Closer Encounters

«It is only fair to make it clear from the outset that I am a philosopher, not a Ufologist.» — apertura de la Introducción.

«Frankly, I did not want to find this because I know that the consequence of presenting what I have found out will further damage my reputation, and probably play into the hands of those who orchestrated my defamation.» — declara el costo personal que se atribuye al libro.

«This book promises to be the most profound and the most unsettling — not to say, horrifying — philosophical study of the Close Encounter phenomenon.» — así presenta su propio estatuto.

«the enigmas of Ufology deeply intersect and overlap with phenomena studied in Parapsychology.» — el encuadre disciplinar.

«The rebranding of UFOs as ‘UAP' is a part of this cover-up.» — sobre la Divulgación estadounidense de 2021.

«The conclusion is that certain aspects of all seven of the hypotheses above — including the Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis — are in some way true, and that the complexity of the phenomenon defies explanation by only one or two of these alternatives.» — la posición metodológica, tras el inventario de seis alternativas.

«UFOs are produced by a hidden terrestrial society, a ‘breakaway civilization' that has diverged from others.» — alternativa (1) del inventario.

«They are inter-dimensional, originating from parallel versions of Earth.» — alternativa (2).

«the hypothesis that UFOs are time machines and their occupants are time travelers — potentially from the human future.» — alternativa (3), la única que la obra adopta como llave.

«The Close Encounter phenomenon represents engagement with survivors of some vastly ancient human civilization, which for whatever reason has become subterranean or submarine and decided to operate in stealth (this is known as the ‘Crypto-terrestrial' hypothesis).» — alternativa (4).

«they are psychic projections from the collective unconscious and the beings encountered in association with them are akin to phantoms or egregores (this is sometimes designated as the ‘Ultra-terrestrial' hypothesis).» — alternativa (5).

«We are in a computer simulation and what we are having ‘close encounters' with are Avatars of the programmers» — alternativa (6).

«That UFOs are time machines is the key to the entire enigma of Close Encounters.»

«This book argues that the time line bent into the figurative event horizon of the Technological Singularity, is a line that begins around 1850 and that the loop is going to close around 2050.» — la horquilla temporal del bucle.

«Contrary to what is widely believed by both skeptics and people who advocate for full Disclosure, those piloting most UFOs are not ‘aliens.' They are our human Ancestors.» — la inversión de identidad que lo separa de la Hipótesis Extraterrestre.

«This Master Race even became the ‘Martian' creators of terrestrial humanity — a rabble to whom they could do as they please, since this slave race would worship them as ‘gods' or ‘angels.'» — voz de la obra; entra literal y sin condensar, por lo dicho en Notas de carga.

«This civilization, which collapsed circa 12,000 years BP, is what Plato referred to as ‘Atlantis.' It was centered on the island continent of Antarctica.»

«The Moon is an artificial satellite, which is mostly hollow, and inhabited by our Ancestors.»

«The UFO occupants, the time-traveling Nordics, are the Devas and Ashuras or ‘gods' and ‘titans' that were worshipped by the classical Greeks and that are still at the core of the Vedic religion.» — grafía «Ashuras» tal cual.

«they decided to rebrand themselves as ‘angels' serving a Lord who grandiosely claims to be omnipotent and omniscient (he is far from it).» — sobre el origen de las revelaciones abrahámicas.

«The ‘gods' became ‘angels,' and their adversaries, the ‘titans,' became ‘demons' led by Lucifer.»

«These ‘gods' are engaged in repeatedly changing recorded history and altering our memories by using time travel.»

«the very nature of our Cosmos is that it is a programmable (and re-programmable) information processing system.» — Precisa antes que con ello «I do not mean a ‘simulation.'»

«there is a finite — albeit vast — cosmic intelligence outside of the program that we are in, and that being is containing our Ancestors inside of this system because the totalitarian form of life of these archons is considered unworthy of further expansion.» — la instancia superior.

«It has been judged sterile, like an Ouroboros choking on the tail of a perennial Tradition whose cyclical conception of time and fate precludes novel social and aesthetic transformations driven by innovative genius.» — la Tradición perenne, citada para acusarla de esterilidad.

