Press Release - Origins of the Church of the Grey
The Church of the Grey began because its founder members believe that, in the near future, aliens will make official and open contact with Earth but find the human populace too narrow-minded in their perceptions to cope with the event and the sudden widening of the 'world' we live in. The Church of the Grey is an effort to help people expand their horizons without losing their cultural background - at least, without losing any parts they want to keep.
These beliefs apparently developed and were nurtured by the people, culture and 'information' the group were a part of on the Internet. However, fun facts and theories were suddenly brought into focus when members of the group actually began to have experiences with aliens - encounters, abductions, and so on. The discontinuity of these events from member to member - although each attesting to his or her experiences and the others roles in it - led to a state where the group could each only vouch for their own perception of events and its effects on their own personal universe.
Mistrust, paranoia and disbelief were rife in the group for some time - until the disappearance of one of their number - James Lytton - forcing the group to reconcile the fact that, no matter how differently they had perceived events, these events had nevertheless taken place. As an expression of their conclusion that everyones personal universe is dictated by their own unique perceptions of reality, and that these perceptions - no matter how conflicting - are equally valid, the Church of the Grey was formed.
Inspiration for naming this the 'Church of the Grey' and inspiration for a number of the religions key policies and beliefs is firmly credited to a science fiction novel - "Where Angels Fear" by Rebecca Levene & Simon Winstone - but the founders claim that this should have no effect on the integrity of the Church of the Grey, as they value works of fiction as much as any other source of inspiration and information.
