The Mystical Fairy Faith -fad or deceptive reality?
In our times there is a surprising revival of sorts going on. This
revival is the post modern fairy faith. There are signs of it in
several feature films*, festivals, art work, books, Fairy shops and
numerous web sites, if you are observant you should spot some
indications of it in the malls of America and other English countries.
..there are all kinds of fairy things for sale: cards, calendars,
fairy ornaments, fairy costumes, candle holders, fairy statues for
gardens, fairy video games like Zelda for the N64 and Game Cube system,
etc.
This last June the Third Fairy Congress was held in the
Cascade Mountains of Washington state. Some of the speakers were from
the Findhorn New
Age community of Scotland. Workshops included talks on how to contact
nature spirits (fairies) for guidance and help.
Presently there are
more and more books teaching people how to etablish communicate and
contact faeries for instance:
The Book of Faeries: A Guide to the World of Elves, Pixies, Goblins,
and Other Magic Spirits by Francis Melville
Fairy Spells: Seeing and Communicating With the Fairies
by Claire Nahmad
A Witchs Guide to Faery Folk: Reclaiming Our Working Relationship With
Invisible Helpers (Llewellyns New Age Series)
by Authors: Edain McCoy , Edain McCoy
Other books are listed on Amazon.com
Some casual observers
who have noticed this growing interest in faeries
consider it a fad. Is it just an innocent fad as some say or
is there a reality and a darker side to the world of fairie?
The following news clip, quotes from articles and information web links
may answer this question.
*some films with fairy theme or fairy encounters
The National Film Board of Canada's production, The Fairy Faith
Fairy Tale a True Story
Photography Fairies
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Legend
Willow
Ladybrinth
Peter Pan -the new movie
Elf
A Fairy Affair
Elusive folk and their followers to alight in Sedona for all-day
festival
Michael Kiefer
The Arizona Republic
May. 6, 2003 12:00 AM
Amy Ford sees fairies.
Some are as small as houseflies, others 18 feet tall. They're pixielike
or feminine, sometimes androgynous, and once, she claims, she woke up
in the woods near Cornville to find herself held captive.
"It was just like Gulliver's Travels," she says. "The fairies had tied
me down with dried grass," while one laughed right in her face.
"It scared the crap out of me."
Ford claims she's seen fairies all her life, and though she won't say
exactly how long that is, it looks to be 30-some years. She's a
musician and astrologer from Scottsdale, short and buxom with long,
dark hair and darker eyes. And though she seems reasonably sane, she
acknowledges, "I'm wired way different."
Ford is part of a growing subculture of fairy folk, not all of whom
claim to see fairies - though that number is bigger than you might
expect. The concept has allure for children, folklorists and
all-purpose whimsical folk, as well. There is fairy music, much of it
borrowing Celtic sounds and rhythms; there are T-shirts with fairy
pictures that sell big at teenage boutiques, and fairy cards and
posters in New Age bookstores. And a British artist named Brian Froud
has sold more than 8 million large-format books of paintings of
fairies, which he, like most fairy folk, spell the old-fashioned way:
"faeries."
"Faeryland is like the sea," Froud says. "It's like the tide, and
sometimes the tide is out a long way and Faeryland is very difficult to
reach. And sometimes the tide is in. And it does seem to me that the
tide was out for some years, but it's really come in now."
That tide has come in far enough that promoters expect more than 4,000
people to attend an all-day Faerieworlds Festival on Saturday at Sedona
Cultural Park. The festival will include music, multimedia shows, live
interactive performances and, especially, Froud and his artwork.
The expected attendees will be true believers like Ford, but also
Renaissance Faire fans, families with young children, masqueraders, New
Age dabblers, Goth kids who have "discovered Faery," as one promoter
put it, and even "folks factioning out of the old Grateful Dead days
who don't have anywhere to go."
Fairies originated in Celtic folklore, and, more often than not, they
were frightening, otherworldly forest beings that were blamed for
unexplainable events, such as ill children, people turned mad and dark
thoughts.
"They're about expression of things in everyday life that we can't
express openly," says Ari Berk, a professor of folklore at Central
Michigan University. "Fairies have always spoken to the human desire to
have some kind of conversation with the environment around them."
They've populated art and literature for centuries, not just as fairy
tales, but also in Shakespeare and in the poetry of William Butler
Yeats. More recently, they appear in the Lord of the Rings films, as
the elves.
Although children are naturally drawn to fairy tales, the current pop
phenomenon is not really about children. Froud's art, for example, is
not only well researched but very adult.
"Fairies have been relegated to the nursery for far too long," Froud
says. "That's a 20th-century point of view really. Fairies have always
been dangerous creatures. That's why they had to be placated. That's
why little gifts were left out at night, little saucers of milk, or,
otherwise, your cattle died, or, indeed, your children were stolen or
people died. The word 'stroke' comes from 'elf stroke' because a fairy
had touched you. So fairies have always been dangerous. And one way
that people have tried to make them safer is to turn them into fairy
stories, something that was safe, and say, 'Oh it's just for children,
isn't it?' "
Froud, 56, lives in Dartmoor, England, an area he says is slightly wild
and desolate, and whose landscape influenced his palette.
"When I looked at trees and rocks and hills when I moved to the
country, I wondered what the inside of them looked like," Froud says.
"And as I was wondering that, then I started painting fairies, and they
were indeed at the souls of trees and landscapes."
He was inspired by illustrations of fairy tales and did a lot of
research with his collaborator, Alan Lee, for his first book, Faeries,
which they published in 1978. It has sold more than 5 million copies,
including more than 100,000 since last October, when a 25th-anniversary
edition was published.
Froud followed up with several other titles, including Good Faeries/Bad
Faeries, whose paintings sometimes verge on the erotic, with lithesome
near nudes, a merging of several tingling and anticipatory fantasies,
and decidedly not for children. His art was the inspiration for the Jim
Henson films The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, and Froud's wife, Wendy,
was one of the puppetmakers who designed Yoda for the Star Wars films.
Since he began painting fairies, Froud says they now present themselves
to him as, he believes, they present themselves to others. The
paintings, he says, are like maps that allow people to safely go on
their fairy journey, as he puts it.
"A lot of people go on the journey and don't return because they lapse
into madness," he says.
Saturday's festival in Sedona promises plenty of controlled madness.
"Right now, everything's so heavy and intense on the planet that I
think people need a fantasy to go to where they feel like they have
power, where they feel they have something to go to," says Emilio
Miller-Lopez, one of the festival's organizers. "What our events offer
people is a chance to participate. Everybody's part of the show."
Miller-Lopez is a spritely fellow of 28 with a shaggy gnome's beard and
a shock of hair long enough to evoke memories of the early 1970s. His
wife, Kelly, 27, has cascading Maid Marian locks and glittery makeup.
Both dress elfin, in earth tones and billowing sleeves. They draw
stares even in Sedona.
The couple perform in Woodland, a band with Celtic-music roots and a
rich New Age sound, which will play at the festival. Kelly says she has
seen fairies since she was a child, and she first latched onto Brian
Froud's work when she saw The Dark Crystal and then bought the Faeries
books, which she eventually showed to her husband. Together, they
sought out Froud's agent, Robert Gould, who is also a fantasy artist,
well known as the illustrator for Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone
novels.
Working with Gould's company, Imaginosis, they staged multimedia fairy
shows in Prescott, Santa Fe and Los Angeles. Fairy fans turned out in
droves.
"It was incredible," Gould says. "People were standing in line for an
hour. Everyone was in costume. Families came. It was pretty wild."
The Santa Fe show took place on Halloween, and the upcoming Sedona
festival is just after May Day, which, as Kelly Miller-Lopez explains,
are those times of the year when the veil is thinnest between the real
world and the fairy world and human-fairy encounters are more likely.
Gould would like to take the show on the road and maybe develop it into
a Cirque du Soleil-style of interactive performance.
As for the people who claim to see fairies, even Froud is not sure how
many really do.
"It took me a long time to actually work that out," he says. People
constantly ask him how they can see them, too.
"You don't use your eyes," he answers. "You see a fairy through your
heart."
Fairies have been attributed many origins, from natural causes to the
darkest element. Here are some theories:
Fallen Angels: In the lore of Scandinavia, Scotland, and Ireland, when
God cast out the arrogant angels from heaven, they became the evil
spirits that plague mankind, tormenting us and inflicting us with harm.
The ones who fell into hell and into caves and abysses became devils
and death-maidens. However, those who fell onto the earth became
goblins, imps, dwarfs, thumblings, alps, noon-and-evening-ghosts, and
will-o'-the-wisps. Those who fell into the forests became the
wood-spirits who live there: the hey-men, the wild-men, the forest-men,
the wild-women, and the forest-women. Finally, those who fell into the
water became water spirits: water-men, mermaids, and merwomen. These
angels were condemned to remain where they were, becoming the faeries
of seas and rivers, the earth, and the air.
Nature spirits : in most pagan religions, supernatural forces are
associated with animals, the five elements and the Goddess. Sometimes
the fairies were called Goddesses themselves. In several folk ballads
the Fairy Queen is adressed as 'Queen of Heaven.' Welsh fairies were
known as 'the Mother's Blessing.' Breton peasants called the fairies
Godmothers.
The following is from the book "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries'
published in 1911/ and a quote form a web site on theories of fairy
origins.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ffcc/
Taking Evidence (Section I, Chapter II, part 2)
III. IN SCOTLAND
Introduction by ALEXANDER CARMICHAEL, Hon. LL.D. of the University of
Edinburgh; author of Carmina Gadelica.
The belief in fairies was once common throughout Scotland -- Highland
and Lowland. It is now much less prevalent even in the Highlands and
Islands, where such beliefs linger longer than they do in the Lowlands.
But it still lives among the old people, and is privately entertained
here and there even among younger people; and some who hold the belief
declare that they themselves have seen fairies.
Various theories have been advanced as to the origin of
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fairies and as to the belief in them. The most concrete form in which
the belief has been urged has been by the Rev. Robert Kirk, minister of
Aberfoyle, in Perthshire. (1) Another theory of the origin of fairies I
took down in the island of Miunghlaidh (Minglay); and, though I have
given it in Carmina Gadelica, it is sufficiently interesting to be
quoted here. During October 1871, Roderick Macneill, known as 'Ruaraidh
mac Dhomhuil, then ninety-two years of age, told it in Gaelic to the
late J. F. Campbell of Islay and the writer, when they were
storm-stayed in the precipitous island of Miunghlaidh, Barra :--
'The Proud Angel fomented a rebellion among the angels of heaven,
where he had been a leading light. He declared that he would go and
found a kingdom for himself. When going out at the door of heaven the
Proud Angel brought prickly lightning and biting lightning out of the
doorstep with his heels. Many angels followed him -- so many that at
last the Son called out, "Father! Father! the city is being emptied!"
whereupon the Father ordered that the gates of heaven and the gates of
hell should be closed. This was instantly done. And those who were in
were in, and those who were out were out; while the hosts who had left
heaven and had not reached hell flew into the holes of the earth, like
the stormy petrels. These are the Fairy Folk -- ever since doomed to
live under the ground, and only allowed to emerge where and when the
King permits. They are never allowed abroad on Thursday, that being
Columba's Day; nor on Friday, that being the Son's Day; nor on
Saturday, that being Mary's Day; nor on Sunday, that being the Lord's
Day.
God be between me and every fairy,
Every ill wish and every druidry;
To-day is Thursday on sea and land,
I trust in the King that they do not hear me.
