ETs And Our Changing Global Consciousness
A couple of months ago I flew to Adelaide where I kicked back with family, caught up on a few films and mulled over some UFO issues. One of these was a thought set in motion by listening to a presentation by Dr Michael Grosso speaking at an Near Death Eexperience conference in 1990. (in my opinion, NDE research has a lot to offer UFO research)
Anyway, Grosso spoke to the topic of how an NDE experience (but you could insert ET contact here) might change global consciousness and one that stirred my own thoughts. It's a very relevant question since contact experiences have the profound potential to alter human lives, values and consciousness, and as Grosso said "set people on a path where they cannot help but change".
Individuals can see, hear, experience "something" that makes them unable to adapt to ordinary reality which then drives them in the pursuit of a new reality. This is a process set in motion via the experiences, whatever they are, and has a fairly predictable pattern and structure to it.
(see Exceptional Human Experiences http://ehe.org/aboutehe/index.cfm)
Grosso spoke about how this process might change global consciousness. Without scientific study we can only specualte how and if this happens but one of Grossos' speculations was that when an experience occurs it affects us by touching or interacting with a latent archetypal layer of
human consciousness that links all of us. An interesting thought and explored by people like Cleve Backster in the past.
Grosso speculates that change in our society could be created by spread of a "telepathic contagion", not unlike the Hindu shaktiput and similar to the hundredth monkey effect, which immerses us in telepathic impressions such as mood and feelings, driving our society in an otherwise different direction. If true, we have no means for measuring it or to know how far it might reach.
Another point he raised was that a form of change can come about through descriptive knowledge as in the case of ET contact accounts, where we can learn of something and be affected by it without having to experience it ourselves. This is an important but weaker form of influence or change but has the potential for change nevertheless. This sort of change can never be accurately measured, if at all, since it's difficult to know how people might have been changed by the information.
It's obvious a more dramatic change can be brought about through direct experience and perhaps those who report ET experiences become the anchors for change, and through who the telepathic contagion is initially emitted.
Experience has the potential to change us and I am always fascinated how that happens. What is even more fascinating for me is how people flourish from a disturbing experience such as some accounts reported by abductees. I guess our consciousness could be described as having a homeopathic response to the situation. Maybe that's too simple but I think it's an apt analagy.
Even the anticipation of something can bring about changes within us. A person who has just been diagnosed with a fatal disease can find that suddenly things in life take on a fresh new perspective where every little object glows with beauty and importance.
Maybe for me the most significant thought raised by Grosso was the effect of anticipation and how it changes us. There seems to be a new image of reality emerging driven by reports of ET contact and it's highly likely that the anticipation of ET contact will be having it's own yet subtle effect on all of us. Just look at the change in statements from scientists about ET life over the last 15 years. The thought that we are alone in the universe is slowly but consistently being replaced in the public mind with the notion that we are far from alone in the universe. I'm not sure what effect this new image is having on us but I feel sure it will be having one. Where it will take us will be interesting to discover.
Anyway, Grosso spoke to the topic of how an NDE experience (but you could insert ET contact here) might change global consciousness and one that stirred my own thoughts. It's a very relevant question since contact experiences have the profound potential to alter human lives, values and consciousness, and as Grosso said "set people on a path where they cannot help but change".
Individuals can see, hear, experience "something" that makes them unable to adapt to ordinary reality which then drives them in the pursuit of a new reality. This is a process set in motion via the experiences, whatever they are, and has a fairly predictable pattern and structure to it.
(see Exceptional Human Experiences http://ehe.org/aboutehe/index.cfm)
Grosso spoke about how this process might change global consciousness. Without scientific study we can only specualte how and if this happens but one of Grossos' speculations was that when an experience occurs it affects us by touching or interacting with a latent archetypal layer of
human consciousness that links all of us. An interesting thought and explored by people like Cleve Backster in the past.
Grosso speculates that change in our society could be created by spread of a "telepathic contagion", not unlike the Hindu shaktiput and similar to the hundredth monkey effect, which immerses us in telepathic impressions such as mood and feelings, driving our society in an otherwise different direction. If true, we have no means for measuring it or to know how far it might reach.
Another point he raised was that a form of change can come about through descriptive knowledge as in the case of ET contact accounts, where we can learn of something and be affected by it without having to experience it ourselves. This is an important but weaker form of influence or change but has the potential for change nevertheless. This sort of change can never be accurately measured, if at all, since it's difficult to know how people might have been changed by the information.
It's obvious a more dramatic change can be brought about through direct experience and perhaps those who report ET experiences become the anchors for change, and through who the telepathic contagion is initially emitted.
Experience has the potential to change us and I am always fascinated how that happens. What is even more fascinating for me is how people flourish from a disturbing experience such as some accounts reported by abductees. I guess our consciousness could be described as having a homeopathic response to the situation. Maybe that's too simple but I think it's an apt analagy.
Even the anticipation of something can bring about changes within us. A person who has just been diagnosed with a fatal disease can find that suddenly things in life take on a fresh new perspective where every little object glows with beauty and importance.
Maybe for me the most significant thought raised by Grosso was the effect of anticipation and how it changes us. There seems to be a new image of reality emerging driven by reports of ET contact and it's highly likely that the anticipation of ET contact will be having it's own yet subtle effect on all of us. Just look at the change in statements from scientists about ET life over the last 15 years. The thought that we are alone in the universe is slowly but consistently being replaced in the public mind with the notion that we are far from alone in the universe. I'm not sure what effect this new image is having on us but I feel sure it will be having one. Where it will take us will be interesting to discover.
posted by Sheryl Gottschall @ 12:42 PM
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