Having already adjusted their own genome patterns, Exordicans would look at this research as a way to the future. Obvious to some that their psychological makeup has become too introspective, xenophobic and cautious for their own good, they would wish to instil more adventurous, carefree attitudes, so enabling them to be more outward looking and expansionist in nature. It's probably the case that genes for these purposes no longer exist in the Exordican genome, or, if they did, they would be interlocked with others in complex ways difficult to extricate. Fresh blood: this was the answer arrived at some years ago. If alien DNA was found to be compatible with their own, then the task of selecting alien genes to combine with their genetic code would be a logical step. Perhaps by borrowing, or, rather stealing, the genes of other species, they would be able to alter their own to become more youthful and outgoing, so saving the future for themselves.
This is almost akin to vampirism! Instead of drinking blood, they dig deeper to extract the very living genes, the core of existence. The task would be enormously complex. Adding alien genes to their own would be a matter of trial and error over many generations, and, given that the generations of Exordican beings are so very long in years themselves, observing the results of the experiments would take even longer still. It would also be important to shield the experimental progeny from the general psychological attitude prevailing in the ship, otherwise the results would be somewhat tainted. It's the old argument of nature verses nurture!
Encountering earth was a bonus for the Exordicans. If, over years of experimentation, they found that we are compatible, at least in some ways, with themselves, then we become targets. If abductions occur on this planet, it must mean that we, or our genetic materials, are required for the production of biological robots and also the experimental altering of their own genes. If this latter hypothesis is true, we are probably in great danger. Biological similarities may leave us susceptible to their viruses, bacteria or other agents. Would they care if we all came down with a variety of their flu? Probably not!
Of course, it could also be said that they would be susceptible to our diseases. Undoubtedly this would be the case but thinking of the conservative Exordican psychology, we quickly know that they will never be in danger from anything like that. They won't get caught out like the Martians in H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds! They are much too clever for our bacteria! When first encountering earth, the programme of approach would have been cagey in the extreme, sampling with robotic probes, testing every facet of life on this planet. As mentioned earlier, the samples would not go beyond the confines of smaller ships, far removed from the main asteroid ship. Eventually they would come to know, over hundreds of years of research, much more about us than we know about ourselves. Our greatest medical experts are probably nothing in ability and experience compared to them, the difference being though that our medical experts care for us while the Exordicans care only for themselves and nothing else. I'd rather have ours!
When eventually the Exordicans were satisfied that they could safely handle everything that this planet had to offer, the doors would have been opened a little. There would be absolutely no danger to them from any of our viruses, bacteria or even things like prion reagents. It is probably galling to consider that extraterrestrials in our planetary system right at this very moment know virtually everything about us, including our biological systems outside in, and, in doing so, they probably know how to cure every one of our diseases and ailments. They'll have the cure for cancer, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, muscular dystrophy, CJD, aids, botulism and anything else you care to mention. They would have attained these cures through intense and advanced medical research, the like of which is beyond us by centuries, and also by unethical techniques which would make us cringe.
Before we give ourselves a congratulatory pat on the back for being such good citizens, we should remember that humanity itself has acted just as bad. One only has to think of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz, Belsen and the many others in Europe where millions of Jews, gypsies, communists and anyone else despised by the regime were put to death. Supposedly in the name of science, people were experimented on and subsequently killed for the sake of results. Remember Dr. Mengele? Particularly cold blooded were the experiments performed on hundreds of identical twins: one was tested while the other remained as a reference then both were dissected to determine the results. Many of the twins were children.
This utter lack of compassion, this reptilian detachment, is something that humanity is capable of doing to itself. It has happened in the Nazi death camps, the Soviet gulags, Japanese prison of war camps, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, to name but a few, all in just one century. Before we criticise the Exordicans it would be best to look at our own actions first. Perhaps the saving grace for ourselves is the fact that we know the depths to which we can descend and take steps to see that they will never take place again. Exordicans, following similar episodes in their own history, may have had similar thoughts millions of years ago: now they've forgotten.
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Phase 10
Myths and Facts
We have a situation where extraterrestrials may be present within our own solar system. They've been here for hundreds of years, carefully examining every aspect of our existence until the time was right for them to strike. The Exordicans are carrying out their plan. First they helped themselves to material resources from the many satellites and asteroid bodies in the solar system and now they continue their quest for biological resources by plundering the genetic material found on earth. In the past, countless beings have been disseminated and dissected in order to see how they tick. Presently they are in the process of removing our reproductive cells to make biological robots and to augment their own biological future.
Who knows what the truth really is? At the very least, many people living and working on earth could have sons and daughters they don't know about, working as slaves for the Exordicans. Genetically altered, these creatures continually toil until unfit for further use. Their minds and souls cruelly removed, they will have no concept of their origins.
