"The Truth" about UFOs as written by Joseph Firmage (part 1)


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Quotes from the above, in this post, are indented.

My purpose in posting this is not to prove the
veracity of UFO phenomena as extraterrestrial,
or paranormal in nature.  It is, mainly, to
promote discussion amongst people interested
in these subjects.

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The relation to metaphysics and astrology is
shown in much of this material, and one example
is in the statement about "equations of emotion
and thought," and how "...they manipulate the
medium of the Cosmos."

           As cosmologies have developed and
           matured, only to be replaced by yet
           others, one common theme emerged again
           and again - the recognition that all
           things, living and nonliving, constituted
           an interactive and interdependent tapestry
           of existence in which each thread was but
           part of a greater whole. Out of this recognition
           one can discern a metaphysics in which man and
           Cosmos are seen as inextricably intertwined,
           interconnected by a ubiquitous, all-pervasive
           cosmic flow of energy that undergirds, and is
           manifest in, all phenomena...

...

           ...the mystical concepts of truth and love simply
           must be actual and real fundamental principles of
           the Cosmos that will ultimately be understood in
           terms of an expanded concept of physics. I believe
           you will one day see something akin to equations
           of emotion and thought, and understand how they
           manipulate the medium of the Cosmos.

           [...]

           ...I ...propose that science reunite 
           with spirituality. I believe there are 
           greater reasons than just good sense
           to do this. I believe that this is not the first time
           beings have asked and answered this question 
           in this way.

           [...]

           The Physicist and the Mystic

           "The achievements of modern science seem to contradict
           religion and undermine faith. But for a growing number
           of scientists, the same discoveries offer support for
           spirituality and hints of the very nature of God."

           -- Sharon Begley, Newsweek, July 1998

           [...]

           [There is a] hypothesis that great world religions
           have - as billions of faithful believe - been fostered
           by more highly evolved beings, attempting to "groom" a
           relationship with a younger species of life called
           humanity? If a million years from now we chose 
           to groom,
           say, a more sophisticated descendent of the species
           chimpanzee into a more mature form of life, would we
           not employ similar types of educational processes to
           impress systems of belief?

           [...]

           If you were the proprietor of a nursery school called
           human civilization on a planet called Earth, would you
           not employ great teachers and teachings to guide a
           primitive and promising species to this 
           crucial knowledge?  Would such humans not 
           naturally create great religions and
           churches to enshrine and pass down such 
           guidance to their descendants, however imperfectly?

           And could you allow your students to 
           advance beyond their
           nursery without clear demonstration of 
           this wisdom learned?

           Teachers have taught us

           through the ages.

           They are watching us now...

           [...]

           The History

           The term "saucer" was used to describe an
           unusual sky object on January 24, 1878. The
           Denison Daily News in Denison, Texas reported
           that local farmer John Martin watched a round,
           dark object that looked like a "saucer" moving
           high in the sky "at a wonderful speed."

           Sixty-nine years later on June 24, 1947, an
           Idaho salesman named Kenneth Arnold would
           use the same word to describe strange
           crescent-shaped objects moving in the sky.
           Arnold was flying his small airplane over
           the Cascade Mountains in Washington state,
           approaching Mt. Rainier around 3 PM from
           the west. At 9,200 feet over Mineral,
           Washington, "a tremendously bright flash
           lit up the surface of my aircraft," Arnold
           later wrote in his book The Coming of the
           Saucers � 1952. "I observed ... a formation
           of very bright objects coming from the vicinity
           of Mt. Baker flying very close to the mountain
           tops and traveling at tremendous speed. ...I
           watched as these objects rapidly neared the snow
           border of Mt. Rainier..."

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