(15) Sun 27 Apr 97 13:58 By: Sheppard Gordon To: All Re: TrUFO Believers - 1/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @EID:79d7 229b6f40 @MSGID: 1:278/15 001336a1 THE OUTRE LIMITS; At the UFO Convention, True Believers Enter a Galaxy of Their Own 03/19/97 The Washington Post LAS VEGAS -- The aliens are desert creatures. Perhaps it is the air, or the dark skies so full of stars, the twinkling reminders of the home planet. It is said that if you go into the red rock hills west of here you can feel the vibrations of the extraterrestrials. Sometimes the energy is negative, nauseating, the vibe of the bad aliens, the ones who feed off fear. You can see how this part of the world would be a good place for a UFO convention. Also the room rates are dirt cheap in gambling country. For $18 a night you can get a room at the Gold River hotel-casino down in Laughlin, a little strip of bright lights on a slow stretch of the Colorado River. There's a $4.95 all-you-can-eat lunch buffet and, every evening, a "Tribute to Reba McEntire" starring a woman who is not technically Reba McEntire. The place is full of low rollers and retirees. The Sixth Annual International UFO Congress Convention held here recently was not what you'd call a "mainstream" UFO gathering. The UFO community is a diverse, rancorous, tendentious collection of serious researchers and certified oddballs whose only common feature is the presumption that Earth has visitors. This was a fringe event even by the standards of people who have dedicated their lives to the study of flying saucers. The rule at this particular gathering was simple: All ideas welcome. No thought, no theory, no dogma would be excluded simply because it was clearly preposterous. Such a policy ensures that a person walking into the UFO exhibit hall would instantly encounter a dazzling constellation of beliefs, theories, predictions, preoccupations and intriguing individuals. The air was thick with incense. Vendors sold flying saucer T-shirts, crystals, plastic aliens suitable for dangling from one's rearview mirror, cassette tapes describing the secret world government. Along the back wall, empaths performed "readings" of past lives and alien encounters. One day a man walked in wearing a white robe. On his forehead was a horrible cross-shaped scab; heavy gauze bandages covered his hands. "There is probably the greatest stigmatist in the world," a UFO researcher standing nearby announced reverently. The stigmatist was Giorgio Bongiovanni. He was here to speak about aliens and the coming of the Antichrist. At a reporter's request he pulled aside the gauze bandages on his hands to reveal dark, circular red scabs on his palms. Bongiovanni said he received the stigmata at Fatima, Portugal, on Sept. 2, 1989. His UFO newsletter, NONSIAMOSOLI ("We are not alone"), gives the whole story, saying that the Virgin Mary appeared to Bongiovanni and revealed that Jesus Christ had visited civilizations throughout the cosmos, where He has been accepted -- unlike on our planet, where He was crucified. The Virgin asked Bongiovanni if he was willing to carry a part of the suffering of her son, and when he said yes, two beams of light came out of her chest and struck his palms and stigmatized them. The bleeding cross on his forehead arrived a few years later, late at night in a hotel room in Uruguay. What do the stigmata have to do with aliens visiting Earth? Aliens, Bongiovanni explained, accompanied Jesus in his travels. "Our forefathers called them angels." -> Alice4Mac 2.4.4 E QWK Hiya:05Nov94 Origin: ----------> Jack Sargeant, you look fabulist! --- PCBoard (R) v15.4/M 10 Beta * Origin: MoonDog BBS þ RIME NetHub Brooklyn,NY (1:278/15) SEEN-BY: 12/12 24/888 102/2 106/2000 109/7 124/1 130/1 1008 133/2 140/23 SEEN-BY: 143/1 147/34 2021 154/222 167/166 170/400 202/777 1207 1919 SEEN-BY: 213/213 218/2 801 890 900 901 907 244/1500 267/200 270/101 275/429 SEEN-BY: 280/1 169 282/1 62 310/666 323/107 343/600 346/250 356/18 371/42 SEEN-BY: 377/86 380/64 382/92 396/1 45 690/660 730/2 732/10 2401/0 2442/0 SEEN-BY: 3603/420 3606/10 3612/41 3615/50 3619/25 3632/21 3651/9 3652/1 SEEN-BY: 3667/1 3674/1 3828/2 