The discussion of this dream reminded me of a letter I had written to a dream researcher in 1992. I kept a copy of it and it's worth telling again.

Prior to my correspondence with the researcher I had a dream on April 16th,1992 in which a voice said, "A member of a UFO group will get in touch with you in September."  A thought message came with this indicating that this contact would happen through a woman who ran a dream network.  

At the time, I thought the woman would be Josephine Goodman of St. Louis, MO.  I had been a member of her small dream network for about a year.  Some months after the dream, I learned about the Dream Network Journal, and wrote to the editor, Roberta Osanna.

In September, I received a letter and a pamphlet from a man named Dean McClanahan in Springfield, MO. Dean wrote:

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9-23-92

Joe Mason:

Roberta Osanna called last night. She told me of your "Crop Circle" dreams. Enclosed are a couple of pamphlets I use in my research. We are on very similar territory. .She suggested cooperating in a joint effort to cover these subjects in a future issue of DNJ (Dream Network Journal). I agreed, this was a good idea that should be brought to fruition. I hope you feel the same.

May your Crop Circle dreams multiply.

Dean McClanahan

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Enclosed was a small pamphlet with the following information:

WANTED

DREAM EXPERIENCES

RELATING TO UFOs, ALIENS, AND ABDUCTION

DREAMS: THE LINK BETWEEN HUMANS AND EXTRATERRESTRIALS-UFOs
By
Dean McClanahan

For more than 40 years a growing mass of evidence has been pointing to the fact that extraterrestrials with their UFOs are interfacing with humans. This information continues to grow despite serious efforts to debunk, discredit, and ridicule those that have been the providers of this knowledge.

Ingo Swann, a well known psychic, postulates the connection may be telepathic. My research indicates this is highly probable.

I hypothesize that the major connection lies in what is called the 'dream state'. Contemporary psychology regards dreaming as an adjunct of consciousness. This concept is an artificial creation as is such concepts as conscious, unconscious, and subconscious.

When the dream state and what we term consciousness is viewed as a focus-of-awareness, the possibilities for expanding the psyche are greatly increased. This allows us to approach dreaming as reality, just as we view consciousness as reality.

In order to heighten one's focus-of-awareness, one must eliminate the superfluous and limiting beliefs that are contained within the group and personal belief-systems. The group and personal ego must be subdued.

UFO's, and ETs began to appear in my dreams during the fall of 1989 when my focus-of-awareness became centered upon UFO-ET research. My primary interest was in the manner in which these experiences are portrayed in what we commonly refer to as a dream. It quickly became evident that regardless of how we viewed these events consciously, in dreams they are treated as actual experiences.

The following are examples:

Male, returning to Missouri after attending a UFO conference in Florida:

"I was driving somewhere in Alabama on a lonely stretch of Highway 82. I had not encountered vehicles for some time. It was late, about 3:00 a.m.  I noticed a peculiar light in the sky, no matter what direction I turned, the light always stayed on the driver's side of the car. I stopped, got out, and took a picture of the light with my flash camera. The light began moving towards me. I became alarmed, jumped back in the car and sped away.

Looking back through the rear-view mirror, I could see the light following me. Suddenly, the red trouble light indicators on the dashboard began flashing on and off. My car began to sputter and came to a stop. I jumped out and looked to see where the light was, it was very close. I was bordering upon panic, experiencing a depth of fear I had never known before. A truck suddenly appeared from around a curve in the road . . . the light shot away at high speed. I felt a tremendous sense of relief."

When questioned about dreams relating to his encounter, he replied, "I dreamt I was standing at a chalk-board writing down my experience and explaining it to others."

It was suggested his dream may be telling him to "Chalk-one-up," an expression used many times in the military to indicate a successful confrontation with an enemy. Therefore, this should also be construed as a warning, next time you may not be able to 'chalk-one-up.