That's why Exordicans could be here. Travelling at speeds one hundredth that of light, they are a nomadic people who left their homeworld in ruins several million years ago. Able to live for thousands upon thousands of years through genetic engineering, they have evolved a withdrawn, risk—free psychology that promotes seclusion and secrecy.
I have given them the name of Exordicans but they could be any other race in the galaxy. It is very likely that extraterrestrials visiting earth or other planets beyond their own system in interstellar space will, because of the restrictions involved in physics and space travel, make their journeys in arks taking huge time durations. If they are here, then this, by far, is the most likely way they will have accomplished the task. As a consequence of living in space, the Exordicans will have evolved to resemble the so-called “Grey” alien, so accepted in our current beliefs concerning this subject.
Where did this image of the Greys come from and why is it so prevalent in our society today? There is a great danger of a chicken and egg scenario here. The theory in this book concerning their origin may have been subconsciously directed to fit the perceived and accepted outcome. Had the common conception of extraterrestrials been something with three heads, each with tentacles, atop a body seventeen feet high, then the theory would have been contradictory of the supposed evidence. Similarly, an evolutionary space theory could have predicted the same ridiculous space monster but, it didn't. Curiously, the theory seems to fit rather well with the common Grey image.
Centuries ago when the concept of space flight was restricted mainly to lunatics, the Grey image didn't really exist. We lived in a profoundly religious society where church doctrine was taken as fact, far more so than secular or scientific beliefs. Almost everyone had faith in god and an afterlife: the devil was a real creature; church attendance was very high; the vicissitudes of life were put down to a battle between good and ev
il, god and the devil. While it was important to act through your faith in god to assure an everlasting existence for yourself in heaven, current life here on earth was regarded with a certain amount of futility.
People did have strange experiences but not of Grey aliens. Devils, goblins, imps and ghouls came to visit during the night to terrorise us. There was no concept at all of extraterrestrials perpetrating these acts of terror; all experiences were related to the religious beliefs of the era. Curiously, some of the images of the things that came from hell to commit mischief have a slight resemblance to the Grey alien. When people had complaint of demons to relate, it was the belief that they came from the depths of darkness, almost, it would seem, from the depths of space.
Why do we have this concept of darkness and evil? Why is light, especially bright light, always associated with good? The things that harmed us came in the night while god and angels were associated with a light that pierced through the blackness. Hell was a completely horrible place in not just western religious beliefs but in others too. In the theory portrayed in this book, the Exordicans came out of the darkness of interstellar space, they resembled demons, and their ship is probably a good representation of hell. Once entered, the possibility of escape from the asteroid ship was minimal.
Perhaps everyone has become rather blasé about extraterrestrials? Since the 1950's, since the days of Sputnik, we've been bombarded with media presentations of alien beings, so much so that we regard them as a run of the mill thing. They are everywhere from cereal packets, spaghetti shapes to a warehouse furniture store, believe it or not. TV programmes like Star Trek, Doctor Who, Dark Skies and Lost in Space and movies like Star Wars, Forbidden Planet and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are but a few examples of the thousands upon thousands of alien representations constantly bought to our attention by the media. Switch on the TV for a day, and it's more than likely that somewhere in the schedule a being not from this earth will appear.
Obviously the subject is immensely popular because programmes are governed by ratings figures based on people's opinions out there. The feedback creates even more popularity—it is a vicious circle. The alien Grey has become more than just a popular figure in the media, it has become a symbol instantly recognisable to virtually everyone worldwide. It has evolved into a self-perpetuating myth, the origin of which is lost in the mists of obscurity and time.
To answer the question of which came first, the sighting or the media myth, I would tentatively suggest the former but then, the presence of the latter could reinforced the image of the Grey alien in the minds of people for whom the belief of alien abduction is a real one. For example, if a person has gone through a psychologically disturbing experience which, in their opinion, was caused by aliens abducting them, it's more than likely that their visions of the responsible abductors will resemble that of the Grey because of the pre—suggested media images. There may be lots of cases where people either believe they've been abducted or, in fact, make up a story that they have. Let's face it, not all the stories can be true! In these cases, a handy image of the alien is already there and its an acceptable one which others could believe in.
It's actually a rather strange situation. Here we are in the twenty first century with no official evidence that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Despite SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) campaigns for decades using all manner of radio telescopes using ultra sophisticated multi channel receivers, no signal has ever been detected which would indicate the existence of intelligent life. All attempts have drawn a blank. Despite searches in the solar system using robotic probes, nothing resembling life has been discovered. Many theories exist, of course, including the idea that fossilised Martian microbes have been found on earth meteorites, but they remain just that—theories. So here we are with no evidence of extraterrestrial life and we have a commonly accepted picture of an alien species, namely the Greys.
