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From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:20:26 -0800 |
Excerpt From: http://www.ufomind.com/people/c/campbell/works/guide/ Reprinted with permission. Blue Planet: An Alien's Guide to Humanity By Glenn Campbell Chapter 1 Welcome to the Blue Planet, gem of the Solar System, home of a diverse ecosystem, interesting culture and many unique entertainment opportunities. Whatever your desires may be, you will find a way to express them here. Opportunities for wealth, love, fame, challenge and accomplishment are found here in abundance, but you have to know what you want and how to get it. If you like games, this planet presents a sophisticated one: On your visit, you will live among the natives, experiencing the world as they do. You will immerse yourself in their culture, biology and peculiar way of thinking. By trial and error, you will learn the rules of the game and how to apply them. You will make decisions and directly experience their consequences. On this planet, there are few safeguards and no guarantees. The experience is raw and untamed, and if undiluted reality is what you really want, Earth is the place to be. Whether you were born on this planet or come from somewhere else, you might not have been fully briefed on local conditions. Earth is both a minefield of threats and a garden of unrealized opportunities, and knowledge is your key to their proper avoidance or use. If there is anything lacking on Earth, it is reliable information about the things that are most important. Until now, no one has published a comprehensive guide, not just on the planet's biology and scenic features but on how to get along here. If you have ever wished for a simple, no-nonsense instruction book, now you have it. While many competing documents claim to offer the truth, their advice is usually colored by religious ideology or the self-serving goals of the author. Ours is different. We accept no advertizing and claim no connection with God. Although we currently live on Earth and have made our own local investments, we have also retained our alien perspective. We'll give you the straight scoop on where to go, what to do and how best to prosper here, even when that information is uncomfortable. A lot of what you find on Earth will be uncomfortable. This is a primitive planet with far more pain and senseless waste per capita than would be anticipated by any theoretical model. Many of the rules that you think of as logical simply do not apply here. Justice is rare, and the often bizarre behavior of the inhabitants can be explained neither by ethics nor simple self-interest. There is an emotional logic behind even the strangest human activity, but it is usually hidden behind a complex system of delusions and rationalizations. Only experience can tell you how this society works, and we hope that some of ours can benefit you during your visit. During our own tour, we have made mistakes and learned some lessons. We have eaten at the bad restaurants so that you don't have to. This guide will touch on the flora, fauna and physical environment of the planet, but since all of these are amply described in the existing literature, we will not dwell on them. We will focus instead on how best to adapt to this planet should you choose to stay here for an extended period. While Earth possesses a rich variety of life forms, we shall focus on the dominant organism -- man -- and the culture he has created on the planet's surface. Whatever your purpose may be in visiting, even a discreet botanical study, you will probably have to deal with humans in some capacity. Mankind's influence is so widespead in every surface environment that you must thoroughly understand his ways even if you wish to avoid him. If you intend to mingle with man, then you must not only understand him but learn how to interact with him to get what you want. Ideally, you should come to earth in human form, as opposed to some kind of alien creature, as this is more likely to put your subjects at ease. To communicate with humans, you must learn to think like a human, act like a human and thoroughly inhabit a terrestrial role. You must accept the flaws of your surroundings, the weaknesses of your body and the limitations of your perception. You did not come to Earth to seek perfection or omniscience; you probably came here -- and continue to stay here -- as a test of your abilities. Your challenge is to make the most of the circumstances presented to you within the rules of the local environment. You want to prove that you can overcome the obstacles and thrive on this planet in spite of the primitive conditions. Full involvement in the Earth experience may require you to sever all connections with whatever other planet or astral plane you came from. To understand the earthlings, you must BE an earthling and play their game to the fullest of your ability. Continued at: http://www.ufomind.com/people/c/campbell/works/guide/ ------------------------- (c) Copyright, 1999, Glenn Campbell, PO Box 81166, Las Vegas, NV 89103 (campbell@ufomind.com). This email message may be freely redistributed until Dec. 31, 1999, so long as the entire message remains intact, including this copyright notice. +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | UFOMIND MAILING LIST | | Supporting the World's Largest Paranormal Website | | www.ufomind.com Moderator: Glenn Campbell | | | | Archived at: http://www.ufomind.com/misc/ | | Submissions to: ufomind@lists.best.com | | "unsubscribe" (in body) to: ufomind-request@lists.best.com | +--------------------------------------------------------------+
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