Can We get Serious about First Contact yet?

We know very little about how contact with an alien species will affect us. Here’s some food for thought.

All things are connected.

In the interest of full disclosure, I felt that it was important to the continuity of the story to include what I was doing at the time when I got the idea to write about the often unconsidered implications of alien contact.

I thought I was listening to a podcast from Lex Fridman Lex Fridman while writing about Mr. Bubble bubble bath. The product was popular in the 1970s for parents to enhance the bathing experience for their newborn babies and young children.

It wasn’t until decades later when it was discovered that of the 16 ingredients in Mr. Bubbles, 5 are toxic to babies and children. All things are connected.

At the time I had the following thought in reaction to something said during the podcast:

“Think of UFOs like a universal taxi service. And they’re free too.”

I was mentally derailed from writing about the toxic bubble bath that gave me rashes as a child.

The concept of things unknown and potentially dangerous also applies to the topic of alien contact.

Perception and the accuracy of the information of who is doing the perceiving is important as we ponder the larger questions that come with the potential of alien contact. Our memories may also be questionable as when I checked my YouTube play history after writing this article, the podcast I was listening to was from Rich Roll richroll and not Lex Fridman. All things are connected.

Also, in the interest of full disclosure is what happened immediately after I wrote this article. I was in the process of getting estimates for a project. The contractor I decided to hire from the four respondents didn’t leave his full contact information. He left a digit off his phone number. A communication error that if repeated often enough could put him out of business no matter the quality of his work or the cost of his service.

The idea of clear and accurate communication was still freshly on my mind.

I was able to contact him using Yelp, the same third party that I used to find him. I wasn’t thinking of the concept that “all things are connected” when I began texting the following response: “I would like to book you for Tuesday afternoon. . .”

As a Moody Blues fan, I couldn’t help but recall the popular song, “Tuesday Afternoon” from the 1970s. All things are connected. It is a Sunday. The missing digit in the phone number and the title of the song make me think I’m leaving out something of vital importance that will come to mind on Tuesday.

The original title of the song is Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?). This song, as well as much of the music of the Moody Blues evokes a sense of mystery and other-worldliness like the topic I wrote about here:

I don’t think the people of the Earth are mature enough to handle the diversity of life in the universe.

We can’t handle the diversity of life that’s on the Earth. How would we react to that of a hundred different intelligent species from planets with millions of distinct forms of life native to each of their homes?

Sounds like a surefire way to drive the close-minded insane. I had to stop in the tracks of my thoughts again. Did I just side with the oppressors of Truth on Earth? Did I just side with those who mentally enslave us? Did I just align myself with the powerful elite who control the narrative feeding us on a steady diet of daily bullshit to reinforce their version of reality?

I pictured myself as “the Smoking Man” from the X-Files. I probably couldn’t continue smoking cigarettes if I took the side of freedom and open contact with the universe. I’d have to make some lifestyle changes, some pretty major ones too, if the human race suddenly dehypnotized itself and realigned with a larger reality.

We’d certainly have to change our language use too.

We couldn’t continue living in this negative lower vibration with its insults, mocking, and ignorant compassionless abrasive tone. We’d all have to be reeducated on how to speak and how to listen as well as how to make thoughtful and reflective vocabulary choices.

This contact thing with its implied world peace, health, and advanced knowledge sometimes sounds like more trouble than its worth.

At least it would be for a generation or two until humanity found itself on more stable footing in a higher vibration, one where we could maintain permanent contact with the rest of the universe.

How would I explain my sudden hesitancy towards one of the main driving forces of my life?

Suddenly the complications of making a significant paradigm shift struck me with the full force of its implications for myself and humanity.

We would have to do actual work. Not just the mundane task of pushing meaningless and wasteful paper kind of work either, but deeper work on ourselves, work on our souls. That may just frighten a majority of the planet’s human population away from desiring contact. Many of us are not prepared for that.

I see now why those who 75 years ago knew of a reality beyond our own chose to keep that information from the public. Not only does it imply a loss of power and status for themselves, contact may require more from all of us than many of us are prepared to give.

Hell, the 1940s was even before civil rights was imagined as an important consideration. Eugenics was still a widely held belief. How much more cleansing of our collective soul would still be required of us before we could even be considered for readmission to our universal community?

Issues we have yet to imagine would be laid plainly at our feet for us to begin the process of healing.

