by Michal Hall
"You see, there are many things that even my species doesn’t know about the cosmos. Probably no one ever will. Please trust these things I’ve told you, because your knowledge is extremely limited. Don’t give into your pride and try to pretend that you know more than you possibly could.
“If you help us to allow your species to accept our offer of help, you will experience for yourself our much more advanced evolution, and, of course, you are experiencing a little bit of that now. As we said before, the light you see before you is made up of hundreds of reflective beings that have traveled around 900 trillion of your miles to get here. We have evolved together for so long that we can now act as one. I know you can’t understand such a thing because you have been evolving apart in your pride to actually distance yourselves from each other.”
Suddenly, I felt a mixture of excitement and confusion. Could it be, as they were saying, that we had evolved off course into pride, and could it be that they might be able to help us reverse it to not go extinct? Might there be a way out of the total mess we are making of the environment and the violence we naturally emit on ourselves? However could it also be that I was having a strange dream about this, or maybe these were evil beings from space who had come to take over our world and enslave us?
My mind was a muddle of confusion when, after a pause, the light spoke to me again. “You are not dreaming; we are very real, and we would never harm you in any way.” Wow, they are reading my mind, I thought! They really are advanced.
They continued, "We are a very different species from you because we have evolved into humility rather than pride. We know nothing of the violence and evil that you are experiencing. We’ve never experienced any of that, and we can’t even imagine it. We have evolved together with each other and all of the other species on our wonderful planets to live in love and peace to further the evolution of our planets, other planets, and the cosmos. We are aware that each one of our planets have given us life and then sustained us for billions of year. We live peaceful, happy, sustainable, safe lives of sharing and enjoyment. We would not even know how to hurt you, or any other life-form on your planet, because all we know to do is love you.
“We have traveled through space and time very far to see if we can help you. You must realize that you are as strange to us as we are to you. We cannot comprehend a life lived in pride, hate and violence. We do not understand how you can live in division, competition, and fear, just as you can’t understand how we can live in humility, peace and love.”
I found myself a bit offended by that last statement, so I responded by saying, “We do know something about humility and love. It’s taught in most of our world’s religions, poetry and ethics and… and…many other places.”
Immediately the light responded, “Please forgive us if we have offended you. We are aware of these places where humility and love can be found. In fact, that is the main reason that we have traveled so far to see you. Without these things being present, there would be no reason for us to come, because there would be no way we could help you. We’ve learned this lesson when we’ve tried to help other pride infested planets. However, I’m sorry to tell you that the minimal exposure to humility that you now have, may not be enough for our intervention to have any impact. Remember that almost all of your species has ignored these things even though they’ve always been exposed to them. Thus before we decide to help you, we will need to study further into where your species is and how willing it would be to change.”
Chapter 3
The Reason
“Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching, but separate.”
John Muir
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
I nodded my agreement and said, “What you’ve said makes sense, but please tell me more. I recognize that my species is in a mess. It is horribly divided and at each other’s throat. I realize that we are destroying the Earth’s ecosystems to limit our stay on the Earth, but how would you study us further to see if we are able to change?”
The light immediately replied, “After evaluating you, we have found that your own personal understanding, temperament, and kind heart makes you our choice of a human who can help us. You seem to know more about what your species has done to the Earth than most people, and you seem to be open and willing to learn…but of course, there is still an awful lot you do not know. Your species doesn’t understand how far you have evolved into pride, and that this is what’s behind the insanity of what you are doing to each other and to the Earth’s plants, animals and ecosystems. Thus all that your species knows is to live so selfishly that everything you think and do is only for yourself, or your country, or your species. When you think about others at all, it generally has to do with how they can help you, your family, your nation, your class, or your species. You are locked within yourselves by your slavery to divisive pride.”
I started to respond but the light continued, “Also, you don’t know what’s going on around you because you can’t face the terrible things you are doing to each other, much less the plants and animals and the ecosystems that you need for life. For instance war, which is the most disgusting thing in the cosmos, you see as something honorable and good. You send young men and women off to die cheering them on and saying they are not only doing what they must, but they are doing what is good. You call them brave heroes who are saving their homes, and that they are blessed by their gods even though they come back either dead, wounded, or psychologically maimed. National pride is a terrible thing that makes nations prove their superiority by being more and more powerful or taking more and more land. In spite of how obvious it is, no one seems to realize that nobody ever wins a war. No, in war everybody loses, and loses big!”
