I was thinking more about that “Silurian Hypothesis” direction – how could we look for evidence? Also, what if we assume that at least some percentage of those “alien encounters” are genuine reports. It has to be caused by something. If it’s not the aliens, what is it?
So, we’re assuming an ancient, Saurian civilization that managed to survive the K-T event because they burrowed into the mountains – hiding from predators, growing some kind of mushrooms as food, or even mining for minerals. Let’s say this survival made them appreciate underground life even more and this became a thing for them. Let’s say they became very good at carving into rock.
Also, let’s say they had 65 million years to evolve biologically and develop technology. This is a huge period of time. If we assume literally any kind of advancement over such a long period, they would be extremely advanced. We are literally nothing to them.
Also, if we assume that the “alien abduction” stories are true, and also those stories about weird events and disappearances around Mt. Shasta and similar places are true, they treat humans the same way we treat cockroaches – as a pest that needs to be controlled, and with casual cruelty. This part is most concerning, because we seem to be dealing with the concept of a technologically very advanced civilization that has absolutely no empathy, or compassion, or soul of any kind. They are, in essence, a super-powerful nightmare, and this is the point where I started thinking that maybe we don’t actually want to be looking for evidence, because if we assume it’s true, the most likely way to make them react is to go actively looking for them and interfering with their business, because we wouldn’t like the way they would react. It would not be first contact, it would be pest control. It would be gardener pouring molten metal into an ant colony, where we are the ants.
Then it occurred to me that we might be accidentally doing things that would annoy them – mining, fracking, detonating nukes underground and so on. It might even be something completely innocent that we can’t even imagine being a problem; for instance, let’s say such a civilization uses some kind of biotechnology based on mycelia and fungi in general, and we do something that disrupts that. They would see this as someone cutting their undersea fibre-optic cables and disrupting their Internet. If our existence is contingent upon not annoying them enough for them to do something about it, and we don’t know what could possibly annoy them, we are essentially in an unmarked minefield. It’s not a pleasant thought.
But the assumption is that they are behind the UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena). They are inspecting our nuclear weapons and energy installations. If something is either interesting or threatening to them, they will simply go and take a look. One would think that nuclear energy would be threatening to them, and maybe it is, but maybe it’s just something that’s interesting because they hadn’t thought of it. Maybe they are using geothermal energy or something completely different, and they never thought of nuclear. Or maybe they find nuclear use interesting for some other reason we couldn’t even think of – some kind of religion based on U235 as a holy sacrament of the Earth. I’m making stuff up here. In any case, the idea that we’re going to accidentally fuck around and find out is unlikely if we assume there will be warnings in form of increased UFO activity and interference with that specific thing we’re doing.
The problem is, if we assume those beings exist, the only consistent way to interpret their nature and actions leads to terrifying conclusions. Those are not highly spiritually evolved beings. They seem to have all the empathy of a crocodile eating a zebra alive. There’s nothing we would identify as positive emotions, or a soul – just cold, casual cruelty. They are just things with technology, and they treat everything else as things. Essentially, they are the ultimate achievement of atheism and materialism – extreme technological and intellectual advancement, but no soul, no empathy, no deep emotions, no connection with God. Those are not beings you want to contact, be contacted by or stumble upon by accident. Ideally, you don’t want to know they exist. I started by thinking how one might look for evidence to prove such a theory, but very soon I realized that this is absolutely not something I would want to be involved with. It’s a terrible godless evil; an intelligence with great power but of a cold, terrifying and deadly nature. If any of those stories about “alien” abductions, experimentations etc. are true, literally everything about them is worse than death, and power-wise, they are to us what we are to the animals in a national park, or fish we catch and release for sport.
I regret even thinking about it, now that I explored the corollaries. That’s why I prefer thinking that all the “alien abduction” stories are not physically real. The corollaries are exceedingly unpleasant.
I have just been thinking a little about some of my own experiences and whether contacts with “aliens” might perhaps be placed within a certain category of “events.”
There are occasional dreams that are not ordinary dreams but rather contacts with astral beings. The impression left by such an event is not the same as the impression left by a normal dream.
Sleepwalking also exists as a phenomenon. So I thought that, based on some rare experiences of my own, perhaps alien-contact experiences could be placed within those kinds of events.
A moment ago, I called the acquaintance with whom I commute because I wanted to gently ask him, along those lines, how he had experienced everything and whether it might have been that type of event.
Since I had forgotten some of the details since the time he first told me his story, details that now intrigued me, I asked whether he remembered how old he had been and exactly where it had happened—in which house and in which city.
The whole thing becomes somewhat more disturbing when you hear the details. He remembers an enormous number of them: his room in Zagreb, where he was studying at the time; the light coming through a specific window in that specific room; everything that happened along the way; the operating room; the beings… He reels it all off as though it were nothing.
He experiences flashbacks of the details when he recalls them, and he does not want to remember them. His sister had experienced something similar before he did, although, as far as he told me, in her case it involved only light coming through the window, and it happened in another city, where they were both born.
He has now also told me that, a few days ago, when he mentioned how he and his wife had seen their young son standing on the sofa and staring through the window, completely transfixed by something, he was suddenly struck by terror. That lasted until they realized that the boy was looking through the window at the neighbouring building, where a neighbour had bought such an enormous television that they could read the subtitles from their own apartment.
In any case, this is a troubling matter, with far too many details that are simultaneously connected to real physical objects—the room in Zagreb, the window, and his departure from there.
Sorry, I am not particularly drawn to this subject, but it is what it is.
A few years ago, I told the story to my friend from Split and asked the man I commute with whether he wanted to meet him. He did not, because he did not want to go through those memories again.
But just a little while ago, he gave me such an extraordinary sequence of details that it was completely abnormal compared with the way he normally talks about everyday events. So I think he was actually seeing it all again before his eyes as he spoke.
I think we can classify it as "evils of this world".
I agree.