A Scientific Fiction: A Distorted View of the UFO Phenomena

The most pervasive propaganda has always been fiction that is packaged as truth. However, before people accuse me of hating Science Fiction,  let me make it clear that I own not only enjoy Science Fiction, but I’ve written Science Fiction and studied it as a literary form at the post graduate level for several years.

The power behind the literary genre of Science Fiction is its ability to fire our imaginations.   Science Fiction is far more than the simple entertainment form. Science Fiction is a modern mythology;  it is our culture’s way of explaining the unknown.  It is accepted  as a form of speculative truth because it has done such a good job in one limited area, predicting technology.  For instance, long before there were nuclear submarines, Jules Verne wrote about such machines.

When it comes to unknown phenomena such as ufos and other unexplainable paranormal events, Science Fiction is the template through which  most people see these events.   For example, when a person encounters a nonhuman entity nowadays they more often immediately jump to the conclusion that the creature comes from outer space.  Likewise, when modern aircraft and pilots encounter aerial objects that defy physics,  most assume a view that these are spacecraft from another planet.

The danger in using Science Fiction as a mythos to form your opinion about the unknown is that it is for the most part very limiting. Ironically, most people would see Science Fiction as exploring possibilities.  In practical reality, most people know Science Fiction via popular TV shows and movies which always gravitate towards conventional spacecraft and a universe filled with intelligent biological aliens.  With the growth of the UFO phenomena then, popular culture has “taught” people that these objects and creatures “must”  be aliens flying around in spacecraft.

Science Fiction developed in the 1800s about the same time people began interpreting strange objects seen in the sky as craft.  However, people have been seeing strange things in the sky prior to science fiction. In times past, prior to the so-called “enlightenment” of the industrial age and its mass media, most people  understood the unknown via religious traditions developed over thousands of years.

When I mention that UFOs may have far more connection to the historical understanding of fallen Angels and the study of demonology than they do spacecraft, some often laugh and dismiss that as an arcane pre-industrial view.  However, they refuse to see how their imagination and their acceptance of science fiction from popular media is causing them to jump to enormous conclusions about these unknown craft and creatures.

Refer to this quote from my article “The Various Sides of ET Deception:”

It is important to remember that some of the most respected, secular UFO researchers note these beings and their craft are “paraphysical” and “hyperdimensional.” . . . These beings are spiritual and yet are capable of entering our reality in a physical way. In a modern understanding, they can transcend into and beyond our reality into other dimensions that are unknown to us. It is entirely possible they can assume a physical appearance with the same ease you and I put on a costume. Refer to J. Allen Hyneck (Edge of Reality, 1975, 12-13); Jacques Vallee (Dimensions, 1988, 143-144); John Mack (Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, 1994, 404-405)

Science Fiction generally portrays extraterrestrials in two primary ways:  as benevolent saviors or as hostile aliens.   These simplistic viewpoints  ignore one major fact:  if these beings exist and are as powerful as they seem,  they are perfectly capable of understanding popular fiction and using it to their own ends.  It is no accident that legitimate UFO sightings by reliable witnesses contain shapes of aerial objects that are pulled right from the pages of our own popular Science Fiction;  these beings are using our own fiction as a method of representing themselves.

As these beings manifest more and more in our world, avoid the temptation to simplistically classify them via a popular culture we’ve been spoon fed so carefully via mass media.   Consider that very informed ancient cultures understood far more about this phenomena than we do in our mass media-driven haze.

Look Upon the Serpent? And be Supernaturally Healed?

Don’t fear – this is not some article about fringe people in the backwater handling snakes as part of some sort of pseudo-Christian ceremony :).  However, in the Bible there is a mysterious event involving serpents that occurred while the ancient Jewish people were wandering in the desert.  If we understand the meaning of the event, it provides a great revelation of what supernatural healing really means.

The event begins in Numbers 21 with the people complaining and turning away from God.  A highly unusual rash of venomous snakes came into the camp, and many people died.  These snakes were so poisonous that anyone who was bitten died; there were no exceptions.  The people came to Moses, and Moses went to God for a solution.  God’s unusual solution was:

The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived. - Numbers 21:8-9

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. – John 3:14, 15

Isaiah 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

The Longing

The modern world has done its best to try to deny the existence of God.  In the western world, the Judeo-Christian ethic has been largely marginalized.  Yet despite this a longing remains for many people, who are discovering that no amount of money, drugs, or momentary pleasure can satisfy a desire for something more- a greater reality beyond this all-too-short life.

