Chapter Three
Reality, Etc.
In our culture there seems to be very little communication between
science and religion, and yet the practitioners of both disciplines
claim that their studies are fundamental to an understanding of
basic truth. What emerges from the UFO communications is the
attitude that there is a single valid approach to the complete
understanding of the universe, and that this approach blends what we
presently consider to be two separate disciplines and philosophies.
My personal bias, at least during the initial stages of my
investigation, was wholly on the side of the scientific disciplines.
As the investigation continued, however, I kept finding what seemed
to be a religious or spiritual factor in the contact phenomena. My
determined bias towards open-minded and impartial observation led me
finally to acknowledge this factor as a genuine part of ufology. At
present, I no longer regard this factor as separate from a
scientific understanding of the phenomena. The seemingly religious
content of the communications is seen as such because of our own
cultural conditioning: we interpret these messages as religious. It
is my belief that the foundation of a much more nearly absolute and
true philosophy of natural phenomena is being made available through
the UFO contacts. At present, our languages are inadequate to
communicate anything but the first step in the evolution of our
thinking. It will be necessary for us to make this first step, in
order to begin to understand how to make the second.
Paranormal Phenomena
Several years ago, I had the opportunity to converse with some
ghosts that materialized into our physical world and then vanished
after our conversation. To many psychical researchers, this
phenomenon, known as materialization due to ectoplasmic emission
from a medium, is an established and accepted occurrence.
It is my belief that anyone following the rules and conditions laid
down for this type of contact can achieve it, assuming that he is in
the presence of a suitable materialization medium (an individual
capable of producing ectoplasmic emissions.)
The most evidential of the ghosts which I saw and talked to was a
tall, ghostly individual who grew solid before my eyes, carried on a
conversation with me, and then to prove his ability to manifest in
the physical world, slapped me and my companion, Carla, solidly on
the arms. Then he slowly walked through us, while we watched
closely. Thus in the space of a few seconds, he displayed both the
properties of a perfectly solid substance and those of total absence
of solidity.
Psychic researchers have for many years reported and photographed
these ghostly materializations, but because of their inability to
produce the phenomena at the demand of skeptical observers, little
general interest has been developed in this research.
As we unravel more of the UFO mystery, we will discover the reason
why the skeptical or “prove it to me” approach is quite often the
defeating factor in paranormal investigations. I also noticed this
same factor in evidence as I recently observed several hundred
seemingly miraculous bare-handed surgical operations in the
Philippines. I saw native “psychic surgeons” seemingly plunging
their hands directly into the patients’ unanesthetized bodies,
pulling out all sorts of bloody parts while the patients remained
perfectly conscious, watching the process and feeling no pain. The
patients displayed no wounds or scars after the operation was
completed. Here again the evidential quality of the operation
witnessed was very dependent upon the attitude of the witness. It
has been aptly stated that, with paranormal phenomena, “believing is
seeing.”
There are many observers who attend demonstrations of paranormal
phenomena and who conclude that what they have seen was all
trickery. I’ve had a lot of experience in witnessing these
demonstrations, have seen several hundred authentic ghosts
materialize, have watched much psychic surgery and had minor
operations performed on myself, and in every case I have noted a
common factor. If skeptical observers were present, the phenomena
either didn’t occur at all, or their quality was so poor that
trickery would naturally be suspected.
Now the skeptical observer doesn’t like this facet of the phenomena
at all and uses it as evidence of the fakery. His problem is that he
doesn’t understand why he, as a skeptic, can’t be given evidential
and inalienable proof of the reality of the phenomena. He absolutely
cannot accept the necessity under the circumstance of his skepticism
of taking the word of some “believer,” whom he usually considers
deluded. The reason that this lack of proof must accompany
skepticism will become evident as we further explore the UFO
communications.
My own stance is a balanced one, I hope, that of the believer who is
skeptical of tricksters among the real practitioners. There are many
fraudulent mediums and many quack psychic surgeons. I have seen both
practicing their trades and am aware of their methods. Yet their
existence does nothing to compromise the reality of the paranormal
phenomena generated by the real mediums and psychic surgeons.
A pertinent question when considering psychic demonstrations is: how
does the paranormal event happen? The answer may well lie in the
area of occult theory which is concerned with the existence of
various “planes.”
