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xix — denial; closure; tors”; advanced technology equals that — assuming NOTE TO READERS assumptions and questions that you may have about extrater- restrial Contact and even about how this book was received. The contents of this book are like a message in a bottle sent here from beyond the world. Thus, we should not be so con- cerned about the bottle but about the message itself. To truly understand this challenging message, we must confront and question many of the prevailing assumptions and tendencies regarding the possibility and the reality of Contact. These include: — hopeful expectation; — misinterpreting the evidence to affirm our beliefs; — wanting and expecting salvation from the “visitors”; ~ believing that ET technology will save us; — feeling hopeless and submissive to what we assume is a superior force; — demanding government disclosure but not ET dis- — condemning human leaders and institutions while maintaining unquestioned acceptance of the “visi- — assuming that because they have not attacked or invaded us, they must be here for our good; advanced ethics and spirituality; — believing that this phenomenon is a mystery when in fact it is a comprehensible event; — believing that ETs in some way have claim to humanity and to this planet;