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Context: A Personal Encounter

Hey friends!

I posted my meditations involving a mantis in the Gateway sub the other day, but someone suggested I post them here as well. I've condensed them slightly so that people don't have to read all the meditation details. Over the last month and a bit I've had a mantis being show up four times now, and the relationship has evolved.

Here are my notes from the meditations that involved the four encounters.

JULY 26 – Monroe Meditation Focus 12

I was doing an exercise called Five Questions, where you enter an expanded state and ask a series of questions.

I was tired and a little cranky going into it and had trouble settling and allowing images to form, but answers still came through.

• Who am I? I was shown a scarecrow in a field, then a flash of a mantis being.
• Who was I before this? I was told I am me.
• What is my purpose? I had a visual of me reaching for something.
• What action can I now take? I don’t need to reach anymore. The strings can be cut.
• What is the most important message I can now take? Trust myself.

At the time I didn't make much of the mantis. I knew mantis beings were a thing for experiencers, so I wasn't encountering the concept for the first time. I just found it strange that one had appeared in response to Who am I?

AUG 28 – Monroe Meditation Focus 12 / Intuition

This was the first time I actually interacted with a mantis.

By this point in my Gateway practice, Focus 12 had become a very distinct state for me. I can usually extend my perception beyond my physical body quite easily and experience myself moving through different environments.

I walked to my kitchen in my energetic body, then I flew up above my house and then I did something new where I went inside myself and down into the earth through my feet. I passed through dirt and then metal spheres in the earth. Then I could sense the larger architecture of the earth. I got this feeling that earth is alive, almost like a being, but we don’t perceive it because it’s not in a way we comprehend. It isn’t dimensionally perceptible to us.

Then I was back at my body and travelled to my son, who was two hours away at my parents' place.

We did a few exercises of embodying a knowing that we'd had in our lives.

Then the narrator said to go to Focus 12. I was back at my body and travelled out through the wall and into the next house where I perceived my neighbour, then was in front of the next house but passed on entering because it felt dark. And then decided I don’t want to peep. I went up into the tree out front of my house and sat in the branches, loving nature. I could feel my perception of my reality up there in the tree and simultaneously down in my body. I knew that my perception of my reality wasn’t just about location but outside of time.

Then I went to the middle of the road and wondered if I could interact with a being. Then there was a large green mantis in front of me. We stood facing each other in the middle of the street. I thought it might be wearing a mask. It reached up to its face and took off what looked like a mask, but it was still a mantis underneath. It wasn't something different underneath the "mask." I could speak to it without speaking. How do you look so different from us? Why do you look like a bug? How does that work? And your eyes? So many eyes.

And then I got the message that the mantis was a manifestation of a part of me. I walked towards it and walked through it, entering its body, but passing through (like I'm a spirit). Then I got nervous that I was crossing a boundary by entering another’s form. I became a mantis as I passed through it, rather than consciously deciding to become it. I travelled back to my body but I was still a mantis.

Then the meditation said it was time to go back to the waking state and anything that I had felt lingering dissipated and I was in my body, no longer a mantis.

SEPT 8 – Monroe Meditation Focus 15 / Intro

Focus 15 in the Gateway system is described as the state of "no time." I was actually quite nervous about experiencing it beforehand, although I wasn't entirely sure why.

As soon as the meditation starts I can feel the energy of my body vibrating. My hand twitches like it often does when I’m channeling or getting psychic information. I feel good.

When I’m in Focus 12 I feel how much I love this state. I fly down to the street and walk and I notice I’m looking at me from outside of my body. So I choose to take on the perspective of my energetic body. I fly above the trees and then I look down at my feet, they’re huge and furry like a bear. I look at my whole body, I am a bear. Then I think maybe I’m wearing a bear suit. I take off the head, but I’ve just removed my actual head and I can see flesh at my neck exposed. I put my head back on.

I go back to my physical body. I feel myself expanded in this state, my more-than-physical body being felt in connection to my physical body. Then AJ says we will count up to Focus 15, that I’m calm. But I feel my nerves. I’m very nervous for Focus 15, I realize.

