Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact

«Although I am among those who believe that UFOs are real physical objects. I do not think they are extraterrestrial in the ordinary sense of the term.» — el punto tras *objects* está así en la fuente donde la sintaxis pide coma; la subordinación es la tesis, no dos tesis sueltas.

«If these objects have been seen from time immemorial, as I will show, and if their occupants have always performed similar actions along similar lines of behavior, then it is not reasonable to assume that they are "simply" extraterrestrial visitors. They must be something more.» — el argumento de continuidad, enunciado como condicional.

«Perhaps they have always been here. On earth. With us.» — lo plantea como conjetura, no como conclusión.

«Such reports are folklore in the making.» — dicho de los informes contemporáneos.

«they form a striking parallel to the tales of meetings with elves and jinn of medieval times, with the denizens of "Magonia," the land beyond the clouds of ancient chronicles» — la serie en que pone los casos modernos.

«The UFO occupants, like the elves of old, are not extraterrestrials. They are the denizens of another reality.» — la negativa de 1988 es plana.

«To put it bluntly, the UFO phenomenon does not give evidence of being extraterrestrial at all. Instead it appears to be inter-dimensional and to manipulate physical realities outside of our own spacetime continuum.» — el término *inter-dimensional* con guion, tal cual.

«The UFOs are real physical objects. Yet they are not necessarily extraterrestrial spacecraft. To put it bluntly, the extraterrestrial theory is not strange enough to explain the facts.» — Conclusión del libro.

«But the extraterrestrial theory is not good enough, because it is not strange enough to explain the facts.» — cierre del capítulo 9.

«the UFOs may not come from ordinary space, but from a multiverse which is all around us» — el sustituto que ofrece al espacio ordinario.

«Such a theory is required in order to explain both the modern cases and the chronicles of Magonia – the abductions and the psychic component.» — declara qué debe cubrir una teoría suficiente.

«What we see here is not an alien invasion. It is a spiritual system that acts on humans and uses humans.»

«I propose to define consciousness as the process by which informational associations are retrieved and traversed.» — definición operativa, en la conclusión.

«let me simply state again that the modern, global belief in flying saucers and their occupants is identical to an earlier belief in the Good People. The entities described as the pilots of the craft are indistinguishable from the elves, sylphs, and lutins of the Middle Ages.» — la frase-eje de la obra: afirma identidad, no analogía.

«Through the observations of unidentified flying objects, we are concerned with an agency our ancestors knew well and regarded with awe: we are prying into the affairs of the Secret Commonwealth.» — nombra el objeto de estudio con el título de Kirk.

«However strong the current belief in UFOs from space, it cannot be stronger than the Celtic faith in the elves and the fairies, or the medieval belief in lutins» — Añade el miedo cristiano a «demons and satyrs and fauns».

«Those who assume that modern UFO sightings must be the result of alien experiments – of a "scientific" or even "superscientific" nature – conducted by a race of space travelers may be the victims of their ignorance of the old folklore.» — adjudica el error a un desconocimiento del folclore.

«The academic pedants, through a common bias that psychologists could perhaps explain if they were not its first victims, have covered the fairy-faith with the same ridicule» — que ahora cubre al fenómeno ovni; la frase arranca al pie de la p. 77 y cierra en la 78.

«The Secret Commonwealth, after all, already took ordinary folks away. So did the denizens of Magonia, and the sky people of American Indian lore.» — pone la abducción en serie con tres tradiciones.

«The parallel between these modern claims and the medieval legends is closer than ever. The same theory was presented about intercourse with the elves.» — dicho de la tesis híbrida de las abducciones.

«I have shown that fairy tales are full of stories about the stealing of human babies, changelings, and the abduction of both males and females for procreation with the Gentry.» — Añade «Even the scars sound familiar».

«Throughout the Middle Ages priests and inquisitors similarly examined the bodies of people suspected of having attended the sabbat of the witches. The proof of such supernatural contact was a scar or a mark.» — el par que equipara con la búsqueda de implantes.

«There is no gap between the fairy-faith and ufology regarding the sexual question.»

«Without the sexual context – without the stories of changelings, human midwives, intermarriage with the Gentry, of which we never hear in modern fairy tales – it is doubtful that the tradition about fairies would have survived» — adjudica a lo sexual la supervivencia de la tradición.

