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You Don't Mess With Ashtar
You Don't Mess With Ashtar
You Don't Mess With Ashtar
by Bruce Maccabee
Huh? A message from the Ashtar Command? What sort of joke is this?
That was my reaction.
However....
(isn't there always a "However..."?)
The intriguing fact is that this Joan was not and is not a
"channel." She is a well-off, middle aged housewife and practitioner
and teacher of yoga and meditiation. She told me that usually after she
meditates, achieving some sort of a trance state, she writes in a little
notebook a summary of her thoughts. She said that although she had a
few times in previous years gotten what seemed to her to be "voices" or
messages, she was not into channeling and did not intend to start. She
said the only reason she took the time to tell me about it was because
this "message" was specifically directed to me and she didn't think she
should just ignore it. Anyway, she wanted to give me the option of
doing whatever I wanted with it.
I should point out that she was no more interested in UFOs than the
average person, seeing occasional movies, TV shows, etc., but not going
out of the way to acquire UFO information. Although she was aware of
my UFO interests we had never really discussed UFOs before the one
time she visited my house for an hour or so, in May, 1988, to see photos
taken by Ed Walters. However, we had no communications (at least
none that I can recall) after that until about 4 months later when she
informed me of the message.
She gave me a xerox copy of the pages from her journal. Her
journal is a book with little sayings across the top of each page and
the rest is blank paper. For example, at the top of the first of the
pages she sent me is written, "We always hope; and in all things it is
[at this point there is a line across the page indicating the next day after
the above writings]
Lockheed. In 1947 he had moved his family from the Los Angeles area
to the high desert of California southestward of Los Angeles to a location
called Giant Rock, where there was, in fact, a huge rock. Many years
earlier a friend of van Tassel had made a home under the rock(!). Van
Tassel moved into this abode and subsequently started a dude ranch,
restaurant and airport.
The point is that Joan could have heard or read the name Ashtar
somewhere in previous years, so it could have been buried deep in her
psyche. But this wouldn't explain the message with its ominous,
foreboding overtones of destruction of the earth, preceeded, presumably,
by destruction of me, if I didn't cooperate.
When Joan gave me the copy of her notebook pages she emphasized
again that she was not and did not want to become a channel for outer
space creatures or for any such entity. However (here's that "However,"
again...), in this case, since the message had ended almost with an
invitation for me to contact Ashtar Command, she said she would be
willing to try to establish a contact during a future meditation if I
wanted to ask or say something to Ashtar.
But this was different. Here was a lady whom I had known for
several years, a presumably level headed, respected member of the
community, saying impossible things that were totally out of character for
her. I had to treat this with more respect. I had to allow for the
possibility that the Ashtar message might have some germ of truth.
Therefore I figured that this question, what constitutes cooperation,
would "test the channel" while, at the same time provide some useful
information if, in fact, the previous message came from a real entity,
Ashtar. If he wanted me to cooperate rather than hinder him he could
simply explain what he wanted me to do. I assumed Ashtar, if a real
entity, could have known of my UFO activities (investigation, analysis,
writing, etc.) and that if any one of these was hindering his activities
he could tell me so. Then I would know what to do to get on his "right
side."
This message was even "weirder" than the first one in the following
way. In the first message Ashtar gave the impression that I was
hindering his activities. He didn't explain what I was doing to hinder
his activities, but at least he was clear that I was doing something
"bad." Then in this message he gave the impression that nothing I, or
anyone, could do would stop him. So why was he worried about puny
little me? Was it because I was so "pure" in some way that he couldn't
control me? But why would he worry. According to Ashtar, I
am..”playing right into our hands."
This message upset Joan. I think she was particularly worried that
these were her spirit guides speaking and she didn't like their cold,
unfeeling attitude. Therefore she tried one more time to make contact.
Here is the result:
"...we are not your guides. No, they are not we."
Why are you contacting me?
"Because we want you to know."
What do you want?
"We will do what we need to do for our purposes. Actually your
connection to us is through Mary who always has tried to reach you
through us."
Mary?
[At this point Mary starts speaking.]
"Joan,...I live here by my desire to take a physical form when I want to,
although we do not need it at all for our work. It is God's will that I be
here where I can help. I can't say more."
[Here Joan interjects a statement of something she just realized.] !!! One
of them wants me as he [underline in original] has Mary!!!
[Now she asks another question.] And what about Bruce?
"We have no souls and no actual brains only the non-physical mind. We
can use Bruce's brain to do our mind-work and your soul to do our body
work in the plane in which you both live. We have allowed you both [to]
live. We have allowed and encouraged Bruce to do his work since before
his first wife and he split - we caused that through his work. Christine
is an aide to him as well as your connection to us through
each other. [Note: Christine introduced me to Joan.] She binds him to our
cause through their children which was our design and to you through
your friendship with Christine. It is a web of intrigue which we wove."
