Written by: Sheila Pryce Brooks, Executive Contributor
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As a child, I was introduced to Star Trek, featuring the iconic Captain Kirk, and whimsical notions of aliens and flying saucers shaped like my dinner plates. Little did I realize that I would not only witness, but also actively participate in shaping a future where engagement with interstellar lifeforms becomes an integral part of our evolution as a species and our collective consciousness.
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The relationship between spirituality, consciousness, paranormal phenomena, and interstellar life grows more pronounced each day. Many of us are eagerly taking personal steps to delve into this realm, about which, admittedly, we know very little.
If it were not for trailblazers, those who dared to follow their intuition regardless of social perceptions, our terminology would still be limited to "little green men" and "flying saucer plates." Instead, we now use techniques such as meditation and channeling to communicate with different forms of life, as telepathic communication and the movement of one’s consciousness are now everyday activities.
Joseph Burkes MD 2016 is one of these trailblazers.
A Substack community member introduced me to his work and shared with me his techniques relating to communicating with interstellar life. What follows is a slightly edited version of techniques that he and others used to ‘make contact’. These were used for a CE-5 handbook published in 1995 endorsed by Dr Steven Greer, who I have previously written about on my Substack. Please note that the terms UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) and UAP (Unidentified Ariel Phenomena) are used interchangeably.
UFO sightings can provoke a few different human responses. For some people the reaction is fear, for others a sense of wonder, but for others the reaction is curiosity, and for some people the reaction is a strong desire to personally meet the beings.
In 1974, a young university student named Sixto Paz Wells started experiencing automatic writing with a being that claimed to be an extraterrestrial. These encounters subsequently led to the creation of an international group of contact activists.
Doctor Steven Greer established the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) in 1990. He hoped to establish a friendly relationship with ETs to work for peace on Earth. Like Sixto Paz Wells, Dr Greer had learned when he was a young man that meditation can facilitate telepathic communication with UFOs. The methods and goals of his group are similar to those of Rama.
In 1992 I joined CSETI and led teams of UFO investigators in Southern California. On two occasions I received telepathic communications that informed me when, where and how many UFOs were going to appear later that night. Several hours later the details of sightings that we experienced corresponded to the information that I had received earlier during those nights.
1. Basic considerations about contact work
Contact work involves acknowledging that our civilization is facing existential challenges. War, poverty, and environmental pollution by human economic activity are ongoing. Planetary climate change driven by global warming threatens not only the production of food from both droughts and floods but in the last consequence the general habitability of earth. Urgent and comprehensive action is required by mankind to deal with these threats and engaging extraterrestrials holds out the promise that they might provide limited but very valuable assistance to mankind.
The question arises, “Is the contact network carrying out a scientific investigation of UAPs and ETs?” From my participation in Rama and CE-5 activities I answer this question no. Human initiated contact work is not science. We may use some of the methods of science such as rigorously collecting data on UAPs while in the field observing them. We can use technology such as video recorders, magnetic, radio wave and radiation detectors to document the physical parameters of our encounters, but this is not a scientific investigation for several important reasons.
Science explores objective phenomenon in the natural world in which repeated experiments if done properly should produce similar results. Scientific protocols are not designed to investigate an intelligence that is not only more intelligent than any professional scientist that might dare to study ETs, but it is an intelligence that controls almost every aspect of our encounters with it. Science is not designed to engage an intelligence that is probably completely telepathic and can deliberately deceive investigators if it chooses to do so.
What follows now is a brief description of the CSETI contact protocols.
2. The consciousness connection
This is the most important modality in terms of engaging any ET beings. The personal narratives of countless contact experiencers testify to mental i.e., telepathic communications with those beings. In 1992 Dr. Greer told my team “ET intelligence may be able to access our individual consciousness as readily as we humans access light by turning on a wall switch.”
For the last 25 years Dr Greer has described the rationale behind using consciousness as the basis for contact work. Consciousness can be described as the condition of being awake and knowing that one is awake. He has called it the “golden thread” that links each of us not only to every conscious intelligent being in the universe, but also links every person to the cosmos itself.
Consciousness has the property of being “unbounded.” This means that it is not limited by time or space. While in deep meditation each of us can experience this unbounded state that facilitates telepathic communication with extraterrestrials.
Imagine what it might be like to be in the presence of an extraterrestrial being. We would be different biologically having evolved on different star systems. We don’t share a common history, language, or social customs. What then can we share? We share that basic quality of being awake and knowing that we are awake. It is the most basic and profound common trait that we share.
While meditating we can experience this “unbounded” state of mind that we and ETs share and thereby communicate with one another. Meditation or any of its equivalents should be a regular habit for all contact workers both during fieldwork and if possible, at home every day.
There is no special technique of meditation that is advised. It can be as simple as sitting quietly for 15 minutes repeating a mantra mentally and focusing the mind upon one’s breathing.
