In 1967, I put together a
questionnaire that was originally designed as an
attempt to establish a pattern profile of paranormally
talented individuals, contemporary mystics, and
spiritually inspired men and women. Admittedly, in the
beginning, I primarily used the questions as a
guideline for conducting interviews on a one-to-one
basis. These were pretty much basic questions, such as
"At what age did you begin to develop mediumship?"
"How often do you experience telepathy or
clairvoyance?" "Do you believe that you have a spirit
guide?"
About 1969, interviewees
surprised me by departing from the sequence of the
questions to begin to speak spontaneously about their
having dreams or memories of having come to Earth from
some other planet. Some saw themselves as arriving on
some kind of expeditionary unit in prehistoric times.
Others perceived themselves as survivors seeking
refuge from a devastating interplanetary war. Still
others beheld themselves as beings of light, moving
through space, reaching Earth and acquiring physical
form.
By 1972, the Steiger
Questionnaire of UFO, Paranormal, and Mystical
Experiences had grown to include far more questions
than those on my first elementary note pad, and even
greater numbers of individuals began to report their
extraterrestrial or multidimensional memories or dream
scenarios. In 1987, I combined elements in my
questionnaire with the research of Sherry Hansen, who,
in 1970, had developed a similar list of questions.
Soon after we began as research
partners, we married, and while we have now authored
and co-authored many books on many subjects, we
continue to receive a steady flow of emails regarding
the alien dreams and memories of hundreds of men and
women. We also continue to keep the statistics of the
questionnaire updated.
As of 2008, over 40,000
individuals from all over the planet have returned the
Steiger Questionnaire of UFO, Paranormal, and Mystical
Experiences.
Of that number--
* 59% have had dreams or
memories in which they were viewing a city or a planet
made of crystal
*69% have vivid dreams or
memories in which they are in a spacecraft and viewing
Earth from a perspective far away from the
planet
*54% perceive themselves in
dream or 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 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 purposes of research and
discussion, we have termed the vast majority of our
respondents and interviewees as belonging to four
general groups that we have termed the "Refugees," the
"Utopians," the "Energy Essences," and "The Helpers."
The Refugee Alien scenario
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 humanlike in appearance.
The Utopians seemed to form the
largest category among our interviewees. They appeared
to be deliberate planetary colonizers who erected
their space domes wherever they traveled 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 recognizable
aspects to Homo sapiens. We labeled 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 subjects who recalled lives
as Utopians expressed a great nostalgia for the
culture of that lost planet. The cities seemed to be
run according to the ideals of a perfect democracy.
Citizens enjoyed total freedom without the harsh
by-products of civilization--crime, hunger, poverty.
Family units as we know them did
not seem to exist. Communal living, of a sort, seemed
to prevail, although each person had his individual
space and privacy.
Numerous interviewees testified
that the Utopians ate very sparingly, most often of a
concentrated food that was made into a soup-like
mixture. The culture was completely vegetarian with no
flesh foods of any kind being consumed.
Most of the Utopians remembered
themselves as slender, quite short, with big-domed
heads. Although they had little body hair and no
beards or mustaches, they did mention longish golden
hair and eyelashes. Their skin was most often said to
be of golden-brown complexion, and their eyes were of
a similar color.
Music seemed to be an intrinsic
element in their culture, and we were told that it was
primarily a free-form, nonrepetitive sound that often
became a part of their thoughts.
In contrast to the tranquil,
gentle lives of the Utopians, the Refugees' memories
and dreams were filled with accounts of violent civil
wars, burning cities, global holocausts. Many reported
that they had fled the planet before it exploded.
The accounts of a beleaguered,
dying planet began to sound so reminiscent of tales of
the legendary Atlantis that we speculated whether or
not that memory which seemed so indelibly etched in
humankind's collective unconscious might not have
actually occurred on another planet light years away
in space.
Although the Refugees were
generally less able to provide us with the kind of
detailed information about their culture which the
Utopians had given us, we found a number of these
subjects concerned with the recall of antigravity
devices, cancer cures. fireproofing formulas, and
other advantages of their advanced technology.
Most of their memories, however,
were cluttered with survival thoughts and plans of
escape from their doomed world. We did eventually
manage to interview a number of subjects who seemed to
have shared lives in the priestcraft of a temple on
this planet, but they, too, remembered more of the
destruction of the building than their daily rituals.
