My First Response to E.T. 101

This is from an email I sent to a friend who is interested in this topic:


In all the relevant material I've seen to date including the piece I sent to you [E.T. 101] what seems missing is a clear sense of the different stages of intervention. There are arguably many ways of defining these but one I find useful divides the main tasks into three stages: Stabilize, Transform, and Maintain. If we are correct in assuming that the people on this planet are not going to blow themselves up then the Stabilize function has been completed. How long has this process taken? Different people have different views on this. My sense is that the intervention has been going on for centuries rather than decades. And there is still some mopping up to be done, as the main functions tend to overlap in time. If I'm correct one can infer that the Transform and Maintain phases will take centuries as well, with the Maintain phase extending pretty far out into the future.