Personal Note
Alien Abduction
Crop Circles

PERSONAL NOTE

We extend our love and blessings to all. For those of us who are searching to better understand ourselves and our place in the world the question often arises, how do I deepen the meaning of my life? For us the best answer has come through doing our best to reach out and discover our unity with all of humanity. We have found the practice to be challenging, allowing us to understand, tolerate, and transform our differences with those who at first appear unworthy of our compassion and understanding. In reaching out we have found that without exception we are confronted with those who we may find difficult, those who seem to disrespect our sense of morality, ethics, or approach to life, or those who just appear different from us. How do we welcome these individuals and keep our hearts open to love? It is in this struggle to understand and respect others where Monica and I have come to understand ourselves better. Over the years we have often thought that one of the best ways to expand ones ability to embrace difference is through adopting a child of a different race, ethnic group, or handicap. We suspect our world would have less hatred and more genuine love if more people considered this possibility.

One experience I would like to relate is a time when Monica and I were setting up for a book reading at Barnes & Noble in Berkeley, California. We were arranging the chairs, time to start was approaching and I noticed few were in attendance. I was concerned and lost in my thoughts. At this time a handicapped person who was confined to a wheel chair came up to the front where we were preparing and started feebly flailing at a board attached to his chair. Immediately, he was a distraction and I questioned in my mind what he was attempting to do. I looked at the board attached to his chair where there were twenty-five or so different messages typed out in small print, and then at him. He was a sight, huge cascades of mucus hung from his nose while dribble foamed at the left over dinner around his mouth. It seemed every body part was misplaced like an amateur assemblage all heaped together in an inanimate clump. He clearly suffered from some form of cerebral palsy. My first thought was how can we gracefully move him to the back of the room and out of the way. The sight of him made me uneasy, his appearance was difficult to take in. It seemed a good bet if I was having this trouble those who came to see us would be experiencing something similar. What to do? Briefly, I paused and attempted to understand what he was trying to communicate, but my attention was elsewhere and I was unable focus enough to determine the code he was using and soon lost interest. But I noticed he kept pointing to our pictures up on a poster that informed Barnes & Noble’s patrons we were giving a talk at 7:00 P.M. A lady in attendance finally started paying attention to him and indicated he was saying something about the store, but I couldn’t be bothered as I was more worried about who wasn’t there than who was there. But try as I may I couldn’t get him out of my mind. Suddenly it hit me, he wasn’t trying to be an interruption, he was attempting to facilitate more people coming to our talk. Nothing on his message board was designed to communicate specific communications only generic requests had been typed on his board. So he was earnestly struggling to communicate with us, and unmistakably insistent. He pointed to our pictures, then to his board where he hit “more” and “people”. Then I put it together. He was saying if we put more signs around the store we could get more people to our talks. I was astonished. A wave of shame and embarrassment flushed through my being followed by immense admiration and compassion. Here was a human being burdened with circumstances most would find incomprehensible if not unlivable. Even with his disheartening, nearly hopeless situation he was more concerned about our poor turn-out and doing his utmost to find a solution than he was about his appearance and inability to communicate. Although not intent on being an interruption, that was indeed what he became. Wake up! Open your mind! Every human being is a blessing! Never again will I underestimate a human being’s capacity to be a contribution to my life, nor avoid my willingness to contribute to them.

A message can offer innumerable thoughts. Thinking back over time the wisdom that’s made the biggest difference in my life was a simple, but life altering comment. A master of spiritual and intellectual acclaim I heard speaking to a group of students once said, “I asked myself if circumstances were such that I only had time to tell you one thing what would I say? Without hesitation this would be my statement. Whatever you decide to do, whether you are a doctor, a homemaker, CEO, janitor, or teacher decide to be happy in what ever you are engaged in doing. This and this alone will make the biggest difference in your life. Your stature, circumstances, and position in life are not as important as they might seem, but your decision to be happy regardless of where and what you find yourself doing can alone determine the quality of your life.” It seems to me Monica and I met such a person at our talk back in Berkeley.

ALIEN ABDUCTION

On a totally different front we would like to express some opinions for your thought and reflection. We are at times regarded as people somewhat inclined towards fantasy, so these opinions might contradict what you could expect to be our position. There are many urban myths, misinformation, and outright hoaxes perpetrated on society that slow the clear thinking, honest person from evolving their spirits and thought process, and in general muddle the public conversation. Much of the present public conversation around alien abduction in our mind falls into this category. So we urge those of you who passionately disagree with these thoughts to put them on the back burner temporarily and take the time to do some unbiased research through the back quarters of libraries and the less frequented corners of your mind.

In our book and throughout the enclosed gallery we have presented many forms of alien intelligence, both of the inter-dimensional and galactic variety. Clearly we believe in the existence of alien intelligence in our universe, but we would like to publically state that we believe strongly that the reports of alien abduction are simply not true. We suspect many of the people stepping forward with these assertions are genuine and believe they are experiencing what they relate to researchers and the world, but are mistaken about how their experience is actually taking place. One can experience overwhelming lucid events in deep sleep that are virtually indistinguishable from waking experiences. The realness of emotions can seem absolutely evidential, but strong emotion and intellectual belief do not provide sufficient proof. There are clues to alert the true scientific researcher regarding the believability of abductions and when it comes down to providing actual physical evidence there is nothing that withstands the scientific testing. All that remains is the biased testimony of the abductees. An investigation into abductees as a whole reveals many gender identity problems, sexual dysfunction, dysfunctional family backgrounds, and broken lives. Those treated by a therapist often involve therapists who believe in alien abduction or therapists who have implemented improper use of hypnosis to introduce corroborating experiences to bolster the abductees claims. In the end, a great number of the alien abduction symptoms can be explained as sleep paralysis. Those who are claiming scars, missing fetuses, or implants do not present the proper medical documentation to make a strong case. We have obtained this information that supports our thought from the book, The Abduction Enigma by Kevin D. Randle, Russ Estes, and William P. Cone, Ph.D. This is a terrific book and thoroughly investigates the alien abduction phenomenon. We suggest if you have interest or questions regarding the phenomenon to read this book.

CROP CIRCLES

Another issue surrounding alien intelligence is the crop circle phenomenon. Many years ago through spiritual sources we received that the crop circles were a hoax and there was no evidence of alien involvement. The stories started back in 1978 when people in England began seeing unusual images carved into the wheat fields of the rural landscapes. They were soon ascribed to alien intelligence like many other things that we can’t seem to explain. Carl Jung suggests this approach is one of the ways the subconscious deals with fears a person can’t integrate into their consciousness. He says it’s the way of the subconscious in dealing with the fear of nuclear war for instance. The subconscious simply uses the psychological rumor of a UFO to address what is unfathomable and too intimidating to confront. Anyway, in 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley revealed that one night back in 1978 after a few pints of brew they decided to stomp a few images into the wheatfields. Some thirteen years later they fessed-up. But as theological sociologists have discovered, disconfirmation can often lead to strengthened belief. So it has been with the crop circle phenomenon. Colin Andrews who has been defending the notion that alien intelligence has been responsible is now saying that 80% of the circles are man-made and the other 20% are unaccounted for, and more likely than not of alien origin. But there is another faction that has taken up creating crop circles as an art form and call themselves the circlemakers. Check out www.circlemakers.org which has been created by John Lundberg and Rod Dickinson who are two practicing circlemakers. They insist that all the crop circles are of man-made origins, always have been, despite Colin Andrews insisting 20% are of unknown origin and likely the product of alien magnetic energy.