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There is a sinister backdrop, an alien-type, insectoid, not-quite-pleas- ant side of this, isn't there? It nota "We're- going-to get-you-motherfucker." CONTACT THROUGH THE VEIL: 1 + 189 First there was a mandala-like series of visuals, fleurs-de-lis—type vi- sions. Then an insectlike thing got right into myface, hovering over me as the drug was going in. This thing sucked me out of my head into outer space. It was clearly outer space, a black sky with millions ofstars. Iwas in a very large waiting room, or something. It was very long. I felt observed by the insect-thing and others like it. Then they lost interest. I was taken into space and looked at. Aaron summarized his encounters with these beings after a subse- quent double-blind high dose: It's more like being possessed. During the experience there is sense ofsome- one, or something else, there taking control. It's like you have to defend yourself against them, whoever they are, but they certainly are there. I'm aware ofthem and they're aware ofme. It's like they have an agenda. It's like walking into a different neighborhood. You're really not quite sure what the culture is. It's got such a distinctflavor, the reptilian being or beings that are present. "How about the scary element?" I asked. "What's the worst they could do if they are unleashed with access to you?" That's what it's about. It's the sense of the possibility that's so strange. In a later chapter, we'll read about the physical problems Lucas encoun- tered after his high-dose session. However, it's interesting to review part of a letter he wrote to us a few days after that experience: There is nothing that can prepare you for this. There is a sound, a bzzzz. It started off and got louder and louder and faster and faster. I was coming on and coming on and then POW! There was a space station below me and to my right. There were at least two presences, one on either side of me, guiding me to a platform. I was also aware ofmany entities inside the space station—automatons, androidlike creatures that looked like a cross between crash dummies and the Empire troopsfrom Star Wars, except that they were living beings, not robots. They seemed to have checkerboard pat- terns on parts of their bodies, especially their upper arms. They were doing