EXOPOLITICS.COM: VANCOUVER, B.C. - My real purpose in this
article is to take strong exception to the analysis of our colleague Michael Salla, PhD
regarding Remote Viewing as a research tool and source for Exopolitics.
Michael and I had long discussions on this issue at Kona, Hawaii last June 2005,
so my comments do not come as a surprise to him. I stated then to Michael
my disagreement with his rankings in the Exopolitics Evidentiary Support Matrix
for Exopolitics, and the basis for that disagreement.
I disagree with Michael's assessment that Remote Viewing is a "Moderate"
Evidentiary support for building our knowledge about Exopolitical reality. Quite
the contrary, Remote Viewing is one
Exopolitical Evidentiary source that meets the test of the scientific method:
Replicable results using standard laboratory protocols. It should be
ranked at "Strong."
My conversations with Michael have convinced me that he does not fully
understand Remote Viewing and has not examined the evidence of Remote Viewing.
The Exopolitics Model - that the Universe is populated with advanced, ethical
evolving civilizations operating under Universal laws (as defined above), with
some form of governance bodies, and mediated by Universe politics - is in fact
substantiated by Remote
Viewing
Data.
Remote Viewing IS the scientific breakthrough that has made replicable
Exopolitical research into the Universe possible.
I do believe my views are mis-represented in a significant, mis-leading way
in Michael's passage below, specifically in the following:
"In his recently published book on Exopolitics (2005), Webre elaborates
further on his "intuitive method" of psychic information gained through methods
such as "scientific remote viewing" and `channelled' information such as the
Urantia Book."
FROM: "The History of Exopolitics: Evolving Political Approaches to UFOs and
the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis" by Michael Salla, PhD
http://www.exopoliticsinstitute.org/Journal-home.htm
I believe the above to be the equivalent of an academic slur. The only place
in the book Exopolitics: Politics,
Government and Law in the Universe where I mention the Urantia Book is to
cite Remote Viewing research which has confirmed independently one episode of
our planetary past cited by the Urantia Book. I do not cite the Urantia
Book as a source in Exopolitics.
Secondly, Remote Viewing is specifically cited in the Book Exopolitics as the
source of the Exopolitics model, not "intuitive" or "channeled" materials.
This is misleading and a mischaracterization.
The STAR DREAMS INITIATIVE (SDI) Portion of the Exopolitics model is now is a
Project Website at:
http://www.peaceinspace.net
Please examine the following articles, which mirror the language and basis of
the book Exopolitics. They are based on the brilliant, replicable
scientific methodology of Remote Viewing, developed in the mid-1970s by my
colleagues at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Dr. Hal Puthoff and Russell
Targ, and applied to Exopolitical research in the mid-1980s forward:
Welcome
to the Star Dreams Initiative (SDI): Public interest Diplomacy With
Off-Planet Culture(s)
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/star_dreams_initiative/2005/10/welcome_to_the_.html
Oh,
and yes - There are those passages in the book Exopolitics in which I urge the reader
gently from a Spiritual place to use their intuition to deconstruct 60 years of
disinformational programming by the (largely) U.S. National Security
apparatus. Those passages are clearly marked as Exhortatory, not
probative.
IMHO, The Exopolitics Journal does yet not reach the necessary standards of
peer-reviewed scholarship in this unprofessional dissing of Remote Viewing - the
standard tool for scientific exploration of societies in the Universe. As
I indicated to Michael, I have received permission from a major mainstream
public affairs journal to re-publish an EXOPOLITICS article to be published in
the near future - one based on Remote Viewing research - in the Exopolitics
Journal, and I will.
Remote viewing has been developed as a scientifically reliable tool for
Exopolitical exploration, research, and the commencement of public interest
diplomacy with ethical, advanced Off-Planet Cultures, as authorized by Galactic
governance bodies. No other methodology will give humanity these
results.
Cheers, Alfred Webre
Vancouver, B.C.
EXOPOLITICS.COM
http://www.exopolitics.com
STAR DREAMS
INITIATIVE
http://www.peaceinspace.net
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exopolitics_institute/
INTERVENTION BY EXOPOLITICS.ORG: Aloha Alfred and all, I am
presently in Italy attending the Exopolitics conference organized by Dr Pinotti
so I can only be brief in my response. I am sorry you took exception to my
analysis to your exopolitics method Alfred since the intent was not to
academically slur you in any way but to simply point out the controversial
nature of the sources you use which puts you outside the mainstream of ufo
research in terms of the research methods used.
