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Hidden Truth: Forbidden Knowledge

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With this book, I think Greer catapults himself into the front ranks of credible New Age leaders. I read his previous work "Disclosure" several years ago and wondered how a country doctor could get the attention of such high level scientists and military people, much less get them to reveal top secret information about UFOs and reverse engineering of alien technology. It turns out that Greer is a natural and highly gifted practitioner of higher states of consciouness, remote viewing and astral travel. This is combined with a sane and rational approach to practical issues and the fearlessness of a Samauri. The book's conversational writing style made me feel like I was there as it describes meetings with Laurence Rockefeller, former CIA Director James Woolsey and numerous Congressmen and military officials. Most interesting were Greer's meetings with people in the Shadow Government and their endeavors to entice him to their agenda. When they were unsuccessful, many attempts were made to silence him, including giving him, as well as a close associate and a supportive congressman, cancer, all in the same short time period. Greer reports discovering information about rogue Star Wars plans to fake an alien invasion of earth. The intent is to unite the world around "Big Brother and a global corporate-military junta". The master plan, formulated many years ago, called for the Cold War, to be followed by the War on Terrorism and finally the "War of the Worlds". Dr.Carol Rosen, former head of Fairchild Industries and spokesperson for Werner Von Braun in the last years of his life, is on record as saying she attended meetings in the 1970s where the Gulf War was being planned. Greer says a worldwide psy-ops program is now being orchestrated to instill fear of ETs through staged abductions using ARVs(Alien Reproduction Vehicles), drugs and advanced electronic mind control weapon systems; cattle mutilations and media disinformation. He writes, "I have interviewed numerous people in classified projects who have been on the abduction squads...". This book is 300+ pages of pure dynamite. If you want to know what has been going on behind the scenes and what the future holds(Greer reveals his remote viewing of possible events along our collective time-line) don't pass this book up.

It's hard to find good information about a subject that provokes so much ridicule, fear, bias, and is so widely misunderstood. I have been following Greer's work for 5 years now and this book puts everything into perspective. I have searched the internet far and wide for anyone who has good debunking information. No one will touch him. They instead focus on straw man arguments and debunk the ridiculous low-hanging-debunker-fruit of UFOlogy. That and the fact that he has hundreds of verifiable witnesses (I am personally connected to a couple through a friend at NASA) makes him bulletproof.

So before you scoff at the book, I would ask you to ask yourself a series of really honest questions about why you think this is nonsense. Ultimately you will have to resort to emotional or intellectual dishonesty in order to massage this information into your paradigm that the world is flat (meaning we are alone in the universe).

Dr. Greer relates the story about Col. Corso huffily asking the extraterrestrial "Who goes there" and "What do you want" and/or "What's in it for me?", and the answer was "A New World, If you want it!!" This fascinating happening and many others like it are yours for the reading of this fabulous expose book of why Dr. Steven Greer has been so persistant in wanting to tell this story of UFO's, their many contacts over the years, and their technology that would help our world get out of the "tough spots" we've managed to work ourselves into. Great reading. . . and so inspiring to have the confirmation we are all part of the eternal process on many dimensions . . . .

Being aware of Greer's work on the Disclosure Project I was eager to read his book. I was greatly disappointed for a number of reasons. Firstly, the book isn't so much about "Hidden Truth-Forbidden Knowledge" as it is the story of Steven Greer M.D. and what a wonderful and knowledgeable person he is. It was not surprising to read that another reviewer who know him personally describe him as megalomaniacal.

Secondly, there is no corroborative evidence offered. Not a single footnote in the entire book. Here is a man who has made disclosure the center-piece of his life who claims he can summon a UFO at will and he offers neither a single shred of evidence nor any explanation for it's absence. If you were in his position, wouldn't the very first thing you would do would be to generate so hard data? Summon a UFO after you have arranged credible witnesses at different viewing points and some high quality video and still photography. And wouldn't this documentation move your agenda along a whole lot further and faster than writing a book about yourself?

Thirdly, I ultimately found Greer simply not credible. It wasn't any particular thing or even some of his more extravagant claims that I understand are made later in the book. It was more a series of things that just seemed a bit too improbable. For example, he relates this story: He has a vision and then a dream relating to drug dealers in Columbia shooting down Air Force 1 and killing President Bush (senior). He calls the White House and tells them that he is Dr. Steven Greer, he is an emergency room doctor and that he has had a vision of an assassination attempt. On the basis of these 3 bits of information he is connected to the head of the White House Secret Service who assures him that they take this kind of information "very seriously". He takes down Greer's information including the steps necessary to protect the plane. "We'll do it" the Secret Service agent tells him regarding the protective measures. Later Greer is told by someone who simultaneously a "very high intelligence official" and a Secret Service agent that they had followed Greer's advice thereby saving the presidents life. Not impossible just highly improbable. Adding this to a series of improbable stories all offered with no supporting evidence and I decided there was no reason to finish the book.

