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June 25, 2004

Whether you call them gods, angels, ETs, aliens, or spirit entities, sufficient proof now exists to make the case that history has been influenced by beings more advanced than humans. The evidence suggests they shaped our religions, genes, technology, and cultures. In fact, the impetus for modern civilization appears due to their intervention.

Analysis of all types of reported nonhuman consciousness reveals a generic category the author calls Advanced Beings, or ABs. A review of sacred texts, myths and legends, and contemporary reports shows all such entities fit into a natural universe. It includes allegedly divine beings, heavenly hosts, guardians, ascended masters, and intelligences from other planets or other dimensions. Whether from the Pleiades or YahwehÂ’s Heaven, historical, archeological, and scientific evidence now shows weÂ’ve had their help along the way.

While scientists, religious leaders, and governments continue to ignore or deny it, our very identity as a species and its psychological health hang in the balance. How to deal with the effects of such contacts lies at the center of a covert struggle for control of human consciousness.

Startlingly, Von Ward explains why institutions do not want to address this question. And he shows how generations have been conditioned to ignore or suppress a significant part of their experience, despite the fact that thousands daily still claim contact with a God or another AB.

How did humans reach the point where leaders claim to speak for God in such conflicting ways? Paul Von Ward, also author of Our Solarian Legacy, says resolving the religious and ideological divisions that energize modern terrorism requires people, East and West, to re-examine the origins of notions like "divine revelation," "chosen people," and "a supernatural religion."


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The 21st Century Challenge: Redefining the Human Response to Advanced Beings

Whether you call them gods, angels, ETs, aliens or spirit entities, sufficient proof now exists to make the case that history has been influenced by beings more advanced than humans. The evidence suggests they shaped our religions, genes, technology, and cultures. In fact, the impetus for modern civilization appears due to their intervention.

Analysis of all types of reported nonhuman consciousness reveals a generic category the author calls Advanced Beings, or ABs. A review of sacred texts, myths and legends, and contemporary reports shows all such entities fit into a natural universe. It includes allegedly divine beings, heavenly hosts, guardians, ascended masters, and intelligences from other planets or other dimensions. Whether from the Pleiades or Yahweh's Heaven, historical, archeological, and scientific evidence now shows we've had their help along the way.

While scientists, religious leaders, and governments continue to ignore or deny it, our very identity as a species and our psychological health hang in the balance. How to deal with the effects of such contacts lies as the center of a covert struggle for control of human consiousness.

Startlingly, Von Ward explains why institutions do not want to address this question. And he shows how generations have been conditioned to ignore or suppress a significant part of their experience, despite the fact that thousands daily still claim contact with a God or another AB.

How did humans reach the point where leaders claim to speak for God in such conflicting ways? Paul Von Ward, also author of "Our Solarian Legacy," says resolving the religious and ideological divisions that energize modern terrorism requires people, East and West, to re-examine the origins of notions like "divine revelation," chosen people," and "a supernatural religion."


Product Details

  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co (June 25, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1571743790
  • ISBN-13: 978-1571743794
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Paul Von Ward, born in 1939 on a share-cropper's farm, grew up in post- WW II Florida where he graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) from Florida State University -- then earned two Masters degrees, at FSU and Harvard. Trained in psychology, ordained as a Baptist minister, he became a U.S. naval officer in the Vietnam era -- then appointed a U.S. diplomat by President Johnson. Following 18 years public service overseas and in Washington, DC, he resigned to found an international nonprofit dedicated to cross-cultural understanding and cooperation. He became a leader in the citizen-diplomacy movement leading to Gorbachev's perestoika policies in the former USSR and private American bridges to China and other nations.

Paul's most recent book is "We've Never Been Alone: A History of Extraterrestrial Intervention" (2011) is an update of his 2004 book described below. It reframes the current human story of our origins, the basis of supernatural religions, the institutions of kingship and theocratic governments, and provides plausible explanations of our genetic evolution. It explains the basis of previous and present cultural and religious wars. It exposes the reasons why science has failed to incorporate the possibility of other conscious/intelligent beings who have and continue to interact with humans.