[Joan asks,] Why?
"As we have stated for our purposes, which will be known to the world in
due time, and your place in it. You will both continue to be our
missionaries on earth to the end of your lives and we don't interfere with
you because we don't need to. You are both very stable, reliable,
dependable and are not trying to excape our designs. Even your guru,
Swami [name withheld] plays a part in this. We contact him in his
meditations regularly and he knows of us. Because he is higher evolved
than you and can lead others to us. He is an honorable man but led by
his destiny to purify you for us and others like you."
[Joan asks,] What???
"Just stop now and go do your work"
This message was not as harsh as the previous ones but it does
indicate that I am (as is Joan) like a doll on a string and performing
in a cosmic play orchestrated by the extraterrestrial puppetmasters. We were
each acting our parts, with the earth as our stage, carrying out a
prescribed plan contained within a cosmic script for the universe, a "web of
intrigue," woven by powers I can barely contemplate. Perhaps the Greeks were
correct to attribute the vaguaries of life to the actions of something like
the Fates sitting on high, spinning and then cutting the thread of
life. (Whatever happend to free will? Is that an illusion perpetrated upon
humans by those in control to give us some hope, some reason to be living
other than just carrying out orders?... a subject for another time!)
It was the middle of November when Joan gave me the last message.
I realized that there was nothing I could do to react to the content of the
messages. If they were real in some sense then Ashtar, I presumed, had
everything under control irrespective of what I did. If they were not real,
which I believed, then they were merely an amusement to be laughed
over and forgotten. Joan did not want to do further channelling with such
unfeeling beings and I really didn't want her to. There seemed to be no
point in it because the material seemed as unintelligible and
self-inconsistent as other channeled material I had read.
Bob had heard about Norma and her "automatic typing" of messages
from the "space brothers." He mentioned it to me sometime in
December, 1988. He wanted to try an experiment to test the accuracy of
channeled information. I wasn't impressed, but then it occurred to me
that we could try an experiment after all. Suppose, I thought, we ask
Mrs. Milanovich to contact the Ashtar Command and find out if she gets
the same messages that I had just gotten from Joan. If she did, this
might be an interesting confirmation of` some level of reality to
channeling.
I did not contact Norma. Bob did, with a simple question for the
Arcturians (the entities which she channeled): "Has Dr. Maccabee been
sent a message from Ashtar (through a medium) recently, and if so, could
you repeat the message?" Bob was careful to avoid giving any hint of the
content of the messages I had received. This question clearly put the
burden on the channel to come up with the "correct" message.
"....it was not of the information he was intended to have. The only being
who can deliver the true words of wisdom that our Brother needs to hear
is the Supreme Commander who wishes for him to have a true message
intended for his essence."
It is interesting that Ashtar did not say the previous message was
wrong, only that it was incomplete. So, imagine me vigorously shaking
Ashtar's hand, as is befitting of a newly commissioned Commander.
"least important item on the agenda that will be addressed in any of the
conversation(s) that we may have, now or in the future."
This is
"the usage of the human energy systems and the problems that
are resulting from the misuse of those systems."
He went on,
"As an earth scientist I know you can and will identify with this. As Being of
the Light, I also know that you are concerned."
"to help the Beloved Terra take control of her own destiny."
"I anticipate that this comment [about Beloved Terra] will not make
much sense ....and [you] might register a note of
disappointment. But allow me to continue and I hope that I may be able
to convince you that this is the utmost priority of the energy issues that
affect the Earth today."
He said,
"The problem with this is that in the separateness comes the separation."
("...in the separateness comes the separation.." Hmmm...I think I’ll stick
this saying over my desk.) Moreover,
"In the close mindedness comes the shutting off of the most important source of energy
that this universe or its Beings have yet to encounter."
you try to study "everything'' at once. Unfortunately our minds are not
able to comprehend "everything" at once. The best we are able to do is
understand the details of a piece of the whole. This has led to the
"fractionation" or splitting of science into numerous sections and
subsections of study.
One thing Ashtar did not mention is that following reduction and
analysis there is a "synthesis" or recombining to form a complete
understanding of some area of research. The result can be a combining of
some or many "small" chunks into a much larger chunk. This approach has
proved to be quite successful in helping us understand and use the physical,
chemical and biological "laws of nature." For example, the computer system
Norma was using when she typed the message was a product of a long chain of
reductionist analysis (materials science, "solid state" physics,
electronics, mechanical engineering, mathematics, etc.) followed by
"synthesis" or the recombining of the parts to form a whole.
