Zen For Ufology

When I was a young girl I would look at the many wondrous stars in the sky and wonder if there was someone on a world somewhere in outer space looking back in this direction wondering the same thing. I guess that was my first introduction to the world of Ufology. Little did I know then that those thoughts would take me on a journey to another life that was waiting for me.

It took me 30 years to return to my original destination, after being sidetracked by the ambitions of western society. Although I will never regret having those ambitions it has only been since I began my UFO trek that I have come to realise how strange and curious humanity really is and how far short of our cosmic potential we remain.

Although the world of Ufology has taken me on many mental trips to the stars and along avenues where I have made connections with thousands of people that I would not otherwise had the privilege of knowing, it has also taken me on an inner voyage that has plunged me into a shamanic-like initiation where I have been challenged to let go of preconceived ideas, transcend my own ego and expand my consciousness to the point of leaving me nothing to grasp. I haven’t been too successful in any of these categories so for me the journey still continues.

However, there have been some pay offs on the way and at times I have been able to look at life through extraterrestrial eyes giving me a greater understanding of how humanity can exist in a more profound and wholistic way. This ET perspective has also helped me raise my tolerance level, even if only a fraction, and I can now feel compassion for those in the world that fail to pay attention to the UFO subject rather than be angry and frustrated by their inattention. It’s not humanity’s fault after all that we possess a psyche that serves to protect us through denial and conditioning.

I’ve also been able to gain glimpses into more developed ET societies and how they lay down a model for our own world, a “fast track for dummies” to human evolution if you like, if only we’d learn to read the instructions. Extraterrestrial perspectives of Earth as a kindergarten, ruled by bullies and conquests made through fear and lack of reaching for the stuff we’re truly made of, are far closer to the truth than I’d like. ET perspectives cause us to look into our darkness as well as our light and this is truly the Zen way, for it is in our darkness and at our weakest that humanity often finds it’s spirit, it’s light. It is obvious after all that where spirit and light seem most absent and most needed is where they should be expected to show up.

While my unseen UFO life runs beneath the surface like an underground water course I am always very aware of it. Every day it becomes a more dominant aspect of myself where I feel far more comfortable and enthusiastic about walking it’s path. It somehow pops up daily like the seedlings that somehow manage to find anchor in my concrete garden path, surprising me with it’s will to emerge.

Yes, I have a secret UFO life that only my peers know about while the rest of the world remains oblivious to it’s existence and I grapple with my own alien within. Zen helps me explore that part of me by bringing my outer exploration of the UFO subject inwards, as only Zen can. Once the inner UFO journey begins for anyone, the world we know fast disappears and we can’t go back, but in this new world we can explore the interior realm of our own consciousness and how the acceptance of a universe abundant with ET life broadens our consciousness beyond our earthly boundaries.

Listening to people tell me their UFO/ET stories over the years has changed me in ways I can't clearly explain. What I have heard has stretched me all out of shape and in a strange way it's made me an alien in my own society, but I would never change this experience for anything. If I were to be zen-like I guess I'd say it was akin to a descent into night while loving the dark, and the courage with which we bear the darkness frees others from having to carry it for us.