5100/8 @PATH: 278/230 3615/50 396/1 218/907 801 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (16) Sun 27 Apr 97 13:58 By: Sheppard Gordon To: All Re: TrUFO Believers - 2/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @EID:7927 229b6f40 @MSGID: 1:278/15 001336a3 THE SPLIT UFOs have gone new age. The UFO field has gradually been tugged away from the traditional phenomenon of sightings, from the nuts and bolts of mysterious objects. Now the field is increasingly preoccupied with mystical, personal, subjective encounters with aliens, the abductions, the matings, the carrying of alien fetuses, the channeling of glib, pedantic, British-accented extraterrestrials from a tiny constellation known as the Pleiades. We are in a deeper zone here, looking not just at outer space but inner space, the universe of the spirit, the infinite and unfathomed cosmos of the soul. To believers, there is a logical explanation for the shift in focus. Budd Hopkins, the author of "Intruders" and other books on alien abductions, says that for the first several decades of the UFO era, ufologists did not even think about what might be inside those mysterious flying saucers. "We were busy trying to get the license plate number on the getaway car without figuring out what the crime was," Hopkins says. In the 1980s a rash of books, such as Whitley Streiber's bestseller, "Communion," told the terrifying tales of people abducted by aliens as they slept in their bedrooms. Other quirky phenomena also came to the fore: crop circles, monuments on Mars, cattle mutilations. The ufologists struggled to synthesize the data into a coherent narrative. Something was happening, something big. Perhaps our feeble human minds would never understand the actions of these mysterious extraterrestrials. Why would they want the testicles of bulls? Occasionally a member of the academic world would defect to the supernaturalists' camp. Three years ago Harvard psychiatrist John Mack stunned and enraged his colleagues by writing a book proposing that the alien abduction reports are caused by real encounters with "other intelligences." He believes they may not come from our universe at all. "This appears to come from some other dimension, and enters into our physical reality," he told The Washington Post. A consensus of sorts has emerged in the UFO community: Aliens are conducting breeding experiments with humans. From there the arguments begin. Are the aliens malevolent or benign? Are there "good" aliens in conflict with "bad" aliens? Are the breeding experiments designed to help the aliens, or help us? Do the aliens portend our doom or our salvation? YOU GOTTA BELIEVE Historians will someday note that as the second millennium gave way to the third, Western civilization looked to the sky in awe and dread. We worry about sneaky things from outer space. Asteroids. Aliens. The universe has proved itself to be terrifyingly vast. It is a mind- boggling structure with billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, the whole kit and caboodle expanding, literally flying apart like the shrapnel of a grenade. We do not know the essential nature of this cosmos. We do not know what lives out there. We extrapolate from ourselves. All stories about aliens turn out to be stories about humans. The community of UFO researchers and devotees turns out to be curiously anthropocentric. The aliens can't seem to keep away from us. We fascinate them. At the counter in the casino coffee shop sat a man named Steven-Paul Orsetti. He's a thick fellow, with a big, kind, open face. He's unemployed, drawing disability, because of a neck problem. He was hoping the aliens might be able to help him. "I need an operation on my neck. I hear they have amazing medicine," he said. Orsetti said he was also interested in the propulsion mechanisms used by these creatures. By training he's an engineering technician. "Their starships are telepathic. They are produced telepathically by their minds," he said. "You ever heard of Ashtar Command? That's another entity that has unique starships. They're supposed to be the good guys. They're supposed to give us the technology within five