Here is my reply:
Introduction: I was recruited by Dr. Steven Greer to join the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative to volunteer as Working Group Coordinator for Los Angeles in 1992. I served on the Board of Directors of the Center for the Study of ET Intelligence (CSETI) focusing on the public education program of that group. In that capacity I set up information tables at the American Public Health Association’s annual meetings and at UFO conferences. Along with fellow Coordinators Shari Adamiak (Denver) and Wayne Peterson (Phoenix) I was empowered to train contact teams in the Western North America and in 1997 in the United Kingdom. I resigned from CSETI in 1998 because of personal and political differences with the Director and have not spoken to him since.
Do I still support Dr. Greer?
Dr. Greer’s contribution to the cause of cosmic peace must be acknowledged despite what his many critics call his personal and political limitations. He has popularized the consciousness techniques of human empowered contact in the English-speaking world that are similar to the ones that the Peruvian based network called Rama had developed in the 1970s. In my judgement, however, Dr. Greer developed his “contact protocols” independently from Mission Rama as he apparently only became aware of their work in 1993 after my Los Angeles CE-5 team became involved with Rama activists in California.
Grant Cameron in his book “Managing Magic” has categorized Dr. Greer as one of several “messiahs” who have been recruited by the intelligence community to serve as a conduit for disseminating within the UFO subculture a carefully constructed mixture of genuine information and disinformation. As documented in “Managing Magic” this has been part of the US Executive Branch’s “gradual acclimatization program” to prepare the world for the realization that UFOs are real.
I should point out that Dr. Greer is different from the other so-called “messiahs”, Bill Moore in the 1980s and more recently Tom Delonge, in that Steven Greer MD in my opinion has had direct telepathic communication with UAP intelligence for decades. Thus, in a sense he functions as a kind of “agent of influence” for both the so-called “ETs” and the US Central Intelligence Agency working under the auspices of the President of the United States. The Office of the US President according to Grant Cameron’s analysis, is running the UFO coverup and the President is not “out of the loop.”
This is in contrast to what I imagine Dr. Greer’s CIA “handlers” have informed him. Dr. Greer’s relationships with intelligence officials in my view is not a bad thing. This is because the opposition to UAP confirmation and disclosure by certain cliques within the military intelligence industrial complex is ferocious. Dr. Greer has described his working with the “white hats” in the Executive Branch, i.e. operatives that are pushing for more openness.
Executive Branch intelligence services played a significant role in facilitating the testimony of important Disclosure Project witnesses at the May 2001 CSETI Press Conference. That event was the template for a number of citizen disclosure projects that followed.
Thus, having a “UFO Intel asset” working with UAP intelligences and the US Executive Branch in the form of Dr. Greer, moves the planet closer to an understanding that the alleged aliens are non-hostile and approachable. In my view, an important next step in the contact drama would be the creation of powerful planetary peace movement that could signal to UAP intelligences humanity’s readiness for higher levels of contact. Such a peace campaign could conceivably link UAP contact with possible solutions for the fundamental problems confronting our civilization .
I have not spoken to my former friend and colleague for 28 years but have kept up with the work of the CE-5ers via social media.
I don’t think of myself as a supporter of Dr. Greer because of our personal and political differences, but I can respect and honor the work we once did together that has continued with growth of the worldwide network of activists facilitating Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) aka CE-5s. I call this vast array of individuals and groups the Contact Underground.”
From my vantage point of being a peace and social justice advocate for over a half century and a contact activist for over three decades, I find useful the intelligence-counterintelligence model of UFO investigations. This was first put forward by Val Germann decades ago which I have modified with a radically different political slant.
Mr. Germann’s approach was from the point of view of what can be called “the control groups.” According to Val Germann’s analysis they probably view UFO intelligences as a kind of adversarial “higher intelligence agency.” My approach is perhaps more idealistic. I see UFO Intel as an important ally in the struggle to save our civilization from self-destruction. I imagine that their long-term project is to encourage an expansion of human consciousness. This involves the realization of the unity of all intelligent life in creation. From that understanding , we hopefully will be able to successfully address climate change, end war and the obscene discrepancies of wealth and power across our wounded planet. We will see ourselves as one people on a single homeland, the planet Earth. The so-called non-human “visitors” should not be viewed as gods, or superior beings but rather as an inspiration for us to evolve spiritually, socially, and yes even politically.
Dr. Greer’s many projects have been highly commercial and the attacks that he has received for their financial success could fill volumes. My sense is that if people saw his work in a more sympathetic light, as I have endeavored to do, they would conclude that his presence has done by far more good than his most vociferous critics are able to acknowledge.
Dr. Greer, it should always be remembered, gave up medicine with all the perks and privileges of being a highly paid and respected physician to become a full-time contact/disclosure activist. As I have written in the past, the long-term organizational needs of building a social movement around UFOs cannot be accomplished within the form of a small family business that has been CSETI’s operational mode for over 35 years. My guess is that new organizational forms will emerge as the number of contact and disclosure activists continues to grow. This, in my opinion, is the result of UFO Intel’s recruitment/outreach program that continues in both overt and subtle ways.
Most critical, in this planetary struggle, is the level of acceptance to the reality of UFOs in both the ruling elites, that are still attempting to keep a lid on the situation, and the masses of people living on our planet. In my judgment, an “ET” presence threatens all terrestrial elites, but not the planet’s peoples. Thus, in this conflict-oriented model, to build a truly peaceful, spiritually-based revolutionary movement, we will need the masses to accept not only the reality and importance of UFOs, but also the possibility of cooperating with the intelligences associated with them. If humanity evolves sufficiently, we might be able to experience friendship with the beings responsible for the flying saucer phenomenon. In my judgment, however, at this violent and conflict laden stage of our development as a species, direct open relations are impossible with these “others” that experiencers now call “ET.”
On a personal note, I must acknowledge that the CSETI Director’s special relationship with Executive Branch intelligence services during the 1990s may have provided our early contact network with a certain degree of protection. Steven Greer MD informed CE-5 Working Group Coordinators, Shari Adamiak in Denver, Wayne Peterson in Phoenix and my LA team as well, that one of the conditions he put forward in working with Executive Branch intelligence agencies was that our attempts to contact and communicate with “the ETs” would not be interfered with by them. This was of considerable importance because of the CIA and Air Force Office of Special Investigations historically have been accused of disrupting UFO groups as well as harassing individual witnesses. Our teams were operating in remote locations (mountains and deserts) and could have easily been targeted for a variety of dirty tricks. Although there were instances of surveillance of our teams during fieldwork, there was no clear-cut harassment.
For additional blogs on the political and psychosocial aspects of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, the following links are provided:
“In the UFO truth movement there are few leaders, mostly celebrities.” In this position paper I analyze what I call “The Leadership Crisis in Ufology.
If flying saucer intelligences threaten all terrestrial elites, but not necessarily the Earth’s people, then it is understandable that governmental response to UFOs is a counterintelligence one.https://contactunderground.org/2022/02/03/dueling-paradigms-perhaps-a-counterintelligence-model-is-better-than-a-scientific-one-to-study-ufos/
Contact Underground 