My Alien Abduction Experience

I have put my days of skepticism behind me regarding the existence of aliens and have joined the ranks of those, like the callers on the Art Bell talk show, who fervently believe. Why the sudden change from alien agnostic to true believer you may ask. Because my friends, I have become part of the chosen few. That’s right. I have experienced an alien abduction.
It was a very surreal experience indeed. One of the things I was most taken with was that they did not look like the stereotypical aliens of science fiction. They looked like us. They told me that they had just acquired the capability to reach and observe us and I must say that it appears the aliens have acquired the majority of their intelligence concerning the human race from our various media outlets. And it seems that from what information they have obtained and from their own lifestyle experience, their prognosis for we earthlings is foreboding to say the least. You see, they told me that we suffer from a serious condition or illness of humanity that threatens our very survival.
Amazingly, they didn’t have much to say about our care or lack thereof for our planet. It seems that our poor stewardship of the planet is only a symptom of the condition. In fact, they were convinced that any damage done to our planet could be repaired quite speedily and a return to its previous pristine condition would be quite easily attainable if we first cured the illness of humanity.
I asked them what this illness of humanity was and why we hadn’t discovered it on our own. They told me it was because we are a blind race. They asked me why we believed it was a sanctioned right for a child to bully and harass other children. I was dumbfounded at this accusation, who said that children had a right to bully and harass other children? Who sanctioned this behavior? I had never heard such a terrible thing. Surely they must be mistaken.
That is when they showed me a television commercial paid for by the insurance commission stating that if one commits insurance fraud, the child of the one who defrauded the insurance company with a false claim can expect to be harassed in school.
"But you must understand," I told my abductors, "the child’s parent defrauded the insurance company out of a lot of money."
I tried to explain to them how important money and wealth are to us, especially in the civilized west. Doesn’t the insurance commission have the right to protect its investments? Besides, a harassed child will be okay in time. He or she will soon forget. But the money that the insurance company lost, that’s gone! After all, quite a bit of money was spent on lobbying to pass laws that seem to make robbing an insurance company many times worse than robbing a mom and pop store or local supermarket and to make produce those advertisements. So with all that at stake, of course it makes sense that theft should be punished in degrees. And if the mom and pop store think that the child of the person who robs their store deserves to be harassed in school, well they are just going to have to cough up some hard cash and lobby to make theft of a mom and pop store more of a major crime than it is.
They began to explain too, that we do not value life enough to have it last. Again I needed their enlightenment to understand their esoteric wisdom. I had always believed that we value life very highly. Their response is that what we really value are money and power, not life. They explained that qualified theft was considered worse than murder.
"Surely you are mistaken," I replied. "Murder is a worse crime than theft and what in the world is qualified theft?"
They explained that we celebrate the work of murderers by making their evil exploits into major motion pictures and book deals. We enjoy seeing the atrocities committed against others while we comfort ourselves that it didn’t happen to us. We need enemies in order to feel important and self righteous and we need war to perpetuate the myth that world peace can only thus be attained and in order to keep the fires of patriotism stoked. As if patriotism cannot be celebrated in the absence of war.
Qualified theft is just an extension, they explained, of our need to objectify others worth rather than value them for their inherent worth as human beings. It is because of this process of objectification that we can view theft in degrees of wrongness rather than objectively wrong at all times. That, they explained, is how we can state that wrongness of theft is gaged by the value of the victim of the theft. Consequently, it is more wrong to steal from an insurance company or large corporation than it is from a small business. Indeed, for some, theft is completely lawful. For politicians, credit card companies and businesses that have a market completely cornered theft is semantically disguised as taxes, fees, interest rates and price gouging. And those of the least value in the dichotomy of human objectification are the majority of us. Those who work every day to try and make ends meet and support our families. The end result is, the higher the perceived value of the person, the lower, or non existent the level of victimization. The lower the perceived value of the person, the higher the level of victimization.
I was beginning to understand what they were trying to tell me. We do ascribe worth of other people not by their inherent value as humans, but based on what they can do to enrich us, either monetarily, psychologically or emotionally. But, how do we cure this illness of humanity? They had a few suggestions.
First, they said that we’ve need to get rid of the big lie. I asked for an explanation. The big lie they told me is the erroneous belief that humanity is fallen and evil. They explained that this lie has been perpetuated, especially in the west, for some millennia and has been used to by both organized religion and governments to not only keep humanity intellectually and psychologically enslaved, but also to make them believe that they deserve nothing less than that enslavement. They said that we misunderstood the message of the serpent in the creation myth. The serpent was a symbol of the shedding of innocence which was the only way to achieve self determination and thus full personhood. Additionally, we can only progress peacefully as a race if we change our dualistic thinking patterns. We must realize that all of creation is one. Dualistic thinking about reality does not just create a fractured universe, but it fosters a sense of a fractured humanity and the consequent us against them mentality. This causes alienation from God, others and even ourselves.
