Alien Religion

By Carl Opel

World governments have all but seized the minds of the public. Behind the scenes, Universal Intelligence agent, Drey Cross is on a personal quest, searching for the identity of God. Now, he's about to find out the consequences of that discovery. Using his special skills of ESP, time travel, and persuasion, he explores cases that lie beyond average human ability. When he realizes that events from previous cases link to his current investigation, it begins the discovery of a bizarre web of worldwide conspiracies. The media, religion, aliens, phony natural disasters, and a drug called DU37 all contribute to the political ambition of domination over people. Torn by personal demands, strange encounters, and intrigue, Drey confronts man's age-old question, 'Who are we and where do we come from?' To his astonishment, the disillusioning answers are only the beginning when he recognizes, human religion is no match for ALIEN RELIGION.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carl Opel
• Release date: Jul 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301750917

Carl Opel

Born in Pennsylvania in 1955, Carl attended the Music Institute in Los Angeles, California after his high school days in Willoughby, Ohio. Currently, he lives near the beautiful beaches in the Philippines. His many accomplishments include business-process reengineering consultant, computer science professor, designing financial forecasting systems using neural net technology, musician, commercial pilot, business owner, and writer. His interests include hiking, the beach, cookouts, traveling, movies, music, and just plain learning.

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Alien Religion

by Carl Opel

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Epilogue

Prologue

The world has changed a lot since 1949. That's the year George Orwell shared his totalitarian vision of Big Brother's control in the year 1984. He saw it as the age of government mind control through words. What Mr. Orwell never dreamed, is that politicians the world over would far exceed his vision. By the time 1984 arrived, controlling people through words was a modest effort. Journalistic control had been underway for years and spanned all forms of public communication. The Hollywood Blacklist resulted from media hysteria during McCarthyism in the 1950s, as did the infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast. In short, many people believed anything and everything coming from ‘professional’ reporting sources. All printed communication, television, radio, and in the years to follow, the internet, became tools of manipulation by the political elite; all furthering their own agenda.

Mr. Orwell created a fictional story. By 1984, the government made it a reality, and they wanted more. They wanted complete control. In an effort to obtain a greater hold over public behavior, the government enlisted the aid of numerous groups, organizations, and individuals, thereby assembling the most advanced minds on the planet to contribute to their endless hunger. During the years leading to 2012, the situation worsened. The arrogance and impatience of administrative officials to hasten authoritarian rule, had itself, grown out of control.

Despite never-ending allegations of human rights infringement and multiple court cases lost; experimental research continued right up to the brink of widespread exposure. Conspiracy theories constantly made headlines, with a growing number of people coming forward over the years. As victims of the political coup, they possessed hard evidence and claims of drugs, medical surgeries, clinical examinations, and occasionally, physical torture. For reasons unknown, the stillborn rate was on the rise, followed by infant mortality growing at alarming numbers. Thus, fear and paranoia of the strange and unusual actions instilled by the United States administration led people to uncover anything that wasn't normal to them. Stories, mostly fabricated by the government to misinform the public, flooded the headlines.

As time passed, the mind control program went far and above drugs used in medical experiments. Monthly, cover-ups involving government bailouts and shady financial practices made the news, then a secret government plot went public involving Medicare fraud. Nevertheless, amid it all, the political wheels continued turning and economic improvement was on the rise for the first time in more than twenty years.

At the risk of exposing it all, experiments pressed on with human testing of a drug called DU37. This drug was created in 1974 and a series of experiments had been ongoing ever since. Thirty-eight years later, they are nearing completion. Researchers are beginning to carry out their innovation by starting a development program that claims to create a better person. Under the guise of a fertility clinic, they injected a virus of unknown origin into unsuspecting women, thus activating the Traveler Project. Today, the government is only two trial projects away from its final goal: the eventual control of the human mind and the behavior of all citizens on Earth.

Once politicians realized how easily they could manipulate the public using bailout schemes as a front; funding for all future projects was assured. The best part of this grand scheme was that their plans remained camouflaged as government intervention for the good of the people. In a time of monetary hardship, most people were happy to have any job in contrast to fighting a helping-hand government. The more convincing their false stories of government to the rescue, the more financial decline prevailed. World conflict opened the doors for ultimate control. To the average and ignorant, Uncle Sam was saving humanity in the name of good, god, and country, and as for the rest of the world; it was all uniting under artificial democracy and superficial freedom.

Officials even had an angle on religion that fit into their plan. As usual, religion spreads as the poor, meek, and wandering flocks stray from the herd. Over the past decades, thanks to technology, what used to be isolated communities now encompassed what is now called the global community. Stories from all over the world that wouldn't have made the last page in small newspapers years ago were now headlines on the internet. News and misinformation ran rampant about world events. In a short time, it became commonplace to believe the biblical apocalypse was on the horizon, and with a little help from the controlling powers, people believed they had proof beyond any doubt about its veracity.

