introducing BABELANG

hello, universe!

THE BABELANG FOUNDATION is proud to launch the BABELANG research publication and community. ​this is a vessel for disseminating our research on communications with extraterrestrial and otherworldly instantiations and we invite you to tag along on our journey.

while we hope some readers will have their own stories of otherworldly communication to share, we know our mission may sound strange or unbelievable to many others reading this. ​​ this post will discuss what inspired the idea of BABELANG and what we mean when we talk about a universally accessible communication system.

whether you have experienced otherworldly phenomenon or you are a tried and trained scientist, a skeptic or a true believer, a collector of crystals or a neuroscientist, an audio engineer or an artist, a tarot enthusiast or someone that is simply intrigued by the strange; we believe that you will find more than just interesting discussion topics here. we hope to also challenge you to engage with the universe in a different way and to ask new questions of it, whether that is by opening your mind even more or by – perhaps – momentarily closing it a little.

who we are

THE BABELANG FOUNDATION is first and foremost a research endeavor. our goal is to share what we learn from investigating people's experiences with otherworldly instantiations. we are completely independent and have no funding from any outside organization; we rely entirely on the support of a community that believes in – or hopes to find – a deeper source of universal connection.

we are not trying to teach or coach anyone about how to have otherworldly experiences. there are guides of all kinds out there, and it is often difficult to tell who is sincere or not. we believe in an appropriate degree of skepticism, but feel that scientific skepticism is not as balanced as many scientific skeptics claim; usually, "skepticism" simply means assuming a claim is false and seeking explanations for things that correspond to existing scientific knowledge. we find value in making an effort to assume commonly unbelievable things are true, too, and seeking explanations that strict scientific methodology may not be capable of finding (yet).

otherworldly communication

every scientific endeavor assumes, without any positive evidence, that certain things are true about the universe. at a minimum, all sciences assume there is a reality outside of our individual awareness and that it is governed by cause and effect. individual scientific disciplines hold their own additional assumptions, hoping that science will one day bridge the gaps between them, like the correspondence between classical and quantum physics.

at the heart of THE BABELANG FOUNDATION, we assume the truth that humans have communicated with otherworldly instantiations of some kind. we do not presume to know the nature of these other beings; but rather, we are agnostic regarding their origin and accept all possibilities that people have claimed: extraterrestrials, higher-dimensional entities, spirits, ghosts, angels, etc. indeed, many people have conjectured that some of these experiences have the same origin – for example, that what some have called extraterrestrials are the same as what others have called angels. ​​​

thus, we use the term​ otherworldly commu​​​nication to be inclusive of a wide range of experiences and to reserve judgement regarding the nature of these otherworldly instantiations.

a search within

​modern SETI primarily relies on the principles of physics to detect extraterrestrial signals, looking outward into space and scanning for patterns in high-powered electromagnetic​​ waves that may suggest intelligent origins.

THE BABELANG FOUNDATION takes a different approach to the search for otherworldly instantiations: we begin by looking inward to first understand the range of subjective experiences​ that people have when communicating with otherworldly forces. this is a distinctly psychological approach compared to SETI, which we believe may be more fruitful if you consider what people report when they claim contact with otherworldly instantiations.

take, for example, the 1994 encounter at the Ariel School in Zimbabwe, one of the inspirations for our mission. if you are unfamiliar, we encourage you to read more about it – in brief, around 60 school children reported being visited by strange beings who communicated – non-verbally – a warning about the pollution of Earth. their mode of communication has been described as telepathy, which has no known scientific basis (more on this another time), but it is nonetheless indicative that the Ariel students experienced an internal reaction or feeling that communicated semantic information.

another inspiring example comes from people who claim direct communication with otherworldly beings. some, like Tyler Henry, describe this as an intuitive process while others describe their experiences as "light language" or "speaking in tongues" – a channeling of energy, felt from within, that manifests as vocal sounds (more on this another time, too).

the takeaway from these examples is that these communications almost always occur internally; they are emotional experiences. a rigorous scientist studying this phenomenon may be tempted to look for neural activity or biophysical markers associated with these experiences, but we know that emotions are embodied experiences that involve coordination of many bodily systems within and outside the brain. linguistic scientists similarly struggle with the fact that language is fuzzy.

THE BABELANG FOUNDATION will turn the search for otherworldly communications inside-out and, rather than try to pin-point a mechanism or reduce it to some molecular process, we will systematize the emotional experiences and subjective content that otherworldly communication produces inside us.

up next ...

in the next post, we will outline the systematic approach that BABELANG will take to investigate otherworldly communication​ and present our case for the value of researching otherworldly communication in a new way.