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   Deceptions of the Ages: “Mormons” Freemasons
   and Extraterrestrials

   By Matthew D. Heines

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   Chapter 1

   Welcome to the Tree of Forbidden Knowledge

“And I, the Lord God, commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee; but, remember that I forbid it, for in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.” (Moses 3:16-17)

   This book is for that very small percentage of the human population that possesses an inquisitive nature and is willing and able to keep an open mind until all of the arguments are presented. It’s kind of a tree of knowledge of the most forbidden kind. Why forbidden? Most of us have been programmed all of our lives as to how to think, speak and react to any information that has been either approved or condemned by those who control our lives and our thoughts. If you are willing to keep an open mind until the conclusion of this book, I feel that you will be rewarded with a new outlook on life that will bring you much closer to an understanding of who and what you really are and the value you possess as a human being and a member of a large and diversified group of intelligent beings that populate our universe.
   If you are reading this book in order to make money refuting it, or for the purposes of ridiculing the author or the people mentioned in this book, then you will have to be careful for there are quite a few vultures in the holding pattern already. On the positive side, because of my weaknesses as a writer and a researcher, you will have lots of ammunition. Also, there will be many who will listen to what you have to say which will save them from reading this information and actually thinking about it themselves. You will, no doubt, be able to collect your twenty pieces of silver many times over.

The Best of Times

   We are living in a fantastic period of history where everything that we once imagined is now becoming possible. In the age in which we live, there are, and have been dozens of earth-shattering discoveries over the course of the last decade. Every day, as we come to understand more and more about not only the world in which we live, but the universe as well, we are making discoveries and technologies that seemed like science fiction just twenty or thirty years before. Before the last decade, there were dozens of earth-shattering discoveries and the decade before that and so on and so on. If we go back a few centuries, we will find an earth-shattering discovery in almost every decade since the year 1453. So, the obvious question is what happened? Even more important, why did it happen now, and not before? Even more important than that, what mistakes have we made that got us to this place, and what can we do to keep us from making even bigger mistakes in the future? Before we attempt to answer these very broad questions, we must come to an understanding of our world and of ourselves.
   In this book, I will try to give you a quick glimpse into the history of our science, economic, and belief systems. The reason for this is simple. One of the mistakes that mankind continues to make is in the assumption that these areas are somehow completely disconnected, when, in fact it is that fallacy that has led to more misunderstandings and misery than almost anything else, except for disease and starvation. We have reached the age when, as we shall see, we understand that we are not alone in the universe. Even the corporation/government/media has come to understand that they either allow the truth to be told or risk becoming a relic of the past, as the people of the world cast them aside and unite as what we are; all members of the homo sapien species with no need of a “World Order” in which the same old people with the same outdated ideas consolidate their power under the banner of “security.”
   And so, this book is my feeble attempt to make the average citizen of any country in the world aware of the processes that have led us to where we are today. As someone once said, “Those who don’t understand History are doomed to repeat it.” For that reason, I am not writing this book for the scientists, or the historians, the doctors or the lawyers or the professional “spin doctors” in the media. I am writing this book for the truck drivers, the secretaries, the high school drop outs, the janitors, the mechanics, the day care workers, the landscapers, the farmers and all the people who didn’t get a chance, for whatever reason, to get a college education. I am writing it because they are the ones who always have to pay the heaviest price and they never fully understand why.
   The sad fact is, to the people you vote for, and the corporations you end up giving most of your money to, you are an idiot. You are the “Joe six-packs” or the “Soccer moms” without the mental capacity to understand the schemes that are being thrown at you by the corporations, government and lawyers. Why, you don’t even speak the same language as them, so when they use all those “high fallutin” words, you barely understand what they are talking about and just assume they are doing what is good for you. What they are doing most of the time, is taking you out of the debate and spending your money behind closed doors in return for some of that money coming back into their bank accounts.
   I am what most would call an anomaly, or something that shouldn’t be where it is, when it is. I come from a working class background, well, actually, “working class” to us was filthy rich. But I realized early on that in my country, if a person worked hard, they could get what they wanted, and I wanted to be a teacher. I served in the Army in order to qualify for veteran’s assistance. Unfortunately for me, after obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in History and a Master’s degree in Education, when I tried to be a teacher in our public education system, I found out they didn’t want teachers, instead they wanted coaches and people who fit a certain demographic.
   When my daughter was born, the woman I had been married to for all of one month after she told me she was pregnant suddenly wanted a divorce. She told me she knew “how to use the courts,” against me and I would never see my daughter. I laughed at her. This is the United States, isn’t it, with justice, equality, etc? When I saw an Oregon judge actually laugh when I asked her why we hadn’t been sworn in, and then tell me that I had to, “hurry it along,” because she had a, “luncheon to attend,” I found out the United States courts, especially those in the State of Oregon, don’t care about the truth, they only care about lies. I found out, as most men who have been through a divorce have discovered, that men have no rights in the eyes of so-called “family courts.” In spite of repeated pleas to the FBI, the Justice Department, two US attorney generals, the Governor’s office and countless others, they will not help me to find my daughter and they don’t enforce the law. The only people in this country who do have rights are, as an attorney once told me, are the rich who can afford them or the people that the government stipulates have rights, and that doesn’t include white males. In other words, our so called “justice” system is based upon injustice. So, if our justice system is based on lies, what else is?
   I chose the topics for this book because of their relevance and the fact that they are the best examples of what I believe the number one problem in our world is; the lack of credible information. The “flip side” of that equation is manipulation of the public through disinformation. Those who manipulate our information know full well that we can’t solve a problem unless we really understand what it is. In this book, I hope you will understand how you have been manipulated, and by whom, so that we can come together and put an end to it once and for all.
   In this book, I am not saying anything new, or earth-shattering. All this information is out there for you to see, study and understand for yourself. I am only putting information together in as concise of a format as possible, so that it is presented in a manner that is easy to read, and to understand. Each chapter in this book can fill volumes of books for those that want to do further research into these topics. All I am attempting to do is to skim the surface of topics that best highlight how we are manipulated by disinformation, distorted facts and our own inability to look for the truth ourselves. We all know something is wrong with the direction we are headed, unless we are rich, of course. Unfortunately, we didn’t know exactly what it is, until now.