And finally, and perhaps most importantly, there is very little if anything of importance that is new. I'm not saying that what Greer is saying is true or not true, just that among the various explanations offered for the mystery of UFO's this is all pretty much old news.

Before I wrote this review I read what others had to say in theirs and I was struck by a couple of things. There was quite a bit of what I would call rather extravagant praise for Greer personally. Here are some examples:

courageous, brave, brilliant
a saint
thank heaven and the gods for you
brilliant and surely sincere
you are the much awaited 2nd coming of Christ

And if you check out "Other Reviews" by these people you will find that many have only ever written a review for this book or perhaps one or two others. Interesting.

All of this speculation, from you skeptics and beleivers, really boils down to one question you all have to ask yourselves. Do you believe his story? And in my opinion its not an easy question to answer. When thinking about his credentials (do you even believe them?) and his experiences and the people he has talked to (all of which you should wonder if are true) you have to ask yourself, could this all be probable? Could a medical doctor from NC have kept a practice for ten years (which means he's atleast competent to some degree as a mature adult)if he was a self-deluded megalomaniac? Now you could probably come back and say that there have been people out there who were nuts and held prestigous positions in society, but he also has a family, this man seems to truly care about people and his mission. At the end of this book, no matter how many passages you would like to discredit, you really have to ask yourself, as a whole, do I think this man is competent and sane enough to be telling the whole truth? I say yes. All of it points to someone who is competent and mature.

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During his CSETI workshop I was dismayed at the real Dr. Greer, November 15, 2009
By Knowledge Seeker (California) - See all my reviews

I followed Dr. Greer's activities with enthusiasm since 2001 when he established the Disclosure Project. I read his books, watched his interviews and listened to his meditation CD's. I liked everything the man seemed to be about and shared his views on the need to inform the public about the presence of extraterrestrial visitors on Earth, the importance of establishing peaceful contact with these visitors, in developing free or low cost overunity energy technologies that would clean the planet, eliminate conflict between nations, and bring about a dignified quality of life and abundance to people all over the world. I still share these goals.

So it was with great excitement that I signed up for a CSETI presentation and a one day workshop with Dr. Greer that took place on November 13 and 14, 2009 in Costa Mesa, California to experience and learn CSETI's contact protocol and to determine whether it would be worthwhile enrolling in a week long CSETI outing with Dr. Greer.

Surprisingly, my pre-conceived opinion about Dr. Greer's character began to disintegrate as I listened to his presentation. It was disheartening to discover he is excessively fascinated with himself, prone to indulge in name dropping and in bragging about his fantastic 'high end' and/or 'in the know' contacts and connections, not to mention the multitude of outlandish remarks he makes with a straight face, such as his impact on the rogue MAJESTIC secret government. So much so, that according to him, he "rejected a TWO BILLION dollars payout to shut up and abandon the ET disclosure issue".

Needless to say, that night I left the auditorium less enthusiastic about what Dr. Greer is all about. But it was not until the workshop and the outing next day that my opinion about him really changed - unfortunately for the worst.

Again, during the workshop Dr. Greer devoted some time to self admiration while attempting to appear humble by saying, "I'm just a country doctor from North Carolina". By then, I was becoming quite uncomfortable about him but as the workshop progressed my discomfort turned into dismay as I watched how rudely he treated some attendees who asked valid questions or made harmless remarks but whose timing or subject he deemed "inappropriate". I was truly shocked and could not believe my ears and eyes as I watched him lash at them with such scornful contempt. It was so bad that I wondered if this man was consciously trying to chase these people away. Dr. Greer claims to have experienced meditative Samadhi or oneness with all. If so, one would think he would have achieved a certain degree of enlightenment and a sense of kinship toward his fellow men. Why then was he so harsh and unkind? Did he forget these people paid a significant amount of money not only to listen but to ask questions as well?

The worst and most disheartening part of this experience was witnessing the CSETI's field contact protocol. At the site, a number of devices such as a radio transmitter, magnetometer, radar detectors, infrared scope, etc. were arranged. Even though I don't doubt Dr. Greer may have had several ET experiences in the past, what I observed in the field that night is inconsistent with his hyperbolic claims suggesting he can vector ETs and make them appear. His actions and the facts demonstrated that at the very least this is a bold exaggeration. Not surprisingly, to cover up for this assertion Dr. Greer made sure to bring out a series of possibilities for a 'no show' prior to the field excursion. According to him, sometimes the ETs might not appear because, "there is someone in the group without good intent and a clean heart" or "the ETs feel threatened by US military" or "even though they won't fully materialize they will manifest in a thousand other ways".

