CHAPTER 1
In TheBeginning
My First Encounter
I was four years old when I had my first encounter with extraterrestrials.
I remember it being a beautiful, clear summer day and I was outsideplaying and riding my tricycle in the driveway at my home inRochester, New York. One minute I was playing in the driveway andthe next thing I remember, I was floating in midair, about 15 feetfrom the ground and spinning in slow motion, down towards mydriveway.
I said to myself, "I am going to hit my head and that's going to hurt.I need to land on my hands." As soon as I said that, I flipped aroundand I landed on my hands. My cat was sitting in the driveway. Whenhe saw me appear out of nowhere, his eyes got very big and he jumpedabout three feet off the ground.
Then my mother ran out of the house shouting my name and saying,"I've been looking all over for you, where have you been?"
"I've been right here playing in the driveway," I said.
"No, you haven't. I just looked in the driveway and then in the backyard.I was ready to call the police."
I always remembered that day and for years, I wondered what hadreally happened.
When I grew older, I began asking people what they thought itmight have been. No one seemed to know. Those who were spiritualsuggested that it could have been a divine encounter with God. I didnot know what to think of it.
Younger Years
My mother used to bring me to the Catholic Church because my fatherwas Roman Catholic. She was a Native American and had to convertto being Catholicism to marry my father. One Sunday at church, whenI was five years old, I remember saying to my mother, "Mom, all theywant here is money"
The whole sermon was in Latin and I always looked around at thepeople wondering if they knew what the priest was saying. I rememberhaving to stand up, sit down, kneel, stand up and repeat this manytimes through the Mass. I never knew why.
At about seven years of age, I used to look at the back of our televisionset and wonder why it was so thick. I even took the back off and said"it should be a lot thinner, maybe one day they will make them likethat". I also found TV boring and downright stupid, however, whenStar Trek first appeared that was the one TV show I liked.
When I learned about Christmas and Jesus and heard that he diedon the cross, I said aloud, "Jesus, I told you it takes them a long timedown here to understand things. You have to repeat the informationover and over again to them." Then I would say, "What about Moses?They are forgetting about Moses." I always felt a deep connectionwith Moses and for some reason, I felt as though I had protectedhim.
When I was eight years old, I remember my Father would always drawNative American Indian chiefs while he was on the phone. One day Itook a good look at the picture he was drawing and I thought to myself,we were in a past life together. You were the chief and I was your son.I don't know how I knew about past lives at that age, but I did.
When I first started the science program in elementary school, I gotso excited because I thought we were going to learn about the planetsand the stars. To my disappointment, we ended up dissecting a frog.We never did learn about the solar system and that is what I thoughtscience was.
History class was also boring to me. They told stories about thecowboys, but never said anything about the Native Americans. Ithought I hated history until I got out of school and learned historyon my own. I then realized that I loved history when the full truthwas there.
My favorite subject in school was Art. I always received straight A'sin art class. I received average grades in Math until I learned Algebra.That is when I received straight A's. Algebra was quite simple to me.I found out later that Algebra is an ancient math using geometry andthe field of astronomy, especially mapping the positions of the starsand planets on the celestial sphere and describing the relationshipbetween movements of celestial bodies.
When I turned 12, I discovered astrology and I became fascinatedwith it. I had my personal astrology chart done, which was aboutten pages long. I read that chart every six months and watchedmyself grow into what it said about me. I then found a book onpalmistry. When I finished reading it I felt that the book was right,but there was a lot of information missing. I checked other palmistrybooks and felt the same way. I also taught myself how to read tarotcards.
When I was around ten years old, people used to say, when I spoke, Iwould speak phrases from the bible. How could that be when I neverread the bible, and that everything I heard in church was in Latin?
At eleven I took piano and guitar lessons. After a year, I still could notplay very well. I found that the songs and the music that I was beingtaught were old, corny, and boring. I quit at the age of twelve. However, Istill wanted to play a musical instrument but was not sure which one.
When I was 14 years of age I was dating a man named Scott. He wasa singer in a band. His drummer Ralph and I became good friends.One day Ralph asked me if I had ever played the drums before. I saidthat I had not, ever. He handed me his drumsticks and I sat down andstarted to play. I loved it instantly! It was so much fun and easy for me.While I was playing a bright light came in and filled up the room withwhite light. All I could see were the drums. Even they were touched bythis white light. I knew at that moment that this was what I was goingto be doing for the rest of my life.
Ralph said, "I thought you said you never played drums before," and Ireplied that I never had.
