Is There Intelligent Life on Other Planets?

And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see.
And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw:
and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

2 Kings 6:17 Authorized KJV

You must remember a time in your youth when you looked out into the sky on a clear night, peering deeply into the stars. You asked yourself if we are all alone. Is there intelligent life on other planets, or even angels awaiting us in heaven?

Since then, we are in a much stronger position to wager that we are not alone. Not only do we have a lifetime of continuous UFO accounts, we also have ever increasing evidence that life exists elsewhere than our planet, or even our solar system.

If you ever wonder what inspired such movies as Close Encounters, Star Wars and Stargate, you only need crack open the 50th Anniversary Edition of Chariot of the Gods.

How Erich Von Daniken Changed Our World

In 1968, a year before the first lunar landing, a young, Swiss UFO fan published a daring thesis. Erich asserted that the gods of antiquity were actually aliens who nurtured life on Planet Earth, guiding humanity into becoming conscious beings. At first, he couldn’t find a single publisher to take a chance on him. Finally, a modest German publisher did a small run, which turned out to be one of the most popular books in all history.

At the time, UFO’s could hardly be considered an industry. However, youth all over the world were extremely skeptical of the “System” and reflexively questioned authority. The space race between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. was neck on neck. Nobody was sure who would win.

Erich’s first book sold several million copies within a year or two. His series of 40 books over 50 years became one of the most popular series of all time, 65 million copies in all. This series has inspired numerous documentaries and feature films. People resonated to his thesis that aliens played a guiding role in the evolution of our species.

Chariots of the Gods Profoundly Religious

You might suppose that a shocking disclosure which suggests aliens played with our DNA early on in our evolution was written by a rabid atheist and materialist. Quite the contrary, Erich Von Daniken grew up a devout Catholic who carefully studied the ancient texts of the Bible, especially the Book of Genesis.

Erich’s contention is the One True God is a loving one, quite inconsistent with the role of Zeus throwing down thunderbolts on hopless humans. He maintains that the aliens had a war in heaven and should be identified with the angels. The True God reigns over the entire Universe, not just Planet Earth.

Erich takes the reader to many different passages found in, not only the Bible, but also the Hindu epic of the Mahabharata. He shows that the descriptions are only comprehensible when seen in the light of state-of-the-art rocket and computer technology. Numerous men have been taken up into outer space to have a mind-blowing experience that forever changed their reality.

Ancient Astronaut Theory Rigorously Scientific

Over 50 years, Erich tirelessly travelled all around the world, visiting the ruins of every major civilization and plunging into the ancient texts. He kept finding recurring images and themes, including the Great Flood that almost destroyed humanity. As did Joseph Campbell, Erich has the ability to make the ancient myths pop out in our post-modern global society.

Erich keeps posing thousands of questions to his readers. He shies away from any semblance of dogmatism. You, the reader, decide for yourself what is the truth. Erich helps you see how many obscure passages from inscriptions, myths and religious texts suddenly come to life.

This stunning thesis has continuously been refined over 50 years. Erich freely admits that he made numerous mistakes in his first book, which the critics have seized upon, perhaps out of jealousy. In his later books, Erich explores the implications in great depth, including the possible inner meaning of crop circles.

Chariots of the Gods More Relevant Than Ever

Recent developments, such as the privatization of space exploration courtesy of such tycoon entrepreneurs as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, suggest that we are most definitely back in space. We now enjoy vastly more sophisticated technology than was available in the late 1960’s.

Youth are questioning the sustainability of the human enterprise in the face of climate change and super storms. Seeking a new home for humanity is a no brainer. Von Daniken saw it coming decades ago, and the public is increasingly recognizing his visionary role.

Academic institutions are looking more and more seriously at rewriting the history books. Such universities as Stanford and Cal Berkeley now require entering freshman to study a civilization or ethnic group other than their own. It is no longer Western Civilization, but Global Civilization, the Big Story. Studying life on other planets has actually become a discipline: exobiology, or the study of extra-terrestrial life.

Von Daniken Offers Us an Alternative Future

If Von Daniken is right, and benevolent UFO’s actually did visit us in the infancy of humanity and gave us an unshakeable head start, it shouldn’t surprise us that they might choose to revisit us in our adolescence. The UFO community talks about “disclosure,” and all the great religions await their own vision of “The Coming One.”

While it sounds wildly optimistic, it just might be possible that we share a divinely ordained destiny in the stars. As Planet Earth, we are already far, far out into outer space. Our explosive growth in transportation, communications and I.T. has outstripped any notion of evolution. Their growth has been nothing short of exponential. Scientists are already working out strategies to reach and exceed the speed of light.

Perhaps the Biblical accounts of chariots of fire refer to interdimensional angels that we consider aliens. Perhaps the great spiritual masters of the past got in alignment with them, much like E.T., who could signal his Mother Ship in the knick of time.

Whatever the truth may be, let us not forget that, when we commune with our Source, we participate in the very Context that hold the galaxies together, all two trillion of them. We are truly never alone.

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