Preserving Exopolitics as a Guiding Force

Preserving Exopolitics as a Guiding Force

By

Giorgio Piacenza

We can reasonably assume that thousands of public and anonymous witness testimonies of contact with non-human intelligences across the world denote something much more real than wishful thinking or other forms of delusion. Most witnesses appear to be sincere,  functional and only reluctantly are willing to share their stories.  Neither psychologists nor sociologists or skeptic natural scientists can explain it all away in a reasonable manner. Moreover, physical traces, multiple witnesses of UFOs associated with the events make it unreasonable to consider all of it simply the product of a modern myth.

Furthermore, these testimonies may be only a few of the total number of experiences worldwide.  Thus, it is reasonable to assume that they, along with official disclosures of Government investigations by To the Stars Academy (disclosing the AATIP program), official, declassified UFO documents by several countries and the testimonies of verified Government whistleblowers, taken together establish a rich argument that (however odd or mysterious or “implausible” it may be) Earth and humanity are being visited. It establishes the distinct possibility that our species is currently interacting with scientifically (and, quite likely, metaphysically) advanced non-human intelligences, habitually associated with genuine UFO sightings.  

But, despite seven decades of UFO research (in many cases well-guided by the scientific method); despite hundreds of UFO conferences and thousands of books published, the general public is still largely unconcerned and disconnected about these realities. Furthermore, their political and cultural leaders do not care (or dare) to acknowledge it due to risk to their careers, reputations and livelihoods. The issues and consequences are enormous.

Nonetheless, the idea of ongoing human-extraterrestrial contact (or simply of an extraterrestrial presence) has become more credible due to a mounting number of serious reports. For instance through revelations by To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences and through research of contact experience testimonies (as by MUFON and the F.R.E.E. foundation), through documentaries associated with MUFON, The History Channel and official UFO files being released more thinking people are accepting the possibility.  Well-documented books on Government involvement researching UFOs by Timothy Good, Richard Dolan, Leslie Kean, and Michael Salla has made reality become more acceptable to larger segments of the collective (at least in some Western and westernized countries). And, since disclosure is becoming more acceptable, it is no surprise that some popular voices have emerged trying to influence the direction that such a disclosure could take.  

Along with serious revelations mounting up, there is a growing plethora of exciting but unsubstantiated narratives and that which to a large extent are pseudo testimonies selling disinformation: Truths mixed with untruths. There is an environment in which there is broad suspicion of anything related to Governments, to power elites and to secret groups. This is channeled into specific narratives through bold, authority-based (in fact authoritarian), alleged whistleblower affirmations: these provide easy answers and a sense of meaning and satisfaction. There are rallies, conferences, videos providing trillion dollar adventuresome sagas of a struggle of good vs. evil in which elites and the military have been secretly participating for decades, utilizing the masses or defending selfish interests, all issues that divert the attention of people anxious to know more.

This is a phenomenon largely based on popularity ratings catering not only to the UFO phenomenon curious but to disenchanted segments of the population, those that have a general sense that the Government has forgotten them, that it lies and plots against them, in fact, also lying about vital UFO matters. So, this which we could call the “fake disclosure movement”  rides upon the anti-Establishment wave riddled with “fake news.” This wave is riddled with notorious pseudo – saviors, personifying a simplistic solution to deeper human needs and has been gaining notoriety in the political and commercial milieus, unfortunately, miseducating the masses and endangering the building of a carefully assessed understanding. There is a similarity with how the alt-right and its associated fake news enterprises endanger the healthy preservation and improvement of reason-based liberal democracies more amenable to the search for objective truths and the improvement of how politics and cultures have unfolded around the world.

Not unlike scientific and religious dogmas and doctrines, alleged whistleblowers almost agree to form an almost coherent narrative which becomes like a new dogma and doctrine. It is  something which many come to accept without question, that of the most bizarre type of Secret Space Program either contributing to or battling against an “evil cabal” in a post-truth, good vs. evil scenario of interplanetary proportions in which – quite often - extraterrestrials behave like selfish brats willing to share technology with an immature, militaristic species…us. Accordingly, the whole issue of a careful, evidence-based assessment and educational disclosure (eventually leading to a much needed, carefully thought, exopolitical response to an extraterrestrial presence) becomes entangled with drivel. And maybe in this chaotic situation, a post-disclosure, national security-based, Government-supported (but also highly biased and incomplete explanation) could find its way as a rightful measure to restore guidance and order.

Many of us, unfortunately, see that some of the partially coinciding statements made by unverified whistleblowers are becoming popular in the UFO, Exopolitics and Disclosure ‘communities’; that the main outlines of the stories are being admitted to guide exopolitical discourse without sufficient research or evidence. But this situation doesn’t fit the standards of a careful Exopolitics or of the emerging discipline of Exopolitics which should eventually guide practical, political decision-making. The poverty of vetting debases the discipline which needs to mature and to establish itself under higher critical standards. Accepting what could be called the “extreme SSP” (ESSP) demeans how careful exopolitical assessments, in general, might be seen in the eyes of a critical thinking population and decision-makers.