The extraterrestrial truth

   In 1985, I believe it was in the month of April, I was serving as a paratrooper in Charlie Company, of the 1/508th Airborne Infantry Battalion, a unit of the 82nd Airborne Division. We had been assigned six months of peace-keeping duty in the Sinai Desert as part of a UN Multi-National Force and Observers (MFO) contingent. Our base, called “South Camp,” was situated about a mile from the modern day resort town of Sharm el Sheikh, at Naama Bay, Egypt. Myself, and five or six other members of my company had been selected for our battalion decathlon team. We trained for a week for a competition with the other members of the MFO contingent, who were located in an area in the Northern Sinai.
   When we arrived in “North Camp,” we were assigned our rooms and, as part of our briefing, information was relayed to our squad leader that the previous night, a UFO had hovered right outside the camp perimeter fence and had sat there for about twenty minutes. The Colombian contingent had been manning the guard tower and had been given instructions not to fire upon the craft. The entire camp was alerted and weapons were being issued at arms rooms, when, suddenly, the craft began to move slowly away. When we arrived, it was the only thing that people were talking about. In the Sinai MFO publication, The Sandpaper, which came out during our stay there, an article was printed in which all of the above information was repeated, and in the closing paragraphs, it simply stated that the Sinai desert had a long history of UFO sightings.
   At this point, let me say, that I have never seen anything that can be described as a UFO. As an avid camper, I, of course see lights in the sky that I could not explain due to their incredible speed, or height, or both, but I personally have never seen anything that I would ever describe as an extraterrestrial craft. Now, why is it so important that I say that? Because, for whatever reasons, the subject of extra-terrestrials has become, not a subject of scientific study, at least on the popular level. Instead, it has become a belief system. The question is hardly ever asked, “Do you think there are UFO’s?” The question is always asked, “Do you believe in UFOs?” It is a simple game of semantics, people believe in God, Santa Claus, Manifest Destiny, lower taxes, and the Easter Bunny, because if we phrase the question like that, then we automatically categorize the noun, or UFOs or extraterrestrials as intangible objects that cannot necessarily be seen or proven, much like lower taxes. It is a subtle mind trick, but how many times have we heard the phrase, “He believes in UFOs,” to describe someone in a derogatory fashion? How many times have you heard someone say, “He thinks that there are UFO’s,” especially in the popular media? If you think that, as opposed to believe in, then there is the implication that there has been some kind of reasoning involved and then there might be follow-up questions, either intended, or accidental, such as, “why?” or “Why do you think that there are extraterrestrials?” Maybe we don’t want to hear the answer, so we don’t ask any questions that involve the word “think” because it can just get too messy. Someone who “believes in” something is much easier to discredit than someone who, “thinks that.”

The "Balloon Boy,” “UFO nuts” and Science

   For example, as recently as 2009, when the news channels around the world were covering the Richard Heele so-called “Balloon Boy” scandal in Colorado in the United States, the UFO shaped balloon that his son was supposed to be riding in, was on millions of television screens when I heard a Fox News commentator ask about the father, “Is he one of these people who believes in UFOs?”

   Not to take anything away from the cerebral and well-thought out commentary of the Fox News people, but the insinuation was clear; they were looking for anything they could use to assassinate the character of UFO balloon builder, and “Balloon Boy” father, Richard Heele. The fact that his son was supposedly aboard a UFO shaped craft was something that even the people on Fox News could figure out by themselves. If Richard Heele was a “UFO nut,” then he was obviously, in the eyes of the corporate/government/media, someone who was mentally unstable and someone whom the corporate/government/media didn’t have to spend a lot of time investigating in order to gather enough information to destroy the credibility and the life of a man who dared to venture into the realm of science on his own. We will talk about the influence of the corporate/government/media later on in the book, but for now, it is important to be aware that the corporate/government/media has its own system of language that is used to control the way we all think. Like magic, once you learn the trick, it seems easy, but if you don’t know the trick, you don’t how you are being fooled.
   Richard Heele is also a fine example for another aspect of our study, the field of science. Richard Heele had an interest in science, anti-gravity, electromagnetism and the study of the weather. In an interview, his neighbor said he was a nice guy. He was just “different.” He was “different” because he was interested in science? Was he like Dr. Emmet Brown in the Steven Spielberg, Back to the Future movies? Unfortunately, for the common man, or woman, there has been such a disconnect when it comes to dissemination of our wonderful advances in science, that the only connection most of us have to advances in technology and biology happen when we buy something or we have to visit the doctor. People who we actually call “scientists” have become “different” than the rest of us.
   In the next few decades, in a world where we have calculated that our knowledge doubles exponentially every five years, there will undoubtedly be discoveries in science, history, archeology and psychology that will most likely change, in some degree our biological and spiritual evolutionary paths. In other words, who we are now and what we will be for the next two hundred thousand years could significantly change over the course of the next few years, and there is a very real chance that most of us won’t even know it when it happens. Why is that? What is so intrinsically wrong with us as a species that we cannot be honest with one another anymore? Why can’t we all have access to science, at least in a simple, uncomplicated way?
   I wrote this book for a number of reasons. I am not a scientist, but I love science. I am not a historian but I love history. I am not a philosopher, but I love philosophy. I am not religious, but I love religion. I am here to tell you that it is okay to be interested in something that makes you more aware of the world and the universe than you were before. In fact, as I have discovered, and you will soon discover, the universe is, as someone once said, “not only stranger than we can imagine, it is stranger than we can possibly imagine.” In the modern age, the fields, of religion, science, philosophy and history are, as tango dancers who, having parted in the apogee of their dance for the last four hundred years, are coming back together to form a single body out of two very distinct, graceful figures.
   In this book, I would like to give you an understanding of where we have been and why the world is the way it is, so that you may at least have a chance to help to determine the way the world of the future will be. But you cannot know, as Dr. James Burke once said, where you are going until you understand where you have been.
   Before we begin to look into our past, let us look at a topic that later we will be discussing in much more depth as we continue through our investigation of some of the key mysteries of our time. Let us conduct what Albert Einstein would call a, “thought experiment.” This will serve two purposes. First, it will familiarize you with the topic we will discuss in the last sections of this book. Second, it will give us an introduction into what this book is really about, and that is the subject of information and how it is altered, withheld, spun, distorted and exaggerated until what we would classify as the truth is nowhere near what actually happened. Are you ready? Good, on with our though experiment!

