UFOs, Sex and the Gods

‘Deus ex machina’ is a device used in classical Greek plays to ensure that the action progresses to an ending that will satisfy the audience.

Literally, it means ‘ a God from a machine’, and it resulted in a happy outcome through the intervention of the supernatural.

The audience is, of course, pleased, for such a possibility in no way upsets or antagonises the beliefs of the time. On the contrary, confidence in the existence and benevolence of the Gods is reinforced.

In modern times, instead of Deus ex machina, we have close encounters of the third kind. The main difference would seem to be that the humanoids involved are not themselves Gods, but emissaries.

Parallel to such events in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies, there were Men in Black (MIB) cases.

Though now popularly assimilated as the guardians of the planet, originally they were seen as something much more sinister.

MIB encounters vary somewhat, however, they usually involved men dressed in black suits delivering threats to UFO witnesses or researchers, indicating that unless they remained silent, dire consequences would ensue.

No physical violence following these threats has ever been reported by the brave individuals who chose to ignore the warnings.

Such events seem to be primarily attempts by the MIBs to learn what effect their actions precipitated and to what extent they could influence behaviour.

As in close encounters, there are usually logical inconsistencies. The strange appearance and conduct of the MIBs exhibited in many cases often resulted in a general sense of puzzlement.

Theories concerning their origin included military and intelligence organisations which only served to further confuse an already well obfuscated picture.

The fact that the MIB phenomenon no longer occurs woud suggest that it is no longer required, either because the objectives have been achieved, or more sophisticated means can now be employed to elicit the necessary information.

It is a peculiarity of modern civilisation (the Indian subcontinent being one exception) that for most people the idea that there are guiding intelligences known as Gods is simply a myth.

Many ancient cultures believed that there existed deities who were resposible for the destiny of all creatures confined to the physical world.

Of course, monotheism has by and large supplanted such beliefs and perhaps rightly so because it is possible that the Gods are not the final arbiters of our fate and it is therefore inappropriate to worship them.

History has taught us that barbarism went hand in hand with propitiation as with the Aztecs whose extreme religious practices involved human sacrifice and blood being poured into the upturned heads of fierce stone idols representing the deities whose favour they sought.

The relationship between the Gods, reality and humanity is probably not simple and the belief that all events are somehow connected to the will of the Gods is more than likely erroneous.

However, scientific rationalism would have us believe that, unless planned by human intelligence, everything happens by chance and that logical explanations for all occurrences which appear unusually fortuitous or unusually injurious can be arrived at.

In order to exist, we require a foundation on which to build a society where the interconnections both aid our own ambitions and serve the needs of others.

We therefore tend to dismiss the supernatural, possibly because the Gods do not interfere with the ‘automatic’ routine of life and their influence can only be recognised on rare occasions.

Nevertheless, the conspiracy theories which involve a group of Bilderbergers or Illuminati maintaining a decisive and overriding influence on historical events can be seen as a realisation that we cannot explain certain unusual and anomalous happenings without reference to a controlling intelligence.

On June 24th 1947, the UFO phenomenon began with the sighting by American airman Kenneth Arnold of a number of unusual aircraft which he likened to saucers skimming across water. Hence the term ‘flying saucer’.

Since then, the number of reported visual contacts has become too innumerable for estimates to be considered reliable.

Further, the phenomenon developed such that it was necessary to distinguish between sightings at a distance – close encounters of the first kind, the presence of physical evidence – close encounters of the second kind, and the appearance of humanoid forms in or around the UFO – close encounters of the third kind.

The UFO  is not only the concern of hard science, but spans a field which includes psychology, sociology and anthropology.

There are many reports of all sorts of strange close encounters of the third kind which defy rational explanation unless behavioural analysis is considered the main objective.

The idea that the UFO phenomenon is part of a wider control system is not new. However, for a control system to be effective, it has to know its subjects intimately.

For one Brazilian farmer in 1957, this intimacy involved sex with a female humanoid aboard a UFO. Afterwards, she indicated that she would bear his child.

Antonio Villa  Boas’ description of the encounter is both detailed and remarkable, nevertheless, it can be classed with most close contact cases as dreamlike and grotesque and therefore not logically consistent.

There is probably an ulterior motive and the only meaningful alternative is that the intelligence which is ultimately responsible for the control system had a requirement for information on the entire spectrum of human behaviour.

In other words, all aspects of human experience were under scrutiny and this process is most likely to be still ongoing though not in the same form as the contact cases of the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies.

It may be that after the horrors of two world wars an effort was made to gather intelligence in order to exert a more sophisticated level of control given the destructive possibilities inherent in the possession of nuclear weaponry.

More than 60% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, to an average depth of 2 miles (3 kilometres).

