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EDITORIAL Ghosts and TV ‘Para‐porn’ Dear readers, first things first, as you may note we have started running a regular and very funny cartoon strip called ‘The Zen of Ben’. For this I would like to thank Mike Oram and John Pickering for their kindness in allowing us to use the delightful character they have created. Also, I would like to welcome our latest mem‐ ber of our team, Lavinia Pallott has joined us as one of our distributors throughout Italy... Right, now the usual rant: in recent years there has been an explosion of information on TV about the supernatural, and to be fair it is a subject that never loses its mysterious appeal. This has come in various guises, but mainly in confrontational and exploitative programmes like Most Haunted, the TV show that was once credited with single‐handedly saving Living TV. I suppose you could call the attraction a form of ‘Para‐porn’ in the way it flaunts the subject for public edification. All of these shows (including the ones using studio audiences and highly paid alleged mediums) make one serious and fundamental mistake; they assume that the departed actually want to be contacted; how do they know that? The fawning approach of some psychics who preface every question to the other side with the words ‘with respect’ fools no one, and what’s more there is no guarantee they can do what they say. However, such is the lure of the unknown that they are well paid for effectively polluting and destroying an area deserving serious research...

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Page 03: Children of the Gods. ‘Indigo Children’, ‘Crystalline Children’, the ‘Super Psychic Chinese Children’ and the rather disconcertingly named, ‘Children of Aids’. They have apparently caught both the attention and imagination of a relatively large number of people within the New Age and UFO movements and as such are worthy of serious consid‐ eration. Since the author keeps an open mind on all areas of the paranormal he can accept the rationale behind their existence, but as an investigator Brian Allan cannot accept their existence without challenge. Page 07: The Urantia Book: Part 2. An experiment conducted by the editors of ‘The Book Your Church Doesn’t Want You to Read’, Tim C. Lee‐ dom and Maria Murdy, would appear to support the usage of universal ideas and similar wordings found in the Urantia Book. On pg 467 of the revised Second Edition (2007), Leedom writes, “In 1993 when I started to gather information for The Book, I decided to test the leaders of different religious denominations on their knowledge of Holy Books. The finding were interesting. Bret Lueder reveals... Page 13: Do we own our own Brains? In an introduction to one of my earlier features, the editor, Brian Allan, broached the topic of how some‐ times events transcend the nebulous interface between Ufology and Paranormal, bequeathing this area the name ‘High Strangeness’. This high strangeness decided to impact on my life from the earliest of days and could have backed the maxim ‘start as you mean to go on’. Dan Green describes his own profound experiences and also looks at the evidence for High Strangeness cases. Page 17: Paranormal Warnings of bridge collapse as ‘Mothman’ flies overhead. If the Silver Bridge collapse of December 1, 1967, is any indication, our aging infrastructure today should have Mothman hovering overhead, UFOs zooming from one potential bridge disaster to another, and para‐ normal activity beeping, popping, and swirling. Yes, perhaps a silly idea, but there are numerous accounts of UFOs near disasters, including the footage taken of them near the 2011 Japanese 9.0 earthquake and subsequent catastrophic tsunami. Diane Tessman looks into these strange connections. Page 21: America’s Strange and Supernatural History: Proof Positive that we are a Weird Nation. Words like “strange” and “supernatural” are admittedly relative terms whose true meaning exists in the mind of the beholder. What one person calls strange and supernatural, another might call commonplace or, conversely, too unreal to even contemplate taking seriously. But when reading “America’s Strange and Supernatural History,” a recent offering from Tim Beckley’, it is not so easy to make convenient distinctions between what is real and what is laughably dismissible. Sean Casteel explains... Page 25: UFO and Paranormal News from around the world. Each month Phenomena Magazine picks some of the most interesting news items that have appeared throughout the world, such as UFO sightings, Crop Circles, Ghostly encounters, Science and NASA news, Conspiracies, Supernatural occurrences, mysteries, strange creatures and cryptozoology, fortean events and the profound. If you have an interesting news item, then please feel free to send it over to Phenomena Magazine and we would be pleased to include it. Page 33: Isle of the Dead: Part 1. Where do we go when we die? This question has haunted humankind for millennia and although no firm proof has come to light there’s no shortage of theories! This article attempts to make a minor foray into this nebula of super‐abundant speculation, on a raid in the spirit of King Arthur’s – as recorded in Taliesin’s poem ‘Preiddu Annwn’ (where the Pendragon wins the fabled Cauldron of Plenty from the Underworld). Kevan Manwaring looks into the mysterious Isle of the Dead in this first installment of his article. Page 39: Monster Birds of the America’s. For most of modern human's existence, say over the past 50,000 to 100,000 years, if we saw something fly under its own power, it was a bird, a bat or an insect, maybe a ‘flying' fish or ‘flying' fox if you want to stretch things a bit. Relatively few of these feature prominently in any culture's mythology. Bats might have an association with vampires, but your average run‐of‐the‐mill garden variety bird is usually taken for granted, unless they are monstrous in size and like humans for dinner. John Prytz explains...

Brian Allan

03 Bret Lueder

11 Dan Green

17 Diane Tessman

23 Sean Casteel

27 Varied Authors

35 Kevan Manwaring

41 John Prytz

Also Featured: Latest UFO AND paranormal news from around the World. Book and dvd reviews. Events and Conferences, Astronomical DATA, Advertisements and much more. 02

Authors note I hold no particular views on the subject of the so‐called ‘Indigo Children’, ‘Crystalline Children’, the ‘Super Psychic Chinese Chil‐ dren’ and the rather disconcertingly named, ‘Children of Aids’, but they have apparently caught both the attention and imagination of a relatively large number of people within the New Age and UFO move‐ ments and as such are worthy of serious consideration. Since I keep an open mind on all areas of the paranormal I can accept the rationale behind their existence, but as an investigator I cannot accept their al‐ leged existence without challenge. For this reason, although I shall present the reader with evidence, both pro and con, I have attempted to remain neutral and leave them to decide for themselves whether the occurrence is genuine or only present in the imaginations of the parents of the children and the people who originally popularised the notion. First we will con‐ sider what is perhaps the most widespread example of this recent phenomenon, i.e. the ‘Indigo Children’. The Indigo Children Imagine if you will the unnatural emo‐ tional situation faced by any nor‐ mal human mother (or indeed fa‐ ther) of yielding up the satis‐ faction, comfort, joy and fulfilment of parenthood to the rather queasy feeling that their child is not entirely hu‐ man and may, to all intents and purposes, be non‐terrestrial. Such is one of the more extreme scenarios faced by those who have ac‐ cepted that their offspring belong to the so‐called ‘Indigo Children’, babies that, although born naturally of hu‐ man parents, are credited with being children of the stars.

Their parents are relegated to little more than surrogates charged with their earthly welfare and upbringing until such times as they are able to look after themselves.

The children u n f a i l i n g l y appear to possess exotic talents and abilities, chief among these is the facility to channel infor‐ mation from their real ‘parents’ cou‐ pled to a range of psychic powers includ‐ ing healing and natural telepathy. In some ways they are remi‐ niscent of the unearthly chil‐ dren featured in John Wyndham’s excellent book, ‘The Midwich Cuck‐ oos’ (later adapted for the screen as a series of films begin‐ ning with ‘Village of The Damned’), although so far their mission, if that is what it is, unlike that of the children of Mid‐ wich is apparently benign. It should be made clear that in some cases where these children have been identi‐ fied, the parents seem quick to advertise if not actually exploit the 03

situation. All this may be so, but a word of caution, it may be rea‐ sonable to wonder if, in such cases, the parents are attempting to fit a template of their own design onto the instinctive actions, words and possibly neurological condition of their child. A less extreme interpretation of Indigo Children views them as bricks in a spiritual wall designed to bring about a sea change in human evolution, a claim not uncommon in the New Age paradigm. Their ‘talents’ in this version of the story tend to involve enhanced empathy and often creativity, admittedly two attributes that are badly needed in the self‐centred, hedonistic, divisive and largely compassionless society in which we live. The trouble is if the child is encouraged to accept that they are in some way special, whether they are or not they will quite naturally come to believe it is so, which is something we will return to a little later. It should be noted that these children are not described as being ‘Indigo’ because they are coloured blue, but rather because they were named ‘Indigos’ by Nancy Ann Tappe, a ‘synesthete’ and psychic, who first coined the term in her 1982 book, ‘Understanding Your Life Through Colour’. Chief among her claims was that she could discern the aura, (or nebulous cocoon of ‘life energy’, roughly analogous to the elec‐ tromagnetic field that is emitted by any functioning electrical device), that alleg‐ edly surrounds each and every one of us. The condition of synesthesia is a relatively harmless neurological dysfunction causing the sufferer to ‘see’ or perceive sounds as colours and vice versa, in effect the inter‐ nal ‘wiring’ of the brain is not 100% cor‐ rect. A similar phenomenon was regularly reported, particularly in the 1960’s, by users of psychoactive substances like LSD, who regularly described ‘seeing the sounds’ and ‘listening to the pretty col‐ ours’ while under the effects of the drug. According to Ms Tappe, she began to no‐ tice a preponderance of children possess‐ ing indigo auras during the late 1970’s and currently estimates that approximately 60% people aged between 14 and 25 are indigo. More significant is her remarkable assertion that 97% of pre‐teen children are also Indigo. It is a well to consider at this point that claims of individuals who are (or were) here on earth to assist in a spiritual revolu‐ tion are not new and many iconic and

