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Info-ParaNet Newsletters Volume 1 Number 454
Info-ParaNet Newsletters Volume I Number 454
Thursday, August 15th 1991
Today's Topics:
Rainbow Declaration, Part 2
Rainbow Declaration, Part 3
Rainbow Declaration, Part 4
Rainbow Declaration, Part 5
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Subject: Rainbow Declaration, Part 2
Date: 14 Aug 91 14:52:00 GMT
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In a democracy the people rule and in order to rule
effectively they seek knowledge, and they seek the responsibility
that goes with that knowledge. In doing this, they seek
responsibility for their own destiny.
It is wholly right that you in Ufology should seek knowledge
of this matter. Humanity's dialogue with the extraterrestrials
is a grave matter, a matter that concerns all humanity and will
affect the destiny of humanity. You have a "need to know." In
one sense the Ufology movement is part of the effort of humanity
to gain transcendent knowledge. However, in another sense, your
efforts to gain knowledge, and the responsibility that goes with
it, is an effort to gain control of part of your lives and your
children's lives and the destiny of your people. This is
especially true since reports of deep and long-standing
government involvement in this dialogue have come out. However,
Ufology has succeeded to a degree in entering this dialogue
between humanity and the extraterrestrials.
Ufology is a player, I would argue, in the reported dialogue
between humanity and the extraterrestrials. The government
apparently is keeping much of this dialogue to itself. However,
it is also actively sharing information, sometimes in a
deliberately garbled form, but information nonetheless. Some of
this sharing of knowledge seems to come from the individual human
need to confide with others. Some of this knowledge appears to
have been released as a result of decisions by higher
authorities to create an informed constituency among the public.
The cultivation of the Ufology movement's knowledge by the
government represents, in my view, a crude form of democracy.
In this strange experiment in government, the authorities
have created a public hearing of sorts where unofficial news and
views are aired and reactions considered. Ufology is the
multitude who have showed up for this quasi-public hearing.
However, the officials who have called this gathering are not
available to answer questions. But, I think, the government pays
attention to Ufology's internal debates and responses to the
government sponsored leaks.
No dialogue is one way, even if one side tries to make it
one way. A dialogue always affects both parties, even if only
one side is speaking. The act of giving information to one whom
you know will receive it involves you with that person or that
people. If a dialogue goes on long enough, information will be
revealed inadvertently and pretense is harder to maintain.
Ufology has not been a passive partner in this dialogue with the
government. Ufology is speaking and will continue to speak, and
the government, even if it gives appearances of stopping its ears,
is actually listening.
Therefore, all of you in Ufology should consider that you
are part of a dialogue with the government.
This is not the only dialogue going of which Ufology is a
part. Ufology is actually in a dialogue with the
extraterrestrials through abductees and contactees. As with the
government, not all information is very reliable, but it is
information. It is possible, in fact, that extraterrestrials
monitor the reaction of the Ufology movement to gain some insight
into humanity in general. Therefore, all of you in Ufology
should consider yourselves as part of a dialogue that will
influence human destiny in the Cosmos.
In the remainder of this paper I will discuss three main
points:
(1) It is the destiny of humanity to take its place among
the stars as an equal with its kindred people among the stars.
In discussing this, I will discuss the nature and heritage of
humanity.
(2) The cradle of humanity, the Earth, with its nations and
history, is a microcosm of the Cosmos and its peoples and
history. I will discuss how this concept is derived and its
meaning to Ufology. I will also, unfortunately, discuss the
first problem in the present that can be addressed by this model:
The apparent threat posed to humanity by one group of
extraterrestrials, "the grays" or Reticulians and their allies.
(3) Humanity should adopt the Rainbow Declaration or some
similar set of principles as its ideal and in doing so will begin
the journey to its destiny on the right Way, the Way of truth and
light. (Reference 1)
II. HUMANITY AS A SUPERTERRESTRIAL PHENOMENON
PSALMS 8: 3-6
"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the
moon and stars which thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou are mindful of him, the son of man,
that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower
than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and honor.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of they
hands; thou has put all things under his feet....."
