by Max Rempel, Ph.D.
First edition 2013; second edition 2020
"Welcome to Earth! A Guide for Aliens" by Max Rempel, Ph.D., is written tongue-in-cheek as an orientation manual addressed directly to newly arriving star beings and human-alien hybrids, explaining humanity from the outside in the affectionate tone of someone introducing a beloved culture to strangers. Rempel builds everything from two central premises: humans at large are neither telepathic nor psychic, and human lifespans are short. From these two facts he derives most of what makes Earth distinctive. Because there is no telepathy, communication runs only through voice, gesture and appearance, which breeds isolation, deception, and enormous diversity of languages, races and cultures; because life is short, humans learn little individually yet evolve fast, crave love and friendship, and create art to outlive themselves.
The book asserts that the human genome, though rooted in an Earth predecessor, carries ancient and recent infusions from many alien lineages, including Annunaki, Pleiadians, Lemurians, Lyrans, Sirians, and possibly Greys and Reptilians. Earth thus becomes a miniature of the galaxy, its conflicts an echo of old galactic wars imprinted in the DNA of different peoples.
Across its chapters the book surveys human life topic by topic. It covers survival, art, dance, theater, emotions, atheism, the fragmented and easily-programmed human mind, the New Age "Awakening" of lightworkers, and love in its many forms (including a stated love for the aliens themselves). It examines hatred, xenophobia, aggression, and the human fear of aliens and hybrids, while arguing humanity's exploratory, brave, self-sacrificing nature (Rempel cites Robert Shapiro's "Explorer Race") could serve a galactic community.
Drawing heavily on Rempel's own life in the Soviet Union and later America, the book treats crime and deception as universal human features, illustrated through Soviet history, film, and figures like Okudzhava, Smoktunovsky and Roerich. It describes the rhythms and cycles of daily life, a detailed "typical morning," pollution, weapons, and a political system Rempel sees as secretly run by an international Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) that thrives on war, secrecy and manipulated choice. He cites Bashar, David Icke, David Wilcock and Alex Jones as sources, and argues that, just as Radio Liberty's broadcasting of truth helped dissolve the deception-based Soviet system, alien-assisted broadcasting of truth could free humanity.
The book's practical core is a proposal: aliens should help build an off-world human colony to develop a new "alien-aware" human culture, broadcast educational material back to Earth, run schools and clinics, and gradually educate even MIC workers. It discusses how humans might eventually accept genetic improvement (via human-alien mating or gene therapy) to strengthen altruism, telempathy and psychic ability while reducing aggression and deception. Later chapters explore children and education, Rempel's youthful experience at a White Sea biological station as a model "dissident colony," and his own intuitive, empirical style of thinking, which he presents as creative, propaganda-resistant, and perhaps closer to how aliens think. Throughout, the framing remains a loving invitation: humanity is in crisis, and the aliens are asked to come and help.