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m a n i t y’s existence. “We might surv i ve long
enough to find an even grander way to destroy
o u r s e l ves,” Grant says MU has observed, “o n e
that could harm worlds other than our ow n .
These beings feel that . . . they would be condemning
themselves to a violent confro n t a t i o n
with us in the future.” The aliens have taken a
middle course. They abduct people and re m ove
some of their DNA, combining it with the
DNA of various alien races; thus, “s o m e t h i n g
of the human race will continue.” Others are
t rying to implant spiritual beliefs and psyc h i c
p e rceptions into the brains of humans in the
hope that greater wisdom will lead them to surv
i val and peace.
According to MU, alien science indicates
that Earth faces a bleak future of ecological
collapse, geophysical cataclysms, and political
and social upheaval, which may lead to
atomic and biological warfare. None of this is
certain, only probable. If these things happen,
MU says, the aliens may “remove a group of
women and children from the surface of the
Earth to protect them for the purposes of procreation.”
These would all be abductees whose
genetic make-up had already been altered.
See Also: Abductions by UFOs; Insectoids
Further Reading
Lewels, Joe, 1997. The God Hypothesis: Extraterres -
trial Life and Its Implications for Science and Reli -
gion. Mill Spring, NC: Wild Flower Press.
Muller’s Martians
A medium’s contacts with Martians are the
subject of a classic early work on abnormal
psychology, Theodore Flournoy’s From India
to the Planet Mars (1899). Flournoy, a prominent
Swiss psychologist, gives the medium the
pseudonym Helene Smith in his book, but
her real name was Catherine Elise Muller.
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Born in 1861, Muller possessed a considerable
imagination and a keen intelligence. She
grew up in a family in which psychic and visionary
experiences were common, and she
herself had a number of them. Friends drew
her attention to spiritism, and soon she became
a medium. Through her, such historical
figures as the great novelist Victor Hugo and
the legendary occultist Cagliostro spoke, spinning
what Flournoy characterizes as “complex
sagas.” Her Martian adventures began only
after a friend remarked, in her presence, on
something he had read recently. It was a statement
by the popular science writer Camille
Flammarion that “Martian humankind and
Earth humankind may one day enter into
communication with the other.” The friend
expressed the hope that such a thing would
happen.
Soon afterward, Muller informed him that
she had made contact with Martians. These
encounters occurred in a variety of mental
states, including sleep. Flournoy was led to
the conclusion that, at least at some level of
her psyche, Muller was always living with the
Martians. The communications and experiences
were voluminous. She had many Martian
friends and was often on that planet interacting
with them and observing everything
around her. She even produced, albeit in
piecemeal fashion, a Martian language that
Flourney recognized as an “infantile travesty
of French.”
See Also: Allingham’s Martian; Aurora Martian;
Brown’s Martians; Hopkins’s Martians; Khauga;
Martian bees; Monka; Shaw’s Martians; Smead’s
Martians; Wilcox’s Martians
Further Reading
Flournoy, Theodore, 1963. From India to the Planet
Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with
Glossolalia. New Hyde Park, NY: University
Books.