In order to understand human destiny one must first
understand the nature and origins of humanity. Humanity is not
just flesh and blood; it is partly supernatural; it is also the
collective mind, dreams and cultural heritage of the human race.
Physically we have changed little since the stone age, but in
knowledge and technological ability we have changed enormously.
We are a young race, just getting started. Our earliest
civilization dates roughly from the Tigris-Euphrates Valley 6000
years ago. (Reference 2) In that 6000 years we have expanded and
filled the Earth, our flesh and blood has stood on the lunar
surface and returned six times. Our probes have landed on Mars
and Venus. We, by proxy of similar probes, have visited every
major body in the solar system from Mercury to Neptune. Four of
these probes have now escaped the solar system and the gravity of
the Sun and are on interstellar missions. So a little part of
you, the work of your hands, is now on its way to the stars.
Six thousand years is roughly 300 human generations of 20
years or 100 human lifetimes of 60 years. So this is perhaps not
even a long time in human terms, but it is the twinkling of an
eye in terms of the age of the Earth or even the living things on
the Earth. You humans, all in all, have done magnificently.
How did you do it? Did anyone help you? Let us consider
what is widely reported. In Ufology, as in many other areas of
life, information consists of what is reported to us by others,
hopefully we can verify some of what is reported, but often we
must simply consider the report and decide for ourselves whether
of not we believe it.
It is widely reported that humanity came into being as a
result of profound and continuing contact between the human race
an an unimaginably powerful extraterrestrial being. This being,
or First E.T., is called in our language, God. I know and
respect the fact that there are many accounts, all subtly
different, of this contact, but I will chiefly consult the only
account I know well, and this account is called the Bible.
In this account, the First E.T. is reported to have been of
staggering and all encompassing power but was at the same time
compassionate towards humanity and controlled in his dealings
with them. He is reported to be the creator of the Cosmos and
therefore extracosmic in addition to being extraterrestrial,
having created both heavens and the earth and all they contain.
It is reportedly from God that humans first received their
concepts of law and human identity and their place in the scheme
of things. I would claim this contact has continually linked our
ideas of what was good and pure and truthful to the heavens. It
is because of this contact that we long to reach out to the stars
and those who live there.
It is in this record of contact with the First E.T. that we
first encounter the human concept of universal laws, both
physical and moral, and these are also associated with the stars.
PSALMS, 19:1-3 "The Heavens declare the glory of God and
the firmament showeth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth
speech and night showth knowledge. There is no speech or
language, where their voice is not heard."
We also learned that there was more to reality than what is
seen.
HEBREWS, 11:1-3 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders
obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the
worlds were formed by the word of God so that things which are
seen are not made of thing which do appear."
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Subject: Rainbow Declaration, Part 3
Date: 14 Aug 91 14:53:00 GMT
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We are familiar, in our modern age, of laws of physics being
universal. Our sciences had their origins in astronomy and
astrology. But from our accounts of contact with the First E.T.,
we also are informed that there are universal moral laws as well
as physical ones that apply on all worlds.
It is also from this record that we encounter our first
recognition and warning concerning the dark side of human nature:
GENESIS, 6:5 "And God saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the Earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of
his heart was only evil continually..." The human race is an
aggressive, predatory and vigorous species. It requires the
maximum effort of our intellect and compassion to control our
instincts to violence and war; sometimes, perhaps often times,
these are not enough. However, the First E.T. has always
encouraged us to be a people of compassion and intellect.
Curiously, it is form this same record of the first E.T.
contact with humanity that we find reports of a possible
visitation of Earth by flesh and blood extraterrestrials. These
E.T.s were not only flesh and blood, but could have children by
earth women, indicating they were probably extremely humanoid
since they were attracted to Earth women and saw they were
beautiful. Mention of this is made in Genesis 6:4.
