ETs vs. Faeries: Sky Bum's Rush

You may be pleased to hear that this is the final 'ETs vs. Faeries' piece. I am heartily sick of the UFO/ET phenomenon/enigma by now and I think I've already said everything I wanted to say about it. Basically, whatever it is in reality or unreality, it isn't basically ecological in effect, but incompatible with the ecological or inimical to it. As for ETs and 'Faeries' (~Wights), they are so alien and antithetic to each other that I resent any witless attempt to hybridize them or to hybridize New Age UFO religion with Paganism as well.* There's some of that in Will Peterson's Triskellion trilogy, which I've just discovered and found as possibly 'the next Harry Potter'. But the Mythos will ignore UFOs/ETs and avoid such horrible hybrids. In the 1960s, I saw the same witless indiscriminate mixing-up of everything in search of a vast unified cosmic Aquarian culture, which was in fact so formlessly everything-is-everything that it collapsed and disintegrated as it dashed on the rocks of harsh Reality and came generally to be sneered at by those who came after. I was involved in that search, inchoately, but I could never be a joiner, a true Hippie, though I was definitely Romantic Youth. Decades of trying to sort out or at least leave the 60s behind gradually drew me to conservatively focus on my initial (and so truer?) fascinations, as almost everything else I explored eventually proved wanting-- what a long time it took, because I try to be open-minded and fair. Perhaps as part of the aging process, blessedly, the contrast between what is important and worthy and what is not has become much clearer-- with a glance (well...) I can usually place things as one or the other, which is a relief after having felt so confused about so much for so long. The one thing I was never confused about, though, was the cruciality of the Ecology Movement, but I think that comes from my early bonding with Nature and from the Nature-romanticism in my childhood environment. I wonder if it's possible to really 'get' Ecology without such early shaping-- which is a pretty daunting thought.

Well, I'm still 'In Search Of'. I don't have a lot of answers-- I don't know if there are a lot of answers out there. But there are values and choices that seem to be right, based on feeling and intuition and imagination, with experience and informed thinking providing the reality-check. This detour-foray I've made into another mythos doesn't seem to have resulted in creative inspiration for the Shaggy Mythos so much as in a clarifying, confirming reaction and probably in unconscious shiftings that I can feel still going on. No doubt that will result in a different take on the Mythos, which, finally, is all I have to offer. I'm no scholarly intellectual or canny charismatic leader-type, and by now I thoroughly know my all-too-human limitations, but this is the one (hopefully) helpful thing I have to offer. So, it's back to the Mythos now for me (and you).

* I can't detect any truly religious, sacred aspect in the UFO/ET world (though I haven't really looked into the 'UFO cults') but it's just another of many things lacking in the phenomenon, which together make it seem more a premonition than an epiphany.