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Starship Memories

Article by Beth Potier

Originally published in the Harvard University Gazette on October 31, 2002

Editor's Note: This author feels that many alien abduction "memories" are, how should we say it, perhaps "manufactured by imagination?" So check it out before you read the article that follows by Heidi Hollis that disagrees with what seems to be the common view that academia takes toward the alien phenomenon.

"Alien abductees" provide clues to repressed, recovered memories

By Beth Potier
Gazette Staff

Susan Clancy's research has taken her into alien territory.

For the past three years, Clancy, a postdoctoral fellow in Harvard's Psychology Department, has studied people who believe they were abducted by aliens from outer space. Her research, done in conjunction with Professors of Psychology Richard McNally and Daniel Schacter, former associate professor Mark Lenzenweger and Harvard Medical School professor Roger Pitman, was recently published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Yet Clancy's interest is not in extraterrestrial beings at all.

"As far as science knows, nobody is being abducted by aliens," she stressed.

Rather, Clancy wanted to explore conditions under which people develop false memories of traumatic events.

"One of the most bitter and volatile debates ever to occur in psychology concerns the reality of repressed and recovered memories of traumatic events," she said.

From the very serious and plausible claims of childhood sexual abuse to the less credible ones of alien abductions, psychologists are at odds over the idea that people can forget traumatic events then "recover" intact memories of the trauma years later.

On the one side are clinicians, who observe that painful memories can be repressed, banished from a trauma survivor's consciousness until they're "recovered" with the help of certain psychotherapeutic techniques in adulthood.

Memory researchers, on the other hand, say that people don't repress traumatic events; in fact they remember them all too clearly - sometimes they can't stop thinking about the trauma. When people report recovered memories of traumatic events, assert these cognitive psychologists, they are most likely creating false memories.

Intrigued by this debate, and its enormous political, legal, and social implications, Clancy noticed something missing in previous studies when she came to pursue the Ph.D. at Harvard in 1996.

"I found it striking that despite how volatile this debate was, nobody had done any research on the population that was at the center of the controversy: those who were reporting recovered memories," she said.

Using standard laboratory tests of memory, Clancy initially studied women who reported recovering memories of childhood sexual abuse, finding that they were more likely, in laboratory tests, to create false memories than women who had always remembered childhood sexual abuse. While her findings were interesting, they were limited: It was very difficult to corroborate whether or not the women with recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse actually had been sexually abused as children.

'I was so naïve'

That gap in Clancy's research on survivors of childhood sexual abuse led her into the world of people who believe they were abducted by aliens. Comfortable in her assumption that their experiences were false, she could test whether people who create false memories in the "real world" are also likely to create false memories in the lab.

But finding subjects and recruiting them for her study was more challenging - and sometimes humorous - than she could have imagined.

"Three years ago, I was so naïve. I just thought I'd put ads in newspapers asking 'have you been abducted by aliens?'" she said.

She received hundreds of calls in response to her ads, but few of them qualified as research subjects. Out of every 10 calls, she said, only two were from people who believed they had been abducted by space aliens.

The other eight were from media seeking a good story, from citizens concerned that Harvard was wasting money on bogus research, from people playing jokes on friends, and even from aliens - or people portraying aliens - themselves. A few calls, she said, were from native Spanish speakers who misunderstood the ad to be looking for illegal aliens who had been abducted at the border by immigration officials.

Convincing the "legitimate" alien abductees to participate in the study was an enormous challenge, said Clancy.

"They're very skeptical about what science is going to say about their beliefs," she said.

In the end, Clancy rounded up enough subjects for two groups of people who believed they were abducted by aliens: one group of abductees who reported recovering memories of their experience, and one group who had no actual memory of the abduction. This second group attributed a variety of signs and symptoms - unexplained scars or birthmarks, waking up in strange positions, depression, sleep disturbance, or panic at seeing a picture of an alien - to what they believed was their own alien abduction.

Clancy also studied a group of people who said they were never abducted by aliens as a control.

Testing false memories

In the lab, Clancy used a number of standard laboratory paradigms to test memory and recall. One test, called the Deese/Roediger-McDermott paradigm, has subjects memorize then recall a list of semantically related words: brownie, cookie, sugar and candy, for instance. Clancy's group of alien abductees who recovered memories of their abductions recalled the list of words successfully. There were no global memory deficits.

