The
Spirits of the Goetia are portions of the human brain.
Aleister
Crowley
We conventionally call ‘psycho-creatures’ all those intelligences that,
following a certain esoteric
terminology, distinguish themselves as:
·
Divinities
·
Egregors
·
Guardians, angels and angelicity
·
Demons
·
Energized thought forms and subtle creatures (or extra-dimensional beings that manifest in
the same manner)
·
Disincarnate presences and helpers
·
Planetary spirits, elementals and those of
nature
·
Larvae and ‘shells’ or phantoms.
All these entities make up a complex multi-dimensional and
spiritual ecosystem, as well as the energy food
chain in which we are immersed and participate regardless of whether we are
aware of it or not.
In general terms we can say that each one of these:
·
Originates from a human aspect or from a personal a/o collective human
projection
·
Represents more or less active and intelligent ‘information’
·
Superimposes itself or
presides over an energetic/physical field, influencing its dynamics at various
levels
·
Nourishes itself on vital
a/o psychic a/o spiritual energy
·
Can enter into communication with the human being for different reasons and in
different ways
·
Its manifestation can determine itself or be determined with great
holographic versatility, influenced by the thought and suggestions that are
applied to it.
Every psycho-creature contains and manages forces of a lower level,
directing events in order to safeguard the territory
from which it receives the energetic nourishment used for its own maintenance
and development. The most complex entities ‘know’ how to cultivate their own
resources by creating a suitable spiritual and subtle habitat, more or less in symbiosis with the human being and its
evolution. The entities of a lower level often create a parasitic relationship with
the energies or Form with which they enter into contact.
The human being is part of this spiritual eco-system and, as a bridge-Form, should be its evolved interpreter in relation to the material
world.
If we are living in an eco-system, it is normal that beings from
many other dimensions enter into contact with us or even make ‘use’ of us. According
to esoteric tradition, extra a/o multi-dimensional Forms exist and continuously
interact with us even though we do not realize it.
Perhaps in a previous phase of evolutionary human immaturity these
entities – of different orders and degree – might have eventually constituted a
scale of values towards the Real and Consciousness. Today, however, the
psychic, astral, subtle or divine planes, as we often call them, are populated
by entities that have absolved themselves of their function and now cloud and
distance the human being from his essence and the reality of things, be they
devils, spirits, angels or ‘God’.
The time is right. We need to proceed with a change in
consciousness, to purify, liberate and acknowledge that which lies in each one
of us: our most profound Essence.
Incidentally, from this point of view ufological phenomenon and
contactism can be considered part of a much wider scenario of the esoteric
sciences or of those disciplines that study the link between our inner and
outer worlds. There is no real demarcation between our consciousness and the
object perceived by it. In the evaluation of UFO phenomena, extraterrestrials
and aliens, and certainly before we push ourselves to classify races and draw
conclusions as to their ‘agendas’, we have to establish if these entities are
connected to ‘alternative realities’.
The ufologist and classic contactee do not usually concern
themselves with this.
Even less so the abductee[1], with good reason,
if acting on good faith with interpretations of phenomena (because here we are only
talking about interpretations) that insist on terrifying scenarios. They exclude
– perhaps because they do not know – keys to reading that take into account vaster
perspectives. For example the disciplines of trans-humanistic psychology,
esoteric physics, the anthropology of the sacred and in the final analysis,
reality and consciousness.
The UFO phenomenon seems to interact with the collective psyche
and if the collective psyche ‘takes on’ certain forms, it might well take on
those forms that make themselves available. If at a collective level we were to
modify such a paradigm, we could verify if such phenomena assume different connotations
just as physics theorizes on how phenomena behave according to the conditions
of observation.
UFOs – the genuine manifestations – appear when they find the
right psychic contents that will give
shape to them, including solid form.
I know that it seems simplistic to reduce them to manifestations
of consciousness but in the current context it helps if we consider other
mechanisms from a higher level of observation.
For now, though, let’s limit ourselves and begin with the idea
that we are talking about a Form which
is given energy that is part of an aspect
of reality we have yet to discover.
