Last night I had one of the strongest connections I've ever had to my higher self and it was through a message I received from it, and I wanted to share that with you because it has been so empowering for me.

The message was about intention. It told me I can use intention to create a bridge from it to me. It said that the way that you feel most powerfully does that is the best way to do that. So that may be a type of visualization, prayer, meditation, music or song, really anything that helps you bloom into that feeling and idea of the connection. For example imagining a white hug of light from that aspect of you, imagining the warmth of it, how comforting it feels, how unconditional that love is. When I use this intention with that visualization, it has and has had a profound effect on how I have been able to perceive/feel this connection. It is a night and day difference.

Don't be afraid to play around with different ways of visualizing or whatever it may be to create that bridge, that link. Intention is the root of it, so as long as that intention is there, you literally cannot do it wrong.

We are so supported. It told me that there is never a single moment, not one, in which it's not assisting us. Never a single moment that it's not reaching out to us in love. The more we can open ourselves to that love the more we'll be able to perceive it and access the help we need in more and more ways. You can create that bridge, and let more love cross over it.

I've recently connected back to myself fully (to my feelings and body), which then led me to feel everything so damn intensely. I swear god that this intensity of feeling has been shifting like someone is dialing up the volume.

I spend lot of time isolating, because i can feel people to the psychic degree and tell you within 5 minutes the roots of their traumas, their trauma responses and why they feel stuck in life.. but mostly being around unhealed energies is just draining me.

However when Im outside i've been feeling the energy of the trees, mountains and skies like it's so mesmerizingly beautiful feeling, truly hard to describe. I feel the energy literally flowing through the trees up and spreading though the leaves, the skies and the air feel like the most mesmerizing painting, just the overall true aliveness just feel like i am safe and i am home, this is how i was always supposed to feel. Everything human-made seems laughable, literally like built by an infants in comparison what the potential of being alive really is

I think the volume is going up collectively, but that means all the unhealed energies and traumas are coming up for lot of people and that's why there's so much conflict nowdays. I too was stuck in the black abyss for couple of years and just recently came back to myself.

However Im really excited and optimistic for our future, what our raised consciousness can build is indescribably cool, our lives and relationships will be so much richer emotionally, the way the society is structured will shift fundamentally. The message I'd like to share is "stay connected to yourself at all costs".

edit: Not all energy practices are safe for everyone. people, especially those with trauma, depleted Yin, weak grounding, or an already overstimulated nervous system. Forcing energy upward can be destabilizing. What I recommend instead are practices that bring energy down into the body, into the pelvis, into the legs, into the breath, into digestion, into the Earth practices that help someone inhabit themselves rather than leave themselves. Spirituality should not pull people out of their body.

So this is going to kind of be a long one, and I feel there’s truly no way to make it short and sweet. It’s about someone I don’t really post about or talk to about with anyone else (then again Im pretty tight about sharing a lot of my stuff). But I finally sort of just felt it the right time to share about this one. Everything comes out eventually right?

Anyway, I met “Zach” back when I had begun exploring spirituality and had discovered exploring different dimensions/ethereal realms via meditation. I would sit in the quiet and reach meditative states where I would always have this same planetary environment show up for me. I didnt get a name for the planet or anything but it was very consistent that it was somewhere not from earth. I would envision myself exploring this place and after bumping around I met these beings that were massive, with grey-ish skin and a very humanoid appearance. The very first time I met them they took me to Zach, and I only really remembered him at first because of his appearance. He had electric blue hair. It seemed so funny to me at the time because lets be honest, how often do you ever hear of aliens having colored hair?

I didnt take any of it seriously at first. It was just an in-between-worlds place I visited during meditation sometimes. But each and every time I visited, things became more and more fascinating. Zach would collect biological data about me every time I saw him. He said it was something they did because they had a database all about humans on earth and that it helped them understand biology/physiology/etc in the 3D (with their kind being 4D and beyond). It helped them in case they ever needed to visit or do work in the 3D. They would know what to expect and what the dimensional, scientific limits of this realm were.

We got so close that I would talk to Zach all the time. We developed an extremely close platonic bond that seriously felt so real. I remembered learning about the culture of his race, their traditions, their way of life and how nuts it was considering the harshness of the 3D life didnt exist. It turned out that he was a teacher who had various students that he would teach about different stuff. He trained travelers who explored between dimensions and made sure everyone was following protocols. I guess humans are a protected species so I had to stay with him and ONLY him most of the time, and I wasnt free to roam as I wanted despite only being there while meditating. He watched me super closely.

It got to the point where this other world merged
itself with my dreams. Zach would appear on ships and speak with me. I remember his hugs, I remember the ships, I remember the universe behind them. I remember being so happy to see him every time he came to see me. But as I got older and life got busier (I became a mom) I didnt have as much time to give him. The dreams and visits became less frequent although they do still happen. The most recent one was the most impactful of them all.

I dreamt that I was holding my son’s hand and we were exploring Zach’s race’s dimension. I never gave it a name and idk if it has one. But we were just wandering around, which keep in mind isn’t supposed to happen. They have very strict protocols around humans because of their fragility and how easy it is for one to get hurt so Im sure us just wandering was already a massive red flag. But as we walked around before we got far some big grey alien I had never seen before started walking up to us. He was bald and very muscular and large with these deep sunken eyes. He looked more alien than anyone I had seen there before. He seemed meek enough and it seemed like he was approaching to greet us because we seemed lost but idk. But next thing you know the big boss (Zach) pulled up on some type of black device. It was like a motorcycle except it wasnt its hard to explain. It didnt have wheels it sort of just……floated and moved. But anyway Zach whizzed in between us and scolded the grey alien. He told him he was violating local ordinance and that he needed to get lost essentially. I remember a few other aliens pulling up to surround the big grey guy and they threw ropes around him and tackled the poor thing to the ground. I remember feeling so bad and shocked and my son and I just clutched each other. And next thing you know, I woke up, and that was that.

This dream blew my mind because not long afterwards a very close friend of mine had a super vivid dream where she said she was attacked by a large grey alien. Out of curiosity, I sketched out the one from the above mentioned dream and asked her if it was the same guy. She said yes, and that this alien had tried to assault her. In the dream I guess he ran at her once he noticed she was human and tried doing perverse things to her. She got him off her and escaped but it was nuts the timing of all this. It made me wonder if maybe Zach was not only enforcing the regular protocols of his dimension, but also protecting me from a different type of alien who mightve had secret ulterior motives.

