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Over time, the Western God has been transformed into a fundamentally dualistic
entity. He is still the great ruler of Earth as described in the Bible, the
leader of the angelic society and creator of the human race; but he now is also
the One Universal Consciousness of the Eastern faiths, the infinite energy force
that created the Cosmos. Are these two concepts just attributes of the same
"God" - or could it be that the biblical God is not a deity at all
in the absolute sense, instead representing an ultra-advanced extraterrestrial
species that is intimately involved in the affairs of Earth? This idea may seem
strange and radical at first, but we will show through logical analysis of ancient
scripture and modern UFO cases that it should indeed be true.
Let us begin this difficult subject with a story. How would you react if your
best and most trustworthy friend revealed to you that he had once had an encounter
with aliens?
"I took a long hike in the countryside one weekend," he begins. "It
started getting dark and I was still a long way from the campsite, and I was
really tired after a day of walking, so I just decided to lie down and rest.
I leaned my backpack against some stones for a pillow and soon fell asleep."
Your friend goes on to tell you that he awoke in the middle of the night and
saw an incredible vision: a beam of light stretched down from a hovering object
to the ground, and strange-looking beings were going up and down it. "It
was just like a ladder," he tells you, "and the leader of the aliens
was standing at the top of it. A deep booming voice suddenly proclaimed that
they wanted to 'spread my seed far and wide' and that they would watch me wherever
I went.
"I tell you," he gasps, "it just scared the crap out of me!
I woke up in the morning and didn't know whether it was a dream or what... but
it seemed so real. I'll never forget what happened that night. I just hope you
believe me - you're the only person I've ever told."
Would you really believe his story, or would you laugh it off as an idiotic
joke? Would you try to reassure him that it was only a dream? Or would you perhaps
pull out a Bible and turn to the 28th chapter of Genesis, where the patriarch
Jacob's nearly identical experience is described? Depending on your basic mindset
and your knowledge (or lack thereof) about the UFO phenomenon, you would either
confirm your friend's suspicion that he had perhaps witnessed an extraterrestrial
visitation; or you would shrug your shoulders with an open-minded smile; or
your response might be haughty laughter and rejection, telling him to see a
good shrink.
Although most people don't realize it - either because of indoctrination or
ignorance or general unwillingness to confront the truth - the Bible and other
ancient religious texts actually contain a multitude of stories which can easily
be rendered today as UFO sightings and encounters. This essay investigates the
evidence for such belief. We will discuss crucial principles that underlie a
completely new view of Judeo-Christianity. Furthermore, we will examine several
interesting examples in the Old and New Testaments that seemingly confirm the
theory of a long-standing, ongoing relationship between humans and more highly
evolved beings from the stars.
But before we go any further, it is of the utmost importance that we have a
solid understanding of what exactly the modern UFO phenomenon is.
For several decades, a growing number of people have claimed to see strange
unidentified flying objects which do not fit the description of any human-made
aerial craft. Some of the more commonly sighted UFOs are shining silvery disks
and glowing balls of light. Many sightings are reported to the police and military,
but the authorities have tended to disregard these reports as pranks or mere
lunacy. At one time, however, a serious U.S. government project called Blue
Book was launched to determine if UFOs were Soviet spy planes, but it soon was
closed down and a campaign of official silence promptly began. Hollywood science
fiction and the skeptical news media have given the whole subject of extraterrestrials
a bad name, undoubtedly causing many people to keep their paranormal experiences
secret.
In recent years though, there has been a tremendous explosion of serious interest
and insightful literature. Explainable cases are separated from the more mysterious.
Many people are coming forward with memories of alien visitation and abduction.
It must be mentioned that a large percentage of supposed UFO encounters - the
majority perhaps - are likely nothing more than misinterpretations of environmental
or mental phenomena. Regardless of this fact, established astronomers are now
finding many planets outside of our own solar system, validating the idea that
intelligent alien life should exist. The implications are incredible. What if
there are superhuman beings out there, and what if they know about us? How would
they look? How could they use their superior knowledge?
