"A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
-United Negro College Fund, 1972

Preface
This excerpt isn't about conspiracy. Stories which have remained secret for generations will be buried again by the great swatch of cultural spunk which created them. The entire population doesn't need to hear the words of the ones who were visited by E.T. after 1993-1994. The abductees may even live easier without the memory of their experiences being read or heard. The stigma of the persons taken into ships will only last for the period of their lives, and afterwards will pain them no more. This excerpt will illuminate the abductees' confidentiality where the government has not been candid to citizens. Articles 1-3 were written specifically for new abductees to help them cope with their experience. Articles 4-5 relate the significance of E.T. phenomena for the entire population of Earth. Article 6 is a reconstruction of an actual E.T. communication recorded in 1999. Article 6 is the immortal evidence of alien life in the universe.

Article 6 is not to be hidden any more.

ARTICLE 1:
PHENOMENA OF MIND

Is the primal human mind capable of thought? The untouched mind can learn, but what does it learn? There is no value in this intelligence. It is purely material. The un-reported human brain that has not been located by an E.T. is incomplete. Logic and reference have very little influence on these minds whose domains are ruled by passion and emotion. Contrarily, the abductee is at a disadvantage. Dysphoric Reality Syndrome is a common ailment of those subjects who an E.T. projects thought, invisibly to the insides of their minds. A big question for them is, "Who am I?" New personalities develop because of rejection of extra-personal presences. The E.T. cannot be escaped. The human has to accept its powerlessness over itself. The E.T. makes him whole.

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ARTICLE 4:

Humanity has kept E.T.'s a disorganized secret for centuries. Only in Native American culture does the average individual know of visitors from space. It isn't so much a game of keep-away throughout history (at least one group always knows of E.T.'s) as it is a game of hide-and-seek the general public never wins.

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SUMMARY OF ARTICLE 6:
Tape begin.

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It wasn't until that night he learned of the ship.

d e b i a n was lowering itself from the stratosphere.   He found it tough to calculate a descent in space because of the globular shape of the sky, but he estimated a slope of one over zero to zero point zero one. Behind the curtains a reflection of d e b i a n and its underbelly lights projected the figure of the cat, longwise. The arc of her back triggered a shut-off, and the investigation ended. d e b i a n was the physical form of a spaceship which housed Archiphicethesces. Archiphecethesces was the E.T. who had visited Daniel Pike in fervent dreams for over four years. His spaceship was from the constellation Pisces and visited at angles relative to those hours.

He had slept with Archiphicethesces. He awoke to d e b i a n.

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Daniel was himself Aries. His house was intercepted by E.T.'s long before he would notice. He didn't believe in aliens until three days after the visit and then he believed the dreams were created by E.T.'s. For a few days he engaged himself in research about E.T. visits and then, after seven weeks, he did not believe in aliens anymore.

There were scars on his calf from soccer when he was six. He had brown hair.

He hired a lawyer in 1990 to settle a contractual dispute from the previous year over his writing. A client hadn't paid him for the stories he had written about finding a job in Seattle. The work was good but never published in the paper. His lawyer was a friend of the family. Things seemed abnormal when the client couldn't be found in her home and the lawyer told him to contact a P.I. before pressing charges.

He was sleepless when he called the P.I. but brushed it off as a symptom of the medication changes. Daniel was psychologically sound except for minor depression until December 1990. His dreams began waking him up that winter, and terrifying him so much as to interfere with sleep. His antidepressants didn't make him happy, he thought. Why doesn't he just get off them? But he had heard it could be uncomfortable, and his family history of depression allowed him to be wary enough to keep taking them. They didn't make him groggy or anything, except when he couldn't sleep. At least he wasn't on the anti-psychosis medication, he thought.

The P.I. said he could find out where she moved and get back to Daniel. Daniel was moving, himself, away from the city. He was moving from Seattle to rural Oregon. Archiphicethesces was going to follow him, but it was outside of his spacial territory so he was assigning a portal to a region near Daniel's house. It would turn out to be a terrible time after Daniel moved, full of sleepless nights and little pay for his work as a writer. In fact, December 7th was going to be typical, even though he was still in Seattle, of many, many days for the next few years. December 7th he was abducted. And until 1994, he would be abducted over thirty-five times by Archiphecethesces. Win, Archiphecethesces. Win.

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The tape paused. "The static is his voice."

