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Beware of Aliens bearing gifts!

In one of my favourite TV series of the 1980’s, ‘V’, humanoid alien visitors arrive on earth to ask for our help. In return, their leader, John, promises to share the benefits of their advanced technology with humanity. The ‘Visitors’ are predatory reptilian creatures disguised as humans. The Visitors are scheming to plunder Earth’s resources while salivating over using humanity as a food source. In one scene, the resistance movement takes over a public event at the Los Angeles Medical Centre where the alien leader is about to announce a cure for cancer. The resistance seize control of the medical centre. The resistance leader, Julie Parrish, rips John’s mask off to reveal his true reptilian nature and says defiantly:

 “The visitors are not our friends…they’ve come to rape our planet and kills us…they are not who they appear to be…’’ she says defiantly to the astonished guests.

While ‘V’ was a ripping good yarn, the underlying premise was interesting. Usually, for evil to succeed, it masks itself or comes disguised as something good and beneficial. I had a similar experience at a party many years ago. After talking with a stranger, he looked at me intensely. The kind of hypnotic stare that snakes give while they slowly circle their prey. Nervously, while making small talk, I said: 

“I want to travel…go back to India…see a few other places I haven’t been’’.

He moved slowly closer to me and without blinking responded.

“Sounds great…you’ll need a big income to fund your dreams’’.

Looking at me with a reptilian stare, he paused and added…Have you heard of `the plan?’

Feeling I was unable to escape, he talked about “sharing the plan” with me. I’ve had previous ‘close encounters’ with people who wanted to share “the plan” and the dream of “financial freedom”. This was another introduction to multi-level- marketing (or MLM) or Pyramid schemes. MLM schemes make money by recruiting people into the ‘business’. People who rise to the top of the pyramid benefit financially from the people at the bottom who buy motivational resources. As a friend said to me “Same old story…they sell the dream of financial freedom through money”. I had a close friend who was ‘seduced’ by the allure of a well-known MLM scheme.

After a robust or strongly worded discussion with the friend who had become ‘possessed’, he stated to my disbelief that you could not fail. Financial freedom is guaranteed if you apply the principles and methods of the “business”. If you work hard enough, you will reap the rewards of financial freedom. If you don’t achieve financial freedom, then it’s your fault. In a cruel twist, the apprentice is blamed if they don’t succeed. The plan is a form of technology that enslaves the willing participant. And plays upon our dreams or desires for a better life. The lie has a power of it’s own. It’s a spiritual force that beguiles or seduces people who want to believe there is a guaranteed formula to make money. Fortunately, the host interrupted the conversation. I had an excuse to leave before he could get his fangs into me.

First contact and a few jokes to break the ice.

If Aliens possess the technology to travel over vast distances of the galaxy, then why don’t they have a highly sophisticated sense of humour! None of the reported close encounters with aliens are funny or even mildly amusing. Aliens, in fiction or stories of close encounters, are usually depicted as highly intelligent or evolved. Humour, according to research, is an indicator of high intelligence.

You would think that a technologically advanced alien race would be very witty. Intellectually, we are like ‘small children’ compared to our more advanced space travellers. Surely it wouldn’t take too much to make us laugh. For a species that are obviously superior and advanced, a few self-deprecatory comments would really build some rapport. I mean, making fun of yourself, is one of the easiest ways of building rapport and putting people at ease.

Some unwanted advice or ‘mansplaining’ to our alien friends.

If my dentist or Doctor can crack a few lame jokes, surely it’s not too much to ask our Alien visitors for a few jokes while they’re abducting people for further study. If Aliens were serious about making a connection with earthlings, then a few jokes or witty comments wouldn’t go astray. At least on earth, we usually offer someone an alcoholic drink or a hot beverage as social lubricant or ice breaker when getting to know people. And another thing. Many abductees tell horrifying or really scary stories of aliens taking skin tissue or organ samples. I really don’t get it? What do they do want with all the human tissue samples? Are they trying to build a human being out of spare parts? How about some empathy? On earth, we don’t kidnap people against their will, strap them to a table and examine, poke and prod them with needles and suction devices. We have consent laws on this planet!

Outer space or closer to home?

Not all the researchers of UFO phenomena believe view that a race of technologically advanced beings have been making visits to our planet. Bucking the conventional explanation, French astronomer, Dr Jacque Vallee put forward the ‘multidimensional visitation hypothesis’. Dr Vallee theorized that extraterrestrials were not visitors from outer space but spirit-like beings from other dimensions beyond our time and space. Like ghosts, visit undetected while co-existing with humanity. Nonetheless, explanations in the realm of the ‘paranormal’ are usually dismissed or excluded as a possibility.

