Karma One: What is you 
				background and education? Why did you interest yourself with the 
				subject of AB's and UFO's?
				
				Paul Von Ward: I have a multifaceted background in terms 
				of both education and professional experience. Such diversity 
				led me to assume the role of interdisciplinary cosmologist where 
				I attempt to integrate knowledge from all fields of study.
				
				 
				
				Florida State University awarded me 
				a B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) in social sciences and an M.S. in 
				psychology and education. My MPA degree in politics and 
				psychology came from Harvard University. I also pursued 
				post-graduate study at American University, the University of 
				Southern California, the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, and the 
				Ecole Superieure d'Administration Internationale in Paris.
				
				My professional life started as a Protestant minister and 
				psychologist. I then served as a U.S. naval reserve officer 
				during the Vietnam War. My later 15 years as U.S. diplomat took 
				me to posts in Paris, Martinique, Sierra Leone, Dominican 
				Republic, NATO, and Washington, DC. 
				
				
				 
				
				As founder and CEO, I led a 
				nonprofit international organization with projects that involved 
				100 countries. During this long career, I also conducted 
				historical, cross-cultural, and anomalous phenomena research. I 
				have been an independent scholar for the last decade.
				
				The concept of Advanced Beings (AB's) interested me as a minister 
				studying the evidence for their contact with humans in the 
				establishment of various religions. My family had UFO stories, 
				but I became interested in the phenomenon when, as a diplomat, I 
				learned my government collected UFO data in other countries.
				
				 
				
				
				
				
Since then I have tried to connect 
				the ancient stories with present day events.
 
				
				
				Karma One : What credibility do you give to recent 
				sources who give information about the nature of AB’s, recent 
				sources like what we call channels, remote viewers and other 
				“New Agers”? Do you make a distinction between the 
				
				abductee and 
				the 
				contactee?
				
				Evidence included in the book indicates that humans have had 
				communications from AB's (gods, angels, spirits, etc.) through 
				dreams and trances throughout history. Some of those 
				communications were attempts to control humans, while others 
				gave Homo sapiens helpful information. In my view, all AB's are 
				simply other species of conscious beings, whether in physical or 
				energetic form. 
				 
				
				Each AB, though perhaps more 
				knowledgeable than humans, has only a limited understanding of 
				our complex universe. So, even when well-intentioned, an AB can 
				give the human channel only partial knowledge. Given this and 
				the fact that some may deliberately give us false information, 
				humans must be discerning about such communications and 
				corroborate them through different epistemologies. 
				 
				
				Human must test channeled messages 
				before acting on them.
				
				Abductees refers to someone taken by an AB (or a government 
				agent) to another location, on Earth or beyond, against his/her 
				will. A contactee has received, willingly or not, some 
				communication or other contact from an AB.
 
				
				
				Karma One : How do you explain that most of the Myths 
				and history of mankind tells the same story about the origin of 
				man?
				
				First, all the stories are not exactly the same. There are many 
				theories, but I believe the evidence (fossil, genetic, 
				archaeological, and anthropological) suggests Homo sapiens arose 
				in Africa due to AB genetic manipulation of Homo erectus. And 
				that this basic account was carried around the world by the 
				migrating aboriginals. 
				 
				
				There appears to have been 
				subsequent genetic interventions (as described in the Bible and 
				
				Sumerian texts), so the stories vary. Western scholars must be 
				careful not to interpret other cultural traditions through their 
				own linguistic and religious biases.
				
				The fact that most traditions do have accounts of AB involvement 
				with either the first humans or their culture does give credence 
				to the AB intervention story.
 
				
				
				Karma One : Beside the congruence and the similarities 
				between myths from different civilizations, what kind of 
				credibility can we give to those ancient myth and religions? Is 
				it possible that a manipulation is possible, that those AB’s 
				don’t tell us the true about our nature, their nature, our 
				origin and their origin?
				
				My sense is that the variety among creation stories reflects 
				more the differences among human languages and cultures. I 
				prefer to review the historical data we have available about our 
				origins and AB interventions and develop up-dated 
				interpretations of that past. 
				
				 
				
				The purpose of the book is to test 
				the hypothesis that natural beings from elsewhere in the 
				universe did influence our development. 
				 
				
				I test this hypothesis against 
				historical records, the fossil record, 
				
				phylogenetic tree 
				estimates, the history of languages and alphabets, and the human 
				institutions of kingship and priesthood. I use ancient documents 
				and artifacts.
				
				From my perspective this gives us a version of history to check 
				AB accounts passed on to different humans. Like all 
				interpreters, human channels also distort to some extent the 
				stories AB's give them. Thus, we must be very careful not to 
				take any one channeled version of AB intervention as complete 
				and valid. 
				 
				
				Some of those AB sources may also be 
				
				manipulating the human audience for their own purposes, or the 
				human channel may manipulate the material for his or her own 
				gain (publicity, financial wealth, or control over a particular 
				group as the early priests did when they formed AB-god cults)
 
				
				
				Karma One :  Generally speaking, do you think 
				personally that those AB’s are benevolent or malevolent ?
				
