ParaNet BBS/rainbow
From KB42
ParaNet BBS/rainbow
| File Name: | rainbow.txt |
|---|---|
| Author: | Unknown |
| Date: | Unknown |
| Posting BBS: | Unknown |
| BBS Main Page: | ParaNet Main Page |
| Key Words: | ParaNet, UFO, Ufology |
THE RAINBOW DECLARATION AND HUMAN DESTINY IN THE COSMOS
by
John E. Brandenburg, Ph.D.
(From the MUFON Symposium Proceedings)
John E. Brandenburg, Ph.D.
John E. Brandenburg Ph.D. is a theoretical plasma physicist
living in Alexandria, Virginia. He is employed by a private
scientific research firm in the Washington, D.C. area.
Dr. Brandenburg received his B.A. in Physics in 1975 form
Southern Oregon, A Masters in Applied Science form the University
of California at Davis in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics in
1981, also at Davis. His thesis was on confinement of a plasma
of very energetic ions and cold electrons using strong magnetic
fields for the purposes of controlled nuclear fusion. During his
graduate studies Dr. Brandenburg held a working fellowship at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and pursued research in
the area of controlled fusion. On receiving his Ph.D., he became
a staff physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque,
New Mexico. There he performed research on controlled fusion and
electron beam weapons. He left Sandia in 1984 to assume his
present position. His current work involves both directed energy
weapons and space defense problems.
Dr. Brandenburg has been involved in investigations of the
Face on Mars and other Martian objects since 1984. Together with
Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar, the two pioneers in this
area, he is a member of the organization Mars Research and is a
co-author of Unusual Martian Surface Features Edition IV. John
Brandenburg became interested in space travel and
extraterrestrial life at an early age. He joined MUFON as a
Consultant in Plasma Physics and is the author of the "Rainbow
Declaration," a statement of principles to govern the relations
of peoples of different worlds. He was a featured speaker at the
MUFON 1989 International UFO Symposium in Las Vegas, NV where he
presented a paper titled "The Cydonian Hypothesis."
Dr. Brandenburg may be contacted at 4732 Rouge Court,
Alexandria, VA 22312.
THE RAINBOW DECLARATION AND HUMAN DESTINY IN THE COSMOS
By John E. Brandenburg, Ph.D.
ABSTRACT
In this paper I will talk about the destiny of humanity in
the Cosmos as it is now unfolding before us. I will also talk
about the Rainbow Declaration, which is my attempt to bring
together what is good and precious form the human heritage with
what we now know of the Cosmos, to the end that humanity's future
will be good and it will achieve its appropriate destiny.
However, this paper is really about knowledge and dialogue.
I. INTRODUCTION: STAR TREK OR STAR WARS?
I Corinthians 13: 9-12
"For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that
which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be
done away. When I was a child, I thought as a child: but when I
became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see
through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in
part; but then I shall know even as also I am known."
When we speak of knowledge and the human future, we are
speaking of the increase of knowledge. In the future, humanity
will know much more than it knows now. It will go places it has
never been, do and feel things it has never before experienced.
Every important aspect of this knowledge will be to learn more
about the other peoples with whom we share the Cosmos. Part of
that process of learning is going on now. However, this is not a
scientific investigation like any other we humans have done. It
is not like studying the motion of bacteria in a test tube; it is
a dialogue.
A dialogue is what occurs between two or more sentient
beings; it is basically an exchange of information. Humanity is
probably now engaged in a dialogue with peoples from other
planets that orbit other stars. This dialogue has its origins in
the distant past, but it seems to have only begun in earnest in
the last fifty years. Many species seem to have been involved,
but only a few species seem to be playing an active continuing
role in the present course for this dialogue. We know something
of this dialogue, which appears to be between primarily our
government and the extraterrestrials. What is reported from this
dialogue will be discussed in this paper; however, the reported
dialogue will also be used to help create a vision of human
destiny in the Cosmos.
It was the consistent theme of the popular series, Star
Trek, that the human race would become a great and enlightened
power in the Cosmos and be joined in partnership with peoples
kindred to humanity. This partnership, known as the Federation,
was made up of interstellar powers more or less in agreement on
the ideals of democracy, freedom, and dignity of the individual,
reverence for life and even reverence to God. In this
Federation, the idea of separate species of intelligence was
occasionally transcended so that beings looked on each other as
kindred despite their differing biological form.
An equally hopeful, but somewhat darker and more mysterious,
vision of the human future was seen in Star Wars. In this vision
the humans had created an Evil Empire and against it a Rebel
Alliance composed of humans and other species battled
desperately. The theme of Star Wars was hope and the struggle
between good and evil on both physical and moral planes, with
good being aided by the Force. So there exist different vision
of the future.
It is my belief that something more like the world of Star
Trek will be the ultimate destiny of humanity and that this
destiny is something that we should strive for. But how will
such a destiny be accomplished? Can we avoid Star Wars
completely or is it also prophetic? In particular, how will our
interaction, our dialogue, with more technologically advanced
peoples of the Cosmos, who are already starfaring and have
reportedly already arrived here, affect us and how will this
shape our destiny? Is our destiny Star Wars or Star Trek.
Humanity is reportedly now engaged in a dialogue with
extraterrestrial peoples. Ufology exists because of a state of
honest ignorance of this dialogue on the part of the public.
Honest ignorance can be defined as a recognized lack of
knowledge. The ufology movement is a brave vanguard of humanity
that admits its ignorance of the Cosmos and those who dwell in it
and seeks to erase this ignorance. Because of this we know
Ufology will one day cease to exist in its present form because
of new knowledge that will appear. Those in Ufology are brave
not only because they risk ridicule from those who cling to the
everyday, but because this is the real Cosmos we live in -- not a
fairy tale -- and some pieces of knowledge we will gain we may
wish we did no know. But learning unpleasant truths is a
essential part of maturing. If you turn away some truths because
you cannot bear them, you can never really grow up. But we in
Ufology are determined to grow and mature and know.
Knowledge is power, knowledge confers authority, and
knowledge confers responsibility. For these reasons, governments
often guard certain knowledges carefully. One of the most
important concepts in our government's classification system to
safeguard secrets is the concept of "need to know." Authorities
decide what must be done in a situation and who must do it and
then portion out, ideally, only those knowledges to each person
that are necessary for them to do their job. Usually, such
secrecy and portioning out of knowledge occurs in situations
thought to gravely impact our nation's security and defenses.
The authority given the government to restrict certain knowledge
is a sacred trust that derives from its duty to defend us. But,
if the government is concealing a dialogue with
extraterrestrials, is it defending us from the knowledge of the
E.T.'s existence, or is this secrecy only part of an effort to
defend us from some subgroup of the E.T.s themselves? I think
the answer is some of both, but is this consistent with
democracy?
In a democracy the people rule and in order to rule
effectively they seek knowledge, and they seek the responsibility
that goes with that knowledge. In doing this, they seek
responsibility for their own destiny.
It is wholly right that you in Ufology should seek knowledge
of this matter. Humanity's dialogue with the extraterrestrials
is a grave matter, a matter that concerns all humanity and will
affect the destiny of humanity. You have a "need to know." In
one sense the Ufology movement is part of the effort of humanity
to gain transcendent knowledge. However, in another sense, your
efforts to gain knowledge, and the responsibility that goes with
it, is an effort to gain control of part of your lives and your
children's lives and the destiny of your people. This is
especially true since reports of deep and long-standing
government involvement in this dialogue have come out. However,
Ufology has succeeded to a degree in entering this dialogue
between humanity and the extraterrestrials.
Ufology is a player, I would argue, in the reported dialogue
between humanity and the extraterrestrials. The government
apparently is keeping much of this dialogue to itself. However,
it is also actively sharing information, sometimes in a
deliberately garbled form, but information nonetheless. Some of
this sharing of knowledge seems to come from the individual human
need to confide with others. Some of this knowledge appears to
have been released as a result of decisions by higher
authorities to create an informed constituency among the public.
The cultivation of the Ufology movement's knowledge by the
government represents, in my view, a crude form of democracy.
In this strange experiment in government, the authorities
have created a public hearing of sorts where unofficial news and
views are aired and reactions considered. Ufology is the
multitude who have showed up for this quasi-public hearing.
However, the officials who have called this gathering are not
available to answer questions. But, I think, the government pays
attention to Ufology's internal debates and responses to the
government sponsored leaks.
No dialogue is one way, even if one side tries to make it
one way. A dialogue always affects both parties, even if only
one side is speaking. The act of giving information to one whom
you know will receive it involves you with that person or that
people. If a dialogue goes on long enough, information will be
revealed inadvertently and pretense is harder to maintain.
Ufology has not been a passive partner in this dialogue with the
government. Ufology is speaking and will continue to speak, and
the government, even if it gives appearances of stopping its ears,
is actually listening.
Therefore, all of you in Ufology should consider that you
are part of a dialogue with the government.
This is not the only dialogue going of which Ufology is a
part. Ufology is actually in a dialogue with the
extraterrestrials through abductees and contactees. As with the
government, not all information is very reliable, but it is
information. It is possible, in fact, that extraterrestrials
monitor the reaction of the Ufology movement to gain some insight
into humanity in general. Therefore, all of you in Ufology
should consider yourselves as part of a dialogue that will
influence human destiny in the Cosmos.
In the remainder of this paper I will discuss three main
points:
(1) It is the destiny of humanity to take its place among
the stars as an equal with its kindred people among the stars.
In discussing this, I will discuss the nature and heritage of
humanity.
(2) The cradle of humanity, the Earth, with its nations and
history, is a microcosm of the Cosmos and its peoples and
history. I will discuss how this concept is derived and its
meaning to Ufology. I will also, unfortunately, discuss the
first problem in the present that can be addressed by this model:
The apparent threat posed to humanity by one group of
extraterrestrials, "the grays" or Reticulians and their allies.
(3) Humanity should adopt the Rainbow Declaration or some
similar set of principles as its ideal and in doing so will begin
the journey to its destiny on the right Way, the Way of truth and
light. (Reference 1)
II. HUMANITY AS A SUPERTERRESTRIAL PHENOMENON
PSALMS 8: 3-6
"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the
moon and stars which thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou are mindful of him, the son of man,
that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower
than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and honor.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of they
hands; thou has put all things under his feet....."