In an age in which valid information is combined with thrilling, entertaining, scary but doubtful assertions to make a political impact by propping up what segments of the population want to believe, the presentation of more careful and rational exopolitical assessments runs the risk of being confounded with a popular belief system. Thus, we must strengthen a mire rational exopolitics and go back to its basics. Responsible exopolitical thinkers must try to develop the discipline under reason-based foundations. 

If an extraterrestrial presence is sufficiently proven to a vast segment of the population, practical exopolitical decisions should not be left solely in the hands of believe-based decision-makers,  whether influenced by “extreme SSP” narratives, or by ethnic and religious biases or simply because the decision-makers are primarily related with national security ways of thinking. All reasonable intelligence must come to bear on the issue.

Furthermore, citizens from as many countries as possible must be better-informed through careful exopolitical assessments of multiple sources to participate as voters in the exopolitical decisions that will affect their lives after Official Disclosure or after gradual, partial disclosures advance to the point of becoming widely accepted that advanced, non-human intelligences are among us. They must be educated on the issues and possibilities regarding what their representatives or leaders are about to decide concerning the “visitors,” even perhaps through referendums or by electing officials that – for the most part - represent reasonable views. Therefore, their personal views must not be distorted by tall tales, such as the appeal to battle fantastic evils, leading to a witch hunt of the unbelievers under populist, extreme SSP narratives.

The odds are that a more careful - even if less entertaining - use of reason should prevail in the long run for our species to adapt to and participate with a new reality. Left unchecked, we can expect that an exopolitics originally based on a careful, comparative analysis and vetting of evidence using critical thinking can become (like some current alt-right and some extreme left-wing political views) a matter of faith. And it is not too farfetched to assume that, sooner or later, anyone not agreeing with the populist sagas will be branded as part of the “evil conspiracy.”

Thus, the degradation of exopolitics proceeds in parallel with the current, populist degradation of institutions in modern liberal democracies, a lack of faith in rational principles, including the faith-based acceptance of (fake) news and statements fueled by the (partially correct) questioning of the Establishment. 

After the 2016 U.S. elections, it became well-known that formerly solvent, working class and middle-class individuals FELT that the system was not working for them and that they became easy targets to a new populist,  intolerant, right-wing agenda still catering to the rich but communicating in ways that resonated with them.  Due to their frustrations, they were now eager to acknowledge conspiracy theories. As a result, ethnic and xenophobic separations in the U.S. (and similarly in other countries undergoing similar dynamics) are rising. People are being disunited at a time we need to solve global problems together. And the ecology is being mishandled by anti-scientific, right-wing decisions.

In a more interdependent age which should possibly extend to welcoming and working with non-human or extraterrestrial presences already interacting in our world, the overall ethos has become more adversarial, especially for those prone to believing demagogues that speak to their frustrations. Intolerance and suspicion against individuals that compete with the predominance of our identity groups has already degraded the possibility of a rational politics. Could this also extend into the role a responsible exopolitics must have?

Nuts and bolts, scientific Ufology established the existence of unknown, intelligently-guided aerial or aerospace vehicles exhibiting advanced characteristics that overcome space and time restrictions. Exopolitics was essentially born as a need to adequately assess what this situation might mean for humanity to make adequate political decisions. 

Both ufology and exopolitics asserted from the start that “The Government” lied and hid the truth about UFOs and extraterrestrials from its constituents.  But in today’s “post-truth,” political movements this lack of trust in the official truth has sometimes turned into a popular demand for a truth that appeals to the anti-establishment, alt-right. People want answers even if these only appeal to their biases. Thus, it is no surprise that a movement like “Q-anon” has emerged as a popular movement within ufology and exopolitics. Based on alleged testimonies of a few individuals, it provides fast-track answers (and a sense of meaning and relief) to a significant segment of individuals in the ufology and exopolitics polity who are also attracted to the “anti-Establishment” rhetoric. Of course, I don’t deny that the Establishment needs correction and that politics needs to free itself from its corporate overlords but we also need to carefully separate “the wheat from the chaff” in relation to this.

Today (in part due to the relatively conservative-yet-significant revelations of To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences (TTSA) validating the existence of technologically advanced objects of unknown origin) we live in milestone, “slow release” disclosure times. And the importance of who is going to control the explanations which could sooner or later be demanded by society (or societies) cannot be minimized. Will it be the exciting, extreme SSP conspiracy theorists claiming to know who is who in the “evil cabal” of sickly power mongers led by dreadful extraterrestrial overlords? Or will it be (rather boring but likely more precise) voices speaking about carefully assessed evidence?