An imaginary encounter

   Imagine one summer day that you and your kids are having a barbecue in the backyard of your lovely suburban home. Your backyard is of medium size and on either side of you is a family of similar size and make-up. They are also enjoying what has turned out to be a wonderful summer day. The sun is shining and a cool breeze is blowing, keeping the temperature just like your delicious burgers, not too hot and not too cold. Your children, ages nine and eleven, are playing lawn darts with the children from the house next door. Your spouse is setting the table and your stomach is growling from hunger and the delicious smell of hamburgers on the barbecue.
   Suddenly, you realize that you are not standing in the warmth of the sun any longer. Instead, a shadow has made its way across the yard and stopped. You, with your spatula in hand, continue to flip the burgers, but, as you do, you begin to recall that just a few moments ago, there was not a cloud in the blue sky. You get the feeling that something is not exactly right, but you continue with your burger flipping as the thought of a summer rain shower fills your mind. Suddenly, your daughter asks, “What’s that?”
   Instinctively, you look up towards the sky without looking at your daughter. You expect to see a cloud, but instead there is a strange object hovering over your house. It appears to be round and silver like a giant hub cap. The other thing you notice is that the object is huge. It’s big enough to cover your entire block. Instantly, your brain begins to process information as it matches the known images you have stored with what appears to be hovering over your house. There doesn’t appear to be any stored information in your brain that matches your past experiences with that object. In milliseconds, your brain then sifts through your brain’s database and as it does, you hear your neighbor Frank say, “What the hell is that?” But no one seems to answer.
   “I dunno,” you say, without thinking. Your brain has sifted and combed until it arrived at a possible explanation, “It looks like one of them flying saucers,” you hear someone say. Faced with the unfamiliar, your heart begins to race, and you feel the hair stand up on the back of your neck. As the strange object continues to hover, your curiosity changes to fear of the unknown and you say to your children, “Alright, everybody get inside.”
   But you don’t take your eyes off of the object as it hovers quietly above your house. “Frank, you’re seeing this, right?” you ask. On the other side of your house, you hear commotion as the Martinez family spills out into the yard. “It’s a UFO!!” You hear one of their children say.
A UFO… A UFO…
   “Yeah, I see it,” Frank says, he yells at his children in your yard to get inside the house. Still, the object hovers, motionless. You guess it is a hundred feet above your house, and nobody appears to be moving. At the Martinez house, you hear Mrs. Martinez say, “Go get the camera.”
   Her apparently calm voice and the mention of such a common item as a camera reassures you that there is nothing to fear. And still, you stand motionless, unable to move. Then, the round, silver object appears to be getting smaller as it climbs slowly higher and you realize it’s going away. You feel yourself consciously breathing again, and for the first time, you look down and across the yard at your children. You hear someone at the Martinez house say, “Here mom,” and then she says something but you don’t hear what it is she is saying because your children have just begun to release themselves from their hypnotic state.
   “What was it?” Was it a space ship?” they ask, but you don’t hear them.
And then, the silvery object speeds off faster than anything you have ever seen. You become more aware of your surroundings as the smell of burning meat fills your nostrils and you become aware of what you consider to be your normal life. You look at the hamburgers on the grill and try to flip them over in order to prevent irreparable damage. Your spouse, unaware of the strange visitors, returns outside and asks, “What’s going on out here?”
   You hear your children voices again, “What was that?” And at the same time, next door, you hear Frank say, “You shoulda seen it honey, it was huge!” In the Martinez yard, you hear someone say, “I saw people on it, little people.”
   You didn’t see any people.
   “Did you get a picture?” you say, looking over at Mrs. Martinez, a small, heavyset woman. “I think so,” she says, “but it probably isn’t very good, it was flying away by the time I got it in focus.”
   Your children’s voices become more distinct as they continue to ask you, “What was it?”
You hear your son reply, “It was a flying saucer. I read about them in school,” he says. “It was a flying saucer, right?”
   You look at your neighbor, Mrs. Martinez. Her husband is a policeman and works on the weekends. She and her children are looking at the images on the small digital camera. You look over the other way at your neighbor Frank, who seems to be staring at the sky, as if the strange craft may return. Suddenly you hear your son’s voice, “…right? It was a UFO, wasn’t it?”
   Your daughter keeps repeating, “I’m scared,” but only now are you aware of it.
“It was a UFO right!?” Your son says again.
   You don’t know what to say. You need confirmation from someone before you say anything. Finally, you answer, “I’m not sure, take your sister inside.”
   Your son looks at you for a second, and then grabs his sister by the hand. You throw what’s left of your burnt hamburgers on the side of the grill and stroll across the yard to where Frank and his children are now standing motionless, looking at the sky.
   “Frank, can I talk to you?” you say while looking at the children.
   He stops looking at the sky and focuses his gaze upon you, “Oh, sure. You kids go in the house,” he says.
   The children stop looking at the sky, say nothing and begin walking to their house.
   “Whaddya think?” you ask.
   “I don’t know,” he replies. “Looks like a flying saucer.”
   Frank works as a sales representative for a local beer distributor. His wife died a few years ago and he is single, raising two children.
   “I know,” you agree. “What I mean is, what are we going to say?”
