NEW EDITION–On Benevolent ET Intervention

A thoroughly rewritten and more critical take on the Galactic Federation of Light, this time with UB references minimized—thus suitable for sharing widely

Dear Union of Souls subscribers:

I’ve redone this SPECIAL REPORT, top to bottom. And it’s better written and more thorough. Here’s why I revised it, friends; please see my three reasons below …

1. I’m updating my views of GFL based on new input; I’m more critical of GFL while still friendly. Plus, there have been many new announcements from the GFL presenters. It just keeps rolling in!

2. To reach a non-UB audience. Toward that end, I have removed most UB references in the Report. Now you can forward this freely to your friends who are not UB-ers. This is important because a great deal is at stake for all of us, given GFL’s breathtaking claims. Let your friends decide: Is it all too good to be true? To give them a chance, forward this post or send them this link: https://exorealities.substack.com/archive

3. I’m going to return to more strictly UB-related topics in Union of Souls. In that connection, as of today, I have launched a more “popular” substack directed at non-UB folks (and you’re welcome to subscribe also). It covers the exotic realities of the universe, utilizing the tools of exotheology and exopolitics, and more—but it’s outside the Urantia Book purview because it is more speculative and much more about direct contact with off-world beings. It’s called Exo-Realities, and these new non-UB people can also find this Special Report there. When it’s helpful, I will gently introduce them to the UB as part of my outreach effort.

So, please “like” this new version (scroll below the image), and forward it widely, as this is vital information for our time. As before, I am posting the first section, and the rest is available for those who want more. Or, just download it here as a 21-page PDF.

NEW EDITION–On Benevolent ET Intervention

This essay begins with panoramic descriptions of planetary affairs seen from three perspectives. Next I’ll introduce distinctions borrowed from exotheology, a discipline based on the encounter of theology with claims of off-world visitors—“sheep of another fold” (John 10:16). The forthcoming discussion also draws from the dialogue of theology and science, as well as philosophy of religion and interfaith methodology. In this Special Report, I’ll bring these tools to bear as we examine an ET contact phenomenon that has gained wide attention. It is known as the Galactic Federation of Light (GFL)—purportedly a consortium of extraterrestrials who have produced a vast body of teachings in the form of hundreds of recorded discourses, all posted on a Youtube channel called GFL Station. The screenshot below gives a flavor of the cleverness and the wide set of skills deployed in this massive outreach effort.

What the viewer first sees are AI-processed images of attractive and apparently ageless extraterrestrials, and it’s paired with clickbait headings often tied to current events. They’re all white, young, and attractive except for two blue-skinned races—and one race, the Lyrans, are feline.

The Federation’s member races are said to include Arcturians, Andromedans, Sirians, Lyrans, and Pleiadians. Each race is represented by one or two spokespersons, many listed here, and these presenters come with exotic names such as Ashtar, Valir, Orxa, Laayti, Rieva, Xandi, or Zorrion. This panoply of words, sounds, images, and personalities is entertaining and uplifting, even if science fiction.

In the effort to reach us, an ET’s raw input is transmitted telepathically to one of many human contactees, whose names are posted with each GFL transmission. The material is quickly transcribed and well edited, and the clean transcript is then recorded using AI-managed voices of hired actors, whose names are also listed.
A striking feature of GFL Station’s production activity is its beauty; the art direction is superb in my opinion. The flow of the dense verbal content is well-paced, each discourse accompanied by a tasteful music bed, and meaningful images map into the ET orations. The website introduction says the art is “curated,” but even if AI-generated, this visionary imagery is professionally rendered.

The GFL Station operation is incredibly prolific and consistent. Nearly 1,000 audio-videos have been posted on Youtube since 2022, often two a day, each one a minimum of 30 minutes in length and many much longer.

GFL Station’s media producers are headquartered in British Columbia and are led by a man named David Nicholas, who appears to also be the primary contactee. He states at the site that he and his partner Kelley Lynn were “directed to start the station in 2022 on account of the huge upcoming UFO / ET disclosure.” This large endeavor, this outpouring of cosmic evangelism (if you will), is truly a success in business terms. It has so far gathered over 147,000 subscribers, and some of these videos garner over 100,000 views while the average one gets roughly 40,000 views each. Most programs acquire hundreds of likes and comments.

Perspective 1: We begin by considering three perspectives on world affairs, and the first of these concerns our epochal crisis, the ominous threat of humanity’s self-destruction. According to GFL, this predicament has summoned the help of fleets of benign ETs from many different worlds, now supposedly hovering in our skies in cloaked spaceships.