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inspirational figures such as Christ, Moham‐ med, Abraham, Buddha, Osiris, Tammuz and many other spiritual leaders were sent to save the human race from its own fail‐ ings. All of them, according to the era and society they arrived in, were able to convert huge numbers of people to their cause and indeed the majority still command disciples and believers numbering in their tens of millions. It has to be noted that there still are a number of people who claim to be messiahs and with varying degrees of suc‐ cess attempt to lead their bands of follow‐ ers to ‘salvation’. Sadly, many of them appear to be cult lead‐ ers more interested in manipulating their flock for their own ends. Cults aside, this all sounds rather like a variant on Prof. Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of ‘Morphogenetic Fields’ using the by now almost standard example of ‘The Hundredth Monkey Syn‐ drome’, a concept which, broadly speaking, means that the more people who come to accept a new idea or practise, the more people are likely to display the same prac‐ tise whether they consciously learn it or not. In other words, according Prof. Shel‐ drake an invisible field of ‘information en‐ ergy’ surrounds us, that in the right condi‐ tions percolates into us almost by a type of osmosis, or more correctly we inadvertently receive it like organic radio or TV sets. As the numbers grow, the theory goes, we assimilate the knowledge/information with increasing speed until a ‘tipping point’ is reached and we as a race become as one, a gigantic gestalt being. If this is true then we may not necessarily benefit from such a ‘gift’, because it may serve agendas that are not in the best interests of the human race; like mind control. One is also tempted to draw comparisons with the concept of ‘memes’, or the proposition that certain good ideas, particularly ones that have a direct benefit on the individual and society in general, actually perpetuate themselves, almost as if they had sentience. This of course is a difficult type of logic to follow; it is rather like saying that a thermostat has intelligence because it performs a mechani‐ cal function in response to an increase or decrease in temperature, a conclusion that is tenuous at best. Although the concept of these supposedly unique children was invented by Ms Tappe, it became elevated to a place of promi‐ nence in the New Age psyche in the book, ‘The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived’, written in 1998 by Jan Tober and Lee Carroll. The source of the subject mat‐ ter of this work was channelled from an entity called ‘Kyron’, evidently one of the so ‐called ‘Ascended Masters’. According to Carroll and Tober, a married couple, when talking about their book in the wider com‐ munity they tend not to mention the source of the information it contains, as, not

surprisingly, they do not believe the po‐ tential audience and market for the book outside the New Age community would readily accept its validity. Among the many traits associated with these children is a tendency to antisocial behaviour unless they are mixing with their peers, and as a result their schooling is problematic. Added to this is their rejec‐ tion of authority and an elevated sense of self‐importance, another two factors that are less than conducive to conventional education. A less sympathetic and more pragmatic interpretation of these traits views the children as suffering from Atten‐ tion Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), Obsessive‐Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and/or Autism. In most of these instances the conditions are treated using a range of drugs, but chiefly ‘Ritalin’, which is a type of amphetamine. However, a more con‐ spiratorial mind may interpret this situa‐ tion as the deliberate use of a ‘chemical cosh’ to subdue their development and prevent them developing their full poten‐ tial, whatever that may be. Undoubtedly the way many of these youngsters behave can be highly disrup‐ tive within a household and a cause of extreme frustration to their parents. One wonders how those who are convinced of their children ‘specialness’ and encourage in what they do still manage to maintain a degree of control over them. Or perhaps ADHD, OCD and Autism are subtly differ‐ ent from the tantrums and traumas exhib‐ ited by these Indigo Children. It has been suggested that parents who decide their child is Indigo may actually cause them harm by failing to recognise the previously mentioned conditions, but perhaps more cautiously this is connected to the insidi‐ ous methods used to prevent their devel‐ opment and eventual flowering. As hinted at earlier is it possible that we are actually creating a new breed of evolved being 04

because we want it to happen? Are the desires of those parents who choose to see their offspring as special and different actually bringing this about in some man‐ ner by causing the child to become what they imagine they should be and if so is it within the gift of humanity to think these beings into existence? If this is the case then surely it would be much simpler in the first place to excise evil and injustice from society by simply wishing it away? But perhaps not, maybe this is an oversim‐ plification and there needs to be another agency involved. Another issue to be addressed is the ad‐ mitted fact that, as with the observations of Ms Tappe, there has indeed in recent years been a rapid increase in children diagnosed with ADHD etc, but this has been attributed to many factors including the increasing level of toxins that surround us plus the large number of synthetic in‐ gredients in the food that we eat. Or, is it possible that the change in diet has actu‐ ally altered the genetic code of some chil‐ dren for the better, are we witnessing a new and benign genesis of the human race? It has also been suggested that the Indigo’s tend to have poor sleep patterns and often stay awake for hours on end, only suc‐ cumbing when they are literally out on their feet and, as already mentioned, they apparently possess paranormal abilities and heightened awareness. This should come as no real surprise, because there is at least one valid reason for it; the longer the brain is deprived of sleep, the greater the build up of serotonin, which is one of several powerful neurotransmitters medi‐ ated by sleep. It may be the reason why ghosts, phantoms and ET’s are most often seen at night when levels are at their high‐ est. Perhaps the neurology of Indigo’s is ‘retuned’ by elevated levels of serotonin permitting them access to impressions

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denied to the rest of us. This link leads us to yet another example of this phenomenon, the so‐called ‘Crystalline Children’. The Clouded Crystal Another manifestation of the desire to rise above our current level of human existence is the claimed appearance of another sub‐ group within the human species, that of the ‘Crystalline Children’, who display most and possibly more of the attributes ascribed to the Indigo’s. This information arrives, once again, from the dubious and entirely unveri‐ fiable source of the ‘Ascended Masters’, and as previously mentioned with the In‐ digo’s they are not entirely comfortable in the presence of any but their peers. Among their alleged talents is the ability see be‐ yond the three (and possibly four assuming that time is a dimension) dimensions that govern our physical existence. They are, according to what is known about them, evidently attuned with the frequencies of light and it is hinted that they are, or will be, almost godlike in their abilities and bring with them truths that have become either lost or distorted beyond recognition over millions of years of human evolution. Their DNA is in some way reprogrammed and in effect ‘blueprinted’, so that it is ex‐ actly as our progenitors intended. Their purpose is to re‐harmonise the human race so that it resonates with ‘The One’, another reference to the gestalt that may, or may

not, represent Cosmic Consciousness, in other words a reinterpretation of the Eastern mantra that ‘all is one’ and the ancient Alchemical and Mystery School teaching of ‘as above, so below’. In truth, these ostensibly ‘new’ belief systems are little more than retreads of aeons old wisdom and teachings and may be (more cynically) merely a moneymaking platform for the new gurus. All of this assumes that we are the product, not of natural selec‐ tion, but of a deliberate and sustained act designed to produce the human race, whether this is through the direct inter‐ vention of some Creator God or otherwise is a moot point. Not that there is anything fundamentally wrong with this concept, it’s just that as we have seen it is far from new. The Crystalline Variant on this theme seems to rely on the idea that we are in fact, each and every one of us, a tiny frag‐ ment of the whole, a miniscule version of the entire entity and these children will cause us to reunite into the totality (gestalt again?) that surrounds us. It also relies on the nature and understanding of the DNA that makes us what we are and how, as it alters, allows us a means of interdimensional access to higher commu‐ nication. It stops short of actually saying, although heavily implies, that we might eventually communicate with our creator (s) on some exotic level of existence. What it does not say is whether the DNA

