PROFESSOR OF RELIGION AT RICE UNIVERSITY WHO WAS TRAINED AT OCCULT ESALEN INSTITUTE: Significant Alien Encounter Is Coming—Similar To The Film ARRIVAL — And Yes, It Is Going To Change Our Spirituality Forever

• PROFESSOR OF RELIGION AT RICE UNIVERSITY WHO WAS TRAINED AT OCCULT ESALEN INSTITUTE: Significant Alien Encounter Is Coming—Similar To The Film ARRIVAL — And Yes, It Is Going To Change Our Spirituality Forever
  by SkyWatch Editor, https://www.skywatchtv.com/
  For my own part, I have been thinking and writing about the UFO phenomenon since about 2004. I first struggled with it because I had to: it was simply everywhere in my historical and ethnographic sources with which I was working for a big history of alternative spiritual currents in the California counterculture that I was writing at the time. My own interests definitively began there, at the Esalen Institute [New Age / Occult alternative science institute]… in historical fact, human witnesses are often radically transformed by their encounters, often in extremely positive, if also difficult ways. Such encounters, for example, can be of a deeply spiritual nature, by which I do not mean “good” or “nice.” People experience awe, fear, uncanniness and absolute terror; the Harvard psychiatrist John Mack rightly called this “ontological shock.” They experience, either within the event itself or later develop, new astonishing abilities — think telepathy and, yes, precognition. And they adopt new, much more cosmic worldviews… I would like to conclude by suggesting that the most sophisticated piece of technology on the planet to detect nonhuman or superhuman presences is not a quantum computer or an advanced military radar system. It is the super-evolved human body, brain and being. I would also like to suggest that the human being has been detecting strange humanoid presences in the sky and the environment not for a few years or a few decades, but for millennia. All we have to do is open our proverbial eyes and look. All we have to do is put away our hammer and look carefully at our histories, our literatures and, most of all, our religions. On this new big humanist and historical canvas, what we are encountering in the sky and seeing from the ground today will take on fundamentally new meanings and future possibilities… (READ MORE)

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