A Conundrum of Brief Inquiries
What follows below are my remarks in the Comment section on YouTube. They’re in response to UFO researcher & Cold War historian Richard Dolan’s interview on The Richard Dolan Show with Alan Stivelman, a filmmaker from Argentina, about the UFO and controversial Shamanic and spiritual experiences of Juan Perez back in 1978. This film involved the research of UFO researcher Jacques Vallee, someone who came to view UFO phenomenon as more to do with the mysteries of consciousness and the spiritual, metaphysical aspects of reality than with nuts and bolts space craft piloted by biological organisms or their machines arriving here from other planets and times. Juan Perez himself is a hunter and gaucho from a remote, rural region of Argentina who had a traumatic and transformative experience with UFOs and ETs more shamanic and psychospiritual than material and tangible. Stivelman’s documentary film about Perez’s experiences along with the research Jacques Vallee and the insights of indigenous Shamanism, Witness of Another World, is expected to be released worldwide in seven more days.
My brief inquiries from the Comment section, revised from one long paragraph into shorter ones for ease of reading, are as follows:
Consider there may be multiple origins and explanations for what we may call ETs, EDs/IDs, CTs, Afterlife beings & spiritual entities, et cetera, etc. Seems we humans are so quick to lump everything into one category or its opposite when life is messy.
Could be some of these UFOs and associated entities are intelligent animals &/or machines or some new category of life & technology altogether from other planets & moons. Perhaps some are from other dimensions & timelines inaccessible to us at the moment in ours. Could be manifestations of what we call “spiritual.” Perhaps what we call the soul or our spirits, words from our various religious and mystical traditions, are but forms of consciousness we don’t yet understand…consciousness within and beyond ourselves, beyond our living human bodies. Maybe these entities in the so-called Afterlife are but manifestations of consciousness we don’t understand because we can’t measure & reduce them down into neuropsychological biochemistry.
Here, to be clear, I speak of consciousness as the universal consciousness, the cosmo-spiritual origination pool from which all our individual “consciousness” arise into self-aware selves. This, too, isn’t anything I can prove. It’s an insight upon a foundation of whatever we made up in our humans minds and shared with each other so many times we forget the origins of such stories.
Even if many of what our ancestors (& even people today) perceive as angelic, demonic beings, deities, fairies, etc., are actually biological organisms from other planets and/or dimensions, much of what else we identify as “spiritual” or of “the Afterlife” could be simply our universal consciousness engaged in whatever consciousness does. “Simply” is ironic as we still don’t understand or know what consciousness actually is despite the efforts of science, religion, and philosophy to wrestle it into a definable box. And if those theories we all abide within either a holographic or a simulated universe are indeed true, then all of these things including nuts & bolts spaceships, spiritual beings, planets, ghosts, whatever, are all programs of data & information, yes?
I don’t know. I’ve experienced both UFO and, separately, mystical or spiritual events, over the course of my life and feel they actually occurred, but those are merely the way my socio-culturally conditioned mind interprets what my limited biological senses relays back for my brain to perceive. These experiences ultimately bring us back to the possibility of more deeply understanding ourselves on an internal level rather than explaining external anomalies so as to, for some people, better connect with one another and everything else. Then what?
Aye, and then what?
William Dudley Bass
Tuesday 15 October 2019
Seattle, Washington
USA
Cascadia
Sol
SOURCES & NOTES:
“Witness of Another World. Richard Dolan Show,” Corrected Audio Version. YouTube, October 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W4p4ecOYFs&t=1683s.
See also the website for Alan Stivelman’s documentary: https://www.witnessofanotherworld.com.
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