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(Continued from part 1: The PSI Factor) 

Nadine Lalich - Is Psychic Ability in Contactees a Result of ET Contact?

For more than a decade, I have openly acknowledged being an experiencer of the phenomenon of extraterrestrial contact. Originally I identified myself as an “abductee,” but subsequently have chosen to refer to myself as a contactee or experiencer due to the convoluted nature of the phenomenon. I was first made aware of this suppressed part of my life when I experienced a fully-conscious abduction from a vehicle while camping with a friend in a remote area of Sedona, Arizona in 1991. From that point forward, the abductions/contacts became more prolific with a greater variety of experiences and types of ETs encountered. As my fear lessened and my curiosity intensified, I was able to remain conscious and alert for longer periods of time during the experiences, and able to retain a good amount of detail from each experience, recalled consciously and without regression hypnosis.

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The PSI Factor (continued)

The question to be considered here is whether or not I have experienced increased psychic abilities as a result of my ET contact. Before discussing any psychic experiences or awareness I have had, I would point out that my earliest memory of contact was when I was about nine or ten years old, but I was not aware of any significant PSI abilities until my teenage years. Although ET contact may have been a precursor to the development of psychic ability, I cannot say in my case whether or not it developed through contact with, or training by extraterrestrials, genetic manipulation, or natural evolution.

It is interesting to note that there is a history of ET contact within the paternal side of my family, with my father and several of his sisters that I know of having some form of contact. It is also interesting to note that from about the age of thirteen, when my father’s side of the family met for gatherings, my father, his sister, one of my cousins and myself would sometimes spend time experimenting with telepathy – certainly not a typical activity for most families. One of the exercises we would perform was to gather a number of items on a table in one room with one of us acting as a “sender,” who would then focus upon a specific object. Another person would be chosen to be the “receiver,” who would relocate into another room to telepathically pick up the sender’s choice of object. Ultimately, I have had my share of unusual experiences that might be labelled psychic experiences, including some rather dramatic precognitive dreams which I detail below.

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The PSI Factor

As Gwen Farrell explains below, many contact experiencers report that subsequent to their experiences they have an increased psychic awareness and increased psychic abilities. Many also report an increase of instances of - usually short and involuntary - telepathic communications with other people, where they may pick up somebody's thoughts, or somebody can 'hear' what they are thinking. Some report the ability to start 'astral traveling'.

The PSI Factor

In her research, Barbara Lamb, noticed that some of her Experiencer-clients have regressed to encounters (when they were adults) on board crafts during which they were taught psychic skills by the beings  Many have been taught psychic skills when they were children, and describe sitting in a circle on the floor with other abducted children and being taught teleportation  of objects and telepathic skills.  The teachers of these skills are ETs.  Each of the 9 people (ET-Human Hybrids) she researched for her book Meet The Hybrids has an abundance of psychic skills which they were born with and which they attribute to the ET genetics which they believe they possess.

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Gwen Farrell - Can contact with ETs increase Psi abilities?

Many experiencers report that after contact with extraterrestrial or other-worldly beings, they became more sensitive to other realities and their psychic awareness and psychic abilities increased.  They also believe their ability to learn increased and they became more able to absorb complex information than before, especially mathematical material.  Some report that they experienced flashes of what they referred to as “Cosmic Consciousness,” and their minds became greatly expanded.  In addition, some say they also became more empathic with others and began exhibiting precognitive abilities.  There were many other changes as well, which I discuss more fully in my book “Forbidden Questions: A Therapist Talks About Human-ET Contact.”
The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Experiences (FREE), conducted a four-year study of 3,970 people that utilized scientifically designed statements and questions relating to many different aspects of typical ET contact experiences.  One aspect of the study concerned possible development of or changes in respondents’ psychic abilities as a result of contact. Not every participant answered every question or responded to every statement, but responses to statements on the subject of psychic awareness were very interesting.

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On 27 January 2019, it was five years ago that Elaine Douglass, founder member of JAR Magazine, passed away.

