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Image taken from Hubble Telescope
For many people, the closest thing they have come to an alien or extraterrestrial is in movies such as Star Wars or Star Trek. There is a notion that going to a foreign planet will be something like going to a foreign country – things will be recognizable but quaintly ‘alien’. However, for a growing number of people, the idea of contact with beings from outer space is a spiritual experience.
Fundamentally, both involve belief. One may ask, “Do you believe in angels?” or “Do you believe in ETs?” Or perhaps “Do you believe in both?” Few believe in neither. Some authors have suggested that angels are a subset of ETs.
ET means simply non-terrestrial. At this point in our consciousness, we are expanding beyond the awareness of just our planet. We have movies about asteroids impacting Earth and alien invasions. They are popular because of the interest in space, not because they were particularly good movies. Seven of the top twenty grossing movies involve ETs – to the degree that movies are a representation of our collective consciousness.
Authors such as Lyssa Royal-Holt and Darryl Anka suggest that what is considered to be an extraterrestrial is a representation of the expansion of human consciousness. The ETs that they are in contact with have expressed that what we consider ‘normal, objective reality’ is but one of many different ways of looking at each of our perceptions of what we consider reality.
In the bestseller Blink, Malcolm Gladwell suggests that several people can evaluate the same situation and come up with different, but equally convincing versions of reality. Reality is a spectrum; the expansion of our reality results in contact with what are known as ETs. Because we consider this expanded reality the world of spirit – the ET realm is under spirituality.
Some people look at the photos from the Hubble Telescope and see evidence of God, others see the marvel of nature - but one thing that everyone agrees on is that the universe is unfathomably large and awe-inspiring.
For more information: See authors in "ET Contact" list and Malcolm Gladwell: www.gladwell.com/.
Comments
Good points and well said.
No it is not a spiritual experience meeting an extraterrestrial biological entity, its a bit of a fright. You do not know what you are talking about and it shows because you go of on tangents by mixing religion and supernatural beings with aliens. You do not speak for me or my beliefs. It also aked me to tell you idiots of this world not to shoot at them. Yours are the dopiests views i have ever heard, but that is understandable considering you are a skeptic and believe in invisible beings with supernatural powers.
I agree that this is NOT a spiritual experience. Those that discuss the 'higher consciousness' of ET contact are blatant liars trying to get attention or sell books. It is the esoteric 'spirituality' faction of the UFO phenomenon that provides fuel for ridicule and derision in the general public.
I do not think of reality as a spectrum but more of a challenge in interpretation. There is a problem in defining or sometimes even acknowledging a situation we have no linguistic ability to describe. Indeed, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis describes problems in describing things alien to the individuals socialized culture. Look it up.
Humans seem to be hard-wired to attribute things they cannot understand to a supreme being or other supernatural entities. If you want to talk about raising human consciousness, talk about that.
"Aliens live in our Earth's atmosphere"
For the first time in human history, I present here incontrovertible evidence of existence of tens of thousands of UFO in the Earth's atmosphere, which can be seen by any person in any part of the world at any time. ..
sites.google.com/site/socialcapital1/Home
The Star Trek answer to Quote Spock, "Each of us... at some time in our lives, turns to someone - a father, a brother, a God... and asks...”Is this all that there is, is there nothing more?"
If we should ever encounter an ET this profound question will be asked and reasked. Especially in te context of compare and contrast. What is their expirience with the question? Does it affirm, or call into question our understanding of the question? What does it mean if the expiriences and understandings don't match?
I don't agree. Incontrovertible evidence of ET life and contact with ET intelligence will certainly have implications for some current spiritual beliefs and religions. And would certainly change some people's view of the Universe. But once we have that evidence it would be a matter a scientific fact and not a matter of faith or belief. Not that the existence of ET life can really be considered a matter of faith even at this stage. There's plenty of evidence which points in that direction and it's perfectly logical to theorize ET life including intelligent life is a likely realty, based on such evidence. That's not a faith based approach. Only journalists seem unable to tell the difference LOL There may be many ways of perceiving the truth and being deluded and confused but I think there is only one ultimate truth.
I agree completly. ET/UFO-exology became *THE* new age religion with about 80% believers [CNN poll 2007], while their mantra is the we-are-not-alone (prayed at least twice a day), they expect salvation, doom (or both) from them, and their high-priests are exologists like Michael Salla, Alfred Webre and Steven Greer. Even a crusade exists (termed conspiracy) and heretism is fighted down to all lenghts. This estimation is supported by the hard fact, everybody can prove easily, when he visits YouTube, enters 'UFO' into the search field, and reads the comments. So only one conclusion is possible: ET/UFO/exology belongs to the human belief-system, like any other religion or scientology, astrology or even perpetua mobile.
Since ordinary humans without a scientific education wants rather to believe than to aquire knowledge, there is absolutly no hope, within the next centuries, somebody would start to conduct scientific in vivo investigations to discover the real nature of (alleged) ETs.
So many people confuse the idea of aliens and angels with a real entity and think that a word is the real thing !
UFOism is the new American religion, still developing its Mythology. Over the years I see the slow emergence of UFO doctrines, theology, and you even see the beginnings of a UFO-Messiah in the form of aliens saving humanity from global warming. The Reptilian antagonist is forming.
In a hundred years we will see UFO churches.
All things old become new.
99.9% of UFOism is " Hey lets fill-in-the-gaps with new age sci fi mumbo jumbo voodoo!"
@killjoy:
We have already big UFO-churches or churches where UFO's play a major role: Let's start with scientology, then we have Heavens-Gate (where the mass suicide took place), then the Raeliens are 100% committed to ufoisms, than, not forget the good old Billy Meier's FIGU - and dozens others.
Beside that, also a very strong exosexual movement seems to be incresingly coupled to the UFO-worshipment movement, as reported by the German UFO-investigator Werner Walter from CENAP.
cenap.alien.de/texte/sex2.htm
PS: The report text is in German but can be easily translated with Google Translate or LiveSearch Translate.
Yep. God's an ET too, in competition with the Annunaki from the Orion Group. ... And when Reagan SAID "Star Wars," he wasn't kidding.
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