Contact Experiences

It's a funny thing about these alien-contact experiences (and it's not just true of mine) that they almost never leave behind clear, unequivocal evidence of their reality — it's almost as though their actual significance is to help us deconstruct reality. Still, taken together, my occasional, individually puzzling experiences add up to a phenomenon that is startlingly real and powerful — to me, and then only when I'm able to get my head and heart around it. If that's an exercise you'd care to indulge in, here's a catalog of my contact stories.

I find I still resist allowing the full integration of this body of experience into consciousness, because of what it implies: that human history and destiny and reality itself are very different than we have supposed; and that while our physical, mental, and spiritual capabilities may be infantile in comparison to those of our teachers, we are finally and fundamentally their equals.

I also find that even my closest friends (who tend to be some pretty open-minded people) don't appear to take very seriously my claim that these experiences are real. It's not that they don't believe I'm being honest; it's more that the experiences just don't make much sense to them, and so it's easier to believe that I'm misinterpreting them, that is, mistaking intense fantasies and dreams for real aliens and flying saucers.

To be honest — and it's very important to me to be completely honest about this, given all the hype as well as paranoia that surrounds the subject — I doubt whether all of my dream experiences do represent "real" contact; and I find it difficult to know where to draw the line between dreams I create alone and those I have help with. But a handful of the dreams, along with an even smaller number of waking experiences, seem undeniably real to me; and quite a few more have powerful, convincing elements in common with the events I'm sure of.

There is so much to learn here, and our eyes, like those of newborn babes, are still so tightly closed to the light, that it's difficult even to begin. The best we can do, it seems, is to alternately lay ourselves open to new experience and then be willing to question it.

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