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Stop the presses! It wasn't me! The "JS" referred to in "JSUFO.TXT" is an unknown friend of Wendy Silvers', who happens to have the same in
itials as YourIllustrious Sysop. I haven't even finished reading JSUFO.TXT! But other than that, this article by John White is very interest
ing and well-written. (I just hope his book hasn't gone to press yet with my name in it....) -Jim Speiser------
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A RESPONSE TO SPEISER'S EBE 'EXPLANATORY HYPOTHESIS'
By John White
The following is excerpted from an essay entitled "UFOs and the Search for Higher Consciousness" to appear in my forthcoming book, The Meet
ing of Science and Spirit. I offer it as a response to Jim Speiser, who asks in his April 1988 Paranet essay (JSUFO.NEW), "╔is it possible
that EBEs are members of an advanced evolutionary level of life who are tending this planet as a garden? Might they be cultivating human li
fe, not as a food source, but to give humans the opportunity to become, through their choices, potential members and contributors to the EBE
's advanced level?╔Maybe we should be asking: Are we growing in the right way? How should we conduct ourselves in the presence of these in
dividuals and how should we conduct ourselves with each other? What do we have to gain by treating EBEs as hostile invaders? What is the r
eal purpose of these visitations? Since we seem to be far less advanced, maybe the only way we can gain is by concluding they are here for
our benefit."
My briefest response to Speiser would be to acknowledge the legitimacy of his questions but to disagree with his conclusions. "By their fr
uits ye shall know them." Judging from what abductees report as the "fruits" of alien abduction, the EBEs are here for anything but our ben
efit. I see nothing--absolutely nothing--about the abductions which is positive, which provides new and useful knowledge or which is growth
-inducing for humans and which can be attributed to the EBEs' intentions. Yes, abductees do report long-term growth as a result of being te
rrorized, traumatized, emotionally and physically raped--but that is in no way to the credit of the EBEs. It is due solely to the resilien
ce of the human psyche--its self-reparative quality and its inherent urge toward health, wholeness and self-transcendence. Some people surv
ived the Holocaust, but it does not then follow that their survival and consequent gain in strength, understanding and even compassion [see
Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning] was due to the good intentions of their captors. Speiser is leaping to a premature conclusion, an
d a very dangerous one at that. But the danger is spiritual as much as it is physical, and I think his position typifies a widespread attit
ude which needs to be recognized and corrected. This excerpt explains what it is and why it is dangerous to adopt the perspective Speiser a
dvocates.
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The term "metaterrestrial" was coined by J. Allen Hynek to denote something that originates outside the familiar space-time framework in wh
ich we ordinarily function. Also called extradimensional, interdimensional, ultraterrestrial and ultraphysical, this category provides evid
ence that some UFO experiences are due to nonphysical but real entities that come not from other locations in our universe but from other se
ts of dimensions that interpenetrate our space-time. Materialization/dematerialization and some other psychic or paranormal phenomena are b
est accounted for this way, and are theoretically possible within modern physics' view of reality. In short, many UFO incidents appear to b
e contemporary versions of what was recorded long ago in mythology, religious scripture and spiritual traditions as encounters with angels,
demons and the various inhabitants of other planes of existence. These metaterrestrial (MT) beings materialize into our space-time from oth
er levels of reality--traditionally called heaven and hell in the Judeo-Christian world view, but modernly understood as hyperspatial dimens
ions or supersensible space-time frameworks with a wide range of beings native to them, just as ours has creatures ranging from viruses to w
hales.
Thus, the UFO phenomenon suggests that other life forms are present in the universe--the evidence from exobiology supports this idea, quite
apart from the UFO data--and that they have contacted the human race throughout history and are still interacting with us in various ways.
The interactions range from benevolent, such as warnings from Space Brothers and Galactic Confederation emissaries about the threat of nucl
ear war, to malevolent, such as the abduction of Whitley Strieber, who told in his bestseller, Communion, of being captured, brain-probed wi
th needles, anally examined with a rough instrument and having his memory altered.
What is the meaning of all this for humanity? In a comprehensive and recent two-volume bibliography entitled UFOs and the Extraterrestrial
Contact Movement, George M. Eberhart surveys the literature on UFOs and alleged contacts with ETs. It is significant that Eberhart describ
es the extraterrestrial contact phenomenon as a "movement." That movement is widespread, albeit unorganized. It goes far beyond mere publi
c interest in flying saucers. In its deepest aspect, it represents a flowering of the human quest for God and growth to higher consciousnes
s. There are many groups founded on the ET/MT-contact premise, often centering around a charismatic figure who claims to be in contact with
UFO occupants and to have regular telepathic links with space or hyperspace. These groups range from membership societies such as the Unar
ius Society (Escondido, California) and Mark-Age of Miami, (Florida) to communal/extended family situations such as that around David Michae
l the Cosmic Messiah (Berkeley, California) and "The Two" who preached a gospel called Human Individual Metamorphosis that promised follower
s would be removed from the planet by a flying saucer. All these groups extol the virtue of their unseen communicators and claim they have
a mighty revelation to offer for the benefit of humanity. Many of them regard extraterrestrials and metaterrestrials as "gods from outer sp
ace." And many of them, such as "The Two," offer a program or prescription for higher human development and extension of human consciousnes
s to godlike conditions if we will submit to "the gods."
But while their appeals to join the movement may be intriguing and enticing, remember that fools rush in where at least one form of ET/MT l
ife--angels--fears to tread. The movement's appeal needs close and careful consideration. My purpose in the rest of this essay, therefore,
is to offer a cautionary comment about the proper attitude toward UFOs and ET/MT contact.
FROM OUTER SPACE TO INNER SPACE
First, consider the most intriguing aspect of the UFO experience: the convergence of psychology and physics. As the study of inner and ou
ter space merges, consciousness becomes the key to understanding the situation. The UFO phenomenon actually leads us to still-larger questi
ons. It is not enough to ask what are they, where they come from and what they want. Our ultimate questions concern cosmology and ontology
: what is reality and how can we know it?
These questions bring us slowly but surely to the realization that only by understanding the essence of ourselves can we understand the nat
ure and structure of the cosmos, including the UFO phenomenon. It is a paradox recognized in all major religions, psychotechnologies and sa
cred lifeways that the deeper you look inside yourself, the more universal you become. Scientific and spiritual traditions--the objective a
nd subjective aspects of our attempt to know reality--converge to reveal levels of consciousness far beyond what we ordinarily take for the
limits of our awareness.
Conceptualizing these higher dimensions is difficult. Recent models of the cosmos by physicists, paraphysicists and parapsychologists are
resorting