Posted On: June 6, 2023

What does it all mean?.

Is it reasonable to draw a parallel between religious apparitions, the fairy-faith, the reports of dwarf-like beings with supernatural powers, the airship tales in the United States in the last century, and the present stories of UFO landings? .

I would strongly argue that it is, for one simple reason: the mechanisms that have generated these various beliefs are identical.

Their human context and their effect on humans are constant. And it is my conclusion that the observation of this very deep mechanism is a crucial one.

It has little to do with the problem of knowing whether UFO's are physical objects or not.

Attempting to understand the meaning, the purpose of the so-called flying saucers, as many people are doing today, is just as futile as was the pursuit of the fairies, if one makes the mistake of confusing appearance and reality.

The phenomenon has stable, invariant features, some of which we have tried to identify and label clearly.

But we have also had to note carefully the chameleon-like character of the secondary attributes of the sightings: the shapes of the objects, the appearances of their occupants, their reported statements, vary as a function of the cultural environment into which they arc projected.

​Human actions are based on imagination, belief, and faith, not on objective observation—as military and political experts know well.

Even science, which claims its methods and theories are rationally developed, is really shaped by emotion and fancy, or by fear.

And to control human imagination is to shape mankind's collective destiny, provided the source of this control is not identifiable by the public.

And indeed it is one of the objectives of any government's policies to prepare the public for unavoidable changes or to stimulate its activity in some desirable direction.

​For the time being the only positive statement we can make, without fear of contradiction, is that: it is possible to make large sections of any population believe in the existence of supernatural races, in the possibility of flying machines, in the plurality of inhabited worlds, by exposing them to a few carefully engineered scenes the details of which are adapted to the culture and superstitions of a particular time and place. .

Could the meetings with UFO entities be such artificial constructions? Consider their changing character. In the United States, they appear as science fiction monsters.

In South America, they are sanguinary and quick to get into a fight. In France, they behave like rational, Cartesian, peace-loving tourists.

The Irish Gentry, if we believe its spokesmen, was an "aristocratic race" organized somewhat like a religious-military order. The airship pilots were strongly individualistic characters with all the features of the American farmer.

​Post from user sfaer at at reddit.

Posted On: June 6, 2023

What does it all mean?.

Is it reasonable to draw a parallel between religious apparitions, the fairy-faith, the reports of dwarf-like beings with supernatural powers, the airship tales in the United States in the last century, and the present stories of UFO landings? .

I would strongly argue that it is, for one simple reason: the mechanisms that have generated these various beliefs are identical.

Their human context and their effect on humans are constant. And it is my conclusion that the observation of this very deep mechanism is a crucial one.

It has little to do with the problem of knowing whether UFO's are physical objects or not.

Attempting to understand the meaning, the purpose of the so-called flying saucers, as many people are doing today, is just as futile as was the pursuit of the fairies, if one makes the mistake of confusing appearance and reality.

The phenomenon has stable, invariant features, some of which we have tried to identify and label clearly.

But we have also had to note carefully the chameleon-like character of the secondary attributes of the sightings: the shapes of the objects, the appearances of their occupants, their reported statements, vary as a function of the cultural environment into which they arc projected.

​Human actions are based on imagination, belief, and faith, not on objective observation—as military and political experts know well.

Even science, which claims its methods and theories are rationally developed, is really shaped by emotion and fancy, or by fear.

And to control human imagination is to shape mankind's collective destiny, provided the source of this control is not identifiable by the public.

And indeed it is one of the objectives of any government's policies to prepare the public for unavoidable changes or to stimulate its activity in some desirable direction.

​For the time being the only positive statement we can make, without fear of contradiction, is that: it is possible to make large sections of any population believe in the existence of supernatural races, in the possibility of flying machines, in the plurality of inhabited worlds, by exposing them to a few carefully engineered scenes the details of which are adapted to the culture and superstitions of a particular time and place. .

Could the meetings with UFO entities be such artificial constructions? Consider their changing character. In the United States, they appear as science fiction monsters.

In South America, they are sanguinary and quick to get into a fight. In France, they behave like rational, Cartesian, peace-loving tourists.

The Irish Gentry, if we believe its spokesmen, was an "aristocratic race" organized somewhat like a religious-military order. The airship pilots were strongly individualistic characters with all the features of the American farmer.

​Post from user sfaer at at reddit.