Exopolitics

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Exopolitics ( neologism from ancient Greek ἔξω exo 'outside' and politics ) is the name given to a school of thought that assumes the existence of extraterrestrial life on earth. The proponents of this theory advocate translating this fact into global politics. This is known as the exopolitics movement .

Contents of the exopolitics movement

The basic theses of exopolitics are:

  • There is an extraterrestrial presence on earth.
  • There is a lot of evidence for this.
  • The public is not sufficiently informed about the facts.
  • Officials in some states cover up information on the subject.

The main field of activity of the exopolitics movement is collecting, processing and making available information about the supposed extraterrestrial presence. State support is required for ufology , political engagement with the subject and the disclosure of all information from official bodies. The aim is a global paradigm shift towards a society that recognizes the propagated extraterrestrial presence and acts responsibly in the interests of all of humanity. Unlike traditional UFO groups, the focus is not on investigating or researching the UFO phenomenon, but on public relations and lobbying with the information already available. In addition, exopolitics also deals with people, political institutions and processes that influence the official and public announcement of the propagated extraterrestrial presence on earth.

history

Steven Greer, February 2007

The origin of the exopolitics movement lies in the US disclosure movement. Exopolitics takes up the ideas of the Disclosure movement and goes one step further: While the Disclosure movement aims at an official confirmation of the supposed extraterrestrial presence on earth, the Exopolitics movement largely assumes the presence as real. The resulting implications for humanity come into focus.

Michael Emin Salla

Two people are considered to be influential in the exopolitics movement in the early years: Steven Greer and Michael Salla . Greer is a MD and was an ambulance at Caldwell Memorial Hospital in North Carolina . Greer is known as the initiator of the US non-profit organization The Disclosure Project . On May 9, 2001, at a press conference at the National Press Club ( Washington, DC ), it confronted the general public with testimony from former government officials and the military. The main testimony of the witnesses was: extraterrestrial UFOs would exist and the US government was keeping its knowledge of them a secret. This press conference is a key event and the starting point of the exopolitics movement.

The initiator of the movement is the Australian doctor of political science Michael Salla. He first published the term "Exopolitics" in his article The Need for Exopolitics: Implications of Extraterrestrial Conspiracy Theories for Policy Makers & Global Peace (2003). Based on the disclosure movement, Salla examines the validity of the available information and sources and sees as a consequence the need for a policy change towards so-called exopolitics . In the book Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (2004), published a year later , Salla elaborates on the subject and concretizes his theses.

In 2004 Salla founded the first Exopolitics website 'exopolitics.org', in 2005 the Exopolitics Institute and in 2006 the Exopolitics Journal . Building on this, offshoots arose in various countries around the world, which today form the global exopolitics network .

Exopolitics Network

The exopolitics movement is represented in over 20 national organizations and initiatives worldwide. Together they form a loose network which has global forums with the Exopolitics Institute and the Exopolitics World Network . The Exopolitics Institute sees itself as a research institute, while the Exopolitics World Network sees itself as a political lobby organization . There is no superordinate hierarchy or common organizational structure; each national initiative is autonomous and independent. Therefore, the respective interpretation of the exopolitics theses and orientation can vary from group to group.

Exopolitics in Germany

Logo of the "German Initiative for Exopolitics"

In Germany the exopolitics movement is represented by the "German Initiative for Exopolitics" . This sees itself as a citizens' movement and has no legal form. It was founded on June 1, 2007 by the qualified interpreter and freelance journalist Robert Fleischer. Fleischer heads the German organization to this day as the "coordinator".

The core interests of the “German Initiative for Exopolitics” are UFOs and the implications for politics and society that arise from an extraterrestrial presence. The movement also cooperates with traditional UFO groups in Germany such as MUFON-CES or DEGUFO . In contrast to these pure UFO research associations, Exopolitics Germany also repeatedly takes up esoteric and borderline scientific topics, such as so-called “free energy” , parapsychology or tape voices . The main medium of Exopolitics Germany is its own website with the independently produced Exo magazine, which is published online for a fee . In Germany there were regional groups of exopolitics in several federal states, including Berlin , Saxony , Lower Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia , Hesse and Hamburg . The main task of the regional groups was to organize meetings, lectures or regional actions.

Media impact

The German Initiative for Exopolitics is represented several times in the media through interviews and statements. Reports on radio and television can be found in ARD , WDR , ARTE and Deutsche Welle . In the daily press in the Salzburger Nachrichten , Stuttgarter Nachrichten and Göttinger Tageblatt, among others . Most of the time, the views of Exopolitics Germany are presented as questionable, implausible or even “making you smile”.

