Mike Clelland - The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee

The Messengers

Owls, Synchronicity and

the UFO Abductee

by Mike Clelland

Richard Dolan Press

2015

The Messengers is 2015 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.

The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee / by Mike Clelland.

384 p.

ISBN 978-0-9677995-7-5

1. Unidentified Flying Objects

First published in the United States by Richard Dolan Press

Cover design and illustrations by Mike Clelland

Manufactured in the United States of America

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Contents

Acknowledgments

This book is dedicated to everyone who has reached out to me with their stories. Without their sincerity, this book would not have been possible.

So many wonderful individuals have helped me with this book, yet some have asked for anonymity. These are difficult issues, so I understand why anyone would want to remain unknown. A number of accounts are told using a pseudonym, or just their first name. There are a very few places where unimportant details were purposely changed to better hide the identity of the witness. This book is very much a product of the digital age, and a lot of the quoted correspondence is cited from email. There are points throughout where these passages are revised very slightly for clarity and grammar.

I owe a debt of gratitude to all these comrades and so many more: Aaron, Colin Andrews, Annalie, Kim Arnold, Ashlee, Tracie Austin, Kenneth Bakerman, Brigitte Barclay, Kevin Bartell, Anthony and Rachel Beckett, Ben, David Biedny, Joan Bird, Christopher Bledsoe Sr., Hkan Blomqvist, Brendan, Anya Briggs, Charis Melina Brown, Will Bueche, Grant Cameron, Kristen Lee Cardinal, Kim Carlsberg, James Carman, John Carpenter, Alan Caviness, Suzanne Chancellor, Will Christie, Carol Cleveland, Heather Clewett-Jachowski, Joseph-Mark Cohen, Steve Colbern, Janet Elizabeth Colli, Peter Collori, Lorin Cutts, Cynthia, Megan Dafoe, Miriam Delicado, Derek, Richard Dolan, Shelly Dove, Adrianne Dumas, Stephen and Lisa Dyer, Erika Earles, Peter Faust, Tom Fieger, Lorraine Flaherty, Marla Frees, Lonn Friend, Jill G., Robbie Graham, Alan Green, Alan Green, Kim Greenfield, Melanie Griffin, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Gypsy Woman, Cam Hale, Micah Hanks, Lucretia Heart, Lauren Heeren, Sesh Heri, Rey Hernandez, Race Hobbs, Chris Holly, Cathy Hohmeyer, Budd Hopkins, Michael M. Hughes, Niara Terela Isley, Bert Janssen, Natascha Jatzeck, Jack Jawczak, Joe, Ron Johnson, JT, Kelly, Christina Knowles, Christopher Knowles, William Konkolesky, Susan Kornaki, Melissa Kriger, Jujuolui Kuita, Barbara Lamb, Kewaunee Lapseritis, Lisette Larkins, Regan Lee, Eve Lorgen, Joe Lewels, Rob and Trish MacGregor, Susan MacLeod, Jordan Maxwell, Laurie McDonald, Ben McGuire, Bonnie Jean Mitchel, Joe Montaldo, Meghan Moriarty, Nigel and Helen Mortimer, Pamela Necerato-Loffred, John Norris, Christopher OBrien, Sebastian Penraeth, Tom Phillips, Jaymie Phipps, Elizabeth Randall, Raquel, Nick Redfern, Peter Robbins, Alejandro Rojas, Red Pill Junkie, Colin Reid, Mary Rodwell, Corina Sabels, Derek Savory, Phil Schneider, Susana Carvalho Vidigal Silbermann, Peter Maxwell Slattery, Janet Slottje, Jacquelin Smith, Aimee Sparrow, Ryan Sprague, Leo Sprinkle, Audrey Starborn, Brad Steiger, Jeanne Stimson, Denise Stoner, Whitley and Anne Strieber, Nancy Talbot, Tiny Junco, Lindy Tucker, Jacques Vallee, John W, David Weatherly, Stacey J. Warner, Paul Weston, Maria Wheatly, Gibbs A Williams, Rebecca Hardcastle Wright, PhD, Anthony Ziehut

and a great big heartfelt thank you to Andrea Lisette Villiere.

Foreword

by Richard M. Dolan

You are about to read one of the most original books ever written on UFOs, one that will make any thoughtful person ask fundamental questions about the nature of reality itself. More than any work in recent memory, it successfully ties the UFO phenomenon not simply to possible extraterrestrial intelligences, but to synchronicities, ancient archetypes, dreams, shamanistic experiences, magic, personal transformation, and death.

And owls. Because Mike Clelland has gathered together compelling and persuasive accounts from innumerable people who have had UFO sightings and apparent abduction experiences in conjunction with absolutely bizarre experiences with owls. Yes, real owls, not owls as screen memories (although as anyone familiar with abduction research knows, this has often been reported).

The accounts of these peopleincluding those of Mike himselfsuggest undeniable synchronicities at work. That is, coincidences that are highly meaningful to the persons involved. So meaningful in some cases that they seem staged for that person, and usually in a manner that only that person could decipher.

This is heady stuff for those of us raised in the standard western-based materialistic rendition of reality, one with a comprehensible cause and effect, and one in which there are no unseen intelligences playing us like characters in a video game. And yet, as one goes through account after account of meticulously documented experiences, it becomes hard to avoid thinking along these lines.

Some of the synchronicities in this book defy common sense. Mike writes about two women living only 43 miles apart from each other in Massachusetts with experiences so parallel, with such similarity in detail, that they seem like bookends. Both had a kind of mystical experience after a focused intention that had a profound effect on their lives. Both of them had this experience while lying on their outdoor hammock. For both of them, their event started while they were alone, and both were soon joined by their child and husband. They were even friends on Facebook, although unaware of each others hammock experience. They even look remarkably alike. For one of the women, the mystical encounter involved two owls; for the other, it was the sighting of a UFO. As Mike wrote, it feels like the owl and UFO are, in many ways, playing the same metaphysical role in each story. Even stranger perhaps, Mike happened to interview these two women one day apart from each other.

Other stories included here suggest that owls play a role in a number of alien or UFO encounters. One witness stated that his contact experiences were often preceded or followed by the sound of owls on top of my house hooting. Others seem to have been directed to see UFOs because of actions by owls. In one case, a husband and wife were relaxing together on a dock when the hooting of an owl led directly to the couple seeing an inexplicable UFO high in the sky.

Mike Clelland has made several contributions toward understanding UFOs and the phenomenon of encounters with apparent alien beings. One of these is his notion of the maybe people. The idea of UFO abduction is fraught with preconceptions and baggage, and a very specific idea has emerged of what it is supposed to involve. There are certainly accounts that play out with all the harrowing details of getting plucked from a lonely road or a bedroom at night. But there is a more subtle gray zone, where large numbers of people have described many of the strange aspects relating to this mystery, yet without any UFO contact. Mikes concept of the maybe people underscores the complexity of this phenomenon.

But this is more than a UFO book. In these accounts, the presence of owls signify important personal and transformative events in a persons life. Certainly, this can include a UFO encounter, but these owls are also serving as harbingers of other forms of spiritual awakening. And they are connected to deaththe ultimate transformation. Whats interesting is that this is precisely how ancient people understood owls. It is in fact a restatement of their ancient archetype: the ability to peer into the darkness representing an ability to penetrate the dark mysteries of existence.