JimFilmsUFOs

If the doors of perception were cleansed, would everything appear to man as an orb? 🔵 "The phenomenon manipulates consciousness. They can appear to be whatever they want." ~PL 👽 Can We Defend Ourselves Against It? 👽 "Of course we can." ~PL "You have to figure out who the monster is in your own unconscious mind." ~PL (I love this clip of Levenda, who's one of my favorite deep thinkers on the phenomenon. I didn't add much to this one but will engage if people add their own thoughts in the replies.) "You have to realize, when you're listening to bullshit, you're listening to bullshit." ~PL ~~~ @Peter_Levenda: "People ask me, you know, about an alien invasion, right? Shouldn't we be prepared for an alien invasion? My response to that has been: It's already happened. It has happened. It's happened 1000s of years ago. There's been an alien invasion. You know, we've met the enemy, and they are us, let's say. "But more to the point, they have manipulated, or the phenomenon has seemed to - whether it's been intentional or accidental - the phenomenon manipulates consciousness. They show up where they wanna show up. They disappear when they wanna disappear. Sometimes they show up as ships sailing through the sky. Sometimes they're flying saucers. Sometimes they're cigar shapes. Sometimes they're orbs, right? "This phenomenon has all different kinds of faces on it. They're not stuck to one specific type of manifestation. That right away indicates manipulation, right? Right away, that indicates that they can appear to be whatever they want it to appear to be. Whatever this is. "And is that our fault? Is it because we're projecting something onto something which is pristine, otherwise? Maybe just an orb, you know? Just a sphere, but we're projecting Angels and Demons? We're projecting gods and monsters onto this? Grays and Talls and Nordics and all the rest of it? Are we just coming up with this stuff on our own, and we're doing that? If so, the invasion is actually happening, right? Our consciousness is being manipulated." (If could see things as they truly are (see my William Blake-inspired comment that started off this tweet), would Grays, Reptilians, Bigfoot, giant craft, etc., all just look like orbs? Or, are those actual beings and craft that exist separately, outside of our consciousness?) Levenda: "Now you add to that, the internet. You add to that, suggestibility, in many different ways: the way we consume entertainment, the way we consume information. And I always use this example: one day it's possible we may all wake up around the planet having had the same dream. And when that happens, it's over. The invasion has successfully accomplished its goal. Now, our dreams are being manipulated, our consciousness is being manipulated, and that's it. "That's what we have to be afraid of. Can we defend ourselves against it? Of course we can. We can strengthen ourselves from the point of view of consciousness. We can strengthen ourselves mentally, spiritually, right? You don't have to belong to any one specific religion. No one has the monopoly on this experience. So, but you can, using the tools at your disposal, strengthen yourself spiritually, mentally, psychologically. "There was a famous occultist, Israel Regardie, who was also a psychotherapist. And he always recommended, anybody who gets involved in this subject to this extent - especially occultism in general, but, you know, anything like that - spend a year or two in therapy first. But what he meant was: you don't know what you're dealing with. When you start probing into your own mind, you don't know what's lurking there waiting for you. "You know, the magic flute by Mozart, you know. The famous guardians at the gate who are these vicious monsters. But as soon as you pass them, they're just a couple of regular guys, right? You have to figure out who the monster is in your own unconscious mind. You have to figure out what's in there, what you've buried, what you're resistant to. "Because if you don't, you will come across it, eventually, if you are serious. If you open the door to these experiences, you will have to encounter negativity. The negativity we've all been born with, or raised with, or, you know, as victims of our circumstances, of our culture, of our upbringing, you know, nature and nurture. It's all in there. We're gonna have to encounter it. This has to be done. "And once you do that, the upshot is, the benefit is, you become a lot more mellow, right? You become a lot more forgiving. You become a lot more wise, in a sense. You know that everybody's got these things inside of them that they're dealing with, that they're battling with. "So, what we can do is just strengthen ourselves, individually. Not fall for every story we hear, not fall for every conspiracy theory that comes down the pike, but be aware that there are conspiracies. That's a fact. They do exist. Which one is the one that you have to be afraid of (laughs)? Well, you know, I hate to use that term, 'Do your research,' because these days, do your research just means looking at a YouTube video somewhere. "And people like me, we came from a different, you know, boomer mentality. Which is that we go through and we just do a lot of, you know, reading and a lot of talking and a lot of investigating and a lot of meeting people and getting their points of view. I got points of view on all different sides of the political landscape through my entire life, I talked to everybody. I spoke to Islamic terrorists, for instance, in Indonesia. "I mean, these are the things that you do if you want to know what they're thinking, and you want to know why people come to these things. You have to be open to that kind of research, but you have to be strong, internally, right? You have to realize, when you're listening to bullshit, you're listening to bullshit. "You have to be able to piece that together. You have to make these assumptions, and make these calculations when you're talking to people. But you record things, you make notes, and you go back and you look at them later, you look at them later, and eventually, a story emerges. Something you can be comfortable with." ~ "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." ~William Blake, 1790ish When I looked up that quote to get it right, ChatGPT added this on its own, based on my previous prompts... ~⬇️ChatGPT⬇️~ Here's what I find especially interesting. Blake wasn't simply suggesting that humans need to look more carefully. He was suggesting that the very structure of ordinary human perception might prevent us from recognizing the true nature of existence. And there's an intriguing connection to your interest in the UFO phenomenon. Blake's philosophy resonates with some of Jacques Vallée's ideas about consciousness, reality, and the possibility that human perception constrains how we understand anomalous experiences. That doesn't mean Blake anticipated the UFO phenomenon or that Vallée's hypotheses are correct. But both challenge the assumption that the reality we ordinarily perceive is necessarily the whole of reality. In one sentence: Blake believed that the infinite is already all around us, but the limitations of human consciousness prevent us from seeing it.