My wild theories of UFOs and Bigfoot

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Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death and the Paranormal Volumes 1 and 2 by Joshua Cutchin (Horse and Barrel Press, 2022).

Disclaimer: I am personally acquainted with Ecology of Souls author Joshua Cutchin. This review was unsolicited.

One night, a friend drove me out into the country. He had me look in a direction above the treeline. Three silent objects whizzed over the trees briefly and disappeared, visible by a lighted outline. They were there and gone in just a few seconds. My friend regularly sees them at that spot at that time of night.

What were these? 

Maybe they were experimental, dimension-defying craft from the U.S. Department of Defense. I suspect that many "unidentified flying objects" (UFOs) or "unexplained aerial phenomena"  (UAP, a more current and encompassing term) come from secret technology currently suppressed from everyday use. Those who claim authority over us do not trust us with reality-bending tools. If the peasants possessed them, the System based on profit, control, and ego attachment would be rendered obsolete.

Maybe the technology comes from another time. Maybe it comes from previous earth civilizations. Perhaps their Elite launched into space to escape Ice Age conditions or a global cataclysm. 

They may have traveled at near-light speeds across the galaxy, staying up there for just a few generations in their time but tens of thousands of years in Earth time. I speculate they began returning 6,000 years ago and are still coming back. They are responsible for what may be artificial structures on the Moon and Mars. They've been our rulers in whatever guise since the dawn of civilization as we know it.

This is, of course, idle speculation.

Another thought I had is that what we know as "Bigfoot" is the guardian of the forest, a messenger to humans that we have gone too far. The message they send to hikers, campers, and cabin vacationers? Leave. 

I mentioned another Bigfoot theory in a 2018 public post on Facebook:

On the Where Did the Road Go podcast some months ago, Avrel Seale posited the idea that Bigfoot is like a wolf and we humans are like a dog. Robert Anton Wilson called human beings "domesticated primates" and maybe he was onto something. Ask your dog if he's smarter than a wolf and he'd say yes, of course he is, because he's protected and the meals are guaranteed. But the wolf (and coyotes and foxes) are thinking in totally separate categories. They're wild, not domesticated. I'm suggesting that there may be wild hominids out there, whose intelligence and evolution surpasses our understanding because we live by domesticated rules and they're wild. I'm suggesting that Bigfoot is a more evolved and intelligent and conscious hominid, but we can't grasp the concept because we're civilized and they're not.

Perhaps Bigfoot has mastered the material world and can disappear before our eyes. Because they're "wild," they're guided by intuition and instinct rather than (domesticated) human reason and ego. For that reason, they are much more powerful.

But if they can disappear, perhaps something else is going on, which brings up a story my Dad tells about a friend.

He was a Christian scholar and pastor who was guest preaching at an old country church. The church and surrounding community were unfamiliar to him. In the middle of the service, an older gentleman came in through a side entrance and sat in a pew. After the service, the preacher tried to greet him, but he was gone. The preacher asked around; no one else had seen him come in. And the door through which the preacher saw the man enter had been locked for some time.

The preacher described the man and learned he resembled one who had passed away several years before. He regularly entered through that same door and sat where the preacher saw the visitor. 

Did the preacher see a ghost? 

Indeed not in the nebulous sense that ghosts are depicted. To the preacher, he looked like a flesh-and-blood person. However, nobody else saw him, and although he didn't vanish before the preacher's eyes, he did disappear.

Could the creatures we call Bigfoot also be ghosts? Perhaps some of them?

Could "alien" visitors in the sky (and sometimes on the ground) also come from the same place? At least some of them?

Joshua Cutchin's Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & The Paranormal explores this idea. In two volumes (and a compendium with appendices and 4,200 endnotes) Cutchin documents the similarities in a wide variety of the "paranormal" manifestations that suggest "we are simply dealing with one giant ghost story."

Along the way, Cutchin draws on near-death experiences, altered states of consciousness, faerie lore, ancient monuments, lake monsters, and other strange but not-uncommon phenomena that defy scientific measurement or replication.

Depending on one's reading habits and schedule, Ecology of Souls may take a while to finish, perhaps weeks or months. But you will learn much, and scores of anecdotes help you understand these topics better.

As I finished the book, I was pleased and satisfied with Cutchin's conclusions. The Other can be our teacher if we are open to being taught. These "disembodied" beings tell us that we are not our bodies. We are one in the same ecology of souls.

I'm not abandoning my own wild theories. I think they're fun. But I agree with Cutchin that death is a big part of the paranormal.

Just as death is a big part of life.

James Leroy Wilson writes The MVP Chase (subscribe), JL Cells (subscribe), Daily Miracles (subscribe), and The Daily Bible Chapter (subscribe). Thanks for your subscriptions and support! You may contact James for your writing, editing, and research needs: jamesleroywilson-at-gmail.com.