Conveniently, there were plenty of people at hand, mostly staff, who would come forward to state that while meditating they saw this or heard that. Most amusing though were Dr. Greer's remarks at the beeps and sounds made by his electronic equipment. You see, according to him an ET he named Walter communicates via one of these electronic devices and Dr. Greer is able to recognize which beeps he makes. Additionally, the large quantity of "WOW!" and "Oh my God!" remarks coming out of Dr. Greer's mouth over unseen or imaginary nonevents was sadly hilarious. Often times he would point his mega laser beam at some spot in the sky and claim he was seeing a partly materialized ET craft. Of course, any one else saw nothing even though, according to him, many significant events were taking place that night because "we were such a great group". To make matters worse, Dr. Greer supplemented the lack of any occurrence with information he received via "remote viewing".

I found this charade insulting to my intelligence, intuitiveness and psychic sensibilities. I know ETs were not present that night and I would have respected Dr. Greer if he had been forthright and acknowledged the fact that there was no activity. I would understand; it happens.

Because I experienced first hand Dr. Greer's tendency to fabricate, exaggerate and embellish nonevents at the CSETI field trip, it then follows that the accuracy and validity of everything he claims in his books is in question since it's evident that, at the very least, he stretches the truth to the point where it becomes short of being an outright lie.

In the past, whenever I would read negative reviews about Dr. Greer, especially ones describing him as a self centered narcissist, I would reject them and conclude they were made by people who couldn't handle the truth. But based on what I saw and experienced first hand, it appears Dr. Greer is in love with himself, and because he sees himself above others, he dislikes most people. However, he desperately craves attention so he created this ET disclosure platform to attract as large an audience as possible in order to obtain the recognition and adulation he sorely needs. In essence, regardless of the message, this messenger is so flawed one must question the purity and true nature of his motivations. His books, conferences and CSETI outings may be more about the money they bring than the message itself.

Furthermore, unless you enjoy watching people being mistreated by Dr. Greer and don't mind embarking on a pathetic farce, I recommend you put your money elsewhere instead of spending it in any of his CSETI's excursions.

UPDATE 12/4/2009: In a letter sent to Dr. Greer, CIA director James Woolsey, his wife Suzanne, and two others, refute Dr. Greer's claims regarding his alleged "briefing" to them. To read this letter in its entirety please google: greer woolsey ufo watch dog.

Also, astronaut Ed Mitchell refutes claims made by Dr. Greer in Jeff Rense's website. To read Mitchell's statement please google: ed mitchell unhappy with greer.

I loathe to finish Greer's "Hidden Truth" because it's just that good. His life experiences, coorborated by many, openily; are absolutely stranger than fiction and any enlightened truth that I've ever had shared. The reality he encompasses and writes about is truely fasinating and extraordinary.

The potential he sets forth for mankid is riveting and beyond the broadest imagination....if we can take it..... while the present reality he relates in this auto-biography is "mind-blowing" in both positive and very negative ways. If you want to better your understanding of the relationship between levels of consciousness and third-diminisional reality (and technology/the rulers thereof) or if you really want some current and real info on ET's and their agenda read this book.

You might just be interested in knowing who orchestrates our society and the geo-political reality in which we live (in simple and direct terms not just broad names and labels of groups).

Please Read This Book!

Understandable quantum physics, life with higher consciousness and death with it's glory; Greer's book discusses the very personal side of life along beside the dictates we all are in the grips of.

We all have the choice!

