The activist mind is a rare but contagious commodity. Like the mind-set of great explorers and those who risk and flaunt tradition, activists ignite the possibilities of radical ideas and contrive to make the unthinkable happen. The activist mind seeks what others cannot imagine and acts as few other would dare.
Activists are a primordial breed - instinctive thinkers who not only challenge the status quo but also break its barriers into small bits for easy consumption by the like-minded as well as the indolent.
The primary role of the activist is to create conditions in which social discourse about matters and events of critical importance and interest to the global community can be inseminated, born and go on to thrive.
This brings us to the peculiar but responsive activist who challenges the human family with the proposition embraced by the mind-set that the planet has been and is being engaged by multiple groups of off-world civilizations.
Please do not fall off into the deep-end of this issue unless you can tread water - because there is no safety in trying to touch bottom - one either dispenses with this issue as nonsensical or one engages it as a thought-experiment closer to reality than one may perceive.
Pick your referent group and read-on... or drowned in a miasma of disbelief - either option is a risk.
Anyone in any capacity who presses for or creates conditions that promote opportunities for open public dialogue can be considered an activist and an educator. In this sense, the activist-educator is the essential ingredient - a catalyst if you will - one who frames the facts to create a revised world-view and a compelling pathway towards understanding.
Evidence of an Extraterrestrial Presence as promoted by the activist unreservedly presents documentation and testimony of the highest order. Most may walk by this evidence as if it were mere window dressing. Some stop and soon realize it is the most profound deposition of facts presented in human history.
Strategies and Tactics
The activist-educator utilizes two modalities.
First, the activist, like the obstreperous and deviant renegade, is the first to signal to the rest of the clan that a radical and marginalized idea is advancing on the horizon.
Like the canary in the coal mine, yes - but in this case - one who sustains herself for future reference. She falls not off her perch but breathes the fresh air of change.
The second modality is quite fascinating. Although the world-view of the activist is at first almost always rejected by the group; the activist perseverates. A crafty and determined unwillingness to cave-in to public and institutional criticism guides the true activist to demonstrate human intuition has a value-equivalency to data derived from science, social mores or our five senses... a quaint strategy that seems to work quite well when attempting to awaken the indolent, government officials, bureaucrats and even one's best friends.
To understand the nature of this modality it is useful to cite the lives of historical activists: Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Malaha Yousafzai and Susan B. Anthony. Each used tactics that resulted in suffering recrimination, incarceration and even death to achieve their activist goals.
On the other hand, the skeptic or those who adhere to traditional world-views rarely put themselves in jeopardy. They dismiss the activist as libertarian, utopian or simply radical. The skeptic and authoritarians frequently use doubt and uncertainty to bludgeon new ideas with the theory that certain categories of knowledge and information are impossible or worst yet - unthinkable.
By the use of cynicism, ridicule and personal attacks the authoritarian's refusal to consider radical ideas seeks to impose their will on others - divide rather than unify. The activist mind works differently. Activists ponder the impossible, seek ways to achieve a common purpose to promote unifying discourse and cooperation in order to achieve goals beyond the human frontier of thought. In other words - new concepts, however radical, are good ideas worthy of consideration. The null set of ideas is not an option.
Finally, that skeptics are usually ignored by the activist is considered the true mark of a dedicated activist. The activist does this for several reasons - most important of which is to conserve the psychic energy required to rise above the din and diminutions of personal attacks and the odd bullet they may have to dodge when things get serious. Some activists even go so far as to embrace their critics in the hope - as mentioned earlier - that activism's contagious nature might work a miracle on the intransigent.
The Extraterrestrial Presence
The ubiquitous notion humans are a supreme species is regularly challenged by activists who advocate in favour of the ET reality.
The late Dr. John E. Mack, former Head of Psychiatry at Harvard University, often stated humans were not the top of the cosmic heap. For an activist like Dr. Mack, this mode of reasoning opened the door to complex issues about the Extraterrestrial presence.
