Gerard Aartsen – The Spirituality Behind the UFOs

Through his research into the work of George Adamski, arguably the most famous of the early contactees, Gerard Aartsen uncovers the true significance of the coming of the UFOs. He reframes the discussion about the relevance of Adamski’s mission in preparation for a complete restructuring of our world and shows the connection that exists between the ancient teachings, the coming of the UFOs and the collapse of our present economic and political systems.

Gerard Aartsen is an educator at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. He is the author of “George Adamski: A Herald for the Space Brothers” (2010) and “Here to Help: UFOs and the Space Brothers” (2011). He has lectured about the Space Brothers in Europe, America, and the Philippines. Having been a student of the Ageless Wisdom teachings for over thirty years Mr. Aartsen is able to take a spiritual look at the UFO phenomenon. I had the privilege of interviewing Gerard Aartsen for OM Times about why he believes the people behind the UFOs are our “Space Brothers” and their purpose in coming to Earth.

The Spirituality Behind the UFOs – An Interview with Gerard Aartsen

By Jason V. Francis

An Interview with Gerard Aartsen

Jason Francis: Who are the Space Brothers?

Gerard Aartsen: The Space Brothers are the people from other planets in our solar system who come to Earth to assist us, not just humanity as a whole, but our elder brothers, the Masters of Wisdom in a major transition in consciousness, a realization or reawakening to the spiritual realities of life, to our real spiritual nature that we have lost sight of.

I am aware that there are many reports of people who claim to be in contact with people from outer space. A lot of people say that they come from out of this solar system because our science tells us the other planets in our system are uninhabited and even uninhabitable. According to the Ageless Wisdom Teachings, and this is the background from which I speak and write, life is universal. You cannot go anywhere where there is no life because life is the underlying principle of everything that exists. It’s just that because we are so conditioned by life on the solid physical plane, and we do not have etheric vision, which is the ability to see the higher planes material reality above the dense physical, liquid and gaseous physical, that we take for granted that other planets are uninhabited. So most contactees say the space people in the UFOs must be from out of the solar system. However, based on my study and research of the Ageless Wisdom, I believe that the Space Brothers are from within our solar system.

They are here with their advanced technology and advanced ethics and morals to assist us mostly discretely and in the background. But they have begun to make themselves increasingly visible, even since the 1940s and 1950s. So it is becoming harder and harder for the authorities to deny their existence.

JF: What is the “Ageless Wisdom”?

Gerard Aartsen: The Ageless Wisdom has been defined as “the means by which humanity is kept informed of its essential divinity and of its journey of evolution toward perfection.” It is the sum total of mankind’s spiritual tradition and the source from which all major religions have sprung.

JF: Could you tell us about your book “George Adamski: A Herald for the Space Brothers” (2010)?

Gerard Aartsen: It’s interesting because now that I have a book out I am invited to speak and give interviews. It seems that a lot of people have forgotten about George Adamski. In the 1950s he was one of the very first people to speak out about his contacts. He wrote a very famous book he coauthored with an Anglo-Irish gentleman, Desmond Leslie, called Flying Saucers Have Landed, which was published in 1953. It’s mainly a historical overview, a study by Desmond Leslie, of the flying saucer phenomena.

When Desmond Leslie was looking for a publisher he heard about George Adamski’s experience in the California desert in November 1952. George Adamski had written it up and was looking for a way to have his report published, which was included as the second part in the same book, Flying Saucers Have Landed. That’s where he first became famous. Also, he had the most detailed photographs of flying saucers. Even until now because I really don’t know about clearer or more detailed photographs of flying saucers.

After Adamski’s fist encounter with someone who came out of the flying saucer that landed in the California desert in 1952, in 1953 he had further contacts and was taken aboard flying saucers that took him to mother ships—larger spacecraft that usually carried lots of people and numerous saucers or “scouts”, as they are called. He spoke to the people on those mother ships and some of those people were revered even among the space people aboard those mother ships.

I think they could be compared to our Masters of Wisdom that we know about through people like Helena Blavatsky and Baird T. Spalding. He received a lot of serious and inspiring teachings about the nature of life. That became the topic and content of his second book Inside the Space Ships that was published in 1955. In the meantime he was lecturing, especially in the USA and Mexico at the time. He became world famous in fact because of his book. Flying Saucers Have Landed was translated into no less than ten languages. Mind you, this is the mid 1950s. Within a short number of years he was giving talks and by 1959 he was on a world tour that took him to South America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. He drew huge crowds that came to listen to him.

That really worried the authorities. They set in motion a campaign to discredit Adamski. It has been so effective that in the late 1950s and in the early 1960s until his death in 1965 he was generally seen as a hoax or a crackpot. The thing that I think he should be remembered and given credit for is the amazing teaching that he provided through his contacts with the space people. What I do in my book is find the parallels between those teachings and the teachings that have come to us through people like Alice Bailey and Helena Blavatsky that are known as the Ageless Wisdom teachings. It is so interesting to see that the space people actually have the same view of life as the great teachers on Earth.

JF: Could you tell us about the Amicizia contact case that took place in Italy concurrent to Adamski’s outreach in the US, that you mention in your new book “Here To Help: UFOs and the Space Brothers”? And are there other similar encounters?

Gerard Aartsen: The Amicizia, or Friendship, Case in Italy was a case of mass contact between hundreds of Italians and space people who lived and worked in underground bases in Italy. Actually, similar contact cases seemed to be going on in other European countries at the same time. In Italy the Friendship Case started in 1956 and while in most contact cases people are invited on board extraterrestrial spacecraft, in this case they were invited into the underground bases of the space people. The case involved quite a number of well-known Italians too, such as university professors, one or two journalists, a painter and a consul, Alberto Perego. The true scale of Amicizia only became known through the account of psychologist Bruno Sammaciccia whose story was included in a book titled Mass Contacts by Stefano Breccia, which came out in 2009.

Apart from the fact that the various participants all talk about very human-looking space people, what stands out in this case for me is the focus that the space visitors put on the importance on right human relations – friendship and understanding as they called it. This coincides exactly with the stated aims of George Adamski’s Get Acquainted Program, which he set up in 1957 on the suggestion of his space contacts. And given that we also know about branches of the Friendship community in South America since 1985, this points to a worldwide, sustained effort on the part of the space people to emphasize the importance of living by the Golden Rule that can also be found at the basis of every major religion.

JF: What is the general impression of the space people by those who have met them?

Gerard Aartsen: It is interesting to see that in all the serious cases of contacts with space people that I have researched, some historical, some more recent, they are seen as morally far advanced compared to ourselves, working and living according to the highest ethical standards. This was reported not only by the early contactees of the 1950s, but also by the people in the Friendship case in Italy and South America, more recent contactees such as Giorgio Dibitonto from Italy and Carlos Diaz from Mexico, as well as by high-profile individuals who have testified about their encounters. When you look at it closely, it is astounding to find so many people talking about the goodness and wisdom of the people from space.

JF: The idea of beneficent Space Brothers stands in stark contrast to nasty “aliens” abducting and examining people. Do the Space Brothers abduct individuals?

Gerard Aartsen: That’s why it is so important to get this message out. I believe it also shows how effective the whole disinformation campaign has been ever since George Adamski became so well known in the 1950s. Unfortunately, there have been covert government operations with some secret agencies that even our administrations and presidents didn’t know about, which have increasingly got their own way by giving the space visitors a bad name by depicting them as malicious: responsible for cattle mutilation, beaming people into their ships to have objects implanted into them and subjected to nasty experiments. None of that is true according to Benjamin Creme, who is in constant contact with one of the Masters of Wisdom.

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