New Solar System (image credit- Tim Pyle NASA)
This is a very exciting time for astronomers, amateur astronomers, astronomy buffs, ufologists and aware citizens of the world.
First and foremost this week a new solar system with six planets has been discovered along with an additional 1200 exo-planetary candidates by the NASA Kepler Spacecraft. Probably as I am writing this, the number will change in the upward direction. This information is being added to daily. The Kepler Spacecraft has been a wonderful success for NASA. I urge all my readers to click on my links to detailed information at NASA on this fascinating program and the mechanics of the Kepler Spacecraft.
The star with the newly found solar system, Kepler 11, is said to be Sun sized. The amazing thing here is that five of the six planets found around Kepler 11 are in very close orbits around Kepler 11 and all six are thought to be rocky objects like the Earth and Mars and the Moon. In the beginning of the discovery of exoplanets, almost all the planets discovered were gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn but much larger and closer in to their stars- not what would be considered to be hospitable to life as we know it. That all changed in Autumn 2010 with the discovery of a rocky planet only 20 light years away orbiting a red dwarf star, Gliese 581, in the so-called Goldilocks or habitable zone – a region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface.
So it begins to seem that habitable planets may be relatively common in our galaxy. This idea was considered to be foolish in scientific circles within very recent history. We add to this idea that the Universe is proving to be larger than anyone expected and appears to hold three times the number of stars many astronomers might have estimated only a year ago. We are poised at the brink of a paradigm shift comparable to or greater than the one Galileo started with his non Geocentric model of the solar system. (The earliest heliocentric model of the solar system was by Philolaus in the fifth century BC, but was not widely adopted. Philolaus was a Sun worshipper. Is the Sun a conscious being? I think so.) In short, our beloved Solar System appears to be one of trillions out there. There are probably millions of solar systems in our Milky Way Galaxy and there are billions of galaxies. There is no reason not to believe that many other galaxies have stars with solar systems. Similarly there is no reason not to postulate that many of these solar systems have rocky planets in the habitable zone with water on them.
Where there is water there is likely to be life. Meteorites have told us that the building blocks of life exist in space. Rudimentary life can exist in extremely harsh conditions. There are stars in this galaxy that are far older than the sun, and galaxies that are far older than the Milky Way. It does not require a big leap from these facts for us to expect to find advanced civilizations on some of these rocky, watery planets. If some of the civilizations out there are tens of thousands of years more advanced than ours, might they not be visiting our habitable rock with it’s cruel warlike dominant ape species we like to call “human beings”? It is indeed an exciting and frightening time to be alive!
February 4, 2011 at 4:0 1
It is exciting. Too bad our ancestors weren’t those happy bonobos.
February 4, 2011 at 4:0 1
Yes, Roxana, the bonobos might have been a happier choice all around.
February 4, 2011 at 4:0 1
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February 6, 2011 at 4:0 1
You are a great psychic.
February 7, 2011 at 4:0 1
Hey! Thank you. Best,
Fahrusha
February 7, 2011 at 4:0 1
When you suggest that the sun is a conscious being, I would say that the same is true of earth and everything on the planet. While the paradigm shift involving the acknowledgement of extraterrestrial intelligence is exciting, an equally momentous (and perhaps prerequisite) shift would involve acknowledging that non-human terrestrial life (animals, plants, minerals, the elements of fire, water, etc.) also are alive, conscious, and perhaps even purposive. We don’t have to go far to seek and commune with non-human intelligence. Indeed, if Jacques Vallee is right (and I strongly suspect that he is), a lot of the UFO activity that has recently been attributed to extraterrestrial sources may have its source-origin much, much closer to home.
February 7, 2011 at 4:0 1
I agree with most of what you are saying and also find Vallee very interesting. Some of what he writes plays into fundamentalist ideas of demons. I am not comfortable with that. This fundamentalist idea that is prevalent in some areas of our (US) military is examined in Nick Redfern’s book: FINAL EVENTS and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife.
