Alien Souls

Star Beings We Are

Philosophically, we are star dust. The atoms comprising our bodies, our planet, everything we have named is comprised of the bones of dead stars. I like philosophy. I like engaging in strange thought experiments. It is not always a complete departure from reality to engage in fancy. There seems to be themes that get recapitulated over time. Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell would say ‘of course, there are archetypal energies and beings in our unconscious that will always manifest in perpetuity.’ Engaging, whether from a philosophical or fictional treatise, makes the spiritual and psychological tangible enough to explore.

Fiction and fantasy aren’t just fluff for escapism. It is a way of modeling systems to explore potential outcomes. Those fictions that resonate with you are likely aligned with your archetypal mission. The person on the Hero’s Journey will identify with Luke Skywalker or Dorothy of Kansas.

They are, essentially, one and the same.

All systems of understanding engage in this modeling behavior, whether it is systems of science, spirituality, philosophy, or art. Einstein called it thought experiments. We compartmentalize these domains. Fiction also is domain locked, in the sense the physics and social protocols for each universe is usually limited to that particular line of inquiry, with sometimes…