The Intrusion of God [religion or theology] into the UFO debate

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A few readers here (and many elsewhere) dislike seeing any reference to religiosity when it comes to a discussion of UFOs.

But there can be a connection. Let me explain….

In Reza Aslan’s brilliant book God: A Human History [Random House, NY, 2017], one will find only a few “asides” that impact UFO conjectural discussion, but those asides are relevant.

Aslan, the author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth [Random House, NY, 2013], provides in his God book, an elaborate host of notes (pages 201-279) about prehistoric art (cave art, mostly).

And among those notes are three items that pertain, perhaps, to UFOs.

First, Aslan  provides reference to cave art in Spain (Page 210), particularly the image of a “large red stippled disk” on the “Panel de las Manos”:

 

Ancient Astronaut/Alien theorists will see this primitive depiction as an extraterrestrial craft, seen/remembered by the cave artist – and it may be – but I propose it may be a remembrance and depiction of something seen in the sky, but something from the environs of Earth (future time, dimensional cross-over, holographic image, et cetera, not an ET spacecraft).

On Page 241, Aslan lists a number of “Venus statues”, that suggest configurations of humanoids that AA theorists would see as ET visitors but more likely to be imaginative renderings of “beings” thrust upon primitive mankind by those entities, eventually called gods, who thrust them upon primitive man for who knows what reason or were actual entities from another reality that abuts Earth.

For instance, the Berekhat RamVenus, from about 300,000 years ago, the oldest statue ever found:

And the Double Venus found in Grimaldi, Italy, two bodies carved back to back and “joined at the head, shoulders, and thighs: one of the bodies … a lithe woman, pregnant, and arching her back. The other body is not human…no one knows what it is. It is sinuous and serpentine, almost reptilian, with the face of some kind of mythical, possibly horned beast:

Or the Venus of Dolni, from about 29,000 years ago, with holes dug into her head.

Or the Venus of Hohle Fels (circa 45,000-35,000 B.P.) with a hoop or loop where its head should be:

And the well-known Venus of Willendorf (from 30,000 years ago) with a veil or braided hair covering her face:

The above represent strange replications from the imagination of ancient, primitive human mind or something they experienced, not extraterrestrial but oddly seen, remembered or imagined.’

And finally, Aslan notes (on Page 278) Winfried Coduan’s observation from Meister Eckhart's view of God/reality:

“What cannot be found in nature and cannot be attained beyond nature can be received from God.” [UFOs?]

The great Teilhard de Chardin also told us that the Universe is the sacred “body” of Christ, making UFOs a phenomenon that derives from Christ (God?).

As humans are “cellular structures” within the body of Christ (the Universe) so too are UFOs.

(N.B. I’ve written about this before, here and elsewhere.)

My point is that to disregard or ignore the metaphysical (theological) connection of UFOs to the realm of religion is to miss a possible solution to the enigma.

 

While UFOs seem to have a technical antecedent and craft-like reality, they have been with us for millennium, not from an extraterrestrial source or species, but from an aspect of God or our super-reality, whatever that might be.

RR