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thousands of years superb stonemasons laboured all over this planet, erecting pyramids, then temples, then great cities. Our sciences have timidly attempted to reconstruct the history of the past three or four thousand years, never daring to look beyond. And woe to anyone - such as Velikovsky - who does dare. PART TWO If the religious projections of man correspond to a reality that is sapecfaoitoan and supernatural, tfeen ft seems logical to look fer The animal world is filled with incongruous redundancies. There are insects that resemble twigs and sticks, fish that look like harmless underwater plants, animals that appear to be rocks and ferns. Some non-poisonous snakes imitate the colouring and appearance ol their deadlier cousins. Numerous tasty insects discourage their enemies by imitating poisonous centipedes and scorpions. The animal and insect world is thronging with fakers and imitators and cunning masters of camouflage. One insect is so cleverly disguised that it can march along with formations of fierce army ants unnoticed. It even imitates the scent of the anny ants. Man, the most vicious and wanton killer of the animal world and the natural enemy of all wild things, has his imitators, too. Overt contacts between man and paraman have numbered in the millions throughout history. Legend and lore are rich with such incidents of contact. Our great religions are founded upon encounters with angels and demons. The annals of psychic phenomena are filled with accounts of seemingly chance meetings with these ultraterrestrials. Some of them seem dull and inconsequential and even easily explainable; others are witnessed by groups of reliable people and produce testimony that would have been written by a drunken science fiction author. ‘Living among us undetected may be creatures (not necessarily alien) with all the outward appearances of human beings,’ urologist Alex Saunders wrote in Quest magazine. October 1969. The mimic would of necessity be a "lone wolf", likely living in a large, bustling city where the eccentric and the odd may flourish unhindered. For it is a curious fart of nature that that which is in plain view is often best hidden.* Another famous ufologist, Ainte Michel, has also commented on these mysterious mimics. "Certain cases have been checked and found to be perfectly authentic. But they are so absurd (because they are mimetic) that folk donot dare to talk about them. Nouseful research can ever be done so long as absurdity produces complexes in us." Early man was very aware of the existence of these mimics and tended to separate them into two groups - gods and demons. All religions have always warned their followers to be cautious of CHAPTER EIGHT MIMICS OF MAN ' The Humatwiis. Neville Spearman.