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Exopolitics and Religion

By Hal McKenzie

Introduction
Exopolitics deals with the political implications of intelligent extraterrestrial life on the earth, but
the alien presence brings with it vast philosophical and theological implications that cannot be
ignored. Ideas have political consequences, so a clear understanding of these religious and
philosophical implications would enable mankind to deal with the alien presence more effectively.

Unfortunately, both the mainstream scientific and religious establishments are currently sunk in
deep denial about the extraterrestrial presence, which makes it impossible to arrive at a clear
understanding that could guide mankind along the optimum path. Ending that denial would
fundamentally change both scientific and religious paradigms, and of course there are always those
who fear and resist change.

Contrary to their fears, however, such a change would be for the greater good of both religious
believers and scientific secularists. In fact, as this paper will attempt to prove, exopolitics is the key
ingredient for bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gulf that has existed for centuries between the
religious and scientific world views.

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Debate over semantics

The end of government UFO secrecy might unearth documents that would shake the religious
world. For example, engineer Bob Lazar, who claimed to have worked on alien technology at Area
51 in Nevada, told interviewer George Knapp that he saw a thick folder dealing with religion that
said aliens played a role in human evolution, using humans as “containers,” and had a hand in the
birth of Jesus.1 This is a theme that has been aired by New Age writers before, but outrages
traditional religious leaders who vigorously deny that God or his angels are ETs.

Their objections are purely semantic. If one believes the Bible to

be true, one believes in extraterrestrials. The Bible mentions a
plethora of off-world beings, among them God Himself, the Sons
of God in Genesis Ch. 6 who before the Flood mated with earth
women to sire the “giants” of old (“Nephilim” in Hebrew), and angels called cherubim and
seraphim. Every major religion recounts tales of celestial beings coming from the sky, whether they
are called valkyries, apsaras, devas or angels. Whether or not they wear spacesuits and fly around in
spaceships, they all have extraterrestriality in common.

The debate between creationism and evolution is also mostly semantic. The story of creation in
Genesis is similar to scientific concepts of the earth’s development in that it involves a progression
over time, except that fundamentalists insist on translating a “day” of creation as 24 hours. What,
however, is a “day?” Einstein taught us that time is relative. Twenty-four hours for someone
traveling at near-light speed could be a million years for someone on the earth. If one believes
Genesis to be a true revelation from a divine being, then the days of creation would have to be “god
days,” not human days.

The controversy over the current “intelligent design” movement among scientists, which
mainstream scientists dismiss as merely Biblical creationism in a new guise, is rendered moot if one
acknowledges the reality of extraterrestrial intelligence. Let us assume for the sake of argument that
intelligence evolved from random chemical reactions and Darwinian evolution. At some point, the
intelligent beings that evolve this way would become aware of the evolutionary process and begin
to tamper with it. Human beings have been doing this almost from the beginning of civilization, as

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for example with breeds of dogs and other livestock and food crops. Now we are altering genes on
the cellular level with bioengineered crops and animals. In short, intelligent design is already a
factor in evolution simply from our own activity.

Since we know as an established fact that we share this universe with intelligent beings far more
advanced than we are, it is logical to assume that such genetic tampering had been going on for a
much longer time and in much greater depth. Just as dog breeds are a result of human “intelligent
design,” it is quite possible, even likely, that the human race developed at least partly through
genetic engineering by a more advanced race or races.

The issue of origins, whether life came from a creator or by random chance, is also merely an
academic point. Nineteenth Century scientists assumed that time moved in a straight line, or
linearly. Modern astronomy and quantum physics, however, has shown that the universe is curved,
and that time is not linear, but circular. Time travel, in which intelligent beings can influence the
time streams of the past, is now accepted as a theoretical possibility.

Therefore, if intelligence were to develop anywhere in the time stream, it would inevitably feed
back on itself, creating a new time stream that starts with intelligent design. The god-like level of
intelligence or organized complexity that linearly-thinking scientists imagine is ahead of us in the
future would therefore actually be behind us in our past. In
short, if one accepts the reality of extraterrestrial intelligence,
then intelligent design as a factor in human origins is not
only probable, but inescapable.

