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Hidden Truth Forbidden Knowledge It is time for you to know. By Steven M. Greer , M.D. i Copyright - ©- Steven M.Greer, MD All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information and retrieval systems without prior permission from the publisher in writing. Publisher 's Cataloging-in-Publication (Provided by Quality Books, Inc.) Greer, Steven M. Hidden truth, forbidden knowledge : it is time for you to know / Steven M. Greer, p. cm. ISBN 0-9673238-2-7 1. Greer, Steven M. 2. Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence—Biography 3. Human-alien encounters. 4. Unidentified flying objects—Sightings and encounters. 5. Civilization— Extraterrestrial influences. I. Title. BF2050.G74 2006 001.942 QBI06-600034 Cover ArtworkCover design & graphics Ron Russell Joel Howard PO Box 460760 5111 Summerset Tr Aurora, CO 80046 Austin, TX 78749joho@austin.rr.com Produced in the United States of America Address all inquiries to: Crossing Point, Inc. PO. Box 265 Crozet, VA 22932 Produced by: ZTT Consulting www.zttconsulting.com zak@zttconsulting. com Lansing, MI 48912 © First Electronic Edition 2013, ZTT Consulting iii Dedication This book is dedicated to all of our children, and to establishing a sustainable civilization on Earth - living in Universal Peace. iv Other books by Dr. Greer: "Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications" ''Disclosure: Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History" To obtain Dr. Greer's books or for more information about the Disclosure Project: www, disclosureproject. org Disclosure Project PO. Box 265 Crozet, VA 22920 For more information about the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence: www.cseti.ors CSETI PO. Box 265 Crozet, VA 22920 Acknowledgements My heartfelt thanks to the following people who directly helped with "Hidden Truth - Forbidden Knowledge" and to the many, many others - too numerous to count - who have supported my work over the years. Norm Fletcher who took his time at the book dictation to take care of all the taping; Joan Korenbilt and Vicki Longhofer for their help with the editing; Brian O'Leary for the foreword; Ron Russell for his artwork for the cover; Joel Howard for his graphic skills; Jan Bravo for her devoted support in every way and my wife, Emily for her support and love and her help in her position as - as one of the witnesses called her - "Chief of Staff". vii Foreward "UFO research is leading us kicking and screaming into the science of the twenty-first century" J. Allen Hynek The human experiment on planet Earth is on the verge of self- destruction. Looking at the threats of nuclear war, the chemical and bio- logical ecocide, global climate change, proliferating weapons on Earth and in space, the greed of corpora- tions, and the gross cronyism and mis- management of the U.S. government, the bloated military budgets and aggression, the distractions of our cultural condition- ing, the spread of fear and ignorance, the suppression of life-saving technologies, the dis- parity of wealth and poverty among us, it is amazing we are still here. Barely Do we have any hope? My answer is, we can only try And if we do try, where can we find the answers? Enter Dr. Steven Greer. Almost twenty years ago I first met Steve Greer at a lecture I gave at the Unity Church in Arden, North Carolina. Having left my career as a mainstream space sci- entist at Princeton University and Science Applications International Corporation, I was then beginning to liberate myself from the confines and expectations of West- ern science. I was also intensely studying the UFO/ET phenomenon rejected by most of my fellow scientists. Now I felt free to explore and express our transcen- dent reality So was Steve. A brilliant young ER physician with UFO/ET experience, Dr. Greer and I talked into the night when we first met. We began to make connections we were both just beginning to understand: that ET visitations were not only real, they could assist us in overcoming the human-caused global crisis. Since then, Steve has provided amazing leadership in penetrating the mysteries not only of the phenomenon itself, but the shadowy corners of U.S. government and corporate cover- up of it. As a result, Dr. Greer has proven himself time and time again as a fearless and energetic warrior on the leading edge of planetary change. First he founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), in which he introduced the concept of ambassadorship between hu- mans and off-planet cultures — but this time not merely science fiction. Holding all- night expeditions in UFO hot spots around the world, his groups would vector in viii craft through the use of lights, sounds and visualization which he coined as Close Encounters of a Fifth Kind, aka. CE-5. The workshops continue to be offered to in- terested students. Then he embarked on the difficult task of locating and receiving video/DVD tes- timonies of over one hundred U.S. government UFO/ET witnesses under The Dis- closure Project, culminating in a major press conference in Washington, D.C., in May 2001. These revelations under- score a long, sordid history of governmental and media secrecy and the acquisition of technologies such as microelectronics, anti-gravity propulsion and zero-point, or "free" energy, from our visitors. This massive cover-up has been going on for almost six decades, since the UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, an event which was certainly not caused by balloons, as alleged by the U.S. Air Force. Such myths are only accepted by the ignorant or the powerful and their subjects. Dr. Greer's pioneering work on disclosure inevitably led to further understand- ing the depth and credibility of ET contact accounts as well as the cover-up itself, for example, the "above top secret" research going on near the infamous Groom Lake, Nevada and elsewhere. Steve Greer is a spiritual warrior of high calling, juxtaposed against those forces identifying themselves as the "United States". The latter are criminals who must be brought to justice, for so many reasons evident to ever more of us, as we watch the fall of the American empire. Dr. Greer, more than anyone, has produced the clear- est evidence of a UFO/ET cover-up and now it is up to the rest of us to embrace it. "Hidden Truth- Forbidden Knowledge" gives us the most up-to-date account of the vast accumulation of that evidence from an autobiographical perspective. It's a story about disclosure of the greatest mysteries of our time from a courageous soul unbeholden to the tyrannies that grip us in the most powerful nation on Earth. Just as importantly, it provides us with a narrative of the benign nature of these off-planet cultures, that we are being visited by those who are empathetic about the human condition, while at the same time not directly interfering (the so-called Prime Directive made famous by Star Trek). It is sobering to think that, only since the United States pioneered the nuclear age in 1945, causing the most frightening devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the modern sightings, contacts and technology transfers have been taking place. The long-range atomic bombers were stationed in Roswell, the bomb was created in Los Alamos, the first one ex- ploded in Alamagordo, and missiles to deliver future bombs were test- ed in White Sands — all in New Mexico, a nexus of the military-industrial complex. Was it just coincidence that the 1947 Roswell UFO crash also happened there? Doubtful: the horrors of nuclear technology would make any compassionate ET race want to rush to that area, as they have ever since to military and nuclear installations elsewhere. ix Perhaps they are helping to prevent the horrors they too don't wish to see un- leashed by irresponsible humans. We Earthlings need all the help we can get, so why not embrace the phenomenon for what it is, to marvel at the wonder, leaving behind our cultural biases? Only through expanding our knowledge and taking political action can we make the needed shifts, and that is what Dr. Greer is so good at doing. In many ways, the UFO phenomenon tells us more about ourselves than about our mysterious visitors, and the mirror they hold in front of us is frightening — yet hopeful, if we listen to Dr. Greer's words. For example, his founding of Space En- ergy Access Systems (SEAS) is providing support to inventors with revolutionary new energy technologies that could give the world clean, cheap and decentralized energy, thus ending the oil, coal, and nuclear Age and the virtual end of human- caused pollution and climate change. We at the New Energy Movement are work- ing closely with SEAS Power and other organizations to advocate the importance of R&D of new energy technologies, currently suppressed by powerful vested inter- ests. On the evening of my first meeting with Dr. Greer, the Unity min- ister Chad O'Shea presented me with a bumper sticker, "The truth shall set you free but first if will piss you off." If we allow ourselves to vent about, not to deny, our dire cir- cumstances, and then move onto solutions, we might have a chance as a civiliza- tion. This courageous work is not for the meek. Many cutting-edge scientists have been threatened, murdered, and otherwise suppressed by cascades of disinforma- tion and personal attacks. Dr. Greer has endured all this, to our benefit. This book could be the most important you will read. It is not only full of tran- scendent truths, it is a call to action to shift the paradigm from terrestrial tyranny to peaceful, sustainable and just cosmic community Apollo Astronaut, Dr. Brian O'Leary 14 Sept. 05 X Introduction: Hidden Truth -Forbidden Knowledge In April of 2004, about 25 people gathered at our country home in Albemarle County, Virginia, not far from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. The purpose was for me to provide an oral history, over the course of a week, of the events of my life. This book is the result of that gathering. To be honest, this book is released with more than a little trepidation. It reveals personal experiences and events that frankly seem incredible. Even reading through the transcript of the tapes was at times a tearful and emotionally difficult experience. And I know that much of it can be used to attack me personally But it is time for you to know: Why did an emergency physician who had been chairman of a busy ER leave his career to get out to the world the information that we are not alone? What had I personally experienced -from childhood onwards - that gave me the knowledge of cosmic cultures, cos- mic consciousness and a glimpse of the wondrous future that awaits humanity? What are the new energy and propulsion technologies that can give us a new world, free of pollution, poverty and conflict? What is the nexus where Mind, Space, Time and Matter all come together- and how might this be used technologi- cally by an advanced civilization? What does the blue-print of the next 500,000 years of human civilization on earth look like - and how can we transition to that time? What did I find- and experience - as I met with heads of state, CIA offi- cials, billionaires and covert operatives who in turns are desperate to maintain the secrecy and yet pray for relief from the black box they have nailed shut around them? Who has been keeping this Hidden Truth and Forbidden Knowledge secret - and most importantly, why? This book addresses all this - and more. It is my own Disclosure. Having founded and led The Disclosure Project, I feel it is time that the millions of people who follow our work know the truth about how I got here - and what I have found. I do not expect the general reader to accept all of this -or perhaps any of it. I ex- pect nothing in fact. It is the truth as I have found it and this is my heartfelt effort xi to share that truth. I hope you find some meaning in this sharing from my heart and mind. A meeting I had with a senior General at the Pentagon a few years ago illustrates the gravity of the situation. I had been asked by this General, who at the time was head of a major intelligence operation in the Pentagon, to brief him and some of his staff on the UFO issue. As our military advisor and I waited in the Gen- eral's reception room, we noticed a female officer looking up from her papers at us, curiously Finally she asked if I was Dr. Greer, and I said