years." Resisting the urge to run out into the desert and scream "These people are INSAAAAAAANE," a visitor to a UFO convention can quickly see the appeal of extraterrestrials. Aliens solve problems in a world where problems are abundant. It is a puzzling fact of modern life that so many people, even in this relatively affluent society, are in psychic agony, or confused, or depressed, or in physical pain, or simply do not feel as though they belong. They feel alienated, in a word. They are also increasingly reluctant to ascribe their problems to mere psychodynamics. They don't want to blame the unconscious mind. Freud is dead. People now look for an outside agent, a provocateur. They have no problem finding a therapist who is willing to hypnotize them and recover repressed memories of their tormentor. There are protracted debates in the UFO world about whether recovered memories of alien abductions are "masking" the memories of childhood sexual abuse, or if it's the other way around -- the sex abuse imagery disguising an alien abduction. There are other attractive features of the UFO phenomenon. UFOs and aliens suggest a world of limitless unknowns. The existence of the unknown invites a person to create a faith, a belief system. Michael Persinger, a researcher at Laurentian University in Ontario, has spent years studying various aspects of the UFO phenomenon, and he has the classic scientist's answer when asked if he believes in flying saucers. "I have no belief in anything. I deal in data, both in and out of the laboratory, much to the consternation of my colleagues. I would say there is very little empirical evidence that would exclusively support only the extraterrestrial hypothesis," he said. He went on: "A belief is simply a way to organize your world. As your environment becomes more unsure and apprehensive, the more beliefs become important." The millennium will only intensify the fascination with extraterrestrials, he said. "Don't be surprised if there is an epidemic." -> Alice4Mac 2.4.4 E QWK Hiya:05Nov94 Origin: ----------> Jack Sargeant, you look fabulist! --- PCBoard (R) v15.4/M 10 Beta * Origin: MoonDog BBS þ RIME NetHub Brooklyn,NY (1:278/15) SEEN-BY: 12/12 24/888 102/2 106/2000 109/7 124/1 130/1 1008 133/2 140/23 SEEN-BY: 143/1 147/34 2021 154/222 167/166 170/400 202/777 1207 1919 SEEN-BY: 213/213 218/2 801 890 900 901 907 244/1500 267/200 270/101 275/429 SEEN-BY: 280/1 169 282/1 62 310/666 323/107 343/600 346/250 356/18 371/42 SEEN-BY: 377/86 380/64 382/92 396/1 45 690/660 730/2 732/10 2401/0 2442/0 SEEN-BY: 3603/420 3606/10 3612/41 3615/50 3619/25 3632/21 3651/9 3652/1 SEEN-BY: 3667/1 3674/1 3828/2 5100/8 @PATH: 278/230 3615/50 396/1 218/907 801 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (17) Sun 27 Apr 97 13:58 By: Sheppard Gordon To: All Re: TrUFO Believers - 3/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @EID:b976 229b6f40 @MSGID: 1:278/15 001336a5 GOING IN CIRCLES It is hard to know what people truly believe, what they merely suspect, and what they simply tolerate as a speculative fancy. Certainly there is money to be made selling the notion of extraterrestrials lurking in or about the Earth. On TV, the alien-obsessed "X-Files" has spawned numerous copies. Even the sitcoms have aliens: Witness "3rd Rock From the Sun." This Sunday is the beginning of "Alien Invasion Week" on The Learning Channel, 13 documentaries in seven days devoted to extraterrestrial life. H ollywood last year scored huge with "Independence Day" and releases an alien-related flick about once a month ("The Arrival," "Mars Attacks!," "Star Trek: First Contact," the upcoming "Alien Resurrection," "Men In Black," "Starship Troopers," "Contact"). This is a special year for ufologists: Flying saucers celebrate their 50th anniversary. On June 24, 1947, amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold saw nine mysterious objects flying at otherworldly speed across the Cascade Mountains near Mount Rainier. The news media quickly picked up the story and described the objects as "flying saucers." In the weeks that followed, Americans saw flying saucers everywhere. The military received 850 reports of UFOs by