He said you sound like you have been playing for years.
The rest of the band came running into the room. "Are you readyRalph, we heard you warming up?"
"That wasn't me, that was Devara playing the drums," he said.
"Oh, we didn't know you could play drums." I said, "It's my first time."They were very surprised because they all thought it was Ralphplaying the drums.
I was so excited about playing the drums that I started taking lessonsfrom Ralph. I asked my parents for a drum set. My father said, "GirlsDON'T play drums. Why can't you be a secretary or something else?"He was so angry.
My mother ended up buying me a drum set for my 15th birthday. I pickedsongs that I liked and practiced four to six hours every day and aftersix months, I was in my first band. I was very serious about playingthe drums. I guess that is why I learned so fast. In high school, I had achance to receive a scholarship in Art but I turned it down because Ifell in love with music and eventually, I took percussion at The EastmanSchool of Music, a prestigious music school in Rochester, New York.
One afternoon my boyfriend's sister-in-law Pam and I were returningto her house from being at the grocery store.
As I was getting out of the car, I looked up and saw a flying saucer. Itwas a bright, circular light, which hovered extremely low in one place.It was so close I could see large square windows that looked like theywent all the way around the ship. I said, "Wow, look at that!" I wasin awe. I was not frightened at all, but Pam was. She looked up andscreamed, and ran into the house. I tried to catch up to her, but sheran up the stairs and into her bedroom and slammed the door. She didnot come out for three days.
When I told my boyfriend and his brother that there was a flyingsaucer outside and to come out with me and see it, they both said, "No,there are no such things as flying saucers. You're crazy!"
"Come and see," I said again, but they would not go outside.
The next day my boyfriend's brother came to me and said, in athreatening voice, "Do not ever mention this situation to Pam or talkto any of us about what you saw ever again." Apparently, Pam was stillvery frightened. The next time I saw her she would not even look atme, talk to me or come near me.
After three months of playing the drums, I invited my male friendsfrom high school to come over to my house. I wanted to surprise them.When I started playing the drums, they began yelling at me, sayingthat I was into that woman's liberation thing and that is why I wasplaying drums. I thought they would have been proud of me. I toldthem I didn't even know what women's liberation was and that I lovedplaying drums and wanted to play in a band.
"Girls do not play drums, it's for guys only. We don't want to be yourfriend if you are going to play drums," they said.
I was shocked. It was definitely not, what I expected. I had to makea major decision. Keep my friends that I had known all my life orcontinue to play the drums, something I loved doing. Even the girls inhigh school mocked me. I felt so alone.
I kept practicing and teaching myself the songs I liked. I said to myselfif they were my true friends, they would be proud of me. Therefore, Idecided to keep playing drums and leave them behind.
I played with musicians here and there until I met a guitar player. Weformed a band and played Jimi Hendrix songs and some original songsfor about a year and a half.
Several years had gone by since the floating in midair incident in mydriveway. I continued to wonder about it. I started asking people theiropinion about what could have happened, but no one seemed to know.It was not until 2004 when I found out.
I met Dolores Cannon at a crop circle conference and I bought herbook, "The Custodians: Beyond Abduction." By then I felt what hadhappened to me in my driveway when I was four, had been an ETencounter. As I read her book, I looked for a story like mine, but didnot find one. I knew that I had to have a hypnosis session with her inorder to find out what really occurred.
Dolores Cannon is a pioneer in her practice of Quantum HealingHypnosis Therapy and past life regressions. She is a self-published authorof 17 non-fiction books composed mainly of transcripts from past liferegression sessions.
I made an appointment with Dolores in January 2004 and I finally sawwhat had happened. The truth was revealed.
During the session, I 'saw' myself being pulled up into a tube thatappeared to be transparent. I saw a round, saucer—shaped objectabove me surrounded by steam (a cloaking device that the alien shipsuse to disguise themselves to look like clouds). It had three bars ofcolored lights in a circle. One bar was blue, one yellow, and the other,red. I looked back towards the ground and saw my mother runningout the front door of our house chasing after me. She was also pulledup inside the invisible tube.
The next thing I remember I was inside the ship and I was lying downon a silver table. I was being rolled down a hallway by a man wholooked like he was made of stone.
As I passed many circular doorways, I could see inside the rooms andeach room was glowing in a different color. One was light purple, onewas yellow and one was light blue. They took me into one of the roomsand surrounded me in yellow, golden light. They called me 'FlyingEagle with Many Wings'. They sent me back to my driveway and Ifloated down until I touched the ground.
