‘Former’ CIA man says UFO’s could ‘unsettling’ be of religious significance.

In his latest article, the Director of Special Programs at the ‘To The Stars Academy,’ Luis Elizondo, raises the need to maintain what I have been calling a #PrismaticPerception.

He describes the type of open-mindedness it might take to understand what is behind sightings of UFOs, or UAPs as they are now being referred to (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon).

All options are being left open for the public to ponder; are the latest sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon from; outer space, exo-terrestrials (beings that have been on earth long before humans), pan-dimensional beings (beings able to exist in multiple dimensions), human technology from a clandestine government programs, fulfilment of religious prophecy or a mysterious combination of all of the above?

This is to say, we should keep the broadest range of possibilities open. When we are done, we may still not even be able to definitively conclude their origin.

In raising such playful mind wandering, he also opens the door to some deeply paranoid pondering about UFOs having a religious significance. Some might say that this suggests a highly questionable intention since nothing this man says is by accident.

Luis Elizondo’s Profile Description on the To The Stars website

Unelected Power
Since this is a private company – the title of Director of Global Security’ is not awarded via public consultation or democratic process. Nor is it even given by the United Nations. So, presumably, it arrived from behind-the-scenes collective knowledge.

Much of this knowledge may come from research conducted by a team highly experienced in their respective fields at the TTSA. However, outside of the organization have not been invited to verify any of their claims. It appears they are in no rush for this to take place.

We are dying to know; what the world is so threatened by when it comes to the possibility of non-human, pan-dimensional or semi-human intelligences? Why does this require a person to be assigned the title Director of Global Security? Why such a title via a private company and based on information hidden away from the rest of the world?

Some have said that the act of hiding itself may indicate that it is already known what these things are. It may also suggest that the so-called solution has already been decided (also behind closed doors). Therefore we can ask if the actual operation is to get the public onside?

How sad if this is true. Any attempt at talks with ‘ETs’ would be shelved indefinitely. This means there will be no historic moment where an attempt is made by a globally represented humanity to decide a rational response to facts that will have been made transparent.

Instead, there will be a nationalist-based claim of a global threat and presumably a global response assembled by that nation; before the world has even had a chance to review and respond to any (independently verified) facts.

Of course, this raises much more serious questions about what could really be going on? e.g. ‘Is the origin of the apparent threat being deliberately obscured for the supreme empowerment of that nation, or at least one group of people within one nation?‘

Indescribable? No profile description – despite the calls for public investment in their company.

‘To The Stars Academy’ have no Twitter profile description. Even more mysterious it has no Wikipedia page. This is odd for a company said to be so dependent on raising public interest and investment.

(What is with the) Paranoia Inducing Propaganda?

Even more concerning is the escalation in its public messaging despite its desire to simultaneously hold on to what it might know. A forthcoming documentary on the History Channel will apparently reveal more about what they have discovered about the origins of metals from supposedly downed UAPs/UFOs.

Similar television programs have indeed presented fake documentaries as fact in the past. In the Discovery channel’s ‘Submarine – giant shark – Discovery channel documentary,’ actors gave interviews as actual witnesses to the beast. Therefore, we should proceed to view this with caution and a broader sense of open-mindedness to what could really be at play here.

Unanswered Questions

Where do we go from here? As I did over a year ago, we could start by asking, ‘Why not take this information about UFOs/UAPs to the United Nations where it can be presented for collective analysis to determine if it is a Global Security threat’? Then, if necessary, it can be assigned a unified global response rather than a national call to arms‘

Instead of rolling out with questionable documentaries and slow release of highly contentious videos of what could be secretly developed human technology, it seems logical, fair and even humane that a global security threat should be addressed globally,.. does it not?

The silence to this question has a cascade of possible implications: How far along have secret technology programs reached? Are they well beyond the hope of democratic control, where both the secrecy and the power have become too overwhelming to maintain? Is the firepower in place to face these threats and the threats themselves actually the same phenomena?

