Humanity has been in a downward spiral since we lost our spiritual and extraterrestrial teachers.  We need them to continuously gain higher and higher levels of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, ensuring that we can attain ever-higher vibrational levels.  But, humanity needs to realize that we can do this through breaking out of our redundant behaviors, our ideologies, and our old ways of thinking.  We are, at the soul level, a much greater being and we are fully capable of raising our level of vibration to greater states.  But we need outside Source to do so.