(1) It was the belief of the Rev. Robert Kirk, as expressed by him in
his Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies, that the fairy
tribes are a distinct order of created beings possessing human-like
intelligence and supernormal powers, who live and move about in this
world invisible to all save men and women of the second-sight (see this
study, pp. 89, 91 n).
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On certain nights when their bruthain (bowers) are open and their lamps
are lit, and the song and the dance are moving merrily, the fairies may
be heard singing lightheartedly : -
Not of the seed of Adam are we,
Nor is Abraham our father;
But of the seed of the Proud Angel,
Driven forth from Heaven.'
The Fairy King
Who's he that doth travel the woods late by night?
It is the father, his son by his side.
A-holding the little boy all in his arm,
he's wrapped him up tightly, he's keeping him warm.
»My son, pray tell me, what frightens you so?«
»Beholdst thou not, father, the Fairy King's glow?
With his crown made of fire, his shimmering frock?«
»My son, this is naught but a phantom of fog.«
My lovely child, come follow me!
Most pleasant games I'll play with thee.
The flowers are bright where the river runs down,
my mother's got many a glistening gown.
»My father, my father, pray canst thou not hear,
the Fairy King's promises, soft in my ear?«
»O don't be afraid, little stupid, be calm!
'Tis naught but the wind that is shaking the elm.«
Willst thou, fairest manchild, not come and be mine?
My daughters will dress you in satin so fine.
At night, when my daughters are leading the ball
there's laughter and singing and joy in my hall.
»O father, my father, pray canst thou not see,
the Fairy King's daughters are smiling at me?«
»My boy, little boy, I can tell you quite sure,
'tis naught but the willows that wave by the moor.«
I love your fair features, your grace I behold,
and if you're not willing, you'll never grow old.
»My father, my father, he's touching my arm!
The Fairy King's holding me, doing me harm!«
The father a-shudders, he speeds like the wind,
a-clutching his son, never looking behind,
he reaches his home at his horse's last breath -
but the face of his son now is shadowed by death.
After Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, »Der Erlkönig«
Brought into English by Maja Ilisch and Andrea Tavenrath
Theories of Fairy Origins http://home.att.net/~waeshael/origins.htm
Many of the folk theories of the fairy origins have a theological
Christian background, and that highlighted by Professor Christiansen is
the one common to Ireland and the Scottish Highlands - the fairies are
fallen angels. A vivid and detailed account of this is given by
Alexander Carmichael in Carmina Gadelica and repeated in The Fairy
Faith in Celtic Countries.1 According to this some of the angels
seduced by Satan were not prominent in his councils, but might rather
be counted his dupes. When Michael hurled the hosts of Satan out of
Heaven they were followed by an almost endless stream of these
comparatively innocent victims of his unholy eloquence. The Shining
Host of Heaven was thinning rapidly, and the Son, seeing the danger,
cried out: 'Father, Father, the City is being emptied!' God raised his
hand; the gates of Heaven closed, the seduced angels stopped bewildered
and recollected themselves, and those who were already descending
stopped in their tracks, some in the sky, some in the sea, some on
mountains and in woods, some further on their way towards Hell, in
bowels of the earth, and the foremost angels, wholly committed to evil,
in the burning lake. This origin makes the final position of the Sidh
at the Day of Judgement a very perilous one. In Scotland Kirk, the
author of The Secret Commonwealth,2 describes their destiny as
'pendulous' until the Day of Judgement, but according to Christiansen
the general verdict in Ireland is that they are damned souls. He
mentions several Irish anecdotes in which a human is anxiously
questioned by some of the Sidh as to their final destination. The
human, pitying them, asks the question of a Saint, or of the priest
during the elevation of the Host when he cannot lie. Always the answer
is unfavourable, and when this is reported to the Sidh they break out
into terrible lamentations. A similar story is told by J. F. Campbell
of Islay in his Popular Tales of the West Highlands.3 The Scandinavian
assessment of the fairy fate is more charitable, but as Christiansen
points out, their supposed origin is different, and allows more
possibility for hope. There are variants of this legend, but the most
commonly told is of the hidden Children of Eve. After the fall Adam and
Eve settled down to domesticity and were the parents of a large number
of children, so many that Eve was ashamed of them. On day God, walking
through the world, called on Eve and asked her to present her children
to Him. Eve sent half of them to hide and brought out those she thought
most presentable; but God was not deceived. 'Let those who were hidden
from me, ' He said, 'be hidden people.' A different story is that the
Huldre were the offspring of Adam and his first wife, Lilith, about
whom there was much apocryphal information. At any rate in the
Scandinavian beliefs the fairies were half-human in origin and were not
creatures of another order as the angels were, good or bad.
An earlier investigator of fairy beliefs, though still of this century,
was Evans Wentz, from who book, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, I
have already quoted.
In 1908 Evans Wentz, an American of Celtic descent, who had worked for
some years under John Rhys, the Oxford Professor of Celtic Studies, set
out on an exploration of the Celtic area - Ireland, the Highlands of
Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany. He began by
consulting the leading folklore experts of each region, Douglas Hyde in
Ireland, Alexander Carmichael in the Scottish Highlands, John Rhys of
Wales, Henry Jenner of Cornwall, Sophia Morrison of the Isle of Man and
Professor Anatole le Bras of Brittany; then he travelled through all
the regions, for the most part on foot like J. F. Campbell and
Alexander Carmichael, visiting and living in peasant cottages and
collecting material from people of all classes of society. It was no
doubt a help to him in his researches that he was himself a believer in
fairies, so that though he researched as a folklorist he encountered
believers without any trace of scepticism or condescension, and was
therefore given access to experiences and beliefs that would have been
withheld from a more sophisticated investigator. Most of these point,
as do many of Lady Wilde's4 stories, to a strong connection between
fairies and the dead. Christiansen still found traces of this, but
believed that the fairies were the captors and guardians of the dead
rather than the dead themselves. The recently dead are certainly often
described as being among the fairies, but the dead of the ancient
tribes of Ireland are also thought of as The Gentry. John Boglin, for
instance, of Kilmaeean, near Tara, who was about sixty years when he
gave his evidence, reported this of the fairy tribes:
"There is said to be a whole tribe of little red men living in Glen
Odder, between Ringleston and Tara; and in long evenings in June they
have been heard. There are other breeds or castes of fairies; and it
seems to me, when I recall our ancient traditions, that some of these
fairies are of the Fir Bolgs, some of the Tuatha de Danaan, and some of
the Milesians. All of them have been seen round the western slope of
Tara, dressed in ancient Irish costumes. Unlike the little red men,
these fairy races are warlike and given to making invasions."5
Later on in giving his evidence, John Boglin said:
The Fairies are the Dead - 'According to the local belief, fairies are
the spirits of the departed. Tradition says that Hugh O'Neil in the
sixteenth century, after his march to the south, encamped his army on
the Rath or Fort of Ringlestown, to be assisted by the spirits of the
mighty dead who dwelt within this rath. And it is believed that Gerald
Fitzgerald has been seen coming out of the Hill Mollyellen, down in
County Louth, leading his horse and dressed in the old Irish costume,
with heartplate, spear and was outfit.'6
In Scotland, which was next visited by Evans Wentz, the evil fairies,
The Host or Sluagh, were thought of as the dead, and the fairies or
Shee are spirits who were decoyed out of their natural allegiance by
The Proud Angel. In a footnote to one piece of evidence, taken from
Carmina Gadelica, (p. 108), Alexander Carmichael explains the
difference:
Sluagh. 'hosts', the spirit-world. The 'hosts' are the spirits of
mortals who have died...According to one informant, the spirits fly
about in great clouds, up and down the face of the earth like
starlings, and come back to the scenes of their earthly transgressions.
No soul of them is without the clouds of earth, dimming the brightness
of the works of God, nor can any win heaven, till satisfaction is made
for the sins of the earth.7
In Man again, the same belief of 'The Proud Angel' is held, though
there are traces of the fairies as the descendants of the ancient gods,
particularly Mannanon, son of Lir, a belief we also find in Ireland. In
Wales the origin is more vaguely given in such sayings as 'The old folk
thought them a kind of spirit from a spirit world'. In Cornwall the
connection between the pixies and the dead seems to be closer, at least
among the country people. On P. 172, for instance, we have:
Nature of Piskies - 'I always understood the piskies to be little
people. A great deal was said about ghosts in this place. Whether or
not piskies are the same as ghosts, I cannot tell, but I fancy the old
folk thought they were.'8
Abductions Through The Ages
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/abduct050.html
UFO-like abductions and alien sexual encounters are nothing new.
Witches supposedly were taken into the air for meetings with the devil.
People who had been abducted by fairies were left with distinctive body
scars similar to those in UFO abductees. And the incubus and succubus
of medieval times did the exact same things to their abductees as
today's sexually-inclined aliens do to their abductees.
According to fairy lore, fairies create a circular cluster of small
bruises as their mark. The phenomenon is known as "fairy bruising" and
is a sign of either favor or disfavor. The ring of bruises is often
found around the genitals. They did this, according to various 17th
century accounts, by pinching their victims:
An Encyclopedia of Fairies (Briggs, 1976) gives numerous ancient
examples of fairy abductions. Almost always a special drink was given
to the abductee. This drink, usually described as a thick liquid, was
an essential part of the fairy abduction. Women are abducted much more
often than men and some fairies take special delight, in repeatedly
capturing women for amorous motives. In short, some fairies simply
liked having sexual relations with mortals.
Fairies abduct their victims through paralysis; then they simply carry
(levitate and fly) the abductee away into "fairyland." Fairyland is
always nearby; under normal conditions we can't see or perceive it. The
paralysis induced on the victim is how fairies get their abductee to
enter fairyland. The modem word "stroke" (meaning paralysis) is derived
from the ancient terms "elf-stroke" and "fairy-stroke." Fairies travel
in circular globes of light, sometimes called "will-o-the-wisp."
There are so many different types of fairies that going through them
would be tedious. Some of them, however, are virtually
indistinguishable from what have been described as demons. One
particular type, the "bogie," looks a lot like the traditional bigfoot.
Virtually every society has some lore of these "little people" and
myths of them forcing their sexual attentions on human victims.
Fairy lore has a tradition of thousands of years. Fairies have been
said to be abducting humans, human babies, flying in lighted globes,
striking paralysis and amnesia on their victims, forcing strange drink
on their victims, and having sexual relations with humans for all time.
If we could remove the mythological aspect from fairy abductions and
dress them a little differently, the folklore reports of a thousand
years ago would be virtually indistinguishable from present UFO
abduction reports. The same thing could be said for the reports of
demons.
The Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns & Fairies
To see photos http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/UFOs/past.html
Malachim: 5,000 year old figurine that bears striking resemblance to
ET, or an Alien.
The so called learned men of our day are the first to oppose new ideas
and the bearers of these.
- Augustus LePlongeon
The photo on the left is a 5,500 year-old Sumerian clay figurine. The
resemblance to today's grays is overwelming. I would like to draw your
attention to the rod in its hand. This instrument was described by
various abductees and Paiute Indians as a device to subdue, and
paralize potential captives.
The 5, 000 year-old figurine does resemble descriptions and drawings of
UFO occupants, but the startling thing is the rod ? or in fairy lore,
"wand"! One modern case in particular warrants investigation for
historical comparison.
...pointed a pencil like instrument at him and he found himself
immobilized...
For several mornings in 1965, Maurice Masse living near Valensole in
the French Alpes, found to his annoyance that some of his plants had
been 'tampered with', the new shoots plucked out. Around dawn on July
1, as Masse was standing near a hillock at the end of a field, he heard
a whistling noise. There was a French atomic station in Vaucluse, and
as the army often carried out maneuvers in the vicinity, Masse glanced
around and expected to see a military helicopter. Not so. He saw a
machine, shaped like a football and about the size of a Dauphine car,
standing on six legs in the middle of his lavender field.