In order to understand human destiny one must first
understand the nature and origins of humanity. Humanity is not
just flesh and blood; it is partly supernatural; it is also the
collective mind, dreams and cultural heritage of the human race.
Physically we have changed little since the stone age, but in
knowledge and technological ability we have changed enormously.
We are a young race, just getting started. Our earliest
civilization dates roughly from the Tigris-Euphrates Valley 6000
years ago. (Reference 2) In that 6000 years we have expanded and
filled the Earth, our flesh and blood has stood on the lunar
surface and returned six times. Our probes have landed on Mars
and Venus. We, by proxy of similar probes, have visited every
major body in the solar system from Mercury to Neptune. Four of
these probes have now escaped the solar system and the gravity of
the Sun and are on interstellar missions. So a little part of
you, the work of your hands, is now on its way to the stars.
Six thousand years is roughly 300 human generations of 20
years or 100 human lifetimes of 60 years. So this is perhaps not
even a long time in human terms, but it is the twinkling of an
eye in terms of the age of the Earth or even the living things on
the Earth. You humans, all in all, have done magnificently.
How did you do it? Did anyone help you? Let us consider
what is widely reported. In Ufology, as in many other areas of
life, information consists of what is reported to us by others,
hopefully we can verify some of what is reported, but often we
must simply consider the report and decide for ourselves whether
of not we believe it.
It is widely reported that humanity came into being as a
result of profound and continuing contact between the human race
an an unimaginably powerful extraterrestrial being. This being,
or First E.T., is called in our language, God. I know and
respect the fact that there are many accounts, all subtly
different, of this contact, but I will chiefly consult the only
account I know well, and this account is called the Bible.
In this account, the First E.T. is reported to have been of
staggering and all encompassing power but was at the same time
compassionate towards humanity and controlled in his dealings
with them. He is reported to be the creator of the Cosmos and
therefore extracosmic in addition to being extraterrestrial,
having created both heavens and the earth and all they contain.
It is reportedly from God that humans first received their
concepts of law and human identity and their place in the scheme
of things. I would claim this contact has continually linked our
ideas of what was good and pure and truthful to the heavens. It
is because of this contact that we long to reach out to the stars
and those who live there.
It is in this record of contact with the First E.T. that we
first encounter the human concept of universal laws, both
physical and moral, and these are also associated with the stars.
PSALMS, 19:1-3 "The Heavens declare the glory of God and
the firmament showeth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth
speech and night showth knowledge. There is no speech or
language, where their voice is not heard."
We also learned that there was more to reality than what is
seen.
HEBREWS, 11:1-3 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders
obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the
worlds were formed by the word of God so that things which are
seen are not made of thing which do appear."
We are familiar, in our modern age, of laws of physics being
universal. Our sciences had their origins in astronomy and
astrology. But from our accounts of contact with the First E.T.,
we also are informed that there are universal moral laws as well
as physical ones that apply on all worlds.
It is also from this record that we encounter our first
recognition and warning concerning the dark side of human nature:
GENESIS, 6:5 "And God saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the Earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of
his heart was only evil continually..." The human race is an
aggressive, predatory and vigorous species. It requires the
maximum effort of our intellect and compassion to control our
instincts to violence and war; sometimes, perhaps often times,
these are not enough. However, the First E.T. has always
encouraged us to be a people of compassion and intellect.
Curiously, it is form this same record of the first E.T.
contact with humanity that we find reports of a possible
visitation of Earth by flesh and blood extraterrestrials. These
E.T.s were not only flesh and blood, but could have children by
earth women, indicating they were probably extremely humanoid
since they were attracted to Earth women and saw they were
beautiful. Mention of this is made in Genesis 6:4.
This was apparently one of many things that God saw
happening on Earth that displeased Him. Perhaps even "the last
straw," for it is written that He unleashed the great flood
shortly after this. The flood, that primal human catastrophe, is
recorded in the legends of almost every people on Earth and wiped
out most of humanity, including, we can infer, those offspring of
flesh and blood E.T.s. It is written, God started over with what
was left.
Other than this possible mention of flesh and blood E.T.
contact before the flood in the Bible, which may also be
mentioned in many mythologies, I have seen no credible evidence
of any overt or historical record dating back to 1000 B.C.
Geologically, the origin of homo sapiens is sudden, but it has
been found that all distinct species seem to appear suddenly.
This is called "punctuated equilibrium" in evolutionary biology.
(Reference 3)
Other than reportings of sightings of strange craft that
occasionally appear in the historical record, I can find no
evidence of influence by flesh and blood E.T.s on any historical
events. What does show up is a tradition and folklore concerning
goblins stealing children, tales of fairies, leprechauns, elves
and spirits. This tradition may indicate some E.T. contact on
the fringe of human social awareness, as has been suggested by
Whitley Streiber. (Reference 4) I think, also, it reflects to a
much larger extent, human imagination and love of story telling.
These strange accounts also include other things which may be
purely terrestrial but not really part of a reality that we
understand.
Though the records of events before the primal catastrophe
of the Flood are difficult to understand, it remains the one
significant human event that may have involved flesh and blood
E.T. contact.
It is worth noting that the record implies that this
contact, along with many other things purely terrestrial, had
disastrous consequences for the human race because of the manner
in which the contact was made. It is written in Genesis 6:2:
"The sons and daughters saw the daughters of men that they
were very fair, and they took them wives of all which they
chose..."
This record implies that these unions were dictated by the
"Sons of God", a term used sometimes to mean angel, and not by
choice to the Earth women. These reported events, and the
juxtaposition with the Flood and God's displeasure, should be
remembered as we consider reports of what is occurring in our own
time. It also must be remembered that according to the account
of the contact with the First E.T. in the Bible, evil is not a
terrestrial invention; it was present in the Cosmos eons before
the first human being.
The Bible and other religious records of Earth, record that
both good and evil are not purely terrestrial phenomenon. Ananda
Sirisena has pointed out in a two-part article in the British
journal Beyond Science (now defunct) that the holy books of
Buddhism remark that sense-desire, which is the source of all
unhappiness, is to be found throughout the Cosmos. (Reference 5)
In the Bible, it is written in Job, 15:15
"The heavens are not clean in His sight."
It is also written in Revelations 12:7-9 that there was war
in heaven between the Archangel Michael and his angels, and the
Devil and his angels. These are only two of many examples one
could name. In general, the records of our reported contact with
the First E.T. report repeatedly that the Cosmos, both visible
and invisible, is full of good and evil and that these forces
struggle against one another, Earth being an important
battleground of this Cosmic struggle.
This brings us to the second widely reported E.T. contact
that has influenced Earth. This being is known as Satan,
Lucifer, or the Devil. Like the first E.T., he is reported to be
non-corporeal. However, he is reported to be a created being and
part of the Cosmos whereas God is the Creator. His powers and
intellect are reported to be unimaginably great in human terms
but, like ours, insignificant compared to God's. It is also
reported that despite his intellectual powers, he often makes
mistakes that are apparent even to humans. His first reported
error was to try and stage an unsuccessful revolt against his
Creator.
Most of what we know about the Second E.T., Satan, comes
from information reported to be from the First E.T. This record
allows us to make a vivid comparison between them in two
important areas: One, dialogue with humans; The First E.T. is
recorded to be always truthful, though he seldom shows more
knowledge than is required. In contrast, the Second E.T., Satan,
is reported to be a compulsive liar and virtual inventor of
treachery. It is reported he often claims to be the First E.T.
and often traps victims with empty promises of forbidden
knowledge and technology. Second, relationship with humanity;
the First E.T. is widely reported to love the human race and all
other peoples of the Cosmos as if they were his children.
However, he is also reported to hold us responsible for our
actions, which knowing the human race, means we occasionally are
at odds. The Second E.T., Satan, is reported to be utterly
contemptuous and hateful towards humans, especially those who
serve him. His hostility is constant, though often expressed
through treachery and attempts to corrupt, rather than through
open warfare.
It is reported that though the Devil hates humanity and
wishes to destroy us, he cannot attack openly because of the
presence of the First E.T. Therefore, we learn that absence of
open attack does not always mean absence of mortal hostility. It
merely means that the Cosmos is not simple, and that many factors
constrain the action of its inhabitants.
Humanity is thus not a purely terrestrial phenomenon. Even
our science is full of knowledge known first from observation of
the stars. If the record of our contract with the First E.T. are
believed, humanity is the product of influences that are not only
extraterrestrial but extracosmic, that is, transcending even the
stars. If these reported contacts with God are correct, and many
believe they are, then humanity knows these things because it
knows the Being who made the Cosmos and its peoples, including
ourselves. Humanity, and by this, I mean the readers themselves,
are possessors of Cosmic knowledge, but they do not know it yet.
However, to know something of humanity one must understand that a
part of humanity, like its Creator, is extremely mysterious and
some of it is unknowable.
To know something of humanity is to know of its mystery and
its magic. There is a part of humanity that only God himself
understands. I speak here of a whole category of phenomenon with
the inadequate terms "parapsychological" and "spiritual" -- that
part of ourselves that is manifest in religion, and yet seems to
exist apart from it. One aspect of this was termed by Jung as
the collective unconscious. (Reference 6) This is the part of
humanity that seems to guarantee that no knowledge can ever
remain isolated in one portion of the human race, even if they
never tell anyone of it. Another can be called human prescience
-- that human capacity to write or speak of events still far in
the future with uncanny accuracy, science fiction being a vast
upwelling of this human phenomenon. No statement describing
humanity could be complete without referring to this part of
humanity which is mysterious and difficult to describe.
Therefore, you should respect yourself and your people. You
know more about the Cosmos than you realize. You are stronger
and more marvelous than you know. You should not be arrogant,
but you should be proud. You lack knowledge, but you are eager
to learn. You are small now but you are going to become great
and "becoming is superior to being." You are a young and
vigorous people, just off the train and in the big city for the
first time, bent on finding your fortune. So now that we have an
image of humanity as it was formed and is, we can speak of the
destiny of humanity in the Cosmos.
