Worlds of Shadows
I have just finished reading Brad Steiger’s latest release from Anomalist Books: Beyond Shadow World (originally published in 2001 as Our Shared World of the Supernatural).
This is the third book in a series from Anomalist Books, and is a thought-provoking and informative read that will be (or should be!) of deep interest to all open-minded Ufologists.
Given that the book focuses, to a large extent, on tales of the afterlife, spirits (of the dead, and of a nature variety), ghostly beings and a variety of similar phenomena, you may already be asking yourselves: what relevance does all this have to Ufology?
Well, I’m coming to that!
As someone who has read quite a few books by Brad that focus upon (or touch upon) accounts and experiences relative to claims of an afterlife, I’ve always found it refreshing that - unlike a lot of authors who write on such matters - Brad does not try and force any particular theory or belief-system down the throats of his readers.
Rather, he relates the data, the theories and the ideas, and allows the reader to use this material to form his or her own opinion - which is a rare thing in books devoted to such an emotive topic as the afterlife.
But, Beyond Shadow World is more than just a collection of ghostly tales to be digested at the witching hour. Yes, it’s a deep and thoughtful look at the whole controversy of the afterlife - but it also reveals much more; and it’s here that we get into the UFO issue.
One of the things that Brad talks about in an enlightening fashion in the pages of his book is the puzzle of the so-called Contactees: those (primarily) 1950s characters who claimed contact with long-haired aliens in out-of-the-way locations, such as deserts, hill-tops and forests.
I am often dismayed by the simplistic approach that many researchers and readers take to the Contactee issue. For many of them, things are very much black-and-white: the Contactees were telling a literal truth, or they were blatant liars.
But, as people will know from my previous writings, things aren’t that clear-cut when it comes to the Contactees. And, I’m very pleased to see that Brad clearly realizes this.
As Brad states: “In 1963, when I first began seriously investigating the claims of the UFO contactees…I drew immediate parallels between those who channeled Outer Space beings and the spirit mediums who provided inspirational messages from their guides…”
He continues: “…And when many of the contactees told me that the UFOnaut had appeared to them in a ‘light and vaporous form’ because of the different frequencies between our dimensions, I was again reminded of the ‘light and vaporous forms’ that had long been associated with the seance room and the spirit circle.”
Brad adds: “…In my opinion, the phenomenon of the Space Brothers has absolutely nothing to do with the question of whether extraterrestrial intelligence has visited Earth,” and states his belief that there is an “external intelligence that has interacted with our species since our creation on this planet…I am also convinced that some kind of symbiotic relationship exists between us and this intelligence. In some way, they need us as much as we need them…”
This is excellent stuff, and well worth the price of the book alone!
Brad is right on the mark, and I would urge anyone with an interest in the Contactees to invest in a copy of Beyond Shadow World.
And that’s not all: you will also get to learn the details of a fascinating experience Brad had as a child with one of the classic “little people” of folklore and mythology (a brownie, an elf - the names may change; but they are pretty much the same breed) - and maybe of some strange, twilight realm, too.
It’s a magical, eerie and slightly creepy tale.
And, although Brad’s telling of the story suggests his sighting of the creature was accidental, I have to wonder - as with so many of the Contactees, and as with so many of the Abductees - was Brad’s exposure to the little man actually a deliberate act (albeit unknown to him), one designed to provoke the transformation needed to ensure that Brad followed the path in life (as a writer and investigator of all-things-strange) that some other intelligence may have already pre-planned for him?
Some might say no. I say: don’t be so hasty.
So, with that all said, if your interests are chiefly in the area of the afterlife, Beyond Shadow World is definitely a must-read.
If you have ever had a sneaky suspicion that our alien visitors (and particularly those long-haired ones) might not be quite what they seem - and that there could be a more profound, unifying theory for the many and varied phenomena that Brad describes in his book - then you should also take steps to acquire the book at the earliest opportunity.
Don’t forget: for full effect, read it by candle-light on a dark and stormy night! And if Orthon, Zoltan or some oddly-named Venusian Space-Brother knocks slowly on the door, by all means invite him or her in. But, as Beyond Shadow World demonstrates, they may not actually be who they claim to be…
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Jun 03 2009 
June 4th, 2009 at 3:45 am
“(W)as Brad’s exposure to the little man actually a deliberate act (albeit unknown to him), one designed to provoke the transformation needed to ensure that Brad followed the path in life (as a writer and investigator of all-things-strange) that some other intelligence may have already pre-planned for him?”
