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What is the intent of this article?

The intent of this two-part article is to prove that a spirit realm exists and show that supernatural phenomenon are valid and necessary experiences under the New Covenant (Joel 2:28-30; Heb. 1:1-2). Throughout the Bible, prophets, patriarchs, disciples, and Apostles were drawn to an inner journey after interacting with Spirit. Samuel heard a still, small, voice when he was a child (I Sam. 3:1-10). Jacob saw angels ascending and descending on a ladder and wrestled an angel all night long (Gen. 28:11-12, 16-19; 32: 24-28). Paul beheld a bright light that blinded him and taught his to fear God instead of man (Acts 9:1-19; Gal. 1:15-17, 11-14). An angel released Peter from jail (Acts 12:1-19) and we can go on and on. Without some paranormal experience, we cannot know the Holy Spirit or attain eternal life (John 17:3).

Because the spirit world is so misunderstood, it brings to mind the old Indian adage of six blind men describing an elephant. One feels the animals tail and reports that he is like a serpent. Another feels his side and declares that he is like a wide, strong tree. The third man, standing near his trunk, says the animal is thick and rope-like. And the story goes on. In other words, every person that reports of spiritual encounters is only bringing back part of the story. No one can see the spiritual realm clearly without a revelation from the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 13:9-10).

What three supernatural phenomena will this article address?

In this article we will examine three supernatural occurrences that have been reported frequently in the media: out of body (OBE)/near death experiences (NDE), UFO abductions, and crop circles. First, out of body (OBE)/near death experiences (NDE) truly have pushed men’s consciousness into another reality. Upon returning to the physical realm and battling with the uncertainty of the experience, these people are often positively affected and transformed. UFO abductions, on the other hand, the second supernatural occurrence we will discuss, generally terrify the eyewitnesses and they experience trauma similar to combat Vietnam veterans, survivors of natural disasters, and rape victims. UFO abductions are entirely misunderstood because they are interpreted literally. The third paranormal phenomenon, crop circles, produce wonder and awe in those who see inexplicable designs in fields of wheat and corn.

We will discuss why people become so disturbed when supernatural events occur since none of these experiences are accepted as normal reality in our culture. Because our culture does not nurture these encounters, the first response most people have is to think they are insane.

Does a spirit world exist?

To understand who is behind paranormal phenomenon, we must believe in a spirit world (Heb. 1:6), know that men are spiritual creatures (I Thess. 5:23), and understand the power of spirit beings (Rev. 12:7) which we will discuss later in this article. If our culture would accept the fact that an incorporeal or spirit world parallels the physical realm, a hierarchy of incorporeal beings inhabits it, and often the two world’s borders merge, many people’s fears would lessen. (See the subtitle “What is the structure of the spirit world?” p. 22 in the cover story on “Possession” in this issue). The disposition of spirit creatures that exist on the other side is reflected in the personality of humans that exist in the natural realm. Leaders, teachers, and artisans coexist on earth with gang-bangers, robbers, and predators. Likewise, Elohim and resurrected angels inhabit the spirit realm with fallen angels, and souls of men (see illustration on p. 23).

The idea of a co-existing, non-material world is difficult for many westerners to embrace. Budd Hopkins comments in his book Intruders that men would rather believe that intelligent life exists “out there” somewhere, than to accept the possibility that non-humans may already be interacting now with us. This “is truly a disturbing idea (A Note to the Reader, p. xii-xiii).” If we keep in mind the feasibility of a spirit world, as we begin to examine OBE/NDE, UFO abductions, and crop circles, we can begin to understand what is behind these phenomena and appreciate the inner journey they are urging individuals to follow.

Part One of this article will examine OBE/NDE in detail. Part two will investigate UFO abductions and crop circles.

Does a calling begin any journey?

To begin any journey, whether it is physical, psychological or spiritual, we all need the proper motivation or “calling” (See “Journey, Part 1” in the January/February 1997 issue of the “PLIM REPORT”). Most of us take a daily journey to our workplaces to earn the money necessary to afford food, clothing, and shelter. Our instinctual needs “call” us to work for a living. We tend to develop, or be “called” to, psychological interests outside of work based on our own personal tastes, cultural upbringing, and educational levels. Whether we take trips to athletic events vs. the opera, choose outdoor activities over urban settings, or are drawn to the high school antics of sitcoms instead of the complex ideas and arguments found in written literature, our mental “callings” are all individual choices grounded in our own pleasure.

A “calling” to a spiritual journey, however, transcends economics, society, and personal taste. Remember, when the Messiah “called” His disciples to His ministry. They immediately dropped everything and followed Him (John 2:35-51). Paranormal experiences that are a part of the New Covenant have the same compelling quality to propel or “call” men on an inner journey into the spirit realm. Supernatural phenomenon, such as out of body (OBE)/near death experiences (NDE), UFO abductions, and crop circles, appear to be just the right stimulus for men to transfer their interest from society to the world of the unknown. [Note: We will interject Biblical references that confirm paranormal experiences throughout this article.]

Lawrence LeShan summarizes man’s response to the paranormal in his book The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal (Penguin Books, 1996, Preface, p. xi). “This book is the story of an adventure, of a search for the meaning of impossible events. The paranormal by definition is impossible. What does it means for man when the impossible happens? …” We will see what happens as we begin to explore the supernatural.

What questions do supernatural experiences raise?

When we begin to examine the media coverage of supernatural experiences that appear to be occurring more and more lately, several questions may come to mind.

• Are out-of-body (OBE)/near-death experiences (NDE), UFO abductions, and crop circles real phenomenon or a hoax?

• Why are they occurring with such frequency now?

• Who is behind all of these inexplicable cases and what messages are they conveying to man?

