Steve Andrews (A.K.A. Bard of Ely) Talks About Aliens

Steve Andrews, also known as Bard of Ely, is a writer, journalist and poet; a musician and songwriter, and an avid gardener and naturalist.

The author of the rare book Herbs of the Northern Shaman, (one of the few of its kind in existence), Steve has also written for Permaculture and (with author C.J. Stone) for the magazine Prediction.

As the Bard of Ely, Steve has been written about in some depth by a variety of authors and appears in is in Fierce Dancing, The Last of the Hippies and Housing Benefit Hill by CJ Stone as well as Peter Finch’s Real Cardiff and Lionel Fanthorpe’s The World’s Most Mysterious People. Steve lives on the island of Tenerife, and was recently featured on Eye On Life editor Jerilee Wei’s page A Lovely Garden.

Steve is an expert on paranormal experience, UFOs, and alien visitations, and has written about them extensively in his work at Hub Pages. Recently Steve was kind and generous enough to grant me the following intervew on the topic of aliens, where they come from, and what they might be up to here on earth. His thoughtful, practical, and humane answers elevate the topic to the serious level of discussion it deserves—a rare event for sure.

Enjoy!:

1) Steve, you have written openly about your own experiences with the paranormal and with alien contact. Why do you think some people have these kinds of vivid experiences while others don’t? Do you think there is something unique about you that makes this sort of experience more likely or makes you more open to it?

I think there are two main reasons some people have these experiences and others don’t: Firstly, I think all little children are able to perceive beings that would be termed aliens, ghosts and spirits etc, but, and this is most important, they get it instilled into them that no such things exist apart from in stories. They are told it is all imagination or silly dreams, and that people who say they see such beings are mad.

I remember my mother used to tell me I had “too vivid an imagination,” as if this was something that was not necessarily good. When I went through a lot of strange experiences that I found out much later in life were possibly “hummadruz” – a “psychic training exercise” according to author Jenny Randles – my mum would tell me I was having “nightmares.” That didn’t make any sense to me because I was wide awake.
Please see: http://hubpages.com/hub/The-mysterious-phenomenon-known-as-hummadruz

As we grow up we are all exposed to various ways of being molded into the current system’s mainstream values and beliefs – how we think, react and behave is a product of how we are brought up and what we are taught. What we are instructed with does not make it true even if we come to accept it, or if millions of people believe it – as is the case with religious dogma. To various degrees this conditioning can break down or stay enforced.

Secondly, I believe there are very many beings on this planet who already knew what they were getting themselves involved in before they reincarnated, and that they may have had lives on other worlds before taking a bodily life here. This gets expressed in various ways - as “wanderers”, as “indigos” and basically comes down to anyone who feels they are not from this world, or that they have had past lives and have volunteered for this one. For example an individual who identifies as an indigo may feel certain they have lived on Atlantis in a past life or are from Orion or elsewhere.

Then, there is the idea of “old souls” that means that such beings may well have a greater ability to recall what they are doing here, and are more likely to experience “paranormal” incidents and having involvement in psychic matters. There is the idea of the “First wave” of indigos, which were beings who went ahead of the later arrivals.

Some people believe that we have all “volunteered” to be here right now to experience this, and maybe that is correct, but the majority of people have little or no awareness of this. We are all asleep and suffering amnesia to varying degrees.

2) Many psychics have had traumatic early lives that forced them to use their intuition more effectively. In a similar way, in the lore of the paranormal, many people first experience psychic phenomena after a major trauma or near death experience. Do you think trauma plays any role in alien abduction experiences or alien contact experiences?

I think near death experiences are a wake-up call to understanding that this meat body and nuts and bolts life is only a fraction of reality and life, no matter what a materialist scientist may say.

I know my very good friend King Arthur Pendragon had a near death experience in his youth that was an important moment in his awakening to an understanding of spiritual matters and helped shape him into becoming the fearless eco-warrior and leader of a Druid Order he is today.

A severe trauma can cause an altered sense of reality. This is where it is possible to perceive beings we might refer to as aliens or spirits. They are beings not in this dense physical reality, dimension or density.