				I believe, like humans and probably all species, that there are 
				benevolent and malevolent AB's. Sometimes, what seems malevolent 
				to humans may be a perfectly natural behavior on the part of an 
				AB. (What do animals think of our experiments on them that we do 
				in the name of science to benefit humans?) 
				 
				
				Whether we consider an AB malevolent 
				or benevolent, we must assess whether the intention is more to 
				help humans than to benefit the AB, just as we evaluate human 
				intentions. 
				 
				
				Then we can decide whether to accept 
				their help or not.
 
				
				
				Karma One : People like David Jacobs or 
				
				David Icke 
				believe that a race of AB’s is responsible of a huge 
				manipulation of the human race. Do you believe in that?
				
				I believe the first manipulation (a genetic up-grading of Earth 
				primates) was the most intrusive. It dramatically speeded up 
				hominoid development on this planet. That appears to have been 
				AB's doing to Homo erectus what humans now do genetically to 
				lesser species to enhance our diets and use animals for service 
				or sports. 
				 
				
				Any manipulations since then appear 
				to me to reflect struggles among AB's for access to and control 
				of Earth resources, which include humans from their point of 
				view. Some of these connections may be in the form of secret 
				links to covert human groups. I suspect these humans are more 
				responsible for disinformation and terrorizing the public than 
				the AB's directly. Reports of AB abductions and contacts seem to 
				suggest basically neutral or benign intentions.
				
				In any event, the only recourse the public has is to 
				collectively pool information from all sources and engage in 
				open debate about human options. This proposed process is 
				treated fully in the last chapter of the book. Modern UFO and ET 
				interest groups have been much too cult-like and not willing 
				enough to share their information and cooperate with other 
				groups. 
				 
				
				This is an obstacle to overcoming 
				the AB legacy of fragmented consciousness and societal 
				conflicts.
 
				
				
				Karma One : Can we make a connection between the story 
				of the creation of man according to the Sumerian text and the 
				story of the creation of man according the Gnostic. Both talks 
				about superior beings. The Gnostic with the Archons are more 
				specific when they say that the Archons, coming from the Stars 
				are bad creature responsible of our falling fate. Do you think 
				that 
				the Archons
				and
				
				the Anunnaki are the same creatures?
				
				Remember that the Gnostic texts are much more recent than the 
				Sumerian texts. 
				
				 
				
				The Gnostic writers were the products of the Era 
				of God-Cults (from 3,500 BP to 500 CE) with its distortions of 
				the early history of AB's in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Eastern 
				Mediterranean. In the last several centuries of AB-god cults, 
				humans had begun to imagine that the Anunnaki and their junior 
				AB's were supernatural powers (not just natural beings who were 
				more advanced than humans). 
				 
				
				So the Gnostic stories of creation 
				have this supernatural orientation. The Hebrew Torah and the 
				
				Dead Sea Scrolls (all about 2,000 years old) still treated the 
				AB's as natural beings until they were later reinterpreted by 
				the priesthood as supernatural. (The development of magical 
				thinking prevalent in AB-god cults and the invention of 
				supernaturalism in the modern era are described in Chapters 20 
				and 22 respectively.)
				
				In my view the 
				Archons of the Gnostics were analogous to the Gi-Gi and Neter of the Sumerian and Egyptian texts and the Greys 
				of today. In other words they were the "enlisted" men following 
				the commands of the "officer" corps. 
				 
				
				Since they carried out the nasty 
				orders of the ruling AB's (like forcing humans to obey and even 
				killing some of them), they are seen as the evil, bad guys by 
				humans.
 
				
				
				Karma One : According to your search, what is your 
				personal opinion about the purpose of the AB by creating 
				mankind? Just for the fun and the beauty of creating intelligent 
				life or, as some authors postulates, AB’s created man because 
				they need some kind of slaves?
				
				See the answer to question 5 above. It seems to me that most 
				groups or species act toward others in their own self-interest 
				(however that is defined). Thus, the Sumerian story of Anunnaki 
				"creation" of humans sounds reasonable. 
				 
				
				They wanted some assistants who were 
				strong and dependent on them (like slave-owning humans), so they 
				genetically domesticated some hominoids for that role (as humans 
				bred the dumb mule). With the help of some AB's, particularly 
				after the global cataclysm of 11,500 BP, much human progress has 
				been made. 
				 
				
				We can only blame humans for the 
				distortions of the role of AB's in history and the creation of 
				supernaturally oriented religious and political institutions 
				that have stifled natural human development and expansion of 
				consciousness.
 
				
				
				Karma One : In your book, with the AB’s thesis, you 
				propose another way to look at the main religions (Christian, 
				Muslim, Buddhist and Jew). Religions are not the result of the 
				contact between the creator of all things and us but the contact 
				between manipulated men and advanced beings from more advanced 
				civilizations. Do you mean that those beings are more advanced 
				technologically but not really spiritually and in a metaphysical 
				point of view? Is it possible that we are the victims of a huge 
				cultural manipulation from those beings and that we are caught 
				in a kind of Cargo Cult Syndrome?
				
