I just kept on wanting to interject that I guess I read too many books by this Streber guy, and that sort of put me off on this path.

There are also physical fairy doubles.

The afterlife isn't some sort of realm where time is held in stasis and you just get to be amongst everyone who's passed on. There are ideas in older cosmologies, especially from Egypt or ancient imperial China, that the afterlife was, again, a mirror version of this world where According to that, you would have to get up and work, and there might be technological process that happens on the other side of this veil, just as there's technological progress that happens on this side of that as well. Egyptian farmers would have to get up and plow their fields and worship all the same gods, and basically life just continued.

But if you look at the psychopomp motif, a lot of the behaviors of what, you know, popular ufology would call UFO occupants seems to mirror a lot of the behavior that these psychopomps have. And what's more, I mean, the UFO is a transportation metaphor. Like, that's primarily what it is. It's what everybody talks about who's interested in UFOs. Where they are, where they come from, how do they go here, look at the way that they travel. It's all about transportation. And transportation metaphors are almost always metaphors of transition to the other world or to the other side.

I hesitate a lot of times to go down the interdimensional rabbit hole because I think that we conceptualize dimensions in a pretty strange way. We think of it as a place that you go when, really, if you look at essays like Flatland and whatnot, it's about... It's about, you know, if someone is a two-dimensional figure and you put your finger on the page, they're not going to see your finger, they're just going to see a circle or a dot, right? So I think that sometimes we just glitch in and out of these other things. And I think that sometimes we go there, wherever you see an instance of missing time, which...

I hesitate a lot of times to go down the interdimensional rabbit hole because I think that we conceptualize dimensions in a pretty strange way. We think of it as a place that you go when, really, if you look at essays like Flatland and whatnot, it's about... It's about, you know, if someone is a two-dimensional figure and you put your finger on the page, they're not going to see your finger, they're just going to see a circle or a dot, right? So I think that sometimes we just glitch in and out of these other things. And I think that sometimes we go there, wherever you see an instance of missing time, which... Happens in, yes, the UFO experience, but also Fairyland experiences, and also NDEs, and also some cryptid encounters, much to my surprise. Much to the surprise. Even in some instances of shamanic traveling or out-of-body traveling, things like that.

And what happens when a culture, a global culture, has mapped more or less every square inch of the planet and we find that there isn't the other world here on Earth? What happens to that? I would argue that it gets transposed to the stars and that all that baggage that we've always had of the psychopath. Sure. pulling this chariot of the sun across the sky, all that gets transposed to this very 20th, 21st century motif of the UFO experience, I think.