The Need for Certainty in an Environment of Illusion
A Physician Contact Experiencer Makes a Recommendation
It has been said that in UFOlogy the ever-present wild belief systems, hoaxes, lies and deceptions are an insult to “common sense.” Unfortunately common sense is perhaps the least common thing here on Earth. UFOs are a great mystery. They are important in my view and this produces the desire to have certainty about what they truly are.
The extensive literature documenting US government involvement in this enigma, despite the authorities’ constant denials and lies, shows us clearly how important it is. Still we have no sure answers to the problem. The psychological pressure to find a solution, any seemingly comprehensive answer, builds and builds and poof, we have a steady diet of wild theories, mythologies, scams and hoaxes that people readily eat up. We suspend reason to achieve a small measure of certainty. Not a good thing to do in my judgment.
As a physician that considers himself a contact experiencer, in my opinion this mechanism of desperately embracing false certainty occurs in part because people know they are going to die. I suggest that it is profoundly disturbing to those passionately interested in this topic that we may never get to the bottom of it in our lifetimes. I know in the past this bothered me. Unlike in the movies where the plot is neatly resolved in 120 minutes, I suggest that there will be no crystal clear answer to the UFO mystery in the next decade, perhaps not even for centuries.
As a contact activist I chose to refer to the force behind the phenomenon as “UFO intelligence”. My hesitation to refer to the agent of flying saucers as ET in nature appears to undermine the certainty that my fellow contactees have as they attempt to interact with UFOs in the field. I suspect this is so because not only have my coworkers decided that the ET hypothesis is correct but also that they have developed a profound emotional attachment to this belief.
I would also like to acknowledge the tremendous psi capability of this otherness that we call “ET.” We should realize that much of what we call “documentation” is illusory in nature. UFO intelligence is a master at deception, perhaps not so grandly as humans. I suspect they might possibly be learning from us.
Photographs might be tampered with by that unseen intelligence that is behind flying saucers. In psychical research as shown in the excellent YouTube video “The Afterlife Investigations” we observe on the screen how undeveloped film in sealed boxes when developed revealed the images of people that had died in the distant past. This occurred under rigidly controlled sessions with mediums summoning spirits to interact with them.
This amazing documentation was a major accomplishment of the Scole research team. If the so-called ETs can do that too, project images on film or digital cameras, then much of our photographic evidence studied by UFOlogists could reasonably be considered very unreliable. I am asserting that they have such technology and have been projecting images of UFOs on to film and digital cameras for the last 70 years. Thus most of the intense photographic analysis, which still is a hot topic in UFOlogy, has probably been an incredible waste of time.
This is a link to the Afterlife Investigations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qSEi_sfaSU
In a similar vein the “visitors” appear to be able to project into the sky holographic type images that my contactee friends are convinced represent “alien craft.” In reality they might be merely technological illusions produced by advanced UFO Intelligence engineering.
The list goes on as to how in my judgment UFO Intel creates illusion. Perhaps Impregnated memories account for some, maybe most of “alien abduction” reports. The memories seem so “real” i.e. being created by actual physical experience that those targeted to be “abducted” understandably choose to consider them physical rather than psychic events.
Another example of the illusion creating capabilities is found in Dr Turner’s “Masquerade of Angels.” There the “ETs” are clearly shown to create a kind of virtual reality for an experiencer during a real time interaction with UFO intelligence.
This proposed technology of illusion, if acknowledged as operational, would undermine the entire field of UFOlogy and in a sense is bad news when it comes to having certainty about what is going on.
As a physician, especially in the ER, I had to constantly deal with uncertainty during the evaluation and treatment process. I learned to continuously challenge my assumptions in the hope that I would not miss something important. Time and time again I had to make rapid decisions about what might be going on and initiate treatment, even before all the test results were in. To wait for certainty before starting therapy ran the risk of the patient dying before the final diagnosis was made.
I suggest to flying saucer enthusiasts that we all try not to become too attached to one theory or another about flying saucers. I recommend that we accept uncertainty as a major feature of our work in this strange and wonderful investigation into UFOs. By accepting a high degree of uncertainty I believe that our search for the truth will be perhaps a more challenging journey, but in my opinion it will also be a more enlightened one.
About the author: Joseph Burkes MD volunteered as a Working Group Coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative from 1992 till 1998. He has continued to study the flying saucer phenomenon working with MUFON and the Peruvian based contact network now called Rahma. He is co-author of the book “Paths to Contact” edited by Jeff Becker. Dr Burkes retired from the Southern California Permanente Medical Group after thirty years service in 2008. He is a board certified internal medicine physician and is licensed to practice in California.