of the animals who also live on the Earth might also evolve into higher states of consciousness, particularly certain species of aquatic mammals like whales and dol‐ phins that already appear to have a well‐ developed degree of communication, intel‐ ligence and awareness. We should not lose sight of the fact that this information alleg‐ edly derives from already advanced crea‐ tures currently existing without form within a light matrix. While the advent of crystalline children may be a little too much to fully accept, perhaps we can more easily understand another strand of emerging super‐humanity, the super psy‐ chic children of China and the children who cannot become ill. Reprogramming the Helix Although perhaps the most interesting of all these alleged ‘new humans’ are the children who do not become ill, we should first look briefly at the so‐called ‘Super Psychic Children of China’. According the evidence, such as it is, they were first noted circa 1984, the same era as that of the emergence of the Indigo Children. Evidently the Chinese government identi‐ fied one such child who scored way off the scale during a standard psi experiment designed to measure paranormal abilities. Following this discovery and the attention it drew, other parents started noticing odd ‘talents’ in their own children until the numbers spiralled into the many hundreds.

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Every test devised to test them revealed telepathic and precognitive abilities that went well above chance and in most cases the children tested scored 100% irrespec‐ tive of how the test was conducted. Another of their claimed talents is the curi‐ ous ability to read without using their eyes, in other words they were able to ‘read’ words and colours using other parts of their anatomy such as their fingers, ears, and patches of skin on their arms and chests. Although a remarkable discovery, if true, and in spite of the exited announcements it is not entirely unique, as, over the years, this particular aptitude has been noted among various people. One in particular was Mollie Fancher, a woman who lived in America in the late 19th century. Although blind and crippled due to a childhood acci‐ dent, she exhibited the capability of select‐ ing by touch alone various colours of thread used in embroidery from a box located above her bed. Although not a Roman Catholic she also occasionally exhibited traditional signs of the stigmata, which drew some considerable comment. She also displayed manifestations of multi‐ ple personality disorder where she exhib‐ ited at least two distinct personalities be‐ side her own. In addition she was reputedly both psychic and to some extent telepathic, this raises the question that she may have been a precursor of the superchild revolu‐ tion. It certainly gives reason to question whether many people who have been con‐ signed to psychiatric care were in fact only demonstrating aspects of their superhuman potential and not signs of mental illness. It is strange that depending on the mores and customs of individual societies, some of them regard the mentally disturbed to be some way ‘gifted’ and worthy of venera‐ tion, considering them to be communing with the gods. Is this perhaps yet another example of the involuntary recognition of a coming super race caused by genetic infor‐ mation bleed‐through from the pre‐existing programme? If this is the case the strange talents shown by Mollie and many others over the years may well have been slight defects in the timing of the inbuilt genetic clock determining our elevation to another level of existence. The next group we con‐ sider holds the prospect of near immortality for the human race; they are the ‘Children of AIDS’. The Children of AIDS This truly remarkable evolutionary develop‐ ment first came to light, again at around the same time as the other two groups, in the late 1970’s early 1980’s, when a child was born that already was infected with the deadly condition of Acquired Immune Defi‐ ciency Syndrome, now known simply as AIDS. As is now known, this condition ren‐ ders the patient unable to fight off ordinary

infections that in normal people the im‐ mune system deals with automatically by destroying any invading foreign organism. The child was tested at six months old and was indeed still infected as it was a year later, then something remarkable hap‐ pened. The child, a boy, was left until he was six years old and tested again when, miraculously, he was AIDS free. Naturally the tests were repeated and proved iden‐ tical; there was no trace of AIDS whatso‐ ever, or indeed of HIV, which is the pre‐ cursor of full blown AIDS. Following this remarkable development the boy was taken to UCLA where he was exposed to a series of tests to examine his DNA for any abnormalities; these tests revealed that the child did not have nor‐ mal, standard, human DNA. Although this is an extremely complex subject I have attempted to explain it in terms that are accessible, this is slightly daunting but vital because of what may be happening to us. In the normal, human, genetic code there is a set of instructions defining what we are, among these are units comprising three nucleotides representing one amino acid, they are called ‘codons’. We as human beings possess sixty four of these codons, of which only twenty‐three are used, twenty are turned on and the other three act as start (initiation) and stop (termination) switches controlling the rest, rather like the digital switching arrangements used in a computer, this is an analogy that works well and is some‐ thing that we will return to shortly. The unused ‘codons’ have always been as‐ sumed to be part and parcel of our so‐ called ‘Junk DNA’, something that we no longer require in our evolutionary proc‐ ess, although this was apparently not the case with this child, he had twenty four of these codons switched on. Following this discovery they tested his DNA to see just how resistant to disease it actually was

and the results were truly breathtaking. The scientists exposed his blood cells to a progressively stronger dose of AIDS and it was not until the dosage was in the order of thousands of times stronger that his blood cells were damaged. The same ex‐ periment was tried using a range of other diseases including various forms of cancer and his blood did not react or succumb to any of them, he appeared to be immune to all diseases. Following this discovery a clandestine programme was instituted to examine blood cells from a wide range of children from all ethnic groups and social classes and much to the surprise of the scientists they found that the altered DNA was not by any means unique to one child, the numbers ran into tens of thousands, something was definitely happening, something wonderful yet at the same time frightening. The question then was how and why? The implication here is that as with the indigo’s, the greater the number the more quickly the change spreads. The method by which this occurs is, however, highly speculative, as is the evidence itself, unless of course ‘they’, the faceless, ruling ‘ubermensch’, really are behind a mon‐ strous cover‐up and, for a variety of rea‐ sons both political and economic, are de‐ nying this information to the general pub‐ lic. It is certain that the multinational manufacturers in the pharmaceutical in‐ dustry would be less than pleased to see their highly lucrative market vanish almost overnight and as such would go to any lengths to stop this happening. According to what knowledge there is, whether suppressed or not, the mecha‐ nism behind the change seems to be largely internal, all that is required, appar‐ ently, is a strong enough desire to make the change to one’s DNA and it will hap‐ pen; the use of meditation techniques seem to be an advantage though. In fact what this sounds like is a variant on Chaos Magic, where a wish or desire becomes a

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reality at the quantum level and providing this has been done correctly, manifests a physical change in the real world. On other level there is a clear reference to the power of positive thinking where a person who is ill is encouraged to think in a positive man‐ ner, which does seem to have an effect on the speed of recovery. What is not clear is how the original and initial change was made, for unless there was a series of lucky accidents, then the first people to display these genetic peculi‐ arities had to be given outside help, unless our own DNA carried the message as part of its internal programming. While consid‐ ering this it is important to realise that the information controlling our genes and how they function is not entirely stored in the genetic code. The additional information is contained, rather like computer sub‐ routines, in regulatory sequences, inter‐ genetic segments and areas devoted to the structure of chromosomes, which brings us back to the link with computers. As previously mentioned the codons and additional elements in the gene pattern that switch the rest of the DNA on and off act like timers in a standard digital com‐ puter or programmable logic controller, no matter how clever or fleeting, they are either on or off with no halfway position, the only way to improve on this situation in computers is to use ‘dual‐core’ processors so that they can multi‐task more easily. This is a development from the original method of using separate sub‐processors to deal with the more mundane tasks like number crunching. Staying with the computer anal‐ ogy there is, however, another method currently under development and that is in the esoteric field of ‘quantum computing’. This near magical infant science relies on the fact that the state of any subatomic particle cannot be predicted at any given time and they exist in an infinite number of states. It is this bizarre property that even‐ tually will lead to a type of computer that will operate in a number of states at any one time and as such can carry out a near limitless number of functions simultane‐ ously. The components used in the process‐ ing are still electronic, but they are now operating in applications that their inven‐ tors could not have imagined. As we have seen, the method by with these electronic devices function has many paral‐ lels with the science of genetics and pro‐ vides a good comparison. Both rely on pro‐ gramming to function and both are capable of being reprogrammed to produce differ‐ ent effects. The difference is, so far, that unlike the application of computers, any alterations to the genetic code have, in the main, been confined to what amounts to tinkering around the edges of its vast po‐ tential. The restraints on development have in the main been ethical and/or religious