With the God of the Bible no longer acceptable, the longing is pushing many towards a worship of the alien: a belief that benovelent, helpful otherwordly creatures with superior technology will pull humans out of the pit they have dug for themselves.

UFO religions are well documented, and are only increasing with time.  The most recent of these religious movements is guised in the “exopolitic movement,” whose goal is to “out” the existence of a so-called benevolent extraterrestrial intelligences.  The goal is not objective and scientific, but is the harbinger of a spiritual movement for “earth transformation.”

In my opinion (and I welcome dissenting views), while these UFO religions will indeed result in spiritual experiences, they will not produce the legitimate peace that only God through Christ can provide. The reason is that this expolitic religion is tied in with an age-old practice of worship of non-human intelligences who are absolutely deceptive and opposed to God.   Wrapped in a costume of light, these entities can only duplicate fleeting emotion and spectral titillation , but cannot duplicate the eternal salvation and lasting internal peace available through faith in Christ, God’s only son who died and resurrected for all who choose to accept his free gift.

Sides of the North – A Path Above the Highest Dimension

Modern physics points to the reality of other dimensional existences, and this demonstrates that what we flippantly call the spirit world exists not as an unreal ‘ghostly’ realm, but a series of very real dimensions – some more real than the subatomic – electromagnetic dance of the “material world.”.  

The Bible challenges the superstitious belief of a purely ethereal spirit world by setting up a heirarchy of realms. For example there is Sheol (the abode of the dead), the Earth, Heaven, and the very highest- the throne and mountain of God.

The the Bible speaks of the Sides of the North as being a holy realm, which is above all and something our physical mind cannot understand – a completely transcendent place.   It is far more than a mountain; in fact the great mountains of the earth are only limited “models” or facsimiles to Zion, like the way a simple paper airplane “models” a greater reality of a super-jumbo airliner.

Psalm 48:1-2
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised In the city of our God, In His holy mountain.

Beautiful in elevation, The joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion [on] the sides of the north, The city of the great King.

The archangel who rebelled against God pledged in his pride to ascend to this realm: 

Isaiah 14:12-15
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!

For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north;

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’

Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.

Instead of the dimension above all dimesions, God casts this being into the lowest abode.

The Bible has much to say about the landscape of the complex hierarchy of the multidimensional realm that is unseen to us, yet affects nearly everything on this earth, from personal lives to geopolitical realities. Above all this reality is God, who sent his son to redeem us lowly humans from being continual victims of the forces of darkness and of death itself.

UFOs in Art? – A Deceptive Imitation of the Sacred

One of the most repeated fallacies in Ufology is that UFO shapes appeared in the European sacred art of the middle ages and renaissance. Some claim that people saw UFOs in those times and then interpreted them in their sacred art. Unfortunately some otherwise well-informed researchers hold this incorrect view. Such views show a fundamental misunderstanding of the common symbols common in European art.

Italian Art Historian Diego Cuoghi took this fallacy head on in his exhaustive article.  Guoghi identified the shapes misidentified as UFOs as standard artistic elements with a commonly understood meaning by artists and patrons alike. In many cases, such as the aerial circular shapes in art, these elements are so common as to be incorporated as part of the cupola in cathedrals.   

It is true the sacred shapes in art do bear a strong resemblance to shapes seen in the sky. It is to the point UFOs are even replicating such universally recognized sacred shapes such as the cross.  This demonstrates a clear trend of the unexplained UFOs manifestation that often use traditional shapes regarded as sacred by Christians to manifest. This deceptive multi-dimensional theater of the sacred was demonstrated in Fatima, Portugal in 1917.  Three children were visited by a small framed humanoid apparition claiming to be the Virgin Mary. This being promised to send a sign. Word spread across the war ravaged region and over 70,000 people assembled in the Fatima town center to witness a flying disc fly from the direction of the sun, zigzag in a classic UFO manner, and send multicolored lights that were felt as a drying heat. (refer to Heavenly Lights: The Apparitions of Fatima and the UFO Phenomenon by Joaquim Fernandes , Fina D’Armada).

Sowing seeds of confusion is the M.O. of the fallen angelic realm, whose purpose is to undermine belief in the one and true God. This is part of a path of deception to dilute belief in God by using the spiritual symbols.