You make some excellent points. What a great post.
...But where does that leave us? This is the question that has been plaguing me, and probably other ufologists for some time now. We can talk about it, build websites, investigate sightings, and write another thousand books, but will we ever be any further ahead? ...the notion persists that somehow we need to prove it to everyone else, as if that would somehow legitimize our efforts. More recently I've taken on the position that we should simply abandon that approach.
Where does that leave us? Just speculating, but one of the consequences of an infiltration of the kind that I speaking about is that our
beliefs about these matters are molded and guided. There may be millions that believe that aliens have visited or are visiting the Earth however there is no unified understanding or scientific
proof capable of creating such an understanding. We might as well be talking about religious beliefs.
Where does that leave us? We start by rejecting the entire popular culture
alien visitation meme. We reject the accepted UFO mythology popularized by modern popular
Ufology or what passes for it.
... If we're the rats in the maze, what are the walls and what are the doors? Are they going to be obvious like the ones used for creatures incapable of abstract thought? Or are they going to be psychological and perceptual, something designed to observe the complex interactions of those who are aware of the truth and those who aren't. Perhaps it goes even deeper than that by producing various paranormal phenomena in order to evoke and observe specific responses. For example which ones in the tribe are going to invoke primitive spirits and gods and which ones are going to ask the deeper questions, like who's behind the invisible two-way mirror?
Some paranormal phenomena could be the unintentional by-products of operating the apparatus behind that two-way mirror. Vallee's social engineering mechanism and Terence McKenna's elf-machinery. It's hard to determine whether it more likely that as Fort said, "The Earth is a Farm" or just a scientific curiosity. I certainly do not think it is a laboratory where aliens or gods (however you want to define them) are altruistically concerned with our inner lives,
spiritual development, or
evolution. I think that is just some really incredible wishful thinking. Nothing about any of this appears to be about ferreting out
those who are aware of the truth or developing humanity in some social experiment of some kind. It appears to be about masking their true activity through the manipulation of our perception and beliefs. Again, I've just been speculating. While I think my
alien infiltration hypothesis makes a great deal of sense I don't necessarily think that is what is actually happening. There are just too many assumptions that have to be made. It seems more likely that all we are experiencing is what can be summed up as
the human condition where no outside influence is necessary to produce what we've come to know and love as the human experience.