Trivia

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Disclosure Movement: A citizens' movement that subordinates government agencies to the knowledge and confidentiality of information about an extraterrestrial presence on earth. The goal is the official confirmation or detection (Engl. Disclosure ) of this information. The main field of activity is the collection and making available of testimony and documents on this subject. Sources are mostly former employees of official bodies, in particular from military and secret service circles. The main representative is the US organization The Disclosure Project and its founder Steven M. Greer. ( disclosureproject.org )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ " ..a new field of public policy, 'exopolitics', which can be defined as the policy debate over the choices governments and populations need to make in formulating and implementing legislative and policy responses to the presence of ETs in human affairs. “In: Michael E. Salla: Exopolitics - Political Implications of Extraterrestrial Presence . Dandelion Books, 2004, ISBN 978-1-893302-56-3 , pp. 2 .
  2. ↑ About us. Exopolitics Germany, accessed on June 23, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Mission. (No longer available online.) Exopolitics Institute, archived from the original on July 18, 2011 ; Retrieved June 23, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.exopoliticsinstitute.org
  4. ↑ Ingbert Jüdt: The UFO taboo is public, not political. A comment on Wendt / Duvall, "Sovereignty and the UFO". (PDF) (No longer available online.) Gesellschaft für Anomalistik e. V., 2008, p. 32 ff. , Archived from the original on April 12, 2012 ; Retrieved May 17, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anomalistik.de
  5. ↑ Michael Michaud: Preparing Governments for Contact . In: Contact with Alien Civilizations . Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials. Springer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 0-387-28598-9 , pp. 366 ff .
  6. ^ Albert A. Harrison: Confirmation of ETI: initial organizational response . In: Acta Astronautica . Issue 3, No. 53 , August 2003, p. 229-236 , doi : 10.1016 / S0094-5765 (02) 00203-5 .
  7. ↑ Biography Steven M. Greer. (No longer available online.) The Disclosure Project, December 6, 2008, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 17, 2011 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.disclosureproject.org  
  8. ↑ Rob Watson: UFO spotters slam 'US cover-up'. BBC News, March 10, 2001, accessed April 14, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Robert Fleischer: UFO cover-up and disinformation. (Video) Lecture at the DEGUFO spring conference 2011. (No longer available online.) In: ExoMagazin - Issue 3/2011. Exopolitics Germany, April 16, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 9, 2011 (approx. from minute 71): “ Steven Greer has been a very important hub and starting point of the exopolitics movement. [...] Nobody will deny that his press conference in May 2001 was legendary. "
  10. ^ Peter Carlson: Ike and the Alien Ambassadors. The Whole Tooth About the President's Extraterrestrial Encounter. The Washington Post Online, February 19, 2004, accessed June 28, 2011 .
  11. ↑ Exopolitics Institute: Exopolitics Institute / Founder. (No longer available online.) Exopoliticsinstitute.org, 2011, archived from the original on July 2, 2011 ; accessed on April 14, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.exopoliticsinstitute.org
  12. ↑ Robert Fleischer: UFO cover-up and disinformation. (Video) Lecture at the DEGUFO spring conference 2011. (No longer available online.) In: ExoMagazin - Issue 3/2011. Exopolitics Germany, April 16, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 9, 2011 (minutes 3 to 6).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.exopolitik.org  
  13. ^ Author profile: Robert Fleischer. NEXUS Magazin, 2010, accessed on June 24, 2011 .
  14. ↑ Uwe Behringer: UFOs? Maybe it does exist after all? In: ARD TV magazine "Brisant" . October 21, 2008 ( video ).
  15. ↑ Frederik von Lonski: UFOs? Do they exist? In: WDR TV magazine “Current Hour” . September 10, 2009 ( video ).
  16. ↑ Malte Fischer, Tabea Tiesler: Superstition in Europe - the longing for the inexplicable . In: ARTE TV magazine “Yourope” . April 25, 2010 ( video ).
  17. ↑ Nick Amies: Despite partial disclosure, Europe's UFO files remain mostly under wraps. Deutsche Welle, October 13, 2009, accessed June 23, 2011 (English).
  18. ↑ Christian Resch: UFO alarm in Knittelfeld . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . November 21, 2009, p. VIII .
  19. ↑ Michael Caspar: Ufologist wants to learn from extraterrestrials . In: Göttinger Tageblatt . October 1, 2009, p. 10 .
  20. ↑ 2005 Words of the year to be chosen in Albuquerque. (PDF; 196 kB) American Dialect Society, 2005, accessed April 14, 2011 (English).