The Awareness of Another Reality (or Realities)
Copyright 2019, InterAmerica, Inc.
Primitive man was occasionally struck by an awareness that
something more existed than the ratty reality he found himself in.
After about 10,000 B.C. an odd awareness that something
other than what was being perceived (lived) kept sneaking up on people, from
the mouths and cultural artifacts of prophets, artists, writers, et al.,
persons who had established some kind of credibility and/or profundity.
The Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Hittites, and other
Middle Eastern societies all produced “religions” and oral tales and texts with
alternate realities, at a time when imaginary mental forays should have been
rare.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is one. (Bryan Sentes
and I discussed Joan Acocella’s recent piece about the work in The New
Yorker.)
And, of course with the oral stories of Homer [The Iliad
and The Odyssey] we have what may be episodes from reality embellished
by time and literary interlopers, and finally showing up as text.
Let me dwell on the Biblical texts of the Hebrews where the
flush of another reality is egregious, even offensive in its perceived
unrealness, but there it is…
The Enoch account of traveling in the heavens and hearing
about The Watchers has become hackneyed.
Elijah and Elisha’s ascents into the heavens are told as if
a real travelogue.
The Ezekiel UFO/four-headed chariot too, while Jacob’s
ladder rings a slight bell.
But let me zero in on that Ezekiel UFO as recounted in
Ezekiel, Chapter 1 right through to Chapter 12, written sometime between 593
and 571 B.C.
Ezekiel’s “vision” included a “great cloud and a fire
infolding it…and out of the midst thereof, that is, out of the midst of the
fire, as it were the resemblance of amber. And in the midst thereof the
likeness of four living creatures….there was the likeness of a man in them.
Everyone had four faces, and everyone four wings.” [Chapter 1; Verses 4-6]
You know the rest or should: intense metaphorical language
and descriptive flourishes of an almost grotesque kind.
And n Chapter 3, the “man” (God?) gives Ezekiel a book of
lamentations, canticles, and woes, and was told (commanded) to eat the book.
Some commentaries of Ezekiel and his vision may be read
here:
That AA theorists use the Josef Blumrich book to assert that
Ezekiel’s encounter was of an extraterrestrial craft and his creatures, and
man, were ETs.
Whatever Ezekiel was describing was not normal reality but
an actual paranormal account of another reality, a grand reverie induced hallucination,
or a vivid allegorical metaphor meant to persuade the Hebrews to obey God and
live according to Hebraic laws and practices.
If Ezekiel thought his ipsedixitism was understood by the
Hebrew people, or even today’s modern populace, his pomposity would be
unbearable.
But Ezekiel had prophetic cachet and his vision may be
accepted as fictive or actuality, and a perception (vision) of some other
reality, one that kept (and keeps) showing up much after Ezekiel’s lifespan and
prophetic endeavors.
Mohammed’s journey to the Seventh Heaven is of a kind like
that of Ezekiel and other Old Testament
or Hebrew prophets:
These are the realities that either happened or did not but
they are insights to alternate reality and show up again after the Dark Ages.
Why?
RR
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Saturday, November 09, 2019
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