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Westernized world has a fascination with extra-terrestrials that has
been going on and getting stronger ever day since the 1940's. As the
old aeon wanes and belief in the old paternalistic gods dies, people
still need something to believe in, something larger and more powerful
than themselves. Like all gods humanity both fears and loves these new
gods, the extra-terrestrials. Hollywood has always been the first place
ideas from the collective unconscious manifest and the collective mind
has recently been obsessed with it's otherworldy saviors.
Take for example the recent spate of alien films demonstrating the
fearful aspect, Independance Day and Starship Troopers, the
extra-terrestrials are invaders and enemies, fearsome and disgusting
looking, which humanity manages to band together and defeat. This is by
no means new, just a newer manifestation of the same theme which
occured in older movies and books, like The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Compare this to movies which represent the compassionate aliens who are
here to solve all the worlds problems, such as Contact, Close
Encounters of the Third Kind, and of course E.T.
As always, man projects his gods in his own image, hence the
extra-terrestrials look like us, except when they are in thier fearsome
destroyer aspect, but they have bigger heads signifying greater
intelligence. They think like and have the same emotions as us, but
being gods they have more of it, either greed for conquest of new
worlds instead of new countries, or human compassion and love for the
whole human race teaching us how to put aside our squabbles and love
each other. Also the Western mind is obsessed with technology and, so
our alien superiors must have superior technology to our own, which we
expect them to teach us when they land. And of course they are
fascinated with humans, because humans are fascinated with themselves
and expect every other race in the universe to be as well.
What was just a rash of 'flying saucer' sightings has now become a
media/commercially fueled enterprise, feeding more energy into it and
producing more sightings. Now television shows about extra-terrestrials
get high ratings and every hack writer in the business has put out some
trashy book rehashing the same psuedo-scientific facts about
extra-terrestrial visits, and they still make money. You see those
alien head stickers everywhere now, symbols of the new gods. And as
more energy is fed into it, as the media makes it more believable and
it becomes more socially accepted, the phenomena produced is greater
and greater.
Now this belies a certain lack of critical thinking on the part of the
mass of humanity, and it is our function as magicians to counter this
tendency. Critical thinking is essential to the magician for avoiding
the very real dangers of delusion and obsession that come with
initiation into the mysteries. There are many malevolent forces within
and without the magician that will try to lead him into madness.
Sketch of the very first reported UFO sighting. The press mis-reported it as a flying saucer, and shortly thereafter flying
saucers matching the incorrect description were being sighted everywhere.
But
how is critical thinking applied to such a situation as above? Think
about it this way, a superpowerful, superadvanced race of beings on
another planet has devised a spacecraft that can conquer the laws of
time and space, and travel faster than the speed of light to get to
this planet, and then all they do is fly around the sky making flashing
lights and buzz redneck farmers in Idaho? Any alien race as smart as
these are supposed to be is going to know better than that, if they
wanted to contact or influence events on earth, there are better ways,
such as radio broadcasts, or telepathic broadcasts, or even
incarnation, which seems to work for all the other advanced species.
Or how about the ridiculous conception that the US government has
managed to shoot down this superadvanced spacecraft with our stone age
projectile weapons, one step above throwing rocks, and they are hiding
the remains from the public, which would cost billions of dollars in
bribes alone? When you step back and think about these things they seem
beyond ridiculous, ideas on the same level as those about a God being
in contact with the pope for the purpose of regulating our finances and
sex lives.
But the true believers will counter with, 'What about all the millions
of sightings?', well what about all the millions of sightings of the
Virgin Mary? No one has sent out a task force to investigate them yet.
I'm sure many of you have seen videotapes of lights in the sky darting
around, changing colors and acting bizzare, but people have been seeing
those same things for thousands of years, but they have been calling
them elves, ghosts, leprechauns and fairies. These kinds of bizzare
paranormal events have been going on for as long as recorded time and
there is no reason whatsoever to believe these are extra-terrestrial
spacecraft.
Once the expectations of what a UFO was supposed to look like were set, the sightings changed to match.
But
what about the actual sightings of spacecraft? And excluding the
millions of reports by untrained observers of swamp gas, cellestial
bodies, hoaxes, comets, lightning bugs, and conventional aircraft, that
observers are sure are UFOs, there are a few fairly credible sightings.
But this is where all that collective power goes, psychic pressure of
millions of believers manifests in visible form. And it always follows
public expectations to further feed the energy, in the 40's people
expected to see flying saucers and they did, now they expect more
advanced craft with different shapes and light configurations and so
forth, and they are not dissappointed. This is why there is never any
physical evidence and why the extra-terrestrials never land on the
White House lawn to try to negotiate, because that isn't needed to
power the belief. The sightings alone foster a greater buildup of
psychic energy that continually produces more sightings to produce
greater belief.
This is exactly the same phenomena that occurs in 3rd world countries
dominated by the Catholic Church, which is where Mary and Jesus
sightings occur almost exclusivly, because it is powered by belief and
in these poverty stricken countries, the people need something to
believe in. Which is not to say that these people are hallucinating,
the psychic pressure a few million people can exert is tremendous, more
than enough to produce a visible apparition.
Now this article totally ignores the true fringe fanatics who claim
abduction. These are the same spotlight seekers who under the same
hypnotic regression were able to 'recall' memories of previous lives as
Richard the Lionhearted, or Satanic Ritual Abuse or other unproven
child abuse. These are the hysterics that follow any large trend that
gives them an opportunity to make outlandish claims and garner the
attention they crave.
But now we come to the real question. Just where is all this psychic
energy going? What is going to happen when this energy is channeled in
ever growing amounts into these New Gods? It can go either way,
paternal moralistic aliens, embodying the old aeon and representing a
force humanity is comfortable with, telling us all to go back to the
old morals. Or enlightened ambisexual aliens of the new aeon who are
here to expand our minds and teach new social orders. As magicians it
is in our hands to guide and shape this energy into constructive forms
that will be beneficial to humanity, rather than letting it follow it's
own whims. But either way it will certainly be interesting to see how
far it goes before humanity grows up enough to quit needing external
gods.
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