UFORCE thanks Jeff Behnke (jeff@paranormalnews.com) for this interesting article on "ALIEN RACES AND RELIGION."
_______________________________________________ Paranormal News - http://www.paranormalnews.com Alien Races and Religion Posted: October 4, 1999 Written By: Jeff Behnke I went on to the back porch today of my apartment in Chicago and watched streams of rain pouring down and bouncing off the orange lights in the alley. The bricks were slick, the ground was slick, and the chipped paint around all the windows were slick. And here I was in the middle of it all, with eyes and ears and a brain that has been given to me for who knows what reason. I spent a portion of the night combing through the Dead Sea Scrolls, looking for references to the sons of Raph, the Nephalim, and the Watchers, the Holy Ones who came to earth and lusted after the daughters of men and were forsaken and destroyed by the God of the Jews. I found references to Pleiades and the belt of Orion which seems out of place if you look at it from a religious perspective, but seem dead on if you look at it from a UFOlogical perspective. I found an account in one of the scrolls of a man named Lamech who was mentioned in the Bible and who was questioning the origins of a child in his wife's womb. "Behold, I thought then within my heart that conception was due to the Watchers and the Holy Ones…and to the Giants..and my heart was troubled within me because of this child…Then I, Lamech, ran to Methuselah, my father, and I told him all these things. And I asked him to go to Enoch, his father for he would surely learn all things from him. For he was beloved, and he shared the lot of the angels, who taught him all things." And I remain troubled and confused about the meaning of this document, the meaning of religion, the meaning of good and evil, and the meaning of death. Because here I was, standing out in the rain, staring at these streams and pools of water falling from the sky, the sky that I used to have been so familiar with, but that now seems so intriguing, mystifying, frightening, and beautiful. Because now I know that they are up there. We have caught them on film and photo. We have thousands upon thousands of accounts of people who have spoken with them. We have pages upon pages of text associated with them in our libraries. The mainstream media calls those who study them crackpots and quickly dismisses the mere mention of an alien race. The U.S. government does the same, only to lurk along the backwaters of the internet, behind chained fences and under mountain terrains, studying them, learning from them, taking everything they can from them. I don't know what to call them. But they have caused me to stand on the porch and see everything from such an off-beat and enlivening perspective. The universe is filled with mystery heaped upon even greater mystery. It's one gigantic puzzle box that we hardly have even opened, let alone looked at. We're comfortable in a world where there is one god and there is a good and evil slant to everything that takes place. We're comfortable with our televisions and radios and Starbucks Coffee. We can't even fathom a life without them. And neither can I, which makes it so difficult to accept the existence of other life in the universe. But they are here and have been here for ages. They are written of in the Bible. They are written of in every single religion. It is fruitless for any government to continue to say that we are seeing nothing more than swamp gas, optical illusions, and satellites. Because they can deny everything that has happened in the past century, but they cannot deny everything that has happened over the past 10,000 years. Look and see for yourself. I don't understand the meaning, and I may never understand the meaning, but the truth is there, and as Jack Nicholson said in a Few Good Men, "You can't handle the truth." He must have been talking to me. jeff@paranormalnews.comJeff Behnke is a writer for the ParaNormal News Network (P3N). Please visit their web site at http://www.paranormalnews.com.
