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These early ecologists were generalists who were able to grasp broad concepts’ because their creativity was not being stifled and their focus narrowed through overspecialization and academic indoctrination. They like my friend Jack abhorred academic arrogance and ignorance and fought against it all their lives. It was a PHD that first let a fire get away from him on Tall Timbers Research Inc. that cost the institution several thousands of dollars. My father and his friends founded Tall Timbers. http://www.talltimbers.org/ I struck out on my own to understand who I was and what life was really about, but I never in my wildest dreams would have considered that one day my early interest in the paranormal and UFOs would merge back into ecology in old age. I never expected to find myself squarely on the leading edge of newly emerging disciples of exopolitics, exobiology, and astroecology. Somehow in a strange twist of fate I did follow in my parents footsteps after all. It makes me think that somehow our lives are generally planned out ahead of time and that consciously we are just along for the ride. I wrote about this in a article on the evolution of free will. I don’t believe we have much free will yet, because so much of who we are and what we do is shaped by unconscious evolutionary forces. Only after we understand ourselves and our reality will we have any significant free will. We have a very long ways to go. This is my answer to the age long debate over free will, that has been going on for thousands of years. We know that ecology was not the only discipline that emerged out of earlier broader disciplines. Chemistry evolved out of alchemy, astrophysics out of astrology as did ecology out of the natural sciences. New scientific disciplines were founded not by specialists but by generalists. The minds of specialists seem too limited and focused to be able to easily grasp large concepts. Only after a field has evolved to a certain point by generalists does the specialist come into his or her own. Formal training often can be an impediment to the contextual awareness of a generalist. Establishment scientists, religious scholars, sociologists, politicians, psychologists often fail to appreciate the early origins of their disciplines and those few very creative individuals that founded those fields. More often than not founders work not for a paycheck, but for the love of scientific inquiry. My father often commented that the quality of work in science decreases as the paycheck increases. Establishment scientists are blinded and even suppress evolving new disciplines. Nowhere is this more evident today that in the field of exopolitics or UFO/ET research, a field that has been suppressed and ridiculed for 60 years because it threatens older autocratic organization structure. Soon it will be widely know that life has evolved elsewhere about the universe and has come to our shores long ago and has had a wide influence on earth and our culture, even our humanity. We can expect quite a uproar after the fact, from ignorant, arrogant establishment scientists and journalists when they find out how badly they have been deceived by the perpetrators of the UFO cover-up. They will be last to know. As has happen so often in the past, those that have been persecuted and ridiculed by establishment autocrats as crack pots, will one day be considered visionaries and the fathers and mothers of new disciplines. Sure there are some real crackpots in this field like any other, but that’s not the point. The UFO/ET field is like a gold mine with lots of ore and some very 105