I wanted to say something but decided to again keep quiet. They seemed to be on a roll. They continued, “Violence has become the accepted way of life for you. Every day people are shot or stabbed on the streets. In some countries, guns have been somewhat controlled, but in most, all guns are accepted and even encouraged. Of course, the truth is that guns have only one purpose, and that is to kill something. When it comes to killing animals, which some of you see as a sport, it proves that you have lost the reality that killing any living thing is unthinkable. Also, we find it shocking that nation’s laws even kill people to stop people from killing people…how crazy is that? You have evolved into a species that takes violence and murder for granted…as a natural way to live.”
I nod and agree with them, so they go on. “The place where you are most blind has to do with the Earth and the cosmos. In many places the concept of evolution is not even accepted. Thus the fact that you, like all animals, came from the Earth, and that when you die, you will return to the Earth, has been lost. The truth is your planet is who you are. That is true of all life on all of the planets in the cosmos. All of our species are our planets, just as you are the Earth. Of course, this is also true of all of the other life-forms that live in the ecosystems of your Earth. Your ancient ancestors knew this, so they not only valued the Earth, they worshiped it (which at that time meant that they ‘ascribed worth’ to it). However, prideful and superstitious religions, and even some of the pride that is found in science, have erased all of that for you. This loss, or disconnection, coming out of your sick sense of superiority, is behind all of the insane acts that are leading you into extinction.”
I was confused an
d could not respond, so after a brief pause they continued, “You have insanely over-populated to ignore the other species around you, eliminated most of the vegetation that provides you with oxygen, killed off most of the other animals that balance your ecosystem, polluted and over-fished the Earth’s lakes, rivers and oceans, paved over and built over the Earth’s land, polluted the air to bring about disease and global warming from too much carbon dioxide, and I could go on. It is obvious that you have systematically and cruelly abused the side of yourself that you call the Earth. You have done this out of your pride, even though the Earth is the source of your existence, to facilitate your arrogant and misguided stampede into extinction.”
I responded by saying, “I know that all of what you’ve said is true. I’ve suspected it for some time, but isn’t money central to all of this. It has become the center of our existence. Thus, to stop these terrible abuses would make the powerful rich people, who control most things, lose money. I believe that most of this situation has grown out of the greed that exploded during the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century. Now to even discuss this truth is either ignored or seen as an evil to be ridiculed. Those of us who have recognized some of what you’ve said are at a loss to stop it.”
“That’s why we’re here,” they respond calmly. “We recognize there are many like you who have seen what’s being done, and where it is going. For a long time after the League of Planets was formed, we couldn’t see what was happening in the evolution of the planets close to us, but eventually we could. We even became able to see that many of the planets had renegade reflective species on them that existed for only a very short period of time before they destroyed themselves and most other life on their planets. However, we thought it best to just let it go, because we thought it must be natural…that it must be how the cosmos works. We then discovered that all of these planets had evolved into divisive pride rather than the humility which bring them together which was what we had known. We also came to realize that reflective life is so rare, valuable, and unique in the cosmos, that if we can help to preserve it, we really should try. At first, we thought that our powers would allow us to automatically correct them, but experience taught us otherwise. There has to be enough awareness and concern already there on a planet for our efforts to be successful.”
Chapter 4
The Invitation
“But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses its aliveness—or, rather, we lose our ability to sense that aliveness, the sacredness of nature. When we approach nature through the conceptualizing mind, we see a forest as a commodity, a concept. We no longer see it for what it truly is, but for what we want to use it as. It is reduced. This is how it becomes possible for humans to destroy the planet without realizing what they are doing.”
Eckhart Tolle
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’”
Lewis Carroll
I reflected awhile and then said quietly to this strange light, “So you have come to save us, but first you must see if we can be saved?” Then I said, “How can you make your decision about whether or not we can be saved? I mean wouldn’t we have to throw off years of our evolution into pride to then turn around and evolve into humility?” I paused again and said, “How could that possibly be? We have lived in pride for so long that I don’t see how that could be done. Isn’t it impossible?”
I was really confused, but after another pause, they answer me. “You have been evolving into pride for around ten thousand years which is a lot of time for pride to become embedded in your minds and inherited consciousness…however, we have seen worse. As you said, you do have humility, love, and peace in places like your religions and various other teachings, and that does encourage us. We don’t know whether you can be convinced to change, but we don’t want to do all that has to be done to bring about those changes unless we can see, from studying each one of you, that there is a reasonable chance.”
