What Ufology Has Come To Mean To Me
Like many people, when I was first snagged by Ufology I mulled over the usual questions like, “who are the ETs and where did they come from?” Then those questions progressed to, “what can I learn about ET civilizations by reading close encounter reports”. Finally my questions evolved toward wanting to know how ET societies survived themselves and progressed towards a more advanced way of existence than where we are in our current progress here on Earth.
I became a scrounger, looking for crumbs of insight that would shine the light on the steps between the crevices of failure and extinction, and success and evolution, thereby taking humanity on it’s greatest quest to overcome itself. For me Ufology is no longer about ETs but about human progress. What we can glean from contact accounts provides us with a model for our future and success as a cosmic society. However it’s a challenge to bring this idea to UFO researchers who seem to be hell bent on stalling Ufology’s progress, calling for “evidence”, scientific input and government acknowledgement before they will do what they know is right. If there were no ETs, no spaceships, no sightings etc, we still know that at some stage “we”, both individually and collectively, are going to have to make some major decisions about our current direction, values, and beliefs, particularly those that have expired past their use by date. The need for change which is the antidote for our sick society, is highlighted by contactee accounts and this might well be the subconscious reason for their fierce derision and dismissal.
If we study close encounter reports we learn that some ET societies are far more advanced than we could ever imagine. ET lifestyles have progressed past war, disease, the need for religion and monetary systems, areas of Earth society that are heavily invested in emotionally and financially. The ET message is simple, change your ways or perish and the inference is that ETs have witnessed many other societies on our current path that have ended in destruction.
There are many areas of our current lifestyle that are highlighted by ETs in order to cause us to question the validity of our choices. For example, we have created religious organizations whose teachings we have never lived up to and have in general, failed to save us from our destructive creations. In fact, Earth religions have been responsible for some of the worst wars and greatest crimes in history. ET concepts point us towards notions of Man as creator on every plane of consciousness and therefore responsible for all actions and subsequent effects. This challenges our sense of choice and responsibility in all spheres of existence.
ETs also present a way to run societies without the need for political parties and governments guiding our hearts to value choices that only have constructive input to the running of our planet. Extend this concept and you have a self-regulating movement of people who work towards making the best choices always. This may be foreign to our way of thinking but on a smaller scale you can liken it to a group of friends who want to push a vehicle out of a boggy patch of road. They work together to achieve a common goal through cooperation because in the end they will all win when they succeed in getting the vehicle out of the bog, and no one will have to walk home. Self-interest and cooperation is the incentive here, not government.
ETs also offer words of advice about personal health and ways to extend our lifespan. Although not as specific as we might hope, their concept of longevity is more closely linked to consciousness than what we eat. That is not to say that food choices don’t play a part in physical health, and in some cases the choice is to be vegetarian. However, this seems to be a choice about conscience and reverence for all life rather than detrimental impacts on the physical body.
Education is an important factor in ET society too, but not as we understand it. The focus is on developing natural gifts and interests that pertain to the individual rather than teaching the same knowledge to every person. The former style of education diffuses and suppresses personal talents while the latter enhances them. The focus is also on exploration of other worlds and systems, whether they be ecological, social, psychological, geological importance etc, and again depend on personal interest and natural talent.
These are just a sample of areas within our lifestyle that might be challenged by ET concepts and possibly reflect areas of Earth societies that need to be reevaluated. It has become crystal clear, at least to me, that placing contactee accounts under a magnifying glass reveals our own shortcomings and brings us face to face with the need to make better choices. ETs aren’t going to save us from ourselves, they just ask us to consider what future we really want.
I became a scrounger, looking for crumbs of insight that would shine the light on the steps between the crevices of failure and extinction, and success and evolution, thereby taking humanity on it’s greatest quest to overcome itself. For me Ufology is no longer about ETs but about human progress. What we can glean from contact accounts provides us with a model for our future and success as a cosmic society. However it’s a challenge to bring this idea to UFO researchers who seem to be hell bent on stalling Ufology’s progress, calling for “evidence”, scientific input and government acknowledgement before they will do what they know is right. If there were no ETs, no spaceships, no sightings etc, we still know that at some stage “we”, both individually and collectively, are going to have to make some major decisions about our current direction, values, and beliefs, particularly those that have expired past their use by date. The need for change which is the antidote for our sick society, is highlighted by contactee accounts and this might well be the subconscious reason for their fierce derision and dismissal.
If we study close encounter reports we learn that some ET societies are far more advanced than we could ever imagine. ET lifestyles have progressed past war, disease, the need for religion and monetary systems, areas of Earth society that are heavily invested in emotionally and financially. The ET message is simple, change your ways or perish and the inference is that ETs have witnessed many other societies on our current path that have ended in destruction.
There are many areas of our current lifestyle that are highlighted by ETs in order to cause us to question the validity of our choices. For example, we have created religious organizations whose teachings we have never lived up to and have in general, failed to save us from our destructive creations. In fact, Earth religions have been responsible for some of the worst wars and greatest crimes in history. ET concepts point us towards notions of Man as creator on every plane of consciousness and therefore responsible for all actions and subsequent effects. This challenges our sense of choice and responsibility in all spheres of existence.
ETs also present a way to run societies without the need for political parties and governments guiding our hearts to value choices that only have constructive input to the running of our planet. Extend this concept and you have a self-regulating movement of people who work towards making the best choices always. This may be foreign to our way of thinking but on a smaller scale you can liken it to a group of friends who want to push a vehicle out of a boggy patch of road. They work together to achieve a common goal through cooperation because in the end they will all win when they succeed in getting the vehicle out of the bog, and no one will have to walk home. Self-interest and cooperation is the incentive here, not government.
ETs also offer words of advice about personal health and ways to extend our lifespan. Although not as specific as we might hope, their concept of longevity is more closely linked to consciousness than what we eat. That is not to say that food choices don’t play a part in physical health, and in some cases the choice is to be vegetarian. However, this seems to be a choice about conscience and reverence for all life rather than detrimental impacts on the physical body.
Education is an important factor in ET society too, but not as we understand it. The focus is on developing natural gifts and interests that pertain to the individual rather than teaching the same knowledge to every person. The former style of education diffuses and suppresses personal talents while the latter enhances them. The focus is also on exploration of other worlds and systems, whether they be ecological, social, psychological, geological importance etc, and again depend on personal interest and natural talent.
These are just a sample of areas within our lifestyle that might be challenged by ET concepts and possibly reflect areas of Earth societies that need to be reevaluated. It has become crystal clear, at least to me, that placing contactee accounts under a magnifying glass reveals our own shortcomings and brings us face to face with the need to make better choices. ETs aren’t going to save us from ourselves, they just ask us to consider what future we really want.
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