by Sean Esbjörn-Hargens PhD
I have known Tom for almost a decade. When I launched MetaIntegral Associates in 2011 he was one of the seasoned integral business consultants who served as an advisor to this new initiative and he even facilitated one of our annual meetings. In the summer of 2012, I joined him and a few other guys and went on an amazing backpack trip in the Trinity Alps in Northern California. So, when he was one of the first people to sign up for my newly launched Exo Studies Masters Course I was thrilled.
He signed up in November 2018 almost a year before the course began in September 2019. Over the subsequent months we exchanged some emails and had a couple Zoom calls to connect and compare notes on the UFO topic. In mid-June 2019 we had one of our zoom calls to discuss exo studies as Tom had been doing a lot of the reading for the course in advance. During that call we got excited about doing a project together to create a free educational website that presented a comprehensive overview of UFOs for the general public. We just felt that too many credible people were saying incredible things and given the taboo around this complex topic we wanted to provide an accessible entry point for curious and open-minded people to learn more in a noncoercive or biased environment.
By the end of June, we were exchanging lots of emails about how we might do this and beginning in July we started to have weekly 1-hour meetings – usually Monday afternoon – to work on the project. We thought we would be done by September or October. But as we dove into the content and began to figure out our approach and curate the content one month flowed into the next.
Now 10 months later we are ready to share with the world what we have been up to. We have calculated that between the two of us we have put in at least 1000 hours working on this site. All of that to pull together and present 20-25 hours of content. Truly a labor of love.
So come check out what we have created: www.whatsupwithufos.com
And consider joining me/us for a 6-week discussion course starting in a few months (June 2020) where I will guide us through all the content on the site so people can go deeper and discuss its implications with others.