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Well I m aware of how late in the day it is and I know some of you must be

double parked so Ill make this as succinct as possible. This mornings discussioncaused me to wonder how much we would understood about electricity if our

method of studying was to stand of the tops of high hills and wait to be struck bylightning. It seems to me thats sort of position that were in vis--vis the UFOs. We

have no real theory. We have conjectures. We have fiercely defended hypotheses butwe have very little that is concrete to go on. Its almost as though the issue of theU.F.O were an onion, and as we peel the layers of the onion we discover that when

we get to the center there is nothing there whatsoever left. It reminds me that if you

cross an onion with a UFO what you get is a flying saucer that brings tears to youreyes, and so what I would like to do is, just based on the notes I took today, to

review what the options available to us are in terms of trying to get some kind ofintellectual handle on this phenomenon, and Ill move through them rather quickly.

One possibility that I suppose is now out of fashion because it wasntmentioned here today, other than what Jacques said about ball lightning and

plasmas, is that the UFOs are somehow natural phenomena, perhaps piezoelectricforces that have an ability to interact with the delicate electro chemical machinery ofthe human nervous system to create an impression of hallucination or visitation or

abduction. Thats one possibility.

The more serious contender, as explanation I think fall into three categories.

Is it us? Are we being visited or is there another candidate in the building that weare unaware of, and my own feeling about this tends to vacillate. I have had contact

experiences. I have seen a UFO very close. I have met with entities from other

dimensions, and it has not impelled me to take a strong position. Ive paid very closeattention when these experiences were happening to me, and there always seems to

be loose ends that argue against whatever hypotheses seems currently mostattractive, and though Jacques didnt mention it today I recall in his bookThe

Invisible College he stressed the absurdity that seems to attend the contact

experience. That if the contactee will truly tell the unvarnished truth then there willbe elements in the story which will make the contactee look like a moron, in other

words, the invalidation of the experience is an inimical part of its structure, almostas though the entities were saying, well you may tell this story if you wish, but if

youll tell it truthfully youll look like a fool. Well theres nothing wrong with being

taken for a fool except that it does peal the phenomenon rather nicely away from thevery sober ladies and gentleman who are making there careers in some branch of

science. They are not interested in investigating the kinky, the anecdotal, the

possibly pathological.

In preparation for this conference I reread Carl Jungs book published in1954 called Flying Saucers A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, and to my mind

no one has really gone beyond Jung. He understood very clearly that saying that

something is a denizen of the psychic realm no way precludes its also havingefficacious force in the physical realm through the phenomenon which he called

synchronicity. Some of the points which Jacques made today about the nature of the


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medical examinations are reported they are absurd, they are unnecessary to be

performed at our level of technology, let alone any future more advanced levels thatwe might be asked to believe in. So if the UFO phenomenon is something that is

coming from us then what is it and what is it for?

Ive given a good deal of thought to this question over the years because I

tend to lean toward the notion that the UFO problem like many subtle problems ishaunted by our own naivet concerning language. If I were to randomly choose, and

dont worry I shant, five of you to come up here and each one of you would have

forty seconds to explain to us what an atom is it would be preposterous. None of usknow. I doubt that theres a person in this room who can give an account of the atom

that tallies with the quote unquote orthodox description of the atom. So there is acurious fuzziness about the most mundane parts of reality when we really attempt

to magnify and understand them in the clear light of consciousness. How much more

ambiguity there is than naturally attended upon examination of any kind ofphenomena which are rare or tend to be fringy. So it isnt a matter of achieving

consensus over the UFO. We cant even achieve consensus on what constitutes adecent souffl. So this passionate desire to drag us all under the umbrella of a singleexplanation is I think missing the point.

