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[Sushan]

This topic is about the April 2025 Philosophy Book of the Month, On Spirits: The World Hidden Volume II by Dr. Joseph M. Feagan

There is a thought-provoking proposition in Dr Joseph M. Feagan's book: what if spirits were not merely supernatural forces, not mere by-products of religious imagination, but rather different intelligences that have co-existed with humankind since ancient times?

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A challenge for both religious and scientific orthodoxy; on one end, it redefines experiences that are fundamentally spiritual as encounters with non-terrestrial life forms instead of divine or ancestral, while on the other end, it pushes the limits of science to say these life forms could actually be living among us here on Earth – not in the way people generally expect, however, such as through flying saucers – but in such subtle energetic dimensions that our current conventional instruments cannot detect.

Would this definition of spirits as alien entities serve to redefine the concepts of religion, myth, and consciousness? Is this view diminishing the sacred, or does it enlarge our spiritual dimension to the level of the cosmos?

[Catarina Silva_]

This doesn't-doesn't make sense. Humans always think they see things, so maybe they do see aliens and not spirits. But what about the similarity of the spirits to people the viewers know? Do the aliens imitate humans? Or is it the brain playing tricks on the familiar instead of accepting the unknown?

[Sushan]

This doesn't-doesn't make sense. Humans always think they see things, so maybe they do see aliens and not spirits. But what about the similarity of the spirits to people the viewers know? Do the aliens imitate humans? Or is it the brain playing tricks on the familiar instead of accepting the unknown?

People have reported seeing Aliens similar to human form as well as different to human form. People tend to describe things using what they know. Since there are no acceptable images of aliens photographed by humans, the images and models are created using these verbal descriptions. I think these observed similarities can be due to this.