There is clearly a link between aliens and the occult. Even to the point, where an alien possesses a person’s body and speaks through them.
Also science fiction didn’t occur until the scientific analysis of history, when all the “fairy tales” were abandon. And People started asking - ‘what really happened?’
The current obsession with finding life on other planets is also related to an express desire to negate humanity/earth as anything special or beloved by God. Moderns see it as the final blow against God's existence to find water on Mars or whatever. I feel that's another way the demonic obsession leads the moderns astray -- the aliens are beckoning us out to the margins saying "fix your eyes on us, because if you find us, you'll have proved God doesn't exist and that the whole universe is yours to control."
We started rewatching X Files recently and I was so struck by this. The whole show is “how do we approach Anomalies?” but with a scientific material twist. There be monsters all along the edges. I suppose when they make it into the mainstream is when we really have to pay careful attention.
Exactly. The reason most people think it’s highly unlikely we are the only intelligent life in the universe is because their philosophical assumption about existence of life on earth is based in mathematical probability, not metaphysics.
For most people, their view is grounded in the modern Creation Myth of the Big Bang and Evolution. Both theories view life on earth purely as a mathematical accident, meaning that given enough galaxies, enough planets, enough solar systems, they believe it is “mathematically impossible” the result won’t replicate itself. As is the case with most secular accounts of reality, this view lacks metaphysics.
And we have been seeing the fruits of that for decades. When you convince millions of people that there is absolutely nothing special or significant about their existence the end result is exactly what we see now. Nihilism. Hedonism. Postmodernism. Etc.
Absolutely bleak, as a creation story. I can fully appreciate that now, but I would have taken it for granted not so long ago.
I know you pointed out that you don’t care to analyze the minutiae of UFO stuff, but something else I’ve found interesting is the narrative around alien abduction and encounter. And the common theories about it. It’s extremely self-centered and says a lot more about what we think of ourselves than about possible “alien life.” The tech worship, genderless, horrifically experimenting on people. It’s our own trajectory, the future coming to get us, looking at our own face. Anyway, something I’ve been thinking on, these strange modern myths.
A lot of people have noted (Seraphim Rose in particular) the similarities between accounts of so-called “alien abduction” and encounters with the demonic. It’s not a mistake these two phenomenon are so similar in substance to one another.
Great post.
There is clearly a link between aliens and the occult. Even to the point, where an alien possesses a person’s body and speaks through them.
Also science fiction didn’t occur until the scientific analysis of history, when all the “fairy tales” were abandon. And People started asking - ‘what really happened?’
The current obsession with finding life on other planets is also related to an express desire to negate humanity/earth as anything special or beloved by God. Moderns see it as the final blow against God's existence to find water on Mars or whatever. I feel that's another way the demonic obsession leads the moderns astray -- the aliens are beckoning us out to the margins saying "fix your eyes on us, because if you find us, you'll have proved God doesn't exist and that the whole universe is yours to control."
We started rewatching X Files recently and I was so struck by this. The whole show is “how do we approach Anomalies?” but with a scientific material twist. There be monsters all along the edges. I suppose when they make it into the mainstream is when we really have to pay careful attention.
Great post!
Exactly. The reason most people think it’s highly unlikely we are the only intelligent life in the universe is because their philosophical assumption about existence of life on earth is based in mathematical probability, not metaphysics.
For most people, their view is grounded in the modern Creation Myth of the Big Bang and Evolution. Both theories view life on earth purely as a mathematical accident, meaning that given enough galaxies, enough planets, enough solar systems, they believe it is “mathematically impossible” the result won’t replicate itself. As is the case with most secular accounts of reality, this view lacks metaphysics.
And we have been seeing the fruits of that for decades. When you convince millions of people that there is absolutely nothing special or significant about their existence the end result is exactly what we see now. Nihilism. Hedonism. Postmodernism. Etc.
Absolutely bleak, as a creation story. I can fully appreciate that now, but I would have taken it for granted not so long ago.
I know you pointed out that you don’t care to analyze the minutiae of UFO stuff, but something else I’ve found interesting is the narrative around alien abduction and encounter. And the common theories about it. It’s extremely self-centered and says a lot more about what we think of ourselves than about possible “alien life.” The tech worship, genderless, horrifically experimenting on people. It’s our own trajectory, the future coming to get us, looking at our own face. Anyway, something I’ve been thinking on, these strange modern myths.
A lot of people have noted (Seraphim Rose in particular) the similarities between accounts of so-called “alien abduction” and encounters with the demonic. It’s not a mistake these two phenomenon are so similar in substance to one another.
Wow.