[Consciousness] [1REED] Learning from Alien Encounters

[Henry Reed]

First of all, thanks to David, Marge and Sylvia (hope I haven’t missed
anyone) who sent me replies to my last email posting. I’ve put David’s
and Marge’s on our 1REED blog, and will get Sylvia’s to you soon, as
well as any other that comes in.First, regarding updates to the
website, www.henryreed.com/indianaI’ve added a link to the 1REED blog,
which is a record of these emails related to the Indiana conference and
the future of consciousness. I’ve also added a link to a web page that
provides many links to the topic of “heart awareness,” a state of
consciousness that seems the focus of attempts to perceive “through the
veil,” meaning inter-species communication as well as to non-material
beings. Another link goes to a web site that is compiling information
on “non-dual awareness.” The significance of non-dual will become more
clear after you read the quotes below.Now I’d like to share something
with you. In doing so, I’m hoping that you’ll get a clearer picture
about what we are aiming at. I’m also hoping that I might recruit a few
more of you to join our inner circle of people who are volunteering to
do book summaries. We keep becoming aware of not simply new titles (we
can’t do all the titles) but new realms of thought, etc. regarding our
topic.I want to share with you some material from John Mack’s book,
Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters. I
wished that I had had this book on the list from the get go, I meant
to. Fortunately, we’ve received a new list member who has volunteered
to be on the book summary team, and so this book will be summarized and
included in our manual.I think it is a good example, and John Mack
recognizes his work as an example, of an area that challenges
consciousness and our view of reality and that has implications for our
future direction of evolution. It also takes sides on the issue of
whether or not we are coming to a fork in the road (more on that
later). I scanned a few paragraphs from his concluding chapter, and
I’ll insert a brief summary of some other passages from that chapter. I
trust you’ll see the relevance.First quote:“The alien abduction
phenomenon is one among a number of manifestations--including
near-death experiences, intricate crop formations apparitions of many
kinds, unexplained powers of healing, and parapsychology--that are
forcing us to appreciate that cosmic realities exist heyond the
three-dimensional universe that has bounded our earthly existence There
seem to be as many names for these domains as there are methods of
approaching them: the "implicate order," the “invisible world,” other
dimensions," and "transpersonal" or “daimomc reality" are a few of
them. Philosophers like Michael Zimmerman Michael Grosso posit a "third
zone" of reality that is neither purely internal nor external but lies
beyond, including or subsuming the familiar dualism of inner and outer
worlds. Whatever words we may use to describe this realm, or realms, it
appears ever more likely that we exist in a multidimensional cosmos or
multiverse within which space and time appear to be constructs of the
mind that order or simplify the chaos of energy and vibration in which
we are immersed. “In addition to the methods of hypothesis-building,
experimentation and replication that have formed the basis of the
physical sciences, penetrating this multidimensional universe or
multiverse seems to require the full range of powers that human
consciousness may possess, including intuition, contemplation, or what
one of the experiencers has called “the heart’s mind.” The cosmos that
is revealed by this opening of consciousness, far from being an empty
place of dead matter and energy, appears to be filled with beings,
creatures, spirits, intelligences, gods--the names vary according to
the apparent worldview of the observer or function and behavior of the
entity at hand--that have through the millennia been intimately
involved with human existence. In some instances, it would appear,
certain of these entities may even cross over the divide that we
created in order to keep unseen realities and mysteries apart,
ideologically speaking. from the material world.”Note: In another place
he uses the Jungian idea of “compensation” to explain the
transformative process taking place. We have so extremely alienated the
unseen world, creating a divide between materiality and spirit, that
the spirit world is backlashing, creating an upset that will restore
the balance between materiality and spirit. The Jungians use a word,
“metanoia,” to refer to a total flip, transformation, of consciousness
brought about as nature’s response to a too one-sided consciousness
that is interfering with health. The message of the aliens seems
similar, as if they were a “psychic factor,” or a dimension of the
psyche that is asking to be reckoned with. Also, with regard to the
“third zone,” that is referred to, I’ve done a big study of how folks
can perceive that third zone as something in which they are having
unconscious participation. My study was done in the context of two
people “imagining” being in psychic contact. Many of you on this
discussion list have experienced this somewhat at one of my trainings.
