The CE4 Corner
The Cosmic Bridge, Close Encounters and Human Destiny
by Craig R. Lang, Certified Hypnotherapist
Hypnotic Growth, Exploration and Healing for Mind, Body, Spirit and Beyond
Brooklyn Center, MN 763-257-7334 e-mail: craig@craigrlang.com
March/April, 2006: Metaphors of Contact
©2006 by Craig R. Lang MS, CHt
I recently spent a considerable amount of time reading about
the Fermi Paradox, and the corresponding "Zoo Hypothesis"[i]. Specifically, the Fermi Paradox asks why we do
not see the aliens, given the conclusion that they must be visiting us as the
numbers calculated by the Drake Equation suggest. The theory referred to as "the Zoo
Hypothesis" is one potential solution to the Fermi Paradox. This theory argues that they are indeed
visiting us. However, their primary
activity is covert observation, to monitor us without being seen. They would seldom leave evidence of their
presence, unless such artifacts were somehow important to their plan. Only in the most extreme cases would they
overtly make their presence known.
So, what is the relationship
between them, and us, and how can we apply this metaphor to the various aspects
of the UFO/CE4 phenomenon? In my view,
an excellent metaphor is an extension of the Zoo Hypothesis, such that we
imagine Earth as not just a zoo, but as a managed preserve, or national park,
what I call the "National Park" or "Nature Preserve" (NP)
Metaphor. In this analogy, we can think of
our world as a "wilderness preserve", which is carefully monitored by
E.T. "rangers". As in nature
preserves set aside by human society, the purpose of such a reserve would
presumably be scientific study as well as preservation of the ecology and the
species residing there. To the residents
of the nature preserve (the wild animals) the presence of the Watchers[ii]
would be largely transparent. The
animals perceive what appears to be a natural environment.
In this metaphor, in a manner
similar to the animals in a nature preserve, terrestrial life would be managed
and studied, but essentially, would remain "wild". They would have little idea of what actually
goes on behind the scenes, what the E.T. "rangers" are actually
doing.
In "wild" parks such as
the national parks and forests of the
Yet when such "contact"
with rangers does occur, we can imagine that to the animal under study, it is
of very high strangeness. Two-legged
beings in flying machines have little place in the world of the wolf or
elk. Such encounters probably involve
tremendous levels of fear on the part of the animal, which has been rendered
helpless and subjected to an experience of which it has little or no
understanding. Like the UFO abductee in
our human world, a wolf that had been darted and briefly captured might have
some hair-raising stories to tell.
In this metaphor we imagine our
E.T. Visitors in the role of the naturalists who actively manage us in our
wild, nature-preserve Earth. Frequently,
for their management of the preserve, these alien "rangers" need additional
data, or otherwise need to briefly intervene in the lives of their
charges. Thus, just like human
naturalists, they need to fly in, pick up one or more human "animals"
and do their scientific activities. They
then release the humans, confused but generally no worse for the wear. To the human residents of the
Earth-Nature-Preserve, this intervention would appear as the phenomenon known
as UFO abduction.
Other aspects of the naturalist/NP
metaphor have their parts in the CE4 phenomenon as well. Whereas park rangers or wildlife biologists
attach bands or radio collars to track animals by radar or satellite, we also
have reports of abductees receiving implants[iii]. Abductees are often under the impression that
these are tracking/monitoring devices – continuously monitoring the status and
whereabouts of the abductee.
Abductees also describe how the CE4
phenomenon seems to follow family lineages.[iv] Perhaps this is analogous to the wildlife
biologist who monitors successive generations of wolves for wildlife management
purposes. This might be to monitor
evolution, fertility, behavior, and/or survival trends, a multigenerational
research endeavor. Perhaps we are being
studied, or even influenced, in an analogous way to the elk, wolves and bears
of our own parks.
Limits of the NP
Metaphor
Is the nature-preserve hypothesis a
complete picture of the human/alien relationship? I doubt that it contains the whole
answer. But like any metaphor of
contact, it provides a conceptual tool to help frame our understanding of the
Visitors. Their motivations and their
paradigms of life are undoubtedly much more advanced, just as ours are far
beyond those of the wild animals of the nature preserve. So while not the whole story, the NP Metaphor
might just offer us an important piece of the puzzle.
Another aspect of the CE4
phenomenon that also seems to defy the NP analogy is the apparent
genetics/hybridization program described by experiencers. But again we can ask whether this could be
part of some form of E.T. research or "wildlife management" plan.
Occasionally the UFO phenomenon
displays behavior which is very much at variance with what we would expect from
E.T. "naturalists" conducting research. UFO intrusions into military airspace, the
appearance of one or more UFOs over urban areas[v]
and similar cases in which the phenomenon seems to take a higher profile, all
would imply that this interaction is somehow more than simply scientific
study. Or is it? Could these events simply be further examples
in themselves, of some form of scientific study, which we do not yet
understand? Could these events simply be
the surface manifestations of a more covert effort to manage the nature
preserve?
In future articles, we will look at abduction reports and
ask how aspects of these may fit these models. While we can devise many other
possible paradigms and metaphors to help us understand this strange phenomenon,
the NP metaphor seems to offer us one of the most interesting and informative
working models of the possible motives behind the UFO/CE4 phenomenon.
