| It's a simple idea: If aliens can travel interstellar | | | | this remarkable Greek Cypriot.In brief, he |
| distances, they must be more advanced than us. | | | | contended there were aliens, and there were |
| If they are more advanced, by how much?Well, | | | | angels, and they were distinct beings. What was |
| it's physically impossible to drive a metallic object | | | | interesting was that he contended that |
| faster than the speed of light. You'd have to | | | | interplanetary visitors were highly advanced alien |
| bypass the known laws of physics. To send a | | | | mystics who could travel in space, by dissolving |
| metal ship to another star using conventional fuels | | | | their material bodies before departure, and |
| would take decades and exhaust planet Earth's | | | | recreating them on arrival. They weren't really |
| resources. Science fiction gets round this by | | | | travelling on the physical plane.This bypassed the |
| inventing 'warp drives' and 'wormhole technology'.I | | | | drawbacks of moving a physical object in |
| don't believe that alien visitors, if they exist, arrive | | | | three-dimensional space. It also explains, for |
| in metal spacecraft, but we'll get to that later.It | | | | example, the bright lights moving very fast that |
| follows that if they are coming here, they are | | | | pilots sometimes see, and why UFOs leave little |
| *way* more advanced than us. And there follows | | | | trace.Advanced terran mystics can perceive the |
| an interesting question; just how much?If they | | | | angels of the Lord. They can be visited by, or |
| are to us, as we are to, say, a wild dog, then | | | | visit, advanced beings from other planets. The |
| UFO phenomena makes sense. We can barely | | | | rest of us have odd experiences we can't explain, |
| comprehend what we're perceiving: strange lights, | | | | and keep quiet about them.This explains the lack |
| odd indentations in the soil, weird experiences.A | | | | of hard, scientific evidence for both; they're |
| wild dog suddenly hears a loud bang. One of his | | | | operating at a different level to us, are unlikely to |
| pack falls down mysteriously, and lays still, and | | | | leave physical traces, and won't oblige scientists |
| dies. He then hears and smells a truck in the | | | | by turning up on demand, to be poked and |
| distance, then sees it's lights; what the _hell_ is | | | | prodded at!The dog expects his master at the |
| that thing?Reaction: panic, curiosity or dismissal.If | | | | same time every day, but often he doesn't |
| alien beings are coming here, what for? Because | | | | arrive, for reasons the dog cannot begin to |
| we are a threat, curiosity, to help us, or because | | | | imagine. Sometimes the master does baffling |
| we have something they want? A bit like soldiers, | | | | things, but provides food, company and seems to |
| scientists, missionaries or merchants going to the | | | | care for the dog, so the dog is content. He has |
| Third World, in that order. And we know what | | | | explained the Man to himself as powerful, having |
| happens to the locals when _that_ happens!Then | | | | some dog-like behaviours, worth keeping-in with, |
| we have the phenomena of angels; superior | | | | and strange.One caveat: One can't discount mental |
| beings mysteriously turning up to lend Man a hand. | | | | illness, misperception or fraud in a person who |
| Are they a separate phenomena and entirely | | | | claims experience of UFOs and angels. The key |
| different, or do they just overlap occasionally?An | | | | test is whether they are manifestly superior or |
| answer may have been provided by Dr. Stylianos | | | | saintly. The abundance of 'evidence', provided by |
| Atteshlis, called Daskolos by the author Kyriacos | | | | those who are not, easily obscures the real |
| Markides, in the series of books he wrote about | | | | phenomena, and contents scoffers. |