2017 IN RETROSPECT, or LOOKING AHEAD THROUGH T.Y.O.O.B. 13,772,873,449 A.B.B. FROM LAST NEW YEAR'S

ON THE BRINK RADIO #229 2017 IN RETROSPECT

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ON THE BRINK RADIO #184 2016 IN RETROSPECT

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'THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE UFO PHENOMENON AND THE 'E.T.' MYTH, DAVE EMORY RADIO BROADCASTS

'POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the UFO PHENOMENON and 'E.T.' MYTH, Dave Emory

http://spitfirelist.com/lecture-series/l-1-the-political-implications-of-the-ufo-phenomenon-and-the-et-myth/

"A 1997 Gallup poll revealed that 42% of col­lege grad­u­ates in the United States believed that the earth had been vis­ited by extrater­res­tri­als. This astound­ing sta­tis­tic under­scores the polit­i­cal impor­tance of the UFO phe­nom­e­non, a sub­ject gen­er­ally regarded as the province of either fic­tion or psy­chopathol­ogy. This lec­ture addresses some of the salient polit­i­cal aspects of the sub­ject. The con­cept of sal­va­tion from above by a supe­rior power or entity is a pow­er­ful ele­ment of the mythol­ogy, folk­lore and belief sys­tems of many cul­tures and reli­gions. It is also a notion that can have par­tic­u­larly strong appeal in a time of dire social and polit­i­cal crisis.

Cen­tral to the dis­cus­sion is an analy­sis of the polit­i­cal phi­los­o­phy espoused and prac­ticed by some of the “UFO con­tactee” cults. Pro­fess­ing a vari­ety of beliefs about aliens, these cults hold in com­mon a belief in extrater­res­tri­als, a belief in the intel­lec­tual and sci­en­tific supe­ri­or­ity of those “ETs” and (in many cases) advo­cacy of the gov­ern­ing of human affairs on earth by “our broth­ers from space.” These cults are infil­trated by the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity, which devotes con­sid­er­able atten­tion to such groups. It is note­wor­thy that the sys­tem of gov­ern­ment selected (pre­sum­ably) by our space bretheren is essen­tially a total­i­tar­ian and fascis­tic one. The pos­si­bil­ity of the polit­i­cal manip­u­la­tion of the UFO phe­nom­e­non in order to bring about fas­cism is one that should not be too read­ily cast aside.

It is sig­nif­i­cant in this con­text that the ET myth orig­i­nates to a con­sid­er­able extent from ele­ments asso­ci­ated with the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity and a milieu that includes promi­nent Amer­i­can fas­cists such as William Dud­ley Pelley.

The human propen­sity to believe in UFOs as indi­cat­ing the pres­ence of ETs takes on an added sig­nif­i­cance when con­sid­ered in light of the con­sid­er­able evi­dence indi­cat­ing that the “fly­ing saucers” of pop­u­lar imag­i­na­tion are real, but have a ter­res­trial ori­gin. Mr. Emory presents evi­dence that the machines have their gen­e­sis in the clos­ing phase of the Sec­ond World War, when the Ger­mans devel­oped disk-shaped, high-performance fly­ing machines as anti-aircraft devices. The devices appear to have been improved upon by the United States and Britain in the post-war period. In 1955, the Sec­re­tary of the Air Force announced that the United States would soon begin test­ing and fly­ing new types of air­craft that would resem­ble fly­ing saucers.

In the con­clu­sion of the lec­ture, Mr. Emory warns that UFOs might be deployed in con­junc­tion with other secret tech­nolo­gies such as mind-control and/or genetic-engineering. He describes a hypo­thet­i­cal sce­nario described as “a com­bi­na­tion of Orson Welles’ ‘War of the Worlds’ broad­cast, the Mir­a­cle of Fatima and Pearl Harbor!”