I feel it is important here, to state that I believe a lot of what are called ETs or aliens, and the weird abduction experiences people have with them, are with “other-dimensional beings” or beings that are not tied to this dense physical one.

Sometimes people see other people they are close to before or after they die or are in a terrible accident, or get other psychic signs. When a friend of mine died, who used to cause light-bulbs to blow when he walked into a room when he was alive, bulbs went in my house before I got a message to tell me he had passed over. It was as if he was paying me a final call and knew I would recognize it was him blowing the bulbs out.

A shaman or neo-shaman can take an entheogenic substance and access other dimensional realities where the laws of how the world operates are not the same as this one and where they may well encounter beings, including Reptilians that David Icke talks about.

3) Sometimes I think that aliens may choose people who are least likely to be believed if they talk about their experiences (like trauma victims or psychics). This makes a kind of cold-blooded sense to me. What do you think aliens are looking for insofar as the people they choose to bother?

I think for a start that there are abduction experiences and “alien encounters” that may well be actually mind control by secret government military forces with the idea of it all getting blamed on aliens or not believed at all. There are real alien encounters and abductions as well, and I think the aliens are not so much as “choosing” individuals but “working” with ones they already had selected or had agreed to this before they incarnated.

4) So far I’m asking you questions that kind of assume only one kind of alien and one alien agenda. You’ve spoken about multiple alien species and multiple agendas in some of your writing. What are the most common aliens and what are they up to?

I think the situation is a lot more complex than most people would imagine. Some people find it hard to believe in any alien beings so for them to accept that there may well be many different races who are currently involved with this planet would be very difficult indeed. However, personally, I think that is the true nature of the situation and why it has been so hard to resolve, because there are many different types of ET and also inter-dimensional beings involved. As Andromedan contactee Alex Collier once said in an interview when describing the situation here: “It’s a mess.”

Sgt Clifford Stone, who was one of the Disclosure Project witnesses who were prepared to testify before congress, talks about 56 different types of alien beings known in an interview he gave.

5) What do you think about researchers like Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs who hypnotize subjects to get at alien abduction memories? Both of these guys take the alien agenda at face value—they think it’s a breeding experiment. What do you think?

I think hypnosis is a valuable tool but cannot always be trusted 100%. I think fake memories can surface and that a person who is hypnotized can be led by suggestions of the hypnotist or other stimuli to formulate an experience or response.

I was regressed for an HTV Wales broadcast for the series Weird Wales and some of what happened in the session I am sure was real but other stuff I have my doubts about. When the hypnotist took me to the age of eight, for example, I know that was real because I started talking about children I had long forgotten about, but when I was describing a past life as a Scandinavian lumberjack it was verging on the silly.

I remember watching myself in the video of the session afterwards and thinking of the Monty Python sketch with the “I’m a lumberjack” song. So what I am saying is that from my personal experience I think some of what is revealed by regression hypnosis can be relied on a the truth but not all of it.

With regard to the “breeding experiment” theories, I tend to believe that humans as we are now are a direct result of genetic manipulation by alien beings in the past, and possibly this has happened more than once. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they were monitoring and making changes to the genetic make-up of people on this planet for purposes unknown to us.

Humans carry out selective breeding and genetic manipulation of many species of plants and animals, so there is no reason not to believe that far more advanced civilizations do likewise and include us as their subjects.

Alternative historian and author Michael Tsarion puts forward the idea that the origins of evil in the human race comes directly from genetic interference by alien beings that mixed their DNA with ours in an effort to create a slave race. Michael calls these beings the Nephilim, the beings which are described in the Bible as the “Sons of God” who went taking wives of the human women who gave birth to their children. In other words they created alien and human hybrids.

It is even more complicated than that though. Author Stewart Swerdlow describes the alien races who have been involved here in his books Blue Blood, True Blood: Conflict & Creation A Personal Story and in Montauk The Alien Connection. He gives details of the Abbenakki (a Reptilian race), the beings of Aldebaran, Antaries, Arcturus, the Lyreans (Atlans), the Draco, the Pleiadians, and those of Procyon, Rigel, Sirius A and Sirius B, the Tau Ceti race, the Vegans, the Zeta Reticuli I and Zeta Reticuli II, as well as beings known as the Bear, the Butterfly, the Praying Mantis and the EBE (Extraterrestrial Biological Entity).

