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Saint Michael
Saint Michael the Archangel is perhaps best
k n own from the traditional Georgia Sea Islands
spiritual “Michael, Row the Boat
A s h o re,” but even in contemporary time
some people claim to have experienced his
p resence. One is a Southern California
woman, Melissa MacLeod, a practicing
Roman Catholic. In the 1980s, she experienced
terrifying nocturnal visitations in
which a tall, black-hooded fig u re stared at her
menacingly from beside her bed. She is convinced,
according to ufologist Ann Dru f f e l ,
that her intense belief in Michael saved her
f rom this demonic manifestation.
Fascinated by MacLeod’s experiences, a
friend, writer and parapsychologist Stephen
A. Schwartz, engaged in three months’ intense
meditation to see if he could visualize
Michael. After three months, a point of light
suddenly shone in his room. Within it, the
form of a luminous entity, human in shape
but larger, emerged into view. “He had a demeanor
of absolute implacability,” Schwartz
recalled (Druffel, 1998). He was convinced he
had seen the archangel.
Further Reading
Druffel, Ann, 1998. How to Defend Yo u r s e l f
against Alien Ab d u c t i o n . New Yo rk: T h re e
R i vers Pre s s .
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Sananda
Sananda, a popular channeling entity, is a powe
rful being who is Ashtar’s superior in the space
mission to redeem Earth. Sananda, known as
Jesus in an earlier, earthly incarnation, is perhaps
best known, howe ve r, as the principal
contact of Do rothy Ma rtin (Sister T h e d r a ) ,
whose failed prophecy of earth-shaking eve n t s
in December 1954 attracted worldwide attention
and became the subject of an influ e n t i a l
case study in the sociology of re l i g i o n .
See Also: Ashtar; Channeling; Hierarchal Board; Sister
Thedra
Further Reading
Festinger, Leon, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley
Schachter, 1956. When Prophecy Fails. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
Tuella [pseud. of Thelma B. Turrell], ed., 1989.
Ashtar: A Tribute. Third edition. Salt Lake City,
UT: Guardian Action Publications.
Sasquatch
Sasquatch—also known as Bi gfoot—is a large
apelike cre a t u re unre c o g n i zed by zoology but
often re p o rted seen in the forests of the Pa c i fic
No rt h west of the United States and Canada’s
far west. To those few scientists who are willing
to concede its possible existence, Sasquatch is
thought to be related to Homo sapiens’ primate
ancestors. In other words, though intelligent as