Invasion of the Earthmen (Paperback)

"Invasion of the Earthmen is one of the most original and creative science fiction novels I have read in years. As a decades-long fan of sci-fi films, I am convinced that a cinematic treatment of this novel would be well-received both by the critics and by general cinephiles. It allows for special effects, for engrossing relationship developments, and for stretching one's predetermined concepts of reality" - Stanley Krippner Ph.D., Psychologist.

"I just finished reading Invasion of the Earthmen. It was great. I couldn't put it down. The book appealed to my romantic side and my desire to always see a good ending. The message was also wonderful. May you continue to produce such interesting novels." - Seymour Boorstein, Ph.D., Psychiatrist, Author of Clinical Studies in Transpersonal Psychotherapy, editor of Transpersonal Psychotherapies.

"The captivating visual and visionary qualities of the book more than invites to the creation of a visual presentation, a visionary theatre piece or even better a fantastic movie, not only deep, but exiting and thrilling, which could reach a large public, and especially but not at all only the younger generation. An inventive producer/instructor would find captivating ways of communicating the inner evolution (thoughts, feelings) of the main characters. This book has a message to the whole World, especially as a thought provoking, stimulating start-shot in this new millennium... I actually feel like giving it to people in my life." - Pia Keiding, Psychotherapist, founding director of CITHE, the International Therapy Centre in Brussels. Founding member and president of The Tarab Institute, Belgium, and Director of Research on the Board of Administrators of EUROTAS, The European Transpersonal Association.

"Invasion of the Earthmen reflects humanity's past, present and future. Our present worldview and understanding is accurately portrayed and points to needed maturation and transformation before humankind can safely venture forth into the Cosmos. Humanity's propensity for exploitation and war is always projected outward enabling us to see who and what we are. Sadly, most of present day humanity is still seeking to avoid personal responsibility and instead attempts to change the world out there for its own purposes. Vitor envisions a different world, one that has banished crime and no longer needs to make war. It is a world that has, instead, discovered the inner pathways to cooperation and peace. And what a different world these pathways create! Vitor portrays a species who has learned to live and respect Nature and Creativity. He subtlely reveals another way to educate our children that is breathtaking in scope. He teaches us the purpose and value of meditation and silence, and beckons us to follow. For it is in the silence that we become a more compassionate and evolved species. And in the telling, Vitor is also teaching us how to change, grow and evolve into a wholeness that will join heaven and earth and allow humankind to reach for the stars and beyond. Vitor is a true visionary whose story is profound. He reveals the struggles between two very different ideologies: one people fragmenting and destroying its own planet, the other a more noble species, able to live with diversity and in peace. On the planet of Ixnor, people are secure and free to create more meaningful and fulfilling lives. The implications for our future are clear. Humankind has arrived at an awesome moment of choice. Vitor inspires us to embrace a new ethics and spirituality, and to discover new possibilities of being. This book and its ideas continues to fill my mind and my heart. I recognize that I am a work in progress, as is all of humanity. I am filled with hope that I may one day be worthy of a visit to Ixnor, while also participating in the birth of the whole new humanity on Planet, Earth. Thank you Vitor, for showing me the way!" - Joyce Kovelman, Ph.D., Ph.D. Holder of PhDs in both Psychology and Anatomy, Psychotherapist, Author of Once Upon Asoul and Namaste.

"At last I was able to read your book and want to tell you how much I enjoyed it. Despite the science fiction bits it rings horribly true, or rather horribly possible, that "our lot" might behave as badly as the earthmen you describe (although one likes to think that Europeans would at least show more style than our American brothers.) Since matter is only the densest form of spirit, and spirit the most refined form of matter, even translocation seems a (remote) possibility. So well done! I hope your book enjoys a wide circulation. You got the tone exactly right, and managed to express great tenderness without a hint of sentimentality" - Beata Bishop, Psychotherapist, author of A Time to Heal.

"I think your capacity for imagination is amazing, as is your use of language. I could not write as you do. I would not be capable. Hence my writings are simpler, written in the hope I will reach Mr. & Mrs. Everyman, people outside the higher academic world. So far as the story you tell is concerned, I would classify it as an idealistic-Utopian-fantasy, the purpose of which highlights the weaknesses, ruthlessness, egocentricity and clumsiness of a large part of human society on this planet, the truth of which we both acknowledge. The contrast between the two planets is made with great clarity. (...) I feel your book would be understood in the main by many "Everymans", and I wish you great success with it. I much enjoyed reading it -- and I don't read many books. Am sure you could write a good play along the lines of your book." - Harold Van Colle, Psychotherapist, author of The Twig of Revelation, Do You Think...?, Little Book.

