Today was Father’s Day and as a father, it meant that I was able to read in peace for most of the day. It seems a rather curmudgeonly thing to do, but my children are both adults now and they know what I like and reading undisturbed for a couple of hours is heaven to me.
Rather than read my usual material, a good space opera by the likes of Alistair Reynolds, or Kim Stanley Robinson, I chose to read a PDF translation of an abduction account from an abductee from Holland called Stefan Denearde.
I had already read the original book that is based on this account many years ago, it is called “UFO Contact from Planet Iarga,” but apparently the English version of that book is riddled with Christian slanted edits that are not found in the original Dutch version.
I can remember finding the story fascinating when I read it when I was younger, but I also remember losing interest part way through for some reason. If I came across pro-Christian propaganda I can imagine that it would cause me to dismiss the whole story.
After having this version recommended to me on Twitter by Deep Prasad, I decided to take another dive into Iarga once again.
The story opens in much the same way as the official/edited translation. Stefan encounters a submerged disc shaped craft while sailing with his family along the coast of the Netherlands during the summer of 1969. He spots a lifeless body in the water and dives in to save the unfortunate person. This kicks off the story, which is mostly a kind of two day long dialogue between Stefan and a race of exotic aliens from a world that exists 10 light years from Earth named Iarga.
During the dialogue, Stefan learns about the alien’s culture, architecture, economy, spiritual practices and even about their technology, which is millenia ahead of ours. The whole story is incredibly persuasive. It is not hard to see where the re-edits in the original translation were, because during the dialogue the Iargans give a very rational summary of Christian teachings, many of which fly in the face of the standard interpretations of Christ’s message. They then go onto say that Christianity is no more valid than Buddhism, Islam or even Communism. I can imagine that a devout Christian editor might wish to adjust Stefan’s original account at this point. It is clear to me now that it is these slanted edits that put me off the first time that I read Stefan’s story.
On my second reading of Stefan's book, I have found that it is filled with wisdom and information that feels extremely familiar to me. Some of the technical details also have me convinced that Stefan's testimony is the real deal. At one point Stefan finds himself sat in front of a large 3D video screen. When it is first switched on Stefan recoiled in shock at the image on it. As soon as his head moved backwards, he notices that the image doubled. This leads me to believe that the screen in question is an autostereoscopic 3D screen. That sounds exotic, but it is the same technology that Nintendo used for their handheld console, the 3DS. This tech tracks the position of the viewer's eyes and displays a slightly different image to each eye. If the viewer moves their head back suddenly the illusion is temporarily broken and the image seems to double. If we remember that Stefan wrote this in 1969, decades before this technology was available to the public and may not even been consceived of yet, it adds a lot of weight to Stefan's testinomy.
Other things that I found remarkable in Stefan's story included the method that the Iargans transferred information into Stefan's mind. They told him that they use immaterial radiation, to create new structures in Stefan's brain. To me, this immaterial radiation sounds a lot like Protoversal interaction. Immaterial is a perfect description of the structures and interactions that occur within the Protoverse. They return to the subject of the immaterial reality many times in the book and each time that they do, I am more and more convinced that they are talking about Protoversal phenomena. With Immaterial technology, they are able to conjure energy out of a vacuum, they are able to transfer data, and later they are able to interact with the immaterial, using a technique that they describe as Omnicreativity. This technique seems to mirror my own techniques for personally interacting with the Protoverse, in my chapter, "Becoming More Protoversal."
I could go on forever about this book, but I will end there. I just wanted to give my readers an opportunity to read about an encounter that seems to contain similar information to my own encounter, from an entirely different source.
Here is a url to the more accurate translation, it is filled with bad grammar and hard to understand sentences, but at least this version is closer to the original message that Stefan originally intended to share with the world.
I hope that you enjoy.
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