Thread by @TheUfoJoe

1 #ufo - From Keel's OTH: "In his book Passport to Magonia, Dr. Jacques Vallee, a NASA astronomer and computer expert, expert, touches on all this. 'In the Soviet Union, not so long ago, a leading plasma physicist died in strange circumstances,' Dr. Vallee states. 'He was thrown

2 JV: "'under a Moscow subway train by a mentally deranged woman. It is noteworthy that she claimed a ‘voice from space’ had given her orders to kill that particular man - orders she could not resist. Soviet criminologists, I have been reliably informed, are worried by the

3 JV: "increase of such cases in recent years. Madmen rushing through the streets because they think the Martians are after them have always been commonplace. But the current wave of mental imbalance that can be specifically tied to the rise and development of the contactee myth

4 JV: "is an aspect of the UFO problem that must be considered with special care.”

Keel/OTH: "So there seem to be both good and evil forces at work in this type of phenomenon. The good guys latch onto people with particularly receptive minds and turn them into trance mediums.

5 OTH: "The bad guys use the same methods to tamper with the minds of contactees and even to commit murders indirectly. Because incidents of these types can be traced throughout history, it seems probable that these forces have always been extant on this planet.

6 OTH: "When the good guys worked through mediums, they needed some excuse that we would accept. The answer seemed to be 'communication with the dead.' These communicative efforts led to the foundation of spiritualism, and the entities played the role to the hilt, using their

7 OTH: "complete knowledge of us and our individual lives to provide us with 'proof' of the existence of a spirit world. This is the same precise methodology being employed with the UFOs to build up support for the extraterrestrial thesis. We humans need acceptable explanations

8 OTH: "for unnatural phenomena, so 'they' happily—and often humorously - supply us with all the explanations we can handle. At the same time, they give us tiny fragments of the real truth, hoping no doubt that we will be able to digest them slowly. Ever so slowly.

9 OTH: "In earlier times it seems as if they made a complicated attempt to convey the truth to us through mediums and psychics, but we chose to misinterpret these efforts and placed them within the context of our primitive religious beliefs. We are still doing this, and they are

10 OTH: "going along with it bc even misinterpreted communication is better than no communication at all. Religion may not be truth but may merely be a step on the long path of the real truth."

Speculative, but interesting bc of my interest in mediums.

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