THE DESTINY OF HUMANITY
Hints of what our destiny will be are contained, I believe,
in the record of our contact with the First E.T. who pointed us
to our goal. He said in paraphrase, "someday if you follow the
Way I have shown you, you can join me in the heavens of which the
stars are but a shadow." God, in fact, showed Abraham the stars
and said in Genesis 15:5:
"And He brought him forth abroad, and said, look now towards
heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them. And
he said, so shall thy seed be."
There is also another hint, for Jesus told his disciples in
Mark 16:15,
"Go ye unto all the world and preach the gospel to every
creature."
For in the original Greek, the word for world is Cosmos,
(Reference 7) meaning the whole world, the whole ordered
universe.
I know in myself, that humanity is going into space because
it yearns to do so. The goal of its yearning is not just to see
strange new worlds; it is to have fellowship with the peoples who
dwell amid the stars and share truth with them. In a sense we
are going into confirm truths that we already believe. That is
part of the reason that Ufology exists, not just because people
in Ufology are curious or concerned but also because we seek to
be part of that dialogue.
We have, on good account, that such a dialogue is possible,
as recorded in Timothy Good's book Above Top Secret. There is an
account of Sid Padrick's experience (Reference 8) where he
encountered startlingly humanoid beings who were kind and
respectful and who invited him to pray to God in their
"consultation room." They said they worshipped the same Supreme
Being we did. This reported encounter, whose positive,
respectful character is such a stark contrast to most reported
encounters, give us hope that we will find what we seek in the
stars. But you must realize we inhabit a star already.
Our star, Sol, the Sun, is a beautiful golden star form
afar. Around it orbits a beautiful blue-white star of a planet
called Earth, for that is what our planet looks like form afar.
Venus, Jupiter, and Mars are beautiful form Earth, but I tell you
when you see the Earth someday from the surface of Mars you will
understand that the Earth is the most beautiful planet in the
solar system, or even in a hundred solar systems. That is
partly why other peoples have come here.
So I will tell you I believe it is the destiny of humanity
to go out into the stars and become a great nation and find its
place among the stars and among the great nations that dwell in
the stars; nations whose people believe in God and justice,
equality, and good will as we do, and who, when they read our
Bible or the Declaration of Independence, will rejoice that the
same truths they know are known elsewhere and from the same
source.
III DYNAMICS BETWEEN PEOPLES IN THE COSMOS
We have now discussed humanity and its destiny, but how will
our destiny be shaped by those peoples with whom we share the
Cosmos? In particular, is there some model or broad guideline to
consult to understand the dynamics of politics between nations or
peoples who have their genesis in different star systems? We can
come up with a rough model by assuming that the laws of physics
and biology are the same everywhere in the Cosmos. Once such a
model of cosmic politics is formed, it can be applied to
understand and predict the interactions between humanity and its
fellow cosmic peoples.
A model of cosmic politics can be derived form biology. We
must assume that the laws of biology are universal, so that they
are the same on all worlds, like the laws of physics. Since we
know about the laws determining biology on Earth, we would then
know about biology laws on all worlds. We must, of course,
recognize from the outset that we can only gain a rough
understanding at best using this method, but we must have a model
and we must begin somewhere. So, we look for basic and
fundamental laws rather than detailed ones. We will thus look
for laws the describe forests rather than trees. Once we have
identified fundamental biological laws, we then try to find laws
of politics on Earth that can be derived from them. We will then
have a rough model.
The first law of biology can be called "the survival of the
fittest." This means that all life is essentially competitive.
This means those who are more intelligent, faster, stronger, more
diligent, more fertile, more efficient, and more prudent will
eventually dominate over those who have less of these qualities.
This seems a harsh law of nature, but in some ways it is actually
kind. In any case, nature is not often known to be kind or
gentle.
One impact of the first law of biology is that intelligence
is favored in predators. On Earth, predators are generally more
intelligent than their prey. They must be or their prey will
outwit them and the predators will not eat. The octopus is the
most intelligent of all invertebrates and it is a fierce
predator. The killer whale is believed to be the smartest of the
whales and it is a vicious killer of other whales.
The Chimpanzee is the second smartest land animal, and its
capacity for mayhem against other species and even other chimps,
rivals our own. (Reference 9) Curiously, researchers were slow
to recognize how murderous chimps were to each other -- fighting
between tribes and occasionally killing their own young. Perhaps
the researchers did not want to believe the chimps were as prone
to violence as we are. Even when researchers found out the harsh
facts about internal wars between chimps they were reluctant to
report it. They feared it would horrify people and dry up
research funding. People were not horrified; however, they were
enlightened, and chimpanzee research in the wild continues. The
truth makes chimps all the more fascinating and useful to study
if human violence is to be understood and controlled.
Another example of the correlation of intelligence and
predatory behavior is the line of dinosaurs that appeared to be
evolving towards something resembling humanoids before an
extraterrestrial event wiped them out. (Reference 10)
It is now believed that a line of small predator dinosaurs,
roughly resembling miniature Tyrannosaurus Rexs, would have
developed into a humanoid intelligence. They stood on two feet
and several species had achieved brain to body sizes exceeding
all other dinosaurs and even mammals then existing. However, the
impact of a massive asteroid, a clear sign this planet's history
has witnessed extraterrestrial intervention, devastated the
planet and cleared the Way for humanity.
Human beings are predatory. Humanity began as hunters and
gatherers but hunting behavior did not cease when humans
discovered agriculture -- it merely changed. The archaeological
record shows that organized warfare began almost simultaneously
with agriculture. (Reference 11) Historically, tribes and
nations have fought wars and struggled for dominance as a form of
biological competition. The apparent victory of the United
States in the Cold War is demonstration that democracy and free
enterprise, while not without their faults, have become dominant,
because they are better and more efficient in the long run, or
even the short run, than despotism and Marxism. So our own
violent history, which despite its violence has produced the
triumph of liberty and humanity, can be understood as a vast game
of survival of the fittest among groups of rather predatory and
aggressive beings. But there is another law of biology that also
played a profound role in this and which we must also factor into
our cosmic political model.
The second law of Biology is roughly "the sum is greater
than the parts." Or stated differently, in cooperation and in
unity, there is strength. One human cell alone will die; one
trillion human cells bound together, each doing its part, will
thrive and triumph. So one human can do little, but a large
number can move the Earth and someday change the course of stars.
This second law, that cooperation leads to success, is seen not
only in biology but in human politics and history.
Together these two laws and the tension between them,
competition, and cooperation, apply to and shape intelligent and
primitive life. Nations are predatory and competitive and
nations that are most competitive and aggressive tend to produce
the most works of intelligence and technology such as our own
nation and Great Britain. Truly, United peoples and nation are
much stronger and efficient than individuals or isolated nations.
That is why the most powerful nation on this planet is called the
United States. Moreover, the United States is great because it
has cooperated with like minded nations rather than trying to prey
on them. So in the United States, the first nation of Earth,
this is a sacred trust and responsibility to humanity -- not just
a privilege. It is through unity and cooperation that the
nations of the Earth must face the Cosmos.
So we have two fundamental laws of biology which should
apply everywhere in the Cosmos and which profoundly influence the
politics of human beings. So these laws should shape politics on
other worlds as well, and this means other worldly politics
should resemble our own. We thus have arrived at a model called
Mediocrity, that is already known.
The principle of mediocrity states that the Earth and its
inhabitants are a representative sample of the Cosmos and its
inhabitants. (Reference 12) This principle states that
intelligent life elsewhere should be quite similar to Earth's.
Similarly it means that even politics and history should be
similar. This is the exact same model we arrived at by assuming
biological laws were the same on all worlds and that politics was
an extension of biology. The principle of mediocrity is the same
concept, but arrived a differently.
The cosmic politics model was arrived at by assuming
biological laws were the same on all worlds and that politics was
an extension of biology. The principle of mediocrity is the same
concept, but arrived at differently. Its approach is simply
statistical; it assumes Earth and its inhabitants are the results
of probability and are part of a distribution of possible world
situations, constrained by universal laws of physics. The Earth
we know is one random sample of many worlds, so it is most likely
that it is typical rather than abnormal. Like all statistical
laws, it is a warning to would-be gamblers rather than advice on
how to bet the farm. However, our universal.,l, biological,
political saw, arguments, and mediocrity lead us to the same
concept: Earth and its peoples and history are a microcosm of
the Cosmos and its peoples and history. The Earth is the Cosmos
seen through a glass darkly, not reliable in detail but roughly
true. This means we all know much more about the Cosmos than we
realize, simply because we have lived on Earth.
We have arrived at a model for understanding and predicting
the dynamics and politics between humanity and other peoples in
the Cosmos and between other people apart from humanity. This
model is called the Human Historical Model of Cosmos Politics or
the Human Historical Model.
The Earth is an allegory of the Cosmos and an analogue.
This means the wisdom of Earth gained by our ancient forbears and
written in the holy books of Earth, will guide us in our new
journey in the Cosmos. For in some ways, humanity was wiser when
it knew less, but that wisdom is not lost to us now if we see its
worth. So, we would look to the old as well as the new for
counsel as we confront the Cosmos.
THE HUMAN HISTORICAL MODEL
The Human Historical Model or, HHM as it will be called
henceforth, simply states that interactions between people and
nation states in the Cosmos will resemble interactions between
nations in human history. The HHM is a tool for interpreting the
behavior of extraterrestrials; it says that if extraterrestrials
exhibit certain behavior either singly or collectively, then one
should look for an analogous human or human nation's behavior
either in the present or in the historical record. The human
historical record is long, and its tribes and nations are myriad.
This means we have a vast supply of analogous models and
situations on which to draw. However, we should always remember
that the model is a rough one and not reliable in detail.
Neither is the HHM a substitute for hard investigative work, any
more than Einstein's theory of relativity is a substitute for the
Super Collider.
