One uses general terms when denoting things we haven't specifically identified yet. That's the nature of all incremental discovery in any field. Initially science will refer to a new phenomenon as an "anomaly" since it doesn't have enough information about what it truly is yet. Later on it can name it something more specific. The same is true with uaps, which denote a phenomenon we haven't identified yet. So NHI's also refer to a phenomenon that has been reported numerous times and yet is still too non-specific to be identified. NHI allows us to stay open to multiple identities for such beings without narrowly confining ourselves to just ETs or interdimensionals or ultraterrestrials or paranormal entities or cryptids or egregors or AI. It is a placeholder for a whole class of anomalous experiences that have been recorded since the beginning of time and continue even to this day.
I recently read a book by religious scholar Diane Paluka entitled "Encounters: Experiences With Nonhuman Intelligences". She introduced me to the usage of the term NHI and its application to a broad range of contact phenomena ranging from angels to the Greys. Here's an excerpt from one of her recent interviews:
DP: "The most sophisticated people who study UFOs/UAPs, from what I can surmise, do not make conclusions about the nature of the phenomena. There are patterns to these events, and distinct characteristics. I’ve heard different theories. Dr. Hal Puthoff, who is a physicist, proposed that they are ‘ultraterresterials,’ which, as you state, are not necessarily from other planets. They might be here on Earth. Some speculate that the phenomena is interdimensional. Former longtime NASA historian Dr. Steven Dick has written about speculations that they are AI or technological, or that if we meet them eventually, we would meet their technology.
Q: Jacques Vallée is the eminence grise of UFO culture, and as far as I know, is not a Christian. Yet your report that he has a shelf full of books about angels and demons in his apartment, and that when you visited, he urged you to read a collection of scholarly essays about Satan. How do you interpret this?
DP: Jacques, who has a wonderful sense of humor, made it clear that he recommended a book by French authors about the history of Satan as an example of an approach to the phenomenon that is not sensationalist. One of the most important books about the phenomenon happens to be his book Passport to Magonia, which was published in 1968. In that book, Jacques did a deep dive into European history and related modern-day UFO events to folk traditions like fairy lore, and religious events. When I read Passport, I was immediately struck by its similarity to the work of religious studies scholars. Jacques is an astronomer and an information studies scientist, to be clear.
What I took from that experience was that, just as I had surmised, there is a phenomenon that has been with us humans for a long time. As horrifying as this is for scholars to admit, it appears to be transhistorical. We might use different cultural frameworks to describe it, but there it is. Events like this—contact events—have been reported and are still being reported. It appears that our rationalist categories and science have not erased it from existence, as Carl Sagan would have preferred (in his later years). In fact, some of the best of our scientists know about this topic and have even had experiences with it."----
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