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Ufologist Daniel Fry holding his book, The White Sands Incident

Daniel W. Fry (19 July 1908 – 20 December 1992) was an American contactee of the 1950s who claimed he had multiple contacts with an alien and took a ride in a remotely piloted alien spacecraft.

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Alan's Message: To Men of Earth (1954)

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  • Ridicule is the barrier which the ignorant erect between themselves and any truth which frightens or disturbs them. Can you name any man of your planet who has ever accomplished anything of great value to your people, who was not ridiculed and scorned by some? It is the price which is exacted from every man who is as much as one step in advance of his contemporaries. There is a saying in the records of the previous civilization of your world which I believe should be on the frontispiece of every book of philosophy. “It is easier to ridicule than to investigate, but it is not as profitable”.
  • “Why don’t you simply set your craft down on the White House lawn some morning, ask for worldwide communication facilities, and give the whole world your message at once?”
    “This ‘simple solution,’ is only wishful thinking on your part,” Alan replied. “We have discussed this before, and if you will think a little, you will see that there are many reasons, both general and specific, why such a course would not be successful. In the first place there is the psychological aspect. If we were to appear as members of a superior race, coming from above to lead the people of your world, about thirty percent of these people would insist upon considering us as Gods, and would attempt to place upon us, all responsibility for their own welfare. Of the remaining seventy per cent, most would consider that we were potential tyrants who were planning to enslave their world, and many would immediately begin to seek means to destroy us. If any great and lasting good is to come of our efforts, the actual leaders must be your own people, or at least men who are indistinguishable from them.
  • This is not the fault of any individual or political faction, but is simply a philosophism of government which developed during the last two great wars upon your earth. It was given much impetus in your country by the necessary secrecy attending the development of your nuclear weapons. However the secrecy of military ‘security’ has now grown far beyond the bounds of its reason, and has become, in many cases, only an excuse to conceal anything which might embarrass any member of your governing bodies. As a matter of fact, most of the tension which exists between your nations today is the direct result of this excessive secrecy.
    “You must realize that any information which your government might acquire concerning us, our craft or our knowledge, would be considered the most vital ‘military’ secret which they had ever possessed.”
The possibility of atomic warfare on your earth is not the problem, it is merely a symptom, and no one has ever had any great success in curing an illness by treating only the symptoms.
—Alan's Message: To Men of Earth
  • Actually, the possibility of atomic warfare on your earth is not the problem, it is merely a symptom, and no one has ever had any great success in curing an illness by treating only the symptoms.
  • There are three types or branches of science which are necessary for the proper development of mankind: the Spiritual Science, the Social Science and the Physical or Material Science. The spiritual and social sciences must come first. There can be no development of the material science unless there first exists a foundation of the spiritual and social sciences. You can prove this to yourself by considering the difference between man and the animals. The animal has no spiritual or social science and consequently has never developed a material science. A few of your insects such as the ant and the bee have developed a rudimentary form of social science to the extent that they are able to live together in large numbers, work together for their mutual welfare, and have a form of discipline which is common to all. As a result of this they also have developed a very limited material science, in that they do erect structures, and store food against a future time of need. The fact, however, that they have no spiritual science has proven an absolute bar to further development with the result that they have not advanced a single: step in thousands of years.
  • Most of the thinkers of your race are well aware of the danger inherent in the use of nuclear weapons, but there is another aspect of the problem which is not generally recognized. That is the fact that unless unity is achieved between your nations, the very existence of such weapons will eventually bring about the downfall of your civilization, even though they are never used. The truth of this fact can be understood by anyone who will think a little. Civilizations are built and maintained by men of vision, who think and work for the future. What man will be willing to dedicate his life and his work to the benefit of generations yet unborn, when the foreseeable: future does not extend beyond the next twenty-four hours?
  • There is nothing that is intrinsically wrong with your material science. It will progress and expand to horizons as yet undreamed of, if only your people will provide a foundation capable of supporting it.”
    “And if they do not?” I asked. “Then your civilization will go down,” Alan replied slowly. “It will destroy itself in a holocaust which will leave few survivors. Those few who do survive will have neither the ability nor the desire to rebuild their science. In a few generations their descendants will have returned almost to the level of the animal. Then the process of evolution will begin again. In fifteen or twenty thousand years another civilization will emerge. It will face the same problems and have the same opportunity for their solution. If it fails, it will in turn go down. This is an immutable law of the universe, but one which operates according to the free choice of the race. Your race and your culture are not doomed to extinction, they may continue upon their upward course until they have left this danger behind them forever. The choice is yours.”
  • “If a man with a blindfold over his eyes were rushing toward a cliff, a great effort might be to turn him away from the danger. However, if the blindfold is removed, (a much less difficult task) no further effort is necessary, since the man will now turn of his own accord.
    “There are many statements in your books of religion and philosophy which show that the great thinkers of your race down through the ages, have been well aware of the dangers of concentration on material science. In the first book of your Bible there is the story of the Tower of Babel, of a race which had lost sight of the spiritual science entirely and were attempting to reach God by the work of their hands. The attempt ended, of course, in frustration and chaos as such attempts always do.
    “The development of the social and spiritual sciences becomes almost automatic if the vital necessity of that development is understood by everyone.
    “If reduced to the simplest terms, social science is the study of man’s relationship to his fellow man. The spiritual science is the study of man’s relationship to God. The indispensable requirement for progress in either of these sciences is a sincere desire for a better understanding.