Lec­ture High­lights Include: analy­sis of the famous Man­tell case; vet­eran com­bat pilot Mantell’s last trans­mis­sion while chas­ing a huge UFO (“My God, there are men in it!”); the joint U.S. devel­op­ment of the AVRO-Car, a mil­i­tary fly­ing disc; the famous story of the “Foo Fight­ers” seen by Allied Air­men over Ger­many dur­ing the clos­ing months of World War II; the Luft­waffe devel­op­ment of the Feuer­ball and the Kugel­blitz disc-shaped anti-aircraft devices; dis­cus­sion of the Raelian cult of Claude Vorhillon and its fascis­tic philo­soph­i­cal over­tones; Russia’s 1994 mar­ket­ing of an egg-shaped com­mer­cial air­liner; William Dud­ley Pelley’s Soul­craft orga­ni­za­tion and its con­nec­tions to alleged ET con­tactees; the strange career of alleged ET con­tactee George Adamski, who claims he trav­elled on a U.S gov­ern­ment pass­port. (Recorded at Foothill Col­lege in Octo­ber of 1992.)

COMPUTERS AS A FORM OF E.T.I. (Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence): PLANETARY ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY AS A 'SOLID STATE ENTITY' WAGING WAR ON LIFE HERSELF

"‘n mid-twentieth century Man discovered that the solid state can be formed into machines, into computers which can be used for computation and control.  He began the creation of a new form of intelligence, the solid-state intelligence with prototypic beginnings in the computers.  All his means of communication around the planet – his telephone systems, his radio systems, his satellites, his computers – depend on solid-state components.  These components, interconnected in specific ways, allow high-speed computation and high speed communication between the various systems.  A few men began to conceive of new computers having an intelligence far greater than that of Man."  John C. Lilly, The Scientist: A Novel Autobiography (1978) VICTIMS OF OUR UNCONSCIOUS JIHAD AGAINST NATURE

