COSMIC TRUTH: GOD, US AND THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS

The Exotheologian and the Space Scientist may not even be aware that they are reducing their effectiveness and their potency as they proceed along the path they have cut out for themselves. The process they have initiated to collaborate on and share their mutual interests, that being the search for intelligent Extraterrestrials life, is the problem.

Their solution is exclusionary, closed, and timid.  It does not display an aurora of deep curiosity, and wonder. Their relationship of cooperation does not stretch the capabilities of either party. Why is that?  Why have they settled for the safe path?  They are devaluating their historical legacies forged by the great explorers, pioneers, and visionaries of science and faith whom we have admired throughout the countless history of humanity.  These questions are important questions begging for answers. Whatever those answers have been so far, we can do better.  I guess the knowledge that we can do better has prompted me to write this book for several reasons.

Many years ago, Arian Van Kaam, CSSp., an insightful writer about formative spirituality and an Existential Psychologist, reminded us that, “Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved.”  I agree whole-heartedly with this. I have also come to know that the best way to live the mystery of life is by solving the problems in life that come our way. Don’t you think?  Where would we be today if we ignored the problems of life and merely accepted them as mysteries to be lived?  Come to think of it, just look around the neighborhood. Isn’t this what a lot of people are doing with their lives, just looking around?  Either that or they are burying their heads in the sand, including a number of Exotheologians and Space Scientists I know.  Why did I finally write this book?  

First, I want to recommend a path that will close the gap between the Exotheologian and the Space Scientist as they work hard to discover whether intelligent extraterrestrial life exists anywhere in the beautiful Cosmos “out there”. 

Second, I have this hard to get at itch to challenge the composition of the Exotheology-Space Scientist Dialogue that is beginning to emerge as “the Question” of Creator and Creation take on a new meaning for people of faith because of the expanding knowledge of the space sciences. Too many good people who have much to contribute to the Exotheology-Space Science Dialogue are being actively ignored, unnecessarily.

Third, I actually believe in concepts like good, truth, honesty, integrity, probity, transparency, good-will, cooperative, supportive, complete, validity, empathy, ingenuous, unambiguous, and a lot of the other words that instill the need to get things right whenever we can.  In such a pursuit as this, and it is a big one for sure, we may change a lot about what we think we know historically, religiously, sociologically, and scientifically.  Since the stakes of this program are so historically high, we owe it to ourselves to do everything in our power that we possess to achieve the truest results we can by designing and employing the most stringent methodology that we can produce.

Fourth, I have this nagging feeling that people who could contribute wisely to this program would participate if given the chance to get involved. For the most part, many of these people are neither theologians nor scientists, but they can shed light on a large number of the darker mysteries of the search for intelligent Extraterrestrial life.  Such as where these Beings might be, how many of them are out there, and the mystery of their sociological structures.

Fifth, I have developed a range of special skills and overcome certain experiences spanning several decades and stretching beyond local jurisdictions that may shed light on some of the vague elements of the hunt to discover intelligent Extraterrestrial life in the Cosmos.  As a methodologist who has personal experience with the history of the ET problem, I believe my insights may encourage other people to open-up about their experiences with intelligent Extraterrestrial life.

Sixth, I guess it is fair to say that I wrote this book to better understand what I have personally experienced throughout my lifetime about the possibility of intelligent Extraterrestrial life “out there” somewhere in this grand Cosmos.  Writing this book enabled me to go back to the beginning of the mystery, organize my thoughts, and clear the fog that is always there in discussions about the likelihood of intelligent Extraterrestrial life in the Cosmos.

Seventh, last but not least (I always wanted to say that), I wrote this book for all the observers and experiencers out there so that they will know that they are not alone and that other people also:

KNOW WHAT THEY SAW!