In fact, said Clancy, the people who recovered memories of alien abductions were seldom psychologically impaired. "They're normal, very nice people with no overt psychopathology," she said.

Yet the recovered-memory abductees as a group were much more likely to falsely remember the word sweet - not on the list, but suggested by it - than either of the other two groups. In this laboratory test, the recovered-memory group was more prone than the other two groups to create false memories.

And assuming, as Clancy and her colleagues did, that none of the subjects were actually abducted by space aliens, she drew the conclusion that people who develop false memories in the lab are also more likely to develop false memories of experiences that were suggested or imagined.

Additional research helped explain the recovered-memory group's propensity toward false memories of alien abductions.

Everyone in this group developed his or her belief of alien abduction after describing an episode that is consistent with sleep paralysis, a harmless but nonetheless frightening desychronization of sleep cycles.

"You wake up from REM [rapid eye movement] sleep but you still feel the paralysis that normally accompanies REM sleep," said Clancy.

Occurring across cultures in approximately 15 percent of the population, sleep paralysis is sometimes accompanied by hallucinations: a sensation of electrical tingling or levitation, hearing buzzing noises, seeing flashing lights or shadowy figures hovering near the bed.

That her subjects attributed this sleep paralysis to alien abduction is not surprising, said Clancy.

"There's this widely shared cultural script that helps explain these frightening sleep paralysis experiences," she said. From "The X-Files" to movies, books, and media, this group prone to creating false memories can choose from a wide array of sources for suggestion.

"I think these recovered memories are actually distorted memories of things they had read about or seen," she said.

It's not about the aliens

Clancy was pleased that the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, notoriously selective about papers it publishes, accepted this paper for its August 2002 issue with no reservations.

Collaborator Richard McNally, who was Clancy's doctoral thesis adviser, attributed the paper's acceptance to its use of well-established experimental paradigms that produced clear-cut results in an unusual population.

"It helps us to understand that there might be a link: People who show this elevated false recognition effect in the laboratory may be more likely to exhibit false memories in the real world," added collaborator Daniel Schacter.

Clancy is leaving behind the spaceships and aliens to turn her attention back to survivors of childhood sexual abuse, where she hopes her work could have a real impact.

"Childhood sexual abuse occurs, and it's terrible," she said. "If we can understand more about how people remember and forget traumatic events and how people can develop false memories of traumatic events, we can help resolve the controversy over the reality of repressed and recovered memories."

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Reply To "Starship Memories"

Thanks To Heidi Hollis

Website: www.ufo2u.com

Editor's Note: As I mentioned earlier, here is Heidi's reply...

This abductee study article (shown above) was very interesting, and to me totally proves the scientific community still doesn't have a hold on "science" which so many have blind faith in.

This article talks about repressed traumatic memories and how those that cannot recall traumatic events immediately (repressed and later recovered memories) are more likely to create falsehoods. This was found to be true in those who suffered from childhood abuse and alien abduction experiences.

The alien abductees were shown to create falsehoods because when given a list of items like: brownie, cookie, sugar...they would sometimes falsely recall a name that was not on the list like: "sweets." This was done more than the other single control group used in this study.

So if you are told to go to the store and get some bread, milk and eggs, and came back with bread, milk, eggs and cereal - you are more likely to not be a believable person because you recalled a mistaken and added item? I'm sorry, but I don't see the correlation.

They also made a whole explanation about how the infamous "sleep paralysis" definition is the key to all that believe they see shadowy figures at the foot of their bed when they cannot move. They also explained away that the images in the media help those people fill in how these shadowy figures look and such, conveniently leaving out the fact that people around the world are seeing the same beings without ever seeing our shows or toys. Nor do they look to the fact that the shows and toys came AFTER so many people came forward describing the same creatures many times over.

I don't care where the study came from, Harvard or a 2 year tech school, when you are a student you try anything to get the grade and/or attention (especially for a thesis). Apparently just brushing the surface of your volunteer's background and all the research into alien abductions doesn't go into the mix if it doesn't fit your thesis (opposing elements are always left out if you want a thesis to be believable and accepted widely).

It was also quite apparent that this researcher was much more harsh on those who claimed to have had alien contact, than those with recalled childhood abuse. It seems the study was more inconclusive than anything since the closing statement says: "Childhood sexual abuse occurs, and it's terrible," she said. "If we can understand more about how people remember and forget traumatic events and how people can develop false memories of traumatic events, we can help resolve the controversy over the reality of repressed and recovered memories."

