The Visitors

Whitley Strieber’s journal entry for May 6th, 2010 is entitled The Danger of Disclosure and deals with some interesting philosophical and esoteric issues relating to contact with ‘alien’ life forms. For those who have not heard of Strieber, he is an American writer, well known for documenting his experiences of encountering aliens, who he calls ‘the visitors’, most notably in his book Communion.

What is interesting in Strieber’s journal entry is the psychological description of the visitors. He suggests that they are partly evolved beings, and partly engineered. He suggests that a likely feature of the visitors brain is a fourth level, most likely genetically engineered, which he terms a hypercortex, whereas human beings have three levels (not taking into account various suggestions that the solar plexus is a type of ‘brain’ also). The hypercortex, Strieber suggests, allows them to experience reality in a way far different than us human beings; something we can perhaps only glimpse in deep meditation. He writes:

“It gives them vastly more access to reality than we have. It provides them with the power to alter reality on the informational level, meaning that, for them, physics is not a set of laws that cannot be changed, but a tool that is easily amenable to manipulation.”

The problem, as Strieber sees it, is not that the visitors pose a physical danger per se, moreso that most humans will experience a primal, visceral fear as they instinctively sense the superior nature of the visitors’ highly evolved psyche.

This entry is worth reading and reflecting on, not just for the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligences, but for the background concepts of advanced psychological development and control and manipulation of ‘reality’, which essentially would appear as magic to us.

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One response to “The Visitors”

  1. Greetings, Teacher,
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    Frankly, it gives me the “creeps.”
    Thoughtfully,
    Andrea
    Miranda999@sprint.blackberry.net

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