Roswell’s Greatest Gift
Nothing that happens on the Day of the Landing will likely fit our expectations at all. No matter how prepared we may think we are, this singular event might be so soul-shattering that it has echoed down the centuries to disturb the sleep of the prophets. But many of those same seers have described an on-going civil war in the heavens above, an immense cosmic conflict between good and evil since time immemorial. And one that seems to be largely focused on the fate of humanity, at least from our perspective.
Who knows? There seems to have been a lot of crashed saucers. Maybe they were sacrificed to deliberately speed our technological advances along for some reason. Or maybe the aliens are really lousy pilots, or perhaps those ships were shot down by their enemies.
The Lady, supposedly identifying herself as “Our Lady of the Rosary,” asked believers to pray for the conversion of Russia. A countless legion of little old ladies diligently took up their beads, even calling themselves the “Blue Army of Mary.” After several apparently unsuccessful attempts, the pope, (by this time John Paul II), finally completed the powerful magical act of consecrating Russia to the Sacred Heart of Mary in 1984, several reigns later than asked, and Soviet Communism fell soon after.
Many Christian abductees – such as Betty Andreasson – say there are good and bad aliens, and that, reassuringly, the bad will flee at the name of Jesus. Unfortunately, however, I know of no accounts by former agnostics who have tried this, nor of the experiences of people of other faiths. Though it is clear from abductee accounts that there is a broad range of human emotional responses to their captors, it is not even clear how the different groups of reported beings relate to each other.
But in order to deal with these celestial powers, it is absolutely vital that the human race has some idea of who it is dealing with and how advanced the aliens are. If they are beyond comprehension, then they come as omnipotent gods or invincible devils. Whether or not they are, if we even think so, we have little choice. We become either slaves or victims.
We may be eaten, enslaved, bred, or harvested in any case when the Day comes; but opening the paradigm creates possibilities beyond either total submission or hopeless resistance. Pretending ignorance will only keep us as safe as cattle. Somehow we need to find a way to relate to these uninvited guests on a slightly more equitable or at least flexible footing.
This is why the Catholic Church’s thought that there may be fellow “children of God” Out There is important. For it likely is not based entirely on theology, but crash retrievals. There are likely several sources for their knowledge – such as the crashed ship in Magenta, Italy, for instance, supposedly recovered by Mussolini and which Pope Pius XII informed the Americans about, who managed to seize it.
There is also evidence that the head of the Chaplains Corp, Cardinal Francis Spellman, “the American Pope” and friend of the pope, was secretly touring bases in New Mexico at the time of the Roswell Incident. The odd timing and unusual lack of publicity of his visit may indicate that escalating events had already alarmed the military before the crash. But it likely means that the Vatican was informed, as the cardinal doubtless passed the news on to his boss and old buddy, Pius XII.
Perhaps such knowledge will help prevent the ecclesiastical hierarchy from making the kind of mistake Montezuma’s priests did. If the Christian Church extends the blessings of the Gospel to non-humans, hopefully they will apply the Biblical warnings about false prophets and messiahs to them also.
If indeed, extraterrestrials did crash at Roswell, the most significant fact is the simple one of a wrecked ship and bodies in the desert. That in and of itself is our uninvited visitors’ greatest gift to us, far beyond whatever technology could be retrieved from the debris, even beyond the proof that we are not alone in the cosmos.
Ironically, that disaster for the alien crew may prove to be the salvation of the human race. For a crash proves that these aliens, at least, are fallible and mortal. If they are living beings like ourselves, even if “strange flesh” to us, they remain close to our level of existence, no matter how powerful or bizarre they may appear. “Lower” than pure, bodiless spirits, they can make fatal and stupid mistakes just like us. Can they also lie and cheat and sin? Perhaps they need salvation too.
Roswell and other crashes show that the extraterrestrials are vulnerable; if they can die, they can be killed as well. At this singular point in history, as we anxiously watch the skies for the next act in this cosmic drama to begin, it may well be that knowledge of the mighty aliens’ mortality is the only reassurance we puny humans will have in the brave new world After Disclosure.
Yet one major complication in trying to understand all this is the psychic connection. UFOs and ESP have a deep and powerful link of some kind: experiencers are typically plagued by weird and persistent psychic phenomena as a result of their interactions. It is a very common outcome of such events.
The connection is so strong that Raymond Fowler, who had strange spiritual experiences of his own during the investigation, concluded that sighting UFOs have pretty much the same effects psychically as near-death experiences. Both are numinous – they transport the experiencer to the doorway of another existence. But just as the meaning of life is unknown so what these encounters signify is a mystery, too. Just ask Whitley Strieber.
“Apocalypse” comes from a Greek term meaning “unveiling” or “revelation”. Or in another word, “disclosure”. The Apocalypse is therefore more than Armageddon, bigger than the destruction of all things. As the concluding act for this era of planet Earth, it is also the final unveiling of its true purpose, the great revelation of the grand design of God.
That the Earth is a farm run by our extraterrestrial overlords, and that humanity is merely the crop awaiting the harvest, is a thought suggested by Scripture. For it is not only the testimony of abductees that may indicate our coming judgment, for the End of the World is also at the heart of Christian faith. But the psychic connection perhaps indicates that apocalyptic Disclosure could be the beginning of an unimaginably richer life for humanity for the survivors. One with enhanced awareness and ecstatic communion with the cosmos and its inhabitants.
After all, this is how Jesus described it:
“As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire,
so it will be at the end of the age.
The Son of Man will send out his angels,
and they will weed out of his kingdom
everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
They will throw them into the blazing furnace,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
Whoever has ears, let them hear.”[Mark 13:40-43]
Like it or not, Jesus’ use of the harvest metaphor is as easily understood as it is ominous. While it may not seem at all happy an ending to us cynical moderns, it was that hope of the End being the beginning of a far better world that empowered the early Christians to try to convert the black iron prison of the Roman Empire into something more humane. Perhaps we need to think more about the ultimate hope than the rough road ahead to get there.
Yet even so, we should not yearn too much for the Millennial Kingdom Come, nor any sci-fi utopian City of a Thousand Suns floating in space, either. Rather, we should savor this unique period we enjoy on Earth while yet we can.
For our time here now appears to be the sunset of a lovely afternoon when the people of this planet were alone and free; the untroubled heavens far away, delightfully empty, yet full of limitless promise. Such an innocent time cannot last forever, because the reality is probably a lot different. The consensus has always been that humanity’s place in the cosmic hierarchy is rather disappointingly low, after all. And our species has a lot of growing up to do.
In any case, whenever and however it breaks, Disclosure will stand as a signpost for the ages to come. For better and for worse, humanity will be alone no longer. Though we can hope the lies might finally end when this prolonged age of wickedness does, we can at least be confident that the real weirdness will just be getting started.
– jeremiah
