A Genealogy of the Extraterrestrial in American Culture

the peoples of Earth would not go out to slaughter one another. They would work within
themselves, their own groups, their own nations, to achieve good and happiness in that
section of your world wherein they were born and therefore call “home.” 248
Thus again, as Harmonial tradition would have it, moving toward heaven on earth was
primarily a question of re-alignment. If enough people could open themselves to the cosmos and
begin to live in harmony with the divine plan, then Utopia could be achieved.
And no man lives who has never once dreamed of what you call Utopia, or the nearly
perfect world. There is nothing which man has ever imagined which is not, somewhere, a
reality. And, therefore, nothing that is not possible of achievement. For you too, on
Earth, this is possible. For us on the other planets of our galaxy, it is now so. 249
Thus we see two of the primary modalities of the displaced utopian imaginary fulfilled, the
proffered vision of a Utopian achieved and the promise that it could be achieved here on earth.
But how are humans to know the divine plan? How are they to move toward that state of
harmony? Herein lay the last modality of the displaced utopian imaginary, the promise of help
from afar. The brothers have been observing us for some time. They did so, aside from the
observations of intrepid aliens who lived among us, through an electronic device “no larger than
an ordinary cabinet radio, with a screen similar to a TV set. ‘With this,’ [Firkon] explained, ‘we
can picture anything taking place on Earth, or on any planet over which we either pass or hover.
Not only do we hear spoken words, but pictures are picked up and shown in screen.” 250
Here
we had moved beyond the spiritual telegraph, mental radio and the light and sound ray to a
version of satellite surveillance. With the combined data of direct and remote surveillance, the
space brothers claimed to “have a history of Earth and the happenings thereon dating back
seventy-eight million years.” 251
This long-term, pervasive surveillance might have induced
248 Adamski, 1967, 71.
249 Adamski, 1967, 70.
250 Adamski, 1967, 60.
251 Adamski, 1967, 78-79.
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