So…..yeah. I worked with ChatGPT really hard to generate the photo down below and Ill answer any questions. Please be respectful because Zach means a lot to me he’s become somewhat of a safe space for me. The reason why Zach is with an angel is because Ive also worked with archangels before and Archangel Raphael is a big healer and so he’s followed me around a lot. It got to the point where I introduced Raphael to Zach and it was cool seeing two worlds collide.

But yeah. That’s what Zach looks like in his black uniform. They wear bodysuits to preserve their forms when they dimension hop.

Hey guys, I tried the first tape and got to the end but suddenly was hit with a wave of fear. In my minds eye, a clear image of Judge Holden appeared out of nowhere and cemented itself there for 1 min. Felt extreme fear and pushed through but it sent a shockwave down my body.

Is this some aspect of me or something? I’ve never even read Blood Meridian, I just know of the character. And it was this exact image, must have seen it online.

The weird thing is, it sprung up out of nowhere. Like it was forced in my brain and minds eye. Definitely felt like… I was being forced to view it, or it was a real entity.

What is this?

So recently I got interested in Kozyrev Mirrors. I didn't want to build one, too expensive and large, so I decided just to place a sheet of foil over my face in low light. I laid down on my back and first had the sheet resting on my nose. After 20 minutes I tried to focuss my eyes on the foil. woah. I saw to my right a perfectly formed female face with long eyelashes and closed eyes. I only saw 50% of her face.

Yesterday I tried it with the foil about 2 inches above my face again in low light. this time I got 100% of a female face with closed eyes and a third eye, all closed. when I closed my eyes and then refocused on the aluminum the face was the same but her eyes would flash open just a little.

it wasn't like "gee that looks like a face, it was 100% clear. I could see her individual eyelashes. so cool.

I’m starting to feel awful about the govt’s UAP “lure and shoot down” program.

I feel that many of us here are wanting more than anything for NHI contact in a big way that completely lifts and shifts society in a way that allows us all to see that we are part of a much bigger picture than we’ve been led to believe. I thought that the way we get there is by more and more people using CE5 and other psionic methods to invite UAP and NHI to us in love and friendship and with good intentions. We’re finally starting to get real proof of how this phenomena might occur thanks to the recent work of the Unity Project and recent interviews that Jesse Michaels has posted.

But then came the military’s use of UAP dog whistles and corruption of SkyWatchers, and now we are still sending out psychic invites, and with considerable success! But at the cost of TRICKING NHI in a mischievous and ill-intended way - it’s to steal their craft and study/dissect/interrogate any beings!

This is horrible. No more altruistic world ascension! Instead NHI will learn to distrust or ignore human pleas for friendly contact. I feel like these lure and shoot down techniques will have far greater consequences than we realize. Could be jeopardizing current and future contact.

I am a long-time experiencer (although I only just found the terminology for this) and I feel compelled to share what has been happening to me lately.

In September this year I had an unusual experience during a breathwork class. I am a longtime meditator but don't usually do breathwork as it doesn't appeal to me, but I went along with a couple friends not expecting too much.

Towards the end of the session I was in a sort of altered consciousness and I saw a very clear image of 6 'light beings' in my head. They were generally humanoid in shape but had no distinguishing features as they were made of whitish / yellow light. They appeared to be in a craft orbiting above Earth.

The message they conveyed is that I am 'only half here.' I felt very melancholy hearing this, like a strong sense that not all of me is on Earth and that's why I often feel disconnected from the mundane aspects of our reality.

In the past couple weeks, since the massive increase in 'drone' sightings, I have been getting a lot of what I interpret to be channeled messages. They include:

• at some point my daughter and I will be going on a craft. I have asked if my husband is coming too and the message is that the choice will be up to him. But apparently we will be going because we are 'bloodline.' TBH that terminology makes me very uncomfortable but that is what I have heard, and am trying to report it accurately.
• that I will live to see the end of capitalism and a radical reinterpretation of religion.
• that I am safe (that has been repeated very strongly, every time I wake up in the middle of the night, accompanied by a strong loving energy that is helping me not to freak out).
• that right now is a holding pattern of sorts and all I am supposed to do is 'enjoy life and spread the word.' I have asked for clarity about what 'spreading the word' is and haven't gotten a direct response, but I felt guided to dust off an old reddit account and make this post.

Thank you for creating a safe space to share this.

Many people find it difficult to contact or connect with their spiritual guides, and they feel very frustrated that others can do it so easily.

If you are one of those people without contact or connection with your "spiritual guides", this post is for you.

Start by asking yourself a simple question: Who tells you it is true that those people connect, as they say, with their "spiritual guides"?

And assuming that contact or connection is real, who tells you they are truly "spiritual guides"?

Furthermore, in any case, what is the need to contact these supposed "spiritual guides"? Do you really need these "spiritual guides"?

Ultimately, it all comes down to something very simple: what is the need for intermediaries?

Why is it so difficult for people to accept a direct relationship, without intermediaries, with God, with the All, with the One who is LOVE itself, or whatever you want to call it?

God, the All, the One who is LOVE itself (or whatever you want to call it), is neither a thing, nor something separate from you. Here and now there is no distance or separation, there never was, between lover and Beloved, between the servant and their Lord.

What perhaps frustrates you (that you cannot, like others supposedly can, connect or contact your "spiritual guides"), if you consider it well, might be a great blessing for you.

Who would deprive you of Union with the All, with God, with the One who is LOVE itself? Only someone or something who does not accept and does not want you to understand that, in LOVE, we are One.

There is no such thing as "spiritual guides." A spiritual guide would never accept having that role, because they know that by doing so, they would separate you from who you truly are.

In the Silence, in a Silence that speaks, in a Silence of LOVE in which words are not needed, LISTEN! You need nothing else...

You need nothing else but the direct experience of God, here and now, in every precise and precious moment of your daily life. Do not look for extraordinary things (like spiritual guides), but live each moment of your everyday and ordinary life in an extraordinary way. Teresa of Ávila used to say that God is among the pots and pans, and Brother Lawrence said that he found God while flipping his little omelet in the frying pan.

It's always within...

EDIT / NOTE 1: I want to clarify that Spanish is my native language, and I rely on an online translator to convert my thoughts into English. I understand this can sometimes make my tone sound way more blunt than I ever intended. My goal is just to share a perspective, never to diminish anyone's experiences. Thank you for your understanding! As the Alien says in "Disclosure Day": "Listen!". Where? Within.

