Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Another, bizarre but interesting, look at reality and alien life -- the link provided by polymathic Bryan Sentes
Can literary fiction help with the UFO enigma?
Copyright 2020, InterAmerica
We all know, or should, that literature – fiction – often
tells us truths that escapes various disciplines meant to provide insights to
humanity and society.
The Shakespeare consortium (Shakepeare’s pals who wrote the
plays attributed to him) gave us insights to love (Romeo and Juliet),
political malfeasance (Coriolanus), Human perfidy (Othello),
Madness (Hamlet) and many other examples of human failures.
Melville gave us the ultimate insight to the nature of God
in Moby Dick. While Proust offered insights to memory in À la
Recherche du Temps Perdu. And Dostoevsky provided, in Crime and
Pun- ishment, the mental attitudes involved in premeditated murder.
You get it.
And an extended New Yorker piece, by Raffi
Khatchadourian, about a new, hot Sci-Fi writer N. K. Jemisin – in the January
27, 2020 issue – tells us that her debut novel, The Hundred Thou- sand
Kingdoms [2010], has a dream vision of two gods; one with “dark-as-night
hair that contained a starry cosmos of infinite depth, the other, in a child’s
body, manipulated planets like toys.” [New Yorker, Page 18]
The author hits upon a contention of mine (and others) that
there seems to be an entity, schizophrenic perhaps, à la Jung, that is playing
with the ultimate reality as a game; the Matrix thesis, of which we are a part.
So, what book (or fiction, including movies) tells us, via
the imag- inative insight of the writer (or film-maker) informs us of the real
nature of UFOs?
Robbie Graham’s book on movies about flying saucers -- Silver
Screen Saucers: Sorting Fact from Fantasy in Hollywood's UFO Movies – is
a source for clues as to what film or the book that a film was made from that
might tell us what UFOs really are, the author or film-maker having access to
creative intelligence that gave them, and us, inadvertently by an unconscious
process, the nature of UFOs: what they are or what they mean.
Since authors and playwrights have access to truths that end
up in fiction of on stage, or film-makers are blessed with “divine” in- sights,
we who seek the UFO reality might do well to refurbish our memories with a look
back to Sci-Fi accounts that use UFOs or flying saucers as an ingredient, just
to see if there might be a revealing aspect that we’ve all overlooked.
N.B. Image atop from The Nation (magazine)
RR

