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From Angels To Aliens: The Genesis Of A New Religion

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                                From Angels to Aliens: The Genesis of a New Religion




 
by Tim Swartz

Since 1947, when pilot Kenneth Arnold first spotted unidentified flying objects over Washington State and coined the term “flying saucer,” most people have believed that UFOs are spacecraft operated by extraterrestrial visitors to Earth. However, after more than 50 years of investigation and research, no one has managed to offer a satisfactory explanation on the true nature of UFOs.

  In fact, many people who have reported having a UFO encounter say that their lives have been changed by the experience, often in a spiritual sense. Some have supposedly been visited by highly advanced, angelic entities whom they believe are here to save mankind from imminent danger while a few have even been told that they were actually chosen to lead humans to an eventual communion with the benevolent aliens. Although these tales make most ufologists uncomfortable due to their allegedly unscientific nature, these encounters appear to show a deliberate attempt to connect otherworldly entities with spirituality.

  Some people wonder why we do not see miracles today like those referred to in ancient religious writings such as the Bible, which are filled with tales of angelic beings, strange wonders in the skies, and divinely inspired prophets. But these events are actually occurring today on a daily basis throughout the world. Rather than angels from God, spacemen from the Pleiades deliver prophetic messages of doom or salvation to contactees. In fact, the gods and goddesses of old have not disappeared; they have merely traded in their white beards and robes for spacesuits and helmets.
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When UFO contactees in the early 1950s began to describe their alleged encounters with extraterrestrials, their stories seemed too fantastic to believe. Yet the tales of angelic Space Brothers who are here to help guide mankind from its evil ways struck a cord with those who were raised in an atmosphere of scientific materialism. Since science had supposedly proven that God and angels did not exist, here, instead, was the perfect melding of spirituality and science—superior beings from other worlds who were not only advanced technologically but also whose appearance and philosophies seemed more divine than physical.

  Like many who have had encounters with UFOs, early religions usually sprang from just such a visionary experience. For instance, the apostles supposedly saw Jesus resurrected from the grave and ascend into heaven. Subsequent charismatic visions by people such as Saul (Paul) helped inspire the rapid development of early Christianity from a local cult to a worldwide religion.
 
  Similarly, in the seventh century, Islam’s prophet Mohammad was visited by the angel Gabriel who told him that he was Allah’s messenger. Later, Gabriel supposedly led Mohammad to heaven to meet God, and then to Jerusalem to meet Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Like Christianity, Islam grew rapidly from these early mystic experiences.

  New religions grow from the roots of the old, carrying with them various doctrines of belief to ensure their continued existence. This process is propagated by the visionary experiences of prophets and their contacts with divine beings who deliver messages of spiritual teachings and prophecies for the ever-growing faithful. This system occurs rapidly at first but then tapers off to a slower but sustained growth that may take hundreds of years to develop fully. And this is similar to what we are now experiencing with the UFO phenomena.

  It is therefore possible that we may now be experiencing the genesis of a new spiritual system based on the belief of highly advanced, spiritual beings from outer space. Indeed, many UFO cases seem to be more visionary than real and according to many contactees, the ETs seem to be unduly concerned with the spiritual affairs of mankind. If anything, considering their warnings about future catastrophes and the war-like nature of man, many aliens act more like guardian angels than otherworldly astronauts.

  In fact, some aliens are described as being undistinguishable from humans except for their extraordinary beauty and spiritual radiance. On the other hand, the devil and his demons are represented by the short, big-eyed “Greys,” who are believed responsible for an epidemic of abductions—and human experimentation—that has dominated the UFO culture for over 20 years. In fact, the UFO phenomenon appears to be more religious than philosophical. Indeed, religions, like many UFO encounters, distinguish themselves from philosophy by their supernatural experiences.
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Jungian UFOs





Shortly before his death, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung was one of the first to analyze UFO encounters in a symbolic way. In a 1951 letter to an American friend, he wrote,

“I’m puzzled to death about these phenomena, because I haven’t been able yet to make out with sufficient certainty whether the whole thing is a rumor with concomitant singular and mass hallucination, or a downright fact.”

  In 1958, Jung concluded that because of the need for wholeness out of the increasing fragmentation of the modern world, it was more desirable for people to believe that UFOs existed than to believe that they did not. Jung also thought it relevant that the shape of a flying saucer was round, the shape of the ancient Mandala, a spiritual symbol of wholeness.

  Additionally, Jung believed that UFOs were examples of synchronicity, where external events mirror internal psychic states. Jung felt that to modern man, UFOs were modern symbols for the ancient Gods who used to come to man’s assistance in time of need.

  In other words, if one believed in gods, demons, witches, fairies, or flying saucers, some unknown higher intelligence would adopt these roles. When these belief structures became outdated or forgotten, the entities would simply assume a different believable guise, in an attempt either to pacify humanity, so we would not destroy ourselves before maturing spiritually, or as a method for spreading new information and ideas to assist our spiritual growth.

  The key here is that humanity has developed to the point where we may have attained scientific knowledge, but we may still lack the emotional and spiritual development necessary to deal with its consequences properly. What better way to guide an adolescent civilization away from the brink of destruction than to use archetypical religious imagery that resonates at the deepest level of our subconscious?

  Author and paranormal researcher John Keel has often stressed that if belief in extraterrestrials, without verifiable evidence, is left unchecked, there may come a time when a faith in these entities will allow them to interfere openly with our affairs. While Keel may be overly alarmed, his idea that there is a developing “faith” in extraterrestrials may be correct. Whether or not this faith is being inspired by extraterrestrials, supernatural beings who mimic extraterrestrials, or our own unconscious minds, the fact remains that we may now be experiencing a new religion unfolding before us.

  The next several centuries will show whether this new UFO “religion” will be able to sustain itself. Eventually, its disciples may end up being responsible for the scientific developments that will finally propel mankind off the planet and into the universe.

  Imagine the planet as a dandelion blossom. When the time is right, the wind blows the seeds away to find a place of their own to start anew. Perhaps our evolving religious experience—with the assistance of our guiding aliens—represents the wind of the universe seeking to spread spiritually evolved, intelligent life.



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