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the soul Foundation is a Institute of

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research that funds and guides um uh

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research in Sciences the social sciences

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the humanities and that also produces uh

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policy and advisory research that is

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aimed to illumin and help us clear up

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what's going on with the UAP issue and

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also prepare us to deal with the social

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implications of it I come from a

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tradition in science of taking from

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multiple different fields of Science and

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thought simultaneously synthesizing them

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into something new you create and you

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invent I'm a tinkerer by nature and so

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here we are tinkering with uh the

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reality of what this might actually mean

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we also are putting together what we

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call a Hol Society approach that engages

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all institutions and kinds of people so

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that we can and deal with what may

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promise to be a very world changing

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issue uh in a way that involves everyone

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here you now have S uh everybody

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realizing that it's possible to talk

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about this uh and that they're not going

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room uh Welcome to California welcome to

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Stanford the objective here is to

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legitimize and professional

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and then to seek from you your ideas we

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know from our private life that finding

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a partner provides a meaning to our

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existence the same holds for finding a

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partner in outer space suddenly the

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universe will not appear to be lonely a

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lot of individuals who previously

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thought that they were alone in their

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thought or their belief system suddenly

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finding that they had many other

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individuals with whom they could speak

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and so now the networks are forming and

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we hope that this will catalyze an

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opportunity for others to

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basically step forward instead of us or

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along with us not sure I'm aware of any

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sort of Think Tank organizations in

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recent years at the level of soul I mean

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in terms of the people that they have

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attracted to the organization not just

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the founders but people associated with

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it the people here at this conference

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I've been going to conferences for 22

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years and I've never been to one at the

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level of this one so I think it's really

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unique everyone here in the audience has

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uh kind of praised it as the best event

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they've seen on this and they've told us

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that everyone who needs to be here is

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here speaking uh and that the audience

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is composed of just as many important

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people this is why we have the soul

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Foundation uh we need to basically

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create a parallel track of research and

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you know independent discoveries that

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aren't necessarily dependent on the US

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government provide us all the answers we

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the the space program people felt that

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we couldn't even go into space you know

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that human beings were tied to the earth

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now we have over 500 people have

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actually flown in orbit okay and so it's

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not uh something that's Unthinkable

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anymore it's something people do okay so

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the the stigma has been removed imagine

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if you could actually use some kind of

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technique to search for Uniden ified

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objects that are non-human a goal is to

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search for a specific identifiable

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signature from an ET probe or non-human

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object it's an absolute perfect moment

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for soul to get involved because we

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need policy makers to be advised on this

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right I mean they want to do the right

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thing there are many of many members of

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Congress who want more transparency but

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the more information they can get from

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the brilliant people associated with

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soul the better it is so I think the

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moment is perfect the the fact that

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they're acknowledging it whereas before

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you know there's been rumors that NASA

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didn't want to do anything and other

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people didn't but I think there's kind

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of like a crescendo or something's

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coming where now we can all get behind

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it and I think if we can get this into

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more mainstream

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Academia I think it will help with a lot

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the more academics and that are writing

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papers uh the broader the base of

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interest is going to become and I think

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that's another really important aspect

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what one learns when one gets in this

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field is that you end up with more

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collaborators more supporters and uh

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more offers of help than you would get

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if you were working on something

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conventional what they're really just

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trying to do is foster a coalition of

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the willing to to properly identify

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what's going on I think there's been

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other groups that have done this but not

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at not at the scale of which Saul is

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trying to do this The Saul Foundation is

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something that we've all been dreaming

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for a long time and I I think it's a the

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appropriate way to to call attention to

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the problem and to to to to gather the

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energy that we're going to need to go

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forward anybody who brings something

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forward in a manner that is logical and

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nonhyperbolic uh we want to hear from

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them the influence that Soul can have in

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terms of bringing in the academic

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community and drawing these people in

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and creating papers that academics can

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read it's going to expand the base of

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people that become aware of this

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situation of the UAP issue and it might

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draw in other intelligent people that

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haven't been exposed to it so far when

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this conversation develops when the

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issue develops we're always there to uh

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uh uh provide answers because we were

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asking the questions that people are

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today 5 10 years before we are on the

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precipice of feeling that we are both

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smaller and larger than what we thought

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we were before smaller in that there's a

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greater uh sense of intelligences that

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might be out there and so therefore

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we're one of many but uh so that kind