The HHM is a simple idea, but it does not suggest the Cosmos
and its people are simple or mundane. Rather, it suggests the
Cosmos and its people should be like Earth's people, complex,
finely textured, full of intrigue and secrets and like the Earth
full of the strange and exotic. In fact, the HHM suggests that
people of the Cosmos, beyond adherence to basic laws of biology,
will be very strange, exotic, and very interesting. The first
rule for dealing with the Cosmos according to the HHM is that
high weirdness is to be expected in the Cosmos because it is
found on Earth. Whenever intelligence is involved, possibilities
become myriad.
Other things can be expected from people in the Cosmos. One
thing that can be expected is a desire for contact and
communication. Many Cosmic people will be drawn to us simply
because of a compulsion or yearning to communicate. This is a
human trait and it is also biologically motivated; cooperation
requires communication. So, attempts at friendly contact and
communication or dialogue, even if only rudimentary ones, would
be expected under the HHM. A related behavior would also be
expected.
Display is a form of communication or dialogue that is very
common in nature. Everything form puffer fish, to peacocks, to
cobras and humans resort to display. It is nonverbal form of
communication and so is limited in its information content;
however, it is usually easy to understand its basic meaning.
Since it is nonverbal, it does not require a common language and
thus is often the first form of communication initiated between
different peoples in Earthly tradition. Everything from parades
in Red Square to a baby crawling into the center of a family
gathering is a form of display. Often, its basic messages are,
"look what I can do," "or look at who I am." Since humans are
the Earth's premier show offs, followed closely by dolphins, we
would expect, under the HHM, that people at the Cosmos would
exhibit a great deal of display behavior to each other especially
at initial contact, before verbal contact can be established.
Display is an attempt to initiate dialogue. In most situations,
this is very friendly, and I will discuss this shortly.
Struggles for dominance are universal among species on Earth
and especially among social groups within species. It is a
manifestation of competition with usually the dominant individual
or group getting the best resources and the most opportunities to
reproduce and pass on its genes. There are "pecking orders"
within social groups, even among like water, runs down hill from
the most dominant to the most subordinate. This occurs in small
human groups, among groups in society, and finally among nations.
Struggles for dominance occur between species also. Chimps
and baboons share watering holes in some areas of Africa and
chimps usually seem to dominate. Anyone who has owned a dog or a
cat knows struggles for power can occur between humans and other
intelligent species. So we would expect struggles for dominance
between peoples in the Cosmos. These might begin even before
verbal communication could be initiated and would consist, in
mildest form, of military demonstrations of power or hardware and
highly aggressive displays. These would be equivalent to U.S.
and Russian destroyers playing "chicken" on the high seas or
firing flares or weak (non lethal) laser beams at each other.
So, struggles for dominance, power politics, seen on Earth
between nations, should be expected between peoples in the
Cosmos. As on Earth, this can lead to either friendly
competition in science and culture or to great tragedy.
Based on the HHM we would expect peoples in the Cosmos to
move toward a higher technological advancement. As on Earth, we
would expect this to be driven by military competition as well as
by desire for scientific knowledge. Humans are social,
intelligent, predatory, and technological and they have become
spacefaring. We intend to become better people in the Cosmos to
become spacefaring. If they have a big head start, they might
already be here.
ENCOUNTERS IN THE COSMOS
The HHM would say that encounters between E.T. nations and
Earth nations are similar to encounters between less advanced
nations and European explorers and exploiters.
Generally, the more advanced and organized the less advanced
nation was, the better it fared.
Example: Japan was politically united, and on its own
islands, militarily fearsome, despite having lower technology
than the Europeans. However, faced with a massive display of
American naval power (the ships were carefully painted white and
black to look impressive), the Japanese government agreed to open
up for trade and diplomatic relations. (Reference 13) They
reorganized their society and held the Americans and other
foreigners at bay militarily, thus preserving their sovereignty
while most other small Asian nations are conquered by the
Europeans. They adopted Western technology and finally became a
great power. This did not prevent them from getting into trouble
later, but they did very well during the European Colonial
period.
The American Indians present a tragic counter example. They
were politically disunited, had no concept of the world view and
ambitions of the Europeans and were technically backward.
However, it was not lack of technology that caused them to lose
their land; it was a lack of comprehension of the threat they
faced. If they had known what they were facing from the
beginning, they could have swept the Europeans into the sea.
Instead, they lost almost everything, land, heritage, and most of
their population, to a slow but relentless advance of the white
man.
WAR IN THE COSMOS
The HHM tells there will be power politics between peoples
in the Cosmos. Sadly, it also tells us that since "war is merely
politics extended by other means," (Reference 14) there must be
war in the Cosmos between nations. I have already referred to
the Bible where it tells of war in heaven in Revelations; Thus,
it is written that Earth is not the only arena of war.
I have often referred to the Bible in this talk and will do
so again; however, I also have spoken, in general, of books of
ancient wisdom of Earth and how they would be useful in advising
us concerning the Cosmos. I will now begin referring to such a
useful book of ancient wisdom. It is a book of the East where
the Bible is a book of the West, but it is ancient and wise in
my view and along with the Bible and other books I think it
offers humanity great help. This book it Sun Tzu, the Art of
War. I commend this book to your study. Sun Tzu writes to us,
"military action is important to the nation -- it is the ground
of death and life. The path of survival and destruction, it is
imperative to examine it." (Reference 15)
War occurs in the Cosmos as part of a struggle for
dominance; it is an aspect of the law of competition of survival
of the fittest. On Earth, nations go to war for territory and
resources so they can prosper and grow and their competitors will
wither and shrink, or be absorbed. According to he HHM, wars
occur in the Cosmos over stars and planets and the space
containing them.
We know that stars like the Sun that are single and of its
special range F through K type are best for having life bearing
worlds around them, like the Earth. (Reference 16) The hotter
stars are too short lived and the dimmer, cooler ones are too
unstable. We also know that planets like Earth, that are living
planets, with oxygen atmospheres, and favorable temperature, are
rare. Only one such planet exists in this star system which
contains nine planets. Mars may have once been a living planet,
but it is now dead. According to the HHM, people will fight over
land and ocean and resources like those found on Earth. Therefor,
the HHM says that the space containing stars like the Sun around
which orbit planets like the Earth, with intelligent beings or
not on them, are the things over which people of the Cosmos
probably fight wars. They fight, because if you can have such a
planet, you can settle a million individuals on it, and they will
become a billion in a few centuries. If they can have ten such
planets, a people can prosper and become great; if a people loses
ten such planets to a competitor, then they will become weak and
despised...their seed will not be as the stars of heaven.
War between advanced peoples both of whom may possess
nuclear weapons is probably highly risky, even if one side's
space technology is highly superior. Nuclear weapons, like
gunpowder on Earth, is probably a great equalizer in the Cosmos.
In addition, space, by definition, allows cultures to develop in
great isolation from each other, and thus have very different
levels of technology. For these reasons, wars in the Cosmos
probably seldom take place between equals. War on Earth most
often comes about from a perceived imbalance of military
capabilities. Life on Earth is not fair; probably neither is
life in the Cosmos. So we would expect some peoples will carry
out wars of conquest or extermination against their weaker and
less advanced neighbors. Since these wars will involve armed
conflict between very different cultures and species, they will
probably be very cruel, as such wars are on Earth. In predicting
this, I am supposing that some peoples of the Cosmos will act
more like biological entities rather than moral civilized states.
In saying this, I do not say all peoples of the Cosmos will act
ruthlessly towards their neighbors, only some of them.
On Earth we have nations that are great and powerful and
others that are merely powerful. It is a dream that scientific
knowledge and technological power lead to moral enlightenment in
a nation, but we know on Earth that some nations can have
enormous wealth and scientific and technological power, yet
commit unspeakable crimes and aggression against their own people
and others. Nazi Germany was for a period the most
technologically advanced power on Earth, with ballistic missiles,
jet fighter planes, and an active program to build nuclear
weapons. No power on Earth could rival it for a period. Germany
before this had been considered a center of theology and culture.
Yet in a few years, Germany regressed into a nightmare and
committed unspeakable crimes against humanity.
Technology and morality do not go hand in hand on Earth or
probably anywhere else in the Cosmos. One has only to look at
our own society to see this. For some nations, technology merely
provides irresistible temptations to abuse other nations.
Nor does the fact that a people dwell among the stars make
them moral and just. We dwell on a star, and it sits among other
stars, but we must constantly struggle with ourselves to do
right, and sometimes we fail at this. Therefore, according to
the HHM the Cosmos is as harsh and desperate a place as it is
beautiful. The laws of biology dictate this, and Earth merely
reflects it. Morality and enlightenment must struggle against
criminality and darkness in the Cosmos as they do on the Earth,
and sometimes this struggle is armed.
Given the preceding discussion, a likely scenario for war in
the Cosmos is as follows: (1) an advanced space power encounters
a less advanced power; (2) the more advanced power displays its
power hoping to cow the less advanced power into submission; (3)
if this ploy succeeds, the advanced power subjugates the lesser
power without war; and (4) The subjugated people may be merely
enslaved or else exterminated and the planet settled with the
victorious species. Sun Tzu says "The best policy is to use
strategy, influence, and the trend of events to cause the
adversary to summit willingly." (Reference 17) That is, a
military victory can be had at little cost by first achieving
psychological victory over the enemy.
One successful psychological ploy that was used with great
success on Earth in analogous situations was to convince the less
advanced natives that the more advanced were gods. This ploy was
used by Cortez, who made ingenious use of the Quetzacotl legend
in his attack on the Aztec empire. Cortez also used calculated
displays of cannon fire, horses, and other technologies to
convince the Aztec envoys that he possessed supernatural powers.
Montezuma, the King of the Aztecs was almost hypnotized or
"spooked" by the Spanish. Finally, when the Aztecs realized too
late that the Spanish were just gold-hungry flesh and blood
people like themselves, the people killed Montezuma for betraying
them to the Spanish. cortez by this time had raised up the
Indian nations long enslaved by the Aztecs, and so managed to
conquer an empire of millions with only 800 men. Pizzaro also
pulled off such a conquest again by "spooking" the Inca emperor
into believing he was divine. So, a former pig farmer with a few
hundred men conquered another empire of millions.