				Your questions are almost as I would state the conclusions from 
				my research. While the AB's were actively involved with humans 
				on Earth, humans saw them as more powerful beings, but only 
				parts of the natural universe. After the AB-gods withdrew from 
				physical positions of power over humans, and humans became 
				kings, the human interpreters for the AB's began to serve as an 
				independent priesthood. 
				 
				
				They took advantage of subjects of 
				the various ruling AB's (like Ishtar, Marduk, 
				
				YHVH, 
				Thoth, etc.) 
				to turn them into wishful-thinking cults. The cults were taught 
				to believe that if they did the rituals set out by the priests, 
				gave offerings to them, and prayed to the departed ABs' that 
				they would come back and rule on Earth again (the second-coming 
				myth). 
				 
				
				As described in the response to 
				question 6 above, these cults became the basis for religion. 
				They were like the Cargo Cult syndrome among Pacific Islanders 
				who saw the advanced technology of U.S. armed forces dropping 
				goodies to them and concluded the planes were gods.
				
				We must remember that Christianity was a misrepresentation of 
				the earlier cult of YHVH and a distortion of the life of the 
				human teacher Jesus, but it was the product of the concept of 
				supernaturalism solidified in 
				
				the Roman Church. Islam came from 
				the channeled message from an AB called Gabriel to Mohammed.
				
				 
				
				Once again it was a distortion of a 
				view of an indirect communication for the purposes of one human 
				and his followers. Modern religions like that of the Mormons 
				came from a similar experience. Buddhism is a philosophy, not a 
				religion, but many supernaturally thinking Westerners treat it 
				as a region with a supernatural basis.
				
				When I use the term AB for Advanced Beings, I mean only that 
				they are more advanced in terms of technology or communications 
				between dimensions and can take the initiative to contact us; we 
				can't force them to meet or talk with us. I suspect that 
				throughout the universe advanced species have varying degrees of 
				intellectual, moral, and ethical development.
				
				In my view, only the natural philosophies of a few traditional 
				cultures reflect the appropriate view of the ultimate creative 
				source of the universe. 
				
				 
				
				Cults or religions that worship 
				human-defined AB's simply worship their own projections.
 
				
				
				Karma One : Do you believe that those AB’s 
				pretending to be God are impostor or it is man who use those 
				AB’s phenomenon as a tool to impose hierarchy and ultimate power 
				who is the impostor ?
				
				I do not know of any AB's who declare they are the creators of 
				our universe or the cosmos. Some AB's have claimed to be the 
				rulers over Earth and humans, but that reflects their own desire 
				for power over us (as in human kings and queens who dominate and 
				rule over colonies of more primitive humans). 
				 
				
				Only humans who think in very 
				simplistic terms would even consider pretending that AB's like 
				YHVH, or variations of his personality as in Allah or the 
				Christian God, are the ultimate source of all things. Such 
				believers confuse representatives of more advanced species from 
				other planets with the energy and consciousness that lies at the 
				center of creation. 
				
				 
				
				This is what Freud called an
				anthropomorphic 
				projection of human ideas on the unknown.
				
				When the Anunnaki ruled what is now the Middle East after the 
				Flood, humans became very dependent on them for technical 
				assistance and knowledge (Chapters 11-13 in the book). Humans 
				developed a sense of not being self-sufficient, looking to 
				higher beings for direction and a confirmation of value. After 
				the AB's ceased direct rule over 4,000 years ago, humans felt 
				deserted and lost. 
				 
				
				They became psychologically 
				susceptible to manipulation by the people who had been given 
				authority as kings and priests. Most humans in that area were 
				easily swept into AB-god cults of one kind or the other. These 
				cults led directly to modern institutions of
				
				religion and 
				
				royalty (providing the base for most European governments).
				
				 
				
				The revolutionary US government has 
				now also moved in this theocratic direction, supporting secrecy 
				and covert programs.
 
				
				
				Karma One : In your book, you clearly show that in 
				ancient times, wars between men were the result of wars between 
				Gods and their followers and that Gods taught men to “hate each 
				other for superficial reasons”. Today, despite the fact that 
				those Gods or AB’s don’t appear materially in front of us and 
				our “modern” society, do you think that it is still the case: 
				
				wars between men could be the result of silent wars between 
				AB’s?
				
				Chapter 19 does explain how the AB's between 4,000 and 10,000 
				years ago conscripted or psychologically enlisted humans in 
				their conflicts. However, I do not know whether AB's still 
				covertly use current wars as instruments for their own battles. 
				I see no direct purpose that would serve for them. I do believe 
				that most all wars in modern history have been wholly or 
				partially due to the historical conflicts among AB-god cults and 
				their derivative supernatural religions. 
				 
				
				Starting with the wars among the 
				states of Sumer, Akkadia, Babylon, Israel, Egypt, Phoenicia, 
				etc., we see they were led by the AB-surrogate kings in a manner 
				that duplicated the previous wars led by the "gods of old". 
				During this era of AB-cults, the kings believed they enjoyed the 
				protection of their AB-gods.
				
