We as spiritual beings or souls come to earth in order to experience the human condition. This includes the good and the bad scenarios of this world. Our world is a duality planet and no amount of love or grace will eliminate evil or nastiness. We will return again and again until we have pierced the illusions of this density. The purpose of human life is to awaken to universal truth. This also means that we must awaken to the lies and deceit mankind is subjected to. To pierce the third density illusion is a must in order to remove ourselves from the wheel of human existences. Love is important but knowledge is the key!

Metaphysical Stuff 21

The Shape-shifting Myth and Mystery:
A Theoretical Perspective
by Wm. Michael Mott 

Copyright (c) 2001, Wm. Michael Mott

One of the oldest types of entities in folkloric and mythological accounts 
is also one of the latest, and of late, more common in paranormal or fortean 
accounts. Various entities may, upon initial consideration of witness 
accounts, seem widely-disparate in nature;  yet whether of "gray" alien, the 
original Puerto Rican "chupacabras," "grinning men" (of various sizes, 
heights and descriptions), MIBs, or "reptoid" type, all seem to share a 
variety  of characteristics which can be more or less identifiable as 
"reptilian" or "amphibian" in nature. These characteristics range from 
"leathery" or lizard-like skin texture, bulging eyes, slit or oblique 
pupils, webbed hands or fingers, and to some extent, sparseness or absence 
of facial and body hair.

The reptilians or "reptoids," stretching back through the centuries, have 
had a folkloric reputation of being deceivers, shapeshifters, vampires, and 
anthropophagous. Sightings and encounters have provided the basis for 
legends of horned, leathery demons and imps; goblins; ghuls; "henkies" and 
other dwarfish, somewhat-humanoid forms, nagas, trolls, and so on. The 
interest in human blood and genetic materials, exhibited by fairy lovers and 
abductors, elves, trolls, undines, incubi, succubi, frog princes, jinn, 
"deros," and the elemental or sylph-like "gray aliens" is all too obvious.

Of particular interest is the ability, currently attributed to the 
"reptoids" or lizard-men of ufological and conspiracy accounts,  to 
"shape-shift" or take on an illusion of humanity. Some accounts  have the 
reality the other way, in which the human being, due to stimulation of an 
non-human bloodlust or other desire, is transformed  or "shifted" into a 
reptilian humanoid. While the latter type of "sighting," when genuine, may 
indicate a form of demonic (spiritually "reptilian") possession or 
oppression which is so powerful as to be visible for a temporary time in the 
visible spectrum, it is not necessarily the same as the encounters reported, 
through the centuries, of "real" shape-shifters, reptilians, devils, 
fairies, and "aliens" which can take on a deceptive or even a familiar form, 
for purposes of predation. 

The ability of the fairies or "good neighbors" (a euphemism) to use 
"glamour," of nagas and rakshasas to utilize sorcerous illusion,  and 
"vampires" and their "hypnotic" and shape-changing abilities, are reflected, 
in modern variants, in the reports of shape-shifting reptoid imposters, 
alien abductors who appear as familiar friends or family members, or the 
"rays" generated by dero "mech" which create a holographic persona. What is 
the "true nature" of these beings, and what is their common link, if any?

In the book "Etidorpha," a man is taken on a tour of the underworld and 
cavern realms by a "guide" who is more or less humanoid in form, but is 
described as having skin or flesh of an amphibian-like texture and no body 
hair whatsoever. This being is also compared to a lizard, and is described 
as being "slimy," "cold and clammy," and so on.  The "guide" has one 
distinguishing characteristic which stands out in particular, however: "he" 
has no face at all, just a smooth ovoid patch where a face should be. As it 
turns out, he is not alone.

"Faceless" entities have long been present in apparition, ghost, and monster 
stories. Could these forms have any relation to the "shape-shifting" types 
of beings described? Are they not just reptilians, but representatives of a 
type of life which is both parasitic and chameleon-like? The question which 
comes forward is this: Could a "faceless" form of "genome-thief" still not 
be essentially reptilian, or a type of mammalian/reptilian creature 
descended from reptiles (as we humans, and all mammals, supposedly are)? 
Chameleons alter their skins cells to reflect colors, patterns, and even 
moods like aggression or passivity; could there be a form of life which has 
evolved this to an ultimate form of mimicry or deception, actually using 
stolen or absorbed genetic material? Would this possibility provide an 
answer to MANY mysteries?

There must be a clue, an explanation as to the "malleability" of these 
beings, their transformational abilities or else powers of genetic 
manipulation. Perhaps some of them are like "blank genetic templates," upon 
which an entire genome can be temporarily or permanently inprinted; or even 
different types of genomes, stolen from other life-forms, are imprinted or 
combined. Here would be an answer to the chimaerical and "hybrid" forms of 
many of the more outrageous "goblins," "cryptids" and ufonauts!