These questions make lots of people uneasy. They would rather simply ignore
the UFO phenomenon, retreating back into their personal shell of religious or
scientific doctrine. It is easy to ridicule those who have the courage to defy
orthodoxy and tell the world what they have seen:
"Little green men? Ha!"
"I suppose he was a drunken hick who woke up in his pickup and thought
it was aliens."
"Obviously a pot-smoking New Age freak who wants to believe."
"He's probably just a desperate fool trying to make a buck on a sensational
story."
"Absolutely crazy. Clinically insane. The woman must be screwed up in her
head and doesn't realize it."
"I don't care what anyone says. They didn't really see anything. I won't
believe they did."
This prevalent attitude is extremely immature. What motivation would an average
person have to tell a story that no one will believe? - unless he firmly believes
it himself. Hardly anyone makes money from a lie or a hoax; even Whitley Strieber's
famous book about his own alien encounters, Communion, was refused publication
by the firm that sold his prior books and then rejected by dozens of other publishing
houses. According to prominent psychologist and ufologist Raymond E. Fowler
in The Watchers,
"... at the 1987 meeting of the American Psychological Association in
New York, participants agreed that a detailed study of alleged UFO abductees
revealed them to be normal people from all walks of life. It was concluded that
their experiences could not be accounted for strictly on the basis of psychopathology.
Thus, what we ended up with are both professional and nonprofessional normal
people, cutting across the total social strata, who really believe that they
have been abducted by aliens from a UFO."
Although it is usually assumed (as with any unconventional idea) that believers
must prove without a doubt that the phenomenon is of an extraterrestrial nature,
the burden of proof actually rests on the skeptical side of this issue. One
should remember that only one UFO encounter out of millions need be real in
order for the believers to be correct. To put it another way, skeptics must
demonstrate that all cases are false if we are to rationally believe that otherworldly
beings are not making their presence known on Earth. The Universe is an incomprehensibly
large and exciting place. Things should be going on that we can barely begin
to imagine.
One can discuss the subject of UFOs forever, analyzing various cases and arguing
about whether or not they are legitimate examples of a superhuman presence on
our planet. But perhaps the most convincing reason to believe modern stories
of alien encounters is that remarkably similar stories have been told since
ancient times. Though most people don't see this connection, it is logical to
look at religion first when trying to find examples of the phenomenon in the
distant past: after all, the ancients would most likely cloak any encounters
with higher beings in a profoundly mystical shroud of dogma, and these "visits
by the gods" would certainly appear in holy scripture. With the passage
of time and the advancement of civilization, we have collectively cast aside
our old belief in the pantheon of supernatural beings; but today's knowledge
strongly suggests that superhuman extraterrestrials really do exist and might
somehow affect us. It is time to strip "God" of all his theological
accoutrements, to lay bare the core nature of the various "lords,"
"spirits," "angels," and such who have been said to populate
the vast skies above.
Since the Bible is known by most people, we should ask if this widely believed
history of the Hebrew people contains examples of superhuman beings coming down
to Earth. Obviously it does - the angels and their leader Yahweh make prominent
appearances in the text - but the real question is whether these higher beings
are extraterrestrials, and if so, if they are the same aliens seen today. What
is an "extraterrestrial," an "alien"? Both terms basically
refer to any nonhuman being who comes from somewhere other than planet Earth.
What is a "superhuman"? Quite simply, it would be a being more advanced
than us, possessing incredible technology and seeming supernatural in comparison
to ourselves. Thus, it can be concluded that the Bible does indeed deal with
the subject of extraterrestrials, for the superhumans described therein come
from the heavens (space) and have virtually unlimited power over the affairs
of Earth (due to their high level of development). Some people may be automatically
repulsed by this idea, but this is only because of comical stereotypes about
aliens: the popular culture has turned the whole subject into a joke, and this
lack of seriousness leads to a total misunderstanding of the UFO phenomenon.
We must realize that ultra-advanced real extraterrestrials would not act like
those in the movies and comic books (which are merely a creation of the limited
human mind), instead appearing to humanity as a race of gods.
