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