This was apparently one of many things that God saw
happening on Earth that displeased Him. Perhaps even "the last
straw," for it is written that He unleashed the great flood
shortly after this. The flood, that primal human catastrophe, is
recorded in the legends of almost every people on Earth and wiped
out most of humanity, including, we can infer, those offspring of
flesh and blood E.T.s. It is written, God started over with what
was left.
Other than this possible mention of flesh and blood E.T.
contact before the flood in the Bible, which may also be
mentioned in many mythologies, I have seen no credible evidence
of any overt or historical record dating back to 1000 B.C.
Geologically, the origin of homo sapiens is sudden, but it has
been found that all distinct species seem to appear suddenly.
This is called "punctuated equilibrium" in evolutionary biology.
(Reference 3)
Other than reportings of sightings of strange craft that
occasionally appear in the historical record, I can find no
evidence of influence by flesh and blood E.T.s on any historical
events. What does show up is a tradition and folklore concerning
goblins stealing children, tales of fairies, leprechauns, elves
and spirits. This tradition may indicate some E.T. contact on
the fringe of human social awareness, as has been suggested by
Whitley Streiber. (Reference 4) I think, also, it reflects to a
much larger extent, human imagination and love of story telling.
These strange accounts also include other things which may be
purely terrestrial but not really part of a reality that we
understand.
Though the records of events before the primal catastrophe
of the Flood are difficult to understand, it remains the one
significant human event that may have involved flesh and blood
E.T. contact.
It is worth noting that the record implies that this
contact, along with many other things purely terrestrial, had
disastrous consequences for the human race because of the manner
in which the contact was made. It is written in Genesis 6:2:
"The sons and daughters saw the daughters of men that they
were very fair, and they took them wives of all which they
chose..."
This record implies that these unions were dictated by the
"Sons of God", a term used sometimes to mean angel, and not by
choice to the Earth women. These reported events, and the
juxtaposition with the Flood and God's displeasure, should be
remembered as we consider reports of what is occurring in our own
time. It also must be remembered that according to the account
of the contact with the First E.T. in the Bible, evil is not a
terrestrial invention; it was present in the Cosmos eons before
the first human being.
The Bible and other religious records of Earth, record that
both good and evil are not purely terrestrial phenomenon. Ananda
Sirisena has pointed out in a two-part article in the British
journal Beyond Science (now defunct) that the holy books of
Buddhism remark that sense-desire, which is the source of all
unhappiness, is to be found throughout the Cosmos. (Reference 5)
In the Bible, it is written in Job, 15:15
"The heavens are not clean in His sight."
It is also written in Revelations 12:7-9 that there was war
in heaven between the Archangel Michael and his angels, and the
Devil and his angels. These are only two of many examples one
could name. In general, the records of our reported contact with
the First E.T. report repeatedly that the Cosmos, both visible
and invisible, is full of good and evil and that these forces
struggle against one another, Earth being an important
battleground of this Cosmic struggle.
This brings us to the second widely reported E.T. contact
that has influenced Earth. This being is known as Satan,
Lucifer, or the Devil. Like the first E.T., he is reported to be
non-corporeal. However, he is reported to be a created being and
part of the Cosmos whereas God is the Creator. His powers and
intellect are reported to be unimaginably great in human terms
but, like ours, insignificant compared to God's. It is also
reported that despite his intellectual powers, he often makes
mistakes that are apparent even to humans. His first reported
error was to try and stage an unsuccessful revolt against his
Creator.
Most of what we know about the Second E.T., Satan, comes
from information reported to be from the First E.T. This record
allows us to make a vivid comparison between them in two
important areas: One, dialogue with humans; The First E.T. is
recorded to be always truthful, though he seldom shows more
knowledge than is required. In contrast, the Second E.T., Satan,
is reported to be a compulsive liar and virtual inventor of
treachery. It is reported he often claims to be the First E.T.
and often traps victims with empty promises of forbidden
knowledge and technology. Second, relationship with humanity;
the First E.T. is widely reported to love the human race and all
other peoples of the Cosmos as if they were his children.