As he watched, Masse saw what he took to be 'two boys of about eight
years' emerge from the object and begin to steal more of his plants.
Furious and determined to catch them, Masse, a former Maquis
fighter,tried to skeak up on the theives. When he was only a short
distance away he realized they were not little boys, but funny
creatures with pointed chins, almond shaped eyes that curved around the
sides of their heads, and slits or holes ('un trou') for mouths. Later
he described their heads as'courgourdo tete,' the Languedoc dialect
word for 'pumpkin head'. They had no voices but communicated by
grumbling noises that seemed to come from their bodies.
Masse broke cover and rushed at them. When he was not more than five
meters away, one of the creatures pointed a pencil like instrument at
him and he found himself immobolized. He was conscious but frozen in
his tracks.The other creature carried a larger stick or rod which,
Masse later speculated, could have stopped an army.
Masse goes on to say the creatures who were four feet tall and wore
close-fitting gray green clothes, went 'bubbling' up a ladder of
light....and the craft took of to a height of of about 20 meters. Then
it suddenly vanished.
A police spokesman said,'We've established the reality of the landing
gear impressions on the soil. Witnesses other than the farmer verified
his statements.'
A curious feature to the Valensole case is Masse's reaction to a
photograph of an American UFO. In April 1964, in New Mexico, a
policeman named Lonnie Zamora witnessed a landing near the town of
Soccoro. The air force had built a model of the craft from Zamora's
description and French ufologist Aime Michel obtained a photograph of
the model which he showd to Masse.
According to Michel, Masse stared at the picture 'as though he had just
looked upon his own death', and then said, "Monsieur, when did you
photograph my machine?" Quoted from Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with
UFOs; Ralph Blum with Judy Blum
This is but one of hundreds of reported cases in which the creature
uses this rod-like instrument to paralize captives or to make a hasty
exit. I chose this particular one for the startling similarity to our
5,500 year old figurine. Indeed, Masse's description of the creature's
facial features match precisely. The distinction between fairies,
sylphs, gnomes, aliens and demons gets even more fuzzy when we find out
that hundreds of years ago, there were scholars who gathered the
accounts of "common-folk" who related fantastic stories comparable with
what modern-day contactees describe ? in a non-technical fashion, which
would only be natural considering that these people had never even
encountered a hot-air balloon!
Of Sylphs and Fairies
In 1691 a Scottish scholar, Reverend Kirk of Aberfoyle, gathered all
the accounts he could find about the visitors and wrote a manuscript
intitled The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. It was
the first systematic attempt to describe the methods and organization
of the strange creatures that plagued the farmers of Scotland.
Here's a short summary of his findings compiled by Jacques Vallee in
his book:Passport to Magonia
1. They have a nature that is intermediate between man and the
angels.
2. Physically, they have very light and fluid bodies, which are
compared to a condensed cloud. They are particularly visible at dusk.
They can appear to vanish at will.
3. Intellectually, they are intelligent and curious.
4. They have the power to carry away anything they like.
5. They live inside the earth in caves, which they can reach through
any crevice or air passes.
6. When men did not inhabit the world, they used to live there and
had their own agriculture. Their civilization has left traces on the
high mountains; it was flourishing at a time when the whole countryside
was nothing but woods and forests.
7. At the begining of each three month period, they change quarters
because they are unable to stay in one place. Besides, they like to
travel. It is then that men have terrible encounters with them, even on
th great highways.* *
Kirk notes that the scots avoid all travel during those four
periods of the year, and he adds that some country folk go to church on
th first Sunday of every three-month period to have their family,
crops, and cattle blessed in order to keep away the elves who steal
plants an animals.
8. Their chameleonlike bodies alow them to swim through the air with
all their household.
9. They are divided into tribes. Like us,they have children, nurses,
marriages, burials, etc.,unless they just do this to mock our own
customs, or to predict terrestrial events.
10. Their houses are said to be wonderfully large and beautiful, but
under most circumstances they are invisible to human eyes. Kirk
compares them to enchanted islands. The houses are equipped with lamps
that burn forever and fires that need no fuel.
11. They speak very little. When they do so, when they talk among
themselves, their language is of a whistling sound.
12. Their habits and their language when they talk to humans are
similar to those of local people.
13. Their philosophical system is based on the following
ideas:nothing dies; all things evolve cyclically in such a way that at
every cycle they are renewed and improved. Motion is the universal law.
14. They are said to have a heirarchy of leaders, but they have no
visible devotion to God.
15. They have many pleasant books, but also serious and complex
books, rather in the style of the ROSICRUCIANS, dealing with abstract
matters.
16. They can be made to appear at will before us through magic.
Vallee goes on to say that both Paracelsus and Kirk agree that a `pact
can be made with these creatures, and they can be made to appear and
answer questions at will.`
Morphodeception
Throughout the Bible (evil spirits, demons, fallen angels, nephilim),
folklore (sylphs, fairies, gnomes, spirits of the air), and UFO (grays,
reptilians, ETs, space brothers, chupacabra) literature, we find our
visitors have the ability to manipulate time and space. To choose a
form at will. They seem to be toying with their true nature. Almost
laughing at us mere mortals.
A quick browse through the encounters of all ages, and this
'morphodeception' becomes apparent. Vallee, "...we have had to note
carefully the chameleonlike character of the secondary attributes of
the sightings: the shapes of the objects, the appearances of their
occupants, their reported statements, vary as a function of the
cultural environment into which they are projected."
Inorganic Beings? You can read many accounts and descriptions of
various entities describing what seems to be one phenomenon with many
names. If anyone has read any of Carlos Castaneda's books, Don Juan
teaches his students about powerful beings called 'allies'.
Don Juan, "....They take any size or shape that suits them. They could
be a pebble or a mountain. In the company of men they behave like men.
In the company of animals they behave like animals. Animals are usually
afraid of them."
In later explanations of allies, Castaneda's Teacher gives further
details, calling them inorganic beings. Don Juan explains to his
student that they live in a dimension with a different energy level.
Don Juan, "...with inorganic beings,however, since they are separated
from us by a most formidable barrier ? energy that moves at a different
speed ? sorcerers must gauge their expectations and sustain the
solicitation for as long as it takes to be acknowledged. ....inorganic
beings veil themselves in darkness or mystery....the inorganic beings
are after our awareness. They'll give us knowledge, but they'll extract
a payment: our total being".
He further explains that inorganic beings are of an awareness that is
immobile and awareness like that has to seek movement and it does this,
"by creating projections, phantasmical projections at times." He
explained that inorganic beings are superb projectionists, who delight
in projecting themselves like pictures on a wall.
Demonic ProjectionsThese 'allies' are further described as tenuous
energy projected through worlds, like a cosmic movie, a 'rarefied
energy' projected through the boundaries of two worlds. At this point
Carlos asks.., "But what about inorganic beings in their world? Are
they also like moving pictures?", to which Don Juan's answer was
unequivocal, "Not a chance. That world is as real as ours. The old
sorcerers protrayed the inorganic beings' world as a blob of caverns
and pores floating in some dark space. And they portrayed the inorganic
beings as hollow canes bound together, like cells of our bodies. The
old sorcerers called that immense bundle the labyrinth of penumbra".
Subtlety of Spirits
The medieval occultist's wrote painstaken works of great length,
defining and classifying the visitors. This documentation did not
confine itself to European writers. In Islam this same classification
was in full progress. Only now are these works being appreciated, and
it seems that these writers had an even deeper understanding, than
their European counterparts.
The European's of the age, thought all invisible beings can be divided
into four classes; the angels, the gods of the ancients; the devils or
demons, the fallen angels; the souls of the dead; and the elemental
spirits, which correspond to Kirk's Secret Commonwealth. Vallee, "In
the fourth group are the gnomes, who inhabit the earth and correspond
to mine-haunting fairies, goblins, pixies, korrigans, leprechans, and
the domovoys of Russian legends, and the sylphs, who inhabit the air'.
To subdivide these visitors is obviously extremely difficult, and you
might find yourself running in circles. However, I believe it is
imperative we try. Concerning the Elementals, Kirk says their of an
elastic semi-material essence, ethereal enough so as not to be detected
by physical sight, and may change their forms according to certain
laws.
Today's modern UFO literature abounds with these exact descriptions,
describing the 'ETs'. Aliens passing through walls, disappearing at the
blink of an eye, various reports of UFOs merging into each other. And
we haven't even explored sexual aspect of the abduction phenomena. This
would correspond to the incubus and succubii of medieval accounts.
If the reader has read through this page, your understanding of the UFO
situation as it presents itself to modern man, has probably changed,
that's assuming you subscribe to the 'nuts and bolts' theory of Aliens
from 'outer space'. On the other hand if the reader has been
contemplating the 'Inter-dimensional' or 'Ultraterrestrial' theory
which seems a more likely explanation, then maybe I've added some food
for thought.
Copyright © Terry Melanson, unless otherwise noted. Reproduction is
granted, and encouraged, on condition of author citation and a
hyperlink back to this page.
Fairies and UFOs?
By Ken Korczac
The most popular belief today is that UFOs are spaceships piloted by
aliens from outer space.
But another good theory which never gets as much press is that which
says UFOs may, in fact, be right here from earth.
Instead of being Extraterrestrials, UFO aliens might be
Ultraterrestrials -- a species that has always been here, which evolved
on earth along with homo sapiens, but which represents a species far
superior.
These Ultraterrestrials are so superior to us it's almost impossible
for us to comprehend their existence. All we know of them are fleeting
glimpses of lights in the sky, occasional bizarre encounters between
human beings and so-called aliens, and other unexplained phenomenon.
Think of how a group of monkeys in the wild perceive human beings.
Because their own level of consciousness is so limited, they cannot
comprehend that we humans are beyond being just another kind of animal.
They may see a jet or a helicopter or a car, but to the monkeys,
nothing in their consciousness can explain these amazing things.
A monkey may think of an airplane as some kind of magical giant bird.
They relate to it with the level of understanding they have about their
environment. The speculation of the monkey, at best, is a crude idea
about the total truth of an airplane, and the fact it represents entire
levels of consciousness that are so advanced, they are literally
invisible to monkey mind.
Now think of a human being who encounters a UFO. To us a UFO seems to
be some kind of flying, mechanical aircraft -- but the true nature of
the UFO may be as different from a spacecraft as a bird is from an
airplane. Like the monkey, we we just don't have the advanced levels of
consciousness we need to comprehend the true nature of a UFO.
As humans, we make the naturally egotistical assumption that we are the
species at the top of the heap -- we see ourselves as the peak of
achievement of evolution. We even make the bold claim that God, the
supreme architect of the entire universe, created us in his own image!
But it's not a big leap to consider that we are just another link in a
vast chain of species, many which are below us, and some which may be
above us.
People who support the Ultraterrestrial theory point out that
supernatural beings seemingly superior to humans have been reported
throughout history. In previous eras they were called gods, angels,
ogres, fairies, brownies, little people, demons, and more.
The Bible is filled with references to supernatural creatures,
including giants, "wheels" flying in the sky out of which incredible
creatures emerge, and more.
But references to flying disks were recorded centuries before the texts
of the Bible. Cave drawings dating to 30,000 B.C. depict numerous
drawings of disks floating around in the sky, remarkably similar to
modern UFO photographs.
