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Data Science Call to Action: Analysis of Religious and Spiritual Texts
Do you have an interest in comparative religion or comparative spirituality? Are you interested in the strands of common thought that permeate humanities spiritual traditions and concepts? Are you searching for evidence of thought as a connective force? If so, you may be interested in participating in this project.
Experienced and beginning data scientists are encourage to download these files and conduct analysis based on any manner they see fit. The dataset can be found at https://www.kaggle.com/metron/public-files-of-religious-and-spiritual-texts
Scientists are encouraged to share their findings at the project page at Kaggle linked above or contact Metron Deep at researchmetron@gmail.com
Metron Deep is interested in taking a data science approach to gleaming deeper insights into matters of spirituality, religion and extranormal experience. Data scientists at all levels of experience are encouraged to participate in this analysis.
This data set contains several public files of religious and spiritual texts. Also included is a “wildcard” file on the subject of machine super intelligence.
Metron Deep is interested in various text analysis techniques that can further an understanding of concepts that assist in furthering development of a body of knowledge on the topic of comparative religion and spirituality. Also other interesting observations that will fuel further lines of inquiry and questions are highly desirable. More information of these techniques can be found at https://www.kaggle.com/metron/public-files-of-religious-and-spiritual-texts
Some Thoughts on Aboriginal Art
Lately in my personal artwork I have begun interjecting aboriginal dream circle images into my sketches. Aborginal dream circle art is another form of art I have been somewhat interested in. I bookmarked a number of books on the subject at Amazon to eventually read and gain abetter understanding of this artform. From what I have learned, the circles are connected to the Dreamtime, which is another concept we find in mystico-spiritual beliefs that are highly correlated to shamanistic psychedelic experiences. It is a connection to the understanding of the creation of the world as told by the Ancestor Beings. This is obviously a very interesting concept and one that is worthy of being included in the Metron dataset.
The spiral or circular pattern is always evident in this art as is the use of repetitive forms and imagery in what I feel is an aesthetically pleasing manner when considering the color schemes often associated with these paintings. They remind one of the natural tones of the desert earthscape. The use of repetitive rhythm of forms creates a sensation of connecting mind and body to the self and its environment. This art is a form of record keeping and knowledge transference as well as a connection to the sublime as is understood by the aboriginals. As such, like most art, but especially cultural art, it is polyvariant in its uses and intended communication to the viewer.
Regarding the example above: To the untrained eye, what appears to Western cultural and educational cognitive biases perhaps as a representation of protozoa or cellular structure is actually a map of the Murrinh-Patha countryside in Australia. How would the aboriginal artist know of such scientific concepts and how they may look under a microscope and thus be able to create an artistic representation of them? So here we have the artist, untrained in formal scientific knowledge who creates this as a map and the Western educated observer who can deduce what they are seeing, or what they think they are seeing looks like based on their experience in the world of Western civilization. You could imagine the artist saying, “I created a map, but this person from America thinks it’s protozoan art!” What is the gulf of understanding between the two perceptions? Afterall, when you get down to it, the drill-down of the map, which is a representation of place, physical matter, geology and biology, looks something like this at the cellular level.
The Noosphere and Unstructured Text Data Analysis
Finished Teilhard’s Phenomenon of Man. The Noogenesis and Noosphere concepts are those which have plenty of room for further theoretical elaboration and Teilhard states this in his book, humbly, which is a rare admission for a philosopher. So it is puzzling to me that no one other than Arguelles, as far as I know, has taken a deep dive into the concept. The Noosphere theory is essentially an early variation of what many are terming the Singularity today. In Teilhard’s parlance it was The Omega Point. It can also be interpreted, in my mind, as equatable to the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. That the concept in Teilhard’s description owed much of its construction to the “tree of life” structure is even more compelling to me. And I mean that in the sense of a seemingly possible subconscious archetype that functions as a concept which is permeating the minds of many thinkers in the 20th and 21st centuries. This is why data analysis of unstructured text is important – it can determine sentiment, categorized and visualized on a mass basis. A basis which consists of almost the entirety of written thought, which is close to the entirety of all human thoughts. For argument’s sake let’s say the whole entirety of human thought can be represented as 100%. How much of that makes it way to the written word? Let’s say 10%. This would still be a statistically relevant sample of human sentiment on a massive scale. Of that 10% can we glean cohesive determinations of what people are thinking about? What psychological and sociological insights would that give us?
Quotable
There is no concept more familiar to us than that of spiritual energy, yet there is none that is more opaque scientifically.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – “The Phenomenon Of Man”
Is It Any Wonder?