Most typical of the Refugee
regressions were graphic descriptions of immense
portions of their planet being ripped apart by
explosions and of large numbers of the population
being annihilated. We also heard from several subjects
describing fiery crash landings on Earth or on other
planets, as their war-damaged spacecraft failed to
negotiate proper landings.
By 1979, we began to hear from
increasingly large numbers of questionnaire
respondents who claim 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 chutelike 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 duty.
This all seems to be part of the Plan. My last
awareness is of passing downward ... toward the Earth.
There is no feeling of threat or danger, merely some
sadness at separation from the other beings. The dream
ends. The images remain.
A woman secretary in the
California school district, informed us that she
"remembered" volunteering to come to Earth. Her role
was to be that of one of a group of counselors who
would assist Earth to evolve spiritually. On her
planet of origin, she was a scientist who worked with
channeling light as a source of energy.
According to her alien memories,
her first life experience on Earth occurred in the
Yucatan, where she was regarded as an oracle and
where, for a time, she experimented with hypnotic
drugs, which had been carefully devised to enable the
native people to establish closer telepathic contact
with her.
Jay of Ontario, has his Ph.D. in
Educational Psychology, and a belief that this is his
first incarnation on Earth:
I volunteered to embark upon a
specific mission, now nearing the completion of its
first phase. It is my understanding that it is my
mission to discover and to develop the skills needed
to help my fellow human beings, whether they are homo
sapiens or homo astrolis.
I also understand that I now
have two parts of a three-part puzzle.
The first part involves the
fundamental importance of the ways we perceive
reality. These perceptions, the operation of which we
are largely unaware, can serve to help or to hinder
our progress, depending on whether or not they reveal
or mask our true pathways.
The second aspect relates to the
ways in which we apply our perceptions, as a build-up
of others or as a put-down of them or ourselves.
Considerable skill is needed here, since put-downs are
often subtle and overtly unintentional.
I can only guess, at this point,
the basis of the third part. I have been told to work
on these two for a while, to get their details, and
that the third will come. With the third, the golden
chain will be complete and the window will open .
Another interviewee from
Ontario, a thirty-two-year-old man, stated that he can
recall each of his five previous lifetimes on this
planet, and in each prior existence he has served as a
contact point for UFO intelligences:
On my native planet, I was a
dream interpreter. I was sent to Earth to help prepare
Earthlings for the coming UFO contact on a global
basis.
I lived in a city of light, of
crystal buildings, where everything was peace and
harmony. I used dreams to interpret any forthcoming
health problems and to help people better understand
themselves. We had conquered pain and suffering by our
mental abilities-and these are gifts that we will one
day be able to give to Earthlings.
Interestingly, we have heard
from a number of members of Native American tribes who
seem to fit into this fourth category of aliens on
assignments of raising Earth awareness.
A Cherokee physicist, who now
lives in Alabama, not only had recall of a past life
in the Pleiades, but he was also able to fit his alien
memories together with tribal legends that his people
had come from another world:
We lived in domed cities with
translucent walls. We could fly, communicate with
animals, transport ourselves instantly to other parts
of our world.
I remember our city as a golden
color--a place of great beauty and calm.
I came with others from my
planet to help Earth through its birth pains into an
intergalactic community and oneness. We were members
of the priestcraft in ancient Egypt; we were
alchemists in the Middle Ages; we are scientists and
clergy in the modern world.
A woman named Monica remembers
being a scientist from another world who participated
in creating the first crude [Homo sapiens] of
this world.
Apparently. in this scientific
work she did, she was cruel and uncaring to these
creatures.
But something happened. One day
she realized these beings had feelings. One of the
creatures had taken her hand one day and caressed it.
Monica realized then that just because one may have
the knowledge to create a life form, doesn't give one
the right to abuse a life form.
A Massachusetts social worker
told us her memories of having lived on a planet where
the inhabitants were basically humanlike in
appearance, spoke a language known as Sumar, and sent
emissaries to Earth to design the pyramids as
transmitters of an energy system known as Usan.
She went on to inform us of her
recollection of having been sent to Earth by a
"Council of Twelve."
According to her
memories:
We were responsible for the
miracles recorded in the book of Exodus. We parted the
Red Sea. Our craft created the columns of fire and of
smoke which led the Israelites. We rained manna from
the skies to feed the wandering tribes, and we even
located water for them, cracking apart the ground to
cause it to well up.
