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Quantum entanglement operates instantaneously at any distance, regardless of any barriers, but I've never seen any kind of theoretical proposal that offers a method to transmit useful information in this way. And this paper calls into question the statistical modeling that resulted in the quantum entanglement interpretation in the first place, so it might not be a real phenomenon after all. Either way I can't see a viable physics model that would allow for the kind of applications that he's talking about there. If such an idea exists in the academic literature, I've never seen it.
I wanted to make one last observation on Jacques Vallée, because some hold his views with a degree of reverence .
As ive said previously Vallée has reserved the right to be wrong and has changed his views over time.
He was born in 1939, and initially after seeing an object in 1955 subscribed to the ETsH.However, by 1969, Vallée's conclusions had changed, and he publicly stated that the ETH was too narrow and ignored too much data.
He started to speculate on supernatural explanations and correlations his IDH also holds that UFOs are a modern manifestation of a phenomenon that has occurred throughout recorded human history, which in prior ages were ascribed to mythological or supernatural creatures.
Its not an unreasonable progression given they way this enigma looks, But imo he didn't go far enough.
He starts with a technological explanation, moves to a supernatural related one, but failed to take that extra step. A technological reality, that looks like a supernatural one.
Were we to take this toy and plonk it on his desk in 1969.
He would recognize its a piece of technology, But watching it work and being told the "mind" is controlling the ball, no strings and wires. Then to a man living with cabled telephones, no wifi or wireless devices. It could easily appear to be magic.
It would to my mind appear sufficiently advanced to him in 1969 to satisfy Clarke's law
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." ...
But of course its not, It might look supernatural to a man from 1969, but it is just technology that appears to be supernatural from within his cultural frame of reference.
Our own technology is looking more and more like magic, and that's consistent with our catching up to the technology we have been observing.
Humans have been making this error for a long time, even the process of childbirth was once considered magic, but only because we didn't understand the actual mechanism involved.
We should always strive to understand the mechanism, "Magic" as an explanation has never been a correct one.
Vallée proposes that there is a genuine UFO phenomenon, partly associated with a form of non-human consciousness that manipulates space and time. The phenomenon has been active throughout human history, and seems to masquerade in various forms to different cultures. In his opinion, the intelligence behind the phenomenon attempts social manipulation by using deception on the humans with whom they interact.
Vallée also proposes that a secondary aspect of the UFO phenomenon involves human manipulation by humans. Witnesses of UFO phenomena undergo a manipulative and staged spectacle, meant to alter their belief system, and eventually, influence human society by suggesting alien intervention from outer space. The ultimate motivation for this deception is probably a projected major change of human society, the breaking down of old belief systems and the implementation of new ones. Vallée states that the evidence, if carefully analyzed, suggests an underlying plan for the deception of mankind by means of unknown, highly advanced methods.
I think this is roughly consistent with the reality. But i think that while there may indeed be deception on the part of his non-humans. The bulk of the confusion still lies with our lack of technological parity. Once we understand his unknown, highly advanced methods.
The confusion will be gone.
That’s an interesting comment. My initial reaction was very dubious of this idea because there is no consensus in the academic arena that telepathy is even a real phenomenon. But after thinking about for awhile, I have to admit that telepathy is a very common recurring feature of a wide range of unexplained phenomena – one of the top three features of such reports, I would think. So it seems that if we accept any class of paranormal reports to be real in the physical sense, then telepathy would likely be real as well.
That’s really provocative. Do you have a link to that study? I’d love to read it.
There’s a whole lot in there – too much to respond to in detail. But I will say this much: the similarities that you’ve pointed out between many disparate phenomena, strike me as evidence of an entirely new but subtle realm of reality which has consistent structure and features, akin to the structured physical laws that we already know about. So the similarities you’ve noted don’t necessarily mean that these various kinds of phenomena are related to each other; it might only mean that the fundamental nature of their existence is associated with the same elusive aspect of reality.