"I already finished your book in 2 days; in fact I could not stop to read it. I was fascinated, it's like some of my deep intuitions are put in images. So I felt a deep link with you, reading it. I love your vision and I feel so glad that you expressed it in this form so accessible to a large public. It could be a very good scenario for a film, and such a teaching for the youth! I remember a French film from Coline Serreau : the green planet, with this kind of vision of the e.t. such a relief to show this alternative vision! Your scenario is even more original so I feel more inspired and trustful after the reading Very important to express this in front of the huge amount of repetitive scenarios of power and violence overwhelming the market You created with Ixnor a place for hope and a direct teaching for this time! I am happy that you did it!" - Monique Tiberghien, Psychotherapist, Head of the Association Transpersonnelle Belge, Belgium.

From the Author
The book contains 18 chapters which describe the journey of a spaceship from Earth to the distant planet of Ixnor and the ensuing events up to the moment when the welcoming and hospitable Ixnorians decide that after continuous and blatant abuse of their hospitality and military threats from Earth, these visiting Terrans should be forcibly returned to their place of origin...

The plot unfolds in the year 2012. We observe Ixnor's Gael, the "Interplanetary Welcome Co-ordinator" and the "Planetary Council" calmly and thoughtfully preparing to receive the Terrans - just one more group of interstellar visitors among countless others who have come before. The preparation is imbued with psychological and energetic subtleties and tremendous ethical considerations, and is a stark contrast to the suspicious attitudes of the Earth visitors - specially that of the mission commander Hamilton Burns - who seems somewhat perplexed with this show of apparent recklessness... It soon becomes evident that one of the reasons for this openness and trust on the part of the Ixnorians is based on the conviction that "space translocation", a necessary condition for interstellar travel, is only accessible to civilisations boasting a highly advanced evolution of ethical and spiritual values. The Terrans however, achieved this capacity thanks to a fluke accident that resulted in an alien spaceship crashing onto American territory...

We are also told that on Ixnor there is a location of extreme importance known as the "Crystal Star", where the meetings of the "Planetary Council" are usually held. Among the members of this Council are Axor, the Planet Leader,Liriel, the "Guardian of the Council" and Aila the "High Priest of Ethics". These Ixnorians are known for their remarkable capacity to communicate telepathically and to activate mental energy. The planet is in fact governed by means of a kind of "on-going referendum"...

We then learn the details involved in the selection of Henry Livingstone as the "navigator". His psychological profile was deemed fundamental for the interstellar jump of the giant spaceship Star 1, a hefty financial investment, with its 5000-strong crew and a powerful nuclear arsenal... The wealth of Ixnor's natural resources was described in the on-board log of the alien spaceship which crashed on earth, and this explains why this planet was chosen as the destination for the expedition. The character of the navigator is described prior to the explanation on how to operate the "translocation" mechanism, a chapter which ends on a note of anguish and shame as Livingstone concludes that he has travelled such a long way to bring "a ship populated by excellent representatives of a paranoid and handicapped culture..." from afar. Translocation, is described through the experiences of the crew members within the Star 1 spaceship, and requires that all the earth people must attain an appropriate level of brain waves and rhythms...

This instantaneous journey results in the first face-to-face meeting between Terrans and Ixnorians. But this meeting is fraught with misunderstandings from the outset. The Terrans are somewhat taken aback on being received and met by a mere three Ixnorians and being welcomed without any pomp and circumstance although the Interplanetary Welcome Co-ordinator is among the host committee. The latter assumes that Henry Livingstone is the leader of the Earth delegation as he is, in her discerning and far-seeing vision, the one with the strongest energetic aura and the only one who corresponds to the energetic radiation emitted as a welcome signal. This assumption does not please Commander Burns. In addition it also becomes obvious that there is a profound empathy between the navigator and the young Ixnorian female - who seemed to him to "emit a very powerful internal vibration, as if inside or behind that almost diaphanous appearance was a truly venerable and wise age-old being".

The Earth visitors are then taken to the "Third Water City" made up of buildings which, although colossal, are "works of art in landscape integration". Here they see numerous waterfalls and streams which produce musical sounds, "water harmonies" which favourably influence the nervous system and bring it into equilibrium. Other Ixnorian cities are also described: the "Cities of Stone", the "Green Cities", and the "Well-balanced Cities". Commander Burns is highly surprised by the absence of an armed escort, but is quickly informed by the Co-ordinator that crime has not existed on Ixnor for various centuries. Gael also goes on to explain that any source of a potential threat would be instantly inhibited or dematerialised - this statement increases the Earth party's fears that somewhere on the planet special surveillance equipment and weapons are to be found...

"Gael quickly realised, even without having scanned them that the Terrans were mostly all sensorially handicapped". The Co-ordinator attempts to clarify what she has already started to learn by speaking to Livingstone. In a rather embarrassed manner, the navigator describes some of the realities of his home planet... In all truth, and in Ixnorian terminology the Terrans are still a "pre-cosmic civilisation". Livingstone confesses his fears at having brought a threat to Ixnor - something which does not seem to worry Gael in any way. This conversation is followed by a profound telepathic and energetic interchange culminating in a deep bond of love between the two of them: "to say that he had met the woman of whom he had dreamed would be too great an understatement. It seemed better, if he wanted to put it into words, to simply say that he and her were one with each other... (and the tears rolling down his face ere tears of extreme happiness - just like hers)". This emotional, mental and spiritual exchange between Gael and Livingstone, is followed by a description of Ixnorian education which focuses on global development, in stark contrast with Earth's educational system which is solely centred on the intellect. The context of the description is to highlight the difference between Gael and Livingstone's childhoods.