To my mind if the UFO phenomena is something arising out of the superego

of the human psychic organization then we should ask why, what is it doing, and I

dont want to sound like a public relations agent for Jacques Vallee, but to my mindwith the exception of Jung, Jacques is the only commentator on the phenomenon

who has really pushed the frontier back. To my mind in The Invisible College when

Vallee says, In looking at the effect, not asking the question what is it, but what doesit do, you very quickly see what the flying saucers are doing. What they are doing is

eroding faith in science. They are an antidote to the scientific paradigm that hasevolved over the past 400 years and which has led us to the brink of global

catastrophe. So the notion being developed here is that within the structure within

the human psyche there is something like a governor, something like a monitoringcircuit, which when a society begins to evolve in a pathological or lethal direction

phenomena can be induced, not by the egos of men and women, not by thereinstitutions, but by the overmind, the collectivity of the human species phenomena

can be induced which are so corrosive to the ideology currently in place that there

underpinnings are cutaway, there validity is called into question, and thereprograms for social development and control are invalidated and destroyed.

Now a perfect example of this is the rise of the infant Christianity. If youllcast your mind back to the situation in the early years of the Christian era and

imagine the mentality of a Roman aristocrat, a person of power in Roman society.There physics is drawn from democritie(?) and adimizzim(?), in other words there

thorough going materialists. There social theory is drawn from Epicitus and Plato.

They are in fact extremely modern people by our own standards, however, amongthe gardeners and kitchen help and stable boys there is news of a momentous event

in the Middle East. A Jewish rabbi has triumphed over death and risen after three


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days in the tomb. Should the master of a Roman household have caught wind of this

kind of superstitious talk among the help, he would have just dismissed it with asneer, what a preposterous idea, and it is a preposterous idea. Nevertheless the fact

that an idea is preposterous has never held it back from making zealous converse,and within a hundred and twenty years after the enunciation of the birth of

Christianity its missionaries were beating on the gates of Rome attempting toconvert the emperor. Now I see a similar situation in the modern context thatrationalism, scientific technology, which began and came out of the scholasticism of

the middle ages and the quite legitimate wish to glorify god through an appreciation

of his natural world, turned into a kind of demonic pact, a kind of descent into theunderworld, a neckea(?) if you will, leading to the present cultural and political

impasse that involves massive stockpiles of atomic weapons, huge propagandizedpopulations cut off from any knowledge of their real histories, male dominated

organizations plying there message of lethal destruction and inevitable historical

advance, and into this situation comes suddenly an anomaly, something whichcannot be explained. I believe that that is the purpose of the UFO, to inject

uncertainty into the male dominated paternalistic rational solar myth under whichwe are suffering.

So I suppose if you had to categorize this point of view you would say Imtaking a depth psychological, psychoanalytic point of view. What Im saying is that

the UFO is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the goddess into history,

saying to science and paternalistically governed and driven organization you havegone far enough. We are going to turn the world upside down. Your science is going

to be shown up for what it is nothing more than a pleasant metaphor usefully

extrapolated into the production of toys for healthy children thats what science isgood for. It is not some metatheory at whose feet every point of view form astrology

to acupressure to channeling need be laid to have the hand of science announcethumbs up or thumbs down.

Now there is another possibility which can be dovetailed into the first it isthat it is not so much the oversoul or the super ego of the human species which is

responsible for stopping scientific masculine paternalism in its tracks,but ratherthat, unbeknownst to self-absorbed and myopic human beings, we have always

shared or at least for a very long period of time have shared this planet with an

other, another intelligent species, another entity which may have been perfectlycontent to allow us to abide in our ignorance of its presence until the point where it

came to its awareness that our style was toxifying, ruining, raping, and perverting

the planet, and at that point this thing springs into action with similar end results asthe previous scenario, the invocation of the superego.

