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To Believers, No Idea Is Alien<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"-1\"><br \/>\nBy Dan Zak<br \/>\nWashington Post Staff Writer<br \/>\nTuesday, April 21, 2009<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nExtraterrestrials exist and they visit Earth routinely, according to people who know this for a fact.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMoving on.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat does this mean for Washington, for America, for the planet? It<br \/>\nmeans, according to the roughly 400 people attending the fifth<br \/>\nX-Conference over the weekend, that politics isn&#39;t local anymore. It&#39;s<br \/>\ngalactic. It&#39;s universal. This is <em>exo<\/em>politics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the ground-floor banquet hall of the Gaithersburg Hilton, there are<br \/>\nno alien costumes. There are PhDs, ex-military men, activists and<br \/>\nconcerned citizens. They sit in on lectures with titles like &quot;Obama and<br \/>\nDisclosure.&quot; They browse tables stocked with books such as<br \/>\n&quot;Exopolitics: How Does One Speak to a Ball of Light?&quot; They talk about<br \/>\nblack budgets and quantum cosmology. They watch the last 15 minutes of<br \/>\n&quot;The Abyss,&quot; during which Ed Harris swims hand in hand with a<br \/>\njellyfish-like alien.\n<\/p>\n<p>People in the exopolitical movement want full disclosure of any U.S.<br \/>\ngovernment files on unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrials.<br \/>\nOnly then, they maintain, can mankind deal with the sociopolitical<br \/>\nimplications of the universe: the rule of law in outer space, the<br \/>\nsharing of technology between civilizations and the physics of<br \/>\none-on-one interaction with ETs.\n<\/p>\n<p>&quot;No, we&#39;re not alone,&quot; said Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the<br \/>\nsixth man to walk on the moon, speaking first at the X-Conference on<br \/>\nSunday and then at the National Press Club yesterday morning. &quot;Our sun<br \/>\nwill burn out in due course, and we have to be off this planet. . . .<br \/>\nOur consumption rate of non-renewable resources is not sustainable. . .<br \/>\n. Our destiny is to become part of the planetary community. It&#39;s time<br \/>\nto start thinking in those terms.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>Forget &quot;eco.&quot; The most urgent prefix today, the X-Conference<br \/>\nsuggests, is &quot;exo.&quot; We need to evolve into an exoculture. We need to be<br \/>\nexoconscious, to reframe our minds for interstellar relations and<br \/>\ninterdimensional experiences.\n<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If we live off-planet, we have to change our mind and bodies,&quot; says<br \/>\nRebecca Hardcastle, a hypnotherapist and exoconsciousness coach who<br \/>\nlives in Phoenix. &quot;Your emotions, life force and what you&#39;ve been<br \/>\ntaught is a belief system that cords you to the Earth. We must change<br \/>\nour frame of reference.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>Hardcastle, wearing pearls and a black dress and sitting at a table,<br \/>\nsays she has been contacted by ET intelligence since she was 3. She,<br \/>\nand others in the exopolitical community, say we need to learn remote<br \/>\nviewing and teleportation, we need to propagate the practice of ESP, we<br \/>\nneed to let ETs change us, and we need to integrate technology and<br \/>\nconsciousness so we can participate in the universe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat&#39;s the secret to moving in that direction?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDiet and exercise and balanced living, says Hardcastle. Yoga and peacefulness, say others. Small steps for man.\n<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, conspiracy theories and creepy claims are a big part of<br \/>\nthe X-Conference. Even an audiovisual glitch is a cue for mild<br \/>\nparanoia: &quot;Something happened with our system,&quot; says a nervous AV guy<br \/>\nafter a microphone blows out during a lecture. &quot;It happened suddenly,<br \/>\nsystemwide. Something hit it and took it down.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen California podiatric surgeon Roger Leir takes the microphone, the topic is extraterrestrial implants.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;How many of you have seen a UFO?&quot; Leir asks the audience before showing video of alleged implant extraction surgery.