Good call sorry missed the reference! Sorry for the ramble but don't forget about the Gnostic texts (nag hamandi library etc). People don't realize that Carl Jung himself was a gnostic. Look up Peter Kingsley as well for a deep dices on the connection between eastern and western culture.

He argues that our "rational" mindset can be traced back to a few Greek "Philosophers" (i.e. alchemists) who claimed to recieve there cultural discoveries (systems of government and logic) from a different world they would enter through a ritual of sleeping in a cave until they had a vision of an entity giving them the information.

He then connects these Greeks to both ancient Egypt and Mongolia where alchemy mysticsm governed their thought.

Even this is tip of the iceberg when it comes to these things.

You should read about Falan Dafa as well he address the "aliens" in the cosmology and presents a worldview that surprising aligns perfectly with Qanon (Master Li has said that Trump has been chosen by the gods to start a cosmic change in cycle) and guess where he lives? NYC and he moved there in the late 90s. Nothing is a coincidence.

Read and digest it if resonates with you he claims there are 84,000 ways to the divine: http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053761,00.html https://en.falundafa.org/eng/zfl_2018.html