Hi Z. Now that I must admit suprises me. Not that you believe there to be what we could recognise as intelligent life elsewhere in the universe - but that you believe 'first contact' may already have been and gone (and that we have presumably forgotten it) and that we may still be 'persons of interest' to such far travelling beings.
I used to take the idea a lot more seriously than I do now, based on things I'd read and experiences I've had. Since then, I've learned to be a bit more skeptical of the evidence.
However, if you'd talked to me 15 years ago, you'd be even more surprised. I had some experiences on psychotropic mushrooms that convinced me that I'd made telepathic contact with alien beings. I also had some dreams where information was conveyed to me with such precision that I was convinced it couldn't have come from myself. Astronomical distances, facts, etc. that I later checked and was astonished to find that it was accurate.
I still take
Drake's equation seriously. I would be surprised if there were not millions of advanced civilizations in the universe. Life on earth is so tenacious and adaptive, it is simply unthinkable that it has not attained a foothold in millions of worlds. And given that our star is a second generation star, quite young in the universe, there might be civilizations elsewhere that are billions of years older.
Think about that. Billions of years. When you consider the exponential advancement we've had in the last century, it is unimaginable how advanced alien species could be. They would be like gods. Their technology would seem like magic. But I think the truly astonishing advancement would be their consciousness. They probably don't need to fly around the universe to explore it. They probably don't need to travel to contact other sentient beings. I think they probably tap directly into the part of the universe that is alive, the principles that cause life to emerge, and are "one" with reality.
That's why I think we're probably being monitored. I think they could know all our thoughts and feelings. I think they could watch over all life in the universe, and would feel compelled to do so ... especially life that has the potential to break out of its own gravity well with nuclear weapons and muck things up in galaxy. I'm sure they don't worry too much about us hurting them, but they probably don't want us blowing up less advanced civilizations--or ourselves.
Now how surprised are you?
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