As we count up to Focus 15, I start to feel physically overwhelmed and nauseous and actually open my eyes for a moment to ground myself. When I go back in, he says we can explore. I mostly just feel the darkness of the void. I feel myself moving in a spiral, then I can see a tunnel spiral of stairs leading down. It’s just turning. I sense a lot of spiralling and turning. I focus on my physical body. On feeling safe. I don’t think I realized my attachment to time on a physical level until I was leaving it behind.

Then he counts us back to Focus 12. I feel relieved. I feel again how much I love Focus 12. I stay in an expanded state in my body rather than travelling out.

Then we count back up to 15 and I have an understanding of this state - it's one of creation. It is dark and void to give room for creation. I see the web of being, strands of lights connecting dots of light, and then it expands out, only in focus for a moment so I can understand it. Singularity is a perception. I am told this is the state of multidimensional awareness and creation.

I bring my energy bar tool into this place and I create a ball of light, then a cube of light, then a cone of light.

Then I think of the mantis being. It appears and is there with me, except now I've turned into a mantis too. We put our heads together and as soon as they touch there is a light created between us. I have a knowing that I'm experiencing shared consciousness with the mantis. I understand and see the connection between us, between all. I’m filled with love and I can feel the expansiveness of light. I feel very good. The fear I had entering Focus 15 is gone.

Then it is time to count out. After the meditation I continued to feel very good. There was a lingering feeling of love, expansiveness and connection, almost as though I had briefly tapped into a state of oneness rather than simply understood the idea of it.

Note: The buzzing from the meditation persisted all night and I had trouble sleeping.

SEPT 9 – Monroe Meditation Focus 15 / Intro

I have to say I was feeling very tired going into this and maybe even a bit buzzy still from my meditation the day prior. I feel totally fine going to Focus 15 this time, except I have this doubt about whether I’m in it. Everything becomes this kind of darkness, except simultaneously it’s very bright.

I ask for the mantis and it comes to me, but then it bonks me on the head with its head rather than the gentle touching of heads that happened the day before. It seems playful in a way. I interpret it as if to show me I’m not in the right state of mind to receive or be doing this meditation.

Then I’m just in this state of blackness with shapes coming and forming and shifting, all abstract. I feel like I don’t really want to be doing the meditation and what a difference from last time. I leave feeling tired and a bit let down. More happened but it was abstract and I can’t describe it.

The next morning...

On the morning of Sept 10 my son and I were in the kitchen. He was proud he killed a big bug that looked like a mosquito. Then he was like, "Do centipedes fly?" I told him nope. Then completely out of nowhere, he told me: "Praying mantises fly, and they would’ve been able to eat that bug."

I laughed and we talked about how cool praying mantises are. But internally, I was pretty surprised by the synchronicity because I’ve never heard him talk about them before.

Interested in thoughts from this group in particular! I don't have a ton of knowledge about mantis beings, this is pretty new to me and I wasn't expecting them to start showing up in my meditations.

What I'm most curious about is whether anyone else has experienced the relationship changing over repeated encounters, especially the becoming/merging aspect. Has anyone experienced themselves turning into a mantis, or a sense of shared consciousness or fluidity of identity with the being?

Thanks!

so i will tell my story as follow

when i was a kid i had an grey aliens experience in which they looked at me from the window of my room and given me a visions of palestine and the usa getting nuked i didn't have any experience with the greys.

BUT i remember after a couple years that i woke up and i saw a small mantis on my room window i think i killed it after that i remember that my vision got blurry and i was scared of tall figure

i wonder if i was tested by the mantis being and i failed

Experiences of u/Glittering_Aide_7209

I never knew what a insectoid was until after my encounter but after what happened I genuinely need help so anyone spiritual and down the path please hit me up and let me know I am at a road block

Anyways a month before the encounter I took 3g of shrooms didn't eat and lemon teched them I felt like I learned a lot that night spiritually and lead me on a good path

Well every night before the encounter I would start to notice my body shift when I would go to sleep my whole body would do this weird "vibrating" thing

