THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
June 16, 2012
The Impact of UFO Disclosure Explored on The Paracast
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Please Visit Our Brand New Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
Sunday, June 17, 2012: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel, authors of "A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact," which posits how we will deal with the revelation that UFOs are real. What will the impact to the energy industry be? What about organized religion and our culture? Will it end up good or bad for us? Will events simply spin out of control, or will we take it all in stride?
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet
AD: After Disclosure Blog: A.D. After Disclosure
Order a Copy from Amazon Books: Amazon.com: A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact (9781601632227): Richard Dolan, Bryce Zabel, Jim Marrs: Books
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
Recovering from Disclosure
By Gene Steinberg
As most of you know, I’ve been skeptical of the prospects for eventual disclosure of the existence of UFOs by Earth governments. I think I have good reason for that skepticism, since decades have passed since flying saucers first entered our popular culture, and the official position from the U.S. and other governments is that there’s really nothing strange about them. Period.
However, there are some private UFO clubs that want you to believe that the truth about UFOs is well known, and that the facts are being withheld from us for reasons known only to secret agencies within those governments. But even if we accept this claim as factual, and real evidence for such a possibility is scanty, even though there have been occasional whistleblowers who have claimed otherwise. Regardless, you have to wonder why they’d withhold such evidence if they knew such a truth.
Back in the 1950s, Major Donald E. Keyhoe, author of several popular books about flying saucers, wrote about a “Silence Group” within the UFO government that managed the secret. He even speculated as to why. He dismissed panic as a significant factor, suggesting we’d learn to cope with such a revelation. But the memories of the controversial 1938 radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds,” based on the H.G. Wells novel and produced by Orson Wells, was fresh. People who didn’t listen carefully enough actually believed that ET had attacked us, so they panicked. Surely the authorities couldn’t risk that happening all over again, even if the visitors had only friendly intentions towards us.
With few exceptions, most of the popular movies of the 1950s about the arrival of aliens on Earth, including “Earth Versus the Flying Saucers,” which was very, very loosely based on one of Keyhoe’s books, presented ET as hostile. So did loads of other films through the years with very few exceptions.
In the 1951 sci-fi classic, “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” the alien visitor, Klaatu, warned Earth scientists that if we don’t give up our obsession with war and advanced instruments of war, the alien federation of which he was a part would have no choice but to destroy the human race in the interests of peace. But he offered the carrot and stick approach. We could give up our evil ways and join their galactic brotherhood.
In part, that movie influenced some of the early flying saucer contact claims, particularly the ones depicting advanced human aliens wearing silvery uniforms that warned us of the consequences of warlike behavior. To this day, many people who believe in UFOs are convinced the visitors are here to help us and not to harm us.
Certainly other popular movies depicted ET as benevolent, the most popular examples being “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and “ET: The Extraterrestrial.” Although you might think that both films presented the true beliefs of director Steven Spielberg, it’s also true that he directed the Tom Cruise 2005 remake of “War of the Worlds.” But the latter film arrived nine years after “Independence Day,” a blockbuster popcorn flick that, itself, was slightly influenced by the H.G. Wells novel. In “War of the Worlds,” the aliens perish because they are infected with Earth viruses for which they had no immunity. In “Independence Day,” star Jeff Goldblum takes his Apple PowerBook and infects ET’s computers with a different virus, a computer virus.
But how logical was the “War of the Worlds” plot? You would think that ET would do careful testing of a planet’s environment and make sure they were immunized against planetary diseases before attempting a landing.
Certainly some of our religions regard possible aliens as spawns of the devil, while others consider our universe, as created by God, to be rich in lifeforms of all kinds. We are not alone in the universe, and that has become ever more likely not just because of UFO sightings, but as the result of discoveries of more and more planets across the galaxy that may be able to support life as we know it. Or at least life based on similar chemical compounds, but there’s no guarantee an intelligent species capable of space travel among the stars would be human, or close to human.
In their thought-provoking book, “AD: After Disclosure,” authors Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel speculate on the impact to society if it were revealed that ET was amongst us. The fear that humans would suffer from mass panic seems to be less of a factor than the direct or indirect impact to our culture, religion, and industry.
How would the oil industry react to the discovery that that forms of free energy exist that, if adapted to our technology, could ensure that we will could power motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, homes, and so on and so forth without running dry? That might be a key reason that the military/industrial complex would want to manage the secret. But I suppose they could simply put meters on free energy devices that would assess fees based on usage in exchange for granting us access to the technology. You’d have to think they’d want to devise a profit-making scheme.
But would ET approve, or would they observe some sort of “prime directive” that prevents them from interfering with “primitive” civilizations? In other words, we may not be granted access to their technology until they deemed us “ready,” and maybe not even then.
You also wonder how religions would react if they discovered that we were placed here by ET, not by God, and that we were the products of genetic experiments. And would different countries fight amongst themselves to exploit the aliens? What if they knew that ET wasn’t here to help us, that they simply didn’t care one way or the other, or expected us to join their society as, well, slaves?
And what about the possible avalanche of lawsuits from people who claim they were abducted, and want recompense, and maybe medical care, because of what the aliens did to them? What about people whose professions, or even their emotional health, was harmed by the presence of ET? Would lawyers be lining up to get their pounds of flesh?
If our governments truly knew the secret of the UFOs, and that ET, inter-dimensional or other strange visitors, were here, they’d have to consider the consequences of revealing the truth. However you want to spin it, the impact to our society would not be benign. We would not just go about our business as if nothing had happened, even though I expect some of you would rather feel that way.
