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Xeno (Greek for ‘‘stranger”) or use variations on ancient Greek and Indian names from mythology. The long-haired Venusians and the long- haired angels are unquestionably part of the same package, coming from the same source but utilizing different frames of reference to approach human beings. It is also highly probable that they do not actually have individual identities but are manifestations of a greater force which is able to manipulate the human mind. This mental (and also emotional) manipu- lation is the key to our mystery. Possession occurs in both good and evil forms. Possession is part of the overall manifestation. Many contactees display the classic symptoms of possession. Arthur Ford, the medium, was possessed on one level; Dr. Newbrough, author of Oahspe, on another; contactees on still another. All are subjects of the same phenome- non—phenomenon that is not bred in the reaches of outer space but which has always existed with us here in our own immediate environment. The well-investigated miracles are proof that the human mind can be exposed to induced hallucinations and that information can somehow be inserted into the mind by some unknown mechanism. In most contactee events, the percipient is alone or with a small group when the UFO contact occurs. Such percipients suffer medical effects which indicate that the “contact”” was actually hallucinatory, just as the episodes involving children and religious entities have proven to be wholly or partially hallucinatory. The event or vision takes place only in the mind, not in reality. The exterior manifestations are merely part of that mechanism, a byproduct rather than a cause. It is likely that an outsider trespassing on the scene of a UFO contact would see the contactee standing in a rigid trance, just as the witnesses to miracles see only the children in a blind trance state. The contactee’s real experience is in his or her mind as some powerful beam of electromagnetic energy is broadcasting to that mind, bypassing the biological sensory channels. The remembered nonevents are therefore of little or no importance. This process of broadcasting to the mind has always been known as possession or mystical illumination. The modern hippie, under the influ- ence of LSD, often undergoes the same kind of experience and believes that he has tuned in to the cosmic consciousness. We have made the very human mistake of isolating all of these manifestations into separate categories and studies. The demonologists, angelologists, theologians and ufologists have all been examining the same phenomenon from slightly different points of view. Aretalogists study the ancient writings describing man’s contacts with supernatural or extraterrestrial or ultraterrestrial beings. Spiritualists have been con- A Sure Cure for Alligator Bites / 241