However, he is also reported to hold us responsible for our
actions, which knowing the human race, means we occasionally are
at odds. The Second E.T., Satan, is reported to be utterly
contemptuous and hateful towards humans, especially those who
serve him. His hostility is constant, though often expressed
through treachery and attempts to corrupt, rather than through
open warfare.
It is reported that though the Devil hates humanity and
wishes to destroy us, he cannot attack openly because of the
presence of the First E.T. Therefore, we learn that absence of
open attack does not always mean absence of mortal hostility. It
merely means that the Cosmos is not simple, and that many factors
constrain the action of its inhabitants.
Humanity is thus not a purely terrestrial phenomenon. Even
our science is full of knowledge known first from observation of
the stars. If the record of our contract with the First E.T. are
believed, humanity is the product of influences that are not only
extraterrestrial but extracosmic, that is, transcending even the
stars. If these reported contacts with God are correct, and many
believe they are, then humanity knows these things because it
knows the Being who made the Cosmos and its peoples, including
ourselves. Humanity, and by this, I mean the readers themselves,
are possessors of Cosmic knowledge, but they do not know it yet.
However, to know something of humanity one must understand that a
part of humanity, like its Creator, is extremely mysterious and
some of it is unknowable.
To know something of humanity is to know of its mystery and
its magic. There is a part of humanity that only God himself
understands. I speak here of a whole category of phenomenon with
the inadequate terms "parapsychological" and "spiritual" -- that
part of ourselves that is manifest in religion, and yet seems to
exist apart from it. One aspect of this was termed by Jung as
the collective unconscious. (Reference 6) This is the part of
humanity that seems to guarantee that no knowledge can ever
remain isolated in one portion of the human race, even if they
never tell anyone of it. Another can be called human prescience
-- that human capacity to write or speak of events still far in
the future with uncanny accuracy, science fiction being a vast
upwelling of this human phenomenon. No statement describing
humanity could be complete without referring to this part of
humanity which is mysterious and difficult to describe.
Therefore, you should respect yourself and your people. You
know more about the Cosmos than you realize. You are stronger
and more marvelous than you know. You should not be arrogant,
but you should be proud. You lack knowledge, but you are eager
to learn. You are small now but you are going to become great
and "becoming is superior to being." You are a young and
vigorous people, just off the train and in the big city for the
first time, bent on finding your fortune. So now that we have an
image of humanity as it was formed and is, we can speak of the
destiny of humanity in the Cosmos.
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Subject: Rainbow Declaration, Part 4
Date: 14 Aug 91 14:54:00 GMT
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THE DESTINY OF HUMANITY
Hints of what our destiny will be are contained, I believe,
in the record of our contact with the First E.T. who pointed us
to our goal. He said in paraphrase, "someday if you follow the
Way I have shown you, you can join me in the heavens of which the
stars are but a shadow." God, in fact, showed Abraham the stars
and said in Genesis 15:5:
"And He brought him forth abroad, and said, look now towards
heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them. And
he said, so shall thy seed be."
There is also another hint, for Jesus told his disciples in
Mark 16:15,
"Go ye unto all the world and preach the gospel to every
creature."
For in the original Greek, the word for world is Cosmos,
(Reference 7) meaning the whole world, the whole ordered
universe.
I know in myself, that humanity is going into space because
it yearns to do so. The goal of its yearning is not just to see
strange new worlds; it is to have fellowship with the peoples who
dwell amid the stars and share truth with them. In a sense we
are going into confirm truths that we already believe. That is
part of the reason that Ufology exists, not just because people
in Ufology are curious or concerned but also because we seek to
be part of that dialogue.
We have, on good account, that such a dialogue is possible,
as recorded in Timothy Good's book Above Top Secret. There is an
account of Sid Padrick's experience (Reference 8) where he
encountered startlingly humanoid beings who were kind and
respectful and who invited him to pray to God in their
"consultation room." They said they worshipped the same Supreme
Being we did. This reported encounter, whose positive,
respectful character is such a stark contrast to most reported
encounters, give us hope that we will find what we seek in the
stars. But you must realize we inhabit a star already.
