AI robots. UFO crash-retrieval programs. Alien tech reverse-engineered from flying saucers and egg-shaped craft. What was considered comic book reality just 5 years ago is now a regular part of our daily news cycle.
Ross Coulthart’s interview with whistleblower Jake Barber has not only moved the needle in creating awareness of UFO disclosure to the general public, it has introduced to the mainstream ideas such as consciousness inhabiting seemingly inanimate objects – in this case, a spacecraft. Barber also discusses remote viewing, which has always been just a fancy term for using one’s psychic powers. He confirms it as not only a real phenomena, but also a technique trained and employed by intelligence agencies for espionage and other purposes. He even references a popular graphic novel by V for Vendetta creator Alan Moore, referring to his team of people with developed psionic abilities as a “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”.
I have been anticipating the shift to this comic book reality for awhile. In March of 2008, shortly after I began making and publishing my own comics, I wrote an article entitled “Reality v. Fantasy” underlining how the world of Twilight Lady (which I was writing & illustrating at the time) was going to change gradually “over the course of the entire series. By the end, you will witness a completely new realm, vastly different from the ‘real world’ depicted in the opening chapters”.
I concluded by saying, “of course, the real real world – our world – will no doubt change as well, in the time that I’m going to be working on this project. It will be interesting to compare the eventual reality to the fantasy”.
Interestingly, I received a comment on this post by a reader named Jay, who asked: “What do you mean our real world will change? Spiritualists seem to be referencing a change occurring lately. Is that what you are talking about?”
At the time, I did not quite know how to reply to Jay’s query as my anticipation of a shift was purely intuitive, based on an inner knowing rather than any information gleaned from outside sources. With time and hindsight, I suspect what Jay was referring to was the long-foreseen Age of Apocalypse (or the Great Reveal) we have now entered due to our solar system’s trajectory. Human consciousness is expanding, and so is our reality along with it.
It is human perception of the nature of life in the cosmos that is changing as much as the physical manifestation of it. When I was growing up, my passion for comic book universes was often denigrated, usually by adults but also occasionally by my peers, most of whom had already been indoctrinated to believe that the mainstream perception of reality is all there is. I always knew, deep down, that was a lie and that the nature of life in the cosmos portrayed in the world of comics was, in fact, much closer to the actual truth. Concepts that supposedly belonged only in the realm of science fiction – humans with superpowers, aliens from other worlds, time travel, parallel dimensions, space guardian councils, creatures from inside the Earth – always felt more real and relevant to me than the so-called “real world”.
Now, things have come full circle in the discussion over what is real and relevant these days. A Joker might ask, why so serious? Well, disclosure of long-hidden truths is a serious matter. A phrase I would often hear in my childhood: “oh, that’s just a comic book” has been replaced by: “oh, that’s just a conspiracy theory”. Different words, but with a similarity in meaning and significance, in that they underline the speaker’s disconnect with their inner child. Many so-called conspiracy theories are formed out of an active imagination and a tendency to question everything, and children often ask the best questions. UFO researchers frequently point out that a common trait extraterrestrial contactees possess is an open-minded, child-like curiosity. A sense of wonder.
More than ever, that is a trait needed in our Earth societies to, on a personal and collective level, deal with and adapt to this strange, exciting new comic book reality we find ourselves in.
