natural than we imagine.
JAC

