The main problem with the current ufology is that the existing unspoken consensus suits too many people. Ufologists are accustomed to a quiet life, a well-fed trough and depict the struggle for possession of the "truth about UFOs" rather out of habit. This does not bother the authorities, moreover, ufologists for them are a convenient channel for leaking disinformation and waging psychological warfare.
To direct them to where they need to go, many techniques have been developed: one of them is the strict dosage of declassified documents, which, like handouts from a master's table, researchers are waiting for. The people are also satisfied with this: people do not need shocking truths, give them "good aliens" or something vague when "the truth is somewhere nearby." And who, in all honesty, wants shocks?
One can imagine what a stunning impression was once caused by the realization of the real place of the Earth in space. The stars have ceased to be lamps, carefully hung by God on the crystal firmament of heaven for the amusement of human hearts, turning into flaming balls of alien suns. The Earth turned out to be an insignificant speck of dust amid endless darkness, a pitiful crumb lost among the majestic luminaries of one of the spirals of the Galaxy. And the Galaxy itself with all its 150 billion stars has become nothing more than a grain of sand, one of the atoms of the Metagalaxy.
However, the irrational fear of the icy abyss, the infinity of the Cosmos pales in comparison with another fear: humanity is not alone in the Universe. We are being watched, cold, alien creatures for whom human life does not mean anything fly to us. And if we are still alive, then they need it for some reason. But who knows, if the aliens from the stars will not want to wipe people off the face of the Earth and sow it again?
Psychiatrists know that the most painful events of childhood (and sometimes adult life) are rejected by the human mind. The protective mechanism of the brain acts in such a way that the memory of them is displaced from consciousness into the area of the unconscious layers of the psyche, where they continue to live and declare themselves with inexplicable manifestations of fear and neuroses.
In the behavior of the crowd and any society, as in a powerful lens, the fears and neuroses of each individual are intensified. The subconscious fear of the starry sky, which at any moment can darken from countless spaceships or curl up like a scroll, gave rise to the phenomenon of the "rejection effect". Science and society as a whole begin to behave like frightened children who hide their heads under a pillow and whisper prayers, thinking that things that frighten them will somehow pass by themselves. It helps when the fear is imaginary, but one cannot escape from a hefty maniac with an ax.
Vadim Vilinbakhov was the first to notice that the "rejection effect" is directly related to UFOs: our science and society tend to reject shocking information about the existence of an alien, powerful mind, preferring to close their eyes to the obvious.
Western ufology turned to the "rejection effect" only ten years later, but in much more emphatic terms:
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“The syndrome of rejection is too common in people's lives and in history, for which we can find countless examples, and not only in ufology,” wrote Hal McKenzie. - Compare, for example, with the tragic and, alas, ordinary case when a little girl tells her mother that her father often comes into her room at night and rapes her. The mother sternly interrupts the child and tells her to stop “telling a lie”. The truth is so painful for the mother that her brain turns against her or blocks her: she is in a state of rejection.
A child, faced with such a wall of rejection and unable to change anything, also enters a state of rejection in order to survive; it blocks painful experiences, suppressing memories of them, driving them deep into the subconscious. But memories cannot be suppressed forever: when a child grows up, they break out by themselves, causing psychosis.
Today, an understanding psychotherapist can help such a patient. However, there was a time when victims of incest ran into a wall of rejection even among so-called psychoanalysts. The late great Sigmund Freud often dealt with women who recalled during seances that they had been raped by their fathers. Respectable Freud simply could not believe it - the social taboo imposed even on the discussion of such a topic was too strong. So he rejected the veracity of his patients' stories and created an ingenious theory to explain them: the famous Oedipus complex. Freud assumed that these women, being little girls, driven by their infantile libido, fantasize about intimate relationships with their fathers …”.
However, what is true for society as a whole does not always apply to every individual and even large groups of people. In addition to the typical “rejecting” reaction of the majority of the population (“I don’t want to know anything about this, I don’t need it, I’m scared”), there is a neutral reaction (“Well, are they there or not, but what do I get from this?”) And “Positive” (“I know that they exist and come to us”).
Apparently, here we are talking about an analogy with the consciousness of one person. Displacement of painful impressions into the depths of the subconscious in him can lead to a splitting of the personality. On the scale of humanity, this rift does not go through one consciousness, but divides the masses of people into different groups in relation to the UFO phenomenon.
Reactions of complete or partial rejection, as well as neutral, are not interesting to us. This is a primitive position - the position of an ostrich burying its head in the sand. But the quirks of the "positive" position are usually such that we might call it "fanatical."
I mean the belief in "good aliens" who should help us or are already helping us, address us with all sorts of messages or "increase our spirituality." For some, this faith obscures, like pink glass, the icy coldness of the interstellar abysses and the gaze of unblinking eyes looking downward. The heavens in their minds are populated by "almost people"
- kind, penetrating, understanding our problems and at the same time powerful beings. For their faith in "benevolent aliens" they are ready to fight, and some - to kill or commit suicide.
Others simply inserted "good aliens" in the place of the good God, pushed aside by science. There are also those who mix God and aliens into one whole, creating unthinkable constructions from two such dissimilar elements. Crazy religions and "contactee" cults now and then arise all over the world to ingloriously collapse or blossom into a lush empty flower. All this chaos discredits the problem even more in the eyes of "sane" people and scientists, who do not want to be put on the same level with obvious psychos and charlatans parasitizing on the topic.
This rift has passed even among ufologists who have devoted their lives to studying UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence. Many of those who were able to cast aside faith in the good aliens and look at the problem impartially could not resist. They burned their archives, hitting religion, wanting to get at least a semblance of protection in the church - they say, God will help us. Others clung to hypotheses about "parallel worlds" and "harmony of the cosmos." In such hypotheses, the main thing is one thought: parallel worlds are interconnected (option: everything in space is interconnected), so they will not do anything bad to us and will not be allowed to do anything with ourselves either. Otherwise, our misfortune may reflect badly on "them".
Break the pink glass! The cosmos is shaken by countless cataclysms, in which stars, planets and entire galaxies perish. In the fire of the Supernovae, sterilized by monstrous streams of radiation, myriads of worlds blaze. Stars go out, swell, devouring their planets, or are pulled into black holes, gradually falling beyond the "event horizon". The planets slow down their run in cosmic dust and fall in a tapering spiral onto the doomed stars, freeze, die, bombarded by comets and asteroids. Next to us is Mars, a corpse planet, cracked at the seams, killed by monstrous impacts. Only miserable streams deep in bottomless cracks remind that oceans recently flowed along it, and life flourished on its surface. Beyond the orbit of Mars, only fragments of the shattered world remind of Phaethon. Judging by the meteorites - its debris,falling to Earth - there was life on this planet too. Once there was …
An indifferent Universe easily generates life and just as easily destroys it. The chemical compounds of interstellar gas clouds have all the necessary components for its emergence, and new centers of life appear to replace the worlds erased from the face of the Universe. Only civilizations that have reached the level of space flights can avoid cosmic catastrophes for some time and settle among the interstellar expanses, exploring all suitable worlds.
Mikhail Gershtein