This was really well done! I have always been interested in the intersect of science and spirituality. I'm in the middle of a five part series. It's challenging and fun to put all these ideas you express into plot and character. The strings are now being drawn together in the last book! Some days my head feels as if it's going to explode, but then come the five senses - the vegetable garden, the roses, my kitchen and my beautiful, imaginative grandchildren.
I think it has been a humbling experience for those interested in UFOs, like Elizondo and others in high places, to realize what a complex matrix they are part of.
I listen regularly to Whitley Strieber and Linda Moulton Howe, and they're trying to figure it out as well. Whitley is desperate for intervention around climate change. As for Linda she's like a long cool drink of refreshing and sane water.
Recently Nick Pope on Whitley's latest show, pointed out that there might in fact be a prime directive. My thoughts are that any intervention from others would be messy. It would entail a kind of colonization process, possibly an inter-planetary war.
I think I'm on Nick's side here, and also on the side of Captain Kirk and the Enterprise crew. Can you see Putin, Donald, Xi, the House of Saud, or Mitch taking to being told what to do. Give up the dough and spread the largesse and stop screwing up your planet? No my friend never, not without much blood being spilled. And it would be ours I'm afraid because they're holding all the cards. We're just rats in a self-imposed cage that have to learn how to open our own doors. And you are right they are both material and spiritual ones.