Here is an article we published on her in 2016: Remembering Elaine Douglass

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This is a video presentation Suzy Hansen (from New Zealand) did in June 2018 for UFO Queensland, called, the Dual Soul Connection. The Alien Agenda for Human Advancement.

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This is the second part of our article on whether ET controls the narrative, and, if so, what can be done about it.

You can find part 1 here: Control the narrative.

 

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John Carpenter, MSW - Reclaiming Reality

There is little doubt that the gray aliens possess a powerful form of telepathic control according to research by many investigators – as well as my own UFO research as a Psychiatric Therapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist.  I learned a great deal from approximately three hundred hypnosis investigations between 1989 and 1997.  But I tried to keep a non-judgmental, level-headed, and logical appraisal of all the emerging information and fascinating detail.

Humans are very sensitive to anybody trying to control them or their lives.  A controlling marital partner is probably one of the major causes for divorce.  To have a sense that aliens are controlling our minds with their telepathic powers is, therefore, already an unwanted practice.  But we assume that this is negative and a bad thing.  But my research has shown that it happens to sedate, calm, or make a person comfortable with their presence.  It has also been shown that their telepathic messages help us forget or suppress memory of their visit, so that we can continue our lives without interruption, distraction, or feeling disturbed.

However, the aliens have greatly underestimated our emotions as human beings.  While our conscious minds may be fooled, manipulated, and temporarily controlled, our subconscious emotions KNOW that something out of the ordinary has happened.  Those emotions start giving the abductee disturbing nightmares or unexplainable, confusing images.  They may start doodling or painting these nagging images, feeling a sense of fear at times.  As in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), certain environmental cues, like flashing lights or the eyes of an owl, may trigger unexpected emotional reactions.  These intense emotions have been submerged and hidden – and do not know how to be processed and understood yet.

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Some weeks ago I had a conversation with an experiencer. He expressed his frustration that he was having trouble knowing what was really going on, and stated that we can’t really know or do a thing because ‘ET controls the narrative’. ET decides when contact takes place, what happens, and what we remember.

It reminded me of the story of another experiencer who, about a decade ago, was receiving telepathic messages to go outside, and follow a UFO. Sure enough, there was a UFO outside, and he started following it wherever it went. This lasted for hours, and he got quite frustrated. The moment he decided to give up, a being appeared explaining to him that none of what had happened was real, that it was just a virtual reality experience. Karla Turner coined the term ‘Virtual Reality Scenario’ for those experiences.

The question who controls the narrative is one worth paying attention to. Abductees, e.g., often have implanted memories and screen memories. There also are the Virtual Reality Scenarios described above, where one believes to have experienced something, but only the emotional response to it is real, the actual series of events isn’t.

So, does ET control the narrative? And, if so, what can we do about it?

We asked our panel for their comments.

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Thomas Minderlé

Deciphering the alien mystery is a daunting task. We’re chasing after a suspect who alters the memories of his victims, who uses an intimate knowledge of human psychology to craft his lies, who has the power of invisibility and precognition, and who normally hides out in a parallel dimension beyond our reach. Like the wind, he is invisible, but by the swirling of the dust we can know something of him.

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Through Their Eyes
The 1994 Ariel School Encounter
Ellen Mahoney 

 

(Editor's note: This is an updated version of an article that was originally published in the 2013 December/January issue of Open Minds magazine. Reprinted with permission. Drawings reprinted with permission from John E. Mack Archives LLC).

 

One of the most extraordinary mass UFO sightings in recent history occurred among children at an elementary school playground in the small farming village of Ruwa, a suburb of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, Africa.

On September 16, 1994, during mid-morning recess at the Ariel primary school in Ruwa, about sixty-two children put down their jump ropes and Rugby balls and reported seeing spacecraft and two “strange beings” in the rugged, grassy area adjacent to their schoolyard.  

News of the sighting spread fast, and in the days and months following the event, researchers and reporters from around the world traveled to the school to talk with the young children who had made the incredible claims.

According to investigators, the English-speaking schoolchildren, who ranged in age from six to twelve years, had immediate and differing reactions to the encounter.  Some of the students said they ran about the playground in an excited, confused state while others stood spellbound watching the event unfold.  Some said they were curious and wanted to check out what was happening, while a few others were frightened and started to cry. 

