Copyright 2023, José Antonio Caravaca
For decades, dozens of researchers believe that the UFO
phenomenon hides behind an excellent camouflage to deceive and manipulate
witnesses for purposes and purposes that we do not understand.
It did it centuries ago with the manifestations of fairies,
elves, supernatural creatures, and Marian apparitions, and in the 20th century
it managed to camouflage itself under the label of extraterrestrial visitors.
But, are we before an intelligent phenomenon that perfectly
chooses its role to present itself to humans, or on the contrary, are we before
a disconcerting cognitive paradigm that evidently shows itself with
socio-cultural "disguises" present in each era of its performance?
That all the apparitions of strange entities that have
interacted with human beings throughout time have been so eximious and
"lying" in their communications, and that they have offered so little
evidence of their existence, is a very interesting indication, and one to be
taken into account, that all these unusual manifestations may have the same and
unique origin and above all a direct incidence on the psyche of the witnesses,
which would indicate that the paradigm does not exist independently of the
observers, at least it does not exist as we see in the final result of
the manifestation.
Therefore, it would be necessary to distinguish first of all
the phenomenon (in origin), from what is manifested before the witnesses (the
incidents), which are probably two very different things, just as the artist of
his pictorial work can be.
The fact that the content of all these manifestations has
such a human background (perfectly recognizable), both visually and
narratively, is another clue that indicates the covert participation of the
psyche of the witnesses in the shaping of the experiences, helping to elaborate
them in an unconscious way.
Moreover, the fact that it is so difficult to document the
existence of these phenomena may well be due to their ambiguous dual existence,
between the psychic world and the physical world, so it would be difficult to
obtain much evidence of their existence, even if their presence seems totally
"real" and unquestionable in our environment.
But this does not mean that the phenomenon cannot mediate in
our reality in a palpable way and cause all kinds of physical and physiological
effects, but simply that it does so in a different way to everything we know,
although its results are practically the same as those produced by an ordinary
real event. Perhaps that is one of the keys to understanding the UFO paradigm.
Are UFOs close encounters a phenomenon whose nature escapes
the conventional limits of our cognitive dimension? I am not referring to an
interdimensional nature as advocated and conceived by many researchers for
years, with entities jumping through portals, but rather that the UFO
phenomenon comes from unknown areas that can be accessed by our mind in certain
states of consciousness, regardless of whether what is manifested in this
exploration of a new "reality" can be made momentarily visible and
tangible in our dimension.
And it is because of the participation of our psyche that
the content of all encounters with beings and entities have enormous human
cultural implications and extremely absurd and chaotic aspects, such as those
offered by the universe of dreams or, for example, even mental disorders and
feverish states. But this does not mean that UFOs are something strictly mental
(understood as something unreal or illusory), but quite the contrary, but it is
very likely that their nature may be closer to the "matter" that
makes up our dreams or the world of visionaries than to nuts and bolts. This
does not detract from the mystery or strangeness of the paradigm, it only draws
attention to other aspects that are more unknown and considered unimportant to
date.
We have always thought that the material, the tangible, the
measurable, the quantifiable, only that which we can put in a laboratory test
tube or touch, is what is authentically real and unquestionable.But probably
the UFO encounters and other Fortean facts point in another direction.
Perhaps there is another way to explore the universe away
from the scientific methodology that we have chosen as the only adequate tool
to decode our environment.
The existence of UFOs and other similar anomalies are very
interesting evidence that shows that the human psyche is not a simple
biological reflection of our brain, but that it can access much more
information from the universe than what the sensory organs transmit through the
known ways. In this way, it is capable of interacting with an apparently
intelligent cognitive phenomenon, which is presented to us through a highly
flexible "scenography" due to our involvement, and which is capable,
in turn, of activating latent faculties of our psyche; a manifestation that
moves in that psychic/physical duality that makes it so complex, with our
methodology, to reach some kind of answer.
Only changing our way of facing the phenomenon will help us
to understand it. But taking into account that probably its physical facet,
very important for some of us, maybe perhaps only a simple epiphenomenon, that
is, a mere consequence of its interaction with our psyche in our environment and
not an intrinsic characteristic of the phenomenon itself.
For UFOs, in short, would be forming portions of a reality
"inserted" within another established reality: a reality loaded with
information about ourselves and the universe that does not end up reaching us
clearly because of the interference created by our mind and which we have
called UFOs, daimons, angels, gods, etc.
JAC