Frank looks back up at the sky, and then at you. “Oh, I see, well, I ain’t saying nothing. I didn’t see anything. I can’t afford to lose my job, I need the insurance and I’m ten years from retirement.”
   “Okay,” you agree. You remember seeing stories of how people who come forward with stories about UFOs and abductions are ridiculed and humiliated, not to mention unemployed. “I sure don’t want to be the “UFO nut” at the office. I would never hear the end of it.”
   Suddenly, you become aware of some commotion coming from the Martinez’ yard.
   “I got it,” she yells in your direction as if it is some kind of great news. She begins the journey across your yard with her children in tow.
   “Great,” you hear Frank mutter under his breath, “just what we need.”
   She walks up to where you are standing with Frank and holds up the camera. In the display window, you can see what looks like the silvery object, but it is a little blurred. “You see,” she says, “I got it just before it started going really fast. The other pictures are too blurry to make out.
   “What are you planning to do with it?” Frank asks.
   “Put it on my computer, let my kids take it to school,” she replies. “I’ll send it to your email,” she says.
   You, being the more diplomatic of the two, ask her, “Do you think that is a good idea, I mean to send your kids to school with that picture?”
   “Sure, why not, their friends will think it’s cool. Maybe they can do a report on it in their science class.”
   There is silence for a few moments as both you and Frank look at her, thinking.
   Finally Frank speaks, “Well, you can do what you want, but don’t get us involved, and don’t ask us to support your story.” The way Frank says ‘story’ with an edge on the word makes it obvious he is getting upset.
   Suddenly, her expression changes as she looks at Frank and then back at you.
   “Why not? Mrs. Martinez asks, “It’s the truth. Are you going to lie and say you didn’t see it?”
   “That’s exactly what we are going to do,” Frank says, “If you insist on making a fool of yourself in public, don’t get us involved.”
   Mrs. Martinez, suddenly becomes angry. “A fool? For telling the truth? I would rather be an honest fool, than a liar. What are you going to say to your children?”
   “I guess I’ll tell them that’s how the world works,” Frank says.
   You try to reason with her, to make her understand the reality of UFO’s and what happens to people who ‘see’ them. “Maybe you should talk this over with your husband when he gets home. He might be able to explain this a little bit better.”
   “I will have a talk with my husband,” she says as her hand with the camera drops to her side. “And, we will do what is right. This is important. That was a real spaceship with little people on it and we need to help people to understand that. I am not going to lie to my children or anyone.”
   As she walks out of hearing distance, you hear Frank mutter, “Those crazy Mormons…”
   There was a heated discussion that night in the Martinez household that you could hear as you sat in your yard, wondering if possibly, that strange craft might return. For a few days nobody said anything again about the ‘flying saucer.’ As the days went by however, the story, or the picture of the UFO, made its way first, to the local junior high school internet server, and ended up on the first page of the local newspaper, under the caption, Mormon woman “photographs” flying saucer.
   The story in the paper explains how the wife of a local “Mormon” patrolman claims to have photographed the saucer from her back yard. Her neighbors, who denied seeing the flying saucer, or having any knowledge of it, suggested that her children liked to play Frisbee with an old hubcap and that was probably what she saw and photographed. Neighbors declined to comment when asked if the woman had a history of irrational behavior. Local Air Force officials confirmed the hubcap theory as the most plausible. Her husband, Sergeant Martinez, the story continued, is now known on the police force as “Martian-ez” and according to department officials, is slated to receive the first “Galactic Officer of the Year Award” next spring.” It is also noted that Sergeant Martinez did not see the UFO and agrees that the picture is most likely what the neighbors and Air Force said it was.
   Of course this account, or “thought experiment” has no basis in reality per se, but the elements in the story probably have a familiar ring to the reader. It is a well known fact that people who claim to have seen or have been abducted by extraterrestrial craft are often ridiculed, are denounced as liars, frauds and depicted as emotionally unstable. They have their professional licenses revoked. They are dubbed “UFO nuts” by the community and are generally ostracized for their ‘outlandish’ claims. Of course, the media will automatically look for any obvious clues, such as divorce, financial instability, drinking habits and, as in our case, association with groups that the media has previously manipulated the public into thinking about in derogatory fashion, such as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints whom they have dubbed, “Mormons” in a derogatory manner since the beginnings of the Church in the early 1800’s.
   Of course, that is not to say that there aren’t some individuals with questionable reliability and credentials that do make outlandish claims of encounters with extraterrestrials. I can remember a certain individual, a gentleman well along in years, who, almost every month, stood up in Fast and Testimony meeting and told the members of the church that, while he was walking his dog near the school grounds, a space ship landed and the spacemen got out and started telling him certain things. I do not recall what it was that he claimed that he told them because my friends and I were trying desperately not to start laughing in the middle of the church service, so we spent the time inflicting pain on ourselves and trying to avoid the giggling faces of our compatriots. Whether this individual actually had encounters with extraterrestrial beings on our school grounds, is not something that I would spend a lot of time dwelling about. However, when airline and military pilots, ground controllers, policemen and people in our aerospace engineering industries come forward with claims of encounters with extraterrestrial craft, I am not so programmed that I will dismiss them out of hand.