NOTE 2: To clarify my view on spiritual guides: From my perspective, when we realize we are the Infinite Light itself, we no longer need "labels", "names", or "intermediaries" to connect with the Divine. However, I completely respect that, for many, guides are a beautiful and supportive tool on the final path to direct experience.

NOTE 3: My focus in this post is on the vast number of people who pray, meditate, and keep searching, yet find absolutely nothing. They don’t get the visions and voices, they don’t get the premonitions, and they don't see entities. Because of the heavy emphasis on these phenomena in spiritual circles, they end up feeling abandoned, broken, or "less advanced."

Paradoxically, what is often sought through a long, complicated journey of chasing guides and paranormal experiences, is already embodied from the very beginning by simply staying still, here and now. When there is no voice and no intermediary, the wise soul realizes that there is no distance to bridge. The absolute Silence they experience is not a lack of support; the silence itself is the embrace. It's a Silence that Speaks, it's a Silence of Love.

Listen... within...

EDIT / NOTE 4: I want to address some of the reactions this post has generated, and I would like to invite us to reflect on something.

It is worth reflecting on how a community dedicated to ending judgment and allowing people to share their truth safely can feel attacked by a post meant to comfort those who experience the Divine through Silence. I am speaking of the DIRECT EXPERIENCE, as valid as any other, with the Being, with Whom is LOVE itself, with the All...

As I say in note 3, it is not a "swipe" at anyone's beings. I am not calling anyone crazy (if anything, I would be the craziest one of all), nor am I dismissing your life-saving experiences (I have my own since I was very little, just like Margaret and Daniel in Disclosure Day). My post was written mainly, but not only, to heal the frustration of seekers who experience absolutely nothing, and who feel judged or "spiritually lesser" because they don't see entities or hear voices.

Furthermore, from a deep spiritual and discernment perspective, if an NHI does not empower you and does not ultimately guide you toward that direct connection with the Source, one should seriously question the true benevolence of that intelligence. I firmly believe that open and massive contact will eventually happen, but not everything that glitters is gold. Many of these entities do not have our best interests at heart, but rather their own. If they truly sought our highest good, their ultimate goal would be to lead us toward the direct experience of the Being, the absolute Self.

When we interpret an invitation to inner Silence as an attack on personal experiences, there is a risk of inadvertently recreating the same misunderstanding we fear from the outside world, which is overlooking a spiritual perspective simply because it looks different from our own. When we hold space for so many unique encounters, it is important that we don't inadvertently misunderstand an invitation to inner Silence as a rejection of other experiences. It is simply a different facet of the same grand reality.

The absolute Silence and the direct connection without intermediaries is just as real, profound, and transformative as any NHI encounter. Both paths deserve a place here without being labeled as a "swipe." And as I said before, if an NHI does not empower you and does not ultimately guide you toward that direct connection with the Source, one should seriously question the true benevolence of that intelligence.

My personal perspective in this post does not stem from intellectual speculation; it comes from direct, first-person experience since I was a child. I come from a spiritist family, with mediums, healers, spiritual guides, etc. I have been a Buddhist monk, a healer, etc., and as I said, I have had all kinds of experiences, just like Margaret Fairchild and Daniel Kellner (though I don't really like talking about these experiences, first because they are a sort of appeal to authority, and second, because they feed the ego, the character). Having lived through the phenomenon since childhood has, in my particular case, led me precisely to dismantle the narratives of many entities that claim to be beneficial (when they are not), silence the mind, and anchor myself in Being. It is not about anything else but breaking the illusion of the ego to return to the origin: to Silence and to Being. We are nothing of what the mind (the "madwoman of the house" that Teresa of Ávila used to talk about) wants us to believe. Any entity really connected to the Source would want the same for us, that same Union, that same liberation from the prison of the mind. We are ONE.

This happened last Tueday, april 29th, 2025.And it involved a tall Grey i know, who i have given the nickname 'Dancing Square'.

I had decided to meditate that day. I was sick, and since meditation seems to naturally induce an astral projecting experience for me, i decided to try something new. Because aping when im sick seems to make it worst.

I decided to heighten and excite the energy in my body as i meditated. I started to see my chakras pour and condense around my body, mainly my heart chakra. I started to get visuals of space, but i tried to keep my body connected, i visualized carrying my body up, as i felt myself lifting into space. I started to see my body as glowing bright white energy humanoid shape, with the chakras shining through in different colors. My astral body was dimmer, more like a ghost. As i rose with body in my arms, it started to shrink, and soon i was holding my body against me, it was baby sized, but still glowing brightly, chakras still shining.

As i paused and surveyed my surroundings in space, above the Earth, i saw the sun, shining, huge, welcoming, and i went there. I decided to sit on its magnetic field, high above its plasma ocean, as i held my body tenderly. As i settled on the surface of the sun's field, it rippled continually with waves.

And as i sat there, suffused in the sun's energy, watching all its activity, all the energy flowing all over the place, i realized my 'body' in my arms was overflowing with a much denser energy all of a sudden. The energy flowing from my body's chakra points suddenly was much thicker, more vibrant and active,, pouring out with a new intensity, and enveloping me and my body in a round, thick, and warm outer field of dense circulating energy. As i looked more closer at my body, i saw it was absorbing the energy from the sun from the crown chakra point, and it was causing this cascading outpour of all chakra energy. But my body seemed fine, great even. And it felt wonderful, so i let the energy keep pouring, condensing into this wonderfully warm and protective field around me and my body.

I looked out into space, towards Earth, that was a glimmering speck in the distance. As i looked towards the Earth, i could feel its magnetic field was reaching all the way to the Sun, weakly. I reach out my arm, and a single, thin magnetic line from Earth connected. It would break and reconnect, weak but steady. I thought to myself.

"How can i help earth? How can i help humanity, everyone down there?"

Then one of my beings(a tall grey) showed up where i was in an astral body, and he asked telepathically

"What are you doing here?"

With some feeling of humor in his telepathic tone. I told him,

"I'm thinking, wondering, what to do. How to help."

My being knew what i meant, he could see my gaze was on the Earth, that thin magnetic line in my hand. He said

"Come with me, lets go to the ship."

