To be honest, the focus on "aliens" is pretty tedious at the best of times. But take that out of the equation, and there are still unexplained phenomena. That's why Keel and Vallee are so great. They don't fall into the trap of SF cliche.
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Replying to @simon_sellars @LapsusLima
I think the early psychoanalysis is the best when it comes to such phenomena. You can either see alien as the registers of cosmological traumas or as expressions of something quite mundane which you can't explain coherently .
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Any story about aliens should be made in the fashion of the collective unconscious or individual consciousness.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @LapsusLima
Yes. Tarkovsky was on the right track regarding this approach.
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... regarding “flying saucers, humanoids, the remains of advanced technology found in ancient ruins. They write about aliens, but in these phenomena we are in fact confronting ourselves; that is our future, our descendants who are actually traveling in time." Tarkovsky
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Replying to @simon_sellars @LapsusLima
Until you see this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO2W96NCiRc …
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @LapsusLima
Haha. Fire in the Sky is great sci-fi horror!
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Replying to @simon_sellars @LapsusLima
the only movie that competed with it was: They came without warning
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @LapsusLima
Communion is a great alien UFO flick, with the best jump-scare in any movie! Bar none!
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Replying to @simon_sellars @LapsusLima
I was talking to Amy. Have you watch the NZ Tv-series called Kettering Incident?
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The moral story of Kettering incident: Just because you had a trauma thinking it was an alien encounter, doesn't mean you were not abducted.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @LapsusLima
Have you read any John Mack? Fascinating case study of a highly respected, Pulitzer Prize winning Harvard psychiatrist, a longtime skeptic, who gradually accepted the reality of the abduction phenomenon through the victims he studied.
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This is a wonderful thread. Btw, how about that "abducting the Outside" anecdote about Satyajit Ray coming to Hollywood? His The Alien script got appropriated and somehow ended as E.T. (Ray being put off by Peter Sellers playing an Indian in The Party etc. didn't help either).
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