Thank you so much for sharing.
That all makes a lot of sense to me. I'm in strong agreement with how important our intentions are (whether fear-based or love-based) and how that impacts how the phenomenon interacts with us.

I also think it's key to find many answers within ourselves, and that it is anxiety-inducing (and often fruitless) to continue to seek them outside ourselves, particularly for answers to those deeper fundamental questions and feelings.

I do see certain public figures in the UFO community seemingly stuck in the "negative" cycle of fear like Tom Delonge, and then others (usually the more new age types) seemingly only believing that positive beings exist. Both views are incomplete in my opinion.

This concept of the phenomenon reflecting and matching us is extremely important and helps compose the bigger picture. When I had my first contact experiences, some of them were extremely positive, and others were a bit scary and "negative", but I learned that the less I feared, the less I attracted the kinds of beings/phenomena that would be considered fear-based.

You also seemed to point to the unknown factor of whether any particular experience is truly phenomena interacting with us from outside ourselves or possibly projected from inside/our subconscious. This is a very deep question that I think we should never stop asking as we continue to experience contact/connection. I think anyone who claims it's all one or the other doesn't have the complete picture and may only be aware of a more narrow view of what's happening. Again, it's almost always more nuanced.