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12 The ET Paradigm The ET Paradigm 12 The Extraterrestrial The Extraterrestrial advanced technological power witnessed in the one being, or a related group of beings, all from awe-inspiring actions of unidentified flying the same source of power. The differences in Paradigm objects in our skies, must be connected. What name and description are only due to different Paradigm has actually happened is more fascinating than cultural understanding. For the most part, they this logical conclusion itself. bring a message of hope and love, they fly in Are Aliens Really "Alien"? Although life on other planets has been incredible splendor, work unimaginable Are Aliens Really "Alien"? a speculative concept throughout history, it took miracles, claim to be the creators of life, there is By Patrick Cooke on a new image in the late 18th Century when a savior in their story and a dark enemy bent on By Patrick Cooke Mars received some undeserved attention; human destruction, have temporarily left the rumors of a civilization on the planet were planet, promise hope for the salvation for spawned. The discovery of what some believed humanity, and to save the planet from total to be actual waterways, or canals, by Giovanni destruction through a triumphant return. Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer in 1877, set The evidence of these beings, who built the stage for, what has proven to be, the worst the great megaliths, produced the technological case of mistaken identity in human history. objects, anomalous devices, and exhibit Twenty years later H.G. Wells wrote the popular advanced knowledge unavailable to the book, "The War of the Worlds", which was the primitive cultures to which these technological first major work to introduce the concept of the wonders are attributed, are found in the "alien invader" into popular culture. archeological record. The cultures to which From the introductory text of the book these OOPARTS, (Out Of Place Artifacts), are we find: "No one would have believed in the attributed, claim the gods, flying in incredible last years of the nineteenth century that this splendor, created the culture and the artifacts, world was being watched keenly and closely by and imparted advanced knowledge. intelligences greater than man’s and yet as Unidentified Flying Objects have been "The world is not a prison house but "The world is not a prison house but mortal as his own; that as men busied recorded throughout human history, and are a kind of spiritual kindergarten a kind of spiritual kindergarten themselves about their various concerns they reported and recorded all over the world, every where millions of bewildered infants were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as day, in modern times. Despite the hype by the where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with all the narrowly as man with a microscope might media labeling these craft and their occupants as are trying to spell God with all the wrong blocks." scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and a danger to mankind, the overwhelming wrong blocks." Edwin Arlington Robinson multiply in a drop of water... No one gave a evidence is that they have shown no threatening Edwin Arlington Robinson thought to the older worlds of space as sources or aggressive actions toward mankind. Many No greater dilemma confronts mankind of human danger, or thought of them only to claim violent encounters, satanic control, than the truth of why humanity is here, and dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible government collusion, and impending doom, or where it is going. The range of thought on the or improbable... At most terrestrial men fancied enslavement from the beings in these UFOs, but answers to these questions spans the extremes. there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps the evidence is weak, and assuredly blown out From a simple accidental origin, to an equally inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a of proportion by the media and the "evil alien" accidental future, the scientific view is a missionary enterprise..." advocates. A plethora of movies, books, theoretical crap shoot. From a divine To many, these are not the words of a documentaries, television series, and websites beginning, to a confusing choice between fiction writer, but a terrible prophecy of have worked well to keep the UFO sacrificial burning in a horrible hell, or a relaxing paradise, mankind's impending doom. In the 1938 fires hot. The lovable character in the movie religion is just another gamble offering better nationwide panic caused during the broadcast of "ET" may be phoning home, but most people odds. Even more blurry, and highly qualified a radio play by Orson Welles based on the H.G. believe he is really calling in the coordinates for for oxymoron status, is the cross between Wells book, the media discovered gold. Put an an "Independence Day" style invasion. science and religion, theistic evolution. In the alien in a flying saucer and it sells, put an alien The evil alien concept is speculation wide reality gap left is the realm of alternative with invasion and human destruction on the based on a media-conditioned response, and speculation. Considering the weak foundation agenda in a flying saucer, and it drips money. nurtured by an excess of theories from a of evidence, and dim promises offered by the There are now well over thirty million websites scientific community that cannot, or will not, orthodox answers, the intelligent mind tends to on the internet, and over 99% attribute this see the forest for the trees. They ignore the gravitate toward the more logical alternatives. phenomenon to visitors from another planet. Of clear evidence in the historical and In the search for truth, a number of sign the other one percent that make any connection archeological record, choosing, rather, to spin posts seem to be leading to one conclusion, we to the gods or the planetary record, 99% say the the concept into a series of a feeding frenzy of are not alone, and may never have been. UFOs gods were alien beings from another world, or irrational speculation based more on childhood in ancient writings, the historical record, and that the UFOs are satanic. The connection is fear than reality. Here is the evidence they our modern skies, give undeniable and ignored, the logical conclusion dismissed, and ignore: conclusive testimony to the constant presence of the debate is dominated by only two schools of a civilization populating our skies, yet keeping thought; are the aliens in these UFOs going to The ET Paradigm is continued on Page 13 their distance. On terra firma there is evidence dominate, or destroy us. From science, which of an advanced culture in our past whose has the physical evidence, comes denial, and technological power defies modern scientific, religion, which has the written evidence, comes engineering, and architectural understanding. only more denial. Fiction has blurred fact. In our ancient writings there is a massive record There is one concept that reconnects the of an advanced culture interacting with elements, brings logic back into the equation, humanity in every corner of the globe. and answers the prime questions about Different names, but all possessing unlimited mankind's existence. This concept also answers miraculous power, including flight in strange a whole host of secondary questions posed by vehicles of every description, and all are the myriad of planetary, human, and spiritual claiming to have the great answers to anomalies present in the world, and the universe humanity's past, and future. They all called beyond. And, it just makes sense. What could them the gods. be more practical than to consider the obvious An analysis of the evidence should lead rather than focus only on one reality while to the logical conclusion that the powerful gods ignoring the whole? Consider this: of ancient record, the advanced beings who left The gods of the ancient world, most incredible technological evidence scattered all especially the major entities recorded by entire over the planet, and the obvious highly social groups, were not different gods, but either