Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind: Selected Writings of John A. Keel Read Online Free Page A
Author: John A. Keel
UFO manifestations were closely related to psychic manifestations, and were therefore almost impossible to investigate.
Once it was established that UFOs were intangible (they appeared and disappeared as instantly as ghosts), official interest dissipated. The flap of 1966 aroused Congress, however, and public pressure led the Air Force to shop around for a university willing to conduct an impartial investigation. After several major universities rejected the Air Force’s proposition, the project was given, somewhat reluctantly, to Colorado. The real purpose of the project was to “get all the nuts off the Air Force’s back,” as one Pentagon officer put it.
It is extremely unlikely that there will
ever
be an official UFO study project. If another 1966-type flap occurs, the Pentagon will simply dust off the
Condon Report.
There have been (and are) certain small projects concerned with the medical and psychological effects on the witnesses. These are heavily disguised, however, and no results have been – or will be – published in the foreseeable future. Public exposure would result in an outcry from those members of Congress who try to watchdog agency budgets.
We could not find any evidence of any kind indicating direct CIA involvement on the scale long rumored in UFO circles. Offices of the
U.S. Navy
(NSA, NRO, ONI, etc.) have been more involved in UFO research than the CIA or Air Force!
As we have stressed for several years, the UFO situation is less real than the believers can understand. UFO manipulations are primarily diversions meant to conceal the real nature of the phenomenon, and to generate propaganda for the extraterrestrial concept. Or, as Sir Victor Goddard phrased it a few years ago, they “indulge an inveterate and continuing technological urge towards materialistic progress.”
The effectiveness of the comparatively few ET propagandists and evangelists is obvious. They were responsible for the pressures that led the Air Force to waste $500,000 of the taxpayers’ money on the abortive Colorado project.
More importantly, they have led a large part of the public to believe that every odd light in the sky is a spaceship from some other planet.
-John Keel
(From
Anomaly
magazine #9, June 1973)
“The preposterous hypothesis we have come to is that at one time human nature was split in two: an executive part called a god, and a follower part called a man. Neither part was conscious. (This is almost incomprehensible to us, since we are self-conscious.) When some brand new situation would occur, our ‘bicameral’ man would not do what you and I do, that is, quickly and efficiently swivel our consciousness over to the matter, and narratize out what to do. He would have to wait for his bicameral voice – with the stored-up admonitory wisdom of his life – which would tell him,
nonconsciously,
what to do.
“But what were such auditory hallucinations like? The voices take any and every relationship to the individual. They converse, threaten, curse, criticize, consult, admonish, console, mock, command, or sometimes simply announce everything that’s happening… The only extensive study was done in the last century in England… Russians had twice as many hallucinations on average. Brazilians had even more… Since the advent of chemotherapy, the incidence of hallucinatory patients is much less than it once was…
“Hallucinating patients are more friendly, less defensive, more likeable, and have more positive expectancies toward others in the hospital than nonhallucinating patients. And it is possible that even when the effect is apparently negative, hallucinated voices may be helpful to the healing process… Of immense importance here is the fact that the nervous system of a patient makes simple perceptual judgments of which the patient’s ‘self ’ is not aware… Hallucinations must have some innate structure in the nervous system underlying them. We can see this clearly by studying those
Once it was established that UFOs were intangible (they appeared and disappeared as instantly as ghosts), official interest dissipated. The flap of 1966 aroused Congress, however, and public pressure led the Air Force to shop around for a university willing to conduct an impartial investigation. After several major universities rejected the Air Force’s proposition, the project was given, somewhat reluctantly, to Colorado. The real purpose of the project was to “get all the nuts off the Air Force’s back,” as one Pentagon officer put it.
It is extremely unlikely that there will
ever
be an official UFO study project. If another 1966-type flap occurs, the Pentagon will simply dust off the
Condon Report.
There have been (and are) certain small projects concerned with the medical and psychological effects on the witnesses. These are heavily disguised, however, and no results have been – or will be – published in the foreseeable future. Public exposure would result in an outcry from those members of Congress who try to watchdog agency budgets.
We could not find any evidence of any kind indicating direct CIA involvement on the scale long rumored in UFO circles. Offices of the
U.S. Navy
(NSA, NRO, ONI, etc.) have been more involved in UFO research than the CIA or Air Force!
As we have stressed for several years, the UFO situation is less real than the believers can understand. UFO manipulations are primarily diversions meant to conceal the real nature of the phenomenon, and to generate propaganda for the extraterrestrial concept. Or, as Sir Victor Goddard phrased it a few years ago, they “indulge an inveterate and continuing technological urge towards materialistic progress.”
The effectiveness of the comparatively few ET propagandists and evangelists is obvious. They were responsible for the pressures that led the Air Force to waste $500,000 of the taxpayers’ money on the abortive Colorado project.
More importantly, they have led a large part of the public to believe that every odd light in the sky is a spaceship from some other planet.
-John Keel
(From
Anomaly
magazine #9, June 1973)
“The preposterous hypothesis we have come to is that at one time human nature was split in two: an executive part called a god, and a follower part called a man. Neither part was conscious. (This is almost incomprehensible to us, since we are self-conscious.) When some brand new situation would occur, our ‘bicameral’ man would not do what you and I do, that is, quickly and efficiently swivel our consciousness over to the matter, and narratize out what to do. He would have to wait for his bicameral voice – with the stored-up admonitory wisdom of his life – which would tell him,
nonconsciously,
what to do.
“But what were such auditory hallucinations like? The voices take any and every relationship to the individual. They converse, threaten, curse, criticize, consult, admonish, console, mock, command, or sometimes simply announce everything that’s happening… The only extensive study was done in the last century in England… Russians had twice as many hallucinations on average. Brazilians had even more… Since the advent of chemotherapy, the incidence of hallucinatory patients is much less than it once was…
“Hallucinating patients are more friendly, less defensive, more likeable, and have more positive expectancies toward others in the hospital than nonhallucinating patients. And it is possible that even when the effect is apparently negative, hallucinated voices may be helpful to the healing process… Of immense importance here is the fact that the nervous system of a patient makes simple perceptual judgments of which the patient’s ‘self ’ is not aware… Hallucinations must have some innate structure in the nervous system underlying them. We can see this clearly by studying those
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