The Terrans are then invited to visit the "Crystal Star", the pulsatile and luminescent nerve centre of Ixnor, where they first met Axnor and Liriel. On their way and from their exchanges we witness the establishment of a spiritual abyss between the Ixnorians and most of the Terrans. This conflict of ideas continues to intensify except in the case of the navigator.... Liriel, the Guardian, questions the reason for the Terrans' destructive weapons. When the Ixnorians suggest a "meeting of the minds", Burns outrightly refuses, afraid, but takes Livingstone by surprise when he requests permission to gather minerals from Ixnorian soil. To his great annoyance permission is denied on the grounds that it is necessary to first clarify the reasons for the sudden "alteration in the vibratory equilibrium of the subsoil". The Commander refuses to leave the navigator in the company of the Ixnorians although he leaves two male and one female members of his military crew on Ixnor. Moments before leaving for Star 1 the Terrans remove mineral, vegetable and even animal specimens in an abusive manner. This provokes the apex of discord between Livingstone and Commander Burns who immediately orders the arrest of the navigator. Confident in their military power for protection, the Terrans analyse the specimens gathered. However, on Ixnor a "small Being of Nature" observes the events and the information soon reaches the ears of the Planetary Council. Mysteriously Axor appears on the Earth ship's monitors demanding an explanation from Burns. The dialogue results in a stalemate. Meanwhile in a cell, Livingstone feels internal contact from Axor and his support...

Not long after we realise that Diana, left by Burns on Ixnor, had been trained to substitute Livingstone in space translocation,should the need arise. However as a result of her contact with the Ixnorians and with their respectful and constructive attitudes, Diana gradually begins to question her "superficial" loyalties to her fellow Terrans, specially after being invited to a very special musical concert: "There could be no evil in anyone who could produce such art. Everything else seemed belittled".

Events then start coming to a head. Lester, one of the Terran officers on Ixnor, misinterprets Gael's solicitous manner and attempts to seduce her. He is pushed away in a rather drastic manner by psychic force. He rapidly returns to Star 1 and is rather surprised at not being attacked or arrested on the way, hastening to give the commander his very personal version of the incident. In his next conversation with Axor, Burns attempts to gain advantages from this incident and creates a situation which may result in greater conflict.

In view of these events, the Ixnorians decide to carry out a telepathic scanning of the Terrans so as to ascertain their real and deeply hidden intentions. Livingstone and Diana are the only ones who are asked to give permission for the mindscan and to submit to the procedure consciously. They accept. The navigator feels his psychic content and personal history manifest itself in the presence of Axor's consciousness and behind them "the thoughts and feelings of countless generations" alongside all the horrors and triumphs of Earth's humanity This experience is one of the central and fundamental moments of the plot. But events continue to unfold. The Terrans send a highly armed team to Ixnor with the aim of collecting more mineral samples. An unmanned Ixnorian spaceship attempts to put a stop to their work and is eventually shot down crashing onto the mining equipment and vehicles. As a result the Terrans send an ultimatum to Axor, threatening the planet with a nuclear strike against the Crystal Star should any further attempts be made to interfere with their work. Axor refuses to comply and during the ensuing discussion with Burns enquires about Livingstone. As a result of this show of concern from Axor, Livingstone is suspected and accused of treason and forced to undergo a "technical" interrogation followed by a meeting during which Diana tries to oppose the military inclination both of the events and the commander. In spite of all her efforts, the order for an attack is given. However at the precise moment when the order is being carried out, a powerful humming sound is heard by all and everyone falls into a deep unconscious state... We then watch as thousands of Terrans awaken in the middle of a bleak desolate area of Ixnor, without their ship or military equipment. These have been dematerialised by an Ixnorian "psychic device", activated by Hamilton Burns' very own order for attack...

The members of the Planetary Council then materialise amidst the Terrans. A soldier tries to physically attack Axor but is killed by the psychic energy of "Zultar, the Guardian". The Terrans end up being returned to their own planet and "land" precisely in the middle of the Pentagon... This, with the exception of Livingstone and Diana who are given the opportunity to stay on Ixnor. An Ixnorian spaceship travels to Planet Earth and makes sure that the secret of space translocation is temporarily lost to a civilisation which has proved itself to be, as yet, too immature to possess this knowledge... In the final chapter we are told how the two Terrans who have remained on Ixnor have begun to settle into their new home. The marriage between Gael and Livingstone then takes place - a logical conclusion to the reunion which took place after many centuries of previous lives during which they had already met. We also observe the new path which Diana's life is taking...

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