				As supernaturalism began to prevail in human consciousness, it 
				became very easy for rulers to invoke the names of their "gods" 
				to whip credulous followers into the frenzy necessary for 
				battle. 
				 
				
				We still see that motivation in the 
				soldiers and terrorists of modern wars who die believing a "god" 
				is on their side.
 
				
				
				Karma One : Some authors like David Ash says that the 
				“benevolent” AB’s toward men are not the ones we believe in. 
				Lucifer, the light bearer, or Satan could be falsely described 
				as the bad guy and YHVH and his angels, the good guys. Ash 
				believe that because Satan wanted to set the mankind free, he 
				was described as an evil being by the Judeo-Christian cults and 
				religions. What do you think about this kind of conception?
				
				I agree with that conception. In Chapter 4 I describe that 
				history (contained in the 
				
				Book of Enoch) and show that the AB's, 
				led by one named Sin (of the family of Enki), who wanted to 
				provide more technical assistance to humans were overruled by 
				the senior AB's, led by Ninurta (who may also have been known as 
				
				YHVH). 
				 
				
				The AB's who won that vote punished 
				those who had given some science to humans, by casting them out 
				of certain positions (like a modern government cabinet shuffle) 
				and labeling them as "sinners". The winners wanted to limit 
				human access to science and the truth about the goals of the 
				Anunnaki. They "demonized" the AB's favoring human development, 
				such as Enki whose symbol was the caduceus (two intertwined 
				serpents). That's why the AB desiring to give knowledge to Eve 
				in the Bible is associated with a serpent, leading to your next 
				question.
				
				To complicate the story, it seems that the “good” guys, those 
				who bring knowledge to mankind are related to the snake (the 
				role of the good snake against the Archons in the Gnostic 
				texts), a reptilian symbolism (very important in shamanism 
				also). 
				 
				
				On the other hand, some authors 
				believes that the reptilian (short Greys are described sometimes 
				as reptilian entities) are the “bad guys”, the extraterrestrial 
				entities who manipulate this world, wage the wars, abduct men, 
				women and children and are behind secrets societies like the 
				Illuminati. 
				
				
				
				The confusion relating to symbols by human writers, including 
				myself, is understandable. We have so many contradictory sources 
				alleging to represent the facts that one has to be very careful 
				about making final conclusions. 
				
				
				 
				
				The Gnostic texts were close 
				enough historically to common knowledge about the story I 
				describe under question 11, that it is logical they would 
				associate helpful AB's with Enki and his followers with his 
				serpent symbol. To now label all reptilian-type AB's as the "bad 
				guys" and to associate them with the serpent symbol of Enki (a 
				hominoid type) makes two mistakes.
				
				First, the Enki symbol refers to the DNA double helix, not the 
				reptile kingdom of animals. Second, the AB's we label reptilian 
				do not correspond to Earthly reptilian species. Using the word 
				reptile for an AB group only a signify a particular AB 
				body-type. Like the selection of animal forms as totems in older 
				societies, we use the word reptile to characterize an aspect of 
				
				a group of AB's. In most traditions, the reptile totem has had 
				very positive meanings (as in the Chinese and Celtic cultures).
				
				 
				
				In fact, the Christian culture is 
				the most prominent to use the reptile image in a negative 
				manner. It should be obvious that this was done by the 
				priesthood to scare believers away from the true story of 
				Ninurta/YHVH's desire to control us.
 
				
				
				Karma One : Do we possess material to prove that 
				churches and religious authorities obscured the real nature of 
				those AB’s when the main religions and churches created the 
				notion of “etheric” being (angels and demons) instead talking 
				about the fact that those AB’s are in fact real flesh entities. 
				What is the purpose of this manipulation?
				
				Yes, I believe historical documents do suggest when the real 
				nature of AB's began to change. Chapters 20-22 explain this 
				progression from natural to magical to supernatural descriptions 
				of the existence of AB's and their relationship to humans. 
				Chapter 7 describes the natural perspective earlier humans had 
				on the presence of their interactions with other dimensions and 
				AB's. 
				 
				
				The reason most researchers do not 
				see this evidence before our eyes is that they interpret older 
				texts through assumptions of today's supernaturalism. For 
				instance, when they read of AB's walking, talking, eating and 
				having sex with humans, they just assume the account is 
				allegorical according to their modern interpretation of reality. 
				However, if one reads ancient accounts in context, it is very 
				easy to find concrete descriptions of the lives of the AB-gods.
				
				
				The Vedic, Sumerian, Persian, Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek and other 
				texts from the era of AB domination over Earth are filled with 
				historical stories that deserve to be read as the authors 
				intended, telling the stories of beings that they knew. 
				
				 
				
				Only 
				within the last 2,000 years we do see the shift to discussions 
				about the possibility that specific AB's or humans might be etheric or spiritual and the unique representatives of a 
				divine 
				realm beyond human comprehension.
 
				
				
				Karma One : You seem to use mathematical probabilities 
				and genetics as a tool to help science to corroborate the 
				existence of AB’s. Can you explain this?
				