The rift between science and religion, which began when the
Catholic Church rejected Copernicus’ and Galileo’s
discovery that the earth revolves around the sun, is therefore
a delusion born of ignorance and denial. It created a false
dichotomy between the world of fact and the world of faith.
It created two cultures that can’t communicate with each
other, creating confusion and misunderstanding that blocks a

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clear understanding of the real universe.

Ancient Scientists/Priests
Throughout most of human history, religion and science were not separate. Indeed, those we call
“priests” or “shamans” fulfilled the same function that scientists do today, and vice versa.
Exceptionally perceptive men and women observed and recorded the movement of the stars and
could predict equinoxes and solstices and give advice on when to plant and when to harvest.
Stonehenge and other prehistoric megalithic sites were not only religious sites, but complex
astronomical computers. Those sages of antiquity also carefully noted the medicinal qualities of
plants and herbs to heal their people and used psychology to motivate and unite them.

No doubt they employed theatrics to impress the masses. They also entertained beliefs and
misconceptions that were far from scientific by modern standards—for example magic, astrology,
and alchemy. However, these early traditions of learning formed the foundation of today’s
astronomy, physics, mathematics and chemistry, and ancient magical traditions have gained new
respect recently from scientists and New Age thinkers.

There is also evidence that some of these prophets or high priests served as compradors for
extraterrestrial civilizations, receiving scientific knowledge that supposedly couldn’t have been
known without “modern” science. Andrew Tomas in his book We Are Not the First lists 27
scientific and technological ideas known to the ancients that were rediscovered with the rise of
modern science.2 These include atomic theory, the theory of relativity, the age of the earth (which
the Mahabarata set at 4.3 billion years, very close to today’s 4.6 billion estimate); planets beyond
Saturn, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, electric batteries (found in Babylon that were 2,000 years
old), aviation, robots and computers, indoor plumbing and sanitation, and so on.

Tomas cites the “mysterious torchbearers of civilization who, at the dawn of history, imparted their
knowledge to the astronomer-priests all over the globe”.3 Apparently Roswell was not the first time
technology transfer occurred between extraterrestrials and humans as Philip Corso described in his
book The Day After Roswell. 4

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Maurice Chatelain, a mathematician who worked on NASA’s Apollo program, concludes that
extraterrestrials intervened in human history about 65,000 years ago, about the same time that
anthropologists say homo sapiens, or modern man, appeared on the earth. He calculates this date
from the “Nineveh Constant,” an astronomical number found on a tablet from the ruins of ancient
Nineveh describing the “great year” when all the constellations return to the same position in the
heavens. Chatelain says that this number, which ancient peoples could not have known without
outside knowledge, must have been calculated 64,800 years ago.5

The knowledge of these priest/scientists invariably led the masses to stand in religious awe of them.
The pipeline to the stars, however, was apparently only intermittent in nature. When the original
source of knowledge withdrew, over time the priest/scientists were replaced by sycophants and
frauds who mindlessly carried on rituals they did not understand or used their position only for
personal power.

What is worse, religions that started out as great truths to benefit mankind degenerated into
ideologies, superstitions and dogmas to benefit the ruling elite or to justify prejudices that led to
bloody religious wars. This pattern continues today in sectarian violence in Ireland and the terrorism
of Islamic extremists, but also infects materialists, as demonstrated by fascism and communism.
The twisting of truth into ideologies to fit a partisan political agenda is the enemy of truth and must
be fought anew in every age.

Truth is not the property of any individual or group, but exists independently of human perceptions.
Both religion and science in their essence are efforts to understand the truth of our universe so we
can live in it as best we can.

Memories Survive as Myths

Perhaps extraterrestrial intervention in man’s
prehistory survives today in the Judeo-
Christian myth of the coming of a
supernatural messiah on the clouds of heaven.
Such myths can be deadly, however. A similar

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myth was held by the Aztecs, who anticipated the return of the white, bearded god Quetzalcoatl,
which some historians suspect were ancient Phoenecian travelers who imparted astronomical
knowledge and the building of pyramids to Mesoamericans. Unfortunately for the Aztecs, they
initially confused the rapacious Spanish conquistadors with the return of their hoped-for saviors.