where the very thought of tinkering with the human genome is likened to interfer‐ ing with Gods work, which, in fundamen‐ talist circles is absolute anathema irre‐ spective of how beneficial it might be. While there is undoubtedly an official ban on some aspects of this research, it would be interesting to discover what work is currently conducted under the cloak of ‘black projects’. Although these develop‐ ments fall well short of explaining the incredible complexity of inducing changes in specific elements of the genetic code to permit evolutionary leaps; nevertheless it is allegedly occurring at an ever‐increasing rate. One can only ponder and speculate on what might occur of more of these codons were switched on; we can only hope that we are ready for the change and recognise it when it happens. Conclusion Is this all feasible or is it not? As we have seen, the youngsters called Indigo Chil‐ dren and/or Crystal Children are indeed an enigma. Are they a natural progression in human development triggered through some predetermined change in the hu‐ man genome, or are they the inadvertent result of the increasingly toxic environ‐ ment in which we live? Is this some form of corroboration of the Gaia hypothesis showing that the planet on which we live is indeed to some extent sentient and is attempting to alter us; it’s children, in order to save itself. Or are the Indigo’s and all the rest no more than a fantasy created by over imaginative and over protective parents determined to believe that their children are not in some way ‘damaged’, but reject it by submerging themselves in the fantasy that they are instead ‘gifted’. The purpose of these supposed evolved beings is nothing less than the redemption of the human race, a noble cause that no one would argue with, except that, as we have seen, this is really nothing new, only the packaging is different. ‘The Space Brothers’, ‘The Coun‐ cil of Nine’ ‘The Ascended Masters’, ‘The Secret Chiefs’ and now ‘gifted children’, be they indigo, crystal, psychic or ‘reprogrammed’, there is no difference. 07

A more cynical view is they this situation is entirely artificial and man made, another symptom of the frantic and dizzy society in which we live. It is strange that as our re‐ jection of organised religion gains momen‐ tum, we still apparently need something to cling to and so we invent one. We have seen this in the past with the advent of Ufology, which was perhaps at its zenith from the 1950’s until the late 1980’s. From personal experience I have seen this amply demonstrated during public meetings and conferences devoted to the study of strange phenomena be it UFO’s, hauntings or whatever. The intense, almost devout, look on the faces in the audience, they had the look and feel of a church congregation. The need to make sense of the world, but in a manner that best appealed to those at‐ tending and instead of a God it was an extraterrestrial, which, I suppose, is what precisely what God is. A being that lives outwith the constraints of time and space, that is both omniscient and omnipotent, although, sadly, God seems equally elusive. If these children are the next step, then we are truly favoured that the process has begun and we may yet rise out of the mire that traps us. Ultimately in matters not whether the message comes via Ascended Masters, Space Brothers or Indigo Chil‐ dren, if the message is valid then it has to emerge one way or another.

We must hope that they do not regard us as inferior and take steps to cleanse our memory from the face of the planet, to remove all trace of us from the gene pool, if this process can self‐start then we must hope that the next stage, whatever that might be, continues to improve us as a species and we achieve the destiny pre‐ written for us in the coding of our DNA. There are indeed interesting times ahead. Sources The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism, by Fr Herbert Thurston SJ.

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The SDA’s, among other offshoot sects like the Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW’s), have their roots in the Second Adventist Movement which separated from Adventism in the 1870’s. Adventism, going back in time—the idea that the Sabbath was to be on Satur‐ day, same as the Jews—sprang out of the Millerite Movement of the early‐to‐mid 1800’s, which itself began when William L. Miller of northern New York State split from the philosophy of British Israelism, whose modern roots can be traced back to 1794 in a publication titled, A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times by Richard Brothers in England. This is the philosophy that the original inhabitants of the British Isles were really members of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel and related to the House of David, and is today represented by the Brit‐ ish‐Israel World Federation (BIWF, The Zi‐ onists). More on this later. Miller began claiming to have his own vi‐ sions that the Second Coming of Christ would happen between the years 1843 and 1844. When this did not happen, “The Great Disappointment” sent disheartened Millerites reeling for another philosophy eventually giving birth to the SDA’s and other breakaway groups circa 1876 in the USA. Both Sadler and his brother‐in‐law Wilfred Custer Kellogg (who Gardner names as the “anonymous receiver” of The Urantia Papers) were both one‐time Adventists, says Gardner. This is significant, he argues, because the UB contains several Adventist doctrines such as Jesus being the Archangel Michael, the denial of there being a “Hell” or the idea of “soul sleep”—where an indi‐ vidual can be awoken from a death slum‐ ber, among many other items. The idea that Sadler borrowed ideology from the Advent‐ ists for the UB is only buttressed by the fact that Adventist founders themselves were thought to be plagiarists of earlier works. Gardner accuses Sadler (in an entire chap‐ ter and appendix combined!) of not only lifting teachings from the seminary where he taught in Chicago to put into the UB (similarities in the dating and origins of Biblical texts, for example) but also SDA co‐ founder Ellen White’s work Patriarchs and Prophets (1890) is seemingly paralleled in the UB, who herself Gardner relays, via The White Lie by Walter T. Rea (1982), had “a bad problem with plagiarism.” Two articles, one from the New York Times dated, November 6, 1982, titled, “Seventh‐ Day Adventists Face Change and Dissent;” http://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/06/ us/7th‐day‐adventists‐face‐change‐and‐ dissent.html and one from Time Magazine dated August 2, 1982 titled, “The Church of Liberal Borrowings: Plagiarism and Fraud Charges Rock the Seventh‐day Adventists;” http://adventistalert.com/aawwn/eight/ two‐js.htm chronicle over one hundred SDA ministers willfully or forcefully resigning because of the information.

Says Gardner, “The UB doctrines are a strange blend of Seventh‐Day Adventists opinions and Adventist heresies, just what one would expect from the subconscious mind of a man who had abandoned his [Sadler’s] earlier Adventists beliefs. The Adventists doctrines in the UB are also precisely those fundamental beliefs that an ex‐Adventist would find hard to dis‐ card, beliefs that would be favorably re‐ ceived by three other ex‐Adventist rela‐ tives on the Contact Commission, the two Sadlers and Wilfred’s wife.” Researcher Alex Constantine has come to the same conclusion as Gardner about the Kellogg family being involved with the 12

origins of the UB in an article from his blog, Alex Constantine’s Blacklist, titled, “The Urantia Book is a Skull and Bones Spin‐ Off.”. http:// aconstantineblack‐ list.blogspot.com/2008/12/urantia‐cult‐is‐ skull‐bones‐spin‐off.html I still don’t think that the combining of Gardner’s and Con‐ stantine’s information definitively proves anything, even though the pattern that was being uncovered appeared suspicious. Despite this, the book has its defenders. “We’re not told what the other members of the Kellogg family thought of Wilfred Kellogg’s channeling,” said anonymous UB supporter “Diane” who, while rebutting an

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article by Brian Salter from 2004 at the website, www.questionsquestions.com (which is no longer available online), takes a verbal shot at Constantine. “But that’s, apparently, not important. In some peo‐ ple’s eyes [referring to Constantine], appar‐ ently, the mere involvement of a Kellogg in the founding of Urantia, any Kellogg, is sufficient to brand Urantia an insidious evil, tainting everything it touches.” http:// activistnyc.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/ agent‐baiting‐guilt‐by‐association‐and‐ religious‐bigotry‐2/ Together, Gardner and Constantine do pro‐ vide some interesting evidence. I think a jury would be split. It is compelling, how‐ ever, and worthy of further study in my view when you consider that when discuss‐ ing or describing these kinds of universal truths any writer is bound to word things similarly to other religious doctrines, espe‐ cially when there are so many throughout history all explaining the same things. That does appear to be reasonable. An experiment conducted by the editors of The Book Your Church Doesn’t Want You to Read, Tim C. Leedom and Maria Murdy, would appear to support the usage of uni‐ versal ideas and similar wordings found in the UB.

