God, Aliens, and Other Stuff

    Jesus calling to Peter to leave the boat It has been a while since I completed my original Blogspot series on Ted Rice’s story of life-long abductions, as written by Karla Turner in  Masquerade of Angels  (1994). I wrote 5 blog posts from Karla’s book, but I was left wondering what happened to Ted, was he a real person, was Ted Rice his actual name or was it changed to protect his privacy? For many years following the publication of the book others had the same questions, usually posted on UFO forums. In February 2021, Ted’s goddaughter, Bonnie Pate, contacted me by email because she found something I wrote about him and liked it. She shared family tidbits and verified that Ted was real, that she hadn’t seen him for about 20 years, that he had genuine psychic abilities, and that he was a very kind person. Excited about this new information, I re-read the book by Karla Turner, and that inspired me in March to whip out the 5-part series. I felt that Ted’s story was important, but it

Source:   A Woman Clothed With the Sun ,  by John J. Delaney, 1961. The first pillar, Revelation 12 There are 3 major pillars upon which the entity identified as Mary has established her claim to near divinity. Pillar one: is Revelations 12:1-2ff, “A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.” A dragon with 7 heads and 10 horns challenges her, intending to kill the child. She cries out in pain, gives birth, and the Manchild is taken up to the throne of God. Satan and his minions are driven out of heaven, but they come down to earth to make war on the rest of the seed of the woman. Catholics have somewhat of a point when they claim that the woman is none other than Mary. There is a shadow of her there, the birth and resurrection of Christ, and the attempt of King Herod to kill the child. If the woman was only Mary, th