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appeared to be deliberate planetary colonisers who erected their space domes wherever they travelled, in memory of the lifestyle on their world of origin. They were themselves dome-headed, suggestive of a highly evolved brain capacity, and were similar in all recognisable aspects to Homo sapiens. We labelled them Utopians because their descriptions of their social and political structures seemed so idealistically perfect. The Energy Essences were the strangest of all. These interviewees spoke of existences as disembodied entities of pure energy, yet with awareness. In a sense, they were mind-spirit essences which were able to exist on even inhospitable, barren planets—or in space itself. In our opinion, these entities were not at all to be confused with angelic intelligences. In many cases, these essences drifted rather purposelessly through space. In other instances, they approached specific planets with the intention of inhabiting already-existing physical bodies. As I suggested, we gained the most information about the Utopians. We heard of a planet with a reddish sky and with two moons. The cities and the individual homes were described as having been of crystal or some material which was crystalline in effect. The buildings appeared translucent for the most part, but we also heard descriptions of the sun reflecting off spires and turrets. We were often told that the cities were sheltered under protective domes. The accounts of a beleaguered, dying The subjects who recalled lives as _ planet began to sound so reminiscent of Utopians expressed a great nostalgia for the tales of the legendary Atlantis that we culture of that lost planet. The cities speculated whether or not that memory, seemed to be run according to the ideals of which seems so indelibly etched in a perfect democracy. Citizens enjoyed total humankind's collective unconsciousness, freedom without the harsh by-products of might not actually have occurred on civilisation—crime, hunger and poverty. another planet light years away in space. Family units as we know them did not Although the Refugees were generally seem to exist. Communal living, of a sort, less able to provide us with the kind of seemed to prevail, although each person detailed information about their culture as had individual space and privacy. the Utopians had given us, we found a Numerous interviewees testified that the number of these subjects were concerned Utopians ate very sparingly, most often of with the recall of antigravity devices, a concentrated food that was made into a cancer cures, fireproofing formulas and soup-like mixture. The culture was other advantages of their advanced completely vegetarian; no flesh foods of _ technology. any kind were consumed. Most of their memories, however, were Most of the Utopians remembered cluttered with survival thoughts and plans themselves as slender, quite short and with of escape from their doomed world. big-domed heads. Although they had little We did eventually manage to interview a body hair and no beards or moustaches, number of subjects who seemed to have they did mention longish golden hair and _ shared lives in the priestcraft of a temple eyelashes. Their skin was most often said _ on this planet, but they, too, remembered to be of golden-brown complexion, and more about the destruction of the building their eyes were of a similar colour. than their daily rituals. Music seemed to be an intrinsic element Most typical of the Refugee regressions in their culture, and we were told that it | were graphic descriptions of immense was primarily a free form, with no portions of their planet being ripped apart repetitive sound, and that it often became a__ by explosions and of large numbers of the part of their thoughts. population being annihilated. We also In contrast to the Utopians' recollections heard from several subjects describing fiery of tranquil, gentle lives, the Refugees' _crash-landings on Earth or on other planets memories and dreams were filled with as their war-damaged spacecraft failed to accounts of violent civil wars, burning cities negotiate proper landings. and global holocausts. Many reported that they had fled the planet before it exploded. Reports from respondents De 1070) wa ha nota Reports from respondents By 1979, we began to hear from increasingly large numbers’ of questionnaire respondents who claimed to recall coming to Earth for the express purpose of assuming incarnations on the planet as part of an extended mission of raising the level of humankind's consciousness. We named them "the Helpers". * Typical of such reports is the one sent to us by A. M., a schoolteacher from Colorado: "In this dream, I am in a place of great (but not blinding) light. Other 'beings' are there. It seems that we are in a rather large, round object which hovers a short distance above Earth. I am being shown a chute- like passageway leading downward, and I am given to understand that I am to go through this chute. "My feelings about descending are not those of joy, but more like necessity or gemervisfe 64 = NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com