On pg 467 of the revised Second Edition (2007), Leedom writes, “In 1993 when I started to gather information for The Book, I decided to test the leaders of different religious denominations on their knowledge of Holy Books. The informal test was very simple. I took 50 sayings from various holy texts of the world religions. Included in this ‘pop’ quiz were scriptures from Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Buddhism, Tao‐ ism, Christianity, Islam, Shintoism, and Na‐ tive American books of wisdom. The chal‐ lenge of these men of God was this: 1. Iden‐ tify the sayings that come from your

religion and, 2. Tell me where these Holy Scriptures come from? The ministers, priests, preachers, reverends, clerics, monks and rabbis failed miserably in both sections. The highest score was 56% on both sections; most scores were less than 50%!” Still, Gardner, Constantine and others will argue that with so many simi‐ larities in wordings and thought between various passages of the UB and the afore‐ mentioned books that there has got to be some sort of underhandedness afoot. And I can see this side of the coin as well. You know the old saying, “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it’s….” Adding to the controversy—as if it needed more—at least in terms of a possible mo‐ tive to create a religious philosophy for a mass mind‐control experiment, occult scholar Jordan Maxwell offers some possi‐ bly pertinent work. In an interview with him at the Bay Area UFO Expo in 2007 in Santa Clara, California, USA, included within the Esoteric Guide to the Bay Area UFO Expo Volume II DVD set of interviews with event speakers, Maxwell outlined a social/political framework which has given rise to many religious movements that appear to stem from a common source. It is my view that within this framework is a potential for a possible link between the origins of the SDA’s, the JW’s and the UB through British Israelism. Here’s the background: Maxwell ex‐ plained that many of the religious and political movements coming out of that era were off‐shoots of the original phi‐ losophy of the British Israelists, today’s modern Zionists. He pieced together infor‐ mation from several sources, among which is The Watchtower Magazine, pub‐ lished monthly by the JW’s since 1879. Back then it was called, The Zion’s Watch Tower and Charles Taze Russell, who had a falling out with Miller in the Second Adventist movement, started his own break‐away study group known as the International Bible Study Association which later became the JW’s. It was the JW’s which Maxwell discovered first as having ties to British Israelism. But he soon realized that everything connected to the Adventist movement was also con‐ nected to British Israelism, including the SDA’s. In this scenario, Taze Russell can be seen as merely leading another break‐away group coming out of the Second Adventist movement, of which Sadler and company were also a part until they broke away to start The Urantia Papers. With this in mind, does it not at least appear possible that if the SDA’s have a common root in British Israelism, that the newly‐created spiritual philosophy by former SDA mem‐ bers would not, at least to some degree, contain a philosophical thread back to the 13

original root, British Iraelism? And Zionists are known to have plans of world domina‐ tion. They were the “zi” in “Nazi.” This is no coincidence argues Maxwell. “They have no idea in the world that it is all fi‐ nanced out of Europe,” described Max‐ well.“The Seventh‐day Adventists, the Christadelphians, the World Wide Church of God, Herbet W Armstrong, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism; it’s all based on the British‐Israel World Federation’s con‐ cepts and ideas. They’re just branches com‐ ing up.” While Maxwell did not specifically name the UB as one such organization, it would appear that the UB does fit the pattern he has outlined in my interview, although this is pure speculation at this point. Maybe passages from the UB are similar to other past religious texts coming up after the 1800’s because they stem from a single source—the British Israelist philosophy represented by today’s BIWF? Maxwell could not be reached for comment by the time of publication. There is obviously still work to be done to flesh out the possible connections within the framework laid out by Maxwell. However, while I wait to con‐ nect with him, I found that Montauk Pro‐ ject survivor, mentalist and author Stewart Swerdlow generally agrees with Maxwell but feels that the common root goes back even further than the 1794 English origins of modern British Israelism.

“You have to go back further than Britain,” described Swerd‐ low in a recent Skype interview from his home in St. Joseph, MI, USA. “Yes, yes, there’s a religious connection with all of them: Islam, Judaism, Christi‐ anity, all of them because they all have their origins in Sumer and ancient Egypt. Egypt got it’s religion from Sumer. So you go back to the Reptilian, sacrifi‐ cial, blood religion that was manifest in Sumer, and then extrapolate it back out to the rest of the world. So in that way, yes, there is a connection with all those religions, but it is way before [Britain]. You have to remember that the British royal family members are de‐ scendants of those Sumerians and Reptilian religion. So in that way there is a connection [with the UB].”

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Even if the plagiarism claims are ever proved to be 100% true, the question of whether or not there was plagiarism in the UB might be a moot one if there really was Divine inspiration coming through it. “Well there is no ‘Urantia code,” quipped Byron Belitsos, author of ‘The Adventure of Being Human’ and other books revolving around the UB, during a recent E‐mail exchange. “Yeah there’s inspiration and Holy Spirit coming through the editors [of the UB]. The UB tells you, right up front, that its teachings are a blend of superhuman reve‐ lation with expressions from hundreds of human sources. In fact, a total of about 1,000 such hu‐ manly‐originated concepts were used to create its first three parts of the text, and another 2,000 for creating Part IV, which purports to be the angelic record of the life and teachings of Jesus. To date, research‐ ers have discovered several hundred books published as late as 1940 that contain such source material. The celestial authors fur‐ ther state that their mandate was to give preference to the highest existing human concepts relevant to the subjects being presented. They were to resort to pure revelation only when the idea they were trying to convey had no adequate previous expression by humans. In this sense, the UB is a hybrid of human and Divine ideas; a unique co‐creation. And I wouldn’t call that plagiarism.” It sounds like the description of a modern DJ who borrows sound samples from other artists to mix them into something new and unique. Yet, there is a fine line in the music industry between copyright infringe‐ ment of personal intellectual property and unique artistic creativity. Could this possi‐ bly be the case with the creation of the All of this anti‐UB information was compel‐ ling, so I had to ask Banton directly: Does it matter if the UB story was constructed using various plagiarizations, if it was chan‐ neled by a deceptive being or a hoax made up by Zionist conspiracists? “No,” said Ban‐ ton flatly. “But every single question I ever had has been answered by this revelation. I can only sum it up as a revelation. And there is no way I can prove the power or validity of this book by speaking about it. This book is like a spiritual experience. You have to experience it for yourself. You have to get a copy, read it… and feel it. And once you’ve felt it, you’ll know exactly where I’m coming from.” What I think Banton has going for him, and others like him who have a strong faith in the information within the UB and have been inspired by it, is the idea that there is some kind of Divine inspiration coming through the book in some way, maybe simi‐ lar to The Bible Code in The Torah. It is claimed by solid scholarship, although

disputed (See below) that there are at least four authors to the Torah and that it was edited and merged over time. Yet there is still Divine influence supposedly remaining intact in the form of a code despite this. This is known as the Documentary Hypothesis. For the opposite take, that even if The Torah was written over time, it still somehow contains Divine inspirations… http://www.thejewishweek.com/ f e a t u r e s / s t r e e t _ t o r a h who_wrote_torah_committed_theology_ age_skepticism 14

UB? Who could say for sure? www.urantia.org, www.patobanton.com, www.jordanmaxwell.com/blog, www.expansions.com, www.evolving‐ souls.org