• Should these occurrences convince us that a realm beyond the physical exists?

• Has humanistic, technologically-advanced, materialistic, rational man gone so far in the wrong direction that Spirit has to take drastic measures to call him back from society into an inner journey?

One thing we know for certain—the frequent occurrences of paranormal phenomena are defying denial of their existence and the people from all walks of life are starting to pause and wonder.

What effect does the paranormal have on man?

The paranormal requires man to view life from a different perspective. For a person to suddenly find himself separate from his physical body yet conscious provides an entirely new incorporeal realm to explore. The experience convinces him of a non-physical reality and he no longer fears death. Paul said he was lifted up to the third heaven and could not tell whether he was in a body or out of a body (2 Cor. 12:1-4). His external environment became secondary to spiritual experiences that occurred and beings he met in a non-material world.

The world changes for the worst according to most people who claim to be abducted by UFOs. Because most interpret the experience literally, they miss their “calling” to an inner journey that should cause them to turn away from their physical perceptions to contemplate the invisible and intangible. (See “Journey, Part 1 and 2,” in the January/February 1997 and March/April 1997 issues for more details). When they become aware of missing time and experience an uneasiness that usually proceeds remembering under hypnosis that aliens have kidnapped them, they are often afraid and detached from normal reality. Instead of realizing that the images that spirits project in the mind are so real they appear true, an abductee thinks he has actually left his bed or car and been taken to another place. We will discuss the power of thoughts in the mind in Part Two of this paper. We see why most abductees suffer alone since, added to his lost of control while abducted, he meets mockery and disdain from those he tells of his experience.

These negative feelings could be diminished if the UFO experience were placed in a historical and scriptural context. The Bible mentions a UFO sighting when Ezekiel saw a wheel within a wheel containing unearthly occupants (Ezk. 1:4-17). Also Dr. Jacques Vallee, an acclaimed French UFO authority, writes of priests and scholars who have left records of strange activity during their era that we will discuss in Part Two of this article (Dimensions A Casebook of Alien Contact).

The third paranormal activity of crop circles causes people to contemplate another alternative. Farmers who go to bed with their grain growing undisturbed and wake up to a mysterious design displayed in their fields, must wonder, as Belshazzar did when he saw handwriting suddenly appear on his palace walls (Dan. 5th Chapter), who is making these designs and why. The intent of this article is to address whether a spiritual calling for man exists behind OBE/NDE, UFO abductions, and crop circles. In short, is Spirit sending us messages that we can’t ignore?

Does the current  scientific model explain the supernatural?

OBE/NDE, UFO abductions, and crop circles are anomalies that the current scientific model cannot explain. (See “Can the Scientific Model Explain the Paranormal?” in this issue) The method of observing occurrences, developing a theory, and making predictions on the outcome of events is impossible when the events are invisible, subjective, and erratic. They are inner experiences.

When supernatural experiences occur outside of the accepted view of normal reality, that belief system should expand. Unfortunately, western civilization holds a disbelief and disdain for the spirit world according to Harvard professor John Mach, who investigates UFO abductees in spite of the ridicule and dismay of his colleagues and who wrote Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens. Although this view is in the minority, it is prevalent in the west and firmly entrenched in the minds of most in our culture. Our society does not provide a framework or a nurturing environment for paranormal phenomena. When it occurs, denial and ridicule are the common responses. Let us begin this investigation by discovering what the Bible says about OBE.

Does the Bible mention OBE?

The Bible is full of accounts of out-of-body experiences (OBE) that have “called” the patriarchs to a spirit world and convinced them that it existed. The basis of the Judeo/Christian religion is the paranormal. For our culture to claim it is Christian and deny paranormal experiences is a sign of schizophrenia. Israel from the beginning had a relationship with Yahweh that allowed them to move confidently between the mundane world and the spiritual realm. The disciples and Apostles experienced the same connection with the Messiah and the Holy Spirit.

Ezekiel the prophet said that the Spirit took him up by the lock of his hair to Jerusalem (Ezek. 8:1-4) while his physical body remained in his house before the elders. As stated earlier the Apostle Paul said that he was caught up to the third heaven and saw unspeakable things. He did not know whether he was in his body while in paradise or not (2 Cor. 12:1-4). The Messiah confirmed these two witnesses when He transformed His physical body into an illuminous one at the transfiguration (Matt. 17:1-10). His inner man, stepped out of His clay house (Job 4:19), and showed the disciples His true body. We find that OBE have always “called” men to the spirit.

OBE, NDE

Although the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBE) has appeared historically in non-scientific literature, NDE did not begin to emerge in medical journals until the 1960s. This phenomenon was not labeled before 1976 when Dr. Raymond Moody, a psychiatrist and scholar with two PhDs in philosophy and psychology, coined the term NDE in his book Life After Life after interviewing hundreds of revived individuals.

NDE have an out-of-body component that has been documented by a group of people, who have exhibited various criteria of death, such as stopped heartbeat, ceased breathing, or flat brainwaves, and have survived the experience.

Due to advances in medical technology, more people resuscitated from heart attacks and near fatal accidents have been able to recount their NDE than ever before. According to a Gallup poll in the late 1980’s about one in 20 people had NDE. (The Light Beyond, by Raymond Moody, p. 5)

What is a NDE?

A NDE occurs when someone has been near death and experienced being conscious yet out of their body. These people are persuaded fully that another realm exists beyond the physical. They have seen their physical bodies on operating tables or in horrible accidents and been aware of their existence separate and apart from their own flesh.

Dr. Moody identified common components that described their experience (see chart below). Not everyone would experience all of these elements, but they all would experience at least some. They are: a sense of being dead, peace and painlessness, out-of-body experience, the tunnel experience, people of light, the being of light, the life review, rising rapidly into the heavens, reluctance to return, return to earth with a message or power (The Light Beyond, p. 2).

