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The other day, Rob, Megan and I were in the car, on our way home beneath a vast blue Florida sky.\u00a0 So I asked one of those what if <\/em> questions.<\/p>\n

Me: \u201cWhat if the sky suddenly filled with UFOs?\u201d<\/p>\n

Megan: \u201cI\u2019d lock myself in my room and seal up the house.\u201d<\/p>\n

Me: \u201cBut they might be friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Megan: \u201cYeah, they might be. But suppose they shot down beams of light and blew up the car in front of us?\u201d<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 \u201cThen we\u2019d race home. So does it come down to the ET scenario \u2013 benevolent aliens \u2013 or the V scenario \u2013 the bad aliens?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rob, who hadn\u2019t said anything to this point, jumped in. \u201cThere are so many possibilities. They might be from another planet, they might be us from the future, or they could be inter-dimensional beings. Or something else altogether. Whatever they are, that kind of event would change everything. It would be a global paradigm shift.\u201d<\/p>\n

Megan and I agreed.\u00a0 Disclosure \u2013 by governments, by national security agencies, by whoever or whatever has maintained such a tight lid on the entire ET issue \u2013 would become irrelevant. If the leaders of countries announced that ETs were here, among us,\u00a0 the impact wouldn\u2019t be as powerful as millions of people seeing a sky filled with UFOs. That would be something that even skeptics couldn\u2019t dispute.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve often thought that popular culture is the collective unconscious of any society. The fastest way that ideas are spread, that they reach a tipping point, is through visual and social mediums \u2013 movies, TV, books, Facebook, Twitter. Was the black president in 24<\/em> the voice of the collective saying we were ready for a black president? Or was it a shade of precognition? Or both?<\/p>\n

Take a look at the TVs and movies coming up during the rest of 2011:<\/p>\n

Falling Skies<\/em>, a Stephen Spielberg alien invasion for TV<\/p>\n

Super<\/em> 8: <\/em>a Spielberg\/JJ Abrams (Lost) alien invasion for movies<\/p>\n

Battle: Los Angeles<\/em> -pro\u2013U.S.military invasion alien invasion<\/p>\n

I Am Number Four<\/em> \u2013 from James Frey\u2019s YA novel, alien invasion<\/p>\n

Cowboys and Aliens<\/em> \u2013 a period piece, old West alien invasion movie<\/p>\n

Monsters – <\/em>romance\/alien invasion<\/p>\n

Skyline<\/em> -human-tornado alien invasion<\/p>\n

Men in Black III<\/em> \u2013 the 3rd<\/sup> in the franchise<\/p>\n

The Thing<\/em> -prequel alien invasion<\/p>\n

Battleship \u2013 <\/em>childhood-toy alien invasion <\/em><\/p>\n

Iron Sky – <\/em>Nazis alien invasion <\/em><\/p>\n

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Then there are the classics like The X-Files, 4400, V,\u00a0 Battlestar Galactica<\/em>, all the Star Trek <\/em>movies, Brother from Another Planet, Independence Day, \u00a0Paul<\/em>, K-Pax<\/em>, and, of course, ET. And there are\u00a0 remakes of The Day the Earth Stood Still and War of the Worlds. <\/em> I\u2019ve probably left off a number of others.<\/p>\n

The bottom line, though, is that in today\u2019s world, the Internet provides us with more than just a cursory glimpse into Carl Jung\u2019s collective unconscious. It IS the collective unconscious made conscious and visible. It\u2019s as if TV, movies, books, and numerous websites are preparing us for something. <\/em><\/p>\n

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As we approached our neighborhood, Rob told Megan that when she was very small, she was afraid of aliens. Megan says she remembers coming into our room one night because she was scared about the aliens.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot your normal childhood fear,\u201d I remarked.<\/p>\n

\u201cUh, well, maybe that\u2019s because you guys are weird. I mean, how many of my friends\u2019 parents would be driving home and speculating about what we would do if the sky filled with UFOs?\u201d<\/p>\n

Properly humbled, Rob and I laughed and Megan leaped out of the car as though she couldn’t get away from us fast enough, but I could hear her chuckling.<\/p>\n

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