«This is not a new idea, as the belief in changelings shows.» — dicho de la tesis de una raza que difiere del hombre en pocos detalles.

«By the belief in changelings I mean a belief that fairies and other imaginary beings are on the watch for young children» — la definición que recoge del folclorista.

«Angels, demons, fairies, creatures from heaven, hell, or Magonia: they inspire our strangest dreams, shape our destinies, steal our desires.... But who are they?» — la serie completa, cerrada con pregunta.

«all the hypnosis sessions and the searches for implants may well be as futile as the questions of the inquisitors to the witches returning from the sabbat» — el mismo par, aplicado al método.

«there is a certain region, which they call Magonia» — cita de Agobardo, arzobispo de Lyon, sobre las naves que navegan las nubes; el texto de la p. 24 lleva intercalado un paréntesis editorial del propio Vallée.

«the people believed what their good father Agobard said rather than their own eyes» — lo toma del *Comte de Gabalis*, sobre el efecto del sermón del arzobispo.

«Such stories were so well established during the Middle Ages that the problem of communicating with the Elementals became a major preoccupation of the hermetic Adepts and an important part of their philosophy.» — Añade que Paracelso escribió un libro entero sobre esos seres.

«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.» — junta a los tres bajo una misma doctrina del pacto.

«Are the writings of Paracelsus, with his concept of "signatures," a neglected source of inspiration?» — lo formula como pregunta de investigación.

«The bodies of the Elementals are "of an elastic semi-material essence, etherial enough so as not to be detected by the physical sight, and they may change their forms according to certain laws"» — la clasificación de los Elementales incluye gnomos y sílfides; el guion partido es de la capa de texto.

«wrote an amazing manuscript entitled The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. It was the first systematic attempt to describe the methods and organization of the strange creatures» — data el manuscrito de Robert Kirk en 1691.

«It is enough to note that the strange being is indifferently termed a satyr and a manikin, while the saint himself states that the Gentiles also use the names faun and incubus.» — sobre el episodio de san Jerónimo.

«shows that church scholars were as puzzled by reports of incubi and succubi as most modern students of UFO lore are by the Villas-Boas case» — dicho de Sinistrari.

«the demon, either incubus or succubus, has carnal union not only with men and women but also with animals» — recogido de la doctrina que expone Sinistrari.

«such demons do not obey the exorcists and have no fear of relics and other holy objects» — el rasgo por el que Sinistrari los separa de los demonios ordinarios.

«Cardinal Bellarmin thinks Antichrist will be born of a woman having had intercourse with an incubus» — lo adjudica a Belarmino, dentro de la exposición de Sinistrari.

«from Plato and Alexander to Caesar, Merlin, and even "that damned hersiarch whose name is Martin Luther!"» — la lista de engendrados por demonios de la que Sinistrari discrepa; *hersiarch* es grafía de la fuente.

«"familiar spirits" in medieval occultism, particularly in Rosicrucian theories» — única página donde la obra nombra lo rosacruz, y es al pasar.

«7. The Spiritual Component: A Morphology of Miracles» — título del capítulo que aplica el método a los milagros.

«the entire sequence of observations of an entity thought to be the Virgin Mary had begun two years previously with a fairly classical sequence of UFO sightings» — dicho de Fátima.

«This phenomenon, which no astronomical observatory registered and which therefore was not natural» — recoge así la decisión eclesial de 1930 sobre el 13 de octubre de 1917.

«She had not said that she was the Virgin Mary. She had simply stated that she was "from Heaven"» — señala que la identificación no la hizo la entidad.

«the alleged Virgin Mary instructs the little Bernadette to perform meaningless actions» — sobre Lourdes.

«Several cases, which bear the official stamp of the Catholic Church (such as those in Fatima and Guadalupe), are in fact – if one applies the definitions strictly – nothing more than UFO phenomena where the entity has delivered a message having to do with religious beliefs rather than with space or engineering» — la reclasificación, condicionada al rigor de las definiciones; el contraste «rather than with space or engineering» es el punto, y no se abrevia.

«At Knock, Ireland, in 1852, the witnesses beheld luminous beings, among them the Virgin» — la fecha es la que da la obra.

