Sir Gooligan Hooray wrote:

UFO Experience.
By Douglas Taylor.

Found from here...
http://members.tripod.com/xtalvision/ufo2.htm

QUOTE:

The first question that arises about the UFO phenomenon is subjective:
Do you or do you not believe in the reality of extraterrestrial life?
To my knowledge, there is no concrete, physical evidence to prove that
we are being visited, yet national polls have indicated that half of
all Americans- over 100 million people-believe that extraterrestrial
intelligence does exist.
Personal experience is certainly the greatest validation of belief,
yet is generally difficult, if not impossible, to prove to a
skeptical, closed-minded individual. My own personal close encounter
inside a starship falls into this category. I was given an incredible,
illuminating, never-to-be-forgotten contact aboard a starship in 1978
when traveling in the Caribbean islands. I had no previous interest in
UFOs, although I was open to the idea and at the time studying and
reading about the many different concepts of metaphysics.
One night, after a good day surfing in the sparkling clear Caribbean
waters, I lay down on my bed to go to sleep. Before falling
unconscious, I began to feel a very unusual spinning sensation. It
felt as if my entire body was gyrating in countless cyclic patterns -
a very unusual and stimulating sensation. As my mind began to clear
after this experience, I suddenly became aware of myself standing
inside what I assumed was some type of spacecraft. Incredulous with my
present situation I received a mental greeting. "Yes friend you are
truly with us. Now allow your mind to relax, and we will be most happy
to shed some light on your present predicament..." My mind was reeling
in the most tremendous state of mental excitement and anticipation I
had ever experienced!
The surroundings in which I found myself were pulsating with a
brilliant luminosity that was literally emanating from everywhere
about me. And here, directly in front of me, was a group of seven
beings, both male and female, standing around and manipulating what
appeared to be some sort of control panel. One particular soul, human
in appearance and dressed in a pure white space suit, was looking at
me with the most intense, penetrating eyes I had ever seen. He seemed
to be able to pierce directly into my mind - and I knew this was no
"human being," in my normal frame of conception. There was a beautiful
glow surrounding all of these beings and I noticed such a warmth and
tremendous sense of peace that was in stark contrast to the absolute
excitement I felt as I began to truly realize: I was standing inside a
starship from some distant planet!
Again my lighted host directed his thoughts into my mind, and I calmed
down a little. "Please feel comfortable, my friend, as we are your
brothers and wish only to make you feel at ease, so that you may gain
some benefit from this encounter. "You are one of many that we are
contacting in this way, so as to let our presence be known upon your
Earth-to prepare the people for the future plan that is beginning to
unfold. I can see that your mind is bursting forth with questions, but
please relax and I will attempt to answer your queries."
"Your people of planet Earth have yet to realize that intelligent life
is teeming, virtually throughout the universe, in advanced
civilizations and levels of development that would completely defy
description. The countless billions of stars that appear in your
astronomers' telescopes are only a fraction of the overall magnitude
of Infinite Creation - a Creation that had no beginning nor will there
ever be an ending, as all worlds, stars, and even galaxies function in
the orderly pattern of cyclic regeneration." "We come from a planet
outside your solar system, the name of which would mean nothing to
you. "

"As you can see, our craft is formed from a crystalline material that
seems to sparkle and glow, emanating a soft but brilliant,
phosphorescent-like illumination. This material is actually similar to
your diamond, only in a highly refined form with certain
electromagnetic properties that your most advanced scientists are
unaware of. "In the central portion of our cylindrical craft, you will
notice a tube like configuration that runs vertically through the
entire diameter of our starship. In this tube, you see a brilliant,
pulsating, golden substance that is fluctuating iridescently in the
various colors of the prismatic spectrum; this is the heart of our
propulsion system.
Through a process that would be difficult for you to understand, a
sort of generating device begins an oscillation with this brilliant
substance. It is actually light plasma that polarizes our craft in a
positive to negative phase reversal pattern; in other words, the
electromagnetic properties of this plasma regenerate into an intense,
high frequency condition. This begins a chain reaction in which the
entire atomic structure of the craft is now vibrating in harmonic
resonance with this initial chain reaction.
Our starship is no longer subject to the physical laws of gravity and
inertia, as we have passed beyond that particular frequency spectrum.
"In a way you could say that our ship is propelled by light radiation,
although it is a much higher frequency than the visible light
spectrum. So we travel on the electromagnetic radiation bands that
crisscross throughout the cosmos, and only when we get to our
particular destination or planet do we again change our craft back to
its more gross, atomic form. Then, through a simple magnetic process
of attraction and repulsion, do we land or depart from any particular
point..."
My mind was staggering under the excitement of the mental discourse I
was receiving; yet, in my heightened state of awareness. I seemed to
understand the knowledge that was being imparted to me. With his eyes
sparkling mischievously, my guide continued his elucidation's. "I can
see in your thoughts that you feel you can comprehend the workings of
our starship; but please realize, I am speaking directly into your
mind, your mental self, so the more primitive elements of your nature
are being set aside for the time being. And rest assured, friend that
there is much, MUCH to learn and experience, and we should never feel
that we know it all, as this will block the path for future knowledge.