«She aims, with Her negentropic forethought, to maximize creativity and thereby expand the existential horizon of possibilities for life at any cost.» — el *modus operandi* de ese Trickster, en femenino.

«Philip K. Dick conceived of VALIS in terms that were too anthropomorphic, although he may have had the right idea when he referred to this being as ‘zebra.'» — precedente corregido.

«The praying mantis-type ‘alien' is one of Her preferred forms.»

«If this intelligence is approached from out of the trickster aspect of Prometheus, will S/he be unmasked as Promethea?» — cierre del último capítulo, en forma de pregunta.

«If there are aliens involved in Close Encounters, it is because the meta-narrative function of the phenomenon produces aliens. We are the aliens.» — última página del cuerpo.

«the Anunaki or Elohim (‘the gods') of Eden are the Devas of Indo-European (Aryan) Tradition.» — grafía «Anunaki» con una sola «n», sistemática en la obra.

«This figure, known to the ancient Mesopotamians as ‘Enki' and to the Greeks as ‘Prometheus,' is the ‘Dragon' who tempts Eve with knowledge and immortality in Eden. He becomes the ‘Satan' (i.e. Adversary) of Abrahamic Revelation.»

«The civilization of hybrids that ensued from this, namely Atlantis, is punished by the gods (the Elohim) who use a great flood.»

«a battle in the display of psychic abilities ensues between them and Pharaoh's practitioners of alchemy (al-khemi, ‘the art/craft [i.e. techne] from Khemit'; Khemit being the indigenous name of Ancient Egypt).» — su etimología de *alquimia*, aplicada al Éxodo; es propuesta del autor, no OCR.

«He often did not know what he himself was saying, which makes this similar to the case of the prophet Ezekiel.» — sobre Mahoma.

«According to the Gnostics, the radical pacifism and voluntary poverty preached by Jesus in the Gospels follows from a recognition that Nature is a prison.»

«These Gnostics were for a time dominant in the cosmopolitan capital of the Greco-Roman world, the city of Alexandria.» — Añade que sus escrituras fueron al fuego tras el Concilio de «Nice»; grafía tal cual.

«The first person to philosophically deploy the term Aeon or Aion was Heraclitus of Ephesus.» — Heráclito como fuente declarada del concepto rector.

«Aion is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Sovereignty belongs to the child.» — el fragmento 52 de Heráclito, tal como lo cita.

«this ‘Christ' was originally Mithras in the astrological religion of Mithraism.»

«Copyright © 2021 by Arktos Media Ltd.» — pie editorial, Londres 2021, ISBN 978-1-914208-38-6 (Softcover).

«Editing Constantin von Hoffmeister Cover and Layout Tor Westman» — aparato de la edición.

«This book is dedicated to the memory of Marvel ‘Jack' Whiteside Parsons, a true American pioneer of the final frontier. Per Aspera Ad Astra, Frater.» — dedicatoria con carga doctrinal: la fórmula «Frater» inscribe al dedicatario en el círculo thelémico.

«The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.» — epígrafe: apertura de *The Call of Cthulhu*, de H. P. Lovecraft, firmada al pie.

«The alternative hypothesis that Ufos are something psychic that is endowed with certain physical properties seems even less probable, for where should such a thing come from?» — voz de C. G. Jung, citado en bloque desde *Flying Saucers*; la grafía «Ufos» es la del bloque citado.

«Here our knowledge leaves us completely in the lurch, and it is therefore pointless to speculate any further in this direction.» — cierre de la misma cita de Jung; es la frase que la obra objeta en la línea siguiente.

«His adoption of racist ideas, his anti-Semitism, and the Nuremberg race laws forbidding intermarriage and sexual relations between Aryans and Jews convinced Savitri Devi that he intended the revival of the Aryan caste system on a global basis» — cita en bloque de una fuente que el cuerpo no nombra, remitida solo por la nota 733. No es prosa del autor y no se ficha como tal.

«Däniken, Erich von. Chariots of the Gods (Berkley Books, 1999).» — la bibliografía cita la misma edición que este repo tiene digerida.

«both Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin would write books focusing on this connection» — la única mención de Däniken en el cuerpo, a propósito del vínculo entre los pilotos y el oro.