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In an introduction to one of my earlier fea‐ tures, the editor, Brian Allan, broached the topic of how sometimes events transcend the nebulous interface between Ufology and Paranormal, bequeathing this area the name ‘High Strangeness’. This high strange‐ ness decided to impact on my life from the earliest of days and could have backed the maxim ‘start as you mean to go on’. I was born in 1956 a breach birth and thus en‐ tered into this world feet first in topsy turvy fashion, my first encounter with synchronicity recognized at the tender, naïve age of seven when I sat in the silhouetted stalls to watch the very beautiful Ursula Andress rise from the foam like Aphrodite in the voted ‘most favourite’ James Bond movie of all time, Dr No in 1963. Ursula was the personification of female and/or young woman in her bikini clad role of Honey Ryder. Like many millions, I may have been mes‐ merised. I met up with Ursula on screen only a few years later in the Hammer Films version of ‘She’, Ayesha, who must be obeyed…an even more beautiful personifi‐ cation of female. The movie was an adapta‐ tion from the first Ayesha book by the pos‐ sibly mystical Rider Haggard, with 83 million copies sold in 1965 one of the best selling books of all time. Yes, Rider Haggard. Along with Ursula/Ayesha, here was Ryder‐Rider again. My flirtation with synchronicity, if not Ursula, was born, but on reflection I feel She had triggered something deep in my psyche….the search for the Ultimate Woman. Not bad for a ten year old. Many years later, I must wonder if I did find Her, and not only did she own my heart, but my brain as well. I will try to explain. The following years were pretty mundane living in the small fishing village of South Shields (now home to one of the most alarming poltergeist cases in the UK) in a tiny corner of the North East of England – I must have gone a little shy on Ayesha. My mother referred to herself as a spiritualist medium, and for company would easily persuade me to accompany her on regular jaunts to the nearby spiritualist church in the town. With a dawning of an early scien‐ tific mind, I was happy enough to go, after all even at 14 you can’t consider contact

with the dead as passé. She would often recount the tale of how, just before my birth, she had a vision of an angelic figure she would interpret as being no less than Jesus, presenting her with a string of pearls, but alas, one was missing on the broken link. As I was born in June that has the pearl as its stone, maybe that was the simple solu‐

tion to the imagery. After numerous visits over a short period in which my fascina‐ tion began to wane, I was told the familiar sort of messages many people hear and usually hope to hear. They are gifted, special, should be a healer and have a spiritual task to fulfil. I wonder how much of this information had been innocently plucked from the recipient’s brain in in‐ stances of short range telepathy? Tell me something that will occur in the future and I still suspect that the plucking brain has taken from the listeners fixed DNA blueprint in that timeless realm that tran‐ scends our illusion of Time‐Space. As a teenager I did the natural and ex‐ pected thing – rebel against all forms of authority and therefore science, believing anything remotely paranormal to be ex‐ actly that. I did enjoy, in a strange sense, a vision that I had in which I was awake in bed but couldn’t move. My head was gen‐ tly turned to the left for me by a presence and when I tried to shout out in fear noth‐ ing came out. Directly in alignment with my bedroom curtains, I was forced to watch them open as a triple legged long tall table appeared, upon which stood a vase containing dead or withered flowers. As I watched, the flowers suddenly came into bloom as if reincarnating –maybe they were rein‐carnations! 17

The vision faded and my limbs could func‐ tion again. Oh well, this was, I guess, ‘Night Terrors’, caused by increased brain activity, confu‐ sional arousal and partial awakening from non REM, or non‐dream sleep. An explana‐ tion of feelings of a strange presence are also attempted in Michael Persinger’s ex‐ periments with his ‘God Helmet’ appara‐ tus. I also had experi‐ enced the state of going into epileptic seizure at 10 when my tonsils had poisoned to such a point that I was slowly choking to death as my windpipe was shrinking and the lack of oxygen would hurl me into unconscious‐ ness. It’s a condition called peritonitis. This was hur‐ riedly remedied by the emergency removal of the nasty tonsil, but at least I can say I have experienced the state of aura – the immi‐ nence of the fit approaching. It is weird and most likely mystical. Once, epilepsy was known as a sacred disease as during the state of convulsion communication was being made with the Gods. Maybe it threw me up a neurological circuit to join the one that may have followed the deliv‐ ery of breach birth, another condition that can affect the brain owing to oxygen. Maybe not, either. From ages 10‐20 I had read every worth‐ while esoteric book, I think the first being Adamski’s kind‐of‐silly‐when‐you‐get‐older but still iconic ‘Flying Saucers Have Landed’, brought into class by our English teacher Mr Roberts who was fascinated by George’s pix of Ufo’s or chicken incubators, but struggling to get my head around the more scientific investigations of physicist Jacques Vallee on the subject in his ‘Anatomy of a Phenomenon’. At the tender age of 10, a difficult one to read, that one, with its contents of physics, but I wasn’t giving up, and I’ll explain why. As that ten year old, my interest in dinosaurs had been challenged overnight when the front page of our local newspaper read, one night in 1967, ‘Flying Saucers over Tyne Dock’. Yes, here was my first introduction to the pesky phenomenon that simply will not

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leave popular culture, me or dinosaurs alone. Tyne Dock was a part of my town I had never ventured, it may as well have been Australia, as I’d never have worked out the right bus to get there, but one night some UFO’s hung over a block of flats there long enough for residents to look out and up from their windows to witness three stationary bright lights early in the morning before the trio decided to whiz off at an alarming pace. One family in particular were so concerned that they contacted the friendly persuasive Ministry of Defence who assured them that what the had seen was a solitary weather balloon that had blown over from Aughton, Liverpool. I’ve since seen that document with my own eyes. The poor chap who was afforded this reply went on to be stuck with the nickname ‘Ronnie Rocket’ for his pains. Our alien weather balloon saga didn’t end above Ronnie’s flat, though. For that entire week the town of South Shields were host to a UFO ‘flap’, one of the better sightings being the many gathering of early morning work‐ ers awaiting the 5am first ferry of the day, all upon the launch witnessing numerous ‘flying crosses’ in the sky. The local newspa‐ per ‘The Gazette’ continued to carry a num‐ ber of interesting sightings and reports from townsfolk as it certainly did look as if something was going on in their airspace that week. Naturally I was out there too hoping to spot my quota. I didn’t, just an initial convincing false alarm with low flying seagulls, but it was jolly exciting and full of inspiring hope despite staying out late at night in bloody freezing weather. In the meantime my interest in all things alternative had taken some time out to be scared like never before, back in the silhou‐ etted cinema stalls this time to watch the biggest movie of 1974 ‘The Exorcist’. Could humans really be possessed by demons? Like mostly all of the audience I went home to sleep with the light on for weeks, but it was the nearby Coal board mine and their late night detonations responsible for my bed involuntary shaking from time to time! As an adult, having learned and accepted the utterly fascinating phenomenon of Mul‐ tiple Personality Disorder, I guess demonic possession gets the elbow, unless of course you can be that unlucky to have MPD and still get possessed. As touched upon in the movie script, the cry of ‘epilepsy’ can be a very convincing ‘possessor’, there are over 40 different types of the seizure and proba‐ bly undiscovered more. Could ‘alien abduc‐ tion’ starting with a bright light and then confusion be some sort of a new epilepsy fashioned from current belief systems and the peregrinations of the Collective Uncon‐ scious? Back to 1975 and having been impressed by another good‐at‐the‐time‐but‐silly‐when‐ older book, Adamski’s buddy George Hunt

Williamson’s saucer effort ‘Other Tongues, Other Flesh’, I had copied a logo from out of his pages, the emblem of the ‘Knights of the Solar Cross’. After meditating on it for weeks and trying to relate to it in any way, one late night I had a response. At the time I was sleeping on the floor in a bedroom upstairs – I think I was trying to be disci‐ plined – which meant that I had a great panoramic view through my bay window. Laying there awake, I noticed a golden ex‐ plosion in the sky above the St. Michael’s church which was in direct line with my house in the not too far distance.

Excitedly running to the window, I watched how this golden orb wobbled itself off to the left and out of vision. This was a re‐ sponse from my Solar Cross brethren I was convinced. Sceptics will say it was probably a flare. I’m however quietly confident now that it was an appropriately presented ar‐ chetypical response to my meditations and as an adult I seem to have had this happen on other occasions such as the time I was having my photo taken alongside the unique place name of the village Jerusalem in Lincolnshire when a UFO bright light de‐ cided to appear above me in the pic, and better still, when I was researching my hy‐ pothesis that the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene was demised by a dagger. What would appear on a pic of me sitting upon the steps of the remains of the 13c Knights Templar’ Temple Bruer preceptory, also in Lincolnshire, but a dagger‐type object, plus token splodgey ectoplasm type stuff further to my right! Was I somehow and subconsciously pro‐ jecting these images onto film? I remind you all of the controversial Ted Serios and his ‘mind over molecules’ career , the Chi‐ cago bellhop who produced ‘ though‐ tographs’ on Polaroid film during the six‐ ties, his claims strengthened by the support of a Denver based psychiatrist arguing the unproven reality of Ted’s feats. After grow‐ ing up a lot and having an extended crash course in the oral teachings of Kalachakra Vajrayana whilst staying at A Tibetan Mon‐ astery and Centre in Scotland, I remained a natural born loner who wouldn’t join any Group, Order or Cult or even work with any 18