(DMM) DREAM 6-6-92 - "I was walking down a long concrete ramp that paralleled a building. It was not quite dark. I looked up and became aware of a great number of UFOs in the sky. I watched the lights of a UFO as it descended to the ground. I ran over to where it had landed and saw what appeared to be a man dressed in a gray coverall uniform. He was carrying a clipboard and walking towards me. During the dream I knew that he had come down to earth to do some work. I was thrilled by this and wanted to tell others. Upon looking around, few of the other people who were present appeared to be interested in what was taking place. This dismayed me. The only indication this man was not human was in the manner he projected himself. One had to carefully scrutinize his behavior in order to detect this. I was elated at having this experience."

(DMM) DREAM 3-29-90 - "Was inside this cave watching the alien Grays, those responsible for abductions and cattle mutilations. They could not see me but I could see them. During the dream, I knew this observation was being made from a dimension lying beyond their awareness. I was intrigued and delighted by this experience."

My wife's dreams parallel mine.

(Shelly) DREAM 2-17-90 - "I recall seeing three or four UFOs. My first thought was, "I'm dreaming." But I know it is much more than that. We are inside the house. The ETs are of light and energy. One approaches me, my whole being lights up. I feel different. This seems to be my imagination working but it's not. They are friendly and want to teach me things. We go outside on the front porch. I see three space ships, the mothership is like a large planet. I'm amazed. I jump up and down with excitement!  They send a space ship, and board me. This is not the first time this has happened, when I lived with my mother I had other experiences. I recall the inside of the ship but I can't find words to describe this. As I get on board, an ET approaches me, then steps inside of me. I feel like a child in it's mother's arms, safe, loved. When the ET stepped back out of me I asked, "What have you done?"

The ET replied, "You needed that."

I began to cry.

"Why are you tearing?" the ET asked.

"I don't know if I'm happy or sad," I replied.

This took place in an enclosed setting so I could slowly accept this.

I inquired, "Why was I not aware of past boardings?"

"You would have went mad," replied the ET. "You have expanded your consciousness and are now ready for this."

I felt as though I belonged here. This dream left me with feelings of joy that lasted all day."

My daughters dreams are similar.

(Autumn) DREAM  6-18-90 - "I'm taken somewhere. I see these small Grey ETs that are wearing robes. They are interrogating me about my purpose of visiting Lynn, a friend. They regard this as an intrusion for she lives upon their territory. They also inquire about the channeling. I feel strange but unafraid as there are other ETs present who are protecting us. When I think upon this I begin to hyperventilate."

(Autumn) DREAM 5-27-91 - "Shelly and I are greeting several ETs of the same kind. One is light purple, another is light blue and the rest are white. They are very tall, over six feet and have dark black almond shaped eyes that do not dominate the face. I feel positive energies coming from them."

The emotions and feelings evoked by these dreams are those which are also experienced during that period when our focus-of-awareness is directed to waking reality.

Indications are that true reality involves more than the solidity of the physical material world and its narrow and limited sciences.

Dean McClanahan

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On 9-26-92, I responded,

Dear Dean:

Thank you for making contact. Believe it or not I was expecting it. On April 16th, a voice in a dream said, "A member of a UFO group will get in touch with you in September."

So, I am thrilled in two ways, a confirmation of the validity and incredible wisdom of dreams, and the similar nature of your project and wish to co-operate. I am ready, willing and able to co-operate with you on the Dream Network Journal project or your own research.

There are a number of problems with this communication. We each are seeing the strange phenomena from different perspectives. We develop our theories and tend to reject others. If we could get together, present all the evidence, and discuss it at length, we might get somewhere, but there is a set up for this, so we go our separate ways. In my case, I have a huge stack of material (about four feet high). That is difficult to comprehend. I've been trying to communicate it to others for two years without success. Roberta is the first one to understand a significant part of it.

There are other problems in communicating my material specifically. Besides being enormous to see, it's mostly about dream symbols that all interrelate to one another. It's analogous to learning a foreign language. The overall message seems to be saying that an absolutely enormous great change lies ahead for mankind. People tend to reject it on that ground alone, without looking at the evidence.

I'm not sure how you envision a collaboration on the "DNJ" project. I guess the best way to start is to explain the general idea of my experience. As you said, it's similar territory.

