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SUBJECT: REPTILIAN ENTITIES FILE: UFO2565
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By: Bill Chalker, ParaNet/UFORA Associate NSW (9:1040/8)
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Just as "reptilian" entities are rare amongst UFO abduction narratives they are
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also rare amongst shamanic narratives. However like the UFO abduction accounts
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they are striking when they occur. Like the UFO related accounts they do occur
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but are not the dominantly reported "being".
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Dr. Michael Harner, an anthropologist and leading authority on shamanism
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describes his own remarkable introduction to shamanic visions in his book "The
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Way of the Shaman" (1980).
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Shamanic visions are accessed in a variety of ways in different continents.
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For example in Australia no "drugs" are used. While the method of induction
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varies widely, the essential content is remarkably consistent:
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* selection or capture
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* initiation experiences (which include accounts of implanting artifacts,
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removal of organs, etc)
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* "magical flights" including "celestial ascents" to strange realms
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* dialogues with mythic personages or spirits
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* return
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(from Harner, Kalweit, et. al.)
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Harner spent over a year with the Conibo Indians of the Ucayali River region in
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the Peruvian Amazon during 1960 and 1961. He found that local shamans accessed
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the "shamanic realm" by using a sacred drink prepared from "ayahuasca" (the
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"soul vine", "the vision vine", "the little death").
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Harner took the drink with dramatic results. He experienced a remarkable
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shamanic vision.
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He found himself in something resembling a huge fun house, "a supernatural
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carnival of demons", presided over by "a gigantic, grinning crocodilian head,
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from whose cavernous jaws gushed a torrential flood of water." The flood
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transformed the scene into "a simple duality of blue sky above and sea below."
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He saw 2 strange boats wafting back and forth in the air and coming closer.
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They slowly combined to form a single vessel (shades of Dr. X !! and
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Birmingham's 1868 "UFO vision") like a viking ship. "Ethereal singing" could
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be heard and he was able to make out "bird-headed" humans onboard.
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At the same time some sort of "essence" began to float up from his chest up
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into the boat. A form of paralysis started to set in. Fearing he was dying,
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Harner tried to summons help from the Indians that were around him in reality
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but not accessible in this shamanic state of consciousness.
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Harner gradually became aware of more visions and information, being presented
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to him by "giant reptilian creatures reposing sluggishly at the lowermost
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depths of the back of my brain". "I could only vaguely see them in what seemed
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to be gloomy, dark depths." He was given information reserved for the dying
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and the dead, he was told.
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The "reptiles" projected a visual scene in front of Harner, which showed the
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creation of life on earth. But first before that life there were hundreds of
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"large, shiny, black creatures with stubby pterodactyl-like wings and huge
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whale-like bodies" that dropped from the sky and landed on the barren
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landscape. Their heads were not visible (shades of Voronezh and even Lake
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George in Australia). These beings were fleeing from enemies from outer space.
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They created life on earth "in order to hide within the multitudinous forms
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and thus disquise their presence."
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Harner leart that "the dragon-like creatures were thus inside of all forms of
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life including man (almost like DNA, although at the time, 1961, Harner knew
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nothing of DNA). They were the true masters of humanity and the entire planet",
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the "dragon - like creatures" told Harner.
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He was caught up in a struggle being the aerial ship with the "bird" people
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taking his "soul" and the "dragon-like denizens of the depths."
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As he felt he was about to die Harner was able to cry out "medicine", whereupon
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in the real world the Indians frantically sent about making an antidote. A
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powerful being appeared before Harner to protect him from "the alien reptlian
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creatures".
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Simultaneously the antidote to "the little death" drink was given, and the
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dragons and "the soul boat" disappeared.
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While the antidote eased his condition, Harner continued having "many
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additional visions of a more superficial nature... I made fabulous journeys at
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will through distant regions, even out into the galaxy; created incredible
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architecture; and employed sardonically grinning demons to realize my
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fantasies."
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He finally slept until waking surprisingly refreshed and peaceful the following
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morning.
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Harner found that he could remember all of the experience except for "the
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communication from the dragon-like creatures". Eventually he was able to
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rember it. He was then seized by a fear that he should not know this material,
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that was it seemed intended only for the dying. His remedy - he quickly told
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others, including local missionairies, who were started by the similarities
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with parts of the Book of Revelations. This came as a surprise to Harner - an
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atheist.
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Harner also sought advice on his "vision" from "the most supernaturally
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knowledgeable of the indians, a blind shaman who had made many excursions into
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the spirit world with the aid of the "ayahuasca" drink. The shaman said of
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Harner's "masters of the earth", "Oh, they're always saying that. But they are
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only the Masters of Outer Darkness."
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The shaman further surprised Harner when he casually indicated that these
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"spirits" came from the sky. Harner had not yet mentioned that he had seen
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them coming from outer space!
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I don't think I need to point out the numerous correspondences with modern day
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abduction narratives.
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If you want to read the story in detail see Harner's book pgs. 1 - 8.
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Regards,
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Bill Chalker.
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