mid-July. At the height of the hysteria, something crashed on a ranch near Roswell, N.M., leaving a trail of metallic debris. An Army spokesman initially announced that it was one of those flying saucers that everyone had been seeing. The Army quickly retracted the statement and said it was just a weather balloon. Decades later, ufologists began resurrecting the Roswell incident, advancingthe theory that not only had a saucer crashed but that, nearby, alien bodies had been recovered and autopsied. The Roswell case gradually emerged as the nexus of the UFO conspiracy scenario. The bodies were supposedly stored in Area 51, a military base in Nevada so super-secret that it does not show up on road maps. So widely believed is the Roswell story that the General Accounting Office, at the urging of Rep. Steven Schiff, a Republican from New Mexico, investigated the government's handling of the case. The GAO unearthed no aliens but did note the destruction of some military records. Then the U.S. Air Force weighed in with its own 1,000-page report, explaining that the material that crashed at Roswell was part of a "balloon train" carrying sensors designed to detect Soviet atomic weapons testing. But of course the Pentagon would say that. Certain ideas are so alluring they cannot be debunked. The crop circles continue to appear in fields of grain in Britain. For years, ufologists -- cerealogists, they called themselves, as in cereal grains -- declared that no earthly mechanism could create such astonishing shapes. Then a couple of guys came forward and admitted that they'd made hundreds of circles using nothing but wooden boards and twine. Still, crop circles kept appearing around the world, and they became increasingly elaborate. In one field, words appeared: "WE ARE NOT ALONE." (Why aliens would say "we" instead of "you" was just part of the mystery.) The extraterrestrial hypothesis for the crop circles refused to die. Aliens are like Dracula; you can't kill them. THE DISINFORMATION HIGHWAY Robert Dean is a kindly old man with long gray hair pulled into a ponytail. He worked for the U.S. military in Europe in the 1960s and, he said, saw secret documents on UFOs. He was given a special security clearance called Cosmic Top Secret. Dean said much of the information bandied about at the Laughlin convention was bunk. "Roughly 80 percent of it is fantasy, myth, imagination, whatever you want to call it. And perhaps 20 percent is real. You've got legitimate people telling honest stories about real incidents." The president of the International UFO Congress is a balding, bespectacled man named Bob Brown. He is rather ordinary in every regard. He is under no illusion that his lineup of speakers consists entirely of straight shooters. Asked to guess how much of the material at the convention is true, he said 50 percent. Dean and Brown would describe themselves as skeptics. There are skeptics everywhere at a UFO convention. The serious UFO researchers know their field is infiltrated by screwballs, charlatans and -- most ominously -- government disinformation agents. When someone says something egregiously ludicrous, it may simply be an attempt by the government to make everyone here look stupid. At least that's the theory. The star speaker one afternoon was Lee Shargel. No one knew much about him. The convention program described him as a recently retired NASA scientist and author of a new novel about the Hubble Space Telescope. Shargel began his presentation slowly, portentously. A slide of the Mars rock. A slide of the planet Mars. A slide of the Mars rover, designed for exploration of the surface. For the first 15 minutes or so he stuck strictly to conventional science. Then he spoke of the Gravity Wave Highway. A gravity wave, he said, moves as fast as "the speed of thought." Our interstellar brothers are using these gravity waves to traverse the universe. People were murmuring. This was good stuff. Then Shargel showed slides of an alien spacecraft secretly photographed by a military jet over Roswell in 1947. It wasn't saucer-shaped but looked more like one of the bat-hooks that Batman throws around. Shargel had lots of slides