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From: Mark Hall <capn_black@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:17:06 +0100
Fwd Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:26:22 -0400
Subject: Cosmic Peace By Joseph Burkes MD


Cosmic Peace
by Joseph Burkes MD

Copyright 1999

A phantom has appeared in the skies of  Earth. It is the specter
of Unidentified Flying Objects. On the slopes of volcanos in
Mexico , over US ballistic missile bases, in the vicinity of
large cities as well as in remote locales, these unearthly craft
are being seen by millions. Who is piloting these strange
vehicles? Are they visitors from other planets? If so , then
what is their mission? Are they friend or foe? No one seems to
know for sure.

A growing number of people find the Extra-terrestrial
explanation most reasonable  for the UFO dilemma. Yes, many
sightings are undoubtedly due to other types of phenomenon.
Honest skeptics as well as prejudiced self styled debunkers
would have us believe that all structured craft which appear to
defy the laws of nature, are simply advanced terrestrial
military craft. Despite the skeptics' pronouncements, the UFO
phenomenon is quite robust. The number of close encounters with
true unknowns continues to increase. Sightings of unearthly
craft, appearing as flying golden globes, saucers and triangles,
persist in defiying the mandates of debunkers.

 >From 1992 till 1998 I was closely associated with Dr. Steven
Greer's Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence,
(CSETI). While participating with his group I had a number of
limited interactive encounters with what appeared to be
Extra-terrestrial spacecraft. In addition my field work with
individual contactees has demonstrated to me that consciousness
mediated, or in other words, mind to mind interactions, is a
mode of communication with non-human intelligence. I have worked
with a number of credible investigators who have quietly
described their having direct face to face encounters with
non-human beings of presumed Et origins. Thus the
Extraterrestrial hypothesis for some witnesses to the UFO
phenomenon approaches the level of certainty. I count myself
among that group.

The reaction of terrestrial elites, governments, scientific and
religious authorities, has been a predictable, albeit not an
enlightened one. It is my assessment that the current Et
presence profoundly threatens all terrestrial power. This
includes the international corporate, military, political and
religious leaders of our planet. Without acknowledging and
thoroughly studying this challenge to terrestrial power, those
interested in the phenomenon of Extra-terrestrial spacecraft
visiting our planet, will in my opinion be hopelessly confused.

In the absence of undeniable evidence that the
Extra-terrestrials are here, our leaders have simply  attempted
to ignore their presence. A de facto policy  of denial of the ET
visitations has been in effect for half a century. Witnesses to
the Extra-terrestrial presence are routinely subjected to
ridicule in an attempt to secure their silence.

Sadly within the civilian UFO research community,  harrowing
tales of routine abuse by of non-human beings are being peddled
non-stop. The so called "alien abduction" experience is the
focus of much investigation by sincere private citizens. The
highly bizarre nature of these numerous accounts leads many to
question the reality of what is being told. UFO investigators
often lack the scientific research tools and financial resources
to adequately study this phenomenon. Volunteer investigators
often can not provide professional counseling for witnesses who
claim to have experienced psychological trauma at the hands of
non-human beings. Thus a popular mythology appears to have
emerged. Frightful tales portray humanity as being the helpless
victim before the onslaught of "alien abductors". On scandal
sheets, in sci-fi horror films and in tabloid television
reportage, fear of the unknown is being exploited to promote
xenophobic, racist and militaristic fantasies in response to
what appears to be a growing Extra-terrestrial presence.

Under the current conditions of general societal denial that we
are being visited by Ets, the predominant human response to a
sighting has been a passive one. The UFO literature is rife with
accounts describing how those observing Et craft make no
attempts at interacting with the intelligence piloting these
strange vehicles, The response of passive amazement, as well as
fear based approaches to the Et presence, are not the only ones
that humanity is capable of. The situation is beginning to
change in positive ways.