“Brainwashing” and the media

   Programmed you say? As in brainwashed? This is the United States and not the Soviet Union. The corporation/government doesn’t use the media to brainwash people, or does it? If you think the government does not brainwash people in the sense that it gives its citizens common visual images in which to associate with ideas, concepts or people it likes or doesn’t like, let us try another thought experiment. For example, when I say John F. Kennedy, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Do you see a black and white image of President Kennedy standing in front of a podium? Do you hear, “Ich bin ein Berliner?” or do you hear, “Ask not what your country can do for you…?” What about Richard Nixon? Do you see a portly, balding gentleman with a dark suit waving two “peace” signs from the door of the president’s helicopter? How about Ronald Reagan? “Well…”Albert Einstein? Frizzies. Mahatma Gandhi? Good tan, old sheet, bad spectacles. Saddam Hussein? Burt Reynolds moustache and hand held out in the “Queen” style wave. D-Day? You see dead Americans lying on a black and white beach. What about Russia? Missiles in Red Square. Joe Stalin? Beady eyes, bushy moustache, bad cap. Italy? The Coliseum. Germany? Adolf Hitler and on it goes...So, what if I say extraterrestrials? You think of a little gray or green man with big eyes. If I say UFO, you say…Nut? (Come on, admit it!) What if I say Mormons? You think “Joe Smith,” six wives, a golden bible and funny underwear.
   What if I were to say, Freemasons? What do you think of? You think of nothing? You don’t think of anything when I say “Freemasons?” Why would you know more about a group as obtuse as the “Mormons” than the very men whose ideas founded this country? It’s not the “why” in this case that is important. What is important is that you recognize this “programming” you have had all of your life. In this book, we are going to talk about topics that you have already been programmed over and over again to visualize, and we are going to re-examine them in an objective fashion. Why? Because all of your life, you have heard that Mormons, Freemasons and extraterrestrials are things that people, possibly even you, “believe in.” Now we are going to throw out the “believe in” tag and we are going to look at them as something that people think are true and have merit, so much so that they have staked their careers, their financial well-being and in some cases, their lives on the fact that these ideas, or the reality that they represent are not something to be “believed in,” but that they are as real as the light that comes from the sun.
   As I said in the beginning of this book, the world is changing so fast, that it is very hard to keep up. Because of our advances in technology, even the corporation/government knows that in order to maintain at least some of its credibility, it must begin to come to terms with and release this information because their credibility has eroded to almost zero because of their insistence on feeding misinformation to the public on a day-to day basis.

Knowledge and the Information Age

   Therefore, knowledge, the way we know and disseminate it in our day and age when we want everything quickly and painlessly, is by its own nature, at a disadvantage. Let’s take the idea of DNA, for example. DNA is a chemical blueprint for every cell in every living thing on earth. How it works is not easy to explain, and not the subject of this book, so I will forego the Biology 101 lecture and get to the point. You cannot reduce how DNA works into a cliché, or a catch phrase. Therefore, it is not likely that any more than twenty per-cent of the people whom you pass on the street will be able to adequately explain what it is and what it does. If we want people to know what it is and what it does, we have to sit them in a classroom or lecture hall, probably charge them fees, and expect them to sit through a rather dull, lifeless presentation. Nobody is going to watch a sit-com about DNA. Let’s face it, amino acids are just not that funny, therefore there is no need for people to want to learn about it, unless it has some financial reward behind it, or people can be made to think that it is some kind of threat.
   But, that is just one concept. What about the breakthroughs we have made in quantum physics and mechanics? Can we explain those in a cliché or a catch-phrase? What about the Unified Field Theory? What happened when the glaciers receded eleven thousand years ago? What science explains those things? How do they come to their conclusions? Unless we come to a fundamental change in ourselves, our systems of education and why it is important that people are constantly involved in the process of learning new things, then our brains, with the limited capacity they possess, will never be able to keep up with the ever-changing field of knowledge that is around us.
   The technology that we have developed can be used as the tools to increase the knowledge level of each human being. Through the internet, the use of CGI, and our teachers, our government and our corporations can, instead of encouraging us to waste our lives playing video games, and watching mindless chatter on TV, take us on a journey through the cell, the universe, a blood vessel, a hydrogen powered vehicle or economic theory. Think of it this way; we have made the advances we have made in science and technology because of less than one percent of our population. What kind of amazing innovations and technology would be available to us if that number were to increase to five or ten or twenty percent? We need to change our fundamental attitudes towards learning and science, but before we do, we must understand a few things about the relationship between science, and what, for thousands of years, mankind has mistaken for science, or what we call religion. We must understand that it is the very opposition of these two schools of thought that has created the world in which we live today. If we cannot learn to reconciliate these two areas of human thought, it will not be possible for us to progress as a species very much farther than we already have, and we will succumb to the many problems that science and religion have created for us, and if that happens, there will be very few of us left to understand or to explain to future generations what exactly went wrong.

