Vasconcelos, José –
José Vasconcelos Calderón (28 February 1882 – 30 June 1959), called the “cultural caudillo” of the Mexican Revolution,[5] was an important Mexican writer, philosopher, and politician.[6] He is one of the most influential and controversial personalities in the development of modern Mexico. His philosophy of the “cosmic race” affected all aspects of Mexican sociocultural, political, and economic policies.
SOURCE: Wikipedia
- La raza cósmica is a Spanish-language book written and published in 1925 by Mexican philosopher, secretary of education, and 1929 presidential candidate José Vasconcelos to express the ideology of … Wikipedia
“We were returning from a walk to ‘the other side’ [of the river]. The morning was luminous and warm. Slight threads of mist blurred the horizon, spreading through the valley. It was about 11 in the morning and the sun was beginning to burn. From the bridge we were looking at the sandy bank, blotted by grama-grass and mesquite [Mexican shrub], cut from dry brooks, and positioned in a smooth undulation in the terrain up the bank of the river, which runs tame. Suddenly, born from the humid bosom of the environment, some points of light began to shine; they advanced, became enlarged and turned into discs of a vivid reddish or golden coloration. With my father and brothers, we were five to witness this marvel. At first we thought they were spots produced by the glare of watching the sun. We scrubbed our eyes, checked with each other and looked again. There was no doubt, the discs rotated, became spheres of light, rose from the valley and ascended, coming close almost to the banister we were leaning on. Like a top buzzing in the air, the luminous spheres cut through the thin vapor of the environment. It almost seemed as if the mist itself was crystallized and refined to engender form, movement and color.
We were witnessing the birth of beings of light. Stirred, we commented, yelled in astonishment, delighted like someone receiving a revelation. In so many years of diverse reading I have never found an explanation to this case, not even a similar account, and I still don’t know if what we saw is rooted in the interaction of physical forces or we all suffered a collective hallucination like the ones studied by psychologists.”
SOURCE: A historic sighting by a prominent Mexican philosopher by Antonio Huneeus, November 6, 2009 [Credit: Google Books]
Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002 by Thomas O Beebee, Chapter 5 – Golden UFOs: Ernesto Cardenal and Millennial Ufology, Pages 133–151 Published: January 2009
