Finally got around to finishing this one after seeing it referenced in the Dick Farley thread links. Here's what he had to say about it:
_http://openmindsforum.forumotion.com/t113p765-hello-cy-omf-ii-part-2
Whatever Redfern's purpose in doing this book, and we surmise he's either exploiting or servicing what in the past I termed the "Matrix of UFO Beliefs" (which itemizes variant beliefs and belief systems centered on the so-called "UFO" issue), this particular product does a unique service in summarizing and describing many of the "Eschatological" concerns allegedly held by competing "elites" inside and outside of government.
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Redfern's book is probably the best "survey course" in the religious or spiritual aspects of UFO beliefs and belief systems, whether as these have been promulgated by admitted "government" operatives or have just bubbled up in the public's consciousness in response to sustained marketing of anomalous explanations by people inside and outside of the (U.S.) government, in some cases attendant to counterintelligence efforts.
In the book I've referenced, Redfern reports on the assertions of an "Anglican priest" named Ray Boeche about a so-called "Collins Elite," which he contends is a quasi-government collective of "high officials" who believe the claimed "extra-terrestrial" presence attendant to UFOs (as broadly defined) are "demonic" and playing out a Grand Deception, which the reputed Collins Elite believe is targeting Christianity, primarily.
Personally, whether this is yet another example of Nick's taking one of our "Matrix of UFO Beliefs" elements and putting some of The Truth "Out There," mixed with sufficient silliness or extremes to deflect serious interest, I can't and won't speculate. We do know that some of the materials Nick cites were created for purposes more in line with disinformation, especially given their timing (concurrent with HPF's Rockefeller initiative), perhaps to suggest or instill "fear" in the religious demographic cohorts which follow UFOlogy.
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Redfern himself allows for speculation whether the Collins Elite, and other portrayals of "ETs" as demonic, reflected serious concerns, firmly believed, or were yet another "design for doubt" to sow fear of disclosure of Non-Human Intelligences interacting with Earth culture, maintaining it in an intellectual and political Limbo.
What's interesting is just how close the information gets to the picture portrayed by the Cs and Laura's books. The twist only comes near the end of the book, and is mentioned in previous posts (i.e., Christianity will save us!). So here's a brief rundown of some of the interesting points in the book:
-According to the Collins elite, the idea that the 'aliens' are ETs is a red herring. They want us to believe they're aliens, not 'demonic', thereby reinforcing a materialistic worldview, in order to steer humanity away from religion.
-Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons (and perhaps L. Ron Hubbard), 'opened the door' to the modern era of flying saucers after some of their 'workings' (Crowley channeled a being called Lam who strongly resembled a Gray). Parsons was suspected of spying for Israel and had a high security clearance for his work in rocketry. He did his "Babalon" working in 1947, before the Kenneth Arnold sighting and the first major UFO flaps and waves.
-Early members concluded that UFOs/aliens were really an occult phenomenon, and therefore sought information from experts in demonology and the occult, and turned their attention towards such things as ESP and altered states of consciousness. They kept tabs on early contactees, who used methods such as Ouija boards and channeling to contact alleged aliens. (e.g., there's a 1954 CIA report on Ouija boards and their possible intelligence applications.)
-Apparently they consulted with Ruth Montgomery, and their guys were the source for her 1960 column revealing intelligence interest in ESP.
-After the Hill abduction, the Collins elite showed interest in cases involving young women who reported vehicle interference late at night (possible sings of abduction events). Coincidentally or not, reports matching these criteria were sent to the DIA from the British MOD in the 60s. Redfern's sources say this was for their research. Oddly, the Hills lived just down the road from future NICAP director Admiral Herbert Knowles and automatic-writer and contactee Francis Swan. The Collins elite concluded that the 'demons' had targeted Swan to get to Knowles and influence his opinions and thus NICAP's (who incidentally were gung ho for the ET hypothesis). Ditto for Betty and Barney Hill, who knew Knowles.
-Operation Often, which dealt with the supernatural and occult, had contact with the Collins elite, and worked together to some extent after Blue Book was closed. Remember this quote from Dolan:
By early 1969, teams within the CIA were running a number of bizarre experiments in mind control under the name Operation Often. In addition to the normal assortment of chemists, biologists, and conventional scientists, the operation employed psychics and experts in demonology.
-They showed interest in NDEs (and OBEs), especially after Paul Garratt's hellish account of soul-sucking flying saucers in the 'afterlife.' The CE believed that UFOs were somehow linked with the realm of the dead. Some believed that the 'kidnappings' (as they called abductions) were for the purpose of programming people for future tasks, including American politicians. In their opinion, the abduction phenomenon was a type of OBE, where the soul was somehow deliberately detached from the body and brought to the 'realm' of the UFOs.
