Paul Von Ward - Weve Never Been Alone: A History of Extraterrestrial Intervention

Also by Paul Von Ward:

Dismantling the Pyramid

Our Solarian Legacy

The Soul Genome: Science and Reincarnation

This edition first published as Gods, Genes, and Consciousness in 2004 by Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.

Copyright 2004, 2011 by Paul Von Ward

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This book is dedicated to professor, author, and poet Tonette Taylor Long, PhDmy wife, co-grandparent, and lifelong soul mate. She provides an invaluable sounding board in my quest for knowledge and understandingwith its ever-changing perspective on the human story. With her own deeply intellectual worldview she does not agree with all of my interpretations of the evidence, but has steadfastly provided moral support in my journey.

In the name of God, ___________. The reader can fill the blank with any imaginable curse, blessing, praise, wish, prayer, epithet, or affirmation and be certain that it will be spoken somewhere in the world today.

An Arab says, The Jews subverted Allah's order for the universe. A Jew says, YHVH gave us this land. An American president reportedly tells an Arab and a Jew, God instructed me to [act]. Are they all speaking of and to the same god? Whence these concepts of Allah/YHVH/God? How many other such gods have been identified throughout human history?

Moses (3,500 years ago) reported to the Hebrews that a god spoke to him from a burning bush and gave him commandments and books from a cloud of fire and smoke on the mountain. Saul (2,000 years ago) reported a voice spoke to him from the sky on the way to Damascus and set him on the path to define and organize the new religion of Christianity. Mohammed (1,400 years ago) reported that the Archangel Gabriel came in a vision and instructed him to start a new religion. Joseph Smith (1820s) reported that the angel Moroni showed him where the Book of Mormon was buried. A group of people in Chicago (early 1900s) channeled the Urantia Book that has stimulated a small religious movement. Charles Wise (1970s) reported that Jesus dictated a book to him to set the record straight

The histories of these religions have been filled with hatred for nonbelievers and bloody struggles among groups of believers. The history revealed in this book suggests that the nature of their Advanced Being-instigated beliefs spawns and nurtures their internecine conflicts. Militants in every religion have continually persecuted heretics, converted heathen and infidels by the sword and economic inducements, and tried to control the minds of millions. On the other hand, many devotees have been inspired to produce great works and noteworthy service to humanity. A built-in set of conflicting institutional values has suppressed initiative and made people psychologically dependent and susceptible to manipulation by demagogues, and yet has simultaneously given comfort, hope, and joy.

In the last 50 years, thousands of humans have reported contact with extraterrestrials, or ETs (another name for Advanced Beings). Some say they have been raped by them, abducted and frightened, and even used as parents for hybrid children. Others say the ETs have enlightened them, providing new knowledge and insights useful to humanity. Some have appeared as physical beings, while others have been energetic or light beings. There have been reports of valuable technology provided to humans by some of these ETs.

Thousands of people daily serve as channels for voices with messages no different in substance from world religions or the reports of those who have had contact with ETs. People pray to their angels, seek the advice of their spirit guides, and talk with discarnate beings in more dimensions than one can imagine. Some go out of body to meet them.

What is all this human communication with nonhuman entities? Why have some of these communications had such significant consequences for human history and others none?

Why have the beings themselves and the human reactions to them been so socially divisive? Just who are these disembodied voices and ethereal beings?

I call them ABs. The term AB, Advanced Being, refers to any category of nonhuman, conscious entities who may have been involved in human affairs. If you believe in one god, multiple gods, ETs, heavenly messengers, angels, spirit guides, a holy spirit, devils, ascended beings, spirit voices who speak through human channels, higher dimensional conscious entities, something you call your higher self, or any similar phenomenon, you already agree that ABs exist. Have one or more of them affected your life? If the answer is yes, have you ever considered that other ABs may exist? Have you thought about the influence they could have had on other people's lives and in human history?

When using the term Advanced Beings, I do not mean to imply that they are more advanced than humans in all respects. This definition simply recognizes reports made by people over several millennia. After communication or contact with such beings, individuals have described them as having powers or technologies stronger or more advanced than our own. These powers may be like those of an angel who can appear and disappear instantaneously, or may involve the use of sophisticated technologies by flesh-and-blood ETs whose spacecraft exceed the current limits of human technology or scientific understanding.

An AB may have powers of communication unknown to humans and operate in realms not readily accessible to us. ABs may have the power to unilaterally decide when and how to speak to us, even to choose whether to respond when we ask them to talk with us. None of this means they are necessarily more intelligent or more morally and ethically developed than humans. It means only that they can decide when, as we might put it, to initiate a call or answer the phone. However, whether the ABs take the initiative or we ask them for advice, it would behoove us to test their views against our own knowledge and wisdom. After all, they can only offer their own limited perspectives on a still-evolving universe.

Looked at in this way, the question Are we alone in the universe? seems foolish. Scientists still seeking answers to this question mislead themselves if they only tune in on pulsars and distant stars. The answer lies under our feet and in our collective stories: Other conscious beings inhabit the universe, and we have never been alone. The proof lies in self-evident artifacts and human experience.

This, the most important story in human history, receives little attention by either academic or popular historians. The nature of the story explains why established scholars fear to investigate it. It calls into question their own and almost everyone else's mental state, raising the specter of self-delusion across all of humanity that has atrophied our emotional and intellectual development. What to do about the evidence for other intelligent beings in the universe lies at the center of a covert struggle for control of the structure of human consciousness.