by D W Pasulka
functions, could act as a transmitter and receiver not much
different than our home computers and WiFi systems where
the internet source enters our houses either through a hard-
wired fiber network or a satellite signal wherein the data is then
processed and used within our homes through our routers and
radio- frequency signals.
It’s interesting that the natural frequency of our DNA is
similar to that of the frequency used for satellite communi-
cation. Also, taking the computer model a step further, the
calcium in our bones and its physical hard structure could
act much like a large antenna to aid in sending and receiving
data, as well as house many of our DNA and stem cel s in the
bone marrow. In this model the human body and DNA be-
come a biological internet and the data is likely stored with
light photons, which in recent studies indicates an ability for
the photon to share an exact twin state without restrictions of
time and space. In other words, when a force of energy is ex-
cited in one photon, its sister photon, thousands of miles away,
experiences the same force instantaneously, which is referred
to as entanglement.
Tyler’s understanding of the body/
phenomenon
interface as an information translational process is
grounded in materiality. The body and materiality are in-
dispensable conditions for this process, he believes. He
also refers to the idea that the human brain is not the
center for thinking or even for the most important types
of thoughts— the kind that lead to innovative and truly
creative thinking.
I find that this memory/ contact with an intelligent
source (God) is much smarter than me, is more creative, and
carries more energy and insight than I ever could using my
own RAM and hard drive in my simple mind. I need to have
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access to the depth and wisdom of this God- like internet to
reach the fullest potential in my life, it seems.
I practice a protocol of yoga to access my router rather
than my RAM, direct sunlight to charge my DNA photonic
cel s, propagate the natural energy outside in nature, and
focus on my core body rather than my brain given that the
concentration of our DNA is between our hips and neck.
I think humans like to believe the head is the smartest and
only part of their intelligent system, but this is probably be-
cause it is the location that houses our sensors— eyes, ears,
and nose. The body becomes as important as or even more
important than our brains to optimize the storage, recep-
tion, and transmission of this divine signal. So for people
who practice calming the mind to allow the body to be-
come more involved in the “thinking” process and perform
functions that stimulate their computer, router, and WiFi
signals, it wouldn’t be surprising to find out that they are
much more creative, productive, and intelligent. They’ve
learned to leverage whatever knowledge is on the internet
of the divine universe rather than rely on their small out-
dated laptop (their personal brain) that has no internet
signal.
Bennett says that the synthetic biologists of Silicon
Valley and their biotechnological lexicons have become
normative— that is, their worldviews are now our worldviews.
The cultural worlds of the biotech industries impact and in-
fluence millions and perhaps billions of lives. Their beliefs
about what is sacred, or beyond human, filter through media
technologies and into our own imaginations and memories.
The human body is at the center of this sacred interface. The
latest generation of scientists understands the materiality
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of information. Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern, quantum phys-
icist and author of the blog Quantum Frontiers: A Blog by
the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter @ Caltech,
writes: “I like my quantum information physical.”34 Scientists
like James and Tyler are working to identify just what this
material substance is, and how it works.
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THE HUMAN RECEIVER
Matter, Information, Energy . . . Contact
All family members present were willing to discuss
what happened with me, all acknowledged hearing an
external voice urging them to look at the UFO, and all
of them felt in some way profoundly affected by their
UFO encounter. This is one example from dozens
of cases, which I have personal y investigated in the
Canadian province of Ontario, that demonstrates to
a certain degree of what is known in UFO studies as
“high strangeness.”
— S u s a n D e m e t e r - S t. C l a i r 1
“WHILE DRIVING HOME FROM MY parents’ home I spoke
to God for the first time. I looked up at the stars and said
to both God and the Entities with which I was interacting,
‘I congratulate you—you have managed to completely
transform a total atheist into someone who now believes
in God, the spirit world, and life after death, more than any
Catholic priest in Miami.’ ” Thus spoke Rey Hernandez,
while driving in his car one day. What had happened
to Rey?
A UFO sighting or event often has the effect of com-
pletely changing the direction of one’s life, much like a re-
ligious conversion experience. This was the case with Rey,
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a lawyer and self- described rationalist and atheist. After
a series of sightings and related paranormal experiences,
Rey, together with Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchel ,
Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild, and Australian re-
searcher Mary Rodwel , cofounded the Dr. Edgar Mitchel
Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters
or FREE. It is the first global, multilingual study of people
who claim to have had UFO- related contact with non-
human intelligence and related paranormal experiences.