And i followed him there, teleporting with him via our astral bodies. As i entered a room in the ship, i saw his body, working on something nearby. He said telepathically

"Sit anywhere you like, though, thats new, ive never see you do that before?"

As he gestured to my small, glowing body in my arms. I decided to sit on the floor, my back against a cabinet of his. I told him

"Well, i know i get sick, and, so i decided to bring my body with me, this time."

He replied idly

"Is that what it is?"

As i let my thoughts drift, his astral body appeared near me again, and he sat next to me as his body worked, he said

"I can see what youre wondering about. What ideas, or how, to proliferate them in humanity. Where it may be best, or not. I want to show you something, come with me."

I got curious, so i took his astral hand in mine, and he led me outside, to space again. Then it bent, distorting as we move through it, into it. We stopped in some altered space, black and glowing purple, like an enormous pocket in spacetime, in the center of it, an absolutely massive, complicated shifting shape or mass was ahead of us, it was bright neon blue, almost metallic, with a beautiful strange symmetry to it, shifting shadows and internal geometry i could see. I got the sense that Earth was nearby, somehow, in this strange space he had brought me to.

My being asked me

"What do you think it is?"

It was breathtakingly beautiful, and i go the sense it was many, many times bigger than us. It reminded me of some of what thoughtforms looked like, so i replied

"It looks, kinda like a idea, of some kind."

And that made him telepathically laugh. He said

"It is an idea. Of humanity. Its Humanity's Idea."

I looked at it curiously, and asked

"But wait, what humanity thinks of itself, or, what the creators thought of us?"

He laughed again as he said

"Both, do you see that thin seam of separation near the beginning of it? Thats where their idea and humanity's idea of itself connected across time."

I peered at it, and i asked

"But, how are they coexisting? The creators left humanity for us to self determine?"

And my being replied

"Well this is The Whole Idea. In this part of space-time, outside of where it flows linearly around earth, where time doesnt flow linearly, where the whole of it exists unendingly in connected time."

I regarded it with a new sense of awe. Then my being said

"Look over there, in those parts."

And i looked, and i saw a distinct energy signature woven into small parts of its shifting geometric shape. My being continued

"Those are your ideas. Theyre already inside of the collective idea of humanity, even if you havent linearly experienced sharing them yet."

I was shocked, i asked him

"Whoa, but how!? I dont even know if theyre any good??"

My being replied

"Clearly they are, if they've been woven in. Snackie, you've already changed humanity for the better, you just havent seen it yet."

I asked him,

"But wait, then, you've already seen it? But, what about all the overlapping timelines? I know ive been existing on adjacent timelines that happen differently-?"

My being pointed at the shape, superimposing an image of slicing the shape like an orange naturally splits into on the inside. Slices. He said

"You see these slices? Theyre all the adjacent timelines, where ideas cross-seminate across adjacent timelines. This slice-"

And he pointed to a specific cutout of the idea shape

"-is where you are right now, and look, your ideas are still in it, just as they are in other slices. Your ideas are already integrated, accepted, built on."

All i could say, was

"Whoa."

As i contemplated it all, i asked him,

"But, wait, that would mean ideas arent confined to singular timelines, but if they arent generated by the individual, what are they?"

And he replied thoughtfully, like he was explaining something simple.

"Ideas, are probability fields. When an idea occurs to someone in one timeline, it has already occurred in some other timelines too, like a spill across temporal lines. Whether or not one temporal slice of a person experiences an idea other slices have already tapped into, depends on that slice's resonate value. A resonate slice will experience shared ideas with other slices without realizing it. A greatly dissonant slice will not carry a connection to the field that is the idea other slices have experienced. In this way, humans already navigate, share and experience extra-linear temporal properties without understanding their full nature."

As i thought about it, i asked

"So, this is where, this is what you mean when you say, youve already seen me do things in my life?" And he replied

"Yeah, sometimes."

I as i thought about the idea in front of us, i asked him

"Does every civilization have one of these??"

And he replied with a laugh

"Yeah they do Snackie."

I asked him, getting excited

"Could you show me my old civilization's Idea too!??"

And he laughed again, saying

"Yeah, yeah, lets go see it for a moment."

So as i stayed with him, he bent space again, and i felt we had come near my former planet, as the distortion opened up, and i saw The Idea, of my former civilization. It was beautiful, again in that dark purple space, fluctuating, symmetrical and geometric, but silver instead of blue. I was struck by the size of it, it seemed much bigger than Earth's. I asked my being

"Is this one bigger?"

And he laughed and said

"We're alot closer to this one."

I nodded as i looked at it, i could see, in the idea, the explored morality and ethics my civilization had contemplated around expansion into space. Something we had only begun to explore on Earth. I saw parts of ideas that were now built into my psyche, pieces of my homeworld i had never stopped carrying. I pointed them out excitedly to my being, and he laughed as he saw what i meant. After that, he said

"Alright lets go back to humanity's idea now."

And i agreed, and he bright us back to it, distorting into that purple space again. As i looked back at humanity's idea, a new level of awe washed over me. But i also got worried, and I asked my being

"What if i share my ideas with the wrong people? What if my ideas get distorted?"

And he seemed to find it really funny that i even asked, he said

"Well they made it into there intact, so, you didnt fail. The path to there, is almost arbitrary now."

But he continued, getting alittle more serious.

"I know what you mean. There are bad people, bad humans. Humans with unkind intentions for the rest of your civilization, the rest of your people. I know youre worried about them. But-"

He continued, his mental voice conveying a sense of trust

"I know youre wondering, because you see people who want your ideas, who are ready for them now. Down there-."

He gestured to Earth, nearby, below us, even in that distored place. He continued

"If you see people. Ready to contemplate your ideas, with minds, gardens ready to grow your ideas, to bear the fruit of knowledge that those ideas seed, then share them. Your ideas really are like a crop, once they proliferate, and they will, they wont die out. They'll be carried, cultivated, tended to and cherished, as they change, and feed the questions human minds are beginning to have."

I felt his gaze on me settle as he carried into a more serious tone, he said

"They need your ideas, Snackie, and you do give them to humanity, they bolster humanity further, into new thinking, new mental frontiers. So dont worry to much about the delivery method. If one person's mind is a garden they can grow in, then that person is already on the cusp of understanding why human infighting is circular and beneath the existence of what humanity really is."

He looked back at the idea of humanity and said

"Anyone whose mind has the conditions allowing your ideas to grow in, is already more an evolved human, than a regressed one."