Nevertheless, the children’s reports were vivid, clear, and consistent.  Many of the children reported seeing beings that wore shiny tight-fitting black suits, had very thin arms and legs, and were about four feet tall.  The spacecraft was described as large and silver with lights and a red stripe around the edge.  Although some children drew pictures of the beings without hair, many children said the beings had long straight black hair with facial features consisting of large oval black eyes, small nostrils, and a slit for a mouth. 

Many of the children reported that one of the beings remained on top of the spacecraft, as if on watch, while the other being moved directly toward them.  And, perhaps most remarkable, a number of the children claimed to have telepathic communication with the beings who gave them prophetic messages about the environmental destruction of Earth.

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How Exoconsciousness Evolves from Human-ET Contact

Rebecca Hardcastle Wright, PhD

“How do I become Exoconscious?” a woman asked, gripping the mic.  Affirmation murmured undertones waved through the scattered participants, the dedicated, who remained until the last nugget of information could be gleaned from Steve Bassett’s 2009 X conference in Washington DC. “Our next X Conference needs to be about Exoconsciousness,” she continued, followed by a smattering of applause.

Steve Bassett had scheduled me to present for 5 minutes about my Exoconscious work at the tail end of his X Conference on a stage of 10 other people who also shared their Ufology and Exopolitics work.

That someone plucked Exoconsciousness from the brief topics presented surprised me. I answered her question and affirmed that yes, a future X conference needs to be about Exoconsciousness. Alas, it never happened. Exopolitics remained sourced in government information and never veered into consciousness. Instead, the growth of Exoconsciousness occurred via a planetary community of ET Experiencers, separate from Exopolitics and government, examining human-oriented consciousness aspects of contact. This is how citizens, who are experiencers, bring about Disclosure.

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How Exoconsciousness Evolves From ET Contact

On a personal note, the reason I am leading with the woman’s question is that for almost a decade, her question has both haunted and inspired me. The haunting came in how dare I call myself a consciousness expert when the term itself is so muddled by science, metaphysics, brain initiatives, psychology, psychiatry, not to mention artificial intelligence and religion.  How dare I share how to become Exoconscious? The inspiring came in how clearly Exoconsciousness unfolds in the lives of long-term experiencers. How imperative it is that we Exoconscious ET experiencers share our awakening processes, tools and techniques in the form of experience.

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A new series of articles in our 'Ask the Panel' section deals with the role of Altered States of Consciousness in contact experiences.

When investigating contact experiences, it quickly becomes clear that altered states of consciousness are an essential piece of the puzzle.

To begin with, there is the fact that many memories of contact experiences can only be retrieved under hypnosis. Our ability to consciously recall certain encounters seems to be limited, compared to what we can recall when we wade outside of our regular waking state of consciousness, which is characterized by brainwave activity that falls within the 12-30 Hz range, called Beta waves. Memories of contact experiences seem to be more easily accessible in Alpha or Theta states, where the brainwave activity falls within the 7.5-12Hz and 4-7.5HZ ranges, respectively.

But there is more to these altered states of consciousness than merely a better ability to remember. Contactees can often perceive beings and craft that others cannot. There is the phenomenon of astral abductions, where the person seems to bilocate. There are many dream-state encounters. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. Research regarding telepathy and remote viewing also shows that these phenomena work better when the subject is in altered states or is familiar with them.

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Altered States of Consciousness

It is well documented that UFOs and beings seem to step in and out of our 3D physical reality at will. This suggests the existence of other realms that they seem to be more familiar with than we are. Esoteric literature refers to them as subtle realms and uses terms like astral and etheric for them. We can’t perceive those realms nor those who dwell in them in our normal beta wave state of consciousness. But we can when in altered states of consciousness.

In short, there is much more to the contact phenomenon than a "nuts and bolts approach only" can address. If we really want to learn about the others, we probably have to first familiarize ourselves with altered states of consciousness.

We therefore asked our panel members for their ideas on the role of altered states of consciousness in contact experiences.

The following articles are available thus far: