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Report from Terra 98-7-755
This first preliminary notice is reaching you by long-range spectroscopic signal. More efficient forms of communication are difficult, probably due to the effect of excessive electro-magnetic interference at such extreme temperatures.
As we suspected Terran civilisation is primitive but is entering into class 3 advancement. They are well into the machine age but have no or little knowledge outside this. For instance it is apparent that anything beyond sonic or electronic signalled communication is not used or even recognized at all by Terrans. A few of them have speculated that other ways of communication exist but no serious studies have been made. Certainly there has been no effort to achieve any sort of Mind Integration. Why they have not done so is one of many strange things on this world, because M I is evident among their lesser life forms and the difficulties mentioned above could be overcome. Perhaps as Man is alone and, by a great measure the dominant species here, with virtually no communication with other life forms; he has never been aware of it.
It is a very sad world indeed.
Their problems are legion because of this nearly unique disadvantage. In only perceiving existence individually they are, of course, incapable of forming any sure unanimity of purpose, so solutions or policies are imposed by a very limited number of minds. It is incredible but quite certain that their history shows their world events have been shaped by very few, sometime just one mind! Time and again, collective rational parity is surrendered to the strongest individual mind that is able to impose subjugation on weaker ones. Furthermore, in the absence of any balance naturally found in Integrated Consciousness, they continually fall prey to their own incestuous, self-serving perceptions. They mirror in an almost identical way the equally disadvantaged Cassawians 98-6-13, who we have hitherto assumed unique
The population on Terra is remarkably high at 7 billion causing inevitable conflict. Statistically, in normal societies, we would expect the incidence of murder to be less than 100 minds a year, here it is half of one million ! This is very hard to accept but similar drastic statistics arise in other socially aberrant behaviour we have become aware of . Perhaps this must be expected where each mind has no natural integration with others.
As survival depends on some degree of consensual grouping, they do have a form of this although it is not clear how it arises. It may be that their groups here are a kind of self-serving trust, a sort of shadow form of MI acquiring some of it's strength but founded on divisive personal advantage. It could even be because they are able in a vague way to perceive that other minds are as real as themselves, though we can see very little evidence of this so far.
Looking at the fantasies that inevitably arise in these isolated minds; unsurprisingly a large range of these are similar to the Cassawarian God idea, the praise and obeisance paid to spirits or ghosts who they insist offer them eternal life after death. Can one imagine such desperate loneliness! Unfortunately there is no agreement in Terra on one God; or even different Gods with a common approach, and incredibly despite each invariably claiming a caring Morality; each religious group is very antagonistic to non-believers, and even to other similar religious cults. Though there appears to be a small recent movement by some minds to reject them.
As there is no normal channel of collective cosciousness to dissipate it, discord turns to disapproval, then hate, and eventually this can, and often does, create a sort of killing hysteria between not just individuals but whole nations ! Additional secular conflicts arise , as we might expect , from individual aspects of greed or jealousy to add to the mayhem.
Though there are so many avenues to conflict it is still absolutely amazing to find that inter-national conflicts,“Wars” as they call them, have been virtually continuous through-out their entire history ! Studies here will be of great interest.
The introduction of M I to Terrans, if we should deem it advisable , requires nothing more than minor aural adjustment . There are no insuperable technical problems we can see. The difficulties that would arise in this case come mainly from the religious cult followers mentioned above. They are not only resistant to even small changes in society but are fanatical in fighting any idea of improvement that threatens their Faith.
This concept, Faith,sustains them and enables them to hold their beliefs. It is something that is another exceptional oddity and absolutely bizarre. It appears to be a device, or belief that one can reverse the obvious order of things; so that rather than inferring belief from the natural order of things they infer the natural order of things from their beliefs. It is astounding what wide spread influence these groups have, and it is certain they would be the greatest opposition to any sort of collective consciousness .
It is very evident there are very great problems here. We know, without any doubt, exponential material/scientific advance can not be contained by zero or only tiny advances in intellectual wisdom, as is the case here in the absence of M I. Although it is only the third time we have found such unlinked consciousnesses, it is very significant that we have now found it in a materially advanced race of this type, The others, Cassawy and Esslooge are as yet in a comparative primitive stage of development so present no immediate dilemma in deciding our approach. Terra with it's much greater capacity for disaster commensurate with their state of advance requires extremely urgent consideration
First impressions suggest they can not survive without M I but we doubt that they will able to accept it's introduction without an apocalyptic war ?
