Sorry about reading this so late. Went to the beach last weekend and it was a lousy experience so that should count as mitigating circumstances!
it’s always been a wish of mine that I learn the truth about the UFO/ET phenomena before my time on this Earth is over.
Same here, 100%! I've always been fascinated by aliens. I have no idea what's going on with all these so-called revelations. I guess we'll find out.
I'm sure that other civilizations exist out there and I would definitely want to see at least one of them. However, my enthusiasm was a bit tempered after reading The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. I won't spoil it in case you haven't read it, but it does offer an interesting perspective.
Humanity, and all living things, share a common/universal consciousness with these alien beings.
That's huge. What drove me to Jung was his concept of the collective unconscious, which, I hoped, would contain clues to our past, which would include, I think, alien visitations of long ago. The collective unconscious is already astonishing as a concept, imagine a cosmic one....
I know about the evidence of a supposedly increased interest in humanity on the part of aliens after the first nuclear bombs. Yet, I feel we're being childish. For us, as humans, it does look like we've become masters of the universe or something like that, but if you consider a species that might be a million years more advanced, our bombs may seem quite primitive. We keep telling ourselves we're worthy of notice because we have become so powerful and mighty, yet an advanced space-faring civilization could probably snuff us in an instant if they deemed it necessary.
Reaching a higher level of consciousness does seem like something that an alien species would be watching for on Earth. I don't know if they'd even need to visit Earth for that...
I'm sorry you had such a bad experience at the beach! I'm familiar with the book but haven't read it but would like to!
I tend to believe that in the case of those species who are able to escape their home planet and traverse the galaxy, their moral/spiritual evolution would have grow in pace with their technological evolution. If not, there's a very good chance they would destroy themselves before they achieve those accomplishments. If you consider the stage humanity's at now it's plausible. We're up against quite a bit of challenges that are a result of our own decisions-- a biological/nuclear weapons catastrophe, an AI apocalypse, widespread poverty, and environmental collapse (maybe). I can imagine, of the intelligent civilizations that spring up, only a small fraction of them figure out how to solve these problems and move on. It's interesting to look at the statistics since we've begun to record these kinds of things. Although you'd never know it by watching the news since the 1800's humanity is trending towards being less violent, the trouble is the development of our tech is vastly outpacing our species spiritual moral evolution.
Jung is fascinating! I do believe everything in the universe is connected and we've been visited since the beginning of our time here. The stories run deep in ancient indigenous cultures all over the world. It's not out of the realm of possibility that we even originated on another world and were brought here.
I suspect those nuclear blasts here on Earth might effect other alien civilizations in ways we don't yet understand and their increased presence is partially out of their own self-interests. There are numerous stories of craft appearing in areas where there have nearly been accidental nuclear launches and the launch systems have been shut down mysteriously before disaster can strike.
Despite all of our advances I think we're still in our infancy. I think they're watching, letting us make our mistakes to (hopefully) learn from but will intervene if we do anything that poses a threat to them. We have such a long way to go but I think the inner work, meditation, is the key to getting there. Thanks for your comment my friend!
I found out that Jung wrote a book or maybe a smaller study on UFOs. The drawings he used were quite interesting, if authentic. I didn't have time to look for it as I am overwhelmed with stuff I need to read.
Later this week we're going on a long train ride across the country so I'll try to watch the video you linked, so thanks!
I wasn't aware of that! The more I learn about the phenomena the stranger it seems to become. One thing is for sure, we have so much more to learn. You're welcome, I hope you enjoy it. I'd be interested to hear your impressions of it after you watch.