However, let us suppose that the less advanced power is very
tough minded and refuses to be cowed by the advanced powers'
superior technology. Let us suppose also that the lesser power
rejects as psychological ploys the advanced power's attempts to
claim divinity, and that these attempts to attain psychological
advantages merely harden the will of the less advanced people to
fight. In this case, two things could happen: (1) The advanced
power will withdraw or decide to establish normal and respectful
diplomatic ties with the lesser power. (2) The advanced power
may choose to wage war on the less advanced power when
psychological ploys used alone have failed. Here the outcome is
not nearly so predictable as one might imagine.
War between technological unequals is probably the norm in
the Cosmos rather than the exception. However, as on Earth,
technology is only one of many factors is war. The factors are
primarily:
1. Relative numbers of military forces -- does one side
have overwhelming numbers?
2. Moral and discipline of the forces -- can it be
maintained in the face of losses?
3. Length of supply lines -- can a large military effort be
sustained for long by both sides?
4. Political unity of opposing power groups -- can one side
exploit divisions in the other?
5. Technology -- can the high tech of one side be easily
countered by the low tech of the other?
6. Will -- are the less advanced people more willing to
resist than the more advanced are willing to press
attacks?
7. Other Powers -- will other powers stay out of the war or
intervene on one side or another?
8. Which side chooses the Way -- one side or neither?
(Reference 18)
As was discovered by the United States in Vietnam and the
Russians in Afghanistan, technological superiority alone is not a
deciding factor against adversaries who are tenacious, clever,
are willing to die rather than submit, who have high morale, and
who confront the advanced power on their home territory. These
wars also showed the sensitivity of advanced powers to
casualties, even when the advanced power may not be known for its
concern for human life, as was the case with Russia. One Russian
was quoted as saying "30,000 dead was one day's losses at
Stalingrad, but in Afghanistan it seems too much." The
difference was that 30,000 Germans died also and the Russians
were fighting for their homes and lives. Death on foreign
hostile territory, far form home, at the hands of primitive
natives is especially grievous to advanced peoples, because,
economically, a trained member for their society is more costly
to replace than a member of a more primitive society, especially,
if he must be trained in the use of high tech weaponry and
transported great distances onboard expensive transports.
therefore, if a less advanced society can maintain ferocious,
long-term resistance against an advanced aggressor operating far
form home, with limited forces, the less advanced people can
triumph. the more advanced people will simply find they are
bogged down and taking losses in an unwinnable war far from home,
and they will leave. In such a triumph, morale and, if possible,
religious zeal on the part of the less advanced people is a
decisive factor. I repeat, in a conflict where a technically
advanced power is waging a war of aggression on a less advanced
power, the morale and will of the lesser power is what is
decisive, not technology alone. Sun Tzu, though he wrote of war,
as also a great moralist. To him a key factor in war was to
follow "the Way." (Reference 18)
.lm5
"The Way means humaneness and justice. In ancient times, a
famous minister of state asked a political philosopher about
military matters. The philosopher said, 'Humanness and
justice are the means to govern properly. When government
is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership
and think little of dying for it'."
He also said: (Reference 19)
"Those who use arms will cultivate the Way and keep the
rules. Thus, they can govern in such a way as to prevail
over the corrupt."
.lm0
"Those who use its superior technology to try and oppress and
destroy less advanced neighbors does not know of the Way. This
is true on Earth, and I think this is true throughout the Cosmos.
If a people departs form the Way to oppress their neighbors,
then neither the brilliance of their technology and intellect,
nor all their clever words can disguise it. Sadly, this brings
us to the subject of the present situation regarding humanity and
some of its fellow peoples of the Cosmos and what forty years of
E.T. contact have taught us.
FORTY YEARS OF UFOLOGY: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
A goal of this paper was to factor into our view of human
destiny what we have learned from forty years of contact with
E.T.s. In particular, what does the HHM do to unravel for us
what is reported concerning the last forty years. Several
observations can be made.
The first and primary observation is that, at least on the
surface everything appears well. Humanity rules and occasionally
misrules, the Earth. No overt signs of E.T. contact are seen.
In the last forty years, humanity, itself, has become
spacefaring, advanced in power, and in some ways, has gained
wisdom. Except for a popular preoccupation with E.T. contact
fantasies, no outward sign of E.T. Earth dialogue is apparent.
The second observation is that, like many situations on Earth,
much is being concealed. Concealment is usually a sign of
conflict.
Sun Tzu wrote: (Reference 20)
.lm5
"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be
extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness.
Thereby, you can be the directors of the opponent's fate."
.lm0
The groups of extraterrestrials who seem to have long term
interests here seem to be concealing their true intentions and
the governments of Earth are concealing their true posture toward
the extraterrestrials.
To learn anything form the past forty years of Ufology, one
must have a method of interpreting both the government's and the
E.T.s' actions. We have such a method in the HHM. What does the
HHM tell that we have learned about the past forty years? It
tell us the following:
1. We are not in a region of space controlled by any one
E.T. nation; we know this because many species visit us.
2. Most E.T.s seem to have adopted a policy of benign non-
interference in Earth's affairs.
3. Most E.T.s are quite humanoid.
4. Three groups seem to be attempting to carry out a long
term activity here.
(a) Reticulians or "grays" -- A species reportedly form
Zeta Reticuli 36 light years form Earth. (Reference
16) These are the short, big-eyed, big-headed
aliens.
(b) The Talls -- similar to the Reticulians but more
humanoid, blonde, blue-eyed -- origin unknown.
(c) Nordics -- very humanoid, Scandinavian appearance --
star of origin unknown.
It must be stated that is is not clear to what extent
these three species' intentions towards Earth coincide.
5. Some E.T. contact has been extremely positive and
strongly suggests that we will one day become a part of
some community of cosmic peoples of like beliefs to our
own.
6. There does not appear to be any Galactic government
protecting primitive planets like Earth from E.T.
contact.
7. Some E.T.s appear to be quite hostile to humanity.
This last point is an unpleasant and difficult one.
However, it merely means the Cosmos is like the Earth, and you
live on Earth, so you can deal with this possibility.
Unfortunately, it appears that the E.T.s with the most interest
in Earth are also the most hostile. How could it be any
different if humanity is involved?
THE SECRET STAR WARS: THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT THE LAST FORTY YEARS
It is my analysis, based on the HHM, that the Reticulians
(or grays) are implacably hostile to humanity. (figure 1) As to
the Reticulian goal, there can be little doubt, for they have
come far, stayed long, suffered great losses, and expended great
resources, yet they will not reveal it to us. But, their actions
reveal their goal: to have the Earth for their own. Their
actions are not consistent with anything else. Our government
apparently realized this at some point in the distant past,
perhaps as early as 1947. The government has kept this secret
locked up in Dreamland with its captured discs. It is my belief
that the fact of Reticulian hostility is the actual great secret
underlying the entire government cover-up concerning UFOs.
However, this truth can no longer be kept secret; it is apparent
from both Reticulians' behaviors that are widely known in Ufology
and the government's reactions to them. I would argue that while
it may have been useful to have kept this secret in the past
(that is, the fear engendered by the knowledge of hostile aliens
might have been more dangerous than the aliens themselves), it is
now more dangerous to keep it secret, because secrecy is now a
hindrance to effective defense.
Ufology has withheld judgment for a long period concerning
the behavior of the Reticulians. This was justified because, in
the past, data was scanty and unreliable. We have avoided
judging the Reticulians' actions by human standards because they
were not human, and we like to withhold judgment even on humans
until we have some basic level of knowledge about them. We also
have tended to place less credibility on reports of Reticulians'
atrocities and hostile acts because they frighten us, and because
they are at odds with our picture of E.T.s as the hoped for
"space brothers," the angelic saviors of humanity. However, the
truth appears to be that the truly benevolent E.T. nations want
little to do with us, and that humanity has only God and itself
to look to for salvation.
*****************************************************************
Omitted: "Figure 1."; Text reads: The Hostile Reticulian. Out
of numbers of people in our cosmic neighborhood, the Reticulians
have demonstrated implacable hostility to humanity. But this
hostility is not irrational, we both want the Earth and only one
can have it. They must be, and will be, opposed by all means
necessary.
*****************************************************************
It appears our government has been involved in a Secret Star Wars
with the Reticulians. This Star War is sometimes cold, sometimes
hot and has been punctuated by cynical truces and cease fires,
but Star War is the best term for it. Is this government posture
justified; I would argue, yes, absolutely.
The time is now ripe for Ufology to make a judgment
regarding the behavior of the Reticulians and their cohorts. I
give you my judgment: the emperor has no clothes, the Reticulians
and their crimes are naked. It is widely and reliably reported
now that the Reticulians are engaged in horrifying behavior.
1. They abduct and terrorize people beginning often with
children. (Reference 21)
2. They mutilate cattle and leave them for their owners to
find. (Reference 22)
3. Their breeding program is an abominable crime against
humanity. (Reference 23)
4. They kill people, only whether it is murder 1, 2, or 3,
is debatable. (Reference 24)
5. They invade our airspace and destroy our warplanes and
pilots sent to defend our airspace. (Reference 25, 26)
This pattern of behavior by the Reticulians indicates a
complete disregard for human rights, life, or dignity. Some have
said that those are crimes by human standards, but perhaps not by
Reticulian standards. I argue that this is Earth, and humanity
and its standards rule on Earth, so if they are crimes by human
standards, then as far as we are concerned, they are crimes by
any standard. I further argue that murder, mutilation,
abduction, and hostile intrusion into a planet's airspace are
crimes on any planet.
The HHM gives an astonishing and horrifying interpretation
of Reticulian behavior:
Reticulian Behavior Human Parallel Primary Meaning/Purpose
Abduction: Kidnaping and Terrorization,
Abduction Domination
Sexual Procedure: Rape/ Terrorization,
Molestation Domination
Talk in Riddles to Old Human Psychological power
to Abductees: Interrogation plus maintaining
trick emotional distance from
victim
Tissue Sample: To "cut" Demonstrate power
someone
Animal/Human Old human ploy Terrorization --
Mutilation: frustrated expression
of rage
Claims of Cortez in Psychological warfare
divinity and to Mexico and to induce surrender
have influenced "I made you
history: everything
you are
today"
Desire for Secrecy: Mafia, Disguise military
Terrorist weakness
groups
It is even reported that the Reticulians have claimed to
have invented Jesus Christ. (Reference 27) If this is what the
Reticulians have claimed, it is a contemptible lie. The
Reticulians by their actions have shown themselves to be
completely ignorant of Christ's teachings. Even the devil can
quote scripture, and appear as an angel of light. (References
28, 29) This claim concerning Christ is in my opinion, again, a
naked attempt to gain psychological domination over humanity. As
awful as such behavior is, it clearly indicates their utter
disrespect for human religious beliefs and is thus clearly a
warning. For Christians this makes our conflict with the
Reticulians particularly apparent and mortal. For it is written.
