J. Burkes MD 2023
J. Burkes MD 2023
I recall the ironic one liner of comedian S. Wright, “I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.” The relentless tendency of the human ego to identify with thought forms, such as being rich, famous or having power over others, is in my opinion a major impediment to experience true happiness as an individual. We should also acknowledge that the collective ego is perhaps the main obstacle preventing the creation of a sane society, one that can endure in balance with nature. For those of us that acknowledge the importance of our relationship with UFO intelligences, overcoming the pernicious effects of ego will likely be required to establish open contact with the cultures responsible for flying saucer phenomena. In my judgment, nothing less a radical expansion of human consciousness will be required.
According to the spiritual teacher Eckert Tolle, the ego is an archaic mind structure that compels us to identify with form. An alternative to ego is identifying with that which has no form. What is that? Well, the answer is consciousness itself. Consciousness has no form and therefore cannot be seen, touched or heard. It is an awareness of being awake and knowing that one is awake. Consciousness has been called the “golden thread” that connects each individual to every being and to everything in creation.
The purpose of spiritual development is to replace the identification with form (the ego) and instead to identify with that wakefulness which is consciousness. Meditation and all its equivalents, creating art and music or walking in nature, can serve to propel the process of spiritual transformation.
After three decades of contact activism, I still believe in the maxim that I first heard in the 1990s. If we are to thrive both as individuals and as a civilization, then “we must walk the spiritual path with practical feet.” Thus, I have envisioned a future peace movement that combines the transformative power of the Eastern spiritual traditions with the best of Western humanistic progressive politics. It is a fusion that is so far beyond the popular imagination, even on pro-contact social media pages, that only a handful of individuals have been willing to dialogue about merits of such a combined effort.
Humanity is entering a very dark time. Despite the efforts of “friends in high places”(UAP associated non-human intelligences) to alert us to upcoming catastrophes, currently there are insufficient human resources to create a spiritually based peaceful social revolution that will combine the issue of contact with building world peace based on social and environmental justice. This will change, I suspect, because as the atmosphere heats up, and oceans rise, as droughts, floods and uncontrolled cyclones damage our food supply, what we are experiencing now, as bad as it seems, will wistfully be remembered as “the good old days.” Thus, future calamities might be a driving force that will transform human consciousness and create opportunities for necessary reforms of Earth civilization. Central will be the understanding that what we now call “UAPs”, employ nonpolluting energy systems that can only be safely downloaded into Earth technological culture under conditions of enduring world peace. Such an advance will involve diminishing the power of nationalism and replacing it with credo, “one planet, one people.”
I have faith in humanity’s eagerness to persevere in the long run and defend our civilization from destruction caused by uncontrolled global warming and resultant future wars fought over dwindling material resources. Another maxim applies to the current phase of Earth civilization. It is “evolve or die!” I believe that this principle will propel countless activists in the future to work for positive change. And in the process, they will defend both our mother, the Earth, and untold generations of her children waiting to be born.
One Mind, one creation, one planet, one people!
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