New York City
When I was 18, I moved a friend of mine to New York City. She was asinger and she told me that NYC was the place for me.
She introduced me to many musicians. I remember jamming withsome incredible, black funk musicians who kept saying to me, "Damngirl, you're better than our drum brothers!"
One original rock band I met was looking for a drummer. After playingwith them, they asked me to be in their band. Okay, but I would needto go back to Rochester and make some money so that I could movehere in a month. And so I did.
I found an apartment in New York City right away. There was a psychicreader moving in downstairs at the same time I was. I did get a readingfrom her and she said I was going to be moving out of state at the endof the month. I said, "What? I just moved here. I'm not moving out ofstate." I totally dismissed what she said. I did not believe her.
The band I joined needed a singer. A couple of weeks later I saw an adin The Village Voice newspaper: "Singer available with own recordingstudio." His name was Michael and he was living in Tuners Falls,Massachusetts.
We all drove out there and jammed with him. He was incredible. Hesaid, "I'd love to record with you, would you move here? I'll give youa place to stay for free." We all said, "Yes!" We moved there at the endof the month.
Shortly after moving there, I began having déjà vu two to three timesa week. It was intense. Then I remembered what the psychic said, thatI would be moving out of the state at the end of the month. She hadbeen right after all. When I return to NYC, I need to tell her.
We found out later that Michael was an ordained minister and hadhis own church, town, recording studio and tour bus company. Theyrented out their tour buses to famous bands, such as "Yes", and "JoeCocker." It was a commune, but we did not have to join. We were thereto record with Michael.
I started going to the meditations on Wednesdays and Sundays at thechurch and I listened to some of Michael's talks. Soon, I began to notice thatmy awareness was expanding to a higher vibration. After a few weeks,I realized I could hear people's thoughts. However, I didn't know I washearing people's thoughts. I thought they were just talking aloud. It was notuntil I answered someone. They said, "How did you know I was thinkingthat?" I said, "I just heard you in your voice and I thought you were askingme a question." Then they would say, "I never said that out loud, I was onlythinking it." This happened many times with different people. That is howI found out I was reading people's minds or hearing their thoughts.
We finished recording and Michael did not want to perform live, sowe only stayed a few months then moved back to New York City. Thefirst day we got back, I noticed that the people there looked depressedand dark. Although I knew that my vibration had been raised I feltvery vulnerable being that way in New York City, and so I had to shutit down to protect myself.
A few days later, I looked for the psychic who told me I was going tomove out of state, but she was gone. I thought it was strange for her tohave moved because it was only three months ago plus no one seemedto remember her ever being there.
Eventually I got a job bartending at night in the Wall Street area. Onewarm summer night all our lights went out in the club so we all wentoutside.
Wall Street is downtown at the end of Manhattan so we all lookedtowards uptown. All of a sudden, we saw the lights going out in all thebuildings one block at a time. It was the great NYC blackout of 1977.For weeks people talked about it being from UFOs. Both Con Edisonand NYC Electric Company said it was from lightning strikes. I do notremember there being any rain at all that night. There had been talkabout numerous UFO sightings days before the blackout.
The band broke up so I joined another and played around NYC forabout a year. Then that band split up. I answered some ads for bandslooking for drummers in The Village Voice, but all I got on the phonewere the words, "A female drummer? No, I don't think so. Femalesdon't play drums." Again the same old story.
I had to talk my way into auditions, and I did get a few of them. InNYC, whenever you audition for anything, it's called a cattle call. Youstand in line with hundreds of people and you get five minutes or onesong. In every audition I went to, they said I was the best out of allthe drummers they auditioned. I did notice they would give me moresongs to play. Many times after the audition, they would keep mewaiting around while they would have a meeting with their manageror producer. However, they always ended up saying they could nottake me because I was a girl and that would make it more expensivefor touring. Of course, I took it personal.
I finally auditioned for a band with a female singer and she thoughtthat it would be cool to have another female in the band. "I would havea buddy," she said. That band auditioned 70 drummers and they saidthat I was the best. I was only 19 at the time and the rest of the bandmembers were seasoned musicians. We showcased for many majorlabels and ended up signing a contract with A&M records.
Six months later, we had a top 10 hit in Europe and we were gettingready for a tour. Right before the tour we found out the producerwas stealing money from us. The band then decided to break off thecontract. I was very disappointed and extremely devastated.