individual. I had no interest in drugs or alcohol. My Path was a lonely one, and branched out into an investigation into the psychological realm of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung – and creepy Crowley’s ‐ archetypes. As a child of nature, and a female admiring male, I wondered if I could experiment being one with the male force in nature. Only one way to find out would be to try. You have to become something in order to understand it. Having read about the liai‐ son with Ogilvy Crombie, a 73 year old chap in Edinburgh who was surprised one day by the unexpected appearance of the god Pan and his fairy folk appearing along‐ side him and further adventures with the Findhorn community in Scotland – they found a horn alright, two in fact‐ I, too, was inspired to see if I could befriend the goat god, saturating myself in thoughts, poetry, drawings, pan pipe music, forestry and literature concerning his presence. In my second stage of experimenting with arche‐ types, the first being that of the ‘UFO’ its seems, I again eventually met with success and archetypical Greek god Pan. The first time still remains quite fresh in my memory, it was August 10th 1981. To some purely Dreamland and therefore inconsequential, to others an inner plane with meaning, I was led in the sequence by a figure who’s voice I could only hear with‐ out fully seeing the person. ‘So you want to see faeries,’ it said pointing me in a di‐ rection ahead. I was in some sort of floral garden with rocks and shrubs along a path As I followed where I had been shown I began to feel an overwhelming force which I will try and explain by saying it felt like trying to push through a sea of treacle! I had never felt such a force or feeling ever before although I now encounter it, this ‘panic’, every time I reach an exact spot up the ascension on Glastonbury Tor. Ap‐ proaching an alcove, I found myself being forced to the ground by this invisible force and then a stone pedestal appeared in front of me at a distance of approximately ten yards, upon it a huge and open book. The figure of the god Pan appeared behind pedestal and book. I remember nothing else, other than ‘knowing’ that some con‐ versation did take place. Thus began an intense archetypical interlude that lasted seven years until my interest in the god began to wane and with it the interaction, but not after a number of inner plane en‐ counters some too ludicrous to mention! During these years I discovered that photo‐ graphs I had taken in innocence of natural landscapes had starting to pick up subtle images, the camera apparently being able to capture on film images too sensitive for the human eye. Strange creature‐like fig‐ ures that for all the world met with the archetypes of faeries would often show

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and be seen to move from photo to photo. When I showed the pic’s to people, some would see the figures without a problem, some would need time and others would see nothing. It’s no fun showing seemingly ordinary photos to people that highlight elfin type figures who can’t see them – they think you’re barmy for a start! But now I know about the neurological condition called scotoma, whereby some people CAN see certain content in a picture whilst oth‐ ers simply can’t – their brain won’t let them! Much of it has to do with ‘programming’ in the brain ie you only see what you expect to see, and also from which brain lobe the viewer may satisfacto‐ rily normally reside in. When I was 18 I spontaneously decided that I would start writing with my left hand instead of my trusty right, and found that I could do it with equal ease. What I probably didn’t know I was doing was that by changing to my left I would enforce functioning in my opposite and right brain lobe wherein re‐ sides the faculty of intuitiveness and an open door to mysticism – I was making a neurological shift. Later, I worked with a lovely fellow from Surrey called Vernon Harrison , a retired photographer from the Royal College, who in turn worked for the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena, who could see what I was indicating in the photos. He confirmed the negatives were genuine and offered to come and take his own pictures of my elves and faeries in the obliging wood in which they appeared. If he picked them upon his film and they would move whilst retaining their identity from snap to snap, he would declare that I was photographing dimensional denizens. Vernon taught me to rotate pictures 360 degrees and if the figures still remained you could rule out illusion. He sent his fairly balanced report to the ASSAP asking for funding to conduct his experiment and, surprising him, he heard nothing more! The fairy theme continued when years later in 1989 I was visited by Joe Cooper from Leeds, author of ‘The Case of the Cottingley Fairies’, the pair of us brought together by a common interest in such things and insti‐ gated by author Colin Wilson, who in one of his own books had suggested we all have seven ‘selves’ or levels of ourselves. Often by quirk we may communicate with an‐ other level of our selves, mistakenly think‐ ing it to be our ‘Guardian Angel’ or some other otherworldly entity, nevertheless valuable information and advice can be transmitted as it originates from deep within our own Collective Unconscious. Joe had a dilemma. For years he had been pestering Elsie and Frances, the two sisters who had taken the world by storm in 1917 by producing their own fairy pix alongside a beck in Cottingley,

Yorkshire. Joe was adamant that one day he would get them to confess that the pic’s were faked, but both lasses stood 19

firm. Giving up, and within weeks of his life’s work now supporting the girls being published in a book, the girls fell out and

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Elsie revealed how they had produced them. What was Joe to do? Keep the disclo‐ sure to himself and have the book go ahead? Or cash in on the scoop but lose the book deal? How could I have advised? In the end the book did survive and a compro‐ mise reached – three of the four photos were faked, but the fourth was genuine! The case for Mind projecting onto film was still alive! Another interesting personality I mingled with was with Alex Sanders, self proclaimed ‘King of the Witches’ living in Bexhill, Sus‐ sex, and a big media celebrity, almost pop star status, during the sixties. Aware of his outrageous claims and me settling for him being the natural successor to Crowley, from 1982‐85 I decided to check out this rascal to see what made him tick. True to his reputation he was a rascal I kept at arms length. Alex, it seemed, was being made to diversify out from his better known witch‐ craft only activities. He was 69 at the time – although claiming he was 59– on his pen‐ sion and was being chased by six covens he reckoned were out to get him for having upset them! Poor Alex was now being both‐ ered by Ufo’s who wouldn’t leave him alone and wasn’t best pleased telling me that a car he had been travelling in had a disc shaped object tail it as close as the car bumper. To his displeasure, much of his channelling was now bringing through extra ‐terrestrials. Had he, too, underdone a sub‐ conscious change in archetypal conscious‐ ness that best suited the transient form of the Unknown? Many other ‘psychic’ experiences have found their way to me, more than I could ever recount here, but older and wiser, yet still forever learning, I am a big boy now and will chance to relay that I did find the Ultimate Woman. She is, my friends, planet earth, and here I suspect hides the mecha‐ nism behind all genuine manifestations we label paranormal. For what it is worth, here is my understanding. First and foremost, this is a sexual planet, and we are here for procreation, not to ask questions. We live on a planet upon which we do not realise or understand its hidden aspects of natural law. We live and die using only a percent‐ age of our brain, unaware of its full poten‐ tial, and consequently know so little about own potential. Put both avenues of igno‐ rance together and we should really con‐ cede that we know next to nothing, despite having built up a two millennium civilisation based on our own ignorance and rules. There is some criteria for stating perhaps we have got everything about everything wrong, knowing so little, and we divert this void by trying to concentrate only on the study of what we call ‘paranormal’, to claim this aspect of life is the only one that eludes our understanding. Perhaps one day physics – itself a rapidly changing newly born baby,

with each new discovery of a particle the previous books go out the window – will discover that consciousness exists every‐ where. That the Gaia Theory is absolutely correct, and not only is the planet a self regulating body but it also thinks thoughts, it has a brain. It is a body and functions like our microcosmic version. ‘God’ did make us in its own image. Allowing for Theosophical thought, and in turn the ancient wisdom of the Vedas, perhaps one day in a far away elevated place, having shed our ego and human form, we will learn that as individuals our designation had been to function as cells in a body, with corresponding responsibili‐ ties. The complexity and versatility of the human central nervous system remains poorly understood. Sensory information is constantly transmitted to the brain from peripheral receptors. From Earth’s own Language, the Lost Mother Tongue, ‘Peripheral’, means a surrounding region, from Greek ‘pherein’, meaning ‘to carry’. The prefix ‘Peri’, in astronomical terms means ‘near’. ‘Peripheral’ contains the words ‘ripheral’ pronounced ‘referral’. A ‘referral’ meaning ‘to direct for informa‐ tion’, comes from the Latin ‘referre’, meaning ‘to carry back’.