The theosophists say that there are fourteen mental planes
associated with this planet. After death, they say, an individual
finds himself at one of these 14 levels of existence, the level
being dependent on the spiritual nature or development of the person
at the time of his death. The cliché that covers this theory is a
heavenly “birds of a feather flock together.” When a ghost
materializes into our reality, it is from one of these 14 levels
that he usually comes for his earthly visit. In general, it is
theorized that a planet is a sort of spiritual distillery, with
reincarnation taking place into the physical world until the
individual is sufficiently developed in the spiritual sense that he
can reach the higher states of existence, and is no longer in need
of this planet’s developmental lessons.
Most of this theory was developed as a result of reported contact
and communication with the inhabitants of these supposedly separate
realities.
The most satisfactory term I have come across for these different
levels of reality is the word, “density.” I have come to believe
that these densities interpenetrate with our physical space and
mutually coexist, though with very little awareness of each other. A
simple analogy, to which I’ve referred before, is to consider the
actors in two different TV plays, both receivable on the same set,
but each play being exclusive of the other. This seems to be what we
experience in our daily lives: one channel or density of existence,
being totally unaware of the myriad entities occupying other
densities of our physical space. The point of all this is that our
density or reality is not ultimate or singular; it is in fact our
reality only at the present.
Many of the UFO reports display ample evidence that the object
sighted has its origin in one of these other realities or densities,
just as do the materialized ghosts. I would like to emphasize that
this does not in any way imply their unreality; rather, it displaces
the UFOs’ reality from ours. I’m saying the equivalent of: Channel 4
on the TV is equivalent to but displaced from channel 3 on the same
TV.
If you were told to build a scale model of any atom using something
the size of a pea for the nucleus, it would be necessary to have an
area the size of a football stadium to contain even the innermost
orbital electrons. If the pea were placed at the center of the
50-yard line, a small cotton ball on the uppermost seat in the
stands could represent an electron of the atom. There is very little
actual matter in physical matter. When you look at the stars in the
night sky, you probably see something quite similar to what you
would see if you could stand on the nucleus of any atom of “solid”
material and look outward toward our environment. To demonstrate an
electron to you, a physicist will probably show you a curved trace
of one on a photographic plate. What he probably does not tell you
is that this is second-hand evidence. The electron itself has never
been seen, only its effect on a dense medium can be recorded. It is
possible, of course, to make accurate mathematical calculations,
about what we call an electron. For such work we must know some data
on magnetic field strength, electron charge and velocity. But since
a magnetic field is caused by moving charges, which in turn are
empirically observed phenomena, we find that the entire mathematical
camouflage obscures the fact that all we really know is that charged
particles have effects on each other. We still don’t know what
charged particles are, or why they create an action at a distance
effect.
Senior scientists would be the first to agree that there is no such
thing as an absolute scientific explanation of anything. Science is,
rather, a method or tool of prediction, relating one or more
observations to each other. In physics, this is usually done through
the language of mathematics. Our scientific learning is a learning
by observation and analysis of this observation. In the sense of
penetrating the fundamental essences of things, we really do not
understand anything at all.
A magnetic field is nothing but a mathematical method of expressing
the relative motion between electrical fields. Electrical fields are
complex mathematical interpretations of a totally empirical
observation stated as Coulomb’s Law. In other words our forest of
scientific knowledge and explanations is made up of trees about
which we understand nothing except their effect, their existence.
Baba Ram Dass, formerly Dr. Richard Alpert of the Dept. of
Psychology at Harvard University, met Sai Baba in India and was
given a small medallion by that guru. Sai Baba held out his hand, a
glow appeared in his palm, and the glow slowly solidified into the
medallion. Dr. Alpert was amazed and commented to one of Sai Baba’s
associates on this miracle of creation. “Oh, don’t be silly, he
didn’t create that,” replied the devotee. He has a whole warehouse
full of those things. He just transported it here mentally.” Sai
Baba’s own attitude towards this sort of thing is that all is
illusion, or maya.
