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25 UFO Disclosure Project Naive 25 UFO Disclosure Project Naive FIRST CONTACT electromagnetic fields and waves, wave Open SETI is the way it treats myth. Simply FIRST CONTACT Gerry Zeitlin, from propagation, and radio astronomy. But I wove a put, Open SETI honors myths. Right from the Gerry Zeitlin, from introduction, Open SETI asserts that all human more complex fabric, including brainwave Open SETI gives an research and information security, owning a experience is mediated by myth, and western Open SETI gives an science is foolish to believe it has escaped this metaphysical bookstore, and managing UC interview Berkeley's SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial essential condition. Open SETI bids us to relax interview to Karmapolis about Intelligence) project, known as Project and allow our myth and many others to bring to Karmapolis about potential knowledge to us. SERENDIP, in the years 1978-1982. Berkeley 's Finally, Open SETI and The End of the plausible origin of present-day SETI@home is an outgrowth of Enchantment are audacious [bold] enough to try the plausible origin of that project. mankind As your readers may guess, this does not to construct a myth, weaving elements that our mankind tell the whole story. I have always wondered scientific/technological society has ignored. about the great mysteries of life and have tried In an interview without cliché, a retired to understand them, at times following Do you experiment personally some American scientist/engineer from the psychospiritual disciplines associated with strange experiences like UFO sightings, University of California, Berkeley, SETI Buddhism, Taoism, western occultism, and abduction, etc. What were the consequences program, follower of Taoism, enthusiast of the others without name. in your life and your work ? amazing and mysterious behaviour of the most One of the great mysteries for that has I have nothing to offer you here. I am elemental particles in physics, Gerry Zeitlin engaged me has been the problem of the human driven by a sense of seeing clearly (or so it talks about extraterrestrial life, the SETI, the race: what it is, how it came to be what it is, and seems to me) and a need to explore and express Myths and the ancients Gods, about Reptilians where it might be going. what I see. and the Disclosure Project. A non-classical point of view, a non- You previously told that you worked You didn't lived personally an ideological one that opens doors rather than in the field of information security. What is experience with alien, UFO, abduction and build definitive ideas. A challenge to the pure the purpose of that function? your relatives either. So, why are you so Darwinist (just a little fascist) vision of the That was a sweeping generalization that fascinated by this subject? As a scientist, you Evolution of Man. To the great displeasure of was supposed to cover my work for the US could always follows the standard "pattern" the academic authorities and mainstream media, Department of Defense many years ago, and the of the search of knowledge and don't be the kind of approach sustained by Gerry is a civilian positions, mentioned in my online attracted by "ET hypothesis". So, what are fascinating adventure that opens the doors to biography, that I held in more recent years. you deep personal motivations? another conception of the plausible origins of Probably the best way to describe these Each of us has an "essence nature" (I Mankind, maybe extraterrestrial. Open SETI two periods is to say that the DOD activities have just now coined this term for this and The End of Enchantment, the two Web sites depended on my background in electrical interview) with a fragment of consciousness animated by Gerry an Malou Zeitlin look at engineering as applied to communications, that has been extended, distracted, and to other signs than the classical electronic signal while the civilian positions were more strictly in varying degrees "trapped" by the physical world from an unknown source that for which SETI information security per se, specifically uses of and its games. The "essence nature" includes its scans days and nights. Open SETI, as its name public-key cryptography and the securing of being, its knowledge, its powers, etc. It is really seems to mean, enlarges the scope and examines computer systems for large corporations and quite an incredible being from our everyday signs and traces, artefacts from ancient government agencies. perspective. For reasons that are mysterious at civilisations, old scriptures and sacred texts this point, the "essence nature" provides a from less known religious traditions and other Why did you create Open SETI and varying amount of itself, its knowledge. clues suggesting that mankind and civilisation what is the purpose of it? (Continued on Page 28) pop up suddenly from nowhere without My experience with Berkeley 's SETI progression and logic. Maybe those old texts program was not satisfying. You could say "I In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Myths could tell real stories with real knew too much" to be able to take the SETI In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada people and maybe again, Myths are not only paradigm seriously and eventually I decided it People Listen To People Listen To metaphor and allegory. was too compromising to continue with it. I left The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show Open SETI is also a site where you can the field in 1982 but watched it from a distance with find some new answers about energy, systems in for many years. with Rob McConnell physics and about the fact that Macrocosm In 1994 I wrote a paper, The Opening of Rob McConnell on could be a mirror of Microcosm, Galaxies could SETI, describing why I thought SETI was on submit itself to the same kind of laws than the irrelevant to its own quest for contact, and AM 580 CFRA AM 580 CFRA intimacy of matters, the small particles. So, if proposing ways to "open" its paradigm. After you would like to be involved in an unorthodox presenting the paper at a conference, I decided but still scientific vision of life and exobiology, to make a web page out of it - a small website. pay a visit to Open SETI, but first read the Two years later I broadened the scope of the exclusive interview that Gerry Zeitlin gave to website to include consciousness-expanding Karmapolis. And if you understand French, read and experiential aspects, calling this The End of our article about the origin of man and the alien, Enchantment. Later I cut this into two websites: a good introduction to this subject. The End of Enchantment, which became a joint project of Malou Zeitlin and myself, and Open What is your formation and your SETI, a greatly-expanded version of the original background? paper. Open SETI finds that the interface You can find my online biography at between the original SETI premises and the http://www.openseti.org/Docs/bio1.html unknown can be expanded infinitely, like some I probably started all this by getting involved in sort of Mandelbrot fractal. There are many ham radio at the age of 13. Eventually I became regions in that interface that SETI forbids even an electrical engineer with a Bachelor's degree thinking about, but which are a pure delight to from Cornell University and M.S.E.E. from the pursue. But Open SETI is serious, not a flight of University of Colorado. I pursued further new-age fancy. I would hope that a true scientist graduate studies in math, physics, astronomy, or engineer would be able to recognise and and astrophysics at the University of California, accept this. Berkeley. My intended career had been in Another very important departure of