Steps to the Stars (1956)

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  • Most of those persons who have, in one way or another, established contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, or to put it in the usual way, with beings from other worlds, have, as a result of this contact, received, among other things, certain somewhat advanced concepts of the physical science. Too often, however, the recipient of these advanced concepts is almost or totally unfamiliar with our present position and beliefs in the scientific field. The result is that when he attempts to make public these advanced thoughts, they are usually rejected by our scientists on the ground that there is no apparent connection between them and our present concepts. [...] This book is being written with the hope that it may bring a little of the light of simple understanding to bear upon a few of our more puzzling mathematical ‘laws’, and to demonstrate that a pathway can be laid from our present, rather confused position, to the firmer ground of the new age of science.

The Curve of Development (1965)

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  • The faith referred to by Jesus of Nazareth was not, however, the sort of wistful hope or even hopeful confidence that we usually think of when the term “Faith” is used today. The term used by Jesus which was translated in the Bible as “Faith” actually referred to a state of complete and certain knowledge of the ultimate laws of cause and effect. It is the level at which these laws are mastered that we define as being the level of “control over matter.”
  • If the partial separation of the bond between spirit and matter becomes chronic, a disability is created which will not respond to any form of purely physical treatment. Such a disability can be corrected only from the level of Spirit in Matter, (although the individual who applies the corrective principle is seldom actually occupying this level when the correction is made).
    The level is one in which the energy, and, therefore, the frequency is so high that a being occupying it might not be visible or audible to anyone at a much lower level. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou Nearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth: so is everyone that is born of spirit.” St. John 3-8.
  • It should be made clear, however, that the individual is created with the inherent right of self determination. No aid or remedy can be thrust upon the individual from any level of development. If any person is to receive assistance from any source, he must first accept completely, both the assistance and the source.
  • When Jesus said, “I am the lamb that taketh away the sin of the world,” he did not mean that the sin would be removed from the mind of God, for sin does not exist in the mind of God. It exists only in the heart and conscience of man.
    Note that the effectiveness of the sacrifice is dependent upon the belief of the individual. If any person will accept completely in his own mind and heart the fact that the sacrifice was made voluntarily, that it was made for him and that it will remove his sin, then that person’s con-science is immediately freed of its burden of guilt and he can proceed without hindrance, on the path of spiritual development.

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