My $0.02 on the Zeta's
From: duncan@andrew.cmu.edu (Duncan Carroll)
Subject: My $0.02 on the Zeta's
Date: 31 Mar 2002 22:05:21 -0800

Good day, everyone. Lengthy? Yes, but please humor me in this
interjection of my own research into the now-infamous voices in
Nancy's head, those inscrutible "Zeta Reticulans".

For the record, I've had a fascination with the mysterious and
paranormal since I was a child, even dragging my father out, when I
was 13, to visit "Area 51" in Rachael, NV, after reading Bob Lazar's
statements. I have had one or two wierd experiences, flashes in the
sky where there were no clouds, and one missing time thing where I
laid down to bed one night, blinked, and it was morning! Never
happened before or since (I was 11 or 12, I'm 21 now.) These
experiences, however subjectively odd, prove nothing to me or anyone
else, and I don't really consider them, often. However, I've been
driven to persue those phenomena that lie beyond the spectrum of the
"normal". The unexplainable! The mysteries of existence! Makes life
interesting.

Enough autobiography, here's the meat:

What an anomaly Nancy and the Zetas are. As the late Terence McKenna
once put it, "It is no great accomplishment to hear a voice in one's
head. The challenge is to discern if it is telling you the TRUTH!".
I applaud Nancy for rushing headlong into what must be frightfully
unfamiliar mental territory. I applaud those who have the courage to
step forward and risk their own reputation for the sake of others.
Anyone who honestly believes that Nancy & Co. are a bunch of con
artists should really check their own head first. I mean, what an
inefficient con job! Why not a pyramid scheme?

Anyhow, allow me to explain why I give Zetatalk some credence.

1. There is *certainly* something fishy going on with the US
government and "The UFO phenomena". If you have not done your
homework in this respect, I will point you to The Disclosure Project,
www.disclosureproject.com. It's a good smattering of compelling,
sworn testimony from respectable individuals. Furthermore, there is a
lot going on behind the scenes that even elected officials like
Congress are unaware of. For a recent example of this, check out "The
Conspirators" by Al Martin. Did the Bush financial empire make money
off drugs? Sure did! As with anything, you make the call.

2. There is a large body of "prophecy" concerning cataclysm. The
date is, as always, in prediction, uncertain. Didn't Edgar Cayce
predict a pole shift scenario in '39? So, you can never be too sure.
Scientists, when encountering the phenomena of prophecy, visionary or
otherwise, find that the easiest explanation is to dismiss the
individual as being mad or delusional. But it *is* foolish and dare I
say naive to neglect the entire subject! One recent piece of
literature that I often point to is a book by Dr. Rick Strassman
entitled DMT: The Spirit Molecule. Dr. Strassman conducted clinical
experiments with the ridiculously potent psychoactive chemical,
endogenous to the human brain, DMT. The chemical essentially replaces
your "reality feed" with something ENTIRELY different. Like changing
your brain's channel. It does not otherwise diminish your brain's
cognitive capacities, as do other hallucinogens. Hundreds of subjects
were amazed by it's ability to present an internally consistent and
seemingly objective "reality", which bore *no* resemblance to their
dreams or life experiences. It is released by the pineal gland six
moths post-conception, and just prior to death, thus it is nicknamed
The Spirit Molecule. The most commonly described event is contact
with *intelligent entities*, as well as some kind of non-verbal
communication. Bizzare, yes? I will quote some choice passages:
"This question about 'being high'-- I don't know. I had my
capacities. I was able to observe quite clearly. I didn't feel
stoned or intoxicated; it was just happening."
"...there were these insect creatures all around me...the thought came
to me with certainty that they were manipulating my DNA, changing it's
structure..."
"There were four or five of them... they were on me fast..."
"It's totally unexpected, quite consistent and objective... It's an
independent, constant reality."

