Flying saucers? Of
course there are flying saucers! I have seen many, both in the sky and
on the ground, and I have even been for a trip in one. Tibet is the
most convenient country of all for flying saucers. It is remote from
the bustle of the everyday world, and is peopled by those who place
religion and scientific concepts before material gain. Throughout the
centuries, the people of Tibet have known the truth about flying
saucers, what they are, why they are, how they work, and the purpose
behind it all. We know of the flying saucer people as the gods in the
sky in their fiery chariots." ("Home of the Gods" in My Visit to
Venus)
Like many writers of the 1950s, such as George Adamski and George Hunt
Williamson, Rampa described benevolent extraterrestrials who had come
to warn humanity about the follies of nuclear power. During the
following decades, his discussions on extraterrestrials became more
sophisticated and on the cutting edge of UFO research, particularly
with The Hermit (1971) which introduced the ideas of human
abduction and experimentation for genetic engineering purposes.
Clearly, Rampa's revelations of extraterrestrial genetic engineering
pre-dated Zechariah Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series, and
yet his influence in this genre is unrecognised.
"My Visit
to Venus"
My Visit to
Venus, an anthology of Rampa chapters which had been rejected from
earlier books, was published without authorisation in late 1958 or
early 1959 by Gray Barker, an American who ran Saucerian Bulletin.
Prior to Barker's book, it had been published in various magazines such
as Flying Saucer Review. Rampa did not want it published,
fearing it would be dismissed as science fiction.
The opening chapter, "Home of the Gods", continues on from Doctor
from Lhasa's description of a visit to the Chang Tang Highlands,
where the lamas discovered a huge, ancient city. Half frozen in a
glacier, this city had once accommodated a race of giants. "Nearby in a
spacious courtyard, there was an immense metal structure which reminded
me of two of our temple dishes clamped together and was clearly a
vehicle of some sort." The monks cautiously approached the vehicle,
which was about 50 to 60 feet (15.24 to 18.29 metres) across, and
ascended a ladder leading inside. Once inside, Rampa's Guide touched
something which caused the ship to hum and emit a bluish light.
To their surprise, they were approached by large humans who
communicated telepathically: "Be not afraid, for we were aware of your
coming for the past hundred years. We made provisions so that those who
were intrepid enough to enter this vessel should know the past." The
humanoids showed them pictures from the past civilisation: huge
buildings which sat by the sea with disc- like vehicles soaring above.
They witnessed an enormous explosion which toppled the buildings and
caused a tsunami to rise above the ruins. The humanoids told them of a
"White Brotherhood", composed of incarnate and discarnate entities,
which safeguarded all life.
The chapter continued with the seven lamas being taken up into space
from where they could see Tibet. The vehicle left the atmosphere, with
no increase in gravity or sensation of speed, and soared into space.
The monks were taken on a tour of the spaceship. Its propulsion system
utilised a form of magnetism which repelled the Earth's magnetism. The
repelling force could be adjusted to allow the vessel to hover, rise or
sink. The ship was also capable of collecting "space electricity"—a
form of magnetism based upon cosmic energy.
The Venusian hosts took the lamas in a strange vehicle to the Hall of
Knowledge, where they observed the Earth's creation along with the
mighty civilisations of Lemuria, Atlantis and Poseidonia. The Broad One
warned: "We guard the Earth, for, if man's folly is allowed to go
unchecked, terrible things will happen to the race of man. There are
powers upon the Earth, human powers who oppose all thoughts of our
ships, who say there is nothing greater than the human upon Earth, so
there cannot be ships from other worlds."
Eventually, after many days, the Tibetans were returned to Earth "which
now seemed a tawdry place" and "paled into significance against the
glory of Venus". The story ended with this: "Never again, I thought,
shall I see such wonderful things. How mistaken I was, for that was but
the first of many trips."
• Beyond
the Tenth
During the 1960s the subject of ufology became established, and Rampa
in his books Chapters of Life and Beyond the Tenth
expanded the theme of aliens as the guardians and indeed creators of
the Earth. He described UFOs as being of four distinct types:
1. Extraterrestrials. These Gardeners of the Earth, an extremely
advanced race from another galaxy, colonised our planet billions of
years ago. Every now and then they come back to check on the progress
of the human race.
2. Inner Earth inhabitants. In the Venus anthology, they are
described as advanced humanoids who live in the Earth's interior and
sometimes use their vehicles to explore the Earth's surface. This theme
was later expanded in Twilight.
3. Antimatter vehicles. These explode when they come into contact with
the Earth's atmosphere.
4. Interdimensional vehicles containing aliens from other realms.
Usually we are unable to perceive these aliens, as they vibrate at a
different frequency to human beings. We can only perceive their
vehicles as gyrating lights in the sky, a third- dimensional shadow of
fourth-dimensional vehicles.