phonetic ‘trance’, the state in which we have become – and information that we can never hope to understand has been exchanged and stored in that portion of our brain that we live, die and never use. But the planet uses it, to ensure that bio‐ logical functions are carried out to main‐ tain what is necessary for the body that is our earth. Biologist, British Military Intelli‐ gence Officer and paranormal author Ivan T. Sanderson came close, his often un‐ known books ‘Invisible Residents’ and ‘Uninvited Visitors’ announcing UFO’s as being plasma cells, Ivan even having se‐ cured some photos to show as much. Our UFO encounters, in all shapes and sizes, are a cellular transference vital to planet earth. Such a thought will be demoralizing to our egos who would rather not be aware of our true purpose here on the planet, the reality of this adding to the fact that we have no real idea of what we are or what we are doing whilst in existence here. If we could expand our consciousness and use full capacity of our brains then we might have the understanding, but the reason why we can’t use our full brain capacity is because we don’t own our own brains; the owner of that is the living,

We are not in control of a genuine UFO encounter, we may think we can have UFO’s appear in response to our efforts but it is the UFO that is in control of the meaningful encounter. In our role as cells in a body we have been brought into con‐ tact with the strategic cell in the body that the UFO actually is, hence the many dif‐ fering shapes, and when we meet there is a unconscious conveying or transference that occurs – transference containing the

breathing conscious planet itself. In fact, ALL psychic activity is the handiwork of her domain, and it’s not important to her that we understand it. We are part of her Mind, our consciousness borrowed from it in the same way that we may casually borrow a book from a library. Any further attempt at explanations beyond this, with what brain capacity you or I are using, renders a com‐ mentary impossible for one so small in an ever expanding universe...

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With the battle over the budget, funds be‐ ing severely cut, and no new monies allot‐ ted for anything, one has to wonder about America’s aging infrastructure. Electric power grids are needlessly convoluted at this point, over‐worked, and in need of repair and updating. Interstate highways which are now old enough to require con‐ siderable maintenance are in poor shape and growing worse. Risky overpasses and entrance/exits ramps often need repair. However, bridges and tunnels offer the most dramatic potential for disaster when their aging components finally collapse, having had little or no comprehensive re‐ pair their entire lifetimes. If the Silver Bridge col‐ lapse of December 1, 1967, is any indication, our aging infrastructure today should have Moth‐ man hovering overhead, UFOs zooming from one potential bridge disaster to another, and paranor‐ mal activity beeping, pop‐ ping, and swirling. Yes, perhaps a silly idea, but there are numerous ac‐ counts of UFOs near dis‐ asters, including the foot‐ age taken of them near the 2011 Japanese 9.0 earthquake and subse‐ quent catastrophic tsu‐ nami. Mothman was so prevalent in the year be‐ fore the Silver Bridge collapsed, that he established his identity at that point to the paranormal investigative world. Silver Bridge was for Mothman, like the first mega ‐hit for a celebrity singer. Super‐natural happenings and UFO sight‐ ings also abounded near Silver Bridge in that year before the collapse, which killed 46 people. That collapse unfolded like a disaster film with cars which seconds be‐ fore had been crawling along in Christmas rush hour traffic, now hung on fragments of the bridge before plunging, filled with pas‐ sengers, into the frigid Ohio River. In 1975, John Keel wrote ”Mothman Prophecies,” which documented the para‐ normal events experienced by various peo‐ ple around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, leading up to the bridge collapse. Point Pleasant had also had an abundance of UFO

sightings during that time. After the de‐ mise of the bridge, the super‐natural events and UFO activity lessened and soon were nearly non‐existent, according to Keel’s research. Mothman himself (could he actually be Mothwoman?), was reported to be a huge, semi‐human winged creature with glowing red eyes, sighted in and around Point Pleasant in 1966 and 1967. Between 6.5 and 7 feet tall, with a wingspan of nearly 10 feet, this shadowy creature was said to fly great distances at speeds up to 100 miles per hour. Even though I respect John Keel’s work and consider him one of my favorite Fortean writers, I might be a bit skeptical

if I had not had paranormal events in and around my house, UFO sightings near my house, and, yes, a Mothman sighting, right before the Skyway Bridge plunged into Tampa Bay on May 9, 1980, as I got ready for another day of teaching school. Strange things had been happening at and near my house, since 1979; they eased off after the Skyway disaster in 1980. The most spectacular UFO sighting of my life thus far, at least which I remember consciously, was over a small park at the end of the street on which I lived. I lived one block from Tampa Bay and the dual‐ bridge Sunshine Skyway could be seen from this park. It was a summer night in 1979, when my daughter and I walked our dog Bailey to the park. I was a field inves‐ tigator for MUFON and APRO at the time, and so the two huge glowing white orbs which were hanging in the dark sky over Tampa Bay, were absolutely thrilling! We took the dog home, and raced back to the 23

park. A small group of people had gathered to watch the orbs, which had not moved. Unlike weather balloons, there was abso‐ lutely no drifting in the breeze. Perhaps this was rocket fuel from a military test at MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa? Then this phenomenon should have slowly disap‐ peared. Instead, as I looked down for just a second, one of the two dazzling white orbs, just disappeared. Not a trace of it was left. Oddly, it was the one with which I felt I was in communication, or trying to establish communication. The other orb stayed there, not budging an inch, until I gave up and went home at 2:30 a.m. I had to teach school in the morning but I have kicked myself ever since, for leaving. No weather balloon, rocket fuel debris, heli‐ copter, or Chinese lan‐ tern hoax, would have stayed stationery for all those hours. In the year before 35 people in cars and a Greyhound Bus, plunged off one span of the Skyway Bridge when the Summit Venture barge hit it, my small house one block from Tampa Bay, which I shared with my parents and daughter, was full of paranormal activity. The walls beeped. The television beeped, at first at set intervals, and then randomly. Lamps beeped. Ok, maybe the house was on the path of some kind of waves from MacDill Air Force Base, so I took a cassette recorder on batteries, about half a block away from the house, and it beeped too. My daughter and I recorded “the beeps” but when we re‐played the tapes, the beeps were always gone. 1979 was also my time of awakening as a UFO abductee and subsequent cosmic citizen. In 1980, I underwent hypnosis with Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle and remembered a UFO encounter when I was a child in Iowa, in which I met Tibus, my lifelong (as it turns out), guide. After the Skyway fell down, and after I embraced my own UFO connec‐ tion, the beeps eased off and then stopped entirely. Back to the morning of the Sky‐ way disaster: May 9, 1980, at 7:33 in the morning, I was hurriedly getting myself and my daughter ready for school, when our

Paranormal Warnings of bridge collapse as ‘Mothman’ flies overhead: By Diane Tessman

smoke alarm started to beep. Of course I raced around to check for fire, and then realized it was not the fire warning, but also not the “battery low” signal. It sounded exactly like Morse Code, but I don’t know Morse Code. My dad was trying to get his brain to remember what he knew of Morse Code, when we heard on the television news that a barge had just rammed into the Skyway Bridge at approximately 7:35 a.m. The smoke alarm had stopped. And it never did that again. Was this a desperate call for help from the energy‐bodies of those who had just left their physical form? The Sky‐ way Bridge was/is a tall structure and to plunge off it, there would be a few seconds of falling, falling, falling in sheer panic, through the air in your vehicle. Or, had whatever been beeping at me all those months, finally arrived at the awaited hour, and madly sent its message?

It was several months after the Skyway disaster that a memory struck me: I had been outdoors by myself in the summer of 1979, and the stars had suddenly been blot‐ ted out by something very large and dark, but outlined in blood red. It had whooshed over, giving me the impression of a giant wingspan or a giant cape, all spread out. It swooped low overhead, going faster than a large bird would fly (and too big for a large bird anyway!), and then the stars re‐ emerged. Mothman, I presume? Note: The original account of this and many paranormal happenings which I have ex‐ perienced are in the book that started it all, The Transformation by Diane Tessman, available from me in “e” form.

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The Silver Bridge was an eyebar‐chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and named for the color of its aluminum paint. The bridge connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio, over the Ohio River. On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge col‐ lapsed while it was full of rush‐hour traffic, resulting in the deaths of 46 people. Two of the victims were never found. Investigation of the wreckage pointed to the cause of the collapse being the failure of a single eyebar in a suspension chain, due to a small defect 0.1 inch (2.5 mm) deep. Analysis showed that the bridge was carrying much heavier loads than it had originally been designed for and had been poorly maintained... 24

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