Dispelling Fear: How to Make Believers out of Non-Believers

As I wrote the title, above, I thought of the scene in "What the Bleep Do We Know?!" where the main character was having a dream about a shaman helping her to see the approaching sailing ships, as if she were a member of a tribe for whom large European sailing ships were so far outside the tribe's experience that they had to be helped to see the ships by the shaman, who was more esoterically trained to see things outside the realm of everyday experience.

For those of us who have been, and continue to follow the exopolitical news together with mainstream news' bits and clips and connect the dots, some kind of disclosure process about extraterrestrial contact looks to be occurring. In fact, I feel it definitely IS occurring and I'm glad about it, however also maintaining an air of caution about the kind of disclosure we can expect from a secret government within a public government who has seen fit to withhold the truth for over 60 years, if not much longer.

In an email to one of my relatives, I let slip that I am working on a book. (About my own experiences and insights around the ET phenomenon, that for me, spans the entire spectrum from government secrecy to the spiritual expansion of human consciousness.) Interested, she asked me what I was writing about. Here we go, I thought. My human relatives are very mainstream and many of them decidedly conservative in their viewpoints. But as I go more and more public with my educational endeavors on this subject, they are more and more likely to hear about it. So I took the plunge. I share what I wrote to her here to help those of you out there who do know this is real find perhaps some way to share with those people you know who are still mired down in government-sponsored ridicule and disbelief of many years now. Here are my responses to her, over 2 different emails.

"As far as UFOs go, watching the videos I suggested, particularly the Disclosure Project ones are a good place to start. These are very, very compelling witnesses, extremely credible professionals and hard to ignore. If you truly have an open mind and watch this video, I think you will come away from it thinking about this subject in at least slightly less skeptical ways. I can only tell you that my experiences and the study I've done for years since support what these people have to say. I'm not really that interested in converting people, or really even discussing it with some people UNTIL they've viewed some of the videos I recommend. I have talked to my mother about this somewhat and she is skeptical too. That's fine if my family is skeptical, and that is one of the reasons you've never heard me talk about it. My experiences were deeply traumatizing and were done to me by human beings in the military hierarchy peripheral to observing ET technology, and I wasn't able to really work on healing for years until I put aside the ridicule and denial of much of the public about these subjects. I didn't need to add my own family's skepticism and denial into the equation as well, so I just haven't "gone there" in my conversations with family. And if you so desire, we have no need to "go there" in our discussions either. But I have gone public to talk about my experiences (a necessary final stage of healing) and family may hear about some of my public life in this regard.

I've also always been a deeply spiritual person, in contrast to being a religious person. I've relied more on my personal experiences in nature and worked to develop my own "sensitive" personal relationship with the Creator, rather than go to church or follow any religion. I was quite disgusted with the church in Perrysburg that I considered completely hypocritical in their catering to the well-to-do and popular in the community and leaving my family out in the cold so to speak. I later found out my mother was excommunicated for divorcing my father-- like she was supposed to stay in a marriage where she was physically at risk to stay within church guidelines. That was the final straw for me with organized religion. I'm a good loving person and a moral person, but it is part of my own spiritual code and development, not because I'm following rules laid down by religion. I feel I have an even deeper understanding of the reasons for loving and moral actions and behavior as a result of my own inner explorations. My spiritual life is a rich one and reaches into realms of psychic phenomenon from time to time. More and more science is coming out to confirm that we are part of a living, interconnected universe and those of us who are sensitive in a psychic way have been picking this up for a long time. Nice to see science beginning to confirm what we have always known and sensed, and have been taught by spiritual masters of the far East for generations.

Most of my life I've felt like an outsider in the family because of my spirituality, and I can't really remember a time when it hasn't been a part of me, it seems to have been with me from the cradle onwards. I haven't spoken of it much or shared much of it with my family... why bother them with it when they seem to not share it and open myself up for criticism? I got more than enough criticism while growing up as it was, and that was more healing I have had to go through in my adult years. I understand that, while harmful, it was not maliciously intended, rather it was a function of how many parents thought they should raise children and get them to comply with what they thought was best for them.

This is quite a bit of opening up for me with someone from my family and I have rarely done it before, except with my mom... and my kids, who have at least some of the same leanings and sense of spirituality that I have. I do love my family, in spite of differences, but the differences do hold me apart a lot of the time because I don't know if there will be the same loving acceptance of me with them as I try to give others. I have a lot of wonderful friends who are kindred souls and I have many deep conversations with them about these types of things and we are close. Feeling like an outsider with my own blood relations has been a little hurt I've carried around for a long time. I know at this point I can't change who I am nor would I ever want to. More and more I know I live in a living, loving conscious Universe and I'm an integral part of it as everyone is, and I wouldn't turn my back on my path or where it's taken me for anything, even with all it's difficulties.