Before the global internet frenzy, most people thought of natural disasters only as anomalies in the weather. Now, with all the religious hype, they began seeing them as signs of impending doom and the coming of prophesied revelations. The more people thought they saw biblical events unfolding, the more they believed it was happening. Film, religious leaders, talk show hosts, and news shows loved it. The money, ratings, and power that came from alleged knowledge of a higher order flowed into the hands of those orchestrating what news was shared. At this time, two elite factions led the world: political and religious. As always, power, money, and control were the driving influences perpetuating world domination in both arenas with one common plan.

Apart from traditional religions, a different and prevailing interest was forming. As the world churned its way into the future, recent discoveries of alien existence became more fact than fiction. The days of mythical abduction and fantasy UFO sightings were so common that they went unnoticed for a while, even with the internet boosting their popularity. However, soon the stories had film footage and eyewitness accounts of abductions that were too hard to dispel, they began making their way into primetime TV shows. People began to believe that not only did aliens exist, but that they had influenced religion, and possibly had a controlling part in its contrivance.

Naturally, alien influence stories spread to the government. People believed an alien presence controlled political decisions, or, in the mildest form of alien influence theory, their existence was kept hidden from the public by the politicians. Supporting these alien theories were suitable answers to carefully crafted questions, all interjected into mainstream life and manipulated by government specialists. Still, no physical proof existed and film footage always proved to be a hoax. Despite the alleged and covered up alien crash in New Mexico in the 1940s, the government never admitted an alien presence. Experts and hobbyists not only exaggerated, but also ran with stories in order to fuel the fantasy and expectations of popular hype and propaganda behind the extreme secrecy of Area 51.

Oddly, at just the right time, a technology report on computerization unintentionally revealed a previous oversight about our progress. While the fact itself was obvious to the public, the outright recognition of it was not. Since the turn of the century, people were aware of the many advancements in human endeavors. Industry grew rapidly as it coupled with technology. Science went beyond the wildest dreams of early pioneers. Almost everything the human mind could imagine paralleled this technological growth.

The stunning fact revealed by the report was that since 1901, we had grown at a faster pace in more areas than we had done in our entire existence before the turn of the century. Put simply, we did more in the past one hundred years or so than we did in all our previous thousands of years occupying the planet. When the report was published, this single fact dwarfed the remaining content, which ironically was about how much computer technology had advanced in the past two decades!

To fuel publicity and popular outrage, the government promoted articles in tabloid newspapers showing interest in the notion of aliens and religion. While the topic remained too heated for the self-proclaimed intelligent public, the government already had a conspiracy in place hiding details of little-known facts about alien influence. However, a few mishaps on their part allowed top-secret details to leak to a few reporters. Widespread ignorance, coupled with the wild idea of alien theorists, was enough to discredit any story, no matter what the source. Nevertheless, truthful information trickled out about metals and machining techniques used in making ancient and religious artifacts that predated current materials and tools by millions of years.

One example of these artifacts, known as the Lolladoff Plate, gained particular credibility and got some mainstream exposure. Found in Nepal around 7,000 B.C., images inscribed on the disk depict man evolving from the sea to an anthropoid resembling an alien, known as a gray. Many stories, conjured up over the years, tried to explain the images. The pictures follow a spiral path from the outer edge of the disk around to the center. However, all attempts at their meaning have been clouded by opposing theories backed by tenured professionals. Its authenticity would be questioned, proved a hoax, and then resurrected with more unanswerable questions repeatedly over the years. Even the Russians performed tests by treating the disk as an audio record and playing it on a device similar to a turntable. They found the disk produced an audible rhythm when electricity passed through it but they could not decode the signal. This is exactly how the government wanted it. As long as people remained skeptical, yet informed, there was no problem producing new stories about the disk's meaning.

To add to the hype, the information that later leaked out implied that the government had known for years about small, metal cylinders, equally spaced, implanted in the disk. Officials discovered this after performing infrared, x-ray, and other tests only available to them at the time. From this, two facts were obvious. The first was how the government created infrared technology to make an x-ray machine. At that time, it was still an idea and supposedly not a reality. How did they obtain it and how were they using its power? Second and more troubling, the test showed that with the audible rhythms the Russians discovered there was a substance similar to mercury inside each cylinder. When the disk rotated at a high-speed, centrifugal force pushed the substance outward, expanding the disk and revealing new images. Still, this led to another interesting question, how did stone, as we know it, become flexible enough to expand? Of course, the images were another puzzle as well as the methods used to implant the tiny cylinders into the disk.

The questions went on forever. The point being, it was the stories the government relied on to mislead the public. The unanswered questions and fake explanations were just a benefit of public curiosity. In the end, people believed one idea: the government had secrets about advanced technology, and they were performing tests on new materials for military use. This is exactly the impression governments wanted to achieve for their long-term objectives.