What?

That can be said for those with childhood abuse, but this researcher was quick to state that from the start she took alien abduction as not being a real occurrence. That could have been said for recovered memories of child abuse and these "falsehood creators" in this child abuse study group, but it was not.

It seems the abductees used in this study were smart to be reluctant to help out with this thesis study then, as the researcher stated they were. But I'm sure the researcher was certain to persuade them that she would be unbiased as a study should be. But obviously she had reservations with own personal statement in not believing in taking the volunteer's word for what happened to them with aliens but taking the child abuse people's word for their unbelievable trauma.

If your cause is already being looked at as a definition sitting in their back pocket as simply being "sleep paralysis" before the study even began, then the study was a joke from the start. This is just another case of the phenomena of alien abduction getting the attention it usually gets, just to be used as a punching bag and disregarded as a figment of millions of people's imagination.

Heidi H.

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Are Aliens Demons? (Part 2)

Thanks To Noah

Editors Notes: This is the second of a two-part article. The first part was published in the October 31, 2002 issue.

Here are some UFO quotes from researchers which may shed further light on this subject:

"A recurring theme in the abduction scenario is the delivery of detailed messages to abductees. The messages delivered to abductees are typically done by telepathic (mind to mind) conversation....In some cases, abductees report being shown scenes or messages on large screens within the alien craft. These messages are usually horrific prophetic scenarios about impending cataclysmic events on Earth and the destruction of Earth due to environmental degradation. In some cases overt religious messages are given to abductees. These messages can include te notion that the aliens are our creators, that they are trying to advance our evolution through these breeding experiments, and that mankind must unify-with their assistance-into a system of global governance and religion in order to survive the future cataclysms."
- Missler & Eastman, Alien Abductions, pp. 108-109

"I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centered on the UFO belief. To a greater degree than all phenomena modern science is confronting, the UFO can inspire awe, the sense of the smallness of man, and an idea of the possibility of contact with the cosmic. The religions we have briefly surveyed began with the miraculous experiences of one person, but to-day there are thousands for whom the belief in otherworldly contact is based on intimate conviction, drawn from what they regard as personal contact with UFOs and their occupants."
-Jacques Vallee, Dimensions, 1989, p.192.

"Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception."
-Dr. Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 20

"We are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon which is largely indigenous to planet earth."
- Brad Steiger, [cited in] Blue Book Files Released in Canadian UFO Report, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1977, p. 20

"The UFO phenomena represents a manifestation of reality that transcends our current understanding of physics...The UFOs are physical manifestations that cannot be understood apart from their psychic and symbolic reality. What we see in effect here is not an alien invasion. It is a control system which acts on humans and uses humans."
-Jaques Vallee, Messengers of Deception,1977 pp.209-210

"...Further, in light of the messages given by the UFO entities, how credible is it to think that literally thousands of genuine extraterrestrials would fly millions or billions of light years simply to teach New Age philosophy, deny Christianity, and support the occult? Why would they do this with the preponderance of such activity already occuring on this planet? And why would the entities actually possess an inhabit people(as in Walk-ins and channeling)just like demons do if they were really advanced extraterrestrials? Why would they consistently lie about things which we know are true, and why would they purposely deceive their contacts?"
- John Ankerberg & John Weldon, The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena, 1992 .p13.

"There seems to be no evidence yet that any of these craft or beings originate from outer space."
- Gordon Creighton, Official 1992 Flying Saucer Review Policy Statement

"A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked with mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects like mental telepathy, automatic writing and invisible entities as well as phenomena like poltergeist [ghost] manifestation and 'possession.' Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic possession and psychic phenomena."
- Lynn E. Catoe, UFOs and Related Subjects: USGPO, 1969; prepared under AFOSR Project Order 67-0002 and 68-0003

"UFO behaviour is more akin to magic than to physics as we know it... the modern UFOnauts and the demons of past days are probably identical."
- Dr. Pierre Guerin, FSR Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 13-14

"The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmorifications tailoring themselves to our abilities to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicate that they are liars and put-on artist. The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon..."
- Dr. Pierre Guerin, FSR Vol. 25, No. 1, p.192