When we begin to have a reverence for all creation, the aliens explained to me, we will begin to heal ourselves and our relationships and eventually our planet. I will now endeavor to view all of creation as one and I will no longer believe that humanity is fallen or evil. Because we are not fallen and evil, we are not in need of coercive government so much as a persuasive and guiding one. And because we are component parts of one reality rather than separate entities, we should not be viewed as objects of potential monetary gain, but respected and valued for whom we are as vital parts and co-creators if you will, of the continually unfolding fabric of reality.
I must admit that this made sense to me and surely did seem like just the kind of revolutionary and progressive idea that would save and harmonize humanity. It made me feel sad for those stuck in the prison of believing that coercion is the only way to keep peace and that the justification for the coercion is the lie of humanity as evil and fallen.
"But surely there is much evil perpetrated on humanity by humanity," I asked. "Is it possible that your assessment of us is incorrect?"
They explained that it is because humanity had taken a wrong turn at the axial age. I asked them to explain. They told me that prior to the axial age which was a 600-year span of time beginning around 800 B.C.E., humanity was primitive and innocent. They were wanderers and gatherers with survival and escape from hunger as their primary concern. But as humans began to develop self-awareness they also began to consider their mortality and reflection, learning and urbanization became something to be attained. Now this development from the primitive to the reflective is not a bad thing, they informed me, but in fact a blessing and a necessity to becoming fully human. However, with this new awareness, came varying interpretations as to the meaning of it. And that is where the fork in the road was encountered.
Humanity now had a choice, do they use this new awareness to reach common goals and to motivate all humans to attain greatness, or do they fear the awesome responsibility that this new knowledge empowers them with, and decide that only a select few can have the privilege of its acquisition and utilization. Sadly, fear won out and suppression of knowledge was the child of that fear. A child that grew into maturity and lives yet today.
As the elitism of special knowledge developed, so developed the hunger for power and its corollary, greed. But how could suppression of knowledge be accomplished on the great unwashed? Make them believe they are evil or fallen and that as a result, incapable of making good decisions on their own. It was a perfect plan and it worked for centuries and it has set humanity back and lost them so much time, the aliens explained to me.
"But even if we had chosen the ‘correct’ road during that watershed axial age, perhaps we still would not have advanced to your status of higher knowledge and mutual love for each other," I replied.
They responded that although there would always exist the possibility of choosing the wrong path, it would be less likely after having received and accepted the enlightenment that all is part of one wonderful creation. They explained too that there are no biological reasons why we could not have attained their current status because all the constituent elements of the universe are everywhere the same. This, I thought helped to explain their similarity in appearance to us. They explained that they had the time needed to develop the technology required to reach Earth because they have been able to increase their life span to an average of one thousand years because, believing they are all one, have used their resources for mutual aid and to develop cures for disease and technology to share their discoveries, not to develop weapons to make war or ideas to enslave.
I asked them how people were made to believe the lie and succumb to the enslavement of coercion and knowledge suppression. They said it was a twofold plan. Religion was developed to perpetuate the myth of human evilness and that a plan of salvation was required. Governments were instituted to coerce people. But as these organizations grew, the need for revenue created the necessity of taxation.
"Do you mean that government and religion are bad?" I asked. They said that they are not wrong in and of themselves. But because they are used to perpetuate the lie, they had become destructive and self-serving early on and have only served to increasingly fracture humanity and thus develop more governments and religions to war with each other.
"What about God?" I asked. "Does God exist or is God a myth as well?" They explained that God indeed exists, but God is ineffable and only able to be understood in symbol. Human language, indeed all language, cannot describe God, but only the subjective experience of God. Mathematics also cannot describe God. Art and music, they asserted comes the closest, but still falls short. They said that humanity has done a great disservice to God be trying to explain and describe the essence of God, and have thus created only false gods and further fractured humanity and alienated us from the true One. They explained that we have also inappropriately added to God’s description a pronoun and thus created a "divinely ordained" sexism and its consequential misogyny and sexual inferiority. Additionally, we have created a special of "chosen" people of God and have thus created a "divinely ordained" nationalism and its consequential hatred, racism and genocide.
They told me that both our current institutions of government and our religions, indeed our erroneous concept of God , are all the result of our penchant to view reality as a duality rather than a unity. Humanity as evil rather than co-creators. Government as coercive rather than persuasive. When we change our view of reality, we will begin to work toward the mutual benefit of the human race, not just our race.
We will no longer be so wrongheaded, as the insurance commission is, that we would ever say that our children deserve to be picked on because their parent committed insurance fraud. Because you see, to take from anyone is to take a piece of the human spirit and to cast it to swine. All are of value, not just the wealthy, the politicians, or the CEO. And we are not a fallen race in need of salvation from without, but a race whose salvation lies in changing our thinking and our priorities.
