The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.
A world of derived beings, an immense, wide creation, requires an extended scale with various ranks and orders of existence.
I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.
Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.
I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story.
Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.