The UFO phenomena is of such complexity and richness of experience that by default it is prone to increasing spirals of mythology creation and lore as a result of repeated presentation and discussion and speculation of cases which can muddy the record with inaccuracies lazily taken as facts and resulting in further distortions of the original experience. As an example, take any major case, such as Cash-Landrum, Pascagoula or the granddaddy of them all, Roswell and you have a situation somewhat like a repeated photocopying of a document which loses its original clarity and begins to alter its appearance so that it only loosely resembles the original after repeated copies. In any one of these cases, how many TV shows, books, blog entries, news articles and radio/podcast discussion have occurred? In the case of Roswell, certainly thousands of time. Is it any wonder ufology has had consistent trouble finding its footing?
Reading List
What we’re reading or have recently read:
Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee
Reality Boxes: And Other Black Holes in Human Consciousness by Ingo Swann
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald Hoffman
Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism by Rebecca Novik
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
Analysis: A Timeline Of Control
Per the book, UFOs Today: 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation & Government Cover-Up it is likely there was a nascent coverup of the phenomena underway even before the Kenneth Arnold sighting. The extent of which may not have been systemic at the time likely because it takes time to impose such strict widespread controls on information and secrecy across a large bureaucracy. Especially in light of the highly extranormal nature of the phenomena which had obviously been established as a factual portion of our reality hence the need to engage it in a manner that required highest levels of secrecy, cover-up and discretion in its handling of the information known to intelligence organizations. Thus it was likely with a high degree of certainty that there were low and mid-level agents within governmental agencies such as the Air Force, not considered to be spy “tradecraft” level but simply officers conducting investigations with no agenda larger than collecting the facts in order to make an objective report. In other words, these officers weren’t “in on it.” It could look something like this from a decomposed analysis perspective:
| Event | Organizational Response | Hierarchy Affected | Estimated Timeline* |
| Initial detection of phenomena | Mainly dismissive as natural phenomena, misidentified sightings, mass hallucination, “crazes” to some pockets of individual awareness of extranormal component | Low-level officers of military, usually Air Force, air traffic, police and other civil servants, civilians | 1941 – 1945 |
| Preliminary acknowledgement of some veracity of the phenomena | Awareness, implications of possible effects on national security, desire to verify factually, identify or rule out foreign technology advances | Mid-level to top-level officers in military and intelligence agencies, cabinet-level government | 1943 – 1947 |
| Confirmation of factual reality of phenomena | Increased awareness, coming to terms, acknowledgement, formulation of crisis management plans including recognition of need for secrecy | Top-level highest security clearance officers, military and intelligence, cabinet-level government, president, vice-president, SecDef, CIA director and other chiefs of national security intelligence | 1946 |
| “1st level” of understanding the phenomena in semantic, logical sense | Organized effort to implement secrecy controls, event management teams, identification of elements “in the know” vs those who are not, mass communication plan for civilians, message shaping and PR techniques, media influencers, misinformation; all concurrent with continuing data gathering and development of additional knowledge about the nature of the phenomena, continued SWOT assessments | Top-level highest security clearance officers, military and intelligence, cabinet-level government, president, vice-president, SecDef, CIA director and other chiefs of national security intelligence, high level contacts of friendly foreign governments | 1947 – ? |
Addendum:
Additional personal responses to factual establishment of and recognition of phenomena. Mostly feelings associated with non-direct phenomena encounters, but evidential certainty established in the mind of the recipient.
Spiritual dissonance
Confusion
Questioning worldview
Hopelessness
Futility of life
Spiritual awakening
Rejection of societal order
Feelings of insignificance
Fear of subservience
Paranoia
Fight or flight responses
Elation or profound sense of optimism
Thoughts On John Mack’s First Book
Some thoughts on John Mack’s book, Abduction.
Experiencers who seem to be further along the path of spiritual awareness are imparted more information from their ET captors. Events are still unpleasant but communication of intent and advanced knowledge are transmitted. Inverse, the experiencers who possess little in the way of spiritual development or curiosity and who are terrified/resistant (understandably so) appear to not have the same level of knowledge transfer occur and their experiences are more “forced” and traumatic.
The experience can be akin to an approach similar to psychedelics. Experiencers who do their best to relax and “go with the flow” under the realization that resistance to the abduction and procedures are futile generally have a less traumatic after-result mentally.
Much of the experience exhibits shared attributes to the psychedelic experience, however, seems to be actually more predictable in the overall procedural context. The events that occur, night visitation, medical procedures of high invasiveness, floating, loss of memory, missing time, etc. all seem almost certain attributes of the events whereas psychedelic experiences seem more random and unpredictable in terms of the visual and “feelings” aspects.
These attributes of the experience are also correlated to perinatal imagery and symbolism. But that is grist for another post.
Seeking Correlation
It would be interesting to analyze how many reporters of sightings and/or encounters with the phenomenon are believers vs. non-believers that humanity is in the presence of other advanced intelligences. The idea being that we are looking for some validity to the theory that you have to be a believer to have a UAP sighting or encounter with its occupants. This belief could function as a sort of “precondition” to the phenomena displaying itself to the witness. Further, what is the spiritual inclination of the observer/experiencer? Are they more attuned? Or is distribution correlation completely random?
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