Our star, Sol, the Sun, is a beautiful golden star form
afar. Around it orbits a beautiful blue-white star of a planet
called Earth, for that is what our planet looks like form afar.
Venus, Jupiter, and Mars are beautiful form Earth, but I tell you
when you see the Earth someday from the surface of Mars you will
understand that the Earth is the most beautiful planet in the
solar system, or even in a hundred solar systems. That is
partly why other peoples have come here.
So I will tell you I believe it is the destiny of humanity
to go out into the stars and become a great nation and find its
place among the stars and among the great nations that dwell in
the stars; nations whose people believe in God and justice,
equality, and good will as we do, and who, when they read our
Bible or the Declaration of Independence, will rejoice that the
same truths they know are known elsewhere and from the same
source.
III DYNAMICS BETWEEN PEOPLES IN THE COSMOS
We have now discussed humanity and its destiny, but how will
our destiny be shaped by those peoples with whom we share the
Cosmos? In particular, is there some model or broad guideline to
consult to understand the dynamics of politics between nations or
peoples who have their genesis in different star systems? We can
come up with a rough model by assuming that the laws of physics
and biology are the same everywhere in the Cosmos. Once such a
model of cosmic politics is formed, it can be applied to
understand and predict the interactions between humanity and its
fellow cosmic peoples.
A model of cosmic politics can be derived form biology. We
must assume that the laws of biology are universal, so that they
are the same on all worlds, like the laws of physics. Since we
know about the laws determining biology on Earth, we would then
know about biology laws on all worlds. We must, of course,
recognize from the outset that we can only gain a rough
understanding at best using this method, but we must have a model
and we must begin somewhere. So, we look for basic and
fundamental laws rather than detailed ones. We will thus look
for laws the describe forests rather than trees. Once we have
identified fundamental biological laws, we then try to find laws
of politics on Earth that can be derived from them. We will then
have a rough model.
The first law of biology can be called "the survival of the
fittest." This means that all life is essentially competitive.
This means those who are more intelligent, faster, stronger, more
diligent, more fertile, more efficient, and more prudent will
eventually dominate over those who have less of these qualities.
This seems a harsh law of nature, but in some ways it is actually
kind. In any case, nature is not often known to be kind or
gentle.
One impact of the first law of biology is that intelligence
is favored in predators. On Earth, predators are generally more
intelligent than their prey. They must be or their prey will
outwit them and the predators will not eat. The octopus is the
most intelligent of all invertebrates and it is a fierce
predator. The killer whale is believed to be the smartest of the
whales and it is a vicious killer of other whales.
The Chimpanzee is the second smartest land animal, and its
capacity for mayhem against other species and even other chimps,
rivals our own. (Reference 9) Curiously, researchers were slow
to recognize how murderous chimps were to each other -- fighting
between tribes and occasionally killing their own young. Perhaps
the researchers did not want to believe the chimps were as prone
to violence as we are. Even when researchers found out the harsh
facts about internal wars between chimps they were reluctant to
report it. They feared it would horrify people and dry up
research funding. People were not horrified; however, they were
enlightened, and chimpanzee research in the wild continues. The
truth makes chimps all the more fascinating and useful to study
if human violence is to be understood and controlled.
Another example of the correlation of intelligence and
predatory behavior is the line of dinosaurs that appeared to be
evolving towards something resembling humanoids before an
extraterrestrial event wiped them out. (Reference 10)
It is now believed that a line of small predator dinosaurs,
roughly resembling miniature Tyrannosaurus Rexs, would have
developed into a humanoid intelligence. They stood on two feet
and several species had achieved brain to body sizes exceeding
all other dinosaurs and even mammals then existing. However, the
impact of a massive asteroid, a clear sign this planet's history
has witnessed extraterrestrial intervention, devastated the
planet and cleared the Way for humanity.
