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.