AUTHOR · PERSON
Jacques Vallée
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En 1969 declara una identidad y se abstiene de todo lo demás: «the modern, global belief in flying saucers and their occupants is identical to an earlier belief in the fairy-faith» «Vallée — Passport to Magonia (1969) · p. 62», y en la misma página advierte que «I am not assuming that the objects are real» y que «in no way am I excluding the possibility that this controlling intelligence is human». El libro cierra renunciando: «I cannot offer the key to this mystery. I can only repeat: the search may be futile» «Vallée — Passport to Magonia (1969) · p. 169».
En 1988 la misma frase reaparece con el término cambiado —«identical to an earlier belief in the Good People» «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 78»—, las dos abstenciones han desaparecido del pasaje, y donde antes no había tesis ahora hay una: «There is a pattern behind this structure, and that pattern is not contact but control» «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 219», con el objeto nombrado — «I suggest that it is human belief that is being controlled and conditioned» «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 242». Y los objetos ya son físicos: «I am among those who believe that UFOs are real physical objects» «Vallée — Dimensions (1988) · p. 7».
En 1990 el aparato erudito se cae entero y él lo dice: «I have changed my mind» «Vallée — Confrontations (1990) · p. 20». En 2010 se abstiene por método, «with as little reference as possible to a particular theory» «Vallée y Aubeck — Wonders in the Sky (2010) · p. 531». Y en 2021 excluye su propio marco por declaración: sus testigos «cannot be suspected of being influenced by medieval notions about Magonia or by esoteric Victorian literature» «Vallée y Harris — Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret (2021) · p. 171» — dos frases después de haber concedido que «Professor Kripal's observation is very apt in this case» «Vallée y Harris — Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret (2021) · p. 171».
Jacques Vallee · Jacques F. Vallée · Jaques Vallee
6 attributions received · 46 claims
Works attributed to this actor
with the type of each attributionVallée — Passport to Magonia (1969) [DECLARED]
Vallée — Confrontations (1990) [DECLARED]
Vallée — Dimensions (1988) [DECLARED]
Vallée y Harris — Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret (2021) [DECLARED]
Vallée — UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union (1992) [DECLARED]
Vallée y Aubeck — Wonders in the Sky (2010) [DECLARED]
Links to traditions
Hermetismo · Commentator
Claims
46 entries — the author's own voice, with its source and locator«the modern, global belief in flying saucers and their occupants is identical to an earlier belief in the fairy-faith» — .
«The entities described as the pilots of the craft arc indistinguishable from the elves, sylphs, and /utins of the Middle Ages.» — grafías `arc` y `/utins` del OCR, tal cual.
«we are prying into the affairs of the Secret Common-wealth» — de una agencia que «our ancestors knew well and regarded with terror».
«In stating the problem in such terms, I am not assuming that the objects are real—contrary to the implications someone might draw if he read this book too fast.»
«Yet in no way am I excluding the possibility that this controlling intelligence is human, and I shall elaborate on this idea in later chapters.»
«the theory that flying sau-cers are material objects from outer space manned by a race originating on some other planet is not a complete answer.»
«Is there a science of deception at work here on a grand scale, or could the human mind generate its own phantoms…? Is a natural force at work here?»
«Real beings, or the ghosts of our own ridiculous, petty dreams?»
«the continuum leads directly from primitive magic, through mystical experience, the fairy-faith, and religion, to mod-em flying saucers.»
«Throughout medieval times, a major current of thought dis-tinct from ofÏcial religion existed, culminating in the works of the alchemists and hermetics» — Fueron los primeros en ligar esos seres con los de la Biblia y los cabalistas tempranos.
«Such stories were so well established during the Middle Ages that the problem of communicating with the Elementals became a major preoccupation of the hermetics» — .
«Paracelsus wrote an entire book on the nature of these beings, but be took great pains to warn the reader of the dangers of an association with them» — .
«Both Cardan and Paracelsus write, like Kirk, that a pact can be made with these creatures, and that they can be made to appear and answer questions at will.»
Su Fact 4: «The entities' reported behavior is as consistently absurd “as the appearance of their craft 1s ludicrous. In numerous instances of verbal communication with them, their assertions have been systematically misleading.»
Su Fact 5: los casos con sello de la Iglesia —Fátima, Guadalupe— son «nothing more than UFO phenomena where the entity has delivered a message having to do with religious beliefs rather than with fertilizers or engineering».