The meaning of the acronym AAWSAP (Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program), the secret government program said to have been studying UFOs/UAPs, seems to suggest this is highly likely.

A Predictable and Emotive Cult Response

Whatever the answers – obviously, there is the desire being deliberately generated for the public to be curious about what UFOs/UAPs actually are. This could be interpreted as a good thing if they are both real and a proven threat; we are entitled to be prepared somehow, right?

At this point, I should issue a brief warning about the onslaught of bullying for those trying to maintain an open mind while in discussion with people in the UFO community. You will encounter many who are determined that all UFO sightings are, without a doubt, of alien origin.

The pressure from such people is fuelled by the fact they feel they have been fighting for the government to disclose what they know about the existence of extraterrestrials for eons. Hence they won’t take kindly to what they many interpret as talk about any hidden human origin for these sightings.

End Times Nudge We Can All Do Without

The knee-jerk and overly simplistic equation made by them is that – to doubt the TTSA is to also question the existence of UFOs. When in fact, many believe in the presence of an intelligence previously unknown to mankind here on earth – while at the same time doubting the intentions of the TTSA are universally compassionate. It really does not take that much of a sophisticated mind to entertain such a position.

This is incredibly frustrating when we consider the implications of claims by Elizondo that UAPs could be of religious significance.

“..it (UFOs /UAPs) could have a spiritual/religious relevance. As unsettling as the idea may be, it is still a possibility.“
Luis Elizondo

Why would it be ‘unsettling‘ for UFO’s/UAPs to have a spiritual or religious relevance? Wouldn’t religious people think it would be ‘nice’ if we were being visited by higher beings from a holy place? Instead, it appears that a particular type of devilish fear is being sown.

The unquestioning zealotry from the UFO community, ie. that ‘To The Stars-denial’ is akin to denial of the existence of aliens, already overwhelms public discussion. By this measure, we might expect a greatly magnified response among the passions of End Times believing right-wing Christians if they link ETs with demons.

Mutually Assured Distraction

So, the ‘former’ intelligence officer has opened the door to UFOs/UAPs? Then, for many, it is almost closed with his reference to the possibility that their appearances could have religious meaning?

There will be only one winner from such misplaced energy, and it won’t be the mentally ill or emotionally vulnerable. Just watch the debates unfold; they (TTSA) certainly will be watching.

At least one person I know has been following these events closely since the New York Times published this story on the Nimitz Navy Jet encounter with a UFO/UAP has been taken into a mental health facility due to their over-thinking on the subject. How can this reaction not be a consideration in the build-up to TTSA-driven Disclosure? Some think it is a consideration and that there can be many ways to capitalize on such collective paranoia if it were to be deliberately induced.

Conveniently, or rather inconveniently for the sane, we have an Evangelical End Times believing pastor whispering in the ear of the current President.

Around about now, your incredulity at the charade might be justifiably exorcised and replaced by a sincere sense of alarm.

The Weaponization of Mind-Space

In this context, the apparently pointless Space Force announced by Trump now seems like a timely idea – doesn’t it? Will the current President be ready to present the full Weaponization of Space as his final solution? At the very least, it appears timely. Just when Trump will be seeking re-election, a documentary about the possibility of alien threats will be released on the History Channel.

The Space Force is going ahead. There is a potential threat of aliens/demons from space. As insane as this sounds, who will complain or possess the power to prevent the unfolding of what seems to be a pro-active delusion? It all seems rather a black and white fact to many who have an agenda to maintain.

Not many are familiar with the threats that the Weaponization of Space poses to the entire world. The advances in cell vaporizing plasma laser technology and what could go wrong if that firepower surpasses the control of the US Congress. Indeed, Trump has already signed off on creating the 6th branch of the military (the Space Force). In doing so, he managed to bypass the constitutional obligation of gaining the approval of Congress.

