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NEW DAWN RISING
FORMAL EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT


Preface


This briefing is intended as an overview. It neither examines the issues to which it gives rise nor attempts to weigh evidence in support of various claims. Since it assumes that publicly acknowledged contact is not far off (or has just occurred), evidence that extraterrestrials exist is outside its scope. Furthermore, the Star Visitors themselves will be in a better position to address in detail the many controversial and conceptually challenging claims contained herein.


My sources for this overview (including myself) are numerous, varied, and fallible. Some of my claims may ultimately prove incorrect. No person credibly can lay claim to exclusive truth or to knowledge of the whole picture in this difficult arena.  The "matter of fact" style I have adopted for purposes of this briefing should be interpreted accordingly.


Many of the ideas have been discussed both sympathetically and critically by other researchers. A few are relatively unique to me. However, since whatever truth this overview contains will be cashed in shortly after formal Contact, I do not attempt to justify different sources of information. I have sought merely to prepare a document for the average reader that touches many bases and hopefully integrates an otherwise vast amount of information into a framework for useful discussion.


A very select bibliography, touching on quite divergent aspects of Contact, is appended for those wishing to read further. I strongly recommend visiting Dr. Richard Boylan´s website at [link to www.drboylan.com] for authoritative information on many aspects of contact. 


Those interested in a comprehensive briefing prepared for members of Congress mostly around the question of evidence for current extraterrestrial visitations should consult Dr. Steven Greer´s website [link to www.disclosureproject.org]


I also recommend the documentaries on limited aspects of contact presented by the History Channel, and the reports and X-Conferences of the Paradigm Research Group at [link to www.paradigmclock.com] as well as the massive catalog of information and contact-related reports at [link to www.exopolitics.com]


It is vital that we not fall into fearful or adversarial mindsets regarding the Star Visitors, that we assist naturally anxious individuals to appreciate the significance of what is happening, and that those who profess to be open-minded and welcoming step forth to stand and deliver. 


The Visitors are here in PEACE.  They are neither invaders nor saviors.  They will work with us, but not for us.  Full, formal, public Contact will nurture many positive evolutionary opportunities for the human race. 


Revised February 20, 2005


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FORMAL EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT 


Mark B. Woodhouse, Ph.D. 


With profound acknowledgment for the many courageous pioneers who for several decades have illuminated the complex and controversial terrain of extraterrestrial contact, I would like to offer the following briefing regarding the presence of several galactic alliances coordinated under the auspices of the Arcturian and affiliated High Councils, Ashtar Command, and Earth´s own spiritual guardians. 


I expect the United States government as well as other governments soon will formally acknowledge contact. This acknowledgment will be preceded and/or accompanied by progressively inexplicable sightings. These sightings will both guarantee acknowledgment and raise public awareness in preparation for what is to come.


The purpose of this overview is to describe the broad parameters of this historical event and to address some of the more pressing questions to which it gives rise.


Let me affirm at the outset -- unequivocally and irrevocably -- that these representatives come in PEACE. We have nothing to fear from them and much to gain through effective and cordial collaboration. Not all civilizations in our galaxy are peaceful. A small number still wage conquest in one way or another.


The universe is far richer and more diverse than many would imagine. However, the representatives of the Federation worlds that we will soon meet are peaceful and caring as well as powerful and discerning. They understand the natural fear-based attempt, especially by conservative religious traditions (recently illustrated in Contact and Signs), to portray them in a negative light. However, their patience and positive contributions to human culture will cause such fears to dissolve.


They do not cause tragically deluded cults to commit suicide in their name, and they do not abduct humans for nefarious purposes.  I believe that we will come to appreciate their positive intentions the same way we do the intentions of our friends -- through their words, their deeds, their explanations and willingness to share, their assistance for critical human agendas, and fundamentally by the feel of their energy. 


They will suggest constructive agendas for further self-empowerment, but not for control. They will NOT attempt to run the planet or become our political leaders. They will work with us, but not for us. Cultural transformation is our agenda, not theirs. They prefer to be addressed as Comrades or Star Visitors, not as "aliens." 


Historical Background


While this contact is arguably the most significant, it is by no means the first in Earth´s history. Long before the dawn of our current historical epoch, other civilizations rose and fell upon this planet, among them Lemuria and Atlantis. For them, interstellar contact was universally recognized, if not routine.


Lacking official Federation membership, Earth has hosted a series of "cosmic wild west" dramas in which various Star Visitor groups pursued their agendas. In some periods, this entailed conquest. In others it meant peaceful cultural assistance. Some races valued Earth´s unique mineral deposits. Others were interested in our physical evolution and, depending upon one´s point of view, assisted or interfered with our genetic heritage.


In time, molecular biologists will find common genetic threads that connect us to various points of stellar origin, including the Pleiades, Zeta Reticuli, Sirius, and the constellation of Lyra.


Some races have simply observed our progress, or lack thereof, from a distance. Isolated contacts throughout history have been signaled and, in some cases, chronicled in otherwise ignored or suppressed archeological and anthropological finds in India, Sumeria, West Africa, and elsewhere.


This includes off-planet discoveries, including the pyramids and "face" on Mars, together with various Moon-based anomalies, which NASA regrettably has explained with a forked tongue.  At [link to www.homepage.ntlworld.com] Michael Hurley provides a very comprehensive compilation of ancient UFO artwork and very old photographic evidence. We have never been alone in the universe.


In some respects the current Federation presence represents the culmination and turning point of extraterrestrial contact that stretches for eons into the past. In other respects it brings fully into focus a special interest initiated in the mid-1940s with the advent of nuclear weapons and the possibility of nuclear war. During this time, quiet intervention on a number of occasions has averted major nuclear accidents.