His first book, "Dismantling the Pyramid" (of government), in 1981 added to the Washington debate on government reform. His multifaceted career and continuing education prepared him to become an interdisciplinary cosmologist and prolific, independent scholar. His 1990's book "Solarian Legacy" (updated and expanded as "Our Solarian Legacy" in 2001) combined current science in many disciplines to develop a "self-learning cosmology" to explain the universe's evolution, including humans. His book "Gods, Genes, & Consciousness" (2004) provides an alternate interpretation of ancient texts to encompass the possibility of nonhuman influences on the history of human development. His book The "The Soul Genome: Science and Reincarnation" (2008) is the first comprehensive scientific analysis of the many areas of empirical evidence that support the concept of reincarnation.

Living in the hills of north Georgia, he also writes articles and lectures in the U.S. and abroad.

 

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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gods, Genes and E. T. s, August 18, 2004
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This review is from: God, Genes, and Consciousness: Nonhuman Intervention in Human History (Paperback)
Author Paul Von Ward and 33% of the American public believe that extra-terrestrials have set foot on planet Earth, but you don't have to credit that idea to get something out of Gods, Genes, and Consciousness, which entertains as it educates. This book, an alternative history of Western Civilization, asserts that the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition is based on a mistake. Von Ward argues that "Sin" and "Satan" were originally good (for humans, anyway), while the authoritarian JHVH (Jehovah, Yahweh) was not-so-good.
An engaging writer, Von Ward relates the consequences of human contact with ABs (Advanced Beings) as if it were a rousing science fiction tale--but he feels it isn't.
The author's goal is to end religiocide (the killing of the members of one religion by the adherents of another), to return human consciousness to naturalism (as opposed to the misguided notion that gods exist in an other-worldly dimension--supernaturalism), and to harmonize human activity with the needs of other species and the Earth. This is a tall order, for which he proposes a "new mythology" debunking allegiance to individual gods such as YHVH, Christ and Allah. Von Ward espouses the "perennial philosophy," spirituality even a scientist can endorse, based on the concept that the Creative Forces which spawned the universe are manifest in each and all and everything.
No review can do justice to the breadth of Von Ward's reach. His book may become as popular as Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision or Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. It is certainly as radical.
Whether or not you wind up agreeing with his point of view, you will find it impossible to forget, impossible to entirely discount, and it will change your way of looking at God, and gods-and your own consciousness.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A World-View Shaking 'Copernicus', July 13, 2005
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"Gods, Genes & Consciousness" is the most amazing and satisfying book I've read since Walsch's "Conversations" series. I smile and shake my head in wonderment every time I sit down and read or re-read any part. Von Ward has managed a Herculean task of assimilating and organizing mountains of scholarly information from dozens of areas and half a dozen millennia, and then has gracefully expressed, with scientific reasonableness, the most 'Copernican' ideas of our time: We are indeed the children of the gods, and the gods are ETs, a rainbow range of ETs from caring to controling. There is something even Pogo-esque here: We have met the gods, and they are us. At least, we're in the same family. Truly world-view shaking, paradigm shaking, orthodoxy shaking. In that mind-stretching class that includes Velikovsky and Sitchin, Von Ward is at the head of that class.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Do you want to know how deep the rabbit hole goes?, July 29, 2004
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[and some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth...] (The Fellowship of the Ring) -- and so I was reminded as I read every word (even the Endnotes) of this latest, quite excellent book by Paul Von Ward. The author used various resources (different sciences, religious and cultural accounts, translations of ancient texts and tablets, etc.) to research, examine and assess a more truthful account of the history of humans and society than what we've been led to believe. Von Ward's ecclectic, impressive background and his ability to ask questions others either fear to ask or never think to ask, only increase the compelling nature of the content. And the content, akin to the Red Pill of the Matrix, will indeed give readers an idea of how deep the rabbit hole goes.
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In the search for understanding of Advanced Beings, metaphysical material provides a good place to start. Read the first page
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supernatural thinking, intervention hypothesis, more advanced beings, other conscious beings, universal alphabet, disclosure project, metaphysical sources, species consciousness, departed gods, multidimensional universe, supernatural religion, transition humans, impending flood, human survivors, supernatural god
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