				The ancient texts and metaphysical sources both suggest certain 
				time-lines for the interventions of AB's in human history. If 
				those time-lines are correct, we should be able to corroborate 
				them through various scientific disciplines. For instance, we 
				now can be quite certain that the events described as the Flood 
				in the Hebrew Torah and other stories around the world actually 
				happened about 11,500 years ago. 
				
				 
				
				Some dates associated with 
				various break-ups of 
				
				Atlantis can now be confirmed by 
				geophysical research. (See chapter 10.)
				
				Consequently, if such time-lines refer to genetic interventions 
				in human development, we should be able to corroborate them with 
				the technology of 
				
				phylogenetic trees. This is a technique used 
				by geneticists (counting alleles in a group's genome) to 
				estimate the age and geographic location of significant genetic 
				variations from a standard evolutionary model. These points of 
				variation appear as the branches on our evolutionary tree. 
				Chapter 9 describes this area.
				
				Several studies suggest that the oldest human groups (Africans) 
				appeared from a small pool of male and female genes about the 
				time historical sources point to the first genetic intervention 
				that resulted in Homo sapiens (circa 300,000 BP). Similar 
				genetic studies and the fossil record discussed in Chapter 8 
				also tend to confirm ancient texts' accounts of the divergence 
				of Caucasians and Orientals. This studies do not directly prove 
				the AB-intervention hypothesis, but they are surprisingly 
				corroborative. 
				 
				
				We need more scientific research in 
				this area.
 
				
				
				Karma One : Because of the great cataclysm, the great 
				flood that most of the religious texts reports, you postulate 
				that we have a legacy, a post traumatic stress disorder deeply 
				implanted in us still today. What are the consequences of this 
				legacy in our behavior today? Do you think that this disorder 
				was willingly implanted in us and controlled by some of the AB’s 
				to control us by fear ?
				
				I infer a traumatic stress disorder among the survivors of the 
				Cataclysm from descriptions we have of their reactions to AB 
				technical assistance. Humans did not understand the physical 
				calamity that had befallen them and needed immediate aid. 
				Sumerian and Hebrew texts report how grateful the humans were 
				for the gods' help. 
				 
				
				Because the AB's had superior 
				technology and access to seeds and possibly domesticated 
				animals, humans saw them as saviors. (DNA studies show our 
				modern livestock were genetically bred thousands of years before 
				the Cataclysm.) They bowed before the AB's and offered them the 
				choice meats and fruits. Humans felt themselves undeserving and 
				dependent on the AB's. Of course many AB's took advantage of 
				this "dependency syndrome" to obtain psychological loyalty in 
				their internecine AB struggles.
				
				This era reinforced the human view that our species was well 
				below that of the gods from the skies. Some saw humans as fallen 
				beings, unworthy to touch the hem of an AB garment and in need 
				of AB blessings. In many human groups people turned to worship 
				any species from another part of the universe. (This is as true 
				today in UFO/ET and religious groups as it was in the era of 
				god-cults.) 
				
				 
				
				Humans desperately wanted to be more like AB's, to 
				be taken into the skies in their craft. Humans envied the longer 
				life-time of the AB's whose planets had different orbits from 
				their suns. Humans began to covet a home in the heavens.
				
				All these psychological conditions has made it possible for 
				humans pretending to have a special connection to the gods to 
				create cults and religions, promising a return of the AB's and, 
				perhaps, the possibility of a life in the heavens with the AB's. 
				These promises are made by humans for their own benefit. This is 
				the myth told by kings, popes, imams, rabbis, and others to keep 
				control over men. The sad thing is that most people in these 
				positions today do not know the truth either. 
				 
				
				They are just as gullible as any of 
				their followers in perpetuating the lie.
 
				
				
				Karma One : Do you think that the AB’s are at the 
				origin of those cataclysms that wipe out most of humanity (as 
				
				Sitchin seems to postulate with weather control and 
				
				atomic 
				warfare)?
				
				No, I do not believe that the history of Earth cataclysms 
				originates in AB's. Our turbulent solar system and its 
				interactions with the rest of our galaxy and the universe make 
				life on any planet over time rather tenuous. 
				
				
				 
				
				It is likely that 
				AB's have been able to predict cataclysmic events better that 
				humans, and in some instances may have taken advantage of this 
				knowledge to manipulate them. Conversely, AB's have obviously 
				provided assistance to human survivors on one or more occasions.
				
				 
				
				Some human predictions (like the 
				
				Mayan calendar) seem to indicate we learned about cosmic 
				influences from AB astronomers.
 
				
				
				Karma One : Why did some of the AB’s help mankind to 
				restore civilization?
				
				As indicated in some of the earlier answers, certain AB's have 
				always appeared to have a positive interest in humans and 
				provided them with knowledge and assistance. The Bible and 
				Sumerian texts suggest that some AB's (from among the Elohim 
				and Anunnaki) actually warned humans in Mesopotamia that a 
				cataclysm was due and provided specifications for the 
				construction of a submersible craft that would surface after 
				being deluged by flood waters. 
				 