yes. She then proceeded to explain that they were very excited about the briefing and that she and her col- leagues had drawn straws to see who could be in attendance! Apparently, only one officer from her office could be present. We were escorted into the General's conference room and some time into the briefing this General said, "Well, I have no doubt that what you are sharing is true, but I have made inquiries through channels in my Agency and nobody can tell me anything! In fact, all I have gotten is this\" He then went over to a book shelf and took a small ET doll down - and held it up for all to see. He said, "This is all I have gotten - ridicule- for inquiring about this through channels..." I then explained that the CIA Director and other high officials had similar expe- riences when they made inquiries into the subject. This senior General then told me a disturbing and exquisitely per- sonal story: When he was young, his father had discovered a corrupt enterprise and conspir- acy in the government that was deeply disturbing- but nobody would listen to him. It was a matter of enormous importance - but even the General admitted he just thought his father was a kook. Eventually, his father committed suicide (or was murdered and made to look like a suicide) over the matter. Then the General said, "It wasn't until I got into this position at the Pentagon that I realized the old man was right!" Until the General was confronted with the truth as a high official in the Penta- gon, he never believed his own father. So how can I expect you to believe me? All I can do is share with you the truth as I know it and the rest is up to you. A few comments on the book: It is not a written book, but merely an edited tran- script of over 45 hours of audio tape that were created in April of 2004 during my oral presentations at our farm. I ask that the reader forgive any errors or editing oversights. This book should be viewed as an oral history, transcribed and edited into a narrative. I had no notes or text as I made these oral presentations. Between 1991 and 1995, I kept a diary (via transcribed audio tape) that was over 2000 pages just up to that time. Clearly this book, which encompasses experi- ences that span half a century, can only reflect the major highlights and lessons gleaned over that time. It is by no means meant to be all-inclusive or recall all the xii information conveyed to me by thousands of conversations and meetings with cov- ert contacts within the Shadow Government. Many of the names of these covert operatives are changed or abbreviated. How- ever, the original tapes and transcripts, which are in multiple secure locations, con- tain all of the names, corporations and entities involved with these illegal clandes- tine operations and will be released, if needed, at a later time. Also, this book is not a recapitulation or even summary of the extensive documen- tation which exists in my two prior books. The reader should refer to the exten- sive case-files and ET contact experiences of the Center for the Study of Extraterres- trial Intelligence (CSETI) contained in the book "Extraterrestrial Contact- The Evidence and Implications". Moreover, a nearly 600 page book of government documents and tran- scripts of over 60 top- secret witness testimonies to official government projects and events is available in "Disclosure". These books may be obtained at www.DisclosureProject.org. It is time for one chapter in human history to close and another to open. Do we have the courage to embrace this new world, the hallmarks of which are univer- sal peace, enlightenment, and a genuinely high technology civilization on earth that is sustainable for thousands of years? The retrograde forces that are attempt- ing to hijack humanity to a time of war in space, global destruction, environmental ruin and cultural insani- ty must be supplanted, through the courageous acts of others, with an entirely new way of being. It is time for you to know - and for all of us to act. For it is only through the collective actions of those who yearn for the good future that awaits humanity that we can leap across the abyss of impending destruction and secure a world ready to take her place among the cultures of the cosmos, enlightened and at peace. Steven M. Greer MD Albemarle County, Virginia 1 February 2006 xiii Authors Note This story is told in three parts. The first of these illuminates the events that set the stage for all to follow; it covers my childhood through early adult life, up to 1990. The second traces the years from 1990 to the present day During this time, we formed the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, the Disclosure Project, and Space Energy Access Systems. The third part moves into the future, gazing into a time when the fulfillment of the promise of humanity will be realized - a time that will endure for 500,000 years. In order to first give you a frame of reference, I'll share some important statistics. In 1980, the world community eradicated smallpox off the face of the earth. The World Health Organization predicts that by the end of 2006, we will reach the last remote villages of Africa and Asia and we will wipe out Polio. These are accom- plishments that should bring much gratification to us all as citizens of this world. Yet, it is with restrained joy that I celebrate these feats. Why? Because, sadly, by the time you read the first chapter of this book (approximately 1 5 minutes), the fol- lowing will happen: 250 children will die of starvation; 15 people will die of AIDS; 31 will die of Malaria and 50 will die of TB. You might ask how this possibly relates to ETs or CSETI or the Disclosure Pro- ject. It is all connected to control, power, religious ideology, and greed. We know that the technologies have existed (for many years) to alleviate Small-Pox and Polio much earlier, plus the diseases I mentioned above, as well as other ills that plague the world community We know that technologies have been around that can supply the world with an abundance of energy without using up our valuable natural re- sources. Unfortunately, the people who have access to these technologies have not shared them with us. I mention this not to depress you, but because it is a reality Yet it is a reality that can be changed. As you read HIDDEN TRUTH - FOR- BIDDEN KNOWLEDGE, you will see that changes have already begun in some of the very people who are in- xiv volved with these technologies; changes that can and WILL make this a peaceful world. XV CHAPTER 1 C&D Improbable Messenger "We'll get the little Holloman room for this event. ..It's all you'll need." "Oh, no - we need the ballroom." "But, that room is never used - except for very large and important events." "This w?7/be a very large and important event!" "You've got to be out of your mind." "No, we need the entire ballroom!" "Well, the last time they filled the ballroom was when President Reagan was there!" "Just get it! Do it." "Okay - you won't listen to me... but I'll get it." The room in question is The National Press Club ballroom in Washington, D.C. The verbal wrangling between myself — Dr. Steven Greer - and a press agent, proved worthwhile on May 9, 2001. She kept her word, and my instinct proved to be on target! We watched the ball- room fill to capacity: nearly two dozen televi- sion cameras and a battery of journalists assembled to hear and record statements offered by twenty one witnesses from military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific organizations. The witnesses had stepped forward to relate their personal experiences with ex- traterrestrial vehicles (ETVs; akaUFOs) and extraterrestri- al life forms. More than two hours of public testimony ensued, verify- ing the reality of ETV/UFO contact and a largely unknown outcome: the interaction with extraterrestrial intelligence has produced advanced energy and propulsion technologies. This information has been kept secret from the masses for years. 16 The event marked the launch of the Disclosure Project; an out- growth of years of effort by the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). It was also a milestone in my personal journey, having moved from a career as an emergency room doctor living inAsheville, N.C into anew role - the unlikely cou- rier of a message that is insisting to be heard. It was one more step along the sometimes rocky path I'd stumbled upon as a nine-year old playing on the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina. A sunny afternoon in 1965 saw me out roaming with the usual group of neighbor- hood urchins. We were typical Southern kids, wandering about in search of all manner of adventure - something to build, or see, or take home. Little were we pre- pared for what suddenly appeared in the southwest sky: a silver, oval-shaped, gleaming craft - obviously not an airplane or helicopter. It was seamless, totally silent - and unlike any- thing we'd ever seen. After hovering for a short time, it instantly van- ished. We felt this was something truly unusual. My family, predictably, passed off the incident as a childish musing. But my cohorts and I knew we'd seen something way beyond the ordinary It was my first encounter with an "ETY" the term used by the National Security Agency for extra- terrestrial vehicles, also commonly known as UFOs. Since that day, my sense of connection to that spacecraft has endured. Events over the next few weeks strengthened the tie: I experienced a series of lucid dreams and night encounters with beings who were not from the Earth. Because I was sim- ply a young boy I was able to take it "all in stride" - it seemed a natural result of the incident with my three friends. I believe the ETs were focused on instilling in me an awareness and acceptance of things beyond the world I could see. My in- nocence allowed me to view this without prejudice, although I didn't speak pub- li- cly about it (due to the potential ridicule) until a few years ago. But this early connection was life-altering. It was clearly the dawning of a larger search for truth that grew stronger as I matured. My interest and curiosity about these matters intensified, although I didn't have another direct ET encounter for years. Until around the age of twelve, I would collect relevant articles from such magazines as "True", "Argosy" and "Life" as well as books about UFO encounters, and accumulated a large stash in my closet! The idea of knowledge of people from other planets enthralled me, and fed into the sense of wonder and joy I felt when looking at the night sky Fear never entered my mind - it seemed as comfortable as home. So my approach to the idea of extra- terrestrials was that their existence is understood, or a "given," and that these be- ings are aware of our evolution on earth. This sense of familiarity with the great 17 expanse of creation has always induced a sense of joy and peace, even as a pre- schooler. When out in nature, I gained this sense of something awake and divine beyond everyday existence. I believe there was always something, like a hand on my shoulder, helping and guiding me toward a perception of awakeness, a myste- rious conscious presence that would open to me when I looked at the sky or played out- doors. There is a Persian expression: "the best way to love God is to love His creation." I was blessed with this reality in a very innocent, elemental way It was an unconventional view of life, perhaps the natural outcome of an equally unconventional childhood.I grew up in a deliciously eccentric Southern family Mother was like Scarlett O'Hara blended with Bette Davis in "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte", mixed with a touch of Joan Crawford's "Mommy Dearest"! Father was half Native American, his mother a Cherokee. But I was raised in a family that was extremely troubled. Children from such difficult backgrounds generally follow one of two life paths: they either succumb to self-destructive habits and addictions, sometimes to the point of suicide, or find sufficient inner strength to build a meaningful and productive life. I took the latter course, through the grace of God and the intervention of the seen and unseen world. In reality, I have perhaps never known of a more traumatic, dysfunctional family situation than ours. Most people are unaware of this back- ground; they see me as a successful physician and public figure(albeit somewhat eccentric