February 7, 2011 at 4:0 1
The fundies try to take over all ideas that they can’t suppress or discredit, and they’ve tried to do this with all aspects of the paranormal, including UFOlogy. I’ve only read reviews of Redfern’s book, but I would agree with your assessment. I don’t know if there really are such inside government groups with such agendas, but if you look at the Air Force, for example, and the military in general, there’s no question of fundamentalist influence. However, I believe that Vallee is a researcher with great integrity and vast intelligence, and I think his ideas deserve to be judged on their merits. He’s quite aware of the “hall of mirrors” effect and levels of disinformation in the field. Plus I don’t think that what he says really accords with the simplistic “cosmic war between Good and Evil” nonsense. If memory serves, what he said in Dimensions (which I read back in 1988) is that there seems to be a pedagogical intent behind the phenomena that has to do with the evolution of human consciousness, and that even the “negative” effects of some of the phenomena can’t be judged via our ordinary moral (or theological) notions of good and evil.
February 9, 2011 at 4:0 1
Re: “secret government groups studying UFOs,” I just came across the following item o the Anomalist web site:http://anomalist.com/
“Bruce Maccabee reviews the new book by John Alexander, which largely deals with his lengthy search for the secret government group studying the UFO phenomenon. Though Alexander had all the military and intelligence connections needed to discover such a group if there was one, he never found it.”
Here is the link to the Maccabee review article:
http://www.brumac.8k.com/AlexanderBookReview/AlexanderBookReview.htm
February 7, 2011 at 4:0 1
Dear Joe,
I agree that Vallee has been a valuable researcher of UFO-type phenomena.
I do not think that the phenomena necessarily has only one origin, such as extraterrestrial, inter-dimensional, or diva (over-soul group). More is unknown here than known.
Best,
Fahrusha
February 7, 2011 at 4:0 1
We are indeed in the presence of a genuine mystery, and you are right, we should not rush to judgment. I also agree with Vallee’s analysis that a great many of the facts seem to argue against the extraterrestrial hypothesis (which does not, of course, disprove the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence). Even if the source of much UFO phenomena is, broadly speaking, terrestrial in origin, however, I would not go so far as Charles Fort or John Keel and say that “we are property”. (Bob Monroe seemed to be making a version of this suggestion in Far Journeys, though it’s unclear just how serious he was.) Jane Roberts’s Seth also said, many years ago, that there were several sources of what we perceive (or categorize) as UFOs, and I think this is a very likely scenario.
February 13, 2011 at 4:0 1
Thank you for your always interesting comments. Firstly, thanks too for the link to the Anomalist website. Although it is Alexander’s thesis that the government is in the dark about UFOs, Maccabee does not entirely agree. I say, a. the government is bathed in secrecy on many levels (besides UFOs) and b. the government will not reveal anything that does not benefit itself and c. the government is not one monolithic entity but many many bureaus with one tentacle not knowing what the other is doing. I do not pretend to know exactly what the government knows or does not know. I do know that many UFOlogists are former military personnel.
On your other comment above, I personally respect all of the people you mention above and have some direct links to both Robert Monroe and John Keel. But all of these people are speaking from a spiritual perspective (except maybe for Fort whose personal life I know the least about) and all are coming from a place of sadness. Both Monroe and Vallee lost their wives, Jane Roberts was terminally ill and John A. Keel had become a recluse. Why I mention this is because our perceptions must be colored by the human condition which we are experiencing. It does seem to me that there very well may be more than one source of UFOs.
February 14, 2011 at 4:0 1
Monroe’s “just-so” creation story may be found in his second book, Far Journeys, which was published in 1985 (and covers experiences he had well before then)–some nine years before Nancy’s death. So I don’t think that explains his perspective. He did have his dark moods and depressions, as those who knew him can well attest (and have told me), but when one reads biographies of spiritual seekers, this is a very common thread. Life is a terminal condition, and even the most spiritual people get depressed. Jesus knew he was about to die, lamented on the cross, but that doesn’t discredit his message of love. (And I am not a Christian, by the way.) So I think we have to be very careful when evaluating people’s ideas not to try to reduce them to our perceptions of their inner situation or personality. We all struggle, and some of our work is produced in spite of those struggles, and some of it precisely because of those struggles, but as to which is which, and what it all means–who can really judge? The ideas have to be looked at on their merits. I also see a lot of joy and excitement, for example, in Monroe’s writings, and in the work to which he devoted the latter part of his life. There’s always a balance. Folks who fly very high can also go very low.