"He was right in front of us the entire time."

"Do you know his rank? It is very low among the Archaeopteryx."

"No one knows what his rank means. It could be a profession."

"DEBIAN is not from our universe. How could we expect him to have a job here? He is simply much less powerful than others."

"And it's taken us twenty years to find him."

"Centuries."

"He has never been found."

"Or humanity forgot him."

"We must imagine that is not possible."

"But we know it is possible. Haven't you read Article 4? It is likely the human race is going to forget him within the next century. And after two decades, nearly an eternity for us, we have only just announced his presence. What if there are more Archaeopteryx on Earth? Will we be killed? Will history be re-written?"

"The answers are in Article 6. The answers will always be in Article 6."

"Let us continue."

The P.I. called him when he was on the aircraft. Daniel said he would have to call back. When he did, he learned that the woman had moved to Portland. It was a convenient coincidence that she would be in the same state as Daniel and he called his lawyer to tell him he would be pressing charges. The lawyer said that Daniel should try to contact her first to get his payment, especially since they would be in the same area. Daniel stroked his pet and agreed.

He thought, she's a crazy cat lady, and knocked on her door. She opened and treated him with kindness. She said she had forgotten to pay him and lost contact with him when she had to move. It was crazy in her family and she needed to get out of Seattle. Why didn't he call her sooner? He asked her if she could pay. Of course. But, had he heard of the rumors?

What rumors?

Sit down.

Why?

Do.

I...

Suddenly he was very, very uncomfortable. He realized he was shaking. The night-fear he had been experiencing assaulted him right now, as he was standing awakened. Had he been watching a movie? No, he was here. His leg pained him. He reached down to his left calf and she thought he was looking for a seat. He accepted the chair and began to stare at the floor.

Governments are starting a trial to put implants in the citizens. We're going to eventually have chips in our bodies for identification. It's going to change our lives forever. Our own bodies will be our cells. We're meat now, but we will always have our minds. He said, oh, no I hadn't heard that.

He left and began a deep, unexplained weeping on the drive home. He had forgotten to take his medication this morning when he had woken up.

The check from his client would come through his mail in less than two weeks. The abduction occurred after that. When he awoke he felt very drained, after terrifying dreams. His entire body hurt, but he thought he couldn't switch medication again. Emotionally, he felt he was out of options. He called his family friend. He said he thought something was going on with him. The lawyer mentioned anti-psychotics. His father was on them, sixty seven. PTSD. The car wreck had affected him more than Daniel thought. Call your doctor.

The car wreck was years ago. He had been in an accident with a semi that flipped over in front of him due to strong winds. He had been with his girlfriend, and broken his pelvis. She broke up with him when he was in the hospital. It was his fault for not slowing down in the mountains. It was his fault. It was my pelvis! That trash.

The doctor asked about his pelvis, and if he took any pain medication for the injury. His entire history with depression seemed very interesting to the country doctor, and turned the man's face into a strange, wary expression. How often did Daniel have sex? His doctor started him on a higher dose than normal.

The medication seemed to work. He didn't let things bother him anymore, and life seemed more effortless. The abductions stopped for less than a month.

In 1994 he was arrested and taken to jail for driving under the influence of alcohol. He went to the local hospital for detox.

"That's when we put the chip in him."

"Through his urethra."

"If we hadn't done that, we wouldn't have discovered who he is. We couldn't have begun Article 6. It was extremely lucky we chipped an abductee so early."

"The abductions stopped."

"His depression went away."

"And he remained happily medicated in the wild West for twenty years."

His writing was improved on the medication. He said it was his down-to-earth pill. Archiphicethesces saw the humor in it.

In 2001 he became obsessed with bombs. It wasn't the explosives which interested him, it was the idea of a bomb, the literary and cultural impact of bombs. He thought of people and books and ideas as bombs themselves. Daniel thought that people could be trained to do things, and when he thought of that he went online and learned about Manchurian candidates. He thought it to be fiction, but the idea intrigued him nonetheless. He began writing a novella. He called it "Article 6."

To Daniel, Article 6 was an outline of the cultural impact of bombs of different kinds. His main character had been brainwashed and tasked to save the human race. The character's name was Adam. It was briefly popular in Portland publications. The Sun Times described his writing as "diplomatic and militaristic, as if the novella was defending the last real writer on an Earth of avaricious hacks."