Introduction
For many of us who become interested in experiencing contact with people of other worlds and dimensions, disclosure is a natural gateway. It opens a door in the mind, one that leads to a number of important questions:
Are we alone?
Is our government aware of extraterrestrials?
Has this information been hidden from the general public?
What would happen if humanity received undeniable proof that life exists beyond Earth?
Around 2019 and 2020, I started researching any form of media I could find connected to UFOs, UAPs, extraterrestrial contact, government secrecy, hidden programs, or the possibility that humanity was being slowly introduced to a larger truth.
At first, it felt exciting and validating. I had finally found other people who were asking questions I had kept buried within myself for a long time. But over time, something changed.
The same conversations within the disclosure topic began repeating themselves. Theories circled around. Promises of imminent revelation appeared again and again. Eventually, I realized disclosure had become oversaturated within my mind.
Not because disclosure is unimportant, or because the search for physical evidence is meaningless. But because I had begun using disclosure as a way to externalize my own pain. And more than that, it had become a distraction.
My Personal Breakup With Disclosure
By 2022, I had reached a point where I could not keep consuming disclosure-related material. I felt like I had plateaued. There was not much someone could say that I had not already heard in some form a dozen times before. The details would change, but the pattern remained the same.
Another report.
Another hearing.
Another whistleblower.
Another prediction.
Another promise that something major was coming soon.
I was mentally exhausted, and I realized I was using disclosure to avoid something deeper within myself. I was looking at external sources and saying, in my own way:
“You are the reason I feel this way. You are the reason humanity is stuck. You are the reason I do not feel free.”
There is real secrecy and control in the world, and information has been withheld from the general public. But blaming those structures did not heal the pain inside me.
So I broke up with disclosure and left it in the past. I decided I would no longer watch the webinars, follow the constant updates, or go to workshops centered on secrecy, government programs, and especially fear-based narratives around extraterrestrial civilizations or visitation.
At first, that created a strange emptiness. Disclosure had taken up so much space in my mind that when I stepped away, I did not immediately know what would replace it, or even if something could. Thankfully, that emptiness became important. Because when I stopped filling myself with endless external information, something quieter had room to arrive.
The Balance I Am Learning
The emptiness that I initially felt became stillness. I could feel my heart begin to seek the next step of my life, not my mind.
Today, I still believe disclosure has value. UAP research, scientific discovery, and government transparency matter. Humanity deserves a more honest understanding of its place in the cosmos. But I no longer allow disclosure to be the center of my spiritual life. I do not chase every new update as if it holds the key to my awakening, and I no longer confuse information with integration.
For me, the deeper path now is learning how to hold curiosity without obsession. Openness without fantasy. Discernment without cynicism. Hope without dependence. That is the balance I am learning. And maybe that is part of humanity’s balance too.
Because if contact ever becomes undeniable on a collective level, the real question will not only be whether we can prove they exist.
The real question will be whether we have become mature enough to meet them.
Thanks for reading and have a great present moment!
Matt
Editor’s note: This article was adapted from a Planet Phoenix video transcript and edited by Matt McGee with assistance from AI.