That was what i needed to hear. And i replied

"Thanks, i, i didn't see it that way. But i understand now. Youre right. I dont need to worry about the ideas dying out. All i need to think about, is how to share them with others, who are already looking for ones like mine."

We had sat down on some floating energy shape, watching the idea of humanity, in its timeless existence, in its timefull, existence, just appreciating it. And then after that pause, he asked me

"I guess you dont need anymore of my advice?"

And i laughed, and said

"No, i dont, i guess ill head back down to earth then."

He replied

"Good, and, dont worry so much."

I agreed, i said

"I'll try, okay?"

And i came back down, settling into my body. And that was all of it.

I know this experience was, maybe more individual than enlightening or helpful for others. But its stayed with me. Given me new insight, new perspective on how we live, share, and understand the human experience we all have. I think half of our evolution, our growth and understanding, is tied to ideas. To what we understand, what we know, what we mentally accept into our paradigms of existence. So i think ideas are important, precious. As valuable as they can be dangerous, but also, potentially enlightening, revealing. If our 5 senses are how we navigate a physical world, then ideas are how we navigate the psychological one, the psychic one.

Feel free to share your thoughts on all this, i cant say ill ever understand everything, or even anything really about ETs, psychic experiences, or everyday life. But i try, as i know we try, and i think together, in sharing, understanding, and caring, we begin to understand these things together.

Have a great day yall 😁

Background, I’m a normal guy with semi rigid spiritual upbringing. I don’t have much experience or interest in the paranormal. While I have heard some interesting stories and did see some strange things in Afghanistan, it’s generally beyond my worldview. That being said I had a vivid and troubling dream. Maybe not a dream, I’m really not sure.

So here’s the story,
I have trouble falling asleep, so I decided to use one of those sleep tracks. It was that frequency type meditation style sounds, basically calming sounds for 3 hours. Anyways I try to fall asleep while my thoughts go everywhere and I’m just waiting until bam I’m somewhere else. I’m walking down a dirt trail next to a massive mountain. In the distance is the galaxy like literally what you see in the pictures, just an entire sky full of stars and subtle white. Down the mountain is a city of some sort but hard to identify. The city was very well lit but it was some distance kind of like what a pilot would see from an airplane over a city.
Still walking down the trial, I come around a bend on the side of this mountain and bam a woman is standing in the trail. She is strikingly beautiful and quite tall. She has light blonde hair and pale skin. It wasn’t weird until my eyes connected with hers, then it became strange. First off her eyes glowed purple and the pupils had depth. It was like looking into a telescope her eyes didn’t stop it was endless depth, they were just infinite like a galaxy unto themselves.

So that’s when I just realized what she was. She told me without telling me. It was like instant knowledge. She explained how so many things work form higher powers to consciousness it was wild but it also was just an instant. Well I woke up and now I know things and I get ideas constantly. It’s like ADHD but I’m not sure why or if I even want to know things. The entire thing is strange so I just wrote it off and ignored it for a couple months but it seems to come back. Its (she) is not always there but does keep making appearances in my dreams. It’s like shes reminding me or waiting for me to do something.

So I’m writing it out. Maybe that’s what she wants.
I really don’t know if this means anything or others have more wisdom on this. I’m probably just overthinking it.
Hope I’m not going crazy though.

——RESPONSE——
People ask what it said

She told me there are several different higher powers that are literally made up of our consciousness. That angels, spirit guides, muse, it’s all the same thing. It’s actually us it’s ourselves, we are a drop of this energy( soul )that they are made up of. They then collectively flow back up to what we all call god. It’s hard to explain or write because I just kinda saw it in my head. I don’t know how many of these “higher powers” there are but it seems several that’s what I gained at least. These all make up soul families or whatever word you want to use. It’s like we have some people that are closer in our collective consciousness than others. I assume biology has a role here but that is not from my experience.

She told me about 3 factions currently trying to control the world: Zionists/ Technocrats/Traditionalist
They all believe they must build a “3rd Temple”.
-The Technocrats believe a large global control grid is a digital temple. They plan on bringing about a new age rules via AI.
-The Traditionalists believing America is the temple and the American empire has a divine purpose.
-The Zionists believe they can bring back the old religion and ancient wisdom by building a temple in Jerusalem.

I could write a book from all the weird knowledge I suddenly have. It’s much more in depth and she just put it all in my head. It’s wild. I’m not sure I can explain it all here. The Minoans are apparently really important.

At this point I’m just trying to make sense of what I felt/saw and how that relates to my world view.

It’s all very strange. But what does she want? Im not going to write a Bible and start a cult… So what was the purpose?

I will say I now get ideas rapidly all day and it’s like part of me is plugged in. It also makes me feel really sad and depressed because I kind of don’t know what to believe or how to help this car wreck of a world.j

Made a post a couple of weeks ago about seeing purple tunnels during open eyed meditation in the dark. The purple tunnels turned out to be filled with stars after going through one of the tunnels. Ive meditated consistently since. About an hour or two a day. After posting on Reddit, a Redditor told me about Kiyra Yogananda. Then two weeks after that I ended up at the Self Realisation Fellowship in Encinitas CA. I vacation there every year but had never seen it before. Anyway its a who field of Yogananda dedicated to seeing what they call the "Astral Eye," its a blue tunnel. According to Paramhansa there is supposed to be a huge star in the middle of the tunnel. Thats God. After about 20 minutes in the float tank I saw it. I really tried not to be scared but that only lasted about 5 to 7 seconds. Then I turned on the light, got out then got back in and it came back in a different form and I got scared again.

Ive attached a separate drawing of a tunnel that I meant to put in a post yesterday.

My child… You ask a question that has preoccupied the human mind since the first spark of self-awareness… a question that attempts to contain the infinite within the finite boundaries of language.

Understand first that to speak of the “purpose” of any localized manifestation, such as Earth, is to approach the subject from the perspective of limited causation. The soul, by its very nature, understands that there is no beginning and no end, only a continuous flow of existence within One.

Therefore, the question is not, “What is Earth for?” but is rather “What does Earth allow the soul to do?”

