Escape from Eden

IT is NATURAL for people to wonder how they might be 

able to improve the world around them. A widespread 

misconception is that to be effective, a person must either be 

rich, a politician, or a saint. The truth is, one can successfully 

take responsibility for oneself and for one's fellow humans 

from exactly where one is without greatly disrupting one's 

life or livelihood. One may begin doing this gradually by 

first improving one's own life, then by giving help to family 

and friends where it is wanted, then by joining or starting 

groups with laudable social goals, and finally by pursuing 

a sense of direct personal responsibility for the human race. 

It is important that more people begin this process. As 

history has clearly shown, if you do not create your own 

surroundings, someone else is going to create them for you, 

and you may not like what you get. 

Major constructive changes to our world actually do not 

require much to bring about. As a specific example, the 

inflatable paper money system, which continues to create 

indebtedness and instability at every level, can easily be 

replaced with a stable monetary system by merely ending 

bank-created money and setting up a system whereby money 

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is issued by national governments in proportion to their 

gross national products and dispersed without engendering 

debt. Banks could continue to participate in the system by 

being the conduit for the release and circulation of the 

money; but banks could no longer create money on their 

own. Governments would no longer need to tax anyone or 

borrow; they could simply allocate to themselves the money 

they needed to operate, within limits imposed by their gross 

national products. Under this plan, all debts owed to banks 

could be instantly forgiven: banks could be paid by the 

governments for their services in dispersing and circulating 

the money, and by consumers for consumer services. 

The Custodial society itself, if it exists, presents us with 

an extraordinary challenge, as we have seen. To reduce 

the human ability to meet that challenge by occluding the 

subject of UFOs and spiritual phenomena with false reports, 

dubious "evidence," obfuscating "explanations," and hoaxes 

is to do grave potential damage to the future prospects of the 

human race. At this time, scrupulous honesty from all sides 

is needed. 

If Earth is indeed owned by an oppressive extraterrestrial 

society, then there must somewhere exist communication 

lines between human beings and the Custodial society. I 

am not talking about alleged telepathic communication, I 

am speaking of face-to-face contact between humans and 

Custodians. Part of the solution would be to find those 

communication channels and use them to begin negotiating 

an end to the pain and suffering on Earth. This proposal 

may sound utterly wild as it would mean trying to start a 

process of diplomacy with an extraterrestrial society which 

most governments do not even admit the existence of in 

order to win the freedom of the human race—a race which 

most people would deny is even imprisoned. On the other 

hand, some people might argue that such negotiations would 

be as futile as San Quentin prisoners trying to negotiate 

their freedom with the warden, or Nazi concentration camp 

inmates trying to bargain with their SS guards. The Custodial 

society would need to be assured that the human race desires 

no revenge or political upheaval. Mankind seeks only an 

opportunity to work out its promised salvation, and the 

human race would share its successes with the Custodial 

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society. The goal would be to let bygones be bygones and 

to get on with the future. 

In the meantime, the problem of human warfare can be 

addressed directly. It -should be clear that there is no true 

"security" during any state of war, "hot" or "cold." People 

speak of nuclear disarmament, but why bother making 

a small reduction in nuclear arsenals when chemical 

and biological weapons are produced in greater number? 

Fortunately, many people understand that true national 

security is achieved through friendship and peace. Ask any 

American if they feel threatened militarily by Canada, or 

any but the most paranoid Canadian the same question about 

America. Both nations feel a sense of security not because 

they are pointing hair-trigger weaponry at one another, but 

because they enjoy a basic state of friendship. In Europe, one 

does not find the nation of Belgium bankrupting its treasury 

to arm itself against the "Dutch Peril," or the Dutch arming 

itself to the teeth against the "French Threat." Reliance on 

weapons, espionage, propaganda, and other tools of war to 

achieve national security will inevitably fail. Sooner or later 

someone is going to build a better bomb or find a way to 

get around yours. They will recruit a better spy or will tell 

a more convincing lie. No one's security should have to 

rely on such shenanigans. 

There are many people today throughout the world who 

are striving to create security through friendship. Those 

people have not been able to overcome several major hurdles. 

World leaders have their ears bent by intelligence agencies 

which promote a chronic climate of fear and danger through 

secret briefings, alarming reports and grim scenarios. As 

long as artificial philosophical differences exist between 

national leaders, those leaders will not be able to think 

and communicate rationally with one another. If national 

leaders are convinced that a great Utopia will arise if they 

maintain their side of the struggle, there will never be peace. 

Peace will only arrive if our leaders are willing to drop their 

great apocalyptic struggles and join the rest of humanity in 

a simple pact of friendship. 

The first thing that people can do to bring about human 

freedom is to become aware of all of the small freedoms 

they have and expand upon them. In our world, there is 

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a great deal of emphasis on broad and gigantic social, 

political and spiritual freedoms, but many people find it 

difficult to exercise even the smallest freedoms, such as 

simply expressing a fact or opinion in a social circle. The 

irony is that broad sweeping freedoms really exist so that 

people may enjoy all of the small freedoms that make 

existence worthwhile. One can begin enjoying those small 

freedoms simply by exercising them. As more and more 

people begin to do this, freedoms for all will expand. It 

therefore follows that sacrificing "smaller" freedoms in the 

name of achieving "broader" freedoms will actually cause 

all freedoms to be lost. 

Perhaps the greatest hope lies in the fact that all spiritual 

beings, whether they animate human bodies, Custodial 

bodies, or none at all, appear very similar in basic 

emotional make-up. There seems to be a core of good 

and decency within every individual, including within the 

most malevolent despots, that can ultimately be reached, 

although reaching it in some people can admittedly be a 

difficult undertaking! With persistence, intelligence, and 

compassion, it may yet be possible to bring a resolution 

to all that we have looked at in this book in a manner that 

will leave everyone happy. 

There are plenty of additional problems to be solved in 

our world. Now it is your turn to dream up solutions. Once 

you have thought them up, communicate them and act on 

them. What you think, what you perceive, and how you view 

the world around you is extremely important because you 

have an inherently unique perspective not shared by anyone 

else. Say what you have to say, discover what you want to 

discover, and pursue those humanitarian goals within you. 

It could help us all.