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wanted to get in touch with her. “T was really excited,” Leslie said, “because my teenaged son had just recently died after a motorcycle wreck, and his name was James. A few months later, I went to Ted for a reading and asked about James. Ted said that James was tell- ing him that he was busy helping his new friend Rodney adjust to the spirit world. ‘That made no sense,” Leslie continued, “because James didn’t know anybody named Rodney I told Ted he was wrong, but he wouldn’t back down. He insisted that he was delivering James’ message accurately. Later I asked all of James’ friends if they knew a Rodney, but nobody could identify him.” “So you thought Ted’s information wasn’t genuine?” Barbara asked. “Yes,” Leslie replied, “until a few weeks later when I was in town shopping. I spotted a couple who looked familiar, and then I remembered having seen them at the hospital before James died. While he was in a coma, another young boy was brought into ICU, the victim of a car accident. That couple had been up there with him, he was in a coma, too, but I never talked to them. “This time, though, I did, and asked about their son. They told me that he had remained in a coma for a few more months and just recently had died. His name was Rodney.” She looked at Barbara a moment before continuing. “I had not known his name in the hospital, and both Rodney and James were in comas the whole time they were together. How could Ted have known those names, unless James’ spirit really is on the other side, with Rodney’s?” “Maybe Ted wasn’t wrong, after all,” Barbara remarked, and Leslie agreed. After listening to some of Ted’s discussions, she con- tinued, her interest in UFOs started to develop. And when he mentioned missing-time episodes, her curiosity changed to concern. As she told Barbara during their interview, Leslie had been driving one night several months earlier and found herself lost in a sudden fog. She remembered driving around for quite a while before the fog lifted, and she felt there may Masquerade of Angels 246 have been some missing time then. Barbara put Leslie into a trance state and guided her back to the night in question. But after a long, patient exploration of her memories, Leslie uncovered only a brief memory of being on a table and seeing gray forms standing around. The beings were familiar, however, and this recollection sparked others, concerning the presence of such creatures at the con- ception and birth of each of her children. Describing one of these deliveries, Leslie told Barbara how the alien beings held the newborn child and, as one might dust a baby with talc, somehow powdered it with light. But her memories were too fragmented for her to gain any overall understanding of the beings or the extent of their involvement in her life. Only one more person was scheduled to meet with her, and the next afternoon Barbara interviewed another of Ted’s coworkers, a young man named Al. He told her about some possible UFO sightings he remembered, as well as about odd dreams and other occurrences symptomatic of alien contact. For Al, the most important event was a vision he’d had of Jesus, whom at first he saw hanging on the cross. Al remem- bered feeling great pity and love for Jesus, and then being astonished when the figure looked up and began to move away from the cross and toward him. The last thing he remembered was Jesus kissing him, and when the vision was over, Al felt very moved and blessed by the event. When Barbara helped him mentally return to that scene, however, Al described more details, and as the event grew clearer in his mind, he suddenly began to shake. The spasms increased, until at one point Al was jerking violently as the intense emotions surfaced. Barbara worked to calm him, and when he was able to continue, the vision he had recalled faded away and he saw something quite different. Instead of Jesus, the image transformed into a grotesque reptilian creature, forcing itself sexually upon the terrified man. He was so appalled and disturbed that Barbara brought the session to an end as soon as he had released enough emo- tion to regain his composure. “After the session,” Barbara told Ted that evening, “Al Masquerade of Angels 247 The Light - Twenty-Four The Light - Twenty-Four