THE ALIEN TRUTH - ESCAPING FROM EDEN?
“When an ultimate frisbee injury laid me up it gave me an opportunity to study up on some of the bizarre anomalies in the stories of Genesis. I thought this might help me produce some more insightful preaching. I did not expect it to lead me to extraterrestrials.”
Paul Wallis would certainly seem an unlikely evangelist for ancient aliens. His background is as a senior churchman in Australia and the UK. Over thirty years he has planted churches, and trained pastors in the history of religious thought and the principles of interpreting the Bible. His previous books have focussed on the relatively safe territory of history and spirituality. Not aliens.
But likely or unlikely, Paul’s latest book Escaping from Eden – does Genesis teach that the human race was created by God or engineered by ET’s is getting attention all around the world. George Noory – host of Coast to Coast and the Godfather of alternative narratives – recently hailed Escaping from Eden as “This generation’s ‘Chariots of the Gods.’”
Paul says, “I read ‘Chariots of the Gods’ when I was 11. It was responsible for kicking off my spiritual journey and sowed the seeds for Escaping from Eden. I take my hat off to Erich Von Daniken (author of Chariots of the Gods) because he is the one who broke the taboo on this topic. Von Daniken took something that had a huge embarrassment factor around it and placed it squarely on the table for mainstream public conversation. People would talk about it at work, at school, in church, over the dinner table. He made us think about the anomalies in our story as homo sapiens. It’s my hope that Escaping from Eden will do the same for a whole new generation.”
So what were the ‘bizarre anomalies’ in the stories of Genesis that diverted Paul Wallis from the safe world of Christian spirituality into the realm of extraterrestrials?
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“Any adult who has ever sat down with a Children’s Bible and a child will be familiar with the problems I’m talking about! Read through the stories and any child will ask you, ‘Why does God say “Let us make?” Who’s us? “Let us make the humans to look like one of us?” One of who? Why didn’t God know Adam would need an Eve? Who’s the snake? Where did he come from? Why did God make him? Couldn’t he see what was going to happen? Why do Adam and Eve have to die just because they ate the fruit? Why is God killing everybody with a flood?” “Why is God so angry about a tower being too tall?” and so on...
“Every preacher is familiar with the challenge of trying to extract a positive message from these and many of the Bible’s stories of beginnings. We tend to say to ourselves, ‘Yes, that doesn’t quite make sense. I really must look into that one day!’ And then the busy-ness of life often sucks us away from the questions. I was fortunate finally to find the time to drill down into some of these questions and realise, there’s a whole other layer of story here – a layer that has nothing to do with God – a story about our ancestors’ prehistoric contact with extraterrestrial species.”
In Escaping from Eden Wallis argues that better translation of the ancient Hebrew texts casts the early books of the Bible in a radically different light. What we thought were atrocities committed by the Almighty, according to Paul Wallis, are really the memory of traumas experienced by our ancestors as an alien force colonised Planet Earth in our prehistoric past.
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“My research for Escaping from Eden led me to the Mesopotamian narratives of ancient Sumeria, Babylonia, Akkadia and Assyria, to African and Mesoamerican mythologies. They echo themes that can be found in Celtic, Norse, Greek, Indian, Indigenous Australian and Native American narratives.” “All speak of our ancestors’ intersection with extraterrestrial species, who variously colonised, nurtured and exploited our distant ancestors. The memories of all that is buried in the texts of the Bible, obscured by a thin layer of translation.”
If that is the case how could anyone have missed it? The New Testament of the Bible has been around for the best part of two millennia, and the Hebrew Scriptures aka The Old Testament, for the best part of three millennia. Surely three millennia of scholars and devotees couldn’t have missed something as glaring as aliens in the Bible. Wallis argues that their missing it was far from an accident. He argues that decisions made in translation and some carefully chosen ex-communications in the early church effectively made a taboo of our ancestral memory of ET contact.
So are Judaism and Christianity laced with conspiracy?
Sean Stone (son of legendary Hollywood producer Oliver Stone) is an actor and broadcaster not averse to a bit of conspiracy theory. Indeed, he has made a career of pursuing hidden stories not reported on the TV news. Sean describes “Escaping from Eden” as a “courageous” piece of work. And he applauds Paul Wallis for “[giving] us a new perspective on the creation and engineering of man.”
Engineering? Really? Are we talking about human history or Hollywood history? In the world’s mythologies is Wallis finding fiction and turning it into fact?
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“For me,” says Wallis, “It’s the correlations among ancient mythologies, the parallels in the narratives of ancient cultures – cultures that had no contact with each other; that’s what has made me consider that these prehistoric stories might really be the vehicles of ancestral memory. Something happened and all these cultures have found an enduring way of preserving its memory.”