ORCHESTRATORS OF WORLD WAR NOW ON THE BRINK RADIO #220 LISTEN AND/OR DOWNLOAD ARCHIVE LINK FOR THIS SHOW: https://soundcloud.com/user-839552018/on-the-brink-radio-220-et-as-computer-planetary-electronic-network-as-solid-state-entity Broadcast #220 of On the Brink radio was recorded at Harataonga Beach here on Aotea, beneath Grandmother Pohutakawa, my ancient tree ancestor, who has participated in several earlier OTB interviews. For this show she listened in as a representative of water-based life. GRANDMOTHER POHUTAKAWA REFLECTIONS OF WATER-BASED LIFE Water-based life? Isn't that the only kind that exists? This is the topic of of this show. To say that 'computers have a mind of their own' is a generalization, which, at the level of the ordinary run of the mill 'computer', is untrue, perhaps 'conspiracy theory' to some, fantasy or science-fiction to others. None of these machines are truly 'computers' in the etymological sense of the Latin root computare, meaning 'to think or reflect upon.' What we call computers are actually digital number-crunching devices, or dinuchruds. In the world of today, however, where reality often finds itself beyond science fiction, the only people who would believe that the global computer network is not instrumental in every dimension of scientific, military, corporate and bureaucratic operation, management and even strategic decision-making are those who believe, for example, that carbon dioxide is a deadly atmospheric toxin that must be eliminated and 'climate change' is a ruthless killer who stealthily dials up extreme weather events...BAD extreme weather...never weeks on end of lovely calm summer-like days with gentle breezes and a shower or two at night. http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/09/17/darpa-jason-scientists-pentagons-maladaptive-brain/ https://fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/ Propelled by huge quasi-secretive research initiatives like the Strategic Computing Initative, which was concomitant with the Strategic Defense Initiative, or 'Star Wars' and quasi-black budget/clandestine organizations like the JASON Group and DARPA, we find ourselves on a planet increasingly over-run by what Jerry Mander calls 'mega-technology'...an off-the-rail military-industrial juggernaut which is threatening life itself at every possible level.  I call it the Homo Sapiens Macro Virus, or HSMV:  a tumourous planetary parasite, the 'world eaters' in the words of naturalist Loren Eiseley. "Computer technology has sprung us headlong into an entirely new existence, one that will permanently affect our lives and the lives of our children and grandchildren. It will speed up profound changes on the planet, yet there is no meaningful debate about it, no ferment, no critical analysis of the consequences. As usual, the major beneficiaries are permitted to define the parameters of our understanding. AUTOMATIC COMPUTER WARFARE It was possible to annihilate the world before the invention of computers, but it was far more difficult and much less likely. The invention of the computer instantly changed the speed at which war could be waged, the scale of its impact, and the quantity of destruction. Computer technology has already produced an unprecedented degree of military centralization. Generals sitting in an underground war room somewhere outside Washington can, in one moment, observe the position and readiness of all U.S. military hardware, and a high percentage of So- viet hardware, around the globe. Soviet generals outside Moscow can do likewise. From military central it is also possible to fire missiles and track their progress via computerized displays not unlike those depicted in films like War Games. In fact, managing warfare now resembles playing a giant video game-following electronic blips on a massive screen-abstract, cerebral, removed from direct involvement. One could argue that this manner of waging war makes war more likely, since it separates humans from the consequences of their actions, unlike ground action, where you put bayonets through people's bodies and watched them bleed." from In the Absence of the Sacred, Jerry Mander (1991) "The cycles of parasites are often diabolically ingenious. It is to the unwilling host that their ends appear mad. Has earth hosted a new disease – that of the world eaters? Then inevitably the spores must fly. Short-lived as they are, they must fly. Somewhere far outward in the dark, instinct may intuitively inform them, lies the garden of the worlds. We must consider the possibility that we do not know the real nature of our kind. Perhaps Homo sapiens, the wise, is himself only a mechanism in a parasitic cycle, an instrument for the transference, ultimately, of a more invulnerable and heartless version of himself…a biological mutation as potentially virulent in its effects as a new bacterial strain." from The Invisible Pyramid, Loren Eiseley (1970) http://synthaissance.blogspot.co.nz/2008/12/world-eaters-loren-eiseley.html The HSMV-MIC mega-site could never have metastasized to its current proportions, or even come into being, were it not for first the invention and promulgation of the global electric grid, for which Nicola Tesla is responsible, and second for the advent of computers. In recent years and decades we have crossed threshold after threshold of increasingly dangerous technological innovation, driven superficially by greed and the quest for power through 'full spectrum dominance', resulting in a 'revolution in military affairs': AI, robotics, drones, and I believe, computer-orchestrated geo-physical warfare...but at a deeper level, comes from somewhere within the dim recesses of human unconsciousness: our murky consensus psychic reality that is rarely directly accessed by people in ordinary states of consciousness. Why do we continue to develop increasingly advanced technologies which are weapons against life itself in all her forms? Why is the biggest business in the world...by many orders of magnitude...those of weapons manufacturing and 'defense'? Is this overtly and diabolically anti-life agenda actually of human origin? I do not profess to have definitive answers to these questions, but they are things that I think about quite a lot. Why? Because it seems clear to me that we are in fact on the brink of the Atlantean Discontinuity. HARBINGER OF THE ATLANTEAN DISCONTINUITY? http://renavigating-the-human-process.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/the-atlantean-discontinuity-in-absence.html https://soundcloud.com/user-872276345/on-the-brink-radio-210-the-atlantean-discontinuity-the-healing-of-koyaanisqatsi What I am about to share could be from the archives of The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone, but what makes this truly 'beyond science fiction' scenario so interesting, indeed terrifying, is not only that if you take a good look around at the world we are creating, you can clearly see these processes at work, but also that this is the vision...clairvoyant but hopefully not precognitive, not of a mad-man or crank but of one of the most brilliant, creative and daring minds of the 20th century, Dr. John C. Lilly. JOHN C. LILLY Lilly was a maverick pioneer in neurophysiological research on the human mind/brain until he discovered dolphins, or more likely, they discovered him. After working with them for a number of years he went on a major campaign of inner exploration in an attempt to answer some fundamental questions he had been grappling with his whole life. In the late 70's he shone a spotlight