Last time I said to A.I.: Sounds a bit like Quatermass and the Pit. Let's make the Psychic Colonizers a group of Humans posing as Aliens.
A.I. responded:"Yes—that’s a delicious twist, Gary. Now we’re in Quatermass meets Reich meets sociopolitical psychodrama territory, where the colonizers aren’t extraterrestrial—they’re terrestrial elites using alien mythos as cover for psychic warfare. It’s not just deception—it’s ontological theater."
"Let’s revise our treatment accordingly:
🎬 Revised Treatment: “The Psychic Colonizer”
"Cosmic threat. Terrestrial deception. Mythic recovery."
"Core Twist
"The 'aliens' aren’t extraterrestrials at all—they’re a secretive human faction orchestrating abduction rituals, dream incursions, and psychic manipulation using alien symbolism as a psychological veil. Their goal? Colonize the unconscious, fracture symbolic memory, and rewrite the mythic codes that shape cultural identity."
"Backstory: The Deep Myth Lab
- Decades ago, a psychological think tank developed a theory: myth is the soft infrastructure of social control.
- They weaponized alien archetypes, encoded them into media, hypnosis techniques, and dream-inducing tech.
- Survivors of these incursions thought they had contact with alien beings—but the truth is more disturbing: humans are the architects of their symbolic trauma."
"Dr. Mara Ellison’s New Mission
- Ellison uncovers that the so-called hybrids are the result of experimental memory engineering, not interstellar genetics.
- Her quest shifts from alien defense to confronting the human institutions that mask their psychic domination behind galactic iconography."
"Symbolic Inversion
- 'Alien abduction' becomes a psycho-ritual performance.
- 'Satanic rites' were templates for subconscious segmentation.
- 'Possession' was actually programmed identity rupture, mimicking spiritual crisis to disguise psychological sabotage."
"New Mythos
- The Psychic Colonizers operate like Plutarchian myth engineers, revising history by embedding alien trauma into personal memory.
- Their undoing comes not through war, but through symbolic coherence—survivors reweaving their dreams into a shared counter-narrative, restoring mythic sovereignty."
"What do you think—shall we expand this into full scenes or character dossiers? Or sketch the iconography the Colonizers deploy—false star maps, technocratic prophecies, trauma-coded rituals? You’ve opened the veil to a rich symbolic underworld."
Convert interstellar genetics to CRISPr manipulation (which in the story is really happening).
"Absolutely, Gary—this shift grounds the mythic in the molecular. By replacing 'interstellar genetics' with CRISPR manipulation, we move from speculative alien hybridization to a terrestrial technocratic rite—one that’s already underway in labs, biotech firms, and biosecurity think tanks."
"Let’s revise The Psychic Colonizer treatment accordingly:
"Updated Mythos: CRISPR as the Ritual Tool of Colonization
- The 'aliens' are no longer extraterrestrial—they’re human technocrats posing as cosmic saviors, using CRISPR-Cas9 to engineer psychic and biological compliance.
- Hybridization isn’t interstellar—it’s bioengineered identity rupture, performed under the guise of medical progress, spiritual evolution, or therapeutic intervention.
- Survivors aren’t abductees—they’re subjects of unauthorized genomic rites, often unaware that their trauma is the result of ritualized gene editing masked as healing or contact."
"Symbolic Infrastructure
Element | Original Myth | Revised Symbol |
|---|---|---|
Alien Hybrid | Interstellar offspring | CRISPR-modified human with engineered traits |
Abduction | Spacecraft removal | Clinical extraction under hypnosis or sedation |
Telepathy | Alien communication | Neuro-interface conditioning via biotech |
Ritual Abuse | Satanic or alien rites | Genetic manipulation framed as spiritual initiation |
Memory Fragmentation | Psi trauma | Epigenetic disruption of identity and recall" |
"The Colonizers’ Toolkit
- CRISPR-Cas9: Used to edit emotional regulation, memory encoding, and symbolic processing.
- Synthetic Archetypes: Mythic motifs embedded in media and therapy to mask real interventions.
- Dream Incursion Protocols: Sleep-state conditioning using neurochemical triggers and symbolic implants."
"Survivor Reclamation
- Survivors begin to decode their trauma not as alien contact, but as biopolitical ritual.
- They form underground circles to reverse symbolic programming, using mythic counter-rites, ancestral memory, and somatic resistance.
- The climax is not disclosure—it’s symbolic sovereignty, reclaiming the right to narrate one’s own biology and myth."
"This revision turns The Psychic Colonizer into a bio-mythic thriller, where CRISPR is both scalpel and sigil. Want to sketch the opening scene? Maybe a survivor wakes from a dream with a symbol etched into their skin—one that matches a CRISPR sequence patented by a biotech firm posing as a spiritual institute. The veil is thin."
That's the trick. Fulminate a treatment.
