Sage Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras - the classical yoga text of ancient India written almost 3000 years ago - has given a vivid description of the supernatural powers that a yogi can obtain by doing 'sanyam' (restraint) on various subjects. These powers include levitation, mind-reading, getting into another person’s body, making oneself invisible, flying through the air, etc.

In the seminal book on extraterrestrial abductions of humans by UFO inhabitants,  Harvard University Professor John Mack has shown that all persons abducted and taken inside the spaceships (abductees) talked about extraterrestrials floating in the air, could interact telepathically with them, could read their minds, modify them, become invisible and exhibited almost all the powers written in Patanjali Yoga Sutras.

The similarity is so uncanny that I sometimes think that Sage Patanjali could have been an extraterrestrial being who came to earth almost 3000 years ago to give us this knowledge! 

Thus if we understand how a yogi can get these supernatural powers then it may show us a way to understand mind-matter interaction and probably pave the way for developing galactic travel technologies.

UFO sightings

Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) are real. There have been innumerable sightings and visitations by extraterrestrials throughout the history of mankind. And recently the US government has officially released video clippings of a few of these sightings. Similarly, a recent series of Netflix documentaries has further shown the possibilities of these visitations and mankind’s quest for understanding the technologies of UFO propulsion.

Propulsion technology used by UFOs effortlessly overcomes earth’s gravitational pull, and understanding it may help us produce unlimited renewable energies on this planet for our needs and benefits. Hence it is very necessary that we invest money and resources in discovering and understanding them.                      

In the early 1960s, I was exposed to the book “Flying Saucers have Landed”, written by the American author George Adamski. This book, bought by my father, was about the fascinating account of UFOs and Adamski’s contact with the extraterrestrials. Reading this book opened for me a whole vista of space travel and the possibility of life outside our world and created a lifelong interest in UFOs and extraterrestrials. Though later on George Adamski was proved to be a fraud and hoax, his book was a great read.

Since then I have tried to read as much as possible about UFOs both in print media and on the internet, and as an engineer have always been curious about the possibilities of their propulsion mechanism. At one time because of deep interest, I had vivid dreams about space journey in one of the UFOs and also visitations of strange life forms in some of them. It seemed through dreams I was connected to the world of UFOs!

Later on, when I started writing on spirituality, the images of gods and deities got transformed from mythical figures to astronauts. I have written about these issues in my latest book “Exploring the Mind of God”. Others like Erichvon Daniken, a German UFO enthusiast, have written about gods as nothing else but aliens visiting us from different planets in their dazzling machines. In Indian scriptures like Ramayana and Mahabharat, there are quite a few descriptions of various gods visiting earth in their flying machines.

Galactic travel

I firmly believe that the future of mankind is to become a galactic traveling civilization and mastering the technology to do so can only come when we develop the wisdom through spirituality to use it wisely.

Galactic and intergalactic travel is an evolutionary process and as we expand our horizons technologically, we have an inherent desire to conquer space and experience the journey.  It is also probably in our DNA since we probably had extraterrestrials origins. This is also the claim in the recent Netflix documentary series on UFOs.

 Getting the information on UFO technology can either be done by direct contact with UFO astronauts (usually through abductees) or by a great scientist or inventor who is connected to the extraterrestrial knowledge space (KS). This is how all great discoveries and inventions of this world are made. Thus our knowledge of great spiritual and scientific laws by people like Buddha, Jesus Christ, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, etc. was probably produced as a part of seeding of the earth by memories from outer space who were born in the form of human beings.

(The writer is Director and Hon. Secretary, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute, Phaltan, Maharashtra. The views expressed are personal. He can be contacted at anilrajvanshi50@gmail.com)