at times!) and assume a conventional, normal upbringing. As a young adult, I once attended the movie "Mommy Dearest" with my twin sis- ter. Afterward, we looked at each other and said, "My God, that would' ve been the best day of our childhood!" People are horrified to hear this. Because of parental alcoholism, and home conditions that often attend it, we children also lived with elements of abandonment, neglect and abuse. I remember, as a little pre-schooler, eating cigarette ashes, sand, and dirt when nothing else was around. As a medical doctor, I now realize this was at least providing some of the mineral supplements my body needed: one of those instinctual cravings demanded by the body to enable survival. I was frequently very sick, especially every win- ter, with terrible pneumo- nias and bronchitis. My lungs still have scar tis- sue from those bouts. However, blessings often become apparent through hardship. The challenges made me one tough bird! Any bitterness I might have har- bored from childhood has dissipated through the realization that this made me strong - a survivor. By the time I reached high school, I vowed to take hold of my life and turn it around, and did. Through some of those years I was actually self-supporting, with my own apart- ment. I held down a job in a local restaurant, working each night until 1:00 18 A.M., then rose at 6 each day to bicycle across the city to school. I managed to main- tain an A grade average, becoming an Honor Society student involved in numerous school activities. My budding sense of responsibility extended to my three sisters. I often unin- tentionally referred to them as "my daughters", so strong was my protective, car- ing instinct for them. Having parents who were anti- role models, I learned how not to do things. The challenges brought the realization that we all create our own future, and transcending the limitations of birth, poverty, abuse, or any other hard- ship is possible through the exertion of human will. I was far too busy during high school to become enthralled with the stuff of pop culture that absorbed many teenagers from the late '60s through early '70s. I sim- ply didn't have access to the luxuries most middle class kids took for granted, and basic survival was a constant preoccupation. Carousing with drugs and alcohol was out of the question! Instead, I began to read the Vedas (the ancient, sacred literature of India) and study Sanskrit. On my own I learned about meditation and the concept of tran- scendence, which fit quite comfortably into my psyche. I'd been raised outside the confines of formal religion. My parents did not involve me in church as a child (in fact, they were emphatically atheist). The lack of attachment to an institutional doctrine left me open to ideas that might have been outside the comfort zone of someone growing up in a conventional religious tradition. The result is that I moved naturally into the realm of meditative experiences and higher consciousness, without tutoring from outside parties. I taught myself prayer and meditation, from reading as well as direct experience. These pursuits, coupled with my school in- volvement in environmental and peace issues, created a new layer of experience and growth in conscious- ness for me. It was at this point the experience I now call "non-locality of consciousness" made itself known. When I could find free time, I loved to bicycle out into the countryside seeking this connection. I'd lie in a field, and practice those techniques that had emerged from inside me. I'd find myself traveling to observe other parts of Charlotte, or to see other areas of the Earth, or going out into space and seeing it clearly This became routine. At the age of 15, a beautiful, unstoppable force was opening up inside of me, independ- ent of any sort of tradition. It manifested completely from within. And then, in the spring of 1973, 1 injured my left thigh. I had made plans to bi- cycle from Charlotte to the barrier islands on the North Carolina coast, a 200 mile trip. I neglected the injury and went ahead with my plans, traveling the en- tire distance to the coast in one day, then returning to my small efficiency apart- ment, in Charlotte. A horrible infection developed in my leg, and spread through my body 19 I was so sick! Because of a too demanding work and school schedule I was run down even before this happened. I was also poor, so seeing a doctor was out of the question. As a physician, now I know what happened to me: I became septic, which means my bloodstream was infect- ed, accompanied by a very high fever. There was also skeletal muscle break down, overloading my kidneys. All these are potentially fatal symp- toms, and I was spiraling to that point: a 17 year-old alone without a phone, trying to nurse myself back to health, not fully understanding the severity of my condition. It brought me to a near-death experience, find- ing myself suddenly released from my body I was carried out into the depths of space, where I already felt at home. Then I experienced what I now understand to be God conscious- ness, where my indi- viduality became faint as it merged with the effulgent, unbounded, pure, infinite Mind. There was no duality. It lasted for what seemed to be an eternity because a normal sense of time disappears in that state of being. I could see all of creation, the vastness of the cos- mos, and it was beautiful beyond words. There was nothing frightening about it - only infinite awareness, joy, and the perception of an endless perfect creation. Eventually, two brilliant, scintillating lights approached out of the stars. I now un- derstand them to be Avatars: Manifestations of God. They were not anthropomor- phic or anthropocentric, but appeared as brilliant points of light - pure, conscious energy These were the twin Avatars for our era. As the Avatars approached me, I entered a state of oneness with them. It was in- credibly beautiful. Then there was a conveyance of knowledge in a pre-verbal form; before and beyond words. It's as if when you say "apple," within the word is the actual image of the apple, which could be astral (a light form). And within that conscious image is the pure idea form of the apple itself - its essence. That is how information was being transmitted to me. I have no sense of how long this union with God lasted. I was affect- ed by the beauty of it all, yet very overwhelmed at the same time. Eventually, the episode moved into more of a linear style of communication. One of the Avatars said, "You may come with Us or return to Earth." I had the pres- ence of mind to ask, "Well, what is Your will?" And the Being replied, "Well, it's Our desire that you go back to Earth to do other things." With that, I became de- pressed, having no interest at that point in coming back to Earth. I would have been very happy to remain in that state of awareness, in that place of the place- less. But I somehow knew the highest response of human will is acceptance of the Divine will, and said, "Okay, then." And with that, I acknowledged their reality and the very exalted celestial beings that exist and the existence of the Godhead and the one- ness of creation and divin- 20 ity And that's what I experienced: complete, perfect oneness of unbounded Mind and creation as one. Then I sort of lost consciousness, and fell back into my body, just sort of whoosh. I was back in my body, but must have been out long enough to lose conscious connection with all of my neural centers, although my senso- ry input was working. I remember clearly, as if it's today, seeing the maple tree outside the little apartment, moving in the wind against a street light. But I couldn't move! I thought, "Oh, great. Here I am, back in this messed-up body, paralyzed." I truly thought that I had been so dam- aged from this severe infection that I'd been paralyzed from a stroke. (As it turned out, that was a temporary phenomenon. Today it is understood that in prolonged near-death experiences it takes some time to be reconnected to the physical body. ) I then felt a being in the room sent there to test my will to live. It was somewhat frightening, but perhaps a necessary experience that forced me to use my willpower to remain here. There was this force that seemed to be pulling me back out. So I would go back out of my body and then return. I had to exercise volition to re- main in the physical body and keep my astral body of light and conscious body inte- grated with it. And after about half a dozen tries, I nailed it and remained here. I then became fully awake and regained my motor skills. As they say in Britain, I was quite 'gob-smacked'! This experience altered my life like nothing before, changing everything I had been taught - that there was no Divine Being or conscious existence after the death of the body I now know from direct experience this is false. God does exist, as do His Messengers. For me, nothing would ever be the same. I'd learned that death is not to be feared, that, in fact, there is no death - only a transformation from one state into another. As I got up and re-integrated with the world, I remained in this state of incredi- ble bliss, a rarefied state of higher consciousness where the unbounded quality of cosmic awareness, was still awake in me. Enclosed in a room, I could be infinitely aware at the same time. The mystics call this cosmic consciousness - a state I con- tinued to experience some time thereafter. Interestingly, my diseased leg spontaneously healed. I didn't see a doctor or re- ceive antibiotic medication during the entire episode. 21 CHAPTER 2 C^D Coming Full Circle I marked my 18th birthday by learning a structured form of meditation called Transcendental Meditation or TM. I was hungry for any- thing that would give me an ability to experience higher conscious awareness at will. It appeared that the TM course would be the avenue to take. I quickly realized that without its ceremonial trappings, TM is a sim- pie process. It consists of sitting with a thought mantra or sound in order to transcend conscious, linear thought and move into unbounded aware- ness. Sitting next to my teacher, we began the technique. What followed seemed bi- zarre to him, but felt normal to me. I entered complete tran- scendental conscious- ness - full samadhi. So I was there once more - in the state of cosmic awareness. It was very beautiful, and the technique worked for me so easily because the channel was already open, due to my near-death episode the previous March. The teacher looked at me afterward and said, "Ifcu went there, didn't you?" I said, "lies ™ He said, "On the first time?" And I said, "Well, I'm not so sure it's the first time, but the first time with you!" I began thereafter to practice the ability to experience cosmic consciousness at will. This opened up an even more extraordinary view of the world and of myself. I could now re-connect to the very pure state of Earth, nature, and divinity that ex- ist untainted by human corruption. I was rediscovering the purity and innocence of that awareness I had as a young boy, but understanding it more fully I left the following summer to attend Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. I selected ASU based purely on its wilderness location in my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains, for which I have a deep affinity I believe this feeling comes from a ge- netic connection based on my Cherokee heritage. I wanted to spend every moment possible out in those mountains, in every kind of weather, being totally connected like a spirit walker in nature. I was eager to practice my newly acquired meditation skills and to continue having the experi- ence of connecting with Divinity Thus, at the threshold of my adulthood, I'd gone from growing up in a home with no prayer - not even knowing about it or about 22 the experience of communion with God to experiencing cosmic consciousness. I'd found all of this on my own. The absence of religious upbringing was actually a blessing in dis- guise. I think there's an inverse relationship between religiosity and spirituality, with only a few rare exceptions. Having been spared the religiosity, I could simply search for the truth, without the baggage of embellished doctrines. What happened that fall was an extraordinary amplification of that near-death occurrence about six months earlier. I was on Rich's Mountain, about 5,000 feet above the town of