.lm5
I John 4:3
"And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is not of God and this is the spirit of
the antichrist..."
.lm0
To a Christian, what could be a simpler decision. Either
the Bible or the Reticulian is lying, and the Reticulians are
commonly reported to be liars about even petty things. So, it
would not surprise me if the Reticulians soon claim to have
invented Moses, the Ten Commandments, and the electric light
bulb. Ignore these claims. Our conflict with the Reticulians is
a mortal one in that we are dealing with a power that wishes to
destroy everything we regard as precious and holy in the Earth.
In my view, surrender to the Reticulians is suicide and
holocaust; it is unthinkable.
It is obvious that, when analyzed by HHM, the Reticulians'
actions have strong parallels in every record of human oppression
and terror. The Reticulians resemble an Earthly terrorist state
such as Iran, Libya, North Korea, or the Mafia. I would argue
that its strongest parallel is Nazi Germany, because of its utter
disregard for human values and its abominable crimes against
humanity seen in its breeding program. This would mean that
humanity's introduction to the Cosmos has actually become a
confrontation with a latter day Axis alliance with the
Reticulians playing Nazi Germany, and the Talls and Nordics
playing the roles of Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan. Like the
Nazis, the Reticulians are bent on conquest. There can be little
doubt as to their goal: to seize the Earth for themselves.
This, I would argue, is the real secret of the past forty
years, not that E.Ts have come to Earth, but that hostile E.T.s
have come to Earth. In response, the government has tried to
lock this terrible truth away from public awareness. Like the
publicly known Star Wars concept, it has a bizarre dual existence
as the stuff of both tabloid headlines and the blackest of the
black programs.
The arrival of this Reticulians Axis has triggered every
possible defensive action by our government and other world
governments, and I think this is justified. The government has
particularly made every possible attempt to gain understanding of
Reticulians technology. It has been reported that the government
has even entered into agreements with the Reticulians and allowed
them sanctuary on some military bases. Why would a government do
such a thing if it believed the Reticulians were vile and
hostile? They would do it because they must have knowledge, as
Sun Tzu states: (Reference 30)
.lm5
"A major military operation is a severe drain on the nation,
and may be kept up for years in the struggle for one day's
victory. So to fail to know the conditions of opponents
because of reluctance to give rewards for intelligence is
extremely inhumane, uncharacteristic of a true military
leader, uncharacteristic of an assistant of the government,
uncharacteristic of a victorious military leadership to
overcome others and achieve extraordinary accomplishments is
foreknowledge.
Foreknowledge cannot be gotten form ghosts and spirits,
cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation.
It must be obtained from people, people who know the
conditions of the enemy."
.lm0
So, our government may have done such things. This covert
Star Wars involves espionage and counter espionage, and it is not
pleasing to look upon. However, the more vile and hostile the
Reticulians, the more necessary such dialogue with them becomes.
In addition, the government would attempt to keep this situation
secret from its own people by whatever means possible. The
government, in a sense, has been trying to preserve the "Prime
Directive." Unfortunately, this has required the government to
lie continually to its people, among other things that it has
done. Our government has, in general, done what governments do
when they are threatened with war by a powerful and unknown
enemy. Now, it is becoming plain that this situation can no
longer be kept secret.
One would immediately protest that if the Reticulians are
implacably hostile to humanity, why don't they attack since they
are so powerful? My first response is that many of us have
enemies, but when they attack openly, it is usually a relief; for
the most part, treachery and intimidation are the rule in
conflicts between individuals and nations. My second response is
that humanity has enormous military power on Earth's surface and
in its atmosphere, and the Reticulians are a space power, with
few forces available and far from home; so they are powerful but
so are we. They are more advanced, but they are not as powerful
as they want us to think. My third response is that the Cosmos
is probably a complicated place, and these complications place
constraints on Reticulian actions just as they constrain the
actions of Earth nations.
What can be done about this situation? I would argue that
much can be done and this situation is neither hopeless, nor
beyond us in Ufology from making a contribution. However, one
must not avoid the impact of this realization -- that humanity is
probably confronted with a powerful and merciless enemy.
GOD, GUTS, AND GUNS AGAINST THE RETICULIANS
For me, the impact of the Secret Star Wars, the concept of
the Reticulians as implacable enemies of humanity and of our
government, brought me closer to God. However, I went through a
classic grief reaction. First, there was fear and white-hot rage
alternating with denial and terrible grief. then, there was
despair and nights of prayer. Then, there was courage and hope.
Finally, there was also resolve: God is with humanity; if we
must fight the Reticulians, God will fight for us also. I would
argue that he already fights for us, and that the strength of His
arm was seen at Roswell, before anyone even knew we had an enemy.
(figure 2) For there, in one stroke, a Reticulians' craft fell
even as we celebrated the Fourth of July, and our government
found the Reticulians' craft shattered and the bodies of
Reticulians scattered about as food for the buzzards and coyotes.
We thus knew form the onset that the Reticulians were flesh and
blood and not invincible or infallible. We also knew they had
crashed while spying on what was then one of our most secret
defense installations, showing our government their possible
hostile intent. So, God has helped us form the beginning, before
we even knew we needed help.
We are much stronger militarily than we were in 1947. The
human race has never been more technologically advanced or more
united than it is now. I believe we are only a breakthrough away
from a unified field theory that will allow us to control gravity
with electromagnetism. When we achieve this we will be able to
duplicate much of the Reticulians' technology and eventually
improve on it. I am myself working on such a theory, and I know
many others are also working on it; may God help us in our work.
Finally, it is known that weapons we already possess are
effective against the Reticulians and their ships. Many of the
reported crashes of alien ships were not accidents; they were
victories in a secret war with a secret enemy. Many brave men
have died already to defend their country and their people. Let
us remember their sacrifice.
So, with God's help, I found courage and resolve to
fight the Reticulians and their Axis. I see reason for grave
concern, but I see reasons to be encouraged also. We will win.
We will win, because God is with us, and we seek His help. We
will win because we are strong and brave and ready to die, if
necessary; and we will win because we have already shown our
weapons are powerful against the Axis; and while they may rule in
space, we rule on Earth, and in its atmosphere. We will win
because necessity is the mother of invention, and we do not need
to duplicate Reticulians technology to render it useless to them.
So God, Guts, and Guns are our key allies in victory.
*****************************************************************
Omitted: "figure 2"; Text reads:
The evening of July 4, 1947, in a field near Roswell, New Mexico.
The irony of fate dictates, that as the Reticulians and their
craft lay fallen and broken, the nation celebrates Independence
Day.
*****************************************************************
Much more could be said about this matter and will be said;
however, this paper is not about the present but about the
future. So, let us now consider how what we have learned in the
last forty years will impact our future. In particular, what can
we in Ufology do to positively impact the human future, given our
knowledge of the past forty years.
Concisely summarized: The past forty years of Ufology have
taught us that the Cosmos is like the Earth and that the dynamics
of nations in the Cosmos resembles the dynamics of nations on
Earth. On Earth we have seen powerful advanced nations try to
oppress weak and less-advanced nations. We now see a repetition
of that struggle of nations in a vaster arena with the past forty
years being a struggle between two astonishingly powerful groups
of nations in the Cosmos, humanity and the Reticulians' Axis.
There are apparently a cloud of other cosmic nations, "silent
watchers," also monitoring these events. So, we have learned
something, but what can we do with this knowledge?
You in Ufology are the only group outside of the government
that has the slightest inkling of what the real human situation
is. I have spoken of a problem: I will now tell you what
positive step you can do to help this situation. The key concern
is that humanity's destiny, so far as it is under the control of
flesh and blood, is in its own hands. So, it is human
intentions, not the intentions of the Reticulians, that are
important. So, what are your intentions?
IV THE RAINBOW DECLARATION
The Rainbow Declaration was written as an attempt to declare
what the people of the Earth, humanity, should agree amongst
themselves and what they should declare to their fellow peoples
of the Cosmos as to their beliefs and intentions. Its themes are
equality and fellowship before God of all peoples of the Cosmos
and the basic rights of all peoples. The prominent mention of
God in this document is wholly appropriate, I believe; and I
cannot conceive of a document discussing such basic rights and
truths without mention of God. If there are laws that are
universal, then only God can establish them and command respect
for them. If all people are part of a great family, then only
God can be its head. I borrowed heavily from great works of
human heritage and science fiction. Such borrowings are intended
as acts of homage rather than plagiarism.
The Rainbow Declaration is also dialogue. It is a
declaration to God that we recognize our place in the stars. It
is a declaration to the government that we want to known the
truth, even if it hurts, and that we want the extraterrestrials
to be dealt with in a unified front with the other nations of
Earth. Finally, it is a declaration to the extraterrestrials
themselves that we are ready for an open and equal dialogue with
them, that we expect the rights of all peoples to be respected,
and that our expansion into the Cosmos will not be at their
expense. In particular, it will put the Reticulians' Axis on
notice that we view their conduct here as unacceptable.
THE DECLARATION ANALYZED
The Preamble to the Declaration is essentially a statement
of who we are as a people and our concerns as people of how
precious the Earth and its environment is to us. I call for an
end to slaughter of the whales, because I want all victimization
of intelligent beings on Earth to stop; and the first step is to
end our victimization of these intelligent, friendly creatures of
the sea, who were honored by special mention in Genesis as one of
God's great creations. (Reference 31)
The first article states that relation between humanity and
other peoples of the Cosmos should be open and public. there
should be no secret treaties between terrestrial and
extraterrestrial powers. The document states that all of these
relations should be handled through the General Secretary of the
United Nations, actin in consultation with the Security council,
and that the Security Council should ratify all agreements.