I seem to be led in multiple directions, the UFO phenomena is one of them. I have carefully recorded my dreams and gathered the dreams of others. I try to interpret the meanings of the symbols. I look for the symbols elsewhere in the 'real' world. I find them in myths, religions, art, events, crop circles, world history, the UFO phenomena, etc. I try to put it all together and see the overall picture. I am looking to see if there is a message coming from other realities, what it is, and where are we going.

I did not set out with this in mind. It just seemed to go that way. I have an evolving theory that is constantly being re-evaluated. I have been attempting to share this material for almost two years. I have written to a number of people and organizations that I believe a great change is unfolding. Ironically, the are not interested in hearing other theories.

My feeling is that many people and groups have parts of this overall message. A time will come when they will be put together like pieces of a puzzle. As you say, the major connection is dreams.

In my view this is true not only for UFOs, but all of the other fields. It's like we each have a piece of the puzzle. My dreams and the others I have gathered are clearly related to myths.

Roberta can vouch for this.

One of my theories is that the great mysteries of all time will be unraveled. The real meaning of myths and religions will be made clear. We will understand that thy came from the same source and the elementary ideas were the same. We are nearing the end of a disconnected, warring cycle of time, and will start a new cycle of unity. A period of stress proceeds and is necessary to bring about the Great Change. This began with WW 1 in 1914. The great battles predicted in sources such as Nostradamus and the Book of Revelation in the Bible are the spiritual battles involved in winning over the hearts and minds of people worldwide in these final stages.

I have evidence to back up each claim I am making here. Of course, it is not proof, just strong hints. I can't be sure how much of it is on the mark, but I can present evidence that is convincing that we should look further into these ideas. I am not dogmatic about my theories and do not have an axe to grind in a particular direction, I am simply looking with an open mind and (hopefully) an unprejudiced eye at the symbolic side of things. I expect my own ideas to change and evolve as I make contact with others such as yourself.

As to your project, if I strictly give you only dreams of UFOs/ETs, there are only two that I recall, and I will tell you of these. Two people told me of actually UFO sightings. But I have much more to report about UFO sightings in terms of dream symbols.

A significant part of my material concerns the crop circles. I don't know how familiar you are with the subject, so I'll mention a few things, strange lights, like glowing spheres and beams are frequently reported in conjunction with the crop patterns. Many people feel that the crop circles are made by ETs. In this sense, all my material on this may be related.

In my view, crop circles and the UFO phenomena are more of a spiritual nature, rather than actual visitations from remote physical beings. I am open to the idea that I could be wrong, after reading "Out There," by Howard Blumb, I was pretty convinced that a UFO crash did occur at Roswell, New Mexico. Apparently, a craft and bodies were recovered. This suggests that physical matter can be created by spirit reality intelligence, so I can't take the Roswell incident as absolutely proving ETs are physical. (and from outer space) In terms of looking for dream symbols, it doesn't matter.

I recently read, "Miracles" by Scott Rogo. It is mostly about Religious miracles, like Marian apparitions, stigmata, bleeding pictures and statues, etc. Mr. Rogo is a parapsychologist and relates some theories about the miracles. He touches on the UFO phenomenon on page 311. He proposes that it is similar to the miracles. He suggests that a spiritual realm interacts with our reality, and our world-view influences how it appears. He mentions Jacques Vallee, a computer expert and astrophysicist at Stanford University, who proposes that a "control system" exists in the universe and attempts benignly to manipulate our cultural and religious evolution by presenting us with bewildering enigmas that cause us to re-evaluate the way we normally view reality.

I found a number of symbol connections in the book. A few have possible crop circle connections. It's too involved to tell here, but I'll mention a few things in the book you might find interesting.

A number of people at the 1917 Marian apparitions at Fatima reported seeing a sphere of light come down and hover over the oak tree where the apparition was visible only to three children. Such spheres have been reported and video-taped in crop circles as well as by UFO researchers. The same type of light sphere was films during the first flight of the Concord airplane.