February 14, 2011 at 4:0 1
Hi Joe,
I have no intention of judging or discrediting these valuable people. Monroe, in particular, has been one of my greatest inspirations. I don’t think I fully made my point. In terms of UFOs, the best sighting is a multiple witness sighting from different people who are unknown to each other, corroborated by radar returns. My out-of-body experiences, or another person’s individual abduction experiences may be extremely compelling but neither is going to provide the smoking gun with which to change public perception.
One’s personal “knowns” (as Monroe termed them) can change one’s own reality, but will always be tinged, as well it should be, with one’s own individual perception. Thusly how we “see” the visitors is transformed by our individual consciousness and preconceived notions.
Thanks for your comment.
February 14, 2011 at 4:0 1
P.S. As to UFOs: In general I have stopped reading in this area, because it is just too much a hall of mirrors, and there are too many bloated egos, personality clashes, hidden agendas, folks who are interested in entertaining rather than the truth, lies and distortions, etc. Present technology makes it far too easy to fake “photographic” evidence. Folks like Bob Bigelow are another problem–the Mike Bloomberg of UFology.
February 14, 2011 at 4:0 1
I agree with you about the problems surrounding ufology. However, if we are being visited by beings from another star system or other dimensional plane, this is arguably the most important unresolved issue in human history, so I will continue to attempt to keep on top of what is happening for my own edification. I do know of Mr. Bigelow, but do not know him personally. The impression I get is that he has a true interest in the subject and quite a bit of money with which to investigate. I do wish he would publish some of his findings.
February 14, 2011 at 4:0 1
I guess for me the key unresolved question of human history is why humans got it into their heads about 10,000 years ago that the non-human intelligences surrounding us right here, on this very planet, and on this plane, were inferior or even non-existent and certainly unsouled, and that the (indigenous) peoples who believed differently and experienced things quite otherwise found themselves on the losing side of a cultural and social war that continues to this very day.
And I suppose that’s why I can’t get too excited about any evidential smoking guns that might ostensibly influence large-scale public perceptions on the extraterrestrial issue. If humans bring to this issue the same exploitative attitudes that the dominant ideology has brought to the creation of civilization, I don’t see what good can really come from the knowledge. This will be the distorting “lens of perception” through which such knowledge will be gathered and evaluated—along with the Apocalyptic hopes and fears stamped into our collective consciousness thanks to 2000 years of Christianity (it was Jung who said that everyone in the west, no matter what religion they consciously profess, is an unconscious Christian). You are very right to stress the inseparability of the knower and the known—hence the conundrum.
We also can’t separate the methods from the ends of knowledge. The moral quality of the knower and their readiness and ability to confront the truth are, as all the old mystery schools (and their progenitors, the old shamans) knew, totally inseparable. Knowledge and information are not just commodities to be bought and sold by the highest bidder. People like Bob Bigelow and Mike Bloomberg believe otherwise, of course, but that is their job; it is part and parcel of the dominant attitude, especially today, where everything and everyone has become a disposable commodity.
By the way, I did have an encounter of sorts with Mr. Bigelow—admittedly at one remove—some years back, and I was not impressed. Having tons of money does not necessarily get one closer to the truth, but it does tend to make one rather, shall we say, casual in one’s treatment of others.
February 14, 2011 at 4:0 1
In my articles on this site “Sleep paralysis, vibrations, spiritual revelation, and alien abduction or Getting out of 4D” and “Someone Smarter Than You” you will find my opinions on the intelligence of “the others”. Clearly they might use the state of sleep paralysis to communicate with an otherwise pugnacious and warlike species (humans). Evidentiary proof is non-existent from the state of sleep paralysis.
My own thoughts are rather animist so I do not disagree with many of the points you have made.
People I have met in MUFON have interacted with Mr. Bigelow. I feel the best approach here is to petition him to release information that he has. Whether he will or not is another question. In an ownership society we can do little else. Sadly in the case of APRO and the Laurentzens (sp?)the data has fallen into private hands which up to now have not been forthcoming.
February 15, 2011 at 4:0 1
Hi Farusha,
Many thanks for the information about your articles, which I look forward to reading. I have been enjoying our discussions a great deal. Very stimulating!
