Max Rempel, Ph.D.

146. Softening The Cultural Shock

Since humans would experience huge cultural shock moving to your station, I recommend that you soften the shock as much as possible by stretching it in time and offering advice and consultation at every step. You may want to use both human and human looking consultants for that. It would be great if people were welcomed and guided by their hybrid children.

You may want to offer humans a very controlled environment at first. Say copying a hotel room or their home rooms or Star trek rooms would be a good idea. Having familiar foods and smells would be great. Having familiar toilets would be great.

Not being exposed to shocking information at once would be great.

I recommend giving people choices and freedoms, but advising them on taking the information slowly.

You may experiment how well they take things. There are simple physiological and psychological tests and reactions which show how well people adapt. I remember being overwhelmed by America. It was a sense of happiness but also I lost my sense of balance, my digestion was way of balance, I had pains in my guts, I had trouble speaking and thinking English. I needed some Russian language just to stay sane.

Giving people familiar activities is very healing. Even more important is to give people some activities which help them feel useful and doing their job.

I was always greatly troubled by the way I was starting my new jobs. I changed jobs many times and every time it was a very traumatic experience. On one hand I needed a sense of being welcome. On other hand, I needed some quiet time and time when I actively do things. Actively doing things helps greatly adaptation to the new environment.

Sometimes I would start a job and have no guidance. This was hateful. Sometimes I would start a job and have too much guidance. This was acceptable, but I would miss things and forget things. Having a friendly guide is great, but I used to be ashamed as I screwed things up. It is easy to screw things up when you start, especially, it was easy for me because I worked in experimental science in there, it is easy to mess things up. Again, try to soften the time pressure.

I see two main potential tasks for the human colonists: broadcasting the knowledge to Earth via YouTube and developing alien ware human culture.

Don't be scared of broadcatsing knowledge via YouTube. This can be very benign. Many channelers and contactees broadcast much of information about aliens already. Adding another channel of few will make little difference. Most likely the new channels will be overlooked by viewers and have no impact on humanity whatsoever.

Additionally, the colonists could broadcast something completely benign like philosophy, spirituality, what they think of life and things of very general nature.

The broadcasts can be censored and edited to avoid leaks of sensitive information.

You can use your technology even to change the appearance and voice of the broadcasters.

If you want the broadcasts to be benign, you would use very neutral backgrounds and dresses not revealing the off-world location of the broadcasts.

In addition to broadcasts, I recommend that the colonists start video recording their experiences as they learn the new information.

This can be intended to wide human audiences but also for future new coming colonists. So that when colonists arrive, they would be able to learn from the recordings of the previous colonists.

In addition to practical usefulness of these recordings for earth and colony viewers, you would learn about the experiences of the colonists in their recordings and most importantly, colonists would have the way to output their experiences. This is a very healing process and it allows to output the knowledge and energy. We think much when we talk. Recording our experiences for others would fill colonists' traumatic learning with much sense.

Now, consider that the recordings can be done in two ways: as monologues and as interviews. You or other humans could interview newcomers and ask them to share their experiences for (a) earth audience , possibly to be aired (broadcasted) in the future and (b) for new colonists, again to show them in the future. This is going to be very creative and much fun.

Understand now, that "developing new culture" does not necessarily mean writing and most likely it is not going to be writing. Most likely it is going to be more "talking" than anything else.

So these interviews and monologues are the process of developing the new culture. This process of introduction to alien culture and immersing in it is the process of creation of the new alien aware human culture. These recorded broadcasts for YouTube are going to be the way the alien aware culture is going to be built in best possible scenario.

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