70,000 people witness the final miracle at Fatima, called, "The dance of the sun". The people were drenched by rain, when the young girl told them to look at the sky. The clouds parted and they saw a disk that looked like pearl turning in on itself. It moved about and started emitting a rainbow of color, then zig-zagged toward the ground. The people were frightened and felt heat. It stopped, returned back up and disappeared. The rain stopped and the people were completely dry.

On page 184, Mr. Rogo tells of a portrait of Jesus encased in plastic that bled tears of blood in Roswell, New Mexico in 1979. What do you think? Is it a coincidence, or is it related somehow to the UFO crash?

I completely agree with your contention that contemporary psychology's view of dreams and the subconscious is quite lacking. It's a pseudoscience attempting to fit these unknown realms into the mechanical universe world-view. This view is changing and is sure to fall before long. The average person is not aware of this, but a weight of evidence is building that conventional view just cannot explain.

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It's now October 4th. Each essay attached conveys UFO connections in my material. There is also an essay about Epsilon Bootes that I wrote some time ago.

This should give you the general idea of my experience, but it is actually a particular area of it. There are other areas, such as a symbolic story of evolution, that includes quite a few actual events.

A pretty startling coincidence occurred as I was writing these essays. It's at the end of my "ET DREAM" essay. I ask you, what are the odds of finding such a perfect confirmation of the dream concept so quick, without actually looking for it? I would say the odds are long, quite long. It's seems its almost routine now, except that I am always thrilled and surprised.

There are some incidences in "Out There", that are similar. I loaned out the book, so I'll tell you as best I can from memory. Mr. Blum investigated the Roswell UFO crash. He interviewed a man who has been after the story for years. He worked secretly with two other men, one of whom lived back east.

The man says a package was dropped at his house that contained microfilm of government documents that confirm the Roswell crash. He does not know who left the package. Later, he received a postcard with a cryptic message. It hinted that more information could be found through "Reese's Pieces", and to try "Suitland". He and his West coast friend couldn't figure it out. Then, the East coast contact called and told them that new government documents were being released through the 'Freedom of Information Act".

He suggested going there and examining the huge stack of documents, because it might contain a document about Roswell. He didn't have to go himself. The West coast men said they didn't want to go to Washington and sift through the documents. The East coast man said, "Actually, it's not in Washington, but at Suitland, Maryland. The man to see is Mr. Reese.

The cryptic postcard became clear, so they went to Suitland, and indeed found the new document!

My question is this: If human sources were behind this, would they choose such a way to reveal it? If so, how did they know the phone call would be made and the correct words chosen?

It seems to me that this was brought about by a higher intelligence that seems to know the future. It appears to us as a coincidence, because we are unaware of realities beyond our own. I have had a number of experiences where objects appear unexpectedly that seem to be related to my dream experience. I don't know if it's accidental, but it's very strange just the same.

I realize that my material is unpalatable to many people in various ways. It confronts the world-view, which makes people uncomfortable. Speaking of a great change smacks of ideas previously heard and rejected. Discussing religious concepts, such as the Bible is taboo or repugnant to many. All these things cause misunderstanding in my view. Just the mention of such things as the Bible cause people to make assumptions based on their past experiences. They read-in their assumptions and quickly reject what they think is the viewpoint. I am not looking for or preaching a religion. I am looking to see what is true by following symbols. To me, religions are myths that are widely popular. They contain some truth along with misguided dogma. I am studying symbols wherever I find them, and there are many in religions, I am approaching it from the view that 'today's' dreams are the best authority. I never get to a point where I know anything absolutely. I just have theories based on a weight of symbolic/coincidental evidence, and it's subject to change. You might say I developed my personal myth. This is about the best we can do in this realm of the unknown.

I have a few comments about the material in your pamphlet. There is a similarity to the UFO sightings of the light on highway 82 and a sighting in my essay, "UFO Sightings".  In both cases, the object always stayed in the same position relative to the car.