Some maverick UFO investigators have pointed out the amazing
similarities of modern UFO aliens to that of elves, fairies and the
various "little people" famous in the folklore of many cultures.
Fairies are well known for kidnapping people, the same irritating habit
UFO aliens have. People who are abducted report incidents of missing
time, a phenomenon very similar to time lapses reported by people taken
to and returned from "fairyland.
Fairies, like modern aliens, tend to be diminuitive creatures with
large magical eyes. Many reports of alien abduction even include "power
rods" used to paralize abductees, just as fairies wield "magic wands".
One of the most interesting comparisons between aliens and fairies is
that both are interested in stealing babies. One of the most common
fairy activities is swiping babies from cribs, and sometimes replacing
them with a false double, or "changeling" as they are sometimes called.
A large part of modern UFO literature involves aliens abducting women,
impregnating them, and later abducting them again, only to remove and
take the unborn baby right out of the womb.
Crearly, both UFO occupants and fairies have a strong affinity for the
baby stealing business.
Fairies are closely associated with nature, just as modern aliens also
display a certain obsession with environmental issues. One of the most
common alien abduction scenarios involves aliens who force people to
watch "movies" depicting massive environmental degradation caused by
modern human civilization. The aliens then give them a lecture on
environmental issues and let them go.
If aliens truly are a superior species from earth and evolved on earth,
it would make sense that they would be concerned about another species
wrecking the planet.
But then you might ask, why don't the Ultraterrestrials simply step in
and "manage" us the same way humans "manage" wildlife, including chimps
and other large primates? The Ultraterrestrial theorists answer: "They
are!". That's what all the abduction and experiments are about!
Just as human beings capture and tag various species, UFO abductees
report experiences of extreme similarity. Many people report being
"tagged" during frightening sessions on a UFO operating table. Some of
these "tags" have even been recovered, or show up on MRI exams, and
remain unexplained.
It's also possible that Ultraterrestrials comprehend and operate within
higher levels of dimension than we experience at the human level. A
monkey could never understand that time and space are actually two
parts of the same dimension, as scientists have discovered.
Mathematicians tell us that many additional dimensions of reality exist
Ð dimensions which only the most brilliant math minds can glimpse
through numbers, although they cannot experience them psychologically
in any meaningful way.
If Ultraterrestrials can exist "above" or "beyond" spacetime, that
means they can easily see us, trick us and manipulate our existence,
while we can't see them at all, or only in the most crude manner, or
perhaps only when they allow us to see them.
Imagine when a bear is shot with a drugged dart from a helicopter
hovering above him. Imagine how terrified the bear is of the bizarre
flying monster and the noise and lights that come out of it. Now
imagine that the bear thinks of the strange beings that come out of the
flying monster. The strange beings poke and prod him, look inside his
mouth, apply a tag to his ear, and then let him go. Why?
How can a bear understand or interpret the meaning of this incident on
its level of consciousness? It can't. It just seem to make any sense.
Human beings are so advanced and superior as to incomprehensible.
Is it so difficult to believe that the ongoing bizarre and seemingly
incomprehensible phenomenon of UFOs and their activities are the
actions of an earth-born species far advanced and superior to human
beings?
Just ask a bear or a monkey.
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In The Magic of Findhorn, the story of the community by Paul Hawken,
the author relates how Robert Ogilvie Crombie (Roc), an associate of
the Findhorn Community met a spirit being whom he recognised as 'Pan'.
This being, during the course of the ensuing conversation, asked him,
'Do you love my subjects?' "Yes'. In that case do you love me?' 'Why
not?' 'DO YOU LOVE ME? "Yes' ...'You know of course that I am the
Devil? You have just said that you love the devil.' 'No you are not the
devil. You are the god of the woodlands and countryside. There is no
evil in you' There are many other references in the book to contact
with spirit beings.
David Spangler, one of the leaders of the New Age movement states in
Reflections on the Christ (p. 40-44), published by the Findhorn
Foundation, 'Christ is the same force as Lucifer, .(who) is an agent of
God's love acting through evolution - . . Lucifer prepares man . . for
the experience of Christhood . . . The light that reveals to us the
path to Christ comes from Lucifer . . . the great initiator . . .
Lucifer works within each of us to bring us to wholeness as we move
into the new age . . . each of us is brought to that point which I term
the Luciferic initiation , . Lucifer comes to give us the final
Luciferic initiation . . that many people in the days ahead will be
facing, for it is an initiation into the New Age.'
Could such an 'initiation' be the 'powerful delusion' of which Paul
speaks in 2 Thessalonians 2, causing people to worship the 'man of
sin'? Whatever our conclusions on this point we have to recognise that
we are dealing with a powerful force of antichrist, whose goal is for
Lucifer to take the place of Christ, which means for Satan to take the
place of God.
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ABERFOYLE, THE COUNTRY OF ROBERT KIRK
My first hunt for fairies in Scotland began at Aberfoyle, where the
Highlands and the Lowlands meet, and in the very place where Robert
Kirk, the minister of Aberfoyle, was taken by them, in the year 1692.
The minister spent a large part of his time studying the ways of the
'good people', and he must have been able to see them, for he was a
seventh son. Mrs. J. MacGregor, who keeps the key to the old churchyard
where there is a tomb to Kirk, though many say there is nothing in it
but a coffin filled with stones, told me that Kirk was taken into the
Fairy Knoll, which she pointed to just across a little valley in front
of us, and is there yet, for the hill is full of caverns, and in them
the 'good people' have their homes. And she added that Kirk appeared to
a relative of his after he was taken, and said that he was in the power
of the 'good people', and couldn't get away. 'But,' says he, 'I can be
set free if you will have my cousin do what I tell him when I appear
again at the christening of my child in the parsonage.' According to
Mr. Andrew Lang, who reports the same tradition in more detail in his
admirable Introduction to The Secret Commonwealth, the cousin was
Grahame of Duchray, and the thing he was to do was to throw a dagger
over Kirk's head. Grahame was at hand at the christening of the
posthumous child, but was so astonished to see Kirk appear as Kirk said
he would, that he did not throw the dagger, and so Kirk became a
perpetual prisoner of the 'good people'.
After having visited Kirk's tomb, I called on the Rev. William M.
Taylor, the present successor of Kirk, and, as we sat together in the
very room where Kirk must have written his Secret Commonwealth, he told
me that tradition
p. 90
reports Kirk as having been taken by the fairies while he was walking
on their hill, which is but a short way from the parsonage. 'At the
time of his disappearance, people said he was taken because the fairies
were displeased with him for prying into their secrets. At all events,
it seems likely that Kirk was taken ill very suddenly with something
like apoplexy while on the Fairy Knoll, and died there. I have searched
the presbytery books, and find no record of how Kirk's death really
took place; but of course there is not the least doubt of his body
being in the grave.' So thus, according to Mr. Taylor, we are to
conclude that if the fairies carried off anything, it must have been
the spirit or soul of Kirk. I talked with others round Aberfoyle about
Kirk, and some would have it that his body and soul were both taken,
and that what was buried was no corpse at all. Mrs. Margaret MacGregor,
one of the few Gaelic speakers of the old school left in Aberfoyle,
holds another opinion, for she said to me, 'Nothing could be surer than
that the good people took Kirk's spirit only.'
In the Aberfoyle country, the Fairy-Faith, save for the stories about
Kirk, which will probably persist for a long time yet, is rapidly
passing. In fact it is almost forgotten now. Up to thirty years ago, as
Mr. Taylor explained, before the railway reached Aberfoyle, belief in
fairies was much more common. Nowadays, he says, there is no real
fairy-lore among the peasants; fifty to sixty years ago there was. And
in his opinion, 'the fairy people of three hundred years ago in
Scotland were a distinct race by themselves. They had never been human
beings. The belief in them was a survival of paganism, and not at all
an outgrowth of Christian belief in angelic hosts.'
Rev. Robert Kirk's "Secret Commonwealth"
by Paul B. Thompson
Nebula Editor
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It has long been the habit of scholars to study the obscure, the
strange, and the unusual. Aside from the intrinsic interest of such
subjects, the fringes of human experience offer the widest scope for
unexpectedly enlarging our collective knowledge. Many common scientific
subjects were once "fringe:" electricity, meteors and radioactivity
were all once beyond the pale of standard knowledge. No scholar worth
his salt would pass up an opportunity to write their name into history
as a discoverer.
Robert Kirk was such a scholar. Born in 1644, Kirk came from a long
line of educated men. His grandfather, John Kirk, was a notary and
scrivener in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Reverend James Kirk, was
appointed minister to the parish of Aberfoyle, in Perthshire, in 1639.
He had a large family, of whom Robert Kirk was his seventh son. Among
the Celts, this was a propitious place to be born -- seventh sons were
commonly believed to have second sight. Kirk never made a reputation as
a seer, but he was exceptionally gifted intellectually. He studied at
Edinburgh University and at St. Andrews, receiving his master's degree
at 17. Ordained as a minister, Kirk served at various parishes for the
next twenty years. He married in 1678.
Kirk was also a linguist. He translated the psalms into Gaelic verse,
and translated other religious works into the Scots Highland dialect.
His facility with Gaelic led him to be named editor of a new Irish
edition of the bible. In June 1685 he was appointed to his father's old
parish of Aberfoyle, and served there until his early death in 1692.
Aberfoyle was, in the words of Sir Walter Scott, "[a] beautiful and
wild region, comprehending so many lakes, rocks, sequestered valleys,
and dim copsewoods, and not even yet quite abandoned by the fairies,
who have resolutely maintained secure footing in a region so well
suited to their residence."
His linguistic expertise would have been enough to insure Robert Kirk
a footnote in the cultural history of the British Isles, but his real
fame (and interest to readers of ParaScope) lies in his study of fairy
lore. He collected tales of fairy encounters by his countrymen and
analyzed them in a monograph entitled "The Secret Common-Wealth."
In Kirk's time, fairies were not seen as tiny, gauzy-winged creatures
of children's storybooks. Far from it -- fairies were thought of as
strange, powerful creatures, a paraphysical race of beings living among
mankind. It was common for some of the clergy to denounce fairy folk as
demons, or at least servants of Satan. Kirk wasn't so sure. He decided
that they were a separate race "betwixt Man and Angel." Lacking
scientific language to describe fairy attributes, Kirk resorted to
poetic descriptions. Fairies were made on "congealed Air" or "condensed
cloud." This ethereal composition was crucial to their ability to
vanish at will, fly, or penetrate any enclosed space, no matter how
tiny. Being so nebulous, fairies imbibed only the most refined of
"spirituous liquors" (Scotland being a good location for such), and
Kirk noted that although they had prodigious appetites, fairies never
grew fat because they only used the quintessence of food and drink.
Humans sometimes stumbled upon fairy banquets hidden away in the hills,
but mortals should never partake of fairy food; one taste, and the
luckless human was forever a captive of the Subterranean race. An
especially odd detail Kirk gives is that the fairies had a special
class of servant at their revels, whom he describes as "Pleasant
Children" or enchanted puppets, which sounds like the fairies were
tended by mechanical dolls...
Fairy affairs curiously mirrored the situation of their human
neighbors. When men experienced a good harvest, things were poorly in
the fairy realm, and vice-versa. Fairies lived in tribes and "orders"
(medieval social classes), had factions, fought wars among themselves
-- sometimes in the sky, to the astonishment of mortal witnesses -- and
by custom had to move their homes at the beginning of each quarter of
the year. These migrations were sometimes seen by psychically gifted
Scots, and led to them being called "the crew that never rest."
Fairy fashion echoed that of the country in which they lived. In
Scotland, they wore plaid kilts, and in Ireland dressed like the Irish.
