These are really excellent points, especially about our anthropomorphic conjectures, mostly technological fascination with possible alien races, and our ignorance of the necessity of SPIRITUAL advancement (I love the chimpanzee example ;) ). It's so shocking to me how almost unnoticed goes the intimate relationship between rationality and spirituality—how less egoic identification leads to clearer thinking, etc. This gets at the heart of possible communication with alien species as well. I remember listening to a podcast years ago about a man's father who was obsessed with alien communication, devoting his entire life to the project of researching its possibility and sending messages into space. This son (who was telling the story) mentioned off-handedly that his father was also a "devout" atheist, who scorned the existence of God. What a world we live in! We look for aliens in interstellar space but deny the intimate experience of the divine. Also, isn't it possible that an advanced civilization (the kind that could create such technology) would have moved beyond written and spoken language altogether? What if they send us messages all the time, in the form of spiritual and creative insights that move humanity forward? I am not saying this is the case, just that it takes a special kind of close-mindedness to assume that we would only be able to communicate with aliens on a purely "rational" level.
Yes, indeed, well put. We are obsessed with discovering everything outside of us and know almost nothing about what is in us. The idea that we might, one day, move beyond written and spoken language ourselves, rarely dawns upon us. There are spheres that go well beyond the symbolic mind. I would also add that aliens might even have moved beyond physical appearances. Already in modern science, with the detection of the so-called ‘dark matter’, we know that there must be some forms of matter/energy or whatever ‘stuff’ out there of which we aren’t aware with our ordinary perceptions. Those UFOs might not be material appearances but some sort of ‘holographic projections’ from a ‘subtle physical’ dimension (that would explain how they seem not to be subjected to friction and can travel through water at high speeds.) This is, of course, only my wild speculation, but would be perfectly in line with our scientific knowledge (yet, as far as I’m aware, nobody ever thought of this eventuality.) We must learn to think beyond our ordinary word, language, rational and physical human logic.
PS: Inspired by your reply I amended this in the post.
I hadn't even thought of having gone beyond physical appearance, but that would make sense! Perhaps we will see more UAPs and other strange evidence as we spiritually and intellectually attune ourselves to other dimensions? Of course, this is speculation. But the mainstream is speculating plenty, just not with enough creativity :)
These are really excellent points, especially about our anthropomorphic conjectures, mostly technological fascination with possible alien races, and our ignorance of the necessity of SPIRITUAL advancement (I love the chimpanzee example ;) ). It's so shocking to me how almost unnoticed goes the intimate relationship between rationality and spirituality—how less egoic identification leads to clearer thinking, etc. This gets at the heart of possible communication with alien species as well. I remember listening to a podcast years ago about a man's father who was obsessed with alien communication, devoting his entire life to the project of researching its possibility and sending messages into space. This son (who was telling the story) mentioned off-handedly that his father was also a "devout" atheist, who scorned the existence of God. What a world we live in! We look for aliens in interstellar space but deny the intimate experience of the divine. Also, isn't it possible that an advanced civilization (the kind that could create such technology) would have moved beyond written and spoken language altogether? What if they send us messages all the time, in the form of spiritual and creative insights that move humanity forward? I am not saying this is the case, just that it takes a special kind of close-mindedness to assume that we would only be able to communicate with aliens on a purely "rational" level.
Yes, indeed, well put. We are obsessed with discovering everything outside of us and know almost nothing about what is in us. The idea that we might, one day, move beyond written and spoken language ourselves, rarely dawns upon us. There are spheres that go well beyond the symbolic mind. I would also add that aliens might even have moved beyond physical appearances. Already in modern science, with the detection of the so-called ‘dark matter’, we know that there must be some forms of matter/energy or whatever ‘stuff’ out there of which we aren’t aware with our ordinary perceptions. Those UFOs might not be material appearances but some sort of ‘holographic projections’ from a ‘subtle physical’ dimension (that would explain how they seem not to be subjected to friction and can travel through water at high speeds.) This is, of course, only my wild speculation, but would be perfectly in line with our scientific knowledge (yet, as far as I’m aware, nobody ever thought of this eventuality.) We must learn to think beyond our ordinary word, language, rational and physical human logic.
PS: Inspired by your reply I amended this in the post.
I hadn't even thought of having gone beyond physical appearance, but that would make sense! Perhaps we will see more UAPs and other strange evidence as we spiritually and intellectually attune ourselves to other dimensions? Of course, this is speculation. But the mainstream is speculating plenty, just not with enough creativity :)
I once used the same term "dimension", and someone meant it to be a 4th, 5th, 6th... dimension in the geometrical sense. :))