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SUBJECT: ET CONTACT - THE MEANING AND THE MESSAGE FILE: UFO3299
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ET Contact - The Meaning and the Message.
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The symposium was hosted by the First Sunday contactee group
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members, through the Society for the Advancement of
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Civilization, at the UC Berkeley physical sciences building on
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Sat., Oct. 10, 1992.
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The conference started out with a town meeting, with the mock
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mayor role going to Bob Brown. Bob is known for being a
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co-sponsor of the World UFO Congress hosted each year in Las
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Vegas, and the producer of UFO videos through his Video City
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Productions in Oakland. This was a ques- tion and answer
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session with the questions from "constituents" going to a "town
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counsel" com- posed of Dr. James Harder, Dr. Leo Sprinkle, Dr.
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Richard Hains, and Dr. Richard Boylan. Three of the four
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panelists are psychologists, and Dr. Harder is a civil engineer
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and Prof. Emeritus of UCBerkeley, with a solid background in
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the hard sciences.
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It is beyond the scope of this short synopsis to go into great
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detail, but I did find the following comments very interesting:
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When Dr. Harder was asked how many alien races are visiting the
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Earth, he was reticent to answer the question, except to say
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that there were at least 20 documented and the he has reason to
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believe that the true number is very (unbelievably) high. I
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found this interesting that he would decline to give his full
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opinion. In the past I have heard him speak of the Galactic
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Federation, obviously relating information that contactees had
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given him. Perhaps he has taken a great deal of flak in this
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regard, and now chooses not to espouse this information
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publicly.
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And Dr. Hains, I believe it was, made the comment in response
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to a different question of mistaking known atmospheric events
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for UFO's "I don't believe there is such a thing as `ball
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lightening'", to which many people applauded.
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A subsequent speaker was Dr. John Salter, who expressed a great
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deal regarding his own contact experiences over the course of
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several years. An avid human rights activist, he related the
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out- come of his FOIA investigations regarding files on him
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kept by the FBI, and his designation as A1-8 (or similar code)
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that listed him to be rounded up and detained in the case of
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civil unrest or declaration of martial law. Dr. John Salter
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teaches a course in UFO studies at the University of North
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Dakota that assumes the earth is currently being visited by
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ET's, and reported that attendance of that class numbers
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nearly 200 students and is limited by classroom space. He also
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reported that after his TV appearances on the CBS TV show,
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Visitors for the Unknown, the US AirForce contracted his
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services at an AirForce Base to speak to officers and cadets.
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The main focus of the event was to encourage the open dialog
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between these researchers, their patients or people they are
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working with whom have had experiences, and people that want to
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know more about this phenomena. Later in the program, the
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individual "experiencers" took the podium, and expressed some
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of the ideas that were related to them in their ET contacts. I
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found it interesting that they would basically have the same
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information to tell, sometimes so much so as to strain the
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patience of the unprofessional listener. So this seems to be
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one consistent factor in ET contact that was immediately
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apparent. Some of the ideas related I have given before in a
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previous message, and will repeat here:
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We need to take care of our children with all our love as a
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society. - (Childrens' rights activists have argued for years
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that we treat our children in this society as 3rd class human
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beings. Without the rights, the resources, or the experience of
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adults, they are at the mercy of their parents, teach- ers and
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caretakers for almost everything they require to grow up
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physically and mentally healthy. Virtually indigent, they have
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no choice in who takes care of their needs, and are vulnerable
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to a plethora of predators and pitfalls.)
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We need to take care of our planet. We must change our ways
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now, or the consequences with be dire. - (Read Sen. Gore's
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book, he can say it better than I ever will.)
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We need to stop killing each other, and start loving each
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other. - (Will we every be free of the few that instigate wars
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for the many?)
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Take interest in the human condition, and speak up for civil
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liberty, and fight intolerance, racism, and injustice. We must
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work to evolve the human species as a whole.
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Share these messages, and the fact of our existence with
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others.
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The main premise underlying the entire event was the sponsors'
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belief that much of the current abduction literature is very
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negative in orientation, and that this only serves to
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"alienate" people from the underlying idea that all beings are
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our galactic family, and reinforce paranoia, perhaps to our
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government's ends. This would tend to go along with what I have
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heard Michael Lindemann say; "As far as our government is
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concerned, the only good alien, is a bad alien". And so, from
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the beginning of the conference, the host told us that they
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would not be using the term "abductee", because of the negative
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implications it tends to impose. Instead, the term
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"experiencer" and "contactee" would be used.
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In defense of this posture, Dr. Boylan (as I recall) related
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that his collected database of interviews with abductees tended
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to indicated that all people who reported a negative experience
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had a history of child abuse, or similar trauma at an early
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age. Thus, he believes, as do his colleges to some measure,
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that this is the bias that tends to make these experiences
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negative to only some minority of people reporting contacts,
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and that these underlying traumatic experiences have a great
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deal to do with why these people seek out help and end up the
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subjects of popular literature on the subject to date.
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I think Dr. Harder and his colleagues have a very good point
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here. While it is possible that some of the Greys are negative
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in orientation, it is also quite possible that there is more
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than one race of greys, and that like human beings on earth,
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some are negative, while the majority are fairly positive
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individuals.
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Another main idea that came out of the conference is that we
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tend to look at the UFO phenomena, and see only ourselves. We
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relate to everything from our own very limited and myopic
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viewpoint. They used the term anthropomorphism, which I had to
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look up in the dictionary, to be sure I understood, it being
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years since I took a social studies class: "The interpretation
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of what is not human or personal, in terms of human or personal
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characteristics". To analyze the ET experience in such terms is
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to limit it within the bounds of our own human experience, and
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surely limits it to a degree that insures we would never
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completely understand it. That is why the panelists prefer to
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largely abstain from judgement, and listen, document and
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analyze the information given to us by the experiencers.
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This last point is very important, and I feel it goes unheard
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much too often; to abstain from judgement. This is not easy
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to do; so often we want answers today, and make up our minds
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quickly on a given case or branch of UFOlogy, which tends to
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blind us in the future to new data constantly becoming
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available.
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I found it heartening that the dozen or so "experiencers" were
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willing to get up in front of people and share some of their
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thoughts. All seemed very lucid, and none were of a nature that
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I would have assumed to be psychotic. All were very genuine; as
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none of them were professional speakers that had any monetary
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gain to look forward to by communicating with the audience. It
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showed great courage to be in front of 400 people and claim
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that ET's contact you on a regular basis. In light of that
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idea, I found it ironic that many people did not attend the
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symposium, because such sharing threatens their concept of
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reality.
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The insensitive, uniformed, and unimpressed right-off the
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"abductees" as kooks. But to do so is to deny this new factor
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of the human experience. For when tens of thousands of people
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around the world are reporting such things every year, that is
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exactly what we are talking about, the birth of a new chapter
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in the book of human experience. Such can also be said for the
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AIDS virus, and the exploration of space. Perhaps there are
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parallels in ancient human history, but in modern times, these
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are new experiences that people were not having 40 years ago.
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For information on Audio/Video tapes of this event, contact the
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following individuals or groups. When I asked at the
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conference, it was not clear if video tapes would be made
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available or not, so it may depend on how many people request
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them in the coming weeks:
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SAC
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PO Box 9073
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Berkeley, CA 94709-9073
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Bob Brown
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Video City Productions
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Oakland, CA.
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510-428-0202
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Charles Wren
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Shining Star Media (Audio tapes)
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1781 Castlegate Rd.
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San Jose, CA 95132
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408-929-9290
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