The huge article I published on it (“Close encounters in the Liminal
Zone” is available at
http://www.henryreed.com/reed/publications/close2you.php). I should
also note that in places within the book, he discusses how among Native
Americans and indigenous peoples, the divide between the material and
the spiritual is not so great. There is one chapter about a Native
American who had abduction experiences and he says that most all the
Natives are aware of the aliens and have always been aware. This
relates to the theme that what is on the horizon is a return of
something that has been lost, but not lost to indigenous folks. That
may be why there is some idea in the Native tradition that white folks
would be returning to them to learn from them. It also suggests that
the future, evolution, of consciousness may not consist entirely of new
elements not previously experienced, but in some way a return of
elements that had been suppressed. “The Return of the Repressed” on a
cosmic theme, is something Mack considers.Second quote:“We still know
very little about the forces that act together to bring about a
fundamental change in worldview. But it seems clear that for particular
individuals such a shift can occur only when some new information or
experience, utterly incompatible with previously held beliefs, reaches
them beyond the intellect so powerfully that the inadequacy of the
worldview that they have hitherto used to explain or contend with
reality becomes viscerally and intellectually inescapable. This is what
has happened to the abductees who turn to look at their experiences. It
is what happened to me in the course of experiencing and studying their
stones. It is what is happening to increasing numbers of people who are
being exposed to this phenomenon, especially when they meet or hear
abduction experiencers tell what they feel quite certain happened to
them.”Note: Here is a very definite reference to forces, or sources,
that are bringing about the transformation or evolution of
consciousness. We’ve seen, and heard from you, about several
alternatives, which are not incompatible: a gradual evolution, through
education, social changes, etc. The 100th monkey idea, which could mean
that after awhile, the majority of folks have changed; intervention by
spiritual forces, aliens, angels, etc.; intervention by cosmic events,
such as radiation bombarding the planet; intervention by earth changes,
such as major catastrophe. One of the themes that emerges in the book
is that the aliens are trying to create a new species, part human, part
alien, who will be able to live on the planet after the big event
happens, as though the planet, the aliens say, is dying, and soon will
not be inhabitable, so they are trying to create a new being who can
inhabit the earth afterwards. I’m not trying to encourage a stand on
this issue, but for example, if there is intervention from spiritual
sources, then it would be a good idea to establish a relationship with
those sources.Between the above two quotes and the final quote, Mack
summarizes some of the effects on experiencers. They read like someone
who has had a near death experience: Realizing that humans are not at
the summit of evolutionary beings.A heightened vibratory energy inside
(kundalini?) which is continuing to remove blocks to awarenessBecoming
aware of the great archetypes in lifeDeveloping psychic abilitiesA new
connection with “The Source”Experiencing a “heart opening”A new sense
of the sacred and a reverence for natureAssuming responsibility and
working at new project to save the planetThese are the kinds of changes
that are seen in other consciousness altering experiences
(psychedelics, near death, out of body). These could well be ear marks
of what’s ahead.Final quote:“In the end, the abduction phenomenon seems
to me to be a part of the shift in consciousness that is collapsing
duality and enabling us to see that we are connected beyond the Earth
at a cosmic level. No common enemy will unite us, but the realization
of a common Source might. Our notions of the Divine, like everything
else, seem to grow along with the evolution of our consciousness. We no
longer expect an Old Testament God/bully that will part the seas and
bring us where we need to go. Nor is it likely that a messiah/savior
will lead us into the Divine Light. For that light, we are learning
from phenomena like the one in this book, and from near-death and other
out-of-body experiences, is an eternal part of ourselves and the
essence of all creation. The creative principle is within us, not
without—-thus it cannot befall us. As Bernardo Peixoto discovered in a
shattering realization, it is nowhere and everywhere.”So, Mack’s
comments seem right in keeping with the theme of our work together.I’d
like to hear your comments, suggestions for additional topics, and I
hope I can recruit more of you to join our smaller group of folks
working on book summaries. It is exciting to be able to synthesize so
much information and I look forward to what the folks at Indiana will
do with this information when we put it into our intuition hopper.Henry

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Posted By Henry Reed to 1REED at 6/01/2007 12:12:00 PM
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