of this spacecraft: buzzing small towns, parked in a crater on the moon, flying next to Comet Hale-Bopp. Amazingly, in every picture the "spacecraft" was glimpsed from the same angle. Later, one of the more jaundiced convention-goerscirculated a flier suggesting that the spacecraft was actually the hood ornament from a limited- edition Cadillac. Shargel went on to explain that there are good aliens and bad aliens. The flying hood ornament belongs to the bad aliens, but there are good aliens trailing in the wake of Hale-Bopp. "You have friends out there. And they love you. Believe that. I do," he said. People clapped. -> Alice4Mac 2.4.4 E QWK Hiya:05Nov94 Origin: ----------> Jack Sargeant, you look fabulist! --- PCBoard (R) v15.4/M 10 Beta * Origin: MoonDog BBS þ RIME NetHub Brooklyn,NY (1:278/15) SEEN-BY: 12/12 24/888 102/2 106/2000 109/7 124/1 130/1 1008 133/2 140/23 SEEN-BY: 143/1 147/34 2021 154/222 167/166 170/400 202/777 1207 1919 SEEN-BY: 213/213 218/2 801 890 900 901 907 244/1500 267/200 270/101 275/429 SEEN-BY: 280/1 169 282/1 62 310/666 323/107 343/600 346/250 356/18 371/42 SEEN-BY: 377/86 380/64 382/92 396/1 45 690/660 730/2 732/10 2401/0 2442/0 SEEN-BY: 3603/420 3606/10 3612/41 3615/50 3619/25 3632/21 3651/9 3652/1 SEEN-BY: 3667/1 3674/1 3828/2 5100/8 @PATH: 278/230 3615/50 396/1 218/907 801 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (18) Sun 27 Apr 97 13:58 By: Sheppard Gordon To: All Re: TrUFO Believers - 4/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @EID:78c7 229b6f40 @MSGID: 1:278/15 001336a8 Shargel then predicted that early the next morning a gravity wave would pass through the Earth, possibly accompanied by a musical tone. People would feel it, he said. One of the conference organizers turned to a reporter and said, "Tomorrow, Uranus and Neptune and Pluto line up with eight constellations and Hale-Bopp." A fidgety man in the audience said quietly, "9:35 a.m. our time." He looked happy. "It's rumored that 12 strands of DNA are activated tomorrow." Which 12 strands? Unknown. What would this new genetic explosion do to us? Unknown. But it was very exciting. The speech went on and on and on, and before it was over Shargel revealed how three alien beings who looked exactly like dolphins appeared in front of him in a bubble like Glinda the Good Witch in "The Wizard of Oz" -- his comparison -- and these dolphinoids somehow touched his heart, leaving a heart-shaped mark on his chest, which, during the question-and-answer session, he revealed. He opened his shirt, like Superman baring his "S." There was a tiny, faint, pinkish blob. When it was over a woman named Pam opined that the photographs looked superimposed, but she believed Shargel anyway, because of his "credentials." "I think this man's right on. Therefore I want to believe everything he says is true." There was some grumbling. One man, who asked for anonymity, said, "In my opinion, this guy has been sent here as a disinformation agent to make us look stupid and credulous." He looked out at the audience, still asking questions. "This fool of a charlatan stands up and they just suck it up." In his hotel room the next day, Shargel seemed less certain that a gravity wave would be shortly arriving. "It may. It may not," he said. He said of his new career in ufology, "I'm doing it because I want to have a good time doing it." But he also wants to sell copies of his UFO novel, "Voice in the Mirror. " His previous work, he said, was a self-help book, "Take Charge America: The Miracle of Empowerment." THEY WALK AMONG US Robert Dean said there seem to be four different groups of aliens, from four different places. Some look unlike humans -- they're clearly extraterrestrial -- but others can sit next to you on an airplane and you wouldn't know any better. One can see where this is going. First people saw spaceships. Then they saw little gray men with huge almond-shaped eyes (the "Grays," as they are now known). Then they figured out that some aliens could look exactly like humans. There was a logical next step: the starseed. Humans who are themselves aliens. There were at least two such starseed at the convention: Janis Bingham, from