Why do UFO buffs prefer the ET option to time-traveling or other-universe visitors?
Saturday, July 22, 2017 19:42
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Of course space travelers from other planets have been a societal meme for a long time, brought to fruition by Sci-Fi writers and eventually movies and television, exploding in entertainment media even today, whereas time-traveling and multi-verses remain esoteric.
But there has to be more to it than that.
Two books I just got from Amazon – Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes by Marcel Kuijsten and Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods by David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce – offer the idea that The Other has been in the mind of humans since the dawn of mankind.
Freud, in Moses and Monotheism, captivates readers with his view of the origin of the adopted Hebrew god Jahve (Yahweh, Jehovah), The Other.
ET’s represent, as those who understand the Ancient Alien crowd know, The Other.
The Other is essential to Ancient Astronaut theory.
For much of humankind God represents The Other. For the non or less religious, The Other is anything outside the norm, the perceived reality.
But what is The Other?
It is the concept of “God” (or divinity) that eludes from the bicameral mind. I suggest you read about bicamerality. I know most (all?) of you will not buy the books mentioned above (or any book for that matter) so here are some links and an excerpt from Wikipedia for you:
“According to Jaynes, ancient people in the bicameral state of mind would have experienced the world in a manner that has some similarities to that of a schizophrenic. Rather than making conscious evaluations in novel or unexpected situations, the person would hallucinate a voice or “god” giving admonitory advice or commands and obey without question: one would not be at all conscious of one’s own thought processes per se. Research into “command hallucinations” that often direct the behavior of those labeled schizophrenic, as well as other voice hearers, supports Jaynes’s predictions.”
The idea that the origin of the gods (demons et al.), The Other, derives from early consciousness is a bit too complex for a vade mecum blog, like this one, but if you want to understand why ETs prevail in the mind of most UFO buffs, you have to arm yourself with information that explains the evolution of The Other conceptualization, and you won’t find it online but in books like that by Lewis-Williams and Pearce, cited above.
Inside the Neolithic Mind offers a thorough rendering of how early man arrived at the concept of “the spirit world” and belief in the gods and after-life, without refuge in the Ancient Astronaut nonsense, substantiating the human mental process with excavational proof from such places as Nevali Çori, Göbekli Tepe, ‘Ain Ghazal, Jerico, and Çatalhöyük.
Now, I know that some of you (my pal, Dominick, for instance) might find this topic of mine to be “beside the point” but it isn’t.
The evolution of the human brain and consciousness (or thought) goes to the heart of why many in the UFO community believe in ETs, and why that belief is delusional.
More to come on this, I’m afraid….
RR
http://ufocon.blogspot.com – The UFO Iconoclast(s)
Source: http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2017/07/why-do-ufo-buffs-prefer-et-option-to.html
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