"Since that frequency and energy are truly the essence of the Highest, it would only seem reasonable
that all things created must be of that frequency. Does it not? And does it not seem right that all things
are created out of and under that Highest form of life?"
Ashtar then spent some time talking about unchangeable rules of the
universe and law enforcement on the earth, which
"is often accomplished...in the manner that promotes fear and guilt,"
"That difference is absolute and uncompromising, for the difference of the mode of operations
between our two worlds at this time are too far apart."
"only watch and participate in the re-awakening of the planet with the
strictness of the closed mindedness and the fear of breaking the habits and
patterns that are controlled by the stronger."
In other words, "weaker" people may realize that something is wrong but
they don't dare to do something about it because their habits are controlled
by other "stronger people." (We can certainly see something like this in,
for example, the failure by the "weaker," the farmers, to curb the flow of
agricultural residue into river because to do so would raise the prices of
produce, and the prices are controlled by the "stronger," the buyers and
merchants.) According to Ashtar the energy of the
"collective
consciousness must be studied and observed at a critical speed for the recovery of the planet"
and this
"requires the leadership of the wisest of souls and the strongest of wills, who actually have the capability
of standing up for the rights and injustices that have been allowed to occur."
(? Perhaps it would have been better if he had said "stand up for the rights
and against the injustices...").
Ashtar then switched his message from the earth environment to the
outer space environment :
earth. Where are these vortices and why are they critical? Ashtar did not
explain this. Nor did he explain the meaning of negativity measurements
and the "heavier or lighter weights that collect" around the earth. Ashtar
said his message was valid. Perhaps this is true, but nevetheless
it contains a lot of meaningless information, the validity of which cannot
be checked.
"You have been singled out for your leadership....for your widsom...for
your caring and constant search for the truth....There is a constant
struggle within your psyche...a constant battle within your soul. Your soul
understands the connection back to the Light....to our ships and
Beingness..your mind does not. Your mind witnesses fifth dimensional
data with a struggle to transcend the third dimensional world....The
connection is through the soul. There is no other way. You have been
selected ....for this opportunity to "try out" for this leadership role
(because) we believe you have the strength of soul to make the
connections both from within to us and from without to your connections
in the world around you......to bridge the gap between the seen and
unseen... and only after that gap is bridged will we be able to
communicate on the seen level....That is why we have communicated this
evening."
I must say, I had no idea that I had so much "soul." Apparently Ashtar
thought highly of me and my potential to "bridge the gap between the
seen and unseen." After a few more kind words he ended the
conversation:
"Consider this message closed at this time and not one of the
repeating of the other words [i.e., not a repeat of the previous messages I
had received from Joan], for they were not of the utmost significance that
we deem these words are, and we do try and use our time and energy of
the transmitter [channeler] of our messages with a greater wisdom. The
urgency and the call to the attention of the matters of the third
dimensional world are not as significant as those of the fifth.
Thank you for your time and know that I am the honored one to
formally make the acquaintance of a Being who has the position and
essence that you are deemed to have.
Good evening Brother in the Light. We sincerely do hope that this
message does reflect the Light in your heart that so much wishes to be
reconnected to your origins.
I AM Ashtar, in the Radiance and the brilliance of the Highest.
Adonai.”
So, there you have it. The "divergence" between the Joan and Norma
messages are apparent.
So, which am I? The impudent one, the Brother in the Darkness, who
is warned not to get in the way of Ashtar's activities even though I can't
stop him, or am I the Brother in the Light striving to improve my soul and
understanding so I can bridge the gap between the seen and the unseen
and thereby reconnect to my spaceship origins? Will the real Ashtar
please beam me up?
EPILOGUE
This all happened a long time ago, now. I purposely did not write
about it soon after it happened because, frankly, I was embarrassed, as I
mentioned above. Perhaps I shouldn't have been. But I was.
Furthermore, I figured that if there was anything to it I would have to wait
to find out whether the prediction of ruination would be fulfilled.
I didn't see Joan often after her channeling sessions, maybe once or
twice a year. I last saw her about 8 years ago. As of that time she had
received no more messages from Ashtar or from any other "space
commander."
As for me, I have just kept on doing what I have been doing. I have
not received "whatever I want." On the other hand, I haven't been ruined
either (at least I don't think so, and I'm quite sure I'd be the first to
know). Hence it appears that the channeled messages haven't affected my
life. Perhaps that means I have neither cooperated nor obstructed Ashtar's
activities. Or perhaps that means Ashtar is just a "fig newton" of
someone's imagination. And yet.....
That music came from.....somewhere. Was the New Age Rising really
a result of manipulations by Ashtar or some other "outer space
commander" of my "automatic playing?"