Rey reminded me that, when I refer to his work, I should
mention that he is just one of many qualified researchers
“who have put in hundreds, even thousands of hours” in
support of the organization.2
As Jacques Vallee discovered, there are two types of UFO
reports. There are those that are reported to “authorities”
and those that are revealed to sympathetic listeners (who
are sometimes also authorities). The fear of ridicule keeps
many UFO testimonies subterranean, submerged within
subcultures that nevertheless grow each year. This chapter
explores the experience of Rey Hernandez and his wife,
Dulce, and documents the unexpected twists and turns it
took once he publicized it.
The Hernandezes’ experiences are instructive for sev-
eral reasons. First, each saw something extraordinary, yet
they interpreted it differently. Dulce is a devout Catholic
and interpreted her experience as divine and wit
hin the
framework of Catholic theology. Rey, who was an atheist
prior to his experience, is still interpreting it. In his work
Rey delves into the testimonies of UFO contact. In its sec-
ular form, testimony is a form of evidence. To give testi-
mony in a court of law is to provide information that is
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supposed to be true and to correspond to real- life matters.
If one provides false testimony, it is called perjury. Within
the history of religions, testimony is also a type of evidence.
Many religious traditions are built upon the testimonies of
believers. Believers report extraordinary things and events,
such as miracles or sightings of supernatural beings. This
testimony is often accompanied by information about the
credentials of those who testify. In both religious cultures
and UFO cultures, the “credible witness” is an important
feature that helps lend credibility, if not to the actual reality
of extraordinary claims, at least to the fact that credible
people experience extraordinary events.
Many of the scientist- believers I interviewed think
that the phenomenon functions like a technology, and that
the human is a receiver and transmitter of information.
Rey and his cadre of colleagues— twelve retired physicists,
neuroscientists, psychologists, and scientists— employ var-
ious methods, including quantum physics, to explain the
relationship between consciousness and contact with non-
human intelligence. For them, this interaction defies a du-
alist construction of spirit and matter and bridges the rift
between two camps of researchers in ufology: the “nuts and
bolts” materialists and the subjectivists, those who focus
on the testimonies of experiencers. According to Rey, the
scientists associated with FREE are working on theories that
will provide an explanation of how these experiences are
both physical and subjective: “This new holographic theory
challenges us to deconstruct the artificial wall of separation
erected between events that occur only in consciousness, and
those that can manifest on a physical scale.”3 The key is in the
code, and Edgar explains how this is so.
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T H E S E R I E S O F E V E N T S T HAT
C HA N G E D R E Y
It was very early on a Sunday morning in March of 2012.
Rey and Dulce’s beloved Niña, a Jack Russell terrier who had
been a member of their family for sixteen years, had become
paralyzed the night before. Rey had contacted a veterinarian
friend, who said that Niña had most probably suffered a ce-
rebral hemorrhage. The friend offered to open his office the
following day, Sunday, to euthanize Niña. Deeply saddened,
Dulce turned to her faith. She prayed to God that he would
send his angels to cure Niña. That morning, her prayers were
answered, in a way that would shatter Rey’s atheism and con-
firm Dulce’s faith.
Rey, in an interview, relates the first of a series of extraor-
dinary experiences, and figure 6.1 is a depiction of what Rey
saw. Rey’s wife saw something like figure 6.2.
My wife woke up and [checked on] the dog to see if she had
regained her mobility. Our pet was not able to move at all ex-
cept just from the neck up. My wife then carried her down the
stairs, and when she got down there she saw an object that was
floating four feet off the ground, one foot [away from] the wal ,
and it was metallic in shape—approximately like an upside-
down- U. . . . It had these two ring lights in the center. My wife,
being the good hardcore Catholic from Mexico that she is, she
knelt down and started praying . . . basical y [saying,] “If you’re
a bad spirit, leave. But if you are a good spirit or an angel or the
Virgin Mary [stay].” Mexicans always see the Virgin Mary eve-
rywhere [Rey laughs]. And she said, “Please stay and don’t let
my dog suffer. My poor Niña.” Niña is her name, which means
“little girl” in Spanish.
