With their eyes pinned on the skies, it could be argued that no one might be in a better position to see UFOs than astronomers. Years ago, a friend related to me that an associate of his, an astronomer who often operated with a large Clamshell observatory-style telescope, claimed that in all his years of watching the stars at night, he had never seen any evidence of unidentified aircraft drifting through Earth’s atmosphere. But what kinds of factors really might determine the likelihood of astronomers and hobbyist star gazers seeing a UFO… if they exist?
Over at the Daily Grail’s blog, Ufologist extraordinaire Chris Rutkowski, author of Abductions & Aliens – What’s Really Going On and A World of UFOs, has been speculating on whether there are simple explanations behind the age old criticism of UFOs and astronomers who report (or fail to report) seeing them.
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My good friend Red Pill Junkie of the uber-popular Daily Grail website has just written a fantastic review of my book, Magic, Mysticism and the Molecule. If you haven’t read the book yet, you might enjoy getting some of RPJ’s commentary on the subject matter over at his blog on the Daily Grail website:
Book Review: Magic, Mysticism & The Molecule.
Here’s a brief excerpt from RPJ’s review:
In this era we’re using the tools of science to probe the electromagnetic frequencies in search for other civilizations that might share our galactic neighborhood —the ONLY method endorsed by mainstream science, since any notion of possible visitation happening today or in the past is anathema to the edifice of Academia; but even before the invention of radioastronomy, many humans have attempted contact with ‘superior beings’ in search for knowledge, power or enlightenment.
Whether these entities were members of the angelic legions communicating with famous magician John Dee through ‘scrying stones’ & the Enochian language, or the modern-era ‘Space Brothers’ who also happened to favor the same psychic channels developed by the Spiritualist movement in the late XIXth century, many people have tried to find ‘doorways’ into the unseen metaphysical worlds, said to be inhabited with transhuman intelligences by both ancient and modern mythic traditions.
News yesterday regarding the creation of a new synthetic–but living–organism managed to cause the very expected stir of controversies in all the right locales. Even more surprising, perhaps, were the responses from various institutions such as the Catholic Church, who instead of decrying the scientific milestone outright with what might have been a rather expected “playing God” argument, merely warned that the potentials for this innovation should not become corrupted. A variety of other enlightening commentary regarding the actual creation of this new self-replicating synthetic life can be found here and here.
But what are the ethical concerns regarding this exciting–and potentially frightening discovery? As humanity rides the crest of a great (and quickly growing) wave toward the regular implementation of human genome manipulation, DNA re-structuring, and now the engineering of synthetic life forms, one must consider whether we, as a species, are ready to head down the road toward meeting variations of life as we know it, and even variations of human beings. How might future differentials in Earth species, resulting from manipulation through technology, affect us?
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Tonight I’ll be appearing with my good friends Brad Steiger and Wm Michael Mott on The Jeff Rense Program. You can listen live by clicking on the link below:
The Jeff Rense Program
It should be quite the esoteric jam-session… don’t miss out!