After two thousand years of Christian mythology, though, how credible is it that from out of the blue, one random Australian theologian would suddenly work out that everyone else has read the Bible wrong and that he has miraculously decoded it?
“If I were the first person ever to say this, you would be right to raise an eyebrow! But I’m in no way the first to take that view. The idea that human evolution was altered by an ET intervention was implicitly part of the mainstream conversation of Christianity for the first one and half centuries of its existence. Many of the early Church Fathers favoured the view of human origins that I set out in Escaping from Eden- people like Clement of Alexandria, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Origen and Marcion – all foundational to the emergence of Christianity. So you will find I’m in good company!”
Good company in the C1st CE. But how is the thesis of “Escaping from Eden” being received in 2020? Are the various documentaries and interviews around Paul’s theories winning him many preaching invites?
“I am contacted literally every day by people who have been gripped by what I’m putting out in Escaping from Eden. Many write to share their anomalous experiences - close encounters or other experiences that just don’t fit in our conventional boxes. Some are pastors. Some are church people. Some are followers of other religions. Those from a religious background tell me how relieved they are to find a pastor actually acknowledging and talking about their beliefs and experiences.”
“I can think of one person who recently contacted me – a very sober professional man, just retired. He shared with me a close encounter that he experienced when he was 15 years old. It had changed his life. Since the encounter he has told his wife, he has talked to the person who was with him when the event took place, and other than those two people he hadn’t told another living, breathing soul in the fifty years since. He found me on YouTube and wanted to tell me his story because he still needs to process what happened to him and make sense of it. That’s the kind of message I get every day.”
“As a culture we seem to feel so threatened by the idea that humanity might have company that we ridicule and shame people into silence whenever they have something to tell us that might burst that bubble. I hope that Escaping from Eden will burst our bubble so that we can listen to another’s experiences and begin to process what is going on all around us.”
The book will certainly appeal to readers interested in popular science, palaeontology, cosmology or the search for human origins. But will the readership of Escaping from Eden include many of Paul’s preacher and pastor colleagues? Some might accuse the book of striking at the heart of at least two major world-faiths.
“So far I have noticed a few ministry friends on social media go a bit quiet at the mention of possible ET origins. Others jump up enthusiastically and engage. To date, I have had only one colleague say, ‘Paul, let’s stay friends. But I won’t be reading your book.’ Which is a shame because there’s so much more to see if we can learn to look outside of our respective bubbles.”
But do bubble bursting and ministry go together? Is the world ready for another chariot of the Gods?
In answer to this, Wallis points to a surprising moment in the papal ministry of Pope Benedict 16th.
“In ‘Escaping from Eden’ I shine a light on a lot of things that ought to have our attention – things in DNA research, archaeology, palaeontology, neuroscience; things spoken by NASA astronauts; things which ought to clue us about our ET heritage. But Pope Benedict’s Colloquium of 2009 is one of the most significant waving flags. Because here we had the most conservative Pope in my lifetime, gathering some of the world’s top scholars and theologians for a five-day symposium, and then sending them to the press to tell us that we need to be ready ‘sooner than anyone anticipates to embrace a brother or sister alien.’ Senior theologian and director of the Vatican observatory, Revd Dr Guy Consolmagno went so far as to say we shouldn’t be surprised to encounter ET species because they’re in the Bible – in the Old Testament and in the New Testament.”
“When I heard that my jaw dropped. It was only 400 years ago the same institution was burning people to death simply for suggesting there might be intelligent life on other planets – let alone ‘brother or sister aliens.’ Guy Consolmagno said they were in the Bible. So when my ‘ultimate frisbee injury’ allowed me the time to do it, I took up the challenge to test that claim. As a believer for more than 30 years, as a lecturer in Bible interpretation for more than 15 years, could I really have missed aliens in the Bible?”
“My research for the book answered that question for me, loud and clear. From the first two verses of Genesis, an ET presence is hidden in plain sight in the text of the Bible and it doesn’t disappear until the last page of Revelation. For me, this realisation was like taking the Red Pill in the Matrix. A whole new world opens up – a world of hope and possibility. As George Noory says on the book’s cover, it’s about discovering ‘The incredible possibilities of our being.’”
“And once you’ve glimpsed this new world you can’t turn back. The paradigm shift I experienced; that’s my hope for everyone who picks up Escaping from Eden.”
Escaping from Eden is available for pre-order at Amazon, Kindle, Barnes & Noble and wherever books are sold. You can follow Paul Wallis on the Paul Wallis channel and The 5th Kind TV on YouTube, and at his website, www.paulanthonywallis.com
Escaping from Eden is due for release April 24th 2020.
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