The “calling” to a non-material realm appears to have a positive transformational effect on nearly all NDE survivors although most have difficulty integrating their experience into their normal lives. Dr. Moody identified seven other factors in his book The Light Beyond (p. 27-44) that describe the change in most NDE’s lives. They don’t fear dying. They sense the importance of love and forgiveness. They have a connection with all things. They gain an appreciation of learning, a new feeling of control, and a sense of urgency. They seek to develop their understanding of spiritual issues upon reentering the ‘real’ world. Let us explore two famous, modern NDE cases that have been covered extensively in the media.

Who is Dannion Brinkley?

Dannion Brinkley wrote in his book Saved by the Light that he was the local bully in his North Carolina town with a mean streak. While talking on the phone during a rainstorm, he was struck by lightening in 1975. He was dead 28 minutes before returning to life. His NDE, especially his life review, transformed his life and “called” him to be a hospice worker for the last 17 years. He had a second NDE when he experienced heart failure in 1989.

Mr. Brinkley reported all the elements of NDE that Dr. Moody had identified. Mr. Brinkley glimpsed the future, as did the prophets, and was shown 117 prophecies; 96 came true as of 1995. He saw a crystal city reminiscent to the one that the Apostle John saw (Rev. 21), a greenhouse, and upon his return to his body he could read minds and predict the future. He said that the beings of light gave him a mission and “called” him to create stress reduction centers. They also gave him a message that humans are great, powerful, mighty spiritual beings (I Thess. 5:23; Gen. 1:26-27). His experience did not differ from many of the prophets.

It took him about 20 years to write his story. He wrote another book called At Peace in the Light to update us on his progress of normalizing his experience. In 1992, two years before Mr. Brinkley published his first book, another book about the NDE of a Native American housewife and mother of seven became a New York best seller.

What happened to  Betty Eadie when she died?

Betty Eadie writes in her book Embraced by the Light that she hemorrhaged after a hysterectomy in 1973 and was dead for four hours. Ms. Eadie’s experience occurred before Dr. Moody had identified all the classic NDE components, but they all occurred during her NDE anyway. She writes in her book that she was embraced by Jesus’ light. Her experience was similar to Daniel’s who saw a man with a face that appeared as lightening and Paul’s who fell off his ass by a light as bright as the noon day sun (Dan. 10:5-7; Acts 9:3-4). As Moses writes that he spoke to Yahweh face to face as a friend (Exo. 33:11), Ms. Eadie says that during her NDE she talked to Jesus as a friend.

Ms. Eadie states that Jesus taught her that she was important, worthy of love, and could live a more fulfilling life. He showed her that spiritual, physical, and universal laws govern the universe which is the spiritual reality of the Ten Commandment Laws that Yahweh gave Israel at Mt. Sinai. (See articles written on the Ten Commandment Law in four issues of the “PLIM REPORT” from July/August 1993 through January/February 1994. He also revealed to her the importance of thoughts and prayer. She saw a library, a garden, and a council of men that showed her a life review. She returned to the physical world with enhanced ESP. The being of light gave her a message; above all else, we are to love one another. We are to learn to love God and we are to stop judging one another unrighteously. [Remember, this was the same reply that the Messiah gave the Pharisees when a lawyer tested Him asking what was the greatest commandment (Matt. 22:35-40).] She has since been “called” to the lecture circuit and has written another book The Awakening Heart; My Continuing Journey in Love to update people on more of her spiritual insights after her NDE.

What is important about the life review?

[Note: In both of the above NDE, the life review appears to be a pivotal aspect of the transformational experience. Remember, it was after Yahweh showed Moses a re-run of the days of creation (life review) in a vision that Yahweh gave Israel the law, the tabernacle, and a priesthood. Following Moses review of creation, Israel was transformed or “called” to begin their journey as a kingdom of priests (Exo. 19:6; Rev. 1:6) with the Law of Moses to guide them. Is the life review in the NDE symbolic of a review of our past actions before we move into a higher state? Is a review of our past most important before we can transcend the present?]

The next OBE that we shall examine occurred while a man rested. He founded the Monroe Institute for Applied Science that experimented with sound to produce and sustain the out-of-body state. [Note: Besides OBE that occur in times of trauma, they also are reproducible with lucid dreams, meditation, drugs, and sound. Future articles will be written on this subject. Due to space, this article can only introduce the personal experiences of our next subject and his experiments with sound.]

What happened when Robert Monroe came out of his body?

Robert Monroe, a businessman in the communications industry, explains that one day in 1958 as he lay on his couch resting he suddenly found himself outside of his body. In his books Journeys Out of the Body and Far Journeys, he relates his experiences in the out-of-body state.

Mr. Monroe’s inadvertently discovered the structure of the non-material realm that is essential to understanding the paranormal phenomenon we will discuss in Part Two of this article—UFO abductions. This supernatural occurrence can only be understood in the context of the different rankings of spirits that exist on the other side.

At first he was terrified, but then he learned through trial and error how to navigate in the incorporeal realm. Through his personal journeys, he mapped the non-material realm into Locale 1 (the here and now), Locale 2 (the astral plane), Locale 3 (transcends space and time, p. 423 Harper’s Encyclopedia). Mr. Monroe records a hierarchy of entities on the other side from piranha-like predators to a Supreme Being whose appearance causes all activity to stop and produces total submission and prostration from everyone in His presence.

Before we end Part One of this article, we will briefly discuss the use of sound to attain the out-of-body state.

Can anyone’s conscious leave their bodies?

