Comment to the book “Cosmic Explorers (Scientific Remote
Viewing, Extraterrestrials and a Message for Mankind) by Courtney Brown, Ph.D.
A Dutton Book, NY, 1999, 260 pages.
1) What is on a Ph.D.? We tend to
be naïve and to consider up front too seriously whatever comes out from a
person with a Ph.D.
Most of the time we forget
that we are simply dealing with another human being. The fact that he or she
has achieved a Ph.D. means a lot or almost nothing depending of his/her
personal background, religious beliefs, personal tendencies, environment in
which he or she has developed his/her skills and profession, and, bottom line
the very nature of his/her Ph.D.
For the sake of an example:
let’s say that someone has a Ph.D. in music. Will you consider him/her
seriously and respectfully, if this person gives speeches or write a book
dealing with Astrophysics? His/her
Ph.D. has no relevant relationship whatsoever with the matter dealt with, and
therefore, his/her opinions about something totally different of his/her
specialization, should be considered within that frame.
Therefore, when we are
confronted with a written work of a Ph.D. the first question we have to pose is
how relevant this degree achieved by the person is to the matter dealt with.
Also we are obliged to have
in mind that many Ph.D.s have to struggle a lot to find financial support for
their activities, be they curricular or extra-curricular.
And particularly when these
Ph.D.s face retirement, they are confronted with a whole new situation, not
easy to resolve. That is when usually –although not always—they look for to
found a kind of organization and to get adepts or followers and participants,
so they have a source of financial support that helps them in their human
survival.
Also there comes a time in
which these Ph.D.s could decide to “break-away” with an academic system that in
certain way has been oppressive to them, and then, they look for to feel free
to share there more intimate feelings and thoughts no matter how relevant,
shocking or weird they could be.
On the other hand, we can
not be so innocent with some Ph.D.s that are working or have worked with the
government in certain projects that are or have been kept secret, that are
mixed with the vast military complex and/or operations, and particularly with
intelligence activities. Once in
intelligence, always in intelligence, no matter that someone has retired or is
no longer working in certain projects or activities.
They have been swearing
under oath to keep secret many things they know, and they will be ready to
cooperate or contribute with some of these projects even when they are not
directly participating on them.
We do not know exactly what
is behind a book. To publish a book has
enormous costs. Someone has to finance those costs. And when an important
publishing company does that job, the cost is even greater.
So it is something that we
need to have in mind, with a new book coming to the stores, written by a Ph.D.,
depending of the subject dealt with.
But if the subject in any way deals with UFOs, remote viewing, the
paranormal, be aware! That book could have been written to manipulate you, your
thoughts, even your will. And that is following a plan, which is made on
purpose.
I wouldn’t repeat the “The X Files” motto “trust no one”, but at least, be careful, look into whom you are
going to trust. Do not trust anyone, any Ph.D. Try to find out how relevant
his/her title is to the subject written, try to find out what this particular
person has been doing or related to, during his/her career. That could be very
helpful.
These aforementioned, intend
to be general safeguards.
2) Courtney Brown, Ph.D. According to his biography published in his web page “Courtney Brown is a mathematician and social scientist who teaches in the Department of Political Science at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Ph.D. degree from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1982 in political science with an emphasis on mathematical modeling.”
So, we can legitimately
question: What the heck have to do political sciences with presumed
extraterrestrials? Absolutely nothing. And what with the technique of remote
viewing? nothing else too. Except that
Dr. Brown tries to convince us that RV is so scientific, that we can absolutely
trust in any information gathered using that technique that he learned and
manages. And therefore, he dedicates
himself to explore the ETs.
In science, you do not
explain a debatable issue using a not totally proved and universally accepted
tool. Even if the tool you are using
helps you to find something, you have to go take a second step, which implies
the physical corroboration of what you have found.
That was the experience of
the RV activities developed by intelligence and military circles, when they
tried to explore what the enemy was having or doing. Places seeing by RV have to be checked and corroborated
personally by agents in the spot. Otherwise the data by itself have a very
small and relative value.
The other thing is that RV
is not totally perfect, that gives hints but you cannot trust absolutely in
what a viewer say or draw on a paper. Sometimes the information is confused,
like a blurred image.