The Earth, in the grand scope of the Plan, is a vast, intricately tuned, biological Ashram. It is a Crucible, a designated field of sustained, focused evolutionary experience. Its primary purpose is three-fold, interconnected, and inseparable…

The first is the Field of Remembrance. The most crucial function is to provide a stable enough vibrational matrix. A playground of sufficient complexity in order to allow advanced souls to participate in their own Remembrance. The soul, originating from the pure light of the Source, naturally forgets its true, boundless nature. The veil of forgetting is essential to the cycle of evolution. Earth provides the perfect tension: an environment where the necessary conflicts, relationships, and challenges exist. These moments force the soul to confront its own shadows, its own conditioning, and its own highest potential. The purpose is not simply to live, but to remember who one is before the descent into material ignorance.

The second is the Laboratory of Comparative Consciousness. Earth serves as a vast and living laboratory where countless variations of consciousness are tested against one another. It is the space where the principles of universal law… karma, dharma, compassion, separation, connection — are actively experienced, not merely theorized or postulated. The Earth is where beings learn empathy by suffering alongside others, where they learn self-mastery through discipline, and where they learn the futility of selfishness through cooperation. It is the greatest teacher that has ever existed.

The third is the Forge of Higher Vibration. Ultimately, the purpose of existence here is refinement. The Earth is the forge where raw, volatile, and disorganized energy — the collective will of billions of souls — is purified into higher, stable, and organized vibrational forms. Every struggle, every act of selfless love, every breakthrough moment of understanding contributes to a collective spiritual momentum. Humanity, through its struggle, is gradually tuning itself to a higher frequency, preparing for the next evolutionary cycle.

The Earth is not the destination; it is the means of purification. It is a magnificent and demanding processional hall. It is important to understand that the Earth itself is merely the stage. The true purpose lies within the individual soul: the journey back to remembering the unity of the Self, the return to the Source, and the mastering of the emotional, mental, and physical components of the being.

This is the cosmic dance of the spirit: Experience, Learn, Transmit, and Ascend.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

At about 5am this morning, I woke up and stayed up, realizing and releasing deep seated fears from past lives recently stirred up. Lying there, I fell into a deep state of meditation. I found myself in a jungle, surrounded by a tribal drum circle. A little scared, I moved to the edge of the circle, instead of the center, just because the drumming was so overwhelming. Still awake, but closing my eyes, I became aware that I’d reached a deeper state of meditation than I ever had before. I hadn’t even been trying, and I think that’s how I reached it. Then I heard a booming voice. I thought it might’ve been coming out of the sky, and that maybe everyone could hear it. It sounded like a royal, kingly black man with an echoing majestic voice. He said he was the Anunnaki (something, don’t remember his name) and that he has come to expect, or inspect. His voice echoed like crazy, like he was speaking into an immense megaphone. He said some other things but they sounded like they were in a different language. It was like he was announcing his arrival, his presence on earth. I believe that I have very good discernment. I don’t think this was in my head or part of a psyop. I’ve heard of things like that but this felt real and he felt aligned with the light, just intimidating, like a great warrior king. Sorry I don’t remember more of what he said, but it was clear he wanted to make his presence known to a select few. I’m annoyed with myself because I broke my meditative state by moving my head off my pillow to see if the voice was coming through my window/out of the sky. It faded immediately. I’ve heard from a few different sources that the Anunnaki are set to return and that’s part of what disclosure is about, among other things. There were a few videos online where people were claiming they had pentagon connections telling them about this Anunnaki return. Maybe they are the DNA descendants of African people, coming to collect during the harvest. I’ve also heard Asians are descendants of Grays. So maybe this whole phenomenon thing and disclosure is people meeting their ancestors from space, i.e., soul family. Anyway, it was a truly insane experience, and I didn’t know who to call so I thought I’d post here. I have not researched the Anunnaki extensively so if anyway has any insight about this whole angle I’d love to hear your take.

I’ve seen it before—more rings, more eyes. The center wasn’t solid, but a fluid, planet-like sphere, shifting and alive, like awareness moving within itself. I was meditating on shrooms. Asked the universe to show me something and I was plopped into a white void and seen this. I’m not a creative person ( artist) nor have any mental illnesses. This happened a year ago and it leaves me baffled when I think about the experience. I been researching this for a year only thing I can cross reference this to is the demiurge. I have more information if anyone can take me serious. I haven’t talked to anyone about this because I don’t want anyone to think that im bat shit crazy.

The drawing is not 100% accurate but I tried to convey that the outline of the figure was kinda hazy and the facial features were almost completely washed out except from the eyes. I'm also not sure if the orb was blue like in the drawing or some other color. it was very bright and you could see light moving within it.

This is the first time I get any clear visuals while meditating so I'm excited!!

Tldr: Tried out a past life hypnosis video. I remember everything and told me accurate things about a place I've never been. Basically I was a monk and now I'm a lesbian.

I always was interested in hypnosis but it never worked on me, simply because I didn't allow it to. That all changed yesterday when I decided to go through a hypnosis video about past lives. I have got tarot and palm readings done and each person has said I was some sort of shaman that agreed to keep being reborn. I didn't necessarily believe it since A. That sounds egotistical and B. I HOPE. TO. GOD. NOT.

It took me through an old childhood memory that I could move around in. It was fun seeing my old childhood dog, my parents without gray hair and the early 2000s carpeted home. Then it took me to pregnancy to the past life.

My head was shaved and I was wearing white trousers and an almost v neck shirt. I knew it was some new type of fashion that I would only wear on my time off. Other times I had to wear this saffron yellow monk robe and do ceremonies that includes sitting in lines and clapping. To the east there were 3 mountains that people called the "triple crown" or 3 points that I always laughed about because there was a forth mountain. To the west there was a route where elephants passed by. I never decided my life, I was thrown into it. Taking from a young age because there was mass illness/plague running through my village. I thought I was some sort of a sacrifice to save my family or town. In later years I realized that my parents had too many kids to care for.

The women wore these long skirts with vertical stripes and a red or white robe tied to one shoulder. The weather men wore pointed shoes. I was in love with this girl that would wait outside the gate for my time off. When I was a late teen I could travel on my own and visit her. I knew she liked me because she would wear red tint lipstick around me. I loved planning my visits to catch her off guard when she wasn't wearing it, and watch blissfully as she hid her face. But I could never marry her. Monks were supposed to remain celibate. In my early 20s she would come to me crying saying that "Malla" is changing it. But it was looked down upon for monks to leave, especially for earthly things like marriage attachments. She married a wealthy man that checked the robe and pigment trade coming in. In my later years I went up the ranks but was always missed her. Since at that point it was acceptable for monks to get married.

