Part One: "God"
1. Most people, in every country and culture, believe in God (or gods, Goddess, Great Spirit etc.), in some sort of "Supreme Being" they believe is concretely real and intelligent and in charge of the universe.
2. Most people who believe in God "pray" to that being in some fashion, and believe that their prayers are both heard and answered (i.e., they believe "contact" with God is possible, at least for themselves).
3. Most people who follow traditional religious paths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, etc.) believe that at one time God spoke directly to prophets like Abraham or Moses or Mohammed, and that revered Holy Books like the Bible or Koran are basically transcripts of these contacts.
4. But if a spouse or friend or next door neighbor of
these very same people professed to be in direct contact with God today,
to have notebooks filled with transcripts of new dictation from Supreme
Intelligence, most would scoff, labeling the person crazy or a charlatan.
They would not believe - why? Why do people believe that God would
talk to Moses or Mohammed, but not to Joe Schmoe next door?
Part Two: ET
According to a December, 2002 Roper poll, most people
(67% of Americans) believe intelligent life exists on other planets, and
(56%) that extraterrestrials have visited the Earth, and continue to do
so today. But when a spouse or friend or neighbor of these very same
people steps forward claiming to be in direct contact with visiting extraterrestrials,
to have notebooks filled with communication transcripts, they are most
often, in our society, labeled deluded, liars, sensation hounds.
The message they bring to Humanity is ignored. Again, why?
Why do we accept the possibility of any phenomenon's real, concrete existence,
whether God or ET, then reflexively reject all evidence of its reality?
Part Three: We Are the Problem
I am not trying to imply here that God and ET are the
same being, only that they ride cheek to cheek in the same sad boat regarding
their relationship with human beings on Earth. In this they are the
same – most people believe they are concretely, physically real, yet any
kind of direct, intelligible, meaningful contact between them and ordinary,
individual humans is treated, as a baseline, unchallengeable truism, as
"impossible."
We want to believe, as the Billy Meier Beamship poster
hanging in Agent Mulder's office on the X-Files proclaims, but when faced
with the realization of our desire, we shut down, we refuse to acknowledge
what is right in front of us. Direct contact scares us.
So long as a priest or minister or Guru stands between
us and God, so long as ETs remain confined to TV or books, or stay locked
away in their distant anomalous lights in the night sky, we're okay.
We believe. But confront either one, God or ET, face to face, voice
in ear, proof of reality as solid as a radioactive circle of burned grass
or a known-physics-defying saucer crash debris chunk in our hands... and
we panic. We fall apart. We call it a lie, an illusion, some
kind of terrible trickery. It just can't be real...
The problem lies not with God or ET. The problem
is us. In order to be capable of under-standing, truly accepting,
and really interacting with either God or extraterrestrial intelligences,
it is we, and not God or ET, who must change. We must evolve; we
must grow past the limitations set by our present closed minds, our enormous
egos, our slavish allegiance to the status quo.
Which, in the end, reveals one more trait God and the
extraterrestrials have in common – whenever either does make direct, intelligible
and meaningful contact with a human being on Earth, whether it is God dictating
the Bible or Koran or Book of Mormon, or Pleaidians talking to Billy
Meier or Lyssa Royal Holt or Joe Schmoe next door, what they mostly talk
about is exactly how we humans might go about making that change, what
we need to do, how we need to live, in order to evolve to a new level of
reality communicating ETs usually refer to as 4th or 5th "Density," and
that God calls "The Kingdom of Heaven."
Isn't it time we listened?