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This past week I was interested to see what responses there would be to the new documentary film entitled "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind" featuring Steven M. Greer, M.D. His previous documentary feature "Sirius" and a variety of other "Witness Testimony" videos are available for viewing without charge at his YouTube channel. Considering the gamut of books about 'anomalous phenomena' throughout modern times, reactions expressing skepticism and denialism are motivated by disbelief and sometimes fear — with fear not only based on perceptions about what possibly could be signified by the occurrences. Greer offered a categorical description for some UFOlogy authors and journalists in his book Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge: It Is Time for You to Know (2006):

Those who put out distorted research dealing with cattle mutilations, human vivisection, alien rapes and encounters get enormous funding from the covert group and their friends and contacts in the disinformation arm. They control and spin disinformation in the mainstream media, the UFO public, and what I call the "retail consumers of all things extraterrestrial," who swallow hook, line and sinker their harvest of fear.

Throughout my life, I've observed the rise of a 'spin' factor and heightened commercial influence concerning the selection of news among 'mainstream' media. The question of freedom among news journalists concerning UFOlogy is a topic of the "Sirius" documentary. Regarding the subject of transcendental information sources, it may be very obvious at times for someone knowledgeable about this subject when erroneous debunking has been instigated regardless of occurrences witnessed firsthand by television news production teams — as some articles at this blog indicate. (1, 2, 3)

Dr. Greer commented about his new documentary in his latest YouTube livestream oration video:

. . . I want to thank everyone who's helped make "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind" a possibility. As you know, we've been No. 1 on iTunes. And thanks to Justice Campbell who is a jet commercial airline pilot who did the crowdfunding campaign. We've been able to make that a reality and [to] the whole team — Michael Mazzola and the production team. Everyone's joined in making this a reality. And to the 4,100 or so people who contributed, thank you very much. This is an opportunity for us to put in front of the public — hundreds of millions of people — the information that we're not only 'alone in the universe' . . .

Upon viewing the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind," I found an urgency in Dr. Steven's Greer's declarations motivated to help people understand the disastrous nature of assumed imperatives associated with military indoctrination and corporate thinking. The declarations accompany glimpses of UFO footage. Dr. Steven Greer mentioned "interplanetary war" — "This is the next 'big thing' that they want the public to be afraid of." This was followed by media headlines such as a CNN telecast headline "Secretive Military Program Tracked UFOs for Five Years," President Trump stating "We must have American dominance in space" and then Greer saying "But it's all a lie." Then constitutional attorney Daniel Sheehan is seen saying, "The national security state — they want to establish an interplanetary government by spinning that this is a threat"; followed by another Greer statement including: "The threat isn't extraterrestrial, the threat is covert human," etc. This is also a topic of the "Sirius" documentary. Our American President was elected as a Washington D.C. outsider and we can hope government military chiefs are men of conscience and spiritual thought beyond the cynicism of perceiving war as offering some form of illusory solution.

An alternative approach as taken with articles at this blog is to profile in a detailed way first person experiencer testimonials of UFO contactees (those who seem very clearly to be without any propaganda affiliation as has been documented about some others).

Movie reviews of the documentary "Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind" published in the two prominent Hollywood entertainment trade papers include the following statements:

[description below Variety headline] A documentary featuring Steven Greer, apostle of the alien-visitation disclosure movement, has tantalizing "sightings," but reveals that ET obsession is now the mother ship of conspiracy theory.

Believe it or not, even the death of Marilyn Monroe has been glommed onto the conspiracy. According to Greer, the reason Marilyn was “killed” is that, in the midst of her affairs with JFK and RFK, she was about to say something in public about the government’s alien secrets.

Put another way: The belief in alien visitation, as presented here, is actually congruent with the Trump agenda — the idea that America could be restored in one fell swoop by an acceptance of the otherworldly saviors who are already in our midst. That sounds, in its way, distressingly familiar: a promise to fix the world with fairy tales.

[beginning of The Hollywood Reporter review] It would seem we're in a moment of unusual openness to the idea that Earth-dwellers aren't alone in the universe. Mainstream news outlets reveal that some government entities take the idea seriously; tantalizing (and seemingly not-doctored) videos capture aerial phenomena that, while vaguely photographed, are hard to explain. Does that make this a good time for more out-there prophets who've been promoting this idea all along? Michael Mazzola's "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind" provides a soapbox for Steven Greer . . .