Themes emerge. Reptilian entities. Insect-like creatures.
Big-headed *Greys*. DNA. The author remarks on the vivid similarity
between this phenomena and the typical contactee reports. When I
encountered Zetatalk's section on Density, it seemed to make more
sense than any other neurochemical explanation for the DMT experience,
and fit better than the inadequate Fruedian explanations put forth by
Dr. Strassman. Do these entities exist only in the chemically-altered
minds of subjects and contactees? What about Native American reports
of spirit guides, vision quests, etc? Could it be that there is more
to reality than what our senses afford us? <grin> Consider this.

3. Learning about these experiences caused me to reconsider a paper I
had read earlier by Bill Cooper, entitled The Secret Government. In
this book he testifies that he has read classified Navy briefing
documents which verify the existence of extraterrestrials, and detail
our involvement with them. Furthermore, he illustrates the role of
the Bush family in all this, and the reasoning behind their drug
trafficking.
"The ruling powers decided that one means of funding the
alien-connected and other 'black' projects was to corner the illegal
drug market... A young ambitious member of the Council on Foreign
Relations was approached. His name is George Bush... [he] agreed to
help, and organized the operation in conjunction with the CIA. The
plan worked better than anyone had dreamed...The CIA now controls most
of the world's illegal dug markets." The book, The Conspirators,
available at www.almartinraw.com (published in 2002) confirms Cooper's
"Secret Government" testimony. I encourage skeptics to investigate
this. Another site to check out is www.copvcia.com. I know this is
not alt.conspiracies, but it is relevant to the subject at hand.
Cooper says he lost his leg after being run off the road by
government agents. If you think this is paranoid fancy, I suggest you
read testimony from Disclosure Project witnesses (high brass, retired
military officials), who say in no uncertain terms that they have been
threatened with their lives. What's the big deal? The pieces start
to fit together. But *could it be*?

4. I had not heard anything about a "pole shift" until reading
zetatalk, but after checking out a few of Velikovsky's books, as well
as criticism, I began to mull the possibility. Strangely, the thought
of impending cataclysm fits well with the beliefs my parents have held
concerning a man who claimed to be the Avatar of our age, Meher Baba.
While not beyond reproach, the man did dedicate his life, in saintly
fashion, to helping the untouchables and beggars of his native India.
He has written at length concerning the "current world storm", and a
"coming transformation" or "awakening". He observed silence for forty
years. I will quote,
"I must break my silence soon...it will be as when the "power house"
is switched on...there will be light"
"the disease of selfishness in mankind will require a cure that is
both universal in application and drastic in nature... there will be
floods, quakes, natural disasters... but these will be worth enduring
for the peace which is to follow..."
"Unprecedented suffering leads to unprecedented spiritual growth" How
true! I speculate that in a global cataclysm, one will find that
reality jumps sharply into focus. Cooperate or perish would be the
rule, would it not? I spent thirty days in Death Valley, CA, in a
primitive backpacking situation with not so much as a tent. I forever
understood and sympathized with the wretched of the earth... but i
digress.

Further prophecy by the teacher of renowned wilderness survival
expert, Tom Brown, also contains ominous references to a pole-shift
like scenario. The third and critical sign is the "Night of the
Bleeding Stars", after which the "Children of the Earth" must return
to the bosom of nature, as the Earth will now heal herself and the
world of Man will erupt in chaos. None of these people are trying to
make a buck here, this is genuine.

Again, sci.astro may not be the best forum for this post, however if
"Planet X" is indeed on the way, do you think it will be announced in
the nightly news? No, it will be heard through the grapevine as
confirmed by amateur astronomers and observatories.
So, before you arrogantly bash Nancy as a kook, or as delusional, or
"in need of serious help", please first do your homework (not just
your physics homework =), and keep a mind open to all *possibilities*,
however bizzare they may seem to you. In conclusion, from what I have
pieced together in my twenty-odd years on Earth, I imagine that we are
all indeed in line for some serious moving and shaking, whatever form
it may take, or whenever it may arrive. Keep your ear to the ground.

Best wishes to all,

-Duncan Carroll