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FOREWORD The world of UFO research is awash with many amazing and often conflicting testimonies and claims about life beyond our planet, virtually all of them unproven. What Rael has written does not reconcile all these conflicts in an instant - and nothing could. Outside co. io a 1 wn 1: to4 cole 1 of the disturbing and still unexplained phenomenon of claimed abduction experiences which have been reported worldwide, other people have come forward over the past forty or fifty years to insist that they have had friendly personal contacts with extra-terrestrial visitors to our planet. The list of 'contactees' contains some fraudsters as well as others who are obviously sincere. But none of them has remotely approached Rael in the sheer scale of the information reportedly offered - and Rael is adamant that he alone has been entrusted with conveying these truths. It is just over thirteen years at the time of writing since I first read the contents of this book myself. Presented with a combined copy of the first two books by a French business executive whom I had met - . v1 io 1 c : 1o4t at a conference, I began reading them after getting into bed late one evening - and read on right through the entire night until I finished them, never once sleeping then or even during the whole of the next 1 day. I was seized almost immediately by a feeling of awe that I had, by good fortune, stumbled across the greatest possible truths - and that feeling has never left me since then. After reflecting and musing carefully on the book's enormous implications over the past thirteen years, I still firmly believe as indicated above that it has the potential to transform us and our world beyond all present expectations. At a purely practical level, if national leaders could take this book seriously and steel themselves to the thought that our world is in comparison a backward ‘developing country’ with many seemingly insoluble problems, and that unlimited aid and assistance is available from a generous, highly- advanced Superpower living beyond our planet, then working towards an historic meeting with representatives of the Elohim at the world's first extra-terrestrial embassy near to Jerusalem could be seen as a worthy and sensible international goal.