God, Aliens, and Other Stuff

"Oh, no, they were surely not benign. I had, of course, long ago given up any idea of these trespassers being “friendly.” However, what the man from Texas spoke about and drew for me during our regression session, almost tore me apart. His testimony certainly ripped up many of my most cherished notions of the alien intruders. When he made the drawing of a reptilian humanoid alien, the drawing was so awful, the image the most frightening revelation I’ve ever had. The drawing triggered fear and terror within me. It seemed too real. "That was in 1988. For the first time I was truly frightened of the aliens because the picture he handed me brought into reality the fact that a species exists which in some way, degrades every human being alive." Barbara Bartholic, with Peggy Fielding, in Barbara: The Story of a UFO Investigator , 2004, p. 154. (Barbara worked with famed researcher Jacques Vallee. She regressed many abductees, including Ted Rice, whose story is told in Masqu...

I regret that I could only use 10 sources and a few citations for this post. It’s a blog post, not a book. After 50 years of media attention on the alien abduction phenomenon, the UFO community is still divided on what it all means. Highly educated experts, all of whom have followed the literature for decades, and who have regressed, counseled, or interviewed hundreds of victims, cannot agree as to whether the aliens are benevolent star visitors, rapacious exploiters, or weirdly deficient inter-dimensional entities from here. Famous names in the UFO debate community line up on both sides. My humble opinion as a non-experiencer-but-eager-reader is that all ET contact brings a negative influence in spite of the lure of advanced technology and psychic empowerment. They say they want to prepare us for a more advanced future The sneakiest thing they do is convince some of us that they are getting us ready for a Big Leap to another level of consciousness. They will improve our ...

Dr. John Lerma is a topic of ongoing interest. I’ve done 3 blogs concerning him and his two books, Into the Light and Learning from the Light . In reviewing the second book, I only had time to deal with the first half of it, stopping with Lerma’s anecdote about the ‘true’ Roswell story. In that story (Chapter 5) a dying military man named Col. Marshall Bradfield deliberately transferred to the hospice in Houston where Lerma worked. Since he was 92 and dying, he wanted to share with Lerma the real story of what crashed at Roswell, NM in 1947. He allegedly knew the real story is because he was visiting with his parents in Roswell when the event occurred. Mac Brazel, on whose ranch the UFO crashed, came first to the Bradfield residence to lead none other than Marsh to the site. The military arrived soon after they did, but Marsh had time to put two pieces of debris together and see a German iron cross. When he got home again, he called his commander at Wright-Patterson AFB. He le...

The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Book of Job and several Psalms in the Hebrew Bible echo the dark and dreary Mesopotamian/Canaanite view of death. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh’s beloved friend Enkidu receives a premonition of his death in a dream. He describes his immanent fate to Gilgamesh. This passage can be found in Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (ANET), 1950, p. 87, but a more lay-friendly version is found in The Epic of Gilgamesh by N. K. Sandars, Penguin, 1983. “As Enkidu slept alone in his sickness, in bitterness of spirit he poured out his heart to his friend. ‘It was I who cut down the cedar, who leveled the forest, I who slew Humbaba and now see what has become of me. Listen, my friend, this is the dream I dreamed last night. The heavens roared, and earth rumbled back an answer; between them stood I before an awful being, the somber-faced man-bird; he had directed on me his purpose. His was a vampire face, his foot was a lion’s foot, his hand ...

Today I received a comment, which I will not be publishing, about Dr. John Lerma, author of ' Into the Light ' and ' Learning From the Light .' I have two blog posts about his books in which I express a little skepticism, not about the quality of the stories he shares, but about the quantity of angelic visitations and revelations. I had to ask, did he elaborate just a bit in the telling. Today's comment averred that he does not exist, that he is a fictional character made up to sell books, and that the medical institutions that he claims to have worked for either don't exist or have no record of him. So, I checked the back of his book and called the AMA to see is he is listed there. He was not. I called The Medical Center of Houston. It certainly does exist, and I talked to Sonja in the Hospice department. She said that Dr. Lerma hasn't worked there for about 5 years, but that he did work there in the past. He went by the names of John and Juan. I asked ...