Mazzola does eventually get around to Greer's accounts of his own close encounters. "Fifth kind," in his taxonomy, refers to "proactive, human-initiated" contact between Earthlings and ETs. Greer claims that in his youth he was not only visited by aliens but engaged in some kind of joint meditation with them. Together, they developed a "CE5 protocol," through which humans of goodwill could telepathically contact space travelers, sending out "vectors" that draw spacecraft to the humans' exact location.

Is all this just an elaborate come-on for the CE5 retreats Greer runs, where most of the film's UFO-sighting videos were shot? The doc doesn't exactly advertise them, or close with a web address, but they're easy enough to find. First-time attendees can expect to pay $2,500-$3,500 for tuition, in addition to food, lodging and whatever books and DVDs of Greer's they might want. It's pretty obvious that Greer believes in what he's selling, though; and Fifth Kind is far too impassioned in its nuttiness to be a purely cynical, Scientology-style sham.

Although "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind" is a commercial documentary, Greer's Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge is available to be read online without charge. As Greer explained in the first chapter of the book "Improbable Messenger," a near death experience brought him interaction with intermediary beings accepted as "Manifestations of God":

. . . I acknowledged their reality and the very exalted beings that exist and the existence of the Godhead and the oneness of creation and divinity. And that's what I experienced: complete, perfect oneness of unbounded Mind and creation as one. Then I sort of lost consciousness, and fell back into my body, just sort of whoosh.

After describing the transcendental events in his life, Greer wrote in the ninth chapter about "Information in Unconventional Ways":

You have to be willing to follow your guidance and the intuition you get — and you have to be willing to act. I've done that throughout my medical career, no matter what the situation. And I recommend that people accept that responsibility. It is accepting your power and then accepting the responsibility that goes with that power.

I've spoken, since then, to a number of people who've been fighter pilots or who have been commercial airline pilots in a critical situation where they've had similar precognitive experiences that helped them avoid disaster. Many people have these experiences in their lives. And the more critical or stressful the work is, the more likely this type of ability might be called upon. But I think it can be brought into almost everything you do.

This can be a way of life, and not something that you do just on the side occasionally. The understanding of spirituality and divinity need not be reserved for an hour or two on Sunday or an occasional event here and there. It can be an inner awakening that is with us all the time — and called up and applied all the time.

Even with someone as knowledgeable as Greer, there may be occasions when data is given him that could bring faulty conclusions — such as the premise that actress Marilyn Monroe was murdered. A previous blog article presents a link to an audio recording of transcendental communication of 'Marilyn Monroe' via Direct Voice acknowledging "It was an accident." Another case of paranormal phenomena supporting Marilyn's demise being accidental is found in the case study book about psychic photographer/spiritual healer John Myers He Walks In Two Worlds (1964) by Maurice Barbanell. (How can this book never have been republished?) The question of her death was also a topic in a New York Times article about a 1973 Mike Wallace "60 Minutes" interview with Marilyn Monroe biographer Norman Mailer:

Mr. Wallace, however, charges that “someone is talking about that night, the one person, in fact, who could invalidate all of Mailer's torturized theorizing about the Monroe murder plot.”

He then interviews Eunice Murray, Miss Monroe's housekeeper, who was with the actress on the night she died. Miss Murray insists that they were alone in the house that night and that murder would have been “impossible.” She also insists that, contrary to some reports, she has not been in hiding, that “my name is in the telephone directory.”

Concerning the tremendous array of evidence of anomalous phenomena mentioned in articles of this blog, beyond the contactee autobiographies by Orfeo Angelucci, Truman Bethurum, Daniel Fry (etc.), many transcendental communication topics and cases are overlooked or ignored by contemporary people to a vast extent. Forms of this communication include channeling, automatic writing and art, Direct Voice cases, Electronic Voice Phenomena and Instrumental Transcommunication, spiritual healing, precipitated paintings, psychic photography and so on.

It has always been a thought-provoking realization that with some fields of anomalous manifestation where proof is discernible if the case is researched, some artifacts generally are sometimes noticeable upon first glance as being recognizably simple in some way expressing social norms of the epoch reflected; therefore, a knowledgeable person and an ignorant person can have an opposite reaction to the same evidence. Considering two photos taken of materializations at Helen Duncan seances (1, 2) as shown: (below left) if 'they' can do this; (below right) they can also do this.