The light then moved closer. “That’s where we hope you will help us. We need you to do something that we can’t do. We need for you to stand and be our voice speaking to everyone in the world to explain why we have come here. We need for you to tell them first, why your species is so divided, violent and miserable; and second, what we can do to allow your species to survive and not go extinct. We need for you to speak for us to explain why we are here and how we can help them. We need for you to do this because we have found that if we try to do it, even when we’ve disguised our voices and our bodies, they just panic and don’t listen. Early on, we tried over and over to make one of us look exactly like one of the planet’s species that we were trying to help, but it never worked at all. They would always detect that something was not right…that something was wrong. Now we’ve learned that the only way we can reach everyone on a planet in a convincing way, is if someone, who is one of them, speaks for us.”
I was confused, but I still had enough consciousness to say, “I don’t understand. If you have the ability to do all that you’ve said you can do, why can’t you camouflage yourselves to look like one of us enough to convince anyone anywhere? This doesn’t make sense.”
The light immediately answered, “That is a very good question. You are most perceptive. However, the answer to your question will be hard for you to understand. Each one of us in the federation comes not only from different species; we come from different beings, because we come from totally different evolutions in the cosmos. At first, it was very hard for us to even find ways to communicate and relate to each other, but after several hundred, frustrating years of trying, we eventually did. Now we have become so close that we have been able to become one. The voice that you hear from us is tuned to your species frequency because you could never pickup or hear the sound that all of us make together. I tell you this to help you understand that it is impossible for us, even with all of our powers, to effectively stand before your species and make a speech. The complexity of our joining overwhelms most of those we have tried to address. As we said earlier, we have searched all of the beings of every planet we’ve tried to help to find someone who is not affected by us…someone who can actually hear us…and you are such a one. That is one of the main reasons we need for you to do this for us.”
I quickly said, “What do you mean by different beings? I don’t understand what you mean by the word ‘beings’.”
They calmly respond, "On your planet you have different species, cultures, skin colors, nationalities, religions, sexes, or languages. We have those kind of differences on all of our planets too, however these differences are nothing to be compared to what we faced when we started dealing with beings on other planets. We use your word ‘beings’ because we think it might be the best word to describe to you what we found.
“For instance, we long ago discovered that evolution is eager to create life, and it is also eager to create reflective life, so it struggles to do so using whatever is available. You evolved from things like water, carbon, oxygen, and nucleic acid, but all of us on other planets have probably evolved in totally different ways. Our bodies are made of different things, we think and reason in different ways, and we require different things to stay alive. Thus we do not just look, talk or sound different, we are different in every conceivable way.”
I had felt dazed and disoriented from the first time I’d started speaking to these strange beings, but at this point I felt like I was losing my mind! A lot of what they had just said went right over my head; however, I could now understand enough to see why they needed me to speak for them. Still to agree to do so really frightened me. I mean, how could they want me to speak for them to everyone in the world? That’s crazy! I couldn’t do that. I wouldn’t know what to say. Also how could I speak to all of the world’s peopl
e with their thousands of different languages and all? For a minute I felt trapped and ready to make a run for it.
As I sat with my mind buzzing, they spoke again, “Please don’t be afraid. We would never hurt you, or anyone else, in any way. We have come to help you and your reflective species, as well as all of the other species on this planet. If you decide you can’t do this, we will wipe all of this from your memory and try and find someone else who can. You will not in any way be harmed. It is for you to decide, but please try to do it calmly and rationally, and remember, we really do need you. There is no way you will harmed by any of this, and it could mean that your species will be saved.”
I could not respond. I just sat there shaking my head. Finally, they continued, “It will not be hard for you to do. We will send you to the podium of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. We will speak directly into your mind where you will easily and naturally say the things we relate to you. If you want to, you can put some of it into your own words. All that you say will be translated into the languages of each of the people in the world who are receiving it. To help you, we will project before you what will appear to be a screen that you will speak to. You will know it is time for you to start speaking when you see it. As you speak to every person in the world, each one of them will see you speaking as if you were right there in front of them…”
“Wait, wait,” I shouted in a panic. “Why would you come all this way just to help us? There must be something in it for you. Also have you told me everything about why you want me to do this and what it will accomplish? Also are you saying that every person in the world will see and hear me? And how do I know that I’ll be safe? One of the guards might shoot me. Also someone might recognize me and attack me later. I also do not know what you mean about this stuff of messing with my mind. I don’t even know how I should dress to do this…it all just sounds…so crazy!”