I've been on a bit of a weird path these last 6 months, started making video essays about Carl Jung's Red Book, which eventually led me to investigating Gnosticism and its similarities to ideas that pop up around simulation theory. More recently, I've ended up with the topic of UFOs. The more I dig into topics that are a little bit paranormal, consciousness-driven, or a little outside of the usual narrative of reality, the more it feels like all roads lead back to the occult somehow. Although I've not gone deep enough to know for sure. I'm sharing this video because it's an investigation into the history of the UFO phenomenon, covering the sightings in Nuremberg Germany 1561, Basel Switzerland 1566, Fatima Portugal 1917. It's full of symbols and signs that have permeated throughout history into the modern world, and there are comparisons to the Nimitz Tic Tac 2004 incident and more modern events like orbs over Los Alamos. I try to give a balanced view of the phenomenon, looking at the skeptic's view as well as various believers ' views. My own bias leans towards Jungian themes around symbolism, synchronicity, and skews heavily towards technological answers to the subject matter. Because the topic is fundamentally searching for symbols and patterns across time, the video takes the modern world into account, the on-going conflict in the Middle East as well as emerging stories of missing/ dead scientists. It all paints a rather unsettling picture, hence the title of the video 'UFOs and the Crisis of Reality', it all feels weirdly interlinked. Core inspirations are Diana Pasulka's - American Cosmic and Carl Jung's - Flying Saucers. I've cast the net fairly wide in this one: religion, extraterrestrial, interdimensional, secret military tech, psychological anomalies, and even the possibility of psy-ops. My conclusion is that we might be missing the point when we try to boil it down to just one thing, and that the phenomenon is potentially far stranger than we can comprehend. I think it may not resonate as much in purely nuts-and-bolts communities, because although I skew heavily towards technological answers, it still ends up feeling a little woo, and that is confusing for people who haven't had experiences themselves (and that's more than fine, the impossible is easy to ignore if it hasn't happened to you). Personal disclaimer, I haven't seen UFOs myself, just studied the topic, but I have had enough synchronicities to start questioning why improbable moments of meaning seem to happen frequently in my life. I'm fascinated by the topic, and a big part of sharing this is to hear ideas from people who have a deeper understanding than I do. I'm curious to know of any key aspects of the phenomenon that I may have missed. submitted by /u/JCunliffeUK [link] [comments]