Human beings are predatory. Humanity began as hunters and
gatherers but hunting behavior did not cease when humans
discovered agriculture -- it merely changed. The archaeological
record shows that organized warfare began almost simultaneously
with agriculture. (Reference 11) Historically, tribes and
nations have fought wars and struggled for dominance as a form of
biological competition. The apparent victory of the United
States in the Cold War is demonstration that democracy and free
enterprise, while not without their faults, have become dominant,
because they are better and more efficient in the long run, or
even the short run, than despotism and Marxism. So our own
violent history, which despite its violence has produced the
triumph of liberty and humanity, can be understood as a vast game
of survival of the fittest among groups of rather predatory and
aggressive beings. But there is another law of biology that also
played a profound role in this and which we must also factor into
our cosmic political model.
The second law of Biology is roughly "the sum is greater
than the parts." Or stated differently, in cooperation and in
unity, there is strength. One human cell alone will die; one
trillion human cells bound together, each doing its part, will
thrive and triumph. So one human can do little, but a large
number can move the Earth and someday change the course of stars.
This second law, that cooperation leads to success, is seen not
only in biology but in human politics and history.
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Together these two laws and the tension between them,
competition, and cooperation, apply to and shape intelligent and
primitive life. Nations are predatory and competitive and
nations that are most competitive and aggressive tend to produce
the most works of intelligence and technology such as our own
nation and Great Britain. Truly, United peoples and nation are
much stronger and efficient than individuals or isolated nations.
That is why the most powerful nation on this planet is called the
United States. Moreover, the United States is great because it
has cooperated with like minded nations rather than trying to prey
on them. So in the United States, the first nation of Earth,
this is a sacred trust and responsibility to humanity -- not just
a privilege. It is through unity and cooperation that the
nations of the Earth must face the Cosmos.
So we have two fundamental laws of biology which should
apply everywhere in the Cosmos and which profoundly influence the
politics of human beings. So these laws should shape politics on
other worlds as well, and this means other worldly politics
should resemble our own. We thus have arrived at a model called
Mediocrity, that is already known.
The principle of mediocrity states that the Earth and its
inhabitants are a representative sample of the Cosmos and its
inhabitants. (Reference 12) This principle states that
intelligent life elsewhere should be quite similar to Earth's.
Similarly it means that even politics and history should be
similar. This is the exact same model we arrived at by assuming
biological laws were the same on all worlds and that politics was
an extension of biology. The principle of mediocrity is the same
concept, but arrived a differently.
The cosmic politics model was arrived at by assuming
biological laws were the same on all worlds and that politics was
an extension of biology. The principle of mediocrity is the same
concept, but arrived at differently. Its approach is simply
statistical; it assumes Earth and its inhabitants are the results
of probability and are part of a distribution of possible world
situations, constrained by universal laws of physics. The Earth
we know is one random sample of many worlds, so it is most likely
that it is typical rather than abnormal. Like all statistical
laws, it is a warning to would-be gamblers rather than advice on
how to bet the farm. However, our universal.,l, biological,
political saw, arguments, and mediocrity lead us to the same
concept: Earth and its peoples and history are a microcosm of
the Cosmos and its peoples and history. The Earth is the Cosmos
seen through a glass darkly, not reliable in detail but roughly
true. This means we all know much more about the Cosmos than we
realize, simply because we have lived on Earth.
We have arrived at a model for understanding and predicting
the dynamics and politics between humanity and other peoples in
the Cosmos and between other people apart from humanity. This
model is called the Human Historical Model of Cosmos Politics or
the Human Historical Model.
The Earth is an allegory of the Cosmos and an analogue.
This means the wisdom of Earth gained by our ancient forbears and
written in the holy books of Earth, will guide us in our new
journey in the Cosmos. For in some ways, humanity was wiser when
it knew less, but that wisdom is not lost to us now if we see its
worth. So, we would look to the old as well as the new for
counsel as we confront the Cosmos.