According to an ABC poll carried out in 2000 to discern American beliefs on life in the universe, etc., 47% think intelligent life exists elsewhere while 45% don't. Apparently, younger people are more susceptible to this belief. Further to this, 27% generally believe that aliens may have visited earth at some time and 9% base this belief on the evidence available. Translated, this means that less than one person in ten is certain enough to take UFO sightings and other evidence as direct proof of alien visitations.
Figures, of course, do not necessarily make something true. If the figure for those believing in the existence of life elsewhere in the universe was 99%, this still represents only an opinion and, as everyone knows, opinions can be wrong. Because something is popular it doesn't make it right. Conversely, a probability of only 1% still has a chance. For example, in a horse race an outsider winning at 100/1 comes as a bit of a shock to most of the racegoers, all except the few who backed it.
There also seems to be a disparity in the distribution of UFO sightings and beliefs across the world. Areas which have a strong and rigid religious code do not report many UFO incidents. There isn't the same widespread belief in them either. Muslim countries fall into this area because their adamant beliefs do not require aliens or extraterrestrial life, regarding the issues to be of a superfluous nature with little relevance to everyday life. Where someone in the west would see an odd shaped cloud to wonder if it is a spaceship from another star system, someone in Afghanistan, to give an example, would merely see an odd shaped cloud.
It's certainly the case in most western countries that religion doesn't play the major role it did some years ago. There is a progressive move from the religious to the secular in just about every country in Europe and the Americas and to fill this spiritual vacuum, many have turned to a wide variety of alternative beliefs and lifestyles, ufology being just one of them. Some have an eschatological desire for the coming of aliens in the same way that others with a fundamental Christian outlook believe in the Second Coming and the day of judgement.
The quasi—religious belief in extraterrestrials is often irrational and certainly not scientific. Neglecting logical thought on the matter, they off-load their own emptiness and emotional yearnings on to mythical alien beings prophesied ultimately to act as their saviours. The situation often goes along lines like this: the world is in a terrible state, full of problems that will never be solved such as pollution, population and resources. There are also huge social problems that threaten to rip society apart to leave us all in a state of chaotic anarchy. However, there are knowledgeable, benign, kindly and spiritually superior aliens up there who have been observing everything that's been going on and one day they will arrive to spread their beneficence all over the world. With their help, mankind will be saved: we shall take our spiritual place in the universe beside them. This is very similar to a fundamentalist religious belief, only for God, Jesus and angels, substitute extraterrestrials!
People for whom this is a real situation, even if they only adhere to it fleetingly, believe that aliens are a real nice bunch of helpful people. It is also a widespread opinion that extraterrestrials visiting earth will be more advanced than us, (a probable conclusion) and that being more advanced they will have sorted out all their social and domestic problems, simultaneously being only too willing to share this wisdom with us. There seems to be the idea that in our own world, the way we treat others has improved over the years. Consider the progression of social behaviour from conquistadors to slave traders to twentieth century foreign aid programmes. This upward movement, if the graph is extended, will mean that we are even better people in a century from now: more socially aware, more equality minded and less warlike to others. (this is despite the belief of some that we are no better than we used to be with the big economies laying down conditions to the holders of third world debt) If this graph is extrapolated even further to somewhere hundreds or thousands of years hence, where the extraterrestrials are supposed to be, then it's obvious that they will be a really good lot. Not only is this idea nonsensical, it is actually danger
ous!
Aliens are not necessarily nice beings. They live by their own agendas which probably differ very much from ours. If a conflict of agendas develops, they will naturally favour their own instead of ours and, as has already been mentioned, with a cultural difference extreme enough to make us mere commodities in comparison, we would hold little sway in their considerations. We should be under no illusions about extraterrestrials. While it may be the case that some wouldn't deliberately harm us, if we came to be affected or damaged as a result of their actions to pursue causes for survival, we would warrant little consideration. They shouldn't therefore be put on a pedestal to be worshipped as gods. They aren't gods, they are biological beings like ourselves and we should reserve our faith for this planet and our future.
When looking at the evidence to support the existence of extraterrestrials, it's easily seen that there is good evidence and a whole lot of bad evidence. In the latter, I include the many hoaxes perpetrated over the years, details of which we'll consider later. There is also a great deal of stupid evidence, ludicrous notions, without scientific or logical basis which the vast majority of the public observe with hilarity. This does the UFO case no good at all. When we see nonsensical observations and arguments in support of the existence of UFO craft piloted by extraterrestrials, this detracts from all other research into the subject, tarring it with the same idiotic brush, so to speak.
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