Terry Blanton wites,
from Terrence McKenna: "We are part of a symbiotic
relationship with something which disguises itself as an
extraterrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us."
A quote worthy of Douglas Adams.
...and the essence of how one can reconcile most these pregnant
observations in past posts with:
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact
us."
Bill Watterson, cartoonist of "Calvin and Hobbes" fame
"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival
value."
Arthur C. Clarke
"Men fear 'thought' as they fear nothing else on earth... more
even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary,
destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege,
established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks
into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift
and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Bertrand Russell
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in
praise of intelligence."
Bertrand Russell
Yes, there is deep meaning (and ironic humor) on several levels,
which comes from the realization that we are not just the latest
representative of a flawed animal species.
But one detail of that ironic-twist of epiphany is worthy of
continuing re-emphasis ... and this point bears repeating since it
is seldom embraced by the most ardent supporters of so-called
"alien" intellignece - the phenomena in question. This point is
demonstrated continually by those supporters who want to profit
finanacially from from their own warped-perspectives, whether they
be on fostered on the UFO-lecture-circuit, or from the pulpit of
biggest church in town. There is sometimes remarkably little
difference in the two warped viewpoints.
....and that is that the hidden "symbiotic" relationship is not
based in any way on a physical presence, nor on benefiting a
particular race or clan or even species, nor on an anciet text,
nor on a flawed history of worhipping (mis-identifying) the
accurated features of a spiritual presence which is now reaching
critical mass, so-to-speak.
The "invasion" which will eventually relegate the human genome to
the role of a preliminary-stepping-stone for the next evolutionary
jump, derives from a self-realized invasion of "pure thought" a
disembodied form of "intelligence" - and in keeping with the
sentiment of several prior post's including that excellent one of
Nick, that there is NO physical evidence whatever: nada, zero
zilch - of any physical alien presence, now or ever, but in many
cases sbstituing the word "divine" for "alien" can move one over
many hurtles.
There is an extremely large amount of evidence for a subtle
guiding "influence" which itself has only one common trait -
extremely focused "intellignece" taking human form and directing
the subject-species along a particular path - to eventually set
the stage for "childhood's end." WE will be not only be conquered
from within, we will become ultimately victorious because of
relinquishing our prior mis-identity. IOW we are not (eventually)
to be identified as a reprentative of a particular class of
animal, but of a partiuclar class of thinker.
That subtle disembodied influence, in our preceding history, often
called "angelic" or divine, no called "alien" has come in the form
of the limitations inherent when an advanced "mentality" being
transfered to a particular "carrier" such as a historical fugure -
Buddha, Yeshua the Nazarean, Mohammed, but also... more relevant
to the world of 2005 are those more modern but equally-astounding
mentalities, so far ahead of their time - such as Isaac Newton and
Paul Dirac. I place these later in importance above the former in
some ways. The former got us to the stage of giving up some of our
shared and natural animal brutality, but the later have brought us
nearer to the stage of giving up some of our natural in-bred
ignorance.
That task will take a while, if we are to prove that intelligence
has any survival value.
Jones