Much Love,
Niara"


Having gotten no reply to the above message, I wrote again to her this morning:

"Dear __________,

I haven't heard back from you after what I consider to be taking a risk in letting you know where I stand on this topic. I hope I have not disturbed or distanced you in any way, but again, I need to be who I am and I need to stand up for the truth around this issue as so many others are now doing, in the U.S. and around the world.

I'm sorry if it flies in the face of any of the beliefs you hold dear about our world, our government or the world's organized religions. I know that can be disconcerting and scary. But there is no reason to be afraid, particularly if you believe in a loving God, who holds us all in his heart. I usually don't use the word "God" any more, it is a word that means so many different things to different people, I use the term loving conscious Universe, which for me means actually a multiverse, a universe comprised of a variety of dimensions which our own physicists (not UFO researchers) are now exploring the qualities of.

While I'm on the subject of God, please know also that last May this year, the Vatican made a public announcement: "Extraterrestrials most probably do exist and if so, they are our brothers." Taken as a statement by itself, it's easy to regard as an anomaly and dismiss. But knowing as I do that it comes as part of a flow of information, a stream of bits and pieces that have been steadily moving into the news media, surrounded by less and less denial and ridicule, I think we are moving closer and closer to a time when extraterrestrial contact will be an acknowledged reality.

Here are 3 clips online regarding this subject, and there are countless others:

John Podesta, who is now heading up President-elect Obama's transition team (26 sec):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Sz-MgoFos

A CNN newsclip covering a National Press Club conference last Nov. and interviewing Stephen Bassett, a lobbyist in Washington D.C. who works to get the truth around this subject to come out (8 min 32 sec):
http://tinyurl.com/5p7ze2

Two ex-military witnesses who have come forward, Clifford Stone and Robert Dean (9 min 41 sec):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGE1KqEJ7_Y

Larry King Live has run an entire series of shows covering this topic in the last year, with some of the best witnesses and experts.

And, Monday through Friday, November 24-28, CNN's American Morning with John Roberts and Kiran Chetry aired a five-part series on UFO/ET/Exopolitical issues:

- MONDAY: NOT JUST CRAZIES - What do Moonwalker Edgar Mitchell, Actor Dan Aykroyd, Former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta and CNN Correspondent Miles O'Brien have in common? They have all seen UFO's, believe in them or both.
- TUESDAY: ROSWELL REVISTED - 61 years since the famous UFO incident and the place is still peddling the alien trade. We'll take you to the site where the UFO landed and let you decide.
- WEDNESDAY: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS - Abductions: are they a reality or a product of vivid imaginations. We'll talk with someone who says they've been for a ride with ET. Could this really be true?
- THURSDAY: CALL 1-800-ALIEN... PLEASE! - Listening to the heavens for a radio signal to prove there is intelligent life beyond Earth. What can be heard and could we make contact?
- FRIDAY: THE MARS WORM - Did the NASA Opportunity Rover snap a picture of a fossilized worm? If so, what does life on Mars mean for the theory that we're not alone?


While I expect the journalists reporting on this to still make their little jokes and jibes while showing this material, the fact that someone thought this subject worthy of doing an entire week of stories about shows that something is happening to perhaps put the issue in the forefront of peoples' thoughts.

I know you think of me as a known member of your family, and have a collection of ideas and associations about who I am based on our family ties and relationship. You can't know the experiences which convinced me of the reality of this, the trauma I endured while in the military and the years it took to finally begin to heal (and the educational process to the public that I'm doing now that is part of that healing process). You don't know the years of research I did around this topic to try to understand my experiences and put them into some kind of meaningful context. As frightening as the things that happened to me in the military were, the implications of them were even more frightening - a shadow government within our public government who operates out of their own private agenda and not in any way for the best interests of We the People, a cadre of individuals who can do what they want to people like me without fear of any repercussions or criminal legal consequences. These are the ones that are scary, not the real extraterrestrials. They have used back-engineered ET technology to bad ends and not to benefit the public but to give themselves unprecedented power. Unfortunately for them, their self-serving attitudes and motivations are the flaw that will bring them down. There is a saying there is no honor among thieves... and eventually they will turn on each other and the whole mechanism will collapse. I believe we are seeing that now.