"Demonology is not just another crackpot-ology. It is the ancient and scholarly study of the monsters and demons who have seemingly coexisted with man throughout history. Thousands of books have been written on the subject, many of them authored by educated clergymen, scientist and scholars...The manifestations and occurences described in this imposing literature are similar, if not entirely identical, to the UFO phenomenon itself....The Devil and his demons can, according to the literature, manifest themselves in almost any form and can physically imitate anything from angels to horrifying monsters with glowing eyes. Strange objects and entities materialize and dematerialize in these stories, just as the UFOs and their...occupants appear and disappear, walk through walls, and perform other supernatural feats."
- John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse,1996, p. 266

"Studies of flying saucer cults repeatedly show that they are part of a larger occult social world."
-Stupple & McNeece, 1979 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, p.49

"The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks."
- Dr. Jacques Vallee, Confrontations, p. 13

"The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the [occult] traditions of every culture...the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals...the UFO beings of today belong to the same class of manifestation as the [occult] entities that were described in centuries past."
- Dr. Jacques Vallee citing the extensive research of Bertrand Meheust [Science-Fiction et Soucoupes Volantes (Paris, 1978); Soucoupes Volantes et Folklore (Paris, 1985)], in Confrontations, p. 146, 159-161

"These entities are clever enough to make Strieber think they care about him. Yet his torment by them never ceases. Whatever his relationship to the entities, and he increasingly concludes that their involvement with him is something 'good,' he also remains terrified of them and uncertain as to what they are."
- John Ankerberg, The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena, p. 21

"I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate...'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place."
- Whitley Strieber, Communion, p. 25-26

"Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal. There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word demon had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were working with me...Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning of demons ...At the very least I was going stark, raving mad."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 44-45

"I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 172

"I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I couldn't move, couldn't cry out, couldn't get away. I'd lay as still as death, suffering inner agonies. Whatever was there seemed so monstrously ugly, so filthy and dark and sinister. Of course they were demons. They had to be. And they were here and I couldn't get away."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 181

"Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did not want me to know why...What if they were dangerous? Then I was terribly dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing people to them."
-Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 96

"The ancient being whose secret we have kept for so long, who is about to guide us into full consciousness and companionship with very God, is us. This is not because there are no aliens. There are certainly aliens. But far fewer than we have imagined. Indeed, intelligent species are extremely rare, and those with the spark of potential we possess are even more so. All conscious species are each other. At the level of consciousness that is important, in the sense that it is resonant in eternity, being and species are the same thing. Every being is the entire species, and every species is the entirety of being. This is the true meaning of the statement, 'I am the first and the last.' It is why the visitors once said to me in a time of great distress, "why do you call on your gods? It's only us." At the time, it seemed a cruel, even devastating thing to say, a demonic lie. But I see it now for what it really was: an invitation for us to take our place in God--to surrender ourselves to consciousness."
- Whitley Strieber, Article "Reason for the Secrecy", Unknown Country Journal, May 7th 2002

"One of the purposes for which UFOs travel to Earth is to abduct humans to help aliens produce other beings. It is not a program of reproduction but one of production. They are not here to help us, they have their own agenda and we are not allowed to know it's full parameters"
-Dr. David Jacobs, Secret Life, p. 305

"Everything I learned in 20 years of research into the UFO abduction phenomenon leads me to conclude that the aliens central purpose is not to teach us about taking better care of the environment:instead, all the evidence points to their being here to carry out a complex breeding experiment in which they seem to be working to create a hybrid species, a mixture of human and alien characteristics. A careful reading of the various witnesses account suggest that here , as in many earlier cases, reproductive issues appear far more frequently than alien ecological concerns.
- Budd Hopkins, Witnessed, p.378

"I think we are looking at a catastrophic situation. I think we are looking at a disaster. We are seeing a unified program here with these beings, a program of physiological exploitation by one species of another. I know this sounds absolutely insane...we are looking at a colonization program in some way"
- Dr. David Jacobs, NBC Confirmation Broadcast, Feb. 17/99.

"..If for the sake of argument we grant that life on Earth was seeded by ancient extraterrestrials, then the obvious question is , Who or what created our extraterrestrial creators? Some would argue that they were, in turn sprinkled (created) by an even more ancient race of ET's. Well, where did they come from? An infinite regression back in time of "alien sprinklings" will not do, because the universe is finite.."
- Missler & Eastman, Alien Encounters, p.141.