Another more contemporary example is the “cargo cults” among Pacific islanders. During World
War II some islanders living at a Stone Age level suddenly experienced enormous ships and planes
disgorging fantastic machines and cargo that turned their world upside down as the U.S. military
chose their island as an air base. Then after four years they just as suddenly packed up and departed.
The poor islanders concocted a religion based on their longing for the return of the fabulous cargo,
complete with native-built effigies of airplanes and a control tower to coax their saviors to return.

Scientists, for their part, have tended to dismiss the Bible and other religious scriptures. These
scriptures, however, constitute a gold mine of useful data that scientists have overlooked, the most
important being the historical record of man’s relationship with off-world intelligences. Science
fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clark said, “Technology sufficiently advanced would be
indistinguishable from magic.” A logical corollary to that would be that those who wield such
technology would be indistinguishable from gods.

In the South African movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy, a Kalahari bushman thought a Coke bottle
dropped from an airplane was a gift from the gods. Modern man and his technology were god-like
to him. Since we have already established that extraterrestrials with advanced technology have
interacted with humanity, it is not farfetched to consider that early accounts of celestial beings
chronicle close encounters with ETs.

Divinity and Velocity

One of the “magical” qualities attributed to gods, for example, is immortality, but that quality is
simply a matter of velocity, according to Einstein. Poul Anderson’s science fiction classic, Tau
Zero, examines the possible consequences of the time dilation phenomena Einstein discovered in
his theory of relativity.6

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The title of the book comes from the equation “Tau equals the square root of one minus v-squared
over c-squared,” where v is the velocity of a spaceship and c is the speed of light. The closer v
comes to c, that is, the closer the ship approaches the speed of light, the closer tau comes to zero,
which is to say time slows down for the inhabitants of the space ship. In Anderson’s story, a group
of explorers in a starship traveling at near-light speed are unable to decelerate after an accident
damages their interstellar drive. As they go faster and faster, time dilation increases to the point that
they watch the universe end its expansion phase and contract again in the so-called “Big Crunch.”
Orbiting outside the primal plasma cloud, they find haven by surfing along with the next Big Bang
and decelerating until they find a new planet where life has evolved sufficiently to sustain them. All
this occurs in what is, for them, a matter of months, but encompasses many billions of years for the
universe outside the spaceship.

This suggests that divinity is related to velocity. Because of the tau factor, any beings that achieve
near light speeds would achieve immortality (relative to planet-bound beings). Other divine
attributes like omnipotence and omniscience would logically follow. Such beings could, for
example, observe civilizations being born, growing and dying within a working lifetime for them,
like biologists observing many generations of bacteria or fruit flies in the laboratory. To do this,
they would need a monitoring, sampling and surveillance capability in planetary time, which seems
to be part of the function of the UFOs seen throughout human history.

As for omnipotence, as tau approaches zero, the mass of the

spaceship approaches infinity, according to Einstein. Such
velocities would require the manipulation of titanic amounts of
energy, which would give such beings the capability to transform
the natural world on a cosmic scale, as in terraforming, just as
smaller energy sources like fire and electricity gave man the
ability to transform his world.

As support for this postulate, consider how major technological advances are linked to speed. Flight
requires take-off speed and space travel requires escape velocity from earth’s gravity. As for today’s

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information-based technology, the constant search is for faster computers, leading to “quantum”
computers that would achieve magical feats of data processing.

Based on the ufological and archeological record, it appears intelligent beings from other worlds,
probably our cosmic ancestors, already accomplished such feats and have visited, perhaps even
colonized, our earth. Prescientific earthlings who came into contact with them would of course
perceive them in terms they could understand, likening them to emissaries from a celestial kingdom
ruled by a god-king. People continue to have such encounters today, but science has changed the
paradigm so now we see them as extraterrestrials. For example, the Bible says Elijah was taken up
to heaven in a “chariot of fire.” If we were to witness the same event today, we would say he was
beamed aboard a UFO, like Travis Walton in the movie “Fire in the Sky.”

Consider this passage in Genesis, Chapter 6: “And when men began to multiply on the earth, the
sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and chose wives from among them ... and
there were giants (Nephilim) on the earth in those days, the mighty men of renown.” Zechariah
Sitchin, an expert on Babylonian cuneiform writing, concludes that the Babylonian chronicles of the
gods are actually accounts of extraterrestrials called the Ananaki who colonized the earth,
genetically engineered modern humans from hominids and sired the biblical Nephilim through
cross-fertilization with earth-women.7 This is consistent with Lazar’s reported religion file at Area
51.

