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<\/p>\nI meant to get this out the other day but I’ve been wading through yet another round of hate mail from Alfred Lehmberg. (Yes that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a lame excuse, I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m really in the middle of a couple of fascinating books. …)<\/p>\n
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Exopolitics has it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s own journal!<\/a> Hurry hurry! Step Riiiight up!<\/p>\n “The Exopolitics Journal is an online resource established for individuals wanting to study the key actors, institutions and processes associated with the extraterrestrial hypothesis. It will become a valuable source of information for anyone wanting to understand the political implications of multiple sources of evidence concerning the extraterrestrial hypothesis that our Earth is currently being visited and monitored by extraterrestrial races.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Or it might become a laughingstock in the academic journal business, kind of like the novel Touched by Venom<\/a> is in the genre fiction world. (this book is known as the first \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cvenom cock\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d novel in subgenre fantasy. )<\/p>\n Really! Don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t get me wrong. I think UFOlogy needs a good peer reviewed *scientific or academic* journal. Not another woo-woo web publication by a bunch of grown men who think they talk to space aliens.<\/p>\n What\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s astounding is the credentials of Exopolitic head honcho Michael E. Salla PhD.<\/p>\n So who is this Michael E. Salla PhD?<\/p>\n Dr. Michael E. Salla has held academic appointments in the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC (1996-2001), and the Department of Political Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (1994-96). He taught as an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University, Washington DC., in 2002. He is currently researching methods of Transformational Peace as a Researcher in Residence in the Center for Global Peace (2001-2003) and directing the Center’s Peace Ambassador Program which uses transformational peace techniques for individual self-empowerment. He has a PhD in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Hero’s Journey Toward a Second American Century (Greenwood Press, 2002) and co-editor\/author of three other books, and authored more than seventy articles, chapters, and book reviews on peace, ethnic conflict and conflict resolution. He has conducted research and fieldwork in the ethnic conflicts in East Timor, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Sri Lanka. He has organized a number of international workshops involving mid to high level participants from these conflicts. He has an academic website at http:\/\/www.american.edu\/salla\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n http:\/\/www.exopolitics.org\/Study-Paper-4-PF.htm He\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s also got a big interest in mystical-homeopathic stuff and merkaba, sacred geometry. I guess that I can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t hold that against him. His academic record is certainly impressive, especially in the UFO field.<\/p>\n The first article in the Exopolotics journal? “The History of Exopolitics: Evolving Political Approaches to UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis<\/p>\n It turns out this is more a survey into the history of UFOs in the United States. Pretty much gleaned from a number of popular books and web pages.<\/p>\n The second article is entitled; “Exopolitics and Religion” (nuff said methinks.)<\/p>\n The third? “The Long-Term Government Covert Educational Program on Alien Visitors”<\/p>\n “I think that galactic societies have a “prime directive” that limits interference with lesser-evolved species such as we. The main reason alien liaison is increasing now is because our planet is being transformed to support a new world order. This process involves the evolution of the soul. The new order is destined to support a learning process that is one step beyond the human experience of free-will choices. It is the experience of learning to develop unconditional love of others. I think this outcome is unlikely unless the selfish or negative souls stop re-incarnating here. I hope, for the sake of our stressed environment, that we will get this kind of divine assistance. If this happens, then the new world order can become what Jesus described as heaven on Earth.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And so on. Anyway, it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a UFO lovefest hup hup hup! Bring on the cotton candy and the dog-faced woman!<\/p>\n Even Stanton Freidman weighed on this issue. In a letter I sniched from Paul Kimball\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s web log, Freidman writes;<\/p>\n Dr. Michael Salla [has] participated in several conferences and seems to believe every whistle blower and contactee story ever told. His excuse for accepting the tales without evidence to support them, and in face of evidence that they are baloney, is that since the government covers up things about UFOs, they would, of course, also make it impossible to verify claims of the whistleblowers and, therefore, the claims must be true. So he is a big fan of Robert Lazar, all of Dr. Steve Greer\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s sources, Colonel Corso, Sergeant Clifford Stone, ‘Dr.’ Michael Wolf Kruvant etc…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I still maintain that, although Exopolitics is a laudable idea it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s ultimately a big fat dead end. Just like most of UFOlogy. Seems to me that the society of any alien species will be so unlike our own that communication itself will be difficult. Politics? We can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t even figure out politics between our own nearly identical cultures, say the one in the US vs the one in Iran (for example.) Exopolotics with a million year old star traveling culture? Don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t make me laugh! It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s human-centric nonsense of the worst sort. If such a species were out there I suspect that they would just drop an asteroid on Humanity and then poke around in the rubble for any valuables. Or else they would check us out to see if we were fact \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153mostly harmless\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 and leave us alone with our planet busting toys. Why would they want meaningfully sexual contact or whatever rot the contactees report. I mean, how Star Trek!<\/p>\n But, before even going down this road, don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t the Exopolitical people think it would be a good idea to have a few aliens? You know. If you\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re going to go to all the trouble to write impressive sounding papers, don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t you think it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a good idea to have a subject to write about? A real subject? Otherwise, aren\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t we just spinning our wheels a bit?<\/p>\n But perhaps (as weird Al says and you know who you are Lehmberg) I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m too clueless to conceive of aliens. Weird Al and posse doesn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t know me very well. I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m fond of musing on the subject, very fond as a matter of fact. But, I also like to stay rooted in the real, the stuff that I can feel around me. That and my imagination which *is mostly not-real!* It’s speculation people! Stop treating your imagination like it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a freaking fact!<\/p>\n You will all get along so much better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I meant to get this out the other day but I’ve been wading through yet another round of hate mail from Alfred Lehmberg. (Yes that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a lame excuse, I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m really in the middle of a couple of fascinating books. …) … Continue reading
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