Pioneers of Oneness

This book, subtitled 'the science and spirituality of UFOs and the Space Brothers', is a sequel to Priorities for a Planet in Transition reviewed in PE 132, and reinforces its message of the crucial importance of applying the principles of love and oneness to our future. Our current operating systems are unsustainable and require a new worldview drawing on astronomy, systems theory, UFOlogy, post-materialist science (including the Galileo Commission Report) and the ageless wisdom. The book is highly eclectic in drawing sources to support the overall argument, with extensive references to and quotations from HP Blavatsky, DK, George Adamski, Vera Stanley Alder, Benjamin Creme and his Master, and various UFO contactees – some of these are a stretch, but the message is coherent and constructive. The chapters cover UFO research, oneness as the source of reality, the algorithms of evolution, the relationship between consciousness and technology, and the likelihood of disclosure, along with an overt declaration from the Maitreya or world teacher so long heralded by Benjamin Creme in creating a sense of hope and expectancy – but also reinforcing the idea that some greater being will intervene on our behalf. However, we do need to be open to guidance from more advanced intelligences.

It is important to note that this oneness implies diversity within unity rather than an agenda of surveillance, manipulation and control that seems to be fast approaching. As DK wrote in a book about education dating from 1954, the two major ideas in education should be 'the value of the individual and the fact of the one humanity', implying a much greater degree of sharing and vastly less inequality within a metric of well-being rather than economic growth. Recognition of a core spiritual component in the human being is critical for a benign future of technology as we come to understand more about the relationship between consciousness and light: love must inform technology (p.172), and our experts ideally need to be aware of and aligned with the Source so as to promote harmony rather than devote research to destructive purposes and maintain an enemy image of the other as justification. In my last review, I mentioned the figure of Beinsa Douno referred to by Krishnamurti as the World Teacher when he renounced the title in 1929. The author disputes this reference (p. 205) as not being present in Krishnamurti's speech, but in Sealed by the Sun by Emily Michael, she explains that this reference was made in a second speech (p. 241). In any event, Krishnamurti makes the point that great teachers are not a reason to abdicate our own responsibility. We need a critical mass of people to feel the need for a fundamental shift and trust in the unfolding process that will almost certainly require a combination of subtle and civil activism. In this context we need to be very discerning about the kind of 'great reset' that we support in order to maintain and extend our heritage of Enlightenment freedom and dignity – this book is an unusual and visionary contribution to this process.