Science vs. Religion

   When it comes to science and technology, religion and philosophy we see the same limitations as we do with the rest of our knowledge. The problem stems from the ancient idea that science and knowledge need to be, for lack of a better term, compartmentalized. The most obvious compartmentalization is that a scientist cannot profess a belief in religion and vice versa. For reasons that we will soon see, any archeologist who finds evidence of a biblical account being accurate, soon becomes a “pseudo-archeologist” and their funding is revoked until someone with a more “rational” mindset comes along. In the scientific world, any mention of or allusion to religion in research is forbidden. Similarly, in the religious world, any mention of Evolution, or the possibility of the Bible not being accurate to the last crossed ‘t’ will, in most religions, meet with a rather hostile reaction from those who use the Bible to make a living.
   But the compartmentalization of science goes beyond its age-old struggle with religion. Even among scientists themselves, the limitations of specialization in one field may severely limit our understanding of our own world. For example, an archeologist studying why the movements of northern tribes to southern regions, might suggest that overpopulation was a key factor, when a climatologist could have told them it was due to what we know as a “mini” ice age. The climatologist might not ask an astronomer if there were sun spots occurring at that time, although it was the sun spots that ultimately caused the mini ice-age, which in turn caused the migration. A historian might not understand the biological and hereditary effects of slavery on African nations. An economist might not take into account a border skirmish that affected a country’s trade and arable farmland during a period of years in which the country seemed to have descended into ruin.
Lastly, there is the need or desire to protect information for monetary, social or political reasons (“Mormons,” Freemasons, extraterrestrials) that might keep the knowledge of some great discovery in the closet for years after its, well, discovery. I could go on, but I think you get the point. In other words, there are ways to either prove or disprove theories these days, simply by calling on other fields of science, but sometimes, for whatever reason science doesn’t make itself available to do so, and in some cases, as in the cases of “Mormons,” Freemasons and extra-terrestrials, absolutely refuses to do so, which would be like a witch-doctor telling his patients the new neurosurgeon in town doesn’t exist.
   In our culture where everything is “dumbed down,” because of a fear of a loss of Neilson ratings, it is going to be very difficult for the majority of people to have any say whatsoever about the changes in the future for their lives and the lives of their descendents when they are neither aware, nor do they understand the issues that are facing us. Therefore, we are at a crossroads, we can either educate ourselves or we can allow everything to be decided by technocrats and the rich. There is no middle road, and most leaders already feel that letting common people make their own decisions is inherently dangerous in our technologically advanced world.
   No matter what your level of understanding, I think the issues in this book are of tantamount importance for the future of mankind. I think the issue of extraterrestrials is as important as looking at the claims made by both the Freemasons and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If you scoff, I applaud you, as I want this book to look at these issues objectively and, with some degree of skepticism without the programmed bias we have already been programmed to have.

Those Crazy “Mormons”

   To begin with, the LDS Church has, since its very early days, made some rather remarkable claims regarding everything from having knowledge and the writings of ancient civilizations, to visitations from other-worldly visitors. Among those claims, are no less than the visit of God and Jesus Christ who, the LDS Church claims appeared to Joseph Smith in the year 1820. In other words, if what Joseph Smith has said is true, the one event that the entire Christian world has been waiting for has already happened. Why hasn’t the world been informed of this? Even better, why doesn’t science take an objective view of these claims and refute them once and for all for the benefit of the thirteen million members of the fastest growing Church in Christianity and anyone who may be misled in the future?
   We know that there are plenty of people who have taken up the cross of attempting to discredit Joseph Smith, the Church and sometimes even its members. As we will soon see, no one has come forth and proved that Joseph Smith, a poor, uneducated laborer from upstate New York was the fraud that many claim. Nor, have they proven that the claims of the Church in regard to its doctrine or history are false. On the contrary, many of the advances we have made in science recently, serve to support the claims of the LDS Church. This brings up the final question, if the claims of the LDS Church are true, shouldn’t we start paying attention to what they are saying? Even more, what is the motivation of the people who would want this knowledge kept from the rest of the world, who are these people and why is it so important for them to destroy the LDS Church?

No more miracles

   I think if you will only bear with me for a few chapters while I present evidence, you will come to understand that because of our understanding of the universe, there really are no “miracles” any more. Science and the research and work of the greatest minds in history has brought many of the great mysteries of life nearer to the point of being solved than ever before. Unfortunately, because of our very nature, this moment will pass us by because, on the one hand, the truth of who we are and why we are here would cost the rich and powerful the two things they have that the rest of us don’t; money and power. There are also a lot of people who either would “flip out” because the world wasn’t what they thought it was or there are those who would say, “Well, I guess I don’t have to go to work tomorrow.” In any case, any new revelations about our existence would be better if left to those who are rationale enough to handle them. I would assume you are one of them and that is why you are still reading this book.
   Before we actually jump in, I would like to “come clean” about my own viewpoint. Personally, I don’t trust religious people and furthermore, I don’t trust people who are not religious. I trust the people who are somewhere in the middle. I trust the people who believe in God and act like it, but don’t try to push their beliefs on other people. I was raised in the LDS Church, and don’t believe in it, but I know that there is nothing in the teachings of the Church, that is not philosophically and morally sound. Whether or not I believe that Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith is a matter of faith (the only witness is the person making the claim) and not science, so, since it is a claim that resulted in the foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it has the same place in this book as a fingerprint might have in a criminal trial.
   Unlike most, I love philosophy and good philosophy is good enough for me. Joseph Smith said that Jesus Christ and God, and a lot of other people appeared to him and told him how to form the new and final Kingdom of God on this planet. As long as his philosophy was correct, I would have known he was telling the truth then as surely as I know now, by looking at the evidence of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has grown to encompass the world with teachings of honesty, love and charity, that Joseph Smith was serious about what he said and what he did.