A forty-three-year-old
industrial consultant from Arkansas vividly recalled
memories of a life as a "starcraft engineer" who was
on board a vehicle that was forced to crash-land on
Earth during an expedition to gather raw materials for
industrial processing.
All our systems were failing,
and the pilots could barely keep the craft under
control. We had lost most of our drive system, and we
were preparing to die in the impact of the crash ....
My readouts were going mad, and when I glanced out the
porthole, I could see the surface of Earth approaching
.
After the crash-landing-in what
is now northern Europe-we discovered that the pilots
had managed to touch down with only minor damage. But,
tragically, although the engineering crew worked for
months to attempt a repair, we could not get us
spaceborne again. We couldn't even get our emergency
signals to muster up enough strength to have a chance
to rescue.
I died in what is now Germany,
and I lived several lifetimes on Earth prior to my
present existence. I feel trapped here. I still want
to get back to my home planet.
The whole matter of sensible men
and women who claim alien memories and persistent
dreams of extraterrestrial origin invites extensive
speculation.
Are these people, because of
their higher intelligence and greater sensitivity,
rejecting an association with Earth because of all the
inadequacies and shortcomings which they witness all
around them?
Does the mechanism of believing
oneself to be of alien heritage enable one to deal
more objectively with the multitude of problems which
assail the conscientious and caring at each dawn of a
new day?
Dr. Leo Sprinkle, formerly
director of counseling services at the University of
Wyoming and an internationally acclaimed authority on
the UFO mystery, has said that he has also found men
and women who claim significant experiences, memories,
and dreams about prior existences on other planets.
"Although we cannot prove that
it is true," Dr. Sprinkle admitted, "I am convinced
that it is possible that some people have lived before
as aliens. One other possibility is that these
memories have been implanted in order to program us to
prepare for life off this planet."
Professor Sprinkle had heard of
the red sky and the two moons from several patients.
He had also listened to accounts of crystal cities and
translucent buildings.
Academically cautious, Dr.
Sprinkle was confident enough of his research to
state: "These recollections are vivid and powerful,
and I believe that these people are being sincere when
they say these were their past lives. I have one woman
who feels very angry. She feels she has been trapped
here on Earth, and she just wants to get off the
planet and return home."
Dr. Sprinkle went on to say that
most of the people whom he had regressed considered
themselves to be part of a larger system, part of a
larger order.
Dr. Sprinkle is of the opinion
that we should consider the enigma of alien memories
from various standpoints:
If we don't like the hypothesis
that we have been seeded from extraterrestrial beings,
we can still accept the hypothesis that somebody--our
own subconscious, God, higher beings, somebody --is
encouraging us to think in terms of space travel. We
may be undergoing a process of mental programming by
intelligent beings to provide us with guidelines so
that in the future our children or our grandchildren
will be able to go to other worlds.
Linda, a nurse who has recently
left formal medicine so that she might become a
spiritual healer, related the following experiences:
My earliest recollection was at
the age of five. I was at our country house. It's
something I have never forgotten. For some reason I
was very upset. I remember standing on the very top of
my slide, looking up at the night sky .... I was just
about hysterical as I looked up toward space. Through
my tears I remember screaming: "Come back, please!
Don't leave me here with these barbarians. Why am I
being punished so? This is not my home. These are not
my people!"
I had an awareness that my
people were leaving me behind. My world was the planet
Orion.
Linda is fortunate in that her
husband is very understanding of her beliefs:
He now knows and sincerely
believes that I am an alien. I've told him about my
past lives on this world and my lives on other worlds.
I have met a few ... like
myself, but only one remains in contact. The others
are finding it very difficult to cope with their
memories of our true Home.
Linda has written a poem which
expresses many of her feelings of being an alien
living on Earth:
I remember as if it were
yesterday. Three ships approaching Earth--one burning
as it entered the atmosphere, our people dying. Were
they the lucky ones?
A voyage into time to save our
planet. That was why we came here. So few of us are
left, but we are so close, so very close to
accomplishing our task ....
. . . My heart cries for these
people and for this Earth, for there is so much agony
they have yet to go tiuough.
... This world knows so much
beauty. but man has chosen to destroy it and himself .
. . . Earth man will not conquer
space. But in time the Gods will descend to walk with
man.
