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We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us."
- Dr Terence McKenna (1946-2004)
There comes a time when even the most hardened UFO aficionado must accept that a single, narrow paradigm based on the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) is dangerously limited. Just in case there is still anyone out there who does not understand what the ETH implies then please indulge me in this brief explanation. The ETH assumes by rote that any contact with anomalous or non-human entities or sightings of unclassifiable aerial objects must, of necessity, be classified as extraterrestrial in nature. It also assumes that alien spacecraft, if that is what they are, are nuts and bolts machines that have journeyed across the vast, stygian voids of interstellar space to arrive here for whatever reason on our beautiful and humble little planet earth.
It is a view that glosses over the demonstrable fact that in order to travel the distances required, these craft would have to travel at multiples of the speed of light, and that in doing so would experience considerable temporal distortions, in other words experience a degree of time travel. This is not a fantasy; it is proven fact using our own understanding of physics. The usual answer to this is that the ETs use some form of exotic ‘sub-space warp drive’, or ‘hyperdrive’ or some other dubious means of propulsion. As a theory, because of its obvious attractions it has many adherents, but from a practical point of view and at our stage of development it is technically unfeasible if not impossible to attain and that, in very simplistic terms, encapsulates the ETH outlook on the phenomenon.
The other factor that is also quoted and it is the one that, remarkably, links it to its main competitor, ‘The Psychosocial Hypothesis’ (PSH), is the equally esoteric discipline of quantum physics, for it is here in the realms of the infinitesimally small that the impossible becomes possible. This viewpoint will understandably seem heretical and an anathema in some quarters yet quite fair and reasonable in others and it is to the difference that we now turn our consideration. It would be totally unfair to make these judgment calls with nothing to corroborate them, so allow me to set out my stall.
I am old enough to remember the emergence of Adamski and Van Tassel et all from the USA and eccentrics like George King from the UK who inspired the Aetherius Society (which still exists) when they first appeared to the scene and preached to a considerably less well informed and more gullible public than exists now. I also watched them on TV shows during the late 1950’s and the 1960’s as they stated their case and were, in the main, feted for their sheer unpredictability and originality. The one common feature they all advocated was that we as a species are in the thrall of, or at least inferior to, some mysterious external power, sometimes good, sometimes bad and sometimes indifferent, but always immensely more powerful than we are.
The alternative, the PSH, which is in some ways a more reasonable view point compared to the ETH, states (again very briefly) the idea that we are indeed visited by non earthly entities. Conversely, rather than originating in some far off star system they exist, quite literally, only a hairsbreadth away from us, right here and right now coexisting with us unseen on planet Earth. They have been here since the beginning of time and only vary in appearance and role according to the society, culture and era that encounters them.
They form part of what is commonly called ‘the paranormal’ and display many of the strange characteristics associated with the term. These characteristics comprise those displayed by what we have come to term as ghosts, apparitions, revenants, shades, poltergeists or any of the colourful lexicon that has developed around this equally perplexing subject; and this includes the ‘craft’ that they allegedly travel in. Perhaps the most convincing evidence that we do live in a closely aligned multiverse of realities inhabited by non-terrestrial creatures comes from a series of experiments that took place in the village of Diss in Norfolk, England. This lengthy project began in the last decade of the 20th century and culminated in the year 2000; it was called the ‘Scole Experiment’.
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