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UFO/Aliens
Transitioning Paradigms
Imagine you are Dr. Eleanor ‘Ellie’ Ann Arroway, in the book Contact by Carl Sagan, played by Jodie Foster in the movie adaptation. You’re at the end of the movie, speaking before Congress, and all you have is your testimony, and a video with no data for the duration describing a unit of time consistent with your report being away for hours. Now, imagine you are a contactee, a person with regular visitation by aliens. Imagine you are a near death experiencer, and the memory you have of another world is more solid and real than your experiences here on Earth.
Now imagine, no one in the world believes you.
Perhaps it’s easier to imagine being Galileo. You have looked through an instrument of your own design and observed qualities no one else has seen. Maybe it’s actually harder to imagine being Galileo because you might think ‘surely I can get someone to accept this design or have someone build their own and confirm my observation.’ You’d be wrong. In the history of academia, many a sophisticated people have walked out of lectures because they thought the information being presented was absurd.
Lectures where the concepts being presented turned out to be accurate.