While I can understand how and why organizations like MUFON would want to secure funding for their research activities, big money always comes with big strings attached. Plus, the more successful organizations become in raising money, the more they become money-raising enterprises and thereby lose touch with their original mission and focus. That’s the paradox. More or bigger is not necessarily better (though this is a hard message to hear in our culture, which worships quantity and measurement—size definitely matters).
I think this is true about data acquisition as well. What makes for knowledge is not necessarily more data, but insight into the existing data, which comes from creative breakthroughs by gifted individuals who can see what others can’t (or won’t) see. This, if nothing else, is what Thomas Kuhn taught us with his concept of “paradigm shifts.” There is plenty of evidence, for example, to support the overthrow of 17th century materialism and its view that consciousness is a mere byproduct of the brain—just look Pim Van Lommel’s recent book on NDEs and all the other near-death experience research to start. But the establishment is just not ready to let go, and it will remain irrationally skeptical even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This is why I think the search for the UFO “smoking gun” that will convince one and all may be misplaced. Although personal experience cannot convince anyone but the experiencer, revolutions start in the hearts and minds of individuals, and that’s where the action really is.
March 11, 2011 at 4:0 1
Thank you Joe for reading these posts. I’ve been wanting to read Pim Van Lommel’s book and this is a reminder.
March 6, 2011 at 4:0 1
Fascinating……..it’s so interesting to imagine. Thanks!
March 11, 2011 at 4:0 1
Thanks, Lauren!
November 5, 2011 at 4:0 1
It is NOT as big as our sun or solar system… the entire kepler 11 solar system fits in the orbit of venus. why wouldn’t you just post the links to nasa instead of writing your own ideas?
November 5, 2011 at 4:0 1
Please read carefully, I did not say it was as big as our Solar System. You may not be aware, but the primary reason for blogs (there are several reasons) is to state one’s own opinions and to write one’s own ideas.
November 5, 2011 at 4:0 1
and also habitable planets are not a new idea. we know that there is a big probability for other planets to evolve live on them since we know that there is a universe.. much newer is the idea to actually reach out to those planets at least in picturing them as they are (not physically arriving there though.. )
please do not irritate people as this article seems your subjective opinion about a topic that can be scientifically documented.. like I said.. just post links to nasa and leave out your ideas about it..
November 5, 2011 at 4:0 1
Dear this guy,
Habitable planets in other solar systems are a relatively new idea to science. If you are irritated by my ideas then do not read my blog. I will not stop expressing my ideas. I am egalitarian enough to print your comments, though I am sure you would not extend me the same courtesy.
Fahrusha
November 5, 2011 at 4:0 1
and finally.. yes, we all have seen Steven Hawking’s documentary about aliens.. but i suggest to keep in mind that the whole Idea about an aggressive behavior comes from his own experience as a human being, which obviously hasn’t been a very satisfying one.. I do hate us human beings too though.. but i also think there is a philosophical question to it.. what is intelligence if it is relative to what we don’t know… ? I’d say a big misunderstanding…
November 5, 2011 at 4:0 1
“I do hate us human beings too though.” That kind of says it all, doesn’t it?
November 5, 2011 at 4:0 1
I don’t even start to tell you that esoteric has nothing to do with physics.. (conscious beings like the sun.. etc.. dammit. please do not post this and at the same time link to NASA.. it is simply disrespectful.. )
November 5, 2011 at 4:0 1
How do you know that spirituality has nothing to do with physics? Do you know for a fact that our Sun is not a conscious being? And disrespectful to whom? You are being disrespectful to me by telling me what to write and what not to write on my own blog. Why not get your own blog and write what you want?
November 5, 2011 at 4:0 1
Dear Fahrusha,
On the internet, all opinions are just that, and the ones originating from anonymous folks should be taken with grains of salt. Given that all life on Earth is here because of the sun, for all we know, the sun could indeed harbor sentience and intelligence. Nameless, faceless folks who comment on your blog postings can say anything they want, but usually, they engage in projecting their own issues onto others. “This guy” should be afforded the same attention you would give a fly.
November 5, 2011 at 4:0 1
Dear Mr. Human,
Thank you. I truly appreciate your comment.
Best,
Fahrusha