Gods, Devils, and Angels
Prof. David M. Jacobs of Temple University is an academic historian who has become deeply involved in abduction research. He has written several books based on what he has learned from working with abductees under hypnotic regression with conclusions that are anything but comforting.
Over the years, he has discovered a clear progression of events over the decades demonstrating a deliberate long term plan that is now apparently finally coming to fruition. It began with abductions; from the start, the aliens took eggs and sperm from their unwilling captives. Then, years later, they showed some abductees human-alien hybrids of various stages that were supposedly the result of artificial cross-breeding. As time went on, the babies looked and acted ever more human in clearly-defined generations.
Decades later, Jacobs started to hear reports of advanced hybrids clumsily showing up in human society, and he says that hybrids virtually indistinguishable from us are living among us now. The only difference appears to be that the hybrids are telepathic and can control normal humans. Yet he still does not know if they intend to rule over us or simply replace us. His sobering conclusion is that “We have been invaded. It is not an occupation but it is an invasion. At present we can do little or nothing to stop it.”
“It is disturbing that the aliens and hybrids are primarily concerned with the Earth and not with human beings,” he writes. The implication is of a wonderful world for the aliens, hybrids and abductees — but not the rest of the human race who are expendable. Perhaps some of us might be spared as a “small breeding population” for backup human genes.
Many abductees, he says, are being prepared for a future role, even trained to operate equipment. They recount being shown visions of mass destruction, environmental catastrophes, even the destruction of Earth itself. And the aliens suggest that they themselves can avert it, with the breeding program. Is this a lie to encourage cooperation? After “the Change”, they say there will again be peace and contentment brought by the aliens and their abductee helpers taking over the planet; truly a New World Order if ever there was one.
One cannot help but notice the similarity in this to Christian apocalyptic traditions about the Last Judgment and the Second Coming of Christ. Jacobs dismisses it as “the evidence does not warrant this link.” Yet abductees can only regard the upcoming Change in the terms of the Judeo-Christian culture they were raised in. The whole thing sounds like bad science fiction – or some kind of a cult.
Is this apocalyptic scenario a distorted echo of the aliens’ ultimate intention, a deliberate ruse, or merely a projection of the abductees’ own beliefs?
There’s a further spiritual aspect to all this that has largely been ignored even though it may be the most important of all. It’s far easier to wrap one’s head about nuts-and-bolts problems than the larger philosophical and theological ramifications of Non-Human Intelligence. Yet it is not just governments that are admitting Someone From Out There Is Here – the Vatican has, too. And the pope even has his own observatory in Arizona that some people think is watching for them, too.
Advanced, seemingly-magical technology might not be the only reason extraterrestrials were considered as gods according to the “Ancient Aliens” formula. But it’s comforting to think so.
As Rev. Barry H. Downing, a minister who was also a UFO researcher noted, there may be no real difference between the supernatural and the supertechnological. Magic or machines, no big deal.
We want to assume that aliens are really just like us but with fancier toys. That given enough time, humanity too can grow up to be responsible citizens of the galaxy, just like in the beloved propaganda franchise of Star Trek.
Yet this assumes not only that we can but that we will be allowed to do so – that the difference between Us and Them is simply a matter of degree of technological sophistication, not of existential type, such as millions of years of evolution, and that they are not ill-disposed to us.
The problem with this is that even the most nuts-and-bolts UFO encounters are often not only highly weird but persistently associated with highly spiritual energies.
Even I have experienced this, however slightly. I saw my first UFOs on New Year’s of 2015. Over the following year or two, I caught ten or so more inexplicable objects moving in the sky at different times. Nothing very spectacular – mainly white dots behaving oddly in the sky. Yet, one or two even seemed to react to my thoughts. Then all such events eventually ceased as mysteriously as they had started, even though I have never tired of looking until this day.
Interestingly, this was also the most spiritually productive and enlightening period with which I have ever been blessed. Over that year or more, I had numerous amazing epiphanies and insights – often in the dead of night or first thing on awakening. I felt compelled to read the Bible cover-to-cover and grew in ways I never had before. Were the lights to reassure me, did they cause this, or were they just checking in on my progress? Or did the light bulbs going off in my brain manifest them?
Angels, devils, or something else? Could we even tell the difference? Does it matter? Alien, after all, means “strange”, and is a quality closely associated with divinity. As the Bible puts it:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.”[Isaiah 55:8-9]
Encounters with god-like entities are often called “numinous” – a potent spiritual quality combining wonder, awe, and intense fear. An overwhelming state of holy terror similar to panic but involving a strong sense of mystery and helplessness, the numinous experience is the most profound recognition of human frailty in the face of divine omnipotence. It is triggered by incomprehensible differences in scale or power, and above all, the presence of the uncanny and the alien – or the holy.
