Phyllis Schlemmer - The Only Planet of Choice-Essential briefings from deep space

The Only Planet of Choice
Essential briefings from deep space
published by Gateway Books, UK, 1993.

About the Council of Nine

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universe
but didnt know who to ask

Gateway Books has just published The Only Planet of Choice, Essential Briefings from Deep Space. It makes the startling claim that the human species exists throughout the Universe and that there has been systematic collusion amongst the major world governments in the last 40 years to prevent the evidence of ongoing contacts with extraterrestrial visitors becoming public.

This is the first book to deal with the background and reasons for these cosmic visits. It is made up of hundreds of transcripts transmitted through the channel Phyllis V Schlemmer over a period of more than 20 years from a group of universal beings, known as The Council of Nine. Members of a distinguished international research group who have worked with Phyllis include such famous names as Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, former British racing driver Sir John Whitmore, and British Olympic hurdler David Hemery. Palden Jenkins edited the transcripts from the vast number of tape recordings of the channelled sessions. Here are some excerpts to give you a taste of the book:

The Council of Nine have stated that, while other planets

do have choice, the consciousness Is collective. Only on

Earth can a being experience individual choice.

Transceiver

Edited by MARY BENNETT

Foreword by Sir John Whitmore, Bt

[October, 1994]

GATEWAY BOOKS, BATH

Alex Sautelle

Andrew (Andrija Puharich)

David Hemery

Gene Roddenberry

Geri Rogers

Ian Watson

Irene

Israel Carmel

Sir John Whitmore

Lark von Hugo

Mary Bennett

Miki Walleczek

Peter Marnot

Philip Goldman

Ron Witson

Susan Kaye

Dedication and Acknowledgements

I: THE UNIVERSE AND ITS BEINGS

II: PLANET EARTH

III: NEW LIGHT ON EARTH'S AN ANCIENT HISTORY

IV: VITAL LINKS IN THE CHAIN

V: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN

VI: TERRESTRIAL AFFAIRS

Briefing:

by John Whitmore

The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is now a serious business. In 1992 NASA invested much effort, money and new technology in searching the stars, or rather their planets, for radio signals which might indicate the presence of intelligent life forms. On a recent British TV program entitled "ET, Please Phone Earth" several eminent professors involved with the project expressed little doubt that such life exists and were anxious for Earth to keep listening for signs of It

However, they were not all in agreement about the wisdom of us Earthlings revealing our presence to the wider Universe. As one luminary pointed out we all know what humans did to societies that we deemed to be more primitive when we discovered them, so what might more advanced life forms do to us? That fear is based on the contradictory assumption that these "advanced" beings would be as aggressive, thoughtless, uncompassionate and primitive as human beings!

It is too late now anyway, for we have been sending out radio messages for many decades, the first of which have already sped past neighboring solar systems. However, the bizarre nature of the more powerful signals that follow those first dots and dashes, from soap operas to evangelist preachers might cause an alien to wonder whether intelligent life does exist on Earth after all! When Mahatma Gandhi was asked what he thought about western civilization, he said, "it would be good idea." Such might be the view of Earth from afar!

The threat posed to us by travelers from other worlds which was fostered by early science fiction books, Orson Welles' famous broadcast and many films, is today reinforced by stories of cattle mutilations and UFO abductions. However, more recently, perhaps initiated by Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek, there have been several cinematic attempts to present extraterrestrial life as benign, culminating with Steven Spielberg's endearing ET.

In most science fiction stories the beings, good or bad, are humanoid in appearance, but have the capacity to pass instantly through time and space. The cynic would dismiss both as convenient devices to assist the story teller to bring aliens down to Earth. Humanoid actors are certainly the easiest ones to come by, and we now know that in reality it would take ETs too long to travel here by conventional physical spacecraft, but can we be so sure that these fictions are not fact?

Years ago physicist John Wheeler postulated many interlocking Universes and other pioneers have gone past his limits of speculation to the their limits of credibility. Other universes suggest other dimensions based on laws beyond the comprehension of our scientists and beyond detection by our technology. Anything operating in this realm would appear to be magic to us and would, of course, be dismissed as a nonevent or an illusion by those who hold tenaciously to the limitations of existing science. Only a century ago were not electric light, radio, television, and flight, let alone space flight, in the realm of magic to all but the foolhardy? Are we so arrogant, and Earth-chauvinistic to think that our science, a mere hundred years on, is the only science of the Universe?

While Wheeler was theorizing about other realms, Uri Geller was bending spoons by other means. Predictably he was dismissed by defenders of the scientific faith such as magician James Randi, SETI seeker Carl Sagan and science fiction maestro Isaac Azimov. Nevertheless, some reputable scientists validated his work and Geller himself went on to make a fortune locating oil and minerals for multinational commercial enterprises who were less sensitive about the scientific correctness of his powers.

We find plenty of occurrences that defy our scientific reason in religion, of course, and they have strong symmetry with the types of events in which psychics like Geller engage. In our Bible alone there are many examples of clairvoyance, clairaudience, channeling, telekinesis, healing and dowsing. It is profoundly illogical of us to accept our biblical stories on faith and yet to deny that these things can or do occur today. The passage of time lionizes historical people and events, in the same way as television does now, making it hard for us to find a balanced perspective of distant times, and to find their modern parallels.

Of course religion, at least the Christian religion, has been overtaken by science as the guardian of the truth for us lesser mortals. We look to the high priests of science for knowledge and understanding, robes have yielded to the white coat, the chalice to the test tube. Science has the advantage of not being obliged to define good and evil, though I believe we would all be better off if it was. At first glance, even on moral grounds, science can make a good case for its ascendancy because the track record of religion is deplorable. Both in biblical times and today, examples of sheer evil carried out in the name of God and religion abound. From time to time psychics too, are revealed as frauds or use their powers for evil purposes. What is new, surprising or different? Wherever there is good, there is evil to oppose or distort it. Has not science created its monsters too? Of course neither science nor religion are inherently evil, but what some people will do in the pursuit of them is horrendous.

The Christian view of the coexistence of good and evil may not be too far off the mark, but people often find comfort in a more one-sided interpretation of this concept where extraterrestrials are concerned. While some deify and rush to embrace all forms of cosmic experience to help them escape our material existence, others see all alien acts or contacts as the work of the devil. However, it may not be that clear cut. Is it not reasonable to speculate that technologically advanced beings might exist in other dimensions, beings who are not advanced evil, but who regard us as a laboratory of lower life forms for them to experiment upon? We have few scruples about what we do to mundane animals in the interests of scientific advancement. Might they not do the same, hence the abductions and cattle mutilations?