{"id":1015,"date":"2025-03-10T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T09:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/im-done\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T09:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T09:01:22","slug":"im-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/im-done\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m stepping back. <\/p>\n<p>For the past 20 years, I\u2019ve been deeply invested in this topic, but lately, I\u2019ve been feeling uneasy, especially with the recent whistleblower revelations. After checking out reviews of Age of Disclosure and expecting groundbreaking evidence, I was disappointed to find the same old narratives and a self-congratulatory circle of enthusiasts with nothing fresh to offer.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that the current trend of framing these events as metaphysical experiences reliant on meditation shifts the responsibility of proof away from the whistleblowers and onto the audience. I&#8217;m not dismissing the possibility of extraterrestrial life, but this year feels like it\u2019s ushering in a calculated wave of misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t coming from a place of skepticism. I\u2019ve practiced meditation and explored esoteric traditions for over a decade. While those practices can lead to meaningful insights, they don\u2019t address phenomena like abduction accounts or crop circles. I\u2019ve decided to take a break from this subject for a while, as something just doesn\u2019t feel right about it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI\u2019m stepping back. For the past 20 years, I\u2019ve been deeply invested in this topic, but lately, I\u2019ve been feeling uneasy, especially with the recent whistleblower revelations. After checking out reviews of Age of Disclosure and expecting groundbreaking evidence, I was disappointed to find the same old narratives and a self-congratulatory circle of enthusiasts with&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/im-done\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;I\u2019m done&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aliens","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}