D (for Disclosure) Day

Every generation gets its own apocalypse, and sometimes three or four

Humans are naturally apocalyptic. The idea of the end-time calls to us through the primordial mists of aeons past, memories of world-ending catastrophes that shattered humanity’s sense of its place in the order of creation. All peoples have some memory of a catastrophic flood, which makes it very odd when skeptics try to use the ubiquity of that memory to debunk the Book of Genesis. So you’re saying literally every culture passes along a flood story and somehow that disproves the Bible? Okay then...

Everyone worships--the difference is what we choose to worship. Where do we locate the power that allows us to order reality and make sense of it? The atheist will say they do not believe in God and thus do not worship Him. Very well, so they believe in 3 pounds of soggy gray tissue and center their belief in that. It is a de facto worship. To believe the workings of the mind correlate to some outside reality is itself an act of faith.

I’d say between the two, those who seek their answers in the First Cause, the Prime Mover, That Which Everyone Calls God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--are on infinitely superior logical ground to those who worship their own glitchy and erratic meat-computers, but to each his own.

In the same way, everyone must have an apocalypse. The apocalyptic impulse is hard-wired. We all have an individual one, of course, because we all end, but we also seek a lost memory of a Gotterdammerung, a world-ending fire, an unveiling--flood, plague, nukes, world war, asteroids, aliens, Covid, global cooling, global warming, Naziism, Communism, Islam, Donald Trump, AI, the three-point conversion rule, Furbys, &c &c.

The form of the destroyer?

My generation had nuclear annihilation, which had the benefit of being real, immanent, plausible, and easily weaponized to manipulate minds. This was replaced, like a new TV show taking over the time-slot of a cancelled series, with global warming. Global warming had a tougher time, because its reality, immanence, and plausibility were up for debate and its solutions wildly implausible.

For those in power, however, the reality of an apocalypse was almost secondary. Certainly it’s more useful to have a real danger. Soviet global ambitions were extremely real, as was their nuclear arsenal. Environmental degradation is also real, but high-pitched warmist screeching about our imminent demise on a boiling planet was a poor tool for resolving it. It was just another secular armageddon: a poor substitute for the real thing: an alternate religion.

Climate had a good run, top of the ratings, but its time slot is being taken over by AI, with Disclosure warming up in the bullpen. It even had good branding thanks to a big-budget feature film of the same name.

Disclosure is the final revelation (Greek: apokalupsis) that Aliens Are Among Us.

“Did I call it or what?”

Certainly, something hinky is going on, with strange footage leaking from reliable sources seeming to confirm decades of UFO reports. As I sat down to write, this just dropped:

Rod Dreher, a writer I often enjoy, seems to live in a rather frantic state of ever-looming calamities. (I remember endless posts about “peak oil” back in his American Conservative days.) One recent headline--Are pastors being prepared for disclosure --gives a taste of the latest thing.

Are Pastors Being Prepared For Disclosure?

Are they? Dunno. Lots of people say lots of things and then move on and those things are forgotten until a year later when someone sees the name of Pastor Perry Stone and wonders, Wasn’t he that guy who said he was debriefed by the gummint about UFO disclosure?¹ Anyway, Pastor Perry says the MIB payed a visit to a FOAF:²

Perry Stone, a well-known evangelist, author and Bible teacher from Tennessee, warned that fellow pastors were recently invited to a secret meeting with US intelligence officials to prepare for the release of secret files on extraterrestrials.

According to Stone, the officials warned a small group of pastors with a large reach in the Christian community that the government was about to release reports and possibly videos of aliens and spacecraft which were not from this planet.

So religious leaders are getting secret briefings in order to prepare their flocks for the shocking truth of disclosure. If true, I can tell you that Catholics are being left out of these briefings.

Or maybe that’s just what I want you to think!

I’ve said too much already.

Mr. Dreher, to his credit, expresses skepticism about the story, which seems second or third hand at best, but he clearly thinks there’s something going on. Indeed, there may be, although my long, personal experience of basic sentience leads me to believe large government conspiracies spanning decades are improbable.

I study the paranormal. In fact, I have a whole site about the subject and you’re reading it right now. I believe angels and demons are engaged in an unseen struggle for each human soul and wonders beyond our reckoning are occurring all around us. I believe in miracles.

I rule out very little. I don’t care what filthy lies people say about the existence of Bigfoot. In This House, we believe!

Pentagon Advisor Col. Steve Austin knew the truth.

Fairies? Why the heck not?

Dragons? I’ve never not seen one.

Werewolves? Obviously.

And can your heart stand the shocking facts of Graverobbers from outer space?

Can you prove it didn’t happen?

I believe the strangeness that I cover in this space--the miracles, the saints, the wonders--are real, and we’ve simply let the curtain of excessive rationalism blind us to them. Strange Histories, by Darren Oldridge, was hugely influential on the way I approached this material, and inspired the Weird Catholic project over a decade ago.