This would seem to be a very accurate analysis of our physical
world, which is most often apparent to mystics and atomic
physicists. For an example of the mystical approach to our illusion,
here is OAHSPE explaining about all the heavenly bodies which we
cannot see, because they are outside of our illusion:
When a planet hath attained to so great age she no longer giveth
forth light or heat to radiate upon herself, she cannot be seen in the
heavens. Of which kinds of planets there are millions in the etherean
firmament. Some of these move slower than any of the planets man can see. Some
of these at times eclipse the sun, and are taken for sun-spots,
although, perhaps, not a million miles from the earth.1
To a person unfamiliar with the inner workings of modern science it
may seem that modern man has his environment nicely under control
and totally figured out. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
The leaders of science who are researching the frontiers of modern
theory argue among themselves, with their followers dissenting in
droves behind them. As soon as a theory begins to receive wide
acceptance as being a valid representation of physical laws, someone
finds a discrepancy, and the theory has to be either modified or
abandoned entirely. Perhaps the most well known example of this is
Newton’s “F=MA.” This attained the status of a physical law before
being found to be in error. It is not that this equation has not
proven extremely useful: we have used it to design everything from a
moon rocket to the television picture tube. But its accuracy fails
when applied to atomic particle accelerators like the cyclotron. To
make accurate predictions of particle trajectories it is necessary
to make the relativistic correction formulated by Einstein. It is
interesting to note that the reason for this correction is based on
the fact that the speed of light is totally independent of the speed
of its source.
If Newton had penetrated more deeply into the laws of motion he
might have made this relativistic correction himself, and then
stated that the velocity correction would always be of no
consequence, since the velocity of light was so much greater than
any speed attainable by man. This was very true in Newton’s day, but
is definitely not the case now. We still tend to think of the
velocity of light as a fantastic and unattainable speed, but with
the advent of space flight, a new order of velocities has arrived.
We have to change our thinking from our normal terrestrial concepts
of velocities.
Instead of thinking of the speed of light in terms of miles per
second, think of it in terms of Earth diameters per second. The
almost unimaginable 186,000 miles per second becomes an entirely
thinkable 23 Earth diameters per second. Or we could think of the
speed of light in terms of our solar system’s diameter and say that
light would speed at about two diameters per day.
Einstein’s assertion that everything is relative is so apt that it
has become a cliché of our culture. Let us continue being
relativistic In considering the size of natural phenomena by
considering the size of our galaxy. If you look up at the sky on a
clear night, nearly all of the visible stars are in our own galaxy.
Each of these stars is a sun like our own. A calculation of the
ratio of the number of suns in our galaxy to the number of people on
planet Earth discovers that there are 62 suns for each living person
on Earth today: Earth’s population is close to 4 billion; and there
are 250 billion stars in the Milky Way! it takes light over four
years to get from Earth to even the nearest of these stars. To reach
the most distant star in our own galaxy would take light 100,000
years.
These calculations are made using the assumption that light has a
speed. This may be an erroneous assumption in the light of modern
theory, but its apparent speed is a useful measuring tool, so we use
it anyway.
So we have a creation in which we find ourselves which is so big
that at a speed of 23 Earth diameters a second we must travel
100,000 years to cross our immediate backyard. That is a big
backyard, and it would seem ample for even the most ambitious of
celestial architects, but in truth this entire system of 250 billion
stars is just one grain of sand on a very big beach. There are
uncounted trillions of galaxies like ours, each with its own 250
billion stars, spread throughout what seems to be infinite space.
When you think of the mind boggling expanse of our creation, and the
infantile state of our knowledge in relation to it, you begin to see
the necessity for considering the strong probability that our
present scientific approach to investigating these expanses is as
primitive as the dugout canoe is in relation to the whole state of
the art of Earthbound transport.
The most perplexing problem of science has always been finding a
satisfactory explanation of what is called action at a distance. In
other words, everyone knows that if you drop something it will fall,
but no one knows precisely why. Many people know that electric
charges push or pull on each other even if separated in a vacuum,
but again no one knows why.
Although the phenomena are quite different, the equations which
describe the force of interaction are quite similar:
For gravitation: F=Gmm'/r2
For electrostatic interaction: F=Kqq'/r2
The attractive force between our planet and our sun is described by
the gravitational equation. The attractive force between orbiting
electrons and the atomic nucleus is described by the electrostatic
interaction equation. Now each of these equations was determined
experimentally. They are not apparently related in any way, and yet
they both describe a situation in which attractive force falls off
with the square of the distance of separation.
