[DIVERS] Fwd: In the Event of Contact By Whitley Strieber

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     In the Event of Contact
      Friday November 17th, 2006
      By Whitley Strieber
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      Brazilian UFO researcher Jan Val Ellam is suggesting that contact
could take place between November 16, 2006 and April 30, 2007. He is well
known in the field in Brazil, which is also has extensive UFO and contact
activity, and a very capable local UFO community. He has said that it will
initially consist of large scale and undeniable UFO sightings in many world
cities, and limited contact with individuals.
      Frankly, I'd be floored if this actually happened, but I do think that
conditions under which contact might be an option are, in fact, present, and
that hasn't been true until recently. As I see it, these conditions are as
follows:

      1. There is a foundation of people capable of responding in a useful
manner that is large enough to influence the whole species. 2. We have a
sufficiently advanced science so that observed capabilities will not be
thought supernatural and individuals engaging in the procedure will not be
seen as deities. 3. There is a serious need that outweighs the value of
allowing the species to continue to innovate its cultural advance on its
own. 4. We are, hopefully, a species that is worth the expenditure of
resources necessary.

      I will deal with the fourth of these conditions first. A species that
is worth the effort is one that can respond to it usefully. This means that
the inevitable confusion, superstition and fear that will attend first
contact will eventually resolve into a complex of responses from individuals
and cultures that reflect reality, offer value to all concerned, and do not
require any unnecessary expenditure of resources.

      I think that there is a certain amount of evidence that contact
happened in the distant past, but that the result was that the people
(aliens) involved became identified as gods and their technology fitted into
myth. In other words, contact was too early and it failed.

      The third condition is that there be need. From the beginning, the
message of all visitors who have experimented with contact with human beings
in modern times has been the same: that the planetary environment is
vulnerable to failure. It is failing now, and contact will come with a
message that a massive human effort to recover the situation must be made.
The absolute minimum of help will be offered, not to punish us, but out of
respect for our ability to help ourselves and hope that we will do so.

      The second condition is that science be sufficiently advanced so that
observed capabilities do not seem like magic. Some of the capabilities that
we will necessarily be exposed to are as follows: 1. The ability to read
minds. This is accomplished in number of ways, two of which I believe that I
have observed being by the use of highly discriminatory radio receivers that
are capable of detecting and interpreting the tiny radio signals naturally
emitted by brains, and by the use of microwaves, which can transmit into
them. 2. The ability to traverse space very quickly without obvious
expenditure of energy. This is, I think, explained by the ability to
generate gravity. We might be quite far from being able to do this, but at
least able to understand that it can be done, and therefore that it's not
magic. 3. The ability to manipulate matter at the atomic level. Technologies
that enable control of matter this absolute are within the grasp of human
science, and seeing them in action in the hands of others will cause a leap
ahead that will also enable us to make strides in solving the problem of how
to make the earth a better vessel for the maintenance and evolution of life
into the indefinite future.

      The first condition is that there be a foundation of people who can
react in a useful manner. After fifty years of effort, there has been
sufficient speculation in every human culture about the possibility of
contact, and what the response might be. At present, I think that objective
response will probably outweigh superstitious response for the first time in
recorded history. This means that this condition has been newly fulfilled
due to the efforts both of many human beings and members of other species
who have been attempting to create a situation that might result in
functional contact.

      Included among these are government and military officials who, for
three generations, have been keeping this matter secret. Those at the
highest levels have known that the secrecy was necessary in order to give
human culture every possible chance to develop as fully as possible on its
own, and therefore to express human consciousness as completely as possible
before interaction changes things. Until recently, the gulf between us and
others has been so great that we would cease to innovate if exposed to their
capabilities, and therefore would become a burden rather than an asset. I
suspect that this is no longer true. Scientific advances in recent years
have meant that we will be able to see that new technologies are not magic
simply because they are beyond our understanding.

      If contact unfolds, it is important that social disruption be kept to
a minimum, because it will only happen in a context of urgent human need. We
will need to make the most of every single iota of information we can gain,
in order to save ourselves from what is going to be a complex and extremely
dangerous series of changes in the planetary environment.

      I have no idea if Jan Val Ellam is right or not. But the conditions
for contact do indeed exist now, and they have never existed prior to the
past few years.

      Another possibility would have been if we had been able to overcome
our problems without any outside intervention, and entered the cosmos
entirely on our own terms. That is the ideal, of course.

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