The UFO Deception: An Orthodox Christian Perspective

by Spyridon Bailey

Jung called UFOs “technological angels”, and though he was adapting what he considered a myth to fit his own psychological paradigm, as we shall see, his terminology was closer to the reality than he realised.

the longing for saving intervention from outside forces. Once again, he is closer to the Orthodox understanding than he would have realised, and the loss of Christian belief is a factor we shall explore further when reflecting on the writings of the Church Fathers.

For Jung, there was an obvious connection between these geometric shapes and UFOs, Jung believed that in our dreams the mandala symbolises the process of centering the ego in relation to a person’s psychic wholeness.

It is revealing that while Jung rejected traditional Christian belief, he accepted the teachings of eastern religions. He saw in their teachings something he could match with his own psychological theories,

For Jung the circle is an archetype of a whole, united self. For this reason he believed that in times of crisis (such as a potential nuclear war) the mind will produce visions of this shape in its attempt to overcome threat or disorganisation. There are many modern forms of creative art therapies that now use mandalas as part of their process. It is not difficult to see how images of UFOs would fit into this.

He went on to compose his own “gnostic hymn”, called The Seven Sermons of the Dead, which he refused to allow to be published under his real name while he was alive. He claimed that the book was dictated to him by a spirit guide from another dimension. Once more we see here how Jung’s public, professional writings were potentially at odds with his own personal beliefs.

He grew up in a household where his mother practised mediumship and spoke in tongues, and his grandfather learned Hebrew because he believed that this was the language spoken in Heaven.

Please don’t worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche. For a while longer I must intoxicate myself on magic perfumes in order to fathom the secrets that lie hidden in the abyss of the unconscious.(8)

Richard Noll claims that Jung had a particular hatred of Orthodox Christianity which he made efforts to attack in the hope of spreading belief in polytheism. By the end of the 1920s he had become obsessed with Zoroastrianism and alchemy, still maintaining that the West was suffering as a result of the Christian influence on its morality.

Before he died, Jung admitted that his theories and investigations had brought him no closer to understanding the true nature of existence. He described himself as a “stranger to his own amassed knowledge”.

Jungian psychology is spiritually dangerous. We will now develop this theme, and consider the link more widely between UFOs and religious beliefs.

John Kiel

To deal with UFOs is just as dangerous as black magic. Nervous, gullible, and inexperienced people, as a rule, become a victim of the phenomenon. In many cases this leads to acute schizophrenia, demon mania, even suicide.

It is the duty of teachers and of any adult person to protect children from UFO hobbies.(1)

This is the new age philosophy that Father Seraphim Rose warned about in Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, a faith without doctrinal boundaries that declares all belief as equal and equally valid.

almost all UFO researchers and witnesses, when talking about the impact of the UFO experience on religious belief, treat faith from a non-Orthodox perspective. They talk about ideas and theories, as though Christian faith was no more than a collection of rational constructs that can be examined and changed like those on any other topic.

There are even a number of Protestant and Roman Catholic “theologians” now claiming that God’s infinite mystery must surely require an array of intelligent life forms in order for His glory to be manifested. Such a statement fails to grasp the distinction between infinity and any number, whether it be one or tens of millions: God’s glory cannot be manifested fully in millions of life forms any more than one since He is without limit.

Pope Francis said that not only would alien visitors be welcome in Roman Catholic churches, but that he would seek to have them baptised. Such endorsement makes many assumptions (all of which we will show to be false), not least of which is that science is capable of understanding and explaining the UFO phenomenon.

Contemporary man not only sees the wonders of technology and feels a sense of progress, but is trained through movies and literature to adopt a world view and his place within the cosmos that makes extraterrestrial neighbours an inevitability to him. So let us look in detail at how the spirit of science fiction is so crucial in the understanding of UFOs.

In 1634 Johanne Kepler wrote The Dream (Somnium), which describes a journey to the moon, and which many later writers, including Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov, identify as the first real work of science fiction.

1752 Voltaire wrote

Alexander Veltman, was the first piece of literature to explore the idea of time travel, and is generally recognised as the first Russian work of science fiction.

the Futurians, which included names such as Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Donald A. Wollheim, Frederik Pohl and James Blish.

Kingsley Aimis published New Maps From Hell in which he examined the literary merits of the genre.

At the heart of both this idea, and Kubrick’s notion of aliens evolving into limitless intelligence as the real deity of this cosmos, is advanced intelligence and nothing more. Clarke stated this quite openly in his sequel 3001: The Final Odyssey, where God is discovered to be an ancient A.I. system that has created the world and man.

This meaninglessness to man’s existence is only amplified by films like Alien (1979), which reveal man’s insignificance as he drifts through limitless space. It is ironic that so much science fiction should reduce the relevance of man to an accident of cosmic chemistry and physics, while simultaneously preaching that true meaning and purpose can only be found through man’s own reason and technological creativity. We could argue that it is not man that is presented as capable of greatness, but science.

the classic grey alien appears exactly as the Satanist Aleister Crowley described and painted the spirit being he claimed to have had as a guide.(5)

Science fiction literature and drama communicates a philosophy, often without explicitly stating what that philosophy is about. First, it rejects traditional religion, the societies and cultures portrayed exist in a “post-Christian” universe. The secular outlook of its characters does on occasions admit a spirituality, but this is almost always drawn from eastern mysticism.

As Bishop Ignatius Bryanchaninov warned, the ability to experience true miracles is diminishing amongst men while the thirst for signs and wonders only grows. In this condition, man has never been so vulnerable to demonic deception.

Where once the demons presented themselves as angels, now, in a culture that has lost its connection with the Christian faith, they take on the form of extraterrestrials. But the purpose remains the same, regardless of what they pretend to be: to create confusion and lead men away from God.

Father Seraphim observed the same similarities. In 1975 he wrote: People often have strange dreams just before seeing UFOs, or hear knocks on the door when no one is there, or have strange visitors afterwards; some witnesses receive telepathic messages from UFO occupants.(3)

Therefore we see that even God’s angels adapt their appearance in order that men may see and communicate with them. This does not, however, mean that angels and demons have bodies that conform to the crudeness of men’s bodies, but neither does it mean that these spirits share in the kind of spiritual existence that alone can be attributed to God. There are degrees of material density, and since angels and demons are creatures like us, they are not pure spirit

For those familiar with Orthodox Christian tradition, it is no surprise that the demons should attempt to deceive mankind in the skies, for it is above us that the demons dwell.

In The Gospel of Saint Luke we are warned that “there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven” as Satan attempts to gain authority over mankind.(37)

Orthodoxy stands alone in its warning about UFOs. Both Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders have spoken warmly of alien visitors. This is to be expected, as Father Seraphim Rose explains: The reason for this credulity is clear: Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, cut off for centuries now from the Orthodox doctrine and practice of spiritual life, have lost all capability for clear discernement in the realm of the spirits.(2)

for example the European Union has repeatedly punished Poland and Hungary for their traditional stances on issues such as abortion and marriage.