Mr. Monroe wondered whether other people could achieve an out-of-body state and founded the Monroe Institute of Applied Science to explore this theory. He started to record his brain waves while he was out of his body and began experiments with sound to duplicate the patterns. He patented a method called Hemi-Sync that allows people who are not near death to experience consciousness apart from their body by listening to certain tones through a headset. Hemi-Sync is sound that synchronizes both hemispheres of the brain and induces sleep while allowing the mind to remain alert and active.

Mr. Monroe named his first out-of-body experiments Gateway. The people who volunteered for the OBE were named voyagers. As he and the “voyagers” returned from their out-of-body states, the reports they described were fantastic.

It is interesting to note that under the New Covenant, the Messiah said that we are cleaned and transformed by the words (or sounds) that He speaks to us (John 15:3). Believing the Messiah’s words sustains a resurrected state.

Was the Messiah ever abducted?

As odd as if may sound, the Bible records an instance of abduction in the true sense when the Devil tested the Messiah in the Wilderness after John the Baptist baptized him (Matt. 4:8-11). The third satanic temptation involved Satan “taking” the Messiah up to a high mountain to show Him the Kingdoms of the world. Physically, the Messiah’s body was geographically located in the Wilderness, but psychologically and spiritually Satan took the Messiah’s inner man (Eph. 3:16) or consciousness to a state (not a place) where he showed him glorious cities. Satan hoped that the Messiah would worship him to obtain control of them. (Also see the Spirit of Righteousness “take” Enoch, Gen. 5:24 and Elijah, 2 Kings 2:9-11 body, soul, and spirit into another realm.)

The encounter does not provide an explanation of how the devil did this. The verse just describes the Messiah rebuking Satan and refusing his offer. When this Biblical instance is explored in the light of modern psychology, which we will discuss later in this article, it does reveal that incorporeal spirits can put thoughts in a man’s mind that appear so genuine, he thinks he is experiencing them which is much like the process in hypnotism.

Did Ezekiel see a UFO?

We have mentioned in Part One of this article that Ezekiel saw a whirlwind like a great fiery cloud come out of the sky (Ezek. 1:4). What emerged from the midst was as alien as one could imagine.

Four creatures appeared with four faces, four wings, calf’s feet. Their faces were of a man, a lion, an eagle, and an ox.

Ezekiel’s symbolic vision represented the four Hebrew banners camped around the tabernacle (See “Angels, Part Two” in the July/August 1996 issue of the “PLIM REPORT.”) Then Ezekiel saw a wheel within a wheel that lifted the four creatures up into heaven (Ezek. 1:5-17). He did not understand the vision and fell on his face for fear, but felt an inner calling to be receptive to this spiritual communication. He was not the first or last to see such an unearthly sight. The hottest topic on television now and a new fall series, "The Visitor," are about UFO abductions.

Are UFO abductions a new phenomenon?

Harvard psychiatrist John Mack says that one of the important questions in abduction research is whether the UFO phenomenon is new "or is but a modern chapter in a long story of humankind's relationship to vehicles and creatures appearing from the heavens that goes back to antiquity (Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, p. 3)."

A noted French UFO researcher Jacques Vallee claims to have found "the evidence of the existence of UFOs, not only in our time, but in earlier ages as well (Dimensions, A Casebook of Alien Contact, Introduction, p. xiv).” He writes that throughout the ages men of all cultures have sighted and written about fairies, elves, sylphs (sky nymphs), and ikals (little black beings) carrying off humans (p. 110-120). Legends in Mexico, Japan, France and Latin America depict sky creatures that stole away women, men, and children. Today eyewitnesses claim aliens from outer space are abducting and breeding with us.

Dr. Vallee states “that the belief in the possibility of intermarriage between human and nonhuman races is a corollary to the apparitions in all historical contexts (Dimensions, A Casebook of Alien Contact, p. 124).” Every civilization appears to have its own version and literal interpretation of the “men of God” (a superior race) joining with the “daughters of men” (the human community, Gen. 6:1-4).

Only Dr. Vallee is beginning to interpret UFO abductions as anything other than creatures from another planet.

“If these objects have been seen from time immemorial, as I will show, and if their occupants have always performed similar actions along similar lines of behavior, then it is not reasonable to assume that they are ‘simply’ extraterrestrial visitors. They must be something more. Perhaps they have always been there. On earth. With us (Dimensions, A Casebook of Alien Contact, Introduction, p. xiv).”

Dr. Vallee continues by saying that his colleagues find it hard to comprehend "something that isn't from here, yet isn't from another 'planet' either (Appendix 2, p. 276)."

As we investigate modern instances of UFO abductions, let's see if a common pattern emerges.

UFO Abductions

Although people have been reporting modern UFO’s since 1947, a new phase of UFO contact for our time began in the 1960’s when an interracial couple Barney and Betty Hill reported that aliens kidnapped them, took them aboard a space craft, and performed physical examinations on both of them.

J. Allen Hynek, the former chair of Northwestern’s astronomy department and founder of Center for UFO Studies, who died in 1986, “classified UFO’s into two major categories based on the distance of the sighting: those seen at more than 500 feet away and those seen at 500 feet or less (Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experiences, p. 194.)”

He divided the category seen at less than 500 feet into three classifications. A close encounter of the first kind involves simply sighting a UFO. A close encounter of the second kind contains visible evidence left, such as scorched earth or landing marks of the space ship. Close encounters of the third kind fall into two types.

What are close encounters of the third kind?

The first type is where the eyewitness sees and perhaps communicates with aliens. The second type involves either a planned or at random abduction and return of the eyewitness. The UFO abductions discussed in this article fall into the latter type.

