Foreword

An Offer We Can'tRefuse

Just about everyone thinks that the human race is in some sort of trouble. What kind depends on your point of view. Environmentalists focus on the damage we are doing to the planet. Bible fundamentalists believe that Armageddon is close and that famine, plague, and war will soon destroy the majority of humanity. The political right believes that the political left is taking us on a path to disaster and vice versa. Others believe that we are about to undergo a quantum evolutionary leap, a spiritual awakening that will compel us to reexamine our place in the universe and to rediscover who we really are.

The fact is, we are a fractured and divided world in which people murder each other in the name of whatever God they believe gave them—and only them—the correct rules to live by. Somehow “love thy neighbor” got misplaced. We allow children to starve and poor people to go without medical attention.

We have merely to look around us to observe what is happening: the high percentage of people in the industrial world who get cancer; the destruction of the rain forests to raise cattle for fast-food restaurants; the pollution and depletion of our oceans’ resources; and much, much more.

It is easy to point fingers, to find enemies, to waste our resources building weapons instead of working to repair the damage.

Lord knows, we need help.

And this is a book about getting help.

We’ve had an offer we can’t refuse. It’s from our neighbors. The ones who live off the planet, who see what’s happening on a global level. They’ve lived through much of the same process. And they admit that they have on occasion destroyed much oftheir civilization, too.

They don’t want it to happen to us.

They are offering help, if we’ll accept it. This book is one of the ways in which they wish to communicate with us. Oh I know that many of you will think that this form of communication is distorted and unproven at best, at worst a complete fraud. I know many will say that if they really wanted to help us, they’d land in a public place and announce that they are here.

But think about that.

What would really happen if a race of more highly evolved beings actually landed on the planet? How would it affect our religious beliefs; our economic, military, and political structures? Would they be treated as God’s messengers or shot at as alien intruders whose “real purpose” is to take over the planet? We are exceedingly primitive beings but with technology that can destroy ourselves and the planet. There are people out there right now who believe that the God they worship intends for us to do just that. There are countries out there right now that are attempting to build nuclear weapons so they can take out Tel Aviv or New York City.

If you were from off-planet and unarmed and incapable of killing anything, would you come here and show yourself? Would you beam a radio or television message that would be widely rejected as trickery and Hollywood special effects? They have already shown us that they exist, and, who knows, they may

still do this in a more dramatic way. Right now, they occasionally allow their craft to be observed, and they often interact with people in many different ways. So far, what has been the net result of those encounters? Skepticism, dismissal, denial, government cover-ups, and a general consensus that such events are “unproven,” or that those who report them suffer from mental illness. Those attempting to petition governments to disclose information and evidence encounter the same resistance. (Many think that the government itself isn’t behind the cover-up but rather groups of super-secret organizations, or shadow governments, whose purposes are to reverse-engineer the technology and control access to the information.)

But our friends in space are not going to play the good-guy/bad-guy game here. Sure, there are black-ops groups who have hidden information from the rest of us. Sure, there is technology that could be made available to the people that would change the direction of human development. Sure, there are those who want to control access to ET contact to preserve their own power base and who apparently seek to preserve the current paradigm of fossil-fuel technology. And sure, that path may eventually pollute the planet in such a way that it threatens our global civilization or maybe destroys us altogether. But even if there are power mongers and international corporations more concerned with their stockholders’ dividends than with the health of the planet—they are not the bad guys. They are only human beings, like us, acting out of their own egocentric view of the world.

The point is that we cannot play the good versus evil game; we cannot blame others for the condition we find ourselves in. It is true that we have met the enemy, and they are us. We really are one, all part of the same energy source that created the entire universe. And on this beautiful, green-and-blue planet called Earth, we are in control of our destiny; all of us have caused the situation. Therefore, we can change it.

And the ETs are here to help. They want to mentor all of us—if we desire it. There’s still the matter of free will (the universal prime directive). Could it be that it takes a critical mass of people to ask for help before the ETs are willing to show up and render it more directly?

This book will tell you what has been transpiring with the ETs: who they are, why they are here, what their purpose is, and how we all can participate in ways that benefit everyone. The book will introduce Lisette, describe her encounters as an “experiencer” (not an “abductee”), and show the difficult process by which she came to accept her role as a communicator for physical beings from another world. You are, of course, free to consider the information and accept or reject it based on what it says to you individually. You will find in the patient and kind tone and content of these communications a concern for all the peoples of the Earth that most would not have expected from these enlightened beings, who are much maligned, feared, and misunderstood by the vast majority of us on this planet.

So, here it is, the result of having been talking to extraterrestrials.

—Robert S. Friedman