This may strike some of you as a surrender of American
sovereignty to the United Nations, which many of you have a poor
opinion of. However, the United States sits on the Security
Council as a permanent member and has veto power over anything it
does not like. (Reference 32) Reportedly, in the present
situation, the United States is acting as an ambassador to the
Cosmos on humanity's behalf. Considering all that has reportedly
transpired, I do not think this reflects well on us, and we
should give up the job. The United Nations is a human
organization and like humanity has many flaws and frailties, but
the United States, in my opinion, would do better leading
humanity as a loyal member of the United Nations than trying to
pretend it speaks for humanity. Much of humanity would probably
resent this deeply if they knew the United States were acting n
this role.
Article two begins by greeting our fellow peoples of the
Cosmos and asking them to pay careful attention to the list of
basic rights. It also says that we think all peoples are equal
in God's sight and this may be a revolutionary concept to some in
the Cosmos. Much of the rest of the document is self-
explanatory, except for the part about genetic code.
The reference to genetic code deserves special explanation.
It was decided that this code must be protected because the
genetic code of a people is an instruction book on how to live on
their planet of Genesis and how to fight the many bacterial and
viral infections found there. Therefore, to take a people's
genetic code, outside of an open scientific exchange, is a
hostile act and indicates an alien power is considering
colonization of a planet with its own species.
The final right is the right to assert and defend the rights
listed. This is not a fairy tale document; it was written in
recognition that some people, some nations, and some species,
understand only force. Some in the Cosmos obviously believe that
might makes right; this is not a new idea on Earth. Many have
believed it in our history, but they were proved wrong. right
makes might, friends, and I have written The Rainbow Declaration
that its truth might strengthen you.
Finally, the Rainbow Declaration closes with the statements:
that all peoples ought to treat all other peoples as they
themselves desire to be treated, and that humanity's highest goal
is to join, as an equal partner, in the community of the peoples
of the Cosmos. The Rainbow Declaration is as follows:
THE RAINBOW DECLARATION
We, the people of Earth, do make this solemn Rainbow Declaration.
We Acknowledge our common childhood before the Creator, God, and
Judge of all the Cosmos, both visible and invisible. We
recognize the planet Earth as our Planet of Genesis, our home,
and our hereditary treasure. We pledge to keep and preserve the
Earth for all humanity for all generations. We call upon all
humanity to treat one another with kindness, justice, and peace.
We call upon all humanity to work together to ease the effects of
hunger, disease, and overpopulation. Let there be no more
killing of the whales, great and small, and let humanity, and the
beauty of the Earth which is humanities.
ARTICLE One
In true Unity there is strength and general benefit; therefore,
on all matters concerning extraterrestrial peoples we shall be as
One. We recognize the office of the Secretary General of the
United Nations, acting with the advice and consent of the
Security Council, as the sole representative of humanity in all
dealings with extraterrestrials. All relations and agreements
will be open and public, and all agreements must be ratified by
the Security Council to be in force.
ARTICLE Two
To our fellow peoples in the community of the Cosmos, we extend
greetings; we recognize you as fellow children of the Creator of
the Cosmos. Please give careful consideration to our declaration
that it might serve as a basis for good relations.
Section One
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all peoples are
created equal and are endowed by the Creator with certain
inalienable rights.
Section Two
The right of Possession of their homeworld, their Planet of
Genesis. No one shall take any portion of their world from them.
Section Three
The right of Sanctity of Planet of Genesis from alien intrusion
or interference. No alien visitation shall occur until the
people realize their Unity and achieve space travel of their own;
this is the Prime Directive for all space-faring peoples. No
alien spacecraft shall make close approach, or assume close
orbit, or make any landing, except openly and by consent of
global authority.
Section Four
The right of Possession of Genetic Code. No alien shall take a
people's Genetic Code for any sue, except under reciprocal
scientific exchange, negotiated openly by global authority.
Section Five
The right to permanent occupation of all bodies orbiting their
Planet of Genesis of the sun of their Planet, which is their Star
of Genesis, and permanent authority over the space containing
these bodies. No alien bases may be established permanently on
bodies or stations orbiting a Planet or Star of Genesis, but must
be evacuated upon landing by the people of this Planet or Star,
except there shall be negotiated a treaty granting temporary
lease.
Section Six
The right of Freedom of Peaceful Navigation of Space shall be
enjoyed by all peoples except where it conflicts with the
Sanctity of Planet of Genesis.
Section Seven
The right of peoples to Assert and Defend the aforementioned
rights and the right to give and receive aid consistent with
These rights, when these rights shall be endangered. In case of
dispute, the burden of proof-of-innocence shall fall on those who
are alien, for it is the burden of the strong and advanced to
help preserve the rights of the weak and less advanced.
Final Article
We pledge to uphold these rights and principals in all relations
with all peoples we shall encounter, whether we be aliens or they
in these encounters. We declare that all peoples should seek to
treat all other peoples as they themselves would desire to be
treated, and that all peoples of the Cosmos should seek peaceful
and mutually beneficial relations with each other. We declare
that it is our deepest desire that humanity might take its place
as an honored and valuable member of the community of peoples of
the Cosmos.
OWNERSHIP OF THE RAINBOW DECLARATION
The Rainbow Declaration was written by my hand, and I am
very proud of it; however, it does not belong to me. It belongs
to whomever embraces it and believes its truths and affirmations.
The Declaration is, for this reason, not copyrighted and anyone
may reproduce or sell copies of it with my blessings. It is my
gift to humanity, because of humanity's faith and courage and
strength. Perhaps a better declaration could be written; I
encourage anyone to try, but I desire, rather, that the Rainbow
Declaration will be embraced by you for now, so that humanity can
move forward into its destiny.
THE RAINBOW DECLARATION AS NECESSARY
I believe the Rainbow Declaration, or some similar statement
of principles, is vital to the future of humanity. Without such
a document it will be harder for humanity to find the Way to its
true destiny. The history of humanity is a history of great
documents that state transcendent principles. These documents
and declarations have served to light the Way of humanity and not
only articulated the consensus of the people but helped form it.
I therefore urge that the Rainbow Declaration or some
similar declaration be endorsed by the major organizations of
Ufology and from them to the Congress, and then to the United
Nations, so that all of humanity might come together on these
vital issues while we have time to discuss them objectively.
Before the future can occur, it must be imagined. This is
self-actualization. Let us imagine and proclaim for ourselves a
future where humanity is a light to the Cosmos, rather than a
blot upon it or a victim of it. Let it be that when other
peoples of the Cosmos think of us they imagine a "Rainbow of
Light." Let us look into the future.
V ADVICE TO A YOUNG SPECIES
You are a young vigorous species and new to the cosmic
scene. You are strong and full of promise. Here is some advice
for you.
(1) Trust in God, Guts, and Guns to preserve you among the
stars.
(2) Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
(3) Do justly to all people and preserve the family of life
on all worlds.
(4) Never, never give in to bully boys with fancy toys.
(5) Talk softly, but always carry a big stick.
(6) A people becomes great because of what it loves -- not
because of what it hates.
(7) Boldly go where no one has gone before, and seek your
kindred and your destiny among the stars.
VI SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
I have tried to convey to you my understanding of the human
situation and the destiny o humanity. I hope I have succeeded in
causing you to think in new ways about the past, the present, and
the future.
I have spoken to you of the future and of an increase of
knowledge. I have spoken of the day when Ufology as we know it,
will pass away and will become exoanthropology, the outstretched
hand of humanity to other peoples. For Ufology represents
knowledge in part, and when knowledge that is whole comes, that
which is in part must pass away. Exoanthropology will then
become the forefront of humanity reaching out to other beings in
the Cosmos.
I have told you we are most likely involved in a dialogue
with other people of the Cosmos. I think that if this is done,
our long journey to reach humanity's destiny will begin on the
right path and with the right guide.
Life on Earth is sometimes harsh and brutal. Good does not
survive or triumph on eArth merely because it exists. It must
continually struggle. I see no reason to believe life in the
Cosmos should be any different.
I see on Earth the triumph of good, Goodliness, justice, and
democracy, but only after a long and bitter struggle that
sometimes looked hopeless. Earth is part of the Cosmos -- not an
anomaly of it -- and good triumphs here. It must also triumph
elsewhere.
It is possible that Mars holds the same drama recorded there
as we see on Earth, but this drama ended tragically there. If
this is the case, let us never forget what Mars teaches us.
Our participation in the dialogue of the Cosmos tells us the
same message. I think there is much good in the Cosmos as well
as evil; we know this from the reports of friendly, respectful
contacts we have heard, and we know it from the good we see here
on our own world and in our own people. This is how I know
things will be well in the end.
However, if we are to achieve this good, we must strive for
it,k and we must declare our allegiance to it. We must be
prepared for struggle to ensure the triumph of good. to see our
true path, we must have open eyes and minds. We must be brave
and force ourselves to comprehend what we do not want to
comprehend, but which is true and must be accepted. Only then
can our light truly shine in the Cosmos.
I tell you again that based on my analyses, the Reticulians
and their Axis allies mean to destroy humanity and possess this
planet for themselves. The character, depth, and duration of
their activities here can indicate nothing else. You must be
prepared to use any means necessary to stop them in this
intention: to surrender is death -- to fight them is life.
I say further that if you are not prepared to accept this
sad truth, even as a possibility, then you are not really ready
to know the truth about the last forty years. I believe our
government can no longer keep this Star Wars Secret any longer;
to fight the Reticulians will require a level of resources and
public sacrifice no secret program can ask. To gain victory over
the Reticulians, mobilization, not secrecy, must become the
government's first priority. The terrible truth must be let out
to be confronted by the government and ourselves and all of Earth
in the broad daylight. It is only then that this threat can be
overcome. You have a role to play in this conflict. I have
given you the Rainbow Declaration. It is a powerful weapon; use
it.
I believe, with God's help, humanity is strong enough, and
brave enough, and clever enough, to triumph in this conflict
which we did not begin. The Reticulians may be a Goliath
technologically, but morally and ethically, they are pygmies;
this is the root of their defeat.