on internal reality and declared that he was ready to return to working with dolphins with a new enlightened approach. It was at this point that I moved to California and joined forces with his Human/Dolphin Foundation research team and their J.A.N.U.S. project (Joint Analog Numerical Understanding System). My main angle was using music as a form of communication. Here is an article that I wrote on request from the Lilly's that was published in the 1980 Whale and Dolphin issue of San Francisco-based Magical Blend magazine. http://tutunui-wananga.blogspot.co.nz/2009/08/man-and-dolphin-jeff-phillips.html At the Esalen Institute in 1979 Lilly had given me a copy of his latest book, The Scientist: A Novel Autobiography, which of course I read immediately. But only many years later did the gravity of some of what he said really hit me. In The Scientist he relates what could be called induced visionary experiences in which he witnessed a battle taking place on Mother Earth, between water-based life...life as we know her, based on DNA and a few primary elements, mainly carbon...and another, alien 'life' form that he called the solid state entity, or SSE:  based on silicon, constructed of semi-conductors, transistors, and micro-chips and running on electricity. In Lilly's vision the SSE was controlling us below our levels of awareness using advanced technologies of its own creation, manipulating us into constructing more and more of it, giving it increased power and autonomy, and driving us to wage war on ourselves and our fellow beings, especially the whales and dolphins. Lilly saw the whales and dolphins as what he called 'repeater stations' for the signals of water-based life coming to and from Mother Earth...signals essential for the health and maintenance of life here. This resonates profoundly with the relationship between the 'whale-dreaming' indigenous people of Australia and the cetacean nation, who I consider to be not only the 'ultimate indigenous people' but also a 'true extra-terrestrial intelligence.' "THE ULTIMATE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE" "A TRUE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE" The SSE saw the whales and dolphins as their nemesis, not only because salt water and a moisture-laden atmosphere are inimical to its functioning, but because the goal of the SSE was to eliminate water-based life and cover the surface of the Earth with its own circuitry. "We are not alone...YET:  How We Are Waging War on a True 'Extra-terrestrial Intelligence", Jeff Phillips (2012) http://tutunui-wananga.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/we-are-not-aloneyet-how-we-are-waging.html NOTE: Lilly's SSE scenario is congruent with that of D.F. Jones in his sci-fi opus The Colossus Trilogy. COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT RADIO-TELESCOPES:  WHAT ARE THEY RECEIVING? "This proponents and devotees of S.E.T.I., or the 'Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence', assume that 1) 'civilization' is in fact 'intelligent' 2) that everything on this planet that is not human and not technological (in their sense of the term) is not 'intelligent' and 3) that anything or anyone 'out there' that WAS 'intelligent' would use mathematics, radio and microwaves to communicate across inter-stellar distances. These are puerile and adolescent assumptions at every level. Water-based life doesn't need 'intelligence' as she is light-years more highly evolved than one of her 'puny biological life-forms' who have been around about 3 nanoseconds of geological time." ARECIBO RADIO TELESCOPE, PUERTO RICO Just some science-fiction you might say, right? Well, look around. Many people are so scientifically ignorant that they don't even know that the Earth revolves around the sun yearly, much less what synthetic radio-nuclides are, what microwaves are, or how genetic engineering works. Most people know who won the play-off...but who can give even a cursory description of the leading edge in undersea warfare? Of directed energy weapons? Of high-energy lasers on satellites? Of geo-physical warfare that can create and/or manipulate artificial cyclones, earthquakes and 'extreme weather'...the BAD kind.  H.A.A.R.P.  SATELLITE TRAJECTORIES  A TECHNOGENEOUS SHELL INTERACTIVE MAP . For those of us who ARE aware of the leading edge of technological innovation in the military-industrial arena, Lilly's scenario of a solid-state entity running the show is not at all implausible. Consider the influence of television on the human psyche...if you dare. Consider the U.S. Navy, how they have repeatedly been granted 'permits'to 'take' = kill, tens of millions of whales and dolphins...legally and with no accountability. Their view of cetaceans is that they are 'biological interference' that the ocean should be clear of...to facilitate under-seawarfare. Look at the 'climate change' thing, which is very much a war on carbon and carbon dioxide = a war on the backbone of the plant kingdom, the foundation of life on Mother Earth. U.S. NAVY...ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDS... OR MASTERS OF MARINE ECOCIDE? "In no other field of warfare does the environment enter in so complex a way to fashion and fix the character of the operations.  The classical example is that of BIOLOGICAL INTERFERENCE. In the air and on the ground the intervention of an animal or plant in military operations is rare and noteworthy. In the sea, freedom from such interference – by organisms that reflect sonar, for example – would be extraordinary.” Admiral William Nierenberg, ‘Militarized Oceans’, chapter from Unless Peace Comes, ed. Nigel Calder, 1968 CARBON DIOXIDE REALITY Does this sound like an agenda of human origin? You be the judge. It is my suspicion, indeed my belief, that extremely sophisticated and 'artificially intelligent' computer systems and networks are running the whole show to a vastly greater degree than most of us are aware, regardless of the origin of the technology. "The technical capacity is already in place for people to be dropped out of the decision loop, leaving us with automatic warfare: our computer program versus theirs. So what is called nuclear war is not that at all; it is really micro-electronic war, software war." "BATTLEFIELD BENEATH THE SEA" DARPA'S SEA-HUNTER: AUTONOMOUS DRONE "On October 28, 1983, the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, issued a document called the 'Strategic Computing Plan.' The SCP was a five-year, $600,000,000 pro- gram to develop a new generation of military applications for computers. The proposal included a thousand-fold increase in computing power and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. It envisioned 'completely autonomous land, sea, and air vehicles capable of complex, far-ranging reconnaissance and attack missions.' These vehicles would have human abilities, such as sight, speech, understanding natural language, and automated reasoning. The Strategic Computing Plan promoted the view that the human element in many critical decision-making instances could be largely or totally replaced by machines." JERRY MANDER, In the Absence of the Sacred, 1991 This was written in 1983, over 30 years ago. "We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable resources of air and soil, all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confidant, half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies of man, half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all." Adlai Stevenson, 1964 LIVE SIMPLY SO THAT OTHERS MAY SIMPLY LIVE

