In my half-baked worldview, I grant a certain allowance for the strange and the unexplainable. I believe based on historical evidence that sometimes events occur from outside our current cultural paradigm and express a wild and unruly aspect to the universe that goes back all the way to "before" the big bang. To a realm that still underlies all coming-to-be seething with surreal and spontaneous possibilities. See below.
But I also enjoy very much living in a regular and predictable universe. When I'm driving 60 mph on the freeway I like to assume a car or a person or a boulder is NOT going to suddenly appear out of thin air before me. I like to believe that the coffee I am drinking will NOT suddenly turn into blood after the first swig. Probably 99% of our living relies heavily on this nomological trustworthiness of reality.
But still, there are silent moments in my bed at night when I hear things moving in my kitchen, when what sounds like a golfball hits my front door and the outside of my apt wall, when streaks of light over my ceiling catch my attention, or when the sound of a loud hiss wakes me up suddenly, that I sigh and just tell myself: this luminuously percolating reality doesn't HAVE to be anything YOU expect it to be.
And in the end, isn't that pretty much what we mean by reality? Isn't the surprising and the different the very hallmark of whatever REALLY happens instead of the 99% of the time same old mundane shit that we hardly ever even notice?
Any metaphysical computer will occasionally have its functional "burps" and glitches that cause its own version of form constants to intrude fleetingly upon the inter-subjective "screen" displaying its unfolding "game" of Natural World.
Or... Those spacetime traveling super-artilects from several ages ahead in the future are bound to have some approved "safe periods and regions" they can materialize at without disturbing the timeline. Because the human historical accounts of them having done just that were preserved and passed down over the eons.
Now the token Dana Scully-ish response for this episode of the X-Files, to ensure balance:
According to another woodcut, five years later, there was a similar outbreak of spherical objects over Basel in Switzerland. Pretty much rings of a copycat variation of storytelling as news of the "original" incident spread across the continent.
Who knows, maybe there was an outright fad revolving around celestial anomaly reports during that part of the century, of which only these two records substantively survived. Similar to the craze of "mystery airship" sightings during the 1890s in the US; and sensationalist, tabloid-like 19th century newspaper accounts of native giant skeletons, etc.
In the ancient Roman Republic, Livy and Plutarch wrote about appearances of shining aerial ships and flaming bodies shaped like wine-jars, respectively. So there was a long tradition beforehand of superimposing subjective conceptions over skyward activity (aurora borealis, vast patterns of migrating fowl, meteor showers, weirdly colored and shaped clouds, etc).
Quote:Jung expressed a view that the spectacle was likely a natural phenomenon with religious and military interpretations overlaying it. “If the Ufos were living organisms, one would think of a swarm of insects rising with the sun, not to fight one another but to mate and celebrate the marriage flight.” A military interpretation would view the tubes as cannons and the spheres as cannonballs, emphasize the black spearhead at the bottom of the scene, and Glaser’s own testimony that the globes fought vehemently until exhausted. A religious view would emphasize the crosses. Jung thinks the images of four globes coupled by lines suggested crossed marriage quaternities and forms the model for “the primitive cross cousin marriage.” It could also be an individuation symbol. The association of sunrise suggests “the revelation of the light.”
Instead of insects, the extra-unique effects of another great geomagnetic storm, triggered by coronal mass ejection, could have been behind the event. Or the original inspiration and imaginative story-template for a city-hopping fad ("We don't want to be left out; let's report our own heavenly enigma."). There was the legendary, later storm with its spectacular sky-shows in August and September of 1859 which occurred when science and astronomy was in full swing. Thus any fanciful pariedolia interpretations were better thwarted or nipped in the bud for that one.
Quote:Who knows, maybe there was an outright fad revolving around celestial anomaly reports during that part of the century
Or maybe just numerous anomalies occurring at different places and getting reported as such.
Quote:In the ancient Roman Republic, Livy and Plutarch wrote about appearances of shining aerial ships and flaming bodies shaped like wine-jars, respectively. So there was a long tradition beforehand of superimposing subjective conceptions over skyward activity (aurora borealis, vast patterns of migrating fowl, meteor showers, weirdly colored and shaped clouds, etc).
No..there's no long tradition of people who see clouds and the sun and birds everyday suddenly mistaking them for flaming beings shaped like flying wine jars or flying balls and cylinders that fly around and burn and smoke on the ground. OTOH. there IS a history of sightings of flaming disks and oval shaped craft in the sky dating all the way back to the Egyptians:
Quote:Instead of insects, the extra-unique effects of another great geomagnetic storm, triggered by coronal mass ejection, could have been behind the event. Or the original inspiration and imaginative story-template for a city-hopping fad ("We don't want to be left out; let's report our own heavenly enigma.").
Right. Hey, maybe it was giant swarming red insects at the same time as a solar flare/aurora borealis. Or more likely exactly what the eyewitness accounts meticulously described it as sans the edited version by 20th century armchair skeptics:
"In the morning of April 14, 1561, at daybreak, between 4 and 5 a.m., a dreadful apparition occurred on the sun, and then this was seen in Nuremberg in the city, before the gates and in the country – by many men and women. At first there appeared in the middle of the sun two blood-red semi-circular arcs, just like the moon in its last quarter. And in the sun, above and below and on both sides, the color was blood, there stood a round ball of partly dull, partly black ferrous color. Likewise there stood on both sides and as a torus about the sun such blood-red ones and other balls in large number, about three in a line and four in a square, also some alone. In between these globes there were visible a few blood-red crosses, between which there were blood-red strips, becoming thicker to the rear and in the front malleable like the rods of reed-grass, which were intermingled, among them two big rods, one on the right, the other to the left, and within the small and big rods there were three, also four and more globes. These all started to fight among themselves, so that the globes, which were first in the sun, flew out to the ones standing on both sides, thereafter, the globes standing outside the sun, in the small and large rods, flew into the sun. Besides the globes flew back and forth among themselves and fought vehemently with each other for over an hour. And when the conflict in and again out of the sun was most intense, they became fatigued to such an extent that they all, as said above, fell from the sun down upon the earth ‘as if they all burned’ and they then wasted away on the earth with immense smoke. After all this there was something like a black spear, very long and thick, sighted; the shaft pointed to the east, the point pointed west..."
Feb 9, 2016 12:52 AM
(This post was last modified: Feb 9, 2016 01:11 AM by Magical Realist.)
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