Boone. At the top, there was a fire tower at the end of a gravel road that was closed at its base. One crystal clear afternoon, I decided to go to see the sunset from atop this mountain. I reached the top in time to sit in meditation at sun- set. Before starting, I glanced towards the southwest and saw an extraterrestrial vehi- cle. It was some distance away, but was just like the one I had seen as a nine year old. For some reason, my reaction at that moment was, "It's them again" - and I didn't really think much more about it - I simply accepted the fact that they were here. Then the ship winked out, just like the one I'd seen years before. I then began meditating and had a beautiful, deep experience in unbounded Mind. Afterward, I opened my eyes and it was pitch dark, with the stars all visi- ble. Imagine being at that altitude in the crystal clear dry air, viewing the Milky Way and countless stars! Standing there, suddenly a thought not my own came to mind: "Behold what a beautiful universe God has made." With that, I went into the exact state of consciousness I had when I died, that God consciousness where I was fully awake, at one with the entire creation, and yet present standing on the mountain. It was magnificent. When I began the walk down, I noticed a glow off the edge of the mountain and sensed someone was there. Suddenly, on my right, an extraterrestrial biologi- cal life form appeared and touched my shoulder so firmly that it was like a strong finger touching me. I looked down and saw the imprint on my jacket: every hair on my head stood on end! Somewhat childishly, my first thought was, "What does this creature want with me?" I got down close to the ground (I hate to admit this!)in a fetal position, look- ing up - and he was looking back. Its gender was male. He was quite peaceful and non-threatening, with beautiful, deer- like eyes. Then I suddenly found myself transported onto the craft. We were just out in space, sitting. I recall that the craft became completely translucent. It felt like I was floating in space with nothing around, as if the whole craft was made of fiber optics, and its shell could disappear. Space was visible all around us. 23 So I stayed there with these ETs, who were three or four feet tall, all with those appealing eyes. It appeared that we were there for one pur- pose; meditating to- gether They were interested in me because they wanted contact with a human being experiencing cosmic consciousness as we do, participating with them. At this point I taught them what that state is like for us. We shared it together - an incredible encounter, entire- ly different from stories usually circulated about extraterrestrial contact. It was a very non-local experience, with time, space, and relativity in a realm un- like what's normal for us. In that state of consciousness sec- onds, hours, or years no longer matter, because time and space have been transcended. This infinite eter- nity is the true nature of the mind, the awake self within all of us. While with these beings, we co-created a code for humans communicating with them. This was actually the birth of the CE-5 - Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind - initiative. We utilized not only sounds and light but also non-local conscious- ness and directed, coherent thought to communicate with extraterrestrial beings and their electronic devices. This was October of 1973, during the time of the Yom Kippur war. It was clear to me that the ETs wanted humans to move beyond mutually as- sured destruction and into a peaceful civilization that could co-exist with space in harmony Earth needed to find people to be ambassadors for this objective. And so, I offered to do this, and to help teach the same to our fellow humans. Nothing more, just that. Then very suddenly I returned to a "regular" state of awareness and found my- self back on the gravel road near the fire tower, a little further down the path from my previous spot, but still at the top of the ridge. I thought, "Oh, my God, how wonderful." The experience of oneness with them had a key message: the con- scious mind we are awake with at this moment is the same as that of the Divine Be- ing, and of all beings. Erwin Schrodinger was absolutely correct when he said the total number of minds in the universe is one. There is one conscious mind, and we are It. So, there are only one people in the universe, and we are they No 'alien' or human; just an unbroken, perfect, seamless conscious life in the universe, and we are all a part of it. I'm reminded of a saying from the Sufi tradition: "Thinkest thyself a puny form when within thee the universe is folded?" It's a rhetorical question. We're not just this puny form. The entirety of the universe is folded within us. And that's really what I experienced with the ETs. They know that the only chance for peace on Earth — never mind the cosmos — is for humans to understand there's no real difference amongst us. It doesn't matter 24 how we look- consider the variety in physical appearances that exists on Earth alone! What really matters is that within us lives the same singular light of con- sciousness, infinite, eternal and always present, whether we're open to it or not at any given moment in time. It is the basis of our relationship with each other and with the uni- verse. This is enduring and eternal — and that is what we experienced in its absolute, purest form. It was beyond beautiful. And there was absolutely nothing frightening about it. It didn't matter that I was only 18. They didn't care about such things as age, race, family of origin, or wealth. They cared about the fact that I was pure- hearted enough to see the truth clearly and unattached to the materiality of this world. I could discern the universal aspect of teach- ings in various cultures that hu- mans have learned through the ages, because truth is one and the same in any lan- guage. What we created together that day proved that humans can be, each of us, connected to each other and to the unbounded awareness of the universe, but also to these other civilizations, if we simply understand the fact that we're awake. If you are awake, reading this or hearing this right now, the awake-ness whereby you're hearing it is a singularity And it isn't divid- ed. We divide it into our own egos and intellect, but in reality, the light of awareness is the same in every being, in every star. And the entire cos- mos is suffused in this same light of Be- ing. There is this great Sun of awareness reflecting and refracting in everyone, yet still singular. So, if you return to that and if you experience it, none of these life forms seem far away or unusual-or alien - because they really are not. So, it was on this occasion the CSETI concept of one universe, one people was conceived. There is really one people in the universe, and we are they There is a sin- gle conscious being shining in all of us. It can never be divided, no matter how much we try. We may want to divide it, but it's always one. It's always a singularity, always perfect. The extraterrestrial beings that are here understand this, because they cannot travel through interstellar space without understanding non-locality And understanding non-locality necessitates a high level of knowledge and en- lightenment. In a real sense, then, the heart of compassion and the foundation of peace is found in the reality that we are all one. Without that experience, intellectualism is all that's left - and it never lasts. So, I came to realize at a rather young age that the world's problems are essentially spiritual, therefore the solutions must be spiritual as well. And so it has turned out to be. I found myself back on the mountain under the beautiful, starry sky, only to expe- rience another strange phenomenon. I was perhaps 100 yards further down the gravel road. As I started down the mountain, I found that with each step, I was in a state of near- weightlessness, as if walking on the moon! 25 My steps were actually leaps of 20 to 30 feet at once! It was more like floating than walking. There was a strange, magnetic, anti-gravitational effect around me, making me lighter It wasn't a product of my imagination; my physical body was light. I was just happy as a lark! Here I was, fresh from this experience on an ET\( and now bounding down the mountain, traveling in "boing, boing, boing" leaps across impossible distances with each step. It was incredibly blissful. As I got closer to town, the phenomenon faded, and my weight returned to normal. Upon reaching the little town of Boone, it looked so deserted I thought there had been a nuclear war! I thought it was about 9 or 10 o'clock at night - everything should have been open. Remember, it's a little college town up in the North Carolina mountains. I thought to myself, "What in the world is going on? I wonder if the Yom Kippur War got out of control and there was a thermonuclear war and I'm the last to know?" A check of the time told me, it was nearly 1 :00 A.M! My cosmic experience had lasted three or four hours! After this amazing evening, I decided to practice all I had learned, taught and shared with the extraterrestrials. Every night before going to sleep, I would lie down and put myself in a meditative state. I would enter unbounded Awareness, then expand the sense of conscious mind around me, filling the room, knowing that it was omni-present. On the wings of that omnipresent sense of Awareness, I would expand upwards into space, seeing the stars and space, filled with the sense that it was awake. And I was one with that awake-ness, which placed me out there, in space. Then I would send a thought like a beacon to the extraterrestrial beings, to an- nounce my presence. In a somewhat childlike way, I'd say, "I don't know if you remember me, but my name is Steve. And here I am - let me show you where I am." So, I would do the protocol we developed for the CE-5 initiative: In this higher state of consciousness I would turn it around, and instead of seeing outward into the vastness of space, look back - and show the ETs my location on earth. I would show them the Milky Way Galaxy and then zoom in from there to our Solar System, with the sun and the Earth. Then I would zoom to the Earth and North America, further in to the eastern United States and the Appalachian Moun- tains. Then I would zoom in to show them my location in Boone, North Caro- lina; then to my exact spot in that building. And with that, I would fall asleep. For months my experiences were really quite extraordinary From October '73 onwards, there began an unprecedented wave of UFO sightings in those mountains. I did this as a way of beta-testing the system, to see if what we had co-created and agreed upon on the ship would actually work. Well, it did. There were newspaper 26 reports of forest rangers seeing these huge ships hovering over the mountains, down in Shining Rock Wilderness to the south, and over in the Linville Gorge area. . . here, there, and everywhere! I continued to do this until one day, in the local paper, a story appeared about a guy driving nearby on a road outside Morganton, North Carolina. As ETVs travel, it was only seconds away from me. This boy, who looked a lot like me, was driving on that road, and the car suddenly stopped. There was a ship hover- ing by the road, with an ET at the boy's window! The driver was completely freaked out. I saw this as an indirect way for the ETs to say, "You know, we're get- ting this." So I thought to myself, "Well I'm playing around with fire, here. I think, until I figure out what I'm supposed to do with this, this is enough." I didn't tell anyone about this episode for a very long time. However, people need to understand why I gave up an established medical career - and the quarter-million dollars per year that came with it - to make known what I know to be true. Cer- tainly not because it's "only a theory"! While still in this state, asleep, I continued to have some kind of ongoing dia- logue with these extraterrestrial beings. My roommate told me quite some time later, that for a number of months he would awaken late at night, and would hear me speaking quietly in my sleep. He said, "You were speaking, but with a language not of this world." And I thought, "Oh, my God. Somehow, I was in a state of conscious- ness where I could connect to the language used by the ETs. And he was hearing that very clearly He