At first blush this poses a problem for monotheists. The antics of the Babylonian gods in the
chronicles are not conducive to respect or awe, since they exhibit human vices.

One God Who Cares

Ethical monotheism, the concept of one supreme and eternal being who loves and cares for
mankind, can, however, find scientific backing in the Gaia concept proposed by scientist James
Lovelock.8 This is the idea that the biosphere itself is an organism that creates its own conditions for
extending life. Gaia, named after the Greek goddess of the earth, is currently thought of as our
planetary ecosystem, but the late astronomer Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wrickramasinghe through
their panspermia theory are proving that the web of life extends throughout the universe.9

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Physicists are searching for a single “theory of everything” than can tie all other physical theories
into one. Since electromagnetic, gravitational and atomic fields exist, why not an energy field as a
ground for life forms, a biological or spiritual field? British biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s research in
“morphic resonance,” based on his theory of “morphic fields” that link life forms across space and
time, bridges the gap between physics and biology and fits neatly into the Gaia concept.10
Sheldrake’s experiments suggest that information is not only carried by genes, but transmitted
through energy fields across space and time. Evidence supporting this can also be found in the
medical documentation that prayer helps healing in hospitals, as described in Dr. Larry Dorsey’s
book Healing Words.11

Physicists are moving into realms that border on the mystical

and magical, for example through experiments in “quantum
events” that occur simultaneously with no apparent physical
connection. Some biologists postulate that the human brain
contains microscopic structures that replicate quantum
events, leading to psychic phenomena like ESP, precognition
and others.

All these discoveries point to the development of a scientific view of the universe as a living gestalt
or organism, the invisible essence of which is an “overmind” or heuristic cosmic energy matrix,
which influences life beyond space and time, transcending the cosmos’ individual parts while
animating, directing and tying them all together. Any intelligent biological beings, no matter how
powerful and god-like, would always be subservient to this Supreme Being, who is in fact the
Creator.

Toward a Theology of Everything

Perhaps the missing piece in the “theory of everything” puzzle sought by physicists is the element
of intelligent purpose and will inherent in the cosmos. In effect, they are looking for the physics
equivalent of spontaneous generation, which according to Hoyle is a myth. In his words, “A
common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics,

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as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in
nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem so overwhelming as to put this conclusion
almost beyond question.”12

The theory of everything should then perforce become a “theology of everything.” Indeed, theology
would still be “queen of the sciences,” as it was called in medieval universities, if religious leaders
hadn’t turned chicken in the face of Copernicus’ and Galileo’s discoveries. Theology should be no
different than biology or any other “-ology” that seeks knowledge of the real universe. In its truest
sense it means knowledge of the divine, which includes cosmic intelligence, man’s ultimate destiny,
spiritual growth and universal moral principles.

The religious clerics, however, lost their nerve at the

new world Galileo’s telescope revealed, ironically
exhibiting a profound lack of faith. If they had truly
believed that God created the universe, they would
have embraced the new knowledge as deepening their
understanding of God. If they had done so, science
would have been directed by holistic principles and
religion would have been illuminated by science.
Many of the subsequent horrors brought about by religious intolerance and pseudo-scientific
ideologies might have been avoided.

America’s founding fathers, some of the best-educated men of the 18th century and well-versed in
science, in the Declaration of Independence called the existence of a creator a “self-evident” truth.
Has science discovered anything since then that debunks this truth or makes it less evident? Quite
the contrary, there are plenty of scientists like Hoyle who see the hard facts before them— the
complex design of the eye, just for one example— and think, as well as state publicly in rare cases,
that this can’t be random, that there has to be a designer.

The U.S. founders’ reference to the creator and to “nature’s God” reflects a universal human quest
for a social order or government based on principles that reflect the divine order of the universe. In

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ancient China, Lao Tsu and Confucius sought to order society according to natural laws of harmony
and balance. The medieval feudalistic order in Europe was believed to reflect the divine hierarchy.
The American experiment was based on European philosophers’ understanding of natural law, as
was the communist belief system based on Marx’s sophistry of dialectical materialism. The
disastrous failure of communism proves that Marx’s negatively-biased, anti-god philosophy was
dead wrong, but the power of that idea shook this world like nothing had before.

