Demons or Aliens? Different Maps of the Same Phenomenon

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One question keeps resurfacing across different fields: are the entities people encounter truly spiritual in nature, or are they something else entirely?

Corrado Malanga, through hypnotic regression, proposed that certain non‑human intelligences could attach themselves to human consciousness, influencing behavior and perception. His work frames these entities as alien in origin, functioning almost like parasitic systems.


Similarly, researchers such as Budd Hopkins described abduction phenomena as a widespread and consistent experience, involving non‑human beings interacting with humans for unclear purposes.


On the other hand, Western esotericism has long spoken of demons, spirits, and non‑physical intelligences operating across subtle planes. Even Aleister Crowley described contact with Lam — an entity that, by modern standards, appears strikingly “extraterrestrial.”


This raises an interesting possibility: are we dealing with different interpretations of the same phenomenon? Are “demons” and “aliens” simply symbolic frameworks applied to encounters with non‑human intelligence?


If so, what is their function? Guidance, limitation, experimentation — or something else entirely?


I’m curious how others here interpret these overlaps between esotericism, psychology, and ufology.

 

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Okay. Frist your sources seem pretty dubious, which is understandable if you cannot experience spiritual worlds and cannot learn first hand how they work.

So what is out there?
Attached to us can be multiple things, but when it comes to parasites, there are astral larvae, that are causing you to feel certain way, good example are larvae of addiction, alcohol, drugs, sex, once you have one, it can be hard to get rid of it. Larvae is not random name, those whoa re able to see them, really see larvae and we have some example drawings... They look like leeches, kind of, their variety in how they look is vast, but basic form is indeed larvae. Not very inteligent, but they will fight you if you don't feed them... once you have them.

There are also servitors and other familiars created by us, imaginary friends, kind of. Once you create such a being, it is of you and if you treat it well, it's very useful and caring ally.

There are also un-incarnated guides, ancestors, animals, etc. etc.

One of the astral travels manuals came with little chart of various astral beings.

Concerning UFO, that's mainly USA thing. Americanos love UFOs and think about them much, so all those kidnappings, most happened in USA, as far as I know. (could be wrong) Though unclear purposes is fitting description if you don't know what is going on.

Not everything out there is E.T. There are pretty terrestrial things, that live in other Earthly realms. Though there are things from beyond out there too. And we can too visit their realms and then we become E.T. from their perspective, acting with god-knows-what intentions...

 

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I agree that this is a very delicate field of study, precisely because it is full of traps and interpretative risks.
What I can say is that Corrado Malanga worked with a very large number of hypnotic regressions used as research material. Many of these sessions show recurring and highly consistent patterns: abductees often describe figures resembling Horus-like forms or bodiless beings of light, very similar to what many traditions would call angels — entities perceived primarily as luminous consciousness.
According to this framework, their interest seems to focus on what we commonly call the soul, understood as the immortal or non-local aspect of human consciousness.
I also agree with you that “out there” there may exist many different forms of energy, or more broadly, many kinds of entities. Where my perspective slightly differs is that I do not see these encounters as necessarily limited to fixed external categories. I think it is possible to come into contact with whatever resonates with us — a matter of frequency, coherence, and state of consciousness.


In this sense, different traditions may simply be using different symbolic languages to describe overlapping phenomena.

 

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I agree that this is a very delicate field of study, precisely because it is full of traps and interpretative risks.
What I can say is that Corrado Malanga worked with a very large number of hypnotic regressions used as research material. Many of these sessions show recurring and highly consistent patterns: abductees often describe figures resembling Horus-like forms or bodiless beings of light, very similar to what many traditions would call angels — entities perceived primarily as luminous consciousness.
According to this framework, their interest seems to focus on what we commonly call the soul, understood as the immortal or non-local aspect of human consciousness.
I also agree with you that “out there” there may exist many different forms of energy, or more broadly, many kinds of entities. Where my perspective slightly differs is that I do not see these encounters as necessarily limited to fixed external categories. I think it is possible to come into contact with whatever resonates with us — a matter of frequency, coherence, and state of consciousness.


In this sense, different traditions may simply be using different symbolic languages to describe overlapping phenomena.

Even with regression one has to be careful. Memory itself is well moldable and changeable. Reoccurring patterns are expectable, just like during interrogations of Children during satanic panic. They simply started making up stuff that was similar among them basing on the culture they knew. So in society like USA that has quite an UFO culture, the occurrence of fake memories with UFO is expectable.

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I'll say it in another way: don't expect to dig out of people stuff that they cannot dig out themselves.

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Oh, turns out I'm right. Americanos have the most UFO sightings, so it is in their mind more... also seems like there is interesting aspects to it.

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I’ve studied Professor Malanga’s work very carefully, from his earliest research to its latest developments. I often reference him because he applies a level of rigor and methodological care that is quite rare. That said, it would obviously be too reductive to compress such a complex body of work into a few lines.
If I had to summarize his most recent perspective, it would be this: aliens are ultimately a mirror of ourselves, much like the entities we come into contact with in altered or non-ordinary states of consciousness. The deeper point is that the experiences we undergo are the ones we need for our own development and growth. In Malanga’s case, studying the alien phenomenon served as a way to better understand the nature of human consciousness itself.


Interestingly, if you look at Aleister Crowley’s drawing of the entity he called Lam, it bears a notable resemblance to what we would today describe as a “grey” alien — not identical, but clearly comparable. At the same time, LAM is also a mantra, a sacred syllable considered the seed of a specific cosmic energy.


This is why I find it meaningful to explore possible connections between shamanic visions, ufology, and evocative or ceremonial magic. At the core, my intention was to touch on the idea of transdimensional beings — not as a literal claim, but as a way to reflect on how consciousness, symbolism, and experience intersect across different traditions.

 

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Mr. Malanga then learned something right. Apparently he walked some path towards knowledge. Good. Though I wonder how much he got in information and how much of knowledge...

You have interesting goal. Maybe you can get inspiration in the book Cult of Golgotha, that seems to be going similar way as you mention.