Before people knew that other planets and solar systems sprinkle the depths
of space, before they could conceive of "space aliens" in the misguided
sense we do today, our ancient ancestors interpreted visits from the sky in
a much less sophisticated way. They idealized relatively higher beings as absolute
rulers of the Universe - but remember that their universe was nothing more than
the land, sea, and sky of what we now know to be one tiny planetary speck. "Heaven"
was outside the world they knew, but we can now see that it should be only as
exotic as another earth circling another star. The gods of old are part of the
physical Cosmos just like us, an idea that traditional religious institutions
have blindly refused to accept. When Yahweh commanded the Israelites to "have
no other gods before me," when he said in the Torah "I am a jealous
God"... his meaning was more literal than we wish to realize. Like a king
who demands alleigance to the nation, so too was the Western God a lord who
wanted to retain control of his angelic legions and his human slaves. The power
struggle with Lucifer was much like a political campaign, each side producing
propaganda to win over the simpletons who tilled the fields of Sumeria.
In any case, the important idea is that the early Hebrews believed in "Elohim,"
a plural term which should be literally translated as "the gods."
The single being we today think of as God was the ruler of planet Earth during
that time - a being called Yahweh by the people of Israel and Enlil by the people
of Mesopotamia. He was physical and imperfect, as were all the other superhumans,
but because of their relative superiority in all respects - biological, intellectual,
spiritual, technological - they were deified by virtually every ancient culture
including the one that produced our Bible. Consider that in the biblical creation
story the Elohim say (Genesis 1:26), "let us make man in our image, after
our likeness..." The plurality of God in this quote is no coincidence.
As Dr. Zecharia Sitchin explains in his groundbreaking book, Genesis Revisited,
"... what went on was the editing and summarizing by compilers of the
Book of Genesis of much earlier and considerably more detailed texts first written
down in Sumer."
The Sumerian gods were called Anunnaki, translated as "those who came
down from the heavens." They were said to have interbred with primitive
humans to produce the intelligent variety that built civilization.
We thus begin our discussion of the Bible with a thought-provoking quote:
"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth...
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they
took them wives of all which they chose. There were giants in the earth in those
days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of
men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of
old, men of renown. (Genesis 6:1-2,4.)
The term "sons of God" has an equivalent meaning to "angels"
- it is used in various instances to show superhuman racial lineage and membership
in the society of the Elohim, much like one could be called "a son of the
black man." What this shocking biblical passage indicates is the belief
that gods are physical beings so genetically similar to Homo sapiens as to make
interbreeding possible. Great heroes in ancient societies were often called
demigods - and the Hebrews evidently were inclined to do the same thing. Their
early patriarchs were each said to have lived hundreds of years. Their Elohim
were just like the Sumerian deities before them and the Greek ones afterward:
powerful beings who looked and acted much like humans and were intimately involved
with them.
It is important at this point that we clarify some physical traits associated
with aliens. First of all, two distinct types have always been seen. There is
a species of tall, strong, beautiful, intelligent beings who resemble ourselves
and live much longer; they thus appear lord like and seem immortal. These are
the gods who are said to have mixed with humanity, and their hybrid offspring
were somewhat superior to average people and "of old" as stated in
the passage from Genesis. Today, people who encounter them often give them the
name "Nordics." The second commonly observed kind of extraterrestrials
are now called the "greys." They look like small anthropoids with
large heads and a frightening countenance, the most prominent feature being
huge black eyes. The greys have no free will, and it is likely that their brains
are preprogrammed or collectively controlled. One Sumerian story tells of their
creation by the Anunnaki to watch over humans and planet Earth as loyal servants;
but the only modern Western religion that differentiates between the two species
is Islam, which recognizes the jinn (highly evolved, intelligent beings with
free will) and the angels who automatically obey Allah. Lucifer was a jinn,
for example, who rebelled against what we know today to be merely one of higher
rank, starting a great war between rival factions.
UFO's and the Bible - Part 2 Continued Here...
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