It never occurs to us to ask the questions which it never occurs to us to ask. And the questions we ask frame the debate. They determine what we think about.
Although we may never be able to arrive at the answers to certain questions, the 20th century poet, Rainer Maria Rilke encouraged us to live in and with the questions themselves, and by so doing, he believed that we might one day be able, distantly, to arrive at the answers.
There are two questions that we seem destined, almost doomed, to ask over and over. One of these is framed as the eternal question, or at least one of them. The second question is beginning to rank right there with first one. These two questions don’t at first appear to be related, but I suspect that they might be. These are the questions:
Does God exist? Do extraterrestrials exist?
Asking these two questions – (1) whether God exists, and (2) whether extraterrestrials exist – never leads to a provable answer. At least from a scientific standpoint, the first question – whether there is a God – is nonfalsifiable. God can’t be disproved.
From a theological standpoint, asking whether there is a God is also not very useful since God can’t be proved either. We wouldn’t have been arguing about the existence of God for such a long time if God could be proved. God can’t be proved. God can’t be disproved. Since this is the case, we’re asking a question for which there is no satisfactory answer. We may be asking the wrong question.
The extraterrestrial question is similar in some respects to the God question. I maintain that the search for UFO’s is in some respects the same as search for God. The cosmos is so vast and its history so long that we may never be able to come up with an answer. Like the God question, we’ve asked it over and over again, and haven’t been able to provide ourselves with a definitive answer. Therefore, asking whether extraterrestrials exist may be asking the wrong question.
The question therefore becomes: What is the right question (or right questions) to ask? Below, you’ll find a series of proposed questions we might ask about extraterrestrials, and about God.
Are we – as a collective and not as individual egos – God? Or at least a part of God?
God is simply that attic of unanswerable questions and incomprehensible riddles we cannot hope to answer and to solve from within the spacetime continuum as it is currently understood. Yet most would agree that if there is a Higher Power, it’s infinite in extent and eternal in duration, having no starting points in space or time. If this deity exists, it must be all-encompassing. It is omnipresent. Therefore, there is neither a place nor time where it is not. If, therefore, God exists, we must be a part of God.
Are we extraterrestrials? Are we extraterrestrial in origin?
By virtue of the conclusions of the material sciences (physics, astrophysics, chemistry and astrobiology), our origins, in an ultimate sense, are most certainly extraterrestrial in nature. We are made of star material – the light elements forged in vast clouds and the heavier elements fused within stellar cores.
Yet this question poses a deeper mystery: Were we, as extant lifeforms, travelers to earth from other places? The hypothesis of panspermia – that life is relatively common throughout the cosmos and is extraterrestrial in origin – turns all of us into aliens. Yet this hypothesis can be taken a step further. We can ask whether we were delivered to earth by intelligent agents other than ourselves. Through galactic seeding, our ancestors could have been planted here. Who knows? We hominids may have been introduced as an advanced species. If any of these scenarios are borne out, the extraterrestrials we seek to know may be closer than the tips of our noses.
Why would extraterrestrials visit us?
Because they can. Because they’re curious. Because they’re interested in our welfare.
Because they are us, and are visiting from our future.
I’d doubt that they’re interested in colonization or overt exploitation, or we would already have seen evidence of it. We must assume that ET’s are far more-advanced than we are in a technological sense, and wouldn’t be too worried about our counterstrike capabilities. There’s always the possibility that they’ve engaged in a stealth campaign against humanity for quite some time, but I doubt that, too. They wouldn’t need to attack us on the flank when their overwhelming superiority would allow them to engage us head-on.
Where do extraterrestrials come from? From earth, just like we do?
The interdimensional hypothesis of extraterrestrial origin may play a significant role in this question, as it does to the question immediately preceding it. This hypothesis posits that UAP’s exist in the same spacetime as humans on earth but that they live within and come to us from other dimensions which overlap with ours. This hypothesis was ostensibly favored by Dr. Allen J. Hynek, the astronomer famous for investigating Air Force UFO files in Project Blue Book and related programs.