This age-old quest, despite many failures, could reach a successful culmination if science could
really discover and prove the existence of basic principles underlying the universe that are
applicable to society. Today thinkers are continuing the quest through the ecological sciences,
which study the interaction between living organisms and their habitat; and through cybernetics, the
study of systems that underlie computers and artificial intelligence.

Most of today’s leaders, both on the left and the right

of the political spectrum, are greatly influenced by
19th century philosopher Georg Hegel’s dialectic,
which conceives of progress as being driven by
conflict and contradiction through three stages called
“thesis, antithesis, synthesis.”12 Although Hegel
himself was an idealist, Marxism-Leninism adopted
his dialectic and combined it with materialism. The
resulting philosophy of dialectical materialism has been used to justify war, violent class conflict
and dictatorship. Although the collapse of communism proved the fallacy of this idea, today’s so-
called “neo-cons” who drive American foreign policy are also dialecticians insofar as they see
warfare as a generator of financial profit and a management tool for obtaining greater political
power.

Hegel erred in thinking that our diseased, dysfunctional human race reflected natural law.
Traditional religions on the other hand have always maintained that mankind has fallen away from
its natural state of harmony. Modern science likewise has come to see progress in terms of
symbiotic or mutually beneficial relationships. When the innate condition of dynamic equilibrium is

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disrupted through natural or man-made catastrophes, it inevitably reasserts itself. Just as the body
has natural healing powers that can overcome disease, nature and society can heal themselves if
allowed to follow natural principles.

For example, Nobel Prize winning-mathematician John Nash in his “Game Theory” proved
mathematically that contending parties benefit more when they cooperate than when they compete.
In this way the age-old “golden rule” of reciprocity, which most major religions express in some
form or another, receives firm scientific backing, debunking the dialecticians.

Modern leaders who are still immersed in 19th century dialectical thinking are like doctors who do
not know what a healthy body is like. Without a model of health to guide them, they can only
manage the symptoms of the disease instead of curing it. In fact, when health asserts itself, as when
peace breaks out among nations, they see this as “unnatural” and try to sicken the patient more so
they can continue to “treat” the disease. If our politicians could catch up with modern science, they
would “wage peace” instead of constantly fomenting new wars.

Through Sheldrake’s experiments, science is also discovering that life energy

involves transmission of information that could be the spiritual counterpart of
genetic information transmitted through DNA. This would corroborate the universal
religious experience of information received through prayer, meditation, dreams,
apparitions, visions or simple intuition. Former astronaut Gordon Cooper, surely a
credible witness, says in his book Leap of Faith that a woman he knew regularly
received detailed psychic transmissions from an extraterrestrial source, one of which saved the
Space Shuttle from a disastrous failure by revealing a flaw in the cooling system.13

Energy exists at different vibrations or frequencies, so perhaps spiritual growth is a matter of

achieving a “higher” frequency. The highest frequency is “in tune” with God, the lowest is closer to
animal life or to matter. Perhaps “heaven” and “hell” and realms in between are like channels on a
radio dial, with souls automatically migrating after death at the frequency they attained during their
lives.

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The existence of this spiritual field could be the missing piece in the “theory of everything” that
physicists seek, as well as a key to understanding the meaning and direction of our lives, although
mainstream science does not yet acknowledge its existence. Perhaps scientists’ longstanding
animosity toward anything religious is at the root of this denial.

Scientists say our sun will burn out and the material universe will perish in a “big crunch,” but life
would find a way to escape the cycle of destruction and be born anew. Beyond the seeming
immortality of microbial cells found in meteorites and cosmic dust, there is the reality of a spiritual
life-energy matrix that interacts with the physical world in ways still only dimly understood.
Perhaps, as Brigham Klyce suggests, the goal of life is to organize itself into a form that can survive
the Big Crunch and sow the seeds of life in new universes.14 Or perhaps the life energy of the
aforementioned gestalten Supreme Being “reincarnates” in new universes, which constitutes a
conscious act of creation such as described in Genesis.