Despite this, I said
that your intuitive method is very important since it deals with a topic which
in the future will come to dominate exopolitics, the political processes used by
ETs themselves, and our need to acess sources of intutitive or psychic
information such as remote viewing and channelled source to better understand
this. As you know I dismiss neither one and simply give them moderate or
weak
evidentiary rankings for reasons I describe in my book.
What I have
found so far in the ufo community is great resistance to using sources such as
whistleblowers which were the main source used by Steven Greer in his
exopolitical initiatives. Along with various contactee
testimones, I think
this is the strongest foundation for exopolitics research since all can be
verified empirically. This is necessary since there are many doubting Thomases
who need that supporting evidence,and as social scientists we are bound to try
to validate our sources as far as possible. We have a healthy disagreement over
RV, etc., and think that is fine, and something we can continue to discuss and
strategize about.
As for not understanding remote viewing, it is an area
I have assessed rather than practiced. I think it very significant as a means of
information gathering but still is considered inconclusive. In his recent
book
on RV Courtney Brown repeatedly
refers to his work in this area as speculative non fiction. Obviously, Courtney
feels that the nature of the observations gained by RV need to be considered in
this way to offset possible criticism since many of the observations can not be
validated. I think he is being rightly cautious since we need to somehow
validate such information before using it as a basis for a
complete
understanding of ETs.
As for your use of the Urantia book, I do apologize
if I mis represented you here. From conversations and your book I concluded that
you view it as a valid source of information on exopolitics and that it belongs
to intuitive methods that you support, both in the book and public
activities.
When I return I will be happy to reread the book, and clarify
my assessment of the intuitive sources you use, and issue a follow up message
article to more accurately describe your views and the role of the
Urantia
book.
As for my motivations in all this, I hope this is transparent
since I want to establish exopolitics on its best foundations and give credit to
the emerging strands of exopolitics without making it something
that can be
debunked by those trying to criticise the exopolitics approach as a fringe
movement based on unsubstantiated sources. I think there is room for intuitive
as well as more traditional social
scientific methods in exopolitics and we
need to find ways to harmonize these to prevent misunderstandings between those
such as ourselves who give varying weights to these different sources.
I
look forward to your forthcoming article and clarification of your methods in
the forthcoming exopolitics journal. As for meeting standards of a peer reviewed
Journal, I think that is an important
goal and something that I desire the
Journal to evolve towards as more submissions come in and I begin to delegate
articles to reviewers who agree to assess
articles.
In peace,
Michael [Salla PhD]
INTERVENTION BY EXOPOLITICS.COM:"Former Commanding
Officer of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command publicly refers to
U.S.Army Intelligence remote viewing data suggesting intelligent life on
Mars"
Lecture on Remote Viewing as a Research Tool
MAJOR
GENERAL ALBERT N. STUBBLEBINE, III - Former Commanding Officer of the U.S. Army
Intelligence and Security Command.
The following speech was given by
Major General Stubblebine, an important advocate of the military use of Psi and
related techniques. This took place at the International Symposium on UFO
Research Sponsored by the International Association for New Science Denver,
Colorado, May 22-25, 1992.
EXCERPTS:
"Let me talk to you about
where you might take this kind of a tool and do something with it, and again I
am not sure I want to be on tape for this. We have looked at Mars, we have
looked at UFOs, we spent some time looking at Mars, tomorrow I believe that you
are going to hear a presentation on the Mars phenomena, and if I am correct,
that you will be told that there are structures on the surface of Mars. I will
tell you for the record that there are structures underneath the surface of Mars
that cannot be seen by the Voyager cameras that went by in 1976, which is what
you are going to hear tomorrow; I will also tell you that there are machines on
the surface of Mars and there are machines under the surface of Mars that you
can look at, you can find out in detail, you can see what they are, where they
are, who they are and a lot of detail about them."
(Question on Mars
machinery).
"It's moving, the machinery is moving, so I don't know, if
its from a leftover civilization its got a long-live battery, its better than
any of the dolls we put out on Christmas, I tell you, OK?"
Source:
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/star_dreams_initiative/2005/09/former_commandi.html