Ea was the Babylonian God of the oceans and, in the Greco-Roman tradition, becomes Poseidon/Neptune.

According to Plato, writing in the fourth century BC, Poseidon fathered 10 sons by the mortal woman Cleito. The descendents of those children ruled over the island of Atlantis.

Plato gives a highly detailed account of Atlantis and a source, namely the statesman Solon, who reputedly accessed the archives of ancient Egypt sometime after 600 BC.

This is probably fiction. Indeed, Plato’s pupil Aristotle believed that the Atlantis story was pure invention.

Possibly Plato wished to avoid the same fate as his teacher Socrates who was tried for impiety and corrupting the young. He was found guilty and put to death with a cup of hemlock. Plato may have been playing to his audience.

No credible evidence has ever come to light proving the existence of Atlantis though many theories have been produced citing almost every likely island e.g. Great Britain, the Azores, Santorini, Crete.

Atlantis seems to have no basis in the world we know. It is an ideal, a Utopian vision of what society could be like, and a warning, for Atlantis was destroyed in a cataclysm and sank into the depths of the sea.

If the sea is the realm of the God Poseidon/Neptune then we would expect evidence of ‘machine’ activity and that is exactly what occurs.

USOs or unidentified submarine objects have been observed from land and on ships, most notably in Scandinavian waters and off the east coast of South America.

These objects are the oceanic equivalent of the UFO and exhibit the same ‘impossible’ properties as far as general behaviour is concerned.

They emit light, travel at speeds no human vessel can accomplish and dive to depths no submarine is capable of withstanding.

The oceans are of course central to the climatic conditions present on our planet such that it is probably the responsibility of Poseidon/Neptune to govern the relationship between the sea and its impact on humanity.

The Renaissance and the subsequent rise of scientific rationalism would not have occurred unless the classical world had been revisited. The ancient Greeks were the inspiration that began the journey to modern society.

We do not look back at the Greeks and dismiss their thinking. Instead, we assimilate it according to its relevance to our own experience.

The ancient and persistent belief in the Gods is, however, another matter. We need not posit the supernatural because logic and reason provide the answers we seek.

Or do they? The presence of a large light-emitting cylindrical object some ten metres off the ground in front of our eyes is something else.

It is not a question of turning the clock back and entering the realms of superstition and nonsense. It is simply a recognition that the supernatural exists and we somehow have to come to terms with it.

The Gods were an integral part of the human psyche for thousands of years, yet modern science and the consensual reality we inhabit has consigned them to the dustbin of history.

Ishtar was the Babylonian Goddess of sex and love but also of war, so we cannot exactly equate her with Aphrodite/Venus. What we can surmise is that as human civilisation has spread, so the Gods have evolved such that Ishtar became Aphrodite/Venus.

The possibility arises that the Gods have a complex relationship with humanity which causes them to alter as civilisation progresses.

Now that civilisation is global, it is harder to think of the Gods in the same terms as the Romans or Greeks and it may be that as we have reached a certain level of sophistication, so too have the Gods. However, we have no frame of reference apart from that bequeathed by the ancients.

Charles Fort (1874-1932) felt that we are owned. UFOs trouble the scientific rationalist. Secular humanity no longer believes in the Gods.

And yet, unexplained phenomena continue to challenge our worldview.

There seems to be an intelligence behind the scenes, ordering events and ocasionally shocking us out of our usual mindset.

Some call this intelligence the cosmic joker because of bizarre coincidences which accompany certain happenings. However, the humour is dark as we appear to be the unsuspecting pawns in a game we don’t quite understand.

The hypothesis that the Gods exist in another ‘area’ of reality should be a serious consideration.  UFOs are therefore manifestations of the Gods in the ‘area’ of reality in which we normally exist.

The Gods are regarded by science as pure invention and yet, so much of what has befallen humanity in its history must be ascribed to forces which remain unexplained.

From the flying monk (Saint Joseph of Copertino) and the levitating nun (Saint Teresa of Avila) to poltergeists, apparitions and ecstatic visions.

These are not the actions of a holy intelligence, but of a mischievous trickster who delights in bamboozling a puzzled audience. The Gods are partially like ourselves which is how they are portrayed in the Greco-Roman and other traditions, subject to emotions and frailties yet able to wield superhuman power in order to change outcomes decisively.

Different civilisations give their Gods different names, however, it is possible to identify the similarities in their roles and therefore take tentative steps towards a definitive list of the major Gods and their areas of responsibility.

Sexual chemistry is mysterious. Could it be that Aphrodite/Venus is responsible for maintaining the diversity of the human gene pool and actively causes certain individuals to attract each other according to their DNA characteristics?