Gerd Groenewold wrote:
Hello all,
I have come to see the whole UFO/ET mythology as exactly that, a
mythology, a religious phenomenon, however it is one that has been given
a technological twist, which explains its endurance in a titanic age.
Instead of Angels and gods, we instead have beings who are thought to be
like ourselves, only "more advanced," either intellectually or
technologically or both. In popular culture we see it in both positive
and negative reflections, for example the movie _Close Encounters of the
Third Kind_, which ends with a giant UFO descending from the heavens
like the New Jerusalem, or, on the negative side, every week we can see
another episode of _The X-Files_ on TV, where there is a secret
conspiracy in league with aliens in a way reminiscent of medieval
European ideas of a secret witch cult in league with the devil.
> "A nebulous yearning for other worlds is as ancient as man himself. Today it
> has technological
> features; our expectations of alien guests and their landing have been
> haunting our imagination
> for some time now. We must take this seriously, firstly as a symptom.
> Bizarre aircraft are depicted, challenged, exposed as mirages. They
> serve as bait and a
> mechanism for the imagination; on the other hand, they indicate wishful
> thinking. The automatic
> apparatus is consistent with the spirit of the times. The end of the world, a
> vision at every
> millenium, likewise presents itself as a technological catastrophe.
> How strange that alien guests are expected now of all times, when
> astronomical
> investigations seem to have demonstrated that the stars not only are not, but
> cannot be,
> inhabited. This simply indicates the depth of our yearning. People feel more
> and more strongly
> that pure power and the enjoyment of technology leave them unsatisfied. They
> miss what used to
> be angels and what angels gave them."
I would say that what we see here is that in a titanic age, people feel
a great void in life, a void formerly filled by the gods, or to put it
better, filled in a different way when there were gods. Incapable of a
belief in said gods, yet still bothered by the same yearning, they
instead attempt to fill this void with something more titanic, ET's in
spaceships come to save humanity with their wonderous technology.
"Necessity is the mother of invention." Does the need create its own solution?
Friedrich Baroh:" We must also ponder whether we are dealing with
auto-suggestion. A deep desire projects its dream image into the world. It
intensifies, supplants, concentrates reality. For the people around you, you
become a pathological case, unless you convince them. They even desire this."
Aladdins Problem, chapter 79
A lot of people are convinced of the existence of UFOs, but, though it may be
related, this is not what Baroh has to share with the world. What exactly is he
seeing that could be viewed as pathological?
Thomas Friese
Association Eumeswil Vancouver
http://www.eumeswil.org/
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