Book excerpt: Greer unveils the actual contact experiences he has had with UFOs and extraterrestrial civilizations, beginning as a young child. Following a prolonged near-death experience at age 17, Greer explains that he experienced cosmic consciousness and found the Rosetta Stone of ET contact -- the power of the unbounded mind within each of us -- that is responsible for much of the work being done by the CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project.