Alex Collier’s contactee information given to him by the Andromedans has many parallels with much of what Swerdlow says concerning the Draco and Lyraens. The involvement of alien races with this planet and elsewhere in the universe is the subject matter of “Exopolitics” and is too complex for me to go into much further here.  I advise people to research the videos and writings of Tsarion, Swerdlow and Collier to find out more.

6) I know you are pretty well versed in the conspiracy dimension of alien research. Do you think it possible that, as some have suggested, alien entities feed on fear and encourage this kind of energy for their own purposes? (Kind of like farming—growing fear to use in their culture, just like we generate electricity to heat our homes in ours.)

Yes, I subscribe to this idea which David Icke and others are putting forward. I feel that they are correct in saying that inter-dimensional beings, known as Reptilians, which are very likely to be the same entities known as demons, do feed on our fear, and take steps to cause as much of it as they can in the human world.

7) Why do you think aliens seem to be both a material and a nonmaterial at the same time?

I think that most of the beings that come here are able to be in this physical plane of existence or dimension and to move into other higher ones where they may live or use to travel via.
I think this is where I should point out that I don’t feel that the idea of physically travelling light years of space in “nuts and bolts” craft is what is happening at all, and that skeptics and non-believers who say it is impossible and doesn’t make sense that extraterrestrial beings would be doing this are correct.

How I see it is this way: that the universe is not solid but is made up of very many dimensions or frequencies and what we perceive as solid is not but is only our agreed upon perception. David Icke explains we have radio and TV channels all occupying the same space but we need a radio or TV receiver to tune them in.
Beings that understand this better are able to “materialize” and “dematerialize” themselves and their craft.

Tune into this frequency and this planet and locations on it and to tune out or switch frequencies.
 I think if you understand the universe as made up this way it makes it much easier to understand what is going on. This world and the objects in it are not really solid like we perceive them, and any scientist would confirm that. Solid matter is an agreed-upon concept we use to live in a world made up of it.

8) If you could have any three questions about aliens answered for once and for all, what three questions would you choose?

That is a very difficult one to answer. I think the first question would be: Is it true that humans are the result of past genetic manipulation by aliens? Second question: If it is true, who were the alien races responsible?  Third question: What should we be doing now, individually, and as the human race, to sort out the mess the world is in?

9) If you had to pick three books that talk about aliens fairly accurately, what three books would you choose?

Gods of Eden by William Bramley, Secrets of the UFO by Don Elkins and Carla Rueckert, and CoEvolution by Alec Newald, in which he describes what it was like being taken to another planet for 10 days.

10) What advice would you give to someone who is having anomalous experiences and is feeling disrespected or trivialized whenever they try to talk about them?

I know this is easier said than done but I would say to have no fear of what others think or say. We are only going to get the truth if enough people speak up and share their experiences and conclusions.

11) Is there anything you’d like to add or recommend?

It is a very vast subject but I feel I should recommend the following people:
Contactee Alex Collier – all his video interviews and talks are well worth watching to get an understanding of the bigger picture.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Alex-Collier-my-favourite-ET-contactee-is-back

Contactee and author of Blue Star Fulfilling Prophecy Miriam Delicado because she is currently organizing the “Great Gathering” and is working directly inspired by her contacts with Tall Blonde aliens. Miriam has been meeting with Hopi elders and the Mamos of the Kogi tribe too.
http://www.bluestarprophecy.com/

Contactee, artist and researcher Karen Lyster:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Karen-Lyster-O/670608092

The Project Camelot website, which I feel is probably the most comprehensive collection of interviews with whistle-blowers and movers and shakers in the worlds of conspiracies, ufology, alternative history and related matters online:
http://projectcamelotportal.com/

And my site here about UFOs in Tenerife: http://hubpages.com/hub/UFO-sightings-and-Tenerife

And finally, this one about the Greys: http://hubpages.com/hub/Who-or-what-are-the-Greys