- Dr. Mario Pazzaglini’s rare book Symbolic Messages may be a fair commentary on both Asemics and aliens. For many years, Pazzaglini worked with people who either claimed physical or mental contact with ufonauts, or had “channneled” messages and scripts from otherwise disembodied sources. Symbolic Messages is composed of about half commentary written by Pazzaglini and page after page of words in alien, angelic, occult, or apocryphal languages.
- Pazzaglini acknowledged that humans are perfectly capable of making up their own inscrutable languages. One of the best examples given is the Voynich manuscript, a handwritten book from the 15th or 16th century which has so far eluded any efforts at decryption.
- Looking at the illustrations in Symbolic Messages, it is difficult to determine what is being communicated, if anything, but one example, simply titled “A Cursive Script, 1990″ was described as working on many levels other than just simple information transmission from one mind to another.
- The graceful squiggles were described (by the recipient) to Pazzaglini as attempting to communicate a message on several levels. As he explains:
- [this is] an interesting script where it is conjectured that it represents a summary of: 1. The internal state of the sender 2. The intended internal state of the receiver. 3. The state of the relationship. 4. The message itself.
- Therefore, there are no, strictly speaking, repetitions of symbols but a line-symbol of interrelated states and message. This is a good example of a totally foreign (to us) kind of writing system; it would be essentially untranslatable.
- In another example of this type, a symbol was “decoded” by tracing it out and thereby “receiving” a message–”like playing a record.”
- Used in this way, written language may be much like a living (although primitive) intelligence itself, interpreting nuances of emotion and shades of meaning to communicate much more than just a mere message.
