The gods are back….in flying saucers, making mischief, acting goofy?

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I’m convinced, via James Kugel’s hermeneutics in his book The Great Shift, I’ve been flogging here, that the ancient Hebrews and general Mesopotamians actually came into contact with entities who called themselves gods (or God).

What these divinities actually were is up for debate, but they were not beings from space, extraterrestrials, as the Ancient Astronaut theorists have it.

The reason for my disparagement of the AA tripe continues to be the distances from which ETs would have to come and the place in the Galaxy (cosmos) in which Earth finds itself: Earth is a non-descript planet at the edge of the Milky Way which itself is one of a vast number of galaxies extant in the known (seen) Universe.

But that position, admittedly, applies to gods (or God) also: why would divine beings pile on humans on our backwater planet when there should be many other intelligent species rampant throughout the galaxy and/or Universe?

(The Mormon theology of personal gods responsible for segments of the Universe may be a way to explicate the problem, but that theology is iffy, considering the back-story of Mormon founder, Joseph Smith.)

At any rate, what the early gods were doing back in the heyday of Hebrew/Middle East societies and civilizations has resumed, after a hiatus in activity (presence) from the Dark Ages into the late 19^th Century, indicated by Carl Jung’s exegesis of what happened to societies (culture) at the end of the (Western) Romantic era, which Oswald Spengler also delineated in his Decline of the West.

I’ll be presenting, upcoming) an elaboration on how (and what) the gods are doing that indicate they are back at it, and how UFOs (flying saucers) are involved.

Meanwhile, let me suggest a book that opens the door to our “reality” that most disregard, fixating on the reality they can touch and that appears to be what our reality is, even as quantum and theoretical physics are reeling with a number of reality possibilities:

Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Hima-layan Buddhism by Eric Huntington [University of Washington Press, 283 pp., $65], reviewed by David Shulman in The New York Review of Books for March 26, 2020, Page 36 ff.

The book, which I doubt any will read, let alone buy, offers a perspective that can be inserted into the hallucinatory-like UFO reports that some witnesses have provided. 

Again, the UFO phenomenon is a key to what reality impacts humanity, but ufologists and UFO buffs are caught up with the trees, missing the forest.

One fellow I know is so absorbed by knots on trees that he has no idea what tree he is discussing let alone what forest he is in, and he’s not alone in this delusional approach to reality. (I’ll highlight some of his discursive ramblings as he likes to think that he’s a UFO researcher of sorts, when he is, like many others in the UFO community who are cemented to irrelevant, in 2020, old flying saucer accounts and foolish activity that keeps UFOs tethered to madnesses of various kinds.)

A pal of mine once noted that I had sunk into a theological or religious oriented milieu with the RRRGroup blog, which was rather more popular than this blog, back in 2006.

When I abandoned, pretty much, that blog, and set up this blog, I tried to keep the UFO orientation focused on its material and tech- nological facade, but here I am, back to pasting a metaphysical patina atop the phenomenology of the UFO mystery.

Authoress and Professor of religious studies Diana Pusalka, a vibrant member of the Facebook UFO community and ufology itself lately, also offers a religious scrim when she addresses the UFO phenomenon. It’s a sensible thing to do as UFOs and their “pilots” are rampant in early cultures and societies within the rubric of religious texts.

I know many of you dislike, even eschew, the idea that angels, gods, and “divine behavior” play a part in the seeming technological-appearing aspects of UFOs, but I’m talking about real UFOs not the attempted creations we are seeing in the recently reported encounters by U.S. Naval pilots.

UFOs/flying saucers are overlaid with a haze of sanctification, veneration, even piety by some.

This is not the Alien Astronaut nonsense, but a reverence that imposes itself on the phenomenon without such advocates knowing that they are fostering a belief system, something even more dire than a mythos, but one that may be more valid than the secular demeanor that most ufologists/buffs adhere to.

More to come on this, I hate to tell some of you techno-geeks, but one has to be a voice crying in the wilderness, much as Professor Pasulka is and does, semi-consciously perhaps.

RR