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This book is a mixed bag. The writer apologizes at the beginning for the lack of editing - it certainly needs to be cut down by a hundred pages or so because Greer tends to waffle on and a competent editor could have put this material into categories instead of endless pages of Greer's random thoughts.
Having said that, there is some riveting material here. How Greer came to be in the UFO field in the first place, how his boyhood sightings and extraordinary experiences set him on the path to the Disclosure Project. How he took up TM and evolved his own meditation techniques; and how he spent three years at the Bahai HQ in Jaffa, Israel. Some of the most extraordinary descriptions are of encounters with huge ships which appear when he goes into meditation in remote places, often in the company of others who experience the same encounter. He tells how in England, at one of the newly created crop circles, one of the party he was with started to freak out and the ship simply backed away.
Greer is obviously a remarkable, talented and courageous individual and he makes an excellent job of convincing me that we do indeed stand on the threshold of a new era. He lists some of his contacts, including the CIA Director, officials around President Clinton and late Laurence Rockefeller. Some of this material has been taken from his earlier books and given a personal spin and they stand as a testament to Greer's amazing ability to tap into top military/defence/corporate sources over the years some of which defies a normal explanation. Greer's thesis that there is a shadow government made up of corporate entities and government and corporate personnel, excluding the US president, is only too convincing.
He lists some of the shadow technology which this rogue group is keeping under wraps, most of it to do with free energy systems, saucer technology; others to do with technology which interfaces with consciousness. He explains how no one, nowhere on the planet, can evade the probes of this technology ! He gives his own hair raising experiences on the receiving end of psychotronic devices which access the astral plane (or dream plane) which I would suspect would drive most people insane. Greer is made of strong stuff and is able to rise above these attacks due to his spiritual attainment and knowledge. He also details how the military reacts to the ET factor, usually in a hostile mode with EM weapons.
What bothers me are the "waffle" parts of the book - and there are a lot of these - where Greer seems to go into free flow, stream of thought mode and, oh dear, does this need an editor ! Into this mix, Greer drops passing bombs about secret technology which the "rogue group" allegedly possesses which can render them invisible, able to fly faster than light and teleport themselves. I started to tire at this point.
The real problem I have is Greer's insistent cry that the "downside" of contact with extraterrestials is a government/corporate operation which has unlimted resources to perpetrate hoax abductions and keep the myth of abduction/for nefarious breeding purposes going. He tells how writers who want to pursue this line of investigation are offered huge advances; how one abduction researcher was on LSD most of the time he was with Greer at the Rockefeller estate; how this same researcher conducted his interviews on LSD.
I find the parts of Greer's book which have to do with his adamant denial that negative encounters are solely due to special govt. sponsored abduction units able to maniplate time and space to be disturbing and I start to wonder about him ... "methinks, he does protest too much" comes to mind. Greer comes across as an idealist and a very remarkable individual who has psychic/spiritual awareness far beyond most. He sees himself as a leader and pioneer in this welcoming of the extraterrestial civilization to our darkening world. Already, time is short. A week long training, including a two nighter out in the wild, only costs about $800 so Greer is not in it for the money which he claims he desperately needs. He says that the scenario of the elites or illuminati setting up false and negative encounters with the phony Et's is on the cards.
I still have to make up my mind about all of this. It is yet one more twist in a phenomenon which has been around for a very long time and has twisted and turned in a lot of unlikely directions. I am sure there are quite a few to go before we can truly see clearly. Jacques Vallee where are you ? !

HIDDEN TRUTH is a compendium of conspiracy theories, New Age muddle and technobabble. As a window into Greer's thought processes it is eye-opening. As far as providing proof to back up the claim of alien presence and its cover up is concerned, it is worthless. Far from blowing the lid off the "greatest secret in history", it shows Greer as the most cracked of crackpots.

Greer's story starts off rationally enough, but it soon veers far, far off course--toward the "Godhead", for example. I was ready for a real investigation with tangible proof. What Greer dishes up is as far from investigative work as the Earth is from Alpha Centauri, maybe further.

For example, he recounts meetings with intelligence and military people. Okay, maybe it _is_ possible for a "country doctor" (as Greer characterizes himself) to contact these insiders. At any rate, I was willing to let him prove it. However, these meetings are quickly followed by others with "covert operators" and "high-ranking military". Further on, this morphs into "briefings" with a former CIA director, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Mrs. Boutros-Ghali. My BS detector suddenly was on full alert.

My BS detector nearly short-circuited when I read of Greer's grand conspiracy theories, electromagnetic weapon (EM) attacks against his person, and the deaths of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe being due to their knowing too much about alien visitations and "Shadow Government" cover-ups. Say what?!!

As if this weren't enough, Greer also regales us with his powers in remote viewing, astral projection, and a meeting with Bill Clinton via lucid dreaming (!), among other wonders.

But wait! Greer isn't done yet. He also boasts being able to summon aliens at will with his mysterious "protocol" and "vector" them in. Greer then modestly describes meetings with alien "ambassadors" and a "high council" of aliens. I fear the council wasn't the only thing that was high.

And this is just half-way through the book!

Needless to say, Greer lost all credibility with me somewhere between Marilyn Monroe being killed because of aliens and lucid dreaming with Bill Clinton. As much as I wanted to give Greer the benefit of the doubt, his "work" is nothing more than fantasy and delusion. Instead of an honest investigation, Greer serves up the grossest UFO conspiracy theories heavily seasoned with warmed-over New Age psychobabble. The book is also badly written, barely edited and quite expensive.

Unfortunately, HIDDEN TRUTH has a hidden agenda and is just another UFO conspiracy book from the lunatic fringe. The book's only merit (I'm stretching the term here) is that Greer succeeds in combining nearly all of the major UFO myths and New Age fantasies into a single volume. I suppose you could read it as fiction, but even there it fails. No legitimate storyteller would dare to pass off such a confused mess as fiction.

In the final analysis, the only thing Greer has for "disclosure" are his delusions. I'm afraid the Good Doctor is himself in need of a good doctor.

This is a great book. I am in the middle. Very thought provoking. The following Kid Review is ridiculous. They obviously didn't read the book. More likely they don't want you to read it for some reason. So don't read it unless you want to be amazed and excited about the possibilities.