Fairy women were the finest spinners and weavers in the world, making
cloth as fine as cobwebs, which seems only fitting for a race made of
congealed air. They had no religion, but would flee when humans invoked
God or Jesus. Kirk repeats the common belief that fairies fear and hate
iron, and offers an unusual reason why: Hell, it seems, is a place so
hot and terrible molten iron flows like water all over the place. Being
highly sensitive creatures, the fairies cannot bear even the smell of
cold iron, as it reminds them of the fate that awaits them once they
die... eternity in Hell.
Fairy relations with humans are always strange and often tragic. Time
passes differently among the fairies. What seems like a few days or
weeks in Elfland can be decades in the mortal world. Kirk's informants
told him of vast underground halls, lit by perpetual lamps, where
hundreds of fairies feasted and roistered down the ages.
There were also more sinister aspects to human/fairy interactions.
Most people have heard of changelings, where a human baby is taken away
from its parents and a defective fairy child left in its place. But the
Subterraneans did not balk at taking adults away too. They particularly
liked women who'd just given birth. They were kidnapped to serve as wet
nurses to fairy babies. Interestingly, the fairies would leave exact
doubles of their captives behind. Kirk discusses these doppelgangers,
who he calls "co-walkers," in some detail. Like changeling infants,
co-walkers tend to weaken, become incoherent, and eventually die.
They're not human or fairy, but a sort of biological robot created by
fairy magic to distract mortals away from the truth about the abduction
of their loved ones. UFO lore is full of co-walker types. Many of the
classic "men in black" episodes feature clumsy, muddle-mouthed visitors
who don't quite seem in sync with the mundane world. MIBs, like
co-walkers, perform some task, then depart -- though they don't usually
die in front of puzzled witnesses.
Kirk gives this account of one woman's abduction (I have modernized
his spelling):
"Among other instances of undoubted verity, proving in these the being
of such aerial people, or species of creatures not vulgarly known, I
add the subsequent relations, some whereof I have from my acquaintance
with the actors and patients and the rest from the eyewitnesses to the
matter of fact. The first whereof shall be of the woman taken out of
her child-bed, and having a lingering image of her substituted body in
her room, which resemblance decayed, died, and was buried. But the
person stolen returning to her husband after two years space, he being
convinced by many undeniable tokens that she was his former wife,
admitted her home and had diverse children by her. Among other reports
she gave her husband, this was one: that she perceived little what they
[the fairies] did in the spacious house she lodged in, until she
anointed one of her eyes with a certain unction that was by her; which
they perceiving to have acquainted her with their actions, they fained
her blind of that eye with a puff of their breath. She found the place
full of light, without any fountain or lamp from whence it did spring."
Kirk goes on to say the returned woman was undoubtedly the same one
everyone thought had died, and that her husband, having remarried since
her "death," was obliged to divorce his second wife to remarry his
first.
The scholarly minister's interest in the Good People (as fairies were
euphemistically called) proved unhealthy. Kirk's monograph was finished
in 1691. A short time later, after the minister returned from London to
Aberfoyle, he went for an evening stroll in his nightshirt. Kirk's
perambulations took him past a fairy mound near his home. While passing
by the mound (or walking over it, according to some accounts), the 47
year-old scholar collapsed. He was found and brought home, but died
soon after and was buried in the kirkyard of his own church. Kirk's
death on or near a fairy mound must have made his parishioners shudder,
but an even weirder postscript would be added to the case.
One of Kirk's relatives was awakened in the night by the apparition of
the dead minister. Kirk gave him a message for his cousin, one Graham
of Duchray. I am not dead, Kirk's specter declared. The Good People had
carried him off. He had one chance to escape their clutches: when
Kirk's posthumous child was christened (his wife being pregnant when he
died), Kirk's apparition would appear at the ceremony. Graham of
Duchray was to throw an iron-bladed knife over the head of the
minister's specter. Iron was a powerful counter to fairy magic, and
Kirk would be released from their power by this act. (One wonders what
would become of his corpse, buried securely in the Aberfoyle
cemetery... but some folk in Aberfoyle claimed that Kirk's body was
abducted, not just his soul. His coffin, it was said, was buried with
nothing in it but stones.)
The child was born, and duly christened. While the family dined
afterward, Kirk appeared before them. Unfortunately, his cousin Graham
was so thunderstruck by this vision he failed to throw his knife as
directed. Kirk's spirit faded away, never to be seen again. Well into
the twentieth century people in Aberfoyle maintained that Robert Kirk
was not really dead, but lived as an eternal captive in fairyland.
This kind of fairy lore echoes again and again through UFO literature.
Strange time effects, odd, diminutive "people" with pointed features
seen to occupy UFOs, traditional fairy gambits of borrowing mundane
object from witnesses -- and witnesses not being able to borrow
"extraterrestrial" artifacts back -- all are common facets of UFO close
encounters. Sometimes the fairy connection is so obvious as to be
startling -- as in the 1967 Long Island case where a contactee was
given a seemingly ordinary metal disc to wear so that "they" would
recognize her.
Who are "they?" asked the contactee.
"They are the very good people," she was told. (See John Keel, The
Mothman Prophecies, chapter 15).
If there is a strong link between fairy lore and UFO encounters, what
does it mean?
The following is some research, quotes, notes etc. that may answer that
question:
"With a heavy dose of New Age influence, the UFO movement increasingly
grows less like a science and more like a religion. Some investigators
point to an early case that marked this shift: the elaborate claims of
a one-armed Swiss farmer named Eduard "Billy" Meier.
Since 1975, Meier has claimed to have had more than 700 contacts with
aliens from the Pleiades star cluster. In most of those contacts, a
female alien named Semjase has appeared to Meier, allowed him to
photograph her spacecraft, taken him on rides in the craft, and even
whisked him into the past to meet Jesus Christ, who was duly impressed
with the advice Meier gave him. He has taken more than 1,000
photographs of Semjase's craft (which Semjase only reveals to Meier
when he is alone), as well as photos of alien women, closeups of famous
celestial objects, and even the eye of God. Meier claims that he is the
reincarnation of Christ and that his teachings, based on what Semjase
tells him, will save mankind."
UFOs are showing up over more and more cities: Mexico City, Phoenix,
Tel
Aviv, Las Vegas, Paris, Beijing... and over many countries: Mexico,
England,
Canada, Brazil, United States, Israel, Scotland, Australia, South
Africa, Japan, China, South Korea, etc. according to UFO ROUND UP
Database and web site http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/. They seem to
appearing for longer periods of times and flaps are more frequent.
As researcher Lee Elders puts it "They seem to be on a world tour".
Hopefully we will see in the following articles, quotes, and research
some answers to the question - Why?
_The Threat: The Secret Agenda; What The Aliens Really Want And How
They
Plan To Get It_ by David M Jacobs, Ph.D., Temple University.
ISBN0-684-81484-6
In my most recent research, I have uncovered information that allows
UFO
researchers to solve the UFO mystery - at least the questions that will
have the greatest impact upon us. I have put many pieces of the puzzle
together. I have focused the picture, and I do not like what I see. For
the first time in over thirty years of researching the UFO phenomenon,
I
am frightened of it. Understanding...has led to a profound apprehension
for the future. The abduction phenomenon is far more ominous that I had
thought...I know why the aliens are here -- and what the human
consequences will be if their mission is successful."
Millions of people in many parts of the world are having sightings and
also large numbers around the world are encountering UFO entities in
one
way or another. They are experiencing "Close Encounter of the Third or
Fourth Kind", a term used by the late ufologist J. Allen Hynek. During
contact, abductions and channeling ET beings some contactees and some
abductees are given the following kinds of messages...These messages
may
answer the question why are all these things are occuring:
- We are told - this earth has been visited many times in the past and
presently by different types of extra-terrestrials. These ET's have
been
involved with our creation, evolution, religions, myths, beliefs, etc.
- Some contactees are being told that humans are the consequence of ET
encounters with earlier forms of man. Without this contact man never
would have evolved to the point we have. Rael, the chosen prophet and
messiah of the Raelian movement was told as as contactee, that mankind
was created by a group of ET's called the Elohim using advanced genetic
engineering in laboratories 4. Others who believe in the messages of
the
Pleiadians are told, that the Pleiadian ancestors were some of the
Original Planners of Earth who seeded this and other worlds.12 What
ever
the explanation we are told ET's are involved with our evolution and
creation.
- Some contactees are being told that: "Humankind stands now in the
transitional period before the dawn of a New Age. (With peace, love and
understanding, the people of Earth will see a great new era begin to
dawn.) The Space Beings are here to teach, to help awaken the human
spirit, to help humankind rise to higher levels of vibration so that
the
people of Earth may be ready to enter new dimensions. 1. We are poised
for a quantum leap forward on both the biological and spiritual levels.
The human soul will evolve.
- "If the Earthlings should not raise their vibratory rate within a set
period of time, severe earth changes and major cataclysms will take
place. (Such disasters will not end the world, but shall serve as
cataclysmic crucibles to burn off the dross of unreceptive humanity.
Those who die in such dreadful purgings will be allowed to reincarnate
on higher levels of development so that their salvation will be more
readily accomplished through higher teachings on a higher vibratory
level.)" 2
- Others are being told that the receptive or chosen will be saved by
benign ET's and their ships when these disasters take place. Some like
the Raelians are told they will experience some kind of eternal
existance through further genetic engineering ie. cloning.
- A major leap in consciousness and evolution is about to take place:
Crop circles, UFO sightings and contactee and abductee experiences are
preparing those who are receptive of these changes. Events such as the
Harmonic Convergence are lifting the veil so the Higher Galactic
intelligences of the universe will be able to channel their energies
and
influences to facillitate the shift towards a New Age.12
- "Contactees have been told that the Space Beings hope to guide Earth
to a period of great unification, when all races will shun
discriminatory separations ...The Space Beings also hope to bring about
a single, solidified government which will conduct itself on spiritual
principles...1, 15.
- Evidence for these claims are: the many abductee and contactee
experiences with similar stories and messages, physical scars, hybrid
babies, recognition of some kind of symbolic or hieroglyphic language
etc. There seems to be according to researchers increasing cases
worldwide of UFO sightings, crop or landing circles, animal
mutilations,
abductions of men, women and children.
-According to Dr. Karla Turner, who has worked with over 400 abduction
cases and has written the book "Into the Fringe", says if abduction
accounts can be believed and there is confirmation of many of these
facts with other researchers - the abduction phenomena includes some of
the following details: from -UFO Universe, Spring 1993. Aliens -Friends
or Foes by Dr. Karla Turner:
- Aliens can alter our perceptions of our surroundings.
- Aliens can control what we think we see. They can appear to us any
number of guises and shapes.
- Aliens can be present with us in an invisible state and can make
themselves only partially visible.
- Abductees receive marks on their bodies other than the well-known
scoops and straight-line scars. These other marks include single
punctures, multiple punctures, large bruises, three-and four fingered
claw marks, and trangles of every possible sort.
- Female abductees often suffer serious gynecological problems after
their alien encounters, and sometimes these problems lead to cysts,
tumors, cancer of the breast and uterus, and to hysterectomies.
- A surprising number of abductees suffer from serious illnesses they
didn't have before their encounters. These have led to surgery,
debilitation, and even death from causes the doctors can't identify.
- Abductees often encounter more than one sort of alien during an
experience, not just the greys. Every possible combination of grey,
reptoid, insectoid, blond, and widow's peak have been seen during
single
abductions, aboard the same craft or in the same facility.