Beyond the Tenth was published in 1969, the same
year that Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods? was
published in English. While the Swiss author built his case upon
incongruous ancient anomalies, Rampa stated unequivocally that "Earth
is like a colony; Earth is a testing ground, a seeding place where
different types are put together so that the Gardeners of Space can see
how they get on together" (p. 77). He claimed that even though the
Gardeners were friendly and concerned with our welfare, they sometimes
abducted and experimented upon humans in an effort to improve our
species.
Rampa was also aware of
censorship surrounding the reporting of UFOs in the West. "The pilots
who fly the [aircraft], whether in a commercial capacity or in
connection with the armed forces, have seen and will continue to see
UFOs but, until the moronic governments of the world change their
attitudes, not much will be heard of those sightings. The Argentinian
government is surely one of the most enlightened in that they
officially recognise the existence of UFOs." (p. 86) The military
clique cannot acknowledge UFOs because it would compromise security and
reveal their vulnerability. He noted that any reference that astronauts
make to UFOs while they're in space is deleted and their photos
destroyed.
While this may have
sounded like unfounded paranoia in the 1960s, many people today believe
there has been a monstrous government conspiracy of silence lasting
over 50 years—a belief fuelled by such TV shows as The X-Files,
Dark Skies, The Smoking Gun and Roswell.
Rampa also claimed that religious leaders would not acknowledge UFOs
because it would shake their paradigm that man is made in the image of
God, if an advanced alien appeared to be non-human.
Further, he noted: "If the UFO people had wanted to take over the
Earth, they could have done it centuries ago. The point is, they are
afraid that they will have to take over the Earth (and they do not want
to) if the Earth goes on releasing too much hard atomic radiation.
These spacemen are the Gardeners of the Earth. They are trying to save
the Earth from the Earth people—and what a time they are having!" (p.
89)
• The
Hermit
Five years before Sitchin wrote his cult classic The Twelfth Planet,
expounding the belief that extraterrestrials had seeded and genetically
engineered the human race, Rampa explained the whole process in The
Hermit. The story began with a blind old Tibetan hermit imparting
his knowledge to "the chosen one". In his youth he had been abducted by
an advanced race who revealed themselves as "the Gardeners of the
Earth". They took him to another galaxy and performed medical
experiments upon his unwilling body, including brain surgery to
increase his intelligence. Bluntly they informed him that the
Earthlings were a very evil race who threatened to destroy not only
themselves but other intelligent life on nearby worlds.
The Gardeners informed him: "We travel in universes putting people and
animals on many different worlds. You Earthlings have your legends
about us; you refer to us as gods of the sky. Now we are to give you
information as to the origin of life on Earth…for it is time that
people knew the truth of their gods before we initiate the second
phase." (p. 14) They transported the blind monk to another galaxy and
implanted artificial sight so that he could witness the wonders of
their civilisation. He was taken to the centre of the empire, where
"the colours were all wrong. The grass was red and the rocks were
yellow. The sky was of a greenish cast and there were two suns." (p.
104)
The empire was vast and incorporated many different planets and star
systems which co-existed in harmony. The inhabitants were humanoids
with varied characteristics and features. There were vast cities of
towering spires traversed by flying vehicles of all descriptions. This
world was the headquarters of the vast empire, where every planet was
self-governing but owed allegiance to the Master of the World.
The Gardeners took the monk to an orbiting observatory where nine wise
men were in charge of observing the Akashic records of Earth and other
worlds. They showed him the history of the world, beginning with a huge
comet colliding with a dead world at the centre of the galaxy, sending
out gobbets of incandescent gas which eventually became the planets.
Two expeditions
explored the new worlds while a third dropped biological specimens onto
the land and into the seas. Millennia later, a fourth expedition
delivered huge dinosaurs to planet Earth. However, after many years the
Earth was wobbling on its axis, so a vessel was despatched to break up
the supercontinent with a laser beam.
Another expedition brought purple humanoids to the Earth which had
eight breasts and long, ape-like arms. They lived in caves and could
not use fire, so the Gardeners were forced to exterminate them to make
room for more advanced humans. After thousands of years and climate
change, these humans developed a mighty civilisation. But the Gardeners
fraternised too freely with the Earthlings, especially the women. A
group stole their technology, attacked them and let off a nuclear
device which wreaked havoc upon the Earth, sinking whole cities and
continents beneath the oceans.
For centuries the Gardeners stayed away from the irradiated planet but
eventually returned with more human and animal specimens, distributing
them on different continents. Mankind eventually evolved and built
towns and cities, while the supervising Gardeners were worshipped as
gods by the Earth inhabitants.