				
				These same AB's reportedly heard the 
				pleas of the humans upon opening the "ark" and took pity on 
				them. After all, the AB's had helped genetically create this 
				species of humans in "their own image". Given the reports of 
				earlier mating between some AB's and humans, even producing 
				hybrid offspring ("the biblical giants of old"), family ties may 
				have motivated some of the AB assistance. It is also reasonable 
				to believe that the AB's would have been disappointed to see 
				their experiment just perish due to a natural disaster. 
				
				 
				
				Humans are similarly motivated to 
				help much lesser species caught in disasters (and the blood ties 
				between the AB's and the human survivors were very powerful.)
 
				
				
				Karma One : Some authors postulate that we are caught 
				in an endless cycle of evolution and devolution: Our current 
				civilization has existed only 7000 years. That is nothing in a 
				cycle of millions of years. Do you think that it is possible 
				that a widespread civilization, well advanced technologically, 
				that looks like us existed a long time ago (a very long time 
				before the Sumerian era) and left no traces?
				
				I, too, believe that all species experience cycles of progress 
				and decline. A species can decline into extinction or achieve a 
				renaissance. Given the age of Earth and the metaphysical 
				information we have about the existence of earlier forms of 
				humans (and traditional memories of 
				
				Atlantis,
				
				Lemuria, and other 
				lost civilizations), I think it is likely that advanced races 
				have lived prior to ours. 
				 
				
				Their existence would help explain 
				some of the presently unexplainable discoveries of very ancient 
				tooled and scientifically sophisticated artifacts found around 
				the globe and described in books like Forbidden Archaeology.
 
				
				
				Karma One : Many researchers and scholars corroborate 
				and continue the work of 
				
				Zecharia Sitchin on the Sumerian Texts. 
				Those texts give many incredible and important details about the 
				origin of our civilization, about our links and our relations 
				with the AB’s, those we call Gods in the sacred books. This kind 
				of information could change dramatically the perspective we have 
				about religion and history. Why do academic authorities, the 
				mainstream media, and other researchers in universities not give 
				more importance to the study of the Sumerian Texts?
				
				As my book 
				
				Gods, Genes, & Consciousness explains in more detail, 
				the very essence of the authority that these institutions base 
				their existence on is their claim to represent the "natural" or 
				"God-given" truth. They have been a part of the cover-up from 
				the time of the Roman Empire to discredit the story of AB 
				involvement in human history. 
				 
				
				To admit that what they call the 
				true origins of science and religion (and hence, Western 
				Civilization) may not be true would totally undermine their 
				credibility and authority. All the power structures they have 
				been paid to reinforce would withdraw that financial support. 
				The entire edifice of modern societies would collapse. 
				
				 
				
				Individuals in these institutions do 
				not have such a "death wish", to destroy all that makes them who 
				they are.
 
				
				
				Karma One : Do you believe that today, AB’s like  
				
				YHVH
				and
				
				the Anunnaki
				bloodlines still want to influence and shape 
				the history of our civilization and that they are still present 
				but invisible? Do you believe in 
				
				the Illuminati hypothesis, in 
				the fact that the Illuminati represent the Anunnaki interests on 
				earth or do you think that it is a too weird speculation from 
				lunatic fringe?
				
				First, let's clarify the concept of "bloodlines". If the AB 
				genetic manipulations I describe in the book are correct, then 
				all Homo sapiens sapiens are part of the general Anunnaki 
				bloodline. What some writers refer to as "blue bloods" or "royal 
				or holy bloodlines" are the direct descendants of mating 
				between individual AB's and individual humans (mainly females, 
				though not exclusively). These were known as "demigods" in 
				several Middle Eastern societies and were likely the first 
				humans to be "anointed" kings over city states by the AB's.
				
				(Your reference to whether AB's are still present but invisible 
				is covered elsewhere.)
				
				Not all children of such AB-human mating ended up in royal 
				palaces as kings or pharaohs. Some of them apparently became 
				teachers among the humans, trying to help them understand their 
				reality as children of the AB-gods as well as Earthlings. They 
				were founders of what I call the non-theist natural traditions 
				(the traditions suppressed by the priests of AB-god cults and 
				supernatural religions).
				
				On your last question above, I do believe there are a number of 
				groups who covertly manipulate the course of humans affairs 
				whenever possible for their own gain. This may include 
				organizations like the Illuminati, but for the most part 
				
				their 
				names are not known. 
				
				 
				
				I usually refer to them as Oligarchs or
				Synarchs. 
				 
				
				I believe their interest is more in 
				preserving the power they originally derived from having close 
				connections to the ruling Anunnaki (and are hidden behind the 
				royals and priests who more clearly inherited power from the 
				AB's)
 
				
				
				Karma One : You consider YHVH as an AB who wanted to 
				impose during Moses reign an utopian centralized society. Why 
				you use the word “utopia”? What kind of utopia and society did 
				this God want to impose and why? Is it really an Anunnaki AB’s 
				vision or his behavior show that he comes from another 
				civilization?
				