A mathematical representation of an action at a distance effect is
called a field, such as a gravitational or electric field. It was
Albert Einstein’s foremost hope to find a single relation which
would express the effect of both electric and gravitational
phenomena; in fact, a theory which would unify the whole of physics,
a unified field theory. Einstein believed that this was a creation
of total order and that all physical phenomena were evolved from a
single source:
Over the years Einstein and other mathematical physicists published
many unified field theories, none of them successful. A famous one,
put forth by Kaluza, recast the mathematics of relativity in a space
of five dimensions instead of the customary four. Kaluza hoped ...
that unification of gravitation and electromagnetism would follow by
a suitable interpretation of the fifth dimension. Einstein took up
Kaluza’s work, but once more no new physical understanding appeared.
The most celebrated unified field theory, called the generalized
theory of gravitation, was published by Einstein in 1945, and
independently by Schrodinger at about the same time. By then
Schrodinger was disillusioned by quantum mechanics, which he himself
had helped to create. For some years both these eminent men believed
that the new theory would solve the problems which they thought
still beset fundamental physics.
The mathematics of the theory is very complicated, and it is
necessary to use approximate methods. With these it was shown that
the theory failed to satisfy the basic requirement that its field
equations must determine the motion of electric charges present.
This was enough to convince Schrodinger that the theory was useless.
Einstein was not prepared to accept the approximate results: he
maintained that the theory could be judged only if certain exact
solutions of the generalized
field equations were found. These exact solutions, he believed,
would
represent matter by pure field. This was the position he took up
until
his death.2
This unified field theory, describing matter as pure field, has been
accomplished now. It seems that the entire situation was analogous
to the solution of a ponderously complex Chinese puzzle. If you can
find the right key turns among so many wrong ones, the puzzle easily
falls apart. Dewey
B. Larson found the solution to this problem, and the puzzle not
only fell apart, but revealed an elegantly adequate unified field
theory rich in practical results. And, like a good Chinese puzzle,
the solution was not complex, just unexpected. Instead of assuming
five dimensions, Larson assumed six, and properly labeled them as
the three dimensions of space and the three dimensions of time. He
assumed that there is a three-dimensional co-ordinate time analogous
to our observed three-dimensional space.
The result of this approach is that one can now calculate from the
basic postulate of Larson’s theory any physical value within our
physical universe, from sub-atomic to stellar. This Iong sought
after unified field theory is different because we are not
accustomed to thinking of time as being dimensionally analogous to
space. We have thought of time as one-dimensional, as a stream
moving in one direction. Yet once you get the hang of it,
co-ordinate time is mathematically a more comfortable concept with
which to deal. Professor Frank Meyer, of the Dept. of Physics at the
University of Wisconsin, presently distributes a quarterly
newsletter3 to scientists interested in Larson’s new theory which
explores perplexing questions in physical theory using Larson’s
approach. I was interested in testing Larson’s theory and made
extensive calculations using his postulate. I became convinced that
his theory is indeed a workable unified field theory. If you are
personally interested in checking this theory for yourself, I
recommend obtaining his work and checking it as I did.4
I had been pondering several interesting statements communicated
through contactees by the alleged UFO source prior to discovering
Larson’s work in the early ’60s. Although the people who had
received these communications knew nothing of the problems of modern
physics, they were getting information which apparently was quite
central to physical theory: first, they suggested that the problem
with our science was that it did not recognize enough dimensions.
Second, they stated that light does not move; light is. Larson’s
theory posits six dimensions instead of the customary four, and
finds the pure field, which Einstein believed would represent
matter, to move outward from all points in space at unit velocity,
or the velocity of light. Photons are created due to a vibratory
displacement in space-time, the fabric of the field. Furthermore,
the contactees were saying that consciousness creates vibration,
this vibration being light. The vibratory displacements of
space-time in Larson’s theory are the first physical manifestation,
which is the photon or light. According to the UFO contacts, the
UFOs lower their vibrations in order to enter our skies. The entire
physical universe postulated by Larson is dependent on the rate of
vibration and quantized rotations of the pure field of space-time.
The contactees were suggesting that time is not what we think it is.
Larson suggests the same thing. The UFOs were said to move in time
as we move in space. This would be entirely normal in Larson’s
time-space portion of the universe.
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the contactees were receiving
the message that the creation is simple, all one thing. Larson’s
theory is a mathematical statement of this unity.
