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114 At that meeting, they told Amy and others attending that they had just emerged from their “classroom” after eighteen years of preparation under the total guidance of their twenty- four elders. Now they were traveling through the country to “harvest” the people who had been “implanted” with the proper knowledge and who were ready to make the transition to the next stage of “more than human.” This required breaking all human ties of love, family and friendship-bonds that keep us tied to the material world-as well as living in celibacy and surrendering all decisions to the “elders.” They also said that everyone but their group had been warped and programmed negatively, either by society’s false values or, in cases of alien contact, by “Luciferian” aliens-which included all groups except the one that had originally instructed the “elders.” Amy described the four “Overcomers” whom she met as tall, thin, pale, asexual in dress (black clothing) and hair style, “clone-like” in appearance, and rigidly controlled emotionally. In fact, she said that she could not feel any “souls” in these four people. Their message was equally rigid: followers must go with the “Overcomers” immediately, without a word to their families, with no belongings, and without any clue as to where they will go next. These cultish demands were weird enough to Amy, but the truly disturbing aspect of the “Overcomers,” she said, was the details and phrasing of their tenets given by the “elders,” for they echoed exactly the things that Amy has been taught by her “Council.” And the products of those teachings-in this cult, at least-felt extremely wrong. “After all I've been learning about implants and mind-control,” she told me, “I must ask who the Council really is. | am so afraid of them now. What if they have been programming me all this time to do things someday that may not be good for my planet? They have never told me to do anything contrary to my beliefs before, but what if they are just gaining my trust? What if they really are good and teaching me to help my planet and | stop listening to them? What if they are just some defense mechanism and all just my imagination? Somehow I'd rather be crazy than for it all to be real. So, since | don’t know who or what the Council really is, | am listening to them more cautiously. | just keep asking God to help me find the Truth. God | am sure of.” X - Casey and Karla After asking these eight courageous women to share their experiences with the public, it is only proper that | also give an account of the things my husband, Casey, and | have witnessed since the first year of activity recounted in INTO THE FRINGE. We have repeatedly been asked about further experiences, and the following summary will serve to fulfill that request, in addition to increasing the body of knowledge upon which research depends. The first intense period of dealing with alien activity lasted from late 1987 through most of 1990, but after that the encounters dramatically waned in our daily life. We breathed a figurative sigh of relief, hoping that the aliens had moved on to another task. Besides, having become active in abduction research, this relatively peaceful period allowed us to