{"id":1570,"date":"2006-05-25T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2006\/05\/25\/origin_of_exopo_1\/"},"modified":"2006-05-25T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T19:15:00","slug":"origin_of_exopo_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/origin_of_exopo_1\/","title":{"rendered":"ORIGIN OF &#8220;EXOPOLITICS&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER, B.C. &#8211; The &quot;Origin of &#8216;Exopolitics&#8217;&quot; has multiple<br \/>\nmeanings. This Internet colloquey between Dr. Michael Salla, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exopolitics.org\/\">&quot;Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence&quot;<\/a> (Dandelion Books, 2004), and Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eccenova.com\/exopolitics.htm\">&quot;Exopolitics: Politics, Government and Law in the Universe&quot;<\/a><br \/>\n(Universebooks 2005), illustrates a common ground: &quot;Exopolitics has<br \/>\nbeen a branch of human knowledge since time immemorial, albeit in<br \/>\ndifferent guises.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to comment on this colloquey at the end of this article. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you. Exopolitics.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/about.html\">ALFRED LAMBREMONT WEBRE, JD, MEd:<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">prepare4contact:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/prepare4contact\/message\/11273\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/prepare4contact\/message\/11273<\/a> <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">From:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> <a href=\"mailto:info@peaceinspace.com\">&quot;Ecologynews&quot; <\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Date:<\/strong>&nbsp; Sat Jan 29, 2005&nbsp; 7:29 pm <br \/>\n<strong>Subject:<\/strong>&nbsp; RE: Origin of &quot;Exopolitics&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Hi List &#8211; There was an ongoing discussion over on ufodiscussion as to the<br \/>\norigin of &quot;Exopolitics.&quot; <br \/>\nI hope to put some context on the discussion there with this post, with the<br \/>\nopen question:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We can leave for future discussion the larger question: &quot;Exopolitics<br \/>\nhas been a branch of human knowledge since time immemorial, albeit in different<br \/>\nguises.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>BTW, I have signed the Petition to the U.S. Senate and urge everyone here to do<br \/>\nso as well, and to pass the Petition onto your friends and networks. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/takeaction\/584805497\">http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/takeaction\/584805497<\/a><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<br \/>Ufodiscussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/ufodiscussion\/message\/3608\">http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/ufodiscussion\/message\/3608<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From: &quot;<a href=\"mailto:info@peaceinspace.com\">Ecologynews<\/a>&quot; <ecoradio><\/ecoradio>Date: Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:16 pm <\/p>\n<p>Subject: Origin of &quot;Exopolitics&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Hi List &#8211; Jeane Manning asked me last week what my relationship with<br \/>\nDr. Michael Salla was, and I humourously replied, &quot;Oh, Michael&#8217;s one of<br \/>\nmy students.&quot; Jeane, who is the author of &quot;The Coming Energy<br \/>\nRevolution,&quot; and co-author of &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthpulse.com\/products\/haarp.html\">Angels Don&#8217;t Play this HAARP<\/a>&quot;<br \/>\nwith Dr. Nick Begich was inteviewing me for a forthcoming article on<br \/>\nExopolitics for the April 2005 issue of Atlantis Rising (she has taken<br \/>\nover the column formerly written by the late Eugene Mallove). Jeane&#8217;s<br \/>\nquestion &#8211; what are the origins of &quot;Exopolitics&quot; &#8211; is an interesting<br \/>\none now that this &quot;New Kid On the Block&quot; is acquiring reality in the<br \/>\nworld. <\/p>\n<p>There is a very narrow, technical answer to that question of the<br \/>\norigin of &quot;Exopolitics&quot;, and broader approach to the history of our<br \/>\nhuman understanding of how a Universe inhabited by intellegent<br \/>\ncivilizations might be organized. Exopolitics has been a branch of<br \/>\nhuman knowledge since time immemorial, albeit in different guises. <\/p>\n<p>The &quot;narrow issue&quot; of the origin of Exopolitics is this: My book,<br \/>\nExopolitics: A Decade of Contact, first publicly defined the formal<br \/>\nfield of Exopolitics (the dynamics and study of law, governance and<br \/>\npolitics in the Universe). The publication of Exopolitics in the year<br \/>\n1999-2000 set into motion a number of subsequent milestones, as the<br \/>\nformal field of Exopolitics developed. This followed with my vists to<br \/>\nthe 2000 Bay Area UFO Conference, my Exopolitics presentation at the<br \/>\n2000 ET Town Hall organized by Steve Bassett at Santa Clara, CA. <\/p>\n<p>ET Town Hall Toes Party Line By The Electric Warrior October 17, 2000 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackvault.com\/news\/et_town_hall.html\">http:\/\/www.blackvault.com\/news\/et_town_hall.html<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>and subsequent my 2000 Exopolitics article in UFO Magazine. <\/p>\n<p>You can read