TinWiki: Contactees

Contactees are people who claim to have interacted on a voluntary basis with extraterrestrials.

The voluntarism distinguishes contactees from abductees whose experiences may seem more like test subjects in an experiment.

Introduction

Contactees are likely to meet aliens who may be of a benevolent disposition and may provide predictions and warnings about how humankind is wrecking our planet.

Often, there is a mystical direction to the interaction.

Early Times

Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) is perhaps the earliest contactee in Western history. There may be earlier writers with similar accounts, but they would have claimed to be in contact with angels. For example, one reading of the accounts of Dr. John Dee, alchemist and astrologer to Elizabeth I of England, could indicate an extraterrestrial influence. Indeed, centuries later, contactees would often interact with beings named after words originally found in Dr. Dee's transcriptions of "Affa", the angelic language. Swedenborg, on the other hand, was explicit that he was astral travelling to other planets within the solar system and interacting with the beings he found there.

Modern Times

One of the most famous of the modern contactees is George Adamski, who claimed contact with Venusians, Martians and Saturnians. His claimed knowledge of the nature of these planets did not match with subsequent scientific discoveries, and photographs and cine film of the alleged Venusian spaceships was later counter-claimed to be fraudulent.

Billy Meier of Switzerland is perhaps the most celebrated of the contemporary contactees. Debate continues as to the veracity of his claims.

One fairly consistent thread in contactee lore is that predictions that are made, particularly those prophesying doomsday scenarios. These tend to be erroneous. People have given away their possessions in anticipation of the end of the world. One woman, Gloria Lee, fasted and died as a result of a channelled message from a supposed denizen of Jupiter.

John A Keel is know for writing about malicious interaction that contactees suffer. He has stated that ultraterrestrials are responsible for this and that they cannot be trusted.

New Age Psychics

The Aetherius Society was founded in 1955 by Dr. George King. Its mission is apparently to help humanity into its new age. The rise of what may be termed New Age philosophies has brought a new paradigm into the discourse of contact. Increasingly, the messages are not necessarily about simple ecological warnings, but rather a concern with the human soul and a desire to help humanity evolve spiritually. Esoteric ideas of sacred geometry and Kabbalah are brought into the mix. One emerging theme is that of the 'walk-in', a being who incarnates on Earth at this time to help us with the coming change. The lines between extraterrestrials and angels become ever more blurred.











External Links

The Aetherius Society
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Hello, I'm kind of new and this is the first post/thread that has mentioned anything about George king so that's pretty awesome but I'm still wondering why are such contactes not spoken that much about.

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The lines between extraterrestrials and angels become ever more blurred.

Well, in light of blurred lines and a mystical direction maybe we should stop assuming they are extraterrestrials. I say that as a contactee.