-Some more conclusions: 'aliens' are behind cattle mutilations, the 'black helicopters' associated with them are screens for UFOs, and MILABS are screens for real abductions.
-One of the original guys who talked to Ray Boeche and Linda How told Howe that Bohm's "Implicate Order" was the place to look for clues as to the true nature of UFOs. Apparently, according to him, psychotronics utilizes contact with the aliens (i.e., they're allowing themselves to be used as psi weapons of some sort, but for some purpose of their own).
-Roswell happened but it was neither ET nor Mogul -- rather, the stuff that 'fell' was a staged to give the impression of an ET craft. This is an interesting conclusion. If the Cs view is correct, then UFOs are essentially 4D constructs - i.e., they're created in another realm, not on another planet per se, and then 'enter' our world. This could be mediated by some psi abilities, i.e., the craft is formed by thought. So even if not totally true, the CE's conclusion makes sense. As Redfern puts it, "it may have been cosmically and alchemically weaved in realms far away, then carefully and deliberately dropped on the desert floor". A CE document they gave Redfern reads:
STAC-5 also informs that WPAFG sources have had some success using the "PARSONS TECHNIQUE" in achieving spontaneous brief laboratory manifestations of materials very similar to two of those that "fell" at Lincoln County, NM in 1947.
STAC-5 is of opinion that if long-term manifestation and stability of materials can be achieved and precise originating point of materials can be determined then this will assist NASA-TZER mission to answer the critical questions posed in our 1991 briefing to STAC-5, "Entry Points -- And How Do We Keep Them Closed?"
Or, perhaps, the debris WAS formed in another realm, using similar methods, but it was ALSO a real craft of some sort.
Interestingly, Von Karman, a rocket scientist and acquaintance of Parsons, believed the Jewish Golem stories. Collins believed that the 'biological material' recovered at Roswell was artificially created, similar to the UFO itself. Perhaps, cybergenetic beings.
-Ample references are made to Fort, Keel, Vallee, and Bob Lazar's 'container' comment.
-There's some evidence that Jesus can stop abductions. At least, that's the interpretation of some researchers, like Joe Jordan and Guy Malone. This may be behind the CE's belief that large-scale indoctrination into the tenets of Christianity (essentially creating a theocracy in line with the C-Street ideas). However, reading one of the abductee's stories, he actually says:
You see finally I understood that it was because of FEAR in my own life that gave these evil spirits a foothold and once I realized this, I was able to do something about it.
If calling on Jesus actually worked, and wasn't just another alien deception, then it's possible that it wasn't Jesus per se, but the abductee's emotional resolve and changed attitude.
-Michael Heiser's comments are interesting:
... whatever this is, it's in it for itself. ... This is something inherently negative and sinister. ... What they are trying to do is to bring about a global, intellectual, and mental paradigm shift. That is, they are pushing the idea that we ... are related to them, that we come from them and that they are responsible for making us what we are ... This isn't just a targeting of Christianity ... they want to place themselves in the position of authority, in the position of creatorship. They want us to believe that they are the ones that deserve to be worshipped, not the true God.
-Apparently the idea was floated to stage a "Jesus returns" scenario using holograms. The result would be martial law and the fulfillment of biblical prophecies, theocracy as an antidote to aliens. (Not Project Blue Beam, but a separate idea, perhaps the seed of that story.)
-Rendelsham was perhaps a test of a psychotronic device that "manipulates the subatomic basis of matter at a quantum level" basically giving physical form to 'hallucinations'.
Whether the CE is/was real or not, the ideas are interesting. The bait and switch is in the promotion of Christianity (Jesus was Caesar!). As one ex-member told Redfern, following through on such an idea could actually fulfill their evil intentions.
The crux of the matter seems to be a bad conclusion from the data. That is, aliens are not ETs; they more resemble accounts of demons; therefore Christianity is true. The premises don't lead to the conclusion. Rather, it could be that demonology gave some accurate descriptions of a phenomenon that was insufficiently understood and placed within a false framework, i.e., Christianity. In other words: Aliens are not ETs, but they are not demons, either. Rather, aliens have at various times been described as demons, ETs, fairies, etc. However, the demon angle may be closer than the ETH or space brother idea. They really ARE evil, just not in the Christian framework. (While he doesn't write it in this book (I heard it in an interview), Redfern believes the UFO/alien phenomenon is 'interdimensional' in nature.)