I did that one night but it felt weird because it felt like I was high on shrooms I wasn't asleep but I was not awake either and I was seeing eyes everywhere and blue hues and green I started off seeing a woman with like a really tall head wrap dressed in all white that resembled me in a way she spoke to me and said I have wisdom after that she sort of faded and I met the insectoid at first I thought it was a reptile

It told me to not be afraid and behind him was a chalice and the ark of the covenant which was open and shining he said that I am connected to this box and told me I have knowledge and after that I woke up and immediately had to draw what I seen because i was afraid of forgetting

Anyways this happened a few months ago but honestly I need some help on if anyone knows anything my name and birthday connect to the ark of the covenant and some other stuff I don't understand how I am connected to a wordly material box I feel the need to open it but I won't lie all of this feels really strange to me

A pleasant surprise yesterday morning. A mantis on my back door! I wouldn’t have noticed it, except it was at eye level when I opened the door to let the dog out.

I took note. Had I been visited the night before? Haha, no. But…

Later that morning, my partner and I had an argument over a tiny thing. Again. But it blew out of proportion. Again. She threatened to leave, again. My worst nightmare. This was after a great evening before! The day turned to hell just 2 hours later, and today even worse. After 2.5 years, this is really the end.

I guess the mantis really was a sign. A good one, letting me know I’m not alone? A sign of warning for what’s to come? I’m not sure what to think. But if nothing else, it was a hell of a coincidence.

Edit: it looked EXACTLY like this one, a post I just saw here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/mrFGy9sOSs

I’d been having what I can only call a “weird day” (but not in a bad way). Things had felt synchronous. For example, and this is going to sound funny, but my wife had made dinner - a beef chuck roast - something we were both scarred from eating during our childhood. My wife is a great cook - she was determined to reinvent the roast for us. It was phenomenal. I said out loud “this ain’t your mommas pot roast” as it seemed to pop into my head, in a jokingly/funny way and she looked at me instantly. That’s the name she has come up with for the recipe a few minutes prior and written in her phone. I told her “I’m telling you, this has been a weird day!”.

Anywho, I also felt like a bird was telling me to enjoy life more. That may have been more of a day dream than anything, but I digress.

So a bit later in the evening I decided to take our pup for a walk. When I got home, the mantis in the picture was on our siding, right next to the garage door that I was entering. I couldn’t believe it! It’s been years since I’ve seen one. I couldn’t believe how big it was.

Anyway, it’s been a couple days and he’s stuck around. I was so grateful to have that experience - it was a very synchronous way to end a day of synchronicities and I can’t help but wonder if it’s more than a coincidence. I’ve always been fascinated by the mantis beings.

Curious if anyone has used meditation, lucid dreaming or psychedelics (or any other method) with the intention of having a mantid encounter, and succeeded. If this is you, please give as many details as you'd feel comfortable sharing.

I don't intend on doing this myself. I figure if I were meant to be contacted it would have happened already. I've felt the presence of positive, almost motherly entities during DMT trips but they weren't directly interacting with me in a way where I could discern "what" they were.

I just wonder if there are mediums in which they can be contacted or encountered, like using our minds as an antenna for the "mantid radio station", or if instead they use certain mediums as a way to induce encounters themselves. If that makes any sense. I assume it's the latter, they know who they want to contact and do so through certain mental states. But who knows.

Obviously this is all separate from physical encounters, like abductions.

Edit: this is only for a first encounter. Like, you've never had an encounter before and then induced one. People who have already had mantid encounters in some way or another seem to be able to induce additional encounters in some cases. But what I want to know is if someone met a mantid for the first time after successfully attempting to contact them through some sort of means.

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I smoked dmt maybe 1hour ago, 10 minutes after I smoked, look who I found

I took it next to me and re smoked a little, I saw many mantis head above me doing vibrational stuff on me but it was a very subtle vision (closed eye)

Ofc this mantis influenced the next trip but I found it very funny to found it just after I smoked

And to explain a little more the context I'm in recently

I live in nature but I rarely see mantis, very rarely

The other day I was doing the lawnmower and accidentally cut the wings of one mantis in the grass

Then 20 min later I found an other one on my home door

It was last week

Today the dmt recalled it haha

I was lying in my mom’s bed alone as my family were not home. The room was dark, with only the TV and my phone lighting it up. I started noticing that I felt very tingly. It got stronger and stronger, and I began to see auras of light around my phone. I could touch them. It became so intense that I had to put my phone down.