The man's dream of writing on the chalk-board may have been a suggestion that he should communicate his experience to others. I don't know if it is related, but crop patterns have appeared near ancient chalk drawings on mountainsides in England, such as White Horse and the Long Man of Wilmington. In some cases the patterns are aligned toward the figures. The Hopi Indians have a myth that might have a correlation. They say the creator put them on the earth and told them to leave many footprints and rock drawings, because men would forget that we are all One. It could be related to religious experiences, where people feel compelled to write a gospel, or otherwise tell of their experience.

My dream voice once said: "Once the conveyor button has been pushed to show one, it would not behoove him to keep it to himself."

I took this to mean that I should communicate my experience to others. I was already doing this, but frustration was setting in. I only want to tell it to those interested, and I find few.

Your dream of the ET in coveralls who came to do some work has some similarity to a number of dreams. ETs are not involved, but construction of buildings or industrial planning is going on. One woman dreamed of  a renaissance city being built and it had to be finished by a certain time. In May, 1991, I dreamed of  a big antenna being bolted on top of a big building.

A voice said, " In today's world, we cannot afford to miss one of the parts that support the structure."

I think these symbols refer to "building" the new reality, as in the big change. It may be related to myths about craftsmen as helpers of the Gods. My material hints that this is related to the right angled square that carpenters use, meaning "builder", and the concept of the "demiurge", as a skilled craftsman and a sub-deity as creator of the physical world.

A "builder" from each quarter is a swastika. Going clockwise, or East, it is positive. Counter-clockwise indicates negative activity. I think the demiurge, or four "builders" represent mankind.

Shelly's dream of light/energy ETs and one of them stepping inside her, I feel, is an important and revealing dream. It goes well with other ideas I have been finding. In my ET dream, the being came from a piece of cloud that was a mixture of two cloud layers.

Clouds are a form of water and seem to indicate spirit or non-physical consciousness. In Black Elk's great vision, he is taken into the clouds and enters the cloud teepee to see the six Great Grandfathers. Later, in the vision, he hears, "All of the clouds are one-sided."

A light-being also seems to indicate spiritual beings. Light also forms physical reality, in the sense of the electromagnetic spectrum. Two photons colliding forms an electron. E=MC² means energy and matter are interchangeable. The Universe started with a 'big bang' of energy. So, we are like frozen light. Myths, such as 'let there be light' and the tantric phallic egg may refer to this.

I read a channeled message through Walter Russell from the 1940's. It said all things are light, created by the cube-sphere of God's heartbeat of dual thinking. The sphere is the cube compressed to the incandescence of white hot suns by the inward breath. The cube is the sphere expended to black rest in cold space by the outward breath. So, all things pulse to the heartbeat.

