Disclosure of the 3 forbidden R's
Ufology has, for good reason, been called “the forbidden science.” In fact, well-known author Jacques Vallee wrote a book by that title about the science of Unidentified Flying Objects. For decades now, scientists who venture even into the periphery of UFO studies have become pariahs in the scientific community. Most won’t get near it with a ten-foot pole.
This project was to deal with the three forbidden “Rs” of ufology. Mack’s concept was to write a joint paper for publication, perhaps even a book, dealing with a variety of topics, including the many cases in which individuals report contact with non-human entities with distinctly reptilian features. Such reports have been known to researchers since at least the early 1990s, but few have been anxious to write about them or to speak on the subject publicly.
Religion and UFOs
Additionally, Dr. Mack wanted to discuss the problematic issue of the ancient history of a sentient serpent race that is found in ancient texts, such as the Vedic literature from India and the Sumerian texts from Mesopotamia, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible. I say problematic, because ufologists, in general, struggle to maintain the notion that the UFO mystery began only 50 or so years ago. By maintaining this arbitrary timeline, they are able to profess that the phenomenon is either a scientific study by aliens from nearby star systems, or the early stages of an alien invasion. Those are the only conclusions one can reasonably come to if UFOs are something relatively new. But what kind of study or invasion takes thousands of years? What if these so-called “aliens” have always been here, and ancient writings portray encounters with them? What if the gods of old are the aliens of today?
If this is so, the study of ufology cannot avoid delving into both ancient religions and contemporary ones. This is a terrible dilemma for those wishing to make the study of UFOs an acceptable mainstream science. Debunkers already love to claim that those interested in UFOs are cultists, or that ufology is itself a religion and, therefore, not a science. Now an eminent scientist and UFO researcher was about to state publicly that reptilian beings exist and that they may have been here for thousands of years! That would certainly have rocked the ufology boat and made waves in the scientific community.
Full Story:
http://fatemag.com/issues/2000s/2006-09article1a.html
I had the good fortune to get to know Dr. Mack in 1993 when he spoke at a conference in Arkansas, and then again when we were both speaking in Australia in 1996. We subsequently became good friends. We traveled together to do research in Mexico and communicated frequently by phone and email. He endorsed my book, The God Hypothesis: Extraterrestrial Life and its Implications for Science and Religion, with enthusiasm, even though it dealt with all three of the forbidden “Rs” that he could not pursue at the time. Since I had no scientific reputation to uphold, and could therefore care less what the scientific community thought of me, I found it easy to be blunt and forthright about my conclusions (and those of other researchers who quietly agreed with me) that UFOs are not a new phenomenon and that the Bible and other ancient texts are full of encounters with so-called “aliens.” Truthfully, I don’t know whether they are aliens, angels, demons, or gods. There may not be a good word in our vocabulary to describe these beings, who have had a strange, symbiotic relationship with life on earth for so long.
Privately, John Mack was very interested in the other-dimensional quality of many UFO encounters. He was convinced that many of the experiences reported actually occurred in other realities or dimensions. “If something happens in another reality, is it real?” he once asked me. We agreed that we were not in a good position to make a conclusion on the issue since we had not experienced anything ourselves. But we honored the beliefs of our research subjects in the reality of their experiences, and we knew there was ample physical evidence, such as scars, bruises, needle marks, and implants, that substantiated many of the stories were were told. We finally decided that it would be foolish for scientists to ignore what goes on in other realities. There is just too much for the human race to gain by pursuing the issue of the existence of other dimensions. By denying their existence, we will never discover how to explore them.
There is a long history of humans claiming contact with beings in other dimensions. Anthropologists who study cave art are now coming to the conclusion that many of the images, which in some cases are more than 10,000 years old, are representations of shamanic journeys into other dimensions and encounters with the beings who dwell there. Shamans commune with beings in other realities through various means including hallucinogenic plants, trance dancing and singing, fasting, drumming, and meditation. They return with knowledge that is pertinent to life on earth. Shamanism is associated with the use of plants for medicinal purposes as well as for foretelling future events and other forms of extrasensory perception.
Some of the most ancient texts of all, the clay tablets of the Mesopotamian cultures of Sumer and Babylonia, tell of the beings known as the Annunaki, who came from the heavens more than 200,000 years ago and created the human race. These documents, far older than the Old Testament, contain the story of human origins at the hands of extraterrestrials, the great flood that destroyed most of humanity, and the survivors who are the ancestors of today’s civilization.
All of these facts and many more make it difficult for today’s ufologists to limit the UFO phenomenon to modern times, and asserting that UFOs have nothing to do with religion. In fact, UFOs have everything to do with religion.
To be continued.......
Part II, appearing in the next issue, will deal with reincarnation and the role it plays in the UFO contact phenomenon.