Serious ufology using the scientific method of the natural sciences also determined that there is enough forms of evidence to arrive to the same conclusions as presented by TTSA.  Serious exopolitics using the scientific method standards within the social sciences also determined that there are enough forms of evidence to arrive to the same elemental conclusions being  presented by TTSA.  But it took TTSA for the media to (at least temporarily) for once to consider the importance of these subjects as TTSA relied on the almost official authority represented by former intelligence agents working on UFO research and also on the authority represented by career scientists and engineers formerly working inside credible technologically advanced military projects. Thus, TTSA brought new impetus to the possibility of a massive disclosure and (besides formerly classified movie footage) it may soon demonstrate the anomalous behavior of “metamaterials” alleged fallen from UFOs. Thus, most basic conclusion already reached by Ufology and Exopolitics (that there are technologically advanced interacting objects of unknown origin possibly not fabricated in any country on Earth while displaying characteristics that challenge a classical understanding of physics) is almost officially validated. If this situation progresses, social demands for a careful assessment of the relationship between humans and technologically-advanced non-humans may soon require the assessments of well-informed, level-headed minds.

The basic questions remain: Who are they? What do they want? Are we safe? There are many answers that have to be carefully classified as more or less plausible. Regarding a rather elusive phenomenon we need to build our certainties more carefully.

Extreme SSP narratives (ESSP) prevent the tough effort of establishing a reasonable, balanced, credible understanding in society supported by degrees of evidence-based answers through multiple sources of evidence. Individuals listening to a cacophony of explanations will not know who to listen to or trust, and their personal biases may be exploited. Extreme SSP narratives may also scare citizens and unjustly mobilize a segment of the population against whom they consider to be allied with the “evil cabal.” This situation may thwart the difficult exopolitical process of convincing the overall polity about a reasonable exopolitical course of action in response to the ‘visitors’ presence. Moreover, reasonable, evidence-based exopoliticians can be opposed by voters if their suggestions do not match an extreme SSP dogma they have come to accept.

Extreme SSP alleged whistleblowers might give us plenty of immediate, detailed, pseudo-answers, telling us who is “good” or “evil” in the saga and who we should support. But these answers can prevent a careful understanding which must prevail.

On the other hand, TTSA (also legitimately focused on “national security”) may make us aware that there is a potential threat as “the visitors” can potentially manipulate us; that they have shut down nuclear silos; that they indeed “fly around” unimpeded over our nation-states (our sovereign air space territories). By focusing on the negative, TTSA can make us aware that some cases of damages to the brains of individuals that got too close to some of the vehicles took place.  They might also know about some incidents in which ‘the others’ retaliated to military aggression or even, perhaps, initiated aggression.  Then again, these suspicions by TTSA can be justified but also exaggerated and/or overgeneralized due to a (partially valid and simultaneously incomplete) national security mindset of most TTSA’s members. We should not generalize about all of the ‘visitors’ or non-human intelligences while forgetting what a majority of contact experiencers tell us about them. The latter are the ones interacting with them and a complex situation like this requires all political ‘actors’ all reasonably valid ‘voices’ to be heard. This is not about a belief-based national security biased assessment vs. a belief-based contactee assessment.

Shouldn’t we try to get to know them more closely in the first place? To know who is who and among them and under which rules they operate? Has there been long-term, trust-building, benign, objective contact experiences associated with contact groups like the Rahma contact group? Shouldn’t we study their narratives as well even if (to those steeped in Machiavellian Real Politik) they may seem to be excessively idealistic or pseudo-religious?

Experiencers, in general, seem to be in a different category because they seem to have experienced a whole range of possibilities regarding “our visitors,” and this counteracts the idea that they are being given a simple narrative to believe and retransmit. The broad range of experiencer narratives do not resemble the Extreme SSP narratives. To be more objective and less biased, we need to use this experiencer data as making important plausible pieces of the puzzle, especially if there are patterns of agreement among them.  Moreover, to experiencers passively waiting to be contacted, we must add those individuals now actively seeking contact, those who sometimes become successful CE-5 experiencers. What can they tell us about the non-human intelligences? Is their participation a form of exopolitical participation.also representing humanity in the cosmic neighborhood or community?

In either case, (in spite of a minority of cases that may be deemed “negative”) the picture that emerges through the personal accounts of most contact experiencers is that of a preponderance of benign, well-intended encounters. They also do not speak of an International Corporate Fleets making deals with a Draco Empire or of the U.S. Navy traveling to different star systems.

And plausible data such as the one provided by experiencers (for instance valid pieces of data obtained through the anonymous survey of the F.R.E.E. Foundation) should not be confounded with the extreme SSP narratives that often are supported by the assertions of only a few poorly vetted individuals, even if their narratives partially coincide. In fact, some of these assertions  remind us of anthropocentric and local cultural biases.

In an age in which interdependence and the need for peaceful, intelligent cooperation is not going away, fake news linked with separatist, identitarian movements of the destructive kind; an “us vs. them” mentality that disunites the human family. We need to save the idea of  the “global village”; to be more solidary with each other to face the reality that is impinging unto our awareness, learning how to extend this solidarity to the visitors in an intelligent, mutually beneficial, safe manner. Therefore, we cannot simply follow a minority of poorly vetted individuals: We need to save the possibility of a rational exopolitics as a valid alternative to the Extreme SSP narratives vying for the attention of the public and our political leaders.