Su Proposition 1: «The behavior of nonhuman visitors to our planet, or the behavior of a superior race coexisting with us on this planet, would not necessarily appear purposeful to a human observer.»
Su Proposition 3: el misterio contiene los elementos de un mito utilizable «to serve political or sociological purposes».
El cierre del libro: «I cannot offer the key to this mystery. I can only repeat: the search may be futile; the solution may lie forever beyond our grasp; the apparent logic of our most elementary deductions may evaporate.»
«We cannot be sure that we study something real, because we do not know what reality is; we can only be sure that our study will help us understand more, far more, about ourselves.»
«Unfortunately, none of these attractive theories has a scientific leg to stand upon! I must apologize for presenting them here, but I only wanted to show how quickly one could be carried into pure fantasy» — .
«A strange category of devils called "Friday Demons" is described in The Magical Works of Henri-Corneille Agrippa.»
«identical to an earlier belief in the Good People» — la misma frase de 1969 con el término del par cambiado.
«There is a pattern behind this structure, and that pattern is not contact but control.»
«I propose that there is a spiritual control system for human consciousness» — .
«What is the variable being controlled in this control system? … I suggest that it is human belief that is being controlled and conditioned.»
«My speculation is that a level of control of society exists which is a regulator of human development, and that the UFO phenomenon should be seen at this level.»
«If the phenomenon is forcing us through a learning curve, then it has no choice but to mislead us.»
«A phenomenon that denies itself, that annihilates evidence of itself, cannot be mastered by engineering brute force.»
«I am among those who believe that UFOs are real physical objects» — .
«I strongly suspect at least two major UFO cases were covert experiments in rumor generation and in the deliberate creation of contactee cults» — .
Los grupos ufológicos civiles serían tan necesarios al mecanismo como Blue Book o la comisión Condon, «because they would provide an escape valve … and a useful channel for planted stories».
Sobre el origen del sistema, se abstiene: «I cannot tell whether this control is natural and spontaneous… or if it is artificial».
«I have changed my mind» — .
El fenómeno es a la vez «a physical entity with mass, inertia, volume, and energy, and a window toward another mode of reality».
Concede lo que en 1988 negaba: «Purists will point out that this form of consciousness might very well be extraterrestrial».
El continuo sobrevive sin su vocabulario: los casos son «the same class of manifestation».
Su abstención de ese año: «Neither theory is completely satisfactory»; y «I feel privileged to have touched them, but I do not know what they mean yet».
«Such incidents, in my view, throw a completely new light on the abduction reports that have too long been treated in a purely extraterrestrial context.»
Declara el método del catálogo: «with as little reference as possible to a particular theory».
Concede a Kripal exactamente una frase: «Professor Kripal's observation is very apt in this case.»
Y en la siguiente excluye su propio marco por declaración: sus testigos «were fully conscious at the time, had never been subjected to hypnosis, were not victims of an abduction real or imagined, and cannot be suspected of being influenced by medieval notions about Magonia or by esoteric Victorian literature».
«And they experienced their ordeal many years before the topic of abductions, or the very expression "flying saucer," was ever taken into account by researchers.»
La hipótesis extraterrestre, reforzada e interrogada en la misma línea: los datos «do reinforce the extraterrestrial hypothesis. But what does “extraterrestrial” mean…?».
«Was the object an extraterrestrial craft? If so, it lacks the accoutrements modern technology would normally associate with such a craft—primary among them, a life support system and space navigation equipment.»
El engaño cambia de sujeto: ya no es el fenómeno sino el secreto institucional — «because the deception (or the ultimate key) is hidden within the illusion of discovery».
El vocabulario del control sobrevive sin el término: las imágenes han sido «subliminally injected into our collective psyche and actually amplified by the studious neglect of our leading intellectuals».
About the author
27 entries — what others say about themKripal le dedica un capítulo entero, «THE FUTURE TECHNOLOGY OF FOLKLORE / Jacques Vallee and the UFO Phenomenon», y lo cuenta entre sus cuatro «authors of the impossible».
Kripal lo describe: «here, after all, is a pioneering computer scientist and venture capitalist who purchases rare editions of Paracelsus and writes like a mystically inclined humanist».
Kripal: «He is profoundly suspicious of institutional religion, which he sees primarily as a kind of social control system, certainly not as a deposit of eternal truths.»
