Talk:Interdimensional hypothesis
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Recommendation: This article really should include some references and footnotes. The author appears to be familiar with Jaques Vallee. Some specific sources for Dr. Vallee's research should be referenced. Also, I am going to make a couple small changes in the first paragraph to better explain the basic idea of this hypothesis, as the current article seems to presume the reader is already somewhat familiar with it.
this text is really funny... "indeed the answer would destroy cherished notions of humanity's place in the universe", as though that's such an earth-shattering realization that it would paralyze our society any more than being on the verge of some technological singularity. I don't think so. -- 216.234.56.130 21:16, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] The Control Mechanism
I question whether these two paragraphs (at least in their current form) actually belong here.. the second paragraph in particular seems POV (it seems to assume there are aliens controlling humanity) edit: I gave in and rewrote parts of the second paragraph, spending way more time on an odd topic than it deserves :) Digfarenough 14:48, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Trimming Article
I've removed the following sections, as they seem to be an excessive level of detail:
Going further back in history, to prehistoric Europe, during the ice age, before the written word existed, people recorded their world in a symbolic language of cave paintings and illustrations have since been found, deep underground, of animals of various sorts; the deeper one goes and the more inaccessible the cave becomes, the more deformed the animals appear, eventually becoming demon or monster like in their appearance, each monster being made up of parts of various animals, for instance, the head of a horse and the body of a bison with the legs of an ibex, etc.
It is conjectured by modern science that these images represent the spiritual beliefs of the people of the time, with caves thought to be "womb like", and the illustrations of the monsterous animal hybrids representing mother earth, creating the various forms of animals that inhabit the world. The deeper one goes the more chaotic the forms, approaching more realistic forms the closer one is to the surface, before the earth creates or gives birth to the species that inabit the surface world. Alternatively it might just be easily said that demons, illustrative of the forms that people drew on the walls, were actually manifesting within the caves and communicating with the people and influencing their view of the world, their religion, and creating myth. Comparisons can be drawn with reported manifestations of dwarves or ogres in the mines of medieval Germany.