said, "Absolutely, it was not an Earth language." After this, I pretty much decided that, until I had a specific reason to utilize these protocols I experienced with the ETs, it would be wiser to be just quietly aware of the ability, but keep it to myself. In 1974, 1 left the traditional college at Boone to enter teacher train- ing at Mahar- ishi International University in Iowa. My experiences dur- ing the training there were really quite extraordinary, in part because I remained independent in terms of the institutional, dogmatic aspects of the group. However, there was an enor- mous amount of profound knowledge being discussed. I immersed myself in the study of the Vedas and the Sanskrit language. I was enormously impressed with the amount of knowledge in the Vedas - how the expe- rience of consciousness and universal awareness was articulated. This experience enabled me to have a time and place to be completely dedicated to the development of higher states of consciousness. One of the most profound things I absorbed was the unfolding of the cosmology This came not so much from didactic learning as from direct experience, which 27 included the astral or causal thought realms and the realms of light. Once one understands the structure of creation and begins to experience it in detail, it becomes very understandable how people can have dreams of the future, alter their physical body to levitate, or to de-materialize and re-appear in another place. All the things you've heard about in what are considered mythological stories or so-called miracles become more comprehensible. They are also completely attain- able by every single conscious human being. All beings will one day be capable of experiencing these things. The ability is our birthright- not just humans, but every conscious being in the universe. We are all children of God and all of these gifts and states exist within each of us. That year, I began to have experiences that brought the infinite Being into this world. I could see a rock and know that it also contains pure awareness. Within the rock is the energy and the frequency of a light form, an astral form that gives it structure and its crystalline matrix form. And within that is the idea of it, and within the idea is the primal thought that created all things. And within that is pure, quiet conscious mind. In fact, the totality of everything is nothing but pure con- scious awareness, phasing, resonating and playing in different forms and in differ- ent ways. Much of the knowledge that goes with this has to be realized from experience. The good news is that everyone, at some time in their life, has experienced that type of integration and oneness. They just have to remember it. My intention is to try to describe it in a way that will help you remember. If I could accomplish this from my personal background- having grown up with a total absence of exposure to the world of spirituality, then anyone can! As all of this began to unfold, I dedicated myself for a number of years to teaching meditation and higher states of consciousness. During those years, I took an advanced course in the Catskills, in New York. On that retreat, I fasted and spent several hours a day in meditation, in a really beautiful, quiet state. I began to awaken to an ability I'd had since childhood — but then only begin- ning to emerge ~ of being able to see things within conscious- ness that were not visible to the naked eye. Walking down a corridor, I would try to see what was around the corner. Almost every time, I would see what was there or who was com- ing. And I wasn't trying to guess until I got it right. It was like staying in a steady state of consciousness and actually seeing it. Then I would attempt to see things happening at a distant point on Earth or at a distant point in time ~ the next day or the next week. I practiced this a great deal. It became routine for me to be able to go to sleep and see a distant place or event, and know what was going to hap- pen the next day Now, this is no mystery, if you understand the omnipresent nature of conscious- 28 ness. Because it is omnipresent, it is beyond the restrictions of time or space, which means that you can break those bonds through entering this state of aware- ness. And when you do, you will find yourself able to see things one isn't "supposed to be" able to see. Space and time are obliterated, and you are free to really see. One day during this retreat I wondered about some of the so-called siddhis (or spiritual powers) described in the Vedas. I thought it would be interesting to test the limits of this for the physical body I began to think about the abilities we have- if we are all consciousness and our bod- ies are actually filled with the light of awareness. What might we really achieve? Well, one day I was in an enormously happy, joyful, peaceful state. I was out walk- ing on a magnificent, clear spring day Being so affected by Earth and nature, the moment was right for what followed. As I was walking in the field behind the manor where we were stay- ing, I sponta- neously -- without effort or forethought ~ levitated. It was reminiscent of that pro- longed experience of bounding down the mountainside after my ET encounter in October of '73. This time I just lifted vertically, maybe two or three feet above the ground. Instead of walking to my destination, I glided there in an upright, vertical levi- tation experience. And then at the moment my intellect kicked in and I ex- claimed, "My God, look what's happening. How can I be doing this?", I settled down to Earth. It was halted by my own intellect and ego! One of the many lessons I learned from this is that there's a certain grace, along with faith, needed for such extraordinary experiences. I don't mean religious faith per se, but the certainty of, or knowing the capacity latent within. It is beyond self, ego, and intellect. If we can give our- selves freely to it, incredible things can be accomplished. And if it fails to flow, it's because we are stopping it. Ultimately, it is recognizing and embracing the power of God within each of us. After this experience, it became increasingly clear that we have with- in us any ca- pability and that anyone can acquire and develop them. We're coming into an era where such things will become routine and accepted as "the norm." There is sometimes a tendency by people involved in various spiritual and relig- ious groups to put people who have this level of experience or knowledge on a ped- estal, as if it's unattainably unique. It's not, and that's very important to understand. It is, in fact, a disservice to the nature and potential of humanity to idolize some- thing that should be understood as the birthright of everyone. In 1975, I went with some friends to Isola, France, up in the Maritime Alps, to become instructors of meditation. While on this particular retreat, I had a number of experiences with higher states of consciousness, what might be called unity consciousness and God consciousness. 29 One day, remembering what had happened two years earlier in the North Caro- lina mountains, I wondered if that same extraordinary experience could be re- peated. So in the hotel room, I went through the protocol we'd created in 1973 on that spacecraft. I then went into the state of unbounded consciousness, and then expanded aware- ness off the mountain, around the Alps, into space, and out into our Solar System. Seeing the vastness of space, I said to these craft and the ETs on board, "My name is Steve. I don't know if you remember me, but we met a couple years ago, and now here I am up in the French Maritime Alps, in Isola." And so I showed them the beautiful spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, our star system with the sun and its planets, and the Earth. And then I zoomed in to Europe, to the Maritime Alps of France. I showed them our location in the hotel complex and said, "If you can come visit, please do." This occurred in an unbroken flow of consciousness for about 20 minutes Later, after lunch, some friends and I decided to go for a walk in the mountains near the hotel. It was about 1:00 in the afternoon. I looked up in the crystal clear, Alpine sky to see a beautiful, huge tetrahedral- shaped ship, shining in the sun. It was clear and fully materialized, and drawing down towards us, silently A good friend in the group who knew of my experiences with extra- terrestrial vehicles gasped, "My God, Steve, did you call them here?" And she just came unglued. "Oh, my God, I can't believe it." And I replied, "Yeah, I did. I did this protocol that I told you about." She asked, "My God, why didn't you warn me?!" At the point this anxiety was shown by some of the group, the ETV stopped ap- proaching us, hovered, and then backed off silently Then this huge craft just com- pletely "de-materialized," disappeared out of our space-time. I turned to her and smiled, "Well, I guess the protocol does work." And she says, "My God, next time, let me know. Warn me before you're going to do it!" But I was laughing hysteri- cally! This taught me that, in fact, we could contact the ETs and this could be experi- enced by others. It was the first time since I was nine years old that I had actually seen one of these ET craft in the company of other people. In this case, it was a true CE-5, where a human invited the craft and they came, witnessed by others. Clearly, the protocols worked. I began to feel that maybe this should be taught to people at some point, because everyone should learn that this is possible. But as time passed, I began to question it again. When something this extraordi- nary happens, doubts always creep in! After a while, I was living back in the moun- tains of North Carolina, outside of Blowing Rock, with a friend who had been on the training course. We had become teachers of meditation together. One day in late fall 1977 I decided to test the protocol again. That night I sat 30 up in bed and meditated. I went into the expanded state of consciousness, felt it expanding into space, saw the fullness and infinity of space being filled with the light of awareness, and in that light I saw these extraterrestrial people and said, again, "My name is Steve." But, thinking so much time had passed that maybe they didn't remember, I said, "Well, my name is Steve Greer and I was born in Charlotte, North Caro- lina on June 28, 1955." I then gave them an entire brief biography! I showed them Charlotte, and how to get to my location. From space, they could go to Char- lotte, then up to the North Carolina mountains, about 100 miles away After fol- lowing this tech- nique in a stream of consciousness, I fell asleep. Suddenly, I awakened in the wee hours of the morning between 1 and 4 a.m. And here was this beautiful blue-white craft outside the win- dow and about 30 feet above the house. And the consciousness of the occupant was being projected right into the room I was in! It was very palpable. We were out in the middle of nowhere, totally surrounded by mountains and meadows and silence. And here was this ship silently hovering right outside my win- dow! Suddenly my housemate woke up in his bed- room; jumped up, rushed into my room and exclaimed, "Do you see that?" I said, "Yes," kind of sheepishly, like, "Uh-oh." And he says, "My God, there's a space ship right outside our win- dow." I said, "Yeah, I know. I kind of invited them." He became really unhinged and said, "Damn it, don't ever do that without tell- ing me! You scared the hell out of me!" He could feel, also, that there was an intel- ligent being, de-materialized, but like a projection of awareness, from the ship in- side the room. We went into the living room, and the ship followed us around to that side of the house, to the big picture window overlooking Grandfather Moun- tain. By then, I think they sensed my friend's fear, and with that, the ship backed off, went out over the valley, and swoosh, streaked away - off into space over Grand- father mountain. The very next day, we heard on radio and in news reports that two space ships were found on the radar at Douglas Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina. They were pursued by a police helicopter called Snoopy I was stunned to hear that the area of the city where the sightings were centered was where I was born and grew up - the spot I'd shown them in my vectoring through consciousness. One of the craft apparently got very close to the police helicopter, and also to an Eastern Airlines jet. This was all recorded by the air traffic con- trol tower, and it con- firmed the CE-5. Years later, a man who had acquired the FAA audio tape of that event shared the tape with me. (We have it in the CSETI archives.) In the tran- script, one of the 31 craft just vanished, and the other one was seen and tracked going off towards the northwest: the mountains where I was located. And, in fact, it then appeared outside my window So, that was an interesting early CE-5 that not only had another wit- ness - my hapless housemate - but also was tracked on radar, observed by commercial airline pilots, and chased by a police helicopter Frankly, I was stunned and a bit unnerved by the precision of the event. I thought, "Wow. This is serious! I really shouldn't do this any- more until I formal- ize a program for it." And, in fact, I didn't do it again- from 1977 to 1990- when I formed the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or CSETI. 