In their pursuit of mind control, perhaps the most influential and long-term support the government had on its side was religion. The stories of miracles and religious philosophies already commanded commitment by the public and supported the notion that extraordinary feats and unknown, mystical powers ruled the planet. All the politicians had to do was make it known they sided with pious beliefs, and if our species were to survive, it would be by the grace of god, aided by government assistance.

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Chapter 1

A man laid naked, crouched in a fetal position under a solitary palm tree in a parched desert land. He detected a slight breeze as the environment consumed the remaining signs of life. In the distance, he saw a mirage shimmering in and out of focus while he staggered to an upright position. With an arm raised to provide little shade to his scorched face, he began walking. Knowing that the end was near; his white, powdery tongue slightly moistened his cracked lips as he barely lifted his feet out of the scorching sand with each step.

He approached the edge of a cliff and stood, looking at his surroundings. The barren land resembled the western U.S., maybe Utah or Nevada, but he was confused and couldn't pinpoint the location. Pausing for a moment, he stood at the edge of the cliff, swaying, as if the faint breeze rustled him like a leaf falling from an autumn tree. Again, he lifted his hand to block the sun from his face and ponder his predicament. Looking over the edge, he raised both arms from his sides and, as if he could fly, stepped off. Falling, he was aware of his fate. He noticed the side of the cliff consisted of varying rock protrusions that were large and smooth. His body spun just enough to permit staring at the sky as he sped toward the ground and his impending doom. The air seemed cooler now as the free fall provided some relief to his sun-ravaged skin.

In a flash, he smashed into a rock about one-quarter of the way down. His head detached, but he was not dead. Instead, his senses stayed with him while he watched his body bounce off more rocks and plummet toward the ravine below. Oddly, his head followed the same path and with every rock it hit he saw the experience, as if he were whole. Bouncing, falling, and smashing, until finally, at the split second his head hit the ground the man yelled, shockingly loud, Wait!

Then Drey awoke, a little disoriented, he yelled. What the hell... he gasped, looking at his surroundings. Oh man, he exclaimed, rubbing his hands down his face in relief. Sitting on the bedroom floor with one hand on the bed and the other on the floor, he realized he fell out of bed in synchronization with his dream.

Lizbeth, a bartender Drey met two nights ago, woke up from the commotion but barely rose from her pillow. In a voice half-asleep and unconcerned, she mumbled, Did you trip on something or what?

Laughingly, Drey responded, No. I fell out of bed and cracked my head on this empty bottle!

Lizbeth, disgusted by the uproar, sighed and plopped back onto the pillow. Putting her hand to her forehead she complained, So what’s all the racket about?

Drey laughed a little louder as he noted the clutter of strewn clothes from a wild night of passion. I dreamed I fell off a cliff, and my head came off. His voice settled to a half-awake sound as he rose from the floor with the aid of the bed and the nightstand. I must have hit this bottle on the floor at the same time my head was hitting the ground in my dream. After climbing back into bed next to Lizbeth, he put his arm around her. Her long brunette hair caressed her large breasts, and enticed Drey into pulling her closer and pressing his face into the side of her neck, he gave a little kiss.

Lizbeth ignored Drey’s advances, complaining, Whatta ya expect after drinkin' and smokin’ all that?

Well, I didn’t expect to lose my head over it, Drey joked. This wasn't the first time he’d had this dream, and it sure wasn't the first time he saw himself die in a dream. In truth, it was a continuing vision he used in order to answer a question in his own life, a recurring message that helped him solve a life-long curiosity. Drey wasn't a religious person, but he had an unrelenting obsession to discover the identity of god, and in doing so, hoped to learn the purpose and reason for his existence. He called this his dream quest, and it controlled much of his life now.

He was born as Andrey Krasnovich on November 6, 1974 of Russian immigrants, Markov and Paulina, who were granted political asylum during the cold war. Thanks to his father's work in cold fusion, the US government helped his parents escape, permitting them citizenship and a living, they were soon set up in a wealthy suburb of Boston. As part of their cover, a name change was compulsory, so Andrey Krasnovich became Drey Cross. It was part of the US' ploy to capture them during a prisoner exchange program negotiated for captured US-Russian spies.

As an only child, Drey had an exceptional life. He attended the best private schools, including a full ride at MIT. His social life was outstanding and the envy of everyone who knew him. There wasn't a night that he didn't have his choice of women, friends, or events to occupy his time. And why not? His chiseled features and dark, wavy hair were classically handsome. It drove women crazy when he gazed at them with piercing blue eyes, and at 6'1" he stood out at parties. Despite his Adonis appearance, Drey was approachable and humble. His parents ingrained old-world values in him from birth and he never used his looks to take advantage of an opportunity, including women.