Dispatches from Richard Boylan
From: rich.boylan@24stex.com
Date: Tue, 05 May 98 02:53:29 -0800
Subject: 5th World Transit-1
LIFE IN THE EMERGING FIFTH WORLD
by
Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
(c)1998
Like most adolescents, our current society has grown too big for its
britches. The culture
we grew up in no longer serves as a guide or context for the possibilities we
see around us. The
relative calm after World War II ended was shattered by a series of regional
wars, made more
grim by the ever-looming prospect of the major powers turning the Cold War into
a very hot
global thermonuclear war. During this same period an explosion of new
information has
confronted and beckoned us: new findings about our origin as a species,
technological advances
which allow us to peer into atoms, and to duplicate life in the laboratory, and
to see through an
orbiting telescope almost to the edge of the universe. The conventional world
view of our parents
seems quaint and too limited for a society which has photographed every square
yard of Earth,
which has explored the bottom of the seas, which has traveled beyond the Earth
to walk on the
Moon, and sent camera satellites to report back to us what Mars, Venus and
other worlds look
like. Over the past five decades, peoples around the world have been exposed
to, and gradually
become accustomed to, repeated reports of other-world spacecraft and contacts
by the
extraterrestrial persons who have arrived on those craft. We are changing our
vocabulary to
reflect the shift from a national to a global perspective, and from focusing on
"the world" to
recognizing that our planet is but one of billions capable of supporting life.
All these changes have caused us to outgrow social structures meant to
serve an earlier
and simpler age: structures such as the nation-state, science as an unchanging
body of laws,
lifelong career jobs, antiquarian religious forms, the university as the only
citadel of knowledge,
and a disempowering culture based on looking solely to centers of power and
authority for
direction. The wild card amidst these other changes is the growing realization
by now a majority
of the people that we are experiencing frequent flyovers of extraterrestrial
spacecraft, and that a
substantial number of our fellow citizens have had face-to-face contact with
people from the stars.
And all these changes are now compelling us to start asking the right
questions about how
we should change, and what new social structures we should adopt, as we seek to
fashion a Fifth
World society and culture.
An April, 1998 conference in Santa Cruz, California [1], explored some of
these Right
Questions. Issues examined there included: "What do we know about
ETs/inter-dimensional
beings at this time?", "How do we integrate ET experiences into our life?",
"How will ET
presence affect our social mores and future culture?","How can we place ET
contact into the
psychological/metaphysical Big Picture?","What does ET contact imply for our
psychological/
spiritual evolution?", "Will emerging ET presence result in a new self-image
for humankind?", and
"What might be our place be in the greater cosmos?"
These are important issues. To help explore them, I have proposed 24
questions of my
own, the answers to which may help delineate where we are going, as we move
into a new Fifth
World reality. I have provided my answers here. Each of you may wish to
formulate your own
responses. The sum of everybody's responses will shape what kind of Fifth World
society we will
build and have.
a) Hypothetical:
Q1: If a large ambassadorial spacecraft landed tomorrow several kilometers
outside
Geneva, Switzerland, and extraterrestrial ambassadors emerged and insisted on
talking promptly
with designated representatives for Earth, what should we do?
My answer: The U.N. Secretary-General should be contacted, and he should
designate a
small team of Ambassadors representing a cross-section of Earth's peoples to
meet with the
extraterrestrial Ambassadors, and determine what they wish to discuss.
Q2: If the extraterrestrial ambassadorial delegation went on worldwide
television via
satellite hook-up, and brought out an individual who identified himself as
Jesus Christ, looked the
part, and worked miracles on television, what should be the response of
international leaders?
My answer: International leaders should contact the Pope, the Head of the
World Council
of Churches, the Dalai Lama, the head spiritual advisor of the Lakota Nation,
the Rev. Billy
Graham, the head Islamic cleric of Suadi Arabia, the ranking spiritual leader
of the Hindu faith,
the head Rabbi of Jerusalem, and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch, have them form
a panel, and go
on worldwide television to express each faiths' view of what the return of the
Christ figure means.
I would anticipate that each would say that true spirituality is unchanging,
and that there have
been many religious teachers in earth's history, each trying his best to
present a path to God.
Further, I would expect each to affirm that God uses many intermediaries, and
such can include
extraterrestrial intermediaries.
b) Philosophical:
Q3: What are the most important philosophical questions to which
extraterrestrial contact
may provide some answers?
My answer: Some of the most important philosophical questions are: Where
did we come
from? Why are we here? Where are we headed? What is our relationship to people
from other
worlds? How best can we achieve our full development and purpose here
(enlightenment)?
Q4: What do you expect the extraterrestrials will identify as the primary
purpose of
existence?
My answer: To grow in knowledge, to reach out, to love, and to serve.
c) Political:
Q5: Exposure to cosmic cultures is anticipated to alter many humans'
perceptions of the
importance of traditional nation-state concerns. What is your prediction about
the effects of open
extraterrestrial contact on political (re-)organization of human society?
My answer: The combined effects of the extraterrestrials' openly
manifesting their
presence, plus the profound Earth changes overtaking us, will cause a shift
from focus on
centralized structures of power and wealth, such as the Group of Seven nations,
the World Bank
and the Trilateral Commission. Instead, peoples will begin to pay allegiance to
more meaningful
and natural social structures based on regions with common ecological features
and lifestyle
interests. In the U.S., this may result in political devolution into the
Northeast, the South, the
Plains, the Northwest and the Southwest, with relatively smaller attention paid
to the U.S. as a
historical territory.
Q6: Current human society is organized along vertical top-down power
lines. Do you expect
open extraterrestrial contact to alter the way decision-making is done in our
societies?
My answer: Yes. The extraterrestrials' culture, nonmaterialistic values,
style of operating
by group telepathic communication and consensus will be contagious. It will
reawaken in us a
desire to return to governing communities by participatory democracy, as people
value once again
an ethic of hands-on involvement in making their community work. This will
require breaking
down large, socially-alienating, unwieldy population centers, such as New York
and Los Angeles,
into smaller communities.
d) Exotechnology:
Q7: The extraterrestrials have extremely-advanced technology, including
Zero-Point
(Free) Energy systems, inexpensive to operate and totally non-polluting. How
will this
technology impact Earth society?
My answer: Abundant energy is a key to economic production. When
inexpensive Zero-
Point Energy systems are made available to all peoples of the Earth, and
peoples then have
sufficient cheap energy to fashion and distribute raw resources, there will not
be one society
which will lack the means to provide adequate food, housing, transportation,
communications, an
appropriate level of technical development, and a gross national product
sufficient to afford
adequate education and health care for all its people. Since every country has
some essential raw
materials, each will soon have the means to convert raw materials into finished
goods, and no
longer need to import many goods. Zero-Point energy means that a country will
no longer be rich
or poor depending on whether it is sitting on oil or coal deposits or not.
Universal Free Energy
will go far towards eliminating poverty in what are now called Third World countries.
(Continued)
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Created: Tue May 5 05:58:00 EDT 1998