- Abductees report being scoffed at, jeered at, and threatened by their
alien captors. Painful genital and anal probes are performed... Unknown
fluids are injected into some abductees.
- Abductees-"virgin" cases- report being taken to underground
facilities
where they see grotesque hybrid creatures, nurseries of hybrid humanoid
fetuses, and vats of colored liquid filled with parts of human bodies.
- Abductees report seeing other humans in these facilities being
drained
of blood, being mutilated, flayed, and dismembered, and stacked,
lifeless like cords of wood. Some abductees have been threatened that
they, too, will end up in this condition if they don't co-operate with
their alien captors.
- Aliens come into homes and temorary remove young children, leaving
their distraught parents paralyzed and helpless. In cases where a
parent
has been able to protest, the aliens insist that "The children belong
to
us."
- Aliens have forced ther human abductees to have sexual intercourse
with aliens and even with other abductees while groups of aliens
observe
these performances. In such encounters, the aliens have sometimes
disguised themselves in order to gain the cooperation of the abductee,
appearing in such forms as Jesus, the Pope, certain celebrities, and
even the dead spouses of the abductees.
- Aliens perform extremely painful experiments or procedures on
abductees, saying that these acts are necessary but give no explanation
why.....Painful genital and anal probes are performed, on children as
well as adults.
- Aliens make predictions of an imminent period of global chaos and
destruction. They say that a certain number of humans...will be
"rescued" from the planet in order to continue the species, either on
another planet or back on earth after the destruction is over. Many
abductees report they don't believe their alien captors and foresee
instead a much more sinister use of the "rescued" humans.
"In every instance from this list, there are multiple reports from
unrelated cases, confirming that such bizzarre details are not the
product of a single deranged mind. These details are convincing
evidence
that, contrary to the claims of many UFO researchers, the abduction
experience isn't limited to uniform pattern of events. This phenomenon
simply can't be explained in terms of cross-breeding experiments or
scientific research into the human physiology. Before we allow
ourselves
to believe in the benevolence of the alien interaction , we should ask,
do enlightened beings need to use the cover of night to perform good
deeds? Do they need to paralyze us and render us helpless to resist? Do
angels need to steal our fetuses? Do they need to manipulate our childr
en's genitals and probe our rectums? Are fear, pain, and deception
consistent with high spiritual motives?" ......Dr. Karla Turner.
SOME PHILOSOPHICAL AND OTHER PROBLEMS WITH THESE MESSAGES
- While there seems to be evidence for UFO related activties as
mentioned above, perhaps there are other possible explanations. There
seems to be from reports and research, components which parallel
paranormal, psychic, and spiritistic manifestations, etc.5,6. Many UFO
abductees, contactees and researchers, for instance, believe there is
an
interdimensional or multidemensional quality to the UFO phenomena and
related experiences. Although the UFO phenomena may appear real enough,
it also could be a holigraphic illusion or a transmorification of
matter
and energy. Perhaps certain intelligences have the power to shape
matter
and spirit. Some ufos and their occupants seem to have an ability to
shape shift and appear and disappear 5,6. Dr. J. Allen Hyneck suggested
the phenomena appears to be more psychic than extra-terrestial and
perhaps comes from a parallel world. This also seems to be Dr. Jacque
Vallee's explanation 6, 9.
-Dr. Vallee also notes that there are authoritarian overtones to some
of
the messages given to contactees 8 ie. democracy is obsolete, elections
should be done away with 4, racist idealogies are encouraged - some
have
more alien DNA etc., a New World Order is needed and will be set up
with
alien help. He also believes that some kind of control system is being
set up by the UFO phenomena which challenges our traditions and human
beliefs systems 6,8. Many abductees report implants and feel they are
being manipulated for some unknown purpose that's yet to be revealed.
- Much of the messages given to abductees and contactees seem to be New
Age in philosophical orientation and language: there are no moral
absolutes, reincarnation is taught, monistic beliefs such as a vague
"kinship with the Cosmos and it's oneness with the Universe or the
Universe as a supreme being" are common, we are being told that "we
stand on the precipice of a quantum leap forward on both a biological
and spiritual level." Man is or is becoming God...etc. 3,13.
Quoting Brad Steiger as an example:
As with many UFO contactees, Moi-ra and Ra-Ja Dove are convinced that
the Aquarian Age is heralding in a new religion. Even the word religion
will not be used anymore. For the main crux of the matter will have a
much deeper sense of reality. The person will evolve out of believing
in something into becoming something. The person will know what the
religions of the ancient age have always tried to demonstrate: to be
still and know that you are god! Indeed, this is the great new
religion! Each and every person will know that he is god.
- The Fellowship, p.170
- If man is one with the cosmos or some impersonal concept of God there
cannot be a basis for truth or ethics. The impersonal, as such is
silent
about such things. There is no basis for saying anything is right or
wrong if all is one with God. What you are left with is total
relativism
or the arbitrary absolutes of the controllers who ever they may be. "If
All is One , good and evil are reconciled, then one can can do nothing
bad; thus Manson was only acting logically....the fact that Manson's
followers knew him as both Satan and Christ highlights the collapse of
distinctions between good and evil under moral relativity".13.
- As well, finite alien creators cannot provide sufficent absolutes.
You
have the same problems as pagan polytheisium - the gods are too small
to
account for the creation of the universe and not good enough to provide
a basis of morals and truth. Is abducting and raping women okay if
extra-terrestials do it? Also, why all the authoritorian overtones to
some of the messages? Do they really have our best interest in mind or
is there evidence of some kind of control system?
-Many alien prophesies to contactees of the 50's or to-day have failed
to come true or appear to be outright lies. 14. Many contactees and
abductees to-day are again delivering warnings of coming earth changes
and disasters along with promises of help from aliens...they feel
choosen to deliver a message to mankind ...the prophesies may be
creating a false hope and dependancy in their abductors who they know
little about.
- There are several alien types taking credit for the creation of man
and now some contactees like Rael and Benjamin Cream are claiming to be
prophets of some messianic authority. In fact Rael is claiming to be
the
new final prophet and chosen "Messiah" of this age...chosen by a group
of extra-terrestials who call themselves the Eloheim who told Rael that
they created the human race through genetic engineering. Rael has over
35,000 followers world wide who call themselves Raelians...and they
wish
with the Eloheim's help -to usher in a world government ruled by an
autoritarian elite. Rael claims he was told by one of the Eloheim his
origins are special...His mother is human his father was an
extraterrestial.4.
Cream, is promoting another "messiah" he calls "Maytrea". Full page ads
in newspapers around the world has announced that this world teacher is
in the world to-day. Cream is also convinced that the intelligences
behind the crop circle phenomena are paving the way for the soon
unveiling of his messiah who will usher in a New World Order and a New
Age. Cream claims to be a ufo contactee.
With a heavy dose of New Age influence, the UFO movement increasingly
grows less like a science and more like a religion. Some investigators
point to an early case that marked this shift: the elaborate claims of
a one-armed Swiss farmer named Eduard "Billy" Meier.
Since 1975, Meier has claimed to have had more than 700 contacts with
aliens from the Pleiades star cluster. In most of those contacts, a
female alien named Semjase has appeared to Meier, allowed him to
photograph her spacecraft, taken him on rides in the craft, and even
whisked him into the past to meet Jesus Christ, who was duly impressed
with the advice Meier gave him. He has taken more than 1,000
photographs of Semjase's craft (which Semjase only reveals to Meier
when he is alone), as well as photos of alien women, closeups of famous
celestial objects, and even the eye of God. Meier claims that he is the
reincarnation of Christ and that his teachings, based on what Semjase
tells him, will save mankind.
The Aetherius Society, a ufo sect, founded by contactee George KIng..in
its documents, based on information from UFO sources, we are told that
"Globe Master, a ruler of the world, is to come - a stranger who will
be
more powerful than all the armies on earth. He will remove all those
from the earth who do not respect his word. In his book "The Day the
Gods Came" King says that this ...Being will come among men dressed in
the one piece suit usually worn by the Intelligences from other
Planets...He will openly approach the Earth leaders; He will make His
orgin known to them but they will not believe Him. However, He will
have
great powers which by Karmic Law, He will be allowed to use in order to
demonstrate to all men beyond all doubt, the Authority empowering Him
to
carry out His great mission on Earth...the power of this Being will be
greater than mankind has ever seen before in any single humanoid frame.
So vast will it be as to be almost terrible...'They who heed not His
words shall be removed from the Earth.' According to Missler and
Eastman
in their book Alien Encounters, 'Even a casusal perusal of UFO and New
Age literature reveals that millions of people are expecting the coming
New Age Messiah to have an alien connection. Many, including a number
of
UFO cults, believe that the Coming World leader will be a hybrid, half
human, half alien Avatar.'15.
In Dr. David Jacobs book "The Threat", which is based on research with
hundreds of abduction victims in many countries... abductees told him
that, The Change will come...very soon... "that after The Change, there
will be only one government: The insectlike aliens will be in complete
control. There will be no necessity to continue national governments.
there will be "one system" and one goal."...Dr. Jacobs believes the
abductee phenomena is part of a broad alien agenda which includes the
creation of numerous alien/human hybrids with paranormal abilities to
infiltrate our society and change our world completely.
Skye Ambrose, a famous abductee who was "born again" as she said as a
result her encounter with a strange "grey" type alien with bright
sparkling eyes, predicted at UFO conference in Bellevue, Washington;
that "evolution was entering a "peak cycle" that will create
a New Order on the planet. Polarization is occuring on this planet to
separate those who will accept the message and evolve toward Unity and
Oneness and those who will not not."
"Abductee surveys have revealed that the overwhelming majority of
abductees have shown an interest in paranormal activities, Eastern
religions, and New Age world-view. A large percentage of abductees have
also reported a history of involvement with Ouija boards, astrology,
witchcraft, astral projection, telepathic commmunications, channneling,
past life regressions, and the like. Still others simply agree to go
along with their abductors when approached."15. Dr. John Mack reports,
"Some of my cases(abductees) report a variety of psychic experiences
which has been noted by other researchers.17." In Jewish scriptures
there
are warnings about involvement with the occult, as deception, spiritual
defilement and bondage to dark entities and powers was a certainty with
increased entanglement. CE 4 an abduction research group in Florida,
headed by Mufon members Wes Clarke & Joe Jordon, have found in numerous
cases that abductees that have called upon Christ and God for help
during attempted abductions have been able to stop the abduction in
progress.16.23
- So what are we dealing with? New Age aliens with some promise of a
golden age or some unimaginable deception to enslave undescerning
minds.
The evidence seems to point to the latter. There have been many false
messianic claims and those foolish enough to repeat history by
following
the voices of deceiving entities have been warned to "beware of false
prophets and Christs who come disguised as sheep but underneath are
ravenous wolves ".10 We should be reminded of the likes of Adolf Hitler
who not long ago promised a New Age to unsuspecting Germans.
- Whitley Strieber, in a issue of the monthly MUFON Journal, Sept.
93, states - "I've come away from this experience convinced of one
thing: if there aren't demons out there, there might as well be,
because
these guys are indistinguishable from demons. Indistinguishable. To see
them, to look into their eyes, is to be less - forever......." Striber
seems to swing from horror to naieve trust.. you see this in his books
and statements to the public. Perhaps, he is not so sure of the
visitor's intentions.
