Why Aliens are Irrelevant

I've just finished a marathon exploration of Alex Collier and other UFO experts and am fairly confident that it is more likely than not that aliens, or extraterrestrials as they are more properly called are for real. So why aren't I excited? It's because I'm not convinced that the knowledge of the existence of ETs is nearly as important as what's happening right here on earth.

Alex Collier may or may not have actually been abducted by friendly ETs and they may or may not have clued him in about the complexities of intergalactic life. He tells a convincing story and his core message as received by the good ETs he apparently got to know rings true. In essence, they told him that:

1. We have to stop letting the control system run our lives and take responsibility for our own future if we want to be free.
2. It is a malevolent control group that has messed with our lives, made us divided and fearful and led to our disconnection from the Source or One.

This is essentially the same message that David Icke presents. One difference between Icke and Collier is that Icke has never met an ET, good or bad, while Alex Collier says he has. Another difference is that David Icke has been a far more passionate researcher, writer and speaker than Collier has been. They both "came out" at about the same time (early 1990s), but Alex Collier went back underground for a long time after he originally reported his encounters while David Icke endured massive public ridicule for years.

At any rate, after listening to 4 hours of Alex Collier, I went on and followed some links he recommended. One of them led me to a guy named Colonel Wendelle Stevens. Colonel Stevens was arguably the world's foremost expert on ETs until his recent death. He was so passionate about his subject, he actually hand printed the books he wrote on the subject, some of which are over 500 pages long. While researching Stevens' life and work, I ran across a couple of short videos and these were what made me finally decide I was no longer interested in ETs.

The first video was the first in a series of six. A Call to Zuni Youth, it was an interview with a Zuni elder named Clifford Mahooty who was deeply concerned about the fact that Zuni youth, who he defined as those under the age of 50, were being seduced by technology and taken away from their ancestral lands in search of jobs. In the process, they were losing touch with their spiritual heritage, a heritage that included ancestral contact with ETs or "Star People." About halfway into the 9 minute segment I watched, Mahooty started talking about "they" - the ones who were behind the control system that was destroying the remnants of Zuni culture. The interviewer asked him who "they were." His reply was short and to the point: "The government."

Here was a man who believed in ETs as firmly as you and I believe in Newtonian physics or the Theory of Evolution, but he wasn't concerned about them or their possibly evil intentions. He was concerned about the flesh and blood, observable actions of the United States government. Think about that for a moment while I move on to the next paragraph.

After watching this video I moved on to one that featured Colonel Stevens. In this video, Stevens discusses ETs with Mahooty. It is actually a monologue in which he keeps hammering away at the overwhelming evidence for ETs, including accounts of flying saucers crashes and ETs seen stumbling around in the desert after the crashes. Clifford Mahooty listens respectfully, but says little. I'm not a mind reader and I'm sure the Zuni elder is a kinder man than I, but all I could think as I watched the video was, "Mahooty must be wondering what this guy is jabbering about."

Telling Clifford Mahooty that ETs exist is like telling the average American that jet planes exist. So what? The important thing is what those jet planes are used for and if they're used against you, what can you do about it? In Cambodia, the "phnong" (hill dwelling tribes) could do nothing against the American bombers that devastated their part of the world for no reason at all, so they erected totems to ward them off because that was all they were capable of doing. Those phnong didn't even know who was dropping the bombs until the Khmer Rouge came and told them and used the information to recruit them. For all they knew, the bombers could have been alien spacecraft.

Pol Pot and his minions used that tactic to turn Cambodians against one another. When they took over Phnom Penh and drove everyone out, their most effective tactic was to warn them of an impending U.S. invasion. When Pol Pot (a French educated Cambodian) convinced his soldiers to slaughter millions of intellectuals, artists and relatively successful fellow Cambodians, he did it by telling them that they had been infected by the disease of capitalism.

Cambodians are basically a peaceful people with strong ties to the land. They are village people who are most comfortable in a village setting. They used to have a tradition of herbal medicine and what we would call "energy healing," but that was largely lost along with their rich artistic tradition thanks to Pol Pot and before that, the French. A Westernised Cambodian once told me that the reason why Cambodians are so "lazy" is because as rice farmers and before that hunter/gatherers, they only had to work a couple of months a year.

I hope you're beginning to see the connection I'm trying to make here. We who are opposed to the control system that has been imposed on us are much like Cambodians, Zunis and other tribal people who basically want to "live and let live" and follow a lifestyle and belief system that naturally suits us. It's finally dawning on us that we have been conned into becoming willing serfs for generations, just as Clifford Mahooty says about his own people.

What I'm concerned about is the distinct possibility that we could be conned yet again. A couple of thousand years ago, give or take, another empire was on the verge of collapse. At that time, a new belief system was emerging and gaining popularity. The populace, disenchanted by the Roman gods, were embracing Christianity. The existing control group took advantage of this with the establishment of the Roman Catholic ("all embracing, including a variety of things") religion. Constantine publicly converted to the new religion (it is said that privately he may not have), gathered together a bunch of Christian big shots and hammered out the nuts and bolts of the new religion. It wasn't easy. They argued about a lot of things, one of them being the touchy subject of reincarnation. It was finally decided to toss that one out because if people believed they could reincarnate, they couldn't be controlled as easily. Instead, they came up with eternal damnation and only one chance to convert to Catholicism or be damned. Of course, not everyone went along with the program, so the Inquisition was launched in order to purge the new empire of dissent.

The so-called Age of Enlightenment signalled the beginning of the end for the religious control groups in Europe. Eventually, scientific materialism emerged victorious as the people were "liberated" from their enslavement to the belief system that had been imposed on them. As we can see today, scientific materialism is just another limiting belief system and it has been used against us in a number of interesting ways. Once again, we're beginning to rebel.

What I'm worried about is this bizarre tendency to run from one control group to another. All it would take, it seems to me, is one charismatic political figure who "converts" to ETism to create a tidal wave of followers. He could claim to know who the reptilians are and send us out to purge the world of them. He could then tell us to burn all GM crops (I'd join that escapade) and plant organic vegetables. Like Pol Pot, though, he would then force us to work double time growing vegetables to feed the troops who were busily killing those of us who didn't get with the program. All of this could be "divinely inspired" by the benevolent ETs.

Modern history (the last 3 to 5 thousand years, maybe) is a continual saga of domination of the many by the few. As far as I can tell, the vast majority of people have always found ways to survive and thrive in small groups and have been happy to live in harmony with the environment they are born in. Australian aboriginals could live in harsh desert conditions. Eskimos could live in freezing arctic conditions. Amazon tribes survived nicely in the jungle. African tribes were much better off before we got to them. Many of the first white settlers in America just wanted to escape the tyranny they faced in Europe and the Constitution basically was drafted to ensure their personal liberty. Whether or not it was written to deceive or really was a grand design is open to debate, but it doesn't matter: it's not worth the hemp it's written on right now.

I'm glad the control system is being exposed and I'm glad that people are waking up and questioning everything that's been forced down their throats. I'm glad that we're learning to unlearn and listen to the quiet voice of intuition instead of the blaring noise of the system. I'm glad we're making better use of our intellects by exploring information and drawing conclusions ourselves rather than just absorbing force-fed "facts" and calling ourselves "intelligent" and "informed" because we get a pat on the back, good grades and/or a better salary. By all means, let's break free. Believe that ETs exist if you like. I do. Just don't try to force them down my throat and if anyone tries to force them down your throat, beware: it's just another system trying to force itself on you for its own purposes.