Man, it’s really crazy how sometimes I’ll get into a particular line of thinking, and then will afterwards find all kinds of stuff to support it, even when I’m not at all remotely looking for it. I started thinking a lot this past week about how “questions are more important than answers.” I’ve been hitting that pretty hard on various fronts, but totally got into this Jacques Vallee UFO stuff totally on an unrelated track. But here, buried in the mix of it all is Vallee talking about exactly the same thing, in almost the same exact words.

To me that’s why puzzles like UFOs are interesting. I don’t have a personal theory to “explain” them, but I see them as an opportunity to pose new questions. If it’s true that information resides in the questions we ask, coming up with novel problems may be more important than having answers, at this stage of our very limited understanding of the universe.

I mean, that’s EXACTLY what I’ve been getting at lately with all this stuff. And Vallee even talks about doing database queries on reality and stuff, which is extremely close to how I’ve been thinking of religions as search engines. It’s remarkable that he’s almost using the same language to describe it as well. This is really quite a weird coincidence for me. It shows me that even when I think I’m chasing one thing, like some part of me knows that I’m actually chasing something much bigger. Like all the little tangents, all the side-trips, it all fits together after a certain point. Nothing is trivial.