the Pleiades, and Miesha Johnston, from the constellation Orion. Janis Bingham occupies a human body that used to go by the name of "Val." She believes that a decade ago Val was transported during a nap to a spaceship. Val voluntarily gave up her body, and she, Janis, a Pleiadian, entered it, and returned to Earth to live among humans and continue to raise Val's children, whom she loves as dearly as if they were her own. She also completed postgraduate work initiated by Val. (Val, says Janis, has also returned to Earth in another body and is very happy.) This is not an abduction, but rather a "walk-in" situation. "It's not an easy thing to be a walk-in, initially. You have to learn to walk again. You have to learn to talk again," Bingham said. She has also carried alien fetuses in her womb. They vanish after about two months, she said. "The impregnation can very often take place on astral planes," she said. Bingham's daughter, 22, who doesn't want her name printed, said she learned about her mother's new identity two years ago. "She sat me down and explained to me that she wasn't -- I don't know how to say this without it sounding really weird -- that she wasn't really my mom, that she was a walk-in." She was surprised. But she doesn't reject the idea. "I think that it's quite possible that things like this happen, because for people to assume we're the only race out there is just stupid." Miesha Johnston isn't sure if she's a walk-in or a "wanderer," someone with an alien soul at birth. A wanderer typically endures an unsettled, difficult life until gradually the awareness of the extraterrestrial origin becomes clear. Johnston says of the aliens: "They're part of our family. We're like their little brothers and sisters. A lot of species have a lot of love for us." -> Alice4Mac 2.4.4 E QWK Hiya:05Nov94 Origin: ----------> Jack Sargeant, you look fabulist! --- PCBoard (R) v15.4/M 10 Beta * Origin: MoonDog BBS þ RIME NetHub Brooklyn,NY (1:278/15) SEEN-BY: 12/12 24/888 102/2 106/2000 109/7 124/1 130/1 1008 133/2 140/23 SEEN-BY: 143/1 147/34 2021 154/222 167/166 170/400 202/777 1207 1919 SEEN-BY: 213/213 218/2 801 890 900 901 907 244/1500 267/200 270/101 275/429 SEEN-BY: 280/1 169 282/1 62 310/666 323/107 343/600 346/250 356/18 371/42 SEEN-BY: 377/86 380/64 382/92 396/1 45 690/660 730/2 732/10 2401/0 2442/0 SEEN-BY: 3603/420 3606/10 3612/41 3615/50 3619/25 3632/21 3651/9 3652/1 SEEN-BY: 3667/1 3674/1 3828/2 5100/8 @PATH: 278/230 3615/50 396/1 218/907 801 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (19) Sun 27 Apr 97 13:58 By: Sheppard Gordon To: All Re: TrUFO Believers - 5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @EID:b896 229b6f40 @MSGID: 1:278/15 001336ab Within 10 years, say Bingham and Johnston, the aliens will be walking among us -- human-looking aliens as well as dolphinoids and reptilians. They promise that we'll all get along beautifully. Scientists offer nothing so reassuring. Scientists depict the human species as utterly isolated, forever trapped on an island in an unnavigable ocean of stars. The starseed reach out across that void and make a connection. They unify the life of the cosmos. We're in this together. Bingham and Johnston have started a foundation in Las Vegas for other starseed and "experiencers" (abductees, mostly), and they hold weekly meetings in their apartment for about two dozen people. They are cautious about giving out the foundation's phone number and don't list it in the phone book. "We don't want a bunch of quacks," Bingham explained. It takes one simple presumption to be a starseed or an alien experiencer: that truth is best accessed through an altered mental state, such as when dreaming, or when dropping off to sleep, or when hypnotized, or when being counseled by someone who is at that moment channeling a being from another dimension. "What people call dreams I call experiences. To me they're just as real," says Bingham's friend David Easler. Once, he said, he was in an "alpha state," about to fall asleep, when Bingham's Pleiadian father, Zachary, popped through a portal into the room. Easler remembers saying, "What's up?" Zachary then left, and another