Oldridge tried to grasp how the medieval mind understood the world, without condescending or assuming people were ignorant because they hold views many no longer accept. By trying to understand ideas that now seem outlandish to many, he shines a light on the distinct thought-world of medieval man--a world now largely lost to the withering assault of misguided empiricism, but which some are trying to recapture through the notion of “re-enchantment.”

Perhaps, at last, what we reading and seeing, the reports and leaks, are not something unknown becoming known, but something long forgotten that we’re learning to see again.

The Truth is Out There

What kind of apocalyptic revelations do people think disclosure will bring? That our government was lying to us? Lololol. Sirrah, that ship sailed long ago. We learned last year that the Deputy Director of the CIA, James Jesus Angleton, was monitoring Lee Harvey Oswald through his Special Investigations Group. It barely made a blip on the news, just like MKUtra, Operations Mockingbird and Northwoods, and any number of other revelations that should have seen the CIA burned to the ground and the ground salted and then the salty ground packed into a rocket and fired into the sun.

If Disclosure is that “The government lied about aliens among us” I think we’d probably just shrug and move on, because most of us are conditioned by pop culture to entertain the idea that there is life on other planets and the government is covering it up. Some see decades of popular entertainment about aliens as a long-game psyop preparing people for the inevitable final Disclosure.

Let me tell you something: if your conspiracy requires the involvement of Ed Wood, perhaps you should rethink its credibility.

Sci-fi is a long psyop conditioning us for alien disclosure. And transvestism.

I think it’s unlikely to be visitors from outer space simply because of the vast distances involved in space travel, but it’s certainly possible. I’ve seen enough footage and evidence to know that this is something that cannot be explained away.

Collin Rugg@CollinRugg

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Like Mr Dreher, I tend to believe UFO/UAP reports probably have some cause closer to home. Machine elves, alternate dimensions, electronic communication, AI, ayahuasca, and occultism are all elements of some unfolding story we don’t quite understand. Ultimately, human consciousness and the porous nature of reality may provide more likely answers for strange encounters.

Carl Jung was fascinated by the subject, and although he tended to psychologize and spiritualize the experiences, he allowed for the possibility that they had material reality. Theologian Msgr. Corrado Balducci suggested they are neither angels nor demons, but something intermediate between the human and the angelic.

It’s not that we’re seeing something new in human history, but that we are expressing it in a different language. A space age people reaching for the stars conceptualizes the unknown as aliens, a pre-modern person as angels and demons, an ancient person as gods and monsters.

Charles Fort: Prophet of the anomalous

Is something happening? Certainly, because something is always happening. Mechanistic materialism has just blinded us to it. The limitations and dangers of such a worldview have become very clear in the information age as we start to piece together all the little scraps of what Charles Fort called “damned” information: data that doesn’t conform to given models, and thus is discarded.

That gifted nihilist HP Lovecraft was on to something and didn’t even realize it:

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.³

What has the world been doing in this information age if not “correlating all its contents”?

Media accelerated it. Electronic media accelerated it further. The internet supercharged it. And now AI basically chants at the gate of R’lyeh where dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

You better believe we are correlating some contents and piecing together dissociated knowledge. If you recall the story, that didn’t end well.

So What?

And that doesn’t bother me at all, because I already know what we’ll find. So does Rod Dreher.

As believing Christians, we already know about this other world. Even better, we know about the end and the glorious promises of the New Heaven and New Earth.

What do people think we’ll find when the veil is lifted? Are they afraid of it?

If they’re Christians, why?

There’s nothing to fear. Beyond the veil of what humanity calls the “real” is that which is actually real: the great communion of saints and angels circling the empyrean, the Love that moves the sun and other stars.

Are there aliens among us? One is at your side right now: a guardian angel. We each have one, and seriously, we need to stop embarrassing them by the things we do when we think no one is watching.

Is there life on other planets? Probably. Has it visited? Maybe. Is it going to vaporize an assortment of little models of international landmarks? Unlikely. Is the government lying to us about something? Lots and lots of things.

And yet I cannot think of a single thing Disclosure would bring that would alter the trajectory of my life or faith. If there are aliens, God made them, because He made everything. And if they’re hostile, then I die in some version of all the sci-fi movies I’ve watched since I was a child, perhaps after joining a plucky resistance.

If all this high strangeness is, however, what some suspect--a spiritual matter relating to the unseen world--then maybe we are drawing closer to seeing the world as it is.

So is Disclosure coming? It already came. We already know what we did when the Real broke into the world. We nailed Him to a cross. This time, in the great unveiling, which is the Second Coming, we need only pray we are on the right side when the sheep and the goats are sorted.

1. I don’t know if Perry Stone is a big deal in evangelical circles because I pay no attention whatsoever to evangelical circles. My interactions with them amount to exactly one (1) big ole bear hug from an amiable Rick Warren in the gift shop of the Museum of the Bible, and literally nothing else. I’m sure God knows what they do in megachurches between P&W songs, but I certainly don’t.

2. A ‘“friend of a friend” (FOAF) story is a common trope in Forteana and folklore. It’s a story where the sourcing is close enough for someone to assert its truth, but distant enough to resist confirmation.

3. H.P,. Lovecraft, “Call of Cthulhu.”