The New Science Advocates is a group of scientists and philosophers
currently promoting Larson’s theory. In a recent news release, they
had this to say about Larson’s Reciprocal System of theory:
No previous theory comes anywhere near being a general theory in the
true sense of the term. None of them is applicable to more than a
relatively small part of physical science, and none is derived
entirely from premises of a general nature. Everyone finds it
necessary to make many assumptions specifically applicable to its
restricted field of coverage. A theory of atomic structure makes
assumptions about matter and about its basic forms; a theory of
electrical phenomena makes assumptions about electricity and
electric charges; a theory of quasars makes assumptions about
quasars and about the radiation through which these objects make
themselves known; and so on.
Furthermore, all of these theories make
use of a host of additional assumptions of a more general character
that are embodied in the basic laws and principles of physics. But
now we have a theory that makes no assumptions at all, other than
those contained in the fundamental postulates as to the properties
of space and time which define the theory. All conclusions,
including those with respect to the basic physical laws and
principles, are derived solely by deduction from those postulates,
without invoking the aid of any supplementary or subsidiary
assumptions, and without introducing anything from experience.
In our opinion, this totally unprecedented accomplishment is
sufficient
in itself to justify the most serious and painstaking study of the
new
theoretical structure …5
An interesting extension of Larson’s work is a conjecture which I
have entertained that a more informed society might index events
spatially rather than temporally. When IS talks with Puharich about
time, it would seem that they do this, for they say that a certain
event was planned hundreds of light-years ago.
The Metal-Bending Children
When Uri Geller performs on TV, mentally bending metal and fixing
clocks, there are often many kids who try to duplicate Uri’s
“tricks.” Sometimes the kids succeed. The number of children that
can cause bends and breaks in metals and other materials just by
wanting the break or bend to occur is increasing daily. John Taylor,
professor of mathematics at Kings College, reports in his excellent
book, SUPERMINDS, on the extensive tests run in England on several
of these gifted children.
What physicists have never before considered worth investigating is
now increasing at a very rapid rate. Action at a distance,
apparently as a result of some type of mental activity, seems
repeatedly the observed effect. If the Gellerizing children continue
to increase in numbers and ability, the 1980’s will see such
fantasies of TV as MY FAVORITE MARTIAN, I DREAM OF JEANNIE, and
BEWITCHED becoming a part of reality.
So far, most of the ability shown by these children is in the area
of bending and breaking materials. But there is some indication that
they, like Geller and Matthew Manning, will develop other abilities
as well.
With controlled, repeatable experiments like those conducted by
Taylor and by the Stanford Research Institute in the United States,
we begin to have good, solid data available for study. Gradually we
are moving into a position from which we can begin to create a
science of “magic,” for that which has been called magic through the
ages is now being performed at an ever-increasing rate, primarily by
children. In the future, we may even find this “magic” added to the
curriculum of the sciences at universities. In point of fact, the
present disciplines of chemistry, physics, etc., are still basically
“magic” to us, since we are still in the position of having no
ultimate explanation of causality.
Age Regression Hypnosis
During the past twenty years I have done several hundred age
regressions, working with subjects from various walks of life. With
very few exceptions, I have discovered that the reasonably good
hypnotic subject can be helped to remember experiences which
occurred before his or her birthdate into this present life. The
large majority of these people remember lives which occurred prior
to this life but identifiable as being in the recent historical
past. I have had people who are in this life quite ignorant of a
certain foreign language, who under hypnosis, while re-experiencing
moments of a previous life, are able to speak that foreign tongue.
While there is no way to prove the theory of reincarnation, it is
interesting to note that many researchers besides myself have
reported many thousands of instances of these hypnotic regressions
to previous lives. As one examines the mass of data which these
regressions provide, one cannot help but note that the theory of
reincarnation is a more substantively satisfactory explanation than
some alternate theories, which attempt to be conservative and
scientifically “safe.”
Such latter explanations of the data of a good age regression case
take each confirmed fact gained in the hypnotic session and say,
“The subject could conceivably have known this another way. The
subject could be using telepathy. The subject could be clairvoyant.”
The explanations offered in this way strike me rather as an instance
of going around Robin Hood’s barn, when there is a broad and
well-trodden path right through the forest. I say well-trodden,
because three-quarters of the world’s population ascribe to
religions which include reincarnation within their structure of
religious beliefs.
