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about communication or interaction with the
crew. When the saucer landed, according to
her, “Seven small people emerged and ran into
the woods,” never to be seen again (“Space
Ship,” 1954). In their absence, she examined
the ship inside and out. Rather than escaping,
the craft was taken to the General Electric laboratory,
which subsequently informed her
that it was made up of materials that “definitely
did not belong to this earth.” According
to Thayer, a dozen landings of ships with similar
crews took place in Wisconsin and Illinois
between 1919 and 1930.
See Also: Adamski, George; Contactees
Further Reading
Bartholomew, Robert E., and George S. Howard,
1998. UFOs and Alien Contact: Two Centuries of
Mystery. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
“Space Ship Lands in Celery Field,” 1954. Interplan -
etary News Digest (March): 22.
Raphael
Raphael is responsible for the “Starseed transmissions,”
said to come from a parallel dimension
through channeler Ken Care y. Care y, a
Missouri farmer, had no previous channeling
experience before Raphael came through one
day in 1979. He says the messages first arrive d
via “w a ves or pulsations” that translated symbols
into their verbal correlates. “Often,” he
writes, “it was the case that the only human
conceptual system with approximating terminology
was religious. Hence, the occasional
use of ‘Christian’ words and phrases” (Care y,
1982). Eve n t u a l l y, the communications occ
u r red more straightforw a rdly in En g l i s h .
Raphael says he exists only when he is interacting
with Carey or with whomever he is
communicating through Carey. When he is
not active, he merges “back into the Being behind
all being,” awaiting his next mission. On
one occasion, however, he claimed to be the
intelligence represented by Christ.
See Also: Channeling
Further Reading
Carey, Ken, 1982. The Starseed Transmissions: An Ex -
traterrestrial Report. Kansas City, MO: UNI-
SUN.
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Raydia
After a 1979 UFO sighting, Lyssa Royal
found herself more and more fascinated with
paranormal subjects. Her interests led her, in
1984, to Darryl Anka, who channeled Bashar.
During the period of her association with
Anka, she had a vivid dream in which an entity
appeared to inform her that soon she herself
would be channeling. She was led to a
channeling class in Los Angeles. By 1985, a
number of entities were making their presence
known to her. One was Raydia, who stayed
with Royal for three years.
Royal went on to found the Association of
L ove and Light, channeling Raydia as well as
some others. Raydia was a “heart - c e n t e re d”
female entity, “a collective consciousness”
with “a strong affiliation with the star Arct
u rus.” She last communicated in 1988,
telling persons who we re sitting in on a channeling
session, “You will never see me in this
form again.” Royal says that Raydia “integrated
herself” into an entity Royal would
subsequently channel, Germane (“Behind the
Veil,” 1998).
See Also: Bashar; Channeling; Germane
Further Reading
“Behind the Veil: A Look at the Phenomenon of
Channeling,” 1998. http://www.royalpriest.com/
channel.htm.
Melton, J. Go rdon, 1996. En c yclopedia of Am e r i -
can Re l i g i o n s . Fifth edition. De t roit, MI: Ga l e
Re s e a rc h .
Renata
Renata channels through Scott Amun. On
April 15, 1999, she (gender is presumed since
the entity does not specify its sex) came
t h rough for the first time to discuss va r i o u s
i s s u e s .
Renata says that on her planet, Os y l l i u m ,
people look and act much like humans; ye t ,
p a r a d ox i c a l l y, Os y l l i u m’s history is richer and
m o re diverse than Eart h’s. Perhaps one re a s o n
is that Osyllium people change their language
e ve ry four or five years. They do this by adjusting
their brain frequencies, and the purpose
is to accelerate change and encourage