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The Alien Club
INTRODUCTION |
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| ALIENATION AND FEELING ALIEN |
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| Of course individuals who feel alienated are not
necessarily aliens (although all aliens do feel some
degree of alienation whilst living in human societies).
Feelings of alienation are rife in a culture that conditions
each of us to focus our energies on personal acquisition
and self-gratification. This especially affects the
younger generations who are born directly into these
difficult times, without the good fortune of having
once lived in more meaningful times. |
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| So how can we tell the difference between feeling
alienated and actually being alien? The short answer
to this is that if you are unsure, you are probably
just feeling alienated. Most visitors tend to "know" that
they are visitors. Perhaps until we are sure, we have
not developed significant cosmic consciousness to claim
an alien birthright. Aliens do not feel their alienation
as a sense of rejection by society so much as a more
positive "I come from another place". Most
aliens are actually fairly social and able to skilfully
integrate into human society, often with a high degree
of community, ecological and political concern. Although
some do lead more solitary and lonely lives, very few
would be described as social outcasts or suffering
from delusional mental illnesses. |
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| Alienation usually affects particular segments of
society and there are recognisable profiles for such
groups — usually outsiders or teenagers. Aliens,
however, are more difficult to profile and most would
certainly not be characterised as outsiders. Although
the seeds of alien consciousness seem to be scattered
randomly across the social spectrum, there is a personal
alien profile. Aliens tend to be intelligent, spiritual
(in a non-religious sense), compassionate, psychologically
together and generally pretty conscious. They have
also spent many nights gazing up longingly at the starlit
heavens… feelings of exile mingled with the excitement
that one day they will return home. |
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