I recently took a break from my Advaita and nonduality books and read
Extraterrestrial Contact by Steven Greer, M.D. As it turns out, the guy is
a nondualist, so I can't get away from it even if I try!
Some of you may consider this to be off topic, but here goes anyway. I
recently read a book entitled Extraterrestrial Contact by Steven Greer, M.D.
It was absolutely fascinating, the best book I have ever read on the
subject.
The evidence he presents that we are being visited by extraterrestrials is
very compelling. There is so much of it, in fact, that your eyes eventually
start to glaze over. There have been mass sightings of UFOs in recent years
in Belgium and Mexico before literally hundreds, if not thousands, of
witnesses. Greer has, since 1992 or so, been spearheading what he calls the
CE-5 Initiative, in which trained teams go to areas of recent UFO sightings
and attempt to make contact with them. In one case, Greer and his team went
to a place in England where UFOs and crop circles were appearing. The team
did make visual contact with one or more UFOs, and they were signaling to
each other with lights back and forth. The team also mentally projected a
specific design to the UFOs. The next day, that exact design appeared as a
crop circle in a nearby field! This design is now the logo of CSETI, the
organization Greer founded
But the most amazing part of the book concerns Greer's claims about what the
government knows about this matter. He states, among many other things:
- "The US government, at least at the level of a highly compartmentalized
above top secret group, has known about the reality of these ETS
[extraterrestrial spacecraft] and their occupants since at least 1946."
- "The US government possesses several ETS and the deceased bodies of
several EBEs [extraterrestrial biological entities]."
- The government group or groups that possess this knowledge and this
physical evidence are operating beyond Constitutional authority, and our
elected leaders do not have control over them.
- These secret groups have reverse engineered ET technologies and the
release of these technologies would transform our world overnight:
"Consider: A technology which enables energy generation from the
so-called zero point field and which enables every home, business, factory
and vehicle to have its own source of power - without an external fuel
source. Ever. No need for oil, gas, coal, nuclear plants or the internal
combusion engine. And no pollution. Period.
"Consider: A technology using electro-gravitic devices which allows for
above surface transportation--no more roadways to cover fertile farmland
since transportation could take place totally above the surface."
[snip]
"One must consider what will happen when every village in India (or
Africa or South America or China) has devices which can generate large
amounts of power without pollution and without spending huge sums of energy
on fuel. the entire world will be able to develop in an unprecedented
fashion--without pollution and without billions spent on power plants,
transmission lines and combustible fuels. The have-nots will have."
Greer and his group CSETI (
www.cseti.org) have been planning for some time a
major public disclosure, with testimony from over a hundred witnesses, many
of them former military and government employees. Many of the government
witnesses have never come forward before and will not testify without
Congressional immunity. They had hoped to have this event during the
Clinton administration, but it was not to be. As I understand it, they now
hope to have it sometime early this year.
Greer's nondualistic outlook is evident in his chapter "UFOs, Humanity And
The Full Spectrum of Reality." Commenting on the debate in the community of
UFO investigators and theorists about whether UFOs are "nuts and bolts"
spacecraft or an "interdimensional" phenomenon, Greer writes:
"Could it be that *both* are correct?
"The reconciliation of these two views is possible by employing a
comprehensive paradigm of reality which does not fragment 'physical' from
'other dimensional' but which instead replaces the either/or argument with
and/and. That the predominant western bias for dualism, separatism and
reductionism has been applied to UFOlogy, as well as other areas of study,
does not mean that such a perspective in any way reflects reality. We are
accustomed to speaking of mind-body, material-spiritual,
physical-nonphysical as though a real separation exists, when in actuality
such distinctions are convenient, though linear, mental constructs. The
discussion of 'other dimensions' assumes that indeed there are other
dimensions which are somehow separate from this dimension, whater this
dimension is."
And further:
"We are reaching the point where further advances in the physical sciences
will require concomitant advances in the realm of consciousness or mind. At
that point, we will find that the interface between mind and matter,
physical and transcendent, is in reality a matter of perception and
dependente on the level of consciousness of the perceiver. Our perplexity
over the UFO phenomenon is in part due to a lack of insight into what it
means to be human,of the dynamics of mind and consiousness, and a strange
addiction to the neat and hypnotic separation between mind and matter,
science and religion, objective and subjective. Such fragmentation is a
monster of our own devising, and can be conquered only by evolving to a way
of perceiving which is inclusive, holistic and unified. In this we find
the greatest challenge and the greatest lesson in the UFO phenomenon. May
we not fail in this endeavor.
"In its greatest sense, the full spectrum of reality is another way of
saying 'God,' and therefore is infinite and all-inclusive. While each
generation of scientists and philsoophers regard their current knowledge as
the apex of all learning, just as surely the next generation will surpass
it. We will not exhaust the full spectrum of reality in this generation,
not in the next. But the path of exploration will remain open only to the
extent that we hold our minds open to an ever-expanding reality. For just
as soon as we think we know it all, or say 'aha! That's it!', we limit our
progress and throw a roadblock onto the path of knowledge."
Dr. Greer's book is available at
www.cseti.org
Kelvin
UFOs and ETs -
02-08-2001, 06:43 AM
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