"I believe there is a machinery of mass manipulation behind the UFO phenomenon. it aims at social and political goals by diverting attention from some human problems and by providing a potential release for tensions caused by others. The contactees are part of that machinery. They are helping to create a new form of belief:an expectation of actual contact among large parts of the public..."
-Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p.20

"During Mexico City's First International UFO Congress, August 24, 1995, researcher-lecturer John Rhodes announced that the wave of UFO activity over Mexico City (which began during the July 11, 1991 total solar eclipse) may be related to the Reptilian 'alien' race. 'They appear to be here in force,' he claimed, 'and they may be preparing the way for the Prophesied return of the Feathered Serpent god of ancient Mexico ....Quetzalcoatl.' Mr. Rhodes' announcement was received with great enthusiasm, for the Mexican people have patiently awaited for hundreds of years for the spiritual redemption promised by their loving reptilian imaged god. According to the Aztecs of ancient Mexico, Quetzalcoatl was a divine being that taught the primitive Aztecs the arts, agriculture, astronomy, sciences, bloodless ritualism and how to create their famous calendar."
- www.reptoid.com

"We believe that the stage is set for worship and reverence of alien entities as our 20th-century global religion which will culminate in the greatest deception in the history of mankind."
- Missler & Eastman, Alien Encounters, p.261.

"We believe that the cultural preparations (or deliberate conditioning) of the world to view our alien visitors as powerful and highly evolved saviours makes the UFO phenomena the perfect motif for the Antichrist (an imposter, posing as Christ) to exploit when he ascends to power. His ability to perform supernatural signs and wonders, his comprehensive plan for the peaceful unification of mankind and his connection to or origin from god-like alien entities will engender the masses to follow him into the biggest deception in history."
pp. 295-296

The Path - A New Book by Whitley Streiber

09-Aug-2002

The Path is finished.after 26 years. I learned it in 1976. I first started talking about publishing it in 1980. Now, in the year 2002, it's finally done. Writing it has made me look back over the life I have lived, and ask myself what I have really done with my time on earth. I've had a good marriage and raised a son. I took up the challenge of the Path in 1976 and remained true to it. Now, when I say that it's real and it works, I can speak with the authority of a quarter-century of using it every day of my life.

The reason that the visitors stayed in my life for nine years was the Path. Because I was struggling to make it part of my soul, a whole spectrum of beings paid attention to me. They were genuine teachers and they knew it. They brought their mastery to my questions, and I was able to use what they offered to help me on my journey.

I hope that the book I have made out of this is an effective tool. Certainly, it accurately portrays the inner working of the path it describes, and shows how to make it part of oneself.

But the path is a huge thing. It can make a big difference in a person's life because it offers clarity where previously there has been a lot of mythology and symbolism. It's plain and simple, and, I hope, as spiritually powerful as it is meant to be.

The reason that I want it to work fast is that we need its strength and clarity of vision very badly right now. We cannot spend a lifetime constructing a path out of the bits and pieces that have been left behind. Times are changing, and great storms are coming to our world, and we need something that can give us the strength we are going to need, or at least point us in the right direction.

I hope and trust that the Path is such an instrument. Back in 1970, I joined a group called the Gurdjieff Foundation. I did this after reading a book called In Search of the Miraculous, by P.D. Ouspensky. Essentially, the Gurdjieff work is about learning to use one's attention as a tool, rather than letting it fly aimlessly from one thing to the next.

Trying to really do this was the beginning of my life's inner journey. In 1983, I left the Gurdjieff Foundation on the theory that, if I could not do it on my own after thirteen years of intensive effort, then perhaps I wasn't strong enough.

Two years later, I found myself face-to-face with real masters of inner work, my visitors. To this day, I do not know who or what they were. I have learned to use my questions about them as a source of growth. But I do know this: they were true masters. They knew the soul's journey, and they offered themselves as guides for me on mine. Because of my understanding of the laws of three and seven-the law of structure and octave-that I had learned in the Gurdjieff Work and learned to internalize on the Path, I understood what was on offer, and was able to take advantage of it.

In other words, there was real communication. I have described some of these interactions in my books about my life with them, but I have never written about the reason they chose me, nor the task that I was given, which was to make something in our world that would serve others the same way the Path served me, as the foundation of real relationship with higher beings.