Kripal: «For Vallee, Western thought … is fundamentally an esoteric project», y le adjudica como héroes a Tesla, al Newton alquimista y a Paracelso.
Kripal le adjudica una filiación rosacruz compartida con Hynek, con escena y fecha —12 de noviembre de 1966, en coche entre Denver y Boulder—: su estudio de los ovnis «was an esoteric practice, a secret school, a scientific mysticism modeled, partly, after the Rosicrucians».
Kripal aísla en él «three secrets»: «the gnosis of the future, the gnosis of multidimensionality, and the gnosis of the rosy cross».
Kripal: «Put in my own terms, Vallee has concluded that the paranormal is a hermeneutical reality.»
Kripal sobre 1969: «although UFOs are still quite real for Vallee in Passport to Magonia, they are no longer probably extraterrestrial, and they are almost certainly not literally true.»
Kripal llama a *Dimensions*, *Confrontations* y *Revelations* su «Alien Contact Trilogy» y las jerarquiza: «Dimensions is the most metaphysical of the trilogy, Confrontations the scariest, Revelations is the most depressing».
Kripal registra la dimisión: «Vallee resigned from SRI on April 9, 1973».
Kripal, en otra obra, lo alinea consigo y subraya el escepticismo: su «forbidden science» es «an artful and lifelong combination of astronomy, computer science, information theory, esoteric practice, and profound skepticism around all UFO belief systems».
Kripal, en otra más, le adjudica la tesis feérica: «millennia-old folklore currents, particularly around the abductions and otherworlds of faerie lore, as famously pointed out by Jacques Vallee».
Pasulka abre *American Cosmic* con «A Tour of Silicon Valley with Jacques Vallee» y lo llama «father of the modern study of UFOs and an early visionary of the internet».
Pasulka cita su discurso de 1979 ante la ONU —«the belief in space visitors is independent of the physical reality of the UFO phenomenon»— y añade: «Significantly, Vallee himself believes in the reality of the UFO phenomenon».
Pasulka lo cita: «Jacques Vallee once told me emphatically, “Trust no one. Do not even trust what you see.”»
Pasulka reproduce su formulación más explícita del sistema de control: «When I speak of a control system for planet earth … I do not mean that some higher order of beings has locked us inside the constraints of a space-bound jail … I do not propose to redefine God. What I do mean is that mythology rules at a level of our social reality over which normal political and intellectual action has no power.»
Pasulka, segunda atestación de la adscripción rosacruz: «Allen Hynek and his protégé Jacques Vallée engaged in the study and practice of the esoteric tradition Rosicrucianism … Their ufology, furthermore, cannot be separated from their esoteric practices.»
Pasulka le adjudica una acuñación: «This is somewhat of a ‘reverse reincarnation’—a term that Vallée coined».
Bullard: «Jacques Vallee sees conditioning of consciousness through exposure to strangeness as the purpose behind UFOs, fairy encounters … but externalizes the collective unconscious into a cosmic control system».
Bullard data el giro: «Jacques Vallee nailed a series of radical theses to the door of established ufology, starting with Passport to Magonia in 1969.»
Bullard registra el mismo desdoblamiento que esta ficha consigna: «Jacques Vallee reemphasized the physical aspects of UFO phenomena even as he continued to theorize about a control system».
Bullard: «Jacques Vallee theorized that the UFO experience altered perceived realities and ultimately worldviews through a process of "subliminal seduction."»
Bullard consigna la escena de 1961: «a 1961 incident when Jacques Vallee witnessed anomalous objects while working as a satellite observer».
Jorjani reporta el resultado de sus análisis de material: «while none of these materials are extra-terrestrial in elemental composition, in some of these samples, the isotopic ratios of magnesium have been artificially altered.»
Jorjani objeta la prioridad: «John Keel and Jacques Vallée began to suspect something along the same lines. It is true that C. G. Jung beat Keel and Vallée to this thesis by almost a decade».
Mack lo llama «perhaps the most comprehensive cross-cultural ufology investigator» y resume su conclusión: «The UFO occupants, like the elves of old, are not extraterrestrials. They are denizens of another reality».
Strieber, prologando *Dimensions*, le adjudica una tesis que Vallée no firma en esa página: la fuerza «has emerged into history many times, operating as a sort of control mechanism».