Sightings and small isolated contacts have been accelerating over the last few decades. In this sense, they have not recently "arrived" but have reached a point where, with additional Federation participation and guidance by Earth´s Spiritual Hierarchy, they are ready to make themselves fully and publicly known -- to move through the veil of consciousness that daily grows thinner.


Our government has known of their existence and of their peaceful intentions for at least fifty years, but for its own reasons has kept this information from the public. Whether by design or not, we have slowly been prepared for this rendezvous with destiny, which will both begin and end very differently from representations made in Independence Day or in Signs.


We have also been prepared by the courageous and tireless efforts of countless researchers who have chronicled this accelerated presence over the past few decades.


From Roswell, New Mexico, Washington, D.C., and Area-51, to Gulf Breeze, Mexico City, and the Hudson Valley, in thousands of well researched encounters of the first to the fifth kind, from simple sightings to on-board healings, and from the early days of NICAP to the modern research by MUFON, the Center for UFO Studies, the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and dozens of other organizations and journals, not to mention the testimony of some of our own astronauts and further revelations by Native American Elders, the case for an extraterrestrial presence and a cover-up of unprecedented magnitude is easily made for anyone with an open mind.


Most recently, individuals from within top-secret echelons of our government with a direct working knowledge of Star Visitor agendas and of our cover-up have publicly come forth. Those who have looked at the evidence are by now convinced of an extraterrestrial presence; the questions that remain relate to who they are, why they are here, and why their presence has not been officially acknowledged. 


Dr. Steven Greer and his associates have presented Congress an unprecedented opportunity, The Disclosure Project, to examine the whole issue with a depth and breadth never before possible. Let me turn, then, to a description of some of the key players in this process.


Ashtar Command is a service-oriented, peace-keeping fleet with craft from at least a dozen major galactic civilizations integrated into a unified command structure. It serves in different places, and in different capacities, throughout the galaxy as the need arises. In view of Earth´s current transformational challenges, especially those involving environmental decay, war and peace, health, technology, and the structures of power, its current "assignment," so to speak, has been appropriately focused here.


Ashtar Command is one of many fleets that work collaboratively with other federations and alliances, but with a special spiritual focus. By this, I mean that it serves as a unique point of intersection between the concerns of galactic cultures on the one hand, and of the spiritual hierarchies of those cultures (ours included) and, indeed, of the galaxy itself, on the other.


There are thus in the service of the Command both physical craft from other planetary systems and energetically configured "starships" that function as a traveling base for members of that hierarchy. Ashtar is a multi-dimensional command structure. And while there are different alliances involved in the current presence, I shall for convenience refer to them simply as the Federation.


 The Federation itself is a vast consortium of galactic civilizations arguably numbering in the thousands.  In so far as Earth is approaching a point where membership in the Federation is likely, and in so far as certain actions here affect the well-being of other Federation members, the Federation has a legitimate interest in how our current transformational dramas unfold, and it will consequently play a significant role in that unfolding at the appropriate time.


Certain cultures, especially those associated with Sirian and Pleiadian star systems, have independent relationships with Earth´s past and future history. So in addition to their affiliation with the Federation, some Sirian and Pleiadian interaction will reflect those relationships.


Recent appearances of multiple and varied craft reflect their desire to be seen in ways that cannot easily be explained away. They have been here for quite some time and they are attempting to be gentle as they knock at the door.


Extraterrestrial craft come in many shapes, sizes, and levels of density or materiality. Some are visible, some are cloaked, and some are entirely extra-dimensional (which has given rise to the phenomena of streaking lights and "jumps" across the evening sky).


Many of the physical craft seen will be of Sirian, Altarian, or Pleiadian origin. Some are locally housed on huge "mother ships," others are stationed on small bases in our Solar System, and still others move back and forth with relative ease between Earth and their home planets. Some craft may be stationed on small bases under the oceans.


The whole picture is quite complex.  Perhaps the biggest mistake one might make in this arena is to think of "the extraterrestrials" as one grand homogeneous group. Even the archetypal Gray, which is but one among many species, exhibits significant variations in appearance and purpose.


The existence of various Councils of Light signals a larger spiritual dimension to this process.  Members of these councils are not physical extraterrestrials, but are more akin to angels or advanced spiritual beings who for the most part do not take on physical bodies.


Their elevated energetic densities allow them to be seen -- usually in general human-like form -- by those with clairvoyant vision, although they can temporarily project themselves in solid material form. Their normal dimensional residences, however, are several levels above our own, and the starships in which they may travel reflect this differential. Their wisdom, compassion, and power provide much of the overall guidance and direction for this historical meeting of cultures. 


Councils of Light include the guiding Spiritual Hierarchy of this planet.  Ashtar is a member, as are others whose special interest in Earth and its future possibilities goes back many millions of years.


Another member is Lord Sananda, a highly evolved being known in many quarters of the galaxy for his compassion, wisdom, and spiritual leadership, and for his incarnation on Earth as Jesus. This evolutionary turning point is for him a matter of both great concern and great joy.


Still another member is Lord Maitreya, who was known in his incarnation on this planet as the Buddha.


One by-product of this contact will be that different religious traditions will begin to lose claims to exclusivity and/or superiority. Maitreya (the Buddha) and Sananda (Christ), for example, work together for the spiritual upliftment of the planet, and always have.  It is important to keep in mind that this process is fundamentally part of a spiritual awakening -- not an invasion from outer space.


We will be exposed to formal extraterrestrial Contact as part of this awakening, but its overall direction is being guided by evolved spiritual councils.  Those who address the issue of Contact as if it were merely one of meeting physical beings from other planets are thus missing a large, and very important, part of the picture.