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Back
In the 1970s, a middle-aged Italian woman,
Germana Grosso, told a Turin newspaper
about her two decades of contact with an
alien race that calls itself Back. She became
aware of its existence twenty years earlier,
when a Tibetan lama’s telepathic messages explained
to her how she could communicate
with extraterrestrials. Soon the Back were
showing her scenes of themselves and their
lovely home planet, Lioaki. Grosso “saw”
them as images on a sort of mental television
screen. They also informed her that they have
bases on Earth: under the Atlantic Ocean, in
the Gobi Desert, and in a valley in northern
Italy. Earth is nearing disaster, and the Back
are here not to interfere but to warn those
who will listen.
Further Reading
Beckley, Timothy Green, 1989. Psychic and UFO
Revelations in the Last Days. New Brunswick, NJ:
Inner Light Publications.
Bartholomew
The channeling entity Ba rt h o l o m ew first spoke
t h rough Ma ry - Ma r g a ret Mo o re in the mid-
1970s. She was visiting friends in So c o r ro ,
New Mexico, and undergoing hypnosis in an
e f f o rt to re l i e ve back pain. Su d d e n l y, somebody
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was speaking through her. For the first year of
their association, Mo o re feared that Ba rt h o l om
ew was a dramatic delusion. But over time
she became convinced of his wisdom and
p rophetic talents. She came to think of him as
“the energy vo rt e x” or “the higher and wiser
l e vel of energy” (Mo o re, 1984).
During the New Age boom of the 1980s,
Ba rt h o l o m ew — k n own for his gentle, kind
manner—was something of a channeling superstar;
his messages of comfort and self-love
we re taken to heart. He addressed a wide range
of subjects, from sex and AIDS to prayer and
ego surre n d e r. Be f o re his popularity waned, he
was the subject of two books by Mo o re .
See Also: Channeling
Further Reading
Moore, Mary-Margaret, 1984. I Come as a Brother: A
Remembrance of Illusions. Taos, NM: High Mesa
Press.
———, 1987. From the Heart of a Gentle Brother.
Taos, NM: High Mesa Press.
Bashar
After two close encounters with large, triangle-shaped
UFOs over the course of one week
in 1973, Californian Darryl Anka—the
brother of singer and composer Paul Anka—
began reading UFO literature in search of answers.
Through his reading about UFOs, he