First Contact

	We live near the beautiful double star Albereo, which, from Earth's perspective, is nestled in the Summer Triangle, formed of the stars Deneb, Vega and Altair.

This is our first transmission to you!

On behalf of the 841 million people of our world, we send greetings of warmth, friendliness and love.

Our world, Luratia, is not so far and not so different from your own. Like you, we live a life rich with words and meaning and art and culture, with friendship and family and children and love.

We know and care about your challenges and struggles; we have endured them too.

In friendship, we offer you a view of our world: how we live, how we have evolved, how we have overcome some of the very problems that you now face.

Luratia is one of many inhabited planets that are nearby the Earth. You might be surprised to learn that there are many dozens of planetary homes in this beautiful corner of the Milky Way galaxy where the spiral arms of Sagittarius and Orion meet.

Most of us know of one another, but a few planets – including your own – have not yet evolved the capacity to receive, as would a radio, the higher frequencies of universe intelligence that endlessly pervade the expanses of time and space. This is why you are so completely unaware that you live in such a populated universe.

And, it is important to say, you live in a friendly universe.

We have been granted permission to communicate directly to the people of Earth via the communication grid you call the world wide web.

We are Lin and Van, a wife and husband team of researchers and educators who live on the continent Artunne, which is the source and center of our planet’s evolutionary awakening that began 350 years ago. Van teaches advanced university courses on planetary history and is considered to be the top authority on our world of everything pertaining to Earth life, culture, history and people. This allows us to communicate in your English language.

My husband Van has been granted the task of building a Luratia Wiki, which commenced in the mid-months of Earth’s year 2011. I have been granted my interest in presenting the day-to-day life experience of a Luratian. I am writing a memoir of my life in a six-volume series, suitable for ages 12 and older. The first chapter of Volume 4 is available on this website. The soon to be published Volume 1 of The Luratia Chronicles tells the story of my discovery of the remarkable technologies employed on our world.

It is well known among your planetary neighbors that Earth is one of the more troubled worlds in the local universe. Compounding your challenges is the fact that, unlike most inhabited worlds, you live quite completely in the dark about your place in the universe, the existence of intelligent life on other worlds, the nature of universe intelligence, the existence – within you – of this very intelligence, and how to live harmoniously with one another.

We will impress upon you, again and again, that the universe you live in is a living, evolving and dynamic phenomenon, teeming with intelligent life and upheld by love. You are known and you are loved.

And you most definitely are not alone.

Blessings and peace, from our world to yours,

Lin (& Van)

of Courton Township
of the Continental Union
of the planet Luratia
in the local system of Sortoria
and the superuniverse system of Orvonton
in the grand Universe of universes