Aliens in Wonderland

Science Fiction gives us many options when it comes to altered states of reality. Almost anything can be true under the rubric of weird science, metaphysics, and fantasy.

Unlike monsters and vampires, Aliens have been one fictional idea that most people believe could be fact. Ancient peoples drew strange looking beings on cave walls; Mayan gods prayed to figures that wore helmets, and Egyptian Pharaohs were known to have celestial connections with mysterious portals in outer space.

Fast forward to today, where there's an unbroken stream of speculation about the Roswell crash, hidden space ships at Area 51, and alleged top secret files by world governments, Alien folklore is alive and well and living happily in the consciousness of ordinary people on planet Earth. Popularized by movies, books, television programs and animation, ET has become one of the biggest box office draws in Hollywood for the past 60 years.

Yet, has all this attention to little green men brought us closer to the truth about whether we are alone in our universe? Can we ever know for sure if extra terrestrials really exists?

Enter "Fringe", the snappy, weird science, mind altering show on Fox television. Spouting fringe science to the max, this program zooms from one parallel world to another, complete with doppelgangers and doomsday machines. With a compelling storyline about the existence of what is not seen on the surface of our world, "Fringe" opens up the conversation about "the others" in an unusual way.

If the premise is true that we are our "future selves" coming back to save us from annihilation, then, the notion that we are also the very people standing in the way of our salvation is spectacularly stupefying. Whether "aliens" exists or not, it is a fact of science that life on Earth is part of an expanding universal force. Should we continue to wreck havoc on the only place where we are sure intelligent life exists, is outrageous.

It may be that we are the "aliens in wonderland" and it is to us to keep it that way!

Love and peace in our lifetime

Esprit