God, Aliens, and Other Stuff

No, I’m not talking about magic beans that morph into evil pumpkins. I’m writing here about a family that in 1970 moved into a fixer upper in Maryland. At that time, they were a normal family of five, a father with wonderful construction skills, an attractive, pleasant mother, two boys, Bill and Bobby, and a girl named Patti. The problem was that there was already a family of four living in the house, but you couldn’t see them, so for a few years the family lived in denial regarding the deleterious effects these entities were having on every member of the family. The mother, Patricia Bean, was the first to recognize that the family ghost, nicknamed Henry, wasn’t just a pleasant old former owner. The poltergeist activity accelerated quickly from occasional strange noises to constant banging and racket every night. One night in 1971 sister Patti felt something grab her leg that actually left red marks. (You can read another story of a leg being grabbed here .) The father’s construc...

My friend urged me to write about the whispers. My approach to biblical interpretation has helped her resolve a weighty load of frustration and unanswered question about how to deal with Bible conundrums. She has never been content to believe something just because, and neither have I. We have to begin with the understanding that God is, that he is locatable rather than being an all-pervasive, non-localized force. He may well be omni-present, but he is not merely a conglomeration of all things everywhere. And he is logical. He is compassionate. His reason is beyond ours, but not in the sense of it being incomprehensible. He reveals himself to mankind bit by bit because the gap between his understanding and ours is so immense. He steps into our primitive world with our archaic customs and knowledge and changes us little by little. Change is always difficult. It’s frightening and dangerous and requires adaptation and care to make sure that it is a change for the better. It always ...

"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...