Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:00:23 +0000 From: Majoie Haller To: webmaster@ufomind.com Subject: Book Review of The Catchers of Heaven Another Book Review of "The Catchers of Heaven" Many people have reviewed The Catchers of Heaven by Michael Wolf from the stand point of the information (which is much) in the book, government secrecy, the more technical end of the ET/Ufo phenomena, and whether or not the information that is in the book is true. I would like to review the book from a spiritual perspective. First, I am going to assume that the facts given in the book is true because of the many interrelated messages and themes of the book. For instance, it is not just a book about ETs/UFOs. It is also a book about the interconnectedness of the ETs and UFOs with our everyday life. It is a book about love and hope. It is a book about the interconnectedness of science and spirituality, and the taking the halo of off science. It is a book about being responsible for our environment and making this planet a safe place for our children and their children. We need to realize that the future of this planet lies in our children. Finally, the book is about raising our consciousness to the point that we are not only one with others on this planet, but we are also one with other forms of life in the Universe which allows us to become cosmic citizens. Not one penny from the proceeds of this book will go to Dr. Wolf. It goes to the Daniel Wolf Memorial Foundation for children. Hence, Dr. Wolf did not write this book for the money but rather for the children. Dr. Wolf realizes that, in order to make this planet safe for our children, we have to start taking better care of the environment and learn to get alone with one another now before it is too late. In talking about the crop-circles, Dr. Wolf says this: "The crop-glyphs, or the simple to complex crop-circles, that exist not only in England, but in every country within the global village, by virtue of their increasing complexity, apart from causing headaches and frustrations; very well may be trying to communicate messages concerning the endangered planet on which we not only live, but which we are more-more quickly than slowly-destroyng." There is hope for this situation and this hope lies within ourselves. In The Catchers of Heaven, there is an incident where DR. Wolf and his friend Charley are taken aboard an alien spacecraft. While they are aboard the craft, Charley asked the ETs about the question of evil. They responded: "We believe that evil has no proprietary place in this universe...even though it wasnbt found on just one planet. It is truly difficult to understand, why beings invent and personify evil, when the only true demons were the ones running freely around in the beingbs own heart, until one sees the wisdom of purging them." It is within ourselves that we have the power and the strength not to allow evil to have power over us. As the ETs told Dr. Wolf: "There are no problems upon which your heart must continue to dwell. Know this and be happy." As long as we continue to dwell on the evil in our hearts, we continue to allow evil to have power over us. But, once we start dwelling on love, then we become freed from the power of evil. This is because "love is sufficient unto love: it asks not, nor will it be asked; love cannot be commanded; love will not exploit, nor will it be exploited; love exists only for love, for it cannot be possessed....Love has no home, no land, no protector, for love must safe guard itself." This last passage from Dr. Wolfbs book cannot help but remind one of St. Paulbs passage on love from I Corinthians 13 which echos the same sentiment that love is the power behind everything as well as being the guiding power within ourselves. "If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy going or a clanging symbol....Love is patient, love is kind, love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, endures all things. Love never ends....And now, faith, hope, and love abide; and the greatest of these is love." For Dr. Wolf, we are in danger because of a lack of this kind of unconditional and freeing love. We must not only be able to give unconditional love, but we also must be able to keep it in our hearts for our own well-being; for it is this unconditional love that is able to bring down our inner walls and frees us from our own inner bondage. "The container is in danger for lack of love, unconditional. The one looks back at time with a light in his eyes and a glow from inside that is a vision, internalized almost allowing the secret places to open." Therefore, true victory lies in our hearts rather than in what we might say or do. We need to take the time to just be so that we can allow our energies to influence those around us. It is also through our thoughts that we can create the new. It is for this reason that with all of our conscious being, we must open our minds and freely consent to the arrival of the new. "Know these things and your essence will transcend any barriers in which you believe. The halo will be removed from human science and your thoughts will create the reality you desire and need....Know that your love transcends time and space, transcends any wall that you may meet on your way home. Such walls will fall before your words. All barriers will fall before you and at your feet, they will fall because your thoughts are powerful. You must use your Thought-powers." In the book, Dr. Wolfbs connections with the ETs is varied. He is an abductee, a contactee, an in-between, and negotiator for the ETs. As an in-between Dr. Wolf can be considered as both an ET and a human being. It is as an ET that he discusses (with humor) how we need to be careful of our terminology. This discussion also gives the reader insight into how DR. Wolf viewed himself when he was growing up. "You have to be very sure when you use the word `alienb that you are not misunderstood. This planet, and the space surrounding it, is becoming smaller and smaller. I still have memories of television announcers asking people who were aliens to `please register at your local post office.b And how Ibd be halfway to the door before one of my parents would stop me, saying `that doesnbt mean you.b Well, upon reflection, my response to the TV announcement was an honest and correct one. " When Dr. Wolf was grown and had his own son, he had a discussion with his boy again over terminology which revolved around the government and the use of the term, "UFO." "The United Sates government is correct in saying there are no UFOs. `Ub stands for `unidentified.b The U.S. government knows what UFOs are. So, my dearest son, technically, the government is not lying. If they have identified them, they are no longer UFOs, so of course they donbt exist. " According to Dr. Wolf, the government is compartmentalized to the point where the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. One part of the government might be negotiating with the ETs while another part of the government (the military) is shooting down the ETs crafts from the skies. Dr. Wolf talks about how the `guestsb of the government are mistreated. This is highlighted in a story where Dr. Wolf shows great courage in hiding an ET, who had been shot, from two FBI agents who showed up at his door looking for this ET. He looked at their identification and reminded them that their boss reports to the same boss that he does. When they asked if they could have a look around, D. Wolf invited them to leave immediately. After they left, the doctor whom Michael called arrived to take care of the ET. Dr. Wolf knows that the ETs are here to help us raise our consciousness and he does make the point that the ETs really do want to be here. An example is that they know of the possible mistreatment that they might have to go through at the hands of the government and they still come. A second example is taken from Dr. Wolfbs own words. Yet when they enter this rather uncontrolled atmosphere with its unpredictable winds, jet stream and other forms of turbulence, it is not as it is on their worlds. Their atmosphere and weather conditions are controlled, so they must want very much to come here, for some of their conveyances crash and burn, just like ours do. Therefore, we need to stop separating ourselves into factions, countries and tribal units and become as one human race. We need to let go of our egos in order to let our walls down so that we can truly love one another. We need to open our eyes, raise our consciousness, and become one with the planet so that we can also become one with the universe. We need to communicate among ourselves so that we can communicate with the ETs. We need to do all this for the sake of our children. This is the message of The Catchers of Heaven. For a summary of Dr. Wolfbs message I am taking a quote from a scientist who understood this message even before Dr. Wolf wrote the book. The scientist was Albert Einstein who knew that this message needed to be lived. "A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest...This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...We shall require substantially a new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. "