...there is something oddly wrong with human
consciousness. Although we have evolved further than any other animal on
the face of the earth, it is at the cost of an absurd narrowness, which means
that we look at reality through the long end of a telescope, failing to see
the wood, or even leaves because we can only focus on individual trees...
We see the world from a worm’s eye view, when we urgently need a bird’s
eye view.
...Our greatest need at this point in our evolution is to change our
intellectual viewpoint - to recognize that we are not alone in the universe
and that we ought to be making far more vigorous use of the intelligence
we possess. Our narrowness hypnotizes us into passivity.
...It seems to me that what is now being forced upon us, whether we like it
or not, is a more universalistic point of view. I do not know whether the
“aliens” are trying to tell us this, or whether it is something altogether
bigger. But we are certainly being told that we have to wake up. The UFO
phenomenon - or many related phenomena - is gradually forcing us to
accept that there are “other realities and dimensions,” and that we cannot
continue living like cows ruminating in a field.
...What is now happening is demanding our attention with a persistence
that cannot be ignored and will become more persistent until it gets our full
attention.

Colin Wilson's Introduction to Linda Moulton Howe’s book
Glimpses of Other Realities