- Perhaps we should heed the old warning; 'If, anyone says to you then,
"Look, here is the Christ" or, "He is there", do not beleive it; for
false Christ and false prophets will arise and produce great signs and
portents, enough to deceive even the chosen , if that were possible."11
- Some UFO researchers suggest that perhaps the so called 'aliens'
aren't much of a threat, after all if they have been around for this
long and have not taken over then why should we be concerned. However,
if they are not what they appear to be, and the phenomena has other
potientials and realities which include: deception, false messianic
claims, dangerous ideologies, the formation of cults, etc., then for
historical, social and political reasons we should not abandon our need
for discernment and caution.
Here are some UFO quotes from researchers which may shed further light
on this subject:
The statistical data which I have extracted, and which I have tried to
summarize briefly here, indicate that flying saucers are not stable
machines requiring fuel, maintenance, and logistical support. They are,
in all probability, transmogrifications of energy and do not exist in
the same way that this book exists. They are not permanent
constructions of matter.
John Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 182
Many UFO reports, he said, seem to pertain more to accounts of
"poltergeists" (cases where objects fly around the room and strange
sounds are heard) and other types of "psychic" manifestations than to
"actual solid items of nuts and bolts hardware." "That is one of the
reasons," added Dr. Hynek, "why I cannot accept the obvious explanation
of UFOs as visitors from outer space."
J. Allen Hynek interview, The Unexplained Column, by Allen Spraggett,
November 8, 1975
Studies of flying saucer cults repeatedly show that they are part of a
larger occult social world.
Stupple & McNeece, 1979 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings
A working knowledge of occult sciences...is indispensible to UFO
investigation.
Trevor James, Flying Saucer Review Vol. 8, No. 1
The number of contactees has risen dramatically in the last few years
along with the increase in New Age and occult practices. We are seeing
a parallel rise in both New Age and UFO phenomena. A New Ager who
practices trance channeling says,
Very often UFO contactees are, by their own admission, individuals who
have become disillusioned with the existing religious institutions. (In
the western world probably Judaism or Christianity.)
David Allan Lewis & Robert Shreckhise, UFO End-time Delusion, p. 62:
quoting Brad Steiger
Perhaps the most important effects from the UFO technology are the
social ones. In other words the physical reality may serve only as a
kind of triggering device to provide images for the witnesses to
report. These perceptions are manipulated to create certain kinds of
social effects.
Vallee Discusses UFO Control System, Fate Magazine, p. 65
The New Age, Eastern mystics, and UFO advocates preach an impersonal
life force. Man is his own god. There is no need for a redeemer, for
there is no sin. One may use meditative techniques to descend into the
lower depths of consciousness and there discover the divine within.
David Allen Lewis, UFO End-Time Delusion, p. 62
Drawing from what we know can happen in seances and poltergeist
activity, it seems that these supernatural forces can manipulate matter
and energy, extracting energy from the atmosphere, for example (which
manifests as a local temperature change), to manipulate matter and
produce an apparent violation of the second law {of thermodynamics},
and I guess my feeling is that on a larger scale this is what a UFO
could be. I'm not saying that I know what it is, but only that it could
be. It seems to me likely that UFOs are large-scale violations of the
second law in which energy is arranged to take on enough of a force
field appearance so that it appears to look like matter, yet it's
really just energy concentration it's not really matter in the usual
sense.
... Demons, as fallen angels, apparently retain great powers, such as
the manipulation and restructuring of matter, as well as the ability to
influence or control human consciousness and experience through classic
possession by direct psychic implantation of a set of experiences.
Dr. Curt Wagner Ph.D., SCP Journal, August 1977, Vol.1 No.2, UFOs Is
Science Fiction Coming True? pp. 19, 20
...these intelligences have the ability to influence the human mind
telepathically in order to project what appear to be three dimensional
images to the witnesses of UFO activity.
Brad Steiger, The Fellowship, p. 49
If UFOs are, indeed, somebody else's "nuts and bolts hardware" then we
must still explain how such tangible hardware can change shape before
our eyes, vanish in a cheshire cat manner (not leaving a grin),
seemingly melt away in front of us, or apparently "materialize"
mysteriously before us without apparent detection by persons nearby or
in neighboring towns. We must wonder, too, where UFOs are "hiding" when
not manifesting themselves to human eyes.
J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee, The Edge on Reality,pp. xii-xiii
...the phenomenon has the ability to create a distortion of the sense
of reality or to substitute artificial sensations for the real ones.
Jacques Vallee interview, Vallee Discusses UFO Control System, Fate
Magazine, p. 63
The "gods" and UFOs may visit us more often than we suspect. For they
exist only a frequency-difference away in the background of our
consciousness, waiting for some triggering condition to bring them in
focus. That triggering condition necessarily has something to do with
the psychological state of the "observer" which is precisely why the
"gods" seem to be selective in their choice of contact, and why
subjective elements invariably condition mystic and "saucer"
experiences.
Gods of Aquarius: UFOs and the Transformation of Man,p. 35, Brad
Steiger quotes Peter Kor in his article, Myth, Reality and Flying
Saucers (Flying Saucers, October, 1967)
... a New Age consciousness will suffuse the planet. It is to this end
that the gods have been utilizing the UFO as a transformative symbol.
...In several instances, the UFO seems almost to have been
mandala-like, (which is often used for purposes of meditation) has
precitated in the percipient a state similar to that of trance.
Brad Steiger, Gods of Aquarius:UFOs and the Transformation of Man, p. 40
The endless messages from the space people would now fill a library,
and while the communicators claim to represent some other world, the
contents of those messages are identical to the messages long received
by mediums and mystics.
John Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 183
Certain saucer cultists, who have been expecting space brethren to
bring along some pie in the sky, continue to deliver saucer-inspired
sermons on the theme that the saucers come to bring starry salvation to
a troubled world. The self-appointed ministers who preach this
extraordinary brand of evangelism ignore the fact that not ALL
"saucers" can be considered friendly. Many give evidence of hostile
actions. There is a wealth of well-documented evidence that UFO's have
been responsible for murders, assaults, burning by direct-ray focus,
radiation sickness, kidnappings, pursuits of automobiles, attacks on
homes, disruption of power sources, paralysis, mysterious cremations,
and destructions of aircraft. Dozens of reputable eye-witnesses claim
to have seen alien personnel loading their space vehicles with
specimens from earth, including animals, soil and rocks, water and
struggling human beings.
Brad Steiger, Flying Saucers are Hostile (p.? quoted by Branton)
The MIBs often pose as government agents. They are described as wearing
black hats, black trench coats, and dark glasses. They demand that the
contactee give up any physical evidence that was left behind by the
UFO. They threaten the contactee with dire consequences if he dares to
reveal what he knows. Inevitably, the contactee gets the idea that
these are not normal people. Usually the disguise is less than perfect:
the eyes can be seen as alien eyes; the hands are not like human hands;
or there is just "something about them" that makes the contactee
realize that they were "aliens". In some cases the MIB steal or coverup
the evidence of the UFO landing and ETI contact. Sometimes they cause
havoc in the life of the contactee.
What possible purpose would this serve? First, this makes the UFO
experience more credible. ...This serves to convince him that "aliens"
really have visited him, not only initially, but on later encounters.
Secondly, this is a diversionary tactic... He is terrified into
silence. Only after further contact and "enlightenment" is he allowed
to talk freely about his experience. This smoke-screen serves the
demonic powers behind the experience ... This kind of experience is not
unique to UFO encounters. This has been known among occult devotees for
centuries. Brad Steiger writes of the parallel between the MIB and the
occult experience:
The Brothers of the Shadow, like the MIB are known for threatening
students of the occult whenever they get too close to lifting the Veil
of Isis. As Madame Blavatsky says when referring to the Brothers of the
Shadow, they are the 'leading stars' on the great spiritual stage of
'materialization'.
...The MIB and the Brothers of the Shadow can be viewed as the same
demonic beings. Confusion and terror is useful to the enemy in
controlling and conditioning anyone being overtaking. Brad Steiger
writes of one victim of the MIB experience: "At times she seemed almost
to be possessed." This is the purpose of the MIB: to bring a person
into subjection and control. By using the initial hallucinatory
experience of UFO contact and subsequently the MIB threat, the
contactee is subjected to a mind-control, brainwashing technique
designed to break down his will and resistance to eventual possession.
UFO End-Time Delusion, pp. 136,137,138
"A recuring theme in the abduction scenario is the delivery of detailed
messages to abductees. The messages delivered to abductees are
typically
done by telepathic (mind to mind) conversation....In some cases,
abductees report being shown scenes or messages on large screens within
the alien craft.
These messages are ususally horrific prophetic scenarios about
impending
cataclysmic events on Earth and the destruction of Earth due to
envoirnmental degradation. In some cases overt religious messages are
given to abductees. These messages can include te notion that the
aliens
are our creators, that they are trying to advance our evolution through
these breeding experiments, and that mankind must unify-with their
assistance-into a system of global governance and religion in order to
survive the future cataclysms." - Missler & Eastman, Alien Abductions,
pp. 108-109
"I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centered on
the UFO belief. To a greater degree than all phenomena modern science
is
confronting, the UFO can inspire awe, the sense of the smallness of
man,
and an idea of the possiblity of contact with the cosmic. The religions
we have briefly surveyed began with the miraculous experiences of one
person, but to-day there are thousands for whom the belief in
otherworldly contact is based on intimate conviction, drawn from what
they regard as personal contact with UFOs and their occupants."
-Jacques
Vallee, Dimensions, 1989, p.192.
In my Aquarian revelations I presented a distillation of the Outer
Space Apochrypha that would seem to contain the basic ideas presented
to the world by all those whom the Space Brothers selected to preach
the Cosmic Gospel:
* Man is not alone in the Solar System. He has "Space Brothers" and
they have come to Earth to reach him and teach him.
* The Space Brothers have advanced information that they wish to
impart to their weaker brethren. The Space Brothers want man to join an
intergalactic spiritual federation.
* The Space Brothers are here to teach, to help awaken man's
spirit, to help man to rise to higher levels of vibration so that he
may be ready to enter new dimensions...
* Man stands now in the transitional period before the dawn of a
New Age. With peace, love, understanding, and brotherhood on man's
part, he will see a great new era begin to dawn.
* If man should not raise his vibratory rate within a set period of
time, severe Earth changes and major cataclysms will take place. Such
disasters will not end the world, but shall serve as cataclysmic
crucibles to burn off the dross of unreceptive humanity. [note:
Christians would definitely fit into this category and monotheistic
religions in general] Those who die in such dreadful purgings will be
allowed to reincarnate on higher levels of developments so that their
salvation will be more readily accomplished.
Brad Steiger, Revelation: The Divine Fire, pp. 157-158
"Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them
in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of
deception." -Dr. Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 20
"We are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon which
is
largely indigenous to planet earth." -Brad Steiger, [cited in] Blue
Book
Files Released in Canadian UFO Report, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1977, p. 20
"The UFO phenomena represents a manifestation of reality that transends
our current understanding of physics...The UFOs are physical
mainfestations that cannot be understood apart from their psychic and
symbolic reality. What we see in effect here is not an alien invasion.
It is a control system which acts on humans and uses humans." Jaques
Vallee, Messengers of Deception,1977 pp.209-210
"...Further, in light of the messages given by the UFO entities, how
credible is it to think that literally thousnads of genuine
extraterrestials would fly millions or billions of light years simply
to
teach New Age philosophy, deny Christianity, and support the occult?
Why
would they do this with the preponderance of such activity alrady
occuring on this planet? And why would the entities actually possess an
inhabit people(as in Walk-ins and channeling)just like demons do if
they
were really advanced etraterrestials? Why would they consistently lie
about things which we know are true, and why would they purposely
deceive their contacts?" - John Ankerberg & John Weldon, The Facts on
UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena, 1992 .p13.
