Close Encounters And Personal Transformation
by
Richard Boylan, Ph.D
One of the most striking things about a first encounter with an extraterrestrial
is the intensely personal feeling, dialogue process, and relationship formation
that goes on almost instantaneously, when the lead extraterrestrial of a group
engages a human contactee in mind-to- mind communication. Often a feeling of
love is experienced from the principal extraterrestrial. A bond, often
life-long, is forged between the extraterrestrial and the selected human
visited.
The bonding experience that takes hold between a human Experiencer and his/her
primary extraterrestrial contact person leads to feelings and behaviors that
sustain the relationship. The attention to this relationship, and the nourishing
of this relationship by both sides, ET and human, is one of the more touching
aspects of the Extraterrestrial Contact phenomenon.
As a young woman put it: "I got a feeling of wanting to be bonded with the ET's.
I find myself missing them. When I was with them, I had a sense of peace, love.
You become a part of the (principal) ET individual dealing with you. He becomes
your counterpart."
This ET communication, after the initial close encounter in-person with the
Extraterrestrial, will frequently be from a distance. The message is
telepathically projected into the mind of the Experiencer. This communication
can take several forms: a message given during sleep, during what appears to be
a "Dream"; or an insight or intuition that a person wakes up with that s/he
didn't have when s/he went to sleep; or a sudden gentle or strong thought hat
comes to a person during the day, that is so out-of-character with their usual
thinking as to draw attention to itself and suggest an external origin.
The close extraterrestrial encounter permanently affects the human involved. One
of the more common effects, in those Experiencers who have had competent
debriefing and counseling, is a sense of altered and heightened conscious. Along
with that goes the felt need to begin "cleaning up one's act" in respect to
practices which are at variance with higher consciousness. Some experiencers
feel drawn towards a vegetarian lifestyle, while other experiencers have felt an
imperative to get rid of habits which interfere with their full awareness and
consciousness. These have included jettisoning tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and
other drugs, caffeinated coffee, free sugar, and other consciousness-changing
substances from their diets. I have humorously complained about being turned
into a "Zen monk" by the ETs. But the truth is that I have voluntarily made
these changes, because they feel better and the old habits repel me now.
Some pop UFO magazines would have you believe that the ETs are mainly interested
in exotic technology. The surprising truth is that the "punch line" of
extraterrestrial communication is the philosophical and spiritual messages they
bring. During an encounter, one late-20s male raised the topic most on his mind,
whether the extraterrestrials also believe in God. They do. With relief this
experiencer states, "The ET's back my faith in a Supreme Being." As a matter of
fact, some people who have had encounters have moved from agnostic or
uninterested in religion to start cultivating the spiritual dimension of their
lives.
Of course the ETs understand God in a fairly sophisticated way. Numerous
experiencers have gotten the information that the Extraterrestrials acknowledge
a Supreme Source of everything. Furthermore, the ETs acknowledge a common link,
based on that common Source. Indeed, that is why they so often say to the human
they visit, "You and we are one."
One Experiencer reports her sense of having been subtly but profoundly affected
in the way she allows the spiritual to have a place in her life. For her,
extraterrestrial contact resulted in a spiritual awakening, or deepening.
Furthermore, she gained insight into the place of a practical spirituality in
the course of daily living. "As a result of my ET contact, I find myself moving
away from materialism. I see better that the spiritual and material realms
penetrate each other."
There is not space here to lay out how the extraterrestrials' visit awakened her
spirituality. However, other experiencers have noted that exposure to these
wise, sensitive, deeply caring Beings, not to mention the change of perspective
that comes with awareness of intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe, causes
the Experiencer to move into more philosophical and spiritual life directions.
Why do the ETs go to the trouble of traveling across huge distances to come
here?
One Experiencer, in her processing of extraterrestrial encounters, told of
her overall impression of the agenda of the Extraterrestrials. She had moved
from initial anxiety during the surprise of her first meeting, to a calmer and
respectful appreciation of their role at this stage of human history. Her pithy
comment: "The ET's are here to help us." Indeed, in my research with hundreds of
experiencers, I have come to characterize the visiting ETs as similar to our
Peace Corps.
Yet another message speaks to one more central principle of the
extraterrestrials philosophy, that violence and warfare are to be avoided. As
one young male put it: "I got that peace is to be worked on -- it's important!"
The extraterrestrials are quite concerned with our proclivity for wars, and that
we now possess the weapons for mass destruction (nuclear, fuel-air, biological,
nerve gas aerosols) that could cause loss of life on a truly horrific and
apocalyptic scale. Because life is sacred, this is, to the extraterrestrials,
unthinkably morally wrong. It is striking that even some career military
personnel, after an encounter with one of the space visitors, finds himself
wanting to move away from war and killing.
As a result of these visits and communications, an awareness comes to captivate
a number of experiencers -- a sense of mission. Sometimes the sense of mission
is quite specific, such as when a part-Native American housewife I worked with
got that she was supposed to get ready to do a lot of public speaking. Other
times the mission sense is vague. The Experiencer knows that s/he ought to be
doing something related to the extraterrestrials presence among us, but cannot
yet get a clear sense of what that task is. At still other times, the sense of
mission is unconscious. The Experiencer feels uneasy, restless, that something
is not right; yet s/he cannot put her/his finger on what exactly it is that s/he
should be doing or doing differently. This person will often struggle and think
and consult until they get a clearer sense of their mission.
Concern for the proper rearing of the children is another important principle of
extraterrestrial philosophy, whether those children are human or
Extraterrestrial. As a result of encounters, most experiencers develop a
profound sense of the importance of tending to the well- being of the children.
As one older woman said, "They communicated that it's important to steer the
children in the right direction."
The extraterrestrials are well aware that the next generation is already forming
now. Visited humans come to share that passion for the next generation. Perhaps
as part of that awareness, the extraterrestrials often begin their campaign of
contacts with an individual early in his/her life, sometimes as young as
preschool years, or even in the crib. They believe that thorough preparation
across the formative years is critical for nurturing the developing experiencer.
And correspondingly, these humans feel deeply their cosmic roots, and that they
have a foot in each world - human and cosmic. Thus, these experiencers are
transformed into what the former General Counsel for the Smithsonian Institution
called "Homo Alterios Spatialis" - the Transformed Cosmic Human. As such, these
avant-garde humans pioneer the path that our whole society will soon take, as
the reality of ET visitation is acknowledged by the authorities.
Dr. Boylan is a behavioral scientist, researcher into Star Visitor-human encounters, retired university Lecturer, author, and head of the Star kids ProjectŠ).
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