32 CHAPTER 3 C^D Out Of The Shadows Those youthful experiences made me understand something impor- tant about the nature of advanced ET civilizations: they have selected non-hostility as a natu- ral evolutionary step. In other words, their high level of consciousness is incom- patible with divisiveness or conflict. Otherwise, with the incredible technology at their command, they would have long since destroyed one another. Without the realization of oneness, differences are perceived as a cause for alarm, fear, hostility and violence. The history of human experience over the millen- nia is proof. . . One has only to look at the state of humanity today. Globally hostility and mis- trust abound among divergent religions, ethnic groups, and nations, bringing war and untold suffering in its wake. The conscious- ness of difference and division must be rejected, or there can be no peace. Humanity now stands at a crossroad; we will either continue to destroy the Earth and its inhabitants through ignorance, warfare and conflict, or we'll reach a state of spiritual enlightenment and social maturity from which we acknowledge our inherent oneness. If not, then power- ful technologies will remain in the hands of people who are submerged in ignorance, superstition, and conflict. But, those conditions cannot exist alongside the state of oneness that is the true wellspring of compassion. As the Buddha said, you can not do violence to another when you realize oneness There are those who might go through what I've described in my ET encounters, and react in stark terror, even with the same stimuli: a ship by the window; a sight- ing on the mountain. But my near-death experience allowed me to approach these things without fear. There is no death; why be afraid? It is critical to understand that an enormous and sophisticated disinformation campaign exists around the whole extraterrestrial question- at least 90 percent of the information and images portrayed to the public are selected to evoke fear — followed by hatred of all things alien. Movies, TV shows, and books about the subject 33 prove this point: if one is to believe that rubbish, you would think that every other person in America is being snatched from their homes at midnight and tortured! It simply isn't true. But fear and horror sells, and the usual suspects benefit from a ter- rified, misinformed populace. We know that clandestine paramilitary operations exist, controlled by a shadowy group staging simulated UFO/ETV events. This is not speculation: we have inter- viewed many independent corroborating military people who have participated on the teams that have deliberately "abducted" people to create the illusion of real ex- traterrestrial encounters. In the 'UFO industry' there is the multi-million-dollar abduction subculture, funded by powerful, wealthy interests (including certain European royal families along with industrial scions in the United States). Stories publicized are very de- liberately selected. If someone comes to one of the abduction support groups and researchers with the account I've shared, they will be shown the door. They only want to select the terrifying stories - those from people who have had simulated en- counters, foisted on them by a military effort that is trying to create psychological propaganda. This will support future Star Wars expenditures down the road by sowing the seeds of division between humans and extraterrestrial people. It is part of a well thought-out plan to divide one group against another. And in order to do this, a threat must be demonstrated, and the supposed "enemy" de- monized. So most of the UFO/ET information put out is designed by counter- intelligence, PSYOPS and disinformation people for a specific, intended effect. The first is simply to discredit the subject, because most of their sto- ries don't hold up under scrutiny The second, in my opinion, is to ere- ate a foundation of fear upon which to build the edifice of Star Wars. And no less a figure than Wer- ner von Braun told a member of our team, Carol Rosin, that, in fact, this was ex- actly what was going on: that weapons will be based in space - hence, the need to create a psychological nexus where people will fear all things alien. Then, down the road (when the folks enjoying the multi-trillion-dollar bonanza of current industrial and military operations decide the deception has gone on long enough), they can declare the world needs to unite around 'kicking alien butt' (as quoted from the movie, "Independence Day"). Keep in mind that the Cold War and all the things going on today will pale in com- parison to the financial benefit to be gained by stampeding the masses into a false idea of a threat from outer space that must be resisted. Instead of extracting unlim- ited dollars for the military operations from the United States and the West, the imagined 'threat' will produce enough xenophobia to insure a "blank check", or steady flow of govern- ment dollars, in the name of preserving safety and world peace. Sound familiar? 34 This assessment comes from having interviewed numerous military people in- side the organizations dealing with this. I've been told point blank that this has been an ongoing agenda since at least the 1950's. These operations have used something called "alien reproduction vehicles," manufactured by a consortium of companies that include Lockheed Martin, Northrup, SAIC, E Systems, EG&G and Mitre Corporation (among others). These are man-made anti-gravity devices that we've been using since at least the '50s, along with other powerful electronic weapons systems and "programmed life forms" or PLFs. These are biological, artificial life forms being produced to look a lot like these so-called "greys" ~ that are not from outer space. They're manufactured in a few facilities, one of them lo- cated in the four corners area near Dulce, New Mexico. This is a concerted effort to create a false "alien threat." If someone comes for- ward with a dissimilar story, they're blacklisted from lectures and subsequently un- able to get their story out to the public or the media in book form or through any other significant channel. But those who create terrifying messages - akin to the movie "Independence Day", or certain abduction books, - receive high dollar ad- vances along with big publishing deals and film contracts. This is assuredly by de- sign. The power elite want those alarming stories seeded into the mass consciousness, and for the truth to be buried. I have met with people who are funding abduc- tion cults in the United States and Europe. Aside from having interviewed military people who've perpetrated these pseudo-abductions, I've personally been told by no less a figure than the reigning member of a European royal family that he helps fund these efforts. He reasons that the frightening stories need to be out there, to make the world aware that these "evil aliens" exist and must be fought. He went so far as to say that, in fact, every major Earthly problem since Adam and Eve is attributable to the machinations of these demon- ic extraterrestrials. He genuinely believes this! And he is also the chief funder of Opus Dei, which is the sensitive right-wing group at the Vatican with an internal secret cell oper- ating these programs. Additionally, I was told that his reason for terminating sup- port for a prominent author in this field (who will remain unnamed here), is that his stories weren't sufficiently alarming. He was portraying interaction between humans and ETs too positively - the sponsor only wanted the most terrifying tales put out to the public! A prominent leader of one of these abduction groups told me point blank that if someone attends their meetings whose experiences don't fit the mode of military ab- ductions (which are harrowing), they'll kick them out. So, it's a self-selecting, fraudulent process. This well-oiled machine marches out false, contrived "alien encounters". These 35 are then tunneled to specific researchers, who then get channeled into specific movie, documentary, and/or book deals. And it's all lucrative. It is being done spe- cifically to generate propaganda designed to marshal the masses against this sup- posed threat from outer space, there- by perpetuating and augmenting the hoax al- ready thriving. Within the Shadow Government is a hard-core group of eschatologists: people obsessed with the end of the world who would like to see it go out in one big eco- alien cataclysm, to hasten the return of Christ! This is their agenda: They maintain that the world has to be in the most dire of conditions for the Second Coming to occur, and they hope to make circumstances ripe for that goal. It is just plain mad- ness. With this degree of hyper-religiosity fanaticism, and cultish secrecy combined with enormous power, the results are predictably outrageous. A few years ago I attended a meeting in New York with Mrs. Boutros- Ghali, the wife of the Secretary General, and some of the "New York 100" crowd. A woman approached me to say, "Well, I'll have you know I've read 26 books about UFOs and abductions,". I said, "Well, with all due respect, that means that you've incorporated into your awareness 26 times more disinformation and rub- bish than someone who's only read one book." I'm not quite sure I endeared my- self to her, but it is the truth. I have shared my insight with some very senior military personnel as well as peo- ple like Mrs. Boutros-Ghali and others. Their first response isn't that it can't be true, but they're just horrified that it may be. Often people ask whether the road that the human race is on is atypical or typical of what other planets have gone through. I think there's a whole range of capabili- ties and experiences that happen with different people. I understand that there are some extraterrestrial civilizations that have never had conflict and warfare. And there are others that have, per- haps, passed this way, learned the lessons, and evolved to a peaceful world. The more a civilization moves away from spirituality, the more vio- lent it be- comes. Here, I mean genuine spirituality rather than religiosity What now passes for "religion," for the most part, is a man-made contrivance - a corruption of it's original intent. If a civilization separates from its intrinsic spirituality while at the same time developing enormous means of intellect and technology, conflict is inevitable. Earth, is now trying to sort out that dynamic. And we haven't done a terribly good job of it so far. It is fair to say that ETs would be aware of the risks and the pitfalls of this tumultu- ous transition we're in today - which I liken to humanity as an organism going from childhood to maturity - and we're in this pro- longed adolescent phase. We 36 are chaotic and rebellious and trying to find our footing, but we are not yet mature. And unfortunately, some of us are like adolescent boys who've gotten hold of some hand grenades and are pulling the pins out. That being the case, if you look at humanity and the state of the world today dispassionately, and look through the eyes of an extraterrestrial civilization, you know that there is cause for concern. For this rea- son, actions taken by ETs that have contained some of our efforts and clipped our wings as we've tried to weaponize space, are understandable (We know this has happened from testimony by numerous corroborative Disclosure Project witnesses). Those actions could be considered an act of hostility. . . However I view it in- stead as an enlightened act of compassion. They know that we could be a threat not only to ourselves but also to other worlds. Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, mak- ing us, frankly, a dangerous people. The time we live in is very pregnant, but growing short. We haven't really changed directions enough to avoid some very serious conse- quences that are a natural outgrowth of our retrograde behavior. If you combine extraordinary tech- nologies with a predisposition to vilify any- thing we don't understand or control, a very dangerous situation results. So, these extraterrestrial civilizations are monitoring Earth very closely I have no doubt that this is why many of our military witnesses have recounted these ex- traterrestrial vehicles monitoring intercontinental ballistic missile silos, weapons stor- age facilities, weapon plants, space launches and ICBM launches. They want to be very clear that these weapons must not be used and that they're watching our behav- ior. If we were to get completely out of control, there would be an intervention to stop a worst-case scenario from unfolding. We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the bur- den we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves. We have another couple of gen- erations to get it right; I would be surprised if we could go 50 more years on the path we're on right now. I was approached by a number of the people who run the super- secret pro- jects related to UFOs and advanced energy systems in 1991. They had read one of my early papers about the concept of oneness and our civilization and the experi- ence of cosmic awareness and cosmic people. They emphasized the importance of sharing this information with their group. These were people who called me from the CIA, Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, and similar operations. Everything I've written was primarily intended for this group. The masses of people simply want to live their lives peacefully They don't care about ripping each others throats out. There is only a very small minority of hu- mans who are psychotically violent and controlling. The fires of hatred and con- 37 flict, that keep getting ignited, have been lit deliberately because it's benefiting this violent group. People within the general population have a strong need to know about this information. They have a need to know, a right to know and a responsibility to act, because they can restrain the worst abuses of a covert group like this if they exert their will. But the entrenchment and the ferocity of some elements within this dangerous group are such that a spiritual perspective needs to be elucidated. This is why, when I sit down and write something, until now, it has been written with the primary audience being those people who most need to hear it. Most people on Earth would love to simply live together peacefully, enjoy their diversity in cultures, have these technologies, and evolve and go on and raise their children and send them to college and have a nice life. It's not like there's 99 percent of the world's population who's in favor of go- ing hell bent over Niagara Falls without a barrel. There are a relatively small num- ber of people who have a perspective that is retro- grade. They are looking in their rear view mirror and mistaking it for the future. So our task has been to turn their heads and look forward. It is important that we view these very powerful industrial, military and relig- ious interests as educable. We have frittered away the last 50 years while the Earth was speaking to us, the people of the Earth were cautioning us, the mountains were weeping, the polar ice caps were melting and the ETs have been warning us. And we've been heedless for 50 years. We need to listen and we need to act - now. The people running these covert projects are conscious beings who are educable and can learn and can grow and can get this information and change their paradigm before it's too late. In our own meditation and prayers we should ask for trans- formation and enlightenment for these people, rather than creating enmity and ten- sion. 38 CHAPTER 4 C^D Marriage Made in Heaven I went to live in Israel in January of 1978, initially just to visit for about ten days. I ended up staying for three years, working at the world headquarters of the Baha'i religion on Mount Carmel in Haifa. It was a wonderful and interesting expe- rience being at some very sacred places. In all my travels throughout that area, I could feel the presence of the spiritual teachers that have come to this small area. And at the same time, I sensed that every rock is soaked in the blood of conflict. It is a very strange juxtaposition of extremes — the manifestation of these very exalted prophets such as Christ or Moses or Abraham or Mohammed or Baha'u'l- lah or the Bab. At the same time there's this incredibly primitive enmity and fanaticism. But then, the prophets always come at the darkest time and to the darkest place. For many years I've been able to go to sleep at night and see some- thing that will happen the next day or the next month or at some point in the future. This started happening more and more intensely the more I experienced these higher states of consciousness. In the winter of 1978, I was living in an apartment on Mount Carmel, overlooking the Mediterranean. One night, I had a dream: I was suddenly in a space that was defined but didn't have walls, and it was very light. Near where I was living were the remains of a nobleman who had been head of the Baha'i Faith named Abdu'l-Baha. He was known as a very gentle, wise, sweet, loving figure who was greatly enlightened — in the perfect state of man. He ap- peared to me in this dream and introduced me to a woman and said, "This is who we wish for you to marry" He then told me many details about her and said, "She'll come from far away and visit here and then leave, but you'll be married here in Is- rael. She'll be older than you, but that won't be a problem." And then this woman and I were introduced, and I could see exactly who it was and how she was dressed. This happened every night for four or five nights in a row Now, here I am, 22 years old, and no more interested in being married than the man in the moon! But one thing about spiritual guidance: it doesn't do you any good if you don't take it. 39 So, I said, "Well, I guess I should be looking to find this person." A month or two later, I was in the gardens where Abdu'l-Baha is buried, on Mount Carmel at his shrine. In through the gate walked Emily I was delighted to see that she was the person from my dream. But you don't go up to a com- plete stranger and say, "Hello, I've had a dream with you and we're supposed to be married!" We met and talked for maybe an hour and a half; it was like we'd always known each other. But I still didn't mention my dream. She was there for a convention, and the very last day she was there, I saw her again, briefly. They were about ready to close the gates to these beautiful gardens and to the shrines, and Emily was going to go there and say some prayers. I said, "You'd better hurry, because they're closing soon." So, she went and that was the last time I saw her on that trip. Later, I went to the shrine and prayed and said to God, "If this is real- ly who You wish for me to marry, she's going to have to approach me, with me never telling her the dream or trying to contact her again." Well, Emily was going to meet her mother in London for a vacation. When she got there, she had a strange compulsion to try to write me, but she didn't even know my last name! She only knew my name is Steve. Someone that she was traveling with happened to know my last name, and so she was able to get the letter to me, through the headquarters of the Baha'i religion there in Israel. Emily wrote me a letter saying how much she enjoyed meeting me, etc. That was what I'd been waiting for. I wrote a first letter to her that was just normal and friendly In the second letter, I recounted the whole story of how we had been intro- duced and what Abdu'l-Baha said in the dream. She wrote me back and said, "Well, if this is the divine will, this is what we'll do." We corresponded for a whole year. In June of 1979, Emily packed up all her things. We met in the Seattle airport and went to Alaska for a ten- day courtship and then decided, yes, we would be married. And in August of 1979, we were married on Mt. Carmel in Israel! This year (2006) is our 27th anniversary So some marriages really are made in heaven!" I tell people this story because many people are given guidance that they don't take, because it doesn't appear to make sense. But if it is right, it doesn't have to make intellectual sense all the time. We've had splendid times, a wonderful mar- riage and four beautiful children. We've done all these things that you're going to read about, and I love her now more than ever! Emily picked out a beautiful silk sari with gold thread to wear at our wedding. She didn't know that was exactly what I saw when I was introduced to her in the lu- cid dream state by Abdu'l-Baha. When I saw it, I said, "This is exactly it." Our first daughter was born on Mount Carmel in Israel, and we brought 40 her home on our one -year anniversary, so we named her Carmel. After our first child was born, we came back to the United States, and I went into medical school. I went into emergency medicine because I found it not only very challenging, but it's where I could apply the science and the technology of modern medicine in its highest form. During that time, I was involved in running programs dealing with meditation and holistic health. We formed the Shambhala Institute and offered pro- grams on holistic health and healing. For many years, I raised our four children with Emily, was chairman of emer- gency medicine and worked in an emergency department, and was founder of CSETI and the Disclosure Project. Life was quite a three-ring circus! 41 CHAPTER 5 C^D Forgiveness and Faith One of the great lessons I learned as a teenager was forgiveness. I think it's so important that if people contemplate the sort of situation the world is in on a macro- scale, that it really comes down to a very person- al matter: The microcosm of our own lives is recapitulated through society, and we're all operating as a universal resonator I found the divine and sacred exists and it is real and it is made mani- fest through loving- ness and forgiveness. So the very first thing that I did was to forgive my parents for actions during our childhood. You don't forget it, but you can forgive. And this frees up an enormous amount of inner peace and energy because you have let go of the negative. The act of forgiveness and the act of love is really one of the highest expressions of spiri- tual realization. And so what I found is forgiveness and love require a genuine selflessness - one where you go beyond yourself. As I looked around the world as a teenager, I saw that most of the problems in the world were because of selfishness. There's a won- derful saying attributed to Abdu'l- Baha that says, "Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time." I really believe that. This is part of what we're on planet Earth to learn. I had to create my own spirituality from nothing. This is the blank slate phe- nomenon: With my near-death experience, I didn't go to the pearly gates where there was this angry old man with a beard, throwing down bolts of lightning at peo- ple and judging you and throwing you by your lying sinful forelock into hell. As I mentioned, one of the first challenges I had was to forgive the people clos- est to me. People have to learn to forgive. This is why even though I'll speak with great force about the need to change the path we're on, it's not that I'm wanting to do this by taking a pound of flesh in a vengeful way from those who have gotten us into this mess. It's that they should be educated and, if necessary restrained. But even those actions are done out of love and out of a sense of what needs to happen. And it must be done with forgiveness. I continue to practice that now. 42 Being here on this planet, to me, is not about trying to pretend like you're per- fect. There's a saying that's attributed to a German writer: "those who would pretend to be angels