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communicating telepathically, informed them
that no meeting would take place; before one
could happen, they would have to learn how
to control their emotions.
The messages continued and began to circ ulate
through the Spanish-speaking world. T h e y
described the nature of the cosmos, Eart h’s sec
ret history, and human beings’ spiritual nat
u re. The teachings we re circulated under the
name Mission Rama, organized as a nonpro fit
corporation. They hold that there are three diff
e rent universes: material (Septennial), mental
( Eternal), and spiritual (Mental). Our ow n
Milky Way is under the direction of twe n t y -
four highly evo l ved beings, the Elders of the
Ga l a x y. Beneath them are advanced civilizations
which actively assist lesser but deve l o p i n g
races. Each of these takes on a particular task,
as Genetic Engineers, Keepers, Gu a rdians, Ins
t ructors, and the like. “Galaxy M-31,” in the
A n d romeda constellation, is the seat of an ext
remely important council where re p re s e n t at
i ves of a number of galaxies in our region of
space deliberate. The council is called the
Council of Nine, and the beings sitting on it
a re the Nine of Andromeda. T h e y, along with
the twenty-four Elders of each galaxy, comprise
the Great White Brotherhood of the St a r.
Members of the Earth’s Mission Rama have
reported extraordinary experiences, not just
UFO sightings but otherworldly journeys
through artificially constructed space-time
portals (Xendras). “Many others received their
‘Cosmic Names,’ whose pronunciation is in
tune with the total nature of each individual’s
soul,” one document states (Edilver, n.d.).
See Also: Great White Brotherhood
Further Reading
Edilver [pseud. of Giorgio Piacenza], 1992. “Mission
Rama.” Coral Gables, FL: self-published.
Oz Factor
“ Oz Fa c t o r” is a phrase coined by British ufologist
Jenny Randles, who calls it the “s e n s a t i o n
of being isolated, or transported from the re a l
world into a different environmental framew
o rk.” Randles noted its presence in a number
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of UFO cases she investigated. It was as if, she
w rote, witnesses we re “being transported temporarily
from our world into another, where
reality is but slightly differe n t . . . . I call it ‘t h e
Oz Fa c t o r,’ after the fairytale land of Oz”
(Randles, 1983). She suspects that in many ostensibly
straightforw a rd UFO encounters, witnesses
are in an altered state of consciousness.
In Oz Factor incidents, an individual may
witness a spectacular UFO display or even
landing and contact in a public space at a time
when other persons should be about. Yet
other people will be weirdly absent, and a
zone of silence will surround the scene. The
witness may feel as if he or she has been “chosen”
to view the object.
Such phenomena have also been reported
in the context of men in black encounters. For
example, Peter Rojcewicz tells of an experience
he underwent one afternoon in November
1980, when he was doing research on a
Ph.D. dissertation in folklore at the University
of Pennsylvania library. His subject was
UFOs. A strange man dressed in black interrupted
his work and engaged him in a disjointed
exchange about flying saucers. The
stranger then seemed to disappear. “I was
highly excited and finally walked around the
stacks to the reference desk and nobody was
behind the desk,” Rojcewicz wrote. He could
find no one else in the library anywhere, a situation
he regarded as virtually incomprehensible.
Fighting panic, he returned to where he
had been sitting. “In about an hour I rose to
leave the library,” he recalled. “There were
two librarians behind each of the two desks!”
(Rojcewicz, 1987).
An American psychiatric social worker
writing under a pseudonym recounts a lifetime
of encounters with a range of otherworldly
beings. She says,
I apparently entered into an altered state when
encounters occurred. It seemed to be an altered
energy or time field created by the beings.
Everything fell silent. The air felt heavy, like
liquid crystal, and it seemed to carry nonverbal
information between the beings and myself.