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Then all of a sudden these green lights started blinking
and started flashing on her—like scanning her. At that point
she freaked out and she started yelling for me. She started
screaming my name. It was six in the morning, and I thought
she had seen a cockroach or a little mouse on the floor [Rey
laughs]. I just totally ignored her. After 10 or 15 minutes
of screaming for me to come downstairs, she went upstairs
and literally hauled me out of bed. When I got downstairs,
what I saw was not the object that she had seen. . . . What
I saw was, I guess could be described as a plasma- object.
This was not just an object; I call it a plasma- being, a light
being, because it did control my mind. It was . . . approxi-
mately two- to- three- feet in width, one and a half to two
feet in height, cylindrical in shape, but it didn’t have any ex-
ternal outer edges because it was pure energy plasma. Multi-
colored, translucent, and when I looked at it I did not have
any peripheral vision . . . just straight ahead at that object.
I could not see to my right or to the left or up and down. . . .
I was just focused only on that object. What I did was quite
irrational—I stared at it, I waved my hand at it, and then
I said, “Ah B.S.” . . . Then I turned around, I walked up-
stairs, I went to my bed, I folded my hands on my belly, and
I looked straight up at the ceiling. So for 15 minutes I was
in this hypnotic state with nothing entering my brain/ my
consciousness. After 15 minutes, it was [as] if the hypnotist
said, “OK Kid, wake up, we’re finished with your wife and
your pet.” And all of a sudden I woke up and I said, “Oh my
god, what in the world just happened?” I ran downstairs and
there was my wife jumping up and down, saying “Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! The angels cured her! The angels cured her!” She
was running around the living room dancing, and the dog
was running up and down with the energy of a little puppy.
Right there my whole worldview was totally shattered [Rey
laughs]. That was the first event.4
Figure 6.1. Rey Hernandez’s depiction of what he saw, the “red energy
being.”
Figure 6.2. Dulce Hernandez’s depiction of what she saw, “the energy
craft.”
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Dulce said that she had not seen what Rey reported
seeing. He insisted that he had been asleep for forty- five
minutes after he left the living room. He pointed at the clock
to demonstrate that forty- five minutes had indeed elapsed.
Dulce insisted that she never left the living room and that
Rey had never gone back upstairs. According to her, she
had walked downstairs with Rey behind, looked down, saw
Niña running around, and then started to celebrate. Then
she saw Rey. Their recollections of the event were completely
d
ifferent. Later, Rey would incorporate the idea that “missing
time” must have been a factor in the event, and that the non-
human beings had taken his wife and dog, healed them, and
then returned them.
My wife does not want to speak much about the incident and
acts like nothing of consequence happened— to her this entity
was merely an Angel that had answered her prayers. Maybe
she is correct. Our living room corner wall is on the north-
western corner of our house. At 6 am that corner is dark be-
cause light does not enter that corner. We have closed drapes
on the western window as well and that part was dark because
the sun was just rising on the southeastern side. We also have
a wall dividing the windows from the sun rising in the east
from this western corner. We know what we saw was not an
optical il usion.
This event shattered Rey’s view of reality. At the time, he said,
he was a “pure rationalist”:
I went to Catholic mass but just to comfort my wife. I had
never read any UFO, ancient alien, paranormal or “new age”
books. I believed that all the new age “metaphysics” litera-
ture was pure BS from ex- hippies even though I considered
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myself an ex- hippie while living in Berkeley, CA, from 1981
to 1988 while attending a PhD Program in City and Regional
Planning. I was a total skeptic. I was a pure rationalist and any
“metaphysic” or UFO related themes were pure BS. On that
day, my world view came crashing down.5
After this experience, Rey did what most experiencers
do: he sought out materials to help him understand what
had happened to him. He had never had any type of para-
normal experience and certainly never encountered an “en-
ergy plasma being.” He wasn’t Catholic like his wife, so he
wasn’t sure it was an angel, although he wasn’t ruling out
that possibility either. He thought that he could find answers
in the UFO and paranormal literature. Perhaps what they
had encountered was some type of nonhuman intelligence.
He looked for answers on the internet and ordered “tons”
of books about the topic. His intensive “book encounter”
was interrupted, however, by more strange and anomalous
events.
T H E N E X T E V E N T
The next event occurred in May of 2012, when Dulce re-