Also, I had just had another malignant melanoma taken off. So that first night we were in the manor house nursing our wounds and we were frankly very emotionally upset. At times we were just laughing and telling stories, and at times in tears. We just knew one or both of us were not going to make it...
As we were sitting in the upstairs room of the manor house, Ron Russell and a few others, on the CSETI expedition, were outside on the grounds. Shari and I were just too tired and too upset to go out, but I had told the group they should go out by 10:30 pm. The room Shari and I were in had a bay window and a little fireplace.
Suddenly, we saw a brilliant light, like a ball or a cluster of light, fly right through the closed window, turn and go over by the fireplace and then elongate into an extraterrestrial person! Here is this extraterrestrial being, shimmering, again not quite fully materialized, standing about 3 feet tall. There was nothing subtle about this, because it was visible with the naked eye in the fully lit room. Shari didn't see it at first, so I said, "Shari, look."
As she turned, she saw the ET and exclaimed, "Oh, my God ". We sat there in meditation with this being, who was basically trying to con- sole us. He was very sweet, and very grateful and very loving— just beautiful. We remained in this state of contact and meditation for prob- ably half an hour. I knew then that one of us wasn't going to make it, and this being was expressing great compassion, respect, and gratitude for our work.
We had no intention of ever relating this account to anyone -it was so personal, beautiful and poignant. But the next day Ron Russell brought up the fact that while they were out on the Manor grounds, a very unusual event was observed by everyone. Out of the sky, at a little past
10:30 p.m. a light appeared, and then descended, coming over the tree tops and directly into the bay window of my room! It descended out of space in a clear sky, came down across the manor house lawn, and flew into the window.
Ron exclaimed, "That's Steve's room!" And so they saw the arrival of this being, from space. The entire group outside saw how our encounter in the Manor house began: As a light from space that flew over the grounds and right into the window, whereupon I saw this light enter the room, then materialize as a being on the hearth of the fireplace!
You will find that the truth hides its own reality, because the truth is so much more bizarre- and beautiful- than a science fiction movie.
Our last expedition with Shari was in Joshua Tree Wilderness in 1997. April of that year we were at the Pentagon with the Admiral, dis- closing all this information in front of key people in Congress and the White House. But by the fall, Shari had metastatic lesions in her brain and was partially paralyzed. Shari had joined me in this effort in 1991. She was at the first lecture I'd ever given. And she was with me until she passed away in January of 1998.
I was going to cancel the Joshua Tree expedition, but Shari said, "If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to be there with you and the ETs." And so she was...
We were all amazed by the indomitable will of Shari. She was a lioness, completely fierce, very devoted and extremely competent. Shari was the first person that I could take as far as anyone could possibly go, into contact. She could go the furthest, without exception. There's nobody else, to date, that could go that far. She had no fear and knew her destiny.
It was she and I who privately went out to the Baca, this remote area of the Colorado Rockies where we have our trainings, near Crestone, in 1996. It was a vision quest. I told her that I wanted to show her some things and tell her some things that I had always known -- since I was very young, since my contact as a young boy. I had never told anyone, but I knew that she was very perceptive and spiritually awake; I knew she was ready.
So, we went to the Baca on a cold evening in the spring of '96. I said, "Let's walk out and invite the ET beings in." As we did, we saw a craft in the sky, moving very strangely. Suddenly, I said, "Now, look out here in the field."
There, an enormous discoid-shaped area was scintillating with light. It was like a hologram, but more real and more alive. After a few moments, distinct hu- manoid shaped forms began to emerge from this craft, and approached us. I said to Shari, "Now, let me show you how these extraterrestrial beings prefer to stay in this form when they're on Earth, because it's safe."
As this event was unfolding, I said to Shari, "Now, I want to tell you what the structure of the cosmos is and how it's put together and how it is that they are here." We had a tape recorder, so I began speaking and recorded what you now can read in the chapters in "Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications": "The Crossing Point", and "Extraterrestrials and the New Cosmology". That information was recorded in real-time during this contact in the desert of Colorado.
Later that evening, we went back to the Baca Townhouses. As we drove to the townhouse, I said, "Now, they're going to follow us home." We saw these bright strobe-like lights along the road, escorting us as we drove back to the condo in Cre- stone.
After we got back to the condo, we went out on the patio to see the Sangre de
Cristo Mountains that rise up 14,000 feet, covered with snow. They were shining in the moonlight in the crystal clear air of the Rockies. I said, "We should be here, because they're going to show us one of their points of entry and where they like to be. Now, look around. Can you see the fine structure of the fabric of the astral component of the cosmos that supports the material creation?"
I explained, "Thought and consciousness and the astral forms of light, support the material cosmos. A 'gap' exists, where the realm of pure consciousness, thought and astral light phases into a semi-materialized energy field. This is the realm where the astral crystallizes to the material, like an architectural blueprint. The astral becomes crystallized, as a matrix,that then supports the material objects and even the atmosphere." And as I said that, it was like a veil fell away, and she saw it- the structure of this celestial, etheric and astral realm as it crystallizes into what we call the material cosmos.
"Now, look up here on the mountain." And there was an enormous sombrero- shaped craft that was translucent. It was not fully materialized, but was like a really dense, perfectly shaped cloud, being lit from within — a golden-white light, sitting on the very top of one of the high- est peaks above Crestone. It was there for about 45 minutes.
Because Shari could see and experience those things, I had someone to articulate them to. And because I could articulate them to her, I could share them with others. We cannot teach anything unless there is some- one ready to see it. There is a saying: "The wise are they who speak not unless they have a hearer."
The first year we went to Joshua Tree was 1996. Early on, a very fast, spiraling craft came right overhead. We could actually hear it whistle, it was so low in the atmosphere. It came right overhead and over the Palm Springs \folley. Everyone in the group saw this and was astonished!
One night, we were leaving one site in Joshua Tree wilderness because I had a remote view that we should move. As we drove along this dirt road, very late at night, suddenly the dashboard lights dimmed. I turn to Shari, "Oh, they're here."
Seconds later, coming straight down from the zenith, a huge craft shaped like a Hershey's kiss appeared! It was flat on the bottom and tapered up to a point, and had a scintillating, sparkling tail on top, as it came down at enormous speed towards the desert floor. It was 200-300 feet in diameter.
It was a teal color, and brilliant - so bright that it illuminated the desert floor like daytime and then, whoosh, went straight into the Earth and it was gone. "Ah. This is where they're telling us they're going to be located under the Earth." I said.
If you have the ability to materialize and de-materialize objects, you can stay in a quasi-materialized form so that one object can go straight through another object, like a ghost going through a wall. There's no rea- son why not. Most matter is, after all, "empty space".