Joe Lewels, Ph.D., is the author of The God Hypothesis: Extraterrestrial Life and Its Implications for Science and Religion. His new book, Rulers of the Earth (Galde Press) will be available in early 2007.
This project was to deal with the three forbidden “Rs” of ufology. Mack’s concept was to write a joint paper for publication, perhaps even a book, dealing with a variety of topics, including the many cases in which individuals report contact with non-human entities with distinctly reptilian features. Such reports have been known to researchers since at least the early 1990s, but few have been anxious to write about them or to speak on the subject publicly.
Religion and UFOs
Additionally, Dr. Mack wanted to discuss the problematic issue of the ancient history of a sentient serpent race that is found in ancient texts, such as the Vedic literature from India and the Sumerian texts from Mesopotamia, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible. I say problematic, because ufologists, in general, struggle to maintain the notion that the UFO mystery began only 50 or so years ago. By maintaining this arbitrary timeline, they are able to profess that the phenomenon is either a scientific study by aliens from nearby star systems, or the early stages of an alien invasion. Those are the only conclusions one can reasonably come to if UFOs are something relatively new. But what kind of study or invasion takes thousands of years? What if these so-called “aliens” have always been here, and ancient writings portray encounters with them? What if the gods of old are the aliens of today?
If this is so, the study of ufology cannot avoid delving into both ancient religions and contemporary ones. This is a terrible dilemma for those wishing to make the study of UFOs an acceptable mainstream science. Debunkers already love to claim that those interested in UFOs are cultists, or that ufology is itself a religion and, therefore, not a science. Now an eminent scientist and UFO researcher was about to state publicly that reptilian beings exist and that they may have been here for thousands of years! That would certainly have rocked the ufology boat and made waves in the scientific community.
Full Story:
http://fatemag.com/issues/2000s/2006-09article1a.html
I had the good fortune to get to know Dr. Mack in 1993 when he spoke at a conference in Arkansas, and then again when we were both speaking in Australia in 1996. We subsequently became good friends. We traveled together to do research in Mexico and communicated frequently by phone and email. He endorsed my book, The God Hypothesis: Extraterrestrial Life and its Implications for Science and Religion, with enthusiasm, even though it dealt with all three of the forbidden “Rs” that he could not pursue at the time. Since I had no scientific reputation to uphold, and could therefore care less what the scientific community thought of me, I found it easy to be blunt and forthright about my conclusions (and those of other researchers who quietly agreed with me) that UFOs are not a new phenomenon and that the Bible and other ancient texts are full of encounters with so-called “aliens.” Truthfully, I don’t know whether they are aliens, angels, demons, or gods. There may not be a good word in our vocabulary to describe these beings, who have had a strange, symbiotic relationship with life on earth for so long.
Privately, John Mack was very interested in the other-dimensional quality of many UFO encounters. He was convinced that many of the experiences reported actually occurred in other realities or dimensions. “If something happens in another reality, is it real?” he once asked me. We agreed that we were not in a good position to make a conclusion on the issue since we had not experienced anything ourselves. But we honored the beliefs of our research subjects in the reality of their experiences, and we knew there was ample physical evidence, such as scars, bruises, needle marks, and implants, that substantiated many of the stories were were told. We finally decided that it would be foolish for scientists to ignore what goes on in other realities. There is just too much for the human race to gain by pursuing the issue of the existence of other dimensions. By denying their existence, we will never discover how to explore them.
There is a long history of humans claiming contact with beings in other dimensions. Anthropologists who study cave art are now coming to the conclusion that many of the images, which in some cases are more than 10,000 years old, are representations of shamanic journeys into other dimensions and encounters with the beings who dwell there. Shamans commune with beings in other realities through various means including hallucinogenic plants, trance dancing and singing, fasting, drumming, and meditation. They return with knowledge that is pertinent to life on earth. Shamanism is associated with the use of plants for medicinal purposes as well as for foretelling future events and other forms of extrasensory perception.
Some of the most ancient texts of all, the clay tablets of the Mesopotamian cultures of Sumer and Babylonia, tell of the beings known as the Annunaki, who came from the heavens more than 200,000 years ago and created the human race. These documents, far older than the Old Testament, contain the story of human origins at the hands of extraterrestrials, the great flood that destroyed most of humanity, and the survivors who are the ancestors of today’s civilization.
All of these facts and many more make it difficult for today’s ufologists to limit the UFO phenomenon to modern times, and asserting that UFOs have nothing to do with religion. In fact, UFOs have everything to do with religion.
To be continued.......
Part II, appearing in the next issue, will deal with reincarnation and the role it plays in the UFO contact phenomenon.
Joe Lewels, Ph.D., is the author of The God Hypothesis: Extraterrestrial Life and Its Implications for Science and Religion. His new book, Rulers of the Earth (Galde Press) will be available in early 2007.
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