@Wade i would say you might be stretching this idea to be all encompassing and too literal. I offered up those examples because we know what trees with a weight will do when they fall which is to break a heck of a lot molecular bonds and that energy gets released in sound, so we know it will make a sound. But UFO's and monsters are things that appear to occupy parts of our consciousness that we have no real definition for, nor can we make any confident statements of certainty about them. We just don't have any real defining, consistent facts that we can use to measure or predict anything about them.
I suppose that in the paradigm you are painting I would say that monsters and UFO's may be much more products of our making, or at least if I was a betting man I would say that they are much more likely to be objects of our own creation, as we currently 'know' them. I would not want to exclude them from being an independent object as there appears to be some specific cases that suggest something did exist in external reality, some unknown stimulus that we processed through our sensory system. How much is the UFO and monster something of our own making vs. how many cases are entirely in our heads is debatable.
I would never want to smash all of consensus reality as that's what allows us all to function and talk with each other. We do exist in a consensus reality but how much of a slave we are to the will of others is also about a state of mind. In the nazi concentration camp you can still exist in a reality inside your head if you want, find inner peace and even compassion for your torturer. At lest that's what reading
Man's Search for Meaning taught me.
But the UFO and monster are not really part of consensus reality at all. And I don't think
@Gene Steinberg we are making it
all up in our heads. But like the astral experience Greenfield created for his lodge members, I would say that UFO's and monsters do in some portion emanate from us. Given how ephemeral they often are we must recognize that in a large part we are co-creators of a phenomenon. Like believing in leprechauns and faeries, they are an enormous part of human history; they reside in that same part of our brain that manufactures gods - and look how much of reality those unproven, supernatural beings have claimed over generations. They now have their own mythology - dangerous anti-science stuff IMHO.
But, like anything that appears for a brief moment, that flashes out of the corner of your eye, like the stories we like to tell, these things are tied to our consciousness way more than they are tied to the ETH as Greenfied very eloquently explained.
I see no mechanism in control of anything. Chaos theory is a very interesting way of finding meaningful coincidences and trajectories and anti-patterns. When I think about that, Wade, I think the UFO is trying to teach us that patterns are fleeting and that we need to work on using our imagination in ways that do not enslave us nor bind us. UFO's = Chaos, hence the High Stange. But that's another conversation altogether.
I don't even think I answered many of your questions. Apologies, but I still think these supposed portals, like the shtuff a lot of crappy Ufoology tries to peddle is in fact illusory and a human creation. I would separate those crappy crop circles from actual evidence. I also disagree with Greenfield's 50/50 estimation. The good evidence of an external mystery, as Micah Hanks recently stated in not so many words, is pretty damn hard to find. But it's there.
