It's All True

Virginia Woolf chose this room in Monk's House because of its view of Mount Caburn, where some years later Reg Presley of the Troggs saw a UFO:

It all hangs together, you see. My own view of aliens - I've often been asked about this on American radio for some reason - is that we are not probably not visited by creatures as fully materialized as we are.  In the cosmology i am proposing in my book, this cosmos has been created in order to give us the form of consciousness we have, and that our form - or forms - of consciousness are unique to us in the cosmos partly because of the material form of the bodies we inhabit.

There's a painting of The Temptation of St Anthony, owned by the National Gallery in Dublin, which I chanced on years ago, but sadly is not on display at the moment. It is, however, reproduced in one of the colour sections of my book. By Domenicus van Wijnen, it shows different partially materialized beings emerging from different heavenly bodies. And that is what I believe that people who experience aliens are encountering. Martians, Venusians, beings who ought to inhabit the Moon - one of these is also illustrated b/w - may move amongst us, but their flesh is not solid like ours.

In madness people are perhaps more prone to encountering them, but unlike an initiate they may well not know who they are talking to and so may be persecuted and made very unhappy.

Comments

[Al]

Interesting to say the least. I wonder, if their flesh isn't like ours, does this mean their life expectancy could be in thousands of years or more?