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<blockquote data-quote="richler" data-source="post: 35067" data-attributes="member: 7064">My favorite hypothesis concerning all this derives from Jacques Vallée and John Keel's books; essentially, the &quot;hyperdimensional/ultraterrestrial&quot; version-of-things.In this model, those phenomena which have been classed as &quot;alien&quot; in the modern era and more generally &quot;otherworldly&quot; in previous ones are some sort of aspect of reality that is linked in a profound way, or is even indigenous, to life on earth, to our consciousness.It has been classed as divine in some ages and demonic in others. In our mechanistic, metaphysically disinclined era we imagine it as some sort of analog to our own efforts at physical flight and space travel. But the phenomenon's complexity outpaces our models. It is absurd, intangible, deceptive, maddening, and vague. It is oddly tied to names, places, and bloodlines. If you delve into some of the higher-level contactee stuff or into some of the mass-witness stuff (like the event at the Ariel School in Zimbabwe) it begins looking drastically less... scientific in nature. It knows us and we have interacted with it before. These events have had strange echoes and the religions contain aspects of such.Just because we are at a time and place in our own development where we are most comfortable calling it &quot;aliens&quot; doesn't mean it's aliens. Not in the conventional sense, at least.If anyone is curious about this sort of take on these things, Jacques Vallée's wonderful &quot;Passport to Magonia&quot; has just been reprinted. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Magonia-Folklore-Flying-Saucers/dp/0987422480/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1428333269&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=passport+to+magonia">http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Magonia-Folklore-Flying-Saucers/dp/0987422480/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1428333269&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=passport+to+magonia</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="richler, post: 35067, member: 7064"] My favorite hypothesis concerning all this derives from Jacques Vallée and John Keel's books; essentially, the "hyperdimensional/ultraterrestrial" version-of-things. In this model, those phenomena which have been classed as "alien" in the modern era and more generally "otherworldly" in previous ones are some sort of aspect of reality that is linked in a profound way, or is even indigenous, to life on earth, to our consciousness. It has been classed as divine in some ages and demonic in others. In our mechanistic, metaphysically disinclined era we imagine it as some sort of analog to our own efforts at physical flight and space travel. But the phenomenon's complexity outpaces our models. It is absurd, intangible, deceptive, maddening, and vague. It is oddly tied to names, places, and bloodlines. If you delve into some of the higher-level contactee stuff or into some of the mass-witness stuff (like the event at the Ariel School in Zimbabwe) it begins looking drastically less... scientific in nature. It knows us and we have interacted with it before. These events have had strange echoes and the religions contain aspects of such. Just because we are at a time and place in our own development where we are most comfortable calling it "aliens" doesn't mean it's aliens. Not in the conventional sense, at least. If anyone is curious about this sort of take on these things, Jacques Vallée's wonderful "Passport to Magonia" has just been reprinted. [URL]http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Magonia-Folklore-Flying-Saucers/dp/0987422480/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428333269&sr=1-1&keywords=passport+to+magonia[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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