Those fucking white rabbits, always luring us to follow them to that bottomless hole
June 4th, 2009 at 5:50 am
RPJ:
Never trust a rabbit!
June 7th, 2009 at 7:41 am
Brad Steiger: “…the phenomenon of the Space Brothers has…nothing to do with…whether extraterrestrial intelligence has visited Earth”.
Brad’s position being, then, flying saucers, their supposed inhabitants, and so on, are Jinn, ‘electromagnetics’, ultraterrestials, whatever you wan’o call ‘em, a hypothesis you’re not exactly hostile to, yourself, of course.
But if the Earth can be populated by such entities, isn’t it possible other worlds (including the ‘dead’ Moon, Venus, Mars, Saturn, etc.) are? And given the capacities some of these critters seem to exhibit, isn’t it possible they might be able to travel between different worlds, (even if only by means of these “giant magnetic ropes” Nasa’s Themis satellite observes connecting the likes of the Sun and Venus to the Earth)?
Furthermore, since there seems to be evidence suggesting we ourselves are part Jinn, (i.e. that hypothetical part of ourselves often referred to as our spirit or our soul), maybe some of the critters we’ve been encountering weren’t even Jinn but flesh and blood like ourselves conducting their own particular version of Remote Viewing from somewhere on the other side of the Universe - it’d sure explain why some of ‘em seem as confused by us as we are by them.
Maybe, just as there’re accounts of tornadoes supposedly scooping up the likes of fish or frogs, (not to mention the odd Buster Keaton or two), before raining them down elsewhere, there’re ‘electromagnetic’ equivalents of those same tornadoes which scoop up some ‘electromagnetic’ part of ourselves, temporarily - or permanently - depositing them ‘elsewhere’.
For the record, my personal working position is not only is much of the above true, but many planets operating at our ‘level’ are probably constantly visited by, and monitored from, worlds equipped with technologies which make not only billion light year distances or interdimensional barriers irrelevant but also temporal concepts like past, present and future.
p.s.
For some reason I’ve gradually become tickled by the idea of popping up in one of your dreams, a talent ’something’ seems to be developing in me of late, (I was even APPARENTLY somehow enabled to do it twice on someone while they were sleeping and I was awake!).
For some reason there’s often a delay with these things, but the fact you don’t know what I look like should serve as one of the controls if it actually somehow happens.
p.p.s.
I’ll give you a clue: I’m short with a big head and big eyes, but I ain’t coloured gray, but if I’m carrying a bag of oranges, it isn’t me!
June 26th, 2009 at 4:09 am
[...] of new reviews that the book has received since we reprinted it last month. Nick Redfern, over at UFO Mystic, had this to say: “Beyond Shadow World is more than just a collection of ghostly tales to be [...]
October 25th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I too believe that a symbiotic relationship exists between us and them. I think the universe works through displacement. By this I mean that as we go through the universe, the universe goes through us and that things don’t so much change (one sided view) but exchange (bilateral view: See the film, ‘The Necronomican’, based on stories by HP Lovecraft; the third section, directed by a Japanese man about a serial killer, that turns out to be mysterious bat-like creatures, where their allies tell the police woman they’ve captured that her horror at the nature of what is happening to her will turn to wonder, when she becomes one with the alien and sees life from its point of view).
October 25th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
If we see the alien presence and mediumistic contact as relating to tribal society and the ancestors, it may make more sense (the dead visiting). It’s all about ‘TIME’. Think of it like this. If time is a circle, rather than a straight line, then these beings (Uncle Fred/ Gozo from Mars)being discarnate, will find incarnation fun/ funny, just as try to find life, however they will also have a serious purpose and that is trying to ensure that they have a future by getting reborn or incarnated. If the universe can only move forward through growth, then they are going to want us to survive and thrive - hence ideas in our sleep and stories of future ghosts (unborn children in other lives, trying to contact those who will be their parents as well as aliens who bring messages encouraging us to go on and warning us of dangers as any parent would). I believe this is why Jesus said that the first will be last and the last, first: Think of a Slinky Toy going downstairs.
As for the whole paranormal/ UFO thing being more than between an individual’s ears - synchronicity is the proof because it shows connection between the two worlds, through phenomena in the real (concrete) world.