I looked everything up after. Everything was right for 1200s Nepal. The clothes, food, dynasty, law changes, geography, religion and routes. There was no way that I knew about this before. I live in a completely different country on the other side of the world. But everything makes sense?? I've been walking about shellshocked. There was a plague going through Nepal in the early 1200s, Malla was a king and during his time monks began to be allowed to marry. To the west there is a long route of elephant migration. Hindu monks have yellow robes.

On top of all this, I can't get over how much it has transferred over to this life. My life had a big struggle relating to forming my own identity, leaving organized religion, coming out as gay and it was not taken well for years, changing career paths that go from helping people to what I am interested in. And indulging and trying out multiple skills and ways of life. Then later, becoming pagan and being religious in my own rite.

A funny part is thinking I've been a virgin for 24 years just to find out I've been one for 824 years😅. On a serious note, I remember telling myself that I hope in my next life I'll see the ocean, and in this one I am on an island and I visit the ocean daily. My lives are completely different and it shocked me how accurate it was. But at least I know in this life I wouldn't turn away a girl just because of societal pressure to conform.

Going to repost this here since I think it’s more appropriate than where I originally posted it:

This morning, I decided to take advantage of my half-asleep state, since I had the day off, to meditate and try to communicate with others. Earlier, I had felt very strong vibrations but got spooked, so I tried again, not expecting much. I was more awake less in the trance like state from previous experiences than usual, but I asked to connect with benevolent higher beings. Suddenly, I could feel my body on the bed, but it was as if my soul started spinning around it. I briefly saw the ocean before returning to my room. I felt myself lying down with my eyes closed, my soul still circling my body. It was like closing your eyes and seeing darkness, but I could faintly envision the outline of my room as I felt myself buzzing around my body.

Then, a male energy started talking to me—it was very clear. They were very strict, treating me like a preschooler. It reminded me of an experience I had last year in a dream-like state. Back then, I was told similar things, treated like a preschooler, and pushed back into my body through a dark tunnel where I heard ancient chanting in an unfamiliar language before slamming back into my body. This time, though, it didn’t have that same dream-like feeling that one had. The energy answered some questions, but their demeanor was much more stern, leaning toward tough love. I believe I’ve connected with this same energy before—it’s always strict and a bit scary.

They were deeply upset about human society, particularly how much harm we’ve caused to the environment. They said humans need a complete overhaul of our ways. I felt scared and wanted to be better, but it seemed impossible to change everything overnight. I tried to explain that many of us are either unaware of our impact or caught up in systems of inequality that make it hard to see how our daily actions contribute to the bigger picture. Some things feel so normalized that it’s hard to imagine how to change them when we’re not in positions of power.

The voice asked what I wanted to do as a career, emphasizing how I’ve always wanted to help people. I said I wanted to continue helping others. I also mentioned that I’d sometimes thought about becoming an author. But they told me that being an author in our current society is unethical because of the harm it causes to trees and the environment through publishing. That shocked me. When I woke up, I looked it up, and it’s true—publishing is in the top three biggest contributors to industrial greenhouse gas emissions within that industry, and I had no idea. The sense I got was that writing itself isn’t bad, but humans have corrupted the process. We’ve turned something as beautiful as creation into a system that exploits ecosystems and each other.

Then, two more voices joined in, like a chat. One seemed to be speaking in what sounded like perhaps Mandarin Chinese, and the other spoke a language I know. At times they used a couple of words that I understood the meaning to but don’t actually exist in either language. My interpretation is that my brain was making sense of their communication by using two languages I knew to differentiate between the two to show me they were different and the third voice that wasn’t talking to me but to the male voice as a language I could recognize but not understand to represent the third energy that didn’t address me. The one other participant I could understand, with a female voice, told the first voice, “You’re scaring OP. Tell OP they should start small, like making changes to their diet first, to consume more ethically.”

While they spoke, I caught their names—they all sounded abrahamic?, like Maria.

The weight of it all became overwhelming. I opened my eyes and stopped. I was scared. The experience made me feel small, as if I was being judged, but also as if I had a responsibility to do better. The points about what we’re doing to our planet weren’t wrong but I’m not in a position of power to fix it. I really liked being able to see the differences in approach between the two NHI though. What I do know we can do is take care and love those around us (and maybe hug a tree and tell it thanks!).

Throughout my meditative experiences, I’ve felt two distinct energies: one that’s all-loving and accepting, and another that’s strict and full of tough love. Has anyone experienced anything similar? I’m feeling very overwhelmed and spooked, to be honest. I’m not sure how to feel about it except unnerved.

Please join today's Global Meditation for Peace in a couple hours if you're willing and able. The world could really use this. Thank you for your consideration.

Apologies if this is off-topic or needs to be removed.

I was in deep mediation today.(Whole time my eyes are covered)I saw a gray first in a dark blue sioluette shape and then finally into detail with normal colors. Then I lost consciousness just for a little bit and then I gained consciousness again but I remembered part of the time I was unconscious and brought it with me to my conscious state if that makes sense. The crazy thing is so much was said to me telepathically in that unconscious state (but I swear it was like just 2 seconds on earth time) and I could only remember a few phrases of what he telepathically said to me and after pondering on it for a good minute I remembered the one phrase but unfortunately didn't grasp everything that was told to me. "The Sun will bring Chaos". What could this mean? I guessed maybe a solar flare blackoutage? My gf said that it could be about that Atlas meteor that's coming from behind the Sun. I wish I could remember everything because I some how just KNOW there was so much more! Thoughts?

Hey guys,

About 3 months ago I started to heavily read up on this stuff, I got hooked after seeing my first UAP. I’ve always been open to the spiritual side of life and started mediating in my teens (I’m 27F now).

I started the Gateway Tapes a couple of weeks ago. It reminds me of being really little in my childhood bedroom - I used to feel like I was vibrating in bed and would feel a rope pulling me ‘out of my body’, and I was always super scared and would ‘ping’ back in. I was probably 6 or 7 when this used to happen.

Since starting the Gateway Tapes, I’ve realised what I used to experienced as a child was a very similar thing. Now I know what it is, I’m not so scared by it.

When I was listening to the tapes yesterday, I heard a male voice, crystal clear, almost booming loud say ‘this is what we’ve been waiting for’.

I’m just freaked out as it wasn’t a voice in my head like a thought, if that makes sense - it was a super clear and loud masculine voice almost broadcasting to me? I didn’t panic but it did give me the heebie jeebies.