The interdimensional hypothesis is also an explanation favored by Luis Elizondo and some of his colleagues who investigated UAPs while at the Pentagon. As reported in his book, Imminent, some UAP craft may be traveling within a packet of their own spacetime, which is somewhat consistent with the interdimensional hypothesis. Note that in a recent News Nation article, Immaculate Constellation Reports Describe UFO Encounters (11/15/24), which cited a Michael Shellenberger whistleblower report introduced as part of his congressional testimony in November, 2024, metallic orbs spotted over the ocean were identified in infrared footage as having ‘slight atmospheric distortion around each of several orbs.’ This testimony may be consistent with the spacetime jackets postulated by Elizondo and his team in Imminent.
Yet another possibility is that at least one unidentified object – the UAP filmed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Puerto Rico – is a trans-dimensional, five-dimensional entity. This UAP may have ‘come out’ of the 5th dimension, yet there’s no questions that it also appeared in the four dimensions of our spacetime continuum (three of space, one of time) or it wouldn’t have been observed and reported as it moved off the coast of Puerto Rico. This object appeared to constantly change as different aspects became visible in our four dimensions.
Is there a 5th dimension? In brief, the existence of a 5th dimension – also known as the Kaluza-Klien theory – could explain how gravity is linked to electromagnetism when no connection between these elemental forces seems apparent in our 4-dimensional universe. If a 5th dimension does exist, it’s possible that the reason we can’t see this 5th dimension because it exists in a higher plane of space than the one we occupy. It may be curled up within, or conversely it may surround our four dimensions like a cylinder, or perhaps by forming a circle. This 5th dimension is believed to be microscopic, in which case the radius of the circular dimension might be 23 times the Planck length, which in turn is of the order of 10 -33 cm. Despite its infinitesimal size, this undetectable dimension may serve to link together the four dimensions of our spacetime. If you’re confused by all the mathematics and physics, set them aside and consider the possibility that aliens come from ‘places’ overlapping with our own.
Another possible answer to the riddle of where ET’s come from is a little closer to home. According to the cryptoterrestrial hypothesis, EBE’s are in reality organisms that arose on earth, in space or in near-earth orbit. This hypothesis also includes within its embrace the possibility that what we believe are extraterrestrials are really creatures which live in a hollow earth. This hypothesis seemed to me a little farfetched, and bears some commonalties with legends about cryptids like bigfoot, which are common to all cultures and which are perhaps better explained by C. G. Jung’s archetypes and the imaginal realm described by physicist, Fred Allan Wolfe, which are discussed below.
Morlocks aside, the credibility of this hypothesis was elevated in my eyes after reading a study on entities called plasmoids. Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Extraterrestrial Life, Plasmoids, Thunderstorms, Lightning, Hallucinations, Aircraft Disasters, Ocean Sightings, by Joseph, Rhawn Gabriel, et al. (2024), Journal of Modern Physics.
Thunderstorms provide an electromagnetic link between the ionosphere and earth. Lightning can be conceived of as a cylinder that connects the surface of the Earth to thunder clouds, and thunder clouds to the earth’s ionosphere. Lightning is a plasma. It may provide a link between our four dimensions and the 5th dimension discussed above in the context of the interdimensional hypothesis. But less hypothetically, in terms of geometry, as viewed in our four dimensions, lightning appears to have the twisted shape of a series of cylinders, and if you slice a cylinder, it will have the shape of a circle with a hole at its center. Id.
This hypothetical ‘hole’ may have been viewed by nearly 1,000 residents of the Western Australian town of Tom Price, who saw a huge ball of plasma floating downward toward them from the sky. One witness described this ball as “[a]n intense spherical ball of orange-red fire with the fire swirling in a spiral pattern and the flames disappearing internally upwards into a central black ‘hole’ or void within the spherical mass of flames.” Another observer also described it as “like a moving plasma ball in a local space-time warp around a central black hole.” Id.
The study cited above admits that inanimate charges behave much like earthbound organisms in terms of movement and behavior, but lures us with the tantalizing possibility that plasmoids are organisms at work in the earth’s atmosphere, and sometimes even at or near the surface. If plasmoids are living things, where they initially evolved, when they evolved, and whether they’re related to organic life on earth are all questions left open by the several authors of the study. The discussion has gotten a bit technical as well as conjectural, but the point is that ET’s may always have been among us. In fact, they may be related to us in much more subtle and intimate ways than we could ever have imagined.
Are Extraterrestrials a Product of Our Greatest Hopes? And Our Greatest Fears?