FORM EXPANSION CONTRACTION THE BREATH OF THE COMPASSIONATE

To the Sufi, creative expression which results from participation mystique - that is, a state of being one with nature, although not conscious of the Divine Presence - is an expression of one's vision of self within self. It is an expression which is not reflective, not polished, not aware of the total possibilities inherent in the nature of things. It is only through conscious expression that one has the more perfect vision of self reflected in the qualities of something else. The only way that expression can serve in its full capacity is when it is reflective; it becomes reflective only when conscious of the Divine Presence. The reflective surface now reflects something which is  contained, a Spirit which is not only one's own. this is the Spirit which is universal to all things; to the Sufi, it is the 'desire' which exists within things 'to be known'. The Breath of the Compassionate. The preparedness within a thing, it's inner Archetype, is actualized in an intelligible form at the moment when its Name flows into it through a Word. The Divine Spirit or Logos flows into  a thing through the process of the Divine Breath, the Breath of the Divine name 'Rahman', Compassionate. The Name of the Compassionate manifested through the Divine Breath, is just one of the many symbolic processes which the traditional craftsman emulates. By blowing  or chanting the Divine Names upon the form to be transformed, the creative process of the breath, which contains the Divine Presence through a Name, transforms the object in hand. The creator participates as active agent and the object participates as passive recipient. There is a Tradition of the Prophet in which he says, 'God created the universe through the Breath of the Compassionate.' The Compassionate 'Rahman' is the higher of the names, Ideas or Archetypes. "Where was your Lord before creating the visible Creation? someone asked the Prophet. His answer: "in a cloud. There was no space either above or below'. This cloud which the Divine Being exhaled, and in which it originally was, receives all forms at the same time as it gives beings their forms. It is the act of making things to exist. The Absolute, appearing in the Name, Compassion, overflowing with goodness, gives existence without limit and without end. When the desire to be known, the preparedness, arises within a thing, the Divine in Compassion extends Itself as Archetype to the thing and becomes its receptivity, its ability to receive the theophany. This receptivity is actually what the Archetype, in its state of concrete essence, desires. Therefore, the actual effect of Compassion is to give a thing the possibility of receiving sensible existence. Compassion is given without any discrimination; Mercy, the complement, is given only for an act done. Compassion, in a sense, is the universal form of Divine giving; Mercy is the particular aspect. Through the Name of Compassion, the Absolute breathes out upon the other Names or Archetypes. This breathing out is a means of bringing things into existence.  By means of the Command 'Be!" the Absolute through Compassion sends into the external, phenomenal world that which has been compressed within it. This Divine Breath is Nature itself, just as the Breath contains all the forms of the universe in a potential state and actualizes them by exhaling, so Nature holds all forms of expression in a potential state of preparedness in which they await the appearance of the Breath of the Compassionate, the Spirit, the Logos, in order to be known. This breath is essentially the initial act of the metaphysics of love. Love is the cause and secret of all creation and thereby the principle of all motion from desire to being known. the creation of the world, in this sense, was the motion of love towards perfection and completion. The Absolute loves to be perfect in both types of forms intelligible and sensible. Ultimately, one who wishes to know the Breath of the Compassionate need only know Self, for Self is the Lord who is manifested in the form. One's innermost being is most directly expressed through speech. Speech on the human plane reflects the Divine Word or Logos; it was the Word that create the universe and it is through the Word that it returns to God. Invocation (zikr) is the means of reaching the very substance of things within us. Everything contains the Presence of the Divine. The ideas of intellections in our minds are like those Ideas in the mind of the Absolute.  A word contains both a meaning and the thing itself, which has a form. the meaning is permanent, the Divine Idea; the form the thing takes is but a shadow, transient. The Ideas are made temporal through the Breath of the Compassionate. In Sufism, Christ symbolizes the particular Divine Quality of the Breath of the Compassionate, for it is through the Breath that all things receive life. When the Word of God comes into the hart of anyone and the Divine Inspiration enters his heart and soul, its nature is such that there is produce in him a spiritual child having the breath of Jesus that revives the dead.'  (R. Nicholson, Mathnawl.) The Universe, in the Sufi view, is being re-created at every moment. At every moment what appears to be a time-connected universe returns to God. There is continuous, instantaneous expansion and contraction. The manifestation of actualized individual things occurs continually, as in successive waves. At every moment creation is annihilated  and re-created. With each heartbeat we die and are reborn. the world is in intense motion, ascending towards the vertical axis within all things to meet the descent of the Absolute in manifested forms. The flow occurs in such an orderly, successive manner, according to definite patterns, that we are unaware of it, and the world appears to us to stay the same. This ever-new creation is a process which only the human form endowed with consciousness of Self can come to know. The wonder of wonders is that the human form and all other created things are in a perpetual process of ascending. And yet one is not ordinarily aware of this because of the extreme thinness and fineness of the veil (when one looks at something through a very transparent veil, one does not become aware of the veil between oneself and the object) or because of the extreme similarity between the successive forms. How splendid is God's description of the universe, and of its perpetual renewal with each Divine Breath which constitutes an ever new creation in one single entity!   But this is perceived by only a few, as the Quran says: "Nay, they are in utter confusion regarding the new creation." (50:15)  These people who do not perceive are in confusion because they do not know the constant renewal of things with each Divine Breath." (T. Izutsu.) Taken from: 'Sufi  Expressions of the Mystic Quest' by Laleh Bakhtiar