alien, with a much larger head and huge insectile eyes, came through a different portal, scaring him. This was an alien of the "praying mantis" variety. The alien helped Easler recover memories of his childhood experiences, including being taken on a ship and having DNA sampled. He believeshe has been genetically altered. His parents are unhappy. They raised him a Jehovah's Witness. They completely reject his assertion that he has been visited at night by extraterrestrials. They think the visitors are devils. THE EMOTION POTION Carl Sagan said: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. For most UFO cases the evidence is flimsy, diaphanous, out of focus, hypnotically induced, internally inconsistent, illogical. Scientists require such things as repeatability. Theories must be tested, verified, confirmed. In "The Arrival," Charlie Sheen is told by a NASA administrator that a suspicious signal does not meet the test of science, because it was not repeated. Sheen explodes: Who made up that rule? Can we fire him? The NASA administrator turns out to be an alien himself, part of an underground hive planning to conquer the Earth. In the world of science, a hypothesis should be falsifiable. If there is no way to disprove the idea, then it doesn't really rise to the status of being scientifically valid. But aliens can't be falsified. By nature they vanish into thin air. By nature they do not have to obey our silly scientific protocols. They are not of the "material world," says John Mack. An immaterial physiognomy makes for one slippery critter. We live in a world where science is constantly telling us things that don't really make us feel good. The universe is a pointless aggregation of matter and energy, dominated by empty space. There is no soul. There is no magic. Everything we think and feel is the product of electrical charges along synapses in the brain. There is no luck, no karma, no fate. Eventually the universe will expand, degenerate, fall apart, die. Some people choose an alternative scenario. They say science is too narrow- minded. They do not give science credit for telling the world that once upon a time the planet was ruled by reptiles the size of houses; they do not give science credit for discovering that the entire universe exploded from an infinitely dense little wad of energy; they do not give science credit for the shocking realization that humans are kin to monkeys, fish, trees, grass. They want a reality that is different from the one science has dictated. "I think a purely three-dimensional space-time universe isn't going to get us anywhere," says Mack. There is a presumption that the aliens are smarter than we are. The aliens have graduated from the restrictive physics that rules our lives. And yet there's something oddly lacking in many of the aliens who have visited the Earth, particularly the ones known as the Grays, who have been frequently described as abductors of humans: They have no emotions. There is a theory that this is precisely why the aliens come to us. We have something they need. They need our emotions to evolve to a higher consciousness. They are taking genetic samples from humans because the aliens lack love, warmth, anger, rage or any of the rough-edged turbulence of the human soul. One never hears a report of an alien with a sense of humor, an alien with a weakness for pranks, an alien just horsin' around. Aliens are cold. Aliens do experiments all day long. Aliens are scientists. -> Alice4Mac 2.4.4 E QWK Hiya:05Nov94 Origin: ----------> Jack Sargeant, you look fabulist! --- PCBoard (R) v15.4/M 10 Beta * Origin: MoonDog BBS þ RIME NetHub Brooklyn,NY (1:278/15) SEEN-BY: 12/12 24/888 102/2 106/2000 109/7 124/1 130/1 1008 133/2 140/23 SEEN-BY: 143/1 147/34 2021 154/222 167/166 170/400 202/777 1207 1919 SEEN-BY: 213/213 218/2 801 890 900 901 907 244/1500 267/200 270/101 275/429 SEEN-BY: 280/1 169 282/1 62 310/666 323/107 343/600 346/250 356/18 371/42 SEEN-BY: 377/86 380/64 382/92 396/1 45 690/660 730/2 732/10 2401/0 2442/0 SEEN-BY: 3603/420 3606/10 3612/41 3615/50 3619/25 3632/21 3651/9 3652/1 SEEN-BY: 3667/1 3674/1 3828/2 5100/8 @PATH: 278/230 3615/50 396/1 218/907 801