				Yes, as described in Chapter 12, I do believe YHVH was one of 
				the second-level Earth-based Anunnaki (possibly the one known in 
				Sumerian as Ninurta). Like Ishtar, Baal, and others he wanted to 
				develop a distinct group of humans as his own fiefdom too give 
				him higher status among his AB peers. He came from the group of 
				AB's who were more authoritarian and controlling of humans, 
				without giving them a lot of advanced knowledge and assistance. 
				
				
				
				 
				
				I used the word "utopia" in the sense of it being an 
				AB-idealized concept, not the perfect one for humans. 
				
				 
				
				From YHVH's perspective, he wanted a 
				society that was disciplined, controlled by his chosen priests 
				and dedicated to honoring him above all other AB's. He required 
				strict rules of behavior, diet, dress, and warfare for him. He 
				was an absolute ruler, threatening harsh punishment, including 
				death for disobedience. (All the attributes of his ideal society 
				are found in Books of Numbers and Leviticus in the Jewish 
				
				Pentateuch.) 
				 
				
				Its purpose was more to keep humans 
				in line than to facilitate their creativity and potential.
 
				
				
				Karma One :  One could postulate that language and the 
				art of writing is a “gift” from AB’s to mankind. But in your 
				book, you are ambiguous about this gift. On one hand, you seem 
				to say that AB’s gave us a very sophisticated language and 
				writing capable of full and perfect communication, also 
				including an esoteric level, with each sound having magical 
				properties. On the other hand, you talk about devolution of 
				language. You say from the Sanskrit to today, the language lost 
				its “power” for full and magic communication. You talked also 
				about the story of the Tower of Babel where the human looses 
				this connection with AB’s language. So, who’s responsible of 
				this situation? Does the AB’s has a agenda with language to 
				weaken, to lose us in a strict 3D reality with a language 
				disconnected from the AB’s reality?
				
				Yes, I do believe, as several human traditions suggest, that 
				some forms of language and writing were the gifts of AB's to at 
				least some groups. (As you know from Chapter 16, I think there 
				were also some totally natural and some partially natural human 
				languages.) 
				
				 
				
				There may have been languages older than 100,000 
				years now unknown of both human and AB origin, but I believe 
				today's major world languages are likely derivatives of early AB 
				input, because they have lived through writing (another AB gift, 
				according to both Western and Eastern accounts). Of modern 
				languages, I believe Sanskrit represents the most well-developed 
				AB-based language.
				
				The word Sanskrit itself means "perfected" and the name of its 
				script "devanagari" means "from the gods". Its 50 letters and 15 
				vowels are the most technically well developed of the other, 
				more recent, alphabets, in terms of reflecting the human voice 
				apparatus for speech. When I speak of devolution of the alphabet 
				and associated languages, I refer to the more simplistic Western 
				alphabets of Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Arabic. 
				 
				
				Another way these languages have 
				devolved is through loss of understanding of the original 
				energetic power of the sound of each letter. They were initially 
				intended to be used in words that corresponded to the energy 
				frequencies of the object or action they symbolized. Although 
				some esoterics attempt to understand it, that aspect was 
				essentially lost from our collective memory. (Numerology today 
				shows this devolution.)
				
				The gifts of languages and alphabets came from the group of AB's 
				interested in promoting human development. The Tower of Babel 
				story reflects what may have been several occasions when one AB 
				or another wanted to keep closer control over a group of humans. 
				As in modern colonial history when conquerors have forced new 
				languages on subjugated peoples, apparently some AB's divided 
				humans among themselves through a similar technique. 
				 
				
				As in most other areas of human 
				history since 3,500 BP, I believe it has been humans who have 
				manipulated the evolution and use of language for their own 
				agendas.
 
				
				
				Karma One : In the ritual abuse phenomenon, the 
				victims, and also the psychiatrists and the psychologists who 
				examine them, indicate most of them suffer from a Multiple 
				Personality Disorder. They also note sometimes in the victim 
				accounts the presence of alien entities, demon, devil entities, 
				reptilian (read the late 
				
				Karla Turner) etc. Some even speak 
				about Anunnaki. More and more specialists of ritual abuse and MPD take that situation (alien presence in military abduction 
				and ritual abuse) seriously. Do you think that some AB’s plays a 
				role in that peculiar case and for what purpose? In the same 
				way, 
				
				Monarch programming and ritual abuse are a very peculiar 
				phenomenon that some psychologist and specialist of the mental 
				health community relate to the abduction phenomenon. According 
				to some authors, Monarch programming, 
				
				Mind Control, and satanic 
				and ritual abuse are part of plan set up to abduct children and 
				use them for Mind control and the coming of the so called 
				antichrist and to impose a one-world, one-religion government. 
				Do you think that some AB’s are involved in that?
				
				First of all, I do not know the facts about this subject. I can 
				only conjecture. MPD is a naturally occurring psychological 
				phenomenon when an incarnated consciousness is subjected to 
				untenable stress. For whatever reason, when the personality 
				cannot cope with the reality of a particular experience, it 
				dissociates into self-protective fragments (or multiple 
				personalities). (This exists to varying degrees in all humans.) 
				Having said that, let me speculate on your question.
				