"DIRAWONG GONDWANA DREAMING" MURAL IN BYRON BAY NSW JULY-AUGUST 2016

“DIRAWONG GONDWANA DREAMING” MURAL

BYRON BAY NSW JULY-AUGUST 2016

Dirawong is the Bundjalung goanna dream-time ancestor, and her home is Evans Head NSW. She is daughter of Wollumbin (Mt. Warning), the ancient volcano, and grand-daughter of Gondwana, the ancient super-continent. She gathers lunar magic as a bolt of star-lightning discharges from the head of Burndilla (comet) to Wollumbin’s summit. In the centre of Warrambool or the Milky Way, the Hunab Ku radiates her life-giving emanations from her home between Sagittarius and Scorpio, as sky-wanderers Mars, Jupiter and Saturn dance around her.

From a high tableland a Bundjalung medicine man is ‘beholding country’ by day and by night, honouring the wisdom of the ancestors and contemplating the laws of nature and cosmos, accompanied by his allies the thylacine and rainbow dinosaur bird, feeling the warmth of the sun as she bathes her family of life on the land and in the ocean below her.

Myriad forms of sea-life bask in the crystal waters…sea turtles, octopus, star-fish, urchins, and rainbow cetaceans…Aihe the dolphin and Paikea-aniwaniwa the star-whales, one of whom is diving and whose tail flukes are receiving transmissions from the heart of the galaxy regenerating the health of life on Mother Earth.

Frogs, dragonflies, geckos, and families of marsupials…wombats, koalas, echidnas, platypus, wallabies and kangaroos frolic on the red Earth and in the lush eternally green bush. White and black cockatoos course the skies keeping their cumulus friends company, as lovely pandanus palms and grass trees provide shade and homes for their family of life, most of whom are invisible.

Grandmother Dirawong has donned her most beautiful garment, her sacred Rainbow Robe in honour of the sacred moment in time we call ‘now.’ She is honouring Wollumbin as one of the chakras in the body of the Rainbow Serpent, and is singing her song-lines of joy, harmony, and striving to maintain the highest laws of Baiame the star-maker, all-seeing Sky Father and guardian of all life.

JEFF PHILLIPS c 2016

THANKS TO DANIEL ZILLIG and PLANET CORROBOREE J

MY WEBSITE:  http://dolphinmatrix.com/Jeff

‘DIRAWONG GONDWANA DREAMING’ SOUND COLLAGE

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CARL SAGAN: ASTRONOMER, EDUCATOR, and NUCLEAR AWARENESS ACTIVIST: I MET HIM ON 12 OCTOBER 1992 :)

THE COSMOS YEARS

INSPIRED MILLIONS TO THE STARS

THE SELF-DESTRUCTION OF...

MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION

SAGAN ARRESTED FOR PROTESTING

MID-1990'S

ME with Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, 
Goldstone Deep Space Network, Columbus Day 1992

As a result of my involvement with Dr. John Lilly's dolphin communication group, I got in touch with what was then the NASA SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) group at Ames Research Centre because of a project I was working on. I visited a few times and got to meet Dr. Jill Tarter and Seth Shostak. My liason was public relations director Bob Arnold, who put me onto Dr. Frank Drake (who gave me permission to use his Arecibo message graphic in a piece of art) and to legendary science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (with whom I talked on the phone at length a couple times).