«Harpur, Patrick. Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld (Pine Winds Press, 2003).» — otra obra de nuestro eje INH dentro de esta.

«Jung, C. G. Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (Princeton University Press, 1991).» — la bibliografía recoge además el *Aion*, la *Synchronicity* y «On the Psychology of the Trickster-Figure»; en la p. 298 recoge a Jacques Vallée (*Messengers of Deception*, *Passport to Magonia* y, con Chris Aubeck, *Wonders in the Sky*), y *Trinity* aparece en nota (p. 1325). Cuatro obras del eje INH aparecen citadas aquí.

«Other Books Published by Arktos» — encabezado del catálogo del editor (EPUB pp. 300-306), donde figuran Evola, Alain de Benoist, Savitri Devi, Abir Taha, Koenraad Elst y decenas más. No son citas del autor.

«This charming bride was one of those vampires popularly called lamias or she-demons. They are very fond of love, and even fonder of human flesh. They use seduction to lure those whom they plan to devour» — Filóstrato sobre las lamias, citado por Roger Caillois y reproducido por Jorjani: tres voces encajadas.

«He thought that phenomena such as superposition and entanglement could “make reasonable almost any miracle” and that the “quantum theory is a doctrine of magic” or “an attempted systematization of the principles of magic,” such that Physics was becoming “occultism» — Charles Fort leyendo la física cuántica como ocultismo; el marco es del autor y las frases entrecomilladas son de Fort.

«The child is not merely a symbol of growth, but of complete moral independence and innocence. We may then expect the New Aeon to release mankind from its pretence of altruism, its obsession of fear and its consciousness of sin… it will be utterly conscienceless, cruel, helpless, affectionate and ambitious… intuitively aware of truth» — Aleister Crowley sobre el Nuevo Eón, en cita de bloque.

«The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age» — continuación del epígrafe de Lovecraft, que es donde está la advertencia que el libro adopta como programa: reunir los saberes dispersos abre vistas insoportables.

«That having been said, I was not a parapsychologist either when I wrote Prometheus and Atlas (Arktos, 2016) which went on to win the book award of the Parapsychological Association (a member of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science) and to be hailed by some within the field as the most important contribution to Parapsychology in many years.» — Jorjani hablando de sí y de su obra anterior: así funda su autoridad sobre el asunto pese a declararse ajeno al gremio.

«On March 22, 2021, now former DNI Ratcliff had this to say on FOX News sometime after the 180-day countdown to disclosure had begun, “Frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public… all over the world… There are instances where we don’t have good explanations for some of the things that we’ve seen.» — declaración televisiva de John Ratcliff, reproducida por Jorjani; la grafía del apellido y los puntos suspensivos son de la fuente.

«Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion.» — texto del informe preliminar del Pentágono citado en bloque; la grafía *discernable* es la del documento.

«UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may post a challenge to U.S. national security.» — otra frase del mismo informe, con la errata *may post* tal como la reproduce la fuente.

«We currently lack data to indicate any UAP are part of a foreign collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary.» — cierre del pasaje citado del informe, que es el que Jorjani lee como coartada.

«The bottom line is if there are things flying over your military bases and you don’t know what they are because they aren’t yours and they are exhibiting — potentially — technologies that you don’t have at your own disposal, that to me is a national security risk and one that we should be looking into.» — declaración del senador Marco Rubio a la prensa, citada en bloque por Jorjani.

«When we came up on the triangular-shaped craft, there were blue and yellow lights swirling around the exterior as though part of the surface and the air around us were [sic] electrically charged. We could feel it on our clothes, skin, and hair. It felt like static electricity, which made your hair stand up and dance on your skin. But there was no sound at all coming from the craft. Nothing in my training prepared me for what we were witnessing. This was no type of aircraft that I’d ever seen before» — testimonio del coronel Charles Halt sobre Rendlesham Forest, citado en bloque; el *[sic]* es marca de Jorjani dentro de la cita.

