Posthuman Blues

One thread that's difficult to entirely ignore while researching "cryptoterrestrials" is the large body of encounters with nonhuman beings reported by children. It's as if young people are more receptive to phenomena adults, oddly enough, fail to notice. It's as tempting to speculate an actual neurophysiological basis for this discrepancy as it is to ascribe all childhood encounters to overactive imagination.

If children are, in fact, more prone to seeing the inexplicable (a trend that encompasses the Fatima "miracle"), two immediate options come to mind:

1.) Children possess some form of psychical sensitivity that atrophies in later life.

2.) Children aren't "psychic," but simply more receptive to strange phenomena because they've been spared much of the conditioning associated with adulthood. It follows that even an intelligent and open-minded adult, having learned to perceive the world in a narrowly focused sense, could experience an encounter with nonhumans and not necessarily recognize it as anything exceptionally weird.

Have you had any puzzling or remarkable childhood experiences that seem incompatible with how you "know" the world functions?