an adaptation of the 2000 UFO Magazine Article at: <\/p>\n<p>Towards a Decade of Contact: Preparing for re-integration into Universe society by Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd <a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2004\/06\/towards_a_decad.html\">http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2004\/06\/towards_a_decad.html<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>One of the first Exopolitics milestones was the subsequent<br \/>\ndevelopment of the work of Dr. Michael Salla at Exopolitics.org, and<br \/>\nhis subsequent book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exopolitics.org\/\">&#8211;&quot;Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence&quot;<\/a> (Dandelion Books, 2004). Michael published his first paper on Exopolitics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exopolitics.org\/Study-Paper1.htm\">&quot;The Need for Exopolitics: Implications of Extraterrestrial Conspiracy Theories for Policy Makers &amp; Global Peace,&quot; <\/a>on<br \/>\nPublished January 20, 2003, about 18 months after I first published my<br \/>\nbook Exopolitics: A Decade of Contact, and cites my book in footnote<br \/>\n(39) &quot;Alfred Lambremont Webre, Exopolitics: A Decade of Contact<br \/>\n(Universe Books, 1999). His book is available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universebooks.com\/\">http:\/\/www.universebooks.com<\/a>\/&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Michael Salla and I first met face to face on July 22, 2004 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2004\/7\/prweb141366.htm\">Space For Progress Forum<\/a>,<br \/>\nheld in the House Caucus Room of the U.S. House of Representatives,<br \/>\nwhere I was a panalist presenting on the Space Preservation Treaty to<br \/>\nban space-based weapons. Michael was then on faculty at American<br \/>\nUniversity, and I contacted him and invited him to the Forum, where we<br \/>\nspoke and then met the next day in an intense enjoyable 3 hour<br \/>\ncollegial discussion at a Starbuck&#8217;s in Chevy Chase, MD. <\/p>\n<p>Michael&#8217;s website is Exopolitics.org: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exopolitics.org\/\">http:\/\/www.exopolitics.org<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Mine is Exopolitics.com: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exopolitics.com\/\">http:\/\/www.exopolitics.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This does not mean that Michael&#8217;s approach to Exopolitics is the<br \/>\nsame as mine, any more than two political scientists or two social<br \/>\nscientists need have the same approach to an issue. <\/p>\n<p>The Exopolitics model that my book defines is: &quot;Exopolitics, as a<br \/>\ndiscipline for understanding Universe society through its politics and<br \/>\ngovernment, may turn our dominant view of the Universe upside down.<br \/>\nExopolitics posits that the truest conception of our earthly<br \/>\ncircumstance may be that we are on an isolated planet in the midst of a<br \/>\npopulated, evolving, highly organized inter-planetary, inter-galactic,<br \/>\nmulti-dimensional Universe society.&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eccenova.com\/exopolitics.htm\">http:\/\/www.universebooks.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Another milestone in the development of the field of Exopolitics was<br \/>\nthe First Exopolitics Conference, held in Washington, D.C. on April<br \/>\n17-18, 2004. Organizer Stephen Bassett called me in 2003 to ask my<br \/>\npermission to use the term \u201dExopolitics,\u201d as the Conference he stated<br \/>\nwas inspired by my book 1999-2000 book Exopolitics [That is how Steve<br \/>\nand I first met at the 2000 Bay Area UFO Conference &#8211; over<br \/>\nExopolitics]. Steve invite me to be a keynote speaker at the<br \/>\nConference. I declined for then legislative\/political reasons, and gave<br \/>\nthe Conference my blessing, and the rest is history. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradigmclock.com\/X-Conference\/X-Conference.htm\">http:\/\/www.paradigmclock.com\/X-Conference\/X-Conference.htm<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Now you may ask, why was I not front and centre and in the public<br \/>\neye with Exopolitics in the years 2001-2005? That is a fair question.<br \/>\nThe last public event I organized in 2001 was a joint <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecologynews.com\/cuenews36.html\">Conference<\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peaceinspace.com\/\">Institute for Cooperation in Space <\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disclosureproject.org\/\">Disclosure Project <\/a>(Dr.<br \/>\nSteven Greer; Dr. Carol Rosin; and myself were the Speakers) to a<br \/>\ncapacity crowd at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C. on<br \/>\nSeptember 9, 2001! Both Carol and myself are Disclosure Project<br \/>\nwitnesses. <\/p>\n<p>Subsequent to that, I became deeply engaged in the effort to have the U.S. Congress pass the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general19\/key.htm\">Space Preservation Act<\/a>, and the judgment (both by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/kucinich\/action\/peace.htm\">U.S. Representatives <\/a>and<br \/>\nNGOs involved) was to separate the issues of disclosure and<br \/>\nspace-weaponization, at least in the arena of the U.S. Congress, for<br \/>\nthe time being. <\/p>\n<p>Consequently, I passed on Steve Bassett&#8217;s invitation to be a keynote