Exopolitics, by ending the denial syndrome associated with extraterrestrial reality, could lead to an
all-inclusive scientific theology that would help end religious intolerance and false faith, or well as
materialistic beliefs that contradict reality and lead to destruction. As Isaiah prophesied (Is. 11-9)
“They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge
of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.”

A Global Consensus
That is where science plays a key role. The scientific method separates truth from superstition,
fantasy, wishful thinking and ethnocentric bias. It is the only thing that can create a global
consensus. Of course, scientific facts alone cannot satisfy the human soul. People possess a spirit
that needs spiritual nourishment. Without the discipline and critical thinking of science, however,
religious seekers and believers often cannot tell the difference between spiritual food and spiritual
poison such as propagated by cults or ideologies that have perpetrated mass murder and suicide, as
in the People’s Temple, the Branch Davidians, and most recently Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaida.
Through science, the elements that foster spiritual growth and happiness could be as well
understood as science now understands the basic nutritional needs of the body.

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In the past people believed in many fanciful concepts of the

earth and planets, leading to worship of the sun, moon and
planets as gods. Science replaced this Babel of beliefs with a
global consensus based on reality, except for a few cranks like
the Flat Earth Society.

Science, if freed from its anti-religious bias, could in the same way lead to a universal
understanding of the Supreme Being, the spiritual world and basic issues of right and wrong. Then
all mankind could share a common worldview and civil philosophy, regardless of individual
religious backgrounds. People could still go to church, temple, or mosque; pray or meditate;
sacrifice livestock, butter their lingams, or do whatever satisfies their souls, but would all agree on
the key issues and work together as citizens of the global village.

Perhaps the extraterrestrials that have made their presence known on this earth are waiting for
humanity to demonstrate a certain level of maturity before we can be welcomed into the company
of star-faring civilizations. Perhaps an initiative such as this Journal could help bring that about. The
key point is it won’t happen until the cosmic denial ends, and that won’t happen by itself, but only
through the determined efforts of many individuals.

***

About the Author: Hal Corbett McKenzie is one of the few journalists in
America who has covered the UFO scene professionally. As a founding
editor and writer for The News World daily newspaper 1976, later renamed
the New York City Tribune 1984, he edited a weekly supplement called
UFOs and Other Cosmic Phenomena. During the 14-year life of the
newspaper he became a senior editor. He published free-lance articles in
UFO magazine and in Timothy Good's book Alien Update 1993. Active in
Operation Right to Know, he served as secretary-treasurer. Mr. McKenzie now works as webmaster
for Insight on the News, a website sponsored by The Washington Times.

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Endnotes
1. Good, Timothy, Alien Liaison—The Ultimate Secret, Arrow Books, London, 1991, p. 184.
2. Tomas, Andrew, We Are Not the First, Bantam Books, 1971, p. 177.
3. ibid, p. 176
4. Corso, Col. Philip J. (ret.), with William J. Birnes, The Day After Roswell, Pocket Books, New
York, 1997.
5. Chatelain, Maurice, Our Cosmic Ancestors, Temple Golden Publications, Sedona, Ariz., 1988, p.
35.
6. Anderson, Poul, Tau Zero, Guild America, 1970.
7. Sitchin, Zecharia, The Cosmic Code (book VI in the six-part Earth Chronicles series), Avon
Books, New York, 1998.
8. Dorsey, Larry, “Does Prayer Heal?” Reader’s Digest, March 1996. Condensed from Healing
Words.
9. Klyce, Brigham, www.panspermia.com.
10. Lemley, Brad, “Rupert Sheldrake,” Discover, August, 2000, printed from
www.FindArticles.com on May 20, 2001.
11. Colson, Charles, “According to Hoyle: Worldview and the Big Bang,” Commentary #010830-
August 30,2001, http://www.breakpoint.org/
12. Marrs, Jim, Rule by Secrecy, Harper-Collins, 2000, pp. 194-196.
13. Cooper, Gordon, with Bruce Henderson, Leap of Faith, An Astronaut’s Journey into the
Unknown, Harper Collins, New York, 2000, pp. 228-230.
14. Klyce, “The End and the Big Bang,” www.panspermia.com

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