This article, reprinted from Atlantis Rising Magazine (April 2005), is by Jeane Manning, author of The Coming Energy Revolution: The Search for Free Energy, co-author of Angels Do Not Play This HAARP, and Board Member of the New Energy Movement. Jeane Manning interviewed Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd about his book EXOPOLITICS: POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND LAW IN THE UNIVERSE (Filament Books), available at http://www.filamentbooks.com/
REPORT FROM THE FRONT: Tracking the News of the Coming Energy Revolution
When the Political Frontier is In the Stars
For drama, this life story matches those in best-selling books and films:
Through his own efforts, idealistic young lawyer rises to prominence
in New York city, stirs up action in the Carter administration White
House, runs smack into the wall of military secrecy, survives
directed-energy attacks, and points our attention toward the stars —
toward Universe Society.
However, that lawyer, Alfred Webre III, isn’t writing his memoirs
yet. Middle-aged now, he remains an idealistic scholar and would prefer
that you focus on his concepts. His new book Exopolitics: Politics, Government and Law in the Universe is a treatise rather than a thriller, although quite readable. In terms
of significance, its concepts top those of any bestseller. It seems
that harmonious technology for non-polluting abundant energy is merely
one of the stunning gifts waiting for humankind when and if our leaders
openly and benevolently interact with representatives of spiritually-
and technologically advanced civilizations.
Exopolitics is the study of how we can bridge from our current human
politics out into Universe society. Why would someone who has taught
Economics at Yale and strode in Washington DC corridors of power risk
his career for such far-out ideals?
To get some answers, I convinced Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, to
describe some – not all — of his life’s turning points. He said his
first influence was his Cuban-American mother who drummed a message
into her nine children: “We’re here on Earth to do good and leave the
planet a better place.”
Alfred began his career with academic honors from the preparatory
schools and universities that produce our political leaders. A
Fulbright Scholar, he graduated from Yale University and earned a
doctorate from Yale Law School, where he was a National Scholar.
In New York city, Webre joined the Environmental Protection
Administration in 1970 as General Counsel. He rubbed shoulders with
ecological scientists and other intellectual stars in closed
thinktanks, pushed through landmark legislation for the city and was
quoted in the media as a spokesperson for Gaia (Earth as a living
entity).
Having made a name in Mayor John Lindsey’s city, Webre was promoted
to further challenges when Lindsey ran for president. Webre became a
consultant to the Ford Foundation and helped launch major environmental
fundings.
At the same time, he was becoming aware of Gaia’s need to join a
larger Universe society. Webre won’t tell how he encountered such
paradigm-shattering information, but if you talk with him long enough
you know intuitively that this straightforward soul couldn’t ignore a
call that involves huge potential benefits for humankind.
His response was in character — as a scholar. By 1975, with the
help of colleagues he had published a theory of how off-planet cultures
from advanced societies would communicate with a lower-order society.
His “Context Communication Theory” interprets ET actions and messages
almost as they were dreams.
The timing seemed perfect for opening up such topics. Then-governor
James Earl (Jimmy) Carter had had a personal UFO experience in 1969
while waiting for a Lions’ Club meeting. As he headed toward the White
House in the mid-1970s, Carter reportedly vowed to make the issue
public. Meanwhile, Webre’s writings and accomplishments earned him a
prestigious job; he was chosen to be one of six futurists at the Center
for the Study of Social Policy at Stanford Research Institute (SRI).
During his job interview, Webre asked to do a study based on the theory
he had published in the early 1970s, the Context Communication Theory.
When he was hired as a SRI senior policy analyst, Webre thought, “This
is it! SRI does research for the federal government…”
He began spending four days a week in Washington DC and the rest of
the week in Palo Alto, California, with his family. He was doing
research with the National Science Foundation and other agencies, but
at the same time reminding SRI officials why he came there to work —
he wanted to head an extraterrestrial communication study.
Previously such studies had always been under the aegis of the
military, but he wanted to do the first civilian scientific
extraterrestrial study in the history of the U.S. government. It would
be sponsored by the White House instead of the Pentagon, with NASA,
National Science Foundation and panels of outside experts coming in. He
gathered support and advice from scientists in the SRI community and
they put together a proposal.
Meanwhile he was travelling coast to coast for various meetings. For
instance, he was on a Senate panel regarding future national security
needs. He sat at tables across from people such as the head of the
Defense Intelligence Agency. (Webre told me he was outspoken and had
been known to verbally blast the DIA chairman for what Webre saw as
ecological blasphemy.) On that panel, a powerful senator sat on his
right and an admiral — the founder of the Center for Defense
Information – was also at the table. The admiral and Webre had
co-authored a book proposal titled Armageddon – The Chilling Prospect
of Nuclear War. With such influential connections, Webre felt somewhat
like a knight in shining armor. It looked as if he had a perfect
opportunity to do as Mother had advised – make a difference on Earth.
He asked around and was given the names of Carter White House
domestic policy staff who were interested in the extraterrestrial
issue. During his frequent visits to Washington, he contacted those
staff members and presented the audacious proposal for the study. There
were to be no secret findings; it would all be made public. “And we
went forward.”
Stanford Research Institute approved the project in May of 1977.
Webre viewed it as a Rolls-Royce of projects, and rejoiced that he had
everyone on board. But that fall the project was abruptly terminated,
under the threat of SRI having all its contracts with the Department of
Defense (DoD) cancelled.
Who made the threat? Webre replies that it was issued verbally from
the DoD to the liaison between SRI and the DoD. The liaison then
traveled to California, to SRI. Weber was called into the office of the
SRI vice-president and to told to “desist”.
