Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact - Above Top Secret

These witnesses have had a real, traumatic experience. They are weakened by it and ready tobelieve any explanation provided to them by someone in authority. Under the highly suggestiblestate created by hypnosis we can easily convince them of any half-baked interpretation of thephenomenon. This process is unethical and certainly unscientific.In a few cases (like the Hill episode) when hypnosis was used carefully, under medical supervision,and without leading questions, what was the outcome? We learned nothing useful aboutextraterrestrial life. But we learned that our current concepts of space and time were wrong; that alarger reality, other dimensions, existed; and that the time had come to challenge our current viewsabout the universe.Let us speculate even more boldly. The subject invites many troubling, fundamental questions. Ifenergy and information are related, why do we only have one physics, the physics of energy? Whereis the physics of information? Is the old theory of magic relevant here? Are the writings ofParacelsus, with his concept of "signatures," a neglected source of inspiration? Until these questionsare explored, it may be impossible to address what French physicist Costa de Beauregard calls "thetruly fundamental problem," that of the relationship between psyche and matter. Even if weconsider only the operational aspects of a piece of information, if someone learns something fromit, physical theory dictates that the entropy of the universe must have changed.These are highly speculative questions. But at a time when we are beginning to suspect that ancientchallenges are brought to light by high technology, creative speculation is necessary. Can a path befound toward realities that are not situated on faraway planets, but are right around us, outside ournormal consciousness? Is this what happened to abductees like Helen and Kathy, or Travis Walton?Rather than a physical occurrence inside a spacecraft, did they experience a temporary translation oftheir consciousness into an altered reality followed by visions of archetypal creatures? Is it possibleto promote coincidences and peculiar effects of apparently paranormal nature by creating physicalstructures shielded from everyday noise and serving as informational singularities?If the world around us is a world of informational events, the symbolic manifestations that surroundUFO reports should be viewed as an important factor. If we regard the physical world as anassociative universe of informational events, consciousness is no longer simply a local function inthe human brain. Instead, I propose to define consciousness as the process by which informationalassociations are retrieved and traversed. The illusion of time and space would be merely a sideeffect of consciousness as it traverses associations. In such a theory, apparently paranormalphenomena like remote viewing and precognition would be expected, even common, and UFOswould lose much of their bizarre quality. These phenomena would be natural aspects of the realityof human consciousness. I submit that reports of alien "contact" must be studied at this level, evenif we are a long, long way from being able to channel our speculations into the formal equations ofa new physics.For many years, UFO phenomena have served as a support for human imagination, a framework forhuman tragedy, a fabric of human dreams. We react to them in our movies, our poetry, our music,our science fiction. And they react to us. They are not trying to communicate with a few individuals,with any group, with any government. Why should they? The phenomena function like anoperational system of symbolic communication at a global level. There is something about thehuman race with which they interact, and we do not yet know what it is. They are part of theenvironment, part of the control system for human evolution. But their effects, instead of being justphysical, are also felt in our beliefs. They influence what we call our spiritual life. They affect ourpolitics, our history, our culture. They are a feature of our past. Undoubtedly, they are part of ourfuture.