Daniel Pinchbeck - The Occult Control System: UFOs, aliens, other dimensions, and future timelines

The Occult Control System

UFOs, aliens, other dimensions, and future timelines

by Daniel Pinchbeck

Contents

Chapter One

From the Periphery to the Center

A ll of a sudden, the mainstream media has turned its focus on the subject of UFOs, a global phenomenon they have derided and dismissed until now. The tone has shifted drastically in recent articles in The New York Times and Washington Post, partly due to Unidentified, a new series on the History Channel. The series exhaustively chronicles military encounters with what appear to be diverse alien craft. The Times reports on myriad anomalies encountered by pilots as recently as 2015, including a report of an object akin to a spinning top moving against the wind and another like a sphere encasing a cube. These objects were able to accelerate to hypersonic speeds, make sudden stops and instantaneous turns with no visible engine or exhaust plumes.

For some conspiracy theorists, the new spate of articles suggests we are approaching a threshold of disclosure - the long-awaited release of withheld information on UFOs and ETs. It is also possible that this partial disclosure has been orchestrated by intelligence agencies whose motives remain opaque and unclear.

Whatever the truth, the issue of UFOs and the alien presence is steadily moving from the outer edge or periphery of public awareness toward the center. I would like to explore why this is happening and what it means. I will also consider what we could and perhaps should do, individually and collectively, in response.

I enjoy observing the process as once-esoteric topics spiral from the edge of collective awareness toward the center. Over the last decades, another formerly taboo subject followed a similar path - namely, psychedelics. Before I published my book on psychedelic shamanism, Breaking Open the Head , in 2002, you simply could not speak about psychedelic exploration in a city like New York or London, if you wanted to be known as a serious, respectable person in the media or the arts. When I tried to broach the subject at a social gathering of journalists, art world aficionados, or literary writers, the response would be ridicule and curt dismissal. Psychedelics seemed caught in a double bind of repression: Most people not only had a knee-jerk negative reaction to it, but they were also unable to consider why they felt the need to repress any interest in the subject so intensely. This remains the situation today, when it comes to UFOs and the question of alien contact.

The culture has lifted its interdiction on psychedelics. They are now fashionable objects of fascination - promoted in bestselling books, TV shows, and numerous documentaries. Today we find ourselves in a full-fledged psychedelic renaissance with amazing research happening across the world. This is a great development - it also suggests that a similar reversal might happen when it comes to other prohibited areas of inquiry, such as the still forbidden topics of UFOs, alien abductions, and other-dimensional visitors.

What prevents the UFO and alien topic from becoming culturally acceptable is that we lack a framework for understanding it or giving it meaning. It remains unpresentable, unfathomable. If we are going to assimilate it - and perhaps even neutralize the implicitly threatening aspects of it - we must develop a narrative and define a philosophical and conceptual model that gives shape and coherence to the phenomenon. With this essay, I hope to assist in this difficult task of discernment.

Dismissiveness and derision have been the dominant response to the subject of UFOS and alien abductions - also crop circles, a subject I explored in depth in my book, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl - for decades. The thousands-upon-thousands of sightings of strange craft by ordinary people as well as trained military personnel, the vast numbers of bewildering and terrifying abduction stories, the aesthetically profound, precise, and gargantuan crop circles that still appear in UK wheat fields every summer with no explanation - none of this has made any difference until now. These topics fall so far outside of mainstream discourse that you cannot explore them without risking exile to the dismissible, lunatic fringe. Journalists and academics who pursue this inquiry with some level of objectivity and rigor find themselves thrown out of the establishment, forced to build alternative structures to circulate their ideas. In my case, I wrote one article for Wired Magazine on the crop circles in 2002, leaving open the possibility that it wasnt entirely a hoax. After the publication, the editor-in-chief was appalled. I was never able to write for Wired again.

The reasons for this blockade are, I think, obvious. The main function of mainstream discourse is not to excavate uncomfortable truth but to preserve and protect the status quo. Popular media and academia constantly seek to establish a boundary - a bulwark or line of defense - inside of which society can continue comfortably, without disruption. Most people innately seek and unconsciously wish to remain oblivious to anything that might threaten the belief system they are trying to maintain, which gives them a sense of security and stability.

Our culture still holds to the secular materialist paradigm developed during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and through the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions. Even though contemporary physics defined a radically different view of the nature of reality from that of Newton, people still believe themselves safely anchored in the Newtonian/Cartesian universe, where matter has solidity and consciousness only exists due to the biological hardware of the brain.

I believe this self-protective herd instinct, rejecting any difficult material that pushes people outside of their ideological comfort zone, is a danger to our future. It is not farfetched to say this habit may contribute to our extinction in the near term. We see the same tendency to avoid and distract when it comes to climate change and the ecological emergency that is on the verge of engulfing us. Even among the privileged and intellectual elite, most people, at this point, lack the initiative as well as the courage to explore and assimilate a lot of the crucial data - let alone take it to heart and act upon it.

With the ecological crisis, it is not a case of confronting bizarre and ineffable evidence, as with alien abductions and UFOs, or even psychedelic hallucinations. The scientific data is merciless and clear. We know we are tearing apart the biospheric support systems of the Earth. Yet only children are still awake and aware enough to realize that something must be done about it. Teenagers have started taking to the streets in vast numbers, leaving the adults - their supposed protectors - far behind in their gape-jawed stupidity.

There is, I believe, an intrinsic connection between our failure to address these particular areas - aliens, psychedelics, the ecological emergency - that society has avoided and pushed to the periphery. Taken seriously, these subjects threaten the foundation, the underlying paradigm, of contemporary civilization. (As a side note, while our culture has assimilated the healing aspect of psychedelics over the last decade, it has sidestepped the more ontologically difficult aspects of the experience, such as psychic and psycho-physical manifestations, as well as the abrupt breach into other dimensions of reality that can be both fascinating and frightening.) On the one hand, self-repression and self-censorship are habitual. Our society normalizes this tendency. You are only meant to be cognizant of a narrow bandwidth of ideas and information, and not step into the unknown.