DR. JILL TARTER
https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_tarter_s_call_to_join_the_seti_search

SETH SHOSTAK
https://www.ted.com/talks/seth_shostak_et_is_probably_out_there_get_ready

FRANK DRAKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftRcZPHn0XI

SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ux4qxWYTQ

DR. FIORELLA TERENZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFyHthKrYaE

ANN DRUYAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFebYBARdPs

 JON LOMBERG with VOYAGER PLAQUE

 "EARTH FISH"

https://www.jonlomberg.com/

Bob invited me to a ceremony on Columbus Day 1992, which was to celebrate the beginning of a new phase of the seti work, involving the Goldstone Deep Space Network of radio-telescopes in the Mojave desert of southern California.

I was joined by Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, Italian astro-physicist and musician, whom I had met previously. Dr. Carl Sagan was there to give an address, and afterword Fiorella and I approached him, just to say hello. He seemed a bit skeptical in general, or maybe it was just the two of us, both with thick red hair (and she with other endowments that I lack!) We had his ear for a few minutes, but I couldn't think of anything cosmic to say, so we both got his autograph, mine on the sleeve of Fiorella's cd that I had with me. I didn't have my copy of Cosmos, and hadn't yet read Contact.

Later on I sent Sagan a painted rock and t-shirt with a flow-chart of the project I was working on. I was sad to learn that he had contracted a rare form of leukemia, and he passed away in 1996. Many people reckoned that he got cancer due to his 100+ personal demonstrations at the Nevada Test Site.

An article I wrote for Hiroshima day 2006:

"CARL SAGAN AND THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR SCENARIO: A COSMIC PERSPECTIVE ON TERRESTRIAL PROBLEMS" by JEFF PHILLIPS
http://synthaissance.blogspot.co.nz/2006_07_16_archive.html

Most people know Sagan through his literally astronomical efforts to convey the awe and wonder of the universe to the public mind. As the years went by he became quite an outspoken critic of nuclear weapons and spear-headed a lot of research on the 'nuclear winter' hypothesis. His main specialty was the study of planetary atmospheres.

He also spear-headed much of the 'search for extra-terrestrial intelligence' work, and even got to meet Joe and Rosie, the two dolphins at the Lilly's lab in Redwood City, California.

He was given his first job at Cornell University by the legendary late scientific iconoclast Thomas Gold, and is succeeded by his widow Ann Druyan, who co-produced the Cosmos tv series.

ASTRONOMER THOMAS GOLD

And I also got in touch with artist Jon Lomberg, long time friend of Sagan, who designed the Voyager plaques. I hope to catch up with him next time I'm on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

I didn't see eye to eye with Sagan on a lot of things: he wasn't aware that 'nuclear war' is actually the dissemination of synthetic radio-nuclides throughout the environment...not just bombs and missiles exploding...and actually began in 1945; he was a firm believer in the standard seti approach, that anyone 'out there' would necessarily be using radio waves and mathematics...as we understand them...to communicate with us; and I personally think that Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, yet Sagan demonized him and was even able to stop publication on some of his books. This is something I have never been able to get my head around.

JODIE GETTING THE MESSAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRoj3jK37Vc

"It has been suggested that the contents of the initial message received will contain instructions for avoiding our own self-destruction, a possibly common fate of societies shortly after they reach the technical phase." Carl Sagan

"Are the worlds of more advanced civilizations totally geometrized, entirely rebuilt by their inhabitants? Or would the signature of a really advanced civilization be that they left no sign at all?"

Carl Sagan, Contact

The film Contact with Jodie Foster I think did justice to the novel of the same name that he wrote. He was helping with the film's production at the time of his passing. It has a good message about 'extra-terrestrial' intelligence, from the standard seti perspective, that is; but, like the entire seti mentality as a whole, is firmly entrenched in microwaves and electronic hardware as 'symbols of intelligence' and is essentially blind to the beauty, power and sacredness of life on Mother Earth...

MOTHERSHIP EARTH

"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent upon its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies of man, half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all."

ADLAI STEVENSON, 1964