Once again, the goal of this mental outreach should be nothing less than promoting a peaceful, cooperative, and mutually beneficial relationship with what may reveal itself to be ET visitors to our planet.
3. Site selection
A. Establishing a balance between remoteness and accessibility.
Research sites should be remote enough not to have strangers coming by at night and interfering with our attempts at contact. On the other hand, these sites should not be so remote that they require many hours of driving or hiking to travel to them.
B. If possible, contact sites should be located where recurrent recent and/ or historic sightings have occurred. Going to UFO hot spots may increase our chances for having encounters.
4. Using powerful lights
Dr Greer in his training materials reviewed the UFO literature and he aptly observed that often UFOs appear at outdoor concerts where powerful lights illuminated the nighttime sky. For this reason, powerful lights are employed to both attract UFOs and signal at them if they manifest. From my own experience I know how exhilarating it can be when one’s contact team signals at a UFO hovering in the night sky and the craft actually signals back.
5. Decorum
Fieldwork sites should not be party places. Alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, the use of street drugs or any sexual activity should not be permitted during any fieldwork investigations. The mission to engage UFO intelligence is a peaceful one. Therefore, no weapons of any type should be taken into the field.
6. Mental/spiritual preparation of contact work
The worldwide contact network operates by several principles. The most important is the assumption of non-hostility from any ET groups that we interact with. This may be difficult for most people to accept given the wide publicity to a phenomenon that has been labeled as “alien abductions.” It is the opinion of contact activists that we should attempt to meet any and all extraterrestrials that are present on Earth. Whether in Dr Greer’s CSETI network or in the Rama group, the collective experience of thousands of contact workers across the planet for more than four decades has demonstrated the safe nature of our contact efforts. Never has anyone ever reported being hurt or taken aboard craft without that individual’s permission during fieldwork.
In preparation for fieldwork each potential contact worker should examine the reasons why that individual is attempting to interact with ET intelligence. If one is simply curious about UFOs and wants to engage them for personal knowledge or to take a picture of an ET this will at most lead to a very limited success. One should always keep in mind that the so-called ETs are totally telepathic and as Dr Greer has suggested they may be able to assess our motivations for making contact even better than we can make such assessments about ourselves.
When working in a group setting, each member of the team should strive to maintain unity with the other members. Personal drama and ego-based conflicts are inconsistent with the goal of promoting the high ideals of peace, solidarity, and friendship.
One basic definition of spirituality is having the sense that each of us is part of something far greater than what one is as an individual. Contact work can be seen as extending the ideal of brotherhood and sisterhood to the Cosmos. To overcome most of the fears associated with possibly meeting ETs we should embrace the concept of oneness. Thus, one can make a case for the point of view that physically and mentally we are one. Experiencing this sense of unity is more than just accepting it as a good idea. To overcome fear during face-to-face contact with ET beings our shared oneness must be profoundly realized at the core of our very being. This can also be called love.
Thought projection to telepathic non-human beings and experiencing unity in a spiritual way with them has caused some critics to say that the contact network is nothing more than a bunch of new age religions. As an activist in several contact groups, I can strongly state that this is not the case. We do not worship the aliens as deities. We are quick to assert that although they have more advanced technology and probably have advanced ethically compared to humanity, as beings, they are not innately superior to us.
7. An optimistic outlook
Is creating world peace along with establishing cooperative mutually beneficial relations with extraterrestrials an impossible dream? To answer this question let us review some recent history. Mankind has advanced technologically in a short period of time beyond the wildest dreams of people living just two hundred years ago. During this same period of time in most parts of the world we have ended slavery, given women the right to vote and with the United Nations have taken small steps to promote planetary cooperation for peace. If we can travel to the Moon and explore our solar system with space probes, if we can find cures to many diseases that in the past have killed hundreds of millions of people, then in my opinion we can accomplish the bold plans of the contact that I have described.
Despite many obstacles in doing contact work, I believe that our efforts are creating exciting possibilities for mankind to prosper. This will be a protracted struggle that will likely unfold over generations if not for centuries. I invite all readers of this document to learn more about the worldwide contact network and to consider joining us as we reach out to the stars.
I hope that you have enjoyed reading this post. If you would like to read more about Joseph Burkes MD 2016 and his work, his website can be found HERE.
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Sheila Pryce Brooks, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Sheila Pryce Brooks is an expert in sleep paralysis and extraordinary spiritual experiences. After secretly living with chronic sleep paralysis for over 30 years, she decided to break her silence about her struggle with the phenomenon and the impact that it has on her life and created tools to transcend sleep paralysis and enhance her spiritual and psychic connection. She is passionate about illuminating the overlap between sleep paralysis, spirituality and science through research and education and she has since dedicated her life to helping others manage and transcend sleep paralysis and other extraordinary spiritual experiences.
