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ALIEN MEMORIES AND DREAMS by Brad Steiger © March 2008 ALIEN MEMORIES AND UFO, Paranormal, and Mystical DREAMS Experiences" had grown to include far by Brad Steiger © March 2008 more questions than those on my first elementary notepad, and even greater n 1967, I put together a questionnaire numbers of individuals began to report [= was originally designed as an _ their extraterrestrial or multidimensional attempt to establish a pattern profile of | memories or dream scenarios. paranormally talented individuals, In 1987, I combined elements in my contemporary mystics and spiritually | questionnaire with the research of Sherry inspired men and women. Admittedly, in Hansen, who, in 1970, had developed a the beginning, I primarily used the _ similar list of questions. questions as a guideline for conducting Soon after we began as research partners, interviews on a one-to-one basis. These we married; and while we have now were pretty much basic questions, such as: authored and co-authored many books on "At what age did you begin to develop many subjects, we continue to receive a mediumship?"; "How often do you _ steady flow of emails regarding the alien experience telepathy or clairvoyance?"; and dreams and memories of hundreds of men "Do you believe that you have a spirit and women. We also continue to keep the guide?" statistics of the questionnaire updated. About 1969, interviewees surprised me As of 2008, over 40,000 individuals from by departing from the sequence of the all over the planet have returned the questions to begin to speak spontaneously "Steiger Questionnaire of UFO, about their having dreams or memories of | Paranormal, and Mystical Experiences". having come to Earth from some other Of that number: planet. Some saw themselves as arriving ¢ 59% have had dreams or memories in on some kind of expeditionary unit in which they were viewing a city or a planet prehistoric times. Others perceived made of crystal; themselves as survivors seeking refuge * 69% have vivid dreams or memories in from a devastating interplanetary war. Still which they are in a spacecraft and viewing others beheld themselves as beings of light, Earth from a perspective far away from the moving through space, reaching Earth and __ planet; acquiring physical form. * 54% perceive themselves in dream or By 1972, the "Steiger Questionnaire of memory scenarios as being an actual member of a UFO crew; * 43% state that they have dreams or memories in which they observe themselves coming to Earth as a Being of Light; * 44% have dreams in which they are drawn aboard a UFO to receive instructions and counsel; * 85% believe that they have lived a prior existence on another planet or in another dimension; ¢ 53% experienced dreams or memories in which they see Earth as it might have appeared in prehistoric times. For the purposes of research and discussion, we have termed the vast majority of our respondents and interviewees as belonging to four general groups: the Refugees, the Utopians, the Energy Essences and the Helpers. The Refugees’ alien scenarios surfaced from men and women who claimed memories of having come to Earth after they had fled their native planet because of great civil wars or cataclysmic natural disasters. In some cases, they seemed to recall having come to this planet on a kind of reconnaissance mission and crash-landed here. In any case, the aliens ended up trapped on Earth, unable to return to their home planet. They described themselves as being humanlike in appearance. The Utopians seemed to form the largest category among our interviewees. They JUNE — JULY 2008 NEXUS = 63 www.nexusmagazine.com