Its astonishing to me that in the forty-five years the UFO are we being visited

question had been kicked around I have never seen in any UFO book or publication

the suggestion made that if we believe are being visited by organic intelligent lifeforms from some other dimension or place in the galaxy then we should very very

thoroughly examine the ecology of this planet for traces of its presence. What


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assurance do we have that the several million life forms that we know to exist on

this planet all evolved here? Do we have any assurance? There are ways to gain thatassurance by doing comparative DNA sequencing and this sort of thing. Some of you

may know my own position, or one of my positions, which is that plants and fungi,containing psychoactive compounds, are extremely viable candidates for

extraterrestrial intruders into the environment of this planet, and this is not to putdown Whitleys(?) story, which is a very interesting story, but had he prefaced hisstory with the comment that before it all happened he took five grams of

mushrooms I doubt he could have sold it to his mother because in the world where

mushrooms and other psychedelic plants are imbibed such stories are commonplace, no big deal. So Im always amused by UFO investigators and compilers of data

who will tell you well the first thing we did was we got rid of all the stories told byanybody who was intoxicated on anything. It seems to me that that move

hasprobably absolutely precluded any possibility of understanding what is going on.

You see culture is something that we wear like cloths. We are very much at

ease with culture. Our mind is very much at ease with culture, and we gather thelanguage of the given culture around us. Culture is the mind unperturbed. When ashaman or an ecstatic visionary and through ordeal or through yogic practice or

breath control or the taking of the psychoactive substance perturbs the mind thenwe see what the mind is naked undressed form the clothing of language and

convention thats why Ive made this point over and over again, there cannot, there

will not be a serious discussion of the origin of UFOs or for that matter of the natureof consciousness itself until we leave the utterly culture bound provincial and hick

like attitude that science has hoisted on us about perturbing the mind. Without the

use of psychedelic substances I think solving the UFO dilemma is going to be asthankless a task as attempting to understand the nature of the universe without

availing yourself with the use of a telescope. It is simply tying our hands behind ourbacks.

Now there is a third possibility which is the one that is the more commonlyentertained notion which is simply that we are being observed by intelligent life

forms that evolved somewhere else in the galaxy. They have quarantined our planetto keep us from being agitated by there presence and they will eventually reveal

themselves. I find this an extremely odious notion, especially the part about how

much chaos there will be if the truth is ever revealed. This is nothing more than thereassertion of masculine paternalism, its right to keep secrets form the rest of us, its

belief that theres a privileged all male class of people that can be let in on whats

really going on, and the rest of us, poor dears, have to be shielded from thesetremendously shocking facts. I discussed this once with an entity and it said to me,

well you know weve disguised ourselves as an extraterrestrial invasion so as to notalarm people with whats really going on.

Were getting close to the end folks. There is a forth possibility, which Imention only in the interest of thoroughness, which is that these entities and there

vehicles are not spacecraft at all that are in some sense time craft and that we


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maybe, the tremendous sense of empathy with these quite physically unusual beings

may arise out of the fact that were looking into the faces of our great greatgreatgrandchildren who may be emanating back through time carrying a message about

some sort of future event or situation that lies many centuries downstream from us,but that is of such import that from that point agents are moving backward, and

possibly forward, through time spreading the news of some kind of mode shift. Thisdoesnt seem to me to be impossible. However, based on my own experience, whichis what I really think this thing comes down to because what we have in the UFO

issue is an official position supported by scientists whether they be Neanderthal

right-wingers or doctrinaire Marxists or whatever a conspiracy of consensus againstthe personal experiences of individual human beings who are told well what your

saying happened to you cant have happened-you are insane, you are mentally ill,you are mistaken.

So what we really have hear is a political issue which do you believe yourperception, memories, and expectations aided by your intellect or some kind of

utterly abstract official doctrinaire sexist philosophy laid on from above. So I thinkreally what the saucers do, if you accept their presence,is they empower us. Theyempower us to see science for the shell game the that it is, to see the past four

hundred years of western culture for the pathetic narrowing of the spectrum ofallowable phenomena that it is to the point where people think that if you cant bang

on something with a hammer it isnt real, which to me is just wile talk. I cant even

imagine where that kind of thing is coming from.

So I think, and Ill just leave you with this final thought that in lieu of the

repression, and it is a repression, throughout this century of legitimately availableways of exploring the modalities of consciousness, and by that I mean psychoactive

compounds. The repression of those compounds and their use by science hascreated a neurotic energy dynamic in the mass psyche, and the mass psyche has

begun to hallucinate because the destiny of human beings is to live in the

imagination in the hands of the goddess, and wherever that thrust is impededpsychopathy will result-there will be neurosis, there will be psychic epidemic, there

will be confusion.

