4 May 2026
May 3 2026
On the current flurry of UFO "disclosure" documentaries on streaming services, and the warning of some, such as Whitley Strieber, of a coming "ontological shock" when people find out "the truth." One of the groups he claims will experience it the most are scientists. John wonders what sort of shock this might be: as in Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, or the Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu, or as what Neo experienced in the Matrix? Government whistleblower's like David Grusch claim to have access to dozens of credible witnesses with direct knowledge of "non-human biologics" and exotic off-world technologies. So what? Science bets everything on the Standard Model, with a predictable rolling back of events to the Big Bang, etc. But what if people like physicist Melvin Vopson are on to something when they hypothesize that we are in a simulated reality, like a video game? AI generated graphics have made what is produced indistinguishable from what is "real".... and in such a realm, there are trees that haven't grown, mountains that weren't uplifted by tectonics, etc. (Phillip Gosse wrote of this in his book "Omphalos," in which he defends the "Genesis Gap" idea that between the first two verses in Genesis there is a span of unknown time, and what is here was begun with the appearance of age... trees fully formed with tree rings, wouldn't Adam also be formed... with a belly button?) Such a thing would overthrow most everything in science. And, John wonders, whether perhaps we should disengage from AI while we can, let it go its way, and let us go along separated from it. Otherwise, will it not simply shape our existence? (Or terminate it, a la Skynet?) But as to UAPs/UFOs, it is hard to argue against what has been experienced by persons such as Dorothy Izatt ("Capturing the Light") who recorded inexplicable things on various frames of her 8mm or Super-8 film footage. So perhaps something IS ready to "drop," but what would it be? Perhaps it would undo the naturalistic/materialistic view of scientism, along with the supernatural beliefs of many world religions. Quantum mechanics has already knocked down a straight-on causalistic view of nature. But in a simulated reality, such as in the Matrix, where the baddie who betrays the good guys gives it up for a life of simulated luxury ("I know this steak isn't real...") but... as Bishop Berkeley argued, what is reality anyway but what is PERCEIVED? Beyond that, can we prove our sense organs truly exist? Can we prove we have noses, ears, eyes, or even optic nerves? And should we care? What would matter to John would be not if ANYTHING is there, but is ANYONE there? That is the side he is sold out on... there is SOMEONE who has fashioned all this who did it for me and cares about me... and that we can reach. What if the data we have collected in science has been provided in anticipation that it WOULD be? Perhaps not even as John Wheeler's Participatory Anthropic Principle (PAP) would have it, but rather as John Berglund's ANTICIPATORY Anthropic Principle would? The act of observation that collapses the wave function in Quantum Mechanics points to power of the observer which is of the same type that must be collapsing the wave function of the ENTIRE UNIVERSE. Anyway... Jacques Vallee has an interesting idea about who the entities on these UAPs might be. John himself had an experience when he was a teen during one dark winter's night in Minnesota. It began his solipsistic struggle, which was solved only upon reaching out to the Creator who was able to bypass his secondary senses to reach directly into him, and knowing Him, John is convinced everything (and everyone) else is just as real as it NEEDS to be. We all believe the means to contact God directly... no need for radio telescopes seeking out the universe for some signal. As Insane Clown Posse sings, "He's out there!" ("Thine Unveiling") The "physical" world plays second fiddle... the true REALITY is here and there's yet more to come.