From another galaxy, a warlike race with horny growths on their
forehead attacked the empire and laid waste to our solar system.
pictures - many "alien sculls"
have been found- but have been kept hidden, as for all of the other
coverup regarding ufo's and similar.
(these pictures was not in the original
article in Nexus) But thru the net, at lot of this hidden
things emerge
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Cataclysmic battles
took place in the heavens: atmospheres were blasted away and worlds
destroyed. A planet, dislodged from its orbit, struck the Earth,
causing a catastrophic loss of life. Only a few humans and animals,
aided by the Gardeners, were conveyed to safety in a great ark.
On the Earth, a great ice age developed. The Gardeners now decided to
live apart from humans and dwell on mountains. Some inexperienced
Gardeners, the "gods of Olympus", engaged in licentious behaviour and
were transferred to other worlds. So the Gardeners then decided to
communicate only through suitably chosen natives such as Moses, Buddha
and Jesus, who were instructed to institute new religions. But always
the priests perverted the true teachings for their own power and gain.
The hermit was returned to a comfortable cave in Tibet where he was
told a "chosen one" would come many years later to hear his wisdom. The
Gardeners decided that even though the auras of the human race were
faulty, mankind would be given another chance. However, if humans did
not heed such warnings and stop polluting their planet with
radioactivity, the Gardeners would be forced to intervene at any time
in the future.
• Tibetan
Sage
In Tibetan Sage, Rampa provided more information about these
Gardeners, although he repeated many themes from earlier books. With
his Guide, he visited an artificial cave which "...used to be the
headquarters of a special race who could do space travel and just about
everything else.
Through millions of years, it still works; everything is intact." (p.
19) This cave was part of a network created millions of years ago when
Tibet was a low-lying land. It contained a space vehicle "about four or
five men tall and looked something like two dishes, one on top of the
other" (p. 23). The similarity of this description with the one given
in "Home of the Gods" in My Visit to Venus is obvious. These
extraterrestrials had the technology to melt solid rock and heal
traumatic wounds with a special bath. They were able to suspend life so
that people could exist for millions of years, "receiving adequate
nourishment to keep the body functioning on a minute scale" (TS, p.
28). These suspended bodies were being kept alive in tubs in order to
provide bodies for aliens to transmigrate into at a future date.
The Lama Mingyar Dondup could read their inscriptions and learned that
the suspended aliens were actually evil Gardeners who had raped human
women and performed genetic experiments. They were a renegade faction
who had waged many wars against the other Gardeners—wars that Rampa
observed on one of their devices which contained the Akashic records.
(This is the fourth time Rampa claimed to have viewed the Akashic
records; he had described them in the Venusian ship, the Cave of the
Ancients and the orbiting observatory.) As Rampa and his Guide departed
from the caves, the whole complex was destroyed by booby traps.
Even if Rampa's stories
are dismissed as science fiction, there is merit in some of his
original themes. His warnings from the extraterrestrials to stop our
nuclear folly were not original, as other contactees in the
1950s—particularly Daniel Fry and Richard Miller—had said the same.
Venusians were very popular with contactees in the 1950s before space
probes revealed Venus to be an inhospitable planet. Frank Stranges said
he had been in contact with Val Thor, and George Adamski claimed to
have flown to Venus with friendly aliens years before Rampa's jaunt to
our closest neighbour. Nor was Rampa the first to speak of levitators
and telepathic communication with aliens, as George Van Tassel and
George King had made earlier claims. Furthermore, in 1953 in Flying
Saucers Have Landed, Desmond Leslie first popularised the notion
that the ancient Indian scriptures contained many references to the
vehicles of the extraterrestrial gods.
However, some of Rampa's ideas were original and may have influenced
later writers. His descriptions of Earth from space and warp travel
with anti-magnetic propulsion were quite novel for the pre-space-flight
era. The Hermit described alien abduction, experimentation
and genetic engineering at least a decade before Whitley Strieber wrote
his influential Communion.
Recently the idea that
extraterrestrials were responsible for the evolution of humans and
other animals has been incorporated into a new theory called
"interventionism" by Lloyd Pye, who challenges Darwinism and
creationism. Zechariah Sitchin, one of the proponents of this theory,
claimed that the Mesopotamian gods, the Annunaki, were
extraterrestrials from the 12th planet, Nibiru, who genetically
engineered the terrestrial hominids to produce a new species, Homo
sapiens, about 200,000 years ago. Sitchin's influence in alternative
history is undeniable, as terms like Annunaki and Nibiru have passed
into the New Age lexicon. However, Lobsang Rampa, whose book The
Hermit tells us who the aliens are, where they are from and why
they are visiting and abducting humans, is virtually unknown.