Individuals and small groups with a more active and upbeat
approach to the Ets have taken the daring step of deliberately
inviting contact with Extra-terrestrial Intelligence. As a
result of these efforts, numerous encounters with
Extra-terrestrial spacecraft have been documented in the course
of field work. A smaller number of human initiated close
encounters with Extra-terrestrial Biological Entities (EBEs),
have also been described.

One long standing example of such an effort has been the
extraordinary work of the group known in the past as Mission
Rama. It was founded in 1974 around the contact experiences of
Sixto Paz Wells and his coworkers in Peru. For over two decades
Rama has been quietly facilitated human initiated close
encounters for thousands of people. The result has been the
creation of a world wide network of contactees who are promoting
interplanetary solidarity and peace.

Another organization seeking positive interactions with the
Extra- terrestrials is the Center for the Study of
Extraterrestrial Intelligence(CSETI). Founded in 1990 by the
North Carolina physician Steven Greer, it has carried out a
campaign to initiative contact called the CE-5 Initiative. The
designation CE-5 stands for Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind,
which is the term CSETI has coined to describe human empowered
contact with the Extra-terrestrials. The CE-5 Initiative is
openly organizing teams of UFO researchers to go out at night to
secure locations. There Dr. Greer and his followers are
attracting Et craft for limited peaceful interactions. As a
former facilitator of a CSETI working group, I can testify to
the efficacy of Greer's approach to initiating limited contact.

Unfortunately these preliminary attempts at citizen's diplomacy
are not the only examples of humans interacting with Et beings
visiting our planet. There is growing evidence indicating that
secret military programs focusing on the Et presence are also
underway. Although initially these covert groups probably worked
under government aegis, informed sources have reported that
private defense contractors now play a predominant role.

CSETI Director Steven Greer has reported meeting with many
retired military and intelligence officers who allegedly have
been involved with the UFO phenomenon as a result of their work.
He has also described having a December 1993 private briefing
with then CIA Director Woolsey.

In the May 1994 CSETI Newsletter Dr. Greer wrote the following,

"I have reached the tentative conclusion that virtually all of
the U.S.'s elected and appointed officials, including the
President and Cabinet members, are "out of the loop" on this
subject. This is an informal opinion based on significant
meetings with relevant and knowledgeable people. Exactly who,
then, is at the reins of this whole area, both in the U.S. and
internationally, remains a mystery. But we
have a good idea of the nature of this group. It is probably:

                     1.   Multi - National
                     2.   Multi - Agency
                     3.   Quasi - Governmental
                     4.   Quasi - Private
                     5.   Extraordinarily Secret

If true, this means a number of things:
  1. The President of the U.S., the Cabinet, and perhaps even the
Joint Chiefs of Staff may not be able to disclose anything on
this subject, since they probably do not have access to the real
information. And if they ask, I am not at all confident that
they would be told the truth, if anything at all.

                        2. Those controlling this subject may do
so without any legal, constitutional, or  moral authority. This
would be true both in the U.S. and abroad."

It appears more than possible that "those controlling this
subject" may covertly be taking direct military action against
the Extra- terrestrials. In his 1998 book "Confirmation", author
Whitley Strieber's analyses a controversial NASA video tape made
on  space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-48.  This video
has been featured several times on national television. It
displays what appears to be unidentified flying objects being
fired upon by some sort of particle beam weapon. The incident
transpired on September 15, 1991. The Discovery was flying near
Australia, approximately 1500 miles northwest from a secret US
military base located at Pine Gap near Alice Springs. Strieber
details a thorough analysis of the video tape by physicist Dr.
Jack Kasher and imaging specialist Dr. Mark Carlotto. Their
conclusion is that the prosaic explanations provided by NASA are
simply not credible.

Support for the notion that covert military forces are fighting
a secret war against the Extra-terrestrials has also been
provided by Philip Corso, a retired US Army Colonel and author
of the controversial book, "The Day After Roswell." Corso was a
former staff member of President Eisenhower's National Security
Council. Colonel Corso worked under General Trudeau at the
Army's Research and Development Division's Foreign Technology
desk. In "Day After Roswell" Corso alleges that he passed out
pieces of the wreckage of a crashed UFO to high tech firms. This
supposedly allowed advanced alien technology to be analyzed and
then integrated into our industrial culture.

