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60 problems, if her young granddaughter hadn’t made a disturbing comment. The seven-year-old child told her grandmother that some “mean men” had come in and taken her away during the night. When Anita asked her to describe the “mean men,” the little girl called them “the mushroom men.” “What are the mushroom men?” Anita asked, and her granddaughter then found the book MISSING TIME by Budd Hopkins and pointed to the drawing on the cover. Anita asked the girl to make a drawing of her own. It showed a long-necked humanoid being with a head shaped like an inverted light bulb. The eyes were black, large, and slanted, the nose had two nostril holes, the mouth was a straight thin line, and the chin was more rounded than in the drawing on the cover of MISSING TIME. The girl said the creatures were about a foot tall, gray-skinned and had four fingers rather than five-a detail not apparent in the cover picture. There were quite a few of these entities present, she said. Anita remembered nothing strange that night herself, but the physical symptoms, the missing sock, and her granddaughter’s story were indicative enough of an intrusive incident to be of great concern. She not only wanted to know what had gone on during the night, but she wanted to know more in general about these beings who had been a part of her life for so long, so she decided to try meditating and sending out messages to the aliens. “| would ask a question telepathically,” Anita explained, “and then lie down on the sofa to drift into twilight sleep, which is really just a deep state of relaxation. | was not asleep or awake. Then the answers to my questions would come.” She remembers, for instance, asking, “Why are you taking human women?” To insure quality breeding, the answer came back. “What about when a woman is menstruating?” she inquired, thinking about how she had used a tampon to try to fend off any further rapes in the past. We know the difference, she was told. “When are you going to show yourselves?” she questioned further, but the reply was less than specific. The time is almost right, was all she received. Anita has used this meditative method for communication several other times. “When I decide to telepath to them,” she commented, “I spend a good part of the time berating them for not being honest with the human race. They've always been here. If they had shown themselves all along, no one would fear them. It’s the unknown that causes fear. Now they've made it impossible just to be accepted. | know who I’m yelling at,” she added, “but | have no idea who, which group, is sending back answers.” And some of those answers have been impossible to understand. In addition to the communications which made some sort of sense -it only works when the year arrives and transmogrify, for example- Anita has also gotten messages containing unknown words and meaningless phrases, including one puzzling reference to star-planet fill. Some of these messages look like nonsense, but one of the other odd communications, IRU URI, is very similar to a message given to Lisa, in which she was told by the aliens, referring to some ape-type creatures, They are you and you are them. If the capital letters in Anita’s communication are written out as words, it would read, “I are you, you are I.”