Monday, February 17 (Presidents’ Day), 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t37-SKj4rtY
I admit to watching from the sidelines, and with not a little amusement, as the UFO “community” (or “UFO World,” as George Knapp not-so-lovingly dubs it) gets its underwear wrapped in a tight bunch over the explosive allegations of the most recent whistleblower, Jake Barber. Just to take one example, Rep. Tim Burchett, of the House UAP Caucus, went so far as to confess his suspicion to the intrepid Capitol Hill journalist Matt Laslo of Ask-A-Pol that Barber might be a “plant” meant to steer congressional investigators (and the rest of us, I suppose) down some dark, twisting, interminable rabbit hole, never to be seen or heard from again:
From what I have been able to gather, Burchett’s comment is not atypical, and not nearly even the harshest.
Ah, if only Jake had stuck with nuts-and-bolts craft and macho dangerous cloak-and-dagger retrievals for his mysterious Legacy Program sponsors, things might have been–well, different, in UFO world. More simpatico and copasetic, if not downright appreciative. Alas, Jake had the temerity to talk about an actual personal experience he had while on the job; a telepathic connection with the NHI (or perhaps with the craft itself) which he movingly described as a spiritual encounter that, even in the retelling, moved him to tears, and to acknowledge its impact in changing his life:
“I was possessed by the most beautiful spirit. It was a very feminine energy. It felt like the spirit of God, but not in any masculine sense.”–Jake Barber
This confession alone laid Jake open to detractors six ways to Sunday. Talk of telepathic contact, spiritual feelings, and divinities all smack of the dreaded “woo” by the nuts-and-bolts UFO crowd. Indeed, simply bringing in the subjective side of things, or that which can’t be directly measured or captured by instruments such as radar, FLIR, etc., risks inviting that ultimate bogeyman into the conversation, the dreaded ghost-in-the-machine: consciousness.
From the opposite side of metaphysical materialism lies the yonder shore of religionism, and specifically, patriarchal Biblical monotheism. A feminine spirit of God?! Hell, that must be demonic! Why, for goodness’ sake, those female demons were banished to sideshow significance as the ancient Mesopotamian goddesses Tiamat and Bau were converted into the impersonal Tohu-Bohu in the opening verses of the Bible:
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” (Gen. 1:2)
Jake’s second major faux-pas was to talk openly about specially talented military assets (“psionics”) employing a psychic connection with NHI as a mode of contact, and evidently as a flypaper tactic used to invite and perhaps control craft to land, or else to expose themselves to EMP weapons that would then disable them. Psi? Gosh, there’s that dreaded “woo” again! Next thing you know we’ll be yapping on about remote viewing, precognition, telekinesis, and Uri Geller. Aargh!!! Nuts, but no bolts. Spooky Mulder, call your office!
Seriously, folks, so here’s my real take: There is zero doubt that Jake Barber is a genuine full-on hero who has shown tremendous personal, moral, and intellectual courage in risking his life and reputation in coming forward to tell his story of his involvement with elements of the the Legacy crash retrieval Program. Full stop.
One of the previously unanswered and often unasked questions that seems to get pushed under the rug is this: How did the Program know exactly when and where craft were coming down, so they could immediately go and retrieve them? Certainly they must have copious means of surveillance and rapid response force capabilities available. However, if what Jake has said is accurate, the crash retrieval program folks haven’t been sitting around drinking coffee, just waiting for accidents to happen; they were busy creating them.
This naturally raises a whole host of burning hot political, diplomatic, and moral questions, such as: Are we at war with the NHI (or some of them)? Who declared this war? When craft are brought down, psionically or otherwise, what happens to the occupants? Do the rules of the Geneva Convention apply to captured NHI? Do we know that the craft we are bringing down are indeed “enemy” craft? Perhaps, as Ryan Graves has suggested, discretion is indeed the better part of valor in not shooting (or enticing) down unknowns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jreLgdy2k
None of the rest of what Jake Barber said in his interview with Ross Coulthart gives me any pause–especially the items that seem to task others. As my own writings attest, since childhood I have accepted the primary reality of consciousness, though I would not have expressed it that way at the time. I experienced the world in such a way that phenomena like telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, ghosts, poltergeists–and yes, UFOs–did not seem “paranormal” to me at all. I was reading books about such subjects since I was eight years old, though they were all shelved in the “occult” (subsequently “Paranormal” or “New Age”) sections of bookstores.
