Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact - Above Top Secret

And tell of me,Dream thou!Such a vision-quest is universal among the Indians of America, although among some tribes (suchas the Pueblos and Navahos) it is limited to the priests and initiates. To Evans-Wentz, the beingscontacted in the course of such visions are identical with the Celtic creatures of the SecretCommonwealth, and he concludes that there is evidence for their true existence. These beings arethe guardians of secret places, "holding them in trust for a future of wonders." Evans-Wentz hadbeen told by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats that such places existed and were thus guarded. Heidentifies one such spot in France, one in County Wicklow (Ireland), one in Campagna (Italy), andothers in Asia and America.Can we then use the vast and untapped reservoir of fantastic events in the collections of UFO lore toforce an answer from our gods old and new, to bring them down to a human dimension, or tounderstand their power? Or do we find ourselves locked in their maze, their "fly bottle?" Is the timeof our inquiry always wrong, the place always elsewhere? Are the angels in heaven rejoicing, or dothey laugh at our stupidity?A former Jesuit priest, Father Salvatore Freixedo, has deeply researched this aspect of thephenomenon in several books like Defendiamonos de los Dioses (In Defense Against the Gods) thatare not yet aviable in English, unfortunately. He argues convincingly that the spiritual controlsystem of which UFOs are a part may have resulted in the religious myths that keep mankind in astate of abject submission to obsolete myths. In our private conversations, he implied that thephenomenon originates with entities that manipulate our reality and our destiny for their ownpurposes. Using our naïveté and our lack of critical judgement in the presence of "miracles," theseentities, in his view, play with our emotions in order to be worshipped as gods.The Mormon StoryI discovered a light appearing in my room, which continued to increase until the room waslighter than at noonday, when immediately a personage appeared at my bedside, standing inthe air, for his feet did not touch the floor....He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence ofGod to me, and that his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do; and that myname should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds and tongues.Thus begins the account of the revelation of the Book of Mormon with the story of what transpiredon the night of September 21, 1823, between Joseph Smith and an angel. The book itself, the angelstated, was in the form of gold plates that lay buried at a certain spot and could be translated withthe help of two stones in silver containers that were buried with the plates.After this communication, I saw the light in the room begin to gather immediately aroundthe person of him who had been speaking to me, and it continued to do so, until the roomwas again left dark, except just around him, when instantly I saw, as it were, a conduit openright up into heaven, and he ascended until he entirely disappeared.In 1842, at the request of Colonel Wentworth of the Chicago Democrat, Joseph Smith wrote asketch of the history of the Mormon Church that contained additional details on the apparition:On a sudden a light like that of day, only of a far purer and more glorious appearance andbrightness, burst into the room; indeed the first sight was as though the house was filled withconsuming fire. The appearance produced a shock that affected the whole body. In a momenta personage stood before me surrounded with a glory yet greater than that by which I was