Philip Corso after publication of his book quickly became a
celebrity within the flying saucer subculture. Sadly few UFO
experts criticized his openly  bellicose response to the Et
presence.  On page 267-267 he states,

"These creatures weren't benevolent alien beings who had come to
enlighten human beings....As long as were incapable of defending
ourselves, we had to allow them to intrude as they wished.  ...
We hid the truth and the EBEs(Extra-terrestrial Biological
Entities) used it against us until 1974 when we had our first
real shootdown of an alien craft over Ramstein Air Force base in
Germany."

It is difficult if not impossible to verify the particulars of
Philip Corso's account. In "Day after Roswell" he does not offer
the names of others who might corroborate his version of the
events described. On July 16, 1998, at the age of 83, he
reportedly passes away from a heart attack.

As a former peace movement activist, I find Philip Corso's
extremist views chilling. I suspect that his perspective on the
Et-human relationship  nevertheless has great value. It is my
suspicion that Corso's diatribes may provide us with an insight
into the mind set of a very important group, the wing of
military-industrial complex which will likely try to use
disclosure of the Et presence to unleash a new cold war.

Now that the US has presided over the downfall of the Soviet
Union, defense expenditures have decreased dramatically. Thus is
threatened the good fortune of some of the most economically
powerful and politically influential corporations on the planet.
In the current political atmosphere I fear that any disclosure
of the Et presence will be used to fuel xenophobia and to
precipitate a costly arms race against an unlikely adversary.

Open war with advanced Et civilizations is an extremely remote
possibility given the likelihood that UFOs are an ancient
phenomena. Extra-terrestrials have probably been here for
centuries if not for millennia. If the Ets were planning
aggressive action against human- kind, why should they wait so
many years before mounting an open attack? T By passing a test
of time, their non-harmful posture is confirmed.

If disclosure of the Et presence were suddenly made today,
defense corporations,their military and political allies would
probably use such a revelation for their own narrow interests.
This would result in an accelerated " Star Wars" program.  I
imagine the slogan, "we must  negotiate from a position of
strength," would be featured prominently in the congressional
sales campaign for space based weapon systems. A trillion
dollars could be needlessly wasted to prepare against an enemy
which we could never truly fight. On a planet where some 10
million children every year die from hunger and preventable
disease, squandering our limited economic resources on such
weaponry would be particularly tragic.

How can socially responsible citizens respond to the threat
posed by a future arms race aganist the Extra-terrestrials? As
long as there is general societal denial of the Et presence,
political action will be difficult to say the least. Fortunately
things are changing. Ever increasing numbers of people are
having their own sightings of anomalous craft and other contact
experiences. Thus there is a greater acceptance of the Et
hypothesis. Government secrecy and press ridicule are no longer
potent weapons against the credibility of UFO witnesses. Recent
opinion polls confirm this shift.

Nevertheless the risks of conflict are ever present as long as
the planet's elites are unwilling to adequately prepare humanity
for what appears to be an inevitable disclosure of the Et
presence. The situation is even more dangerous because these
elites have not reeled in the militarists who are planning, and
if Philip Corso is correct, even fighting a secret war against
Et.

To help prevent war and hopefully usher in a new era of
interplanetary cooperation, the creation of a new kind of peace
movement is required. One which acknowledges the Et presence and
resists those social forces which are systematically fanning the
flames of war. Such a movement will definitely require a strong
spiritual base. The realization that we are not alone compels
humanity to ask the question, "What then is our true place in
the universe?" This has enormous religious implications which
will need to be addressed by those promoting cosmic peace.