On the outside looking in

   For those of who would claim that I am writing this because I am a “Mormon,” you are only half right. I seldom attended church after high school. I joined the Army, went to college, and spent the years after either teaching or trying to get a teaching job all the way from Seattle to Alaska. I have experience as Joni Mitchell once said, of looking at life “from both sides now.” Whatever crazy things you may have done in your life, I have probably done as well. I have spent the years since September 11, 2001, outside of the United States, working as a teacher in Arabian countries. I haven’t attended an LDS Church service since I sat in an Oregon Courtroom in the year 2000 and watched the mother of my daughter, who also happened to be a member of the LDS Church, lie and perjure herself in front of a woman judge. She lied on court documents and she lied after she swore on the Bible and promised to tell the truth. Needless to say, that experience really damaged my faith in people and in the institutions that we so inaccurately describe as our justice system. But the actions of one person who somehow manages to hide behind the cover of the Latter-day Saint Church, does not mean that I blame the LDS Church, as some would.
   Having spent most of my life outside of the Church, I have always been aware that there was never one thing that was taught or preached that was untrue, or even more important, unsound, or bad for me. So, that, plus my understanding of history and my love of learning, has given me a unique perspective on life that few have had. However, that experience in an Oregon courtroom did ruin any chance of me ever walking in to an LDS Church for the rest of my life without revisiting the fact that because of my association in the Church, I will never have a normal family life and because of my association with the Church, I have a daughter somewhere that I have never seen and may never see, at least until we meet in the world in which there are no lies. As Jesus once said, “I have drunk from the bitter cup my Father gave me.” Like Jesus Christ, I don’t blame my Heavenly Father for what human beings have done. I believe that when life hands you the bitter cup, the real test is whether or not you can drink from it and keep on smiling.

The Devil Worshippers

   Be that as it may, my first, rather shocking experience of the hatred that people feel for members of the LDS Church happened when I was in the 7th grade. Until that time, I knew very little about the world, and because of the rosy picture that had been painted of the world and its people by the LDS Church, I had a pretty good outlook on both the world and my prospects within it.
   So, let me take you back to a clear, crisp autumn morning in 1976. I was in the seventh grade then, and was making my way down the white and black checkerboard hallways of my school. To the right and left were lockers, some occupied by students talking, or getting books, or putting the last touches on their “Farrah Fawcett” hairdos. I reached my locker and kicked it on the bottom, since it opened a lot faster that way, and pulled it open. I was rummaging through the mess looking for my math book, when I heard some commotion behind me. I turned around and saw a group of eighth graders looking at me.
   “What?” I asked. I hadn’t stolen anything of theirs or made fun of them, so I didn’t know what they wanted with me.
   “You worship Satan,” one of them announced.
   In our little town, we had more churches than people, and not only had I known my accusers most of my life, I also knew that they didn’t go to my church.
   “Okay, ha ha!” I said. I figured it was some kind of joke. No one ever talked about church in school. They didn’t start laughing, or go away, so I began to feel a little uneasy.
   “No joke, you Morons worship Satan!” One of the other guys said as if it was important enough for the hallway to hear.
   I turned around and looked at the three. They looked deadly serious.
   “Who said that?” I asked.
   One of them, the leader of the group answered, “Our pastor. We learned about it in church. We even watched a movie.”
   That was a surprise. “They told you that in Church?” I asked.
   “Yeah, we know all about Joe Smith and that Mormon Bible,” the shorter of the three answered.
   “Who?”
   “Joe Smith, the guy who wrote the Mormon Bible.”
   I really didn’t know what to say. I was cross checking my facts as fast as possible. I had never heard of anybody worshipping or even mentioning ol’ Beelzebub in any but a none-too-flattering context in church. I didn’t know anything about a “Mormon Bible,” as far as I knew. Our Bible was the same as everyone else’s. Lastly, I had never heard of Joseph Smith referred to as “Joe Smith.” I wasn’t angry, I was confused.
   “Do you mean the Book of Mormon?” I asked. “It was translated by Joseph Smith, but we use the same Bible as you do.”
   There were a lot of “firsts” in that particular junior high school encounter. It was the first time anyone had made the association with the name Mormon and moron, which, I thought was somewhat clever and therefore something I should have thought of. The second thing that surprised me was that another church was actually discussing our Church while they were in church. We had to sit in church for three hours on Sunday listening to stories about Jesus, listening to people give talks, singing and attending one meeting after another, while their church was sitting around talking about us and how we worshipped Satan? I thought then that if I had to sit in a meeting and listen to someone trash-talking the Catholics or the Jehovah’s Witnesses, to escape the boredom I would have hung myself with my clip-on tie.
   I knew that none of the things these kids said were true, and were so far from what I knew to be true, the fact that my friends so adamantly believed it made my world view change forever. I still wasn’t sure if it was a joke, but the serious looks they were giving me made me think it wasn’t.
   “Well, have you read the Book of Mormon?” I asked.
   “No, I don’t have to read it, it’s a book of the devil,” the leader announced.
   I was surprised by that response. “How can you say that if you never read it?” I asked.
   “I would never read the book of the devil,” he answered.
   And so, that morning, I also learned that people will hate someone simply because it is easier to hate because of an easy lie than to find out a difficult truth. I learned that people believe what they want to believe. What I couldn’t understand was, why they would hate “Mormons?” There were other people who definitely deserved hating more than us. Take the Jehovah’s Witnesses, for example. They didn’t even have to go to public school and they were always passing out those pamphlets. Then there were the Seventh-Day Adventists, they didn’t attend public school and they went to church on Saturday, which meant they got to shop on Sunday when the store (we only had one) was empty. There were the Presbyterians, whose name it was so difficult to spell. But why did they hate our Church? We went to public school, we went to church on Sunday and our name, “Mormon” or “LDS,” was really easy to spell.
   Well, there was something else, it was the fact that LDS Church has temples that are not open to anyone outside of the Church. Even from within the Church, there are strict guidelines that must be met in order to enter a temple. So, it was the secrecy, the goings-on-behind-closed-doors, that got people in a huff, or so I thought. As I went through life, I began to notice, that unless you lived in Utah, you never heard of the LDS Church at all, unless some polygamist in southern Utah was being locked up for marrying his wife‘s thirteen year old sister. Similarly, I have had lots of friends outside the church who knew three things about the “Mormons.” First, they had five wives. Second, they wore funny underwear. Third, they hated them. When I would explain that I was a “Mormon” they would simply say, “Really? Well, you sure don’t act like a “Mormon.””
   “How does a “Mormon” act?” I would ask.
   “I don’t know.” They would answer. “You‘re the only Mormon I know.”
   Before we continue, let me point out, if it is not already obvious, I am not endorsing the LDS Church, nor am I endorsing anything but the right for people to make their own decisions and the right everyone has to correct information in order to make those decisions. Other than that, I will endeavor to look at claims and evidence. Faith is something that goes beyond the scientific inquiry, and is usually based on the belief in a being or beings that exist outside our natural world, and who have the ability to control the events of our world beyond its own physical laws. Furthermore, the being or beings cannot be called to manifest themselves or provide proof of themselves without usually incurring the wrath of said Being or beings. In other words, you can’t prove that there is a God, and you can’t prove that there isn’t.