In an October 20, 1991 lecture, Ufologist Michael Lindemann delivered a 
lecture which contained this first-person witness account of an encounter in 
a top-secret underground military site:
"My friend who worked in the underground bases, who was doing sheet-rock 
was down on, he thinks, approximately the 30th level underground... these 
bases are perhaps 30-35 stories deep. 

As I say they are not just mine shafts, these are huge, giant facilities... 
many city blocks in circumference, able to house tens of thousands of  
people. One of them, the YANO Facility [we're told... by the county fire 
dept. director, the county fire dept. chief who had to go in there to look 
at a minor fire infraction] there's a 400-car parking lot on the 1st level 
of the YANO Facility, but cars never come in and  out, those are the cars 
that they use INSIDE.

"O.K., so... a very interesting situation down there. Our guy was doing 
sheet-rock on the 30th floor, maybe the 30th floor, underground. He and his 
crew are working on a wall and right over here is an elevator door. The 
elevator door opens and, a kind of reflex action you look, and he saw three 
'guys'. Two of them, human engineers that he's seen before. And between them 
a 'guy' that stood about 8 to 8 1/2 feet tall. Grey skin, extra-long arms, 
wearing a lab coat, holding a clip-board, AND HE DIDN"T HAVE A FACE! My 
friend said it was just teeth right there. Just teeth where a face should 
be..."

The Maya called such underworld shapeshifters "vhujunka." Other than the 
face, the physical description sounds much like that of one of the 
so-called reptoids reported at the alleged Dulce complex. Right down to the 
height, white lab-coat, and clipboard.

Are "reptilian" faces as much an illusion as anything else might be?  Does 
this "faceless" account indicate that we're dealing with something that can 
appear in any form, or with any face, that it wishes? Underworld beings are 
traditionally the masters of "glamourie," or glamour, illusion, 
shape-shifting, deception, and so on, and of course, "Satan can appear even 
as an angel of light."  But their interest in US is so self-serving and 
manipulative, yet tinged with desperation, that other questions logically 
follow.

Is it possible that we might be dealing with something which is PURELY A 
GENETIC THIEF OR PARASITE?  A thief of genomes, in whole or in part as the 
necessity arises, a "blank slate" predator which can  assume a variety of 
appearances? As noted previously and repetitively, this has traditionally 
been the province of "underworld" or subterranean beings in folk traditions 
worldwide, from western fairies and demons, middle eastern jinn and dubuks, 
to Indian nagas and Japanese "foxes" or fox-people.

These "others" may be genetically diverse beyond our imagining, due to this 
ability, yet incapable of reproducing of their own accord, or maintaining a 
stable and comfortable face, form, or life-span without it.... and how does 
this all tie in with both livestock and human mutilations, which are 
essentially identical in nature and tend to concentrate on the blood, mucous 
membranes, reproductive organs and surrounding tissues, eyes, "meaty" organs 
like the liver (which is highly regenerative), and so on?  Could these 
materials be of particular importance to an advanced genome-imprinting or 
cloning technology, which utilizes genetic material that has been purloined  
from somewhere or someone else? 

Perhaps they have perfected a form of tissue regeneration and repair which 
requires some of the same materials which have always been offered up in 
sacrifices to the dark, bloody "gods" of antiquity, and THIS is the secret 
to "their" longevity (remember, vampires "live" forever as long as they stay 
out of the sun, and sun-dodging fairies are generally considered "undying" 
as well). Gruesome photos of a human mutilation victim from Brazil, along 
with autopsy data, support yet again that the vital organs, along with the 
most successfully regenerative tissues--the blood, mucous membranes, glands, 
"sweet bread" organs (the often self-regenerative liver, as well as 
stomach, intestines, etc.), sexual organs, and so on--are always the focus 
of their selfish and brutal desires.

It seems at times that Keel, Steiger, and other researchers dance around 
this possibility and even hint at it, but never really come out and say it. 
Until now, it may simply have been too unspeakable to contemplate or dare 
to put into print.

Even if unseen manipulators and predators have a reptilian origin that's 
lost in a vast antiquity, could it be that they have a partially hominid, 
somewhat mammalian heritage as well? Could they be as closely related to 
humanity as the monotremes (egg-laying mammals) are to the vivverids, for 
instance? Are they an ancient form of predator which is in fact a parasite, 
who has evolved along with all hominids and culminating with a dependence 
upon modern humanity? 

Vaguely, distantly, related in the vertebrate sense, perhaps more reptilian 
than we mammals, yet so old a species or variety of specie that they have 
evolved beyond our labels, and now represent a third  form which is 
divergent, to some degree, from both the reptilian and mammalian kingdoms; 
this indeed seems more plausible as time goes by.

We may need to re-evaluate the nature of our ancient enemies.

Article copyright (c) 2001, Wm. Michael Mott   mottimorph@earthlink.net

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