Such a movement will naturally stand on the shoulders of
pioneering groups like Rama and CSETI, as well as other networks
of contactees who have remained mostly secret up until now.
Individuals who affirm that they have experienced positive, long
lasting relationships with non-human intelligence, will likely
be prominently featured in the cosmic peace campaign. These
contactees' direct personal bonds with the Extra-terrestrials
appear quite bizarre at the present time. Hopefully they could
serve as an example of how humanity might coexist, and perhaps
even prosper, within the context of an Et-human relationship.  A
new internationalism could emerge based on the realization that
here on Earth we are truly one people living in one homeland. If
this sounds too idealistic let us consider the following.

Humanity is facing a constellation of man-made problems which
threaten the very existence of life on our planet. Global
environmental destruction from pollution is becoming an
increasingly probable end point as the atmosphere heats up with
the release of greenhouse gases. Nuclear proliferation will
continue as long the great nuclear powers do little to reduce
their obscene stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Without a robust
program of nuclear disarmament, it is most likely that these
instruments of genocide will be used  at some point during the
decades to come. We should never forget that some 100 million
people have died from war, revolution and the resultant famines
during this century alone. Regional wars continue across the
globe and threaten to be the sparks for another world wide
military conflagration.

I urge those who insist that the Extra-terrestrials are a
potential enemy to entertain this consideration. Preconditions
for any culture to become star-faring, likely include conditions
of enduring peace and ethical development far beyond anything
accomplished on Earth. The enormous energy required to move
between the stars, if used for military purposes, would likely
cause a civilization to self-destruct. Thus if a race of
intelligent beings have survived long enough to be able to
arrive here, then they are probably wise enough to live in
peace, not only with us, but with other civilization they might
encounter while voyaging across the sea of stars.

The UFO literature of the modern era provides some support for
the notion that the so called "aliens" are friendly. A growing
number of individuals claim to have experienced Close Encounters
of the Third and Fourth Kinds. These witnesses  often describe
different races of EBE's working together cooperatively on the
same alien spacecraft. To accept the hypothesis that
Extra-terrestrials are non-harmful however, most of the "alien
abduction" literature would have to be discounted. At this time
few UFO enthusiasts are willing to take such difficult step.

My personal view is that by acknowledging the Et presence we can
promote a new hope that a better future is possible right here
on Earth. I view the benefit of accepting the reality of Extra-
terrestrial visitations as being primarily an ideological one.
After all, our planet is beset by what appear to be unsolvable
problems. If these so called "aliens" have survived their own
dark times, similar to those we currently face, then perhaps we
too can survive and prosper. If they can curb self destructive
tendencies and travel to distant solar  systems, then God
willing, we too can make it to the stars! This is our hope.

It is extremely unlikely however that the Extra-terrestrials
will save us from ourselves. Nor in the opinion of  many
observers is it likely that they will seriously harm us. As Dr.
Steven Greer in his many lectures has pointed out, "The Ets are
neither Dar Vadar nor Jesus Christ in a spaceship." Humanity
will have to overcome its own problems by exercising wisdom,
compassion and a fierce determination to survive.This is our
promise.

This upbeat message is particularly important for the current
generation of youth. So often they experience a sense of
hopelessness when threatened with what appears to be
insurmountable social, economic and environmental problems. To
Earth's young people, the realization that they are not alone in
the universe, will in my opinion inspire them to join a campaign
promoting interplanetary peace and cooperation. Youth already
exhibit a tremendous interest in the UFO topic. If a link could
be made between the Et presence and the ongoing struggles to
save humanity from its self-destructiveness, it is my firm
conviction that such a movement would change the course of
history. There is much work to be done!


This draft position paper is the first in a series of documents.
I will endeavor to outline the parameters of a future movement
for cosmic peace, solidarity and cooperation. For those
interested in this subject, I suggest that you visit the web
sites of both CSETI and Rama. As always I encourage  dialogue on
this important topic and look forward to email correspondence.

Sincerely,

Joseph Burkes, MD
md1jb3@pol.net



Mark Hall