Professor Hynek listed some common components in the abduction encounters, according to an article “Is There Anybody Out There?” by Jermome Clark, editor of the Center for UFO Studies newsletter, (Daily Northwestern “Focus” Magazine, April 16, 1997).

Professor Hynek stated that archetype abductions consist of several shared elements: hearing a noise or seeing a light, the appearance of aliens/non-human beings, paralysis, levitation to a space ship, and physical examinations or information sessions. John Mack was struck by "the consistency of the stories told by individuals who had not been in communication with each other, had come forth reluctantly, and feared the discrediting of their accounts or outright ridicule... (Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, p. 1)."

[Note: Because volumes of UFO abduction literature are available on genetic experiments, inter-specie breeding, and hybrid offspring, I will not focus on this aspect of the UFO experience except to make one comment. Dr. Vallee thinks that because the events, particularly the medical procedures, remembered by witnesses are so similar, these abduction components should be treated symbolically. (Dimensions, A Casebook of Alien Contact, Introduction, p. 240). Dr. Vallee found it hard to believe that an advanced race could not extract blood, obtain skin samples, or remove ova or sperm without pain when our current technology can. Dr. Vallee made a comparison of the painful aspects of abductee's medical examinations, such as inserting needles into a woman's abdomen to obtain ovum or into the nasal passages and ears to insert devices, with pictures painted in the 15th century of demons torturing humans. A French calendar, the Kalendrier des Bergiers, depicts demons piercing their victims' abdomens with long needles (Dimensions, A Casebook of Alien Contact, Introduction, p. 107).

I will instead highlight two cases that occurred in New York from the multitudes available to illustrate other aspects of alien abduction. See the following books for case studies on the genetic aspect of UFOs: Intruders by Budd Hopkins, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens by John E. Mack, M.D., or Beyond Reality by D. Scott Rogo.]

Experiencing UFO abductions may be the stimulus someone needs to “call” his attention to the invisible realm. This is what happened to Whitley Strieber.

What happens during UFO abductions?

Whitley Strieber describes his book Communion as “one man’s attempt to deal with a shattering assault from the unknown (Prelude, p. 13).” The sense of powerlessness is the most striking emotion, besides fear, that surfaces while reading Mr. Strieber’s personal encounter with alien abduction. People from all walks of life came forward with similar stories after Communion was published in 1987.

People were being plagued with time loss and vague uneasy sensations that led them to seek professional help. Under hypnosis in most cases, the story of the UFO abduction came out. Once the person accepts that another intelligence exists who may be trying to communicate with him, he never views this material world the same again. In most instances this “calling” is quite traumatic.

What happened to Whitley Strieber?

Prior to his experience, Mr. Strieber, a novelist of imaginative thrillers, was an indifferent skeptic and non-believer. He never expected or requested to be “called” to an inner journey in such an unexpected and absurd way. The day after Christmas in 1985 as Mr. Strieber lay in bed, he claims that inhuman visitors came to his room in upstate New York, took him to a spaceship, and performed a rectal exam on him. During this ordeal Mr. Strieber angrily told his captors that they had no right to violate his humanity and treat him as an animal specimen. He was shocked when they responded that they indeed had the right (Communion, p. 83).

He awoke the next morning in his bed remembering nothing, but feeling uneasy. His personality shifted radically after that instance and finally deteriorated to a point where he was hypersensitive, easily confused, and impatient. Within a few days Mr. Strieber began to remember the details of his encounter. Fear and dread began to overwhelm him.

He randomly read a book on UFOs that his brother had sent him as a gift. He was stunned at how close the “archetype abduction experience” mirrored his own. He soon met with Budd Hopkins, a noted researcher in the field, and other abduction memories began to surface.

Mr. Strieber has written several other books, Transformation, The Secret School, Breakthrough, etc., that have chronicled his sequential UFO abductions since his first book, Communion. We learn in his later books that the aliens begin to abduct his son as he watches helplessly. His journey is continuing and he is informing us of his progress every step of the way.

Did another UFO abduction occur in New York?

A UFO abduction that occurred at the Brooklyn Bridge November 30, 1989 is most unusual because about 20 people claim to have witnessed it and were “called” to go public with their stories. Budd Hopkins wrote about this close encounter of the third kind in Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions. The eyewitness reported the same archetype abduction components noted by Professor Hynek. She asserted that during her physical examination aliens surgically implanted a device (which was later X-rayed) in her nose.

The eyewitness also claims that since she was a small child, aliens paired her with a human male with whom she developed a relationship outside of her waking consciousness and who she suspects fathered her youngest son. When she met the man as an adult, the memories and deep emotions almost wrecked her normal married life.

Then she found out that aliens were continuing their abductions by kidnapping her son and the boundaries of her familiar world eroded. She remembered the aliens telling her they had a right to treat her and her family like laboratory specimens.

Mr. Hopkins writes in his book “the abduction represented a shocking and absolute intrusion upon the bedrock illusion of human control and empowerment (p. 43).”

To have almost a score of witnesses, including the eye witness, contend that she levitated out of her 12th floor apartment about 3 a.m. accompanied by non-human creatures who took her into their space ship while a blue beam illuminated them implies one of four things.

Either all of these people experienced a group delusion (i.e., the Miracle of Fatima, 2 Thess. 2:11). They actually saw a physical event with their natural eyes which defies logic. They all saw a vision with their inner eyes that took place in another reality (Matt. 17:1-10). Or they all conspired for some unknown reason to perpetrate a hoax.

Mr. Hopkins states that he could not find any facts to support the last contention. The principle people involved in this UFO abduction sought out Mr. Hopkins to help them regain a hold on reality.

Could UFO abductions be occurring in a non-physical realm?