«On one side of the craft were symbols that measured about three inches high and two and a half feet across. These symbols were pictorial in design; the largest symbol was a triangle, which was centered in the middle of the others. They were etched into the surface of the craft. I put my hand on the craft, and it was warm to the touch. The surface was smooth, like glass, but it had the quality of metal» — continuación del mismo bloque de Halt, con los signos que él comparó con jeroglíficos y dibujó para el Ministerio de Defensa.

«The people who hope for an imminent “Disclosure” about UFOs, and who are making valiant efforts to document the phenomenon, should take one important fact into account: Disclosure could only come from the same organizations that are in charge of the security brief itself. And those organizations have their own agenda and constraints, which may be regrettable but possibly legitimate» — apertura de la cita en bloque de Jacques Vallée sobre la Divulgación, en vísperas del informe de junio de 2021.

«A government entity or its classified contractors can claim to know the answers and confuse the issues with impunity. It can even come up with fake disclosures to feed the public’s thirst for what passes for “truth” and the media’s excitement to promote it, in the interest of what may be perceived as a higher good» — sigue el mismo bloque de Vallée, con la posibilidad de divulgaciones falsas.

«Any Disclosure will be managed by the same groups that have safely managed the dossier for the last 75 years, and they can spin it to their liking, claiming that the military must retain control. They can also re-position it in any shape and context they want through the multiple “cut-outs” they can create out of thin air to send us into blind alleys. That’s what they do» — cierre del bloque de Vallée; es la posición que Jorjani hace suya en el resto del capítulo.

«Our thesis is that the origins of this taboo are political.» — apertura de la cita en bloque de Alexander Wendt y Raymond Duvall, *Sovereignty and the UFO*.

«On the most obvious level, acceptance of the possibility that the UFO is truly unidentified, and that therefore an unknown, very powerful “other” might actually exist, represents a potential physical threat.» — primera de las tres amenazas que enumeran Wendt y Duvall en el mismo bloque.

«has the ability to visit Earth, then it has vastly superior technology to human beings, which raises the possibility of colonization or even extermination.» — continuación del bloque de Wendt y Duvall; el tramo arranca a mitad de oración, después del corte de plana.

«governments may also be reacting to the possibility that a confirmation of extraterrestrial presence would create tremendous pressure for a world government, which today’s territorial states would be loath to form.» — segunda amenaza del mismo bloque: la presión hacia un gobierno mundial.

«Third, however, and in our view most important, the extraterrestrial possibility calls into question what we call the anthropocentric nature of modern sovereignty.» — tercera amenaza, la que Wendt y Duvall dan por más grave.

«Significantly, it is on this anthropocentric basis that modern states are able to command exceptional loyalty and resources from their subjects.» — sigue el bloque de Wendt y Duvall.

«Because a possible explanation for the UFO phenomenon is extraterrestrial, taking UFOs seriously calls this deeply held assumption into question.» — sigue el mismo bloque.

«Our contention is that the political survival of the modern state depends on that question not being politically salient.» — cierre del bloque de Wendt y Duvall, que es la frase de la que Jorjani parte para su propio capítulo.

«I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that thousands did see what happened from other areas of the city.» — palabras de una testigo del caso de Nueva York, citadas por Jorjani.

«I may not have seen anything if it weren’t for the bright lights.» — continuación del mismo testimonio, sobre por qué reparó en la escena.

«It burned my arms and hurt very much, but I was too afraid to let go.» — palabras de Januncio De Souza sobre el haz de luz, citadas por Jorjani.

«If it had lasted any longer, I believe I would’ve died because it was so very hot.» — cierre del mismo testimonio de Januncio.

«I thought it was going to take me away. It was an incredible light and was like a vacuum cleaner that was trying to suck me up. I felt they were trying to suck me up into that hole. I couldn’t stand the light. It hurt my eyes very much. I looked up and saw the people but had to turn away because I couldn’t stand the light. I think there was one woman and two men. There was one with long shoulder-length red hair [emphasis added], anyway. One of the men looked at me like this. [Beato gave a disdainful shrug.] He was looking at me as if I wasn’t very interesting. I had the impression the other two were looking beyond me, elsewhere» — testimonio de Beato citado en bloque; el *[emphasis added]* y la acotación entre corchetes sobre el gesto son marcas de Jorjani dentro de la cita.