IMHO "God" (which I'm wagering is really a collective term) doesn't intervene (overtly) in human affairs because they are waiting for us to reach out to them in fact; not faith. The higher/unseen realm is simply waiting for us to show enough courage to meet them. Like Captain Kirk, they won't alter our evolution for us. The Prime Directive is all about freewill; including the freedom to screw ourselves into oblivion in the most violent, horrible way(s) imaginable or unimaginable.

I admit it's conceivable that there MIGHT be a last-minute intervention of some sort, as I hope there would be.

The central problem, of course, is the incomprehensably monolithic rule by official secrecy. Without it the (presently) dominant media would finally begin doing unbiased and thorough stories on ordinary people's lives of the unexplained. One has to get the questions sufficiently broadcasted before receiving answers. Walking before running. We're barely even crawling now. Natural evolution.

It isn't like we UFO/close encounter (etc.) experiencers are shouting in a vacuum or out of ego gratification. There are very real, very serious ecological (in tandem with human population explosion) issues to be addressed that no one has a right to dump on our progeny; or theirs and so on. We have to quit being blind party animals. We need to get organized and be very visibly outraged by rule by secrecy itself! Otherwise, everyone gets only the cluelessness they deserve. It's sheer folly to just wait around with thumbs you-know-where for some conventional, mundane panacea to save us; or for a fairy tale religion god... I'm Colin from Austin (TX) and, if anyone wants to get together here, my e-mail is batunu@yahoo.

How can the living meet the elohim in fact instead of in faith?

If that implies that aliens are dead things, there's no science to back that up. Why wouldn't they be equally sentient beings; especially since they (apparently or reportedly) have flesh?... I've always been curious about how much of the overall intelligently nonhuman realm is corporeal versus ethereal.

Okay, if the elohim and all that are living physical entities, how may today's average person reach out to them in fact instead of in faithy kinds of things like praying etc ?

Gotcha. Well, no one can be MADE to give a rat's hiney about the future of humanity and Earth, but for those who really care, organize an anti-secrecy demonstration outside a TV station or whatever near you. Or start an e-mail (and/or snail mail) campaign to your government and media representatives.

Spherical, you have expressed the essence of Deism, imo.

Peace,

RadicalGnostic