«much as in Lourdes and Fatima, the clergy tried at first not to get involved in the pilgrimages» — sobre la recepción eclesial de Knock.

«Call me and call my image Santa Maria de Guadalupe» — la fórmula que recoge del relato guadalupano.

«I record this fact just as I have seen it without attempting to explain it» — declaración del Dr. Douzous sobre el experimento de la vela con Bernadette.

«The phenomenon and its effects are working here as they have worked at Fatima and Lourdes and in other places: as a spiritual control system.» — el enlace entre el eje mariano y el eje del control.

«the symbolism of the Virgin in occultism and religion, the fairy tales involving human midwives and changelings, the sexual overtones of the flying saucer reports» — la serie que declara como un solo objeto de estudio.

«his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do» — cita el relato de José Smith.

«a vision of the Shining Beings (known in other parts of the world as Devas)» — así lee Evans-Wentz la visión de Smith, según la obra.

«To Evans-Wentz, the beings contacted in the course of such visions are identical with the Celtic creatures of the Secret Commonwealth, and he concludes that there is evidence for their true existence.» — adjudica a Evans-Wentz la identificación y la conclusión.

«had been told by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats that such places existed and were thus guarded» — el sujeto es Evans-Wentz, y en la fuente el nombre viene partido por el guion de la extracción («Evans- Wentz»); por eso el verbatim arranca después.

«He argues convincingly that the spiritual control system of which UFOs are a part may have resulted in the religious myths that keep mankind in a state of abject submission to obsolete myths.» — adjudica la tesis al ex jesuita Salvatore Freixedo.

«The Gentry are a fine large race who live out on the sea and in the mountains, and they are all very good neighbors» — testimonio irlandés recogido por Evans-Wentz, que la obra reproduce.

«Man's imagination, like every known power, works by fixed laws.» — lo toma de Hartland, escrito en 1891, como clave del argumento.

«Almost all over the Earth, the rite of hospitality» — Hartland sobre el intercambio de comida con el Gentry, que la obra aplica al caso de Eagle River.

«it leaves all the problems of the historical origins of the fairy-faith unsolved» — recoge así el rechazo de Evans-Wentz y Hartland a la teoría pigmea.

«Can we study modern UFO reports without reopening the entire problem of apparitions? To most UFO writers, the answer is yes.» — la pregunta viene tras el pasaje irlandés de los sátiros, los duendes y «the demoniac phantom host»; él contesta que no.

«I propose that there is a spiritual control system for human consciousness and that paranormal phenomena like UFOs are one of its manifestations.» — la formulación propia del sistema de control, y la única que se le puede adjudicar.

«I cannot tell whether this control is natural and spontaneous … or if it is artificial in nature, under the power of some superhuman will.» — abstención declarada sobre el origen del sistema.

«We are not dealing with successive waves of visitations from space. We are dealing with a control system.»

«The best schedule of reinforcement is one that combines periodicity with unpredictability» — lo toma del trabajo de Ferster y Skinner sobre refuerzo.

«They are part of the environment, part of the control system for human evolution. But their effects, instead of being just physical, are also felt in our beliefs.» — cierra el libro situando el fenómeno en la creencia.

«the UFOs, if they are spacecraft engaged in a general survey of our planet, must have landed here no fewer than three million times in two decades!» — primer argumento contra la hipótesis extraterrestre.

«In either case, their appearances are staged!» — segundo argumento: el despliegue es escenificado.

«It is the behavior of an image, or a holographic projection.»

«There may be a machine involved, but a machine that remains out of view of the witnesses, who see only what it is projecting.» — el símil del proyector, con que sostiene a la vez lo físico y lo no material.

«visitors from outer space would not be human in shape. They would certainly not breathe our air» — tercer argumento, por la morfología de los ocupantes.

«Whatever they are, the occupants of such craft are not genuine extraterrestrials.»

«Betty's drawing is a map to nowhere.» — dicho del mapa estelar de Betty Hill.

«If the map was real, it must have been placed there for Betty Hill to see, not for the pilot to use!» — objeta así la lectura de Marjorie Fish.

«what kind of doctors are these, who need to induce such trauma in hundreds of patients to collect a little blood, a few embryos?» — objeción a la lectura genética de las abducciones.