Mediumship
The medium, a person who is able to act as a link with discarnate
entities, is probably the most controversial of the common psychic
types. I consider a good working knowledge of mediumship and its
pitfalls essential to the study of alleged telepathic UFO contactees.
As I have stated, there seem to be many planes or densities of
existence, therefore it is not always possible to be sure of the
source of a telepathic contact.
A person visiting a medium for the
purpose of communication with discarnate Uncle Herman may actually
contact a residual portion of Uncle Herman’s consciousness, another
entity claiming to be Uncle Herman, or in many cases the
subconscious of the medium. I am certain that many mediums and UFO contactees never intend fraud, and do not themselves realize the
fraudulent nature of what they “telepathically” receive. The
dedicated researcher will attempt to achieve an attitude of unbiased
discrimination, listening to everything with suspended disbelief,
yet reserving final judgment until his data is ponderous in quantity
and correlations are extensive.
Magic
(Real Magic, Not Prestidigitation)
W. E. Butler defines magic as “the art of effecting changes in
consciousness at will.”6 Generally, events are thought of as magical
if they defy all rational or “scientific” attempts to explain them.
As a consequence, as our scientific philosophy has expanded our
inclination to view natural events as magical has shrunk. We no
longer consider thunderstorms to be of magical significance, because
we know the physical mechanics which create the thunderstorm.
That is, we think we do. What we have really done with thunderstorms
is to find our way back to the more basic puzzle of electrostatics.
Born into this world, we wake up in our crib and very slowly become
aware of our surroundings. As long as these surrounding, these
conditions of existence, remain the same, we are satisfied to call
our environment “normal” reserving the label of “paranormal” for
that which is contrary to the great body of our experience. That is,
as long as we drop a stone and it continues to fall rather than
float in air, we will accept that as the natural event and see a
floating-in-air object that looks as though it should fall as
supernatural.
It is a difficult thing to do, but try to imagine for a minute a
state of total lack of experience with this world. Try to look at it
as if for the first time. Without labeling them, look at the people,
the animals, the birds and insects; at foliage and sky. Feel the
wonder creeping in. Now, in your mind, back off from the surface of
the planet Earth and see it as a totality, a ball in space with a
thin cloak of swirling air around it. You and the billions of others
who live on Earth stand on its surface, the soles of your feet
pointing inward, towards the center of the ball; your heads pointing
outward, towards space. As you hold this in your mind, perhaps magic
seems not so limited on our “normal” world. I believe that in truth,
we have only a tiny sliver of understanding of reality, if indeed we
have any at all. When a child stares at a spoon and it curls up, or
breaks, we somehow find this more amazing than the magic of our
daily experience. Perhaps these “magical” new events are clues to
the real nature of man.
The Mechanisms of Real Magic
Motion in our physical world is usually the result of a potential
energy such as gravitational, chemical, or electrical. The magician
also works with potential energies, within consciousness, in order
to create motion or displacement in mind. The magician works with
potentials in consciousness similar to the physical activity of
storing electrical charges in a battery. Just as a battery has a
positive and a negative pole, so does consciousness. Many call this
positive-negative polarity good and evil. There is ample evidence
that it is possible to create a large potential through the
manipulation of consciousness, whether it is done by intentional
magical manipulation or by political rhetoric or religious
exhortation.
I would suggest that consciousness is more fundamental than physical
matter. I find it hard to see even the possibility of physical
matter creating consciousness. The magician, then, is working with
the more fundamental of energy fields, to attain a more fundamental
objective.
The objective of the magician is to obtain predictive and
manipulative control of consciousness. The white magician clearly
defines for himself the limits of this manipulation of
consciousness: his objective is the development of his own
consciousness. The black magician is less careful about what
consciousness he wishes to be able to manipulate, and thus becomes
interested in the “evil” aspects of control over others’
consciousness.
The white magician wants to develop his consciousness, for he knows
that it is the only thing he will be able to carry with him through
the physical death. His attitude towards this physical life is that
its one purpose is to provide him with the catalytic effects of
physical experience for use in the development of his thinking. He
sees himself as a micro-consciousness dwelling within
macro-consciousness, and attempts to consciously unite himself with
all that there is, so that the microcosm is one with the macrocosm.