That early childhood interest would bear fruit decades later when the parapsychologist and pioneering Exceptional Human Experiencer researcher (she coined the term EHE), the late Rhea A. White, became a key mentor of mine for many years. The partial record of that fruitful collaboration may be found elsewhere on this website. At this point in my life, however, I have absolutely zero interest in trying to convince anyone of the reality of psi and kindred phenomena. They can do that for themselves by objectively examining the voluminous research available for study. Or, not. People will come out of their own exile when they are ready, and not before. As Rhea argued, everyone has Exceptional Experiences; but inasmuch as we are taught and encouraged by mainstream culture to ignore the cracks in the cosmic egg, so, most of the time, most of us do. We look at them as if they are not there. Anomalies are anathema. The most obvious truths become virtually invisible to us.
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”- Antoine de Saint- Exupéry
This is why I loved what Jake said about there being no “ontological shock,” but rather, “ontological relief” when we come to accept the full truth of the NHI presence and everything it implies. At last we can be ourselves and own our own experiences without fear of ridicule and rejection.
Another ostensibly controversial item in Jake’s remarks concerned his telepathic communion with the NHI he experienced and described as a divine feminine spirit, an episode which was powerful and deeply affecting. Here I must make a confession that I do not believe that I have ever made in print before. Some forty-five years ago, I had my own encounter with a non-physical, spiritual feminine energy that healed and protected me, and, in hindsight, doubtless saved my life. She was caring and magnanimous. Was she NHI? I don’t know for certain. But she was real. The details of this experience are deeply personal so I will not share them here. Again, I have absolutely zero interest in trying to convince skeptics of the reality of my experience or to win over adherents to my own metaphysical and cosmological views by argument. I am simply reporting what happened to me long ago.
Suffice it to say that I deeply resonated with Jake’s account, and counted it as a mark of his own integrity and genuineness that he shared this deeply part of his story. For it is an integral element of the overall UFO story; an element that may be difficult to digest, but is ultimately nourishing, notwithstanding. No more shaving and shaping the truth to make it more palatable! We have exiled ourselves from the greater truths of who we are, where we come from, and what reality truly is, for far too long. We will all soon be confronted with the opportunity and the choice to return home and reclaim our own authority, and the genuine riches of existence, all of which we had abandoned to forgetfulness. When the Great Remembering occurs, we must be ready.
This, I think, is the crux of the matter and the real reason why so many of us have been unwitting and unconscious collaborators in the systematic gaslighting, outright lying, denial, and obfuscation of the Gatekeepers and their minions. The metaphysical primacy of consciousness implies the ultimate reality of intangibles, or that which we might grasp with our minds, hearts, and souls, but not with our fingers. Plato called these the Forms that shape our human experience: Goodness, Truth, Beauty, Friendship, Piety, etc. These are not finite products or items to be owned and monetized; they are the basic structuring principles of our existence. Consciousness as such is infinite and no one can own it, divide it up, or acquire it. We are it.
The current iteration of human civilization has been built upon the principles of acquisition: buying and selling, wealth and the power it delivers to manipulate externals–other people and the natural world–to get what we want. Or what we think we want. Even our religions are largely trapped in this materialistic pursuit of wealth and power. When, in 1882, Nietzsche’s “Madman” went to proclaim his dark gospel of the Death of God, where did he go? To the marketplace:
THE MADMAN—Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: “I seek God! I seek God!”—As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one. Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? emigrated?—Thus they yelled and laughed The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. “Whither is God?” he cried; “I will tell you. We have killed him—you and I. All of us are his murderers.–-Friedrich Nietzsche, Parable of the Madman
A hundred years later, in 1982, he might have ventured to the marketplace of marketplaces, Wall Street, to convo with Gordon Gecko. Now, however, we carry the marketplace around with us in our pockets and can never escape the silicon tentacles of the acquisitive octopus. Money is god. Greed is good. Rules are for suckers. Brutality is boss.
Or can we escape? When will the Kingdom of Disclosure come? I believe it already has come. As the Jesus of the Gnostic Thomas Gospel declared, the Kingdom is spread out over the earth, and people do not see it. There’s that invisibility thing again. But let us not be too hasty here; for on Wall Street, of all places, in the very belly of the Madman’s beast, there are signs of inner eyes beginning to be opened. It will take many years–decades, if not centuries–for the worm to turn, for the caterpillar to give up on its fruitless quest to retain its outmoded form. If you want a clue about what to anticipate in the civilization to come, read the closing chapters of Robert Monroe’s Far Journeys (1985), or his final book, Ultimate Journey (1994), for a preview of coming attractions.
But there is zero doubt that it is already happening. I repeat: Zero doubt. Watch, once again, as Alex Klokus interviews (retired) Col. Karl Nell at the May, 2024 SALT iConnections conference in Manhattan. Listen very carefully to Klokus’ introduction. Then listen, with your full bodily attention, to Col. Nell. Listen, not just to his words, but to the energy of his voice. Watch his body language and his facial expressions. Do you see now?