Semantics and definitions of the terms in this book

   I would just like to examine the subjects that we know in popular culture as The LDS Church, the Society of Freemasons and finally the phenomenon of visitors from other planets. Before we do however, I would like to make it clearly understood that I am talking about, in the case of the LDS Church, the main branch of the Church whose head is in Salt Lake City, in Utah. There are other branches of the LDS Church that have broken away from the main body for various reasons. Therefore, I am not referring to the RLDS (Re-organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Nor am I referring to a group of polygamists who moved to southern Utah or Arizona to live outside the laws and doctrines of the main Church.
   Although members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are commonly referred to as “Mormons” and have even begun referring to themselves as such because that is how non-members refer to them. In this book, unless I am attributing a quote to a non-member or a piece of information put forward by a non-member, I will refer to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as “LDS” or in some cases as “The Saints.” The term “Mormons” denotes a worship of Mormon, a Book of Mormon military leader, historian and prophet and is therefore a misnomer and a tool of slander against the Church so that people can say that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are not “Christians.” Members of the LDS Church do not worship anyone but God and Jesus Christ. Therefore I am not going to use the misnomer “Mormons” except where it is necessary.
   On a similar note, when I refer to the Society of Freemasons, I am referring mostly to the Scottish Rite Order of Freemasonry, but these are not the only Orders of Freemasonry and I would like to make it clear to the reader that there is a distinction, which I will do later in the book. Unless it is necessary due to the context, I will not refer to “aliens” or “UFOs.” I will refer to them as exactly what they are, and that is extraterrestrial beings. In other words, beings that are not originally from this planet.
   Now, I should also like to detail my usage of terms just a little bit further. There are two kinds of extra-terrestrials (I won’t call them E.T.’s because that might encourage the reader to drift off into Steven Spielberg’s movie and completely forget what you are reading about). The first kind, are those who have physical bodies, or, what the government refers to as extra-terrestrial biological entities (EBE). The second kind are those who do not share our same physical characteristics and appear to be able to move between dimensions. We may call them angels, or ghosts, but not in this book. Since they appear to be lacking in substance and at times, according to people who claim to have seen them, sometimes give off excessive amounts of light, we will refer to these as extraterrestrial non-biological entities or extra-dimensional beings. (Hold on, don’t close the book yet!)
   Finally, as a student of history, I know it can be confusing for people who do not read history to read a phrase like, “in the twentieth century” when the writer means something that happened somewhere between 1900-1999. Since this book is not written specifically for historians or archeologists, but common every day working people, I will not use this kind of phraseology. For example, if something happened over an extended period between 1100 AD and 1199 AD I will say “in the 1100’s” to keep the confusion of the reader to a bare minimum.
   As you read this book, please forgive my shortcomings when it comes to my understanding of science. My background is in history. However, I am interested in all fields of learning, which, I believe allows me at least the motivation to write this book. In order to make this book “readable” I have tried my best to stick to the subject, present my evidence and then allow you to come to your own conclusions. For that reason, where it is possible, I try to use the words of the sources I am quoting in the fullness of their context, which sometimes requires some lengthy reading. I do this simply because I believe you are intelligent enough to understand what someone or something says, without me putting some kind of “spin” upon the text. In order to make this book appealing to as many people as possible, I will spend time explaining concepts and ideas as I would to someone who has no prior knowledge. If you have prior knowledge about any subject and wish to skip ahead, please do so. If you feel I have made grievous errors, please let me know.
   Now, with all of that said, let’s jump right into to some of the great deceptions of the ages!

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