skepticism – Nothing to Doubt Blog

I’ve been waiting for ET & UFO disclosure for most of my life now.

I’m old enough (feels weird to say) to remember when Obama was supposed to disclose ETs circa 2009. Since the days of perusing the Above Top Secret forum in high school, whispers of official “disclosure” have always placed it at right around the corner, a sort of saving grace for those in the UFO community, a foretold redemption for those whose friends and family might view them as crazy.

Since then, I’ve learned that disclosure is very much an individual, often painful journey of discovering truth within yourself, deconstructing layers of old belief systems to perceive more of reality. We don’t need to wait for the government to tell us what is real. Nor should we care what any other person thinks, for that matter.

I’ve also learned that there are many people in this world who will not believe anything unless it comes from an “official” external source, even though these same sources — whether governments, mainstream media outlets, or church leaders — have been participating in the deceitful coverup and perception manipulation for decades, often in conjunction with the intelligence agencies.

For most of these people, some sort of official acknowledgement is needed that we are not alone in the universe — that there are beings here visiting from other planets, other dimensions, possibly even from beneath our feet. We have been swimming about a tiny fish tank, made to believe it was our whole reality.

In general, I see two categories of people whose belief systems will be shattered by a hypothetical disclosure.

The first are your classic dogmatic religious people, who are made to believe that beings from other planets or dimensions, or anything outside their narrow box, are demonic. I’m not saying that there isn’t a “demonic” element to our world (it would explain a lot, actually). But the worldviews of a surprising amount of people in the online Christian community have devolved to the point where they believe that space and other planets are “fake” (in my mind, a purposeful psychological operation in conjunction with flat earth theory), a perfect way to continue the 80-year coverup and get people arguing over nonsense.

Open-minded Christians (and other religious people) who can see that ETs, UFOs, and interdimensional beings are mentioned everywhere in holy texts, even littered throughout religious artwork/iconography (a few examples of which I’m attaching), will have a much easier time. They will accept the obvious truth that God made a vast universe filled with a multitude of intelligent expressions. Anything less (space is fake) is a disservice to his creation.

This is part 2 on this piece on spirituality. In part 1, I primarily analyzed the research into childhood past life memory, as pioneered by Dr. Ian Stevenson and carried on by those such as Dr. Jim Tucker.

This section marks a discourse largely into quantum physics, proposing the need for a major paradigm shift merging science and spirituality, hence establishing a rational basis for phenomena such as reincarnation. Arguing that spirituality essentially is scientific, I denounce the obstructing remains of materialism and religious skepticism, while filling to the brim quotes from some of the greatest thinkers of our time.

My ultimate thesis posits a universal consciousness, which one may call “God,” that possesses creative primacy over the realm of matter. From this perspective, our individualized minds are fundamentally entwined with the very essence of the universe, and as a logical consequence, almost certainly survive death.

I only offer a perspective; I am not branding this as “truth.” You are on your own journey, and can decide for yourself what that is. Critical minds are encouraged.

A Discourse on Skepticism, Consciousness, Quantum Mechanics & The Scientific God

“Quantum physics indicates that our physical world may grow out of our consciousness. That’s a view held not just by me, but by a number of physicists as well . . . what I tried to do is show how people arrive at conclusions, as Max Planck, the founder of quantum theory, did when he said that he recorded consciousness as fundamental and that physical matter was derived from it.

“. . . And eventually it appears that on the quantum level, the smallest and most basic level of the universe, that events only occur once their results are observed. So before observation, there are only potentials. . . . this leads to an idea that, again, the consciousness is what is fundamental in reality and that the physical universe simply grows out of that.

“Well, if that is the case then we would not expect an individual consciousness to end when a physical brain dies. And our cases, of course, provide evidence that in fact consciousness does not end and that it continues on.”

-Dr. Jim Tucker, Skeptico, “Dr. Jim Tucker Compiles Largest Database of Past-Life Memories”

As University of Virginia psychiatrist and past life researcher Jim Tucker tells Skeptico, there are several quantum physicists—including some of its most preeminent pioneers—who have regarded reality as being a co-creative generation of an underlying mind. And if this were the case, then the idea that consciousness transcends death of the physical body would not only be compatible with scientific theory, it would be expected of it.

In support of Tucker’s claims, a “delayed choice thought experiment”—first proposed by idealist physicist John Wheeler—has recently been performed at the Australian National University, confirming that “at the quantum level, reality does not ‘exist’ if you are not looking at it,” in the words of ANU Professor Andrew Truscott. Certainly, this suggests an independent importance of the mind of a subjective observer.

In fact, only once atoms are observed at the end of their journey do they make a “choice” between quantum states, dictating which path they take in the past! Until then, reality is merely an abstraction—a suspended state of uncertainty. But there is no logic in simply leaving this craziness alone in the “quantum world” without questioning the implications for consciousness on a greater scale.

That is: Who is the observer behind these eyes? Is there a transcendent mind? An unseen soul? And can this energetic awareness of self indeed survive death of the body, and flow into other forms?