Astronauts, Psychoactive Shamans, and Spiritual Revolution
Otherworldly beliefs, ancient mythology, and mind-altering substances
This is an excerpt from Sky Gods and the Recipe for Immortality: The secret influence of psychoactivity over science, society, and the supernatural.
Multiple astronauts have publicly professed belief in the supernatural. Al Worden, an Apollo 15 astronaut, once explained on Good Morning Britain:
“We are the aliens, but we just think they’re somebody else. But we’re the ones who came from somewhere else, because someone else had to survive. And they got in a little spacecraft and they came here, and they landed, and they started civilization here. And if you don’t believe me, go get books on the Ancient Sumerians and you’ll see what they had to say.”
In the Biblical Genesis story (tracing Abraham from ancient Sumer), a cryptic passage refers to the so-called sons of God:
“And it came to pass when man commenced to multiply upon the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of man when they were beautifying themselves, and they took for themselves wives from whomever they chose.”
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