The psychosocial hypothesis regarding extraterrestrial life postulates that sociological and sociocultural forces as well as collective psychology better explain the UAP phenomenon than any extraterrestrial theory of origin can. This hypothesis overlaps with the archetypes described by Carl Jung and by Fred Allan Wolfe’s imaginal realm. Without denying the possibility of the concrete reality of extraterrestrial beings visiting earth, both Jung and Wolfe would argue that these phenomena represent internal fears and hopes projected outward. As myths, these experiences may reveal truths about ourselves which are far greater than the literal meanings ascribed to alien visitations. Circumstantial evidence does lend some credence to the psychosocial hypothesis.
American businessman and pilot Kenneth Arnold kicked off post-World War II era when, while piloting his plane solo over the Cascades in Washington state for a business trip, he described seeing a formation of what he described as ‘flying saucers’ moving over the mountains. His description that the UFO’s resembled flying saucers was immediately picked up by the newspaper journalist first publishing his account, even though Arnold later stated that a flying saucer was a journalistic misinterpretation of his description of the shape of the craft he observed, which he originally referred to as moving like saucers skipping, rather than as bearing a saucer-like shape. Yet subsequent early UFO reports made by many individuals shortly after Arnold’s account was published picked up on this newspaper description and described the shape of the craft they witnessed as saucer-like. This provides anecdotal evidence that what an observer sees can be influenced, perhaps subconsciously, by prior accounts of which they become aware prior to their own observations.
Proponents of the psychosocial hypothesis also argue that Betty and Barney Hill, who provided a famous account of their alien abduction in New England in the early 1960’s, were influenced by a TV show. The Hills described their abduction by gray EBE’s a mere 10 days after the first gray ET was presented to television audiences in the episode, The Bolero Shield, on The Outer Limits.
Gray EBE’s are often described as having small stature, enlarged heads, smooth, hairless gray skin, large dark eyes without eye whites, no ears and no noses. The alien in the above-referenced Outer Limits episode had many of these traits, though it lacked a small, childlike size and enlarged black eyes without definition. The timing of the Hills; abduction does seem rather coincidental.
Those who advance the psychosocial hypothesis as the most probable explanation for UAP’s also argue that early UAP reports were influenced by pre-1947 (pre-Roswell) science fiction literature. Scientists have also argued that it is unlikely that, in the event EBE’s exist, they would have coincidentally evolved a humanoid morphology with bipedal characteristics such as two legs, two arms, and hands that end in multiple digits as well as a head with two eyes and a humanlike mouth.
In support of this rather deflating hypothesis, we might look at some of the illustrations in newspapers of the then famous Mystery Airship sightings of 1896-1897. The type of craft presented look very much like the technology of the times (airships, winged craft), which provides inferential evidence that our sightings are related to the suggestibility of people influenced by press accounts. Orson Welles’s famous War of the Worlds radio play in 1938 illustrates the power of mass media as well as the hysteria which can be induced in groups of people.
I Want to Believe. Those were the words on a wall poster behind Fox Mulder’s desk in the 90’s show The X Files. Above those words, a flying saucer floated in the sky. Could the answer to the extraterrestrial mystery be as simple as people seeing what they believe? Ann Jacobson, an author on the subject, stated in an interview on the Joe Rogan podcast that people are colored by what they want to believe about extraterrestrials. I think is true and may distort many observations, as well as interpretations, of those observations. Yet I, too, want to believe.
In the Joe Rogan interview, Jacobson mentioned that the American defense establishment had developed tech a couple generations ago which far exceeded what most people – even some experts – assumed we had. In this regard, she mentioned stealth tech. I might also add the SR-71 Blackbird, which was way ahead of its time. It is therefore possible that what Navy pilots witnessed while flying from the Nimitz off San Diego – the Tic Tac video which showed a transmedium, tic tac shaped UAP that came out of the ocean and flew – was the product of DARPA technology. The tech’s operators might have been trying to fool our best military sensor systems flying off the decks of Navy ships.
There is yet another plausible explanation for the UAP filmed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Puerto Rico referenced above. It could have been humanly-engineered military technology based on optics, mirrors and the deployment of ultra-rapid laser pulses. Together, these technologies might have created luminous aerial plasma that appeared in three-dimensional space as one or more ghost images which served as decoys. The purpose of the ghost image is to trick observers and missiles which would home in on the plasmatic ghost or even multiple ghosts. Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Extraterrestrial Life, Plasmoids, Thunderstorms, Lightning, Hallucinations, Aircraft Disasters, Ocean Sightings, by Joseph, Rhawn Gabriel, et al. (2024), Journal of Modern Physics, p. 1828.