John Watts. revised 1 12 14
2
Report from Terra 98-7-755
This first preliminary notice is reaching you by long-range spectroscopic signal. More efficient forms of communication are difficult, probably due to the effect of excessive electro-magnetic interference at such extreme temperatures.
As we suspected Terran civilisation is primitive but is entering into class 3 advancement. They are well into the machine age but have no or little knowledge outside this. For instance it is apparent that anything beyond sonic or electronic signalled communication is not used or even recognized at all by Terrans. A few of them have speculated that other ways of communication exist but no serious studies have been made. Certainly there has been no effort to achieve any sort of Mind Integration. Why they have not done so is one of many strange things on this world, because M I is evident among their lesser life forms and the difficulties mentioned above could be overcome. Perhaps as Man is alone and, by a great measure the dominant species here, with virtually no communication with other life forms; he has never been aware of it.
It is a very sad world indeed.
Their problems are legion because of this nearly unique disadvantage. In only perceiving existence individually they are, of course, incapable of forming any sure unanimity of purpose, so solutions or policies are imposed by a very limited number of minds. It is incredible but quite certain that their history shows their world events have been shaped by very few, sometime just one mind! Time and again, collective rational parity is surrendered to the strongest individual mind that is able to impose subjugation on weaker ones. Furthermore, in the absence of any balance naturally found in Integrated Consciousness, they continually fall prey to their own incestuous, self-serving perceptions. They mirror in an almost identical way the equally disadvantaged Cassawians 98-6-13, who we have hitherto assumed unique
The population on Terra is remarkably high at 7 billion causing inevitable conflict. Statistically, in normal societies, we would expect the incidence of murder to be less than 100 minds a year, here it is half of one million ! This is very hard to accept but similar drastic statistics arise in other socially aberrant behaviour we have become aware of . Perhaps this must be expected where each mind has no natural integration with others.
As survival depends on some degree of consensual grouping, they do have a form of this although it is not clear how it arises. It may be that their groups here are a kind of self-serving trust, a sort of shadow form of MI acquiring some of it's strength but founded on divisive personal advantage. It could even be because they are able in a vague way to perceive that other minds are as real as themselves, though we can see very little evidence of this so far.
Looking at the fantasies that inevitably arise in these isolated minds; unsurprisingly a large range of these are similar to the Cassawarian God idea, the praise and obeisance paid to spirits or ghosts who they insist offer them eternal life after death. Can one imagine such desperate loneliness! Unfortunately there is no agreement in Terra on one God; or even different Gods with a common approach, and incredibly despite each invariably claiming a caring Morality; each religious group is very antagonistic to non-believers, and even to other similar religious cults. Though there appears to be a small recent movement by some minds to reject them.
As there is no normal channel of collective cosciousness to dissipate it, discord turns to disapproval, then hate, and eventually this can, and often does, create a sort of killing hysteria between not just individuals but whole nations ! Additional secular conflicts arise , as we might expect , from individual aspects of greed or jealousy to add to the mayhem.
Though there are so many avenues to conflict it is still absolutely amazing to find that inter-national conflicts,“Wars” as they call them, have been virtually continuous through-out their entire history ! Studies here will be of great interest.
The introduction of M I to Terrans, if we should deem it advisable , requires nothing more than minor aural adjustment . There are no insuperable technical problems we can see. The difficulties that would arise in this case come mainly from the religious cult followers mentioned above. They are not only resistant to even small changes in society but are fanatical in fighting any idea of improvement that threatens their Faith.
This concept, Faith,sustains them and enables them to hold their beliefs. It is something that is another exceptional oddity and absolutely bizarre. It appears to be a device, or belief that one can reverse the obvious order of things; so that rather than inferring belief from the natural order of things they infer the natural order of things from their beliefs. It is astounding what wide spread influence these groups have, and it is certain they would be the greatest opposition to any sort of collective consciousness .
It is very evident there are very great problems here. We know, without any doubt, exponential material/scientific advance can not be contained by zero or only tiny advances in intellectual wisdom, as is the case here in the absence of M I. Although it is only the third time we have found such unlinked consciousnesses, it is very significant that we have now found it in a materially advanced race of this type, The others, Cassawy and Esslooge are as yet in a comparative primitive stage of development so present no immediate dilemma in deciding our approach. Terra with it's much greater capacity for disaster commensurate with their state of advance requires extremely urgent consideration
First impressions suggest they can not survive without M I but we doubt that they will able to accept it's introduction without an apocalyptic war ?
John Watts. revised 1 12 14
2