Until we form a resolution to conduct an unfettered and mature exploration

of the human psychology using all the tools available to us that the skies of Earthwill continue to be haunted by flying saucers. They will continue to be haunted by

flying saucers and their denizens because they are symbols of our infantilism, of our

sense of lost, of our incompleteness, and we can heal that breach by simplyrecognizing that the true mystery lies within us. The true mystery is in the mind and

its historical promise is the transformation of our society through the abandonmentof reason as it has been narrowly defined by this extremely solar(?) masculine

paternalistic, materialistic legacy that we are the victims of.

Later, that day


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Well it is late and my voice is fading, but my talk this afternoon was fairly

brief and there were a couple of points I didnt cover. Before I get into that though Iwould like to thank and call attention to the magnificent accomplishment of Elize(?)

Agar(?) and the Omega Foundation. I think Elise and her people have done atremendous job. This is definitely the most glittering new age event that I have ever

had the privilege of attending. I said to someone, does the fact that the backdropsare beginning to look like the Russian revolution mean were making progress? Idont know.

The area that I just want to spend a few minutes on tonight that I didnt touchon this after noon is, what then is to be done? Tolstoys question. Once we reach this

level of admitting the phenomenon, experiencing the phenomenon, trying to talkwith each other about it, what is to be done? How are we to translate the message

coming from the other side into a concrete reality that works for all of us or is that a

good thing?

And my take on this, which is nothing more than my take on it, is that what

we are involved in and with in the UFO phenomena is an extremely poignant andintense effort to end our alienation from the unconscious, that we can no longer

have the luxury of an unconscious portion of the human psyche, that that is anartifact of the childhood of our species, and that in fact the ending of childhood

anticipated brilliantly in Arthur C. Clarks novelChildhoods End, the ending of

childhood is what we are experiencing in relationship to the alien archetype.

As a species we are coming into a kind of pubescent awareness of the

presence of the other our childish historical concerns that were self-directed andself-indulgent no longer satisfy, and a deep kind of yearning has come upon the

species; a yearning for the confirmation of the presence of an other. In the same way

that an adolescent child becomes aware of and develops an extremely intense,highly charged, and ambivalent attitude toward the opposite sex. I think we are

discovering, in our own psychic structure the potential, the possibility of arelationship with an intelligent species outside ourselves, and this raises for us all

the tensions, all the issues that accompany an adolescent love affair.

How are we to eliminate the human unconscious, and come into our

birthright as fully conscious enlightened beings? What is to be done? Again, myopinion is that what we need to do is to concentrate on the phenomenon of

communication and the evolution of language. We have been far to nave about the

role that language has played in the construction of reality at its center, let alone off

on the fringes with the elves and the fairies and the UFOs. We need to test theenvelope of language. We need to perfect the fine idea of being able to communicate

with each other.

At the moment, and I think we proved it at this conference, its nothing morethan a fine idea. I felt that, before I came to this meeting, that we would all sit down

in a room and make great progress in about an hour toward understanding the

phenomenon, and then I discovered that we were all, including myself, heavily


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freighted with linguistic momentum. The power our own metaphors to carry us past

the opportunity to listen to what other people were saying, and so I think that whatwe are dreaming of is a common language, and what the saucers are attempting to

teach is the modality of a linguistic transformation in the direction of a kind ofcommunication that is not dependent on culturally sanctioned dictionaries, but that

is in the bones, in the neurons, in the synapses so that the ambiguity, which attendsall our discussions about reality, will be purged from our worldview. This is theessence of falling of love. One definition of falling in love is nothing more than lifting

the veils of misconception between two entities, and still being able to go forward

toward some kind of union.