I might add, here, that I am sure that I will get letters from people warning me that I must have been in "contact" with demons. I was not. The visitors I knew were good beyond the frontiers of goodness. They knew what my soul needed, and they were wise enough not to offer it to me, but to create conditions under which I could grasp it of my own free will, if I had the strength and the courage. In short, they were wise enough and brave enough to trust this confused, frightened and lesser creature to bear the weight of his own search without either going mad or seizing on some clever, empty answer.

When I went to meet them, it was always in the dark of the night. But the meetings flooded my search with light. I have written the Path so that others might attract their attention in the same way, by revealing useful need to them.

I see the way the world is going very clearly, and I can predict the future. There are many abuses taking place now that are going to come back to haunt us. Among other things, our failure to address issues of environmental decline in a clear-headed and productive way, our indiscriminate unleashing of rogue genes into our own food supply, and our inability to resolve so many of our conflicts will combine with ongoing and developing natural changes to throw our world into chaos. This will happen. It is absolutely inevitable.

A great part of the reason that I have written the Path is to provide users of the book with an inner anchor that will stand the test of chaos, that will enable them to keep feeding their souls even in the very worst of times. The sublime part of it, though, is, if we manage to reach instead toward the heaven on earth that science seems to be putting within our grasp, the Path will become, then also, a foundation for inner work that will offer real growth, no matter the times in which the traveler finds himself.

It's so amazing to have finished it. For all these years, I have been challenged by a question: will I ever be able to accomplish this? What if I die before I'm ready, or if I'm never ready? Then why have I lived?

I have lived, in great part, because of this. And now it exists. It's real. So many, many times over the past 26 years, I have said to myself, 'you'll never write it, you'll never learn how.' But I did learn how, and now it exists. I can hardly believe it. I am so glad.

This, incidentally, is my 100th entry in this journal. That's a coincidence--I suppose.

http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/?id=100

Some verses in the Bible about the coming Antichrist:

MATTHEW 24

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before. 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

2 THESSALONIANS 2

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

REVELATION 13

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear. 10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (666)

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Reply To "The Seven Clans Of Mars"

Thanks To Elaine Lucas

Editor's Note: In Pancake Perspectives Issue 10 we printed a story submitted by Mary Sutherland entitled "The Seven Clans Of Mars." Mary Sutherland has also posted this story on her site with a 2002 copyright to herself, but if the following information is true, we admittedly got duped and the story has actually been around for quite some time. Check out the links in this article and you decide the story's true origin...

Elaine writes:

I did not, personally, write it but it is from my site and I've been in possession of it, in one way or another since 1998. I believe it to be true along with a couple of other items I received during the same time period.

After NASA posted the 1998 MGS photos of the 'face', I received several anonymous communications over a the next year and a half, one of which was the 'story'. It was sent in three separate parts at different times with 'More to follow...' at the end of each section.

When I first started receiving these communications I didn't have a webpage so I used to send the items to Kent Steadman @ CyberSpace Orbit to post on his site, for me. [Kent called it 'The Ancient Saga'] When I started my own page, I based it on these communications. The URLs for these three are:

The Clues - http://www.marsearthconnection.com/clues.html

The Email - http://www.marsearthconnection.com/email.html

The Story- http://www.marsearthconnection.com/story.html

I don't mind people using things from my pages because the purpose of my site is to get information out and maybe get corroboration on some things but if they do use items I would expect them to, at least, cite the URL or link back to my page rather than claim them as their own.

I'm not familiar with Mary Sutherland, or why she would claim this as her own since a lot of people who have webpages in, or frequent, the UFO/Mars areas of the internet are aware it's from my pages. I know this because I've taken a lot of heat from them, over the years, for posting these items anonymously and without explanation.

Early Article Dates

Kent and I found a couple of early links to the 'story', in his archives. The following date is the first time we could find which cites the 'story'. This is one month after the April '98 MGS photos came out.

Date: Tue, 12 May 1998
http://dev.null.org/psychoceramics/archives/1998.05/msg00017.html

We found another reference to it in Kent's 1999 archives:
May 6, 1999
http://web.archive.org/web/19990506102526/http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/ra.html

As I said, earlier, I didn't have my own site in 1998 but I did have the 'story' and I sent it to Kent Steadman to post on ORBIT
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/

Elaine Lucas
Searching for the Mars-Earth Connection
http://www.marsearthconnection.com/connection.html

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