http://bleujefe.com/BB/brethren/cthulhu.htm
One of the most intriguing answers to that question has been suggested by Jacques Vallee, the real-life model for the character of the French scientist in Close Encounters, and author of many books on the UFO phenomenon, such as Dimensions and Messengers of Deception. Vallee does not share Steven Spielberg’s trusting view of the visitors, whom he believes are probably not visitors at all.
Vallee has made a history-spanning study of stories of supernatural contact—Greco-Roman tales of sky chariots, Celtic stories of elves and fairies abducting children and mutilating animals, Joseph Smith’s alleged heavenly visions, even apparitions of the Virgin Mary—and found that such experiences closely parallel the experiences of UFO contactees. It seems that the phenomenon currently known as the contactee experience is almost coeval with human existence, under many different guises. “UFOs have been seen throughout history and have consistently received (or provided) their own explanation within the framework of each culture,” Vallee says. These visitors, if they really exist, are obviously quite willing to conform to whatever mythology or beliefs they find; becoming whatever we want them to be and telling us whatever we want to hear. Modern mythology having shifted from the magical to the scientific, it’s only logical that such beings would pose as scientifically advanced beings from space.
But what might be the purpose of this milleniums-long masquerade? Whatever the visitors are or might be, the important question is, do they mean us ill or good? Not even the contactees themselves know. Whitley Streiber, alleged UFO abductee and author of several books on the subject, has even questioned the wisdom of writing about it: “What if they were dangerous? Than I was terribly dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing people to them.” Given their willingness to pretend to be whatever they think we want them to be and their increasingly enlarged capacity for calculated manipulation, how likely is it that the visitors’ intentions towards us are benign?
Anyone familiar with the tales of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos can easily imagine, instead of friendly alien visitors, something more along the lines of the terrible pre-human inhabitants of earth whom Lovecraft called the Great Old Ones.
“All my stories,” Lovecraft wrote, “are based on the fundamental lore or legend that this world was inhabited at one time by another race who, in practicing black magic, lost their foothold and were expelled, yet live on outside ever ready to take possession of this earth again.” Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones and Elder Gods are reminiscent of the Book of Enoch’s evil angels—and the UFO visitors. Some of the contactees themselves have associated the visitors with the gods of ancient mythology. When the visitors told Streiber they were “very old,” he found himself wondering, “Who were the old gods, really?” If the visitors are gods, they certainly conform to the ancient Greek conception of divinity: “Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.” Their dealings with Streiber nearly caused him to lose his mind. “I thought...my years of eager study of everything from Zen to quantum physics had led me into some strange and tragic byway of the soul,” he later wrote.
More on Vallee:
http://www.brainsturbator.com/site/comment...ligent_ufology/
Also, for anyone who thinks they know Strieber, I strongly recommend checking out the Dream’s End site, which contains a highly disturbing investigation of Strieber’s connections to an MKULTRA spin-off program—not that Strieber is deliberately deceptive, but that he’s been programmed and fucked with since childhood. The evidence piles up to a truly absurd degree:
Part 1:
http://dreamsend.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/...radigm-of-doom/
Part 2:
http://dreamsend.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/...of-doom-part-2/
Part 3:
http://dreamsend.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/...of-doom-part-3/
Part 4 (a doozy):
http://dreamsend.wordpress.com/2007/03/04/...y-goes-to-mars/