India recently fired a missile into space, destroying one of its own satellites. In the process, it turned the resulting fragments into shards speeding faster than bullets in multiple directions. This is an appropriate metaphor for the unpredictable consequences of current momentum building towards the Weaponization of Space. The room for complete disaster and abuse of such raw and untamed power from above is immeasurable.

War in space means hell on earth. Peace in Space means Peace on Earth. Yet, who among us is ready to discuss all of this? It all seems so ridiculous and far removed from our everyday lives.

However, if we wish to maintain the mundanity that affords us peace, our tendency towards blind faith (in anything) must be addressed. It must be included when calling for an open-minded inquiry into the facts.

This hinges on keeping a high standard for what we consider to serve as evidence for the existence of non-human intelligences and asking the questions that really matter. We need to ask all the questions and if you finally get an answer, ask even more. Never stop asking; our lives may depend on it.

Houston, We Have a Problem.. with Denial

When the facts don’t fit a personal agenda, many simply deny them. We might think it is an innocent reflex. Yet, when this goes wrong, the next step is terrifying – since some seem to be intent on following through on their urge to weaponize their ignorance.

For example, any nation’s military agenda is considerable, so their denial is usually extremely well funded. The goal? To decrease the objection to the consequences that arise from denying said facts.

An artist’s concept of the interception and destruction of nuclear-armed re-entry vehicles by a space-based electromagnetic railgun. The LTV Aerospace and Defense Co. has demonstrated hypervelocity launch technology in the laboratory that is applicable to a ballistic missile defense system.

Operation Denial

When those consequences inevitably unfold, the sense that we are powerless to do anything about them is widespread. Mission accomplished.

The need for the public to tolerate this is subconsciously fed by certain assumptions. The primary belief is that the lie must have been good for the nation. So we may as well be good patriots and support the deception simply by saying nothing.

A similar attempt to silence world protest against the weaponization of space is now taking place in India. The nation has just fired its first salvo in what might be termed the Cold Space War of the near future.

A video by India’s Ministry of Defence opens with words to justify the inevitable denial of facts: “Space has become an important element in a countries economy and military superiority. Capability to defend against the space based threats is a necessity.”

Some context:
– India recently shot one of its own space satellites with a missile, breaking it into large and tiny fragments now shooting around randomly in space.
– As someone who knows recently reminded me, in space – even a speeding grain of sand can be lethal to a human.
– The fact in denial? That this presents any danger to anyone.

The denial has been issued despite it being impossible to track every fragment and their multiple trajectories. It potentially endangers the international space station and satellites from many other protesting nations currently orbiting the earth.

Cosmic Levels of Denial
The profits from extraction of oil make climate change denial necessary. The profits to be gained from space also necessitate patriotism, in the race to dominate the earth from above, and the call to deny the negative consequences for the world.

However, like the suicidal tendencies to deny climate change there is a repeat of that same sad irony. Any future Space Force and planned weaponization of space has to account for the danger they present to those who decide to deploy such weapons themselves. Free floating space debris will speed haphazardly like bullets out of the guns of a drunken cowboy.

If the use of Nuclear Weapons was held back by the insane policy of Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D), space weapons will have to negotiate with S.A.D – with Self Assured Destruction.

As Above So Below
You would hope that this and the wisdom that led President Ronald Reagan to reverse course on the weaponization of space in the 1980’s would again win the day. It is not only reckless for the world to normalize the idea of war from above, due to those already working in space on the international space station – the debris from any conflicts in space will also cause a serious danger to the vulnerable population below.

The seemingly sexy plans to develop weapons in space have the undesirable risks of their; use, abuse/misuse, hacking and a race towards a new and unpredictable levels of war. Any exponentially evolving self aware Artificial Intelligence, reaching the Singularity (matching and then surpassing human level consciousness) might be forgiven for believing humans need to be put out of their MADness and SADness.