The U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center has apparently been working on this technology since 2012, according to a U.S. Navy website article dated 2017. The article states that “Dr. Alexandru Hening, a scientist has pioneered laser-generated plasma at the [Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific] for five years.” In 2018, Dr. Hening filed a patent application, titled “System and Method for Laser-Induced Plasma for Infrared Homing Missile Countermeasure.” The patent is apparently based on plasma technology developed at the Warfare Systems Center.
As stated in Hening’s patent application: “Described herein is a system and method to generate a plasma-based decoy flare by using a laser source, to counter an infrared homing surface-to-air and/or air-to-air missile. With laser-induced plasma (LIP), it is possible to generate multiple wavelengths just by ‘tuning the laser parameters… [A] laser beam…will generate a laser-induced plasma filament (LIPF) in accordance with the system and method for laser-induced plasma for infrared homing missile countermeasure.” Id.
We, therefore, may be the aliens which so many of us want to encounter. This subtle, nuanced conclusion, that we are the aliens we so desperately fear and yet seek, may prove the most plausible explanation for extraterrestrial phenomenon. I regret coming to this conclusion, since I, like Fox Mulder, really want to believe.
The search for aliens, and our belief in them, may parallel our search and belief in God. This search for an extraterrestrial Big Brother may, in part, be a way to seek salvation from ourselves, and to seek escape from our own choices. And if we turn this extraterrestrial race into an invading, marauding force, as we so often do, it is akin to our belief in the devil and his minions. It may simply be a way to disclaim responsibility for own actions.
If we seek only to invest in the physical reality of extraterrestrials without trying to discover why they’re existence is so important to us, we may miss an opportunity to find something out about ourselves. To believe only in the literal existence of alien life also parallels our belief in the literality of sacred texts like the Bible. Freud talked about dreams having a latent and a manifest content. The manifest content represents the dream’s patent, apparent nature, while its latent content refers to its symbolic meaning, which unlocks its true, yet figurative power. The symbolic meaning of a text like the Bible reveals a truth much greater than its literal interpretation, at least according to some. If our experiences of extraterrestrials are endowed with a symbolic, mythological significance, perhaps they show us to ourselves, as individuals, as cultures, as a species. They reveal to us our greatest aspirations as well as our darkest terrors.
On a mountainside plaque in Thailand, it’s written: Look and contemplate within to see the truth. Looking out at others, we are immersed in delusion. This elemental truth perhaps best illustrates what I call the Extraterrestrial Problem. Without denying the physical existence of alien life, we might want to ask why the extraterrestrial question is so important to us. Our ideas about God tell us more about ourselves than they do about God. Similarly, our notions about alien life reveal more to us about ourselves than they do about extraterrestrials. This applies both to the substance of our beliefs as well as to whether we believe at all.
When do extraterrestrials come from? From past, present and future?
The time travel hypothesis proposes that aliens are us travelling from the future. This hypothesis is considered extremely implausible and unlikely even by conspiracy theorists. However, I consider it one of the more likely and even one of the more prosaic explanations. It might explain the sightings of humanoid EBE’s, which would not likely have evolved on extrasolar planets, even if convergent evolution – the parallel evolution of similar forms due to their more successful responses to selective pressures – is taken into account. The odds of humanlike aliens evolving in isolation on other planets and on earth are rather remote. It’s possible, of course, that humanoid forms evolved on other planets and then transported hominids to earth, but there is little evidence to support this conjecture, and the time travel hypothesis is at least as plausible as any other pseudoscientific hypothesis at the level of the ancient astronaut ‘theory.’ In fact, given the immense distances involved in interplanetary travel, time travel may prove more plausible than interstellar space travel. The fluid nature of time might explain how our own descendants might travel back into the past to visit us.
Einstein’s theories popularized the relative nature of time. As an object moves faster, time slows for it in relation to an object traveling slower than itself or at rest. As an object approaches the speed of light, time stops. Similarly, due to the effects of gravity, time slows as an object nears a blackhole, eventually coming to a halt.