As we investigate the UFO abduction phenomenon, all eyewitnesses report that their physical bodies left one location and went to another geographical place. No eyewitness has ever mentioned the possibility that their soul or inner man could have experienced events in another reality or dimension. This materialistic view of the paranormal is the basis of the western mind that limits possibilities to the “narrow windows of the senses … touching others only through these (The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist, p. 5).”

In H. Spencer Lewis’ book Mental Poisoning, he proves that through hypnotism the body responds to thoughts in the mind. (See “Mental Poisoning, Part 1 and 2” in the March/April 1993 and May/June 1993 “PLIM REPORT.”) If the mind believes an ink pen is a hot iron, the skin will begin to welt and blister (p. 47-51).

Dr. Lewis states: “that if the human mind accepts an idea without question, without doubt, or without suspicion of any kind, it becomes not merely an accepted idea but a law or a command, or a principle that will logically fulfill its purpose and its nature without any further support in actuality or in psychological processes (p. 49).” Most humans have experienced erotic dreams while sleeping alone in their beds that appear so real men actually ejaculate sperm and women exhibit signs of orgasms.

The UFO events also could have appeared so real, the physical body reflected wounds, pain, etc., from these encounters. [Note: Thoughts placed in a man’s mind still has been unable to explain independent reports of people physically missing during the times of their abductions, scorch marks in grass, skin burns, or implants removed from parts of the body. These aspects of the UFO phenomenon are a mystery far from resolution]

If modern men saw themselves as spirit creatures, part of a spiritual realm inhabited by various types of spirit creatures that can project thoughts in our minds, images appearing real would not be so unusual.

What are the victim's view of the experience?

Eyewitnesses consistently report being literal tranquilized specimens unable to do little more than view the procedure powerlessly. If a spirit creature were projecting an image in a man’s mind of being “borrowed, involuntarily … used physically and then returned frightened, but not deliberately harmed,” obvious reactions would occur (Intruders, Budd Hopkins, p. 277). These images would effectively produce thoughts of loss of control and the acceptance of a superior, indifferent intelligence.

Budd Hopkins has concluded that this depiction of aliens contrast drastically to the friendly “Big Brothers” (“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “The Day the Earth Stood Still”) or evil conquerors (“Independence Day” or “Men In Black”) of the Hollywood variety. Although the UFOs don’t appear to cause harm purposefully, they seem totally unaware of why a human would be outraged by this intrusion. Most abductees think these “beings from space” are truly alien because they do not understand the most predictable human emotions and responses.

Are alien abductions physical events?

Only recently, Jacques Vallee has begun to voice the theory that aliens encounters may not be entirely physical events in his book Dimensions, A Casebook of Alien Contact. Dr. Vallee stresses the constant, historical pattern of human response to these encounters rather than knowing whether UFOs are physical or not.

He states that UFO abductions have “stable, invariant features” that are more striking than the chameleon-like appearance of the visitors, which “vary as a function of the cultural environment into which they are projected (p. 140).”

Leprechauns and fairy people viewed near mounds of earth strikingly compare with the descriptions that modern men give of small non-human creatures coming from egg-shaped space ships. These images taken literally can cause men to doubt their sanity.

Where do UFO abductees go for help?

Since the western culture does not accept UFO abductions, OBE/NDE, possessions, Kundalini experiences (i.e. the Hindu spiritual awakening process), etc., when these supernatural occurrences occur, people have no where to turn for help. Fortunately, a “new breed of mental health professionals” have been “called” to help these people fit their impossible encounters into our currently agreed upon reality.

These new psychologists and psychiatrists contend that “otherworldly experiences are legitimate and common place among the sane (“The Other Side of the Unknown,” OMNI, April 1993, p. 35-36). They believe that if any person has been traumatized by such events, he deserves the same psychological ministrations as those who suffer from anxiety, depression, or other post-traumatic stress disorder.

A wealth of health professionals, discussing the paranormal attend an annual conference called TREAT (the Treatment and Research of Experienced Anomalous Trauma). Among those who attend are psychiatrist Rima Laibow, John Wilson, professor of psychology at Cleveland State University, and Bonnie Greenwell, a California-based psychotherapist and author of Energies of Transformation.

Before this group was formed there were primarily two researchers in the field: New York artist Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs, a history professor at Temple University who “like Hopkins, had become a kind of folk guru and de-facto therapist for UFO abduction victims (“The Other Side of the Unknown,” OMNI, April 1993, p. 37).”

Why didn’t professionals want to treat people traumatized by the supernatural?

Many professionals were not eager to risk their reputations by being associated with people who believed in aliens, especially since the culture says no such things exist. The experience of Harvard Medical School psychiatrist John Mack, whose colleagues tried to bar him from academia because of his interest in interviewing UFO abductees, did little to attract others to this area of research.

Laibow was the first to begin to change the professional therapists views about treating people traumatized by paranormal experiences when she gave the phenomenon a new respectable name “experience anomalous trauma.”

Wilson was not surprised that his peers were slow to accept anomalous trauma. “Fifty years ago, mental health professionals didn’t believe in childhood abuse. When kids or adults would report incest experiences, sexual molestation, or rape” … They were told it was a “fantasy; that doesn’t happen it can’t be real. It wasn’t until the sixties that the American College of Pediatrics even did a study.” Then sexual abuse finally became a fact. “There is a parallel here to anomalous experience, whether it’s UFO abduction or demon possession, our culture says no (“The Other Side of the Unknown,” OMNI, April 1993, p. 40).”

Detractors urge mental health workers to beware. Because therapists are no more immune to the “calling” than anyone else, they have to safeguard being lured or “called” to the unknown through their patients.

Can UFO abductees fight back?