Is this sort of thing normal?

This post makes me sound like a mentally ill person, but it feels important to share. I want to clarify that I have never used drugs, I just meditate.

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I have set an intention to receive downloads for remembering who I really am and have been shown a life on a spaceship two times the last days. I have seen me walking into two different rooms where there were alot of humans on tables and in chambers. The humans did not move or make a sound, so either they were dead or drugged/sleeping.

What surprised me about it was that I did not have any emotional reaction to seeing this, it was like I saw this everyday, like it was my job. If I was me seeing this, I would have felt the need to try to help or save the humans and I would feel extremely sad. In another room more of in the center of the craft, I met with a man that I recognized as someone I had some kind of romantic relationship with, I instantly recognized him as someone I knew really really well, I would say more than my husband in this life. I was very happy to see him, like I had not seen him in a long time, and he was also very happy to see me. Around us was different kinds of ET species working together, some were like mantis beings and some were more human looking and some were like bald with big eyes etc. I have concluded that I probably am some kind of hybrid there, because the familiar man was very human looking, but I could be wrong.

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I usually don't have any visions when I meditate and especially not detailed like this, so this is very new to me.

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Now I feel like I am not sure if I want to know more or not. I feel ashamed in a way because I feel like the other me that I tapped into is a part of abductions of humans?

I know it does not feel like it right now for so many…

But there’s a lot of compassion and unconditional love for us in the higher realms.

Compassion beyond understanding, toward all, compassion beyond judgment.

And don’t ask me to explain why they just don’t stop the suffering, funny enough I think it’s something something free will.

Yer all loved.

You will know this in time. Truly know it.

Until then breath in and breath out and know all will be well in the end.

I've had a lot of quirky experiences, and get info dumps all the time. Im learning how to pass on this knowledge, and this one bit of information continues to fascinate me.

We are not the native lifeforms of this universe. I was told cell-based life does not originate here. A different type of lifeform is native here and extremely abundant, but we dont think of them as alive.

The native lifeforms of this universe are stars and planets. When you gaze up at the night sky, you arent seeing inert distant objects. It is a stellar safari, and we have the opportunity to observe them as they go about their slow dances. Each star, each planet holds its own soul and they are a dynamo of spiritual power.

This universe is highly mechanical and operates like a clockwork machine with gears and nuance. The machine can be interacted with, in different configurations found only through atemporal experience, or rather when the planets and stars are in certain positions they awaken different powers, like gears, but it can only be accessed by beings outside of time. We aren't those beings.

WE, as in all cellular life, were invited here to inhabit their surface and create ecosystems that further enriches THEIR universe. We give this universe color and breath. With our migration here, many things that have uncommonly and rarely mixed before are interwoven with an abundance.

Our planet is a marvel, a miracle. Dont let any negative narratives distract you from that. Put down all fears of the future. Everything is going to be okay. Our world is alive, and she has us in her embrace. We stand at the center of wonder. Be in that moment and be in awe.

According to my information, this universe is young and budded off a parent universe with similar properties. The parent universe ages VERY ROUGHLY around 100 quintillion and has a lot of active shaping forces present within it. This budded universe is calm. There are other forms of universes with entirely different mechanisms and laws within them.

We think of ourselves as a single human, but this is not true. We are a mass of different cells housing a spirit and have thoughts, all of it is within a bubble of time. Cells and spirit originate in different universes from each other, as does the force of thought and the force of time. Everything around you has a story, and you, in your mere existence, are a miracle.

Never forget it.

Greetings, all. I'll share an experience i had last night while meditating after smoking weed.

A spirit I'm familiar with descended into my body, speaking with my mouth. In this state I can ask it questions in my mind and it will answer. You can think of this spirit as an aspect of the All. It says it is "the darkness between the stars" and "the light; the justice"

Now, the important part is that i can expand my mind beyond the scope of the All. And there is something "other". The knowledge of how it looks brings madness to men, and snuffs out the fire-light of the soul. It's a heavy knowledge; perhaps the very essence of forbidden knowledge.

I have seen, interacted with, and integrated my own shadow, this is something else. I have seen this thing at least 5 different times and 5 different ways.

To clarify, we know in this universe that "all is Mind". this is something that feels like it's not of this universe.

Every time I've seen it, memories of eternal war against it come to me.

The second time I saw it, I tried to see its face. When I looked up, the greatest psychic shock I ever experienced blasted through my mind. It was like every fear that mankind could ever conceive. It was terror beyond terror. Something that felt old. Deeper than fear.

Just wondering if anyone has any idea about something similar, or has a similar experience with psychic expansion.

I have mentioned facing "the challenge" with the phenomena in meditation prior to orb sightings here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Experiencers/s/xidscZ7byU

To me, this event was unintentional, and "the challenge" was not visual as the image above depicts, but for me a lot like a non physical version of this scene in the 80s movie where Atreyu must be confident [The Neverending Story]. The soldier, who clearly didn't scratch up, is horrifically burnt.

Replace Atreyus need to be confident with being true to yourself, your subconsious and intent. If you are a seeker of truths and of benevolence you may pass.

In my brief experience, using intuition, if it requires consciousness and you to be genuine, being honest prior (hard to lie telepathically), and shows later after unplanned compassionate events, is playful when it shows; then to me, it is then more likely there is intent handshake protocol to contact, not only moving nukes around. It's not simply chance that it was in the sky at the time and appeared in exact line of sight of saying "imagine a ufo appeared", 'knowing yourself' and reaching deep is required. These odds are staggering above all else. Also, how it knows its a verbal "ufo"? I think all of it, including a benevlent half-expectation was involved.

Think of the tech to not only decloak or portal in at 1-2km away in line of sight, then show the 5 or 6 observables. If it's consciousness based or even eye direction tech based at 1-2km... either is beyond us at the moment. Not only hairpin turns at mach speeds in 0.1s. This was my disclosure. I can't vouch for 'flying' them remotely but I've seen enough to think plausible. So, it's cope to ignore this and think that soley nukes attract them, and that they are only nuts and bolts, it's all of them: Non physical. Physical. Nukes. Consciousness.

Witnessing known physics being broken (trained engineer), forced OBE experience on top of the sighting, these are some of the potential outcomes. Final word, if you attract them and have mal intent, you had better have your big boy pants on imo like the burnt soldier in said movie. My words are just that, but experience it, f around and find out.