Stranger Than Fiction

As humans, our collective image of an alien being has changed throughout the generations of thinkers, writers, and artists. I am currently compiling a book tracking eyewitness accounts throught time, I have had the unique opportunity to speak with many ex-government officials thanks to connections I have through family members. The higher amount of testimonies from people around the world, the clearer the image becomes of what is truly out there. I'll share more information once my work has come together a bit more, but for now I wanted to speak a bit about how the human idea of alien beings in fiction has shifted over time.

When the idea that Earth is one of many billions of planets in our galaxy became cemented in the public consciousness, people began to wonder what other beings could be like, what they looked, acted, and lived like. We cannot travel far beyond our own planet, but our minds have almost limitless potential. Curiously, our near-limitless minds have gravitated towards a few specific images of alien life...

Classically, alien beings have been visualized fairly consistently - short, large bulbous heads, large dark eyes, pale, and thin being some common themes. "Little Green Men" and "Gray Aliens" being the most well-known examples, although there were other similar concepts in this time such as "The Orange". Rumors of these strange creatures traveling to earth and interfering (or influencing) with our politics ran rampant, as well as reports of abductions and experimentations on humans. Technological superiority is another common theme with this "archetype" of alien. Stories of invasion became popular around this time as well.

As time went on, fiction in television, film, and comics became much more prevalent. "Aliens", to us, became much more humanlike, looking very much like we do, with variations in skin color, eye color, hair color, height, ear/nose shape, etc. The general consensus for this change was that it became easier for actors to portray alien characters on-screen. Alien characters in Star Wars, Star Trek and the like were (generally) humaniod, much more humanoid than previously portrayed. Media like Marvel and DC comics portrayed aliens very similarly. Other human traits were passed on to these aliens as well, like societies, economies, religions, histories, etc. Our idea of aliens started becoming more relatable. This idea later became viewed as "stale" or less interesting than the more mysterious ideas of aliens we had in the past. Scientists began predicting alien life being completely different than anything seen on earth, and the psychology of such beings as completely different and unrelatable to human minds.

Later on, the popularization of video games allowed writers and artists to slowly shift away from humanesque aliens. Series like Half Life and Halo painted aliens in a new light, becoming much less humanlike the further the boundries were pushed. Later series like Mass Effect, Dead Space, Destiny, and so on begin to show us more scientifically plausible aliens with their own complexities and characters. Aliens in film became more and more prevelant, showing us increasingly wild designs. This is the era we are in currently.

The important thing to understand is that our fiction isn't simple "cash grabs" by artists trying to make money, our fiction is modern mythology. Sure, stories can be mass-produced, but the ones that do well, do well for a reason. People respond to the things that resonate with them, the more popular the piece of fiction, the more people it must resonate with.

Fiction aside, firsthand encounters and psychedelic experiences all over the world have people returning with vivid, often consistent descriptions of aliens and what they are truly like.

A principle among biology exists called "convergent evolution". Essentially, very different creatures in similar conditions can evolve into almost identical forms. Look into this if you are interested, for example, wolves and tasmanian wolves have developed into a shockingly similar form despite not being related. They even behave in the same way. (The tasmanian wolf is extinct now, but that is just ine example of many). The biological structure of an eye has developed many times in unrelated organisms over the course of Earth's history. Our planet developed life almost as soon as it's wet, temperate climate settled in.

Now this is the part that may sound crazy, but bear with me - after reviewing countless eyewitness acounts, many "psychonaut" psychedelic users, and unnamed government whistleblowers, it appears as if there are hundreds of thousands of worlds similar to our own populated with people similar to us. These "people" generally don't look PRECISELY like us, but damn close. It appears that some populations are much older and so look more similar to "classical aliens", whereas some are younger and have not yet reached a technological stage at all, with very very few of these species having access to interstellar travel.

I've come to this conclusion based on past and present eyewitness reports, as well as information I cannot currently go into detail about. Like I said, when I can organize the data more and reliably protect the people I have spoken to, I can go into more detail. I know that the idea of panspermia is very popular right now, humans being "seeded" on earth by higher beings, and that would explain the excess of humanlike aliens in our galaxy, but it appears that it may very well be simple convergent evolution.

I'll leave you with a quote from the esteemed philosopher Alan Watts:

"...So let's say the tree which grows apples is a tree which apples, using 'apple' as a verb. And a world in which human beings arrive is a world that 'peoples'. And so the existence of people is symptomatic of the kind of universe we live in. Just as spots on somebody's skin is symptomatic of chicken pox. Just as hair on a head is symptomatic of what's going on in the organism. We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe."

Submitted June 16, 2018 at 02:08PM by Martin-The-Human https://ift.tt/2JMHQ4M