To put it another way, he is attempting to achieve realization of
union with his creator. The key to this attempt is control of
consciousness. The more closely the magician approaches this goal of
realized oneness with the creation, the more able he is to do
seemingly magical things. He is tuning his mind to that of the
Creator, and thereby displaying some of the abilities of creation.
The black magician has the reciprocal orientation in that he is
attempting to achieve separation in mind rather than unification. He
glorifies his own individuality and gains power by separating
himself from all of creation and then declaring himself its master.
Both white and black magical attitudes and practices are able to
build high potentials in the field of consciousness, quite analogous
to the creating of potential difference in electrical fields with
positive and negative charges. Once a sufficient charge of
consciousness has been stored, it may be used to create motion or
change in consciousness, which in turn effects the physical world
for what we call good or evil.
Because the essence of man is his consciousness, the true nature of
man is perforce magical. All men have infinite potential to create
whatever changes they may desire. But at present, man on Earth seems
lacking in the knowledge of his true nature and the abilities of his
mind. Most men fluctuate as a matter of daily habit between slightly
good and slightly evil, building up a slight potential in one
direction and discharging it, then swinging back a bit the other
way. This puts him down in a “potential well” of thought. Since he
is not polarizing steadily in either direction, he can do no magic.
Those sufficiently polarized—like Jesus the Christ—perform this
“magic” with no difficulty. Everyone does have the innate ability to
do such magic. The beginning of the Gospel according to John in the
Holy Bible contains this statement:
The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world …
to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to
become children of God, who were born not of blood, nor of the will
of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.7
I am not in any way suggesting that the unity with God, or Creator,
or the Christ, is only valid when approached through the doctrines
of any particular religion, but the concept is clearly stated here.
When Jesus told his Disciples: “These things and more shall you do,”
he intended that those who heard those words polarize their
consciousness until they regained the natural abilities which we
presently call miraculous.
Many of the UFO sources indicate that they feel that man on Earth
has trouble recognizing in many instances the difference between
positive and negative thought, and for that reason is vacillating
between the two.
There are lots of people who have heard about or read a little of
the UFO contactee literature, who dismiss it as being a series of
ridiculous fantasies, like the French peasants reporting stones
falling from the sky.
If a handful of people reported contact instead of thousands, and if
the communications they reported varied widely in content instead of
matching, then there would be a much poorer case for UFO contact. I
have worked with teenagers who had no previous background at all in
UFO research or literature who, after a very short training period
were able to receive, in a telepathic manner, hours of
communications of the exact type reported by UFO contactees.
Comparison of this information with information obtained by other
widely separated contactee sources over the past 20 years always
results in the same conclusion: that the basic message content, no
matter where or who the receiver was, is the same. Earlier I spoke
of the UFO contactee picture as a kind of puzzle, and a fairly big
one at that. Some of the pieces of this puzzle seem silly or even
crazy when one first picks them up, but carefully pieced together,
these contactee stories begin to form a recognizable pattern of UFO
motive. I think this pattern is not easily recognized or understood
for the same reason that Gellerized spoons are hard to accept, there
is very little previous experience on which to base an analysis. But
that the pattern exists is hard to deny. As ufologist Brad Steiger
puts it:
For the past three years I have been conducting a serious study of
certain contactees, whom I call “flying saucer missionaries,” and I
have noted that a certain percentage of the information dispensed in
their cosmic sermonettes has contained a good deal of accurate
information and that certain predictions have been realized. In my
opinion, many UFO researchers—and nearly all news media and orthodox
scientists— have been too hasty in their assessments that the
contactees’ messages are just so much nonsense and
science-fiction-inspired pseudo-religious prattle. Although several
of the contactees seem to parrot in a tedious manner a great amount
of the same basic “message,” there may be important clues hidden for
us in their fanciful distortions if only we were to work a bit
harder to separate the cosmic wheat from the celestial chaff.8
And long-time researcher, Professor J. H. Bruening of the University
of Mississippi, has this to say about UFO phenomena, after studying
it closely for 30 years:
UFO phenomena is a contrived paranormal event created for the
benefit of the viewer with a specific stimulus content. This
phenomena is a show-and-tell device precisely geared to the culture
to which it is presented.
Note that all historical UFO sightings are always just slightly
advanced for the viewers of the time. Medieval sightings were of a
fully rigged sailing ship sailing along in the sky! The 1897
sightings looked like a Victorian science fiction book illustration
and the crews were all reported as being dressed properly for 1890.