"The workings of our starship function according to certain principles
that could be likened to the very movement of Creation itself. As all
energy moves in waveform patterns, so do the countless thoughts that
course through your mind move and function in this same manner and
way. What to you appears to be fantastic or unbelievable, to us is a
reality that we have included in our own particular realizations and
concepts. As you see us as fantastic beings, bordering on the limits
of your imagination, in actuality we are humble participants - riding
the life stream and helping our brothers in lesser states of awareness
to awaken to their true nature. We are truly brothers to humanity, and
are looking forward to the near future, when your people can accept us
and desire us to land our spacecraft on your planet's floor, so that
you, to, can join with us as working members of this great Cosmic
Mind.
As I had been listening intently for about fifteen minutes to this
incredible mental discourse, I now found myself losing my grasp on the
heightened and elevated state of mind I was so enjoying up until now.
As I looked at these beautiful radiant beings standing in front of me,
projecting such serenity and sense of peace and at the same time a
truly advanced intelligence, I began to feel very primitive in
comparison. I was like a savage in the jungle in relation to these
benevolent beings, and my mind rapidly sank into the pits of self-pity
and depression.
As I looked up at the Brother who had been communicating with me up
until now, I saw him glance over at one of the female crewmembers that
now looked directly into my eyes. I stood transfixed, looking into the
eyes of the most beautiful angelic woman I had ever seen, I literally
felt a beam of pure loving compassion surge into the depths of my
being immediately lifting me up again into the positive elevated state
of mind I had initially been experiencing! I knew then that these
advanced extraterrestrial beings did not judge me according to my
limited belief system of comparisons. But they were only interested in
my own benefit and welfare.
Again I felt the mental prompting of my host, who I assumed to be the
captain; "Now friend we must return you to your proper location and
bid you adieu..." "Please wait! Can I go with you!" "No friend, our
world would be impossible to you. But rest assured, with your
dedicated efforts to integrate yourself into this great plan, you may
someday come with us... "

"May the Light of the Infinite Creative Intelligence always guide your
footsteps; farewell until a future time." I once again felt the
unusual, gyrating and spinning sensation described at the beginning of
my encounter, and I found myself fully awake, lying on my bed, with a
crystal clear memory of everything that had just transpired. I felt
sure I had just experienced an actual encounter with extraterrestrial
beings.
As I now reflect back on this experience, some sixteen years later, I
feel very fortunate to have been contacted in this way. It was not
long after this encounter on the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico, that
I began having many psychic experiences that shook me loose from many
of the limited and rigid thought patterns that for the most part are
all based on the fear of the unknown.
I began allowing myself to be guided more and more by my own
intuition. At age thirty having never painted or been involved in
creative expression of any kind, I awoke one morning with the desire
to draw a starship. I began to feel a beautiful uplifting
transcendence every time I sat down to paint and now consider artistic
expression to be a large part of my life's work.

I have related my UFO experience to thousands of people in the past
sixteen years on television and radio shows and encountered many
skeptics, some very hostile. But every time I have an opportunity to
relate about my experience, I again feel the beautiful transcending
state of mind that has become so familiar to me in the many years
since my original encounter, and I know the truth will someday be made
known...
http://members.tripod.com/xtalvision/ufo2.htm

Similar things happen in a NDE or OBE. What exactly IS the human soul?? Why is it that those who die or are close to death see themselves from some place outside their own bodies? What exactly IS conciousness??? Scientists are now questioning whether there are other dimensions of reality than the one we percieve. Many things in the past that were common beliefs were proved to be wrong. The earth is not flat...nor is it the centre of the universe as once was believed. Many people have experiences that they cannot explain rationally, yet there are many who have not.