The View from an Alien Spacecraft

The View from an Alien Spacecraft

March 26, 2016

“I can see,” chortles the Little Grey Alien, “that you are very proud of the new adventure on which you see your Planetary Mind beginning to embark.

“But before you advance too far into your Brave New World, I would have you reflect on the meaning of one of your most ancient Wisdom Tales.

“Your wise and your not-so-wise people have used up an ocean of ink in trying to determine just where this Garden of Eden might be found. The true place and the actual date depend on which Eden you are speaking of, since Eden is a cyclic recurrence which has happened on different levels in various ways. But if we rise up from your geocentric space-time to a more universal perspective, I believe it would become a little easier for you to accept, that the Garden of Eden presents us with an archetypal map of your own human brain.

“The brain is formed of little trees called dendrites, and all of them are suitable for you to program except for one, which is called the Tree of Life³¹. It has been called this because it is dedicated to regulating essential life functions, including mechanisms to ensure the propagation of the species. Of course it does not surprise us that, when you began to tried to experiment with this tree so you could gain power over it, a Serpent crawled up the trunk, and proceeded to tempt you into a path of deadly experimentation.

“The Serpent represents the longing for the easier life you could have if you could just shut down your spiritual receptors and mamalian sympathies. If it were only possible for the human to be satisfied with a reptilian life style, you would not be tormented by worry concerning the human condition. The rewards of the Conquering Empire would be sufficient; one would no longer feel disturbed by the misery of the dispossessed and starving masses.

1³ There is a tradition that the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge share a common trunk. The allegory leads us to believe the Tree of Knowledge begins to diverge from the Tree of Life the moment we discover Death.

After the Great Reversal

 

“Of course, the Starlords can appreciate those intellectuals like Philip LeFey, Mathieu Singly or Tariko Zamorra who argue for the preponderance of life – but how many of the earthlings down there have ever heard of them?

A Reversal of great magnitude has recently occurred on earth, greater than the one that prompted the crier in the time of Claudius to proclaim ‘The Great God Pan is dead!’ For the most part the leaders of your Estates, and particularly those who control the Fourth Estate, are determined to keep the people from recognizing that this Great Reversal has occurred.

 

(Thieu and I find that we have been returned to the studio in which she has been painting. Apparently we have been teleported down, after being inducted into the Alien spacecraft as guests.

(All that is left from our Alien encounter is a rather loquatious robot, who seems to be explaining our own nervous systems as he paces is oddly sunchronized circles on the floor.)

 

The Robot

Good day sir, I am a robot. I have been programmed by the space-aliens to communicate in your language, so that I may impart their theory about the Tree of Life to you, and elicit enough feedback from you to ensure that you have the ability to visualize the metaphors I offer for you to construct a model from.

To begin with we shall have a tree, which we shall call the Tree of Life. Surrounding this tree we have the Garden of Eden, which includes all of the dendrites which have not been locked into the system which has been devoted to self-preservation and species preservation.

Now I want you to visualize a serpent climbing up the Tree of Life. The human brain knows that even when the garden dies life pulses shall still be sustained in the eternal world that spiritual intuition connects with. But the snake does not know this; it fears that it shall die unless it can replicate itself by whipping the young until they have come to share the condition of reptile perversity.

This, in short, is the meaning of the story of the fall of Adam from grace. Maybe it was your father who whipped you, maybe it was your grandmother but in any case, we have observed that almost all humans exibit a neurotic fear of exploring the higher branches of the Dendrites of Eden, because they have been hypnotized into imagining that the only way in which they shall survive is by acting like snakes. It is alas so, that the Rod of the Fathers only perpetrates the prejudices of the Fathers, and fails to awaken the higher capacity of ethical knowledge through empathy.

I, as a robot, have been delegated to impart this story to you, because until you get over allowing your moral feelings to be controlled by the snake who wanted to attain immortality by possessing you, you shall not be able to benefit from more direct communication with those who are Lords of The Stars.