The Sky People [antikvár]

Some of the concepts advanced in this book are of acompletely revolutionary nature and the very opposite tothose handed down to us by the priests and the scientists.For thousands of years men have had persistently instilledinto them the idea that the earth was the centre of theuniverse. The notion that there could possibly be a raceoutside the earth which might have a wisdom and technolo-gy superior to their own was thought both amoral andheretical.During the last thirteen years people all over the worldhave been seeing what are popularly termed 'flying saucers'.Thousands of men and women in every country, many ofthem trained observers, have spotted these strange craft, andreports of their out-of-this-world behaviour have been pub-lished in the world press, magazines and in over a hundredbooks. They have been photographed, filed and tracked onradar screens. Governments have set up special projects toinvestigate this phenomenon.People everywhere are beginning to awaken to the ideathat something is behind it all. Ideas themselves, however, arenot negotiable. They are not transferable. One cannot put anidea into another mind. One can only awaken and, perhaps,draw out the ideas already there; ideas that have been cov-ered up by blindness, forgetfulness or deliberate burial.This is education, from a Latin word meaning 'to leadout'-which rather goes to show the old Romans knew moreabout it than we do.If somebody holds up one of his ideas for you to see, andyou say, 'Yes, I like that idea!' it is because, in your ownmental files you have one similar to it. If you cannot find any