I am reminded of a story that Colonel Corso told a mutual friend about an experience he had at Holloman Air Force Base in 1956.
At that time, many extraterrestrial vehicles were zipping around over the base and were being tracked on radar. Of course it was a very sensi- tive area, near the Trinity site, where we detonated the first atomic weapon.
On this one particular day, an object was tracked on radar during day- time. This ET craft descended and landed out on the Holloman range.
Col. Corso jumped in a jeep by himself to go out to that area. When he arrived, he saw a seamless, silvery egg-shaped craft, hovering just above the ground, silently. It would become fully materialized, shining in the sun, and then disappear -- and all he would see was a mirage- a heat wave- over the sand. The ET craft would dematerialize into this energy field in the shape of the craft, and then it would flash back and be materialized again.
Suddenly, an extraterrestrial being appeared outside the craft with some sort of a communication device, to communicate telepathically.
Col. Corso asked, "Who goes there friend or foe?" And the ET said,
"Neither."
The ET then proceeded to say, "We would like for you to stop using some of these radar systems that are interfering with our craft...". (Remember that the Roswell crash had happened because there were high-powered radar system set up on a certain frequency that would disrupt ET craft propulsion and navigation systems.)
Col. Corso, being a rather brash military guy, said, "Well, what's in it for me?"
The ET turned to him, and said, "A new world, if you can take it!" Now 50
years later, we must learn to take it — to accept the new world being offered to us. We need to learn to accept the new world that has been delayed for decades -- and initiate what will be thousands of years of a sustainable, enlightened civilization.
That is what the ET civilizations are waiting for us to do, and we are the generation that must achieve it.
CHAPTER 34
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Solving our Own Dysfunction
It was once said to me by an oil man, that using oil for fuel is like burning your Picasso in the fireplace for heat: Oil is too precious to use for energy When we look at the needs of a civilization that will be here for hundreds of thousands of years, we should save oil as something that can be held in reserve for essential purposes like synthetics, lubricants, plastics and the like. Used wisely, the Earth has adequate resources for an advanced civilization for thousands and maybe millions of years. But used foolishly, as we do today, Earth cannot sustain us.
That makes sense to anyone who is logical. But if your decision- making is based on insane fear and greed, or some kind of end-of-the- world eschatological belief system, then you don't care about thousands of years from now. You don't even care about 20 years from now.
These technologies that have been withheld have caused us to liter- ally burn through resources that should have been held in reserve for more appropriate uses long-term by our children's children's children's children's children's children.
My father was half Cherokee, and the Cherokee believed that every- thing we do should be looking at many generations not yet born. But at this time in history, we are beginning a cycle that is half a million years in duration.
So everything we are doing today should be looking at 20,000 generations not yet born. A man that I worked with in the 1990s, who was on Ronald Reagan's National Security Council staff, said long-term planning for the National Security Council was six months! It was just reactionary -- going from crisis to crisis.
It has been argued that these new energy and propulsion technologies can be weaponized, which is true. Anything can be weaponized: As an ER doctor, I have seen people killed with beer bottles! But does that mean we shouldn't have these technologies, and just let the world be cannibalized and destroyed out of foolishness?
Or instead, should we create international cooperative and collective security, so that we insure, guarantee, and enforce the safe use of such technologies? Under
such a system, anyone or any group or nation who would even plan to use such technologies for war, violence or harm would be immediately stopped. We cannot release these technologies and then pretend that there is not going to be another Hitler or Saddam Hussein or Pol Pot.
It does mean that today we have the means to monitor such matters and the means to enforce a stable peace. Technologies now exist in the covert world that, used by those ardent for peace, could monitor and stop any harmful application of these new energy systems in real time.
We must be realistic: Everyone isn't going to go instantly into samadhi and enlightenment and become non-violent and peaceful. We are humans.
But, there are enough good people in the world and enough good leaders in the world to provide the leadership we need. When there is an abusive or potentially dangerous character who arrives on the scene, the policy should be the following: Every civilized country on earth should rise up and stop him before it becomes a problem.
If this policy had really been followed, World War I would have never happened, nor would World War II. Today, the means of communication and monitoring exist, but the question is: Is the will power and the intent there to enforce the peace?
Take for example Saddam Hussein and his chemical weapons. Who provided him with the technology and chemicals? The Germans and Americans and French did, with some help from the Russians. Rumsfeld himself was involved in this technology transfer to Saddam.
And how did such figures acquire the wealth to secure these weapons programs? Oil.
It has nothing to do about whether or not we can do it, and the soon- er people learn this lesson, the better. The state of the world is manipulated by those who benefit most from conflict.
We certainly didn't learn this lesson after World War I, and we didn't learn it after World War II. And here we are now.
So the question is: Just exactly what has to happen before the body politic learns this lesson?
We have already hit peak oil production, and we are going to become like "Mad Max", the movie, fighting over the last barrel of oil. The time has come to do the right thing, and move our civilization to its next level of development.
Are we willing to live with the rule of law, like a civilized world, or are we going to be cowardly and look the other way when rogue and illegal operations and 'Murder Incorporated' run roughshod over the inter- ests of the people?
Once we disclose effectively the existence of these technologies, the public will say, "We want them"! Billy Bob, with his eight-cylinder pick- up, doesn't want to pay ten dollars a gallon to run his truck down the road. There are forces that will bring these concerns to a head, and they are inevitable. And inevitably we will come out on the other side of this, and the world will embrace this vision.
But the question is: How much chaos and stupidity will transpire before we come out on the other side? That is the only question. Humans are, as a group, survivors, and when push comes to shove, we will survive.
I welcome the fact that releasing these technologies would require us to create an enforceable, sustainable, peaceful civilization just to survive. We're at the point now where every one knows we can't put off much longer dealing with these large structural and environmental issues. So when a solution comes along, it will focus people's attention and finally require us to do what we should have done decades ago.
Without peace there can be no further progress on earth. The simple truth is this: We have reached the point in human evolution where the only possible future is a peaceful one.