As we approach the Aquarian Age, more and more mysterious phenomena
grip the public's attention. Probably none has generated as much
controversy as the rash of UFO sightings beginning in the 1940's.
In fact, many supposedly New Age phenomena have been associated
with or attributed to UFO activity, including crop circles, psychic
messages, cattle mutilations, aircraft disappearances, and even
extra-terrestrial abductions.
Although most Americans, according to polls, believe in UFO visitors,
there is no objective, scientific evidence of an extraterrestrial
presence on this planet. The vast majority of alleged "sightings"
can be explained by considering appearance, trajectory, and general
dynamic and luminescent behavior. Reflections of the sun's rays
from airplanes, weather balloons and various meteorological phenomena
account for most reports.
But what of the hundreds of global reports by apparently sane
people who claim to have UFO abduction experiences? The popular
movie "Fire In The Sky" and the book Abduction, by respected
Harvard professor John E. Mack, M.D., epitomize the cry to be
believed by some people who report anomalous, supernormal experiences.
In a certain percentage of these cases there is undoubtedly a
strong psychological factor. A small number of reports are made
by individuals prone to fantasize. Dr. Carl Jung attributed most
sightings to deep unconscious forces within the witness-unresolved
conflicts. He reminded us that just a few centuries ago in Europe
many people reported being assaulted or carried away by fairies,
and certain Indian cultures have drug-induced hallucinations in
their rituals which also feature contact with superior beings.
But what about the majority of investigated claims of alien contact?
What are the points in common?
Actually, the stories contain strikingly similar details. Abductees
report being summoned at night to a window or door where they
were escorted by strange creatures. They report feeling powerless
to resist, and although they communicate telepathically with their
abductors, their questions or pleas are ignored by unfeeling beings
who conduct experiments on them. When the individuals awake, they
generally recall nothing but suffer from "lost time, depression,
and trauma."
And what other factors do these people have in common? Some report
they have a heightened level of awareness, of sensitivity; others
describe the activation of psychic impressions; and most claim
they fear a loss of control as a result of the experience. Many
describe it as "dream-like but more than a dream."
You will note that the salient characteristics of the experience
are hypnotic or trance-like induction, forced participation in
experiments that are often sexual in nature, and a total lack
of compassion or understanding. In most cases, where an individual
other than the victim was at home and awake during a reported
abduction, there was no awareness of the victim being physically
absent. It seems to this author that, while we can only hypothesize
at this juncture, what we are dealing with here is actually a
supernatural or spiritual phenomenon. The typical other-worldly
nature of the experience suggests the true location of these quasi
events to be on a nonphysical plane, and not on an airship constructed
of matter. The invasive manipulation of intelligent, self-determined
creatures such as man can never be the work of a beneficent, evolved
race of beings.
As more and more people are being born who are sensitive to the
changing etheric conditions of this planet, many are, frequently
unbeknownst to themselves, living on the threshold to the spiritual
dimensions. It behooves us to keep in mind that just as there
are many more weeds on earth than flowers, so on the other side
there may be more nefarious entities than there are benign ones.
Or, at the very least, they may be more intrusive and meddlesome.
The Cosmo informs us that our benefactors are extra-terrestrial
in origin, but they do not traverse the vast distances in physical
space craft. To find balance in the coming Age we need to focus
our attention on our spiritual values: discrimination, felicity,
goodwill and always compassion. This is how we become invincible
to the sinister forces at work about us. But lest any should fall
through weakness, remember that we have an Advocate in Christ
Jesus and in His ministers the Invisible Helpers, who never refuse
a plea for help.
— Rick Manoff
— Rays from the Rose Cross Magazine, March/April, 1996
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