Posthuman Blues

Ghostly Grays (Nick Redfern)

If the natural state of existence of this intelligence is in the form of a "not completely understood" ball of light, and if they possess perhaps even high-intellect rather than just a rudimentary degree of self-awareness, is it not possible that they might deliberately and consciously affect the human temporal-lobe area to induce alien abduction-style accounts as a means of trying to have some form of one-to-one communication with us in a fashion that we can at least begin to understand? If so, perhaps they are picking up on our cultural beliefs concerning aliens and are manifesting - albeit purely inwardly to the participant - in the guise that we expect them to: namely that of the big-eyed, large-headed alien.

Nick's thinking on this aspect of the close encounter mystery is refreshingly astute, offering nothing less than a neurological paradigm for understanding perceived contact with nonhumans.





Here's an excerpt from a 2004 Posthuman Blues post expounding similar ideas:

I have this vague theory that human consciousness is being somehow altered by the proliferation of wireless technology. UFOs might be part of it; perceived aliens might be another aspect. Remember that the modern UFO era began shortly after the widespread use of radar. If we inhabit a "superspectrum" of co-existing terrestrial intelligences, as suggested by John Keel, then our EM leakage may have disturbed the pecking order. (When "aliens" warn us of the dangers of nuclear weapons they may be quite sincerely concerned, although for purely selfish reasons.)

Meanwhile, we're busily -- heedlessly -- wrapping our planet in a veritable fog of EM pollution. Cellphone towers, for example. How much do we really know about the long-term effects of cellphone transmissions? In any case, it's probably too late; we're marinated in a flickering stew of pointless dialogue. (Victorian factory workers obliviously breathing lungfuls of soot . . .)

We could be hastening a new ecology -- call it the "electrosphere," although surely someone's beaten me to the term -- that interacts with the conventional biosphere in potentially strange -- even psychedelic -- ways. Albert Budden ("UFOs: Psychic Close Encounters -- The Electromagnetic Indictment") has made similar cautionary remarks . . . and seems to have been carefully ignored.