THE HUMAN HISTORICAL MODEL
The Human Historical Model or, HHM as it will be called
henceforth, simply states that interactions between people and
nation states in the Cosmos will resemble interactions between
nations in human history. The HHM is a tool for interpreting the
behavior of extraterrestrials; it says that if extraterrestrials
exhibit certain behavior either singly or collectively, then one
should look for an analogous human or human nation's behavior
either in the present or in the historical record. The human
historical record is long, and its tribes and nations are myriad.
This means we have a vast supply of analogous models and
situations on which to draw. However, we should always remember
that the model is a rough one and not reliable in detail.
Neither is the HHM a substitute for hard investigative work, any
more than Einstein's theory of relativity is a substitute for the
Super Collider.
The HHM is a simple idea, but it does not suggest the Cosmos
and its people are simple or mundane. Rather, it suggests the
Cosmos and its people should be like Earth's people, complex,
finely textured, full of intrigue and secrets and like the Earth
full of the strange and exotic. In fact, the HHM suggests that
people of the Cosmos, beyond adherence to basic laws of biology,
will be very strange, exotic, and very interesting. The first
rule for dealing with the Cosmos according to the HHM is that
high weirdness is to be expected in the Cosmos because it is
found on Earth. Whenever intelligence is involved, possibilities
become myriad.
Other things can be expected from people in the Cosmos. One
thing that can be expected is a desire for contact and
communication. Many Cosmic people will be drawn to us simply
because of a compulsion or yearning to communicate. This is a
human trait and it is also biologically motivated; cooperation
requires communication. So, attempts at friendly contact and
communication or dialogue, even if only rudimentary ones, would
be expected under the HHM. A related behavior would also be
expected.
Display is a form of communication or dialogue that is very
common in nature. Everything form puffer fish, to peacocks, to
cobras and humans resort to display. It is nonverbal form of
communication and so is limited in its information content;
however, it is usually easy to understand its basic meaning.
Since it is nonverbal, it does not require a common language and
thus is often the first form of communication initiated between
different peoples in Earthly tradition. Everything from parades
in Red Square to a baby crawling into the center of a family
gathering is a form of display. Often, its basic messages are,
"look what I can do," "or look at who I am." Since humans are
the Earth's premier show offs, followed closely by dolphins, we
would expect, under the HHM, that people at the Cosmos would
exhibit a great deal of display behavior to each other especially
at initial contact, before verbal contact can be established.
Display is an attempt to initiate dialogue. In most situations,
this is very friendly, and I will discuss this shortly.
Struggles for dominance are universal among species on Earth
and especially among social groups within species. It is a
manifestation of competition with usually the dominant individual
or group getting the best resources and the most opportunities to
reproduce and pass on its genes. There are "pecking orders"
within social groups, even among like water, runs down hill from
the most dominant to the most subordinate. This occurs in small
human groups, among groups in society, and finally among nations.
Struggles for dominance occur between species also. Chimps
and baboons share watering holes in some areas of Africa and
chimps usually seem to dominate. Anyone who has owned a dog or a
cat knows struggles for power can occur between humans and other
intelligent species. So we would expect struggles for dominance
between peoples in the Cosmos. These might begin even before
verbal communication could be initiated and would consist, in
mildest form, of military demonstrations of power or hardware and
highly aggressive displays. These would be equivalent to U.S.
and Russian destroyers playing "chicken" on the high seas or
firing flares or weak (non lethal) laser beams at each other.
So, struggles for dominance, power politics, seen on Earth
between nations, should be expected between peoples in the
Cosmos. As on Earth, this can lead to either friendly
competition in science and culture or to great tragedy.
Based on the HHM we would expect peoples in the Cosmos to
move toward a higher technological advancement. As on Earth, we
would expect this to be driven by military competition as well as
by desire for scientific knowledge. Humans are social,
intelligent, predatory, and technological and they have become
spacefaring. We intend to become better people in the Cosmos to
become spacefaring. If they have a big head start, they might
already be here.
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