My Apologies to Dr. Steven Greer

I just finished reading all of Dr. Steven Greer's book titled 'Hidden Truth : Forbidden Knowledge' and I feel like I owe the man a bit of an apology.

Let me say first and foremost that I think Dr. Steven Greer is probably a really nice fellow. I'm sorry if my posts containing extreme sarcasm motivated by my penchant for rationalism caused him any personal discomfort.

Having read all of Dr. Greer's quite personal book I now feel like I understand him a bit better. At the end of the day Dr. Greer is just one of your warm and fuzzy New Age types and, gosh darn it, I love New Age type people. Even though my rational mind objects I can't escape the fact that they are often more pleasant, warm, entertaining, and delightful to have as friends than your average person.

At first when I was reading Dr. Greer's book I felt like grabbing a highlighter and marking passages so I could write a scathing blog post about it. What better way to prove my point than using his own words to damn him with a rhetorical brush?

Yet as I continued on, allowing myself to become caught up in his personal reality tunnel ,I just grew more and more amazed. How could I excerpt any part of his writings to make my point when pretty much the entire book, word for word, makes the case strongly enough on its own?

Dr. Greer reveals a lot about himself personally. He tells us of his own personal near death experience and contact with cosmic consciousness. We learn how he levitated, performed healing miracles, and travels via his astral body on a regular basis; even so far as consulting Bill Clinton in his dreams.

Dr. Greer, Universal Mind bless him, has lost all contact with concepts of rational thought, logic, reason, or any sense of balance and perspective in assimilating his personal world-view. He is all over the map and, at all times, playing the part of high-guru to those who would follow him on his quest.

My original perspective remains the same. If the UFOs limit themselves to flitting about and not interfering with our daily lives then they are not that important to you, me, or anyone else. As much as Dr. Greer lashes out against the shadow government and their suppression of the UFO truth and sekrit teknology, he could just as easily transfer that anger at the alleged UFOnauts themselves. According to his logic the UFOs have it within their power to end the cover-up and share technology to the masses at a moments notice.

In fact, as frequently as Greer appears to communicate with these denizens of hyperspace I would prefer he spend more time and energy trying to convince those guys rather than worry about elements of some alleged nefarious human agencies. Dr. Greer can call up UFOs at will, according to his own testament, yet fails to ever get one to land on the front-lawn of the White house during broad-daylight for the TV cameras. Me-thinks Steven should ask his UFO buddies a favor.

But, like Steven, I digress. I come from the Greg Cambell school of UFO'ology. I don't really care whether UFOs are real or not or, even, what kind of 'real' they might really be. I am far more fascinated by the human mythologies that arise from the beliefs people create around these phenomena.

With that in mind, there is no richer mine of mythology than the stream of consciousness ramblings of Dr. Steven Greer in this truly strange book. I'm fairly confident that Steven actually believes a whole lot of the things he says. What I am also confident of is that just as odd, strange, and unsubstantiated are Steven's beliefs, so are those of thousands of others he interacts with who are quite ready to reinforce his personal psychoses.

I have no doubt that Dr. Greer has spoken to many people in his life who have, in turn, told him some strange and odd tales. Dr. Greer is the greatest collector of ghost stories for our modern age. (For example, when he reveals that once an engineer got high enough into the UFO inner circle he was required to swear an oath to Satan.)

He reveals an unending stream of truths that few of us know about. We learn that Marylin Monroe was murdered because she was going to reveal the secrets of UFOs, as were the Kennedy brothers. We learn that NASA has detailed photographs of alien bases on the far side of the moon and has a team of people who photoshop the evidence out. We learn that alien abductions are conducted by covert military groups to give aliens a bad name. We are told that the 'Face on Mar's is a real alien artifact.

Revelations include the fact that the US was going to explode a nuclear bomb on the moon but the aliens knocked it out of the sky. We hear story, after story, after story, that goes on page in and page out seemingly without end. It is all told with an open-gaped mouth willing to accept any and all stories, rumors, and astral body projections as unassailable fact.

In fact, the only thing Steven Greer is certain is wrong is the idea that these alleged UFO/ET could possibly be 'bad guys'. They are, at all times, loving and advanced deeply spiritual beings who shift in and out of inter dimensional hyperspace, sighing and tut-tutting at us for our poor behavior.

It would be impossible to catalog all of the wild ideas and assertions in Dr. Greer's book, as you would really have to reprint the entire thing.

However, in the end, I can't be mad at Dr. Greer. Some of his efforts at opening up a dialogue on the topic have been positive and in the few cases where he has gotten semi-rational and reputable individuals to discuss the topic he has done a real service.

He has led a fascinating and interesting life and I, for one, am glad I got to spend a few hours trying to look at the world through his psychedelic eyes.

Now, as I close, I do want to comment on a particular point that Dr. Greer brought up in his own closing. Throughout most of Dr. Greer's book he really gets hot and bothered about his belief that certain high placed individuals in power have a strong eschatological bent, to such an extent that they are actually shaping policy on it. To be frank, I have had this own concern myself and this isn't the first time I have heard of it. As the 'Left Behind' series and other 'end of the world' craziness consumes our population and, at the same time, religious fundamentalist populate the White house and corridors of power, I have a real concern that elements of the current administration might honestly believe they can hasten Christ's return by starting the 'end-game' on their own.

Like I said, I didn't hear this idea just from Greer's book.

So, after reading hundreds of pages of Steven acting very concerned about this I was rather shocked to find out that, in the closing of his book, he starts promoting his own eschatological visions in all of their glory!

He reveals his own visions from the 1970's all of the way up to today which project violent earth-changes that decimates the population of the planet. All of this leads me to think of the ominous tone reflected in the Georgia Guide stones which appear to be a message for the post-apocalyptic world.

In the end, all I can say is I apologize to Dr. Steven Greer. You may be as fruity as a, well, fruitcake, but I know your heart is probably in the right place. I apologize for being logical, rational, and completely devoid of all contact with the astral realm. I may not understand you New Age types but, God knows, I love you all to death. It's folks like you that make life entertaining for people like me.

My advice to the script writers of America, get Dr. Greer's book and start stealing. There is enough mythology in this tome to create any number of TV series, fictional novels, and movie thrillers out of it.

Of course, I would advise those interested in the 'truth' not to actually look for it. The truth can be much less exciting than Dr. Greer's version of reality. See link.