In D9 – the ETs are physically larger, stronger and as always in ET movies, technologically more sophisticated.   In the 4K, the alien mental abilities as far superior to our own.  Their staging  of psychic invasions  leaves their victims either helpless or a nervous wreck.   In Av we are meet creatures who are intimately connected to their own natural world, making us humans look like savages in regards to our own spiritual ignorance.

This can be seen as an unconscious representation of what we are striving to become; stronger, smarter and more connected.   These new myths fulfill a part of ourselves that we have not actualized.  We attached to “the other” what we wish to express in ourselves. Instead of seeing these attributes as potential we have yet to become  - on the surface of things we create scenarios to fear imaginary adversaries.

Whitely Strieber, one of the most articulate commentators on the subject says in a recent post about his friends the little Grays:  “I hope that, if the grays show up, we will be able to at least bear their presence. Because the other side of the coin is that they are true masters, in the deepest sense of that word.”[ii]

Another concern that this addresses is an old academic augment from the 18^th century about the question gender:  “Is biology destiny?”[iii]  In other words, are we inferior, due to the way we are physically constructed?  Further more does our animal nature keep us limited to an eternal existence of war and territorial control?  This could be the reason we project our small minded humanness onto potential visitors. Independence Day (1983),   The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 & 2008), and The War of the World (1953 & 2005)  might all just be another way of saying: “Aggression - its an Earth thing, you wouldn’t understand.”

Fortunately our cultural history shows we have an ability rise above our primeval nature.  In all parts of the world people have sensed, like the Na’vi, that the were part of a larger destiny; that we are not limited to our animal biology.  Erkhart Tolle, among many others, address this issue by saying “realize that your essential identity as formless…as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness identified with.[iv]

A Question of Sentience
To bring home this point Dan Burisch, who says he has worked with a captured alien at Area 51 declares: “I have never met an alien, but I have worked with EBEs, an extra biological entities.”  Meaning that the awareness of a sentient consciousness rather than our various biology levels the playing field in inter-species relationships.    In this sense we might want to upgrade our connection to the other with the principle  that: “Sentience trumps biology and connects one to another.”

Wikipedia states that sentience “in science fiction, an alien, android, robot, hologram, or computer is one who is treated as a fully human character, with similar rights, qualities, and capabilities as any other character. Foremost sentience typically displays desire, will, consciousness, ethics, personality, insight, and many other compassionate  human qualities. “[v]

My definition of sentience is that:  “I am meeting another whose soul essence transcends their physical embodiment.  I see we are each different aspects of the same totality of consciousness.” Realizing our oneness is the key to opening up ourselves to another level of consciousness and perception.

Sentience, or intelligent awareness is the trait we look for in the other that goes beyond race, religion and species.  It is a new mythos for ourselves and who we shall meet “out there”.  Consciousness is the universal language of exchange; and sentience is its currency.  Soul power; the presence that comes through the eyes is the key component of universal intelligence. This acknowledgment gives us leverage for Contact.  

If you can look someone in the eyes and see your own intelligence reflecting back, then you have found sentience.  Try it on a dolphin or whale as opposed to a dog or a cat.

According to Eliade, in the archaic worldview, the power of a thing resides in its origin.  So if “consciousness is the ground of being’ as Quantum physicist Amit Goswami says;  then this realization of consciousness gives us a cosmic passport for connecting to others in re-cognition of the self.

Strieber having already been prepared for contact says:  “It also hypothesized that the visitors could not enter our reality in numbers as long as most people did not include them as an actual, physical possibility, and that government admission of their existence would probably be a trip-wire that would open a door to them that could never be closed. [vi]

If this is true, then the whole vast theater of UFO sightings, close encounters, crop formations--all of it--could be seen as a sort of military action by the visitors that is designed to circumvent government denial, and create such general belief that they can open the door, as it were, from their side. [vii]

As we become galactic seafarer like our outer planetary visitors, the gold of contact is the embrace a universal essence called consciousnesses.   This kind of expansion in connection to “the other’ opens unexplored doorways of potentials for all races involved.