One day, remembering what had happened two years earlier in the North Carolina mountains, I wondered if that same extraordinary experience could be repeated. So in the hotel room, I went through the protocol we'd created in 1973 on that spacecraft.
I then went into the state of unbounded consciousness, and then expanded awareness off the mountain, around the Alps, into space, and out into our Solar System. Seeing the vastness of space, I said to these craft and the ETs on board, "My name is Steve. I don't know if you remember me, but we met a couple years ago, and now here I am up in the French Maritime Alps, in Isola."
And so I showed them the beautiful spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, our star system with the sun and its planets, and the Earth. And then I zoomed in to Europe, to the Maritime Alps of France. I showed them our location in the hotel complex and said, "If you can come visit, please do." This occurred in an unbroken flow of consciousness for about 20 minutes
Later, after lunch, some friends and I decided to go for a walk in the mountains near the hotel. It was about 1:00 in the afternoon. I looked up in the crystal clear, Alpine sky to see a beautiful, huge tetrahedral- shaped ship, shining in the sun. It was clear and fully materialized, and drawing down towards us, silently.
A good friend in the group who knew of my experiences with extra- terrestrial vehicles gasped, "My God, Steve, did you call them here?" And she just came unglued. "Oh, my God, I can't believe it." And I replied, "Yeah, I did. I did this protocol that I told you about." She asked, "My God, why didn't you warn me?!"
At the point this anxiety was shown by some of the group, the ETV stopped approaching us, hovered, and then backed off silently. Then this huge craft just completely "de-materialized," disappeared out of our space-time. I turned to her and smiled, "Well, I guess the protocol does work." And she says, "My God, next time, let me know. Warn me before you're going to do it!" But I was laughing hysterically!
This taught me that, in fact, we could contact the ETs and this could be experienced by others. It was the first time since I was nine years old that I had actually seen one of these ET craft in the company of other people. In this case, it was a true CE-5, where a human invited the craft and they came, witnessed by others. Clearly, the protocols worked. I began to feel that maybe this should be taught to people at some point, because everyone should learn that this is possible.
But as time passed, I began to question it again. When something this extraordinary happens, doubts always creep in! After a while, I was living back in the mountains of North Carolina, outside of Blowing Rock, with a friend who had been on the training course. We had become teachers of meditation together.
One day in late fall 1977 I decided to test the protocol again. That night I sat up in bed and meditated. I went into the expanded state of consciousness, felt it expanding into space, saw the fullness and infinity of space being filled with the light of awareness, and in that light I saw these extraterrestrial people and said, again, "My name is Steve."
But, thinking so much time had passed that maybe they didn't remember, I said, "Well, my name is Steve Greer and I was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on June 28, 1955." I then gave them an entire brief biography! I showed them Charlotte, and how to get to my location. From space, they could go to Charlotte, then up to the North Carolina mountains, about 100 miles away. After following this tech- nique in a stream of consciousness, I fell asleep.
Suddenly, I awakened in the wee hours of the morning between 1 and 4 a.m. And here was this beautiful blue-white craft outside the win- dow and about 30 feet above the house. And the consciousness of the occupant was being projected right into the room I was in! It was very palpable.
We were out in the middle of nowhere, totally surrounded by mountains and meadows and silence. And here was this ship silently hovering right outside my window! Suddenly my housemate woke up in his bed- room; jumped up, rushed into my room and exclaimed, "Do you see that?" I said, "Yes," kind of sheepishly, like, "Uh-oh." And he says, "My God, there's a space ship right outside our window." I said, "Yeah, I know. I kind of invited them."
He became really unhinged and said, "Damn it, don't ever do that without telling me! You scared the hell out of me!" He could feel, also, that there was an intelligent being, de-materialized, but like a projection of awareness, from the ship inside the room.
We went into the living room, and the ship followed us around to that side of the house, to the big picture window overlooking Grandfather Mountain. By then, I think they sensed my friend's fear, and with that, the ship backed off, went out over the valley, and swoosh, streaked away - off into space over Grandfather mountain.
The very next day, we heard on radio and in news reports that two space ships were found on the radar at Douglas Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina. They were pursued by a police helicopter called Snoopy. I was stunned to hear that the area of the city where the sightings were centered was where I was born and grew up - the spot I'd shown them in my vectoring through consciousness.
One of the craft apparently got very close to the police helicopter, and also to an Eastern Airlines jet. This was all recorded by the air traffic con- trol tower, and it confirmed the CE-5.
Years later, a man who had acquired the FAA audio tape of that event shared the tape with me. (We have it in the CSETI archives.) In the tran- script, one of the
craft just vanished, and the other one was seen and tracked going off towards the northwest: the mountains where I was located. And, in fact, it then appeared outside my window.
So, that was an interesting early CE-5 that not only had another wit- ness - my hapless housemate - but also was tracked on radar, observed by commercial airline pilots, and chased by a police helicopter.
Frankly, I was stunned and a bit unnerved by the precision of the event. I thought, "Wow. This is serious! I really shouldn't do this any- more until I formalize a program for it." And, in fact, I didn't do it again- from 1977 to 1990- when I formed the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or CSETI.
CHAPTER 3
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Out Of The Shadows
Those youthful experiences made me understand something impor- tant about the nature of advanced ET civilizations: they have selected non-hostility as a natural evolutionary step. In other words, their high level of consciousness is incompatible with divisiveness or conflict. Otherwise, with the incredible technology at their command, they would have long since destroyed one another.
Without the realization of oneness, differences are perceived as a cause for alarm, fear, hostility and violence. The history of human experience over the millennia is proof...
One has only to look at the state of humanity today. Globally, hostility and mistrust abound among divergent religions, ethnic groups, and nations, bringing war and untold suffering in its wake. The conscious- ness of difference and division must be rejected, or there can be no peace.
Humanity now stands at a crossroad; we will either continue to destroy the Earth and its inhabitants through ignorance, warfare and conflict, or we'll reach a state of spiritual enlightenment and social maturity from which we acknowledge our inherent oneness. If not, then power- ful technologies will remain in the hands of people who are submerged in ignorance, superstition, and conflict.
But, those conditions cannot exist alongside the state of oneness that is the true wellspring of compassion. As the Buddha said, you can not do violence to another when you realize oneness
There are those who might go through what I've described in my ET encounters, and react in stark terror, even with the same stimuli: a ship by the window; a sighting on the mountain. But my near-death experience allowed me to approach these things without fear. There is no death; why be afraid?