Generally considered as unthinkable and radical to many - a growing segment of the human family believe radical ideas such as an ET Presence are becoming thoroughly thinkable.
In the last five decades we have witnessed the initiatives of several political figures who have pondered what appears to be impossible or even a threat to their own political capital. Yet they moved forward to find ways of achieving the impossible - a consensus risk. Yes. But why?
Several examples of this are now a recognized part of a growing trend towards a condemnation of the scepticism and cynicism that has held back progress in making the UFO/ET issue a prominent matter in global geo-politics.
Although not fully engaged by most political leaders - media coverage - the vanguard of public opinion - has taken on this issue. No other journalistic bookmark reveals this more expressively than the New York Times article of December 2017 on UFOs by Ralph Blumenthal, Helene Cooper and Leslie Kean.
In it, Blumenthal, Cooper and Kean describe how Senators Harry Reid, Daniel Inouye and Ted Stevens' 2006-2007 initiative made possible an investigation into UFOs. They achieved a $22 million Senate appropriation to the US Pentagon to investigate UFOs. Such an appropriation of millions would have been considered unheard of or even un-American in the past. But it happened.
The fact that three senators, including Congressional Intell-committee member Mark Warner, could be briefed by defence department officials on the UFO matter was also unthinkable at one time. But it happened.
None of these politicians sought political benefit - on the contrary - it’s more likely their interest in the UFO matter and acting upon it could actually hinder their political capital. It didn't and they moved forward to disrupt the old ways of secrecy.
In another example, former US Assistant Deputy Secretary of Defence Chris Mellon‘s decision to come forward in numerous media interviews about the reality of UFOs was not only courageous but an apolitical move that created decisively open discourse.
In the time leading up to the $22 million Senate appropriation for a UFO investigation and later in 2017, with revelations by US Navy officials about on-going pilot encounters with multiple UFOs - might it now be time for the UFO issue to make its debut during the up-coming US election campaign?
A big swallow.
Could the UFO matter become part of the democratic process and in turn emerge as the third rail of American politics?
In a more specific sense - a conversation about how entities within the US military and in the private sector are experimenting with and perhaps already using UFO based propulsion systems of energy could very well engage yet another category of public debate about re-thinking the use of fossil fuels. The fact that this matter is not yet a major issue during the 2020 campaign is indeed unfortunate.
Using outdated world-views and rhetoric to create dynamic and new strategies for change can never be effective in educating the global community about the most significant event in human history. New ways of thinking are needed to affect global change... regrettably we’re just not there yet.
But a prominent UFO/ET activist sees it differently.
The 2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure - Washington DC
In 2013 The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure took the leap of all activist leaps since 2001.
Activist Stephen Bassett - Executive Director of the Paradigm Research Group and a rogue but temperate activist took such a leap. He decided - with some funding from supporters - to rent the Washington DC National Press Club for five days. The Washington DC National Press Club is the revered press locale of such figures as John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower and other esteemed Presidents.
Basset chose this location to set-up a mock Congressional Hearing featuring former members of Congress and the Senate to explore the UFO/ET question.
For over 30 hours some 40 witnesses gave testimony. Pilots, lawyers, authors, research experts, Air Traffic Control Senior advisors, a nuclear missile launch commander and a former Canadian Minister of Defence gathered in Washington DC to provide unimpeachable testimony about UFO incursions here on planet Earth. Many consider the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure a benchmark that may play-out in real time soon.
"What kind of person would risk such an occasion almost doomed to failure from the onset? The answer - an ACTIVIST. To this day Mr. Bassett may rue the day he conceived to assemble the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure - but one thing is certain - no observer that ZNN is aware of laments his decision." ZNN spokesperson.
Perhaps with this kind of activist wake-up call - one that brings forward the open acknowledgement of the ET PRESENCE - there is hope that the activist mind still thrives.
Only the activist mind and the collective will of the human family - ignited by these minds - can make the unthinkable happen.
So - is activism contagious - is it a mode of reasoning that may resurrect humanity? Time will tell and so will the bullets they dodge.
Your comments are invited.
