UFOs, Future Us, and the Treasure That is Pat McAfee
I want to have a beer with Pat
If you don’t follow Pat McAfee, here’s the short bio: athletic freak, former NFL punter, Super Bowl participant with the Indy Colts, WWE personality, podcaster, and generally good guy. Grew up in the next town over from me. Funny as hell. Think Joe Rogan with more of a frat boy feel. Represents Pittsburgh well. Legend.
On his show yesterday, he interviewed a congressman from Wisconsin, Mike Gallagher, who was on the Hill trying to get some answers about UFOs.
Among the highlights from this 20 minute clip include:
Are aliens real?
Why is our government hiding or obfuscating information on these events, like the classic tic-tac video.
The possibility of black-book government agencies knowingly colluding to “keep the citizens safe”.
The possibility of government cover-up due to the lack of knowledge about the activity or to minimize the potential of discovery from enemy powers.
The possibility that this activity is actually not extra-terrestrial, but inter-dimensional. Meaning US (or another human entity), from the future.
That last point was the highlight for me. What if humans from the future are showing up in our reality? That raises some really interesting questions.
It also opened up a thought line about what we’ve seen over the past few years. The we talk of lizard people. Anyone with eyes to see can see a glimpse at least of the massive levels of orchestration among world leaders and organizations that literally seems out of this world.
Ultimately I believe in a cosmic war between good and evil, in a spiritual realm that's much more real than our flesh and blood world. I’ve written extensively about it. I’ve even considered the possibility that advanced humans from another time down the road have figured out how to make time travel work and have a plan for guiding us into a better/worse tomorrow.
But to hear this being expressed by a sitting US Congress person, on a wildly popular sports podcast, was a bit surreal.
I’d love to hear your thoughts and takes on this. Please comment below!
And thank you, dear readers, for bearing with me as I’ve been a bit less active. I appreciate you all.
I was big into the ufo thing - figured these are the gods of old showing up as new things.
but after 2 decades of seeing how fleeting the proof is, and today with super cameras we still get shitty blurry dots... I stopped believing it was a real physical thing, but possibly mental. Even abduction stories could just be a screen for 3 letter agencies to abduct and experiment on people... but recently this gem explained it... connected the dots so to speak, the things that didnt make sense with the phenomenon
"Daimonic Reality by Patrick Harpur examines UFOs and a wide variety of “paranormal” phenomena from a rather unique angle. Although Harpur never fully defines the daimonic—“the daimonic that can be defined is not the true daimonic,” as Lao-Tse would say—it seems to exist both inside us and outside us. Like the Greek daemon and unlike the Christian demon, it takes both good/healing and bad/terrifying forms, depending on our commitment to rationalistic ego states.
In a sense, the daimonic is like the collective unconscious of Carl Jung, inside us as a part of our total self that the ego wishes to deny, outside us in all the other humans who ever existed and in the dreams, myths, and arts of all the world. But Harpur follows Irish poet (and Golden Dawn alumnus) W. B. Yeats as often as he follows Jung, and traces some of his ideas back to Giordano Bruno and the alchemical/hermetic mystics of the Renaissance. The daimonic is just a bit more personalized and individualized than Jung’s species unconscious.
Harpur’s major thesis is that unless we recognize the daimonic (make friends with it, Jung would say) it takes increasingly malignant and terrifying forms. For instance, the Greys of UFO abduction lore, he says, are deliberately mirroring our ego-centered and “scientistic” age—showing no emotions of the humans they experiment upon, just as the ideal science student feels no emotion and has no concern with the emotions of the animal being tortured in his laboratory.
Despite dealing with many subjects common to conspiracy theories, this book does not quite fit into that category. We are the conspirators, so to speak. We have repressed the most creative part of ourselves and now it is escaping in terrifying forms."
I think this is all about our government drumming up fear so they can siphon off more tax dollars to create more government surveillance via Drones, satellites, etc in order to take more of our freedoms. What say we call it the Patriot Act II?