Mike Clelland - Stories from the Messengers: Owls, UFOs and a Deeper Reality

Stories from the Messengers

Owls, UFOs and a Deeper Reality

by Mike Clelland

Richard Dolan Press

Rochester, New York

Stories from the Messengers is 2018 Mike Clelland. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles or reviews.

Clelland, Mike. Stories from the Messengers: Owls, UFOs and a Deeper Reality / by Mike Clelland.

256 p. ISBN 978-1985650268

1. Unidentified Flying Objects

First published in the United States by Richard Dolan Press

Cover design and illustrations by Mike Clelland

Foreword by Whitley Strieber, Copyright 2017, Walker & Collier, Inc.

Manufactured in the United States of America

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Mike Clellands website: http://hiddenexperience.blogspot.com

Praise for Stories from The Messengers

Symbol. Totem. Archetype. Conjure. Magic. Hierophany. These are old words that we thought we knew, and that we thought were very dead. Turns out they are not. Turns out they are fiercely alive and silently flying around in the world, mesmerizing, haunting, abducting, or just generally scaring the crap out of people. If you dont believe me, read this book. Id be careful, though. As Mike is all too aware, when one writes or reads about this level of reality with this sense of clarity, reality answers back. Weirdly, of course. Good luck.

Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University

Praise for The Messengers

I get a strong sense that Mike Clelland was guided to write this by the UFO intelligences and I think the reader will get that. This is the first time I have seen this level of both a book and its author being inextricably linked to the phenomenon itself since Strieber and Communion . Communion was clearly more than just a book; I believe the phenomenon intended it to be written, published, and read on a large scale. I think Mikes book is another example of this.

Nick Redfern, author of Men in Black

Mike Clelland lifts back the curtain on a secret world most of us have no idea exists, and does so with patience and exactitude of a classical scholar. Skeptics used to accuse experiencers as opportunists out for money and attention, so how do then explain away an impressively large group of people who seem interested in sharing their remarkable stories only with each other, well out of the public eye? In addition to sharing their experiences, Mike explores our long fascination with these mystical messengers of the night, offering up an entirely new corpus of evidence to explore and debate.

Christopher Knowles, author of Our Gods Wear Spandex

This is one of the most important books about the UFO phenomenon since Whitley Strieber's Communion . You will never look at owls in the same way again. Highly recommended to students of Forteana and Ufology.

Michael M. Hughes, author of The Blackwater Lights trilogy

In The Messengers , Mike Clelland presents the reader with pieces of the UFO puzzle typically ignored or sidelined within the research field, so challenging are they to popular notions of the phenomenon. Clelland's fresh perspective encourages us to engage with an ancient and mystical enigma in a profoundly personal way, beyond the dead-end avenues of Exopolitics and official Disclosure. Serious researchers of the UFO subjectand of the abduction phenomenon in particularwill be referencing this book for decades to come.

Robbie Graham, author of Silver Screen Saucers

This is a vast, exhaustive, compelling, obsessive book on the connective thread of meaning which owls, as symbol and as literal fact, play in their role as intermediary between the human and the other The Messengers brings something quite refreshing and enlivening to the subject. I felt awakened again, excited and enmeshed in it particularly, for some reason, with the chapter on reverse speech (go figure). Clelland looks toward the narrative thread of human meaning found in such baffling interactions with the "alien" other, with the owl serving as both messenger and language employed in the message.

Brian Charles Short, author of New People of the Flat Earth

Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgments

I am eternally grateful to the brave people whove let me tell their stories. Theyve entrusted me with something sacred, their life experiences, and I take this responsibility very seriously. This book is a result of their openness, honesty and faith. Without their sincerity, this book would not have been possible.

Over the years, many wonderful people have reached out and shared their experiences, more than could be listed below. I owe a debt of gratitude to all my comrades, and so many more. From my heart, I thank you.

Several people have asked to remain anonymous, and their stories are told either using a pseudonym or by their first name. There are a few instances when unimportant details were purposely changed to further hide their identity. Also, this book is the result of extensive written correspondence, and some quoted text in these pages has been revised slightly for grammar and clarity.

I need to send a huge thank you to Suzanne Chancellor. She was my editor, and much more. Without her dedication, this would be a much lesser book. I am indebted to her attention to detail, and her friendship.

This book is a outcome of the courage to speak aloud what we are told should be denied.

Col. John Alexander, Allison, Kim Arnold, Ashlee, Seriah Azkath, Jim Banholzer, Christopher Bledsoe Sr., Walter Bosley, Brenda, Anya Briggs, Laura Bruno, Will Bueche, Mike C, Kristen Lee Cardinal, Alan Caviness, Suzanne Chancellor, Carol Cleveland, Heather Clewett-Jachowski, Rachel Cunningham, Joshua Cutchin, Lorin Cutts, Don, Richard Dolan, Cindy Dove, Adrienne Dumas, Marla Frees, Robbie Graham, Alan Green, Aaron John Gulyas, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Gypsy Woman, Audrey Hewins, Debbie Hewins, Nancy Hewins, Richard C. Harper, Race Hobbs, George Hansen, Budd Hopkins, Bert Janssen, Shawn Kevin Jason, Jack Jawczak, Joe, Kelly Hultman Wagner, Christopher Knowles, Susan Kornaki, Melissa Kriger, Jeffrey Kripal, Kristin, Denise Linn, Meadow Linn, Maggie, Tania Marie, Jim Marrs, Rob and Trish MacGregor, Susan MacLeod, Joseph McMoneagle, Ben McGuire, Meghan Moriarty, Pamela Necerato-Loffredo, Peter, Diana Pasulka, Nick Redfern, Mary Rodwell, Shanelle Schanz, Jacquelin Smith, Leo Sprinkle, Starborn Support, Anne and Whitley Strieber, Jacques Vallee, Andrea Lisette Villiere, Stacey J. Warner, and Maria Wheatley.

Foreword

by Whitley Strieber

This fascinating book starts off with an old friend of mine: the white owl. When I was a little boy, a white owl would often be seen at the back of our large garden staring up at the windows of my room. No matter how often my parents shooed it away, it would soon be back, standing there in broad daylight, staring.

I would sometimes see my father out at night shining a flashlight about, trying, I suppose to see if it was coming after dark as well. Eventually, they had the screens on my windows nailed shut.

At the beginning of this book, Mike Clelland recounts a story told by crop circle researcher Bert Jansen, who was astonished to observe a glowing ball of light in a field in Wiltshire, the heart of crop circle country, and then to discover, after it had disappeared behind a shed, that there was a nest of white owls there. Mike quotes Jansen as saying when I do see a white owl, because Im not always sure its a white owl. Could it be that I am actually looking at something else, it only presents itself as a white owl to me.

Or is it that owlsand not just white onesare something different? And, in fact, that nature itselfand us, toomight be something different from what we see?