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Opening
our minds to Possibility
From the editor | by Tim Miejan
For as long as I can remember, I've been intrigued by the mystery of UFOs, ETs, abductions
and unexplained phenomena. To this day, I remember sitting in my babysitter's home,
at the age of 7 or 8, reading a children's book about these guys in business suits
out on the desert, and they had something to do with aliens. Maybe they were aliens
themselves, disguised as humans. I think it was something about their hands, or maybe
it was the shape of their ears. I really don't remember much more, but I can still
picture myself holding the book and thinking long and hard about it.
I'm guessing that those who have had what they believe to be more a personal interaction
with extraterrestrials do a lot of that -- sitting, and thinking long and hard about
it. Or perhaps trying not to think about it.
And then, every so often, the media gets interested in the question and then they
have to think about it again. Because this is who they now are, like it or not.
That's what happened on February 24 when ABC News presented a two-hour primetime
special, "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs -- Seeing Is Believing." Jennings
presented himself as a skeptic with an open mind, and he clearly made an effort to
appear impartial during his interviews. Like all mainstream media reports, this program
presented both sides of the case: the witnesses and believers, and those who debunked
everything they had to say. And then the program ended like they always do, telling
us that this subject has many questions that are left unanswered.
In the big picture, I'm not sure that the program really accomplished much at all.
Those who are interested in UFOs, ETs and the unexplained already knew most of what
the program told them: that something is happening and our government doesn't want
to acknowledge it. Jennings failed to interview Dr. Steven Greer, an emergency room
physician in Charlottesville and founder and director of the Disclosure Project,
which exists to disclose testimony of more than 100 military, government and corporate
officials who know more than the government is saying about ET contact.
The day after the ABC special aired, Greer appeared on the Arizona-based Charles
Goyette radio program, noting that he was involved with ABC's project on UFOs from
early on, until "I realized what it was going to be." Greer, calling the
Jennings program an "ABC news spoof," said the show's organizers "put
a few things in that made it look like they were impartial, but as an insider, what
I saw them doing was deliberately sanitizing the show of everything that would have
been hard-hitting and credible."
Greer had offered to give ABC everything the Disclosure Project had, thousands of
pages of government documents dated as recent as the 1990s, but ABC chose to use
none of it.
It seems that seeing is not always believing -- unless science tells us so.
The greatest mystery we have as human beings relates to our planet, our home, and
how it came to support life and whether there are other planets that also sustain
life like us in all of existence. Humankind still is embroiled in the evolution vs.
creation debate. And unfortunately, our technology is still incapable of transporting
us at warp speed so we can explore galaxies far, far away. Our telescopes, however,
seem to be making some progress.
Last year, astronomers at California's Mount Palomar Observatory discovered what
may be the tenth planet in our solar system -- a red-colored object that has been
named "Sedna" after the Inuit goddess of the ocean. It is about the size
of Pluto and about three times further from the sun as Pluto. In 1996, two new planets
were found by the University of California's Lick Observatory near stars in the constellation
Virgo and in the Big Dipper, both being potentially water-bearing planets 35 light
years away. There are currently an estimated 129 known planetary systems, including
our solar system, containing at least 152 known planets, according to Alexander J.
Willman Jr., a collaboration services programmer at Princeton University.
And yet, we are no closer to acknowledging as a collective body that we are not alone.
Do we need remnants of a wrecked extraterrestrial spacecraft, or shreds of ET body
tissue in a laboratory, or actual contact with aliens on the White House lawn, before
we open our minds to the possibility?
Perhaps it will be science itself, through the mysteries of quantum physics, that
eventually will change our paradigm. When young children are taught in kindergarten
that they are energy beings with physical bodies held together with the will of their
soul, that they have the capacity to change their reality through the wonder of their
imagination and intention, that love truly does cause things to grow and prosper
beyond our expectation, then perhaps humankind will be ready to put aside the weapons
of mass destruction, recognize that people have more in common with each other than
difference, and embrace the energies of the cosmos that have long awaited our openness
and respect.
When I was a young boy, I believed that space beings could change their energy into
different forms and contact people on Earth. I guess I haven't grown up yet.
Contacts:
Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI): www.cseti.org
The Disclosure Project: www.disclosureproject.org
Charles Goyette program: www.charlesgoyette.com
Alexander J. Willman Jr.: www.princeton.edu/~willman
Cosmic Paradigm: www.cosmicparadigm.com
Tim Miejan is
editor of Edge Life magazine. Contact him at (651) 578-8969, toll-free 1 (888) 776-5687
or e-mail editor@edgelife.net
Copyright © 2005 Tim Miejan. All rights reserved. |
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