So, I really believe that we have moved so far from an awareness of thefeminine portion of our psyche that now the thing dearest to us and closest to us

must present itself in consciousness under the guise of an extraterrestrial or

interdimensional invader. Its a comment on the alienation of our area, and the waythis schism can be breached, the way this psychic wound can be healed and a kind of

species wide individuality emerge is through taking control, conscious control, ofthe evolution of language. This means paying a great deal more attention to what wesay to each other, to linguistic intent. I think that the main legacy of the 1960s into

the 80s was a legacy of language transformed in the direction of feeling.

To me the most shocking part of the male dominance of our worldview is the

paucity in our language of terms that convey emotion. We have 500 words for thecomponents of a steering mechanism. We have 5 words for emotions. Each one of us

is a swim in a concatenation of emotionally subtle wave phenomena that come and

go just below the surface of our awareness, but if any one of us turns to another andasks how are you doing the answer is fine fine, yourself? This is presenting a

tremendous barrier to us to the expression of our wholeness, and Im completelywilling to line up behind Carl Jung on the notion that the UFO is an expression of our

longing for wholeness.

In principio erat Verbum Etverbum caro factum est.In the beginning was

the word, and the word was made flesh, in other words, if you were an actual

extraterrestrial standing off in a space ship looking down on this planet you wouldnot see the strivings of individual species, you would not even see the great classes

of organized organic life. What you would see instead is a gene swarm, a languagefrenzy, the coding of meaning in genes, in words, in architectonic productions, in

poetry. What is happening on this planet is the self-reflecting genesis of

communication for itself. It is language, somehow, that is loose in our species, on ourplanet, within and without the flying saucer.

So communication, which we take astonishingly for granted considering thevery basic kinds of needs that we communicate to each other, is actually the great

frontier of our spiritual becoming. It seems to have passed right by us that wealready poses a form of telepathy, that the miracle of communication involves the

fact the I make small mouth noises, and you instantaneously consult the culturally

sanctioned dictionary, and out of your dictionary you construct a map of my


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linguistic intent, and then through a series of grunts and nods we assure each other

that we know what we mean.

So, in a sense the, I said this afternoon that the UFO was here to confound us,

to confound science, on another level, like the psychedelics, it is here to catalyze afiner evolution of communication to goose us toward a little tighter epistemic and

ontological definition of the business of communicating with each other. If we couldrefine our channels of communication we would coalesce into the kind of

omnipotent extra worldly organisms that we anticipate in our vision of the flying

saucer. So I think really the flying saucer has become the guiding image of our owncultural evolution.

We are going to live in the imagination. This planet is involved in a birthprocess. There is nothing unnatural about what is going on on this planet, and there

is nothing unnatural or inappropriate about us. Its simply that the planet hascarried us to term. We are now ready to leave the womb, and the womb is in danger

of toxemia if we do not leave it. We have passed into a kind of time where the

separation of our species from the planet that gave us birth is a necessity for thesurvival of both parties, and like any birth it is a moment of crisis. It can end in

catastrophe, and perhaps the saucers stand off to perform a necessary cesarean ifthings really turn into chaos. Many contactees report an apocalyptic scenario

involving the saucers taking everybody away in the wake or in theeminence of a

thermal nuclear exchange, however, the mature way, the self-reflected way, thedignified way out of this cultural impasse, out of this global standoff is for us to take

seriously on a personal level the possibility of evolving our communications with

each other so that we actually become the loving family of the goddess, theplanetary organism, that we all feel ahead of us in the future casting an enormous

shadow back over the historical landscape.

Eventually, and when is up to us, it will no longer be a higher dimensional

object throwing a shadow into the flat dimensions of history. It will be instead atranscendental object made manifest. We are in fact on the brink of great changes.

Yes, the UFO phenomenon has been around for hundreds of thousands of years

possibly, but nevertheless it is somehow spun into the fate of our species, and theoverwhelming of self-transcendent flight of return to a mandolic unity that

transcends space and time is the guiding archetype of our peregrination throughhistory. So I believe that the UFO waits at the end of time in the same way that the

individuated personality waits at the end of the ontological development of the

individual, and if we act in good conscience and with great faith in each other we canin fact realize the hope of the Irish prayer which says, May you be alive at the end of

the world.

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