But there is an explanation
for what Dr. Brown is doing. And I've found a very important information not
precisely in his book, but in another and excellent book about Remote
Viewing: “Reading the Enemy’s Mind –
inside Star Gate, America’s psychic espionage program”, (Tom Doherty
Associates Book, New York, 2005, 592 pages) written by Paul H. Smith, a real
expert on remote viewing with a great experience on this matter. On page 532 Smith makes a reference to “Ed
Dames and Dame’s student Courtney Brown”.
Moreover, on page 536, there
is a key reference to Brown that clarifies to us how seriously we can take what
Brown writes in the book we are reviewing and also in his previous book
entitled “Cosmic Voyage”.
Paul Smith writes: “On
July 19, 1996, another personality proclaiming his remote-viewing expertise
debuted. This was Courtney Brown, an assistant professor of political science
at Emory University who was a twenty-odd year veteran of transcendental
meditation and a graduate of Ed’s nine-day TRV course three years before. Based
on those thin remote-viewing credentials, Brown had set up the ‘Farsight
Institute’, where he trained groups of people to become ‘professional remote
viewers’, using what he called ‘Scientific Remote Viewing’ or ‘SRV’”.
When Paul Smith and others
were training with Ingo Swan, on remote viewing at the Stanford Research Institute,
Ed Dame was a guy who bored the others with stories about UFOs and his ideas to
apply RV to this subject. That was in 1983.
3) The message: Courtney
Brown tries to convince us that there are extraterrestrial among us:
A) Martians, which
apparently have an underground base at Mount Santa Fe Baldy, in New Mexico, but
do not intend to mix with our affairs. What
they are doing there is not specified at all, except to say that the
facility, which has not an entrance from outside (!), is something like a
medical center.
B) The Reptilians. A
despicable race of fighters, torturers, violent, fanatical individuals who have
their own goals, and who are using the Earth and its inhabitants for
exploitation in their own and exclusive benefit, particularly from the genetic
viewpoint. They care only in their interests and nothing in ours. Essentially,
we are totally disrespected.
And C) The Greys, who
accordingly with Brown are a wonderful and special ETs, so kind, so spiritual,
so benevolent, and all the imaginary good attributes you can think of.
According to Brown, they belong to a “Galactic Federation”. Brown even dares to question why there are
people who think badly about the Greys. Well, it seems that Brown is not
shocked by the cruel and gross medical procedures used by these Greys against
abductees, if we admit, --for the sake of the argument-- that those abductions
are performed by Greys as many abductees describe).
Interestingly, Brown speaks
about God, and tries to advance the concept that “God is within” us (page 231),
--and probably he would like to say-- God is inside us. Following his way of
thinking, Brown states on page 232: “we are fragments of God” and adds: “When I
look at all those who surround me, I realize that I am looking into the face of
my own Father”.
Here we face a blatant
contradiction: either Brown thinks that
only human beings are “fragments of God”, and then we have a concept of a God
made for humans only, or the universal, omnipresent and omnipotent God, is God
of all, and then that includes the Martians, the Grays, and the hated
Reptilians, supposedly they exist.
And if so, how can Brown put
the Reptilians outside the boundaries of God? Or even though what Reptilians
are, when he looks at them he also sees “the face of my own Father”, as he puts
it?
4) An absurd
provincialism: I am tempted to say that the “remote viewing” of
Brown is very shortsighted. If what he
writes were minimally true, we would be facing a global problem, and not an
American problem.
How it is then, that the
supposed ETs only have bases in the United States as if there were no other places
as interesting or even more suitable to have bases, in the whole the planet
Earth, than this particular country?
And when Brown thinks about
what to do with this aliens among us, and specifically with the ferociously
violent Reptilians, he only thinks about the “US president and the Congress”
(page 221), or refers that “Some
petition Congress for hearings on these matters” (page 235).
5) No physical
evidence: It is very easy to
expose our own ideas on whatever matter could be, and try first to dress them
with a “scientific” garb, so that they could look more attractive.
But although Brown has all
the right to expose whatever he thinks, no matter how bizarre it could be, I
dispute that he can not aspire to convince us of anything that has not even a tiny
bit of physical evidence.
Without proper correlations
to reality, to geography, to history, to people, to events, all what Brown
writes is mere speculation and great fantasy. This is a book of fiction from a
to z, not a book of facts.
And if you like to read
fiction, certainly Courtney Brown is not the best author you can choose.
Interestingly, the Library
of Congress has catalogued this book under Parapsychology.
My suggestion: spend your money and your time reading
something better and more profitable.
Milton W. Hourcade
Virginia, October 2007.