You may see in the Reticulians an ancient and brilliant
race; I see a forlorn and empty people, fallen and corrupted from
the state wherein they developed the technology they now possess,
debasing themselves on the Earth, victimizing the helpless and
crudely terrorizing the defenseless. Their actions reveal their
weaknesses -- as it is said "what you are shouts so loud I cannot
hear what you are saying."
The fact that a nation should come to us from another star,
riding in vessels of brilliant technology and yet commit
unspeakable crimes here is shocking; yet it is quite consistent
with our understanding of elemental evil from the ancient books.
It is curious that Reticuli means "net," and the net is used
throughout the Bible as a symbol of evil, misfortune, and also
testing. As it is written in Ecclesiastes 9:11:
"I returned and saw under the Sun that the race is not
to the swift nor the battle to the strong, neither yet
bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of
understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time
and chance happened to the all.
"For a man knoweth not his time; as the fishes are taken
in an evil net and as the birds that are caught in a
snare; so are the sons of man snared in an evil time,
when it falleth suddenly upon them."
We also see the net used as symbol of testing in Matthew
13:01 and in the last, gentle moment of John's record of Jesus,
(Reference 33) as perhaps an allegory of a testing of the nations
of Earth, which like the fish netted in the story number roughly
150. So, perhaps someone who has known this all would occur has
left these mysterious symbols of this knowledge. So, let us
seek the Way and the truth and the light, and oppose evil with
all our might.
The Reticulians and their Axis do not know the Way; if they
did, they would not do the things they have done here. As it is
written, "by their fruits you shall know them." (Reference 34)
So comfort yourselves in God and in the brave heritage of Earth.
Perhaps a great storm comes, but all is calm now, and after forty
years of the Reticulians's attempts to dominate here, the Earth
still stands, and humanity still stands, more brilliant and more
powerful than ever before. So, let us be of good courage; if the
Reticulians are here to destroy us, then they are obviously
having a difficult time. For Sun Tzu instructs us: (Reference
35)
"There fore I have heard of military operations that
were clumsy, but swift, but I have never seen one that
was skillful and lasted a long time. It is never
beneficial to a nation to have a military operation
continue a long time."
If it is so, and I suspect it is, our government, rather
than being a villain, is actually a hero in many ways as are many
of our abductees, who have resisted the terror tactics of the
Reticulians. It is mainly the government that has opposed the
Reticulians for forty years. Let us remember also that if the
Secret Star Wars scenario is true, then many brave men of our
nation and many other nations have died fighting in a war that
few even guessed existed, their loved ones never knowing why they
died or how. This same government made up of men and women like
ourselves and prone to the same mistakes, has struggled mightily
to both hold the Reticulians' Axis at bay and at the same time
carry on a dialogue with them to try and gain desperately needed
knowledge of their technology. If this is so, then it is little
wonder that the truth has been hidden and why those who knew it
have kept this truth with such determined secrecy. For no one
can keep a secret like a man who believes he holds truths that
will devastate those whom he loves. So, let us not judge our
government nor condemn them for the mistakes they may have made
in this struggle. I have not walked in their shoes and neither
have you, so let us stand with them.
SUMMARY
In summary, I have stressed three main points:
(1) That it is the destiny of humanity to find its
greatness and its kindred among the stars.
(2) The humanity is prepared for this destiny
because the Earth is a microcosm of the Cosmos and
its people, with the dynamics between people in the
Cosmos resembling the dynamics of nations on Earth.
(3) That in order to find the Way to its destiny,
humanity must make a document similar to the
Rainbow Declaration its creed and guide. It is
only in this way that humanity can find the right
Way to its true destiny in the stars.
Finally, trust in God, for He made the Cosmos both seen and
unseen and all it contains. Surely He has helped us already
against the dangers of the Cosmos. But He has also allowed these
dangers to come upon us for His own mysterious reasons. Let us
not disappoint him in our dealing with these dangers. God
delights in courage and bravery. Be people of faith, like it is
written, who "turned to fight the armies of the aliens.
(Reference 36) Joyfully go forth to seek the wonders and
challenges that lay beyond the present and which are our destiny.
So humanity, beloved children of Earth, reach for the
stars...boldly go...
REFERENCES
1. John E. Brandenburg, MUFON UFO Journal, p. 15, October
(1989).
2. T. Walter Wallbank, Alistair M. Taylor, and Nels M. Bailey,
Civilization Past and Present 3rd Edition, p. 14, Scott,
Foreman, and Company, Glenview, Illinois (1967).
3. Preston Cloud, Oasis in Space, p. 402, W.W. Norton and
Company, New York (1988).
4. Whitley Streiber, Transformation: The Breakthrough, p. 10,
Beech Tree Books, William Morrow, New York (1988).
5. Ananda Sirisena, Beyond Science, U.K. (out of print).
6. Carl G. Jung et al, Man and His Symbols, p.55, Doubleday and
Company, New York (1964).
7. James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible,
p.1189, Abington Press, New York, Copyright 1890.
8. Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, P. 293, William Morrow and
Company, Inc., New York (1988).
9. Jane Goodall, The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior,
p. 529, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, London
(1986).
10. Robert T. Bakker, The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories
Unlocking The Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction,
p. 371, William Morrow and Company, New York (1986).
11. Civilization Past and Present, p. 16.
12. Carl Sagan and Iosef S. Shkolovskii, Intelligent Life in The
Universe, Holden Day, San Francisco (1960).
13. L.S. Stavrianos, The World Since 1500, A Global History,
Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J. (1971).
14. Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, p. 119, Penguin Books, London
(1968).
15. Sun Tzu, translation by Thomas Cleary, The Art of War, p. 41,
Shambhala, Boston, and Shaftsbury (1968).
16. Terence Dickenson, "The Zeta Reticuli Incident," p. 7,
Astromedia Corp. (publishers of Astronomy Magazine)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1976).
17. The Art of War, p. 67.
18. Ibid. p. 43.
19. Ibid. p. 91.
20. Ibid. p. 104.
21. "Transformation: The Breakthrough," p. 94.
22. Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest, p. 355, Pioneer
Printing, Cheyenne, Wyoming (1989).
23. Budd Hopkins, Intruders: The Incredible Visitations At Copely
Woods, p. 118, Ballentine Books, New York (1987)
24. Jacques F. Vallee, MUFON 1989 International UFO Symposium
Proceedings, p. 32.
25. Jorge Martin, MUFON UFO Journal, p. 20, January 1990.
26. Above Top Secret, p. 273.
27. John Lear, Private Communication.
28. The Bible, Luke 4:9-12.
29. The Bible, II Corinthians 11:14.
30. The Art of War, p. 168.
31. The Bible, Genesis 1:21.
32. John A. Garraty, The American Nation, p. 777, Harper and Row
Publishers, New York (1975).
33. The Bible, John 21:6-11.
34. The Bible, Matthew 7:20.
35. The Art of War, p. 58.
36. The Bible, Hebrews 11:34.
DISCLAIMER BY THE MUTUAL UFO NETWORK
This article is based upon compiled material researched by
John E. Brandenburg, Ph.D. from numerous sources per the
references indicated at the end of his paper. Contingent upon
his study and research into this vitally important problem, this
is his personal scenario, evaluation and predictions to the
mystery behind the alien/entities conflict and their possible
intentions for the people of the planet Earth. Some readers may
consider that his entire scenario is nothing more then science
fiction relating to the present and future.
Historical events and the Bible support the past.
Historians remind us that we should heed the past with a jaundice
and educated eye, because experience gained and mistakes
committed provide the wisdom for future decisions in our lives
and that of our worldly constituents. We must never lose sight
of the fact that yesterdays science fiction is tomorrows reality
--Buck Rogers yesterday and NASA space travel today. As a
physicist, Dr. Brandenburg, has presented his personal
explanation and forecast for the future as it relates to the
visitation of extraterrestrial entities to the planet Earth and
the serious implications to mankind of their apparent intent.
The theme of the 1990 symposium proceedings is "UFOs: The
Impact of E.T. Contact Upon Society." This paper has been Dr.
Brandenburg's scholarly attempt to address the theme as he views
today and the subsequent tomorrows within the near future.
Conservative Ufologists may attribute the majority of his
predictions to science fiction, whereas thinking people and
futurists, conceivably, will incorporate his recommendations into
their future planning in order to sustain the freedoms and
lifestyle that we have grown to appreciate. If his scenario as
forecast is true and becomes a reality, all of us should be
vitally concerned for our future and well being.
Trying not to be repetitious, I must reiterate that the
disclaimer on the inside cover of the proceedings applies to Dr.
Brandenburg's paper, as well as to all other published papers.
It is surprising to learn how few people read the disclaimer and
automatically assume that John is speaking for the Mutual UFO
Network. Dr. Brandenburg is speaking for himself on a very
controversial issue that deserves to be exposed, heard and read.
Walter H. Andrus, Jr.
MUFON International Director
and Proceedings Editor
s presented his personal explanation and forecast for the future as it relates to the visitation of extraterrestrial entities to the planet Earth and the serious implications to mankind of their apparent intent.
The theme of the 1990 symposium proceedings is "UFOs: The
Impact of E.T. Contact Upon Society." This paper has been Dr. Brandenburg's scholarly attempt to address the theme as he views today and the subsequent tomorrows within the near future. Conservative Ufologists may attribute the majority of his predictions to science fiction, whereas thinking people and futurists, conceivably, will incorporate his recommendations into their future planning in order to sustain the freedoms and lifestyle that we have grown to appreciate. If his scenario as forecast is true and becomes a reality, all of us should be vitally concerned for our future and well being.
Trying not to be repetitious, I must reiterate that the
disclaimer on the inside cover of the proceedings applies to Dr. Brandenburg's paper, as well as to all other published papers. It is surprising to learn how few people read the disclaimer and automatically assume that John is speaking for the Mutual UFO Network. Dr. Brandenburg is speaking for himself on a very controversial issue that deserves to be exposed, heard and read.
Walter H. Andrus, Jr.
MUFON International Director
and Proceedings Editor
