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JON LOCKE,
ALIEN ABDUCTEE
"Since trying Michael Menkin's Helmet, I have not been bothered by alien mind control. Now my thoughts are my own. I have achieved meaningful work and am contributing to society. My life is better than ever before. Thank you Michael for the work you are doing to save all humanity."
- Jon Locke
Now he apparently makes his living from lecture appearances and by charging hefty fees for week-long 'Ambassador to the Universe" training courses in places like Mt. Shasta, California. The idea is to make physical and/or mental contact with Them, whoever They may be. Details are explained in Greer's self-published books.
Attack Ships on Fire wrote:I downloaded and watched the LA
3. If Greer is a charlitan, again, why not film some of these "encounters" with shining lights and dump them on YouTube so he can make more money from his CSETI field trips and books?
So in short, if Greer is a hoaxer or genuine, why not use the viral video outlets on the internet to elevate his name or mission?
Greer has been preaching his goofy gospel of the "Flawless Nobility of All Aliens" since the very beginning. So what?
You may be missing my point--I am saying that when it comes to a quest for the truth about what is going on in our universe, I don't care whether Greer is a Buddhist or a Catholic...or sits around a campfire with ETs singing Kum Ba Yah. I'm just interested in the evidence. Certainly, I hope he doesn't end up drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid...but that not what my comments are about.
Attack Ships wrote:And then there's the 151 La Jolla Drive question yet to be asked: http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board/v ... ight=jolla
So what object lessons are we to infer from this dispiriting series of events? First, whenever someone presents a “breakthrough” account that is “bound to dissolve the official cover-up of UFO reality,” don’t get your hopes up. When I first heard about a forthcoming book – “The Day After Rosewell” – written by a genuine insider and an apparent whistleblower, I was thrilled. But then I read Corso’s book and cold reality returned. Years later, when I heard the first incomplete reports about a former Canadian Minister of Defense – another genuine insider in a high government position, I was excited all over again. Then I read some of Hellyer’s media interviews and understood that his primary source about the UFO phenomenon was Philip Corso, and my hopes were dashed once more. The moral? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.
Another thing to be learned from these near-fiascos is that highly intelligent people can be as easily taken in as anyone else. In actuality, their endorsement means nothing. Recently, at a UFO conference in southern Italy, I met a fellow speaker, an academic gentleman with a Ph.D. in Government, who had apparently been totally captivated by Col. Corso, as well as by a handful of other fraudulent or dubious Billy-Meier-like personalities whose deceptions and/or imaginary credentials had been exposed time and time again. All of us who labor in this prickly vineyard must be extremely careful in whom we place our trust, and remain attentive to the modesty (or immodesty) of someone’s claims. People who claim to chat frequently with Zeta Reticulans, or who hand out channeled prognostications which never seem to come true, are to be avoided like the Avian Flu. The good soldiers in this field – and there are many – reveal themselves by their personal integrity and calm rationality. They do not claim to have saved their entire species, nor do they stridently warn their fellow humans to become more spiritual in order that the “Galactic Federation’s” dread quarantine may be lifted. (There are, of course, far better and more rational reasons for us to mend our ways.)
One final lesson to be drawn from the Corso/Hellyer situation is an optimistic one. From the earliest years of the modern UFO phenomenon, public opinion has moved slowly and inexorably toward the acceptance of UFO reality, belief in the existence of an official government cover-up, and even, in recent years, acceptance of the reality of UFO abductions, despite the absence of dramatic, highly publicized events. This movement is like a slow moving current that, year by year, acquires more adherents, more who reject the knee-jerk scoffing of conventional science and more who refuse the cosmic limitations imposed upon us by earlier paradigms.
Those researchers who have, year after year, coolly and rationally presented the evidence for UFO reality have obviously been doing something right. Despite the unfortunate dips and turns along the road - like the recent Corso/Hellyer detour - the thrust of history is on our side, and there is every reason in the world to feel hopeful.
- Budd Hopkins, January, 2006
All things being equal, shouldn't there be a healthy interest...a vigorous curiosity about these very startling anomalies?
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