				A strong human can voluntarily permit another entity to speak 
				through its conscious field (we call these volunteers channels). 
				A weak human's conscious field can be invaded by another 
				consciousness, either human or AB. I am certain the latter has 
				occurred in many and different circumstances. It is just one of 
				the ways powerful beings can take greater control over 
				temporarily fragile humans, adults and children alike.
				
				So, the answer to your question is, if the programming and other 
				mind-control projects you suggest are happening, one of the 
				tactics used certainly involves subjecting people to the 
				necessary stress (through drugs, physical and psychological abuse, and 
				ritual pressures) to break their normal personality borders and 
				insert "alien" consciousness. (Alien can be either AB or human.)
 
				
				
				Karma One : Do you think that “modern dictatorships” 
				like 
				
				the Nazi regime, the North Korean government, or Stalinism 
				with its cult of personality have their roots in human 
				consciousness in the relation human being has in old 
				civilization with their AB’s leaders? Without their influence, 
				do you think that we could develop another kind of government, 
				self development, relation with nature and consciousness?
				
				I believe all modern 
				
				top-down governments (including democracies 
				who have permitted the taking of control from self-governing 
				local groups by authoritarian means, individuals, or 
				organizations) have their roots in the AB heritage of kingship 
				and priesthood. 
				
				
				 
				
				In this situation the leaders believe, and their 
				followers accept, the notion that the officials in power are 
				there by the god(AB)-given or Darwin-given right to rule.
				
				Yes, without the AB-legacy model, I am convinced the governments 
				of the world would be very different than most of them are 
				today. If we look at the models of the few traditional societies 
				who escaped the direct or indirect-colonized influence of the AB 
				hegemony after 11,500 BP, we see a more egalitarian, 
				gender-balanced, and participatory form of government. 
				
				 
				
				There is usually much more respect 
				for individual rights and differences. Leaders are usually 
				volunteers who do public service for a time and then return to 
				their own work. They may be chosen by lot to randomly rotate the 
				authority and responsibility around the community. 
				
				 
				
				Such 
				societies reflect a respect for nature and its importance in the 
				survival of humans. Unfortunately, all significant societies 
				today have been taken over by one of 
				
				the old ruling bloodlines 
				or economic elites who gained power through 
				
				the old "royal" 
				systems. 
				
				 
				
				(This includes most of Europe, the U.S., most Arab 
				nations, China and Japan, and many others.)
 
				
				
				Karma One : Some authors like Clive Prince and Lynn 
				Pincket (the Stargate conspiracy) believe that a conspiracy 
				exist to build a one world religion, a new way to worship AB’s 
				with a mixing, a syncretism of old Egyptian religion, rituals 
				from the School’s Mystery and other Judeo Christian elements, 
				the creation of what you call a new supernaturalism to worship a 
				anthropocentric God. Do you believe in that speculation? Do AB’s 
				pose another kind of threat ?
				
				No, I do not believe a conspiracy exists to create a new 
				supernatural, anthropocentric god-based world religion. The 
				existing supernatural religions are easy enough to use by covert 
				forces who wish to manipulate them. 
				
				 
				
				We see this in the current 
				theocratic movement in the United States, the use of 
				supernatural conflicts in India, a secular state, and of course 
				between Jewish, Islamic, and Christian societies wherever 
				financial interests want to divide and conquer nations or 
				regions. The very unverifiable nature of the validity of 
				supernaturalism makes its believers, in whatever "god", 
				susceptible to easy manipulation by coded words and symbols. 
				Another psychosis is not required.
				
				The magical thinking of 
				
				New Age movements and the defensive 
				posture of materialist science offers no solutions to the 
				current fragmentation of society.
				
				I do believe there is a small degree of hope for a resurgence of 
				the natural tradition of science and philosophy (exemplified in 
				classical Greece, the European Renaissance and the 
				Enlightenment). It could provide the human species to a more 
				accurate understanding of its past and its actual relationship 
				ABs. 
				
				 
				
				My book's final chapter offers a way with its concept of a 
				Public Discussion.
 
				
				
				Karma One : Do you encounter some problems with your 
				concept of AB's with religious authority or with readers? How 
				has your book been received by the press and by the ufologist 
				and conspiracy theorist?
				
				I have not been directly attacked by religious authorities 
				or readers for this book. 
				
				 
				
				They have learned that the best way to 
				suppress such heretical views is to ignore them. A religious 
				university bookstore simply refuses to have a book-signing. Their 
				periodicals do not carry reviews. The 
				
				mainstream press and 
				public academic institutions also ignore such challenges to 
				their well-established assumptions. 
				
				 
				
				However, there are fairly 
				large groups of people who believe the "official" world views of 
				government, religion, and science have serious deficiencies in 
				their coverage of what humans really know. These people 
				enthusiastically engage in discussions with me on the merits of 
				my research. Smaller periodicals and newspapers and some 
				radio/TV hosts really like the book. 
				
				 
				
				My hero 
				
				Giordano Bruno was 
				burned at the stake on February 19, 1600 and his natural 
				cosmology is still suppressed in the same manner.