Each of us is offering a different perspective Brook. Fear mongering isn't where I wish to go. Of course there is the dark downside of all of this. Which you are illustrating in the information you're providing. Yet, from my personal perspective - everything comes from god. All of it. Even the dark downside.
For example, my world-view perspective was altered after sitting in a room with Melon-Thomas Benedict. His story along with my own NDE helped me understand a bigger picture as compared to looking through a narrow focused life lens.
After suffering from a terminal illness, in 1982 Mellen-Thomas Benedict ‘died’ and for an hour and a half he was monitored showing no vital signs. Miraculously he returned to his body with a complete remission of brian cancer. He was shown during his NDE, in holographic detail, Earth’s past and a beautiful vision of mankind’s future for the next 400 years. What he talked about was how he hated so many things in the world (pollution and such) that it lead to his disease. His negative approach to what was going on in the world did him in and it was through his NDE he was able to understand how these negative things had their roll and the negative all fit together.
You can listen to him here if you wish:
http://www.mellen-thomas.com/mp3/mellen_joycekeller__7-18-07_48k.mp3What I'm attempting to point out is that each soul is on this planet for a purpose and that we don't know which life experiences it needs for it's growth and development. What may appear to be horrible, negative and nihilistic might be part of that soul's contract in this life to learn a particular lesson.
For example, there were days in the past during dark days of my illness that I thought being part machine not such a bad idea. It would have allowed me to continue to have experiences without effort, but later, I thought to myself at the time, at what cost. Remember the Startrek Enterprise episode where Jean Luc became part Borg? Basically he became part of the "hive-mind". There is no question in my mind that there is a negative ET faction at work attempting to take complete control of humanity and make them slaves. I accept that as one potential future reality. And having had the direct experience of an ET "hive-mind", I'm here to testify, it was a pleasant experience and not so bad. However, merging into "hive-mind" from my perspective would mean sacrificing both individuality and moving backwards spiritually as one further removes oneself from god's light, ones own inner source of beingness. This is why some of these less spiritually evolved beings seek connection with the human spirit because they feed off this energy due to the fact that they can't recreate it for themselves from within. I just look upon them as parasites that have the ability to kill the host by entrapping souls.
One could even postulate that they use artificial means to have experiences of the light derived from the higher spiritual dimensions as they can't create the wormholes, via their own DNA, to get there where they could have a direct experience of the "Christ" Consciousness. I suspect their kidnapping of humans and human DNA hybrid program was a way for them to not only continue their species but perhaps also to evolve spiritually. Basically, they were stealing human DNA and its ability to wrap itself around light (the stuff that the stars are made of), so that they too could make that next spiritual evolutionary leap. I know this perspective is somewhat out of the ball park for most people to even consider or acknowledge as a possibility - yet this is my current understanding when attempting to put together the dots based on my own personal knowledge.
Subsequently, from my personal perspective, each of us at an individual level only hold a few of the puzzle pieces and each of us is correct when it comes to describing our own personal world-view perspective. It wouldn't be right or fair to discount what has unfolded before our very lives as a result of our own life's experiences. And I think that I need to add Brook, that along with yourself, a number of us on this forum have suffered the loss of family members in these last couple of years including Mudra, Lee, Mercuriel and myself who all were nursing loved ones during their terminal illnesses.
What Mellen-Thomas Benedict was explaining is how fear is a magnet. It attracts negative experiences to oneself which intern creates illness, paranoia and death. Yet even after going through all those negative experiences during life, upon dying he had this incredible spiritual experience which subsequently created the condition for his body (while going into rigor mortise) to reanimate and completely heal itself from brain cancer. He overcame his fear and chose life now embracing, loving all the things he had feared prior to his death.
I'm just attempting to illustrate how an attitude of fear no longer works for me. Yes, I acknowledge how fear has its role when it comes to basic survival instinct. Yes, fear allows one to recognize what is dangerous. This is not to say fear doesn't have a role in my life but it is to say I recognize the role and walked beyond fear to embrace life experience for what it is. Just an experience - another opportunity and challenge for my soul to learn the next lesson. From my perspective, fear is a tool, a tool which for the most part I control. Fear doesn't control me for the simple reason that I refuse to be fear-based. Instead, each and every day I thank god for my life experience and to be allowed to live my life fully. After all, when one stands back and really examines how short a life-span is, compared to the soul which doesn't die, one realizes our time on the planet is very limited. I just don't want to waste my time, life or energy indulging in one emotion - fear, when there are so many other experiences to enjoy like adventure, excitement, happiness and awe.
And yes, personally I find the google glasses cool and with full knowledge of their downside still will purchase a pair when they become available. To me it's just a new toy to experience - not a trap to get lost in. And having gotten lost in the past for a bit, during a journey through the dark night of the soul, I eventually found my way out to the other side. To be aware of the pitfall is the first stage of awareness. To not fall into the pitfall generally comes with practice of climbing out.
While I move my paranoid "fear mongering" mind elsewhere. 