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore than 100 people put up their hands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;How many think you&#39;ve been involved with the alien abduction program?&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFive hands go up.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;How many of you think you&#39;ve been abducted and <em>have never returned<\/em>?&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere is laughter. There is also a sentiment of acceptance and adaptation. Once we get our act together, once we understand our <em>own<\/em><br \/>\nselves, the ETs will engage us, says Michael Salla, president and<br \/>\nfounder of the Hawaii-based nonprofit Exopolitics Institute, which<br \/>\noffers an online semester in galactic diplomacy for a little more than<br \/>\n$1,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Humanity is still tribalistic, driven by elite interests rather<br \/>\nthan global ones,&quot; Salla says. &quot;But with Barack Obama, for the first<br \/>\ntime in our planet&#39;s history, we have a global leader. It&#39;s a<br \/>\ntremendous advance in our global society.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>On the TV in the lobby of the hotel, Obama shakes hands with Hugo<br \/>\nCh\u00e1vez. Later, there&#39;s a CNN report on the disclosure of torture memos<br \/>\nfrom Guantanamo Bay. These are good signs of open-minded diplomacy and<br \/>\ngovernment transparency, some conference attendees say. Plus, over the<br \/>\npast year, the British government has released thousands of documents<br \/>\npertaining to UFOs, about 5 percent of which are truly inexplicable.<br \/>\nThe exopolitical movement was also encouraged by Obama&#39;s selection of<br \/>\nJohn Podesta, noted champion of UFO disclosure, as his transition<br \/>\nchairman. And Mitchell the astronaut is out in full force, saying the<br \/>\nexistence of ETs was confirmed to him 10 years ago by a member of the<br \/>\nJoint Chiefs of Staff (who subsequently denied it, but that&#39;s how these<br \/>\nthings go).\n<\/p>\n<p>The ridicule is ebbing, conference attendees say. The exopolitical<br \/>\nmovement has gone grass roots; the education and outreach phase is<br \/>\nunderway. One man at the conference is collecting 4,000 signatures to<br \/>\nput forth a ballot initiative for a Denver Extraterrestrial Affairs<br \/>\nCommission. Another is calling upon the United Nations to create an<br \/>\n&quot;extraterrestrial civilizations liaison.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>For Nick Pope, who was in charge of UFO investigations for Britain&#39;s<br \/>\nMinistry of Defense in the early &#39;90s, the bogies in the sky are simply<br \/>\na matter of national security.\n<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If we ignore UFOs because of the baggage that term has in people&#39;s<br \/>\nminds &#8212; because we don&#39;t believe in flying saucers &#8212; it opens up a<br \/>\ngap in our capacity to deal with these things,&quot; Pope says. &quot;It&#39;s<br \/>\ndangerous. We&#39;re ignoring a potential air-safety issue.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>Exopolitics: It&#39;s about air-traffic control. It&#39;s about honest<br \/>\ngovernment. It&#39;s about self-empowerment and healthy living and bold<br \/>\ndeclarations of reaching for the stars. Ask too many questions, though,<br \/>\nand you&#39;ll see exopolitics is also about a race of humanoids who live<br \/>\nunder the barren surface of Mars and may, at some point, desire to<br \/>\nmooch off Earth&#39;s rich resources.\n<\/p>\n<p>Exopolitics &quot;provides a conceptual framework for dealing with our<br \/>\nhighly populated universe,&quot; says author, lawyer and activist Alfred L.<br \/>\nWebre, who coined the term 10 years ago and has watched it creep into<br \/>\nthe mainstream.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe also says the Martians are keeping to themselves for now.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><script>\nvar comments_url = &quot;http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/20\/AR2009042003754_Comments.html&quot; ;\nvar article_id = &quot;AR2009042003754&quot; ;\n<\/script><span class=\"display:none;\" id=\"pubDate\" name=\"pubDate\" value=\"1240286400000\"><\/span><br \/>\n<script>\n&lt;!--\nvar COMMENTS_ALLOWED = false ;\nvar COMMENTS_ACTIVE = false ;\nvar comments_period = ( typeof wp_article != &quot;undefined&quot; &amp;&amp; typeof wp_article.comments_period != &quot;undefined&quot; &amp;&amp; ( wp_article.comments_period != &quot;&quot; || wp_article.comments_period == &quot;0&quot; ) &amp;&amp; wp_article.comments_period &gt;= 0 ) ? 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