Sex, Drugs, and UFOs

Where do drugs and sex come into the investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects? The answer to this question is quite interesting. However, the answer can only be accepted once certain, and unfortunately, well-established tenets and fictions associated with UFOs are understood in a somewhat different light than they are currently perceived. Although the phenomena of UFOs as it is generally accepted in modern times is only a little more than seventy years old, it has been only within the last few decades that a new perspective on the phenomena has gained some credibility in its attempts to explain the complex and oft-times contradictory evidence uncovered by UFO researchers. At first, we suspected that UFOs were from outer space. This initial hypothesis got us through the late ‘40s, the ’50s, and into the ‘60s. Then, with the growing emphasis on abductions, (popularly begun by Betty and Barney Hill in 1962), UFOs were taken to the couch for psychoanalysis and socio-cultural evaluation. By the 1980s, what a small group of astute investigators had been saying since the ‘50s began to make sense, that what we were witnessing was an extension of much earlier legends and tales of contact with “other” entities, known in pre-alien times as fairies, angels, or demons. As these theories regarding the appearance and purpose of UFOs and their occupants grew, so did the question as to what these entities might actually be. Carl Jung suggested that we have met the entities and they are us - at least in the guise of archetypes residing in our own collective unconsciousness. Other researchers seem to think that there is an “invisible commonwealth” coexisting with humankind, who are either exercising their powers over us in capricious ways, or are trying to enlighten us, or are totally inimitable, slightly inimitable, or pretty much like ourselves. And there are those who believe that these entities are from some alternate universe or higher dimension, coexistent with our own universe but invisible from it. There are also some who think that contact with these entities has been made in the past, and continues in the present, through the practices of the occult sciences. And, indeed, the similarities are there, the shape shifting, psychological trauma, the smells, and other effects associated with magical encounters can also be found in many of the reports surveyed by UFO researchers of encounters with aliens. Oddly enough, it seems that almost every tradition of magic, from Shamanism to Satanism, has ways of summoning, becoming, or assisting intelligences that are not of this world using occult practices that involve sex and/or drugs. The sex and drugs being used primarily, it seems, to jog the mindset of newer practitioners into a different way of thinking. (There are, however, other philosophies of thought that attempt the same kind of transformation without drugs.) But the end result is the same, an expanded awareness of reality, or at least a different way of looking at the world as it really is. So while the practitioners of magic, or magick, talk of astral travel, Buddhists ascertain that there are other levels of existence that we can inhabit in forms other than ones we have now. Shamans, too, are well aware of other worlds just beyond ours, inhabited by entities quite different from mankind. (Satanists, I suppose, are also aware of other places beyond our normally perceived reality, but their concentration seems focused on only one place - inhabited by a specific entity.) So this is where the sex and drugs come in, as well as meditating on Zen koans, chanting, fasting, and other spiritual endeavors invented for the purpose of changing one’s “mind set”, all of which are merely methods of knocking us out of our “tunnel realities” in order to get us to recognize the reality of other levels of existence, from which, perhaps, the true UFOs originate.