Within the framework of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, temporal paradoxes could be avoided if the time traveler would move from one dimension, or parallel universe, or timeline, to another. This theoretical phenomenon is related to the interdimensional hypothesis discussed above.
There’s been much speculation recently that quantum effects, under certain conditions, could make time flow backward. Certain quantum systems could naturally evolve to lower entropy, meaning that the unidirectional arrow of time from past to present to future could actually reverse. I won’t get into faster-than-light travel and its effects on time, but this could also represent a potential time reversal vector, giving future organisms a way to travel backward in time. The unidirectional flow of time lacks a certain balance, and represents a fundamental asymmetry. Physic would make more sense if it allowed for the symmetry of time reversal so that the future could casually affect the past. If a way to harness this temporal bidirectionality could be applied, future versions of ourselves may come back for a visit; to study us, or maybe even as tourists. Who knows?
The problem with science (and scientists) is that science is provisional. Yet because scientists rely upon generally accepted principles based upon a body of experimental conclusions, they often deny the provisional nature of their conclusions. Yet the state of science is always changing, and hardly any law or theory survives unchanged for very long. For this reason, faster than light travel and time reversal may become established scientific facts before long. The key is to entertain verifiable possibility. If we remain open, the time travel hypothesis may prove out.
Are extraterrestrials indistinguishable from God?
Arthur C. Clarke wrote that given any advanced technology, humans might find it indistinguishable from magic. Magic, therefore, may simply be science that we don’t understand, and the gods of magic, the gods of our ancestors, may simply be advanced beings who we’ve experienced, but can’t comprehend through our present understanding of what’s possible with science and technology. Could it be that what Jung and Wolfe grasped but couldn’t fully understand, the murky imaginal realm of archetypes and lucid dreams, are in reality dimly understood yet organic beings so far out of our league that we ascribe to them religious qualities? This is yet another question with which we must learn to live, since we are, perhaps, not ready for the answers.
On its own, conflating God or gods with aliens of far surpassing technology has something in common with the ancient alien hypothesis that seems so far out. yet here again, we might do well to look within before looking outside of ourselves. Technology aside, if we were confronted with a physically-derived superintelligent race we could not understand because they were as far-removed from us as we are from slugs, what would our collective projections about these hi-tech organisms reveal about ourselves?
If magic is science too advanced for us to understand as technology, are miracles similarly an expression of an advanced science?
The distinction between magic and miracles is an important one. Jung believed that as the God idea evolves within us, God ‘changes.’ Of course, we conceive of God as the changeless. So it is we who change. It is our understanding that evolves before a God that is, perhaps, in infinite regress because God by its nature is beyond comprehension. The essence of spirituality is mystery.
If you look upon how the idea of God has evolved, there’ve been many changes. We’re no longer sacrificing each other in the names of our voracious deities. During the Axial Age in the 8th to the 3rd centuries BCE, the major world religions, quite contemporaneously, developed similar concepts which often transcended the beliefs that preceded them. Much more recently in the 18th century, the Bahais advanced a belief in the progressive revelation by a monotheistic God on a collective, historical level. The Bahais conclude that humanity is only able to receive, accept and understand the truths for which we’re ready. We need context and historical antecedents in order to advance the next level of understanding. It’s not the truth that changes. It’s what we’re ready to receive and digest.
To me, miracles represent a higher understanding of spiritual truth than does magic, which is the simple appeasement of a deity or an animistic force which often possesses very human characteristics. What is a miracle, as distinguished from magic? It’s simply an event which interrupts the ordinary chain of causation. But it can also be characterized as something rather commonplace.
Miracles operate through us. Before we learned to fly, flight was considered impossible. Yet two brothers interrupted that chain of aeronautical reasoning with a simply belief in the possibility of flight. Miracles can thus come from invention and from science, although I also believe they’re channeled through other sources, too. Vaccines are miracles. The victory against smallpox is a miracle. It’s a miracle when a jet that weighs several tons takes off from the ground and soars to 20,000 feet, speeding across the world, only to land a few hours later in what’s been termed a controlled crash, with all safe onboard. So, yes, miracles can be expressed through science. Perhaps what we’ve considered to be religious experiences have, to some extent, been inspired by technology that we simply don’t yet understand.
