Close Encounters with the Demigods?
This same power has also lended the Master a mystique or allure that, too, is difficult to rationalize. There is the sense of being in the presence of one who is to man, as man is to animal. There exists a gulf, so to speak, which we have yet to cross as a species. The CEE is aware of this, as is the Master. I am not so certain that the gulf is even breachable, at least in our present state. Furthermore, as the CEE senses the above, he also is made aware of his lack, his subordinate position and this may be painfully humiliating to the abductee. The astute and compassionate human, should he care to look, will also note the same response in the lower animal kingdom to his own superior qualities. There is an ad-hoc mixture of fear, need and shameful awareness of inadequacy that is heart wrenching to witness. Is this, then, how a stray dog may feel when confronted with the towering 2-legged stranger?
Be it as it may, there is an undeniable flavor of species' arrogance from the Master. It is fully aware of its position, and the human response to same. But I do not think the Greys or the Master are 100% empathetic with the human response. I don't think they can be. Contrary to science fiction, ESP and empathy are not quite the same thing. If we are truly dealing with non-human contact, then though the grays and/or the master may see into our souls and grasp the gist of what we think and feel, they do not and cannot precisely share the same complete understanding of what these emotions mean to us as humans.
No, standing outside the human species creates a wall for them to climb; there is a barrier to complete and absolute species comprehension that they must find a way around. I think that is part of the alien 'contact' enigma, and I also think they have found a way around it.
The solution to the problem is glaringly simple, and the very simplicity and accuracy of what I am about to propose lends a certain credibility to the alien enigma as it stands. For if one needs or chooses or is driven to work with a tree, to understand a tree, to avoid misunderstandings with a tree, to interact and exchange and learn from a tree, one cannot do this from the outside in. Accuracy and full knowledge can only be gained by BECOMING the tree, by entering into the experience of being a tree. We see similar dilemma in our own investigation of naturalized species research - we hide cameras and recorders beyond the range of animal detection so we can best understand their behavior when not influenced by a human presence.
I suspect, far beyond the eye scan and routine check ups taking place in some spaceship on the other side of the moon, or the other side of our imaginations, that there is an actual extra-species research taking place within our own minds. To fully learn from us, for whatever purpose, the aliens and the like, must get inside of us. There must be a union, a joining, a marriage of minds for this to occur.
And I also suspect that, at least in part, this is taking place on a much larger scale than we can possibly credit.
And before we fall head first into another ego-trap, this must not imply that we are nearly as special and unique as we have been comforted with or led to believe. I highly and sarcastically do not believe for one minute that humans are nearly so fascinating to others as we hold ourselves to be. Let's not be any more gullible than necessary. We are only as fascinating and desirable and important to another species as their NEED dictates. This is inescapable logic. This is an inescapable equation.
Furthermore, it is neither a good thing nor a bad. It is a state of affairs of which most of us are largely in the dark pertaining to such. We can bemoan or embrace our supposed Space Brothers until the sun goes dim and is a smoking chunk of charcoal frozen in time, but it is as it is. We must accept that and try to understand what now confronts us. And no book, no blog, no media king nor professional skeptic can give us this understanding. Ultimately, we must each of us earn this understanding. That is what makes the Gray Alien enigma so complex and frustrating - it appears to be neither objective nor subjective, but rather an intriguing mixture of the two. That is the challenge before us, to walk that narrow path without falling to either wayside.
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