I find that if one pushes hard enough on people's denial and ridicule on this subject what is revealed is their own fear of the unknown. How many times do we find people joking and ridiculing something that deep down, they fear? What if something really is out there and powerful enough to travel at the speed of thought through time and space and even other dimensions? Shouldn't we fear it? We have a known history on our planet of the strong preying on the weak, and conquering or killing less advanced peoples, less technologically developed cultures. This is not so however with the inter-dimensional extraterrestrials. For a culture such as theirs to achieve what they have, they must recognize the oneness and sacredness of all life - and that statement contains another whole essay in itself to demonstrate that point.

So I work to educate and inform and thus try my best to offer people a different viewpoint rather than one of fear. I point out that those we might truly fear are succumbing to their own collapse created out of their own selfishness and lack of reverence for life, which ultimately comes home to roost at some point as a group with such an attitude gains a certain level of power and begins to run amok with it.

I won't bring up this subject with you again unless you ask more about it, and I hope that we are still friends.

Love,
Niara"

So, there it is. I hope I hear back from her regardless of whether she accepts what I wrote to her or not. She need not accept what I say for me to still love her as a family member and respect her position and beliefs. I don't need to talk to my family or waste their time or mine trying to convince them. But perhaps I've planted a seed that as they run into other information independent of my words or presence, will bring a gradual opening to and acceptance of the fact - at the very least - that something is indeed afoot and might bear paying more attention to.

As more and more material moves into the mainstream news media about the extraterrestrial phenomenon - the testimony, the reality of it - more and more people are being prepared for the idea that we have had contact, and will have more open contact someday soon. None of us should be cheated in any way as to the wonder and marvel of that contact, and the beginning of fulfillment of humanity's spiritual potential that will bring. But it bears keeping in mind that as the authors of the secrecy - the shadow government, the military-industrial complex - allow this information to be increasingly put out on mainstream TV, they may have their own agenda as they always have in the past, and it may be one of using the information they have to serve up more fear. Please assess all information by breathing deeply, going very quiet within and separating as much as you can the emotional slant and import of what you see and hear through what your gut tells you.

There truly is nothing to fear, but fear itself - the things it makes people do or say, or how they behave. The more we can maintain our equanimity in the face of all things, the more we can respond to the moment for our own highest good and the good of all.

Thanks for reading...

Warmly,
Niara


P.S. I did hear back from my relative, and all is well. She may yet be skeptical, but we're still family!

The Shift of the Ages: The Extraterrestrial Factor

I begin with two quotes from IONS founder and Apollo 14 astronaut, Edgar Mitchell, Ph.D. Aeronautics, MIT, and the 6th man to walk on the moon:


“My interest basically is what’s the nature of the universe we live in? What is our relationship to the larger reality? If UFOs are a part of the larger reality and we are denying it, that to me is unconscionable."


“Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. And there is some group of people that may or may not be associated with government at this point, but certainly were at one time, that have this knowledge. They have been attempting to conceal this knowledge or not permit it to be widely disseminated. Perhaps a large part of the activity that's classified as UFO abductions may very well not be due to ET activity at all. I would suspect if any is due to ET activity, it is a rather small part. A larger portion is due to human activity in a very clandestine fashion. People in high level government have very, very little, if any, valid information about this. Most have no more knowledge than the man in the street. [As to] the question, “How could it be kept secret?” It hasn’t been kept secret. It’s been there all along. But it has been the subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out. I believe it is a very important effort that we get Congressional oversight of all this. But so far that hasn’t happened.”


Several years ago I watched a Discovery Channel documentary, “Humans: Who Are We?” It traced the evolution of humanity from our distant past, and at the end, it extrapolated into our future, wondering what kind of adaptations would happen in the human race as it evolved in environments on other worlds we would someday colonize. So, even in this documentary, the scientists who helped create it surmised that someday humanity would travel to, colonize, or seed other worlds with life like our own.


If Terran humanity dreams of going into space, colonizing other worlds, why is it so hard to imagine—and even more, seriously investigate—that this has already happened… that we ourselves were colonized or seeded here by other travelers, by other versions of galactic humanoid life?


Some people have difficulty with the notion that humanity is not some kind of evolutionary culmination or pinnacle of development. Some people, if they could entertain the idea of extraterrestrials seriously, would shun contact or help from extraterrestrials, just because they are different or not of Earth… perhaps because they would be evidence incontrovertible that sentient Terran humanity is not as special or unique as many of us would like to think, or have been taught to think our whole lives, by history, science and religion.