I prod Webre’s memory of that scene. He recalls that the meeting
took place in the office of the SRI vice-president, a man of
African–American descent. Peter Schwartz, who later co-authored the Abrupt Climate Change [2010-2030]
study for the Pentagon, was there too. Schwartz, also a senior Policy
Analyst, was an advisor to the ET-related project according to Webre.
Before the liaison flew in from Washington, they called Webre in to
prepare him for hearing the ultimatum: if SRI went ahead with the
extraterrestrial communication project, the DoD would terminate all of
the many contracts between SRI and the Pentagon.
The outraged Webre was told to hide his feelings, sit quietly and “yes” the DoD liaison. “When he comes in, dissimulate.”
Webre says he couldn’t follow those instructions; he can’t present a
false front even with a DoD liaison. Instead he burst out with “What do
you mean, it’s cancelled? I’m working with the White House!”
Webre repeatedly tried to get answers. “The White House just
approved the project. Why doesn’t the Pentagon want it to go forward?”
The Pentagon/SRI liaison reportedly gave a flat reply. “There are no UFOs.”
Webre describes that meeting as a donnybrook – a bitter quarrel.
However, the government department had the financial power, so the
project was terminated. “Then came the attacks upon my person. Using
microwave weapons…”
Those attacks began in Washington, slightly earlier, he recalls.
Just before he returned to SRI to have that meeting with the liaison,
Webre had been on a secondary project, meeting with the assistant
secretary of Defense. When he came out of that meeting he was hit with
what he calls mind control weapons.
What did it feel like? Webre replies, “It’s very painful and it
stuns you psychologically. It feels like you’re totally disoriented.”
“This is how they have coped with activists in this area…”
The attacks opened up a chapter in his life in which he became
cognizant of electromagnetic or more exotic weaponry and became an
advocate for others who are similarly targeted. The victims are put in
an unbelievable situation in which they will no longer be taken as
seriously.
Nevertheless, with some help from friends Webre continued a career
of varied accomplishments. For instance, he was a delegate to
specialized United Nations conferences. California governor Jerry Brown
appointed Webre to a taskforce on earthquake preparedness. Webre
produced and hosted the first live radio broadcast between the USA and
the former Soviet Union, in 1987. He was elected as a delegate to the
1996 Texas Democratic convention. Webre is still a member of the
District of Columbia bar. He taught civil liberties at the University
of Texas. The list goes on.
In the year 2000, Webre went public with the concept of exopolitics,
which is now an emerging field. A prominent author in the field, social
scientist Dr. Michael Salla, is said to have read Webre’s earlier
online treatise before expanding on the topic and writing his own
Exopolitics book. Webre praises Salla’s and the efforts of Stephen
Bassett. Bassett hosted the first Exopolitics conference, last year in
Washington DC. Webre’s new book will be launched at the second annual
Exopolitics gathering, on April 22-24. (www.paradigmclock.com/x-conference.htm)
Interest in the discipline is developing fast, he says, and couldn’t
come at a more strategic time. He cites global problems that are
largely caused by our fossil fuels/ nuclear civilization.
“An ecological approach to these problems may provide us with
life-saving and planet-saving solutions.” Webre speaks of a Galactic
Federation that sees our potential self-induced ecological catastrophes
as necessary for humankind’s evolution, so that we’ll “acknowledge our
short-sighted exploitation of Earth’s resources and our social
dysfunctions, and then build anew after a considerable period of
self-searching.”
Today, Webre is International Director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS), an on-air host on Vancouver Coop Radio (www.coopradio.org) and author of a half-dozen books.
His voice joins others who issue warnings. For instance, Steven M. Greer MD, director of The Disclosure Project
calls for open Congressional hearings into the UFO matter. Dr. Greer
has said "There are ongoing illegal covert programs that consider
themselves above the law and have deliberately acted outside of
constitutionally-required control and oversight. These programs deal
with UFO and extraterrestrial matters and new energy and propulsion
technologies. They have consistently denied Congress and US Presidents
access to these programs, and (the covert operations) constitute a
grave threat to US national security."
Webre speaks of many alternatives, such as naming a public interest
diplomacy outreach program to Off Planet Cultures a “Star Dreams
Initiative (SDI)”, and developing “a project that offers an alternative
vision to the weaponization of space, i.e. Star Wars.”
In Exopolitics,
Webre argues that most of the story modern human beings have been told
about Earth and its outer space environs is wrong. He presents the
hypothesis that Earth is a quarantined planet in a populated, evolving,
highly organized inter-planetary, inter-galactic, multi-dimensional
Universe society of life-bearing planets. And that the quarantine,
which probably has a spiritual cause, may be ending. He makes the point
that our society will have to kick its perpetual-war habit, however,
before being invited out.
His Exopolitics
model bridges between the familiar locked-in limited consensual
thinking of our society, and an expanded awareness we could enjoy in
what he calls Universe Society. The insights in Exopolitics: Politics, Government and Law in the Universe
resonate with what researchers on the energy frontier have learned
about socioeconomic, environmental, geopolitical and spiritual
awareness issues related to truly paradigm-busting breakthrough energy
inventions.
If you attend the Exopolitics Expo,
get his book, read it and remember to ask Dr. Webre about the proposed
Decade of Contact and not his personal story. He’s serious about that.
even though he was persuaded to tell a bit of his story just this
once…
Copyright 2005 Atlantis Rising Magazine/Jeane Manning