Click on photos for a larger image — a point of particular importance is the formation of the ectoplasmic stream emanating from medium Helen Duncan to the manifesting 'simulacrum' under controlled seance conditions.

I investigated other recent journalism concerning Steven Greer and "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind." The few offerings included The Anomalist column with Assistant News Editor William Murphy having presented a link to the Variety review on April 12 while stating —

Variety's Owen Gleiberman offers a 'Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind' Film Review. It's fair to say Gleiberman is not enamored of the Steven Greer-centered flick. "Conspiracy" runs throughout the Gleiberman portrayal of that movie . . .

There was also a radio show finding. In recent years Greer has participated in radio interviews with Jimmy Church of the radio show "Coast to Coast AM." The uncredited description for a Greer interview on April 11 at the "Coast to Coast AM" website reads as follows:

In the first half of the show, guest host Jimmy Church (Twitter) welcomed Dr. Steven Greer for a discussion on his new documentary, Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind (trailer). The film suggests if only one percent of the world's population utilized CE5 protocols to meditate about peaceful contact with extraterrestrials, it would cause a phase transition shift transforming the planet and moving humanity onto an interstellar future. "It's the Rosetta stone of interstellar communication using consciousness, remote viewing, and techniques that link up to interstellar communication systems," Greer said.

The documentary connects the dots about the reality of the UFO issue and the evidence, as well as expanding how to move beyond the secrecy surrounding this issue by unacknowledged special access/super black projects, he continued. "We're going to bypass the government and we're going to make contact directly because that is what [the ETs] are waiting for," he noted. According to Greer, scientific studies have shown a small group of meditating individuals can raise the level of coherence for an entire population. If one percent of people on Earth utilized CE5 protocols to make contact, negative indicators would be reduced and an enormous positive shift would occur, Greer explained. "If humans learn to go into this quiet state of meditation, and intend, and invite these civilizations to interact, they do," he added.

Yesterday an entertainment podcaster named Derek Levandowski posted a video review of "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind". He commented: "Hey everybody, on quarantine I have been really going down the rabbit hole of UFO documentaries . . . a close encounter of the fifth kind is said to involve direct communication between aliens and humans. In the movie it's described as a human initiated cooperative communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. This is supposedly done by meditation and, according to Greer, politely asking aliens to come and visit you. He even provides instructions on how to do this. I tried it and it didn't work. I didn't see any aliens. Now in this film Dr. Greer makes a lot of bold claims. He says that all time and all space are actually the same point in time and space which allows the aliens to move faster than light travel by moving at the speed of thought or at the speed of consciousness. In this film Dr. Greer asserts that if you meditate it allows you to access this universal field of consciousness where the aliens presumably reside. He says that by mentally projecting your location on Earth you can actually summon aliens to come and visit you. No thanks. He uses a lot of science words like quantum entanglement and enlightened unity consciousness but he's not very scientific and I feel like if there were any actual evidence for this or any actual effectiveness of this type of summoning of aliens then they would've done it on '60 Minutes' for everyone to see . . . 'Unacknowledged' was pretty good and this is a pretty solid followup if you enjoyed 'Unacknowledged' . . . it was entertaining and it's fun to think about . . . but overall I enjoyed it and I'm glad I purchased it because I will watch it several times. There's a lot of cool footage of these UFOs and overall it's just entertaining . . . Overall I give it four out of five popcorns for its entertainment factor. It was a blind buy on Vudu and I'm glad that I picked it up. So if you watch this movie let me know what you think and if you're able to channel your own aliens. I'll see you next time."

For many people living at present, activities involving Pop culture are a significant aspect to the common experience of life, perhaps even more so than usual considering the current stay-at-home measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Derek's podcast review affirms how "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind" is thought provoking for viewers whose predominant orientation is seeking entertainment. At YouTube—along with an ever increasing amount of commercials—available selections include would-be 'exorcists' seen in videotaped sessions, reminding the viewer how some individuals have metaphysical orientations about life that lack the teachings of phenomenal manifestations that are among the spiritual dispensations chronicled during recent decades. I'm reminded about something mentioned in a previous article regarding a channeled message reported by scientist Meade Layne: "If a fear is permitted to become too widespread, or too intense, then the fearful ones may, by the unconscious use of the laws of thought, create the very thing which they fear." Dr. Greer is one of the experiencers who are trying to orient people to new ways of looking at life as the old ways are the reason for many common worldly variances.