Donna Higbee delivers another form of help that can empower UFO abductees. She has developed a number of visualization techniques and mental exercises based on a belief in an inner power. She writes that UFO abductees must understand that humans “are spiritual beings, no less important in the scheme of things than any other life form in the universe. … no entity has the right to violate our bodies and minds and take away our free will. We need to protect ourselves from these intruders.” (“What would you do?” The Research and Writings of Donna Higbee, http://users1.ee.net/pmaston/what_would.html).

Before we discuss the third and final supernatural occurrence in this article, crop circles, let us define them and see if the Bible has anything to say about unknown forces writing mysterious messages.

What are crop circles?

“Crop Circles are unexplained designs that are imprinted over the span of usually one night in fields of mostly wheat & corn, but have also occurred in barley, oats, rape (canola) grass, trees, and even snow (CCC:What Are Crop Circles? http://denali.medberry.com/krishna/defined.html).” Hieroglyphics in corn and wheat crops have caused great alarm and “called” many people to investigate fields during the spring and summer seasons throughout the world.

Most crop circles have been found in south England within a 40-mile radius of Stonehenge. Only Mainland China and South African have not reported crop circles in their countries. Note: For some dramatic photographs of crop circles visit the following sites: Crop Circle Connector, http://alpha.mic.dundee.ac.uk/ft/crop_circles/anasazi/connect.html, and Crop Circles from 1978-1996, http://alpha.mic.dundee.ac.uk/ft/crop_circles/1991/russell.html.

Does the Bible mention mysterious writings?

The sudden and inexplicable nature of patterns in the fields is reminiscent of the mysterious handwriting that suddenly appeared on the palace walls of a Babylonian king. Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar’s grandson, was holding a drunken feast with the vessels from Solomon’s temple that his grandfather had taken while in Jerusalem before he burned it (I King 24:10-16; 25:8-9).

In the midst of this riotous celebration, the “fingers of a man’s hand” appeared and wrote a message that only Daniel could decipher (Dan. 5:5-12). The news was not good. The days of Belshazzar’s reign in his kingdom were numbered and he was found wanting in the balances. The same night that Daniel interpreted the writing, Belzhazzar’s kingdom fell to the Medes and Persians.

The reader will have to decide if the messages written in the crops foretell the end of our world. (Note: Donna Higbee wonders whether it was just a coincident that a crop circle found in 1991 call the Mandlebrot set formation was a precise replica of the computerized form of a “mathematical formula where order breaks down into chaos?” Could the crop circle makers be trying to tell us something? “Crop Circles Real or Hoax,” by Donna Higbee, CHT, http://users1.ee.net/pmason/crop_circles.html.)

Has inexplicable writing ever occurred elsewhere?

Before we continue on with the examination of crop circles I want to briefly mention three other instances of sudden unprompted writings. They both revolve around the spirit realm.

First, ghosts or inhuman spirits have been documented to write on the wall of haunted houses. In the book Demonologist by Gerald Brittle that records the true story of a team of exorcists, Ed and Lorraine Warren, he describes an instance when Ed first saw blasphemous words and vulgar obscenities written on the mirrors and walls. He tried to wipe them off to spare his wife exposure to this indecent graffiti. “But no sooner did I wipe them clean than they would appear again in front of my eyes. It soon became apparent to me this wasn’t the work of human beings—or human spirits (p. 38).” Remember the hierarchy that exists in the incorporeal realm. As Elohim can write messages for humans to see so can the lower angelic creatures and souls of men.

The second instance involves H. P. Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, who was world known for her paranormal powers. In her biography The Occult World of Madame Blavatsky compiled and edited by Daniel H. Caldwell, some of her friends claimed that she could cause writing to suddenly appear on blank paper.

Once Colonel Henry S. Olcott, her dear friend and co-founder of the Society, had bought a reporter’s notebook and brought it to Madame Blavatsky. She told him to put it back in his pocket. When he removed it the second time, he found writing therein and a picture.

To say the least the Colonel was astounded. He said that “no one but myself had touched the book after it was purchased; I had had it in my pocket until it was shown to H.P.B., from the distance of two or three feet, had myself held it in my bosom, removed it a moment later when bidden” and the writing “had been done while the book was inside my waist-coat (p. 59).” She repeated this feat in front of many reputable witnesses (see the writing that appeared in the book of William Q. Judge, New York attorney, p. 62).

Third, it should be noted that during the Spiritualist movement, many mediums performed automatic writing which was said to be dictated or directed from the Spirit world.

Again, we see that the spirit realm has caused writing to appear under many conditions. [Note: Jacques Vallee wrote of “fairy-rings” and nests made by fairy people and elves dancing in the grass (Passport to Magonia, “Rings in the Moonlight,” p. 31-18).] Let us return to the writings in crops.

How are fields with crop circles affected?

The fields where designs have appeared are peculiarly affected. The stalks have not been cut or broken, but bent down and they continue to grow at a 90-degree angle. Seeds from this grain grow “40% faster than their normal counterpart from the same field (CCC: Peculiarities, http://denali.medberry.com/krishna/pecs.html).” Biophysicist and crop circle expert, Dr. William C. Levengood in Michigan believes “rapid and intense energy (possibly microwave) causes the crop circle phenomenon (“Crop Circles Real or Hoax,” by Donna Higbee, CHT, http://users1.ee.net/pmason/crop_circles.html.”).” He has examined the cells of plants within the crop circle and noticed that they are greatly enlarged, “due to the intense heating and expansion of the water within each cell.” He has used microwave energy and heated plants for 40 seconds to find they become dehydrated and burn. Dr. Levengood speculates that since plants from within crop circles “are not burned in any way but show the enlarged cell pits, then we have to assume the forming of these crop circles takes place in about 30-40 seconds. If the time were longer than that, the plant would literally be cooked … (“Crop Circles Real or Hoax,” by Donna Higbee, CHT, http://users1.ee.net/pmason/crop_circles.html.”)

