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Originally posted by mikesingh
I think not! The paradigm shift in the human psyche to comprehend, understand and accept would probably take another couple hundred years, maybe more, as I’ve mentioned earlier. So don’t be under the impression that disclosure by the governments is close at hand. It’s not going to be - at least not in our lifetimes! We’re not ready yet and more importantly, there’s too much at stake here.
Originally posted by mikesingh
There has been a lot of discussion on why the discovery of life (especially advanced life forms) or perhaps even contact is being kept secret by the powers that be and why they aren’t disclosing the truth. Why are they hiding it from the public? Well, my take is that any disclosure of life on another planetary body whether primitive or advanced, especially the latter, would have wide ranging ramifications. What will be the short-term and long-term effects of such disclosure on people, institutions, and cultures?
• General panic in vast segments of populations leading to breakdown of law and order. This, of course, would vary profoundly in different cultures and between groups within societies.
• Profound emotional and intellectual consequences resulting in a sea change in attitudes and human values.
• The fear of disintegration of our society when confronted by a superior one, becoming a ‘slave’ race as a consequence.
• Stock markets crashing around the world due to fear and uncertainty resulting in an economic melt down with across-the-board consequences.
• Far reaching implications on our religious belief systems.
So now you know what you are up against! If you were in a position of authority in the government would you opt for disclosure? Maybe not! At least not yet.
Perhaps graduated disclosure is what is needed and probably already happening. But it would need a paradigm shift and evolutionary change in the human psyche to accept and absorb the reality that we are not alone, but just a miniscule part of the greater whole of universal life in the cosmos.
Today, for most, it is incomprehensible that there could be advanced alien cultures probably billions of years ahead of us spiritually and technologically. How many can accept that? Our thinking is driven by our religious belief systems, that we are the only intelligent species God created in the universe. How can there be others more advanced than us?
That said, let’s consider the positive side of what would happen if there was disclosure resulting in open contact and interaction with technologically and spiritually advanced extra terrestrial cultures. This, needless to say, after we’re ready for it, perhaps a couple hundred years in the future:
• The birth of humanism, a system of thought that rejects religious beliefs and centers on humans and their values, capacities, worth and the welfare of humanity as a whole.
• Graduate into a Type 1 civilization harnessing free, unlimited energy, and utilizing all its forms and manifestations in a positive way for the common good of mankind. There would be no wars of domination for oil, an inefficient and non renewable source of energy. We would finally break out from the energy stranglehold to become a truly planetary civilization.
• Control of weather and radiation for ideal crop management throughout the world. There would be no hunger, no children dying of starvation.
• Join the so called Galactic Federation (If there is such a thing) for the overall progress of mankind on the spiritual and technological planes.
• Reaching out for the stars – the final frontier - with advanced technology that we can only dream of at present.
• The renaissance of the human spirit, graduating to a higher plane of existence.
• Finally, through the doorway to the grandeur of a Type 2 civilization, harnessing the energy of the galaxy in the not too distant future.
But as per Dr Edgar Mitchell: "This is really starting to open up. I think we're headed for real disclosure.”
I think not! The paradigm shift in the human psyche to comprehend, understand and accept would probably take another couple hundred years, maybe more, as I’ve mentioned earlier. So don’t be under the impression that disclosure by the governments is close at hand. It’s not going to be - at least not in our lifetimes! We’re not ready yet and more importantly, there’s too much at stake here.
Disappointed? Well, that’s the way it is!
Have a nice day!
Cheers!
Originally posted by TH3ON3
Who says that would happen. Most people would go right on with their lives and take one day at a time. Just because all the goofballs at the brookings institute way back in the dinosaur days said that would happen doesn't make it so.
Originally posted by TH3ON3
Thanks for backing the government though, which I'm told is the politically correct thing to do.
Originally posted by NGC2736
I won't use examples, but we all know that the rate of "change" in the world has increased exponentially. Each single year during the 20th century, our world changed more than it did per century only a few hundred years before. I expect that before this century is half over, we'll be tripling that rate of change.
And adapting to change has always been the strong point of our species.