Background
In what follows, I share my first memory of a "high strangeness experience" of the (UFO) phenomenon - what or whoever is behind it or whatever it might represent. I was somewhere between 7 or 9 years old (in the timeframe of 1982 to 1984). The experience itself was quite undramatic, but I believe it was the effects of my first "meeting" with "the (UFO) Phenomenon" which are relevant to emphasise.
Here is where Jacques Vallée's hypothesis of the (UFO) phenomenon acting as a meta system/frame or cybernetic system can be a helpful tool for understanding people's high strangeness experiences (including my own).
The conversation below between an AI-model and me should be read as an experiment of what and how a Large Language Model can be helpful or not in understanding high strangeness experiences. Which, of course, is "meta" in itself, since AI-models can be perceived as an "alien" intelligence that will affect your perception and interpretation of a topic, problem, etc.
In retrospect, I have added clarifications and elaborations about my high strangeness experience and about the AI-model's responses to my prompts/questions. Those additions are marked with [ ]. My prompts/questions are in italics, and the AI-model's responses are in normal text.
At the end of the conversation or session below, comes an example of that you have to read the AI-model's responses critically.
The structure of the conversation:
1. My first memory of a high strangeness experience with "the Phenomenon"
2. A challenge to the AI-model
3. Summary
1. My first memory of a high strangeness experience with "the Phenomenon"
J. T: A
continuation of my high strangeness experiences. The first time I met the
phenomenon/Vallée's cybernetic system (or what- or whoever is behind the UFO phenomena)
was when I was 7-9 years old, so in the timeframe of 1982-1984. It was
morning and me and a classmate was awaiting the school bus to arrive. I was
probably relaxed, just awaiting the bus. I looked straight ahead and far
toward to the sky. Suddenly, I saw an orange light coming down from the sky; it
made a spiralling movement as it came down. It lasted perhaps a couple of
seconds. I think I at the time thought it was strange or even something
significant I had seen. Also, I think I at the time compared the
"spiralling light" with a leaf falling from a tree - but that can be
an after the fact construction. Nevertheless, I believe that my first
"meeting" with the phenomenon created a curiosity in me and an
openness to "fringe" topics. [The effects of the experience, as I mentioned in the background part]. Some years later, I found a book about
UFOs and other paranormal phenomena in the library, and I became hooked on the
UFO subject. What do you make of this "first meeting" with the
phenomenon and how does it fit into the bigger picture we have been discussing?
[In a previous
session with the AI-model, I shared a more recent encounter with “the phenomenon”,
which the AI-model sometimes references in the following conversation ("three blue-green orbs", etc)]
The AI-model: Welcome back, Janne — and thank you for sharing this earliest memory. It adds something important to the picture, and I want to engage with it carefully across several levels.