are destined to behave as beasts." The scariest cultists ever are the ones who set themselves on a dais. It's better to be who you are and be real and be human even while you begin to bring into this world those attributes that are spiritual and divine. But you don't have to be perfect to do that. There is no one perfect on Planet Earth, unless that being is an Avatar- that is one of the high prophets or a Manifestation of the Godhead. And there are none of them living on the Earth today and haven't been for over 100 years, and there won't be for another 1,000 years. The major prophets or the Manifestations of God are very rare. And they're actu- ally a different species. They have a station that is beyond that of the capacity of even a fully enlightened human. In other words, you could evolve to the highest level of capacity as a human and never reach that station. It is another lineage, an- other level. And that's how important those figures are and how powerful, but also how unique. And that's why I say it's one of the worst things ever for some- one to claim to be that when they're not. The most we can do is to reflect the light from that Godhead. We are all relatively imperfect, and we're here to manifest degrees of perfection. And beyond that, nothing else should be claimed. And those who claim beyond that are frauds. Period. I don't care who they are. Only by being who we are and knowing where we are, can we evolve. The South is so crazy - love every minute of it and it suits me just fine! When I was growing up back in the late '50s and '60s, it was really the Old South, still. There were wonderful black women that I knew, and they would come up to me and say, "Oh, you're an old soul." They'd look at me and they'd say things about my future. These were very unpretentious, salt of the Earth, wonderful beings. You meet people like that all over the world, and you won't meet many of them in temples or in cathedrals or in ashrams, but you will meet them in other places. As a child, I had things affirmed to me from some of these wise and saga- cious people. This happened from the time I was four or five years of age on. I was not drawn towards the trappings and formality of spirituality that gets subsumed into the world of priests and the hierarchy or gurus or ashrams, but was more at- tracted to that genuine spirituality you find in honest, direct, clear, simple spiritual- ity Because that's where I stayed, it enabled me to open up my heart and do things such as acts of forgiveness and acts of love that really were outside of what my up- bringing should have allowed. The message here is: you can transcend your own limitations, if you let yourself 43 go there. You must exercise your free will to create your own reality As I look back on it, that was the big lesson of the first 20 years of my life. The specific experi- ences that I had were in a sense wonder- ful, and I was blessed to have them even though they happened in the crucible of much difficulty and suffering. It's easy to talk about it, but going through it was not easy Life on earth is not necessarily easy There are perfections and imperfections here, and our task is to manifest as many of these good qualities and attributes and perfections as we can. I had to re-create my life- physically I had been so sick growing up. I had to re- form my body, re-form my mind, re-form my spirit, re-form my heart. It was like a Shamanic process. And the way that happened was not only through the exer- cise of will but also through an ability to transcend my own limitations. You can call this faith- not the faith that most religious people think such as cer- tain beliefs and dogmas. To me true faith is a knowingness and a certainty of things not yet seen and not yet fully known. And yet in your heart and spirit a certainty exists that it can be. I found the ability to actualize and manifest through faith and through vision and saw things happen that were miraculous. I remember, for example, being in college after I had learned medi- tation tech- niques, and I started experimenting with the power of prayer. I lived in a dorm and there were these guys who were getting drunk all the time and really on a danger- ous path. Every year there were a few of these college kids who ended up drinking and getting killed, driving between Boone and Blowing Rock on a treacherous two- lane road. One afternoon I was sitting in the dorm room meditating. I heard these guys come in, completely drunk and rowdy So I went into a state of divine awareness, and without any irritation or negativity on my part at all ~ I wasn't judging ~ I just went in that state and I saw them. In my mind, I could see them coming down the hall. And I put this divine light around them, and I asked for their for- giveness. Then I asked that they wake up to what they were doing and that they stop harming them- selves in this way About five minutes later, there was a knock on the door. And there they were, looking completely sober, asking for for- give- ness- through me to something greater. It was a transformative event for them, and I never saw them drunk again! That same year, I found that the same thing happens with animals that there was this ability to connect with what people in the East would call the devas and the nature energies. I would sit out under the trees in a huge ancient forest behind my dorm and meditate. One day, while sitting against a huge old Hemlock tree and meditating, I felt I was being watched. I slowly opened my eyes and to my delight, there was a semi-circle of animals around me. There were a couple of birds, a squirrel, a chip- 44 munk and a raccoon, just in a semi-circle. I know this sounds like something out of Siddhartha, but it really happened. These animals were peacefully staring at me and appeared to be in a state of great calm and bliss. We have within us a wonderful divine spirit -but we have to know it, practice it, and affirm it in our lives so that these things are possible. This is what, to me, faith is: You act as if it is so, and it is so. And when you act as if it is so, it will be. Ulti- mately, it is an exercise of surrender, of giv- ing up self to the great Spirit. 45 CHAPTER 6 C^D Ineffable Oneness In the Sufi tradition there is the story of the master who is trying to teach a stu- dent how to levitate across the water The student is at the edge of the body of wa- ter, intellectualizing and thinking, "Well, I'm heavier than water; I'm going to sink and I'm going to drown." The master turns to the student and says, "Leave thyself behind, and then walk upon the water" This is the grace - I call it operative grace- that you have to find to achieve these things spiritually You have to practice it and let it unfold. You have to know in your heart that it is possible — not just believe in something in the ordinary sense of belief You have to say, "It will be," and you then do it. But it is being done not because of your ego; it's being done from the greater Mind that stands within you. Realizing this is a paradox: On the one hand, our individualities are the vehi- cles through which the unboundedness can manifest and express. Once you understand that, you understand the concept of being a clear vehicle for spirit. So, on the one hand, there has to be individuality to be able to have it happen. On the other hand, you have to be freed up enough from self to let the larger divine Being shine through and let these things happen. And then it will happen. I survived my own adolescence by finding this pretty much on my own, with some help from the unseen realms. But if I hadn't found it, I am quite sure I would have been dead by age 20. Most people who would have come out of the kind of situation I was in as an adolescent boy would have ended up a drug ad- dict or a criminal. I attribute this transformation to the guidance, protection and inspiration from the Great Spirit, the Divine Being -- and somehow I was willing to be open to that. When I opened to It, It all rushed in. It was all there for me. And It is always there for each of us. I tell people, "As soon as you're ready to open to That, it's there." And it's there for any purpose. I don't care if you're in the emergency department, trying to save a life, or you're an airline pilot, or a carpenter. The unbounded Divine Mind 46 is always folded within us. It's a matter of knowing this, being open to it and letting it operate. So, you have to get out of your own way and let It happen. When I was living in Israel, my father, who was a chain smoker and an alcoholic, became deathly ill. I now realize that he also had very serious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from World War II, from doing hand- to-hand combat with the Japanese in the Pacific islands. One day, I heard from family that he had an inoperable golf ball sized tumor in his right lung. Back then — this would have been around 1978; it was not thought that the available chemotherapy would work, but they would try it any- way And so I was called back to the States to make burial arrangements: the doctors said he had about six weeks to live. When I saw Dad I asked him, "Do you want to die from this?" He said, "No, I'm not ready" So, I taught him meditation and I taught him prayer. Now, you have to understand what a hard-boiled atheist, and bitter man he was, and of that generation, born in 1916. But still he said, " I'll do this." So, I gave him some books to read and then I personally taught him medi- tation, visualization and how to heal with mind from within. You have to first center and go into a deep, quiet state of conscious- ness that goes beyond self, where the real power is, which is divinity It's that which tran- scends ego. And then from that state, do the visualization. So, you bring in what I call the God factor or the divine spirit factor. So I taught my father to do this. I said, "Just do it. This is a matter of saving your life. Whether you believe it or not, act as if you do." So, he did. I then went back to Israel, and I would go to the beautiful Baha'i shrine on Mount Carmel. Every day at lunch, I'd go there and I would do the same visualiza- tion as I taught my Dad. Then I would pray for his healing. Well, a few weeks later, he went back to his doctor. (We did pick out the cemetery plot, but I knew he'd be okay) The doctor took some x- rays and found, sud- denly, that the huge tumor was gone. And the doc- tor went, "My God!"- it was one of these "miraculous," spontaneous healing's. But we knew exactly what hap- pened. My father ended up living several more years and dying of congestive heart failure and emphysema from smoking, because his lungs were just blown. But before he died, a memory came back to me of sitting with him in the back yard of our house in Charlotte when I was young, maybe 12 years old. He said, "You know, I really don't want to live much longer, just long enough that you kids are all grown and out of the house." (He was pretty inebriated when he told me this.) Now, when he had his lung cancer, my little sister was still living at home. And the year after she left, he died. I told my sister, "You know, 47 we do create our own reality" He scripted that. The cancer that should have killed him didn't, but he totally gave up on his life and died as soon as all the children were grown and gone. He did exactly what he said he was going to do, even though I am sure he did not consciously remem- ber saying it. So, we're much more powerful than we think we are, no matter who we are. And we do create the life that we have. During this same period of time, I learned that I could be in a state where I could visit people at remote distances. Now, a lot of people say, "Oh, that means you were astrally traveling." I did astral travel as a teenager, but this was differ- ent! What I learned to do was to realize that you don't have to separate the astral body from the physical body, but simply realize that the entirety of creation is folded within each individual. We are truly a quantum holo- gram of the whole creation. When it is said, "Thinkest thyself a puny form when within thee the universe is folded?" a rhetorical question is being asked which illuminates a profound truth: All is folded within the awake mind within. A relatively primitive way of visiting others through spirit is to actually have an astral projection, where the physical body and the astral body separate and you fly 