Alien Abduction or The Wings of Garuda

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Here is my encounter as an 8 year old (through his eyes):
(1977 – the year of release of the movie – Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

I was climbing a fence, with a water pistol camera, looking for the lady next door...to squirt. I looked up to the sky...and there was a large blue patch between the clouds. I saw approximately one third of a highly advanced metallic craft. This was the size of approx. 'one football field'. The craft emitted no sound...and was of the finest manufacture. I was amazed that I had seen a space ship...so ran inside to tell my mother.

Around the same week or there abouts, I recall vividly one night, waking. I was in a room lying and a type of platform/bed. Four entities, two on each side of the platform, where standing silent watching me. I was aware of their conscious presence, but they did not speak. They were taller than average men...and thinner faced. Their face was covered by some type of covering. The room was dimmed somewhat with a presence of a type of red hew/light. I felt no fear.

I became aware of a probe machine behind me, as I lay on the platform...and a probe from the machine coming toward my third eye. I was also aware of a presence behind me...but could not see behind me. As the probe was about to enter my forehead...the experience ended. That is all I remember.
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Here is my definition as a 38 year old (which may change in due course), of the above encounter. Basically all we see in this world is mind or extension of the mind (physical). There is collective mind on an unconscious level.

The idea that the original soul is impersonal is a fallacy. The only impersonal thing is the vritti. Vritti is the mind stuff of passing thoughts. This is a chemical process of the brain (grey matter). The conditioned soul speaks and acts from vritti to expereince personal life in the material world. The subtle body or mind is different than brain. As humans we have what is called the unconscious aspect of mind. There is also a collective unconscious. Within that realm of mind are many impressions (that drive a conditioned person). The conditioned person identifies (when in deep ignorance) as the vritti. And the vritti then manifests into some form of action...beginning the wheel of karma (action and reaction).

The space craft was a part of that collective mind. The vrittis of humans also manifest within the collective unconscious; thus it evolves. Deepening the wheel of action and reaction.

The soul (whose symptom is consciousness) is never at anytime impersonal. But is a person and persons....parts and parcels of the Supreme Person. We are not this body we are not this mind. The realized soul has potential to live in a realm of pure consciousness, which is full of diversity, personality and love. This is called in the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition - Vaikuntha (free of anxiety).

If the soul desires liberation in an impersonal realm it may achieve this. But in due course, because there is no rasa (flavor), due to negation/denial of personality...the soul again enters the material world...to experience flavor. The impersonal liberation or void is attempt at self suicide. Which is never possible as the soul is eternally a person.

As the realized soul cultivates bhakti yoga (devotional service) to the Supreme Person...she gradually becomes liberated, being gradually freed of anarthas (uneccesary things such as offences). This is the gift of the Holy Name which is non-different to God. Naam is fully conscious. And when the body dies...the soul leaves behind the subtle and gross bodies...entering the spiritual world. The kingdom of God - a realm full of diverse spiritual planets (back to home - back to Godhead).

Hollywood has become a potential money making sham. Full of cinematic violence etc...manifested from the vritti of those bound by sense-gratification. The mind both collective and individual becomes further bound...in the wheel of birth and death (to use hollywood as an example of the ghastliness of material life). And I am of the opinion...we as a collective organism of spirit...need to awaken, before earth degrades further. The motivation being compassion.

To live consciously, responsibly, with a life based on love is humane. Ever moving forward to discover our own personalities (spirit/soul), and the Supreme Personality (supreme spirit/soul). Fully conscious in service to the whole.

The enlightened spirit souls...live in this world....full of joy. The compassionate teachers of spiritual truth, are few. Teachers of truth must teach that consciousness points to personality. And as we are finally liberated we may then enter the kingdom of God. Teachers of impersonalism, and morality (alone)...unfortunately either misguide the general public...or, the general public misses out on the goal of life. Love of God. God is a person...our experience in this earth can be one of spiritual preparation for entry into God's Kingdom.

Jaya Srila Prabhupada!
Jaya Gurudeva!

You will not believe it, I remember you almost every day
Aspiring service…Nava.

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