A Question of Democracy
I ask you now; do you ever recall ‘voting’ for the development of space weapons? Is this your personal democratic choice? As with Trumps calls for a Space Force, people were given a choice with Brexit – to stay or leave the EU; yet no-one had the slightest clue what that entailed. This lack of transparency and planning has thrown the whole of the United Kingdom into constitutional crisis and the rest of Europe into political uncertainty for decades to come.

Again, the public have not been given the facts surrounding the infinite dangers of the weaponization of space. To many Trumps call for a Space Force sounded fun and was presented as a patriotic rally to support the troops. Neither the need nor the consequences were debated in the public arena. Indeed, it is going ahead before even being given approval by US Congress.

Since this leap-frogging over public consultation was the case with the development of nuclear weapons we have to ask; has this led to an attitude where a vast catalogue of secret programs can be pushed forward despite the lack of public education and approval?

This enforcement of what is essentially an economic policy without consulting the public spells out a happy yet grave naivety to the facts: “Politics is the continuation of economics by other means. War is the continuation of Politics by other means.” Money makes war seem an inevitable consequence of its very existence; and the public now applaud its way towards a war of immeasurable consequences.

We can deny this too, but can we deny the wars that have happened, or that Empires of the past were only able to sustain their power by accelerating their reach over other nations? India certainly seems game to enter the chaos and establish its space combat superiority. Is this the escalation the world needs given the consequences already discussed, and given the challenges already facing humankind?

Ignorance Breaks Orbit
Is our own complicity in the weaponization of ignorance really about to extend to the rest of the cosmos, simply because our leaders cannot agree to work out a plan to explore and extract resources from space together peacefully?

A video by India’s Ministry of Defence opens with words to justify the inevitable denial of facts: “Space has become an important element in a country’s economy and military superiority. Capability to defend against the space-based threats is a necessity.”

Some context:

– India recently shot one of its own space satellites with a missile, breaking it into large and tiny fragments now shooting around randomly in space.

– As someone who knows recently reminded me, in space – even a speeding grain of sand can be lethal to a human.

– The fact in denial? That this presents any danger to anyone.

Despite it being impossible to track every fragment and its multiple trajectories, the denial has been issued. It potentially endangers the international space station and satellites from many other protesting nations currently orbiting the earth.

Cosmic Levels of Denial

The call to deny the negative consequences of human activity on the world are too powerful. The profits from the extraction of oil make climate change denial necessary. The profits gained from space also necessitate patriotism in the race to dominate the earth from above.

However, like the suicidal tendencies to deny climate change, that same sad irony is repeated. Any future Space Force and planned weaponization of space have to account for the danger they present to those who decide to deploy such weapons themselves. Free-floating space debris will speed haphazardly like bullets out of the guns of a drunken cowboy.

If the use of Nuclear Weapons was held back by the insane policy of Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D), space weapons would have to negotiate with S.A.D – with Self Assured Destruction.

As Above So Below

You would hope that this and the wisdom that led President Ronald Reagan to reverse course on the weaponization of space in the 1980s would again win the day. It should be evident to any sane person how reckless it is for the world to normalize the idea of war from above. Those in the direct firing line of debris already working in space on the international space station are well aware of the dangers.

However, the debris from any conflicts in space will also cause a critical danger to the vulnerable populations below.

The seemingly sexy plans to develop weapons in space have the undesirable risks of their; use, abuse/misuse, hacking and a race towards new and unpredictable levels of war.

Any self-aware Artificial Intelligence reaching the Singularity (matching and surpassing human level consciousness) might be forgiven for believing humans have an irrecoverable malfunction.

A Question of Democracy

I ask you now; do you ever recall ‘voting’ for the development of space weapons? Is this your personal democratic choice? As with Trump’s calls for a Space Force, people were given a choice with Brexit – to stay or leave the EU; yet no one had the slightest clue what that entailed. This lack of transparency and planning has thrown the whole of the United Kingdom into a constitutional crisis and the rest of Europe into political uncertainty for decades to come.

