Yes, I know - many people find anything to do with UFO's in the league of the tin-hat society, and there are certainly tin-hat UFO people out there. I myself find the evidence beyond my personal reproach, but understand that it is not truly overwhelming - simply because no one knows exactly what the Others are. Skepticism has also been promoted through the channels of government for purposes of obfuscation, itself highly indicative of something behind-the-scenes, and some find the possibility of 'intelligent others' against their religious beliefs. I don't, but so be it.
However, the interest I have in a book I'm reading, AD, or After Disclosure, is sparked by the speculations made by the authors about how the public would react to a full disclosure of all the classified information on UFO's, with the conclusion that they are here and real. I was taking my son to his first freshman day of college yesterday, and I told him that I came across an interesting point of truth about myself when considering this event (or even something bigger, such as a mass appearance of alien vehicles in the sky): that is, that although I believe they exist and have many theories about them, a full admission or exposition of their existence would probably terrify me. He thought I was full of it, but he admitted, just before we left him in his typically ratty little dorm room, that he had become nervous - that, like the reality of UFO's vs. the abstract, the reality of living away at college was much scarier than the thoughts of it.
And so I believe it would be with most of us should we learn without a doubt that we are being visited. On one level, this fear is easy to fathom - the others would be technologically advanced by definition, and their intentions perhaps not so noble; they could be like Cortes coming to Mexico, and they would have the tech edge, perhaps by a long shot. But beyond this reasonable fear that this revelation would bring, would come something far deeper and more terrifying; the end of reality as we know it. Overall, whatever we have been told or made to believe, we know little to nothing of Reality, of the infinite hedged in by creation and destruction. With the development of science in the last century, we have come to learn that we know much, much less than we once thought. In my opinion, we know so little that the really real is a mere thread in our minds, formed by a very superficial reflection of an objective "outside" through our very limited senses and machines. The rest, the vast 99 percent plus, is made of dross, of imagination and need and hierarchy and power and emotions and desire. Thus it is surprisingly easy to crush one's internal sense of reality; and with that, out goes emotional balance and security. It has happened again and again in recent centuries with European expansion and imperialism. Some cultures, if left largely autonomous, learn to adapt; others break down from within, and nearly all those that are completely dominated and overwhelmed collapse.
Thus, surprisingly, I understand the reticence some of our government agencies have in letting the cat out of the bag. There WOULD be panic and disruption. However, without pressure from the Others, I do believe we would regroup after a while - within a few months to a few years - and recreate the internal scenario we call reality. If we look to individuals who have gone through world-changing experiences, we can see that most come through as long as the experience is overall positive or neutral as far as issues of threat are concerned. These include mystics, hallucinogen takers, and people involved with natural death or new life. But many have also survived the truly horrible (death camps and torture, for instance) and have managed to pull themselves together. In a world where everyone is experiencing the life -changing event, there would always be the strong (whether truly strong or simply unimaginative might make little difference, at least at first) to pull the rest of us through - given the chance.
But I think I know how tough it would be. I have had recurring dreams, not often but often enough, about aliens invading Earth, and I am terrified. If it were the real thing, I would not have the solace of waking up. There would be a terrifying sense of falling off from myself, a kind of induced schizophrenia, which would be difficult to handle. At first. But if the gate-keepers are wise (given that there are gate-keepers, as I think there are) they would disclose now rather than later. If nothing else changes - that is, if the "aliens" do not then suddenly attack or get in our heads somehow - we would adapt. Just how we would and what would change will be the subject of speculation at another time. FK
However, the interest I have in a book I'm reading, AD, or After Disclosure, is sparked by the speculations made by the authors about how the public would react to a full disclosure of all the classified information on UFO's, with the conclusion that they are here and real. I was taking my son to his first freshman day of college yesterday, and I told him that I came across an interesting point of truth about myself when considering this event (or even something bigger, such as a mass appearance of alien vehicles in the sky): that is, that although I believe they exist and have many theories about them, a full admission or exposition of their existence would probably terrify me. He thought I was full of it, but he admitted, just before we left him in his typically ratty little dorm room, that he had become nervous - that, like the reality of UFO's vs. the abstract, the reality of living away at college was much scarier than the thoughts of it.
And so I believe it would be with most of us should we learn without a doubt that we are being visited. On one level, this fear is easy to fathom - the others would be technologically advanced by definition, and their intentions perhaps not so noble; they could be like Cortes coming to Mexico, and they would have the tech edge, perhaps by a long shot. But beyond this reasonable fear that this revelation would bring, would come something far deeper and more terrifying; the end of reality as we know it. Overall, whatever we have been told or made to believe, we know little to nothing of Reality, of the infinite hedged in by creation and destruction. With the development of science in the last century, we have come to learn that we know much, much less than we once thought. In my opinion, we know so little that the really real is a mere thread in our minds, formed by a very superficial reflection of an objective "outside" through our very limited senses and machines. The rest, the vast 99 percent plus, is made of dross, of imagination and need and hierarchy and power and emotions and desire. Thus it is surprisingly easy to crush one's internal sense of reality; and with that, out goes emotional balance and security. It has happened again and again in recent centuries with European expansion and imperialism. Some cultures, if left largely autonomous, learn to adapt; others break down from within, and nearly all those that are completely dominated and overwhelmed collapse.
Thus, surprisingly, I understand the reticence some of our government agencies have in letting the cat out of the bag. There WOULD be panic and disruption. However, without pressure from the Others, I do believe we would regroup after a while - within a few months to a few years - and recreate the internal scenario we call reality. If we look to individuals who have gone through world-changing experiences, we can see that most come through as long as the experience is overall positive or neutral as far as issues of threat are concerned. These include mystics, hallucinogen takers, and people involved with natural death or new life. But many have also survived the truly horrible (death camps and torture, for instance) and have managed to pull themselves together. In a world where everyone is experiencing the life -changing event, there would always be the strong (whether truly strong or simply unimaginative might make little difference, at least at first) to pull the rest of us through - given the chance.
But I think I know how tough it would be. I have had recurring dreams, not often but often enough, about aliens invading Earth, and I am terrified. If it were the real thing, I would not have the solace of waking up. There would be a terrifying sense of falling off from myself, a kind of induced schizophrenia, which would be difficult to handle. At first. But if the gate-keepers are wise (given that there are gate-keepers, as I think there are) they would disclose now rather than later. If nothing else changes - that is, if the "aliens" do not then suddenly attack or get in our heads somehow - we would adapt. Just how we would and what would change will be the subject of speculation at another time. FK
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