Most life-changing religious experiences and many UFO encounters are numinous to some degree. But only a very few UFO movies, such as The Day the Earth Stood Still, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Independence Day have been able to even hint at the mind-numbing religious power of lights in the sky. But if the numinous experience occurred on a wide scale after mass sightings, for instance, such a spasm of immensely compelling holy terror could mark the end of the age, all by itself.
This is may be involved in what advocates talk about who warn of “catastrophic Disclosure” when the Arrival happens unannounced some fine morning on live TV just like 9/11 did. Given government’s stultifying paralysis, indecision, and confused messaging, it seems ever more likely that an unplanned chaotic mess is almost certainly how it will all fall out on the Day of the Landing.
Nor is it just the secular establishment that is to blame. The few theologians who have spoken at all about ET have not been very imaginative or thoughtful, concluding that either aliens are creatures much like us or are merely demons in disguise. The Vatican seems to have bet on the first position, even volunteering to baptize their pilots, while Evangelicals have generally taken the second, suggesting the whole UFO thing is a fiendishly sinister and deliberate diabolical delusion. Some of them even think that the Rapture, that is, the sudden “snatching away” of the Church, will be explained away as the greatest UFO abduction of all time.
But yet, that is exactly what it might be. There is even some speculation that the demons will then show up afterwards posing as good aliens to help humanity. The aliens = devils position has also been taken by an alleged reactionary group within the military-industrial complex called the “Collins elite”. First disclosed by conspiracy writer Nick Redfern, it is not known why they are called that, but supposedly they have been one of the main forces blocking Disclosure and any interaction with non-human entities.
But if devils are flying around in saucers, what about angels?
There was one woman who thought the hosts of heaven flew spaceships, too. The late Betty Andreasson Luca from northern Massachusetts was a housewife and mother, a simple God-fearing Christian lady – and a UFO abductee. Her encounters, mainly in the 1970s, were not only with the ubiquitous Grays but their tall, human-looking, blonde masters, whom she called the Elders. She explicitly identified these beings as angels. And at one point, she also had a singularly ecstatic out-of-body yet literally indescribable encounter with a mysterious entity she called “The One” who enigmatically resided beyond a “Great Door”. This being seemed an awful lot like God from what little she could say. Also like God, the One apparently spoke to her with “what sounded like many voices blending into one booming voice”.
Betty seems to have been chosen not just for her solid faith but for her gifts of observation combined with an artistic talent which put her depictions in a higher category than much abductee art. Her case was studied for decades, and one of her encounters was most telling about what was going on.
At the high point of one experience, as recovered by hypnotic regression, her Gray-like abductors gave her a remarkable vision. It was of the life cycle of the Phoenix, a mythical bird that rises from its own ashes. This might have been recognizable to an Alexandrian philosopher from fourth-century Egypt as a symbol of cosmic renewal or even of Christ, but it meant absolutely nothing to a twentieth-century New England housewife.
Recounted by Raymond E. Fowler, her chief investigator, in his first book on the case, The Andreasson Affair, it was given specifically for her benefit. But the way the vision proceeded, it appears that the alien psychopomps (look it up) did not realize that she would not understand and fumbled a bit to get her to do so, which alarmed the investigators. A booming voice asked her, “You have seen, and you have heard. Do you understand?” She did not, so the voice explained, “I have chosen you to show the world.”
She still didn’t get it. To her question, “Are you the Lord God?” the voice ambiguously replied, “I shall show you as your time goes by”. The investigators were puzzled by the sudden, seemingly out of place, religious turn of the conversation. Betty defensively proclaimed her Christian faith to which the voice replied.
"We know child, that you do. That is why you have been chosen. I am sending you back now. Fear not... It is your fear that you draw to your body, that causes you to feel these things. I can release you, but you must release yourself of that fear through my son." (Emphasis in original.)
Those three final words triggered an intensely emotional religious experience for Betty as she relived them. But the whole episode deeply concerned Fowler and the other investigators. They uneasily speculated that the experience might be a “compensatory dream” that Betty generated to make sense out of her experience. Maybe it was one provided by her captors to validate themselves and assure her willing cooperation.
Significantly, Betty thought her strange visitors were angels. It would seem that they deliberately but somewhat clumsily played up to that belief. The loud voice did state it was somebody’s parent (Betty assumed it was of Jesus) therefore implying it was God. Was this part of a grand deception that has been perpetrated on humanity from time immemorial? Or could it be true?
[Note: Quotes from David M. Jacobs, Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions, and The Threat, Simon & Shuster, New York, 1992 and 1998. Raymond E. Fowler, The Andreasson Affair, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1979.]