These ‘unseen forces’ appear to live through us, and its language is suited towards wonder and the symbolic. And it is the evolutionary metaphor, that symbol of potential from the inner worlds, that urges us to actualise it into reality. If, as Grof and Wilson suggest, these UFO entities are as ‘in-between’ as they appear, then their often-symbolic content and communications may presage a new relationship towards our own consciousness.
The new existentialism and the UFO are not as far apart from each other as one might think. Alien Dawn, an exploration of the many facets of the phenomenon, advances our deeper understanding into the unusual and powerful forces that urge us to bridge two worlds. Wilson provided the intellectual and spiritual tools necessary to navigate these new territories within the evolutionary mind—both our own and our mysterious visitors from inner-space…
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Endnotes
1.There is also, of course, the ‘nuts-and-bolts’ interpretation that says it is entirely an objective phenomenon—a craft from out of space full of real, living and breathing creatures. Yet, much of the literature suggests that this is not entirely the case.
2.https://isthisanything.org/2014/08/17/pareidolia-in-art-quote-from-leonardo-da-vinci/
3.Values—conveyed by creation, natural or man-made—of course, are different. Love, for example, exists in the world of values, the atmosphere in which our emotional ‘culture’ thrives.
4.The philosopher Alfred
North Whitehead called this ‘causal efficacy’ which Wilson translated into the more understandable ‘meaning perception’. For a full clarification, see Wilson’s Beyond the Outsider (1965).
5.Sceptics declare that there is absolutely no reality to the phenomenon whatsoever; or, for that matter, that it can be explained away as misidentified aircraft, weather balloons, or sightings or secretive military technology undisclosed to the public. None of this can be entirely discounted of course, yet an honest reading of ufological literature raises too many questions—and these reductive answers diminish a complex phenomenon to a simple, comfortable ‘explanation’. The chief difficulty in studies such as this is to sift through the evidence and maintain an unbiased sense of discrimination. Furthermore, there is the uncomfortable problem of temporarily jettisoning firmly-held beliefs, for the phenomenon does not cater for our ordinary understanding of reality, and this, it could be said, argues in favour of the sceptic’s justifiable sense of exasperation.
The sceptic, moreover, hedges his bets: for is it really worth investigating a phenomenon that may turn out to be little more than a giant hoax, or misidentification? This is an entirely sympathetic position, for most of us have lives that are already complex and difficult enough, and to pursue this apparently impossible subject becomes a question of its ‘existential component’: for what, in fact, does one expect to gain? One could even say that it is less about closed-mindedness than a means of preserving intellectual energy and integrity. A necessary type of economical use of one’s time in the face of often exhausting and inconclusive information. If the cultural climate tends to dismiss it as trivial nonsense, it might be enough for one to disregard the subject. Again, this is basically a healthy enough reaction, and one can be sympathetic.
6.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAY1YX1h49E
7.http://www.compilerpress.ca/Competitiveness/Anno/Anno%20Heidegger%20The%20Age%20of%20the%20World%20Picture.htm
8.http://www.ianwatson.info/farewell-colin-wilson/
9.http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1986QJRAS..27...94D
10.https://totalgooch.wordpress.com/bibliography/1981-science-fiction-as-religion-with-christopher-evans-brans-head-books-ltd/full-essay/
11.http://www.ralphmag.org/EB/godboles-song.html
12.https://jordanbpeterson.com/bible-series/
13.In a short series of books by Jeremy Naydler called Technology and the Soul (2010) he examines how logic has been transferred to the domain of the machine—and although human beings still obviously use logic, it is nevertheless radically diminished by this reliance on computers and other devices. Naydler argues that this sort of ‘calculative thinking’ in the Middle Ages was called ratio. In this bestowing on machines our own ability for ratio, we have, he argues, grown a ‘collective ratio’ that has ‘grown far more powerful through its having been, in a certain one-sided way, embodied in machines. And so the influence of the ratio on the whole psychic and spiritual makeup of the human being is far greater today than it has ever been.’ Naydler goes on to warn us that the ‘danger that faces us is that we all become so mesmerized by the brilliance of our computers that we begin to think like them, and forget what it means to think humanly.’ (19)
14.https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/aliens-predictions-the-secret-school-decoding-the-work-ofwhitley-strieber
15.http://disinfo.com/2014/10/pop-magic-grant-morrison/
16.From Colin Wilson’s ‘Whitehead as Existentialist’: https://philosophynow.org/issues/64/Whitehead_As_Existentialist
17.http://www.allaboutheaven.org/observations/9034/221/daumal-rene-a-fundamental-experiment-part-1-011120
18.I first became aware of the idea of ‘creative resonance’ in a 2003 interview with the science-fiction writer, Roberto Quaglia, who describes it as when ‘a metaphoric child is born… which is a new concept which could have operated in a moment or not, or become a new philosophy’: https://youtu.be/29f1ho_Io48?t=44m27s
19.Now it is not my intention to go into any great depth regarding the philosophical and psychological problems––or mysteries––that exist within establishment science, for there are many more qualified critics, often scientists themselves, that have succeeded––in my mind––at unravelling and addressing these self-limiting assumptions. Rupert Sheldrake’s The Science Delusion is perhaps the most formidable book on the subject, whereas a philosophical argument for a different emphasis regarding the spirit of our attention to the natural world has been convincingly argued in EF Schumacher’s book, A Guide for the Perplexed.
20.https://www.counter-currents.com/2015/03/a-sense-of-crisis/
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