What other peculiarities occur in crop circles?

Researchers, such as Linda Moulton Howe who has received local, national and international awards for her film documentaries, helped coordinate 1992-1993 scientific investigations of the crop circle mystery in England, and authored Glimpses of Other Realities, Vol. 1 - Facts and Eyewitnesses and Strange Harvests in 1993, have noted many peculiar circumstances within crop circles. Equipment fails inexplicably in these fields and magnets go haywire. An energy emission emanates from crop circles at 5khz that remains for about two years. The Center for Crop Circle Studies in England and an organization called ADAS Ltd., working with the English Ministry of Argiculture, have found high levels of nitrogen in the soil of affected crops. The only way such an amount of nitrogen can appear is after receiving an extreme electrical charge (Crop Circles…they are real! By Sw. Virato, New Frontier: Crop Circles, http://www.newfrontier.com/2/cropcirc.html). Many people who visit crop circles report both positive and negative physical reactions during and after their visit. Patterns in fields appear in both populated areas and restricted military installations.

What do crop circles have to do with geometry?

Several geometric designs have been found in crop circles. After astronomer and mathematician Gerald Hawkins studied pictures of crop circles geometrically, “he found that in many circles there was a consistent pattern of diatonic ratios that matched the white keys on a piano (“Crop Circles Real or Hoax,” by Donna Higbee, CHT, http://users1.ee.net/pmason/crop_circles.html.”).” Diatonic ratios are used in music theory to describe the scales of one note being higher in pitch than another. Hawkins said that the probability of diatonic ratios being found in crop circles is 25,000 to 1. Another researcher who played some of diatonic scales while standing in a crop circle heard static sounds in the air, saw lights hovering over the crop, and the next morning found another design in the field where he saw the lights.

How long have crop circles been sited?

The earliest crop circle reported was in 1678 in Hertfordshire, England. There appears to be a time when none were reported. The next design was reported in 1966 in Tully, England. During the seventies, reports of crop circles increased. In December 1989, 90 crop circles appeared at once in one Australian field. During the nineties, the designs changed from circles to rings, boxes, and key shapes and began appearing all over the world. After that time 200-300 have appeared yearly.

In September 1991 two Englishmen, Doug Bower and David Chorley, claimed to have created all the formations with a plank of wood and rope, but were proven frauds and admitted they were a hoax. During 1993 and afterwards the designs became more artistic (i.e., pictorgrams and glyphs) and increased in size.

Farmers found 10 petaled Mandala formations, scorpion bubbles, spider webs, spiral armed circles in the shapes of planets and stars that resembled galaxies, asteroid formations, geometrical symbols, and a DNA double helix pattern 648 feet long (Crop Circles-Chronology, http://indigo.ie/~dcd/chron.htm).

How are crop circles formed?

There are many theories about the origin of crop circles from natural occurrences to aliens, but the mystery has yet to be unfolded. Dr. Terence Meaden thinks crop circles are caused by unusual weather conditions that he calls the Plasma Vortex (Crop Circles-Chronology, http://indigo.ie/~dcd/chron.htm).

The size of these designs, their intricacy, and time in which they are completed, nearly eliminates the possibility of human intervention. Researchers have yet to find footprints leading into or out of the fields of cereal.

Dr. Collette M. Dowell, a naturopathic doctor and mathematical hobbyist who has been researching crop circles without funding on her own for the past six years believes intelligent life is behind the communications on wheat and barley. Dr. Dowell’s research on crop circle formation has been presented to the United Nations Parapsychology Department, published in the science journals of Borderland Science and the Louisiana Mounds Society. “I believe that there is a form of intelligence, other than human, that is creating these patterns in the fields for some form of communications. I say this because they are deliberate attempts for humans to see pattern in fields. There is an obvious deliberate intention to get man’s attention. … It seems as if they are multilevel coded. They involve sacred symbols and geometry, astronomical factors, earth magnetic fields, and consciousness itself (Crop Circles…they are real! By Sw. Virato, New Frontier: Crop Circles, http://www.newfrontier.com/2/cropcirc.html.)”

Why aren’t crop circles reported more often?

The media’s suppression or ridicule of the existence of crop circles shows a great fear of the unknown. They believe that if the masses of people were told about every symbol that appeared in the fields worldwide, sheer panic would set in. The newscasters could not tell the public: who made the designs, how they were made, or what they mean. Some think the government understands their meaning, but is hiding it from the public to prevent hysteria. The “calling” of some to discover what the circle makers want, however, appears greater than a government cover-up.

Conclusion

Without acknowledging Spirit (John 4:21-22), the angelic realm (Heb. 1:6), and that man is a spiritual creature (I Thess. 5:23), science will find no obvious answers for these three supernatural phenomena discussed in this article—out of body (OOB)/near death experiences (NDE), UFO abductions, and crop circles.

OOB/NDE are personal, subjective experiences that cause individuals to realize they can exist apart and separate from their physical bodies. UFO abductions are paranormal experiences where spirits (demonic or angelic) take the soul out of the body.

If crop circles are not proven to be some weird type of energy, then some type of spiritual intervention causes them. All three phenomenon cause men to look at reality a little differently then they did before their paranormal experience.

Since Yahweh knows that man cannot complete his development in the physical state, He is urging him to turn his attention to the spirit world where his learning can proceed and continue thereafter.

In short, these supernatural phenomenon are simply the beginning of a journey “calling” man to the spiritual realm. Paranormal experiences are a sign that man will be stuck eternally if he continues to focus on the physical.

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