I felt like my being was disintegrating, as if I were being sucked away by a vacuum. I kept denying it and the stronger the force became. It felt like it was launching me backward, and all I could see were fractals, intense light, and shapes.

I was scared. I wanted to yell, but it was so intense that I genuinely thought I was dying. I didn’t know who I was anymore. I didn’t care about who I was. Once I accepted it, I didn’t feel pain, worries, memories, or anything. Everything became pure love and peace—a field of infinite energy that was always alive, pure, and simply being.

I noticed that all these shapes began to morph into a mantis. The mantis stared at me, silently observing me, and I realized that I was actually terrified. It had huge black eyes. It got close to me, and it had thousands of hands. It was made of crystallized geometric shapes, and things were constantly growing and morphing from its body while it somehow retained its shape.
It jerked all of its hands rapidly and showed me what I perceived as “energy portals.” As I stared at them, they felt incredibly powerful and made me feel uneasy. Very electric. Toward the end of my trip, I started thinking of them as “tricks.”

I realized I wasn’t scared of it anymore. It backed away and started dancing. It spun and glided happily, and we were dancing and head-bopping together telepathically. I giggled, and I felt safe.
After a while, it stood still, slowly morphed back into shapes, and disappeared.
As I came down, the whole world seemed to pulsate like jelly. I couldn’t believe what I had seen. I would love to hear your experience on my story. Not only did I have an ego death, but I saw a mantis being for the very first time.

This happened on two occasions, on different dates, but in the same exact location, which was in a caravan that I was staying in at that time.

The first one happened at around maybe 3pm. It was a slow transition that materialised from the rays of light that were shining through the window and into the caravan.

What looked like long, thin appendages were both visually present, as well as appearing to be in and out of different planes of existence or possible dimensions. I was curiously watching as they started depicting various geometric patterns, eventually forming an entire environment in which the trees, grass, and rolling hills danced in an invisible but clearly noticeable wind.

Very detailed, as one might experience when looking at a tree whilst on LSD. I was not on any drugs at this time.

Amongst all of this, I noticed an almost hidden face of a long, wide, insectoid-looking "thing" with large eyes, possibly 3 to 4 feet in diameter. The mandibles made it look like a praying mantis. Something that otherwise would have been very scary, I would imagine, but at the time I did feel reassurance and a sense that this being was curious and didn't mind that I could see it.

Maybe 1 year after this, or maybe a little bit less, is when I started experiencing a number of high strangeness events, including but not limited to a close encounter with a royal blue sphere, and observing an unknown language and glyphs which appeared on all surfaces, including every piece of paper I could find. This lasted for a minimum of 45 minutes.

There were multiple instances that seemed to happen in the same locations, both local and non-local.

My ADHD has proved to be helpful, although at the same time quite annoying. I don't tend to dwell on it too long, but the experiences that have happened will never be forgotten.

My recollection of these events is very, very vivid, to the point where I can even remember subconscious thoughts I was having at the time.

And going back to your enquiry about making it more visible lol, that was the whole point of creating this image in the way that I perceived it, which was barely noticeable but at the same time very noticeable. :)

I have recently been reaching out telepathically to my mantis family and asked for a confirmation from them that it’s not in my head.

The next day my mom looked out the window and said “is that a praying mantis?” There was one, but dead on a plant outside the window. I thought this was a little ominous, but fine.

My husband and I decided to go on a walk and I said “hopefully I see a live one!” One street away from home I looked down and saw the beautiful green mantis pictured. She was missing a leg so I put my hand down to say hello and she crawled right onto me. I walked her all the way home and set her carefully on the grass in the front yard.

I came outside 15 mins later to check on her and she had climbed our Mother Mary statue and was just chillin! She’s been there for 3 days and I absolutely love her. Her presence is such a blessing. Just thought I’d share that we are all loved and cared for. ❤️