Threads from inner space

JENNY RANDLES looks at the relationship between anomalous experience and consciousness

I have long believed that UFOs are more than the sum of their parts and quite probably something more than ‘merely’ visitors from another planet. Many years ago I began to focus on the experiencer rather than the experiences they report. I started to ask why we literalise what we see, producing results that resemble allegory rather than reality. By this, I mean we tell ourselves a kind of story to frame events that we presume are substantive and in the world outside our heads–when quite possibly the Universe is inside our heads and we each create a kind of personalised hologram of our own reality. This may be shaped by a collective framework defined by science and physical reality, but when we look at things like close encounters we…

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