Actual UFOs are Nature Spirits

[causticus]

This is my view, which is based off an informal western occult view. According to this line of thinking, there are whole kingdoms of lifeforms that lack the hard, physical bodies that humans and other biological creatures have.


Who ever said fairy glamour had to be glamorous?

These ones in particular that some people in the current era experience as UFOs and "aliens," are what peoples the world over have always understood to be nature spirits. They exist on the etheric plane, which is the plane of vital energy that is layered over and interpenetrates our own; really it's the vital energetic scaffolding that vivifies matter that would otherwise be dead/inert.

Since human consciousness is focused on the material plane, most of us can't normally see these ethereal life forms unless they deliberately manifest as an intelligible form for a short duration. These manifestations are devised via a psychic connection and come in forms that make sense to the popular human consciousness of the time. So if the mass-mythos currently has a sci-fi flavor, the manifested forms will be according to that particular theme. In previous eras (and still today!) we hear of gnomes, elves, dwarves, and other spirits appearing as mini humanoids clad in medieval European peasant garb. The "true form" of nature spirits is something akin to energy orbs, which are invisible to all but those who have the clairvoyant abilities required to see them. These creatures perform essential functions in nature like distributing vital energies to specific plants and minerals; they're essentially a type of worker drones in the subtle side of ecosystem maintenance and development and answer to the commands of a presiding local deva, what the Romans called a Genius Loci (Guardian Spirit of Place).

Some races of nature spirits have a playful side to them and sometimes they mess with humans for their own amusement, or some other reason we can't even fathom.

I think this accounts for some reported UFO encounters. The rest I would say fall under the category of government psyops. And no, UFOs aren't literally biological humanoid aliens flying in space ships from another planet or solar system. People today always demand material explanations for everything, thus "space aliens" is the go-to narrative for UFO sightings and encounters.


**Sources used**
-Monsters (John Michael Greer)
-The Kingdom of the Gods (Geoffrey Hodson)
-The Astral Plane - It's Scenery, Inhabitants, and Phenomenon (CW Leadbetter)

Comments

[jprussell]

Once I encountered JMG's multi-threaded explanation (a blend of faeries/nature spirits, Government counterintelligence efforts, unexplained natural phenomena, mistaken sightings of unfamiliar objects, and a handful of other things), it helped make a great deal of sense out of the very varied and often contradictory reports of what folks have seen, but yeah, accepting a non-material occult explanation as one of the central pillars was a huge shift for me, and I think helpful.

[(Anonymous)]

Seems plausible.

My grandfather saw ball lightning when he was a child. It blew in through the screen door during a thunderstorm, bounced off the wall, and drifted out through the screen door on the other side of the house. He was the only one who saw it, but it left a round scorch-mark on each of the metal screens it passed through, and singed the wallpaper where it bounced off the wall.

He grew up to be an engineer, and always stuck to his guns about what he'd seen, through *decades* of ball lightning being considered some kind of primitive folk belief, impossible, hallucinatory, anything but a real physical phenomenon. He couldn't be swayed: knew what he'd seen. It was only toward the end of his life that The Science deigned to admit the thing was probably real-- just rare and difficult to observe.

I've always wondered just how much more *stuff* there is out there, that we've been loudly insisting isn't real, just because nobody's been able to catch it in a bottle, weigh it, measure it, dissect it... I don't think anything with a will of its own would stick around for that kind of treatment.

[boccaderlupo]

Have you read Patrick Harpur's Daimonic Reality or Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia? Both express some similar sentiments on the UAP/UFO phenomena, and I'm sympathetic to that sort of perspective myself.

Also interesting is the current work being done by Dave Paulides. Not sure if you're video-friendly, but his Missing 411 long-form movies are very interesting.

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