The Star Trek universe that is so popular on television and at the movies for decades now, has taught us about a principle of non-interference, their Prime Directive, that those evolved, space-faring races of moral integrity would allow individual worlds to evolve and develop on their own until such point as they begin moving out into space, then contact them and invite them to join their ‘Federation’. The very use of the metaphor of a science ‘fiction’ show to illustrate my point may draw some ridicule as people point out that I’m a dreamer who would like real life to imitate an idealized television or movie fantasy.


But for those of us who have experienced abduction or contact by extraterrestrials, or have been insiders and witnesses to extraterrestrial contact or technology kept secret by a shadow government within a government over the last 60+ years, extraterrestrials and their extremely advanced technology and science are not in any way a fiction. They are a reality. One that has been suppressed by individuals and groups whose moral integrity is non-existent, whose only desire has been to keep secret this contact and technology for their own purposes of power, control and personal profit, as bits and pieces of this technology have been leaked out to the public, such as laser and microchip technology. Oil corporations have been allowed to continue an energy stranglehold on our planet, the dwindling and costly-to-obtain oil supply ever-increasing in price, forcing up the cost of all goods and services because of the cost of the energy required to move and provide them. All this going on while other free energy extraterrestrial technologies have been researched and available to replace oil and avert an environmental catastrophe, possibly available from at least the 1960s. Even when humans have come up with ways and solutions to expand and make more efficient the burning of fossil fuels, these have been suppressed as well. The powerful interests that control the energy and the cost of that energy to move goods and provide services that humanity has become dependent on have not allowed their energy monopoly to be in any way threatened. They sit on top of this pyramid, and intend to remain there.


One doesn’t have to look at the extraterrestrial factor these days to see the greed, control and power-mongering in government, wars created for political convenience for those who have seized the global power of the U.S. It is more than ever transparent to any thinking person that this is about who will control the remaining oil reserves on the planet, keep power and stay on top the pyramid. However, without a good grasp of the extraterrestrial factor and the shadow government that has kept secret and exploited extraterrestrial technology in their own ways, mainstream society does not have, and cannot have a complete and whole picture of the problem. And until we have this complete grasp of the problem of oil and the secrecy around the power that keeps it in place, those of us who want to meet the challenges of environmental protection and restoration and find new energy solutions, may find ourselves taking swings at phantoms that sit just out of our reach that we can’t, or refuse—to see. I don’t see how we, as human beings of conscience and integrity, can solve a problem that we don’t fully understand the deepest root causes of.


Individually, many of us who have made our path a spiritual one through life know that often it is a crisis of consciousness, an extreme challenge or threat that we face that opens us to even more depth, more compassion and more understanding of our own spiritual natures, expanding our understanding of the spiritual universe and our places in it. As the sciences push deeper into the mysteries of quantum mechanics, string theory and the existence of other dimensions, they are met by the sages and teachers of spirituality and the true nature of reality who understood this all along throughout the ages.


Just as we have individual challenges, crises— things that open up our awareness and understanding— so is humanity as a collective experiencing this challenge and opportunity to expand our consciousness, now. We have created this crisis for ourselves and now we must resolve it, as a collective.


On one hand, if we look at reality in an objective, empirical way, we see good guys and bad guys in this drama unfolding on Earth at this time. Television, movies and the media give us unending examples of good versus evil, good people finally driven to fight for their rights to live, be free and have a good life. War is still the paradigm handed to us.


But what if there is another choice? What if we choose to see past the things that divide us and choose unity and understanding, community and compassion over war? What if we choose not to fight at all? The path of a spiritual warrior is to ever look within at the duality inside himself or herself, ever deeper, seeing to the heart of, the truth of a situation… and to choose the way of peace, understanding and compassion. This is not always an easy path when we would rather jump to the conclusion that something is bad and must be fought against. That is why the term, spiritual warrior applies. We must all cultivate our own inner spiritual warriors to undertake the often difficult path to the core of truth, understanding and compassion, rather than leaping into a path of action that on the surface seems just, but does not see to the core. The spiritual warrior looks within to the deepest truth and undertakes to shift his perspective and face his or her own shadow to create change in the outer world.


I believe that part of the crisis in consciousness for the collective of humanity at this time is to look inward collectively and heal our collective humanity and consciousness from within, individual by individual, reaching out to each other, teaching each other, facing our collective shadow that has created our current human environmental/societal/political mess. It’s easy to point fingers outside ourselves and get angry at the government, the oil corporations. Harder to look at how we are complicit in the way the world is today. But we are. Our collective unconscious behavior, our refusal to look at the collective human shadow in how it’s reflected in the behavior of our governments, societal institutions and corporate entities has created this collective crisis of consciousness.