The UFO phenomena represents a window on the beyond and also encourages
us to investigate just how much is alien inside of us or at least to recognize
how tightly we are bound to what we have been taught to believe the world is
all about.
Adopting a dualistic scheme (good-evil), reality assumes those
self-same connotations. The forces of evil perceived as real and hostile and
perhaps also materialized through UFO phenomena, could in reality be entities
generated and nourished by us. They could be an effect of human behaviour that has lasted for millennia and not the
historical cause of our status[2].
The awakening has to begin from inside of us. It is we who lend ourselves to games of illusion,
deceit and pillage. There are many political, social, religious and cultural
realities that tend to perpetuate what is a mechanism of energetic ‘vampirism’.
This is certainly one of the causes of Evil and it has been generated by
Mankind itself. Continuing to perceive reality in terms of a good-evil dualism results
in modifying the structure of what is real. We are capable of creating all the
hells and paradises that we want. If we leave behind the idea of sin, the
devil, the messiah and the enemy or the sheep-shepherd-wolf paradigm and the need
to be continually reassured and saved (concepts of the Judaic-Christian matrix
that have distorted the values of the New
Age itself), the phenomenon would probably change
A metaphysical hypothesis with regard to the UFO phenomenon has
already been explored by Carl G. Jung. In fact the pioneer of psychology often concerned himself
with the UFO phenomenon in his writings and in particular in his celebrated
essay A Modern Myth: the things
that one sees in the sky, interpreting
them as unconscious psychic representations linked to collectively relevant
events.
After Jung, the scientist Jacques Vallée, who worked as an astronomer and collaborator
with NASA in the 1970’s took up the theme again but was fiercely opposed by the
international ufological community. Its researchers were relentless in their
desire to give the phenomenon – be it physical or psychic – a connotation of an
interference that is somewhat ‘other’ in respect to our reality, preferring to
place it on the physical rather than para-physical
plane.
Nevertheless, in that same
period, psychedelic experiences – the main interest of neuro-physicians, anthropologists,
botanists and a plethora of ‘flower children’ (the
roles often coincided!) - later brought to the attention of a wider public by Carlos
Casteneda[3], seem
to give serious credit to a far from simple interpretation of the question.
We should also not exclude the effect on reality a/o the psyche
provoked by experiments with time and holographic technology, whether they be
of this world or another.
Terence McKenna, in True
Hallucinations, affirms with great optimism that: «… The UFO is a reflection of a future event that
promises humanity’s eventual mastery
over time, space and matter.[…] I am even more convinced that the answer to all
of these mysteries that shake our classic view of the world is to be understood
by looking inside ourselves.[…] The paths of the heart lead to nearby
universes, full of life and benevolent feelings towards humanity. »
I feel it is important not to underestimate the para-physical (and esoteric[4]) interpretation
of a phenomenon, that is certainly and undeniably becoming more ‘frequent’, in the
search for the key to its manifestation.
The universe is a product of our consciousness and a projection of
our senses: we are at one with the Absolute which, for some reason, presents
itself in the form of different frequencies of energy and consciousness. They
relate to one another and create, in our case, the image that constitutes our
plane of existence and which appears to be three-dimensional and oriented in
uni-directional time.
According to some, we (and our lives) are Maya, illusion, as portrayed in the film ‘Matrix’; according to
others however, doubt cannot be cast upon our existence or at least our form of
existence, which is significant in itself.
Reality could be positioned somewhere in between: we find
ourselves in an illusion (and it is always good to remember that) which is
nevertheless our reality (so we cannot possibly deny it).
All things considered it is better to not be hasty in drawing
conclusions about the UFO phenomenon and the nature of ‘alien’ interference or
even pretend to have definitively understood its nature or intentions (or ‘agenda’).
The origin of such interference is not yet clear and definitive, just as the
nature of the reality that we define as ‘physical’ and ‘material’ is not yet clear,
especially when related to the dynamics of our psyche. And as William
Shakespeare so aptly says in Hamlet, “There
are more things in heaven and earth Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.”