"There seems to be no evidence yet that any of these craft or beings
originate from outer space." -Gordon Creighton, Official 1992 Flying
Saucer Review Policy Statement
"A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked with
mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects like mental
telepathy, automatic writing and invisible entities as well as
phenomena
like poltergeist [ghost] manifestation and 'possession.' Many of the
UFO
reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged
incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic possession and psychic
phenomena." -Lynn E. Catoe, UFOs and Related Subjects: USGPO, 1969;
prepared under AFOSR Project Order 67-0002 and 68-0003
"UFO behaviour is more akin to magic than to physics as we know it...
the modern UFOnauts and the demons of past days are probably
identical."
-Dr. Pierre Guerin, FSR Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 13-14
"The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects They
do
not comform to the accepted natural laws of our envoirnment. They seem
to be nothing more than transmorifications tailoring themselves to our
abilities to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities
indicate that they are liars and put-on artist. The UFO manifestations
seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old
demonological phenomenon..." p.192
"Demonology is not just another crackpot-ology. It is the ancient and
scholarly study of the monsters and demons who have seemingly coexisted
with man throughout history. Thousands of books have been written on
the
subject, many of them authored by educated clergymen, scientist and
scholars...The manifestations and occurances described in this imposing
literature are similar, if not entirely identical, to the UFO
phenomenon
itself....The Devil and his demons can, according to the literature,
manifest themselves in almost any form and can physically imitate
anything from angels to horrifying monsters with glowing eyes. Strange
objects and entities materialize and dematerialize in these stories,
just as the UFOs and their...occupants appear and disappear, walk th
rough walls, and perform other supernatural feats." -John A. Keel,
UFOs:
Operation Trojan Horse,1996, p. 266
... The devil and his demons can, according to the literature, manifest
themselves in almost any form and can physically imitate anything from
angels to horrifying monsters with glowing eyes. Strange objects and
entities materialize and dematerialize in these stories, just as the
UFOs and their splendid occupants appear and disappear, walk through
walls, and perform other supernatural feats.
John Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 192
Thousands of mediums, psychics and UFO contactees have been receiving
mountains of messages from "Ashtar" in recent years. Mr. Ashtar
represents himself as a leader in the great intergalactic councils
which hold regular meetings on Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and many planets
unknown to us. But Ashtar is not a new arrival. Variations of this
name, such as Ashtaroth, Ashar, Asharoth, etc., appear in demonological
literature throughout history, both in the Orient and the Occident. Mr.
Ashtar has been around a very long time, posing as assorted gods and
demons and now, in the modern phase, as another glorius spaceman.
John Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 230
[Note: Ashtar-oth was the legendary "consort" to BAAL, the ancient
Chaldean "god" to whom the ancients offered up human sacrifices]
"Studies of flying saucer cults repeatedly show that they are part of a
larger occult social world." -Stupple & McNeece, 1979 MUFON UFO
Symposium Proceedings, p.49
"The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected,
often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of
the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a
sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being equipped
with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to
achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time
and
with fewer risks." -Dr. Jacques Vallee, Confrontations, p. 13
"The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of
initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the [occult]
traditions of every culture...the structure of abduction stories is
identical to that of occult initiation rituals...the UFO beings of
today
belong to the same class of manifestation as the [occult] entities that
were described in centuries past." -Dr. Jacques Vallee citing the
extensive research of Bertrand Meheust [Science-Fiction et Soucoupes
Volantes (Paris, 1978); Soucoupes Volantes et Folklore (Paris, 1985)],
in Confrontations, p. 146, 159-161
"These entities are clever enough to make Strieber think they care
about
him. Yet his torment by them never ceases. Whatever his relationship to
the entities, and he increasingly concludes that their involvement with
him is something 'good,' he also remains terrified of them and
uncertain
as to what they are." -John Ankerberg, The Facts on UFOs and Other
Supernatural Phenomena, p. 21
"I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so
powerful
that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley'
ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so
great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning
paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a
wild animal appeared in my place." -Whitley Strieber, Communion, p.
25-26
"Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even
be
more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my
essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal.
There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word demon
had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were working
with me...Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning of
demons
...At the very least I was going stark, raving mad." -Whitley Strieber,
Transformation, p. 44-45
"I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not
making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their
enjoyment."
-Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 172
"I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on
earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I couldn't
move, couldn't cry out, couldn't get away. I'd lay as still as death,
suffering inner agonies. Whatever was there seemed so monstrously ugly,
so filthy and dark and sinister. Of course they were demons. They had
to
be. And they were here and I couldn't get away." -Whitley Strieber,
Transformation, p. 181
"Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my
consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did
not
want me to know why...What if they were dangerous? Then I was terribly
dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing people to
them."
-Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 96
"The ancient being whose secret we have kept for so long, who is about
to guide us into full consciousness and companionship with very God, is
us.
This is not because there are no aliens. There are certainly aliens.
But far fewer than we have imagined. Indeed, intelligent species are
extremely rare, and those with the spark of potential we possess are
even more so.
All conscious species are each other. At the level of conciousness that
is important, in the sense that it is resonant in eternity, being and
species are the same thing. Every being is the entire species, and
every species is the entirety of being. This is the true meaning of the
statement, "I am the first and the last." It is why the visitors once
said to me in a time of great distress, "why do you call on your gods?
It's only us." At the time, it seemed a cruel, even devastating thing
to say, a demonic lie. But I see it now for what it really was: an
invitation for us to take our place in God--to surrender ourselves to
consciousness." -Whitley Stieber, Article "Reason for the Secrecy",
Unknown Country Journal, May 7th 2002
"One of the purposes for which UFOs travel to Earth is to abduct humans
to help aliens produce other beings. It is not a program of
reproduction
but one of production. They are not here to help us, they have their
own
agenda and we are not allowed to know it's full parameters" -Dr. David
Jacobs, Secret Life, p. 305
"Everything I learned in 20 years of research into the UFO abduction
phenomenon leads me to conclde that the aliens central purpose is not
to
teach us about taking better care of the envoirnment:instead, all the
evidence points to their being here to carry out a complex breeding
experiment in which they seem to be working to create a hybrid species,
a mixture of human and alien characteristics. A careful reading of the
various witnesses' account suggest that here , as in many earlier
cases,
reproductive issues appear far more frequently than alien ecological
concerns. Budd Hopkins, Witnessed, p.378
"I think we are looking at a catastrophic situation. I think we are
looking at a disaster. We are seeing a unified program here with these
beings, a program of physiological exploitation by one species of
another. I know this sounds absolutely insane...we are looking at a
colonization program in some way" - Dr. David Jacobs, NBC Confirmation
Broadcast, Feb. 17/99.
"..If for the sake of argument we grant that life on Earth was seeded
by
ancient exterrestials, then the obvious question is , Who or what
created our exterrrestial creators? Some would argue that they were, in
turn sprinkled (created) by an even more ancient race of ET's. Well,
where did they come from? An infinite regression back in time of "alien
sprinklings" will not do, because the universe is finite.." Missler &
Eastman, Alien Encounters, p.141.
"I believe there is a machinery of mass manipulation behind the UFO
phenomenon. it aims at social and political goals by diverting
attention
from some human problems and by providing a potential release for
tensions caused by others. The contactees are part of that machinery.
They are helping to create a new form of belief:an expectation of
actual
contact among large parts of the public..." -Jacques Vallee, Messengers
of Deception, p.20
It is interesting that a paradigm shift takes place in the abductee.
This is the same world-view shift that many New Agers advocate. After
contact the abductee usually is convinced of the reality of UFOs and
ETIs. In addition, some contactees become convinced that they are
chosen to preach the "aliens" New Age gospel to others.
David Allen Lewis, UFO End-Time Delusion
"During Mexico City's First International UFO Congress, August 24,
1995,
researcher-lecturer John Rhodes announced that the wave of UFO activity
over Mexico City (which began during the July 11, 1991 total solar
eclipse) may be related to the Reptilian "alien" race. "They appear to
be here in force," he claimed, "and they may be preparing the way for
the Prophesied return of the Feathered Serpent god of ancient Mexico
....Quetzalcoatl."
Mr. Rhodes' announcement was received with great enthusiasm, for the
Mexican people have patiently awaited for hundreds of years for the
spiritual redemption promised by their loving reptilian imaged god.
According to the Aztecs of ancient Mexico, Quetzalcoatl was a divine
being that taught the primitive Aztecs the arts, agriculture,
astronomy,
sciences, bloodless ritualism and how to create their famous calendar."
- www.reptoid.com
"We believe that the cultural preparations (or deliberate conditioning)
of the world to view our alien visitors as powerful and highly evolved
saviours makes the UFO phenomena the perfect motif for the Antichrist
(an imposter,posing as Christ) to exploit when he ascends to power.His
ability to perform supernatural signs and wonders, his comprehensive
plan for the peaceful unification of mankind and his connection to or
origin from god-like alien entities will engender the masses to follow
him into the biggest deception in history." pp. 295-296
"We believe that the stage is set for worship and reverence of alien
entities as our 20th-century global religion which will culminate in
the greatest deception in the history of mankind." -Missler & Eastman,
Alien Encounters, p.261.
NOW THE SPIRIT SPEAKETH EXPRESSLY, THAT IN THE LATTER TIMES SOME SHALL
DEPART FROM THE FAITH, GIVING HEED TO SEDUCING SPIRITS, AND DOCRINES OF
DEVILS
1 Timothy 4:1
1. The Fellowship, by Brad Steiger. 2. Ibid pp. 47 3. Ibid pp. 185 4.
The Messages Given To Me By The Extra-terrestials -Rael 5. Operation
Trojan Horse- John Keel pp. 200-232 6. Dimensions- Dr. Jacque Vallee 7.
Transformation The Breakthrough- Whitley Striber pp. 180, 240. 8.
Messengers of Deception- Dr. J. Vallee. Last chapter. 9. UFO'S in the
New Age- William M. Alnor , Baker Book House 1992. 10. Matthew 7:15-20
11. Matthew 24: 23-28, Luke 21, 1 John 2:18-23, 1 John 4:1-6, 1 Thess
2:1-12. 12. Teachings of the Pleadians- Bringers of the Dawn. 13.
Understanding the New Age- Russell Chandler, Word Publishing, 1988. 14.
Deuteronomy 18:9-22.15. Alien Encounters- Chuck Missler, Dr.Mark
Eastman, Koinonia House, 1997. www.alienencounters.com. 1-800-KHOUSE-1
16.CE4 Research Group, to contact call 631-4393 or via wclark59@bv.net
,e-mail. http://welcome.to/ce4 17.Dr. John Mack, Abduction, p.5.
Subject: some verses in the Bible about the coming Antichrist:
MATTHEW 24
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there;
believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false
prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it
were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have
told
you before. 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in
the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe
it not.
2 THESSALONIANS 2
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in
mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as
from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you
by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling
away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4
Who
opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is
worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing
himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with
you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that
he
might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth
already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out
of
the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working
of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they
received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
REVELATION 13
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of
the
sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns,
and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw
was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and
his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power,
and
his seat, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as it were
wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world
wondered after the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave
power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is
like
unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 5 And there was given
unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was
given unto him to continue forty and two months. 6 And he opened his
mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his
tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given unto him
to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given
him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all that dwell
upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the
book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If
any man have an ear, let him hear. 10 He that leadeth into captivity
shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed
with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. 11
And
I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns
like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the
power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them
which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was
healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down
from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them
that
dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to
do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth,
that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a
sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of
the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause
that
as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And
that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name
of
the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that
hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number
of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (666)