And when we do, we will be truly blessed and redeemed, not by the god "up there" but by the God within the tapestry of creation itself. The Real and the One.

Downsizing And Cancer

Have you ever considered that American companies that leave this country and go set up shop elsewhere such as Mexico or Singapore, in order to obtain cheaper labor are a lot like cancer?
There really are several parallels between the two.
The most obvious is the dread and fear we have of both. Just like when cancer strikes, when a person is faced with losing their job due to downsizing and or because their company decides to stop producing products here in favor of production over seas, the employee is faced with the uncertainty of how they will survive. How will they pay their bills and keep their family fed? They wonder what their chances are, especially if they are older, of finding employment with the same level of pay they have been used to. Many facing unemployment in this manner have even required counseling and medications due to the anxiety it causes.
Another similarity between a diagnosis of cancer and this type of job loss is the anger. After fear and disbelief have run their course, anger begins to take their place. The cancer victim wonders why he or she has been dealt this blow? Perhaps they have never smoked a day in their life. They don’t drink excessive alcohol and try to watch their diet and exercise. But, despite all their efforts, their body has decided to turn against itself and produce and reproduce rouge cells to overtake the good cells.
Not much differently, the person faced with losing their job asks the same question. Maybe they have been a loyal employee of that company for decades. Maybe they are just a few years away from retirement. Maybe their work and attendance record is superb. Perhaps in the past the company even demanded mandatory overtime from them. Now the company determines they can save money by making their product in Mexico and this employee, this human being who gave their life to the company is now seen as nothing but a liability to be gotten rid of.
Still another similarity between cancer and job layoffs is apparent arbitrariness of it. Just like cancer doesn’t discriminate when it strikes, so companies do not discriminate or care who is left behind when they close shop in the United States. Both the hard working, loyal employee and the goof off are left to stand in the unemployment line. Layoffs, like death, has become the great equalizer. Funny how we were all taught as children that if we play by the rules and behave we will have success. I now believe that is just a way to instill fear in people from the very beginning while they are still impressionable in order keep them under control as they age. I say that because playing by the rules does not guarantee you success. Cancer strikes people who take care of their bodies just as often as it attacks those who don’t. And job layoffs due to downsizing strike the loyal and the loafer as well. Why? Because the employee and his or her loyalty and hard work or the lack thereof are not even on the table when a company executives decide to downsize. The only thing on the table is how much money can be saved and how much profit can be gained and the employee be damned. So, next time you tell a small child that if they are good and follow the rules they will have success, make sure they know that only applies to successfully crossing the street in one piece by following the rule of looking both ways first, not for keeping a job when they grow up.
Perhaps the most illusive parallel between cancer and job downsizing is that in addition to the harm they inflict on their victims, they are chaotic and ultimately self defeating in nature which makes them irrational. Cancer is parasitic and is only able to grow and spread by feeding off the victim. But once the person dies, the cancer dies. That is the only thin comfort that one who has seen cancer ravage a loved one can cling to. The killer has died with its victim.
In a less obvious and indeed longer term way, job downsizing will ultimately "kill" the very company that chose to take the shameful path of abandoning their employees. Consider the whole economy as a body and employees as healthy cells. The treasonous companies that betray their employees and leave the country that sustains them are the cancer cells. Just as more and more cancer cells destroy the healthy cells, more and more layoffs leave less employed and more unemployed or under employed it their wake. Just as the body becomes weaker as more good tissue is overtaken by cancerous tissue, so our economy becomes weaker as more people become unemployed and unable to purchase goods, etc. Finally, like the cancer victim, our economy succumbs and so do the treasonous companies who left the country to save a few bucks because nobody will be able to afford their products. And while we mourn our lost livelihoods, we celebrate the demise of the greedy companies that took the easy road to short term profit and long term death.
Interestingly, there is also a parallel between chemotherapy, the most common treatment for cancer and our government. I am not, nor to pretend to be a doctor, but I’ve known enough people stricken by cancer to have learned that chemotherapy destroys good cells in the process of trying to destroy cancer cells. Parenthetically, I have never understood why, at a time when the body is being ravaged by the horrible disease of cancer, the treatment prescribed should be so destructive to the body and its immune system. It seems very counterproductive to me and may be why chemo has such a bad track record at ultimately healing cancer victims. Or maybe I just don’t understand the process correctly. But, alas, back to my illustration. Government intervention into the whole corporate downsizing phenomenon is about as effective as chemo is in ultimately curing cancer. Why is it? My guess is that the government receives major contributions from these companies. Think about it, it isn’t your small mom and pop companies that downsize. It’s the big corporations, many of which are big contributors to the political machine.
Anyone who is familiar with my writings knows that I am a big proponent of individual rights and against government intrusion into our lives. But corporations are not individuals. It’s interesting, for a government like ours presently, that just loves to regulate and pass laws, why haven’t they outlawed American companies moving out of this country?