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft

After many frustrated and unsuccessful attempts to communicate telepathically with alien beings, I became resigned to living on planet Earth. Maybe it was a way of channelling my emerging adolescent energy into something bigger than my own day to day concerns. While I was too scared to talk to members of the opposite sex, I was not afraid of making a close encounter of the third kind with alien beings. This was less intimidating…even in the face of scary testimonials of abductees being experimented on, taken aboard a flying saucer and being subject to strange and unusual medical examinations.  Nothing compared to the sheer terror of trying to make small talk with a member of the opposite sex…who…may as well have been aliens as they were a complete mystery to me. After reading some disturbing accounts of close encounters, perhaps, I was lucky not to have my wishes fulfilled.  

The lure of occult mysteries

mystic woman with candles and divination cards
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There was a natural progression and overlap with the occult as I sought to uncover the hidden mysteries of the universe. Like many searchers, I put these ideas on a pedestal to worship, admire and organise my life around. After many unsuccessful attempts to communicate telepathically with aliens, I moved deeper into investigating occult practices. The occult held out or had the promise and potential of exercising more personal power to effect change in the circumstances of my life.  The promise of more personal power or self-efficacy is the same the catalyst that motivates me to embrace the entrepreneurs journey.

Next blog post: A prophecy in ‘Babylon’.

The Alien conspiracy begins

What if, at a certain point in our development, we stop being human and start to resemble the hideous monsters from our darkest dreams and cease to resemble anything remotely human?

The benevolent or “Christ-like” alien figure of film has a darker side. Not all aliens are like the naïve and adorable Alien “ET” from the early 1980s Steven Spielberg film of the same name. Many of them, as depicted in movies and books, are nasty, mean, and downright unpleasant. Like the irritating friend who abruptly declares, “I’m a vegan,” while you’re grilling steaks for the family barbecue. Hollywood stoked the public’s fear and anxiety toward extraterrestrial visitors through movies with overt and covert plots by aliens to invade, plunder, or conquer Earth. Adding to the public angst, are the stories of people claiming to have been abducted by curious alien visitors.

Close encounters of the third kind and a free colonoscopy!

Imagine the excitement, at the possibility of first contact with alien beings. You then discover, to your horror, that your new alien friends want to extract samples of your skin, probe you with sharp needles, and give you a free involuntary colonoscopy. Maybe authors of science fiction are bringing us back to earth. As a child, I wanted to believe that extra terrestrials might be our human counterparts at a higher evolutionary stage of development. Perhaps aliens, both in fiction and in reports of first contact, embody the darkest aspects of human nature. What if, at a certain point in our development, we stop being human and start to resemble the hideous monsters from our darkest dreams and cease to resemble anything remotely human?

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The Martians invade Earth.

The Martian invaders in H.G. Wells, “War of the Worlds” had huge eyes and tentacles, much like giant octopuses or squids. In the novel, the narrator describes how he was gripped by `ungovernable terror’ as he `…stood petrified and staring’ as he caught his first glimpse of the Martian ascending from the cylinder. In the narrator’s words, as he was ` …overcome with disgust and dread’, he paints an unflattering portrait of the Martian invaders.  

“Two large dark-coloured eyes were regarding me steadfastly… There was a mouth under the eyes, the lipless brim of which quivered and panted, and dropped saliva… A lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder, another swayed in the air. Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of its appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles…”

Art work by Henrique Alvim Correa in the public domain.

There is something `otherworldly’ about octopus and squids that inspires the imaginations of scriptwriters and authors. Tentacled aliens have also appeared in Dr. Who, Green Slime, and Invaders from Mars. Some representations of extraterrestrials, such as the alien visitor in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” resemble preschool Play-Doh with puny arms and legs. Not exactly a danger to anyone! These guys don’t go to the gym much to “work out.”

The muscular fightback begins.

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In stark contrast to the puny aliens featured in movies was an ad campaign by the Italian American bodybuilder, Charles Atlas. Atlas (or Angelo Siciliano) was a sickly Italian immigrant who became fit through bodybuilding in the early to mid-twentieth century. Atlas is credited for helping to transform the lives of many, particularly young men, through bodybuilding and fitness in the United States.

Atlas promoted a program called `Dynamic Tension’ for bodybuilding. The ad featured a cartoon strip that told the story of the main character, a skinny guy named Mac. Walking along the beach with his girlfriend, a buff, muscular young bully insulted Mac and kicked sand in his face. Mac decides to embrace a weight-lifting program sponsored by Charles Atlas. After transforming his body through weight training, Mac punches the bully and wins the respect of his girlfriend.

As a higher-evolved species, the Aliens probably wised up. Gym memberships are expensive and time-consuming. Why spend hours in the gym when you can incinerate some uppity earth person with a high-intensity laser weapon? On a slightly more cautious note, if Extraterrestrial beings do exist, I really hope there not highly sensitive or easily offended. If they are, I want to offer a public apology on behalf of my fellow citizens of planet Earth. I hope you don’t any of my negative comments personally….you know about resembling octopus…being puny…and other ill-informed words. In earth terms, I’m `less evolved’ and hardly representative of the human race. In fact…I’m thought as ` a bit thick’ to use an Australian colloquial expression ‘between the ears’.

Follow up post: Beware of Aliens bearing gifts.