This work, alleged to be a personal report and record of a telepathic interview with a fast learning and chatty alien from Roswell reveals a return to a theme found in many of the early "contactee" dialogues.
The formula is always the same (1) A wiser, kinder, more knowledgeable alien with a yen to "share", add (2) A rambling, contradictory, and highly spiritualized or metaphysical viewpoint, include (3) science spoken of only in vague ways that blend machine with organic and a trans dimensional aspect, insert vast amounts of (4) expressed desires of the aliens to protect, guide or otherwise help their poor space kin. Shake well and dispense to only a select few - the sacred 'mysterium' of the science and technological world: the secret made available to only the "chosen." Cults, groups, and followers collected around one figure or another. Some tossed in the old spiritualism elements, any strangeness (ghosts and Bigfoot) became just another facet to an ever widening 'paranormal' umbrella.
From George Adamski to Matilda O'Donnel MacElroy there is drama and invention to make fictional authors salivate. The 1950's saw men and women taken aboard craft, touring around the planets and returned to earth with a message of peace, stop war, or save the planet. This continued, with some changes, into the 1960's. As the 1970's - feed by transcendentalism, metaphysics, drug enhanced spiritual explorations of the cosmos - everything tended to become a construct of the sub-conscious, a dip into the archetypal pool that fed a hundred mythic tales across the globe, and the crazy potential of parallel universes and other dimension portals.
Science was knocked aside in favor of these new possibilities. In many ways these new "groupies" did more to drive people away from a good scientific study of the topic than the ridicule of the 1950's did. Seeing a book exploring the "reality" that Bigfoot was an E.T. who kept company with the dead and played with the Loch Ness Monster while visiting the Reptilian congressman in Washington, a lot of people shook their heads, backed away and said, "No thanks!"
It was this Dr. Carl Sagan was talking about when he spoke about people who talked of "believing" about UFO's. "Believing" is a faith-based
proclamation. Far better for people to say I believe that the evidence presented argues for the reality of this or that.
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