This isn’t to take away from our experience of God. Again, Fred Allan Wolfe might say that miraculous experiences come to us from the imaginal realm – that category of preternatural events which our present context does not allow us to grasp. Miracles often give us the opportunity to feel certain truths, rather than to just grasp them intellectually. Above, I related the experience of over a thousand townspeople in Tom Price, Australia, one of whom described a fire in the sky swirling in a spiral pattern. The collective testimony of many people in Fatima, Portugal, described the sun rotating in a circular pattern. These collective ‘visions’ are somewhat similar, yet one is explained in the context of religious imagery, while the other has extraterrestrial connotations. Wolfe might categorize both Marian visions like the one in Fatima and extraterrestrial sightings like the event in Australia as phenomenon within the imaginal realm. Without denying, discounting or attempting to disprove either of these events, perhaps we can simply say that these inexplicable, miraculous events reveal truths about ourselves in addition to their patent meaning. The question then becomes: What do these two events say about the people who witnessed them?
Did extraterrestrials create us?
This question hearkens back to some of the earlier questions asked above – Are extraterrestrials indistinguishable from God? If magic is science too advanced for us to understand as technology, are miracles similarly an expression of an advanced science? Are we extraterrestrials? Are we extraterrestrial in origin?
The undeniable facts are (1) that we are here, and (2) that we were made by something. Materialist science concludes that random and probabilistic processes created us. Yet it is possible that we were created by something more intelligent than that. The questions asked in this section are really all entwined. Answering one answers the others. If we know that ET’s gave rise to us in an intentional act of creation, then from our perspective, EBE’s are indistinguishable from God, our understanding of miracles would be drastically revised as the applications of an advanced science, and we in a sense would be extraterrestrial in nature and in attribution.
The ultimate question – who created the extraterrestrials who made us? – would be still be up for debate. The essential mystery of creation would not be answered, and we would need to fall back on something other than science for a comprehensive answer to the riddle of existence. I suspect that science alone cannot answer this ultimate question. Yet, all I can do from my vantagepoint as a created being is learn to live with the question, to live out the question itself.
Do extraterrestrials have our own best interests at heart?
Do they love us? Or do they seek to exploit and dominate us? A look at human history would suggest that both beneficent and malign motives may be present. Therefore, the questions shift into –
Are EBE’s really any different than humans in terms of their basic natures and motives?
This question involves asking the following: Did or can intelligent alien life evolve beyond the selfish motives and basic survival instincts of humans and their fear-based orientation?
To arrive at an answer, we must look, again, to ourselves. Have we changed over the millenia? Or is human nature what it always was? This, you must answer for yourself. In some ways, basic human nature seems as it always was. We’re still pretty selfish and motivated be fear; fear of death, fear of lack. Yet it may be that the changes taking place within humanity and within each individual human are occurring so gradually that we can’t yet measure any detectably more constructive outcome. It may also be that as a subject studying itself, we can’t objectively and accurately measure ourselves.
Yet there’s reason for hope. Consider some of the following changes, which are more or less worldwide. We’ve outlawed slavery as a legitimate economic enterprise, with attendant legal protections. We’ve gone some way toward enshrining the equal protection of the law for disadvantaged groups and genders. We’ve developed democratic institutions and have at least attempted to create economic opportunity for individuals. Overall, lifespans have increased, the war on hunger, poverty and disease has improved living standards on untold millions. What would be unheard of luxury and convenience for the highest status elite of even 150 years ago is now provided to masses of individuals today. Amazing technologies have become inexpensive enough to be made widely available.
On the biological side, as individuals we have neocortical brain layers which seek to integrate with older limbic and instinctual brain centers. The reason why we lack impulse control may involve the fact that our temporal lobes, which are responsible for reason and abstract thought as well as impulse control, are not yet as well-integrated as the older, more ‘primitive’ regions of our brains. In other words, we need to give ourselves time. Perhaps any extraterrestrials who inhabit our cosmos have had that time, many millions of years of it, to integrate their higher order consciousness with more primal impulses. Although we humans don’t tend to treat each other or less intelligent creatures very kindly at times, I think we are learning to. Let’s be patient with each other and with ourselves, as our neocortices would encourage us to be.
Conclusion
That’s it with all the questions. I’m not wise enough to know the answers, but together, we can begin to arrive at the very dawn of some solutions. What happens to us depends much less on the answers to what we ask than it does upon the very questions themselves.
©2025 by Michael C. Just