From: Sheryl Gottschall <gottscha.nul>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:33:55 +1000
Fwd Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:26:31 -0400
Subject: Re: Contactee Taboo - Gottschall


>From: Richard R Reynolds <rrrgroup.nul>
>To: ufoupdates.nul
>Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:31:09 -0500
>Subject: Re: Contactee Taboo

>>From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic.nul>
>>To: ufoupdates.nul
>>Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:36:26 -0400
>>Subject: Re: Contactee Taboo

<snip>

>>>In the olden days, the aliens seemed to know who to grab: Moses,
>>>Ezekiel, Mary (the mother of Jesus), Judge Crater, and Jimmy
>>>Hoffa.

>>>Somehow they must have lost their ability to discriminate over
>>>time.

>>What a snide remark. The aliens are apparently messing with
>>ordinary people, and you read that as evidence that they have
>>lost all ability to discriminate. I don't know if that's just a
>>bad joke or poor thinking. I would venture that it's some
>>from column A and some from column B.


>The "snide" remark was an attempt at humor to lighten the debate
>so it wouldn't degenerate into the usual hard-nosed banter that
>is rampant right now, here and eslewhere.

>The point was that alien contactors were not picking the cream
>of the human crop when they picked Adamski, Fry, Menger, et al.
>(it seems to me).

<snip>


Hi List,

At first read Rich appears to have made a valid point, but
considering that we do not really know why particular contactees
were selected leaves us only with a best guess. A quality that
might seem valid to us may have no value to ETs or what they
might know will be required of a contactee. One quality they
shared which is obvious to me is that they were extremely
tenacious people.

George Adamski and Dan Fry were two very dedicated people who
had a strong sense of mission that carried them on in their work
against ridicule for years. (I might gently point out that most
of the ridicule came from UFO researchers too. shoot... Wendelle
Stevens is right... we are our own worst enemy)

I read in Dan Fry's obituary that in one 14 year period he
delivered more than 1200 lectures and appeared on more than 1000
radio and television shows.

Michel Desmarquet is another who is known here in Australia. He
is the author of Abduction to the 9th Planet. He stayed with us
on and off for ten days some years ago and I can attest he is an
extremely tenacious character. I wondered why ETs might have
selected him to pass on information about themselves. While he
was here I found out he was a daily meditator and followed a
daily yoga practice too and I think this might have something to
do with ETs criteria for selection.

These practices, which are often part of many spiritual
practices might create more receptive conditions for contact.
They might be indicators for the persons skills and ability,
mindset, flexibility in thought and behaviour and how they will
respond to ET contact, at least initially.

It seems to me that a more creative personality type would be
less turned on their head by such an experience than a left-
brained analytical person whose mindset might be too hard to
dislodge. I have said this before but I have found people who
report contact are often very creative types. They either play a
musical instrument, are prolific writers but in particular write
poetry, invent, are in the healing fields or are artistic. I
believe this has also been observed by Budd Hopkins and Jenny
Randles.

So it should be of no surpise to find contactees of the past to
share these traits too. As it turns out George Adamski was an
artist and long term practicer of spiritual disciplines and Dan
Fry a prolific writer and poet. I haven't tracked down anything
about the others yet but if anyone can add to
this I'd appreciate you letting me know.


Sheryl