Just like the once mysterious unknown ingredients in my bubble bath, all things are connected. There are a couple of these issues I already know of. Some of them are issues that some people would adamantly oppose addressing. Religious issues. Falsehoods we were conditioned to accept as true when we were children. Misconceptions taught to us by our ignorant yet well-meaning ancestors. Traditions passed down to us from generation to generation would require reexamination.

Each generation not knowing any better passed along all the knowledge in their possession, the good with the bad. Some of us would call our galactic neighbors devils for trying to “indoctrinate” us in their version of the Truth. And some may act just like devils towards us if they are not particularly fond of us either.

While the universe may be full of love, compassion, and understanding as all species seek to reach the lofty goals of ascendancy, transcending to higher planes of existence, that love may not be extended wholeheartedly towards us, the human race, by all our neighbors equally without hesitation.

Hell, we still shoot at our free universal taxis.

We do so without any knowledge of who or what is inside. Being grounded in a reality of fear and mistrust in a hierarchical system of “haves” and “have nots’ is not the best position to start realignment with the planet, each other, and the higher laws of the universe.

For some it may not feel like we were reaching towards peace and understanding but more like we are being driven insane.

It’s no wonder the more aware and advanced intelligences of the universe don’t want to force contact on us. They are properly concerned about the results, the aftermath of an abruptly rude awakening on those with less mental fortitude or who lack the desire to adapt to a new reality.

This article is already becoming “too long” to hold the attention of many readers and I’ve barely started. I certainly can’t circle back around to my opening statement regarding the free of charge UFO universal taxi service.

There’s too much necessary information between here and there. And who knows how reliable I am as a source? I certainly don’t.

I’ve just begun to divulge the deeper implications of contact.

I didn’t realize at the time that I’d continue for several more paragraphs before concluding. But I don’t see any information I can safely discard without losing nuance or context. All things are connected.

There’s not many among us who have pondered starting down this path of integration with a reality more complete than the one we currently inhabit.

The implications of contact have yet to be considered seriously. 75 years of misinformation hasn’t helped in that regard.

Let this article serve as a starting point for those who see contact as inevitable.

Whether that concept be desirable or undesirable to them. Although I have barely scratched the surface, it seems like that is a surface which has yet to be touched by human hands. All things are connected.

It’s hard for me to entertain the shallow notions of those who say contact wouldn’t change anything in their lives. They speak about things beyond their understanding. How can they make such a claim with so little information?

I have very little knowledge myself and yet even I am aware that those who make such claims are speaking from a position of total ignorance. An ignorance they may wish to protect because it shields them from a deeper and darker fear, substantiated or not, residing in their subconscious.

Even if it is a discussion that happens just for the preservation of the species and our own self-interest, these are concepts which must find their way into human discourse. If official contact is made, life will change. For everyone.

I’ll close with some quotes about being prepared:

“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not to have one than have an opportunity and not be prepared.” — Whitney M. Young, Jr.

“Beyond anything else, preparation is the key to success.” — Alexander Graham Bell

“Being prepared is much better than being shocked.” www.idlehearts.com

“It’s better to be prepared than to get ready.” — Will Smith

All things are connected. I didn’t know who I would be quoting when I searched for “quotes about being prepared.”

I wasn’t expecting that this search would lead to the highly apt quotes above.

Any quote regarding communication from Alexander Graham Bell, known as “the father” or inventor of the telephone could be applicable as the overarching theme of this article is communication.

www.idlehearts.com is a rare acceptable way to start a sentence with a lower case letter. I found it intriguing as the quote does not come from any one person specifically but is accredited to a group of people.

Hopefully, seeing a quote from Will Smith made you laugh as much a I did when I saw it. If you don’t know why this is uniquely coincidental in an article about contact with aliens, then you need to become more familiar with pop culture. All things are connected.

As is a regular occurrence when writing about contact,

there is always a deeper context for anything spontaneous that comes up in the process of writing.

The rabbit hole of information spirals down deeper when examining and bringing into focus each detail contained within the writing. Each seemingly leading to additional relevant details in an ever expanding network of data.

That was especially true for the quote from William M. Young, someone whom I never heard of until today.

It didn’t take much digging to find this second quote from Mr. Young. A quote that could easily be about the psychological and spiritual implications of contact I touched on in this article:

“First of all, I think the country is in deep trouble. We, as a country have blazed unimagined trails technologically and industrially. We have not yet begun to pioneer in those things that are human and social… I think that social work is uniquely equipped to play a major role in this social and human renaissance of our society, which will, if successful, lead to its survival, and if it is unsuccessful, will lead to its justifiable death.”

— Whitney M. Young, Jr. as quoted in NASW News, May 1969

All things are connected.

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