Again, the public has not been given the facts surrounding the infinite dangers of the weaponization of space. Neither the need nor the consequences were debated in the public arena. Many felt Trump’s call for a Space Force sounded fun and was presented as a patriotic rally to support the troops. Indeed, it is going ahead before even being given approval by US Congress.

Since this leap-frogging over public consultation was the case with the development of nuclear weapons, we have to ask what sort of hidden culture this has led to? For example, where else can this attitude come from, where a vast catalogue of secret programs are pushed forward despite the lack of public education and approval?

This enforcement of what is essentially an economic policy without consulting the public spells out a happy yet grave naivety to the facts: “Politics is the continuation of economics by other means. War is the continuation of politics by other means.” Money makes war seem an inevitable consequence of its very existence, and the public now applauds its way towards a war of immeasurable consequences.

We can deny this also. Yet can we deny the wars that have happened or that empires of the past were only able to sustain their power by accelerating their reach over other nations? India certainly seems game to enter the chaos and establish its space combat superiority. Given the consequences already discussed and given the challenges already facing humankind, this could represent the world in irreverisble escalation.

Ignorance Breaks Orbit

Is our own complicity in the weaponization of ignorance about to extend to the rest of the cosmos? World leaders cannot work out a plan to extract resources from space peacefully – so it seems inevitable we will continue this trait beyond our horizons. Yet, we have to do more than just hope that we do not destroy them before we even get to decide.

The Weaponization of Ignorance

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn”

This quote is a sobering blow if we had any expectation that the millennium would represent some sort of pinnacle in human evolution due to incremental advances in science and technology. This realization is akin to waking up to the memory of your drunken tabletop dancing from the night before and realizing you were embarrassing yourself the whole time.

This striking prediction is a reminder that some people will go on believing their dancing was cool. A lot of people. Yet the prophecy is inaccurate in that it does not go far enough. It has already been surpassed by the jaw-dropping mentality dominating our times: “My opinion is better than a fact.”

This mantra’s ‘proactive’ component is most alarming as it exposes people’s willingness to use it. It ferments in the subconscious minds of those still drunk on the confidence of profound and misplaced certainty. Indeed, it has emboldened the uneducated who no longer retract in fear of what they do not understand. They instead gloat shamelessly in a cyclical panic derived from ‘alternative facts’ – influencing the populist policies of their supposed representatives. This is the era of the weaponization of ignorance.

This race down the hole isn’t exclusive to those who lap up the Trumpesque soundbites that supplant common sense, e.g. ‘windmills give you cancer.’ It is also embodied by the sentimental and the traditional since – both Left and Right wing policies treat the finite space and resources of the earth as infinite.

Our collective devotion to an outdated political system, Left vs Right – is a battle to control the rights to the earth’s destruction. Pushed for space, jobs, resources, money and time; this anxiety-driven state is similar to the boiling frog metaphor used to explain inaction on climate change.

Put a frog in boiling water, and it will jump out in pain. Put a frog in cool water, then slowly boil it, and the frog won’t notice the subtle temperature change until it is too late.

As the human population increases and our world becomes smaller, the unwillingness to relearn these facts as the cause of our collective boiling causes further anxiety and irrational beliefs. The result is endless jumping to misplaced solutions from both sides of the political debate.

The most unsettling characteristic is that these debates are the kinetic energy we use to boil ourselves. Holding out hope for the system that got us to this point in the first place is a self-contained cycle feeding off itself – a momentum powered by disastrously misplaced attention.

So, ‘the weaponization of ignorance‘ and our over-certainty in the political system are equally to blame. We can’t allow ourselves to over-react to the ignorant. We have to see what has gone wrong.

To arrive at a sustainable solution for our relationship with ourselves, others and the planet – we have to be willing to unlearn what we think we know, question everything all over again, starting with the system that depends on infinite growth on a finite planet. We need a prismatic approach, to see the bigger picture and quickly apply the correct solutions.