People have labeled as conspiracy theory that which they are too afraid to look at and admit goes on in the world, and those whose power is tied up in keeping their own secrets have encouraged this ridicule and disbelief. We have been sold a version of reality that is not true and does not serve us any more— if it ever did. But how can people change things if they don’t even know what is really happening beneath the apparent surface of their reality? It takes the will and the courage to look and learn. A good place to start is the Transformation Team at http://www.transformationteam.net/


The truth is that we need to scrutinize and question the debt-based system of money and finance in this world which allows the rich to get richer and the poor, poorer all over the world. We need to scrutinize and question why we are addicted to oil and take responsibility for that addiction, how we accepted the promise of cheap energy to allow suburban sprawl to take over our farmlands and make us dependent on distant factory farms for food. We need to take responsibility for allowing our government to institute the National Security Act of 1947 – no accident that it was the same year as the Roswell UFO crash – that allowed an impenetrable curtain of secrecy in our country behind which every power-grabbing individual or group could hide any and every dirty secret that they could pin to the banner of “national security”, free from any legal means to investigate or prosecute abuses of people, places or rights. We need to face the fact that our government imported the Nazi Third Reich scientists who experimented and tortured thousands of Jews in concentration camps because they wanted to know the secrets these Nazi scientists had learned about the breaking points of human minds and physical endurance and how they could be programmed, like Manchurian candidates. (Google “Project Paperclip.) Mind control is one of the most frightening and difficult to acknowledge parts of the collective human unconscious, but it does go on, in this country and around the world, including every kind of pre-meditated torture and sexual abuse imaginable, and perhaps forms of abuse that some good people can’t even imagine. And like in a family where incest is going on, fear and avoidance of looking at the truth and doing something about it allows it to go on, allows people to continue to be harmed and controlled in horrific ways. It is when we don’t look, refuse to look and to see that the dark, shadowy and disowned parts of the collective human psyche have broken off and taken on a life of their own that we become an accessory to those shadow factions and their acting out.


To look at all the shadow parts of humanity and to become aware of them can be overwhelming at first. From my own experience, I know that it is best to allow the whole tide of feelings and emotions to wash over one, from the standpoint of the spiritual warrior, seeking the core of truth and understanding. Weep tears if you must. Feel rage if that comes up. Feeling fear about it all can be the most difficult to face. But as many sages have taught us, that which we fear to look at in our lives, controls our lives. Allow the feelings and emotions to wash over you without stopping its flow until it spends itself and you can take a deep breath and let the energy go on the outbreath. And all grief, rage and fear do spend themselves and run down. They are energies that, if opened to, cannot sustain themselves over time— unless they are unacknowledged, repressed and not felt to completion.


I have come to intuit and believe deeply that spiritually evolved and benevolent extraterrestrials have been watching over Earth for a long time. It is the unresolved collective human shadow that has kept them for the most part out of sight and beyond open contact. If you can imagine races of beings that are peace-loving, cooperative, telepathic, tel-empathic, how can they risk that kind of contact with a species who still carries so much repressed and unacknowledged shadow material that perpetuates misery and suffering on our planet? They know in certainty what we have begun to learn in recent decades—that we are responsible for the acting out of our disowned shadow natures, individually and collectively. They have been waiting for us to grow up. They want contact. They want us to know them. They want us to know our true heritage as children of the Star Nations and to join them as mature, sentient spiritual beings. And if we can do this, then we may gain access to resources that could help solve our current environmental crisis beyond what we are able to achieve on our own.


Imagine two parents, arms outstretched as their toddler takes his or her first steps, reaching for those loving hands. This is the analogy I see as humanity stumbles forward, teetering and trying to gain balance as it attains the equilibrium to take those beginning steps to touch the hands of our galactic parents in friendship and cooperation. The only way the balance and equilibrium is attained is through embracing peace within our individual hearts, clearing out any dark places in ourselves that would prevent peace. When we do this we are expanding our vision and our consciousness, raising our vibrations and reaching the common energetic ground upon which the meeting of Earth humanity and galactic humanity can take place.


With the incidence of extraterrestrial craft sightings increasing exponentially in recent times and being more and more widely shared and acknowledged, this is evidence that the great Shift of human consciousness is underway, and significant numbers of us are beginning to mature as a species. The extraterrestrials have been waiting for us to meet them halfway, to help to create the common energetic ground in which contact can occur. They have not been able to risk lowering their vibrations to encounter us before now, but as we raise our vibrations through clearing our shadow material and embracing truth, love, peace, understanding and compassion, we help to create that common energetic ground upon which we can meet.


Thanks for reading…


Be Well, and Many Blessings to you,


Niara