In brief, Perspective 1 proclaims that our future looks exceedingly dire. Humankind is failing the test of planetary sustainability, which has both environmental and social/political dimensions. I won’t burden you here with the usual recitation of humanity’s wicked problems (such as genocide with impunity, out-of-control AI, overwhelming pollution, egregious inequality, political corruption, and all the rest). The general point is that our global crisis is devastating and relentless in much the same way that the wars in Gaza or Ukraine are devastating and virtually impossible to stop through any known means.

In a real sense, then, humanity is in a helpless state, and this is why millions of benign ETs are here on an urgent mission, as made clear in this early teaching in June by Ashtar, “commander of the Galactic Light Forces of the Ashtar Command,” who states that their mission is “ordained by the Supreme Creator . . . and protected by cosmic decree.”

The grim conclusion of Perspective 1 is that, unless our current maladies are quickly reversed, a dystopian future of systemic collapse and die-off appears inevitable.
Allow this first viewpoint to become an initial premise informing our exploration of the emergency presence of GFL. We should add that, according to Ashtar:

“Some of our vessels are in orbit just beyond your atmosphere. Others are stationed on the far side of your moon and even within your solar systems neighboring planets, all cloaked for now. We have ships positioned over key energy vortexes of Earth and even beneath your oceans as part of this grand preparation.”

Perspective 2: While the above snapshot is starkly negative, our second perspective holds that transcendent faith in an infinite and loving God offers a way out of self-destruction. Choosing the divine way is the surest path forward, according to all GFL instructors—many of whom sound like mystic poets. Their prophecy of an imminent transformation is starkly positive—and parallels the eschatologies of our great religions.

But there is a critical turning point in the “ascension” path to planetary sustainability. Getting there requires a critical mass of dedicated spiritual practitioners among people of all faiths—and to my great surprise, the GFL states that this tipping point has already been achieved on Earth. Those of us engaged in direct communion with the divine are now the vanguard of a unified world religion that will evolve by the year 2040—as stated in a lesson received on October 25. Here’s a small excerpt:

“Beloved hearts, before we speak further of love’s immensity, allow us to illuminate what is unfolding in the domain humanity calls religion. From our vantage beyond time, we witness how every creed, every temple, every prayer language was a bright fragment of one great mirror—each shard reflecting a facet of the same Infinite Source. For millennia, these fragments glittered separately, guiding tribes and nations through the long night of forgetfulness. Yet as the dawn of higher consciousness rises upon Earth, those scattered reflections begin to converge into a single radiant surface. By the year 2040 of your calendar, this convergence will reach full resonance. It will not arrive as conquest or collapse, but as a gentle dissolving—an awakening recognition that there has only ever been One Presenceshining through countless forms. . . . Every faith kept alive a spark of the One Light through centuries when darkness seemed to prevail. But now the lesson is complete. The next stage of spiritual maturity is dawning: direct communion without intermediaries, a universal practice of inner stillness through which every soul perceives the same living Presence within.”

Seen from this optimistic perspective, humankind is on a fast track to join the greater community of enlightened worlds.

And it all sounds too good to be true.

In the face of the skeptics (including me in moments of doubt), GFL boldly asserts that a huge leap is imminent, even in the face of our current grisly scenes of genocide, poverty, corruption, and turbulence. It doesn’t matter if you are a pessimist or a doomer; spritely optimism is a constant theme in all GFL transmissions.
Indeed, the GFL teachers, all of them, frequently insist that what we see in the news today is the proverbial darkness before the dawn.
It’s the apocalypical acting out of the obstructionists before they flame out. It’s the final and desperate stand of the so-called dark cabal, “the powers that were,” as their self-dealing and illegitimate ruling institutions crumble and collapse before our eyes. We’ll be escorted through this harsh period by our designated “teachers from the light”—the advanced extraterrestrials mandated by our Creator to take the lead.
What makes the GFL instructors so qualified to lead such a profound mission? The answer is simple: their races long ago passed their own test of planetary survival. Their success is due to their own partnershipwith the Universal Creator, which guided them toward global sustainability and a unified world religion. [The image below appeared in the session just cited, and depicts the convergence of our world’s religions.]

Progress for any inhabited planet requires inspired revelation

I have viewed several dozen GFL videos so far. And I’ve concluded that the achievement of an enlightened civilization onanyinhabited planet entails slow but sureevolution punctuated by occasional leaps. Success requires millennia of guidance by forces of light in all its forms, both inner and outer.

But the choice to follow the light is optional, given that sovereign free will is always sacrosanct.