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June 16, 2012
The Impact of UFO Disclosure Explored on The Paracast
Special Announcement: The Paracast is heard Sundays from 2:00 AM until 5:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
Here's Why We're Requesting a Donation to The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network or local stations. So we hope you're able to help fill the gap if you can to help us cover increasing server costs and other expenses -- or perhaps provide a little extra cash for lunch. No contribution is too small (or too large
. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Brand New Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
Sunday, June 17, 2012: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel, authors of "A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact," which posits how we will deal with the revelation that UFOs are real. What will the impact to the energy industry be? What about organized religion and our culture? Will it end up good or bad for us? Will events simply spin out of control, or will we take it all in stride?
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet
AD: After Disclosure Blog: A.D. After Disclosure
Order a Copy from Amazon Books: Amazon.com: A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact (9781601632227): Richard Dolan, Bryce Zabel, Jim Marrs: Books
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
Recovering from Disclosure
By Gene Steinberg
As most of you know, I’ve been skeptical of the prospects for eventual disclosure of the existence of UFOs by Earth governments. I think I have good reason for that skepticism, since decades have passed since flying saucers first entered our popular culture, and the official position from the U.S. and other governments is that there’s really nothing strange about them. Period.
However, there are some private UFO clubs that want you to believe that the truth about UFOs is well known, and that the facts are being withheld from us for reasons known only to secret agencies within those governments. But even if we accept this claim as factual, and real evidence for such a possibility is scanty, even though there have been occasional whistleblowers who have claimed otherwise. Regardless, you have to wonder why they’d withhold such evidence if they knew such a truth.
Back in the 1950s, Major Donald E. Keyhoe, author of several popular books about flying saucers, wrote about a “Silence Group” within the UFO government that managed the secret. He even speculated as to why. He dismissed panic as a significant factor, suggesting we’d learn to cope with such a revelation. But the memories of the controversial 1938 radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds,” based on the H.G. Wells novel and produced by Orson Wells, was fresh. People who didn’t listen carefully enough actually believed that ET had attacked us, so they panicked. Surely the authorities couldn’t risk that happening all over again, even if the visitors had only friendly intentions towards us.
With few exceptions, most of the popular movies of the 1950s about the arrival of aliens on Earth, including “Earth Versus the Flying Saucers,” which was very, very loosely based on one of Keyhoe’s books, presented ET as hostile. So did loads of other films through the years with very few exceptions.
In the 1951 sci-fi classic, “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” the alien visitor, Klaatu, warned Earth scientists that if we don’t give up our obsession with war and advanced instruments of war, the alien federation of which he was a part would have no choice but to destroy the human race in the interests of peace. But he offered the carrot and stick approach. We could give up our evil ways and join their galactic brotherhood.
In part, that movie influenced some of the early flying saucer contact claims, particularly the ones depicting advanced human aliens wearing silvery uniforms that warned us of the consequences of warlike behavior. To this day, many people who believe in UFOs are convinced the visitors are here to help us and not to harm us.
Certainly other popular movies depicted ET as benevolent, the most popular examples being “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and “ET: The Extraterrestrial.” Although you might think that both films presented the true beliefs of director Steven Spielberg, it’s also true that he directed the Tom Cruise 2005 remake of “War of the Worlds.” But the latter film arrived nine years after “Independence Day,” a blockbuster popcorn flick that, itself, was slightly influenced by the H.G. Wells novel. In “War of the Worlds,” the aliens perish because they are infected with Earth viruses for which they had no immunity. In “Independence Day,” star Jeff Goldblum takes his Apple PowerBook and infects ET’s computers with a different virus, a computer virus.
But how logical was the “War of the Worlds” plot? You would think that ET would do careful testing of a planet’s environment and make sure they were immunized against planetary diseases before attempting a landing.
Certainly some of our religions regard possible aliens as spawns of the devil, while others consider our universe, as created by God, to be rich in lifeforms of all kinds. We are not alone in the universe, and that has become ever more likely not just because of UFO sightings, but as the result of discoveries of more and more planets across the galaxy that may be able to support life as we know it. Or at least life based on similar chemical compounds, but there’s no guarantee an intelligent species capable of space travel among the stars would be human, or close to human.
In their thought-provoking book, “AD: After Disclosure,” authors Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel speculate on the impact to society if it were revealed that ET was amongst us. The fear that humans would suffer from mass panic seems to be less of a factor than the direct or indirect impact to our culture, religion, and industry.
How would the oil industry react to the discovery that that forms of free energy exist that, if adapted to our technology, could ensure that we will could power motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, homes, and so on and so forth without running dry? That might be a key reason that the military/industrial complex would want to manage the secret. But I suppose they could simply put meters on free energy devices that would assess fees based on usage in exchange for granting us access to the technology. You’d have to think they’d want to devise a profit-making scheme.
But would ET approve, or would they observe some sort of “prime directive” that prevents them from interfering with “primitive” civilizations? In other words, we may not be granted access to their technology until they deemed us “ready,” and maybe not even then.
You also wonder how religions would react if they discovered that we were placed here by ET, not by God, and that we were the products of genetic experiments. And would different countries fight amongst themselves to exploit the aliens? What if they knew that ET wasn’t here to help us, that they simply didn’t care one way or the other, or expected us to join their society as, well, slaves?
And what about the possible avalanche of lawsuits from people who claim they were abducted, and want recompense, and maybe medical care, because of what the aliens did to them? What about people whose professions, or even their emotional health, was harmed by the presence of ET? Would lawyers be lining up to get their pounds of flesh?
If our governments truly knew the secret of the UFOs, and that ET, inter-dimensional or other strange visitors, were here, they’d have to consider the consequences of revealing the truth. However you want to spin it, the impact to our society would not be benign. We would not just go about our business as if nothing had happened, even though I expect some of you would rather feel that way.
The Paracast Copyright 1999-2012 Making The Impossible, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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