We ourselves can be said to exist on a certain plane of existence,
which is manifested and projected through dynamics that are not yet completely
decoded. This ‘existing’ is nevertheless confined inside rather limited parameters and our current existence will in all probability result as being fictitious
when compared in a broader sense.
Those wider parameters could relate to our nature which is
likewise much more expansive than we realize and what is currently considered as
supernatural or alien could, on another level, be the natural expression of
reality and ourselves.
Our existence is played out in a sensorial circuit that we need to
control and decrypt in order to give reality a chrism of truthfulness despite
the fact that our senses are vibrating and testing that reality on the same
frequencies. Although our senses give us the sensation of reality in all its
physicality, it is only equivalent to its existential ‘plane’.
We are living at a historical moment in which culture and values
are being re-examined and the same esoteric dimensions are being mixed together
to reformulate a concept of reality: in this sense we are perhaps on the
threshold of great changes.
We will go into the themes inherent in parallel worlds and the ‘separation
of the planes’ in Appendix II. It is increasingly obvious that the certainties of
our global village which have been consolidated up to now, be they material or spiritual, are disintegrating and re-organizing
according to potential schemes that could take off in many different directions[5].
To
describe their form I scatter rhymes no more,
reader, for other expense binds me
so,
that in this I cannot be lavish.
But
read Ezekiel, for he depicts them
as he
saw them come from the cold quarter
with wind,
with cloud, with fire;
Dante Alighieri - Purgatorio Canto XXIX, 97-102
[1] ‘Abductions’ (or close encounters of the
fourth kind, according to the classification of the astrophysicist Allen
Hynek), the presumed
kidnappings of human beings by alien entities, represent one of the most
interesting and controversial aspects of the ufological phenomena. The problem
was brought to the attention of researchers at the beginning of the 1960’s when the American
academic John Fuller published a book The Interrupted Journey on
the now famous experience of the married couple
Barney and Betty Hill. They were placed under regressive hypnosis by the noted Boston psychiatrist
Benjamin Simon and re-evoked a kidnapping episode on the part of small
humanoids who, having led them on board a flying saucer, subjected them to a
series of medical examinations.
[2] We should perhaps ask ourselves if abduction phenomena (with their many
testimonials, memories emerging under
hypnosis and implants) are not in their turn a deceptive cover up
– or the opportunity seized and exploited to a fine art to conceal
experimentation and military strategies which are tragically terrestrial!
[3] See also the accounts of Terence McKenna
and the more recent studies of Luis Eduardo Luna and Graham Hancock regarding
the psycho-active properties of psilocybin and DMT (dimetyltryptamine) in relation to
phenomena of consciousness. I would also like to mention an interesting
observation regarding this by William Braden (the father of Gregg) who, talking
about the ‘drug problem’, in his book ‘The Private Sea: LSD and the Search for
God’ (1967) writes: ‘The real danger of
acid is not that it will damage the brain, or that it will cause young people to drop out of society. We
already live with drugs such as alcohol which produce effects like that. No,
the real danger of acid is that some of its users claim that LSD puts them in
contact with the illusory nature of the material world. The real danger of acid
is that some freak will journey to the centre of things, discover the movie
projector that is producing this illusion, and turn it off!’
[4] Actually Crowley
was amongst the first to experiment with peyote (which he took from Mexico to London) for magic
purposes at the beginning of the last century!
[5] The position of the renowned academic and populariser
Igor Sibaldi is also significant as regards this point – he talks about the
nature of the Angel and Spirit Guides as ‘higher’ aspects of our own nature and
of our trans-human psyche, individually and collectively. This perspective
obliges us to re-examine the concept and practice of mediums (contactism or
channelling if you want to call it that) and consider such phenomena as an
instrument of transpersonal introspection. I will also take this opportunity to
quote the following observation from Sibaldi: “The goal to aim for is a new
dimension of existence in which each person dreams to set foot and finally be
themselves, no longer prisoners of rigid, dangerous everyday schemes, no longer
at the mercy of absurd prejudices and arid ways of thinking that stop them from
being happy”.
