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Contactees are people who claim to have interacted on a voluntary basis with extraterrestrial occupants of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).

(The voluntaryness distinguishes contactees from abductees, whose experiences are not volitional in nature and who may seem more like test subjects in an experiment.)

1 Introduction
2 Early Times
3 Modern Times
4 New Age Psychics
5 See also
6 Further reading
7 External Links
8 Relevant Discussion Threads

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Introduction

Contactees are likely to meet human-looking aliens (perhaps slightly superhuman in appearance) who are of a benevolent disposition and may provide predictions and warnings about how humankind is wrecking our planet.

Often, there is a mystical direction to the interaction. Here the line between contactees and channellers can become blurred.

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Early Times

Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) is perhaps the earliest contactee in Western history. There may be earlier writers with similar accounts, but they would have claimed to be in contact with angels. For example, one reading of the accounts of Dr. John Dee, alchemist and astrologer to Elizabeth I of England, could indicate an extraterrestrial influence. Indeed, centuries later, contactees would often interact with beings named after words originally found in Dr. Dee's transcriptions of "Affa", the angelic language. Swedenborg, on the other hand, was explicit that he was astral travelling to other planets within the solar system and interacting with the beings he found there.

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Modern Times

The most famous of the modern contactees is George Adamski, who claimed intercourse with Venusian, Martians and Saturnians. His claimed knowledge of the nature of these planets did not match with subsequent scientific discoveries, and photographs and cine film of the alleged Venusian spaceships was later counter-claimed to be fraudulent. Billy Meier of Switzerland is perhaps the most celebrated of the contemporary contactees, and debate continues as to whether he is 'for real' or an ingenious hoaxer.
One fairly consistent thread in contactee lore is that predictions that are made - particularly those prophesying doomsday scenarios - tend to be erroneous. People have given away their posessions in anticipation of the end of the world, and one woman, Gloria Lee, fasted and died as a result of a channeled message from a denizen of Jupiter. The books of John A Keel are a good source of data on this kind of malicious interaction, and Keel became convinced that 'ultraterrestrials' as he called them were not to be trusted.

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New Age Psychics

The Aetherius Society was founded in 1955 by Dr. George King, and its mission is apparently to help humanity into its new age. It is typical of much of the contactee discourse. The rise of what may be termed 'new age' philosophies has brought a new paradigm into the discourse of contact. Increasingly, the messages move away from simple ecological warnings to a concern with the human soul and a desire to help humanity evolve spiritually. Esoteric ideas of sacred geometry and Kabbalah are brought into the mix, and one emerging theme is that of the 'walk-in' - a being who incarnates on Earth at this time to help us with the coming change. The lines between extraterrestrials and angels become ever more blurred.

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