Current sightings are “space ships” with astronauts as pilots
dressed in space suits. Obviously neither a sailing ship fully
rigged nor a Jules Verne ship could possibly travel through
interplanetary space in those forms from another planet to the earth
and back. They all were here in physical form to be sure and were
reported as such, but they did not get here in that form by flying
here.
This display is intentional and is a part of a controlled program of
cultural diffusion of special forms of information into current
earth civilizations. The information is, however, in coded form! It
is not obvious at all but is mixed in with considerable “noise.”
Not
to be melodramatic but Toynbee has amply demonstrated that cultural
advancement periodically is based on the productivity of a small
number of creative people who are able to pick the signal out of the
noise and come up with new conceptual patterns as described by Sorokin and Kroeber. It would appear that the last quarter of this
century is such a time, and perhaps … (the) … Invisible College may
be that group who can decode the signal and thereby extract the key
information. I hope they can do this before the Russians do it. The
coded data in fact contains considerable information in the fields
of technology, culture, philosophy, religion and sociology. To
paraphrase McLuhan the phenomena is the message. The whole pattern
must be considered as a total thing and not examined in a Spencerian
fashion. If a piecemeal approach is used the total pattern will be
lost with a resulting loss of information.
The rest of the model (of the UFO phenomena’s meaning) is built
around the proposals put forward as early as 1947 by the discussants
in the Mark Probert group in California. I keep coming back to these
ideas because they simply do in fact explain details of the UFO
phenomena. (See THE COMING OF THE GUARDIANS, SEANCE REPORTS AND
TRANSCRIPTS 1945-1960, ROUND ROBIN 1950¬1960, Vista, Ca., The
Borderland Science Research Association.)
This model is also found scattered around in a large part of
published UFO data, especially in contactee reports, most of which
seem to be true. The ones I have investigated do have a ring of
truth about them. Now, the Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) model
which is an extrapolation of our civilization fails to account for
either paranormal phenomena or for the reported engineering designs,
while the continuous violation of the known laws of physics and
aerodynamics eliminates the simple mechanical model of UFOs. The
obvious limitations imposed on the use of a space vehicle of a
mechanical sort by the sheer distance between solar systems again
excludes the jet or ion-driven space ship as a possible model.
The model that does appear to fit the data is, incredibly enough,
the one which is constructed around the concept of a
multidimensional universe which contains technically advanced
civilizations some of which have reached the capability of
multidimensional travel. This travel is a space-time phenomenon
where a change of frequency is equivalent to an instant change in
location; i.e., they dematerialize “there” and materialize “here.”
Once here the ship or vehicle operates as a physical object in our
dimension. It can violate the laws of physics by partially
dematerializing. Its physical appearance is determined by its
mission, not by any engineering demands, and the crew may appear
either as themselves or as manifesting a contrived appearance, again
depending on the mission.
It would appear that what is considered as a change in frequency is
that matter comprising other dimensions varies from our matter in
that the distance from the electron shells to the nucleus is much
lesser there than here. In a sense their matter is more “dense” than
our matter is, so they expand their matter in order to materialize
here and must hold it in this abnormal state in order to remain
here. To return to their place they relax their energy field and
immediately return. This difference in matter allows our mutual
dimensions to normally coexist without interference except in some
rare cases where a sort of splash-over takes place during which
people and objects may appear or disappear suddenly.
The general cultural impact of the UFO phenomena through its
persistent and deliberate performances has been to create a
knowledge revolution of a dramatic sort in the general population.
This gives the creative minority a really favorable social climate
in which to work. In a sense the phenomena have created a demand for
new ideas—now someone has to come up with them.
I have worked these ideas out in considerable detail and the more
the concept is expanded the more it fits. You know the real problem
in theory construction is timidity. We are all too often reluctant
to move boldly into new domains and thus are unable to come to grips
with intellectually explosive phenomena.9
What I am saying, then, is that the UFO phenomena are forming a
pattern, the heart of which is a structure of being and thinking, or
a philosophy, which can begin now to be put together. The contactee
messages especially gives important clues toward the construction of
this philosophy. These cosmic sermonettes, as Steiger terms them, do
yield a harvest: there is “cosmic wheat” among the “celestial
chaff.”
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