Sadly, in rare cases, a planet may opt out. And of so, it eventually self-destructs. But the average inhabited world opts-in, and its transformations unfold by means of periodic divine revelations, visitations, and giftings of divine energy. If the population is receptive, such influences render these worlds supremely sustainable and well-governed. They settle down permanently into posterity as a lawful and peaceful global culture, radiant with love and compassion.

And at some point, such a mature world embarks on interplanetary exploration, often to share their achievements with cosmic siblings on younger worlds, especially a troubled planet like ours, which has been isolated for eons due to a calamitous start.

A forensic look at our planetary dilemma

And yet, a third point of view is missing from this picture, which I will now bluntly state as Perspective 3: the notion that our dire threat of planetary collapseis not directly our fault.

Here I offer the audacious premise that our current global crises have a malignantoff-world origin.Everything else is secondary.

Consider that the record of human history is marred by human exploitation, environmental degradation, and ferocious warfare, including the specter of an endless series of violent empires (e.g., Rome, the Mongols, Nazi Germany) that rise and fall in succession. And yet, it is also true that humanity has enjoyed brief golden ages: ancient Athens, the Tang dynasty in China, Germany prior to WWI, the US after WWII. But those short periods of high culture are the exceptions that prove the rule. Not one of these bursts of peace and creativity have endured sufficiently to enable a permanent flowering of human potential. They wereallunsustainable in every dimension of human activity.

According to Perspective 3, this depressing record is asymptomatic expression.In other words, our putative human nature (read: original sin) is not the direct cause of these woes. Rather, to put it starkly, we are traumatized survivors of collective abuse by

outside usurpers and human elites who colluded with them, as alluded to in ancient records worldwide.

And this continues to be the case up to the current moment, when innumerable witnesses speak to the fact that a global cabal, which draws sustenance from off-world support, has held sway on our world—even threatening nuclear war to get its way. (See the transcriptfor the transmission on this topic by Mira, pictured at left.)

Tragic as this sounds, a forensic analysis reveals that the original “tort” was visited upon us by malicious non-human intelligences, both fallen angels and dark ETs—and isstilla factor.Let this be the third and final distinction informing our exotheological inquiry, but please refer to our forthcoming Part II for much more detail.

While most “modern” people miss this essential fact about diabolical off-world interference, biblical Christians grasp this truth in mythic form, for example, in the description of the Nephilim of Genesis 6:1-4, the stories of Satan in numerous passages, and in the doctrine of original sin attributed to Adam’s fall.

I provide a modernized theological understanding of these realities in my recent study,Truths About Evil, Sin, and the Demonic (Wipf & Stock, 2023). In this work I provide a history of the problem of evil followed by theodicy for the future, that is, a theological understanding of the nature of evil and its overcoming. I also call for “the fostering of the cosmic religion of the future” (the slogan of Rodan Institute)—one of many versions of which can be found in the GFL transmissions.

Benign intervention is on fast track because compensation is due to us

The key point remains the same: the remedial ancient interventions described earlier were warranted. And such revelations and visitationscontinue to be requiredif we are to finally break with our past trauma at the hands of once-dominant dark forces—a great purgation evoked in mytho-poetic form in the biblical Book of Revelation.

I argue this because the malign effect of some sort of off-world calamity seems to have powerfully cascaded down through the millennia and is now manifesting as our present moment of great peril and threat of self-destruction. Thankfully, momentum

has been slowed by the reconstructive policies inspired by gifts of grace, including the evolution of constitutional democratic government, the modern focus on human rights, and the astounding progress in science and technology of the last two centuries.

So, here’s the upshot:unaided social evolution is insufficient. Heavenly and extraterrestrial support, that is, off-world assistance commensurate with our current predicament is needed in the coming months and years—and again, thankfully, the universe has purchased “cosmic underwriting” for our recovery in the form of the sacred assets conferred by earlier interventions.

If one can accept Perspective 3—the idea that we are unwitting victims of off-world exploitation—then it makes sense that lavish mercy is not only available, but in fact isdue to us in the form of compensatory grace.

Consider the fact that, even in ordinary human statutes, the remedy for a tort isimmediate compensation, the payment of monetary damages that bring justice to the injured party. Allow me to speculate that a heavenly jurisprudence is now at work, and it has ruled that rapid compensation or reparation is now due to the long-suffering peoples of Earth.

And that’s why I argue, with caution, that one of the more uplifting new forms of compensatory grace now owed to us, but just one among many, comes our way from the Galactic Federation of Light, which can best be understood within the framework of our three Perspectives, each one a factor in the global events to come.

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