«The ufonauts should go back to medical school.»

«are valid only if one assumes that their science has not superseded in any fundamental way the limitations of our own science» — objeta así a Carl Sagan y a Donald Menzel, por la premisa que comparten.

«While I acknowledge their observations I remain confident that human knowledge is capable of eventually understanding» — marca distancia del pesimismo de Freixedo, Keel y Aimé Michel.

«We are property.» — cita de Charles Fort, *The Book of the Damned*, en la conclusión.

«The mechanism of this resonance between the UFO symbol and the archetypes of the human unconscious has been abundantly demonstrated by Carl Jung, whose book Flying Saucers makes many references to the age-old significance of the signs in the sky.» — adjudica esa demostración a Jung, y a continuación declara que él no lee el fenómeno solo como símbolo.

«there is no reason to doubt their personal integrity» — dicho de los testigos, junto a que sus recuerdos no deben tomarse literalmente.

«unethical and certainly unscientific» — así califica la hipnosis regresiva mal practicada.

«the UFO phenomenon is shielded from direct study by the persistent, misguided official denial of its very existence» — así define el primer nivel del «triple coverup».

«Professor Edward Condon, who led the study, felt so strongly about the uselessness of the whole thing that he destroyed the project files.»

«Occult masters like Gurdjieff and Crowley were wont to send their disciples on insane errands such as carrying stones to a mountain top as a test of their devotion or as a discipline conducive to a spiritual awakening.» — propone leer desde la tradición esotérica los encargos absurdos que reciben los contactados: «A study of these events from the point of view of the esoteric tradition might be rewarding».

«a branch of Aleister Crowley's neo-Templar cult flourished in Los Angeles, two of the most ardent members were Jack W. Parsons, a propulsion engineer, and L. Ron Hubbard, a science-fiction buff.» — el nexo que consigna entre ocultismo y primeros contactados.

«My book Passport to Magonia, published in 1970, contained a catalogue of 923 unexplained close encounters» — remite a su propio catálogo como base documental.

«Foreword by Whitley Strieber» — el prólogo de las pp. 4–6 es de Strieber, no de Vallée, y la página de derechos lo separa incluso en el copyright: «"Foreword by Whitley Strieber" Copyright © 1988 by Wilson & Neff. Inc.»

«The fifteenth century saw the visitors as fairies. The tenth century saw them as sylphs. The Romans saw them as wood-nymphs and sprites.» — es Strieber quien lo escribe, en el prólogo.

«Dr. Vallée argues that the force that now appears in the form of UFOs and attendant manifestations has emerged into history many times, operating as a sort of control mechanism that has altered and shaped human affairs, often profoundly.» — paráfrasis de Strieber sobre Vallée, no formulación de Vallée; es la línea que el material heredado adjudicó mal.

«He demonstrates, for example, that the miracle of Fatima was a sort of hybrid appearing in part as a religious phenomenon and in part as a classic UFO encounter.» — el verbo de logro es de Strieber en su prólogo, no de la obra sobre sí misma.

«And yet I myself have faced physical beings.» — en el prólogo Strieber habla de su propia experiencia, no de la tesis del libro que prologa.

«This book is dedicated to the memory of Dr. J. Allen Hynek. As a scientist, he was the first to grasp the significance of this problem.» — dedicatoria.

«First published in the U.S.A. by Contemporary Books Inc. First British Edition published 1988 by Souvenir Press Ltd., 43 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PA Reprinted 1988 Reissued in paperback 1996» — la página de derechos data la obra en 1988 y sitúa nuestro ejemplar en la reedición en rústica de 1996.

«Faithfully copied to electronic format by Garrett.» — la última línea de la página de derechos declara el origen del archivo que procesamos.

«PART THREE: A CHALLENGE TO RESEARCH 8. Fighting the Triple Coverup 9. The Case Against Extraterrestrials 10. The Control System Conclusion: Exploring Other Dimensions» — el índice del libro; las otras dos partes son «THE ALIEN CHRONICLES» y «ANOTHER REALITY».

«He served as the real-life model for the character of the French scientist played by François Truffaut in Steven Spielberg's classic movie Close Encounters of The Third Kind.» — nota biográfica del editor en «About the Author».