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posted by Chris Kaplan | May 3, 2010
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IcerocketAccording to a recent article by the Times UK, Stephen Hawking has reaffirmed the certainty of alien life, but he cautions that the seeking out of such life by human beings could be disastrous. Is this just a manifestation of a human based fear, projecting through transference of human behavior onto other species as the sole role of life, or is his warning sound, and human beings should tread cautiously through these unknown waters?
According to Hawking, and numerous theorists and scientists, the high probability for advanced alien life comes down to the law of averages. As Hawking points out, due to the mass nature and expanse of the cosmos, with the universe host to 100 billion galaxies, each with hundreds of millions of stars, it is only logical that evolved life, like humans, exists somewhere out there.
We are all behind the high probability of such life, but what about the extent of their behavior? Surely we can see in a vast range of ecosystems both friendly and unfriendly organisms caught in the act of propelling life through roles of the predator and prey. And according to Hawking, humans should be cautious because "a few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat," and that "contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity." And due to the law of averages, of course this is possible.
Hawking suggests further that there could be alien species that wish to raid Earth for its resources and then move on, in which "we only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet." Of course this is once again possible, due to the law of averages. But by accepting that possibility, we may be selling ourselves short and submitting to a fear-based dogmatic view that we are in desperate need of evolving from. In our adolescent stage of development in which we find ourselves as human beings, encountering such hostile life is plausible, if we remain operating in this mental thought process. Fortunately we are beginning to step away from this role, or at least experiencing a great amount of growing pains from it, just look at the current strife in the US regarding the health care and immigration reform. We are clinging to old thought processes as we struggle to evolve from them.
The nature of reality hosts planes of existence and dimensions that are interrelated and at the same time apart from one another, operating within and outside of or dominant reality. To dwell on the possibility of meeting alien life in our physical realm that are completely advantageous in carrying forward human based emotions and thought process drastically inflates our position as a species while simultaneously selling short the complexity of all life. To live in fear of meeting ourselves in alien skin does nothing but propel this point-of-view and robs us of manifesting our reality into a more harmonious balance. As a species we are in need of maturation in our behavior, which requires the evolution of our consciousness to the intimate laws of life, such as interconnectedness. There is a reason for experiencing such phenomenon in altered states of consciousness. As our dominant perception, our consciousness, evolves out of the play of the human tragedy acted out within our society, we begin to experience the infinite expanse in which we are all intimately related.
If we continue to project our own fears, like staring into a mirror we will find our fears looking back at us. But if we cut our ties from old fears, evolve our consciousness, maybe we will begin to look through that illusion and see clearly to the other side. Only then will we begin to evolve individually, and collectively, perhaps opening a dialogue with those who similarly have come across such principles of higher truth.
http://www.realitysandwich.com/beware_aliens
Image: "Protection From the Soul Eaters" © by Chris Kaplan
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V.synchronistic & like the art piece
— May 03, 2010
I share your thoughts, especially of the last two paragraphs, a few days ago infact after Bobs post on the Hawking's comment, i was inspired along with reading Female Warriors post on The Dark World of the Predator and Inorganic Beings and Susan Florries blog on Unconditional Love and Dark Beings, so i wrote the below piece on how we can begin to go beyond ourselves as a human conditioned anthropocentric reality into the noosphere of other beings.
http://www.evolver.net/user/sailing_beyond_knowledge/blog/colliding_merg...
http://sailingbeyondknowledge.podOmatic.com
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— May 04, 2010
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— May 04, 2010
I completely respect the position that Hawkings takes when it comes to aliens. First of all its not personal. It is mathematical and statistical in nature and logic. Whether we buy it or not, the universe is structured according to vast random events which, given optimum conditions, creates life, and given even more optimum conditions creates conscious life. But the universe is at all levels consumptive just to survive. Watch the coast of Louisiana and you see just how far we have managed to move away from that consumptive baseline as a species.
Hawkins is not stating that we should fear, nor project fear. In fact, he is stating a statistical truth, which is also founded on the idea that aliens could potentiall get to us through space physically (a high unlikelihood)... that more likely they would not be in favor of helping or even being nice to us. Imagine if you would the spanish with their pigs and pig diseases from farming pigs, landing in a clean and sanitary land where there was not 10,000 years of pig farming... hum like the Carib islands.. The pigs and the people of spain killed off the Carib indians in a heartbeat. Sorry but first contact physically would be like this... in both directions mind you. So to warn that aliens would not be the fluffy kind beings that many would hope, is one of logical and statistical conclusions based on a host of input data currently in our consciousness. Which is not to say that we could not be surprised... And Hawkins is open to this too, just as a statistical limit say 5%, not as potential majority say 55%.
As to the abstract, spiritual or transdimensional. hummm. First and foremost, such a traveler must make death an advisor which means they must confront the fear within. And not willy nilly with fluffy clouds of infinite love feelings. It must be discerned and attended to for what it is... the early warning system in our own necessary survival system. If it is not used as carefully encoded information for our own survival than we may just as well be sacrificial beings for external control by whatever comes our way. If we can discern and see beyond and through our early warning system, we make death an advisor... aka it will help us discern well if beings are out to get us. Most of our planet is addicted to the fear of death through the obsession with the salvationist paradigm of going to heaven - push that fear to the limit of the next life... So easy to manipulate... When death is the advisor we are present to now, our own death and clarity may guide us to see that which comes our way for what it is... to dance slowly and cautiously with each other and find if we have common ground to share.
I met just such a traveler as I was traveling in spirit. I did not rush to make a good friend, just because this new band of awareness was open to me. Rather, I listened carefully to the conversation that started between us. We made a power deal, we settled on mutually agreeable terms to travel together for a while and to learn about each other's worlds. Neither of us, from different worlds, were willing to commit to the point of harming the other's manifestation of the physical within our own band of being. The result was clarity of purpose, knowledge and exchange. Nothing was lost. But it took many an experience to find such a fellow traveler from another band of awareness. Often as I sought out such a connection, 90% or more, were really out to consume me as much as convience me we had something to share. I had to train myself to see more clearly, to use death as an advisor and to practice making these power deals so I did not loose something in the process. This was years of work. So, I agree with Hawkins... we cannot assume that they or we are ready for such relationships.
Hawking's brilliance is a form of global early warning system for the human race. His consciousness has traveled in a manner few could or will understand. He has truly wandered away from the village and no fluffy love and light has guided him. Rather he has been guided by his discipline of knowledge and awareness and the practiced the dicipline of science. To dismiss him out of hand is disigenuous and petty. Rather, we should, as all tribes do, respect his point of veiw and integrate that into the whole... test his point out. I did. He is right as a result of my examination.
The universe is not necessarily a friendly place... and we are not necessarily emerging into a higher vibration as a whole species. We are as dangerous as those who would visit us. Let us not cut off our noses to spite our faces. Let's use our well developed lower awareness through fear, death as an advisor for deeper clarity... then we can forge real aliances for the benefit of the human race which is on the verge. Let's gain knowledge and hopefully releve some of the instinctual pressures which makes us feel utterly alone in this universe. And in reality, that IS the REAL battle we are worried about... loneliness. Are we alone and on the verge of destroying our mother planet or are we in a universe of others who have experienced similar challenges of evolution. I think we are so scared that we are alone and that we will destroy our own world before we have a chance to evolve. Peace.