speaker at Exopolitics Conference I. <\/p>\n<p>I have accepted to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradigmclock.com\/X-Conference\/speakers.htm\">Speaker at Exopolitics Conference II<\/a>,<br \/>\nand am continuing the work for the Space Preservation Treaty to ban<br \/>\nspace-based weapons on an explicitly Exopolitical basis wherever the<br \/>\nperceptual &quot;framework&quot; of the audience is receptive. <\/p>\n<p>Our Campaign is at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peaceinspace.org\/\">http:\/\/www.peaceinspace.org<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The 2005 EXOPOLITICS is a whole evolution beyond the original<br \/>\n1999-2000 online Exopolitics, and I sincerely hope you all will take an<br \/>\ninterest and read the book. <\/p>\n<p>We can leave for future discussion the larger question: &quot;Exopolitics<br \/>\nhas been a branch of human knowledge since time immemorial, albeit in<br \/>\ndifferent guises.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Warm regards, Alfred Lambremont Webre <\/p>\n<p>Vancouver, BC <\/p>\n<p>Exopolitics.com: Politics, Government and Law in the Universe<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exopolitics.com\/\">http:\/\/www.exopolitics.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exopolitics.org\/Director.htm\">DR. MICHAEL SALLA:<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>From: &quot;Dr Michael Salla&quot; &lt;<a href=\"exopolitics@yahoo.com\">exopolitics@yahoo.com<\/a>&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Date: Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:52 am <\/p>\n<p>Subject: Re: Origin of &quot;Exopolitics&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Aloha Alfred, it&#8217;s good to hear from you and thanks for clarifying<br \/>\nsome of the background of exopolitics. It&#8217;s funny how others view the<br \/>\norigins of these terms and assume that there&#8217;s grandstanding and ego<br \/>\nover who coined and first used such terms such as exopolitics. I had a<br \/>\nlook at the UFOdiscussion list and was surprised to hear that some were<br \/>\nreflecting that I was somehow grandstanding in the use of the term and<br \/>\npresenting it as my own which is definitely not the case. <\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, such discussion over the term exopolitics is a good<br \/>\nsign since it means that the term is starting to grow in importance and<br \/>\nis being more widely used. That may mean that it will soon burst into<br \/>\nthe mainstream which will be good news for those of us that first took<br \/>\nthe initiative to put our reputations on the line to promote<br \/>\nexopolitics. I&#8217;m sure at some point there&#8217;ll be debate over the origin<br \/>\nof the term as though that was as important as what the term stands for<br \/>\nwhich after all is the critical question here. As you point out,<br \/>\nexopolitics has been happening since time immemorial so we are just<br \/>\nputting old wine in a new bottle when it comes to coining terms like<br \/>\n`exopolitics&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>Let me say at the outset that when I decided to write about the<br \/>\npolitical implications of what I had decided was an extraterrestrial<br \/>\npresence that was not disclosed to the general public, I began to look<br \/>\nfor an appropriate term to use. Some of the terms such as ufology and<br \/>\nexobiology where inappropriate, and terms such as &#8216;galactic politics&#8217;,<br \/>\n&#8216;interplanetary politics&#8217;, etc., looked clumsy. Since exobiology was<br \/>\nwidely used and accepted as the correct term for discussion of life<br \/>\nthat had an extraterrestrial origin, I thought that exopolitics would<br \/>\nalso be suitable social science term for what I had in mind. <\/p>\n<p>When I did a search for the term &#8216;exopolitics&#8217;, I found Exopolitics:<br \/>\nA Decade of Contact on the web as an ebook that was approximately<br \/>\n22,000 words in length and divided into two parts, and published under<br \/>\nthe rubric of Universebooks which appeared to be a site created for<br \/>\nyour work (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.universebooks.com\/\">http:\/\/www.universebooks.com\/<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Now due to its length there might be some debate whether<br \/>\n&quot;Exopolitics: Decade of Contact (1999)&quot; was `a book&#8217;, `an ebook&#8217;, `a<br \/>\nmonograph&#8217;, `a treatise&#8217;, etc.; and whether my Exopolitics: Political<br \/>\nImplications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books, 2004)<br \/>\nwas the `first book&#8217; or `first published hard copy book&#8217; on<br \/>\nexopolitics. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let others debate all that but what I can conclusively say is<br \/>\nthat as far as I could discover, you were the first to start using the<br \/>\nterm `exopolitics&#8217;, and that your forthcoming book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universebooks.com\/\">Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe (Universebooks, 2005<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universebooks.com\/\">)<\/a><br \/>\nwill be a very important contribution to this emerging field of<br \/>\nexopolitics. I&#8217;m looking forward to getting a copy and seeing your<br \/>\nthoughts on how this field of exopolitics can be understood and<br \/>\ndeveloped. <\/p>\n<p>In peace and friendship Michael S. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}