Mircea Eliade And Ufos
Religious scholar Mircea Eliade relates an allegory of UFOs in Chapter 38 of his "A History of Religious Ideas" [Volume 3, From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms, University of Chicago Press, 1985, Page Page 235].

The UFOs are called z^ine, are "white, invisible by day, provided with wings, they move about in the air, especially at night...wherever they dance the grasses of the fields look as if they were scorched by fire. They bring sickness upon those who see them dance or who infringe upon certain interdictions."

Eliade's account is duplicated in dozens of other mythological or religious tracts and provide a clue as to what UFOs may be or are.

One can rehash old flying saucer and UFO sightings, but the Jacques Vallee approach to UFO antecedents might prove more amenable to a solution of the UFO mystery.

The intangible aspects of Vallee's arcane hypotheses are anathema to many in the UFO community but more than acceptable to those wishing to resolve the UFO enigma.

There is a foolishness in ufology that turns away serious thinkers and researchers. Jerry Clark, Stanton Friedman, Isaac Koi, and several other ufologists are not part of the inane UFO crowd, but their serious study of UFOs is undercut by the quidnuncs who use UFOs to provide a camaraderie that can't be obtained elsewhere. (UFOs often provide a focal point for those who are incapable of bonhomie in the real world.)

Those who use UFOs for self-aggrandizement besmirch the phenomenon for academics and scientists, or serious UFO researchers.

UFOs may be used as a means to an end, but not as vehicles to assuage those whose end is self-glorification rather than a truth of significant import.

This is what Eliade means when he states that UFOs (z^ines) bring sickness on those who see them dance.

The sickness is psychical, and demeaning to the human purpose of life, which is not rock and roll, beer swilling, or the constant ogling of females.

The pleasures of the flesh do not, in our opinion, have anything to do with the meaning of UFOs.

Eliade goes on to explicate his account, and provides an exegesis that belittles the kind of ufological activity that has been ruinous to the real study of UFOs.

Presenting various hypotheses about UFOs is endemic to ufology, but a few would have it otherwise, sloughing off UFOs by a desire to self-glorify and party rather than settle down to serious UFO investigation.

We recommend the Edward de Bono method of "New Think" for UFO evaluation.

We do not recommend those methodologies (or people) that advocate another way to get at the truth...

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